... exists inthe antioxidant and otherbioactivities of flavonoids, which are powerful in assays conducted in vitro; the 14 Risks Involvedinthe Use of Herbal Products 353commonly found in over -the- counter ... to inhibit phase I and induce phase II carcinogen metabolizing enzymesthat initiate carcinogenesis. They also inhibit the promotion stage of carcinogen-esis by inhibiting oxygen radical-forming ... consistent in classifying the antioxidant capacity of the polyphenol-rich beverages in descending order: Punica granatum L. (pomegranate) 14 Risks Involvedinthe Use of Herbal Products 361ephedrine...
... model ofthe a-carbanion/enamine intermediate of the substrate indole-3-pyruvate with ThDP inthe active site of IPDC was built based on the three-dimensional structure of the corresponding intermediate ... involving the C-terminal part ofthe polypeptide chain (Fig. 7). In the latter, differences inthe conformation ofthe loop betweenFig. 6. Stereo picture ofthe model of the a-carbanion/enamine intermediate ... presence of DNA-bindingproteins involvedin regulation ofthe gene expression of indole-3-pyruvic acid decarboxylase, a key enzyme in indole-3-acetic acidbiosynthesis in Azospirillum lipoferum...
... additional genes encoding other proteinsimplicated inthe biosynthesis ofthe aminonucleoside moiety of A201A. Here we report the sequencing of a total of 6946 bp, which include the ata genes most ... atranscription terminator. The resulting fragment onlycontains the initial 67 bp and the final 68 bp ofthe pur4coding sequence. It was inserted in plasmid pGM9. The resulting construct was introduced, ... shown)[33,34]. In contrast, its similarity to type III PKSs, which lack this domain, is scant. This domain promotes the binding ofthe acyl-CoA initiation unit to the ketosynthetasedomain ofthe PKSs...
... at the final stage of starch synthesis in the absence of concomitant amylopectin synthesis (reviewed in [41]). In vitrosynthesis of amyloseBecause in Chlamydomonas amylose synthesis remainsactive ... from the results listed in Table 1 that most, if not all, ofthe amylose issynthesized in vivo when the rate of amylopectin synthesisbecomes minimal. At these moments the rates of amylopec-tin ... rate of amylopectin synthesis. The increase in crystallinity wit-nessed during these first 12 h is in line with the high ratesobserved for amylopectin synthesis. However between 12and 58 h the...
... catalytic site of GalNAc-T1, might be involved inthe catalytic function ofthe enzyme.To investigate whether the cysteine residues modified byPCMPS are involvedinthe binding of UDP-GalNAc,we ... mutant proteins was performed asdescribed in Fig. 8. No change in pH was observed during the reaction.This indicates that the inactivation ofthe mutants was not due toacidification ofthe incubation ... cysteine residues not involvedinthe formation of a disulfide bond), by cysteine-specific labeling, to study the mechanistic involvement ofthe conserved cysteine residues in the function of GalNAc-T1....
... degree of protection by ADP sug-gests that the mitochondrial injury is caused by open-ing ofthe mPTP. There is evidence that ADP inhibitsopening ofthe mPTP by occupying binding siteslocated in ... consumption was analysed. The corresponding values are shown in Fig. 1. After 15 min of incubation inthe presence of 3.5 lm Ca2+ in an air atmosphere, state 3 respiration of brain mitochondria was ... reperfusion in brain.There is a growing body of information concerning the mechanism of ROS generation by the respiratorychain in mitochondria. Complex I and complex IIIwere identified as generators of...
... of XDH requires the incorporation of the MPT center, placement ofthe terminal sulfur ligand on the Mo, and the incorporation of two [2Fe)2S] centers and anFAD into the recombinant enzyme. Therefore, ... ofthe level of culture aerationon the expression of recombinant protein. Raising the cellular redox potential by increasing aeration levels isexpected to reduce the level of cysteine and increase ... in R. cap-sulatus. The protein product of xdhC appears to exhibit aredox role in maturation ofthe XDHABCby eliminating the dependence of its functional expression on the redox state of the...
... inthe UV-crosslinkingcompetitive assays, as shown in D. The IC50 of each RNA was determined by plotting the data (D). The location ofthe high affinitybinding site inthe Dd120 RNA defined in ... only one, the atpF intron, while CRS2 is involvedinthe splicing of nine ofthe 10 chloroplast group IIB introns [6,15,37]. The expression of CRS2 in E. coli together with the corresponding RNA ... splicing products of the petB intron could be that the protein binds to the UTR region between psbH and petB, and to domain IV of the petB intron. The binding ofthe homodimer of HCF152 in this region...
... confirmed the results obtained in the pull-down assays, showing that there is a physicalinteraction between the N- and C-terminal domains of SSIII in vitro.Mapping ofthe CD-binding region in the N-terminal ... D3 domains,respectively, but not the individual starch-binding domains, are involved in the interaction with the catalytic domain. We also determined that the resi-dues W366 and Y394 inthe D2 ... acids ofthe N-terminalregion responsible for SSIII regulation. We foundevidence indicating that two regions, D(316–344) in the D2 domain and D(495–535) inthe D3 domain, are involved inthe interaction...
... using quantitative PCR. The resultsrevealed that the mRNA level of adipophilin was not changed, the mRNA levels of perilipin and FABP were decreased and the mRNA level of PPARc was increased in ... subcellular compartments other than lipid droplets. The expression of CIDEC is elevated during the differentiation of adipocytesTo gain further insight into the roles of CIDEC in adipocyte differentiation, ... analyses ofthe relativelevels ofthe indicated proteins after wes-tern blotting (as in D) were carried out. Simi-lar experiments were performed five timesand the intensity ofthe individual...
... ⁄ ))]. These results indicatethat a functional deletion of Synoviolin causes a change in the intracellular trafficking of NCT.Effect of Synoviolin on the production of AbNCT is one ofthe essential ... Synovi-lin-mediated ubiquitination also regulates the traffick-ing of NCT within the Golgi compartment, because the maturation ofthe sugar modification ofthe pro-tein occurs within the Golgi ... nicastrin was co-immuno-precipitated with Synoviolin, strongly suggesting that nicastrin is the substrate of Synoviolin. Interestingly, amyloid b-protein generation was increased by the overexpression...
... binding totitin by improving the accessibility ofthe titin-bindingdomain. Interestingly, the importance of CARP inter-action for its function was recently demonstrated in aFig. 3. Calpain ... [3,14,15]. Two of theseregions, the N2A region and the M line, are involved in the transmission of mechanical signals to signaling path-ways. Inthe M line, mechanical stimulation activates the interaction ... NF-jBpathway and an increase in muscle fiber apoptosis [8]. The participation of NF-jB signaling inthe pathogen-esis of LGMD2A is therefore an interesting possibility. The findings obtained inthe present...
... residues were individually mutated. (C) The spa-cial proximity of active site residues inthe L-domain and connectingregion II which are potentially involvedinthe binding of D-glucose in the super-open ... binding; (b) to identify the activesite residues involvedinthe binding of Glc to the super-open state (Fig. 1C) of this two domain [large(L) and small (S)] enzyme, and thus the site of initia-tion ... pre-diction of hinge regions inthe closed conformation(PDB identity: 1v4s), the highest score was obtainedfor residues in two ofthe regions connecting the L- and the S-domains [i.e. in connecting...
... conse-quently the b-d-Gal was found inthe terminal positionbecause the a-d-Gal found inthe wild-type 2951 oligo-saccharide was missing. What was most surprising,however, was that mutation ofthe lgt4 ... shifts ofthe corresponding remainingring protons. Again, assignment ofthe Kdo residue was possible from examination of TOCSY correla-tions inthe 120 ms1H-13C-HSQC-TOCSY spectrumfrom the ... conspicuous in the 1H-13C-HSQC spectrum.Examination ofthe anomeric13C line of residue C in the 120 ms1H-13C-HSQC-TOCSY spectrumrevealed the location ofthe remaining ring protons.CD...
... Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan The structure of membrane lipids is the most strikingcharacteristic ofthe Archaea (one ofthe three domains of ... DGGGPS). The mixture was incubatedat 55 °C for 1 h and then used directly inthe GGR assay as the substrate mixture that mainly contains DGGGP. Tosynthesize the substrate mixtures containing mainly ... the protein arose from the translation from Met at the 24th position ofthe expec-ted full-length ofthe archaeal enzyme (except for the polyhistidine-tag). In contrast, a distinct protein of slightly...