... mutagenesis of Ntcp (Eur J Biochem 270) 1121 Fig Topology model of rat Ntcp based on hydropathy analysis of the amino acid sequence (according to [1]) Transmembrane domains are symbolized as blocks ofamino ... expression of the injected cRNA caused this lack of transport Therefore, up to three times the amount of the cRNA compared to the standard amount was injected into oocytes, i.e 6.9 ng instead of 2.3 ... the Baylor College of Medicine Search Launcher (Houston, USA) to identify conserved negatively charged aminoacids and cysteines Tagging of Ntcp mutants by the FLAGÒ motif To determine whether...
... grouped together as follows: aromatic aminoacids (Phe, Tyr, and Trp); negatively charged aminoacids (Asp and Glu); positively charged aminoacids (Lys and Arg); small aliphatic aminoacids (Gly ... used to determine the amount of phage detached in each round of selection Dilutions of the supernatant were plated in 2.5 mL of 0.6% top agarose containing 300 lL of E coli (BLT5615), 100 lL of ... aliphatic aminoacids (Val, Leu, Ile, and Pro); and hydrophilic aminoacids (Ser, Thr, His, Asn, Gln, Cys, and Met) The nomenclature of Schechter and Berger [5] was adopted to designate the amino acids...
... products This leads to imbalance of stoichiometry and contributes to the limitation of chain growth In spite of this, Huang’s study initiated a rational synthesis of a large variety of key monomers ... refluxed benzene or toluene in the presence of TosOH monohydrate (2 mol), Scheme 5.1 The presence of TosOH•H2O (2 mol) serves as both the reaction catalyst and amino group protector, preventing undesirable ... cause of low-molecular-weight polymers presumably is a high tendency of alkyl esters of α-AAs to enter into various undesirable self-condensation reactions [62] with the formation of diketopiperazines...
... soybea1ns contain lower amounts of lysine, which is one of Microbial Production ofAminoAcids in Japan 77 the essential aminoacids for those livestocks The estimated amount of l-lysine produced in ... successful introduction of the technology, various methods were searched for and developed for microbial production of other aminoacids Today a whole array ofaminoacids are produced by microbial ... various amounts of sodium pyruvate, g of ammonium acetate, 0.6 g of pyrocatechol, 0.2 g of sodium sulfite, 0.1 g of EDTA, and cells harvested from 100 ml of broth, in a total volume of 100 ml.The...
... chain of any bound amino acid The lability of the a-proton observed for a large number ofaminoacids [5] under the action of TPL gives evidence for the orthogonal orientation of the a-proton with ... with respect to the cofactor plane [17], and shows that the pattern of binding is the same for a variety ofaminoacids It has been established [5] that for a number ofamino acid inhibitors bearing ... reasonable to conclude that the transfer of the proton (or deuteron) from the amino group to the a-carbon atom of the quinonoid intermediate should go faster than the isotopic exchange of the proton...
... sequence of the open reading frame (ORF) of their cDNAs and the corresponding aa sequences, in Table Summary of the purification of DNases I from the pancreases of three species of snake The results of ... from reptiles to birds after deletion of Ser205 from the enzymes of amphibians as they evolved into reptiles Thermal stability of the enzyme might be evaluated as one of the factors that reflect ... presence of Val67 is one of the essential factors responsible for the actin-binding capacity of these snake DNases I Tissue distribution of snake DNases I Fig Electrophoretic patterns of snake...
... reaction was stopped by transferring the tubes to an ice bath The amount of fructose produced was determined by the cysteine/carbazole/sulfuric acid method [33] To determine the effect of temperature ... One unit of isomerase activity is defined as the amount of enzyme that produces mmol of product per under the assay conditions Activation of apo-BLXI by metals To examine the effect of bivalent ... eds), pp 339–357 Stockton Press, New York Converti, A & Del Borghi, M (1998) Kinetics of glucose isomerization to fructose by immobilized glucose isomerase in the presence of substrate protection...
... activities of NBD2A and NBD2B could result from an inhibitory effect of the C-terminal 42 aminoacidsof NBD2B or a stimulatory effect of the equivalent aminoacidsof NBD2A To determine which of these ... last 42 aminoacids Figure 2A and Table show that the ATPase activity of NBD2-DC was greater than that of SUR2B but similar to that of NBD2A, favoring the idea that the last 42 aminoacidsof NBD2B ... of the last 42 aminoacidsof SUR2 One possibility is that interaction of the heterodimer produces a conformational change that physically reduces the inhibitory effect of the last 42 amino acids...
... Transcription factors involved in the action ofaminoacids on gene expression Amino acid(s) manipulations Factor(s) implied Inhibiting effect resulting from the presence ofaminoacids Pooled aminoacids ... modifications or modulation of their activators or inhibitors The amino acid appears to be a valuable tool to study the potential diversity of AAR pathways, but despite its central regulatory role in numerous ... glutamine), together with the identified transcription factors and the responsive elements involved Most of the data concern the inhibitory effect ofaminoacids Initial studies were performed to explore...
... glycogen synthase, phosphofructokinase 2, ceramide synthesis, glucose uptake, apoptosis, insulin receptor substrate 1, mammalian target of rapamycin kinase (mTOR), mitogen-activated protein kinase ... feature of the activation of AMPK by fatty acids and one that is common to the ÔclassicalÕ activation pathway However at this time we cannot discount the possibility that exposure to fatty acids ... sensitivity to AMP after exposure of hearts to fatty acid (Table 1) The AMP binding site on AMPK appears to be a higher order structure contributed by two or more of the a, b and c subunits of the...
... combination of ionexchange chromatography, Lentil-Lectin Sepharose chromatography and chromatofocusing, as described previously [21] Results Expression and secretion of truncated variants of GCPII To ... seems to be essential for its hydrolytic activity [15] The protein is proposed to consist of six domains: the N-terminal cytoplasmic tail (amino acids 1–18), the helical transmembrane region (amino ... Recently, a 3D model of the extracellular region of rat GCPII has been published [20] In addition to the model of the ligand-free protein, the authors docked several GCPII inhibitors into the GCPII-binding...
... the introduction of two adjacent b -amino acids induced a 10-membered hydrogen-bonded turn (C10) analogous to the b-turn made of a -amino acids [20] This propensity of b -amino acidsto mimic canonical ... structures of b -amino acids overlap the canonical structures of a -amino acids? Subsequently, is it possible to substitute one a -amino acid in the sequence of a linear peptide for one b -amino acid ... overlap any conformation of a -amino acids In order to visualize on the potential energy surfaces the conformers of b -amino acids that fit with canonical conformations of a -amino acids, two (/ ) w) Ramachandran...
... Nmyristoylation In the present study, to examine the effect of the combination ofaminoacids at positions and on protein N-myristoylation, sequential vertical-scanning mutagenesis of the aminoacids ... the combination ofaminoacids at positions and might be a critical determinant for protein N-myristoylation In this study, to examine the effect of the combination ofaminoacids at positions ... addition to the combination ofaminoacids at positions and 6, it was demonstrated that the combination ofaminoacids at positions and also affects the susceptibility of the protein to protein...
... half-lives of plasmin in these experiments (also before 50% of the plasmin activity was inhibited) Computer model of the C-terminal 40 aminoacids in antiplasmin A computer model of the C-terminal 40 amino ... established Mutagenesis of antiplasmin The cDNA of wt-antiplasmin, subcloned into the expression vector pMT/Bip/V5 at the BglII and XhoI sites, was used to produce the selected mutants of antiplasmin ... from one hydrophobic to another hydrophobic amino acid distant from the C-terminal portion of antiplasmin seems therefore to be of little importance Expression and purification of antiplasmin variants...
... substitutions ofaminoacids flanking 23FQNLF27 reduced the binding to AR LBD Most prominent inhibitory effects were found for amino acid residues directly flanking 23FQNLF27 Note that expression levels of ... fragment from pAR34 [23] into the corresponding sites of pGEX-2TK-CHB yielded pGSTAR.LBD Insertion of the AR LBD BamHI/SalI fragment of pGST-AR.LBD into the corresponding sites of pCMVGST [25] yielded ... without amino acids, 2% w/v glucose, pH 5.8), supplemented with the required aminoacids Yeast transformation was carried out according to the lithium acetate method [26] A yeast liquid b-galactosidase...
... modifications ofaminoacids Chemical modifications of arginine, lysine, carboxyl groups, tryptophan and histidine were performed as described before [28] The number of essential residues of a certain amino ... stability of the proteins [28] The C terminus of CpcF shows only little homology for as much as 50 aminoacids A truncation by 53 aminoacids reduced the solubility of the protein, possibly due to misfolding, ... observation of low activities of chromophore binding to all binding sites studied, including a-C84 of PecA [16–18], by the site-selective effect of Triton X-100 (TX100) on chromophore binding to PecB,...
... region of HSQC spectra reflect formation of imino groups during reaction of the side-chain aminogroups with Q or DAQ Fig Cytotoxicity of DA-modified a-Syn (A) Time course of the MTT reduction of different ... compared with that of intact a-Syn This suggests that at least three aminogroupsof an a-Syn molecule are modified by Q or DA to generate imino groups that link to the aromatic ring of quinone and ... concentration of a-Syn was 200 lM and that of the compounds was mM (B) Time courses of the reactions of Q with a-Syn (circle) and some aminoacids as recorded at 345 nm The aminoacids are Gly...
... transport ofaminoacids under photorespiratory and nonphotorespiratory conditions Results Expression of the genes for GOGATs and CPSase In order to understand the physiological role of GOGATs ... that the mitochondria are highly capable of using glycine to convert ornithine to citrulline (up to 126 lmolặh)1ặmg)1 protein) [9] Because of a lack of bioinformatic tools to predict to what extent ... ammonium 48 h after transfer from high CO2 to air, owing to photorespiratory ammonium release (Fig 3A) A slight accumulation of photorespiratory and nonphotorespiratory ammonium was detected in the GLT...
... assembly of the receptor and accessory proteins GRIP can bind to the glutamate receptor subunit (GluR2) subunit of AMPA receptors via PDZ4 ⁄ PDZ5, both PDZ domains working in concert to establish ... simultaneous phosphorylation of the GluR2 subunit of the AMPAR together with the phosphorylation of serine racemase releases GRIP to the cytoplasm in the absence of any dual interaction A L-Ser ... carboxy-terminal end of the polypeptide chain, disrupts its interaction with PDZ4 ⁄ PDZ5 of GRIP, it is tempting to speculate that phosphorylation of Ser336 of human serine racemase or of Thr336 of mouse...