... exists in the antioxidant and other bioactivities of flavonoids, which are powerful in assays conducted in vitro; the 14 Risks Involved in the Use of Herbal Products 353 commonly found in over -the- counter ... to inhibit phase I and induce phase II carcinogen metabolizing enzymes that 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 Involved in the Use of Herbal Products 361 ephedrine...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
... model of the a-carbanion/enamine intermediate of the substrate indole-3-pyruvate with ThDP in the active site of IPDC was built based on the three-dimensional structure of the corresponding intermediate ... involving the C-terminal part of the polypeptide chain (Fig. 7). In the latter, differences in the conformation of the loop between Fig. 6. Stereo picture of the model of the a-carbanion/enamine intermediate ... presence of DNA-binding proteins involved in regulation of the gene expression of indole-3- pyruvic acid decarboxylase, a key enzyme in indole-3-acetic acid biosynthesis in Azospirillum lipoferum...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Identification of a set of genes involved in the biosynthesis of the aminonucleoside moiety of antibiotic A201A from Streptomyces capreolus pdf
... additional genes encoding other proteins implicated in the biosynthesis of the aminonucleoside moiety of A201A. Here we report the sequencing of a total of 6946 bp, which include the ata genes most ... a transcription terminator. The resulting fragment only contains the initial 67 bp and the final 68 bp of the pur4 coding 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 of the acyl-CoA initiation unit to the ketosynthetase domain of the PKSs...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Granule-bound starch synthase I A major enzyme involved in the biogenesis of B-crystallites in starch granules ppt
... at the final stage of starch synthesis in the absence of concomitant amylopectin synthesis (reviewed in [41]). In vitro synthesis of amylose Because in Chlamydomonas amylose synthesis remains active ... from the results listed in Table 1 that most, if not all, of the amylose is synthesized in vivo when the rate of amylopectin synthesis becomes 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 rates observed for amylopectin synthesis. However between 12 and 58 h the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Identification of two cysteine residues involved in the binding of UDP-GalNAc to UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1 (GalNAc-T1) ppt
... catalytic site of GalNAc-T1, might be involved in the catalytic function of the enzyme. To investigate whether the cysteine residues modified by PCMPS are involved in the binding of UDP-GalNAc, we ... mutant proteins was performed as described in Fig. 8. No change in pH was observed during the reaction. This indicates that the inactivation of the mutants was not due to acidification of the incubation ... cysteine residues not involved in the formation of a disulfide bond), by cysteine-specific labeling, to study the mechanistic involvement of the conserved cysteine residues in the function of GalNAc-T1....
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Oxidative stress is involved in the permeabilization of the inner membrane of brain mitochondria exposed to hypoxia/reoxygenation and low micromolar Ca2+ Lorenz Schild1 and Georg Reiser2 doc
... degree of protection by ADP sug- gests that the mitochondrial injury is caused by open- ing of the mPTP. There is evidence that ADP inhibits opening of the mPTP by occupying binding sites located in ... consumption was analysed. The corresponding values are shown in Fig. 1. After 15 min of incubation in the presence of 3.5 lm Ca 2+ 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 respiratory chain in mitochondria. Complex I and complex III were identified as generators of...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Factors involved in the assembly of a functional molybdopyranopterin center in recombinant Comamonas acidovorans xanthine dehydrogenase pot
... of XDH requires the incorporation of the MPT center, placement of the terminal sulfur ligand on the Mo, and the incorporation of two [2Fe)2S] centers and an FAD into the recombinant enzyme. Therefore, ... of the level of culture aeration on the expression of recombinant protein. Raising the cellular redox potential by increasing aeration levels is expected to reduce the level of cysteine and increase ... in R. cap- sulatus. The protein product of xdhC appears to exhibit a redox role in maturation of the XDH ABC by eliminating the dependence of its functional expression on the redox state of the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo khoa học: RNA-binding properties of HCF152, an Arabidopsis PPR protein involved in the processing of chloroplast RNA pdf
... in the UV-crosslinking competitive assays, as shown in D. The IC 50 of each RNA was determined by plotting the data (D). The location of the high affinity binding site in the Dd120 RNA defined in ... only one, the atpF intron, while CRS2 is involved in the splicing of nine of the 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 of the homodimer of HCF152 in this region...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The starch-binding capacity of the noncatalytic SBD2 region and the interaction between the N- and C-terminal domains are involved in the modulation of the activity of starch synthase III fromArabidopsis thaliana pdf
... confirmed the results obtained in the pull-down assays, showing that there is a physical interaction between the N- and C-terminal domains of SSIII in vitro. Mapping of the 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 in the D2 ... acids of the N-terminal region responsible for SSIII regulation. We found evidence indicating that two regions, D(316–344) in the D2 domain and D(495–535) in the D3 domain, are involved in the interaction...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Cell death-inducing DFF45-like effector, a lipid droplet-associated protein, might be involved in the differentiation of human adipocytes pdf
... using quantitative PCR. The results revealed 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 adipocytes To gain further insight into the roles of CIDEC in adipocyte differentiation, ... analyses of the relative levels of the indicated proteins after wes- tern blotting (as in D) were carried out. Simi- lar experiments were performed five times and the intensity of the individual...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: An E3 ubiquitin ligase, Synoviolin, is involved in the degradation of immature nicastrin, and regulates the production of amyloid b-protein doc
... ⁄ ))]. These results indicate that a functional deletion of Synoviolin causes a change in the intracellular trafficking of NCT. Effect of Synoviolin on the production of Ab NCT is one of the essential ... Synovi- lin-mediated ubiquitination also regulates the traffick- ing of NCT within the Golgi compartment, because the maturation of the sugar modification of the 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...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A new pathway encompassing calpain 3 and its newly identified substrate cardiac ankyrin repeat protein is involved in the regulation of the nuclear factor-jB pathway in skeletal muscle pdf
... binding to titin by improving the accessibility of the titin-binding domain. Interestingly, the importance of CARP inter- action for its function was recently demonstrated in a Fig. 3. Calpain ... [3,14,15]. Two of these regions, the N2A region and the M line, are involved in the transmission of mechanical signals to signaling path- ways. In the M line, mechanical stimulation activates the interaction ... NF-jB pathway and an increase in muscle fiber apoptosis [8]. The participation of NF-jB signaling in the pathogen- esis of LGMD2A is therefore an interesting possibility. The findings obtained in the present...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Catalytic activation of human glucokinase by substrate binding – residue contacts involved in the binding of D-glucose to the super-open form and conformational transitions ppt
... residues were individually mutated. (C) The spa- cial proximity of active site residues in the L-domain and connecting region II which are potentially involved in the binding of D-glucose in the super-open ... binding; (b) to identify the active site residues involved in the 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 in the closed conformation (PDB identity: 1v4s), the highest score was obtained for residues in two of the regions connecting the L- and the S-domains [i.e. in connecting...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Towards understanding the functional role of the glycosyltransferases involved in the biosynthesis of Moraxella catarrhalis lipooligosaccharide ppt
... conse- quently the b-d-Gal was found in the terminal position because the a-d-Gal found in the wild-type 2951 oligo- saccharide was missing. What was most surprising, however, was that mutation of the lgt4 ... shifts of the corresponding remaining ring protons. Again, assignment of the Kdo residue was possible from examination of TOCSY correla- tions in the 120 ms 1 H- 13 C-HSQC-TOCSY spectrum from the ... conspicuous in the 1 H- 13 C-HSQC spectrum. Examination of the anomeric 13 C line of residue C in the 120 ms 1 H- 13 C-HSQC-TOCSY spectrum revealed the location of the remaining ring protons. CD...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Geranylgeranyl reductase involved in the biosynthesis of archaeal membrane lipids in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus potx
... Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan The structure of membrane lipids is the most striking characteristic of the Archaea (one of the three domains of ... DGGGPS). The mixture was incubated at 55 °C for 1 h and then used directly in the GGR assay as the substrate mixture that mainly contains DGGGP. To synthesize the substrate mixtures containing mainly ... the protein arose from the translation from Met at the 24th position of the expec- ted full-length of the archaeal enzyme (except for the polyhistidine-tag). In contrast, a distinct protein of slightly...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Nogo receptor is involved in the adhesion of dendritic cells to myelin" ppt
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo y học: "Inhibition of antithrombin by hyaluronic acid may be involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis" potx
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22