... DNA-binding zinccluster at the N-terminus, whereas the acidic activationdomain is usually present at the C-terminus. The mid-dle homology region (MHR) bridging the DNA-bind-ing and the activation ... were raised in rabbitsagainst a GST-War1p fusion protein containing 294 aminoacids of the C-terminal part of War1p (amino acids 650–944) fused in- frame to the C-terminus of GST. The gene fusion ... lack of DNA binding. Indeed, in the case of War1-42p, in vivo footprinting data(Fig. 5) indicate an inability to bind to the WARE,which is normally decorated by wild-type War1p in the presence...
... a proportionate increase inthe intensity of the DHS fragments inthe control samples. In Fig. 7A the forskolin-treated chromatin shows a relative increase in the intensity of the DHS10a (1716 ... similar intensity but the DHS in intron 18 isless evident ( Fig. 5B). In contrast, the DHS in intron 18 ismore prominent than those in introns 16 and 17 (Fig. 5A) in chromatin from Capan1 cells. The ... + 10 kb in intron 1 of the CFTR gene augments intestinal expression of the genein vivo, both in human colon carcinoma cells and in transgenic mice [15]. It is probable t hat several other DHSthat...
... and mine it very deeply, not necessarily discovering every aspect of the domain but requiring that the various aspects be integrated with one another to produce a coherent whole. Even inthe ... officers represented in it. The system merely made no distinction between "all" and "any", and interpreted the final query to mean the But, you are probably thinking, those examples ... THERE STILL IS GOLDINTHE DATABASE MINE Madeleine Bates BBN Laboratories 10 Moulton Street Cambridge, MA 02238 Let me state clearly at the outset that I disagree with the premise...
... found inthe A and B subdomains. The pocket-domain is responsible for binding to proteins containing LXCXE motifs while the pocket-domain and the C-domain are involved in binding E2F proteins. ... cellular proteins. Although the binding site for LXCXE motif containing proteins is present inthe B sub-domain, the crystal structure of the pRb A/BpocketboundtotheLXCXE-containing part of HPV-16 ... pRb inhibits the transcriptional activityof E2F by binding to its carboxy-terminal transactivation domain, therebypreventing the interaction of E2F with the basal transcription machinery(Helin...
... man-ganese inthe transcriptional regulation of the nrdoperon [35] may not be considered inthe light of the results obtained inthe present study. Rather, the involvement of manganese inthein vivo ... results) to the nucleotide-producer C. ammoniagenes [10]. The present strategyof reintroducing the nrdF gene into the geneticbackground of corynebacteria comprised an initialtransfer into the accessible ... samples. The rad-ical concentration was calculated by determining the areaof the radical signal inthe absorption spectrum by cubicspline interpolation [52] inthe range 403–413 nm using the coefficient...
... containing the MuvB proteins Lin-37, Lin-52, Lin-54 and chromatin-associated Lin-9 and Lin-53 ⁄ RBBP4 ⁄ RbAp48.Furthermore, A-Myb and B-Myb were present in immunoprecipitations for Lin-9, Lin-37 ... complexes of cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks)and their corresponding cyclins. A prominent exampleof such a pair is cyclin B and cyclin-dependentkinase 1 (cdk1 ⁄ Cdc2) controlling the checkpointbetween ... appearsstronger in G2⁄ M than in G1[44]. This contradictsrepression through a complex in G1and in vivo foot-printing results inthe original definition of the sites[10]. Taken together, the sites in...
... results inthe emission of light. The intensity of the bioluminescence was detected using aluminometer, and the mitochondrial ATP concentration wasdetermined. Mitochondrial protein concentration ... 2007)doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06051.x The mechanisms underlying increased cardioprotection in younger femalemice are unclear. We hypothesized that serine-threonine protein kinase(protein kinase B; Akt) triggers a metabolic gene ... in fatty acid utilization,increase in glucose utilization) inthe murine femaleheart. Moreover, our data suggest that these changesoccur in an Akt-independent manner. Further studiesare therefore...
... and the remaining DHSs inthe deleted cellswere examined to determine the roles of these DHSson the transcription of Ig-b gene and on the mainten-ance of the active chromatin state.ResultsGeneration ... determined bytransient transfection, was associated with DHSs in the Na channel gene and inthe first intron of the Ig-b gene. Furthermore, the acetylation status of H3 andH4 histones was examined ... inthe b-globin locusare the same as the wild type control [17]. Thus,there again has been no description either of the region involved in DNase I general sensitivity orof the region for the...
... from them, are the trueinducers of galA expression. This indicates that galA iscoexpressed with both the pectinolytic genes encoding mainchain cleaving enzymes as well as with the arabinanolyticgenes ... synergy of enzymes degrading the pectin side chains was studied [34]. GALA had a positiveeffect on the activity of the other enzymes involved in the degradation of these side chains.DISCUSSIONA. ... under the control of the xylanolytic activator protein [32,41]. The increase in expression levels of galA inthe CREA mutant,indicates that at least one of the detected putative CREAbinding sites...
... products in the absence of the cDNA library.Fig. 6. Transcription start sites inthe integrin a subunit genes. The sequences flanking the transcription start sites inthe integrin a subunitgenes ... binding factors. The introduction of mutation in one of the Ets-bindingsequences greatly decreased its promoter activity, suggestingthat the transcription of the a3 integrin genein these cells ... includingEts, GATA, and MyoD/E-box binding factors. The introduction of mutation into one of the putative Ets-binding sequences suppressed the promoter activity. In addition, the specific binding...
... intron sequences requires the introduction of 11and 14 gaps for intron 2 and 5, respectively, as compared to1 (intron 7) to 7 (intron 6) for the remaining introns. Finally, the 3¢ UTRs of the ... pig genes. Interestingly, we observed the greatest differences between these closely related genes withinintron 2 and intron 5. This could indicate frequent recom-bination between the genes ... zone-specificbiosynthesis of mineralocorticoids. In this respect it wouldbe interesting to see whether expression of adrenodoxin isdifferentially regulated.To investigate the evolution of the CYP11B genes,...
... asSTARS-interacting proteins. These novel proteins con-tain four LIM domains and a C-terminal villin head-piece domain, which mediates actin-binding in severalproteins, such as villin and dematin ... occurring C-terminal 100 kDa fragment offilamin, interacting with the motor protein dynein,may exert its inhibitory effect by interfering with inter-actions between the N- and C-terminal domains, ... the AR transactivation function, and the minimal functional fragment of SV, which onlycontains one actin-binding site, is located in the nucleus, recruiting actin into the chromatin-remodelingcomplex...
... differences in exposure times during western blot-ting. We also observed a slight increase in SREBF1protein level triggered inthe presence of the NTsiRNA, in agreement with the slight increase in SREBF1 ... out an indirect effect resulting from the silencingof the transcription factor SREBF1, which wouldmodify gene expression in an siRNA-independentmanner. Therefore, these variations in mRNA ... cangenerate side effects, by inducing the degradation ofnontarget mRNAs sharing sequence homology with the siRNA seed region, or by repressing the translationof unintended proteins [5–10]. Indeed,...
... lipid-binding protein, intesti-nal 15 kDa protein, ileal bile acid-binding protein andgastrotropin, reflecting the speculations of authors onits intracellular function(s). In vitro binding assaysrevealed ... according to the tissue from which they were initially isolated, e.g. liver-type fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP), brain-typefatty acid-binding protein (B-FABP), intestinal-typefatty acid-binding ... The coding sequence derived from the fabp6 gene at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute wasderived from the Tu¨bingen strain of zebrafish, while the sequences for the fabp6 cDNA generated in thisstudy...
... CanadaFatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) are encoded by amultigene family termed the intracellular lipid-bindingprotein (iLBP) genes [1,2]. In vertebrates, at least 16paralogous iLBPs, including 10 ... shown in upper-case letters, with the codingsequences of each exon underlined and the deduced amino acid sequence indicated below. Numbers on the right indicate nucleotide posi-tions inthegene ... nucleotide difference inthe coding region of exon2, resulting in an alteration of the ninth codon of thisexon from GTT to GTC without changing the encodedamino acid. The genomic sequence and...