... OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2007 Acknowledgements I gratefully acknowledge the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (afficiated ... bacteria with plasmids 43 3.6.5.1 Preparation of E.coli competent cells for heat-shock transformation 43 3.6.5.2 Transformation of E.Coli cells using heat-shock method 43 3.7 DNA sequencing 44 3.8 Plant ... metabolic activity in ga1-3 mutant 117 5.2.6 Distinct approaches are utilized to control cell growth and cell wall modification during seed germination and floral development 118 5.2.7 DELLAs act...
... mgÆmL)1 l-arabinose for induction of GroEL–GroES After incubation at 37 °C until the cells reached an A600 of 0.6, the cells were induced with 0.5 mm isopropyl-b-d-thiogalactopyranoside and cultured ... Pseudomonas fluorescens PfO-1 (HYDPf) were able to hydrolyze d,l-p-HPH SDS–PAGE analyses of wholecell extracts and the supernatant and precipitate fractions are shown in Fig It was found that E ... formation of inclusion bodies in the precipitate fraction, which may lead to low activity of whole -cell extract, while HYDBp and HYDPf were mainly expressed in soluble fraction under the experimental...
... 2003 Fig Phylogenetic tree of hazelnut LOXs The amino acid sequences of hazelnut lipoxygenases were compared with other plant LOXs (accession numbers are in parentheses) The phylogenetic tree ... mitotic activity and the consequent rapid remodelling of cell membranes occurring in developing seed FASTA analysis suggests that, despite the clear evidence for expression in early seed development, ... Despite these clear indications on the importance of 9-LOXs in plant defence, the nature and the biological activities of oxylipins produced from 9-hydroperoxides are still largely unclear Recently...
... structures of multicellular organisms may be traced back to the few modi operandi of cell growth, cell evanescance (Zellenscwund), cell division, cell migration, active cell formation, cell elimination ... the extracellular environment, the cell membrane and the intracellular cytoskeleton Chapters and describe the morphogenetic properties of fibroblasts and epithelia, the two main types of cells found ... include both other cells and extracellular matrices, as well as the macroscopic boundaries that constrain cell activity As to the interactions among the cells participating in the morphogenetic enterprise,...
... approach [22,49], they have not been confirmed so far in H pylori cells As for other T4SS, it is currently also unclear whether the extracellular pilus-like appendages are used as conduits for protein ... into the host cell cytoplasm is not understood Incubation of target cells with different inhibitors interferes with CagA tyrosine phosphorylation [36,46], although it remains unclear whether ... effector protein CagA into various host cells is a hallmark of CagT4SS activity Despite the molecular characterization of a number of effects in host cells, the exact function of CagA translocation...
... laccase and cellulase genes in Lentinula edodes on a sawdust-based substrate Mycoscience 41, 149–153 56 Cai, Y.J., Buswell, J.A & Chang, S.T (1994) Production of cellulases and hemicellulases ... J.A & Chang, S.T (1999) Production and distribution of endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, and b-glucosidase components of the cellulolytic system of Vol- 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 ... extracellular enzyme activities during growth and fruiting Arch Microbiol 114, 161–165 53 Ohga, S., Smith, M., Thurston, C.F & Wood, D.A (1999) Transcriptional regulation of laccase and cellulase...
... human melanoma cell line (Mel-JuSo) Ó FEBS 2003 1518 M M Putz et al (Eur J Biochem 270) ¨ expressing the hemagglutinin protein supposedly in its native conformation Mel-JuSo-H and -wt cell lines ... 0.5%, sodium azide 0.05%) and plated in 96-well U-bottom plates at a concentration of · 106 cellsÆmL)1 Cells were incubated for 60 on ice in serum samples diluted in FACS medium, washed and stained ... cytometry histograms of crossreactivity with hemagglutinin protein on Mel-JuSo-H cells (open histogram) and Mel-JuSo-wt cells (grey histogram) of mouse sera induced against diphtheria toxoid (C),...
... recently been characterized and shown to represent a novel intracellular regulator that controls enzyme activity, dimerization and extracellular secretion [10] Previous experiments were performed ... b-N-acetylhexosaminidases are novel enzyme regulators that must be intracellularly processed to control activity, dimerization, and secretion into the extracellular environment Biochemistry 46, 2719–2734 ´ ´ ´ ... glycosylation status of PoHex using mass spectrometry The occupancy of individual sites of glycosylation clearly indicates that one site localized in the predicted propeptide and five classical sites in...
... The enzymes have a preference to interact with the zwitterionic micelles (diC16PC and Triton X-100) rather than the anionic micelles (diC16PC and deoxycholate) [3] However, substrate binding to ... ester is probably different from that of the phospholipid micelles The elapid venom 3FTx are a large multigene family and recent phylogenetic analyses of all the 3FTx revealed that kraits’ venom ... respectively [1,40,45] Notably, venom PLAs of different genera of elapids are clearly resolved with high bootstrap supports in the phylogenetic tree (Fig 7) The sea snakes have been shown [45,46] to be diphyletic...
... Biosciences) A portion of the homogenate corresponding to 500 mg of ink sac was applied to an oligo(dT)-cellulose spun column Poly(A)+ RNA eluted from a column was ethanol-precipitated, and redissolved ... carried out with NCBI-BLAST 2.0 program available at DDBJ web server (http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp) Phylogenetic tree was deduced by a neighbor-joining analysis based on the alignment of amino acid sequences ... (IEF)-native 2DPAGE, ST94 was separated from other tyrosinase-active components and was observed as a clear spot corresponding to the position of a protein with pI 4.1 and a molecular mass of 94 kDa...
... responses in other cell types, such as cultured epithelial cells, including 4620 embryonic bovine lung cells [94], Vero cells [67,95,96], cardiomyocytes [70] and osteosarcoma cells [96] For example, ... osteoblasts [57,58,64] Cellular activity of PMT The intoxication of mammalian cells by PMT induces strong mitogenic [65–67] and anti-apoptotic [68–70] effects in various cell lines The cellular effects ... confluent Vero cells undergo rapid and dramatic morphological changes on toxin exposure [67,95,96] However, proliferating cell nuclear antigen and cyclins D3 and E are not upregulated in these cells on...
... recombinant cellobiohydrolase (A) SDS/ PAGE [10% (w/v) gel] analysis of purified recombinant cellobiohydrolase (reCBH) Lane 1, molecular makers; lane 2, uninduced cells; lane 3, induced cells (4 ... in the inclusion body fraction Cells were harvested by centrifugation (3630 g for min) from a 50 mL culture, and the cell pellet was resuspended in M urea The cell lysate was sonicated with three, ... cel7 expression Solka floc cellulose, lactose and beechwood xylan induce high levels of cel7 expression in T emersonii (Fig 4) Similar cellulase expression with complex cellulose has been documented...
... this enzyme have been identified in various tissues, and sPLA2-IB is reported to play a role in cell proliferation and hormone release via these receptors [6,7] Group IB sPLA2s have been isolated ... hydrolysis of phospholipids Bile salts dependence Several studies have provided evidence that micellar concentration of bile salts ensure the dispersion of the hydrolysis products [12,19] In order ... RKMIK 15 CAIPH CTIPG CTIPG CTIPP CKIPD CKIPS CV IPG This study [20] [14] [15] [13] [20] [21] DH5a cells Several clones were selected, and some of them contained a recombinant plasmid with a 500...
... within pressed samples of fresh tissue Proprietary chemicals impregnated into the paper act to lyze cellular material and fix and preserve DNA and RNA within the fibre matrix [2] After a short drying ... field is becoming increasingly important as more developing countries initiate field trials of genetically modified crops A major goal of the DDPSC is to employ pathogen derived resistance strategies...
... within pressed samples of fresh tissue Proprietary chemicals impregnated into the paper act to lyze cellular material and fix and preserve DNA and RNA within the fibre matrix [2] After a short drying ... field is becoming increasingly important as more developing countries initiate field trials of genetically modified crops A major goal of the DDPSC is to employ pathogen derived resistance strategies...
... Advances in Signal Processing 2011, 2011:1 http://asp.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/1 x (t ) Gm cell z (t ) Pulse Interval dt s g1 Page of to Voltage Converter Integrator g3 Hysteresis Quantizer ... distortion in the measurements An important linear component in the system is the amplifier (the Gm cell in Figure 1) When the amplifier is nonlinear, not only does it fail to amplify the signal as ... very large elements that amplify the noise in the measurements There may also be disastrous cancellation that brings computation error [7] Using a short window is one way to control the noise...