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... adipocytic tumors, indicating that the expression of CIDEC decreases along with the de-differentiation of adipocytic tumors In summary, these results imply that CIDEC could be involved in the differentiation ... analyses of the relative levels of the indicated proteins after western blotting (as in D) were carried out Similar experiments were performed five times and the intensity of the individual bands in each ... droplets in adipocytes In addition, the roles of proteins that associate with lipid droplets during adipogenesis, such as PAT proteins (named after the founding members of the family: perilipin, adipophilin...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... on the interleukin-1 induced synthesis of both nitric oxide and prostaglandin E2 in chondrocytes How Ca2+ and Fe3+ are involved in inhibiting antithrombin by HA is also poorly understood Some investigators ... to the heparin-binding region of antithrombin However, such binding did not stimulate the activity of antithrombin as did heparin and heparan; in fact, it blocked the ability of antithrombin ... ability of antithrombin to inhibit thrombin This finding helps to explain why RA occurs and develops in joint tissue, because the inflamed RA synovium is uniquely rich in free HA and other GAGs, along...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... cofilin mRNA RNA secondary structure of 3'-UTR of cofilin mRNA The arrow indicates the U-rich signal sequence that could be involved in the localization of the messenger The mRNAs containing the ... conflicting location signals in the 3'-UTR (one U-rich and tau-like, the other DTE-like) raises questions about how the final destination of such mRNAs is determined within the neuron Conclusion In the ... an mRNA binding protein intreacts with the signal-sequence forming a putative complex that is anchored to a kinesin protein The mRNAs that not contain such a U-sequence might remain in the cell...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... contribution to the final product may be in ated through labeling in order to use it as the marketing “handle.” Furthermore, the quality of Vaccinium preparations used in a finished product, whether in dried ... aspirin or other NSAIDs may increase the risk of bleeding Ginseng may intensify the effects of these drugs, causing an excessive decrease in blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia) Ginseng may intensify ... kava-containing products from the market Based on these and other reports in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a consumer advisory in March of 2002 regarding the “rare”...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20

... their children will suffer from bullying or will be forced into antisocial behavior by peer pressure They believe that the good behavior they have taught the child will be lost in school Another ... essay will examine the question of home schooling and discuss which the best option for the child is An increasing number of parents are deciding that home schooling is the best option for their ... the decline in the ability of the brain to grasp and remember new material They can organize their learning by setting times for reading or practice They can build on skills and experiences they...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 19:20

... to these interfaces is located in the PYR and middle domains The interface contains 10 hydrogen bonds in IPDC The dimer–dimer interface in IPDC is smaller than the corresponding interface in ... ScPDC on the other hand involving the C-terminal part of the polypeptide chain (Fig 7) In the latter, differences in the conformation of the loop between Fig Stereo picture of the model of the a-carbanion/enamine ... orientation of the aminopyrimidine ring, are conserved in all ThDP-dependent enzymes One of these, the hydrogen bond between the N1¢ atom of the pyrimidine ring of ThDP and the side chain of an invariant...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... transcription terminator The resulting fragment only contains the initial 67 bp and the final 68 bp of the pur4 coding sequence It was inserted in plasmid pGM9 The resulting construct was introduced, ... this domain, is scant This domain promotes the binding of the acyl-CoA initiation unit to the ketosynthetase domain of the PKSs for polyketide biosynthesis [35] Therefore, AtaPKS1 could be an acyltransferase, ... point, the procedure described in Hopwood et al [14] was followed DNA sequencing was made by the dideoxy-chain termination method [25] using the Amplitaq dye-terminator sequencing system (Perkin...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21

... latter certainly does not exceed the rate of amylopectin synthesis The increase in crystallinity witnessed during these first 12 h is in line with the high rates observed for amylopectin synthesis ... the diffracted intensities using h exposure periods Relative crystallinity was determined, after bringing all recorded diagrams to the same scale using normalization of the total scattering between ... accumulate at the final stage of starch synthesis in the absence of concomitant amylopectin synthesis (reviewed in [41]) In vitro synthesis of amylose Because in Chlamydomonas amylose synthesis remains...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... [15] The protein appears to dissociate into monomers before further unfolding occurs The detailed dissociation/unfolding mechanism of the protein remains to be determined In this study, we examined ... consistent with the results obtained by protein intrinsic fluorescence and CD The binding affinity (Kd) of ANS to d2-crystallin in 0, 0.84 M and M GdnHCl solution was determined to be 53 ± 3.1, 63 ... equilibrate the column and d2-crystallin was eluted in the same buffer containing 0.12 M NaCl The pooled d2-crystallin showed one major band upon SDS/ PAGE analysis The purity of the protein was further...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... University) [22,23], containing a cDNA encoding the insulin signal sequence and the Protein A-IgG binding domain, was inserted into NheI-HindIII digested pcDNA3.1, producing the vector, pInsProA pDN42 was ... GalNAc-T1, might be involved in the catalytic function of the enzyme To investigate whether the cysteine residues modified by PCMPS are involved in the binding of UDP-GalNAc, we treated recombinant GalNAc-T1 ... includes the GalNAc-T1 DXH motif (underlined above), a region believed to be involved in coordination of a divalent cation or the binding of UDP-GalNAc [16,28,29] The two cysteine residues in the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... ADP suggests that the mitochondrial injury is caused by opening of the mPTP There is evidence that ADP inhibits opening of the mPTP by occupying binding sites located in the inner and outer mitochondrial ... cyclosporin A (lane and lane 4, respectively) To test the possibility that mitochondrially generated ROS could be involved in the mechanism of membrane permeabilization, we determined H2O2 in the incubation ... relevance in brain, because in this tissue glucose is metabolized providing the NADH-yielding substrate pyruvate Under these conditions, some succinate is formed by the citric acid cycle, oxidizing...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:20

... centers and an FAD into the recombinant enzyme Therefore, the host organism has to be able to provide these cofactors and the means for their incorporation into the expressed protein in order to form ... most of the enzymes in this class) adds further difficulty in the successful expression of molybdoenzymes in the xanthine oxidoreductase family The most important factor involved in producing a ... in the expression of recombinants These results, together with the results presented in the current report, demonstrate that the incorporation of MPT into XDH is a more complex process than the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20

... of the active area in insulin (Fig 7F) If the mechanism of the interaction between the 4-kDa peptide and 43-kDa protein has the minimum components of insulin–insulin receptor interaction, the ... similar to the insulin– insulin receptor interaction system Interaction of insulin with the 43-kDa protein Acknowledgements Similarly to the 4-kDa peptide, insulin is able to interact with the 43-kDa ... amino acids (Val12 and Arg18), in addition to the 11 residues described above, were involved in binding to the 43-kDa protein The substitution of Val12 and Arg18 to alanine affected binding to the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20

... of the splicing products of the petB intron could be that the protein binds to the UTR region between psbH and petB, and to domain IV of the petB intron The binding of the homodimer of HCF152 in ... the background The binding site was found to be located at the C-terminus of the protein although binding of the C-terminus half (CH) is only half of the full-length protein (Fig 3) Interestingly, ... when the yeast-tRNA was omitted from the binding assay, indicating a lesser specific binding to RNA Finally, the two truncated proteins containing a single PPR domain did not show any binding to...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:09

... the synthesis of amylopectin, it has been suggested that SSI is mainly involved in the synthesis of small chains of this fraction Furthermore, SSIV has been found recently to be involved in the ... acids of the N-terminal region responsible for SSIII regulation We found evidence indicating that two regions, D(316–344) in the D2 domain and D(495–535) in the D3 domain, are involved in the interaction ... interaction between the N- and C-terminal domains of SSIII in vitro Mapping of the CD-binding region in the N-terminal SBDs In order to identify the SBD region required for the SBD–CD interaction, we...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... are involved in fumarate activation (in yellow), CoA activation (underlined) and malate inhibition (in green) of the forward reaction are highlighted In addition, the regions involved in succinate ... nonconserved amino acid residues in the suggested domain involved in fumarate activation, the mutations at positions 357 and ⁄ or 360 could be involved in the differential regulation, as well as the conserved ... However, the three nonconserved amino acid changes between NADPME2 and NADP-ME3 are located in the amino-terminal region (Fig 1), which is not involved in succinate activation, as NADP-ME2 lacking the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... Synoviolin is involved in the degradation of nicastrin gene p53 [19] and Parkin-associated endothelin receptor-like receptor [20] In this study, we addressed whether Synoviolin is involved in the ... ubiquitination confer specificity to the ubiquitin system by directly interacting with the substrate proteins and helping to transfer ubiquitin to them Therefore, to determine whether NCT is the ... We also determined the levels of c-secretase-unrelated ER protein (calnexin) and cytoskeleton protein (tubulin) in these cells as the internal control proteins The calnexin and tubulin levels...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... PKC-selective inhibitors to determine whether PKC is functionally involved in the L-MAT cell apoptosis induced by TCDD and attempted to identify the specific PKC isoform(s) involved in the process Pre-treatment ... confirmed, by using the human lymphoblastic T-cell line, L-MAT, as the model, that the AhR-mediated pathway is in no way involved in TCDD-induced apoptosis, [7,8] Furthermore, neither TCDD-mediated ... is completely inhibited by rottlerin and by myr-PKCh-PPI in vitro To test indirectly whether PKCh might be a target for both rottlerin and myr-PKCh-PPI in the inhibition of TCDD-induced L-MAT...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... are involved in the transmission of mechanical signals to signaling pathways In the M line, mechanical stimulation activates the interaction of a protein complex with the kinase domain of titin, ... pathway and an increase in muscle fiber apoptosis [8] The participation of NF-jB signaling in the pathogenesis of LGMD2A is therefore an interesting possibility The findings obtained in the present ... slower in wildtype muscles than in calpain deficient muscles (Fig 3C), suggesting that the interaction between CARP and titin is reinforced in the presence of calpain These results suggest that the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20