... promotes the emergence of high local antibiotic concentrations due to the continuous friction ofthe articulating components Cement debris can be then easily removed at the time ofthe prosthesis ... removal, and insertion of a cement-coated modular prosthesis with a spacer head The cement mantle ofthe prosthesis is also antibiotic-loaded according to the sensitivity profile ofthe causative organism ... Femoral fractures at thesiteof hip spacer implantation should be treated when an unstable joint situation results, the outcome ofthe surgery is endangered or the mobilisation ofthe patient is hereby...
... MRI of her pituitary gland once again did not reveal the presence of an adenoma Given the failure of biochemical or imaging techniques to localize thesiteof excess ACTH secretion, medical therapy ... source of ectopic ACTH, the role of clinical judgment plays a significant role Ongoing monitoring ofthe patient, combined with a relevant discussion of risks and benefits of different therapeutic ... Thus there is a need for a combination of tests to help determine the cause of Cushing’s syndrome Furthermore, functional imaging may not always assist in localizing an anatomical siteof excess...
... However, although the authors report differences, these differences were minimal Only community-acquired pneumonia was associated with a higher number of NK cells as compared with the other groups, ... associated with an enhanced number of CD8+ cells The latter group was the only one with a significantly enhanced number of apoptotic CD8+ cells Reduced expression of HLA-DR on CD14+ cells was seen ... sepsis were compared with those with severe sepsis and septic shock, the number of significant differences in terms ofthe number of circulating NK cells, CD4+ T lymphocytes, CD8+ T lymphocytes, and...
... molecules ofthe asymmetric unit ofthe wild-type structure Neither the mutation nor the different crystallization conditions evoked structural differences The crystal was grown in the presence of phytate, ... well The hydrogen bond between the backbone nitrogen atom of Asp291 and the 3phosphate ofthe substrate is the only interaction with the protein backbone; all other contacts are formed using the ... optima in the acidic range They consist of two domains, a large a ⁄ b domain and a small a domain with the catalytic site at the interface ofthe two domains [4,5] HAPs can initiate hydrolysis of phytate...
... ofthe aglycone-binding site, probably subsite +1, because they influence the binding ofthe first glucose unit ofthe aglycone On the other hand, M453 may be positioned in subsite +2 because these ... influence on the glycone binding ofthe Sfbgly interactions with the aglycone Thus, the effect ofthe alteration ofthe glycone structure in the stability ofthe ESà complex (DDGà) for the wild-type ... purposes, the glucose unit forming the non-reducing end ofthe aglycone was called the ‘first glucose unit’ and the other glucose units were sequentially named in the direction ofthe reducing end of the...
... and 235 [9] Of theses residues, only Arg213 is in the vicinity ofthe active siteof RTA In order to establish the role of arginyl residues around the active siteof RTA in the binding of rRNA, ... C1 ofthe hexanucleotide is at the bottom left and the target adenine is at the top of each model The sidechains of RTA are shown in blue (A) Model has the tetraloop bound in the active siteof ... and, as such, these mutants could not be purified To assess the effect of substitutions made at each ofthe arginyl residues on catalytic activity of RTA, the ability of each ofthe purified RTA...
... as a consequence ofthe mutagenic replacements Effects ofthe His120Asn and His145Asn mutations on the affinity of metal binding to arginase II To further examine the effects ofthe His120fiAsn and ... for the differences between the active sites of this enzyme and arginase I In spite ofthe relatively low agmatinase activity ofthe Asn149Asp variant, it is clear that the interactions of arginase ... inactive in the absence of added Mn2+ At the optimum pH, the Km for agmatine (2.5 ± 0.2 mm) was very close to the Km ofthe wild-type arginase for arginine However, the hydrolytic activity of Asn149Asp...
... detected by the PDH assay The interaction of E1 (a2b2) with the PSBD was unaffected by any ofthe mutations in E1a (Fig 4) Therefore, any effects ofthe mutations on the catalytic activities ofthe PDH ... properly as a lid for the active site, thereby granting easier access for the cofactor ThDP to its binding siteThe lower thermal stability ofthe mutant E1s and the increased Vmax in the DCPIP assay, ... affecting the efficacy ofthe recognition ofthe tethered lipoyl domain by E1, an essential prelude to reductive acetylation ofthe pendant lipoyl group [5,9,39] The damaging effects of mutations in the...
... indicated by the MD simulations ofthe modelled ternary hGK–Glc– ATP complex In the final structure ofthe simulations, the interactions ofthe adenosine moiety were similar to those observed in the binary ... ATP-binding site in the MD simulated model structure ofthe binary hGK–ATP complex and the domain motion induced by ATP binding to the hGK apoenzyme (A) Close-up view ofthe ATPbinding site in the MD ... active site loop and partial closure ofthe interdomain active site cleft The modelled structure ofthe hGK–ATP binary complex shows the residue contacts involved in ATP binding at the active site...
... the I2BS stereospecificities would be useful Interestingly, the lowest-energy orientation for each ofthe three ligands in the large active siteof MAO-A put them in the middle ofthe active site ... and the values for 2-BFI and idazoxan are given in Table Evidence for the proximity of these ligands to the flavin in MAO-A comes from the influence ofthe ligand on the redox properties ofthe ... observed The transfer of electrons from the amine to the flavin requires a catalytic interaction, so the nitro˚ genous group of agmatine must be within A of N5 ofthe isoalloxazine ring ofthe flavin...
... 50% of them clustered together in front ofthe rectus (re)-face ofthe isoalloxazine ring ofthe FAD cofactor This substrate location is shown in Fig 2A, which includes the 10 molecules of veratryl ... with the hydroxyl group in Ca, representative ofthe range of AAO substrates [9,19,33] Most of these alcohols docked in front ofthe re-side ofthe isoalloxazine ring of FAD [34], with the benzylic ... oxidase, the flavin domain of cellobiose dehydrogenase and cholesterol oxidase The positions ofthe conserved histidine and histidine ⁄ asparagine residues near the FAD isoalloxazine ring of four of the...
... opposite end ofthe barrel to the active site has weaker electron density and the temperature factors ofthe ˚ atoms in this segment are 31 A2, 2.35 times above the average B for the structure The ... formed between the enzyme and Tris are the same as observed previously [16] In the Glu-A complex there are two acarbose molecules: one in the active site and the other on the sur˚ face ofthe enzyme ... however, they stack nicely against the aromatic rings of Tyr351 and Trp139, respectively The distances between the sugars and the aromatic rings of ˚ the two residues are 4 A The mode of acarbose...
... positioned in the ÔupÕ position rows and shows that in the presence ofthe substrate, rotation of Asp142 towards Glu144 lowers the pKa ofthe latter by 0.8 pH units The calculated effects ofthe D140N ... for the position of residue 142 [34] The pKa calculations indicate that the only candidate for a residue determining the basic arm ofthe pH-activity profile ofthe D142N mutant is Glu144 The ... these residues are not described well and there is no example of mutational analysis of all of these residues in the same enzyme To obtain an insight into how the many conserved residues in the...
... [20] The midpoint potentials of these clusters are pH independent Hence, the properties ofthe iron–sulfur clusters present in the catalytic core of complex I seem to differ from those ofthe ... for the enzyme from the EchF8 mutant in Fig To determine if the mutations had turned the spin ofthe ground state ofthe cluster(s) of subunit EchF to S ¼ ⁄ 2, EPR spectra were recorded in the ... below 15 K a twofold splitting ofthe Nia–L signal was observed due to the interaction ofthe Ni-based unpaired electron with the S ¼ ½ system ofthe reduced proximal [4Fe-4S] cluster The temperature...
... radius ofthe protein, as the major diameter ofthe dimer is predicted to be given by the distance between the carboxy termini of both monomers (from the lower left to the upper right of Fig ... HDC catalytic center at the interface between the monomers (Fig 1), as is the case of DDC [18] One ofthe monomers (monomer A) would contain the major part ofthe catalytic site pocket, including ... postulated the hypothesis that the observed high degree of rotation ofthe torsion angle v induced by the presence ofthe substrate could produce a remarkable conformational change in the whole...
... required for the correct orientation and stabilization ofthe deprotonated thiolate anion in the active siteofthe enzyme [20] On the basis of protein sequence similarity, active site residue ... Lys117 and Val172 in the GSTU2 isoform, all ofthe mismatches being located in the H-sites ofthe enzymes [11] As long as the enzymes were expressed in vitro and purified, they exhibited different ... as the substitution ofthe chlorine atom with the more electronegative fluorine in the CDNB molecule did not affect the kcat values Altogether, these results are consistent with the idea that the...
... that these residues stabilize the distortion ofthe NAG3 residue In these interactions, we particularly focused on the Trp664 residue, which is located at the bottom ofthe active site cleft The ... conformational changes, but ofthe removal of negative charge at these residues Conformation of chito-oligosaccharides bound to the active site cleft For the structural determination ofthe AD2–substrate ... Stereo figures ofthe model ofthe bound substrate in the AD2 E526A mutant (A) and D524A mutant (B) The structures of bound sugars and the side-chains of three acidic residues in the conserved...
... glucose ofthe bglucan substrate in the )1 subsite at the bottom ofthe active site pocket [20] The entrance to the active site pocket of Exg is flanked by a pair of phenylalanyl residues, Phe144 ... that the Phe144:Phe258 pairing that lines opposite sides ofthe entrance to the pocket was particularly relevant because it largely defined the +1 subsite Indeed, the importance ofthe +1 subsite ... seen for the Phe triad in the structure ofthe mutant Exg:L3 complex Neither ofthe two sugar residues interacting with the Trp triad overlaps with the sugar seen in the Phe-Phe clamp of Exg Structural...
... group in the proximity ofthe oxyanion can be found in the rest ofthe Ntn hydrolases [3] From another point of view, the hydrogen bond between the oxyanion and the aNH3+ of SerB1 resembles the one ... chain carbonyl group of AsnB241 The main chain carbonyl group of GlnB23 closely interacts with the oxygen atom in the locality ofthe nucleofuge in the structural analog ofthe TI These experimentally ... [15] On the other hand, the hydrolysis rate varies with the substituent on the amino moiety ofthe substrate, confirming that the formation of acyl enzyme (AE) is the rate-limiting step ofthe reaction...
... features ofthe consensus motif into the Zm-p60.1 scaffold, an analysis of structural and catalytic properties ofthe mutants, and simulations ofthe substrate–enzyme interactions ofthe wild-type ... analysis of plant b-glucosidases to obtain insights into the evolution ofthe molecular sites involved in the two modes of aglycone binding The amino acid sequence of Zm-p60.1 was compared with the ... cytokinin-O-glucosides are natural substrates for both ofthe two b-glucosidases, Zm-p60.1 and Bgl4:1, but the architecture of their sites that recognize the aglycone moieties of these substances differs distinctly,...