... essential to check carefully both the initial and nal pH values of the solution As thereaction is started whether from the pH-drop or jump, the protein adjusts itself to the rapid change in pH to reach ... lead to the required rate constant, that is to say kout for the full conversion reactionThe situation was the same with the pH-jump experiments Therefore, the practical way to reach the intrinsic ... pocket from the surrounding solvent The iron is thus converted to the ferric met-form, andthe water molecule or the hydroxyl ion remains bound to the Fe(III) at the sixth coordinate 6ị In these equations,...
... complex The interaction on the one hand between MT1-MMP and GRASP55 and on the other hand between GRASP55 and furin led us to hypothesize that GRASP55 could potentially play a role in the formation ... important role in the formation of the MT1-MMP–furin complex; therefore, 3168 disruption of the interaction between GRASP55 and furin should perturb theactivation of pro-MT1-MMP and reduce MT1-MMP ... were found to accumulate in the Golgi apparatus andthe TGN in these cells (C Roghi, unpublished data) HT1080 cells were then transiently co-transfected with MT1/EYFP andthe GRASP55-green fluorescent...
... in the vicinity of the S1 pocket [11,34], in the rst part of activation loop 3, and in the area of the TF-interactive helix andthe 170 loop [8,35], areas that are stabilized by TF [9,25,26] The ... conned to the substrate binding cleft (the 170 loop) in the active site region andthe S1 pocket, whereas the intramolecular connections, for instance between the TF-binding region andthe active ... active site and between the TF-binding region andtheactivation domain, appear to function normally In order to further elucidate the effects of the G372(223)A mutation, we analysed the mutation...
... assembly and ⁄ or play a role in the conformational changes that result in channel activation or receptor desensitization In the case of the Torpedo nAChR, the importance of the a-subunit in ligand ... insignificant shift in the EC50 values for ACh activation to 29 and 47 lm, respectively, and had no significant effect on the cooperativity of receptor activation In contrast, the aR55F and aR55W mutations ... Representation of the extracellular domains of the c–a subunits based on the crystal structure of AChBP The positions of cE93 and aR55 at the subunit interface are indicated and modeling suggests that these...
... and are bound between the progesterone andthe protein (Fig 7A) In comparison to the oxidized structures, the FMN isoalloxazine ring is less planar, with both the N5 atom andthe C8-C7 methyl groups ... Properties of the H181A and H184A enzymes The structure of PETN reductase solved in complex with prednisone, progesterone, 1,4-androstadiene (Fig 1A) and 2-cyclohexen-1-one indicate that these ligands ... proton donation in the oxidative half -reaction of MR [25] PETN reductase is unusual in having two histidine residues (rather than the His-Asn pair seen in OYE, MR and some of the other member proteins;...
... locks the enzyme in the active form for CTP synthesis and thereby stimulates the kcat of thereaction Since GTP actually will activate the uncoupled glutaminase reactionthe structure of the monomer ... )29.7 0.8 kJặmol)1 and )47.3 0.3 kJặmol)1 for the glutaminase reactionandthe CTP synthesis reaction, respectively The rst value agrees well with the value of Kishore et al [15] The steady-state ... has to determine the equilibrium constant of thereaction to calculate DH Both the glutaminase reactionandthe CTP synthesis reaction of CTP synthase are virtually irreversible and present no...
... enormous attention The present study demonstrates the utility and limitations of PCR Among the total of 144 specimens studied, the sensitivity of smear, culture and PCR was 51%, 68% and 91.5% respectively ... like to thank Dr A K Chakraborty andthe anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions on the manuscript, Dr N S Deodhar for comments and suggestion on the work and Drs Anil Ravetkar, former ... diseases other than tuberculosis (Table 1A serial-c) These cases were as follows, two each of asthma, pneumonia and cancer lung, one each of post CABG, COPD and lung abscess and 12 with cough and cold...
... produce an active Toll ligand called Spatzle [4,6] The ¨ Spatzle ligand and Toll receptor also establish the dor¨ sal–ventral axis in the Drosophila embryo, although this activation of proSpatzle ... identified in the genomes of the mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti [19,20], but only two Spa¨tzle homologs are present in the genomes of the honeybee Apis mellifera andthe red flour ... to B mori Spatzle-1 [23] We performed ¨ 3¢-RACE and 5¢-RACE to obtain the missing ends of the cDNA, and then used primers encompassing the start and stop codons, with larval fat body cDNA as template,...
... govern the two effects The fact that theactivation of Glu-plasminogen is a conformationally regulated process is the key to understanding this mechanism The effect of staplabin on theactivation ... difference between complestatin and chloropeptin I is only at the position of the C–C bond that connects the indole ring of the tryptophan residue andthe aromatic ring of the 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglycine ... the resulting plasmin [25,26] The molecule no longer has the PAN domain and therefore adopts a relaxed conformation [27] because of the lack of intermolecular binding between the PAN domain and...
... synthetase DptE To detect the adenylate intermediate, we repeated thereaction with apo-DptF rather than holo-DptF, which should lead to accumulation of the acyl adenylate intermediate Thereaction ... phosphopantetheinylation of apo-DptF and apoAcpK Coomassie blue-stained SDS–PAGE gel (left) and in-gel fluorescence (right) of the fluoresceinyl-ACP (+) indicates thereaction with Sfp; ()) indicates thereaction ... digested with BamHI and NotI, and ligated into the same sites of the pQTev vector to yield the plasmid pQTev-dptF The integrity of the plasmid was confirmed by sequencing The resulting plasmid...
... vivo and in vitro [7] Ferrochelatase in the heme-requiring pathogen Haemophilus influenzae functions in the reverse reaction, enabling the bacteria to obtain iron from the host [8] The yeast and ... also exhibit the reverse reaction, although the role of the reverse reaction is unclear [7] Because hemoproteins, including myoglobin and hemoglobin, become substrates of the removal reaction of ... similar to that of the enzyme in the inner membrane, the movement of the enzyme to the outer membrane may occur after the cleavage of the pre-sequence, and may relate to the phosphorylation Mutation...
... had no effect on the position of the two main gelatinase bands (Fig 8, lanes and 2), suggesting that neither the band seen in the stacking gel nor the 300-kDa band at the top of the separating ... indicated under the figure Theactivation was stopped at the indicated time points by the addition of 10 mM EDTA to thereaction mixture At the right is shown the position of the 225 and 92 kDa forms ... to prevent the appearance of the released forms of MMP-9 from the complex The arrowhead shows the border between the stacking and separating gels, andthe arrow shows the position of the 72 kDa...
... in the Health Products and Foods Branch to replace the Therapeutic Products Programme: the Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD); the Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate (BGTD); andthe ... – the industry, on the one hand, andthe consumer’s health movement, on the other, with government showing favour to both camps, depending on the political climate of the day Women in both the ... consultation with the women’s health community and include the principle of the right to be warned and informed expands regional reporting centres and adequately funds these as the front lines of the reporting...
... depends on the promoter context, which refers both to the specific arrangement of the cis-acting elements in the promoter and to the nature of the factors they bind To investigate the effect of ... important in the context of the IFN-b promoter if the arrangement of the PRDs allows them to occur The importance of these interactions was tested functionally and our results indicate that the balance ... families andthe lack of viability resulting from gene targeting of either p300 or CBP places restrictions on the use of mammalian cells to dissect theactivation mechanism of the IFN-b gene The IFN...
... hepatic and muscular origin Materials and methods Sequence of the rst intron of GS The nucleotide sequences of the upstream region and of the rst 1938 nucleotides of the rst intron of the rat ... consist of the sum of a basal activity (produced by the promoter and minimized intron), the effects of the respective upstream (X) and intron (Y) modules, andthe interaction (X,Y) between these modules: ... on the promoter Similar to liver cells, the stimulatory effect of either element was largely lost if the other element was absent Furthermore, and again similar to liver cells, the effects of the...
... IKK complex andactivation of the classical NF-jB pathway Instead, we gain more and more evidence that recruitment, modification andactivationand inactivation of the E3 ligases and kinases involved ... TNFR1-induced activation of the classical NF-jB pathway, in general, andactivationand inactivation of the IKK complex, in particular, is highly dynamic Therefore, the time point considered, as well as the ... TAK1 Whether TAK1 and MEKK3 act in a redundant manner in TNFR1-induced activation of the IKK complex or whether these two molecules cooperate in this regard is currently unclear There is further...
... self-maintenance, for the recruitment andactivation of the G protein, or for the initiation of the desensitization process (i.e for relaying the information to GRKs and arrestins that the receptor is ... human B2R The sequences of the ICLs, parts of the transmembrane segments (I–VII) andthe proximal C-terminus containing the putative helix VIII andthe palmitoylated Cys are depicted The clusters ... with the respective construct name next to them The point mutations E66A in the first loop and T242A at the end of the third loop are also indicated The two-dimensional structure of B2R, with the...
... dialysis and gel filtration, we kept these procedures at a minimum Therefore, it is likely that the difference in the FMN content in the two DrgA protein preparations is due to the difference in the ... [30–34] and, recently, Woodmansee and Imlay [9] proposed that this reaction can be involved in the Fenton reaction both in vivo and in vitro Our DrgA protein also catalyzed the Fenton reaction ... absorption at 340 nm Then, the content of the Tunberg tube was transferred to an anaerobic cuvette using a syringe andthe solution was mixed well Thereaction was monitored by measuring the consumption...
... approximately 2.5-fold activation (panel ii) Similar results were obtained for two other endocrine cell lines, InR1-G9 and STC-1 (see below, and data not shown) On the other hand, when the same )769 Cdx-2 ... mRNA expression in the FRIC cultures was not apparently affected by forskolin ⁄ IBMX treatment for and h, andthe 24-h treatment repressed Cdx-2 mRNA expression On the other hand, proglucagon mRNA ... using the vehicle as the control for the longest time point Figure 3D shows theactivation of forskolin ⁄ IBMX treatment on Cdx-2 protein expression in the gut endocrine STC-1 cell line at 1, and...
... as an amine acceptor In the starfish, the jelly coat of the eggs cause sperm to undergo the acrosome reaction [15] Thereaction is an essential event in fertilization and requires a Ca2+ influx ... chromatin and suggests that this enzyme is involved in the formation of p28 and p32 in sperm nuclei The acrosome reaction in sperm is necessary for gamete fusion The initiation of the acrosome reaction ... acrosome-unreacted sperm, and found that the acrosome reaction is accompanied by a reduction in the amount of histone monomers and appearance of new bands located between histone H1 andthe core histones,...