... about inthe high VT or high pressure group [2,30] Worth mentioning is that VT or pressures used inthe high VT group in these former studies were about twice as high as in our study protocol In a ... ketamine (Eurovet Animal Health B.V., Bladel, the Netherlands), mg/ml medetomidine (Pfizer Animal Health B.V., Capelle a/d IJssel, the Netherlands) and 0.5 mg/ml atropine (Pharmachemie, Haarlem, the ... reflected the human setting by using clinically relevant VT, preventing shock and gross lung histopathological changes, and compared lower VT with higher VT with respect to several endpoints of VILI In...
... longitudinal cutting and the whey being removed after draining for 45 withthe test-tube face downward (the curd remained quiescent at the bottom of the tube) ILCY was dened as the weight of the centrifuge ... ewes These correlations depend, in part, on the degree of infection within the population that we are dealing withIn fact, in spite of the strict mastitis control measures and the general high ... reduced milk amounts employed and the forced draining (centrifugation) of the cottage cheese, which captures even the smallest curd that may be lost withthe whey inthe industrial process 3.1 Environmental...
... lower than or equal to the threshold, this peak would go to the left-side child node Otherwise, the peak would go to the right-side child node After rounds of decision making, the training set ... ProteinChip array After air-drying for minutes at room temperature, protein crystals on the chip were scanned withthe ProteinChip (Model PBS IIc) reader (Ciphergen) to determine the masses and intensities ... separator for min, after which the supernatant was discarded carefully by using a pipette The magnetic beads were then washed twice with 100 μl binding buffer Then 100 μl of the diluted serum...
... for the specific MAP2 binding resides within the 32 residues (amino acids 456 487 ) of the v-KIND KIND2 domain To examine whether the MAP2 binding core site of v-KIND binds to intact MAP2 protein, ... The residues conserved across all species inthe KIND2 domain and in any other KIND domain are highlighted in gray, whereas those conserved only inthe KIND2 domain are highlighted in black The ... suggesting that the core sequence critical for the specific v-KIND KIND2 binding resides within residues 702–744 of MAP2 Residues 456 487 inthe KIND2 domain of v-KIND contain the core MAP2 binding module...
... lipoprotein protein The basic helix–loop-helix leucine zipper domain in SREBPs binds to the ligand-binding domain in LRH-1, thereby reciprocally suppressing their transcriptional activities SREBPs interfere ... interfere withthe recruitment of a coactivator of LRH-1, PGC-1a, resulting inthe inhibition of LRH-1 activity When human hepatoma HepG2 cells are cultured with an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, statin, ... quite characteristic transport pathway, in that the nuclear import occurs inthe absence of importin-a Furthermore, the dimerization of SREBPs via the leucine zipper domain is required for the interaction...
... [88,89] The overpacking was accommodated primarily by a main-chain shift of the C-terminal helix away from the helices that contain the mutations, withthe ˚ largest movements on the scale of A The ... wild type This seems to highlight the importance of packing complementarity and the stereochemical nature of the constraints on that packing However, the fact that the architecture of the repressor ... NOESY, 15N- 1H HSQC and 13C- 1H HSQC NMR spectra indicated that four of the five proteins had well-ordered and persistent main-chain and sidechain structure The best of these was shown to have a substantial...
... domain inthe processing of membrane-tethered mucins The mechanism by which the heavily glycosylated portion of these molecules is released at epithelial surfaces within the airway, the intestine ... even when substituted into another mucin The cleavage is apparently more efficient inthe hybrid mucins carrying the whole SEA domains rather than the 33 amino acid fragments encompassing the G ... previously The fragments were then cloned into the SpeI ⁄ XhoI sites of the polylinker in MUC1FDTR The remaining portions of the polylinker introduced leucine and valine residues N-terminal to the MUC3...
... against synthetic phosphopeptides corresponding to p70S6K phosphorylation sites containing phosphoThr389 (anti-pThr389), phosphoSer-411 (anti-pSer411), or phosphoThr421 together with phosphoSer424 ... of the cells with glutamine or glutamine plus leucine correlated withthe increase in p70S6K activity brought about by these amino acids (Fig 6, lanes 1–4) The data also show that increases in ... dephosphorylation Taken together, these data support the hypothesis that two phosphatases are involved, one upstream of mTOR, the activation of which is required for the activation of both ACC...
... [28] These findings agree withthe hypothesis [29] that an increase inthe mitochondrial membrane potential would slow the transport of electrons through the respiratory chain, increasing the time ... through a mechanism proposed to involve higher production of intracellular ROS [14] On the other hand, studies in cells overexpressing UCP2 have reinforced the belief that UCP2 plays a role in ... 0.05) in MDP-treated cells Interestingly, the OÀ level decreased after h of stimulation, returning almost to the resting level after h On the other hand, stimulation with MB failed to induce...
... of the quality control system upon the accumulation of misfolded proteins inthe cytoplasm suggest that this mechanism shares similar features withthe heat-shock response, which causes the upregulation ... residues of the functional domain of the HA2 subunit of thein uenza virus hemagglutinin protein and to detect conformational heterogeneity of the protein within IBs [65] NMR spectroscopy has also ... binding domain did not interfere withthe correct folding of the partner protein that aggregated in a form endowed with biological activity (in the case of DAAO this means also ability to bind...
... Several other parameters are calculated and reported, such as the average a4v in each hot-spot, the area of the aggregation profile above the HST, the total area (the HST being the zero axis) and the ... contacts higher than the cut-off) and the size of the region is greater than or equal to the size of the sliding window used Optimum values for the cut-off (threshold) and the sliding-window length ... averaged inside the window and the average is assigned to the central residue of the window The ‘smoothed’ expected values for every position of the polypeptide chain provide the final profile, which...
... Fig ITC of ATP binding to GlnK The raw data were fitted with a three-site binding model for a PII trimer The upper panel shows the raw data inthe form of the heat effect during the titration of ... binding to the His6-TnrA surface, the analyte was preincubated for on ice withthe various effector molecules as indicated, and was then injected into the sensor chip For novel reloading of the ... GlnK–TnrA interaction inthe presence of mm ATP On the other hand, 2-oxoglutarate did not in uence the GlnK–TnrA interaction, either alone, inthe absence of divalent metals, or in combination with ATP...
... Ras signaling [36–38] These systems employ the cdc25 yeast strain, which is deficient in Ras signaling and regains it withthe presence of interacting protein pairs The machinery of intrinsic cell ... that the specific interaction of the receptor withthe C-terminus of Ga is necessary to bring the two proteins into close proximity This hypothesis was applied to the analysis of protein–protein ... signaling on the basis of delay of entry into the logarithmic growth phase The agar diffusion bioassay (halo assay), in which cells are mixed with unsolidified fresh agar medium in which pheromone-spotted...
... framework with hypervariable sequences and lengths inthe six-loop CDR (Fig 1A) that bind to the antigen The first study of grafting into the CDR replaced the CDR loops in a human antibody with those ... Comparison of the X-ray crystal structures between charybdotoxin and toxin a showed the structural resemblance of the b-hairpin loop with binding function between toxins The grafting of the toxin a loop ... small binding proteins with binding function further allows us to increase the binding strength by multibinding approaches, constructing multispecific proteins from two small proteins with different...
... effective inthe binding of the ligand to the other repeats that share a common epitope Other inhibition mechanisms cannot be excluded; among these, there is the possibility that, through the effect ... note that the poor conservation of this stretch inthe other repeat units of both adhesins is consistent withthe marginal reactivity of the repeats to 15E11 Overall, these data confirm that the ... effect of the proximities of the antibody-binding and Fn-binding sites, the interaction of the repeat with Fn may be sterically hindered inthe presence of the antibody The results of this study...
... the side chain of Arg78 (Hg) and Glu82 (Hc1) and the medium-range NOE between the side chains of Asp81 (Hb) and Arg78 (Hg and Hc)] In addition, Glu82 interacts withthe side chain of Lys75 The ... against the virus, cross-reacts withthe human tissue to cause autoimmune disease An interesting observation is the structural organization of the fragment 76–84 of the Vb chain of the TCR with ... that have a single, fully conserved residue; Ô:Õ indicates that one of the HRK (histidine-arginine-lysine) groups is fully conserved; Ô.Õ indicates that one of the STP (serine-threonine- proline)...
... Twitter each coincide with only one outlying year which suggests that either they had less of an impact on writing style or, inthe case of Twitter, the change has not yet been transferred to other ... which is the number of posts the term occurred in Then, similarly to interests, we pruned each list to include the features that did not occur within +/-10 window (based on its position inthe ... position inthe list) in multiple age groups We show the top interests in each age group in Table For example, “disney” is the most popular unique interest inthe 18-22 age group with only 39 other...
... conserved, with 87% sequence similarity withthe murine homologue The murine Nbr1 gene lies head to head withthe Brca1 gene, withthe intragenic region of 289 bp suggesting the possibility of co-ordinated ... the C-terminal amino acids 370±392 (Y163) Clone Y198 encoded the full-length cDNA of the calcium and integrin binding protein (CIB) in frame withthe GAL4 AD Mapping of regions involved inthe ... describe the identi®cation of two proteins that interact with NBR1; CIB and FEZ1, which were also shown to interact with each other CIB was itself cloned by a yeast two-hybrid study using the integrin...
... investigate the thermodynamics of nucleotide binding Using this method, it is possible to determine the stoichiometry, enthalpy change, dissociation constant and thereby the change in entropy in a single ... (taking elongated shape into account) The size of the protein complex is only slightly increased when nucleotide-free or inthe presence of GTP As with hGBP5ta, the complex is increased to the ... monomers Human guanylate binding protein (hGBP5) belongs to the family of interferon-c-induced p65 GTPases, which has seven members inthe human genome [5] This family of guanylate binding proteins...
... three points The horizontal dotted line shows the concentration of non-binding RNA from Fig 4D, in which the RNA peak is clearly defined The intersection between the dashed and dotted lines indicates ... for RNA than the other The high affinity state is favored by binding of either uridine nucleotides or binding of RNA itself inthe case of BcBL1 The low affinity state is favored by the binding of ... of 0.5 mm UMP, which stimulated binding for all three binding loops, RNA binding to PyrR PyrR binding to BcBL1 resembled the binding observed for the other two binding loops The apparent dissociation...