... (AR4) reporter strains by standard genetic methods High copy suppressor screen The Yep351-based yeast genomic library used for the suppressor screen was a gift from E Bogengruber (Institute for ... Braun, Melsungen, Germany) and total protein concentration was determined as described by Bradford [18] For b-galactosidase assays, an appropriate amount of protein was incubated in Z-buffer (5· ... was determined (A420) and activity of b-galactosidase (as U per mg protein) calculated as follows: DA420 · 1000/0.0045 · total protein (lg) · incubation time (min) For statistical analysis of sporulation...
... studies have clarified that JmjC-containing proteins act as histone demethylases [11] Lid, the closest protein to dJmj, was recently shown to be a histone demethylase that removes dimethyl and trimethyl ... that the JmjCcontaining proteins are histone demethylases and that the JmjC domain is responsible for their enzymatic activity [14–19] However, as several JmjC-containing proteins are predicted ... as histone demethylases because of the amino acid changes in the catalytic domain [11,12] Several other JmjC-containing proteins are considered to be enzymatically inactive as histone demethylases...
... LAPP (an approximately 13 kDa leech antiplatelet protein isolated from Haementeria officinalis) and calin and saratin (approximately 65 kDa and 12 kDa proteins, respectively, both isolated from H ... predominantly acts via the Gq family of proteins [38], potentiated a2b1-independent platelet adhesion to soluble collagen only in the presence of the actions of the Gi protein- coupled agonist ADP This ... of saratin Physiologically, however, platelets are exposed to collagen in the presence of plasma proteins In order to investigate the ability of saratin to inhibit receptormediated interactions...
... mammalian cortical granule proteins has been estimated to be between four and fourteen or more [10,19,20] Several specific proteins have been identified as cortical granule proteins [21] N-acetylglucosaminidase ... serum at 4°C with constant agitation for 90 minutes To remove any protein- A and Sepharose bead binding proteins before using ABL2, protein A-Sepharose beads were then added and incubated with the ... mouse blastocysts and which immunoprecipitates a 75-kDa protein from mouse oocytes, reacts immunocytochemically with cortical granules [20] The protein is released following in vitro fertilization...
... coefficient of a proteinProtein Sci 4, 2411–2423 Kantardjieff KA & Rupp B (2003) Matthews coefficient probabilities: Improved estimates for unit cell contents of proteins, DNA and protein- nucleic ... AL, Kajander T, Pan W, Cocco MJ & Regan L (2004) Protein design to understand peptide ligand recognition by tetratricopeptide repeat proteins Protein Eng Des Sel 17, 399–409 Main ER, Jackson ... Barford D (1998) The structure of the tetratricopeptide repeats of protein phosphatase 5: implications for TPR-mediated proteinprotein interactions EMBO J 17, 1192–11199 15 Abe Y, Shodai T, Muto...
... ‘natively unfolded’ proteins unstructred under physiologic conditions? Proteins 41, 415–427 42 Uversky VN (2002) Natively unfolded proteins: a point where biology waits for physics Protein Sci 11, ... that some proteins are unable to maintain well-defined structures, even under physiological conditions [39–44] These proteins are often called natively unfolded or intrinsically disordered proteins ... information and neural networks to predict protein secondary structure Proteins 19, 55–72 Rost B, Sander C & Schneider R (1994) PHD – an Automatic Mail Server for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction...
... structure the two protein chains form a swapped dimer with two globular functional units which are composed of residues 1–35 from one protein chain and residues 38–65 from another protein chain (Figs ... DNA binding is dominated by stacking interactions between nucleobases and aromatic protein side chains for both proteins Based on this observation and on binding assays using a set of heptapyrimidines, ... amphipathic protein surface Several residues participating in ligand binding are located in regions designated as RNP motifs I and II, which can also be found in other RNA-binding proteins [26,27]...
... discovered for specific tumor types Many genes identified in our study are either known tumorsuppressor genes (for example, BRCA1) or previously identified putativetumorsuppressor genes (for ... association between LOH and tumor susceptibility is significant only when several tumorsuppressor genes are involved in the LOH events [10,33] Second, in addition to common tumorsuppressor genes shared ... cell surface proteins and five encoding extracellular matrix proteins Of the 16 cell surface proteins, seven are transmembrane receptors, including kinases in the FGFR family and G -protein coupled...
... molecular studies, the tetraspanin superfamily member proteins are cellular membrane proteins type III found on the cytoplasmic membrane [19] Such proteins play essential biological roles with distinctive ... (Fig.1a) One of the VP26 interacting proteins is a cellular membrane protein type III and is a homologue of tetraspanin family member cellular tetraspanin membrane protein (CTMP-7, GenBank accession ... tetraspanin-GFP fusion protein at 30 h post HSV-1 infection (Fig.2b) Evidence of VP26 interaction with CTMP-7 CTMP-7 molecules are present in purified HSV-1 virions Five proteins interacting with...
... protein stability In S100A3, Zn2+ binding causes the loss of approximately 40% of the a-helical structure [13], supporting destabilization of the protein In contrast with S100A2, other S100 proteins, ... nuclear S100A2 and mutant proteins J Biol Chem 273, 18826–18834 18 Koch M, Diez J & Fritz G (2006) Purification and crystallization of the human EF-hand tumour suppressorprotein S100A2 Acta Crystallogr ... binding to S100 proteins I Calcium- and zinc-binding properties of bovine brain S100 alpha alpha, S100a (alpha beta), and S100b (beta beta) protein: Zn2+ regulates Ca2+ binding on S100b protein J Biol...
... Abnormalities of proto-oncogenes, such as RAS and MYC, or of tumorsuppressor genes, such as mutations of the p53 gene, absence of RB protein, and homozygous deletions of the p16INK4a gene, have ... CD117 expression (Fig 4e) Conclusion These results build upon previous observations that a putative CML tumorsuppressor gene is present at 1p36 that exhibits loss of heterozygosity during transformation ... Ben-Yehuda D, Schiller G, Landolfi R, Mizoguchi H, Koeffler HP: Chromosome band 1p36 contains a putativetumorsuppressor gene important in the evolution of chronic myelocytic leukemia Blood 1998, 92:3405-3409...
... inactivation of tumorsuppressor genes in many cancers Thus, identification of these silencing tumorsuppressor genes could provide insight into the biological processes and pathways underlying tumorigenesis ... epigenetic changes leading to inactivation of tumorsuppressor genes in tumor progression 1.1.1 Genetic alterations as a cause of loss-of-function of tumorsuppressor genes in cancer Cancer is essentially ... .1 1.1 Loss of tumorsuppressor genes by genetic and epigenetic alterations in cancer 2 1.1.1 Genetic alterations as a cause of loss-of-function of tumorsuppressor genes in...
... soluble protein scaffold 20 A protein aptamer is able to bind to and specifically inhibit the protein- protein interaction of interest, allowing for characterization of a particular function of the protein ... target protein expression Small chemical compounds that bind specifically to the target protein can also be used to evaluate the effects of disrupting the target protein s interaction with other proteins ... validation 1.2 The protein aptamer approach to target validation The aptamer approach to target validation involves the development of miniproteins called protein aptamers Protein aptamers are...
... mitochondrial membranes [13] Bcl-2 ⁄ E1B-19K-interacting protein (BNIP3) is a member of a unique subfamily of death-inducing mitochondrial proteins [14,15] BNIP3-induced cell death has been characterized ... 30 with a BNIP3– glutathione-S-transferase (GST) protein As shown in Fig 1E, immunoblotting for BNIP3 was completely blocked by the BNIP3–GST protein A nonspecific 62 kDa band was detected in ... Rockville, MD, USA) Immunofluorescent staining for microtubule-associated protein- 2 on neurons and glial fibrillary acidic protein in astrocytes showed that cultures were > 98% neurons; the remainder...
... polypeptide For example, some a-subunits of G -protein heterotrimers, some small G-proteins and several non-receptor-type tyrosine kinases are N-myristoylated proteins Proteins with lipid modifications come ... peripheral membrane proteins, which are associated with membrane intrinsic proteins, and a mild detergent Triton X-100 is used to solubilize membrane proteins, but not all membrane integral proteins Partial ... function and intracellular localization of proteins [8–11] Very recently, a novel hydrophilic cation-binding protein was identified in Arabidopsis thaliana [12] The protein is composed of 225 amino acid...
... presynaptic Ca2+ channels or that it might act on these channels via other mechanisms, such as through G -protein- coupled presynaptic receptors [9] The composition of the O-glycan on the threonine residue ... (1991) Direct identification of gamma-carboxyglutamic acid in the sequencing of vitamin K-dependent proteins Anal Biochem 199, 93–97 13 Nakamura, T., Yu, Z.G., Fainzilber, M & Burlingame, A.L (1996) ... cysteine-rich peptide toxin with gamma-carboxyglutamic acid, TxVIIA, from the sea snail, Conus textile Protein Sci 5, 524–530 14 Wishart, D.S & Sykes, B.D (1994) Chemical Shifts as a Tool for Structure...
... family is composed of three proteins, ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein (Ankrd2), cardiac ankyrin repeat protein (CARP) and diabetes-related ankyrin repeat protein (DARP), grouped together ... majority of the substrates identified are structural proteins [3–5], proteins involved in cell metabolism [5–7] and in the regulation of gene and protein expression [2,7–9] were also suggested to ... Bradford technique (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) The protein ⁄ DNA assays were carried out on 25 lg of total nuclear proteins using the TranSignal Protein ⁄ DNA Combo Array (Affymetrix, Santa Clara,...