... Reduction of the Co centre
promotes the dissociation of the lower dimethylbenz-
imidazole base of the cofactor. Consistent with this,
the crystal structure of the cobalamin-binding domain
Homocysteine
Methionine
Co
Methylcob(III)alamin
Cob(I)alamin
Primary
turnover
cycle
H
CH
3
H
4
folate
AdoHyc
Cob(I)alamin
Cob(II)alamin
H
4
folate
Co
NADPH
A
doMet
e
–
FAD
FMN
NADPH
NAD...
... refined
structure of the nuclear pore complex, enabling the
construction of the trajectories of import complexes
using gold-labeled substrates.
Nuclear export emerges as the major regulatory
mechanism of the ... independently of introns. A polarity
effect reduces nonsense-mediated mRNA sensitivity to a
region close to the 3¢-end of the mRNA.
As a next step in the st...
... near the limit of detection for this interaction, as
successive dilution of the probe soon led to loss of sig-
nal. The low yields of the AP probe and of nucleolin,
together with the inevitable ... [28,30,31]. Nevertheless, the potential ligand of
PTPr within developing muscle of the chick embryo
appears not be HSPG-related, and only interacts with
the short prot...
... A. nicotinovorans is linked
to the presence of the megaplasmid, pAO1 [20]. The recent
elucidation of the DNA sequence of pAO1 revealed the
modular organization of the enzyme genes involved in
nicotine ... mutagenesis of the
MABO
gene
The amino acid substitutions in the MABO protein were
made with the aid of the Quick Change site-directed
mutagenesis kit (Stra...
... directly
Table 1. The effect of genetic engineering of the secondary bind-
ing site of the B. subtilis and A. niger xylanases on the screening
ratio. The screening ratio is defined as the ratio of activity ... OSX.
Especially in the case of OSX, the solubilization by the
enzymes is greatly hampered upon modification of the
SBS. At the same enzyme concentration,...
... Cohen’s
discovery of the ‘tooth-lid factor’ led to the identifica-
tion of the genetic causes of certain types of human
cancers, and to the genetic classification of a variety of
tumors of apparently the same ... ligand-binding domain; a transmembrane
domain; an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain; and a
C-terminal regulatory domain [2]. The extracellular
doma...
... Sche-
matic representation of a series of C-terminal deletion mutants of Hsp105b. The asterisk in the Hsp105bmNLS mutant indicates the location
of the mutated NLS sequence. (B) The expression plasmids ... the Hsp105b expres-
sion plasmid, the activation of the hsp70 promoter by
Hsp105b was not observed (Fig. 2B). On the other
hand, after deletion of the seque...
... 7. Thermal denaturation kinetics of oxidized and reduceed apo WhiB proteins. Far-UV CD spectra of each protein showed pronounced
ellipticity at 222 nm therefore, the thermal stability of the ... C-terminal cysteine of the CXXC
motif is proline (Fig. S6). In WhiB2 the absence of
proline and therefore of the kink might not allow the
protein to attain an optimal geome...
... removed from the entire cod-
ing sequence of the MCPIP gene. The coding sequence
lacking the PIN domain was obtained in two steps. First,
the fragment of 423 bp situated in front of the PIN domain
was ... independently of the
presence of AREs (Fig. 6B, lanes 2 and 5). It is possible
that in the region located before the AREs, consisting of
343 bp of the 3...
... low, whereas
in the presence of the a-keto acid, the glutathione level
was restored.
Pyruvate is a precursor of glutathione under
normoxia
To further investigate the effects of pyruvate on gluta-
thione ... with the increased abundance of enriched lactate
and alanine. This is due to the blockade of the tricar-
boxylic acid cycle induced by lack of oxygen. We
examined...