... see[11,12]). At the renal epithelium, small peptides arereabsorbed from the glomerular filtrate into the cells by the subtypes PEPT1 and PEPT2. PEPT2 is alsoexpressed in other tissues, such as ... as the differencein the currents measured in the presence and absence ofsubstrate.AcknowledgementsThis study was supported by Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft grant BR 2430 ⁄ 2-1 and bythe ... at the intestinal epithelium. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether anserine is a substrateof the H+⁄ peptide cotransporters 1 and 2 (PEPT1 and PEPT2). We firstassessed the...
... Kmvalues is exclu-sively displayed bythe tetramer forms, and low-efficiency kinetics with high Kmvalues is displayed by the dimer forms. These observations strengthen the previous hypothesis that ... lgặmL)1indicate thatdissociation of the tetramer to the dimer is a slowlyprogressing process. This is supported bythe kineticbehaviour of the recombinant enzyme as shown inFig. 5D, where the enzyme ... kDa (see Table 1). Therefore, it can be concludedthat the nature of the base is insignificant for the tetra-merization effect. The next goal was to determine the role played by the sugar and phosphate...
... proteinswithin the cell. We found this translocation to bedependent on the final amino acids of the receptorprotein. Similar to the other PDZ domain interactionsthat have been shown to be abolished by ... signal is impaired.We finally examined the effect of deletion of the components of the PDZ binding motif on the signal-ing properties of the receptor in Ca2+imagingexperiments. Truncation of the ... summary, when the interaction betweenMUPP1 and OR2AG1 is inhibited by over-expressing the interacting PDZ domains, the resulting response ofOR2AG1 to odorant is modified in that the rapiddecay...
... which is likely to pre-dispose to an irregular rejoining. Given high fluidityand self-organization, one speculation is that the struc-tural essence of the nuclear foci could be illustrated by the ... synapsis of the complexes promotes the juxtaposition between the opposing DNA ends,prior to their processing and ligation [44]. However,this scheme cannot fully explain the evidence for the in ... addition to the nuc-leosome component H2AX, the change in the phosphorylated state of histone H1 would regulate the aggregative nature of the array of nucleosomes.Concerning DNA-PKcs, the results...
... fgl2 mRNA. The left side of the figure isthe sequence ladderusing the same primer and the pM166 clone astemplate. Arrow indicates the nucleotide that is matched to the band present in the primerextension ... sufficientfor the basal expression of the fgl2 gene. This finding is consistent with the observation that fgl2 is constitutivelyexpressed in cultured endothelial cells, as well as in the primary endothelial ... in some cells and tissues is known to play this role, suchas in the CNS [9]. The biological importance of constitutivefgl2 expression is exemplified bythe observation that the fgl2–/–mouse...
... or even two residues, but is most likely accomplished by the concerted effects of a combination of key residues.Further analysis of these and other mutant SODs is currently underway.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe ... Fentonreaction with the iron metal at the active site. The presenceof iron is therefore a prerequisite for its effect and suggeststhat the absence of reactivity with the MnSOD mutants is due to the lack ... identified to distinguish between FeSOD andMnSOD [7]. The position of the glutamine residue, which is structurally equivalent in the enzymes, is contributed by the N domain of FeSODs (Q69) and the C...
... egg extract. The mature eggs of m ost vertebrates stay at the m etaphaseof the second meiotic division until they meet sperm. In thatphase, the nuclear envelope is dispersed in the cytop lasm ... that the binding of the RS region to chromatinDNA is superior to the binding of the NM region to the chromatin p rotein because the binding mode of NK,which contains the NM and RS regions, is ... 4nM(data not shown). These resultsindicate that the increase in the affinity of NK to chromatin is an ATP-dependent reaction, and is caused by a kinase(s)in the c ytosol. Then, authentic p rotein...
... the autophago-some. The machinery controlling formation of the autophagosome involves two ubiquitin-like conjuga-tion systems. The first isthe conjugation of Atg12 toAtg5 [15]. The other is ... GFP–LC3-positivepunctae. This result was surprising, as the upregulationof autophagy by starvation has been reported in vivo[19], in isolated primary cells [33], and in other celllines [52] [14,20]. This discrepancy ... in HeLa cells is bound toVps34. These diverging reports raise the possibility thatrheostatic control of autophagy by Beclin 1–Bcl)2inter-action is not a universal mechanism. F urther experimentsare...
... while the fragments amplified by the Fig. 4. The transcription of a-F1-ATPase is controlled by a cassette containing the GAGA and Adf-1 elements. (A) Sequence of the )146/+94(relative to the main ... as established in this study. The relative promoter activities of the constructs measured in the luciferase assay are indicatedon the right by black boxes. The luciferase activity of the vector ... elementscritical for the activation of the a-F1-ATPase promoter.Computer analysis revealed the presence of two DNAsequence motifs in this region potentially recognized by the GAGA factor (GAF) and the alcohol...
... recruitment, due to the absence of the NTD. This might be overcome by the overexpression of cofactors. To test this hypothesis, weanalyzed the effects of two AR cofactors known tointeract with the AR LBD. ... observed. The important role of the NTD, which is absent in AR45, has been documented by severalstudies [40–42]. The hormone-dependent interactionbetween this region and the LBD of the AR is essen-tial ... primer specic for the extreme 5Â region wasthen used together with a primer recognizing the 3Â endof the AR coding part to amplify the complete codingregion of this novel AR form. The deduced amino...
... mutagenesis of the N-terminus of the V1aR; this revealed that a single residue(Arg46) located in the distal segment of this domain is critical for high affinity agonist binding but not antag-onist ... than the wildtypeV1aR but once the agonist bound, the receptor was morelikely to signal. This dual role suggests that binding of the agonist releases the Arg46-mediated constraint on the ground ... rescued by a chimeric construct in which the N-terminus of the OTR is replaced with the corresponding sequence of the V1aR [10]. The role of the N-terminus has beenaddressed recently by alanine-scanning...
... that the desABCD cluster is expressed as a polycistronictranscript. Expression of the four genes is coordinatelyregulated by iron limitation, as shown bythe RT-PCRanalysis, and there is overlapping ... and its regulation is probably mediated by a cascade mechanism, ratherthan by direct interaction of DmdR1.On the other hand, the viuB gene (SCO2781) wasnot transcribed under the conditions tested ... con-tains the repressor-binding site, is boxed, and the ribosome-binding site is underlined. The ATG is shown in bold letters. The reported tran-scription start site of the S. pilosus desA promoter is...