... by introducing an NsiI site at the translation start point of galA and by thencloning a fragment, starting at this NsiI site and containing the galA gene and approximately 700 bp 3¢-flanking ... galacto-oligosaccharides.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors thank Simon Flitter for the identification and isolationof the galA containing phage clones and Matthew Illsley for the analysis of a-L-1,5-arabinofuranosidase activity inthe ... demonstrates theimportant role of GALA in the degradation of both linear andL-arabinose-substitutedgalactan side chains of pectin. This is in agreement with aprevious study in which the synergy...
... indicated by an arrow inthe right lane. (B) In vitrobovine trypsin inhibition by the recombinant NtKTI1 protein (opencircles). Soybean trypsin inhibitor (triangles) was assayed in parallelas ... 4B).Tobacco plants overexpressing NtKTI1 showenhanced resistance to R. solani infectionTo evaluate thein planta role of NtKTI1 in defense,sense and antisense lines under the control of the cauli-flower ... trypsin inhibitor with antifungal activityfrom Nicotiana tabacum, plays animportant role in tobacco’s defense response Hao Huang*, Sheng-Dong Qi*, Fang Qi, Chang-Ai Wu, Guo-Dong Yang and Cheng-Chao...
... itsNH2-terminal region, as well as an Mre11-bindingdomain and an ATM-binding domain in its COOH-terminal region (Fig. 1). FHA and BRCT domains areoften present in eukaryotic nuclear proteins involved in ... MRN foci in cells exposed to IR, led to the hypothesis that the MRN complex functions in the sensing of DNA strand breakage and inthe activationof the ATM-dependent DNAdamage signaling path-way ... substrates inthe ATM-depend-ent DNAdamage signaling pathway [10,11,39].Given that ATM is a central playerinthe cellular response to DNA strand breakage, it is important tounderstand the mechanisms...
... of the N-terminal region on the molecular surface. Inthe wild-type enzyme, the side chain of Asp266 interacted with the amino group of the main chain at Glu268. The oxygen of the main chain ... conformational changeson the surface. On the other hand, anionic surfactants suchas SDS and LAS bind to the surface regions of protein, and the surface regions would be unfolded and removed from the core ... from the amino acid sequence alignment of ALP I and the neutralsubtilisins. These candidate residues did not occur at the corresponding positions of the alkaline subtilisins. Fur-thermore, on the...
... spans the entire thicknessof the inner retina. The Mu¨ller cell constitutes an ana-tomical link between the retinal neurones and supportstheir activities by exchanging molecules between the other ... RPE65c and GS staining (B3), and 4¢,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) staining (B4), respectively. (B5-8) High magnificationimages of the boxed area in (B4) showing RPE65c staining (B5), GS staining ... contribute toproviding chromophore to melanopsin to maintaintheir light sensitivities. The expression and function ofRPE65c in other cell types inthe retina remains to beinvestigated.Earlier...
... linked hairpins inthe membrane[10]. Importantly, the ion-binding site is not conserved in hairpin one. If one assumes the same number oftransmembrane helices in V0and F0, the rotor ofeukaryal ... (lanes 6, 8 and 9), andindividual subunits were detected by silverstaining (lane 6) or immunoblotting using an antibody against subunit c1(lanes 7 and 8)or subunit c2 ⁄ 3(lane 9). The antibodyagainst ... handedness, and twoof the rings face inthe opposite direction in the membrane to the other two, forming the same patternas inthe AFM surface representation of Fig. 2A. Bycomparison with the...
... rectangles, b-strands as arrows. ÔdÕ indicates residues inthe dimer interface and ÔtÕ residues in tetramer interface.Residues lining the active site cavity are underlined. Residues binding ... of the corresponding intermediate in transketolase [37] and the model derived for ScPDC [38] (Fig. 6). Inthe immediatevicinity of the modelled a-carbanion/enamine, there are anumber of invariant ... by amino acids with a largehydrophobic side chain. Furthermore, there are significantstructural differences between ZmPDC and IPDC on the one hand, and ScPDC on the other hand involving the C-terminal...
... patterning in earlyembryonic development and inthe antimicrobial immune responsein larvaeand adults. We have investigated the function of Spa¨tzle in a lepidopteraninsect, Manduca sexta, in ... the protein was transferred to apoly(vinylidene difluoride) membrane and stained with 40%methanol containing 0.025% Coomassie Brilliant BlueR-250. After destaining with 50% methanol, the bandcorresponding ... gene. Inthe clade includingSpa¨tzle-1, the branch lengths are noticeably longer and the bootstrap values are lower than inthe other cladescontaining Spa¨tzle-2 to Spa¨tzle-6, indicating...
... protein incubated with increas-ing concentrations of either ATP or ATPcS was centri-fuged followed by assaying the protein concentrations in the supernatant as well as the pellet. Inthe set ... con-taining ATPcS, the entire protein sample was recov-ered inthe supernatant (Fig. 5A) and no protein wasdetected inthe pellet fractions (data not shown). In the same conditions the ATP ... have investigated the changes associ-ated with the molecular aggregates of mismatch repairproteins MutS, MutL in relation to their interactionwith mismatch containing DNA and the ongoing ATPhydrolysis....
... cellspeci®c anticancer therapy [29], we encountered largedifferences inthe responses of the various human cancercell lines to the same ODN. We have examined this effect in detail and extended the analysis ... is inactive inthein vitro RNaseH assay, or that some other enzymatic activity is measured. The detection of increased activity inthe transfectantsoverexpressing the coding region of the ... as the ODN h ybridizes to the center of the input target RNA. The asterisk indicates the input targetRNA; the arrow indicates the digested product bands. The amount ofdigested product obtained...
... pUZ8002 bearing the cosmidwith oriT and the S. coelicolor DdesA mutant, single cross-over exconjugants were screened for kanamycin resistance.Kanamycin-resistant colonies were isolated and analysed ... As the DdesA mutant is apramycin resistant, the kanamycinresistance marker was cloned into an XbaI site of the newconstruct (pSKdesA). A 5723-bp XhoI+NotI fragmentcontaining the desA gene and ... procedures), and the DdesA mutation was veri-fied in one of the mutants by PCR and Southern blotanalysis. A 1462-bp PCR band corresponding to the extended resistance cassette was found only in the mutant...
... narrower line-widths than anyother residues inthe protein. This indicates that the PEST sequence is an unstructured, highly mobileregion within SOCS3. The PEST sequence is an insertion inthe SH2domainAnalysis ... C-terminalsuppressor of cytokine signalling (SOCS) box. SOCS3 and the related pro-tein, cytokine-inducible SH2-containing protein, are unique among the SOCS family of proteins in containing a region of mostly ... the kinase inhibitory region and the entire extended SH2subdomain form a single a-helix. The mapping of the true SH2 domain,and the location of its C terminus more than 50 residues further...
... mRNA insta-bility and the involvement of the ARE in this process[10,11]. In addition, another destabilizing sequence wasidentified within the coding region of IFN-b mRNA [12,13].Whereas the independent ... 1A). We then analysed, by Northern blot, the induc-tion and decay of IFN-b transcript inthe same conditions.AsshowninFig.1B,IFN-b mRNA was detectable 4 hafter the beginning of the infection, ... encoding the HA epitope wasinserted at the end of the IFN-b coding sequence todistinguish the products resulting from the expression of the DNA constructs and the endogenous gene (Fig. 2). Theseconstructs...
... beenproposed as a Mg2+-binding ligand in a product com-plex, in addition to its initial role in direct ligation of the sugar OH group inan analogous manner to thatfound intheDNA ⁄ RNA polymerase ... identified Lys19 inthe Haemo-philus ducreyi CNS, and Lys21 and Arg12 in CNSfrom Escherichia coli (Fig. 1) as important catalyticresidues, indicating a role in binding the nucleotideinto the active ... of the purifiedF192A and F193A mutant enzymes were obtained in the same way as the wild-type enzyme (Table 1). The results support the role of these residues in bindingNeu5Ac, because the mutants...
... dolphins and whales are the closestdivergences before the ruminants, we further examined the size of the a-chain in whales and dolphins as wellas other ruminants (cattle and goat) to determine the possible ... time of the tandem repeat evolution in deerHp. Interestingly, the inserted panel of Fig. 10 showsthat the a-chains of all the ruminants tested are the a2type, except for dolphins (n = 5) and whales ... linkages within the a-chain (Cys34 and68 and Cys93 and 127), and the one at the C-terminalregion (Cys131) cross-links with the b-chain (Cys105) toform a basic a-b unit. Under such an arrangement,Cys15...