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Kevin McClay Baojie Wan Yuehong Wang Sanghyun Cho Jerry Yu Bernard Santarsiero Shahila Mehboob Michael Johnson Scott Franzblau Robert Steffan 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2013,97(16):7151-7163
Two bacterial hosts expressing cloned aromatic oxygenases were used to catalyze the oxidation and polymerization of indole and related substrates, creating mixtures of indigoid compounds comprised of novel dimers and trimers. Crude extracts and purified compounds were tested for their ability to inhibit the growth of Gram-positive organisms, in general, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB), in particular. Of the 74 compounds tested against M. tuberculosis, ~66 % had minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of 5 μg/ml or less. The most effective antibiotic found was designated SAB-P1, a heterodimer of indole and anthranil, which had a MIC of 0.16 μg/ml, and did not inhibit kidney cells (IC50) at concentrations of >8 μg/ml. Combinatorial biocatalysis was used to create a series of halogenated derivatives of SAB-P1 with a wider therapeutic window. None of the derivatives had MIC values that were superior to SAB-P1, but some had a wider therapeutic window because of decreased kidney cell toxicity. Generally, the indigoid dimers that were effective against TB appeared to be specific for TB. Some of the trimers generated, however, had a broader spectrum of activity inhibiting not only TB (MIC?=?1.1 μg/ml) but also the growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis MC2 155, Bacillus cereus, Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Bacillus subtilis 168, and Clostridium acetobutylicum. The structure of two of the novel dimers (SAB-C4 and SAB-P1) and a trimer (SAB-R1) were solved using X-ray crystallography. 相似文献
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Isolation and Characterization of a Rice Cysteine Protease Gene, OsCP1, Using T-DNA Gene-Trap System 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
The T-DNA gene-trap system has been efficiently used to elucidate gene functions in plants. We report here a functional analysis of a cysteine protease gene, OsCP1, isolated from a pool of T-DNA insertional rice. GUS assay with the T-DNA tagged line indicated that the OsCP1 promoter was highly active in the rice anther. Sequence analysis revealed that the deduced amino acid sequence of OsCP1 was homologous to those of papain family cysteine proteases containing the highly conserved interspersed amino acid motif, ERFNIN. This result suggested that the gene encodes a cysteine protease in rice. We also identified a suppressed mutant from T2 progeny of the T-DNA tagged line. The mutant showed a significant defect in pollen development. Taken together, the results demonstrated that OsCP1 is a cysteine protease gene that might play an important role in pollen development. 相似文献
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Kwon Jeong Seong-Jin Kim Yoojung Oh Hunsung Kim Young-Seok Lee Byung-Su Kwon Sanghyun Park Key-Chung Park Kyung-Sik Yoon Sung Soo Kim Joohun Ha Insug Kang Wonchae Choe 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2014
Accumulating evidence suggests that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress plays a major role in the development of many diseases. A previous study indicated that the apoptotic regulator p53 is significantly increased in response to ER stress and participates in ER stress-induced apoptosis. However, the regulators of p53 expression during ER stress are still not fully understood. Here, we investigated whether p53 contributes to the impairment of Pin1 signaling under ER stress. We found that treatment with thapsigargin, a stimulator of p53 expression and an inducer of ER stress, decreased Pin1 expression in HCT116 cells. Also, we identified functional p53 response elements (p53REs) in the Pin1 promoter. Overexpression of p53 significantly decreased Pin1 expression in HCT116 cells while abolition of p53 gene expression induced Pin1 expression. Pin1 expression was significantly increased by treatment with the p53 inhibitor pifithrin-α or down-regulation of p53 expression. Taken together, ER stress decreased Pin1 expression through p53 activation, and this mechanism may be associated with ER stress-induced cell death. These data reported here support the importance of Pin1 as a potential target molecule mediating tumor development. 相似文献
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Won Gi Yoo Sanghyun Lee Myoung-Ro Lee Mi-Ran Yun Taesoo Kwon Dae-Won Kim 《Bioinformation》2015,11(1):17-20
The increase in prevalence of antimicrobial resistance makes the search for new antibiotic agents imperative. Antimicrobial
peptides (AMPs) from natural resources have been recognized as suitable tools to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The liver
fluke Clonorchis sinensis living in germ-filled environments could be a good source of antimicrobials. Here, we report the use of a
rational protocol that combines AMP predictions based on their physicochemical properties and their in vivo stability to discover
AMP candidates from the entire genome of C. sinensis. To screen AMP candidates, in silico analyses based on the physicochemical
properties of known AMPs, such as length, charge, isoelectric point, and in vitro and in vivo aggregation values were performed. To
enhance their in vivo stability, proteins having proteolytic cleavage sites were excluded. As a consequence, four high-activity, highstability
peptides were identified. These peptides could be potential starting materials for the development of new AMPs via
structural modification and optimization. Thus, this study proposes a refined computational method to develop new AMPs and
identifies four AMP candidates, which could serve as templates for further development of peptide antibiotics. 相似文献
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Nuclear import and export are often considered inverse processes whereby transport receptors ferry protein cargo through the nuclear pore. In contrast to import, where the reversible binding of receptor to nuclear RanGTP leads to a balanced bidirectional exchange, termination of export by physiologically irreversible hydrolysis of the Ran-bound GTP leads to unidirectional transport. We present a concise mathematical model that predicts protein distributions and kinetic rates for receptor-mediated nuclear export, which further exhibit an unexpected pseudolinear relation one to the other. Predictions of the model are verified with permeabilized and live cell measurements. 相似文献
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Nanogenerators: Boosting Power‐Generating Performance of Triboelectric Nanogenerators via Artificial Control of Ferroelectric Polarization and Dielectric Properties (Adv. Energy Mater. 2/2017) 下载免费PDF全文