... we
investigate event discovery using a corpus of news
articles relating to the recent Iraqi War where the tar-
get event is the “Death” event type. Figure 1 shows
a sample article depicting such events.
The ... text, extract the relevant arguments of the
event, and represent the extracted information into
a structured form (Grishman, 1997). The types of
events to ex...
... in
3.7% (v/v) formaldehyde in NaCl/P
i
for 5 min at room
temperature. For experiments at 4 °C, the protocol was
the same except that all incubations were performed at
4 °C until the end of the ®xation ... not alter the uptake of the Tat CPP. These
biochemical evidences con®rmed a pathway for the e ntry of
the Tat peptide unrelated to the HS proteoglycan receptors.
Inte...
... to another confor-
mation to open the T2 channel (Fig. 3B). On the basis
of protein structure libraries, the ‘open conformation’
would be the second most favoured conformation. On
the other hand, ... are
therefore EPR silent, although these coppers cause
absorbance at 330 nm. The loops surrounding the T1
copper form the phenolic substrate-binding site of the
enzyme, wherea...
... were
recalculated. The normalized B factors from apo importin-a
were then subtracted from those in the importin-a:CLIC4
NLS structure, and the difference was again normalized
using the equation above. The final ... competes for the importin-a binding site,
reducing binding affinity for cargo proteins and help-
ing to facilitate the release of the cargo within the
nucleu...
... groups: one with almost the same
activity in the Mn- and Fe-forms, and the other exhib-
iting low activity in the Fe-form and high activity in
Mn-form. ApeSOD belongs to the latter group [16].
This ... perspective because the ter-
tiary structure of ApeSOD has not been elucidated.
In the present study, for the first time, we describe the
crystal structure of ApeSOD. In...
... wild-type
and mutant structure are in the same range as the dif-
ferences between the two molecules of the asymmetric
unit of the wild-type structure. Neither the mutation
nor the different crystallization ... protein. The
atomic displacement factors of the PhyK structure are
smaller for the a ⁄ b domain than for the a domain.
This has also been observed for o...
... important for the
activity. Given the 3D structure of the HtA active site,
and the interactions between side chains, we propose
that D40, H42, R95 and F126 also form part of it. As
in other ribotoxins, ... 0.98 A
˚
for all backbone atoms), and the glo-
bal fold is similar to that reported for cytotoxins.
However, differences can be found in the conformation
of loops, the...
... identical
residues. The topological equivalence of the four
TTSPs forms the basis for the sequence alignment
shown in Fig. 3. The numbering in the alignment
refers to the chymotrypsin numbering. Despite the
high ... below). The southern boundary of
the active site cleft of DESC1 is formed by the 145
autolysis loop. The backbone of this loop differs mark-
edly from t...
... 1.0 A
˚
for the Ca atoms. Thus,
the movement of the a2 helix accounts for 23% of the
rmsd value (i.e. for approximately one quarter of the
structural difference between the enzymes). These
localized ... the quartenary structure of the
BcZBP in solution is the hexamer found in the crystals
and that this hexamer probably corresponds to the
biologically active form...
... important in the inhibitory
mechanism, in addition to the primary structure of the
peptide.
To confirm our hypothesis that the b-turn structures are
important for the inhibitory activities of the peptides, ... better than cER. The cER peptide
may potentially bind to the CD58 protein as indicated by
the docking studies. The lowest energy docked structure was
at the t...