... characterization of a JC virus pentanucleotide repeat element binding protein: cellular nucleic acid bindingprotein Virus Res 58, 73–82 Flink IL & Morkin E (1995) Alternatively processed isoforms of cellular ... properties of a variety of proteins with common biochemical activities, such as the binding to single-stranded nucleic acids and the remodelling of their secondary structures A model involving CNBP ... Regardless of the evaluated CNBP form or the nature of the analysed probe, band-shift intensity increased along with the protein increasing amount Nevertheless, no significant differences in binding...
... mutant protein, but is calorimetrically silent with the K22V and K22E mutant proteins This was interpreted as a lack of fosfomycin binding to these mutant proteins [12] Bindingof fosfomycin to ... enthalpies ofbinding and stoichiometries were determined from the binding isotherm by fitting a : binding model to the data using the software provided by the manufacturer Results Reaction of fosfomycin ... chain of K22 participates in fosfomycin binding, thus providing a rationale for the loss of fosfomycin binding to the K22V and K22E mutant proteins However, two other positively charged amino...
... physical interactions between receptor proteins [51,52] Results Radioligand binding assay As shown in Table 1, the binding parameters obtained for dopamine D1 receptor and its mutant indicate ... role of certain amino acid residues in the formation of noncovalent complexes between protein molecules was highlighted Electrostatic interactions occur between an epitope containing mainly two ... its receptor trafficking properties The binding experiments also pointed to a decrease in the density of the D2R variants in the cellular membrane; the number of D2 receptor binding sites decreased...
... interaction of HSP70 with Smac but requires the ATP -binding domain of the protein However, it ATP -binding domain of HSP70 inhibits Smac release remains to be determined how these findings are connected ... ATP -binding domain of HSP70 is critical for sequestering AIF in the cytosol [29] In the present study, we demonstrated that the ATP -binding domain of HSP70 was indispensable for inhibition of ... Jiang et al The ATP -binding domain of HSP70 is important for the interaction of HSP70 with apoptosis signalregulating kinase (ASK1) and the inhibition of ASK1-induced apoptosis invitro [28] Furthermore,...
... b-chain in immobilized C4BP In uence ofprotein S bindingof monoclonal antibodies To investigate whether protein S and MoAb 15/ MoAb 44 had overlapping binding sites on the b chain, the following ... sterical hindrance between protein S and MoAb 44 Discussion The binding site for protein S on C4BP is predominantly contained in CCP1 of the b-chain [9] A key binding surface for protein S involves ... The bindingof both MoAb 15 and MoAb 44 to the b-chain was Ó FEBS 2003 The role of CCP2 of the C4BP b-chain inbindingofprotein S (Eur J Biochem 270) 97 Fig SDS/PAGE analysis of recombinant...
... damage invitro Cellular stress protein responses play a key role in minimizing cell injury and maintaining tissue integrity in response to damaging levels of an environmental agent As such, the integrity ... SEP53 protein, (C) SEP70 protein, (D) AG-2 protein and (E) loading controls for squamous and Barrett’s biopsies (ink stain immunoblot to normalize for protein loading), as indicated (F) Immunostaining ... plated in media containing Geneticin to select for cell containing vector DNA (as in Fig 5A,G) After three weeks, the number of cells was determined by fixing cells and staining with dye Individual...
... existence of a Rho -binding domain (HR-1) in the amino terminal part of the protein suggests an implication in transduction pathways involving the Rho proteins By use of the two-hybrid system and ofin ... the PDZ domains existing in a wide variety of proteins The protein ends by a potential PDZ binding domain motif (SSWY) and contains at least two potential phosphorylation sites (indicated by ... form of RhoB The presence of an HR1 domain and the high degree of homology with Rhophilin in the NH2 part of the protein suggested that p76RBE could be able to interact with a small G protein of...
... Trapp RG: Free protein S levels are elevated in familial C4b -binding protein deficiency Blood 1990, 76:2527-2529 Hessing M, van TVC, Bouma BN: The binding site of human C4b -binding protein on complement ... control protein domains Human C4bp has been shown to bind other compounds including protein S (β chain), C-reactive protein, serum amyloid protein, soluble CD40 ligand, CD40 (α chain), heparin (α ... protein: targeting of the inhibitory activity of C4b -binding protein J Immunol 2006, 176:7612-7620 Webb JH, Blom AM, Dahlback B: The bindingofprotein S and the protein S-C4BP complex to neutrophils...
... persist in their reservoirs without causing disease The characterization of virus proteins can be unreliable if only the proteinof interest is studied on its own The study of proteins in the ... deletion in ORF 7b as shown in Figure (B) Plaque assay using crystal violet stain and immunofocus assay using a polyclonal protein patient serum reacting predominantly against the N protein (anti-N) ... C-terminus of ORF 7b As shown in Figure 6A, a protein band corresponding to the predicted molecular weight of the 7b protein (5.3 kDa) was specifically detected in rSCV7bflaginfected cells using...
... persist in their reservoirs without causing disease The characterization of virus proteins can be unreliable if only the proteinof interest is studied on its own The study of proteins in the ... deletion in ORF 7b as shown in Figure (B) Plaque assay using crystal violet stain and immunofocus assay using a polyclonal protein patient serum reacting predominantly against the N protein (anti-N) ... C-terminus of ORF 7b As shown in Figure 6A, a protein band corresponding to the predicted molecular weight of the 7b protein (5.3 kDa) was specifically detected in rSCV7bflaginfected cells using...
... decreased binding to FT ZP In line with this argumentation, such decreased binding capacity of the ZP may reside in changes of the structure of the ZP that occur during unprotected freezing and/ ... in viability between fresh and FT spermatozoa may explain the differences in ZP binding registered However, the lack ofbinding to FT ZP is mainly due to the ZP and not to the spermatozoa, since ... spermatozoa bound to the ZP ofinvitro matured oocytes (Table 1, Figure 1) The percentage ofbindingof electroejaculated spermatozoa was higher ininvitro matured ZP than in the immature, FT ZP...
... lipopolysaccharide -binding protein, interleukin-6 and C-reactive proteinin community-acquired infections and sepsis: a prospective study Crit Care 2006, 10:R53 39 Rintala EM, Aittoniemi J, Laine S, Nevalainen ... JR: The role of lipopolysaccharide -binding proteinin modulating the innate immune response Microbes Infect 2006, 8:946-952 Gendrel D, Raymond J, Coste J, Moulin F, Lorrot M, Guộrin S, Ravilly ... abovementioned findings in previous studies Diagnosis of bacteraemia at the present time is a relatively slow process, requiring up to several days of culturing/processing in the laboratory of microbiology...
... IgG4 -binding proteins in soybean by immunoblotting with sera from 30 soybean-sensitive patients [88] Ten proteins were detected as IgE -binding proteins and proteins as IgG4 -binding proteins, ... been identified in a number ofstudiesin soybean-sensitive patients These include include b-conglycinin, glycinin, soy vacuolar protein, Kunitz trypsin inhibitor, and other proteins [83,87-89] ... amino acid score of 1.0, which is the same as that of casein and egg protein [28] However, soy proteins contain low methionine/glycine and lysine/arginine ratios compared to casein [29] Soy protein...
... phthalates were detected predominantly in indoor air samples.93) The dominant path of phthalates intake was the ingestion of foodstuffs compared to inhalation of indoor air by children.94) n-Tetradecane ... can meet local needs in dealing with SHS.152) CONCLUSION Healthy indoor air is a fundamental right for people studying in schools, working inof ces and living in residences Indoor air quality ... combustion gases in residences and buildings CO is well-known to cause poisoning by CO-hemoglobin (Hb) formation, inhibiting oxygen utilization by internal organs NO2 sources in buildings include gas...
... neighbouring amino acids also in uence binding, and a similar motif required for VCP bindingin gp78 tolerates substitution of these two arginines We map the site ofbindingof Ube4b to the N-domain of ... EDEEE(192–196) of VCP is required for binding Individual point mutations in this VCP sequence did not alter bindingof WldS (Fig 4B) Mutually exclusive bindingof VBM-containing proteins to VCP As ... identified arginine-rich motifs in three further ubiquitinmetabolizing proteins, the zinc finger deubiquitinating protein OUT domain-containing protein (OTUD7a) [29], and the ligases Smad ubiquitination...
... VH2-N) which we previously showed does contain an actinbinding domain (this actin -binding domain has not yet been mapped) [23] We name the actin -binding domain that we have identified VH2-C and VH2-N ... Vrp1p domain structure Schematic of Vrp1p showing the Vrp1p truncations and mutant proteins used in this study and their various known domains: actin -binding domains, Hof one trap (HOT) domain, and ... cluster interacts with G-actin, but not F-actin An alignment of the various known and putative actin -binding sequences in Vrp1p is shown in Fig 4A Vrp1p-WH2-1 is the WH2 domain at the N-terminus of...
... determination of the BcZBP ˚ protein at a resolution of 1.8 A, provides important clues towards understanding the enzyme function, including the identification of a zinc -binding site within a potential ... the amino acid level The protein encoded by bc1534 is classified as a LmbE-related protein and hereafter will be referred to as BcZBP (B cereus zinc -binding protein) The N-terminal part of BcZBP ... 15 Chothia C (1975) Structural invariants inprotein folding Nature 254, 304–308 16 Eisenberg D & McLachlan D (1986) Solvation energy inprotein folding and binding Nature 319, 199–203 17 Fadouloglou...
... level of proteinase(s) responsible for the processing of IGFBP-rP1 To determine the class of the IGFBP-rP1-cleaving proteinase, OVISE cells were cultured in the presence of various proteinase inhibitors ... the production of the cleaved form of IGFBP-rP1 (25 kDa), whereas a cysteine proteinase inhibitor (leupeptin), an aspartic proteinase inhibitor (pepstatin) and a metalloproteinase inhibitor (N-(R)(2-(hydroxyaminocarbonyl)methyl)-4-methylpentanoyl-l3-(2¢-naphthyl)alaninyl-l-alanine ... in kDa Analysis of serine proteinases secreted by various cell lines Trypsin-type serine proteinases present in the conditioned media of the nine cell lines were analyzed by gelatin zymography...
... domain extending into the intermembrane space In the third mutant (V79-G35) one might expect a protein to be inserted into the inner membrane, but it is missing a major portion of the domain localized ... protein is not assembled into the human complex I Inspection of the amino acid sequences of the known mammalian ESSS proteins reveals a high degree of conservation in the C-terminal domain (including ... (including the transmembrane region), but a significant number of differences in the N-terminal domain (located on the matrix side) It is likely that the N-terminal domain is involved inprotein protein...
... Dudones, L.P & Bose, R.N (2002) HPLC determination ofbindingof cisplatin to DNA in the presence of biological thiols: implications of dominant platinum-thiol binding to its anticancer action Pharm ... as, in the present case, the GSH–benzoacronycine adducts reduce the cytotoxic action of the drug It should be included in the second group of compounds for which the covalentbinding to GSH inactivates ... cytotoxic action of this DNA minor-groove -binding agent is significantly enhanced in the presence of GSH and this effect is believed to originate from the formation of GSH–brostallicin covalent adducts...