... A affects firefly luciferase luminescence
because it acts as a substrate and not as an allosteric
effector
Hugo Fraga
1,2
, Diogo Fernandes
1,2
, Rui Fontes
2
and Joaquim C. G. Esteves da Silva
1
1 ... structural similarity between firefly luciferase
and acyl-CoA synthetases, our achievement is not as
strange as it seems to be and supports t...
... basic
region.
Thioesterification acitivity of L. cruciata and
P. pyralis luciferases
From the above experiments (Table 1, entries 1–3), it
was known that L. cruciata and P. pyralis luciferases
also have an ability to catalyze ... also has the ability to form
thioesters of long-chain fatty acids. This report indica-
ted that firefly luciferase also has an acyl-CoA synthe-
tase act...
... TnrA and disable its activity. In cells grown with
an energetically unfavorable nitrogen source such as nitrate, TnrA is fully
membrane-bound via a complex of AmtB and GlnK, which are the trans-
membrane ... 1781
was incubated with various effector molecules, and the
mixture was used as an analyte in SPR analysis. ATP
and 2-oxoglutarate are known to be the primary effec-
t...
... displayed a luciferase activity of about
500-fold lower, albeit with a slight increase at 2-HBP
concentrations of 1, 2, 10 and 20 lm (Fig. 5C). As we
can assume that the expression level of CBP–DA-
HbpR ... positions. That the rigidity of the
binding region was not influenced by the change from
four AT to four or six GC, was shown by mutants 8
and 9 (each with 3· GC and five mut...
... 77–78.
28 Sasaki A, Inagaki-Ohara K, Yoshida T, Yamanaka A,
Sasaki M, Yasukawa H, Koromilas AE & Yoshimura
A (2003) The N-terminal truncated isoform of SOCS3
translated from an alternative initiation ... D. Scrofani
2
, Manuel Baca
1,
† and Raymond S. Norton
1
1 Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
2 Amrad Corporation Ltd, Richmond, Victoria, Australi...
... on the assumption that receptor and
ligand are endocytosed together and that the intracellular
receptor–ligand complex can be determined by measuring
intracellular radioactive labelled ligand.
Following
125
I-labelled ... 0.4
M
sucrose
for 20 min and this concentration was maintained during
radioligand incu bation. Data were analysed using Graph-
Pad
PRISM
software.
Results
Visualizatio...
... were aligned computationally and the appearance of a
base at each position in a motif was presented as a percentage fre-
quency of all four kinds of base. The base with a frequency higher
than ... cold-, drought- and ABA-regulated
gene expression. Plant Mol Biol 24, 701–713.
15 Prabakaran P, An J, Gromiha M, Selvaraj S, Uedaira
H, Kono H & Sarai A (2001) Thermodynamic da...
... years as a result of
the expansion of the Aedes aegypti mosquito to dif-
ferent geographic areas, and DHF has spread from
South East Asia to the Western Pacific and the
Americas. A substantial ... multifunctional protein with an
N-terminal protease domain (NS3pro) (1–180), an
RNA triphosphatase, an RNA helicase and an RNA-
stimulated NTPase domain in the C-terminal region
[...
... Characterization of the interaction between the plasma
membrane H
+
-ATPase of Arabidopsis thaliana and a novel
interactor (PPI1)
Corrado Viotti, Laura Luoni, Piero Morandini and Maria Ida De ... & Rasi-Caldogno
F (1998) Fusicoccin binding to its plasma membrane
receptor and the activation of the plasma membrane
H
+
-ATPase. IV. Fusicoccin induces the association
between the plasm...
... HEL92.1.7 (A and B) and HEK293 (C and D) cells. Firefly and
renilla luciferase activity was assayed 48 h post-transfection; results are presented as mean firefly relative to renilla luciferase activity,
expressed ... Thereafter, firefly and renilla
luciferase activity was assayed; results are presented as mean firefly relative to renilla luciferase activity, expres...