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Lorella Lanza Lorenza Peirano Ornella Bosco Paola Contini Gilberto Filaci Maurizio Setti Francesco Puppo Francesco Indiveri Marco Scudeletti 《Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII》1995,41(1):23-28
The relative potency of interferon (IFN), interferon (IFN), and interferon (IFN) in inducing the expression of HLA class I antigens, as well as their capacity to counteract the inhibition induced by glucocorticoid hormones on HLA class I antigen expression, were analysed in the human melanoma cell line M14, both at membrane and at mRNA level. The data obtained indicate that (a) IFN enhance with different potency (IFN>IFN>IFN) the expression of HLA class I antigens in M14 cells, (b) prednisone inhibits HLA class I antigen expresion, (c) glucocorticoid hormones, when associated with IFN or IFN, inhibit the HLA class I enhancement induced by IFN alone, and ffinally, (c) the association between 1 M prednisone or 1 M deflazacort and IFN seems to potentiate the enhancing capacity of IFN on the expression of HLA class I molecules at the mRNA level. These findings, if confirmed, might indicate that IFN and glucocorticoid hormones are not mutually exclusive in the management of human melanoma. 相似文献
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Sharon X. Chen Charles C. Hardin Harold E. Swaisgood 《Journal of Protein Chemistry》1993,12(5):613-625
Incubation of -lactoglobulin with immobilized trypsin at 5–10°C results in a time-dependent release of several fragments of the core domain in yields approaching 15%. Digests were fractionated by ion-exchange chromatography with a Mono Q HR5/5 column and analyzed after disulfide reduction by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecylsulfate. Three fragments with approximate molecular weights of 13.8, 9.6, and 6.7 kD were identified. The fraction from ion-exchange chromatography yielding the 6.7 kD fraction after disulfide reduction was further characterized because it was most homogeneous and gave the highest yield. The C-terminal cleavage site of the 6.7 kD core fragment appeared to be Lys100 or Lys101 as determined by C-terminal amino acid analysis. The exact masses, after reduction with dithiothreitol, are 6195 and 6926 as determined by laser desorption mass spectrometry, corresponding to residues 48–101 and 41–100. Prior to reduction, -lactoglobulin C-terminal residues 149–162 are connected to these core domain fragments as shown by C-terminal analysis and mass spectrometry. Structural studies indicate that these 7.9 and 8.6 kD core domain fragments released by immobilized trypsin retain much of their native structure. CD spectra indicate the presence of antiparallel -sheet structure similar to the native protein but the -helix is lost. Spectra in the aromatic region indicate the existence of tertiary structure. Moreover, structural transitions in urea are completely reversible as measured by CD spectra, although the extrapolated G
D
H20
and the urea concentration at the transition midpoint are lower than for the native protein. The core domain fragments also display apH-dependent binding to immobilizedtrans-retinal as does intact protein. A single endotherm is obtained for both core domain fragments and native protein upon differential scanning calorimetry, but again, the domain is less stable as indicated by a transition peak maxima of 56.9°C as compared with 81.1°C for native protein.Abbreviations used: CD, circular dichroism; CPG, controlled pore glass; DSC, differential scanning calorimetry; DTT, dithiothreitol; FPLC, fast flow liquid chromatography; HPLC, high-performance liquid chromatography; PITC, phenylisothiocyanate; SDS-PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; TEA, triethylamine; UV, ultraviolet. 相似文献
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The specificity of induction of cellulose- and xylan-degrading enzymes was investigated on the yeast strain Trichosporon cutaneum CCY 30-5-4 using series of compounds structurally related to cellulose and xylan, including monosaccharides, glycosides, glucooligosaccharides and xylooligosaccharides. Determination of activities of secreted cellulase and -xylanase, intracellular, cell wall bound and extracellular -glucosidase and -xylosidase revealed that: (1) The synthesis of xylan-degrading enzymes is induced in the cell only by xylosaccharides, 1,3--xylobiose, 1,2--xylobiose, 1,4--xylosyl-L-arabinose, 1,4--xylobiose and thioxylobiose being the best inducers. The xylan-degrading enzymes show different pattern of development in time and discrete cellular localization, i.e. intracellular -xylosidase precedes extracellular -xylanase. (2) A true cellulase is not inducible by glucosaccharides and cellulose. Negligible constitutive cellulase activity was detected which was about two orders lower than an induced cellulase in the typical cellulolytic fungus Trichoderma reesei QM 9414. (3) The best inducer of intracellular -glucosidase splitting cellobiose was thiocellobiose in a wide range of concentration (0.1–10 mM), whereas xylosaccharides at high concentrations induced -xylosidase of xylobiose type and a non-specific aryl -D-glucosidase.The results were confirmed by growing cells on cellulose and xylan. T. cutaneum was found to be a xylan-voracious yeast, unable to grow on cellulose. 相似文献
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Irina A. Omelchenko Renu K Jain Mohammed A. Junaid S.L.N. Rao Charles N. Allen 《Neurochemical research》1999,24(6):791-797
Lathyrism is a non-progressive motor neuron disease produced by consumption of the excitatory amino acid, 3-N-oxalyl-L-2,3-diaminopropanoic acid (-ODAP). To learn more about the mechanisms underlying Lathyrism three structural analogs of -ODAP were synthesized. Carboxymethyl-,-diaminopropanoic acid (CMDAP) evoked inward currents which were antagonized by APV (30 M), but not by CNQX (10 M). N-acetyl-,-diaminopropanoic acid (ADAP) evoked no detectable ionic currents but potentiated N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-activated currents. The potentiation of NMDA currents by ADAP was blocked by 7-chlorokynurenic acid. Carboxymethylcysteine (CMC) did not activate any detectable ionic currents. None of the three -ODAP analogs produced visible symptoms of toxicity in day old chicks when administered for 2–3 consecutive days. Ligand binding studies demonstrated that all the three compounds were effective to in displacing [3H]glutamate. The maximum inhibition was 92% for CMDAP, 61% for ADAP, 65% for CMC and 99% for -ODAP. These data indicate that analogs of -ODAP may interact with glutamate receptors without producing neurotoxicity. 相似文献
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Induction of New Physicochemical and Functional Properties by the Glycosylation of Whey Proteins 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Fabienne Nacka Jean-Marc Chobert Tatiana Burova Joëlle Léonil Thomas Haertlé 《Journal of Protein Chemistry》1998,17(5):495-503
Nucleophilic primary amino groups of whey proteins (-lactoglobulin and -lactalbumin) were modified with reducing sugars in mild heat conditions. After 49 hr of heating (60°C) at pH 6.5, 20–30% of -lactoglobulin amino groups were substituted with aldohexoses (galactose, mannose, glucose) and lactose, whereas up to 70% and 90% of -lactoglobulin amino groups were modified with ribose and glyceraldehyde, respectively. Gel electrophoresis and reversed-phase HPLC coupled with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of glycosylated proteins indicated that the substitution was random. Consequently, highly heterogeneous families of glycosylated proteins were generated. Proteins substituted with hexoses and lactose exhibited higher solubility and improved emulsifying properties as compared with nonglycosylated proteins, in the whole pH range studied. In contrast, proteins glycosylated with ribose and glyceraldehyde showed lower solubility close to their isoelectric points. -Lactoglobulin modified with ribose and glyceraldehyde displayed substantial differences in denaturation behavior as compared with native protein. When compared with -lactoglobulin, glycosylation of -lactalbumin was quicker. There was no difference in glycosylation yields nor rates of -lactalbumin in presence and absence of calcium. 相似文献
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A novel 134 kDa, calcium-independent chitin-binding lectin, chitovibrin, is secreted by the marine bacteriumVibrio parahemolyticus, inducible with chitin or chitin-oligomers. Chitovibrin shows no apparent enzymatic activity but exhibits a strong affinity for chitin and chito-oligomers >dp9. The protein has an isoelectric pH of 3.6, shows thermal tolerance, binds chitin with an optimum at pH 6 and is active in 0–4m NaCl. Chitovibrin appears to be completely different from other reported Vibrio lectins and may function to bindV. parahemolyticus to chitin substrates, or to capture or sequester chito-oligomers. It may be a member of a large group of recently described proteins in Vibrios related to a complex chitinoclastic (chitinivorous) system.Abbreviations (GlcNAc)2
N,N-diacetylchitobiose
- SDS-PAGE
sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- PTS
phosphotransferase system 相似文献
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Y. A. Holthuijzen F. F. M. van Dissel-Emiliani J. G. Kuenen W. N. Konings 《Archives of microbiology》1987,147(3):285-290
Uptake of inorganic carbon (Ci) in the form of CO2 and/or HCO
3
-
was studied in the chemolithoautotroph Thiobacillus neapolitanus under energy (thiosulphate) or carbon (CO2) limitation. Uptake of C1 was found to be a metabolic energy dependent process since in the presence of uncouplers no uptake was observed. The accumulation level of Ci was higher in the CO2-limited cells (1000-to 1500-fold) in comparison to the thiosulphate-limited cells (500-to 800-fold). The process of uptake could be influenced by addition of ionophores. Inhibition of uptake and accumulation of Ci was found after addition of valinomycin which completely dissipated the electrical potential (). After addition of nigericin an increase in the uptake and accumulation of Ci was observed with a concomitant increase of the . These results suggest that the is the main driving force for uptake of Ci. However, uptake of Ci could never be found in the absence of electron transfer, or in cells in which the electron transfer chain was blocked by potassium cyanide. Electron transfer therefore appears to be an additional requirement for Ci uptake. Kinetic experiment on the uptake of inorganic carbon at different pH values suggest that CO2 is the carbon species taken up by T. neapolitanus.Abbreviations RuBisCO
ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase
- DCCD
N,N1-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide
- CCCP
carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazone
- FCCP
carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoro-methoxyphenyl hydrazone
- EDTA
sodium ethylene diamine tetraacetate 相似文献
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Summary 2-Amino-2-deoxyuridine reacts efficiently with nucleoside 5-phosphorimidazolides in aqueous solution. The dinucleoside monophosphate analogues were obtained in yields exceeding 80% under conditions in which little reaction occurs with the natural nucleosides.In a similar way, the 5-phosphorimidazolide of 2-amino-2-deoxyuridine undergoes self-condensation in aqueous solution to give a complex mixture of oligomers.The phosphoramidate bond in the dinucleoside monophosphate analogues is stable for several days at room temperature and pH 7. The mechanisms of their hydrolysis under acidic and alkaline conditions are described.Abbreviations A
adenosine
- C
cytidine
- G
guanosine
- U
uridine
- T
thymidine
- UN
3
2-azido-2-deoxyuridine
- UNH
2
2-amino-2-deoxyuridine
- ImpA
adenosine 5-phosphorimidazolide
- ImpU
uridine 5-phosphorimidazolide
- ImpUN
3
2-azido-2-deoxyuridine 5-phosphorimidazolide
- ImpUNH
2
2-amino-2-deoxyuridine 5-phosphorimidazolide
- pA
adenosine 5-phosphate
- pU
uridine 5-phosphate
- pUN
3
2-azido-2-deoxyuridine 5-phosphate
- pUNH
2
2-amino-2-deoxyuridine 5-phosphate
- UpA
uridylyl-[35]-adenosine
- UpU
uridylyl-[35]-uridine
- UNpA
adenylyl-[52]-2-amino-2-deoxy-uridine
- UNpU
uridylyl-[52]-2-amino-2-deoxyuridine (pUN)n n=2,3,4 [25]-linked oligomers of pUNH
2 poly(A) polyadenylic acid
- Im
imidazole
- MeIm
l-methylimidazole 相似文献
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In 80 healthy humans, we studied changes in the frequency spectrum and values of the relative spectral coefficients for subsequent 1-Hz-wide frequency bands under conditions of simultaneous lateralized stimulation of the retinal zones, which form receptive fields for the right- and for the left-brain hemispheres; light of different colors was used for stimulation. We found that reactions of the right and left hemispheres to such stimulations demonstrated obvious specificity; spatial characteristics of these reactions were obtained. Changes in the values of most corresponding spectral coefficients in the hemispheres usually had similar directions and demonstrated similarity in their intensities, which is indicative of a complementary pattern of the interhemispheric interaction. Reciprocal changes in the corresponding spectral coefficients in the hemispheres were observed more rarely. Modifications of EEG upon red-green stimulations of different polarity were found to be similar, which can be a manifestation of the moderating influence of the right hemisphere on the left one. 相似文献
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Hydrogen consumption by various thermophilic, mesophilic and/or psychrotrophic homoacetogens and methanogens was measured at temperatures between 4 and 80°C. Within the tolerated temperature range H2 was consumed until a final H2 threshold partial pressure was reached. H2 thresholds generally decreased with temperature, parallel to the values calculated from the thermodynamics prevailing under culture conditions, i.e. the Gibbs free energy (G) of H2 oxidation corrected for temperature by both the free-energy form of the Nernst equation and the Van't Hoff equation. The difference between the observed and the calculated H2 partial pressures gives the minimum energy required for H2 utilization being about-5 to-6 kJ/mol H2 for the homoacetogenes and-9 to-12 kJ/mol H2 for methanogens. The temperature dependence of the standard Gibbs free energy (G0) as described by the Van't Hoff equation apparently became the more important for thermodynamics as well as H2 thresholds the more the temperature deviated from standard conditions (i.e. 25°C). Correction factors for calculation of temperature-corrected G
infT
sup0
are presented for various H2-producing and H2-consuming reactions. 相似文献
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L. R. Wetter K. N. Kao 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》1980,57(6):273-276
Summary The somatic hybrids of Glycine max (L)Merr.-Nicotiana glauca Grah. exhibited a preferential loss of N. glauca chromosomes. When protoplasts from such hybrid cells were back fused twice to N. glauca protoplasts, a considerable increase in stability of the N. glauca chromosomes was observed. Gel electrophoresis studies of aspartate aminotransferase showed that the chromosome(s) responsible for this enzyme was stabilized in the back fused hybrid cell lines. The data suggest that the back fusion technique described in this study might aid in stabilizing somatic hybrids.NRCC No. 18040 相似文献
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Regino Zamora 《Oecologia》1990,84(3):376-379
Summary The taxonomic composition and size of arthropods captured by Pinguicula nevadense, an endemic carnivorous plant of the high-mountain zone of the Sierra Nevada (southern Spain), are analysed. The actual prey of P. nevadense and the available arthropods trapped by mimic-traps are compared, in order to identify the capture constraints of the plant. The results show that P. nevadense captures various arthropod taxa. Winged insects, especially Nematocera, make up the main component of the diet. The range of prey sizes in all P. nevadense populations studied is similar. The taxonomic composition of arthropods trapped by the mimic-traps is similar to that of the actual prey of P. nevadense. However, the plant captures prey only below a specific size threshold. These size constraints appear to be the principal factor determining the actual prey of this carnivorous plant. 相似文献
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Marc Drolet Luc Péloquin Yann Echelard Linda Cousineau A. Sasarman 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1989,216(2-3):347-352
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Summary The introduction of solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) has greatly facilitated the preparation of peptides containing proteinaceous amino acids. Less common, sterically hindered ,-dialkylamino acids, such as -methylalanine (MeA, aminoisobutyric acid, Aib), have proven a synthetic challenge for incorporation by this approach, especially when present in contiguous sequences. Solution protocols, utilizing highly reactive intermediates such as oxazalones, are generally used during the preparation of peptaibol antibiotics such as alamethicin, emerimicin, etc. which contain such contiguous sequences. Two recently developed coupling strategies (O-(7-azabenzotriazol-1-yl)-1,1,3,3-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate, HATU, and Fmoc-protected amino acid fluorides) allow peptides comprising contiguous sequences of ,-dialkylamino acids to be prepared using SPPS. The present study evaluates the relative merits of these two methods on a set of difficult peptides containing oligo-MeA sequences. 相似文献
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In hippocampal neurons, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) activates an inwardly rectifying K+ current via G protein. We identified the K+ channel activated by 5-HT (K5-HT channel) and studied the effects of G protein subunits and nucleotides on the K+ channel kinetics in adult rat hippocampal neurons. In inside-out patches with 10 m 5-HT in the pipette, application of GTP (100 m) to the cytoplasmic side of the membrane activated an inwardly rectifying K+ channel with a slope conductance of 36±1 pS (symmetrical 140 mm K+) at –60 mV and a mean open time of 1.1±0.1 msec (n=5). Transducin activated the (K5-HT) channels and this was reversed by -GDP. Whether the K5-HT channel was activated endogenously (GTP, GTPS) or exogenously (), the presence of 1 mm ATP resulted in a 4-fold increase in channel activity due in large part to the prolongation of the open time duration. These effects of ATP were irreversible and not mimicked by AMPPMP, suggesting that phosphorylation might be involved. However, inhibitors of protein kinases A and C (H-7, staurosporine) and tyrosine kinase (tyrphostin 25) failed to block the effect of ATP. These results show that G activates the G protein-gated K+ channel in hippocampal neurons, and that ATP modifies the gating kinetics of the channel, resulting in increased open probability via as yet unknown pathways. 相似文献
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Henk J. M. Aarts Eldine H. M. Jacobs Gijsbert van Willigen Nicolette H. Lubsen John G. G. Schoenmakers 《Journal of molecular evolution》1989,28(4):313-321
Summary We have determined the sequence of a rat A3/A1-crystallin complementary DNA (cDNA) clone and the (partial) sequence of the human B3-crystallin gene. Calculation of the ratio of silent to nonsynonymous substitution between orthologous A3/A1-, B3-, and other - and -crystallin sequences revealed that the region encoding the two globular domains of the A3/A1-crystallin sequence is the best conserved during evolution, much better than the corresponding region of the B1-, B3-, or the -crystallin sequences, and even better (at least in the rodent/frog comparison) that the well-conserved A-crystallin sequence. Remarkably, the rate of change of the A3/A1-crystallin coding sequence does not differ in the rodent and primate lineages, in contrast with previous findings concerning the evolution rates of the A- or -crystallin sequences in these two lineages. Comparison of the regions that encode the four motifs of the -crystallin between orthologous mammalian sequences showed that the extent of nonsynonymous substitution in each of these four homologous motif regions is the same. However, when the orthologous -crystallin genes of more distantly related species (mammals vs chicken or frog) are compared, the extent of nonsynonymous substitution is higher in the regions encoding the external motifs I and III than in the regions encoding the internal motifs II and IV. This phenomenon is also observed when paralogous members of the /-crystallin supergene family are compared. 相似文献
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Shafer FE Dropulic B Ely C Schaefer CA Freas D Witkowska HE Schechter AN Noguchi CT Dewey M Karlsson S 《Journal of biomedical science》1994,1(3):147-153
Two transgenic lines of mice were produced which contained the S
Antilles- and 2-hemoglobin genes trandemly coupled to the micro locus control region (LCR). The LCRS
Antilles2-hemoglobin transgenic mice expressed high levels of 2-hemoglobin while S
Antilles-hemoglobin expression was virtually undetectable. Abundant 2-hemoglobin protein was observed in the blood of transgenic mice, while S
Antilles-hemoglobin chains could not be detected. Transgenic red blood cells had substantially decreased sensitivity to osmotic lysis. Attempts to produce homozygotes containing the transgene were unsuccessful. The phenotype of these mice closely resembles that of -thalassemic mice. The LCRS
Antilles2 transgenic mice demonstrate that if the LCR is coupled to the S
Antilles- and 2-hemoglobin genes in tandem, only the distal 2-hemoglobin gene is selected for expression to significant levels in adult mice. These results support a reciprocally competitive model for LCR-hemoglobin developmental switching. 相似文献
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Role of some metal ions on the conformations of peptides was examined by using a series of short alanine-based peptides with single Trp-His (W-H) interaction in different environments. Circular dichroism (CD), Trp (W) fluorescence emission, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy revealed that there is a conformational role of Cu2+ in inducing and enhancing the formation of -helix conformation. The complexation of the peptide with Cu2+ is responsible to the conformational effect because the chelation is able to stabilize peptide with an -helix conformation. The possible factors affecting the role of Cu2+ are discussed in the paper. The results in this paper are useful to understand the important structural role of Cu2+ in protein folding and the possible mechanism in some neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. 相似文献
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DNA polymerases II () and III() are the only nuclear DNA polymerases known to possess an intrinsic 3 5 exonuclease in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have investigated the spontaneous mutator phenotypes of DNA polymerase and 3 5 exonuclease-deficient mutants, pol3-01 and pol2-4, respectively. pol3-01 and pol2-4 increased spontaneous mutation rates by factors of the order of 102 and 101, respectively, measured as URA3 forward mutation and his7-2 reversion. Surprisingly, a double mutant pol2-4 pol3-01 haploid was inviable. This was probably due to accumulation of unedited errors, since a pol2-4/pol2-4 pol3-01/pol3-01 diploid was viable, with the spontaneous his7-2 reversion rate increased by about 2 × 103-fold. Analysis of mutation rates of double mutants indicated that the 3 5 exonucleases of DNA polymerases and can act competitively and that, like the 3 5 exonuclease of DNA polymerase the 3 5 exonuclease of DNA polymerase acts in series with the PMS1 mismatch correction system. Mutational spectra at a URA3 gene placed in both orientations near to a defined replication origin provided evidence that the 3 5 exonucleases of DNA polymerases and act on opposite DNA strands, but were in sufficient to distinguish conclusively between different models of DNA replication. 相似文献