... phosphorylates caspase 9
at Thr125. Recombinant His
6
caspase 9 (His–C9) or His
6
caspase 9( T125A) (both containing the catalytically inactivating C287A mutation)
was incubated with recombinant ... of caspase 9 at Thr125 in vitro, these results
strongly indicate that DYRK1A targets caspase 9
directly in cells.
Harmine is a potent inhibitor of DYRK1A in...
... Tokyo).
Antibody and immunoblotting
Antibody against the Tm-mas was raised by injecting 10 lg
of the purified protein into a male albino rabbit with
complete Freund’s adjuvant and giving a booster injection
of ... b-1,3-
glucan for 60 min; lane 2, incubation with b-1,3-glucan only for
60 min; lane 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, incubation with Ca
2+
only for 10, 20, 30,
45, 60 min, respectively; la...
... 4003
occupancy of the nicotinamide ring of the bound
ligand in the active site [14]. In this view, it is signifi-
cant that the perturbations induced by NADPO bind-
ing to FprA were more intense than ... dinucleotide phosphate formation in
which the initial and rate-determining step is the nucleophilic attack of the
nicotinamide moiety by an active site water molecule. Wh...
... TRa1proteinwas
fractionated on a polyacrylamide gel and
visualized by an image analyzer. The arrow
indicates the band of human TRa1protein.
(C) Reporter luciferase activities induced by
T3. HeLaTR and ... induced DNA fragmentation and impaired the
proliferation of rat FRTL cells. This implies that T3 induces
apoptosis, which is mediated by 4-1BB, and subsequent
activation...
... identified at )158 and )186, within E1b, and at
) 69 and ) 79, within E2 [4]. Moreover, in the human
platelet-like K562 cell line and in human uterine tissue,
transcription initiation sites were ... proteins G
q
and G
11
in vivo and is
activated by the isoprostane 8-epi prostaglandin F2 alpha.
J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 281, 95 7 96 4.
36. Janssen, L.J. (2001) Iso...
... ( 199 6) Analysis of main chain
torsion angles in proteins: prediction of NMR coupling cons-
tants for native and random coil conformations. J. Mol. Biol. 255,
494 –506.
27. Wu
¨
thrich, K. ( 198 6) ... in
two positions, 12 and 15, at which the native amino acids
L
-phenylalanine 12 and
L
-leucine 15 have been replaced
by the nonprotein amino acids
D
-phenylalanine and
a-amin...
... specific
binding sites for the lyn kinase [31]. These findings provide a
rationale for investigating whether caspase- mediated path-
wayscaninteractwithPDE5inintactcells.
In this article, we show that caspase- 3 ... molecular
mass of 93 98 kDa [5]. The enzyme is phosphorylated at S92
and activated by both protein kinase A and protein kinase G
[6–7]. Here we explore the possibilit...
... h at 37 °C and subsequently analyzed by SDS/
PAGE and silver staining. The metalloproteinase inhibitors EDTA,
o-phenanthroline (PHEN) and TIMP-1 and the thiol protease inhi-
bitor E64 and serine ... MS analysis of human GCP-2 after
cleavage by gelatinase B. Human recombinant
GCP-2 was analyzed by electrospray ion trap
MS before (A) and after (B) incubation with
activat...
... [6,7],
FERM and PDZ-domain-containing 2 (FRMPD2) [8]
and Ras guanine exchange factor (RasGEF) very-
KIND (v-KIND, or kinase noncatalytic C-lobe
domain containing 1) [9] . The KIND domain in these
proteins ... growth and branching of cerebellar
granule cells and hippocampal neurons.
Among the KIND domains in four KIND-containing
proteins (Spir-2, PTPN13, FRMPD2 and v-KIND),
onl...
... cell
lines. When deciding between maintaining cells alive or
inducing apoptosis, caspase function and activation
are regulated in terms of which pathways induce cleav-
age sites and modification ... and Bad bind 14-3-3,
the phosphoserine ⁄ threonine binding proteins in the
cytosol. 14-3-3 prevents Bax and Bad dissociation from
translocating to the mitochondria by a conformati...