... (present paper and [16]) both the LH2 andthe LH1 antenna systems are present, while in the work of Parkes-Loach et al an LH2–, LH1– strain and an LH2– strain from Rb sphaeroides and from Rb capsulatus, ... prior to the onset ofthe reaction at its maximal rate In wild-type ICM, the initial rate of this reaction, as well as the lag phase, depends on the redox state ofthe ubiquinone pool and on the ubiquinone/RC ... 5A, lanes and 3, corresponding to PMC3 from PufXD2)4 and PufXD2)7, respectively, above the dominant LH1 aand b bands, a band attributable to the mutated PufX is clearly visible In lane a faint...
... GCT N AAC K AAG A GCG N AAC E GAG Y TAC D GAC K AAG L CTA K AAG Q CAG L CTC G GGC G GGG E GAG E GAG L CTG K AAG T ACC K AAG P CCC V GTG S AGC T ACC T ACA G GGT L CTC R CGC S TCG M ATG K AAG A GCC ... STQLPSDEPLNGLNDKAIQDILNEHNMFRAKEHVPPLTWNTTLA 44 Hordeum MQTPKLVILLALAMSAAMVNLSQAQNSP YVSP AA AVG.GAVS.S.K.Q 54 Triticum MQTPKLAILLALAMSAAMANLSQAQNSP Y.SP AA AVG.GAV S.K.Q 54 Zea -MAPRLACLLALAMAAIVVAPCTAQNSP ... Q CAG T ACC Q CAA K AAG P CCG K AAG S TCC H CAC W TGG M ATG ACG C TGC G GGT E GAG T ACC E GAA A GCC L CTC K AAG G GGC Y TAC K AAG I ATC B Cyn d 24 CGT I ATC G GGA A GCG R AGG G GGA I ATA T ACG...
... generated by a crystallographic two-fold The data and refinement statistics are shown in Table The Ramachandran plot has 96.9% ofthe residues in the most favored region and 3.1% in the additional ... dehydrogenase and prephenate dehydratase catalyze the biosynthesis of tyrosine and phenylalanine, respectively As this biosynthetic pathway is absent in mammals but is essential for the survival of bacteria ... was amplified by PCR using the forward primer 5¢-GG AATTCCATATGCAACCCACTCATACGCTAACAAG-3¢ (with the NdeI restriction recognition sequence underlined) andthe reverse primer 5¢-CGGGATCCTTATTTTAATT...
... STRUCTURALAND FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATIONOFTHE SYNAPSE STRUCTURALAND FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATIONOFTHE SYNAPSE Edited by Johannes W Hell University of Iowa Iowa City, IA, USA and Michael D ... collapse ofthe vesicular membrane These vesicles are then rapidly retrieved at the site of release, and are immediately available for rerelease (33) At the ultrastructural level, many ofthe ... for synaptopodin andthe spine apparatus in hippocampal synaptic plasticity Ann Anat 2007; 189:5–16 Eyman M, Cefaliello C, Ferrara E et al Local synthesis of axonal and presynaptic RNA in squid...
... used AGGAAAAGGCCTTGAAGCTC and TGCTGTATTTGACAGGACAAGTG (outer primers), and GAGGACATGCTCCTACCTGTG and TGCTGTATTTGACAGGACAAGTG (inner primers) For CN272097 we used CCAACGTGAGCTTCCAGAAC and ACAGAAACGCCTCTTCTCATTTAG ... wrote the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript 10 Additional data files The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional data file ... variants, clustering ofthe identified breakpoints, and comparison of ESP and aCGH data SV and CC developed the ESP methodology and BES mapping algorithms, analyzed the data and coordinated the...
... ofthe approaches described above, heat denaturation and aggregation of BLG upon heat treatment may hide putative sites of attack from the action of proteases, therefore leaving intact some regions ... protein/protease mixture was then placed in a thermostatted water bath for the required amount of time At the end ofthe heat treatment the mixtures were placed in an ice/water bath, andthe enzymatic activity ... confirm that the accessibility of cleavage sites on the substrate, rather than the intrinsic catalytic ability ofa given protease, is what limits the effectiveness ofthe enzyme action on actual protein...
... S The enzymatic activity and molecular stability ofthe mutants The catalytic activity andthe molecular stability ofthe mutants were assayed because a change in either of these parameters would ... It is also clear from comparisons of panels c and d that the hydrolysis rates ofthe Tyr146-Asn147 andthe Asn147-Ala148 bonds were similar and that, indeed, the replacement of Asn147 was also ... fragment II in the degradation ofthe Tyr146 !His/Asn147 !Ser mutant (panel d) indicated a significant decrease in the rate of cleavage ofthe autolysis loop At the same time the amount of fragment...
... conserved in all b-amylases from plants and microorganisms (e.g 97Gly-Gly-Asn-Val-GlyAsp-Ala-Val104 of Calystegia b-amylase and 96Gly-GlyAsn-Val-Gly-Asp-Ile-Val103 ofthe soybean b-amylase) Docking ... grows at the one end and dies at the other end) If so, the C sepium and alfalfa taproot b-amylases represent a unique type of VSP because they are located in the cytoplasm whereas all other known ... orientation The program TURBOFRODO (Bio-Graphics, Marseille, France) was used to calculate the Ramachandran plot and perform the superposition ofthe models Electrostatic potentials were calculated and...
... hypophosphatasia, (b) infantile hypophosphatasia, (c) childhood hypophosphatasia, (d) adult hypophosphatasia and (e) odonto hypophosphatasia [1–4] Perinatal and infantile forms of hypophosphatasia are ... GGC TAC AAG ATA GTG GGC GGT GAA-3¢ and 5¢-TTC ACC GCC CAC TAT CTT GTA GCC AGG-3¢; and V406F, 5¢-CCT GGC TAC AAG TTC GTG GGC GGT G-3¢ and 5¢-CAC CGC CCA CGA ACT TGT AGC CAG G-3¢, respectively The ... fraction (the raft) at a similar rate (Fig 3B), further supporting that the folding and assembly process and subsequent intracellular trafficking of TNSALP (V40 6A) are largely normal in the stable...
... Fig The 1652 and 1270 cm)1 bands can be assigned to a- helix in the human PKIb; the 1666 and 1247 cm)1 bands are the characteristic frequencies ofthe random coil structure Meanwhile, the 1682 and ... Table According to the activity assay, the activity was retained above 95% (data not shown) andthe recovery is 24% during the heat-treatment It implied that PKIb was a thermostable protein and ... polyadenylation signal ATTAAA (1018– 1023) and poly (A) tail (Fig 1) The human PKIb protein predicted by the open reading frame is 78 amino acids in length with a calculated molecular mass of 8468.2...
... this reason, ATP synthase and in particular the a- F1-ATPase and b-F1-ATPase catalytic subunits have been often used as markers for mitochondrial biogenesis [6,31,44,45] TheDrosophila a- F1-ATPase ... Fig Structure ofthe D melanogaster a- F1-ATPase gene Chromosomal location and structure of a- F1-ATPase The gene maps to the 2R arm in D melanogaster In the schematic diagram ofthe gene structure, ... andthe GAGA and Adf-1 elements in the DNA are underlined The translation start codon andthe main transcription start point are larger and in bold (B) Mutations either in the GAGA or Adf-1 binding...
... ERp57 andthe tip ofthe calreticulin P-domain Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99, 1954–1959 Satoh M, Shimada A, Keino H, Kashiwai A, Nagai N, Saga S & Hosokawa M (2005) Functional characterization of thioredoxin ... orientation ofthe bb¢ domains and significant differences in orientation of their aanda domains The catalytic cysteines (orange) ofthe °C yeast PDI structure face each other (B) The b and b¢ ... cloverleaf A long C-terminal tail folds back and makes contacts with theaand b¢ domains [10] This capping function ofthe C-terminal tail may have assisted the successful crystallization and structure...
... above, emphasizing that the disappearance ofthe a- helix component is associated with the appearance ofthe intermolecularly aggregated b-sheet When the correlation was made in the presence of ... PKCf according to Griffiths & Pariente [53], using grams ⁄ 32 Derivation gave the number and position, as well as an estimation ofthe bandwidth andthe intensity ofthe bands making up the amide ... I¢ regions have been described previously [29,32,54] The fractional areas ofthe bands in the amide I or amide I¢ regions were calculated from the final fitted band areas It is assumed that the...
... fragments The Nogo -A cDNA (designated KIAA 0886) was obtained from the Kazusa DNA Research Institute (KazusaKamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan) A DNA fragment encoding a 182 residue Nogo -A fragment ... (designated as Nogo -A( 567–748); Fig 1) was generated by PCR with a pair of primers: 5¢-CG CGCGCGCGGATCCACTGGTACAAAGATTGCT-3¢ (forward) and 5¢-CGCGCGCGCCTCGAGCTAAAAT AAGTCAACTGGTTC-3¢ (reverse) A DNA ... NMR characterization ofthe Nogo -A functional domains (Eur J Biochem 271) 3513 Fig Schematic representation ofthe domain organizationofthe human Nogo -A protein (A) The domain organization of...
... Zn-MT and apo-MT species in the presence of Hg(II), the effect of each ofthe previous variables was analyzed separately To this end, the titration of Zn7-MT, Zn4-aMT and Zn3-bMT proteins, at pH and ... standard variables (pH ofthe solution, reaction time, and binding Table Influence ofthe reaction time (t) and binding ability ofthe counter-ions (X) on the nature andstructural features ofthe ... data There are several reasons: (a) the presence of different chromophores in the same species including Zn and/ or Hg as metal ions and SCys and/ or Cl– as ligands; (b) the absence of well-established...
... activity ofthe RATEs as compared with RNase A ([16] and Table 1) indicate a negative influence ofthe tandemization on the catalytic efficiency The recovery of activity after proteolytic cleavage ofthe ... (Figs and S1) revealed that the linkers not constrain the ability ofthe RNase A entities to adopt the same orientation in the crystal as monomeric RNase A On the other hand, the decreased activity ... RNase A entities within the RATEs are catalytically active and that the activity decrease [16] is a result ofthe tandemization Accessibility ofthe linker of SGRSGRSG-RATE in the presence of RI The...
... Product a- GalpNAcA6OMe( 1a -3) -a- QuipNAc(1-OMe c Product a- Quip3NAlaNAc(1-OMe b AlaNAc 1.29 17.9 1.27 17.9 Most NH resonances of CPS and O-chain polysaccharide were assigned on the basis of their large ... 1324.54 – a ¢ a – a ¢-c a- c – a ¢-c-b a- c-b – – a ¢-c-b -a- c-b (a- c-b)2 aa ¢ – a -c a ¢-c – a -c-b a ¢-c-b – (a -c-b)2 a ¢-c-b -a -c-b – – methylation and CE-ES-MS analyses obtained on both CPS and ... Da (GalNAcAcontaining trisaccharide repeating unit) (Fig 4A, inset), based on this ratio about 40% of GalNAcA in both CPS and O-chain polysaccharides was present in the form ofa primary amine...