... contains a forkhead-associated (FHA) domain and a Brca1 COOH-terminus (BRCT) domain in its NH2-terminal region, as well as an Mre11-binding domain and an ATM-binding domain in its COOHterminal region ... of NBS1 in chromatin association and DNAdamage responses Nucleic Acids Res 30, 4815–4822 Kobayashi J, Tauchi H, Sakamoto S, Nakamura A, Morishima K, Matsuura S, Kobayashi T, Tamai K, Tanimoto ... exogenous DNA strand breaks per cell [40] In addition to DNA damage, chromatin structure-changing molecules are able to induce rapid activation of ATM in the absence of detectable DNA strand breakage...
... defects in the cellular DNAdamage repair response Results Assimilation of an interaction database for Tax We conducted a manual literature search for articles with reference to "Tax Interaction" ... ranking via our functional clustering for DNAdamage proteins Clearly, DNA- PK is a critical component in cellular processes that mediate response to damage and thus the fact that our clustering ... information sources: manual extraction from Pubmed, laboratory derived physical interactions, and protein interaction databases In the first database source, the information was extracted by manually...
... right hind leg Irradiation was performed using a T-1000 Theratronic cobalt unit (Theratronic International, Inc.; Ottawa, Canada) irradiator with animals restrained ina custom jig Annexin V-PI apoptosis ... this article as: Chu et al.: Enhancement of radiosensitivity in human glioblastoma cells by the DNA N-mustard alkylating agent BO-1051 through augmented and sustained DNAdamageresponse Radiation ... anti-gH2AX antibody was added at a dilution of 1:500 in 1% BSA and incubated overnight at 4℃ Again, the cells were washed twice in PBS before incubating in the dark for h witha FITC-labeled secondary...
... amino acids (aa), a short membrane-spanning region (21 aa) and an intracellular portion (567 aa), containing a kinase homology (KH) domain, the dimerization domain and the C-terminal catalytic ... immunoprecipitation with anti-FLAG IgG Western blot analyses with antibodies against PMCA, as a marker for the cell membrane, and extracellular signalregulated kinase ⁄ (ERK1 ⁄ 2), as a marker for the ... spectra, showed an approximately nine-fold increase in ANP-treated versus untreated samples, indicating an increase in peptide amount (sum of peak areas without pretreatment, 352 000; sum of peak areas...
... Repair/recombination Adaptation Figure Various pathways by which damage to DNA can elicit a checkpoint responseDNAdamage may occur as a result of many different kinds of damaging agents (for ... generates single-stranded DNA, the salient intermediate in the DNA- damage checkpoint responseIn fact, double-strand DNA breaks can also lead to stretches of single-stranded DNA at their ends before ... of DNAdamageinresponse to MMS in yeast, Workman and colleagues [3] focused initially on detecting the physical interactions of transcription factors with their DNA targets using the chromatin...
... case, removal from the action of the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) ⁄ ataxia telangiectasia and RAD53 related (ATR) kinases at the site of DNAdamage may decrease the kinase ⁄ phosphatase ... three proteins may operate as a functional unit in vivo, playing arolein the cisplatin response [9] Cisplatin interferes withDNA function by causing intrastrand and interstrand crosslinking of ... cisplatin-induced DNAdamage are consistent with Rad53p phosphorylation at a particular site being maintained by cH2AX, and when the latter is dephosphorylated, Rad53p may be dephosphorylated...
... 5¢-ATTCTAGAG GCTAGGTTGTTGGAAAG-3¢, 5¢-ATTCTAGAGGAT GTCTTGAGCCCCTG-3¢ and 5¢-TTCTCGAGCAGGA CTGAGCATTAACAG-3¢ The two DNA fragments were ligated at the XbaI site and inserted into a cloning vector ... fetal bovine serum for 24 h, cells were washed three times with NaCl/Pi and fixed with 3% paraformaldehyde in NaCl/Pi for for extracellular staining orwith methanol chilled at )20 °C for for intracellular ... domain was then amplified by PCR from the cloned plasmid with primers containing an EcoRI site at the 5¢ end (5¢-TAGAATTCCACCATGCAGGTCTCCCGT-3¢) and an EcoRV site at the 3¢ end (5¢-CAGATATCTTAACAGC...
... shuttling inresponse to DNAdamage may be a consequence of their inability to be ubiquitinated Lysine residues 280 and 284 are ubiquitinated inresponse to DNAdamage Since Tax is ubiquitinated in ... how DNA damage- induced changes in the post-translational modification status of Tax affected its subcellular localization and its interactions with host cell protein Inresponse to DNA damage, increased ... Tax occurs following DNAdamage and that this modification may regulate the relocalization of Tax following DNAdamage Lysine residues 280 and 284 regulate UV-induced Tax localization Ubiquitination...
... ventral horn below a lateral line across the spinal cord from the central canal Correction for tissue section thickness was made in all specimens For stereological analysis, 10 serial coronal sections ... of each individual tissue section and automatically subtracted from the values over unstained spinal cord motorneurons The optical density of cellular Vgf immunostaining in spinal cord dorsal ... ELISA assays (see Materials and Methods for more information) Decreased Vgf content In CSF and serum precedes onset of ALS-type muscle weakness assessed by rotarod-assays In our laboratory setting,...
... can be controlled by changes inDNA topology inducing formation of non-B DNA structures within the binding sites [11,12] Interactions of p53 withDNA are regulated mainly via post-translational ... cisplatin-damaged DNA: a clue to anticancer activity of cisplatin FASEB J 12, 791–799 30 Kasparkova J & Brabec V (1995) Recognition of DNA interstrand cross-links of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(Ii) ... the cisplatin inhibitory effects could be explained by DNAdamage within the p53DBS It is known that the cisplatin IACs induce considerable DNA bending and untwisting as well as perturbation of...
... Glutamine incorporation in Caco-2 proteins determining the relative uptake of glutamine; (b) by searching for changes in the intestinal proteome; and (c) by examining glutamine incorporation into ... cytoplasmic proteins that can bind to the membrane surface inresponse to elevations in intracellular calcium [45] Annexin A2 is an F-actin binding protein and participates in the formation of ... carcinomas, including colon carcinoma, acting as a protection against apoptosis [57] Cytosolic NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase has a protective role against oxidative damage being a source...
... Guillardia theta (Gt, a Cryptophyte) and Thalassiosira pseudonana (Tp, a Diatom) The Viridiplantae (green, of a lighter shade for chloroplast genes) are Arabidopsis thaliana (At), Chlamydomonas ... including more bacterial sequences (available at the EMBL-Align database as ALIGN_000912) place the origin of the eukaryotic ClpP2 within Proteobacteria rather than Cyanobacteria This suggests that ... parvum, an Apicomplexan that has lost its apicoplast, also has lost both ClpP and ClpR [38,39] In any event, apicomplexan ClpP appears as an interesting target for the design of antiparasitic drugs,...
... plasticity and basal GluR -A localization [10], suggesting developmental plasticity and ⁄ or existence of multiple parallel pathways in GluR -A transport To date, four PDZ domain-containing proteins have ... the two chains, and 11 (chain A) or 13 (chain B) C-terminal residues including the hexahistidinyl tags also appear unstructured The binding site region of chain B contains additional electron ... situation for non-PDZ protein interaction domains in PSD-95: an intramolecular interaction between a ‘hook’ domain and guanylate kinase domain keeps the molecule ina closed state [28,29] In conclusion,...
... Her2-pDNA vaccination in combination with GM-CSF and IL-2 ina small number of advanced breast cancer patients who are on concurrent trastuzumab treatment with findings warranting further exploration ... trastuzumab an attractive clinical treatment modality pDNA immunization has several advantages as compared to other vaccination strategies; while immunization with proteins primarily induces antibody ... report on administration of a Her2-pDNA vaccine in humans We demonstrate that injection of the pDNA vaccine and cytokines during concurrent trastuzumab treatment was safe, well tolerated and induced...
... improving cognition [4-7] Recently it has been demonstrated that non-B cell mechanisms may also have arolein clearing cerebral A [8] A multi-center A vaccine human clinical trial (AN1792) was initiated ... were harvested and thymidine incorporation determined using a liquid scintillation counter A stimulation index was calculated using the following formula: CPM of well with antigen/CPM with no antigen ... DS, Weiner HL: Nasal vaccination witha proteosome-based adjuvant and glatiramer acetate clears beta-amyloid ina mouse model of Alzheimer disease J Clin Invest 2005, 115:2423-2433 Schenk D: Amyloid-ß...
... Lorraine Poor Loir-et-Cher Allier Medium Lorraine Hight forest Alsace Loir-et-Cher Lorraine Normandy Allier 2 Loir-et-Cher 1 Lorraine mod 3 Normandy modalities Loir-et-Cher Allier Poor Normandy ... several wood quality criteria (density, swelling, colour, spiral grain, multiseriate wood rays) on both standard small-size samples and industrial-size boards Our data have a hierarchical organization ... poor soils) are of particular importance for forest managers and forest policy-makers In these multiple regards, it seems important to maintain a sufficient degree of genetic variability in oak...
... Every assay was made in triplicate The flow cytometry analysis was performed ina FACScalibur (Becton Dickinson, San José, CA) using a 488 nm argon laser, and each sample was analyzed ina Macintosh ... patients Radiation-induced apoptosis in breast cancer patients Initial DNAdamage was determined as radiationinduced double-strand breaks (DSB) in irradiated lymphocyte from all 26 LABC patients ... patients analyzing the RIA rate by annexin V/PI staining flow cytometric analysis, defining an intrinsic individual value of radiosensitivity inherit to each patient Radiation-induced apoptosis has...
... (methotrexate), and a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (indomethacin) Clinical score was assessed, as a measure of spread of disease progression As expected, dexamethasone and anti-TNF mAb gave clear reductions ... Germany) and the diameter was expressed as an average for inflamed hind paws per mouse Animals were also scored for clinical signs of arthritis [13] as follows: = normal, = slight swelling and /or ... Feldmann M, Maini RN: Anti-tumor necrosis factor ameliorates joint disease in murine collagen-induced arthritis Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1992, 89:9784-9788 Feldmann M, Maini RN: Lasker Clinical Medical...