... while immune receptors such as Fc receptors and tyrosine kinase receptors activate phosholipase C-γ (PLCγ) (Gwack et al., 2007) In tyrosine kinase receptors such as TCR, PLCγ is recruited by the binding ... is mediated by charged residues in their transmembrane regions 1.1.2.b Other receptors on T cells In addition to TCR, T cells also express a number of accessory molecules/cosignaling receptors ... following the engagement of receptors that are coupled to calcium signaling pathway such as antigen receptors on B and T cells, G protein coupled receptors and Fc receptors Ca2+ that is released...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:05
... pathways [85], suggesting that ricin can also bypass the Golgi stack in a CTx-like manner Bypassing the TGN and Golgi stack Details of the pathways taken by SV40 and Py to reach the ER are still under ... means that, to date, no specific ricin receptors have been defined Since RTB has two galactose-binding sites, there is potential for cross-linking of receptors by toxin challenge, with subsequent ... clathrin [54] and infection of primary baby mouse kidney epithelial cells and established murine fibroblasts by Py is insensitive to disruption of caveolar function by treatment with either MßCD or nystatin...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20
Structure and mechanism of hormone perception and signal transduction by abscisic acid receptors
... the identification of hormone receptors, whereby mutants are identified by their hormone insensitive phenotypes For the case of ABA, inhibition of seed germination by exogenous ABA application ... converted to violaxanthin by ZEP This is followed by the synthesis and oxidative cleavage of neoxanthin into xanthoxin, the C15 precursor of ABA The production of xanthoxin catalyzed by NCED is thought ... conditions, primarily by ABA catabolism through the 8’-hydroxylation pathway (Okamoto et al., 2009) ABA 8’-hydroxylation is catalyzed by ABA 8’-hydroxylase, a cytochrome P450 encoded by CYP707A family...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:26
Studies on the intracellular signalling pathways triggered by the anaphylatoxin c5a in human phagocytic cells 1
... represented by lower case letters, such as C5a and C5b (coming from C5), while the complement receptors are denoted by the symbol of the protein or fragment to which they bind, followed by the capital ... surface C4b binds C2, which is subsequently cleaved by C1s, to form C2a and C2b While C2b is released, C2a remains bound to C4b and they form the C4b2a complex Also known as the C3 convertase, this ... Complement activation pathways The complement system can be activated through three pathways: classical, alternative, and mannan-binding lectin pathways The Classical Pathway is initiated by the binding...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 21:55
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Pathways and products for the metabolism of vitamin D3 by cytochrome P450scc docx
... identified by purifying them and determining the substrates from which they arose by the action of P450scc, as well as the products that they gave rise to This revealed both the major and minor pathways ... metabolism by cytochrome P450scc involves initial hydroxylation at C20 followed by hydroxylations at C23 and C17, respectively (Fig 9, pathway indicated in bold) There are additional minor pathways ... to this product (Fig 8A) Metabolism of vitamin D3 by cytochrome P450scc Comparing the major pathways of vitamin D3 and cholesterol metabolism by P450scc, the initial hydroxylation of vitamin D3...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: A pool of Y2 neuropeptide Y receptors activated by modifiers of membrane sulfhydryl or cholesterol balance pot
... Among the Y receptors, the hypothalamic Y2 receptors induced by estrogen show fast density changes by progesterone [30], possibly related to receptor masking In this study, competition by Y2 agonist ... rapidly recycling Y1 receptors, but could be shared by other receptors that show low rates of ligand-induced internalization [12] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research was partly supported by NIH grants 13703 ... significantly by a pretreatment with 30 lM PAO (Fig 1B) The effect of 30 lM PAO could be largely suppressed by 100 lM sulfhydryl protector dithiothreitol, and was completely prevented by mM dithiothreitol...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The ATPase activities of sulfonylurea receptor 2A and sulfonylurea receptor 2B are influenced by the C-terminal 42 amino acids doc
... Kir6.2.SUR2A channels is attributable to greater ATP hydrolysis by SUR2B than by SUR2A [6] In this study, we tested this hypothesis explicitly, by measuring the ATPase activity of full-length SUR2A ... SUR2B), and NBD2-DC ATP hydrolysis by NBDs NBD1 and NBD2A displayed higher ATPase activity than NBD2B (Fig 2A; Table 1), with NBD1 having ATPase activity of SUR2A and SUR2B A MBP–SUR2 NBDs 250 ... of ATP hydrolysis by MgADP and beryllium fluoride MgADP inhibited ATP hydrolysis by NBD1, NBD2A and NBD2B with a Ki of 305–443 lm (Fig 4A; Table 2) Inhibition was unchanged by mixing NBD1 and...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Interaction analysis of the heterotrimer formed by the phosphatase 2A catalytic subunit, a4 and the mammalian ortholog of yeast Tip41 (TIPRL) ppt
... novel PP2A heterotrimer IP anti-TIPRL + - - + Anti-PP2Ac PP2Ac Anti-TIPRL TIPRL WCE B Rapa - + IP anti-PP2Ac - - + PP2Ac Anti-PP2Ac α4 Anti-α4 IP anti- α4 WCE C Rapa Anti-TIPRL Anti-PP2Ac Anti-α4 ... PP2Acα α GST His-PP2Acα α His-α4 α + I TIPRL TIPRL + + + + B I B I B I B C Anti- α4 His- α4 His- α4 His-PP2Acα α GST GST fusion GST His-PP2Acα α His-α4 Δ222 α + I PP2Acα α I B I B I B His-PP2Acα ... a novel PP2A heterotrimer J H C Smetana and N I T Zanchin A GST fusion: PP2Acα PP2Acβ α β I B I PP4c B I B PP6c I PP2AcCT B I B GST I B Anti-His GST fusion: PP2Acα/β αβ PP6c PP4c PP2AcCT Coomassie...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Adenine nucleotides inhibit proliferation of the human lung adenocarcinoma cell line LXF-289 by activation of nuclear factor jB1 and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways doc
... known to inhibit the growth of various tumors by activating specific P2 receptors Inhibition of cancer growth by adenine nucleotides was first described by Rapaport [7] In vitro extracellular nucleotides ... Inhibition of CaMKII activity by KN-62 (25 lm) completely reduced the inhibition by ATP The inhibition of LXF-289 cell proliferation by 100 lm ATP was totally attenuated by blockers of either ERK-activating ... LXF-289 cell proliferation by ATP is mediated through NF-jB Further evidence for the involvement of NF-jB in the signaling pathway activated by P2Y receptors was obtained by the use of nonsteroidal...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Distinguishing between different pathways of bilayer disruption by the related antimicrobial peptides cecropin B, B1 and B3 pptx
... which are effected by antimicrobial peptides Discussion Cationic antimicrobial defence peptides such as cecropins [1] disrupt cell membranes, and thereby kill their targets, by associating with ... suggest that CB3 functions by a markedly different mechanism from that used by CB and CB1 In summary, on the basis of liposomal lysis as a function of time observed by the change in SPR, the thermotrophic ... °C and then fully rehydrated by addition of mL argon-saturated mM MgCl2 solution for 48 h at 37 °C MgCl2 concentration dependence experiments on GUV lysis induced by peptides were conducted and...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Pathways involved in testicular germ cell apoptosis induced by H2O2 in vitro doc
... model depicting the pathways of H2O2-induced germ cell apoptosis The metazoan apoptosis model as proposed by Hengartner [10] has now been updated to include the findings on the pathways leading to ... treated with cytonin for 10 followed by quenching with H2O2 Biotinylated nucleotides were incorporated into the 3¢-OH ends of the DNA fragments by TdT, and detected by using streptavidin-horseradish ... Dose-dependent increase in lipid peroxidation as measured by thiobarbituric acid reactive substance formation (B) Transient rise followed by a steep decline in GST activity at the highest concentration...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20
Trends in Cell Signaling Pathways in Neuronal Fate Decision Edited by Sabine Wislet-Gendebien potx
... thereby regulate the availability, and therefore, active signaling by their associated ligands [20] TGF-β signaling is the archetype for signaling by Role of TGF-β Signaling in Neurogenic Regions ... nodal or activin ligands bind to Type II receptors, which then recruit Type I receptors leading to transphosphorylation of type receptors Activated type I receptors phosphor‐ ylate Smad 2/3 (i.e ... This pathway is inhibited by Smad7 BMP signaling operates by a similar para‐ digm BMP6 and BMP7 bind to their Type II receptor before the complex recruits the Type I receptors, Alk-3 or Alk-6...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 20:21
Báo cáo Y học: Irregular spiking in free calcium concentration in single, human platelets Regulation by modulation of the inositol trisphosphate receptors ppt
... function of InsP3 receptors, even when induced by agents such as U73122 and thimerosal that not cause InsP3 formation The platelet InsP3 receptors are subjected to extensive regulation by at least ... ND 5± 3± ND 3± ND 24 35 (control) ± 8a ± 13a ± 30a,b ± 16 ± 12c ± 9c,d 3a 2a 2a 1a,c a P < 0.001 compared to the release by InsP3 under control conditions, i.e no pretreatment/no other agonist ... formation, because it is abolished by manoalide or low U73122 It is also inhibited by cAMP elevation with PGE1, in part due to reduced InsP3 formation (probably by phospholipase C inhibition) and...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo Y học: Regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling pathways by protein phosphatases pot
... mammalian SAPK pathways [17–19,26] In this section, we describe the roles of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) and tyrosine phosphatases, HePTP/LC-PTP and PTP-SL/STEP, in SAPK signaling PP2A Addition ... addition the regulatory subunit of PP2A, PP2A-Aa, coprecipitates with JNK [26] JNK activity was unaffected by specific pharmacological inhibition of protein phosphatase by 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphate ... [15] REGULATION OF SAPK SIGNAL PATHWAYS BY PROTEIN PHOSPHATASES IN MAMMALIAN CELLS In mammalian cells, like yeast cells, both PTP and PP2C regulate the SAPK signal pathways [17–23] Mammalian cells...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20
Cancer incidence, mortality and survival by site for 14 regions of the world. pdf
... subregions) For doing so, we needed estimates of the period survival factor Tr by site for each of the regions r, and estimated incidence distributions by site for each of these regions/ subregions ... enables us to estimate relative survival by site, age and sex for all regions of the world For regions where detailed data on the distribution of cancer deaths by site is not available, we have used ... distributions by site for all regions of the world They have also contributed to better harmonizing the GBD 2000 and IARC estimates of cancer incidence and mortality by site for most regions of...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21
Báo cáo khóa học: Large aggregating and small leucine-rich proteoglycans are degraded by different pathways and at different rates in tendon pot
... radiolabelled sulfate present in or produced by the explant cultures will be considerably reduced, thereby decreasing the level of re-use of [35S]sulfate by the cells of the cultures The culture ... was lost from the matrix was taken up by the tendon cells and degraded within the lysosomal system This was shown by the generation of free [35S]sulfate by tendon explant cultures throughout ... determined by analysis of medium samples from each day of culture period on columns of Sephadex G-25 The error bars represent the range of duplicate samples explants described in Fig 2A was determined...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20
Targeting New Pathways and Cell Death in Breast Cancer Edited by Rebecca L. Aft docx
... activated by all of the tested TPEs, however substitution of Asp351 by Gly prevented the increase of ERE luciferase activity by all TPEs and only planar E2, which does 14 Targeting New Pathways ... receptor-mediated signaling Death receptors are a class of transmembrane receptors that, once engaged by their ligands, initiate intracellular signaling resulting in cell death These receptors belong to a ... Targeting New Pathways and Cell Death in Breast Cancer Edited by Rebecca L Aft Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Transcription factor specificity protein 1 (SP1) and activating protein 2a (AP-2a) regulate expression of human KCTD10 gene by binding to proximal region of promoter pot
... containing Sp1- or AP -2a- binding sites in the KCTD10 promoter was precipitated by antibodies against Sp1 or AP -2a but not by control IgG, indicating that endogenous Sp1 or AP -2a proteins specifically ... +30)-F5 P ()13 ⁄ +30)-F6 P ()609 ⁄ )241)-R AP -2a ⁄ chipF AP -2a ⁄ chipR Sp1 ⁄ chipF Sp1 ⁄ chipR AP -2a ⁄ si Sp1 ⁄ si KCTD10FP KCTD10RP Sp1FP Sp1RP AP-2aFP AP-2aRP b-actinFP b-actinRP CCAAGCTTCGGACTGAGAGAGGCAGGAA ... dose-dependent manner AP -2a silencing increased the expression of endogenous KCTD10 by 2.3-fold, whereas AP -2a overexpression decreased the expression of endogenous KCTD10 by 5.6-fold AP -2a is a negative...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Binding areas of urokinase-type plasminogen activator– plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 complex for endocytosis receptors of the low-density lipoprotein receptor family, determined by site-directed mutagenesis doc
... latent PAI-1 in the medium by the use of denaturation with SDS and refolding by removing the SDS by addition of an excess of BSA 125I-uPAPAI-1 complexes were prepared by adding 125I-uPA to the ... were prepared from PAI-1 puried by immuno-afnity chromatography and re-activated by denaturation with guanidinium chloride and refolding by dialysis, and uPA puried by immuno-afnity chromatography ... 1.1 H5A-P6A-Q109A 5.0 0.2 95.0 0.2 35.8 1.8 64.2 1.8 H79A-F116A-R117A 4.5 0 .2a 95.5 0 .2a 20.6 0 .2a 79.4 0 .2a a Signicantly different from the corresponding number for wildtype PAI-1 (P...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Acute activation of Erk1/Erk2 and protein kinase B/akt proceed by independent pathways in multiple cell types ppt
... provide a functional assay of downstream events regulated by the signaling pathways and thus support our other studies, because blocking the two pathways individually have very different outcomes on ... kinase by distinct pathways in muscle cells Biochem Biophys Res Commun 288, 205–211 Yao R & Cooper GM (1995) Requirement for phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase in the prevention of apoptosis by nerve ... Another potential cross-talk between the PtdIns3K and ras-Erk pathways has been shown to result from the direct phosphorylation of raf by PKB, which can contribute to an inhibition of raf and thus...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 20:20