Design, structural and functional characterization of human beta defensin analogs

... anionic and cationic peptides 1.1.2.5 Fragments of larger proteins 1.1.3 The family of defensins 1.1.3.1 Expression of defensins 11 1.1.3.2 Expression of Human Beta Defensins 11 1.1.4 Human beta defensin- 3 ... diagrams of Selected Defensins A comparison of structures of different types of defensins (A) Human Neutrophil Peptide (Dimer), (B) Insect defensin A, (C...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:37

... cross-linking efciency of Iba1 and Iba2 or in the overall morphology of the generated lament bundles Calcium afnity of Iba1 and Iba2 Homodimerization and actin binding of Iba1 and Iba2 were similar ... presented here reveals functional similarities and differences between Iba1 and Iba2 We investigated Ca2+ binding and homodimerization of Iba1 and Iba2 Fur...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... concentration of DHPC Protein -lipid interactions and Protein-LDLR binding of ApoE- (72-166) Proteins To identify and compare the lipid binding ability of the three apoE- (72-166) peptides, we assessed ... Received: 17 September 2010 Accepted: 10 January 2011 Published: 10 January 2011 References Weisgraber KH, Rall SC Jr, Mahley RW: Human E apoprotein heterogeneity Cysteine...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... digestion fragments of untreated and deglycosylated AFP 1222 J C Achenbach and K V Ewart (Eur J Biochem 269) Ó FEBS 2002 Fig Analysis of antifreeze activity Antifreeze activity was evaluated qualitatively ... chemicals were reagent grade Purification of smelt AFP Blood plasma was obtained from a population of rainbow smelt (O mordax) caught in seawater along the nor...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... volume and energetic properties of the binding of CO to hemoproteins Biophys J 66, 89–98 Tuckey RC & Kamin H (1983) Kinetics of O2 and CO Binding to adrenal cytochrome P-450scc Effect of cholesterol, ... was in the range of values determined in previous studies for the interaction between bovine Adx and bCYP11B1 Biacore measurements were performed to investigate the bindin...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... in all compared organisms We have also analyzed the presence of putative elements in the 5’ region of the gene There is a canonical TATA box at –35 bp from the transcription start site and a putative ... were used as controls 2.4 Gel retardation analysis A DNA fragment used for gel retardation analysis containing a sequence from the 5’- untranslated region...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TRX16, A THIOREDOXIN-LIKE PROTEIN AND ALTERING SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY OF SPI1, A PROTEASE INHIBITOR PANKAJ KUMAR GIRI A THESIS SUBMITTED ... Farré and Casado, 2001; Laroux et al., 2001), atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular disorders, inflammation and chronic inflammation (Laroux et al., 2001; Latha and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:55

... β-cardiotoxin, an all β-sheet protein isolated from the venom of Ophiophagus hannah (king cobra) Manuscript under preparation xvi (5) Roy A, Sivaraman J, and Kini RM Structural and functional characterization ... forests and mangrove swamps in parts of Southeast Asia, South China and India Chapter One A B C Figure 1.1: Ophiophagus hannah (king cobra)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 08:37

... List of Tables Page Table 1.1 List of common and important PTMs 23 Table 1.2 IQ motifs of established and potential CaM target proteins 37 Table 2.1 Data collection and refinement statistics of ... domains that mediate protein- protein, protein- lipid, and protein- DNA interactions (Fig 1.4) The most common protein- protein interaction domains in NRTKs are the Src homology...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:11

... S103 G145/D137 Y 112 D2 01/ 193 L75/67 G145/D137 E1 41/ 133 K173 /16 5 R207 /19 9 G77/69 D142 /13 4 G197 /18 9 Fig Superposition of PRTFDC1 with HPRT-ImmGP (Protein Data Bank code: 1BZY) (A) Residues in the ... Welin et al Studies of the human PRTFDC1 B A PRTFDC1 25 HPRT 20 10 00 0.2 800 600 400 0 .1 200 –50 50 10 10 50 10 015 0 200 250 S 200 –50 250 50 12 00 10 0 15 0 [H...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... 5¢-CTTTATTTTCAGGGCGCCATGAAGCGCG CAAGACCGTCTGAA-3¢ and a reverse oligomer 5¢-AGCT CGAATTCG GATCCGGTACCTCAGAAGGTAGACAG CAGAACC-3¢ For derivitization with TMR, a Gly-Gly-Cys sequence was introduced at the ... chain and hides a large amount of the hydrophobic surface area Surface area calculations for the pentamer give a total surface ˚ ˚ area of $ 81 000 A2 with 30% ($ 24 000 A...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... this article as: Lechner et al.: Functional characterization of human Cd33+ And Cd11b+ myeloid-derived suppressor cell subsets induced from peripheral blood mononuclear cells co-cultured with a diverse ... serum and regulated by association of a latency protein, precluded clear neutralization data Characterization of human CD33+ and CD1...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... that MCPIP regulates the amount of IL-1b mRNA Involvement of PIN domain of MCPIP in the stability of IL-1b mRNA In order to find out whether the PIN domain in MCPIP is responsible for IL-1b mRNA ... interacting with MCPIP will clarify the dynamics and features of this protein Role of MCPIP in regulation of the endogenous IL-1b transcript level...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... UMPK The F133N mutation was created using UMP kinase from Ureaplasma parvum the following primers: F133N-fw (5¢-GATTTTTGTGGCT GGAACAGGAAACCCATATTTTACAACTGATTCG) and F133N-rv (5¢-CGAATCAGTTGTAAAATATGGGT ... with ADP and UDP, and ADP showed a rate that was > 20 times that of UDP In order to determine the true Km for UMP and ATP, a two-substrate assay was performed at fou...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20