... Interactions of BCGwiththebladder wall Adhesion of BCGwiththe urothelium The interaction between BCG and thebladder wall can be mediated by specific, receptorligand mediated events or by non-specific ... ways to improve response to therapy Figure 1.2: BCG attachment tothebladder mucosa The interaction is mediated by a fibronectin bridge that links integrin 5 1 receptors onthebladder urothelial ... profiles of humanbladdercancer cell lines………………………………………………………………………………… 87 4.1.1 Expression of Integrin 5onhumanbladdercancercellscorrelateswiththeabilitytointernalizeBCG ………………………………………………………...
... Tc52 [16] In order to ascertain our observation and to rule out the (possibility that the lack of binding of SmGSTO to glutathione was neither due tothe presence of the His-tag sequence nor to ... the S mansoni EST database withthe complete sequence of Tc52 revealed a clone (EST AI9 758 43) with around 25% sequence identity withthe GST-like domain of the T cruzi protein A fragment of 54 9 ... which contact GSH in GSTO 1–1 correspond to S(79), E(78), V( 65) , K (52 ) and C( 25) in SmGSTO, and were predicted to be placed in the same spatial orientation (Fig 7B) DISCUSSION We report here the...
... and on rat pheochromocytoma cells Recent studies have found an association between theability of Abs to recognize native PrPC expressed onthe cell surface and their abilityto cure prion-infected ... concentrations of Abs to epitopes encompassing amino acids 95 1 05 of the PrP were used Injection of mAbs that recognize the central region of the PrPC (residues 133– 157 ) and bind efficiently to ... as positive control To detect PrPSc conversion, cells were lysed, and then subjected to proteinase K digestion and immunoprecipitation A deglycosylation step was included to reduce the PrPSc and...
... acid sequencing 65 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 0 10 15 20 25 Time (min) 30 35 40 45 50 Fig Purification of cockroach GST by phenyl-Sepharose chromatography (A) The elution profile for GST activity ... Sigma 59 .3 57 .9 56 .9 54 .6 45. 4 45. 4 14.8 13.9 13.0 Sigma Epsilon Epsilon Omega Theta Zeta 13.9 36.6 34.7 10.6 26.4 9.7 Cloning of a Delta class GST from B germanica The cloning of cDNA encoding the ... the activation barrier of the reaction [30] In addition, the rate of product release may contribute tothe efficiency of the reaction [31] Functionally, BgGSTD1 may play an important role in the...
... transformation These results further support the idea that theability of the GST isozymes to induce transformation is dependent on their abilityto conjugate 4-HNE to GSH Furthermore, these results ... presented) The colonyforming ratio of clone C4 (HLE B-3) cellsto WT-K562 cells used as positive control in these experiments was found to be : Taken together, these results confirm the phenotypic ... and the GFP expression vector, or with fluorescent markers alone At 24 h after the injection, any cells killed by the injection procedure were lifted off the dish leaving only the injected cells...
... 0– 350 0–200 0– 350 3 3 450 –640 350 –400 200 55 0 350 – 450 12 11 12 12 650 – 750 400– 450 55 0– 750 450 – 750 5 subunits of the purified isoforms N-terminal amino acid analysis was carried out on a particular ... with varying concentrations of CDNB (0.04 5. 12 mM) and a constant GSH concentration (50 mM) The Km and Vmax with GSH as a substrate were performed with varying concentrations of GSH (0.026– 15. 6 ... reported in the literature for GST from nonvertebrate organisms (0.06– 2.7 mM) This allows one of the isoforms to catalyze the conjugation in optimal conditions, whatever the concentration of endogenous...
... CDS STOP 3¢-UTR 3¢-UTR 3¢-UTR 3¢-UTR – – 36 55 119–138 152 –171 1 75 194 – 326–3 45 397–426 480–499 52 4 54 3 – – 786–8 05 – – 978–997 – – – 119–138 152 –171 1 75 194 2 85 304 – – – 52 4 54 3 55 4 57 3 655 –674 ... pH 6 .5 CDNB–GSH conjugate formation was monitored over time with a PerkinElmer HTS7000 bioassay plate reader at 340 nm and 37 °C The rate of conjugate formation was constant 15 45 after the addition ... found to be specific inhibitors of either GSTM1 or GSTM2 expression in the EGFP assay The results are shown in Table None of these ODNs affected the CDNB conjugation in cells transfected with pEGFP,...
... Quantitation of cytochrome c release in cytosolic fractions To measure cytochrome c release, chondrocytes (1 × 106 cells) were treated for 16 hours with increasing HNE concentrations (0 to 30 μM) with ... than to 20 μM, HNE was cytotoxic and significantly decreased cell viability (up to 50 %) and induced chromatin condensation, compared with untreated cells Pre-treatment of cellswith anti-Fas/CD 95 ... apoptotic response of chondrocytes to HNE requires upregulation of pro-apoptotic protein synthesis or whether it relies on pre-existing apoptotic machinery Our data show that the apoptotic response...
... stress The present study was undertaken 1) to investigate the cell specific distribution and expression of GSTO1-1 in healthy human lung, 2) to compare the GSTO1-1 expression patterns in the lung ... methanol for 15 minutes The sections were incubated withthe primary antibody for GSTO1-1 using a dilution of 1:200 The immunostaining was done using the Histostain-Plus Kit (Zymed Laboratories Inc., ... statistically significant Correlations to lung functions were analyzed withthe Pearson correlation test Ethical considerations The study protocol was approved by the ethical committees of Oulu University...
... Moreover, the percentage of cells presenting inclusions as well as the distribution of the size of the inclusions were dependent on when the analysis was performed after transfection Therefore, all the ... performed to analyze the EGFP-containing inclusions Figure 1F shows that the expression of Hsp70 together with Hdj-1 (Hsp40) did decrease the average size of the EGFP-containing inclusion bodies ... compared tothe level observed in COS-7 cells transfected with control EGFP and httEx1-25QEGFP vectors When the Hsp-encoding vectors were transfected together with that encoding httEx1-72QEGFP, the...
... a = b = 53 . 35, a = b = 53 .5, parameters (A) c = 116.22 c = 116.2 Wavelength (A) 0.7100 1.0000 Resolution range (A) 50 1. 05 (1.091. 05) 50 1.71 (1.771.71) Measured reections 950 , 955 2 05, 263 Unique ... of these sites These densities were assigned as zinc ions derived from the crystallization solution as an additive The zinc ion closest to FMN, Zn201, is coordinated by the Sc atom of one of the ... Cys39 and the other conformer of Cys40 This zinc ion is bound to His131, which corresponds tothe histidine residue that is completely conserved among the FeR homologs [5, 6] Interestingly, the residues...
... region between Val231 and Ala 358 contains the 6A3 epitope To further narrow down the 6A3 epitope, we then identified two nonconserved clusters within this 128 amino acid region (Fig S2B) Because the ... binding to hDPP IV Although monoclonal DPP IV antibody 4D10 arrests the cell cycle FEBS Journal 276 (2009) 654 8– 655 9 ª 2009 The Authors Journal compilation ª 2009 FEBS 655 5 Epitope of monoclonal ... V334T, blocked the inhibition of cancer cell adhesion to DPP IV and soluble DPP IV binding to polyFN-expressing cancercells (Table 1) Taken together, these data indicate that the 655 4 Thr331-dependent...
... independently correlated withthe physician-topopulation ratio, and how much the fluctuation in total of the variables could predict the fluctuation of the physician -to- population ratio among the municipalities ... person, showed strong collinearity with one or both of the two variables, and therefore were not used in the regression model Two other variables, the proportion of those aged 65 or older among the ... amenities correlates well with population size The physician -to- population ratio is known to increase proportionately with population [1 ,5] This means that physicians would rather practise in cities with...
... Other groups have only single sites (Group 8) or lack sites altogether (Group 7) The hypervariability of the UL146 ORF led to an analysis of the sequence components downstream of the UL146 stop ... binding tothe inhibitory receptor ILT2 J Virol 20 05, 79(4):2 251 -2260 Bar M, Shannon-Lowe C, Geballe AP: Differentiation of human cytomegalovirus genotypes in immunocompromised patients onthe basis ... strains Towne and Toledo were also included in the phylogenetic analysis Among these strains the length of the ORF ranges from 342 to 3 75 nucleotides encoding predicted proteins of 114 to 1 25 amino...
... dicted to make major contributions tothe binding energy of the NS5A-SH3 domain interaction To test this hypothesis we constructed the corresponding site-directed mutants of the Fyn SH3 domain in the ... 2008, 5: 24 http://www.virologyj.com/content /5/ 1/24 Figure Surface plasmon resonance analysis of the NS5A(Δ 250 ):Fyn SH3 domain interaction Surface plasmon resonance analysis of the NS5A(Δ 250 ):Fyn ... shown to make an intramolecular hydrogen bond with R96 within the RT-Src loop of the SH3 domain – it was possible that the effects of the double mutant were due tothe inability to form this bond...
... London, W2 1PG, UK Authors’ contributions SMG completed all the statistical analysis, wrote the first draft of the paper, and made alterations tothe paper according to suggestions from the other ... services in the UK for at least a year registration in 1997 to 1999 (OR = 4.81, 95% CI: 3.06 to 7 .57 ) and 2000 to 2002 (OR = 2.90, 95% CI: 1.96 to 4.30) versus registration in 2003 to 20 05; a CDC ... versus > 350 cells/ mm (OR = 1.99, 95% CI: 1. 05to 3.74); and a detectable viral load (OR = 5. 03, 95% CI: 2. 95 to 8 .57 ) at last attendance Among those not receiving HAART, independent risk factors...