... withbinding of both MOF and Tip60 (equivalent to Esa1in yeast NuA4) [124,130]. However, in human cellsdepletion of MOF, but not Tip60, results in reducedglobal levels of AcH4-K16 and defective ... acetylation and deacetyla-tion, and transient recruitment of remodellers and transcription factors.A cycle of transcription commences with the recruit-ment of transcription factors and co-factors ... implications of the cycle of histone acetylation and deacetylationthat accompanies cycles of transcription, and highlightthe special significance of histone H4 lysine 16 acety-lation.Basic features of...
... full-lengthv-KIND; DKIND1, deletion of KIND1;DKIND2, deletion of KIND2; DKIND1 + 2,deletion of both KIND1 and KIND2; DRasN,deletion of RasN; DGEF, deletion of RasGEF; KIND1, KIND1 domain; KIND2,KIND2 ... SLC (Hamamatsu,Japan) and used in accordance with protocols approved bythe Animal Care and Use Committee of RIKEN.Plasmid construction and expressionPlasmid construction and expression in Escherichia ... MAP2 cDNA and its derivativesgenerated by PCR were cloned into pGEX-4T-2. The KINDdomains of Spir-2 and PTPN13 were generated by RT-PCR and inserted into pEGFP-C1 and pGEX-4T-2. The N- and C-terminal...
... predicting,measuring and understanding the roles of different kinds of organisms in the flux and storage of elements in ecosystems. The total biomass per unit area, W,issimply the sum ofthe body mass of all ... detected and the processes that appeared to be important, and (ii) to compare freshwater and marine ecosystems. In Body Size: The Structure andFunctionof Aquatic Ecosystems,both those questions of ... 1995).BODY SIZE AND SUSPENSION FEEDING 21 Body SizeThe Structure and Function of Aquatic EcosystemsEdited byALAN G. HILDREWSchool of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London,...
... extent of membranelocalization of Noxo1b and Noxo1c. Theintensities of immunoreactive bands forHA-Noxo1b and HA-Noxo1c in (B) werequantified using a LAS-1000plus (Fuji film)image analyzerand ... FunctionalAnalyses from the Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and CREST and BIRD projects of JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency).References1 Segal ... the expression andfunctionof the four spliceforms of human Noxo1. The Noxo1c mRNA is alsoexpressed in several Nox1-expressing and Noxa1-expressing human cancer cell lines [the androgen-independent...
... isoforms by the excision of the prosegment and of most of the PSI [21]. Conversely to what has been foundin vivo [31], heavy and light chains of the processed forms of recombinant cyprosin are ... by the prosegment, but also bythe 13 residues of the N-terminal of the mature enzyme and by the ÔflapÕ. The anchorage of the prosegment andof part of the N-terminus in the active site cleft is ... atypical and their localiza-tions are unexpected.New questions concerning functional significance and specialization of this multigene family of proteases are nowstarting to be addressed and will...
... domain of each subunit contri-butes to the formation of the hydrophilic pore. ACh binding proteinhas structural and functional homology to the extracellular ligandbinding domain of the nAChR, and ... based onsingle channel recordings and the use of a-conotoxins MII and AuIB further dissected and correlated the combinato-rial and functional heterogeneity of the slowly decayingpopulation ... the identification and characterization of a-conotoxins with selectivity for neur-onal nAChR subtypes and provides examples of their use indefining the compositions andfunctionof neuronal nAChRsubtypes...
... de note the five residues of on e of the threesides of s bwAFP o r s ix residues of on e of two sides of T mAFP. T hestrands that make up t he three, parallel b-sheets of t he pro tein aredesignated ... D. SykesCIHR Group in Protein Structure and Function, Department of Biochemistry and Protein Engineering Networkof Centres of Excellence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaAntifreeze ... addition of anadditional one, two or three b-helical c oils compared to theshorter isoforms. In the case of one sbwAFP isoform,named CfAFP-501, a detailed e xamination of t he structure and function...
... activation andfunctionof the cytokine Spaătzlein the innate immune response of a lepidopteran insect,Manduca sextaChunju An1, Haobo Jiang2 and Michael R. Kanost11 Department of Biochemistry, ... byrecognition of microbial patterns and by microbialproteinases. Further biochemical and genetic researchis required for a more complete understanding of theextracellular reactions of plasma proteins ... proHP8Xa and the catalytic domain of active HP8 are marked with arrowheads. The size and position of molecular weight stan-dards are indicated on the left. (B) The catalytic activity of activated...
... minidomain and the zinc-binding domain of the zinc finger protein Ynr046w [25] (Fig. 8). The fit of the heavy atoms (Ca, C, and N) from threeb-strands and the a-helices of both the closed and theopen ... variation of pH in the rangebetween 6.3 and 7.7, of ionic strength between 25 and 100 mm NaCl andof temperature between 278 and 313 K did not lead to any detectable change in thepopulations of the ... were obtained for more than 99% of the1H,13C and 15N atoms of the protein backbone, and formore than 78% of the side chain atoms.The main set of backbone u and w dihedral angles wascalculated...
... dublin TLP and zebrafish TLP are found in the flex-ible portions of strands B and C that protrude towardsthe solvent and in the conformation of the long loopconnecting strands D and E [17]. ... present and discuss recent find-ings regarding the identification and distribution of TLP genes in nature, the structural and functionalcharacterization of the TLP from various organisms, and the ... Interruptions in the b-strands A, G and H are also observed in TLP structures as a result of alterations to the formation of hydrogen bondsbetween strands. The carbonyls of residues V104 and P105 (zebrafish...
... steps of ribosome biogenesis and ⁄ or ribosome function. Indeed, a systematic study of the incorporation of RPs into preribosomes led tothe identification of the in vivo assembly pathway of the ... of RP mRNA for adjustment of thebiosynthesis of ribosomes to the requirements of cellgrowth and differentiation. In addition, a relevantcontribution of protein turnover to the regulation of RP ... ribosome defect, and consists of blocking of the cell cycle and ⁄ or activation of apoptosismediated by an increase in p53 levels (Fig. 3). The pre-valent effect downstream of this checkpoint...
... which the b1-strand and b2-strand are adjacent and parallel to each other, and the bÂ-strand is adja-cent and antiparallel to the b1-strand (Fig. 1). Thelength and sequence of the variable ... b-sheetcomposed of three antiparallel b-strands is abutted bythree a-helices (a1, a2, and aÂ). The b-sheet in type IKH domains consists of three b-strands in the orderb1, b and b2. The b1-strand and ... loop connecting b strand and a helix of KH2, and U47 and C48 make contacts with the a1-helix and the GXXG loop of KH2. Finally, the nucleotides atthe 3Â-end of the RNA (A49–A52) pack against...
... effect of FMN, but not of FAD or riboflavin, has been noticedearlier [36,37].Figure 4 shows the effect of the FMN concentrationon the reconstitution of the activity of the reduced SH.Addition of ... resulted in the total loss of thisactivity when assayed in the usual way, i.e. after addition of H2, a catalytic amount of NADH and the subsequentaddition of BV. Restoration of this activity (to ... part that holds two of the Fe-S clusters in the small subunit of the D. gigas enzyme is missing in HoxY of the SH, suggesting anexposure of part of the hydrophobic surface of the HoxH subunit....
... labeledwith a star.Ó FEBS 2002 Structure andfunctionof GlcNAc kinase (Eur. J. Biochem. 269) 4215 Structure andfunction of N-acetylglucosamine kinaseIdentification of two active site cysteinesMarkus ... characterization of GlcNAc kinase and cysteine mutantsIn order to get a more detailed insight into the functions of specific cysteine residues of GlcNAc kinase, the Kmvaluesfor both substrates, GlcNAc and ... usingtheRASMOLsoftware.RESULTSConstruction of cysteine mutants and functionalexpression inE. coliBL21In an earlier study, the use of specific thiol-modifyingchemical reagents revealed the presence of...
... condensa-tion kinetics and mechanism of trans-IPPS and cis-IPPS forthe production of linear polyprenyl pyrophosphates, and the reaction mechanism and structures of protein prenyl-transferases and isoprenyl ... Structure, mechanism andfunctionof prenyltransferases (Eur. J. Biochem. 269) 3353 REVIEW ARTICLEStructure, mechanism andfunctionof prenyltransferasesPo-Huang Liang, Tzu-Ping Ko and Andrew H J. ... diagram of Ras FTase and (B) the molecular ruler mechanism for substrate specificity of FTase and GGTase. (A) The heterodimericenzyme consists of two subunits, a and b, colored in cyan–blue and yellow–green,...