... enriched atTATA-less promoters and may therefore play a role of maintaining this class of promoter in an open confor-mation [196].Many promoters contain CG islands that formunstable nucleosomesThe ... roughly divided into (a)TATA-containing promoters where the TATA isblocked by a nucleosome which can be disrupted byregulated factors which activate the gene, and (b)TATA-free constitutively ... developmental transcription factors HNF3(FoxA) and GATA-4. Mol Cell 9, 279–289.237 Hatta M & Cirillo LA (2007) Chromatin opening and stable perturbation of core histone:DNA contacts byFoxO1....
... Domain structureof the MAP2-asso-ciated RasGEF v-KIND and its dendritic tar-geting via KIND2 domain. (A) Structures of the v-KIND. KIND1, KIND2, coiled-coil (CC),RasN and RasGEF domains. Flag-taggedv-KIND ... neurons.Fig. S4. Domain structureof MAP2 and the alignment of v-KIND-binding core (BD) region of MAP2 CD2domain (702–744 aa) in human, mouse and GallusThis supplementary material can be found ... shaping neu-ronal circuits, and also may provide a clue to theunderstanding of some MAP2-associated neurodegen-erative and psychiatric disorders [16,17].Materials and methodsAnimalsMice (ICR)...
... Shimeta & Jumars,1991) and the problems of dealing with extremely small particles.It is reasonable to expect tuning of the size of filtering structures and collect-ing elements to profitable ... Metabolic theory provides a conceptual basis for predicting,measuring and understanding the roles of different kinds of organisms in the flux and storage of elements in ecosystems. The total ... Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 89, 69–80.Okamura, B. (1988). The influence of neighborson the feeding of an epifaunal bryozoan.Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology,...
... representation of the structureof NK-lysin, a saposin-like protein [26]. The N-terminal domain is shown inblue and C-terminal domain in red. (B) Ribbon representation of the structureof the ... prosegment and total or partial removal of the internalFig. 1. Plant aspartic proteinase precursors. Comparison of the aminoacid sequences of representative members of the A1 family of plantaspartic ... residues of the N-terminal of the mature enzyme and by the ÔflapÕ. The anchorage of the prosegment andof part of the N-terminus in the active site cleft is made by ionicinteractions established...
... combi-nation [13–15].From analysis of single channel conductances obtainedupon coinjection of wild-type and mutant subunits, and from quantification of radiolabelled a and b subunits, thestoichiometry ... nAChRantagonists found in cone snail venoms. Identification of further selective peptides, together with the investigation and understanding of their structure- activity relationships,may start ... Crystal structure of an ACh-binding protein reveals the ligand-binding domain of nicotinic receptors. Nature 411, 269–276.6. Dutertre,S.&Lewis,R.J.(2004)Computationalapproachestounderstand...
... that of thepelC protein.Mutagenesis of insect AFPsAnalysis of the structures combined w ith i nformation fr omisoform s equences and mutation experiments may provideclues to understanding ... Graether and Brian D. SykesCIHR Group in Protein Structureand Function, Department of Biochemistry and Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, ... AFP isoformsIn addition to in vitro mutations, the comparison of isoformsequences can d emonstrate which residues are important fora protein’s function and structure. A list of known i soformsmay...
... to compare structure, and intra- and intermolecular evolution of hemocyanins fromMyriapoda, Crustacea and Chelicerata.Materials and methodsProtein biochemistryScutigera coleoptrata (Myriapoda, ... subunits and HcX, plus 6–45 bp of the respective 5Â untranslatedregions and the entire 3Â untranslated regions. The standardpolyadenylation signals (AATAAA) and the poly(A)-tails of different ... submitted to MALDI-TOF analysis and assigned to distinct subunits.Fig. 1. SDS/PAGE and immunoblotting of S. coleoptrata hemocyanin.About 10 lg of total hemolymph protein (HL) and 3 lgofpurifiedhemocyanin...
... DSC, of caseins, synucleins and tau, togetherwith several mutants of a-synuclein and tau that causeneurodegenerative diseases. The ROA spectra of all theseproteins are very similar to those of ... parts of calciđedstones known as corpora amylacea has recently beenreported [28]. Such stones form in the mammary glandduring lactation and contain a group of amyloid-stainingpeptides that start ... Ó FEBS 2002 and the P301L mutant of human tau 46 is P PII helix. Someb strand may also be present, but no b sheet.Caseins, synucleins and tau as rheomorphic proteinsThe R OA data clearly s...
... model of the role of point of view in problem solving. SUMMARY We have reported here a three pronged approach to the study of problem solving action and report: I) the collected of data on ... of data on problem solving and talk about problem solving, 2) development of a process model of these behaviors, and 3) use of coding techniques to extract traces of "critical phenomena" ... efforts on two types of problem solving phenomena: the changes in the problem solver's organization of the problem ("point of view"), and systematic multl-utterance structures used...
... precise specifications of what programs do.Like StructureandInterpretationofComputer Programs, by Abelson, Sussman,& Sussman [1, 2], our book mostly uses the computation-based approach. ... diagram of the lift control system 3755.6 Notationforstatediagrams 3755.7 Statediagramofaliftcontroller 3775.8 Implementationofthetimerandcontrollercomponents 3785.9 Statediagramofafloor 3795.10Implementationofthefloorcomponent ... subsequent editionof DatalogiII and for his comments on a draft of the book. We thank Ali Ghodsi, Johan Montelius, and the other three assistantsfor their work on the practical part of this edition. ...
... a displacement of arres-tin’s C-terminus [29] and/ or changes in the conformation of certain loops that facilitate R* binding [9].The structureof arrestin R175Q resemblesthat of wild-type arrestinReplacement ... W. Clay Smith2 and Paul A. Hargrave2,31Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada;2Departments of Ophthalmology and 3Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ... at the top of the (B) and (C), expressed as apercentage of the total signal from the detector.Ó FEBS 2002 Activation of visual arrestin (Eur. J. Biochem. 269) 3805 A twofold noncrystallographic...
... 0.08Percentage of residues inthe most favorable region of the Ramachandran map91.1 85.5Percentage of residues indisallowed region of theRamachandran map00Superimposition of the structures ... backbone) of all 24 con-formers of the NMR families of solution structures of the closed and open conformers of the C-terminaldomain of human eRF1.Table S1. Differences in the experimental restraints ... coordinates of the atoms inFig. 6. Superposition of the representative NMR open conformer of the C-domain (red and blue) on the crystal structure [20] of thecomplex of human eRF1 (green) and the...
... complex structure with GDP and FA [22], and has been suggested to beordered only in the ribosome-bound GTP state, asTable 1. Summary of crystallographic data and refinement.Data collection statisticsResolution ... crystal structures of freeEF-G.FA resistance mutationsFA binds to EF-G on the ribosome and prevents itsdissociation after GTP hydrolysis and translocation. Inthe recent crystal structureof ... new crystal structureof S. aureusEF-G demonstrates the flexibility of EF-G in the freestate, and provides new details that may be useful inthe design of new and better antibiotics targeting...
... multipleamyloidogenic forms and with various ligands bound).The crystal structures of transthyretin from rat [35],chicken [36] and sea bream [37,38] have also beensolved. All of these structures demonstrate ... struc-tures of these proteins, all tetrameric, showed signifi-cant similarity to the published structures of transthyretin. By way of example, a comparison of the structure of S. dublin TLP with the structures ... dublin TLP and zebrafish TLP are found in the flex-ible portions of strands B and C that protrude towardsthe solvent and in the conformation of the long loopconnecting strands D and E [17]....