hostpathogen interactions the attributes of virulence

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... in the Gulf War. The subsequent disclosure of the CBW capabilities of the for- mer Soviet Union, the discovery of an Iraqi CBW capability after the Gulf War, and the recognition that a number of ... by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The research was conducted jointly by RAND Health’s Center for Military Health Policy Research and the Forces and Resources Policy Center of the ... development because of the increased apprecia- tion of the threat of biological weapons. The CBW threat, both to national and homeland security, raises the question of whether cur- rent FDA regulations...

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... the center of the membrane (Fig. 4); (b) the major axis of the dimeric RNase was made coinci- dent with the z axis of the system, hence orthogonal to the membrane plane (Fig. 4); (c) the dimeric ... stabilized through the exchange between subunits of either their N-ter- minal, or their C-terminal ends [33–35]. We found that the behavior with the model membrane of the dimer in which the C-terminal ... affect the bilayer fluidity of DMPG membranes, as evidenced by a decrease of the amplitude of their thermotropic transition. Only RNase A and RNase AA show no effects on the thermotropic behavior of...

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... rearrangements of the TM spans of these subunits. It has not been established whether these TM spans simply anchor the amphipathic regions and cytosolic domains to the membrane, or whether they serve ... in the presence of substrate and a proton motive force [23]. On the basis of these studies, it has been proposed that binding of substrate to the TatBC subunits triggers the recruitment of the ... conjunction with the data shown in Fig. 6, these data show that the severe effects of the TatA ⁄ 3Gly mutations can be rescued by the presence of additional mutations either elsewhere in the TatA TM...

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... perhaps reflects the difference between the complexities of the regulation of the two systems: a longer time is required for the formation of the complex looping structure in the case of BX-C, while ... approach their proper target promoter in the viscous environment of the nucleus. Somatic pairing of chromosomes and the regulation of Abd-B A peculiarity of Drosophila is the fact that the homo- logous ... con- struct. However, when the combination of the PTS and the bound- ary is placed 3¢ to one of the reporter genes, the enhancer is targeted to one or the other promoter over the boundary (lower panel)....

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... bond, linkage of the active site Ser of the protease to the carboxyl group of P 1 by an ester bond and insertion of the N-terminal part of the RCL as strand 4 in b-sheet A (s4A) of the serpin. ... cognate proteases is fuelled by the thermodynamic properties of the serpin. Accordingly, insertion of the RCL as s4A and the ensuing structural rearrangements of the serpin stabilizes the molecule in a so-called ... close to the point of initial insertion of the RCL [36] represents an obstacle for the local structural rearrangements required for the movements of the RCL during latency transition. N152 is often...

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... y of the o ther pitchers, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These results are in consistent with beh avioral explanations for how one w orke r affects the per form ance of other ... ot the case, then v 1 > 0 cannot be optimal since the principal would be better off paying zero t o playe r 1. Depending o n the value of B as well as the values of the other parameters in the ... with the quality of the team’s pitching. Furthermore, a pitcher’s performance increases with the pitching quality of his teammates, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These...

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... Treatment Despite the complexity of these drug interactions, the key role of the rifamycins in the success of tuberculosis treatment mandates that the drug-drug interactions between the rifamycins and antiretroviral ... (induce) the synthesis of several classes of drug transporting and drug metabolizing enzymes. With increased synthesis, there is increased total activity of the enzyme (or enzyme system), thereby ... the antiviral activity of raltegravir 200 mg twice daily was very similar to the activity of the licensed dose (400 mg twice-daily), the current recommendation is to use the standard dose of...

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... from a different species [23–25]. The success of the series of studies shows that the stable framework structure of Fv enables the transfer of function by means of CDR replacement. Barbas et al. ... of the CDR 3 loop of antilysozyme VHH functionalized NCS without denaturation, although the thermal stability was decreased and the affinity for lysozyme was weaker than in the original VHH. The ... demonstrating the utility of the grafting of functional peptides with randomized edge sequences for optimizing the orientation of the grafted peptide on a scaffold protein. In addition, when the combina- tion...

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... possible interpretation of the data suggests that the indicated basic region of ic3 of the D 2 receptor and acidic region of the C-tail of the D 1 receptor might be involved in the interactions between the two ... on the number of Arg residues that were replaced by Ala in the Arg-rich region of ic3 (resi- dues 217–222) of the dopamine D 2 receptor. The effi- ciency of energy transfer in the wild-type of the ... localization of these proteins in the cell rather than from the possible role of the D 2 R basic domain in the mechanism of D 1 –D 2 receptor heterodimerization. However, we find that the acidic epitope...

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... is strongly affected by the two groups of parameters that determine the protein–protein interactions: the concen- trations of the enzymes relative to the target protein, and the respective dissociation ... the global response coefficient R is the ratio of the concentration of active kinase K 0.9 at which there is 90% fully phosphorylated target to the kinase concentration K 0.1 at which 10% of the ... another site, so that the phosphorylation kinetics of one residue can depend on the phosphorylation state of other residues in the pro- tein [8]. It is not clear how these factors modulate the response...

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... sites. Taken together, these findings suggest that the struc- tural properties of DNA-damaged substrates, whether intrinsic or the result of protein binding, function in the recruitment of the XPC–hHR23B ... Binding of XPG induces the release of XPC–hHR23B, whereas XPF–ERCC1 triggers exci- sion of the damaged DNA and the release of XPA and TFIIH. Subsequently, the newly formed gap in the DNA is filled by ... assembly of the protein complex that carries out DNA incision around the lesion, (b) incision of the damaged DNA strand on both sides of the injury, which results in damage exci- sion, and (c) synthesis...

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... 3B). The specificity of the binding is again confirmed by the competition of unla- belled DR1 probe. The presence of USP in the com- plex was confirmed by a supershift formed upon the addition of ... (a) binding the a-helix 12 of the receptor into its own hydrophobic groove [22]; (b) stabilization of the a-helix 12 near the hydrophobic groove in a position that the C-terminus of the a-helix 12 ... progressive decrease in the JH III-inducibility of the DR1JHECore promo- ter (Fig. 6, upper panel). To further test whether the JH III activation pathway requires the presence of the wild-type L314...

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... is bound by the wild-type fusion protein in this assay. The efficiency of the pull-down is probably limited by the presence of the GST part of the fusion protein, the small size of the radiolabelled ... both the binding to and cleavage of eIF4GI [26]. However, the results here also do not rule out further interactions between the CTE of Lb pro and the region 645–657 of eIF4GI involving other ... synthesized Lb pro , we took advantage of the presence of eIF4GI in the RRLs and examined its fate during the synthesis of Lb pro , as reported previously [15]. Accordingly, aliquots of the translation reactions...

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... respectively, of the receptor [19,22]. The b sheet of EGF may bind to domain I of ErbB-1, and the other surface of the ligand binds to domain III of the receptor. Recently, Gly441 of the ErbB-1 ... of the receptors was confirmed by immunoblotting of the cell lysates (Fig. 1B). As often observed for membrane proteins, the bands were rather broad in the blots, due to the heterogeneity of the ... due to the saturation of ERK activation resulting from the amplifying effect of the signaling cascade. DISCUSSION In the present study, by using chimeric receptors, the contributions of the extracellular...

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... present on the outside of the shell where it is responsible for adsorption of the virus to the cellular receptor, the F-pilus. During infec- tion, maturase enters the cell together with the RNA genome, ... treatment of dlFG and sc-dlFG in the presence of bis-ANS. (A) Effects of increasing urea concentrations on the spectral center of mass of (m) dlFG and (r) sc-dlFG in the absence of bis-ANS, and in the ... against all the forms of denatura- tion we tested. This is consistent with the observation of increased stability of the single-chain version of the wild-type dimer [30] and is reminiscent of the similar stabilization...

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