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Based on the difference in the CD14 and CD16 expression, two subsets of monocytes were identified in human and other mammalian
blood. These subsets have different patterns of adhesion molecules and chemokine receptors that suggests the different mode
of their interaction with endothelium and tissue traffic. Here, we investigated the ability of CD14+CD16+ and CD14++CD16− monocytes to adhere to endothelial cell monolayer in presence or absence of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. We demonstrated
that CD14+CD16+ monocytes had a higher level of adhesion to intact monolayer of endothelial cells than CD14++CD16− monocytes. Adhesion of CD14++CD16− and CD14+CD16+ monocytes significantly increased in the presence of TNFα or its combination with other cytokines. IFNγ and IL-4 alone did
not affect the adhesion of monocytes. These results show that CD14++CD16− and CD14+CD16+ monocytes can be recruited to the inflamed endothelium, but CD14+CD16+ monocytes adhere to endothelial cells without inflammations twice as strongly as CD14++CD16− monocytes. 相似文献
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Arginine side-chains are often key for enzyme catalysis, protein–ligand and protein–protein interactions. The importance of arginine stems from the ability of the terminal guanidinium group to form many key interactions, such as hydrogen bonds and salt bridges, as well as its perpetual positive charge. We present here an arginine 13Cζ-detected NMR experiment in which a double-quantum coherence involving the two 15Nη nuclei is evolved during the indirect chemical shift evolution period. As the precession frequency of the double-quantum coherence is insensitive to exchange of the two 15Nη; this new approach is shown to eliminate the previously deleterious line broadenings of 15Nη resonances caused by the partially restricted rotation about the Cζ–Nε bond. Consequently, sharp and well-resolved 15Nη resonances can be observed. The utility of the presented method is demonstrated on the L99A mutant of the 19 kDa protein T4 lysozyme, where the measurement of small chemical shift perturbations, such as one-bond deuterium isotope shifts, of the arginine amine 15Nη nuclei becomes possible using the double-quantum experiment. 相似文献
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In two mountain ecosystems at the Alptal research site in central Switzerland, pulses of 15NO3 and 15NH4 were separately applied to trace deposited inorganic N. One forested and one litter meadow catchment, each approximately
1600 m2, were delimited by trenches in the Gleysols. K15NO3 was applied weekly or fortnightly over one year with a backpack sprayer, thus labelling the atmospheric nitrate deposition.
After the sampling and a one-year break, 15NH4Cl was applied as a second one-year pulse, followed by a second sampling campaign. Trees (needles, branches and bole wood),
ground vegetation, litter layer and soil (LF, A and B horizon) were sampled at the end of each labelling period. Extractable
inorganic N, microbial N, and immobilised soil N were analysed in the LF and A horizons. During the whole labelling period,
the runoff water was sampled as well. Most of the added tracer remained in both ecosystems. More NO3− than NH4+ tracer was retained, especially in the forest. The highest recovery was in the soil, mainly in the organic horizon, and in
the ground vegetation, especially in the mosses. Event-based runoff analyses showed an immediate response of 15NO3− in runoff, with sharp 15N peaks corresponding to discharge peaks. NO3− leaching showed a clear seasonal pattern, being highest in spring during snowmelt. The high capacity of N retention in these
ecosystems leads to the assumption that deposited N accumulates in the soil organic matter, causing a progressive decline
of its C:N ratio. 相似文献
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A confined aquifer in the Malm Karst of the Franconian Alb, South Germany was investigated in order to understand the role of the vadose zone in denitrifiaction processes. The concentrations of chemical tracers Sr2+ and Cl– and concentrations of stable isotope 18O were measured in spring water and precipitation during storm events. Based on these measurements a conceptual model for runoff was constructed. The results indicate that pre-event water, already stored in the system at the beginning of the event, flows downslope on vertical and lateral preferential flow paths. Chemical tracers used in a mixing model for hydrograph separation have shown that the pre-event water contribution is up to 30%. Applying this information to a conceptual runoff generation model, the values of 15N and 18O in nitrate could be calculated. Field observations showed the occurence of significant microbial denitrification processes above the soil/bedrock interface before nitrate percolates through to the deeper horizon of the vadose zone. The source of nitrate could be determined and denitrification processes were calculated. Assuming that the nitrate reduction follows a Rayleigh process one could approximate a nitrate input concentration of about 170 mg/l and a residual nitrate concentration of only about 15%. The results of the chemical and isotopic tracers postulate fertilizers as nitrate source with some influence of atmospheric nitrate. The combined application of hydrograph separation and determination of isotope values in 15N and 18O of nitrate lead to an improved understanding of microbial processes (nitrification, denitrification) in dynamic systems. 相似文献
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The limits of resolution that can be obtained in 1H–15N 2D NMR spectroscopy of isotopically enriched nanocrystalline proteins are explored. Combinations of frequency switched Lee–Goldburg (FSLG) decoupling, fast magic angle sample spinning (MAS), and isotopic dilution via deuteration are investigated as methods for narrowing the amide 1H resonances. Heteronuclear decoupling of 15N from the 1H resonances is also studied. Using human ubiquitin as a model system, the best resolution is most easily obtained with uniformly 2H and 15N enriched protein where the amides have been exchanged in normal water, MAS at 20 kHz, and WALTZ-16 decoupling of the 15N nuclei. The combination of these techniques results in average 1H lines of only 0.26 ppm full width at half maximum. Techniques for optimizing instrument stability and 15N decoupling are described for achieving the best possible performance in these experiments. 相似文献
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We present two NMR experiments, (3,2)D HNHA and (3,2)D HNHB, for rapid and accurate measurement of 3J(H N-H alpha) and 3J(N-H beta) coupling constants in polypeptides based on the principle of G-matrix Fourier transform NMR spectroscopy and quantitative J-correlation. These experiments, which facilitate fast acquisition of three-dimensional data with high spectral/digital resolution and chemical shift dispersion, will provide renewed opportunities to utilize them for sequence specific resonance assignments, estimation/characterization of secondary structure with/without prior knowledge of resonance assignments, stereospecific assignment of prochiral groups and 3D structure determination, refinement and validation. Taken together, these experiments have a wide range of applications from structural genomics projects to studying structure and folding in polypeptides. 相似文献
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V. A. Belyaev D. A. Kozlov A. A. Terent’ev A. E. Trenin 《Plasma Physics Reports》2017,43(10):1039-1041
A method for determining the lifetime of unstable ions is described. The method is based on measuring the decrease in the ion beam current onto a fixed detector with increasing path length of the ion beam from the ion source to the detector. The measurements performed for D? 2 and HD? molecular ions have shown that their lifetimes are 3.5 ± 0.1 and 4.4 ± 0.1 μs, respectively. 相似文献
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The structures and stabilities of eleven N13
+ and N13
– isomers have been investigated with second-order Møller–Plesset (MP2) and density functional theory (DFT) methods. Five N13
+ isomers and six N13
– isomers are all reasonable local minima on their potential energy hypersurfaces. The most stable N13
+ cation is structure C-2 with C2v symmetry, which contains a pentazole ring and two N4 open chains. It is different from those of the N7
+ and N9
+ clusters, but similar to the N11
+ cluster. Meanwhile, the most stable N13
– structure A-2 is composed of a pentazole ring and a six-membered ring connected by two nitrogen atoms. It is not only different from those of the N7
– and N9
– clusters, but also from the N11
– cluster. The decomposition pathways of structures C-2 and A-2 were investigated at the B3LYP/(aug)-cc-pVDZ level. From the barrier heights of the structures C-2 and A-2 decomposition processes, it is suggested that C-2 is difficult to observe experimentally and A-2 may be observed as a short-lived species.
Figure Optimized geometrical parameters of N13
+ isomer C-2
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Nishit Goradia Amelie Wißbrock Christoph Wiedemann Frank Bordusa Ramadurai Ramachandran Diana Imhof Oliver Ohlenschläger 《Biomolecular NMR assignments》2016,10(2):329-333
Interleukin-36α (IL-36α) is a recently characterised member of the interleukin-1 superfamily. It is involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory arthritis in one third of psoriasis patients. By binding of IL-36α to its receptor IL-36R via the NF-κB pathway other cytokines involved in inflammatory and apoptotic cascade are activated. The efficacy of complex formation is controlled by N-terminal processing. To obtain a more detailed view on the structure function relationship we performed a heteronuclear multidimensional NMR investigation and here report the 1H, 13C, and 15N resonance assignments for the backbone and side chain nuclei of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-36α. 相似文献
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Jorge A. Vila Pedro Serrano Kurt Wüthrich Harold A. Scheraga 《Journal of biomolecular NMR》2010,48(1):23-30
To evaluate sequential nearest-neighbor effects on quantum-chemical calculations of 13Cα chemical shifts, we selected the structure of the nucleic acid binding (NAB) protein from the SARS coronavirus determined
by NMR in solution (PDB id 2K87). NAB is a 116-residue α/β protein, which contains 9 prolines and has 50% of its residues
located in loops and turns. Overall, the results presented here show that sizeable nearest-neighbor effects are seen only
for residues preceding proline, where Pro introduces an overestimation, on average, of 1.73 ppm in the computed 13Cα chemical shifts. A new ensemble of 20 conformers representing the NMR structure of the NAB, which was calculated with an
input containing backbone torsion angle constraints derived from the theoretical 13Cα chemical shifts as supplementary data to the NOE distance constraints, exhibits very similar topology and comparable agreement
with the NOE constraints as the published NMR structure. However, the two structures differ in the patterns of differences
between observed and computed 13Cα chemical shifts, Δ
ca,i
, for the individual residues along the sequence. This indicates that the Δ
ca,i
-values for the NAB protein are primarily a consequence of the limited sampling by the bundles of 20 conformers used, as
in common practice, to represent the two NMR structures, rather than of local flaws in the structures. 相似文献
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The 13Cα chemical shifts for 16,299 residues from 213 conformations of four proteins (experimentally determined by X-ray crystallography
and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance methods) were computed by using a combination of approaches that includes, but is not limited
to, the use of density functional theory. Initially, a validation test of this methodology was carried out by a detailed examination
of the correlation between computed and observed 13Cα chemical shifts of 10,564 (of the 16,299) residues from 139 conformations of the human protein ubiquitin. The results of
this validation test on ubiquitin show agreement with conclusions derived from computation of the chemical shifts at the ab initio Hartree–Fock level. Further, application of this methodology to 5,735 residues from 74 conformations of the three remaining
proteins that differ in their number of amino acid residues, sequence and three-dimensional structure, together with a new
scoring function, namely the conformationally averaged root-mean-square-deviation, enables us to: (a) offer a criterion for an accurate assessment of the quality of NMR-derived protein conformations; (b) examine whether X-ray or NMR-solved structures are better representations of the
observed 13Cα chemical shifts in solution; (c) provide evidence indicating that the proposed methodology is more accurate than automated
predictors for validation of protein structures; (d) shed light as to whether the agreement between computed and observed
13Cα chemical shifts is influenced by the identity of an amino acid residue or its location in the sequence; and (e) provide evidence
confirming the presence of dynamics for proteins in solution, and hence showing that an ensemble of conformations is a better
representation of the structure in solution than any single conformation.
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Tonelli M Masterson LR Hallenga K Veglia G Markley JL 《Journal of biomolecular NMR》2007,39(3):177-185
We present a highly sensitive pulse sequence, carbonyl carbon label selective 1H–15N HSQC (CCLS-HSQC) for the detection of signals from 1H–15N units involved in 13C′–15N linkages. The CCLS-HSQC pulse sequence utilizes a modified 15N CT evolution period equal to 1/(
) (∼33 ms) to select for 13C′–15N pairs. By collecting CCLS-HSQC and HNCO data for two proteins (8 kDa ubiquitin and 20 kDa HscB) at various temperatures
(5–40°C) in order to vary correlation times, we demonstrate the superiority of the CCLS-HSQC pulse sequence for proteins with
long correlation times (i.e. higher molecular weight). We then show that the CCLS-HSQC experiment yields assignments in the
case of a 41 kDa protein incorporating pairs of 15N- and 13C′-labeled amino acids, where a TROSY 2D-HN(CO) had failed. Although the approach requires that the 1H–15N HSQC cross peaks be observable, it does not require deuteration of the protein. The method is suitable for larger proteins
and is less affected by conformational exchange than HNCO experiments, which require a longer period of transverse 15N magnetization. The method also is tolerant to the partial loss of signal from isotopic dilution (scrambling). This approach
will be applicable to families of proteins that have been resistant to NMR structural and dynamic analysis, such as large
enzymes, and partially folded or unfolded proteins. 相似文献
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We present a projected [1H,15N]-HMQC-[1H,1H]-NOESY experiment for observation of NOE interactions between amide protons with degenerate 15N chemical shifts in large molecular systems. The projection is achieved by simultaneous evolution of the multiple quantum
coherence of the nitrogen spin and the attached proton spin. In this way NOE signals can be separated from direct-correlation
peaks also in spectra with low resolution by fully exploiting both 1H and 15N frequency differences, such that sensitivity can be increased by using short maximum evolution times. The sensitivity of
the experiment is not dependent on the projection angle for projections up to 45° and no additional pulses or delays are required
as compared to the conventional 2D [1H,15N]-HMQC-NOESY. The experiment provides two distinct 2D spectra corresponding to the positive and negative angle projections,
respectively. With a linear combination of 1D cross-sections from the two projections the unavoidable sensitivity loss in
projection spectra can be compensated for each particular NOE interaction. We demonstrate the application of the novel projection
experiment for the observation of an NOE interaction between two sequential glycines with degenerate 15N chemical shifts in a 121.3 kDa complex of the linker H1 histone protein with a 152 bp linear DNA. 相似文献
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Imino 1H–15N residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) provide additional structural information that complements standard 1H–1H NOEs leading to improvements in both the local and global structure of RNAs. Here, we report measurement of imino 1H–1H RDCs for the Iron Responsive Element (IRE) RNA and native E. coli tRNAVal using a BEST-Jcomp-HMQC2 experiment. 1H–1H RDCs are observed between the imino protons in G–U wobble base pairs and between imino protons on neighboring base pairs
in both RNAs. These imino 1H–1H RDCs complement standard 1H–15N RDCs because the 1H–1H vectors generally point along the helical axis, roughly perpendicular to 1H–15N RDCs. The use of longitudinal relaxation enhancement increased the signal-to-noise of the spectra by ~3.5-fold over the
standard experiment. The ability to measure imino 1H–1H RDCs offers a new restraint, which can be used in NMR domain orientation and structural studies of RNAs.
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The molecular weight and subunit composition of Cl-,HCO3(-)- and picrotoxin-stimulated Mg2+-ATPase from rat brain plasma membrane solubilized in sodium deoxycholate were studied by gel filtration chromatography. The enzyme activity eluted from a Sephacryl S-300 column in a single peak associated with a protein of molecular weight approximately 300 kD and a Stokes radius of 5.4 nm. The enzyme-enriched fraction, concentrated and denatured by SDS, migrated through a Sephacryl S-200 column as three peaks with molecular weights of approximately 57, 53, and 45 kD. SDS-PAGE also showed three major protein bands with molecular weights of about 57, 53, and 48 kD. The molecular weight and subunit composition of the Cl- and HCO3(-)-stimulated Mg2+-ATPase from neuronal membrane of rat brain are similar with the molecular properties of GABA(A)-benzodiazepine receptor complex from mammalian brain but are different from those of P-type transport ATPases. 相似文献
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E. Yu. Aleshina N. V. Pyndyk A. A. Moisa M. A. Sanzhakov O. N. Kharybin E. N. Nikolaev E. F. Kolesanova 《Biochemistry (Moscow) Supplemental Series B: Biomedical Chemistry》2008,2(3):288-292
The peptide RHDSGY, a fragment of the human β-amyloid Zn-binding site, and its isomers RH(D-Asp)SGY and RH(β-Asp)SGY have been obtained as amides by means of solid-phase synthesis and analyzed by HPLC and various mass spectrometric methods. The problem of low yield of the RHDSGY peptide and its isomers attributed to 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc)-amino acids and/or formation of such side-products as RH(β-Asp)SGY (or RHDSGY during synthesis of RH(β-Asp)SGY) and RH(Asp-imide) SGY was solved via selection of individual reagents for removal of Fmoc groups from α-amino groups of the growing peptide chain. 相似文献
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Khandekar Jishan Bari Shrikant Sharma Kandala V. R. Chary 《Biomolecular NMR assignments》2018,12(1):51-55
γS-crystallin is a major structural component of the human eye lens, which maintains its stability over the lifetime of an organism with negligible turnover. The G57W mutant of human γS-crystallin (abbreviated hereafter as γS-G57W) is associated with dominant congenital cataracts. In order to provide a structural basis for the ability of γS-G57W causing cataract, we have cloned, overexpressed, isolated and purified the protein. The 2D [15N–1H]-HSQC spectrum recorded with uniformly 13C/15N-labelled γS-G57W was highly dispersed indicating the protein to adopt an ordered conformation. In this paper, we report almost complete sequence-specific 1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignments of γS-G57W using a suite of heteronuclear 3D NMR experiments. 相似文献