... Authors Journal compilation ª 2007 FEBS
BRCA1 accumulates in the nucleus in response to hypoxia
and TRAIL and enhances TRAIL- induced apoptosis in
breast cancer cells
Latricia D. Fitzgerald
1,
*, Charvann ... 22-fold
enhancement in apoptosis relative to cells expressing
BRCA1 in the absence of TRAIL and a three-fold
enhancement of apopto...
... pregnenolone synthesis in recombinant yeast.
In conclusion, the SCC reaction appears to be regulated
similarlyinyeastandinadrenalcells;inthelatter,Adxpand
not Adrp limits the activity of CYP11A1 and hence ... the CYP11A1
antigen appears to be excluded from mitochondria in vivo,
and most of the antigen is detected in the plasma membrane,
with a minor fraction localizi...
... vectors containing the mutations of the
miR-23a binding site (Fig. 4A). It was shown that
miR-23a ASO or pcDNA3 ⁄ pri-23a did not affect the
intensity of EGFP fluorescence in the vector bearing
the ... fluorescent
reporter, and found an increase in EGFP intensity after
blocking miR-23a and a decrease in EGFP intensity
after overexpressing miR-23a. Furthermore, another
three...
... sixfold
increase in hepatocyte nonheme Fe. This strongly suggests a
role for the liver in binding, storing and detoxifying excess
body Fe in the form of plasma NTBI. While these hepatoma
cells took ... a big increase in the proportion of Fe in the cytosol
suggest that all the chelators including DFO and DFP, act
in part intracellularly, mobilizing Fe from ferritin...
... of the
conserved arginine residues in the motif 2 loop show a
concerted movement following substrate binding in the
active site. In the apo-enzyme, the motif 2 Arg336
occupies the adenine-binding ... which is in close proximity to the negatively
charged carboxylate group of the amino acid sub-
strate [21]. The binding of ATP and the amino acid
substrate in t...
... functional domains and motifs, including a PB1
domain in the N-terminus, a pseudosubstrate (PS)
sequence, a C1 domain of a single Cys-rich zinc-finger
motif, and a kinase domain in the C-terminus. The
catalytic ... increase). It seems,
then, that this substrate was able to modulate the sec-
ondary structure significantly.
To gain further insight into the structure and fo...
... interaction.
Dematin and Ras-GRF2 associate in mouse brain lysate
and in transfected epithelial cells
To test whether Ras-GRF2 and dematin associate in vivo,
we examined their association in mouse brain lysate ... domain of
Ras-GRF2 stimulates the activation of the MAP kinase
ERK1 and Ras upon in ux of intracellular calcium in A293
cells [22,26]. First, we wanted...
... found
N-terminal to the arginine. Alanine or threonine is
found C-terminal to the processing site. Similar amino
acids are present around the processing site in POR of
pea. Glutamine has been found to ... modifies
the N-terminal amino groups of internal peptides, the
hydrophobicity of the corresponding peptides is
increased, leading to a delay in the retention time
du...
... chelate one zinc ion each, and
binds to the minor groove of the DNA [6]. Dmrts were
originally described to play important roles during sex
determination in flies and worms by regulating several
aspects ... FEBS
rather than being continuously mature individuals. In
general, for males, abundant dmrt1 expression during
preparatory and prespawning and spermatogenesis
periods w...
... from the R1 subunit back to the tyro-
sine Y122 of the R2 subunit; and (d) dedocking of
the product deoxyribonucleotide and reduction
of the disulfide cysteine by NADPH. In in vitro stud-
ies, the ... [35] may not be considered in the light of the
results obtained in the present study. Rather, the
involvement of manganese in the in vivo assembly of
the m...