... whether
Sirt1 itself was regulated in b-islets during insulin
secretion. Our results show, for the first time, that
Sirt1 expression is altered in insulin- secreting b-islets
during GSIS in vivo. Using ... that the
amount of Sirt1 protein is regulated (post-transcrip-
tionally) during GSIS in insulin- secreting b-islets
in vivo.
Sirt1 is down -reg...
... been
cloned and characterized from rats [30,31], mice [32] and fish
[28]. Rat TRHR2 is more widely distributed in the brain
than is TRHR1 [33] and they differ in their agonist-induced
internalization and ... expressing
xTRHR2 and xTRHR1 cDNAs.
Distribution of xTRHRs. The distributions of xTRHRs in
the brain, liver, testis, urinary bladder, stomach, ventral and
dorsal skin...
... including
investigations in human tissues, and that this has
implications for how to interpret the role of the stud-
ied enzymes in health and disease.
Results
The distribution and relative intensity ... rectum in mice, whereas corresponding rat tis-
sues show expression only in duodenum, colon and rectum. In both mouse and rat, Adh4 is found in the epithelial lining...
... cytoglobin (Cygb) are two
new members of the globin family. Ngb is mainly
expressed in the cytoplasm of neuronal (brain and
retina) and some endocrine tissues, whereas Cygb is
detected in the ... neuroglobin and cytoglobin in a situation of chronic hypoxia in
mice were examined using real-time quantitative PCR. The kinetics of the
hypoxic expression of neuroglobin (brain,...
... decapeptides. In addition to the antisera
r-anti-l (made in rat) and gp-anti-dW4 (produced in guinea
pig), two antisera discriminating CHH isomers (gp-anti-pQl
made in guinea pig and rb-anti- pQd in rabbit) ... Universite
´
Paris, France
Introduction
Modification of the chirality of a single aminoacyl resi-
due within a peptide chain is a subtle and intriguing
mechanism that...
... base
binding to integrin. The process by which integrin
binding may be coupled to structural changes in the
penton base, allowing fiber release, is not clear, but
could involve changes in the ... fiber binding or fiber release was
coupled to changes in the hypervariable loop.
Binding assays
Owing to difficulties in expressing and purifying the
full-length fiber protein, a 75 amino acid...
... proteins contain four
Ca
2+
-binding EF hand motifs [9] and functions by
interacting and regulating a group of Ser ⁄ Thr pro-
tein kinases called CBL-interacting protein kinases
Keywords
abscisic ... (SD) lacking Leu, Trp,
and His (SD-Leu
–
Trp
–
His
–
and containing 15 mm
3-aminotrizole, 3-AT). 3-AT is a competitive inhibitor
of histidine and checks any leaky expression of hist...
... almost cer-
tainly relevant to this issue is that the same Ft ⁄ Ds ⁄ Fj
module is involved in the proximal-distal patterning of
the wing and leg [12,45–48], and hence it is tempting
to speculate ... polarity establishment (at least
in the wing) is directly coupled to growth and pattern-
ing of the tissue (see also [23]). Direct evidence in
support of this view is missing...
... findings may indicate that CagD
is released into the supernatant during host cell infec-
tion by an unknown independent mechanism and then
binds to the host cell surface or is incorporated in ... molecule
involving a-helix A, the nearby loop, the first and last
turns of helices E and F, and the C-terminus helices I
and J. In addition, there is a lysine-rich N- and C-ter-...
... pK
a
calculations and available structural informa-
tion. The results indicate that the pK
a
of the catalytic acid
(Glu144) is ÔcycledÕ during catalysis as a consequence of
substrate-binding and release and, ... pK
a
,muta-
genesis, pH optimum.
Chitin, a b-1,4-linked polymer of N-acetylglucosamine
(GlcNAc), is degraded in nature by chitinases and b-N-
1-4-acetylhexosaminidases...