... re-replication of DNA in eukaryotic cells including human cells [7] Targets of the kinase in the regulation of DNA replication include ORC2, Cdc6 and Mcm proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae [8], and ... on identical cells with special reference to cell cycle phases in a chick embryo Exp Cell Res 186, 6–14 32 Tanaka S, Ueda T, Nakajima K & Higashinakagawa T (1996) Replication patterns of repetitive ... Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93, 12223–12228 10 Fujita M, Yamada C, Tsurumi T, Hanaoka F, Matsuzawa K & Inagaki M (1998) Cell cycle- and chromatin binding state-dependent phosphorylation of human MCM...
... topoisomerases Histone modifications such as acetylation and phosphorylation play important roles in the regulation of chromatin structure In particular acetylation of the N-terminal tails of histones are ... recombined product (pTRE-RLZ) cotransfected with an expression vector for a phage l integrase mutant was set as 100% In each case, data were collected from six separate transfection assays, each employing ... By comparing the efficiencies of recombination on episomal and on genomic targets, we have shown that the dynamic nature of chromatin renders asiteof at least 34 bp in general reactive for recombination...
... hemizygote with significant residual a- galactosidase A activity Am J Hum Genet 33, 7 1A Nakao S, Takenaka T, Maeda M, Kodama C, Tanaka A, Tahara M, Yoshida A, Kuriyama M, Hayashibe H, Sakuraba H et al ... tolerated in mice ASSC therapy for Fabry disease in humans The clinical proof -of- concept for ASSC therapy has been investigated in cardiac Fabry disease by Frustaci and colleagues [48] Galactose, ... Gaucher disease Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99, 15428–15433 21 Chang HH, Asano N, Ishii S, Ichikawa Y & Fan JQ (2006) Hydrophilic iminosugar active -site- specic chaperones increase residual glucocerebrosidase...
... Framingham, MA) IMAC columns were first activated witha 100 mm FeCl3 solution (Aldrich, Milwaukee, WI) Samples were loaded onto the IMAC columns and washed with several column volumes of 0.01% acetic ... Series; Santa Clara, CA) directly into a Finnigan LCQ quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer (Thermo Electron, San Jose, CA) at a flow rate of 60 nLÆmin)1 The nano-flow HPLC gradient used was 0–60% acetonitrile ... Dvl-1 by replacement with acidic residues [13] In particular, a multiple mutant with replacement of threonines 135 and 137, as well as serines 139 and 142, by negatively charged aspartic acid residues...
... contain a remarkably higher level of terminal GlcNAc than the corresponding structures isolated from mLf Significant amounts of compounds (GlcNAc1XylFucMan3GlcNAc2) and (GlcNAc2XylFucMan3GlcNAc2) ... proportion of GlcNAccontaining glycans in tLf mainly reflects differences in N-acetylglucosaminidase activities that govern the biosynthesis of paucimannose-type glycans, after maturation of the N-glycans ... masses of glycine, serine, aspartic acid and carboxamidomethylated cysteine, respectively, amino acid sequence GSDC, that corresponds to the glycosylation site Asn624 Discussion Fig Mass spectrometry...
... S Takahashi and Y Yamada, “Propagation-loss prediction using ray tracing witha randomphase technique,” IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, ... ofa class ofa residual part for classes for residual parts Path spacing 16–21 (varies with streets) 3◦ –5◦ (varies with classes) 14◦ ofa class ofa residual part for classes for residual parts ... fact that extracted channel parameters are independent of the measurement antennas since the beam patterns of the measurement antennas are taken into account in the multipath parameters extraction...
... that bacitracin is not a selective inhibitor of PDI Instead, bacitracin can also interact with folding polypeptide chains and other molecular chaperones and folding catalysts Bacitracin probably ... [8], concerns have been raised about protease contamination of some commercially available bacitracin preparations [31] Here, we have tested the effect of bacitracin in a variety of in vitro assays ... A. -R Karala and L W Ruddock bacitracin contains at least nine different peptides, of which bacitracin A is the most abundant, and it is mainly used as an antibiotic against infections caused...
... molecular mass and DA of chitosan Muzzarelli et al (1994) compared acetic acid with lactic acid as a chitosan solvent during the nonspeci c chitosanolysis by papain and reported lactic acid to ... [28] Contrary to this, the specic activity of pronase indicated that chitosan dissolved in aqueous acetic acid (1%) and was the best solvent when compared to formic and lactic acids In acetic acid, ... equilibrated in sodium acetate buffer (pH 4.5) [21] The column was precalibrated with dextrans (of known molecularmass)andchitosanmolecularmassstandards.Fractions I and II obtained after charcoal-Celite...
... resulting plasmid by cloning the following annealed oligonucleotides 5¢-CTAGTCGTCCGAACTCCGATAATCGC CGTCAGGGCGGTCGCGAACGTTTAG-3¢ and 5¢-CA TGCCAAACGTTCGCGACCGCCCTGACGGCGATTA TCGGAGTTCGGACA-3¢ into ... strategy was used for constructing p13R4-P, except that the following primers 5¢-ACTCATA CTAGTCTTAGCCATGGCTTCCCGCCG GCG-3¢ and 5¢-CCATCCGAATTCTCACTACACATTGATCCTAGCA GAAGC-3¢ were used for the PCR ... 5¢-GTCTGGCGGAA AACCTCAGTGTGACGC-3¢ and 5¢-GACACCAGACCA ACTGGTAATGGTAGCGACCG-3¢ were used for the amplification of the 3¢ end of the b-gal gene The presence of similar amounts of genomic DNA in...
... biphasic to a monophasic shape are Table Rates of inactivation of IICBGlc Incubation of purified IICBGlc with the indicated concentration (mM) of the analogues 1a) 3d was carried out at 30 C Rate ... inactivation by iodoacetamide fits better to an exponential function (Fig 3) as expected ofa small nonspeci c reagent with equal access to both Cys Whatever the cause, sensitization by Glc cannot ... constants (min)1) were calculated by nonlinear fit to a first-order decay function of the form: y ¼ A exp(–kinact t) + residual kinact Inhibitor Concn a- Haloester analogues 1ac 1b 30 1cc 3b IAcNH2...
... primers 5¢-ATAAGCTTGCTTT AAAATCCACCCCACG-3¢ and 5¢-TCGGATCCC AGTGCCCACTTATTCGAAAAG-3¢ HindIII–BamHI digested PCR product was cloned into the pBlueScript SKvector and then recloned by KpnI–BamHI into ... whole CK 2a ORF region was amplified from Drosophila genomic DNA using the following pair of primers: 5¢-CAGAATTCA TGACACTTCCTAGTGCGGCTCGC-3¢ and 5¢-CTG GATCCTTATTGCTGATTATTGGGATTCATTTGA CCA-3¢ EcoRI–BamHI ... following pair of primers: 5¢-CAGGATCCATGACACTTCCTAGTGCG GCTCGC-3¢ and 5¢-CCAAGCTTTTATTGCTGATTAT TGGGATTCATTTGACCA-3¢ (the gene encoding the Drosophila CK2 a subunit does not contain introns in the coding...
... ATPMg-G-actins Fig DSC curves of intact G-actin (A) and ECP-cleaved G-actin (B) with different tightly bound nucleotide and cation: ATP-Ca-Gactin, ATP-Mg-G-actin and ADP-Mg-G-actin The actin concentration ... cleaved G-actins in the Fig Temperature dependences of the excess heat capacity (Cp) of intact (curve 1), ECP-cleaved (curve 2) and subtilisin-cleaved (curve 3) ATP-Ca-G-actins The actin concentration ... step of thermal inactivation of F-actin [28,29] Although both cleaved actins are stabilized with phalloidin and AlF4À , stabilization of ECP-cleaved F-actin demonstrates specic features that are...
... NKA48: forward, 5¢-GATGCTAACTTCAGCGGAAAC TC- 3¢; reverse, 5¢-CACGATGATGGATGAAATGGCG TC- 3¢ For NKA49: forward, 5¢-CTTCCACGACGGAAAC GATGAC-3¢; reverse, 5¢-CTCTCCAACACATGCTGACG TAG-3¢ Cycling conditions ... Picard [37] In the case of NKA8, the forward primer was 5¢-GAT GCATAATACGACTCACTATAGGGAGTGCCTTGCAA GGAGTATTG-3¢ and the reverse primer was 5¢-GCCTTC TAATACGACTCACTATAGGGAGCTCGTAATAGCTT TTGGAC-3¢, ... 5¢-GATGCATAATACGACTCACTATAGG GAAATGTCCGTCCAACAAGGAG-3¢ (forward) and 5¢GCCTTCTAATACGACTCACTATAGGGACCACGATG ATGGATGAAATG-3¢ (reverse) Both primers contained T7-polymerase promoter at the 5¢ terminus and were custom-synthesized...
... possessed a catalytic capability [14,15,18] Friboulet et al concluded that a catalytic dyad composed ofHis and Asp was important for the esterase activity of their catalytic anti-idiotypic antibody ... derived from CCR5, a chemokine receptor, which plays a crucial role in HIV infection In all of these catalytic antibodies, a catalytic triad composed of Asp, Ser, and His was always identified through ... parent antibody (41S-2 mAb) was as specic to the gp41 molecule as 41S-2-L was [10,11] In some cases, a significant change in the immunological character of the heavy or light chain could occur,...
... the isoform The large increase in As was occasionally associated witha smaller increase in Ass The average value of the fast time constant (sf) found in control traces was used as a fixed parameter ... Pompilidotoxins and voltage-gated Nav isoforms Mantegazza M, Gambardella A, Rusconi R, Schiavon E, Annesi F, Cassulini RR, Labate A, Carrideo S, Chifari R, Canevini MP et al (2005) Identification of an Nav1.1 ... ofa solitary wasp, facilitates transmission in the crustacean neuromuscular synapse Neurosci Lett 238, 99–102 12 Konno K, Hisada M, Itagaki Y, Naoki H, Kawai N, Miwa A, Yasuhara T & Takayama...
... fabp10b gene of zebrafish A B Venkatachalam et al Table Isoelectric point (pI) of FABP10s in different species Species Protein pI Zebrafish Zebrafish Shark Catfish Lungfish Salamander Toad Iguana Chicken ... physiological roles for FABPs include the uptake and utilization of fatty acids, intracellular targeting of fatty acids to specic organelles and metabolic pathways, and the protection of cellular structures ... of the zebrafish fabp10b gene Fig Tissue -speci c distribution of fabp10b transcripts in adult zebrafish (A) Zebrafish fabp10b cDNA -speci c primers amplified an RT-PCR product from total RNA extracted...
... KCa2.x) and intermediate-conductance KCa channels (IKCa channels, KCa3.x) First, the IK(Ca) in cockroach DUM neurons was voltage-activated, like all known BKCa currents, whereas SKCa and IKCa channel ... described earlier Block of IK(Ca) occurred without significant alteration of the A D B E C F Fig J-ACTX-Hv 1c blocks KCa channels in cockroach DUM neurons (A) Typical effects of nM J-ACTX-Hv 1c on IK(Ca), ... (Fig 4A D) Effects on Slowpoke (Slo) channels The above findings suggest that J-ACTX-Hv 1c selectively blocks cockroach BKCa channels rather than small-conductance KCa channels (SKCa channels, KCa2.x)...
... method of chromatin assembly For chromatin assembly, lg of DNA and rat liver core histones (1 : 1.6 molar ratio of DNA to histones) were incubated with lg of BSA in a 10 lL volume at a final NaCl concentration ... experiments Chromatin assembly Chromatin with regularly spaced nucleosomes in the absence of histone H1 was assembled at an NaCl concentration of 50 mm, using an S-190 extract of Drosophila embryos and ... (N) and chromatin assembly (C) in the presence and absence of the R3 protein Chromatin was assembled with S-190 extract over plasmid pU6lac3 at a monovalent salt concentration of 150 mM Comparison...
... TTCTTAAAACTTGACCAAA Primer GGGTACGATGACTAAATGATCGGA Primer TCATCAGCAGCCCTTCTTTGCACAAC (Figs and 5A, B) Primer GACTAAATGATCGGATACGTGCCCATTCT (Figs and 5C) Lower strand Primer CTCAACGTCATTCTAAAGT Primer ... EMSA, electrophoretic mobility shift assay Probes and primers (5¢- to 3¢) Probes for EMSA C ⁄ EBP TTTCGAGTCTTGCAAAATCATCA FoxA CATCAGTGTTTGCTCTTGACAAG LM-PCR primers Upper strand Primer TTCTTAAAACTTGACCAAA ... Primer ACAACATACTTCGAAACTGTGACC Primer TGTCCTGGCACATGACCCGGATCA h before the start of the experiment DNaseI treatment was performed exactly as previously described [27] Dimethylsulfate treatment Cells...