... reasoned that genes involved in innate defense against bacteria outside CF might also be relevant in the context of CF They examined CF patients for alleles of the mannose-binding lectin (MBL) gene ... expression, protein processing, protein turnover or CFTR activity could all impact on disease In the airway, genes modifying the downstream effects of CFTR mutations, such as infection susceptibility, ... and basic research regarding CF is consequently focusing on the airways, but identifying effective sites for intervention remains elusive (see [3]) Searching for modifiergenes of pulmonary disease...
... NM_014393 ▲ 1.52 regulation of transcription protein binding double-stranded RNA binding DNA binding ▼ 5.02 protein binding NM_001149 NM_004242 ▲- increased ▼- decreased Validation of microarray ... ethanol-induced expression and activation of cytokines and chemokines in monocytes and macrophages (including Kupffer cells) [41, 42], and ethanol-induced mucosal injury in the upper gastrointestinal ... Interestingly, HMGN3 has been found to be associated with resistance against anticancer drugs including vinblastine, topotecan, paclitaxel and doxorubincin in human hepatocellular carcinoma derived...
... transcription terminator The resulting fragment only contains the initial 67 bp and the final 68 bp of the pur4 coding sequence It was inserted in plasmid pGM9 The resulting construct was introduced, ... Chemical structure of A201A and puromycin In actinomycetes, it is well established that genes implicated in antibiotic biosynthesis, including those encoding self-resistance, are clustered [10,11] ... Possible ribosomal binding sites are indicated by dotted lines Putative translation initiation and termination codons are in bold letters The start and direction of each ORF are indicated by horizontal...
... described for the amino acid-dependent regulation of several genes, including Chop, Atf3, Cat-1 and insulinlike growth factor binding protein (Igfbp1), making it possible that amino acid availability ... regulated in wild-type cells For example, the genes involved in amino acid metabolism were not regulated by amino acid starvation in GCN2) ⁄ ) cells, whereas enrichment for the genes involved in cholesterol ... is directly involved in the regulation of amino acid and protein metabolism, as many of the genes involved in these processes are not regulated in GCN2) ⁄ ) cells These results are in good agreement...
... to integrate the Mo-MCD cofactor into the corresponding apoprotein In a first attempt to functionally express genes coding for a Mo-MCD-containing hydroxylase in heterologous hosts, the iorAB genes ... Brevundimonas diminuta 7, coding for isoquinoline 1-oxidoreductase, were cloned in P putida KT2440 and in the quinoline degrading strain, P putida 86 However, the level of Ior synthesis was very low in both ... FAD) GMP was not present in any Qor extract, indicating that the host strains did not incorporate Mo-MGD, or free GMP, into the cofactor binding domain of the Qor protein Similar amounts of CMP...
... homozygous individuals in CTB affected subject group In the present study the genotype frequencies of a number of polymorphic genes coding for cytokines or for cytokine receptors have been investigated ... production in response to culture filtrate proteins in comparison with endemic healthy controls (3) In a TNF-¿ (-238 and -308) gene polymorphism analysis that was carried out by Selvaraj et al in an Indian ... 3.75 fold increased risk of developing tuberculosis, in contrast IL-10 polymorphism did not affect susceptibility to tuberculosis (5) Bellawy et al have investigated IL-1 cluster gene in a group...
... details Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2Prince Sultan Advanced Technologies Research Institute/STC-Chair, King Saud University, ... against the change in noise model Note that the contribution of this article is pertaining to the features extraction stage; hence the results obtained are independent of the classifier being ... applications in Proceedings of ICACT 2007, Gangwon-Do, 1, 9–12, February 2007 K Maliatsos, S Vassaki, Ph Constantinou, Interclass and intraclass modulation recognition using the wavelet transformation in...
... sets, that is, the set of genes involved in a cyclic process and the set of noncycle-involved genes recognized in biological experiments The cycle-involved genes are used to initialize the proposed ... proteins or are involved in ribosome biogenesis It has been verified that ribosome biogenesis consumes up to 80% of proliferating energy, and it is linked to cell cycle in metazoan cells However, in ... as Algorithm Lines to accept inputs and initialize the target cyclic gene set with the spectral analysis results and the prior cycle-involved genes Inside them lines to exclude genes whose peak...
... be increased beyond 20%, possibly affecting growth and causing leaves to fall If vulnerability in seedling stems is similar to that in petioles, then winter freezing and thawing will further increase ... were germinated in November 1990 to provide seedlings for use in 1992 and 1993 In addition, plants of Q robur, Q petraea and Q cerris, purchased in root trainers, were potted for use in 1992 and ... to a general weakening of trees (OEPP/EPPO, 1990) An increased incidence in eastern Europe in the 1980s has been of concern following the 1976 drought, affecting Quercus robur in particular Although...
... reading of grade 2–4 in at least three joints of the fingers OA was defined to be symmetrical if at least two symmetrical pairs of joints (the same joint in both hands) were affected Our findings ... hand OA In addition, our findings suggest a detrimental effect of low dietary calcium intake on OA The findings remain to be weighted in future studies Further studies into mechanisms underlying ... consequences, however, since it is located in intron and is not affecting any splicing site or transcription factor binding site Moreover, although the TaqI polymorphism is located in the coding sequence...
... modulator in OA by fine-tuning transforming growth factor beta in the repair of damaged cartilage, this effect will be limited to some ethnic groups or environmental settings Competing interests ... aspartic acid repeat polymorphism in asporin inhibits chondrogenesis and increases susceptibility to osteoarthritis Nat Genet 2005, 37:138-144 Loughlin J: Polymorphism in signal transduction is a major ... asporin a newly discovered member of the leucine-rich repeat protein family J Biol Chem 2001, 276:12212-12221 Mustafa Z, Dowling B, Chapman K, Sinsheimer JS, Carr A, Loughlin J: Investigating...
... following SOX9 transduction Interestingly, SPINT1 was also significantly upregulated in the chondrocytes (2.1-fold), which differed from the finding in the SW1353 cells APOD was Available online ... calcium-binding protein A1 (S100A1) NM_006271 8.84 NA Sushi-repeat-containing protein X chromosome (SRPX) NM_006307 3.47 NA Cytokine receptor-like factor (CRLF1) NM_004750 3.31 NA Cartilage linking ... protein component of low density lipoprotein in human plasma [34], and is reported to be a transit protein in the skin [35] It may therefore have some function in cartilage ECM The finding that...
... major role in RA angiogenesis Angiogenesis is stimulated in RA by the increased metabolic demand of the pathologically active synovial tissues [1,14-16] Potentially, inhibition of this angiogenesis ... supported by studies in animal models in which injection of ανβ3 antagonists has shown inhibition of neovascularisation and attenuation of joint inflammation [18] A previous genome-wide linkage scan suggested ... minor allele under-represented in the case groups in all three cohorts (Table 1) However, the allele distribution in the Oxford RA cohort differs in that the minor allele is over-represented in...
... ITRs modify protein sequences In agreement with an active role in modifying protein sequences, we found that 50% of the detected ITRs occur in the coding sequence of genes lying in SDs (Table 2) ... proteins, the VCX/Y proteins, the nuclear pore interacting proteins, and the prostateovary-testis-endometrium proteins In this latter case, the formation of an amino acid repeat is involved in ... represent an innovation in terms of amino acid composition within the primate lineage In all seven cases ITR modifications occur in the last coding exon, thus producing an accretion of the protein sequences...
... of SA and induction of JA defense genes; yellow boxes, genes involved in JA biosynthesis; light blue boxes, genes involved in ET biosynthesis; pink boxes, genes involved in ET signaling van Verk ... the pink and green dot almost in the middle of the network), are in between the super cluster with the genes encoding proteins involved in SA signaling (red dots), Flg22-initiated MAPK kinase ... colored components of the signaling pathways indicated in Figure The genesin white boxes indicate co-expressed genes with at least one edge to the kinase genesin the colored boxes Exploration...
... other signaling molecules, playing either direct or indirect roles Concerning hormones, parthenocarpic fruit development in some species is induced by applications of auxin or cytokinins (CKs), ... expression, being induced in LS and repressed in LM (group H) In addition to the 108 genes more abundantly transcribed in ES (group B), 22 were also expressed in EM (group G), while were abundant in ES ... transfer protein (LTP), ctg1026, coding for a pathogenesis related (PR) protein, ctg1540, coding for a prunin, and ctg3563, coding for a late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) protein, have been chosen...
... protein 2) Protein kinase family protein IQD10 (IQ-domain 10); calmodulin binding RIC2 (ROP-INTERACTIVE CRIB MOTIF-CONTAINING PROTEIN 2) Protein kinase family protein Rho GTPase activating protein, ... domain-containing protein / MATH domain-containing protein Nodulin MtN3 family protein GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) family protein Hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein family protein Unknown ... Glycine-rich protein GLP10 (GERMIN-LIKE PROTEIN 10); manganese ion binding / metal ion binding / nutrient reservoir AGP4 (ARABINOGALACTAN-PROTEIN 4) FLA15 (FASCICLIN-LIKE ARABINOGALACTAN PROTEIN...
... lines differed from gene to gene ranging from 128 lines (64%) in ScCbf11 to 198 (98%) in ScVrn1 Missing amplification products in individual lines were most likely the result of SNPs/Indels in ... are significantly higher in lines harbouring the vrn1 winter allele than in lines harbouring the Vrn1 spring allele [19] It remains unknown how the Cbf family members interact with Vrn1 under ... Responsive (COR) genes through binding to cis-elements in the promoters of COR genes under cold stress in Arabidopsis [12] More than 70 proteins encoded by COR genes are involved in direct response...
... multiple alignment In bold, residues directly involved in enzyme activity DBS, DNA binding site dBS, dNTP binding site NNBS, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor binding site AS, active ... against the reference HIV-1 POL protein in the NCBI Conserved Domain Database (CDD) with a cut-off of 1e-85 Within this domain, nine subregions were mapped that were associated with DNA binding ... targeting a single region resulted in rapid emergence of resistance by means of selecting subdominant variants -those that remained untargeted [28] Achieving a higher silencing could be obtained...
... containing genes of interest involved in conifer defence First, many conifer defence genes exist as closely related members of large families For example, genes encoding the oleoresin producing ... binding site analysis In addition, several cis-acting elements previously identified in other plant species to be involved in responses to giberellin (GARE, TAACAGA; Pbox; GCCTTTTGAGT), auxin ... loblolly pine CYP720B1 in diterpene resin acid formation [20,21] Primers used for gene-specific screening for TPS (3CAR)or P450 (CYP720B4)-containing BAC clones were assessed in silico against other...