... from the Ministry of Research and Innovation ofthe Autonomous Province of Trento, the Edmund Mach Foundation, the Centro di Ecologia Alpina, the Department of Biology and Evolution ofthe University ... representing the fact that the values ofthe population allele frequencies are unknown The type ofthe allele is denoted by Yi,1 for the first gene copy ofthe ith sampled fish, and Yi,2 for the second ... ofthe K tributaries that were at the fishery site when the sample was taken We might also want to infer the population of origin of each ofthe sampled fish Figure 2.2(a) shows the DAG for the...
... deletion ofthe promoter [12] In these mice, we could clearly demonstrate absence of Adh4 mRNA in the stomach epithelia – the tissue with the best characterized Adh4 expression Taken together, our ... retinol to retinal, providing the first step on the way to retinoic acid [31] The brain must thus rely on the activity of other enzymes, for example ADH3 or other members ofthe medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase ... granular layer of human cerebellum Table compiles our findings in adult brain tissue of all three species Discussion The distribution of ADHs in the brain is of particular interest because of their implications...
... products, apart from the NAS substrate The pattern of expression of these products changed during progression ofthe hair cycle (Fig 9) RP-HPLC separation ofthe reaction products ofthe HIOMT assay ... isoform of 252 bp was detected in the brain, pituitary, spleen and M3 subline of S91 melanoma, but not in the C57BL/6 mouse skin or the MelA melanocytes (Fig 3B, Table 1) This isoform had the ... facilities ofthe Albany Medical College, Albany, NY LC/MS assays, performed in Belarus, also used C57BL/6 mice (males 18 weeks old) obtained from the Vivarium ofthe Department of Biotestings of the...
... extent of initial demyelination is reduced in the NG2 null mouse, repair of this lesion nevertheless proceeds more slowly than repair ofthe larger lesion found in the wild type mouse The impact of ... the ablation of NG2 As a result of changes in multiple cell types, Page 11 of 13 the respective processes of myelin damage and myelin repair are both altered in NG2 null mice The complexity of ... quantify the extent of myelin damage (data not shown) Thus, despite the initially larger extent of inflammation and loss of myelin in wild type mice, myelin repair is superior in these mice to the...
... is the first report of differences in the levels of ovarian gene expression in an obese mouse model The most important finding of this study is that modified gene expression in the ovaries of ... synthetic enzymes in the face of high leptin levels is consistent with a state of leptin resistance in the ovaries of obese LY mice Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of ... associated with the LY mutation are shown in bold N = animals per group The Ay mutation is a large deletion that encompasses the promoter region ofthe agouti gene as well as a large portion ofthe coding...
... accordance with the guidelines ofthe National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA), as specified by the animal care policy of Hyogo College of Medicine Expression vector and preparation of liposomes ... acknowledges the support of a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan (No 15591071) References LeRoy EC: A brief overview ofthe pathogenesis of ... of HGF-HVJ liposomes into TSK/+ mice Treatment consisted of once-weekly injection of either HGF-HVJ liposomes or control mock vector for a period of weeks Treatment was initiated at the age of...
... preventing the formation ofthe C3 convertase by binding to C4b; accelerating the natural decay ofthe classical pathway C3 convertase; and as a cofactor for the serine proteinase factor I in the proteolytic ... that the reduced levels of C4 in the MRL strain limit the intrinsic capacity ofthe classical pathway to generate C3b, there are data to suggest that amplification of C3b generation via the alternative ... MRL mouse is independent of Fc receptors [51], our studies showing the functional deficiency of C4 in these mice, and that the loss ofthe major negative regulator ofthe classical complement...
... activated The exact balance between the concentrations of these pathways presumably arises from the balance between increased βoxidation and the actual activity ofthe synthetic pathway across the ... weighting each ofthe variables by the square root of that variable’s variance, minimizing the impact of noise and increasing the importance of low-concentration metabolites in the subsequent ... Multivariate analysis of some ofthe key metabolic changes induced by PPARd stimulation (a) PLS-DA scores plot showing the clustering ofthe GC-MS chromatograms from the organic fraction of liver tissue...
... retroposition The rates are the slopes ofthe linear functions (red lines) fitted to the curves ofthe cumulative distributions of retrogenes All ofthe linear functions are fitted to the part ofthe curves ... as the cut-off and fitted linear models to each part ofthe curves The results are shown in Table The slopes ofthe linear functions are therefore the estimates of gene duplication rates for the ... crossover The rates are the slopes ofthe linear functions (colored lines) fitted to the curves ofthe cumulative distributions of tandemly arrayed genes (TAGs) Parameter estimates ofthe linear...
... MMU15) In the rest ofthe study, we will consider the combination ofthe 11 segments of M spretus origin present in the three IRCSs as a whole Overall, the proportion of dysregulated genes in the M ... summary ofthe modes of regulation encountered in the IRCSs and their parent strains A summary ofthe modes of regulation encountered in the IRCSs and their parent strains Blue marks the B6 chromosome ... observation, together with the fact that during the process of strain establishment 55% ofthe strains did not survive, indicates that there was strong selection acting against the maintenance ofthe M...
... down the progression ofthe disease 1.6 Pathological hallmarks of PD The archetypal pathological characteristic of PD involves the loss ofthe dopaminergic (DA) neurons The DA neurons ofthe substantia ... unaffected in the MPP+ treated groups in the presence of exogenous S1P Furthermore, the cell death was minimal in the MPP+-treated groups in the presence of exogenous S1P These results vouch for the protective ... in the development of PD (Gorell et al., 1998) Nevertheless, the results were not consistent The major drive for the environmental factors to be the major cause of PD came from the discovery of...
... disease, the primary pathology is in the kidney [1], the major site of Gb3 synthesis in man [11], and in the heart, possibly due to the association of Gb3 synthesis with the microvasculature GSL synthesis ... determined the effect of CsA on Gb3 synthesis in the Fabry mouse model Our studies have further delineated the abnormal Gb3 synthesis in this model and have shown that the inhibition of MDR1 is ... considered that the increased renal Gb3 ofthe Fabry mouse might extend to the glomerulus to provide a model ofthe human disease In the cortex of wild-type kidney, subpopulations of renal tubules...
... CCAAT box at 324 bp upstream ofthe major transcription start site The presence of a CCAAT box and the absence of a TATA box seem to be one ofthe characteristics ofthe mouse integrin a3 gene ... previously reported the structures ofthe mouse a3 integrin subunit gene including the exon/intron organization and the alternative exon usage for the generation of variants ofthe a3 subunits (a3A ... and the sets of primers listed in Table After the PCR products were digested with KpnI and SacI, the fragments were inserted into the KpnI/SacI site of Fig Structures ofthe 5¢-flanking region of...
... cleavage ofthe c-phosphate does occur in the NBD with the mutation at the IC [36,38,39] Moreover, these and other studies suggest that the IC residues are involved in the formation ofthe NBD ... activates the attacking water molecule that cleaves the terminal phosphate of bound ATP In the latter model, the IC is part of a catalytic dyad, along with the histidine residue ofthe H-loop, ... sequence contacts the c-phosphate ofthe bound nucleotide across the dimer [15] and the aromatic residue ofthe A-loop Abcb1a catalytic mechanism stacks against the adenine moiety of bound nucleotide...
... energies ofthe original resiDG i;j due i in the native protein with the rest ofthe residues, self DDG k mutị are the changes ofthe self energies ofthe residues k that change either their ionization ... Electron-density map ofthe dCMP-binding region for the R188M CMP kinase variant The Fo ) Fc omit map calculated for the dCMPR188M CMP kinase complex in the absence ofthe dCMP model is green The contour ... Moreover, the kcat value with UMP increased by one order of magnitude with respect to the wild-type enzyme, at the expense ofthe Km value The overall effect of this structural change is a twofold...
... of a total of 290 lL of 80–200 lm ofthe gp130 peptide The heat of dilution ofthe gp130 peptide into buffer was determined in control experiments and subtracted from the raw data ofthe binding ... Other members ofthe SOCS family contain putative PEST sequences, but these are all located in the N-terminal region, upstream ofthe SH2 domain The conservation ofthe PEST motif of SOCS3 in mammals ... unstructured and part ofthe PEST region We examined the sequence ofthe 19 structured residues immediately downstream ofthe PEST region and found a high likelihood that they constitute the BG loop and...
... from the 3¢ UTR region of PaTry2 However, the 3¢ UTR sequence of PaTry4 differed to those ofthe other trypsins in more than 36% of its nucleotides All ORFs started at the first ATG codon ofthe ... comparative modelling The aim ofthe present work was to study the diversity of trypsins in the digestive gland of P argus, with focus on: (a) the position of lobster trypsins within the brachyurins ... the wall ofthe binding pocket and allow the access of bulky residues, like Arg and Lys, whereas the basic side chain of these residues is stabilized by Asp189 (chymotrypsin numbering) near the...
... to nearly half the initial amount On the other hand, the amount of glycoprotein in the medium did not differ substantially from the beginning to the end ofthe experiment, because the medium was ... other sources We then determined the variation of amount of glycoprotein in cells As shown in Fig 5E, although the total amount of protein in cells decreased to 87% after 48 h of incubation, the ... [19] The arrow indicates the location of non-glycosylated DNase I, and ‘]’ shows the migration ofthe singly glycosylated DNase I The percentage of glycosylated molecules is indicated under the...
... the antibacterial activity of SSAP was examined The addition of catalase almost completely abolished the antibacterial activity of SSAP, indicating that H2O2 is the mediator ofthe activity of ... consisting of 75-kDa subunits by SDS ⁄ PAGE, partly because ofthe scarcity ofthe protein of interest In this study therefore we isolated the antibacterial protein, SSAP, from the skin mucus of S ... consistent with those ofthe FAD standard Figure 5B shows the mass spectrum ofthe chromophore from SSAP ESI-TOF-MS in the positive mode gave the main peak at m ⁄ z 786.32 and the ion peaks at m...
... result in one band The slower migrating ofthe two F-11 PCR bands always corresponded to the rat brain control, the faster migrating band to the N18TG2 control In case of C the PCR product from ... alignment ofthe open reading frames of rat VRL-1 (Acc No AF129113) and mouse VRL-1 (Acc No NM_011706) Rat and mouse VRL-1 cDNA share a homology of 92% The ORF length of rat VRL-1 is 2286 bp whereas the ... visible in the agarose gel for each PCR product, sequence analysis of different cloning experiments yielded either the rat or sometimes the mouse VRL-1 sequence To prove the possible expression of mouse...