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... pH) [11] This suggests that TnrA bound to GlnK is still able to activate gene expression The assumption that GlnK binding does not impair TnrA activity is consistent with the observation that, in ... [12] We have speculated that GlnK may also interact with the C-terminus of TnrA, and may play a role in the regulation of TnrA activity and its proteolysis [15] To test this assumption, various ... glutaraldehyde crosslinking assays This supplementary material can be found in the online version of this article Please note: As a service to our authors and readers, this journal provides supporting...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:21

... Recently, it has been reported that lupin c-conglutin does not inhibit GH12 endo-b-glucanase [20] Therefore, we extracted XEGIPs from several legume seeds (azukibean, yardlongbean, and mungbean), and ... This indicates that the IL-2 structure of Bg7S is potentially flexible, implying that these residues might interact with the catalytic residues of ANXY However, sequence conservation in IL-2 between ... pseudo-222 symmetry, as mentioned above A number of water molecules are found in the protomer–protomer interfaces (Table 1), implying that assembly of Bg7S might be dynamically altered by solution conditions...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20

... frequently in cytokines; for sponges this domain has already been described [23] Therefore, degenerate primers were designed to identify genes which comprise this domain and that are expressed by the stimulation ... domuncula, SDTUB (accession number AJ550806), was used as an internal standard The probes were labeled using the PCR-DIG-probe-synthesis kit (Roche) After washing, DIG-labeled nucleic acid was detected ... proving that S domuncula recognizes (1fi3)-b-Dglucan, the respective (1fi3)-b-D-glucan-binding protein had to be identified Such a molecule has previously been isolated and cloned from a number of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... that MNSFb–endophilin II was detected in liver cells in terms of endocytosis The truncated 30 kDa form may be a consequence of the MNSFb adduct It is possible that the N-terminal region may be ... internalization [15] It has been reported that endophilin family members bind to synaptojanin and dynamin via a Grb2-like Src homology domain (constant region) [9,20] In this context, MNSFb may not affect ... previous studies on the regulation of ERK activity by MNSFb, this indicates that endophilins, ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like protein(s) may be closely involved in MAP kinase pathways Experiments are...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21

... demonstrated that TLR4 is expressed in microglia of CNS (14-16) Since microglial activation is essential for the release of proinflammatory cytokines (17), it is plausible that TLR4 might be a common ... Increasing evidences indicate that TLR4 is implicated in neuropathic pain In this study, siRNA of TLR4 were used to investigate whether blockage of TLR4 mRNA could be used for pain treatment and ... still likely to be difficult (34-35) In this study, the anhttp://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2010, ti-nociception effect disappeared after discontinuation of siRNA-TLR4, suggesting that vectors...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48

... translocation, suggesting that this monopartite NLS-like sequence has an active role in the nuclear import process [2] This indicates that the binding of CLIC4 to importin-a via this putative NLS is ... interaction between the otherwise helical CLIC4 NLS and importin-a It has been shown that S-nitrosylation of CLIC4 enhances the interaction with importin-a, as determined by immunoprecipitation [3] In this ... appears that this unique NLS residue is not only accommodated in the P4 site, but makes significant interactions with importin-a This primarily occurs by the formation of a hydrogen bond between...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 19:20

... in obesity does not reverse obesity at all Furthermore, ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF levels have been positively correlated with fasting 562 serum glucose levels [24] These findings raise the possibility that ... would be helpful in treating obesity by suggesting ways to target ANGPTL2 expression In humans, ANGPTL2 concentration in the circulation is also upregulated in obesity (particularly visceral obesity) ... in parallel with reduction of visceral fat in obese diabetic patients treated with pioglitazone, a PPARc agonist with unique antidiabetic activity that decreases visceral fat, suppresses inflammation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... association of TRAP1 with CypD is prevented by CsA and not geldanamycin, suggesting that this association may be necessary for CypD activity [35] Many factors are involved in inducing MPTP opening, ... results described above, we conclude that silencing TRAP1 expression induces MPTP opening in cardiomyocytes, resulting in cell injury Furthermore, the up-regulation of TRAP1 expression may play a ... Despite its ATP-binding activity, TRAP1 does not form a stable complex with the co-chaperones of HSP90, such as Hop and p23 [18] Studies have shown that TRAP1 does not have a C-terminal EEVD sequence,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 14:20

... these results, we postulate that the polyN-acetyllactosaminic carbohydrate moiety may act as a moderate activator of TLR4 Discussion LF has been described as the molecule that modulates our immune ... cytokines in response to LF has not yet been described A third candidate molecule is the intestinal LF receptor identified by Suzuki et al [18] They indicate that this receptor is responsible for taking ... and the activating process of this classical NF-jB dimer is described as the ‘canonical pathway’ that is initiated by the activation of the IjB kinase (IKK) complex that is composed of two catalytic...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... related species Mullus barbatus This suggested that this band may be acetylated at its N-terminal end Indeed, N-terminal a-amino acetylation of histone H1 was early ascribed to the difficulty encountered ... shown) This indicates that most of the absorbance at 260 nm (DNA released) beyond this point is due to small oligonucleotides that not appear in Fig 4C (our results not exclude the possibility that ... proteins that have now been quite extensively described in invertebrate organisms from molluscs [17,18,21] to tunicates [22] In vertebrate organisms, SNBPs of the PL-I type have been described in...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... cerebrum demonstrated that the expression level of hTRXL in the former was distinctly higher than that in the latter (Fig 1A) This confirmed that the results from the DDRT-PCR that hTRXL did have ... Asp26, Thr30, Met37 and Asp60 that are highly conserved within the thioredoxins of mammals and chick This suggests that the reaction site of the possible substrates may be rich in negatively charged ... Hence it has been proposed that dimer formation may play a role in regulating human thioredoxin [44,45] The changes in the corresponding region of the dimer interface in hTRXL-N imply that different...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... coli RuvC– RecG– mutant after UV light treatment because it has been previously shown that this bacteria mutant is also partially sensitive to this treatment The transfection with TgDRE cDNA also ... SF45 because of its similarity to the human splicing factor 45 protein, which was described as a component of the spliceosome [11] The presence of the two first motifs suggests that TgDRE may also ... At this time, we have no explanation for the discrepancy between the apparent molecular mass and the native size of TgDRE in the parasite According to the functional similarities that can be...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... [7,11] We hypothesized that ERK activation might be involved in the proliferative effect of MCP-4 ⁄ CCL13, as the ERK cascade has been reported to be a central pathway that transmits signals ... indicate that the MCP-4 ⁄ CCL13 gene may not be responsible for the onset of RA Discussion MCP-1 ⁄ CCL2, MCP-2 ⁄ CCL8, MCP-3 ⁄ CCL7 and MCP-4 ⁄ CCL13 constitute a subfamily of CC chemokines that ... proliferation that are dependent on the activation of ERK MAP kinase These data suggest that MCP-4 ⁄ CCL13 is a significant contributor to synovial hyperplasia in RA, and that MCP-4 ⁄ CCL13 may serve...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... of this protein to the extracellular space by exosomes may not represent a bona fide role, because a large number of multivesicular bodyrelated proteins are also secreted [24] We expected that ... the period of this inhibitor treatment, and thus only unfarnesylated protein could be detected (Fig 3A) Faster migration of farnesylated proteins than that of unmodified proteins has been reported ... released to the extracellular milieu but that this process does not depend on its farnesylation Discussion In the human genome database, there are three genes that encode Bro1 domains: Alix, HD-PTP...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... nonspecific that this residual binding is Analysis of TOS-like motifs from other proteins reported to be controlled by mTOR signalling A number of other proteins have been reported to be regulated ... approaches, such as that recently described by Oshiro et al [23] (which identified PRAS40 as a target for mTORC1), may be much more useful for this The present data will nonetheless be valuable in ... arginine (Fig 2B) This shows that a positive charge is not required here: rather, the important factor may be a bulky polar side-chain, although even alanine works reasonably well at this position...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... segregation, a function that has not been attributed to the other members of the APP superfamily [27,38] However, because APP and APLP2 are structurally related, it is conceivable that they also share ... physiological roles of APLP1 and have been less extensively studied, probably because they appear not to be involved in amyloidogenesis Nevertheless, a role for APLP2 has been proposed in chromosome replication ... domains and residues known to be post-translationally modified have been conserved between Xenopus and mammalian APLP2 Overall, the high degree of conservation of APLP2 may help the identification...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... it may be translocated to the nucleus and form a complex with T-cell factor The b-catenin ⁄ T-cell factor complex acts as a transcriptional activator of many genes [28] In this study, we show that ... inactivation and Nox1 expression This supplementary material can be found in the online version of this article Please note: As a service to our authors and readers, this journal provides supporting ... J.-S Kim et al tone [10] It has been shown to regulate smooth muscle cell growth, both hypertrophy and hyperplasia, and migration [11] In addition, Nox1 may be important in regulating blood...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:21

... indicates that fish protein may be less pleioThe comparison of fish OP-L protein with mammatropic than that from mammals Finally, the massive lian osteopontin expression patterns indicates that both ... blotting using 10 · NaCl ⁄ Cit Membranes were probed, as described above, using radiolabeled S aurata OP-L (GenBank accession number AY651247) or SaRPL27a probes, and the signal intensity was determined ... types have been obtained [12], (c) expressed sequence tag (EST) collections have been developed [13,14], (d) DNA microarrays have been built [13,14] and (e) a radiation hybrid panel has been developed...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20

... centrifugation has been described elsewhere [9] Electron microscopy The ultrastructure of yeast cells was studied with oleateinduced cells that had been fixed with 1.5% KMnO4 and processed as described previously ... Bar = 2.5 lm So far, we have been able to show that large Woroninbody-like structures are formed in S cerevisiae upon heterologous expression of N crassa HEX1 Because this is supposed to require ... living hyphae of N crassa HEX1 may be capable of forming large crystals without phosphorylation, but the crystal packing might be different when HEX1 is phosphorylated This would require solving...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20