... and disease more limited than for other chaperones, but this is changing as the application of genomics and proteomics reveals sHSP characteristics and their medical importance emerges In this ... disease Many diseases are associated with changes to sHSPs occurring either as a result of mutation or by post-translational changes, and these are outlined below and described in the text of ... proteins and disease as does the R116C mutation However, in contrast to R116C aA-crystallin, the R49C variant localizes tothe cell nucleus and the cytoplasm, superficially suggesting a relationship to...
... vitro The molecular chaperone activity of recombinant MTB HSP 16.3 was enhanced in the presence of ATP which is consistent with previous findings ofthe effect of ATP on recombinant human aB-crystallin ... Figure isthe SDS/PAGE and Western immunoblot analyses ofthe expression and purification of MTB HSP 16.3 Induction of protein expression with IPTG resulted in the appearance of a protein band at ... 1A, lanes and 3) The expressed MTB HSP 16.3 was purified by a combination of anion exchange, hydrophobic interaction and size exclusion chromatography (lanes 4–6) Western immunoblot analysis of...
... composition of both supernatant and pellet was determined by quantitative SDS gel electrophoresis The quantity of actin in the pellet was plotted against the total quantity of actin in the sample ... effect on the extent of polymerization of intact actin, whereas both 2D and 3D mutants decreased the quantity of polymerized actin in the pellet It is worthwhile to mention that the mutants of HSP25 ... was added and after mixing the samples were immediately subjected to ultracentrifugation The quantity of actin in the pellet is plotted against the total quantity of actin in the sample The results...
... Sedimentation velocity analysis of TaHsp16.9C-I and TaHsp17.8C-II Shown isthe integral distribution plot from the van Holde–Weischet analysis ofthe data obtained for TaHsp16.9C-I (s) and TaHsp17.8C-II ... points and error bars reflect the mean and standard deviation of three replicates Results Comparison of TaHsp16.9 C-I and TaHsp17.8 C-II To produce recombinant wheat class I and II sHSPs for these ... absence ofthe sHsp This may reflect the formation of very large aggregates of MDH that also include the sHsp, as evidenced by the loss of sHsp from the SEC profile under these conditions At this low...
... indicated by the dotted lines assemblies A transfer of CS and HspH into the void volume, at the expense ofthe other fractions, was confirmed by SDS-PAGE (Fig 7C) Neither HspH nor CS shifted into the void ... inspection ofthe dynamic properties of this protein and an equivalent mutant in HspB, revealed that these variants form labile complexes that dissociate much more readily than the wild-type proteins The ... between 20 °C and 31 °C The most abundant species was adjusted to 100% peak intensity (Inset) Graph ofthe ratio of summed peak areas for charge state series ofthe 12mer relative tothe dissociated...
... Hasegawa, K., Goto, S., Ito, H & Kato, K (1995) Induction ofthe synthesis of hsp27 and aB-crystallin in tissues of heat-stressed rats and its suppression by ethanol or an a1-adrenergic antagonist J Biochem ... cultures of lens epithelial cells derived from wild type and aB–/– mouse lenses [37] to assess the specificity ofthe K79 antiserum Our analysis showed that this antibody diffusely stained the cytoplasm ... immunocytochemical analysis, the antibody was added undiluted tothe fixed cells In addition another monoclonal antibody to aB-crystallin (2D2B6) [35], and a polyclonal peptide antibody tothe N-terminal...
... prepared and included as a control The role ofthe C-terminal extension and each ofthe mutated residues was investigated by comparison ofthe structure and function of these mutants with those of ... performed on wild-type and mutant Hsp25 to detect any changes in the environment ofthe tryptophan residues resulting from the mutations The tryptophan residues of Hsp25 are located in the N-terminal ... that the C-terminal extension is involved in the quaternary structural arrangement of sHsps 5886 The alteration ofthe properties ofthe C-terminal extension also leads to significant changes to the...
... state of metabolic arrest, termed quiescence, they survive for several years without oxygen This is arguably the ultimate indifference to anoxia of any metazoan [42], and qualifies the organism, ... goat anti-rabbit IgG The top of each gradient istothe right and fractions are numbered across the top The positions ofthe molecular mass markers alpha-lactalbumin, 14.2 kDa; carbonic anhydrase, ... result ofthe residue’s location at the edge ofthe dimer–dimer interface The maximum oligomer size obtained with p26 R114A was 500 kDa, closer tothe mass ofthe WT oligomer than the other variants...
... substrates to sHsp [17] The importance of this part of molecule ofthe sHsp is supported by the fact that mutations in the loop connecting the b5 and b7 strands, or in the b7 strand of sHsp, often ... study analyses the structure and properties of K137E and the K137,141E mutant of human HSP22, aiming to provide new information on the structure of sHsp and to shed new light on their role in the ... sHsp The primary structure ofthe a-crystallin domain of human sHsp is very conservative and the loop connecting the b5 and b7 strands is shorter than the corresponding loop connecting the b5 and...
... monomer -to- trimer transition of HSF1 in the olfactory epithelium warrants further investigations In accordance with the fundamental role of HSF1 in the heat shock response, the requirement of HSF1 and ... [6,7,10,15,113–115] In spermatogenesis, disruption of both Hsf1 and Hsf2 leads to a more pronounced phenotype (i.e male sterility) than disruption of either factor alone The phenotype ofthe double knockout ... Bjork and L Sistonen ¨ Pirkkala L, Nykanen P & Sistonen L (2001) Roles of ¨ the heat shock transcription factors in regulation ofthe heat shock response and beyond FASEB J 15, 1118–1131 Fujimoto...
... cases (72Q and 103Q), a broad distribution ofthe size ofthe inclusions was noticed Moreover, the percentage of cells presenting inclusions as well as the distribution ofthe size ofthe inclusions ... Note the presence ofthe granules in the cytoplasm ofthe cells Bar, 20 lm (D) The percentage of EGFP-containing cells displaying granules is shown The average percentages, including standard ... was found to correlate with the number of CAG repeats in the httEx1-polyQ polypeptide [15] The mechanism responsible for the appearance ofan oxidative stress in response tothe presence of aggregated...
... polyacrylamide gels, transferred to nitrocellulose, and reacted with antibody tothe His6 epitope tag The top of each gradient istothe left ofthe figure, and numbers across the top indicate successive ... polyacrylamide gels, transferred to nitrocellulose, and reacted with antibody to p26 using the ECL procedure The top of each gradient istothe left ofthe figure, and numbers across the top indicate successive ... 30 °C and induced with IPTG were probed with antibody to p26 Films were scanned and absorbance ofthe p26 band in each lane, in arbitrary units, determined The amounts of sample applied to the...
... Rearrangement ofthe complexes formed by the 3D mutant of Hsp27 and the wild-type Hsp20 A mathematical summation ofthe elution profiles ofthe isolated 3D mutant of Hsp27 and isolated wild-type Hsp20 is ... results in the dissociation of small oligomers of Hsp20 and its S16D mutant to monomers that tend to unfold and aggregate These aggregates are retarded on the top ofthe column and therefore not ... electrophoresis, the samples were either treated with an excess of b-mercaptoethanol or loaded onto the gel in the absence of b-mercaptoethanol In the second method, Hsp20 (0.75 mgÆmL)1) in 0.2 M triethanolamine...
... hundreds and even thousands of actin subunits This is consistent with a recently proposed dissociative mechanism of F-actin thermal denaturation [1] One ofthe main features of this mechanism is that ... where D isthe diffusion coefficient obtained from the DLS measurements, kB is Boltzmann’s constant, T isthe absolute temperature, and g isthe shear viscosity ofthe solvent The viscosity ofthe ... proteins is dangerous for the cell, and this is especially important in the case of abundant proteins, such as actin There are different mechanisms for preventing formation of insoluble aggregates, and...
... blotted to nitrocellulose and reacted with antibody to p26 followed by HRPconjugated goat antirabbit IgG The top of each gradient istothe right and fractions are numbered across the top The molecular ... Council of Canada Discovery Grant, a Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation ⁄ Canadian Institutes of Health Regional Partnership Plan Grant, and a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia Grant to ... and TS were similar to each other (P > 0.05) and significantly higher than the thermotolerance conferred by variant R (P < 0.05) However, because the amount of TS p26 in transformed bacteria was...
... as one ofthe three main consensus regions ofthe a-Hsp family [5] There is little experimental evidence to circumstantiate the role ofthe C-terminal extension, and even less concerning the conserved ... integrity ofthe I-X-I motif is critical for assembly of functional a-Hsp proteins, and that the isolated a-crystallin domain is unable to dimerize EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES with NdeI and XhoI and ligated ... introduced to HspH and HspF, and asterisks indicate alanine exchange mutations in HspH Note that four N-terminal residues were included in HspH(a) and HspH(aC) to avoid disturbance of potential...
... Carcinoma on the Floor ofthe Pelvis: Two Discoveries in Cancerous Disease Transactions ofthe American Microscopial Sciety 1898, 20:165-176 Balkwill F, Mantovani A: Inflammation and cancer: back to Virchow? ... relative tothe diversity of human neoplasms and pathogens Nevertheless, the worldwide population burden of infectious organisms makes understanding their role in human disease of paramount importance ... HSP27 ofthe inducible small HSP family has been shown to inhibit the mitochondrial release of SMAC (second mitochondrial-derived activator of caspase), the master regulator of apoptosis, to confer...
... INTRODUCTION 1.3 Organization of Thesis Chapter presents the background, motivations, and objectives of this thesis Chapter reviews the previous works relevant to this project and discusses the theoretical ... ferrofluids can be used in an in-vivo environment to increase the temperature of tissues or organs to induce HSPs or to treat cancers without the assistance of other therapy methods Since then, ... technique to introduce SPNPs tothe surface of retina layer and the histological exam results to investigate the distribution status ofthe injected SPNPs and cell apoptosis: (a) Injection of uncoated...
... assistance and comforting words To all the members and colleagues in the lab, for accompanying me through out the course of my study To Dr Leslie, Jeremy, James and Sean from the AHU, and Ms Huang ... Huang C-H from Prof Chua KY’s lab, for their help in the animal studies To Karen, Weiping and Huang Bo, for their assistance in DNA sequencing To Dr Lu and Jason, for their help and discussion in ... Belli et al., 2002] The mechanism of HSP-peptide-induced immunity is proposed to happen in the following manner: HSP mediates the transfer of exogenous peptides onto the major histocompatibility...
... to wild type fibroblasts [27] In gene knockout cell lines, unexpected compensatory or redundant mechanisms develop in response tothe missing gene and can confound experimental observations To ... Immunoreaction was visualized by chemiluminescence Data analysis All values in the figures and text are expressed as mean ± SEM The results were examined by analysis of variance followed by the Bonferroni’s ... is plausible that factors including signaling mediators have evolved different effector proteins that can affect the heat shock response and its regulation by PARP-1 Another potential mechanism...