... SB123 and SB124 The mutants generated in this study are detailed in Table Bacterial strains, plasmids andgrowth conditions The bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study are detailed in Table ... proteins had 24% sequence similarity A crystal structure of Met8P has shown that this protein has an aspartate residue (Asp141), which is important for both chelatase and dehydrogenase function ... 42 kDa) with a C-terminal strep II tag could be found in the total cell lysate and the periplasmic fraction, but was absent from the membrane and cytoplasmic fractions (B) The same cell fractions...
... cPLA2 -a and convert arachidonic acid into prostaglandin H2 [8,9] To date, two distinct COX isoforms, COX-1 and COX-2, have been identified and characterized, and an alternative splice variant ... the calcium-induced relocation of cPLA2 -a in EA.hy.926 endothelial cells We show that cPLA2 -a relocates to intracellular membrane compartments that are distinct from the ER and the Golgi apparatus ... cells and HUVECs were compared Equivalent amounts of protein were separated by SDS ⁄ PAGE and immunoblotted for cPLA2 -a Lysates from the parental A5 49 cell line and HeLa cells were also analysed...
... vascular endothelial growth factor expression in endothelial cells and cardiac myocytes J Mol Cell Cardiol 33, 2179–2187 11 Tanaka, T., Kanai, H., Sekiguchi, K., Aihara, Y., Yokoyama, T., Arai, ... [26,27,42] and IRES-driven translation [43–46] it is possible that the CSD/PTB sites play a role in translation as well as stabilization of the VEGF mRNA A combined role in mRNA stability and translation ... single-strand RNA and DNA binding, cold shock domain (CSD) (also known as Y-box) proteins, play diverse roles in both transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of growth factor and stress...
... was obtained from Amersham International (Aylesbury, UK) X-ray films (X-OMAT-AR) were from Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NJ) Cells, cytokines and antibodies PC12 and COS-7 cells (ATCC, Manassas, VA, ... 3027 STAT3 and MAPK activation by Hyper-CNTF in transfected BAF/3 cells Downstream signal transduction pathways were analyzed by studying the activation level of JAK/STAT and MAP kinase signaling ... Phosphorylated STAT3 and p44/42 MAP kinases (New England Biolabs, Schwalbach, Germany), were detected using polyclonal rabbit anti-(phospho-STAT3) Ig and anti(phospho-p44/42 MAP kinase) Ig As secondary...
... CGAATTCTTACTTTCTTCTTGT CAGTGAATTCGAGCTCGGTACCC ATACATACTGAATCATCATCTCCTTC GAG ATGATTCAGTATGTAT ATAAGGCGCATTTTTCTTCAAAGCTTTCAC TTCTTTCTCG to generate pBSSK-COQ1 For the expression of COQ1 in fission yeast, the ... functional expression in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae J Bacteriol 179, 5992–5998 20 Okada K, Kainou T, Tanaka K, Nakagawa T, Matsuda H & Kawamukai M (1998) Molecular cloning and mutational ... Okada K, Kamiya Y, Zhu X, Tanaka K, Nakagawa T, Kawamukai M & Matsuda H (1997) Analysis of the decaprenyl diphosphate synthase (dps) gene in fission yeast suggests a role of ubiquinone as an antioxidant...
... between ipsilateral and contralateral spinal responses was statistically significant (n = 15, p < 0.001, t-test) Stimulating M1 resulted in ipsilateral and contralateral spinal motoneuronal responses ... cortically-elicited spinal responses from the same animals revealed significant increase in both contralateral and ipsilateral (to stimulated M1) after dCMS *p < 0.05 Data show means ± SD Ahmed ... from intracellular recordings from sacrocaudal motoneurons that show a sustained and exaggerated firing rate in animals with SCI [48] Minutes after dCMS, motoneuronal spontaneous activity was still...
... goods and services All businesses must have capital in order to purchase assets and maintain their operations +Business capital comes in two main forms: debt and equity -The Importance of Capital: ... establishing a company, we can’t help caring about laws and regulations An nascent enterprise will have many problems, so we should prepare legislations to compare with what we are doing Law has ... lifestyle, attitude and their social class And have identified where the target audience is, you need to know: + Who are they, what will attract and appeal to them; +The number of people will fall into...
... 5¢-AAACCAGCCATGAATGAAAT-3¢) and with actin primers (forward primer: 5¢-GTTGGGAT GAACCAGAAGGA-3¢; reverse primer: 5¢-GAACCA CCGATCCAGACACT-3¢) as a control Reactions with no DNA added served as a ... promoter fragment The sequences of the oligonucleotides used for these experiments are: Oligo I, 5¢-CAAGGACGTTCGATGCA CTTCCAAAAAACATATAAT-3¢; Oligo II, 5¢-CAAT GTAGTATTAAAAAGTAGTAGTTAAAAGC-3¢; Oligo ... propose that p40 is a negative regulator of the CaM5 gene promoter that may act in a similar way to the DREAM protein, a negative transcriptional regulator that acts in a calcium-dependent manner...
... disks already contains data, make a backup if needed (all existing data of partitions involved in the process will be lost), and delete or resize existing partitions to create space for the software ... the partitioning utility to create the software RAID partitions In the example both disks are split into a 3498Mb anda 596Mb software RAID partitions: Device Type Size Mbytes /dev/hda1 software ... boot loader: Once the configuration installation options are provides, the installation of the system starts: Notice that while the system is installing, the software RAID transparently initializes...
... LlCBP3 3A was small and ceased after approximately 48 h (Fig 6A) This indicates that LlCBP3 3A only acts on a specic minor subfraction of a- chitin Thus, LlCBP3 3A has an effect on the degradation of a- chitin, ... Vaaje-Kolstad et al containing 100 lm of (GlcNAc)14 was analysed at the start, in the middle and at the end of each series of samples The resulting average values of the standards (displaying standard ... more neutral pH optima have an aspartic acid at this position For the latter type of enzyme, it has been shown that mutation of aspartic acid to asparagine leads to a drastic acidic shift of the...
... anti-GST and anti-Flag (Sigma), and anti-PARP (Cell Signal) The ProteoExtract Subcellular Proteome Extraction Kit (Calbiochem, La Jolla, CA, USA) was used to extract proteins from mammalian cells according ... band, and s-DAPK-1N29 8A ⁄ L29 9A (TM2) showed a weakened cleavage band (Fig 3B) These data suggest that the first two amino acids of the tail are critical for proteolytic susceptibility, andthat ... mRNA level is depicted as a ratio of DAPK-1 ⁄ s-DAPK-1 to actin (E, F) s-DAPK-1, DAPK-1 and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) mRNA quantification in colon carcinoma and rectal carcinoma...
... brassicae CSPMbraA6 [32] We observed also that BrC15-Ac was able to displace ASA, suggesting that brominated fatty acid and ASA both associated with W81 in the same ligand binding site The ligand ... Nomura, A. , Kawasaki, K., Kubo, T & Natori, S (1992) Purification and localization of p10, a novel proteinthat increases in nymphal regenerating legs of Periplaneta americana (American cockroach) ... analysis and purification of recombinant ASP3c (A) SDS/PAGE analysis of recombinant ASP3c secreted by Pichia pastoris Lane shows standards (Low range and Polypeptide kits, Bio-Rad, France) and lanes...
... CGCGCCTCGAGTTAAGCTGCACCTCCTGATCT GCGCGGATCCACCATGCCCTTCCGGAGAAGA CGCGCCTCGAGTTAAGCTGCACCTCCTGATCT GCGCGGATCCACCATGTCCTTGAGGGACACA CGCGCCTCGAGTTAAGCTGCACCTCCTGATCT GCGCGGATCCACCATGGCACTTAACCCATG CGCGCCTCGAGTTAACGTTCTGTTGGTGAGCT ... CGCGCCTCGAGTTAACGTTCTGTTGGTGAGCT GCGCGGATCCACCATGGCACTTAACCCATG CGCGCCTCGAGTTATGGAGTTGAACTAGCTGT GCGCGGATCCACCATGTCCTTGAGGGACACA CGCGCCTCGAGTTAACGTTCTGTTGGTGAGCT Length (bp/amino acids) 576/192 468/156 ... excised and purified with the GFXTM PCR DNA and Gel Band Purification Kit (AmershamPharmacia Biotech) Each p26 cDNA was ligated into pET21(+) using T4 DNA ligase, and competent E coli DH 5a were transformed...
... released PAD and ABL2 antigen (p75) on the oocyte's surface B and F are artificially activated oocytes treated with a high salt solution that removed PAD and p75 from oocytes' surfaces C and G are ... (red) and ABL2 (green) Aand D show the LCA labeling in the zona pellucida (arrowhead) B and E show ABL2 labeling on the plasma membranes and in the subcortical region (arrow) of blastomeres G and ... (SignalP V2.0 and TargetP V1.0) [35-37] were used to determine thata putative signal peptide anda cleavage site exist in ePAD and AAH53724 (an egg and embryo abundant peptidylarginine deiminase),...
... D-Ala-Gly, D-Ala-(Gly)2 (D-Ala)2, D-Ala-L-Ala (D-Ala)3 (D-Ala)4, L-Ala-Gly, L-Ala-(Gly)2 (L-Ala)2, L-Ala-D-Ala, L-Ala-D-Ala-L-Ala, DL-Ala-DL-Asn, DL-Ala-DL-Ile, DL-Ala-DL-Leu, DL-Ala-DL-Met, DL-AlaDL-Phe, ... L-Ala-pNA D-Ala-NH2 L-Ala-NH2 D-Ala-(Gly)2 L-Ala-(Gly)2 b-Ala-L-Ala b-Ala-Gly b-Ala-NH2 b-Ala-L-His (Carnosine) b-Ala-L-Leu (b-Ala)2 similarity to thatfrom dmpA of O anthropi LMG7991 DmpA has ... of Ala-pNa and alaninamide as substrates by BapA was also comparable to that exhibited by DmpA The substrate specificity of BapA was however, different fromthat of DmpA with respect to the activity...
... purification (Fig and data not shown) The final fractions contained three protein bands with apparent molecular masses of 70, 47 and 45 kDa on SDS/PAGE that were most abundant in the fractions containing ... in a 100-lL incubation at 30 °C for 10 min, using the amounts and concentrations of ATP and NADH used in standard GS and NR assays, respectively Data are presented as mean ± SEM Cofactor AMP ... sequenced BLAST searches of sequence databases revealed that the band of 70 kDa belonged to the acyl-CoA oxidase protein family, while all of the peptides derived from the 47 and 45 kDa bands matched...
... Nakamura, Y., Wolk, C.P., Kuritz, T., Sasamoto, S., Watanabe, A. , Iriguchi, M., Ishikawa, A. , Kawashima, K., Kimura, T., Kishida, Y., Kohara, M., Matsumoto, M., Matsuno, A. , Muraki, A. , Nakazaki, ... predicts a similar helical arrangement for all of the analysed NblA sequences from cyanobacteria as well as red algae Thus, we propose that all NblA-homologous molecules identied so far share a common ... We have cloned the gene from Anabaena sp PCC 7120 and puried the protein without tags We show that NblA from Anabaena sp PCC 7120 is a mostly a- helical protein The results from the thermally...
... site-directed mutagenesis using pmGFP–Brox as a template and complementary primers (5¢-CAA AAG GAC ACT GGG TCC TAC ATC TCC TAA G-3¢ and 5¢-CTT AGG AGA TGT AGG ACC CAG TGT CCT TTT G-3¢) To create pStrep–BroxC408S ... Strep-tag II and pAb to FLAG) and secondary antibodies [Alexa Fluor 488-conjugated goat anti-(mouse IgG) and Cy3-labeled goat anti-(rabbit IgG)] The fluorescence signals of Alexa Fluor 488 (A, D, ... AAA GAC CCC AAC GAG AAG CGC GAT CAC-3¢ and 5¢-GTG ATC GCG CTT CTC GTT GGG GTC TTT GCT CAG CTT GGA CTG-3¢) pmGFP–Brox C408S , which has a point mutation at amino acid 408, was created by PCR-based...
... K., Takahashi, M., Sekine, M., Baba, S., Ankai, A. , Kosugi, H., Hosoyama, A. , Fukui, S., Nagai, Y., Nishijima, K., Otsuka, R., Nakazawa, H., Takamiya, M., Kato, Y., Yoshizawa, T., Tanaka, T., ... Natl Acad Sci USA 97, 14257–14262 49 Kawarabayasi, Y., Hino, Y., Horikawa, H., Yamazaki, S., Haikawa, Y., Jin-n., o, K., Takahashi, M., Sekine, M., Baba, S., Ankai, A. , Kosugi, H., Hosoyama, A. , ... bacteria Aquifex aeolicus, Thermotoga maritima and Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis not encode aprotein related to bacterial DsbA and no DsbA-like protein in Archaea were found, suggesting that...