... 150 6.5.3 Spectroscopic Measurements 152 6.6 Results: ROAMeasurementsandDensityFunctionalTheory (DFT) CalculationsofChiralMolecules 154 6.6.1 Neat (+)-α-pinene and (−)-α-pinene 154 6.6.1.1 ... component CD spectra and the concentration profiles for each reactant and product were obtained with Chiral- BTEM methods (b) ROA was combined with Chiral- BTEM andDFT (density functional theory) to determine ... the Combination of IR, Raman Spectroscopies andDensityFunctionalTheory 5.1 Introduction 113 5.1.1 Short Introduction to DensityFunctionalTheory 113 5.1.2 The Performances ofDFT in Transition...
... // Handle where there is more than one record with the nth value // Eliminate enough rows from the bottom of the dv using a filter on // the primary key to return the correct number (top n) of ... more than one instance of the value in the nth record, as is the case with Freight In this case, iterate over the records following the nth record and add criteria to a copy of the data view filter ... field in descending order; this places the top n records at the top of the view Next, get the Freight value for the nth record and set the DataView filter to contain only rows with a Freight value...
... king of England All of these forecasts, and literally millions of others of a similar degree of certainty, are based on the specific understanding of the values and goals motivating millions of ... reaction Understanding deals with judgments of value, with the choice of ends andof the means resorted to for the attainment of these ends, and with the valuation of the outcome of actions performed.21 ... weight and time the influence of each of these events on the relationship between the supply ofand the demand for money The ceteris-paribus laws of economic theory are strictly qualitative and...
... N Problem 2-17 Determine the magnitude and direction of the resultant force F R Express the result in terms of the magnitudes of the components F and F and the angle φ Solution: F R = F + F2 ... directed along the keel aa as shown, determine the magnitudes of forces T and P acting in each rope and the angle θ of P so that the magnitude of P is a minimum T acts at θ from the keel as shown Given: ... along the positive y axis, determine the magnitudes of forces FA and F B acting on each chain and the orientation θ of F B so that the magnitude of FB is a minimum Given: F = 600 N θ = 30 deg Solution:...
... Role of PKA in the mitochondrial targeting of CYP2E1 The role of PKA in mitochondrial targeting of CYP2E1 was investigated using two approaches The first approach involved measuring the level of ... and 3¢ HindIII antisense primers were used to amplify the su9-DHFR and cloned into the same sites of yeast vector pNS61 was cut with Spe1 and Xho1 and cloned into same sites of yeast vector of ... completely degraded TIM23 and FDXR Figure 3D represents a full view of an immunoblot of mitochondrial and microsomal proteins developed with a combination of CYP2E1 and TIM23 antibodies It is...
... stefin A and stefin B at pH and variant of stefin B and the P79S mutant of the variant at both pH and pH Each panel is a plot of heat change on ligand addition (kcalÆmole)1) against the ligand ⁄ stefin ... are those from the best fit of two sites nsd ¼ no site detected Values are in units of M)1 and are the averages of three measurements The standard error was less than 5% of the value for each measurement ... and B and the P79S mutant The two isoforms of stefin B have exactly the same far UV CD Regardless of the sequence differences (as highlighted in Fig 1), the secondary and tertiary structures of...
... 4-aminobutyrate and CH3NH2 as carbon source (A) Seven microliters of medium of a 10 mL culture grown for h (lanes and 6), for h (lanes and 7), for h (lanes and 8), and for h (lanes and 9) on minimal ... study and RT-PCR analysis of transcripts (A) Schematic representation of the pAO1 gene and ORF cluster flanked by Tn554 and DTn The cluster consists of the pmfR gene, encoding the regulator of the ... bioremediation of nicotine waste, but also in the supply of nicotine derivatives as starting materials for the synthesis of new products of industrial and pharmaceutical importance [3,4] Construction of...
... group of C115 is highlighted in green and the nitrogen atoms of R120 and K22 in blue The open form of MurA is unliganded (A) and the closed conformation (B) contains fosfomycin (orange) and UDPNAG ... independent of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the binding process and is solely based on the detectability of the peptides of interest We have used this method to show that binding of fosfomycin ... charge of the amino acid side chain occupying this position Taken together, our combined calorimetric and protein chemical approach leads to a more detailed understanding of the role of K22 and...
... half-lives of 22 and 23 h for wild type GAT1 in the absence and presence of dMM, respectively, andof 12 and 5.5 h for the DDN and DDQ mutants, respectively GABA values of NNN treated with dMM, andof ... activities of the N-glycosylation 1628 Fig Determination of expression of GFP-tagged GAT1 mutants on the surface of transfected CHO cells and measurement of GABA-uptake by GFP-tagged GAT1 wild type and ... with N-glycans of mature complex type and the small band to the proteins with N-glycans of mannose-rich type All bands of the mutants had reduced molecular mass, compared with that of wild type...
... bands are stained, with two intense signals of 70 and 50 kDa, while the bands at 60 and 150 kDa vanished With oxyblot (Fig 4C), antibodies stained carbonylated proteins mainly in band ranges of ... terminated by adding 30 lL of 40% trichloroacetic acid and 50 lL of 3% BSA After centrifugation at 15 000 g for 30 min, 100 lL of M sodium borate was then added to 80 lL of supernatant Fluorescence ... comparable pattern of bands, although two bands of 60 and 150 kDa strongly visible at 10 months (lane 1) were absent at 27 months, and an important band of 70 kDa (lane 2) emerged in this latter...
... constructed a number of single (R86A, R90A and R131A) and double (H94A ⁄ R100A and R90A ⁄ R131A) point mutations in the N-domain of ClpA (Fig 2A) First, we compared the degradation of SsrA-tagged GFP ... of this substrate class requires specific interaction between ClpS and the N-domain of ClpA Consequently, dramatic changes to the structure of the N-domain of ClpA would inhibit ClpS binding and ... degradation of FR-linker–GFP (Fig 2D), demonstrating a functional interaction between ClpS and the N-domain of RR ⁄ AA, and this result suggests that neither the local nor the overall structure of the...
... oligomers of vesicles made of acidic phospholipids resembles pore formation by A-b [27] and liposome permeabilization of a-synuclein [43] The toxic activity exerted by prefibrillar forms of stefin B and ... microscopy (TEM) and atomic force microscopy [15] In this study, we measured the interaction of stefin B with various combinations of phospholipid monolayers and bilayers Interaction of stefin B in ... assay, surface pressure measurementsand surface plasmon resonance Stefin A, a protein of 54% identity and 80% similarity to stefin B, which does not form aggregates under any of the conditions studied...
... effect of systematic substitution of Arg46 on intracellular signalling The stimulation of accumulated InsPs by increasing concentrations of AVP, was assayed for each of the 19 mutant constructs and ... activation of the V1aR Discussion Receptors which mediate the effects of the neurohypophysial peptide hormone family are structurally and pharma- Fig Effect of substitution of Arg46 of the V1aR ... 270) profoundly and selectively disrupted agonist binding and signalling [14,15] Having established the functional necessity of Arg46 in the V1aR it was important to identify the features of the...
... superimposition of TAP1 and HisP, which does contain a bound ATP molecule [30] Analysis of the individual P-glycoprotein NBD models in terms of stereochemistry and local packing enabled the selection of a ... C-terminus of E coli MBP Subsequent functional assays utilized covalent attachment of probes to cysteine residues in the NBDs E coli MBP is devoid of cysteine residues [42], and the N-terminal NBD of ... to a concentration of mgÆmL)1 and incubated with pre-equilibrated amylose resin (New England Biolabs) at a protein/resin ratio of : (w/v) for 30 at room temperature Resin and protein were loaded...
... vector, pInsProA pDN42 was digested with BamHI and NotI, and was subcloned into pInsProA, generating the plasmid pInsProADN42 containing truncated rat GalNAc-T1 fused with IgG-binding domain of Protein ... nitrobluetetrazolium and 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolylphosphate The protein bands on the immunoblots was quantified by densitometry scanning and the intensity of each band was determined using the NIH Image software ... are located in (Cys212 and Cys214), and around (Cys106 and Cys235) the GT1 motif Mutation of C106A, C212A, and C214A, resulted in a considerable decrease in secretion of the mutant proteins (Fig...
... utilized in rat brain and infected Sf9 cells, and the role that occupancy of these sites has in the expression offunctional Kv3.1s at the cell surface of Sf9 cells Immunoband patterns of wildtype Kv3.1, ... model of Kv3.1 and amino acid sequences of the S1–S2 linker of Kvs (A) Topology of a Kv3.1 monomeric unit Black circles represent the Asn of native N-glycosylation consensus sites N220 and N229 ... electrophoretic migration pattern of wild-type Kv3.1 revealed a predominant immunoband at about 87 kDa and two lower faint bands The lowest band migrated to about 77 kDa, and the middle band was at about 81...
... 11 Ó FEBS 2004 Analysis of the N-myristoylation consensus motif (Eur J Biochem 271) 867 The levels of incorporation of [3H]Leu and [3H]myristic acid into the lower band of the expressed MGA(8)-TNF ... quantitative analysis of the fluorograms of [3H]myristic acid- and [3H]leucine-labeled proteins shown in the lower and upper panels of (A) Relative N-myristoylation efficiency of each MG6X-TNF was ... efficiency of N-myristoylation of various cellular proteins may arise in part because of differences in the presentation of Gly2 dictated by interactions among the residues at positions 3, 6, and of...
... role in determining both the level of expression and the location of the start of transcription of PS1 In the Ets family of transcription Ó FEBS 2004 Regulation of the presenilin gene (Eur J Biochem ... Pastorcic and H K Das (Eur J Biochem 271) Ó FEBS 2004 Fig Deletion mapping of the PS1 promoter The positions of the 5¢- and 3¢-ends of each deletion fragment are indicated on the left (5¢D) and on ... Regulation of the presenilin gene (Eur J Biochem 271) 4489 A Fig Effect of PS1 promoter point mutations on the efficiency of transcription initiation and 23 the position of the start site(s) (A) Effect of...
... on the solution structure of monomeric derivatives, we analysed the 2D NMR spectra of the different variants of mBS Figure shows the expanded regions of TOCSY spectra of L28Q-mBS (panel L28Q), ... Professor Giuseppe D’Alessio for critical reading of the manuscript We also thank Professor Alberto Di Donato and Dr Valeria Cafaro for their kind hospitality and advice on protein expression and ... analysis of an analog of an intermediate formed in the ratedetermining step of one pathway in the oxidative folding of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A: automated analysis of 1H, 13C, and 15N...
... W366 and Y394 residues of the D2 domain may play a role similar to that of binding sites I and II of GA-1 Mutations of W366 and Y394 in D123 decreased the starch-binding capacity by three- and ... with the pull-down and far western assays, showing a lack of interaction for the individual SBDs and also in the absence of the D(316–344) and D(495–535) regions of the D2 and D3 domains, respectively ... highlighted by black bars (b strand), grey bars (helix) and white bars (coil) D2 and D3 domains are indicated by arrows Stars indicate the positions of W366 and Y394 D(316–344) and D(495–535) regions...