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Circular dichroism, ellipsometry and radiolabeling techniques were employed to study the induction of changes in the secondary structure of BSA, myoglobin and cytochrome C by a hydrophobic surface. The results showed that adsorbed protein molecules lose their ordered native structure in the initial stage of adsorption and the structure appears to be a random or disordered conformation. Protein molecules adsorbed in later stages adopt a more ordered secondary structure ( helix and structure). The changes of secondary structure of globular proteins induced by a hydrophobic surface can be explained by the steric interaction between adsorbed proteins as well as by hydrophobic interactions during the adsorption process. In addition, there is obviously an intermediate stage in which the protein molecules are mainly in the structure, indicating that for certain proteins, the structure may be a more stable secondary structure than helix on the hydrophobic surface.
Correspondence to: S.-F. Sui 相似文献
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Oxysterols have been shown to induce apoptosis in a variety of cell lines. The mechanism of oxysterol-induced apoptosis is mainly known at the post-mitochondrial level. The aim of the present study was to compare the pathway of apoptosis induced by the oxysterols 7-hydroxycholesterol (7-OH) and cholesterol-5,6-epoxide (-epoxide) in U937 cells. To this end, we employed a range of inhibitors of apoptosis; a broad-spectrum caspase inhibitor, a specific caspase-3 inhibitor and an inhibitor of cytochromec release and the antioxidants; trolox, ebselen and resveratrol. The three inhibitors of apoptosis prevented cell death induced by 7-OH; however, in -epoxide-treated cells, the inhibitor of cytochromec release did not protect against apoptosis. The cellular antioxidant glutathione was depleted in 7-OH-treated cells but not in cells incubated with -epoxide. Trolox, a water-soluble synthetic analogue of -tocopherol, prevented 7-OH-induced apoptosis but did not protect against cell death induced by -epoxide. Ebselen and resveratrol did not protect U937 cells against apoptosis induced by either 7-OH or -epoxide. Our results suggest that differences occur in the pathways of apoptosis induced by 7-OH and -epoxide in U937 cells. 相似文献
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The effect of estradiol, hydrocortisone and progesterone on 3,20-and 3,17-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (HSD) in mutants of Streptomyces hydrogenans was compared to the steroid response of the wild type. Mutants were defective in arginine biosynthesis and/or aerial mycelial formation and lacked both enzymes or only 17-HSD. Some 17-HSD mutants had lost the ability to be induced by estradiol, by progesterone or by both. Some 20-HSD mutants had lost the ability to be induced by hydrocortisone, by progesterone or by both. Non-inducibility of 17-and 20-HSD by progesterone was not co-ordinate. An additional study of the growth phase-dependent enzyme activity of the wild type after induction with estradiol, hydrocortisone and progesterone was performed.Non-standard abbreviations 17-HSD
3,17-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.51)
- 20-HSD
3,20-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.53)
- AO
acridine orange
- EBr
ethidium bromide
- EMS
ethyl methanesulfonate
- MNNG
N-methyl-N-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine 相似文献
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Boel Lanne Jeana Cîopraga Jörgen Bergström Cecilia Motas Karl-Anders Karlsson 《Glycoconjugate journal》1994,11(4):292-298
The carbohydrate-binding specificity ofPseudomonas aeruginosa lectin I (PA-I) in iodinated or biotinylated form was studied. A large number of glycosphingolipids, as well as some glycoproteins and neoglycoproteins were used as ligands. Also, inhibition by free saccharides of PA-I binding to glycosphingolipids was tested. It was found that the lectin binds most strongly to terminal and nonsubstituted Gal3Gal- or Gal4Gal-structures.Abbreviations PA-I
Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectin I
- Cer
ceramide
- lactosylceramide
Gal4GlcCer
- iso globotriaosylcerami
Gal3Gal4GlcCer
- globotriaosylceramide
Gal4Gal4GlcCer
- globoside or globotetraosylceramide
GalNAc3Gal4Gal4GlcCer
- Forssman glycolipid
GalNAc3GalNAc3Gal4Gal4GlcCer
- P1 glycolipid
Gal4Gal4GlcNAc3Gal4GlcCer
- lactoneotetraosylceramide
Gal4GlcNAc3Gal4GlcCer
- B5 glycolipid
Gal3Gal4GlcNAc3Gal4GlcCer
- gangliotetraosylceramide
Gal3GalNAc4Gal4GlcCer
- GM1
Gal3GalNAc4(NeuAc3)Gal4GlcCer
- RBC
red blood cells
- BSA
bovine serum albumin
- PBS
phosphate-buffered saline
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulfate
- TLC
thin-layer chromatography
- HPLC
high pressure liquid chromatography
- MS
mass spectrometry
- FAB
fast-atom bombardment
- EI
electron impact 相似文献
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The two main ordered conformations of polypeptides, the -helix and the -sheet, were considered as possible asymmetric supports for stereoselection processes leading to the enrichment in one enantiomer. -Helices can accomodate residues of both chirality distributed in the same chain, whereas the formation of -sheets arises from the association of chain segments containing at least seven residues of the same chirality. When the residue composition departs from the racemic mixture, one handedness of the helix is favored, whereas the -sheet nuclei become predominantly of a unique chirality. Taking into account these observations, processes of enrichment specific for -and -structures were envisaged theoretically as well as experimentally. 相似文献
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Hiroshi Fujimoto Megumi Isomura Tatsuo Miyazaki Ichiro Matsuo Richard Walton Tohru Sakakibara Katsumi Ajisaka 《Glycoconjugate journal》1997,14(1):75-80
GlcNAc1-2Man and GlcNAc1-6Man were synthesized using the reverse hydrolysis activity of -N-acetylglucosaminidase from both jack beans and Bacillus circulans. In turn, Gal1-4GlcNAc1-2Man and Gal1-4GlcNAc1-6Man were synthesized regioselectively using the transglycosylation activity of -galactosidase from Diplococcus pneumoniae and B. circulans, respectively. These di- and trisaccharides are important components of complex type sugar chains and will be used as intermediates in our synthetic studies. Abbreviations: pNp--GlcNAc, p-nitrophenyl 2-acetamido-2-deoxy--D-glucopyranoside; pNp--Gal, p-nitrophenyl -D-galacto-pyranoside 相似文献
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Sreedhara Sangadala Subramanian Sivakami Joseph Mendicino 《Molecular and cellular biochemistry》1991,101(2):125-143
Summary Two specific -N-acetylglucosaminyltransferases involved in the branching and elongation of mucin oligosaccharide chains, namely, a 1,6 N-acetylglucosaminylsaminyltransferase that transfers N-acetylglucosamine from UDP-N-acetylglucosamine to Gal3GalNAc-Mucin to yield Gal3(GlcNAc6)GalNAc-Mucin and a 3-N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase that transfers N-acetylglucosamine from UDP-N-acetylglucosamine to Gal3(GlcNAC6)GalNAc-mucin to yield GlcNAc3Gal3 (GlcNAc6)GalNAc-Mucin were purified from the microsomal fraction of swine trachea epithelium. The 1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase was purified about 21,800-fold by procedures which included affinity chromatography on DEAE columns containing bound asialo Cowper's gland mucin glycoprotein with Gal1,3GalNAc side chains. The apparent molecular weight estimated by gel filtration was found to be about 60 Kd. The purified enzyme showed a high specificity for Gal1,3GalNAc chains and the most active substrates were mucin glycoproteins containing these chains. The apparent Km of the 6-glucosaminyltrans-ferase for Cowper's gland mucin glycoprotein containing Gal1,3GalNAc chains was 0.53 µM; for UDP-N-acetylglucosamine, 12 µM; and for Gal 1,3GalNAc NO2ø, 4 mM. The activity of the 6-glucosaminyltransferase was dependent on the extent of glycosylation of the Gal3GalNAc chains in Cowper's gland mucin glycoprotein.The best substrate for the partially purified 3-Glucosaminyltransferase was Cowper's gland mucin glycoprotein containing Gal1,3(GlcNAc6)GalNAc side chains. This enzyme showed little or no activity with intact sialylated Cowper's gland mucin glycoprotein or derivatives of this glycoprotein containing GalNAc or Gal1,3GalNAc side chains.The radioactive oligosaccharides formed by these enzymes in large scale reaction mixtures were released from the mucin glycoproteins by treatment with alkaline borohydride, isolated by gel filtration on Bio-Gel P-6 and characterized by methylation analysis and sequential digestion with exoglycosidases. The oligosaccharide products formed by the 6- and 3-glucosaminyltransferases were shown to be Gal3(GlcNAC6) GalNAc and GlcNAc3 Gal3(GlcNAC6)GalNAc respectively.Taken collectively, these results demonstrate that swine trachea epithelium contains two specific N-acetylglucosaminyltransferases which catalyze the initial branching and elongation reactions involved in the synthesis of O-linked oligosaccharide chains in respiratory mucin glycoproteins. The first enzyme a 6-glucosaminyltransferase converts Gal3GalNAc chains in mucin glycoproteins to Gal3(GlcNAc6)GalNAc chains. This product is the substrate for a second 3-glucosaminyltransferase which converts the Gal3(GlcNAc6)GalNAc chains to GlcNAc3Gal(GlcNAc6)GalNAc chains in the glycoprotein. The 3-glucosaminyltransferase did not utilize Gal3GalNAc chains as a substrate and this results in an ordered sequence of addition of N-acetylglucosamine residues to growing oligosaccharide chains in tracheal mucin glycoproteins.Abbreviations NeuNAc
N-acetylneuraminic acid
- GalNAcol
N-acetylgalactosaminitol
- CGMG
Cowper's gland mucin glycoprotein
- GalNAc-CGMG
Cowper's gland mucin glycoprotein containing GalNAc side chains O-glycosidically linked to serine or threonine
- Gal3GalNAc-CGMC
Cowper's gland mucin glycoprotein containing Gal3GalNAc side chains
- MES
2-(N-morpholino) Ethane Sulfonic acid
- PBS
Phosphate Buffered Saline 相似文献
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Cornelis H. Hokke Jos G. M. van der Ven Johannis P. Kamerling Johannes F. G. Vliegenthart 《Glycoconjugate journal》1993,10(1):82-90
Incubation of synthetic Man\1-4GlcNAc-OMe, GalNAc1-4GlcNAc-OMe, Glc1-4GlcNAc-OMe, and GlcNAc1-4GlcNac-OMe with CMP-Neu5Ac and rat liver Gal1-4GlcNAc (2-6)-sialyltransferase resulted in the formation of Neu5Ac2-6Man1-4GlcNAc-OMe, Neu5Ac2-6GalNAc1-4GlcNAc-OMe, Neu5Ac2-6Glc1-4GlcNAc-OMe and Neu5Ac2-6GlcNAc1-4GlcNAc-OMe, respectively. Under conditions which led to quantitative conversion of Gal1-4GlcNAc-OEt into Neu5Ac2-6Gal1-4GlcNAc-OEt, the aforementioned products were obtained in yields of 4%, 48%, 16% and 8%, respectively. HPLC on Partisil 10 SAX was used to isolate the various sialyltrisaccharides, and identification was carried out using 1- and 2-dimensional 500-MHz1H-NMR spectroscopy.Abbreviations 2D
2-dimensional
- CMP
cytidine 5-monophosphate
- CMP-Neu5Ac
cytidine 5-monophospho--N-acetylneuraminic acid
- COSY
correlation spectroscopy
- DQF
double quantum filtered
- HOHAHA
homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn
- MLEV
composite pulse devised by M. Levitt
- Neu5Ac
N-acetylneuraminic acid
- Neu5Ac2en
2-deoxy-2,3-didehydro-N-acetylneuraminic acid 相似文献
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We have developed a new method for the large scale preparation of pyridylaminated (PA-) oligosaccharides from glycoproteins. Phenol/chloroform extration was adapted for the removal of protein and excess 2-aminopyridine, improving the efficiency of preparation. From a 2.5 g sample of human apo-transferrin, 25–30 mol of agalacto biantennary PA-oligosaccharide could be obtained. By increasing the concentration of PA-oligosaccharide substrate, we were able to detect a very low level ofN-acetylglucosaminlytransferase IV activity in CHO cell extracts.Abbreviations PA
2-aminopyridine
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulfate
- GlcNAc
N-acetylglucosamine
- GnT
N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase
- Gn,Gn-bi-PA
GlcNAc1-2Man1-3(GlcNAc1-2Man1-6)Man1-4GlcNAc1-4GlcNAc-2-aminopyridine
- Gn,Gn,Gn-tri-PA
GlcNAc1-2(GlcNAc1-4)Man1-3(GlcNAc1-2Man1-6)Man1-4GlcNAc1-4GlcNAc-2-aminopyridine
- Gn,Gn,Gn-trí-PA
GlcNAc1-2Man1-3({GlcNAc1-2(GlcNAc1-6)Man1-6})Man1-4GlcNac1-4GlcNAc-2-aminopyridine
- Gn,(Gn),Gn-bi-PA
GlcNAc1-2Man1-3(GlcNAc1-4)(GlcNAc1-2Man1-6)Man1-4GlcNAc1-4GlcNAc-2-aminopyridine 相似文献
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-N-Acetyl-d-hexosaminidase from Aspergillus oryzae catalysed the stereo- and regiospecific formation of the 6-O-benzylated disaccharide derivatives GalNAc1-3(6- OBn)Gal-SEt and GlcNAc1-3(6-OBn)Gal-SEt, which were obtained in transglycosylation reactions employing ethyl 6- O-benzyl-1-thio--d-galactopyranoside as acceptor. Preparative amounts of the chitobiose derivative GlcNAc1- 3GlcNAc-OPhNO2-p was prepared as well. - N-Acetyl-d-hexosaminidase from bovine testes catalysed the specific synthesis of GlcNAc1-3(6-OBn)GlcNH2-SEt and GalNAc1-3(6-OBn)GlcNH2-SEt, employing ethyl 2-amino-6-O-benzyl-2-deoxy-1-thio--d-glucopyranoside as acceptor. -d-Glucuronidase from E. coli was found to catalyse the formation of GlcA1-3(6-OBn)GlcNH2- SEt employing the same acceptor. 相似文献
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Ritva Niemelä Jari Natunen Elina Brotherus Annamari Saarikangas Ossi Renkonen 《Glycoconjugate journal》1995,12(1):36-44
A partially purified preparation of 1,3-fucosyltransferase(s) from human milk was used to [14C]fucosylate oligosac-charides containing Gal1-4GlcNAc units. Substitution ofN-acetyllactosamine at position 3 with a -linkedN-acetylglucosamine enhanced the reactivity of the acceptor, whereas similar substitution at position 6 was inhibitory. Thus, the trisaccharide GlcNAcl-6Gal1-4GlcNAc (5), the branched tetrasaccharide GlcNAc1-3(GlcNAc1-6)Gal1-4GlcNAc (11) and the triply branched decasaccharide GlcNAc1-3(GlcNAc1-6)Gall-4GlcNAc1-3[GlcNAc1-3(GlcNAc1-6)Gal1-4GlcNAc1-6]Gal1-4GlcNAc (26) gave remarkably poor yields of 1,3-fucosylated products in comparison to GlcNAc1-3Gal1-4GlcNAc (3). 1,4-Galactosyl derivatives of5 and11, however, gave good yields of 1,3-fucosylated products, but the fucosylation was restricted to the distalN-acetyllactosamine units of Gal1-4GlcNAc1-6Gal1-4GlcNAc (16), Gal1-4GlcNAc1-3(Gal1-4GlcNAc1-6)Gal1-4GlcNAc (18) and also in Gal1-3Gal1-4GlcNAc1-3(Gal1-3Gal1-4GlcNAc1-6)Gal1-4GlcNAc (22). Immobilized wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), possessing high affinity for16 [1], revealed no affinity for the fucosylated derivative Gal1-4(Fuc1-3)GlcNAc1-6Gal1-4GlcNAc (17). The isomeric heptasaccharides Gal1-4(Fuc1-3)GlcNAc1-3(Gal1-4GlcNAc1-6)Gal1-4GlcNAc (19) and Gal1-4GlcNAc1-3[Gal1-4(Fuc1-3)GlcNAc1-6]Gal1-4GlcNAc (20) were readily separated from each other on WGA-agarose, and so were the isomeric nonasaccharides Gal1-3Gal1-4(Fuc1-3)GlcNAc1-3(Gal1-3Gal1-4GlcNAc1-6)Gal1-4GlcNAc (23) and Gal1-3Gal1-4GlcNAc1-3[Gal1-3Gal1-4(Fuc1-3)GlcNAc1-6]Gal1-4GlcNAc (24). 相似文献
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Ettore Benedetti Rosa Iacovino Carlo Pedone Filomena Rossi Michele Saviano Carla Isernia Daniela Montesarchio Lorenzo de Napoli Gennaro Piccialli 《Letters in Peptide Science》1997,4(3):129-134
An N- and C-protected derivative of homo--leucine, Fmoc-homo--(S)-leucine methyl ester, synthesized from the corresponding proteinogenic parent -amino acid in enantiopure form has been fully characterized in the solid state by X-ray diffraction analysis. The crystal conformation of this new residue indicates an extended conformation for this homo--residue, with the torsion angle being more constrained than the µ and angles. 相似文献
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Ray I. Chauhan A. Wisniewski H. M. Wegiel J. Kim K. S. Chauhan V. P. S. 《Neurochemical research》1998,23(10):1277-1282
Amyloid beta-protein (A), in its soluble form, is known to bind several circulatory proteins such as apolipoprotein (apo) E, apo J and transthyretin. However, the binding of A to intracellular proteins has not been studied. We have developed an overlay assay to study A binding to intracellular brain proteins. The supernatants from both rat and human brains were found to contain several proteins that bind to A 1–40 and A 1–42. No major difference was observed in the A binding-proteins from brain supernatants of patients with Alzheimer's disease and normal age-matched controls. Binding studies using shorter amyloid beta-peptides and competitive overlay assays showed that the binding site of A to brain proteins resides between 12–28 amino acid sequence of A. The presence of several intracellular A-binding (AB) proteins suggests that these proteins may either protect A from its fibrillization or alternatively promote A polymerization. Identification of these proteins and their binding affinities for A are needed to assess their potential role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. 相似文献
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Endo--galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.103) ofBacteroides fragilis, at 250 mU ml–1, did not cleave the internal galactosidic linkage of the linear radiolabelled trisaccharide GlcNAc1-6Gal1-4GlcNAc, or those of the tetrasaccharides Gal1-4GlcNAc1-6Gal1-4GlcNAc and Gal1-4GlcNAc1-6Gal1-4Glc. The isomeric glycans which contained the GlcNAc1-3Gal1-4GlcNAc/Glc sequence were readily cleaved.Abbreviations GlcNAc
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-glucose
- Lact
lactose
- MT
maltotriose
- MTet
maltotetraose
-
R
MTet
chromatographic migration rate in relation to that of maltotetraose 相似文献
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The solution structure of rat Aβ-(1–28) and its interaction with zinc ion: insights into the scarcity of amyloid deposition in aged rat brain 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
The amyloid -peptide (A) is a major component of insoluble amyloid deposits in Alzheimers disease, and the ability of the -peptide to exist in different conformations is dependent on residues 1–28 [-(1–28)]. However, different from humans, no A amyloid deposition has been found in aged rats brains. Studying the three-dimensional solution structure of rat A-(1–28) and the binding circumstance of Zn2+ is beneficial to a clear understanding of the potential role of Zn2+ in Alzheimer-associated neuropathogenesis and to suggest why there is no amyloid deposition in aged rats brains. Here we used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the solution structure of rat A-(1–28) and the binding constant of Zn2+ to rat A-(1–28). Our results suggest that (1) the three-dimensional solution structure of rat A-(1–28) is more stable than that of human A-(1–28) in DMSO-d6 and that a helical region from Glu16 to Val24 exists in the rat A-(1–28); (2) the affinity of Zn2+ for rat A-(1–28) is lower than that for human A-(1–28) and the NMR data suggest that Arg13, His6, and His14 residues provide the primary binding sites for Zn2+; and (3) the proper binding of Zn2+ to rat A-(1–28) can induce the peptide to change to a more stable conformation.Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00775-004-0556-xAbbreviations A amyloid -peptide - AD Alzheimers disease - hA-(1–28) human A-(1–28) - rA-(1-28) rat A-(1–28) - REM restrained energy minimization 相似文献
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Amyloid beta peptide (A) is a small peptide present in normal cells and aggregated A is the main constituent of the extracellular amyloid plaques found in Alzheimers disease (AD) brain. Recent studies suggest that soluble A oligomers are neurotoxic rather than amyloid fibrils found in amyloid plaques. This study using multidimensional NMR spectroscopy and circular dichroism (CD) provides the first direct evidence that alterations in membrane structure can trigger the conversion of soluble -helical monomeric A into oligomeric A in a -sheet conformation. 相似文献
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Margherita A. Barracco Bernard Duvic Kenneth Söderhäll 《Cell and tissue research》1991,266(3):491-497
Summary A -1,3-glucan-binding protein (GBP) was purified from crayfish plasma, and incubated with laminarin (L), a -1,3-glucan. The GBP reacted with laminarin (GBP-L) induced strong spreading and partial degranulation of isolated and separated crayfish granular haemocytes. However, neither the GBP nor laminarin alone induced any changes in the crayfish granular cells. When monolayers of granular haemocytes were incubated with 20 g of GBP-L, more than 82% of the haemocytes were affected. The activity of GBP-L on granular cells was dose-dependent and a plateau was reached at 10 g of GBP-L. The degranulation of crayfish haemocytes induced by GBP-L seemed to occur by a regulated exocytosis, since it was strongly inhibited by specific blockers of this process such as SITS or calmidazolium. Monospecific anti-GBP antibodies also totally blocked the effect of GBP-L on crayfish granular cells. Indirect immunofluoresence staining demonstrated that the GBP-L could bind to the surface of granular cells, whereas GBP did not bind or bound very weakly to the haemocyte surface. 相似文献
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Escherichia coli ATP synthase has eight subunits and functions through transmission of conformational changes between subunits. Defective mutation at Gly-149 was suppressed by the second mutations at the outer surface of the subunit, indicating that the defect by the first mutation was suppressed by the second mutation through long range conformation transmission. Extensive mutant/pseudorevertant studies revealed that / and / subunits interactions are important for the energy coupling between catalysis and H+ translocation. In addition, long range interaction between amino and carboxyl terminal regions of the subunit has a critical role(s) for energy coupling. These results suggest that the dynamic conformation change and its transmission are essential for ATP synthase. 相似文献
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I. S. Sever E. S. Kalyaeva O. N. Danilevskaya Zh. M. Gorlenko 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1982,188(3):494-498
Summary An opr24 mutation decreasing the degradation of RNA polymerase subunits was found among the Ts+ revertants of Ts strain carring an rpoC1 mutation which stimulates overproduction of these polypeptides. The opr24 mutation is allele-non-specific, for it decreases the degradation of the mutant and subunits, the amberfragment of the subunit and the non-mutant subunit. Moreover, opr24 reduces the proteolysis of abnormal proteins containing canavanine.The opr24 mutation maps between 17 and 21 min on the E. coli genetic map.The results demonstrate that a slow proteolysis rate in the bacterial cell can supress conditional lethal mutations.In addition, the slower degradation and the ensuing accumulation of subunits does not effect the rate of the subunit synthesis. 相似文献
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Deposition of amyloid peptide in human brain in the form of senile plaques is a neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimers disease (AD). Levels of a phospholipid breakdown product, glycerophosphocholine (GPC), also increase in AD brain. The effect of GPC on amyloid (1–40) peptide (A) aggregation in PBS buffer was investigated by circular dichroism and fluoresence spectroscopy; interactions of A and GPC with the intact erythrocyte membrane was examined by fluoresence spectroscopy. Fluorescamine labeled A studies indicate GPC enhances A aggregation. CD spectroscopy reveals that A in the presence of GPC adopts 14% more -sheet structure than does A alone. Fluorescamine anisotropy measurements show that GPC and A interact in the phospholipid head-group region of the erythrocyte membrane. In summary, both soluble A and GPC insert into the phospholipid head-group region of the membrane where they interact leading to -sheet formation in soluble A which enhances A aggregation. 相似文献