... lost 28% activity at pH 7.5, 54% activity at pH 6.5 and 72% activity at pH 8.5 in 30 s after autophosphorylation Kinase assays The autophosphorylation-induced changes in the kinaseactivity was ... site of plant chimeric calcium/ calmodulin- dependent protein kinase J Biol Chem 276, 32940–32947 13 Colbran, R.J & Soderling, T.R (1990) Calcium/ calmodulindependent protein kinase II Curr Top Cell ... chimeric plant serine/threonine kinase by calcium and calcium/ calmodulin J Biol Chem 271, 8126–8132 12 Sathyanarayanan, P.V., Siems, W.F., Jones, J.P & Poovaiah, B.W (2001) Calcium- stimulated autophosphorylation...
... ligation (Fig 2A) However, Jun phosphorylation could also be mediated by the p38 kinase when using endogenous kinaseactivity To overcome this possibility and to confirm the role of JNK, we transfected ... whole cell extracts with an anti-HA antibody to separate it from the endogenous kinase After separation, the kinaseactivity was determined in the immunoprecipitate using two different substrates, ... endogenous JNK activity, the cells were incubated for h in the presence of MEM53 antibody The luciferase activity was corrected for the efficiency of transfection by determining the activity of plasmid...
... Journal 272 (2005) 903–915 ª 2005 FEBS To establish whether TCDD increases nPKC kinase activity, we examined nPKC kinaseactivity by using PKCh pseudo-substrate, which is preferentially phosphorylated ... involvement of PKCh kinaseactivity in TCDD-induced L-MAT cell apoptosis at the molecular level Transfected L-MAT cells express H-2KK on their surface To test whether PKCh kinaseactivity is required ... interfere with endogenously expressed PKCh and specifically sup906 press its kinaseactivity To confirm that PKCh kinaseactivity really does participate in the signal transduction mechanism involved...
... involved in the modulation of PTP open closed probability CYPD is a member of the cyclophilins family encoded by the ppif gene [3], which exhibit peptidylprolyl cis trans isomerase activity Inhibition ... diminish the binding of CYPD on the ATP synthase The results obtained indicate that modulation of F0F1-ATP synthase activity by CYPD comprises an in-house mechanism regulating matrix adenine nucleotide ... and F0F1-ATP synthase activity depends on the common terms Ti and Di We were therefore able to calculate the changes in To and Do, assuming an increase in F0F1-ATP synthase activity of 30%, (as...
... measurement of SERCA activity in saponin-permeabilized platelets showed that neither AR-C nor wortmannin decreased this activity by < 3% Together, these results indicate that ADP ⁄ P2Y12 activity prolongs ... ineffective Further experiments confirmed the sensitivity of InsP3-induced Ca2+ mobilization for modulation of PKA activity Platelets were therefore pretreated with the PKA inhibitors, KT5720 and H89 [28] ... effect of cAMP and its effector, protein kinase A (PKA) [14] Also downstream of Gi, P2Y12 receptors stimulate the less well understood phosphoinositide 3 -kinase (PI3-K) pathway, which leads to...
... phosphorylation of extracellular signal regulated kinase ⁄ and p38, but they suppressed nuclear factor-jB activity These data suggest that the calcium influx-triggered phospholipase D and acidic ... on PLD activity, cells were cultured with the [Ca2+]i chelater BAPTA-AM We found that this reagent dose-dependently reduced acidic pHe-induced PLD activity, but had no effect on aSMase activity ... increased aSMase activity 2.0-fold but had no effect on nSMase activity (Fig 3B) When aSMase blockers were added to the cultures, they significantly inhibited acidic pHe-induced aSMase activity (Fig...
... wild type requires high PKA activity These consequences of PKA-pathway activity were tested subsequently in order to examine the influence of high copy SUT2 on PKA activity We found that high ... in PKA pathway activity On this basis, we hypothesized that (a) high SUT2 gene dosage might increase PKA activity only when it is low, but that (b) it acts inhibitory when PKA activity is high ... that a high level of SUT2 reduces PKA activity only when PKA activity is high we investigated the influence of SUT2 on invasive growth, which requires high PKA activity We found that after three...
... hydrolysis activity (Fig 3) Thus, H117 is crucial for ATPase activity Secretion of nucleoside diphosphate kinase by M tuberculosis M tuberculosis H37Rv culture supernatant exhibited Ndk activity ... adenylate kinase (a cytoplasmic protein) was not detected by Western blot using polyclonal antibody against purified adenylate kinase (Fig 5B) Autophosphorylation activity The autophosphorylating activity ... separated by 15% SDS/PAGE Analysis was by autoradiography Enzymatic activity of Ndk Enzymatic activity of purified Ndk or its activity in culture supernatant of M tuberculosis was assayed as described...
... standard calcium phosphate coprecipitation technique [22] To evaluate dose-dependent effects of extracellular calcium on MGP transcription cells were grown in medium supplemented with either calcium ... transfection Luciferase activity was assayed as recommended by the manufacturer (Promega) in a ML3000 luminometer (Dynatech) Relative light units were normalized to b-galactosidase activity and protein ... promoter activity (Fig 5) A reporter construct containing only the promoter region from position )54 to +33 bp, including the TATA box ()54LUC), showed a drastic drop in luciferase activity Internal...
... luciferase activity with pRL-TK plasmid containing TK promoter as an internal control All luciferase activities shown in transient transfection assays are corrected by the internal control activity ... cAMP and subsequent activation of PKA lead to the inhibition of NF-jB activity To further examine the effect of PKA on NF-jB activity, we cotransfected Jurkat T-lymphocytes and HeLa cells with ... CRE-dependent luciferase activity in Jurkat T-lymphocytes As expected, overexpression of PKAc led to an increase in the CRE-dependent gene expression (Fig 2C) binding activity of NF-jB, we performed...
... protein calmodulin [20] Calmodulin is activated by binding of four Ca2+ ions, resulting in conformational change Once calmodulin is activated it can bind to downstream targets, such as the Ca2+ /calmodulin- dependent ... found to be dependent on calmodulin activity, but not on PtdIns3K However, fMLP induced respiratory bursts demonstrated a dependence on both calmodulin and PtdIns3K activity These data demonstrate ... inhibition of neutrophil migration by W7 (Fig 4) A calmodulin- dependent kinase that might be involved in this process is myosin light chain kinase This kinase phosphorylates the light chain of myosin...
... enhancement of calcium absorption in growing rats Int J Vit Nutr Res 68, 335–340 23 Tsuchita H, Suzuki T & Kuwata T (2001) The effect of casein phosphopeptides on calcium absorption from calcium- fortified ... phosphopeptide on calcium absorption in the rat Br J Nutr 83, 673–680 45 Mellander O (1950) The physiological importance of the casein phosphopeptide calcium salts II Peroral calcium dosage of ... ª 2007 FEBS 5001 CPP activity and supramolecular structure C Gravaghi et al KRH (containing phosphate) phosphate-free KRH A B 100 [Ca2+]o 2mmol/L 100 [Ca2+]o 4mmol/L peak calcium increase (% on...
... heteromultimerization occurs independently of kinaseactivity and alternatively spliced domains To confirm that DMPK self-association indeed occurred independently of kinase activity, a kinase dead mutant was tested ... Multimerization of myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) is independent of kinaseactivity or alternatively spliced domains (A) Involvement of kinaseactivity in DMPK complex formation was investigated ... between these possibilities In DMPKlike kinases, multimerization capacity is apparently a prerequisite for proper kinase activation: the kinaseactivity of Rho -kinase and MRCKa is also partly dependent...
... [Ins(1,4,5)P3–Ca2+]–Ca2+ /calmodulin- dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II)–PLD pathway and the PLC-c1 (diacylglycerol)–PKC–PLD pathway Experimental procedures PLD assay PLD activity was assessed by measuring ... EGCG-induced PLD activity in these cells We also investigated whether EGCG induces PLC activity in U87 cells The data presented in Fig 3C show that EGCG treatment stimulates PLC activity, as measured ... cytosolic calcium Furthermore, the results suggest that an influx of calcium from the extracellular medium is mainly responsible for this rise Fig Green tea polyphenols stimulate PLD activity in...
... 1,4,5-trisphosphate-induced calcium release Science 252, 443–446 Bezprozvanny, I., Watras, J & Ehrlich, B.E (1991) Bell-shaped calcium- response curves of Ins(1,4,5)P3- and calcium- gated channels from ... the presence of increased calcium Nature 396, 81–84 Missiaen, L., Taylor, C.W & Berridge, M.J (1991) Spontaneous calcium release from inositol trisphosphate-sensitive calcium stores Nature 352, ... 1.25 mM NaN3 (prepared in calciumfree water) The mixture, in a fluorescence cuvette, was supplemented with 7.5 mM phosphocreatine, mM ATP, mM KH2PO4, 30 lgÆmL)1 creatine kinase, 0.6 lgÆmL)1 oligomycin...
... SSIII activitymodulation by SBD cannot be deduced until the enzyme conformation is elucidated, the data presented here contribute to a better understanding of how SBDs modulate enzyme activity, ... catalytic activity of the enzyme Our results show that the interaction between SBDs and CD, as well as the full starch-binding capacity of the D2 domain, are necessary for the full catalytic activity ... truncated SSIII isoforms, showing the importance of the D23 domain in starch binding and the modulation of SSIII activity [19] A similar conclusion has been reached for other enzymes involved in starch...
... Ca2+-independent ABA-activated SnRK2.6 kinase [21] In addition, the SnRK2.6 kinase could phosphorylate T306 in an in vitro kinase assay This evidence suggests that multiple protein kinases may participate in ... phosphorylation by calcium- dependent protein kinase from maize seedlings Eur J Biochem 267, 337–343 Li J, Lee YR & Assmann SM (1998) Guard cells possess a calcium- dependent protein kinase that phosphorylates ... control of guard cell volume The calcium- independent, ABA-activated protein kinase ⁄ ABA-responsive kinase (AAPK ⁄ ABR kinase) from Vicia faba has been found to be present in guard cells and to...
... control Luciferase activity (light units) A 40 000 30 000 Untransfected Control + CRLPs 20 000 ** 10 000 B Luciferase activity (light units) sites can be used as a measure of NF-jB activity Initial ... (Fig 1) Inhibition of NF-jB transcriptional activity by CRLPs containing trilinolein or triacylglycerol from corn oil was confirmed by measuring luciferase activity in cells transfected with the pNF-jB ... olive CRLPs (Fig 6) NF-jB activity in control samples did not vary significantly over the time-course examined In the canonical NF-jB pathway, activation of the IjB kinase complex leads to phosphorylation...
... ERK activity for intermediate stimuli The distribution of ERK activity is shown in Fig 4B In contrast to bistable responses, the stimulation experiments showed a monomodal distribution of ERK activity, ... gradually shifts to higher activity levels as the stimulus increases This suggests that ERK activity is not bistable in fibroblasts stimulated with PDGF The average activity shows a Hill-type ... protein kinase (MAPK) pathway model Biotechnol Prog 17, 227–239 10 Kholodenko BN (2000) Negative feedback and ultrasensitivity can bring about oscillations in the mitogen-activated protein kinase...