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    Glucocorticoid regulation of rat liver urate oxidase (1991)
    New York, N.Y. : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 47 (1991), S. 18-30 
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    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: hepatic development ; peroxisomes ; monospecific antibody ; urate oxidase ; rat liver ; glucocorticoids ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Urate oxidase, an enzyme involved in purine catabolism, comprises the crystalline core of rat liver peroxisomes. An affinity-purified monospecific antibody was developed to study the expression of urate oxidase protein levels. Immunoreactive urate oxidase was not detectable in prenatal liver; however, it is present at low levels after birth until approximately day 15 (postnatal age); expression sharply increases just prior to day 20, after which the enzyme is maintained at adult levels. This pattern of expression was similar to that of another peroxisomal enzyme, catalase; these developmental increases reflect the increase in peroxisomal number. Administration of exogenous glucocorticoid hormone to 10-day-old rats resulted in a precocious rise (2.5-fold) in urate oxidase levels. Adrenalectomy at 10 days of age did not cause decreased levels in the fourth week of life. In adult animals, while exogenous glucocorticoid administration did not influence urate oxidase levels, adrenalectomy at 60 days of age decreased urate oxidase levels to 40 percent of control levels. Subsequent administration of exogenous glucocorticoid hormone restored urate oxidase to normal levels. Parallel studies of catalase levels indicate that this glucocorticoid-sensitive response is not generalized for all peroxisomal proteins. Our results suggest that peroxisomes proliferate during early postnatal development, but after this process is complete, the biogenesis of individual peroxisomal proteins may be independently regulated.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcb.240470104
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    Extracellular calcium influx stimulates metalloproteinase cleavage and secretion of heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor independently of protein kinase C (1998)
    New York, N.Y. : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 69 (1998), S. 143-153 
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    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: HB-EGF ; cleavage-secretion ; PKC ; ErbB1 ; EGF receptor ; matrix metalloproteinase ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: The phorbol ester, tetradecanoyl-phorbol 13-acetate (TPA), stimulates rapid proteolytic processing of the transmembrane, pro- form of heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF) at cell surfaces, suggesting the involvement of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms in the HB-EGF secretion mechanism. To test this possibility, we expressed a chimeric protein, consisting of proHB-EGF fused to placental alkaline phosphatase (AP) near the amino terminus of processed HB-EGF, in NbMC-2 prostate epithelial cells. The proHB-EGF-AP chimera localized to plasma membranes and functioned as a diphtheria toxin receptor. Secreted HB-EGF-AP bound to heparin and exhibited potent growth factor activity. The presence of the AP moiety allowed highly quantitative measurements of cleavage-secretion responses of proHB-EGF to extracellular stimuli. As expected, rapid secretion of HB-EGF-AP was induced in a time- and dose-dependent manner by TPA. However, this was also observed with the Ca2+ionophore, ionomycin, suggesting the involvement of extracellular Ca2+ ions in the secretion mechanism. Ionomycin-induced secretion was inhibited by extracellular calcium chelation but not by the PKC inhibitors, GF109203X, staurosporine, or chelerythrine. The TPA-mediated secretion effect was inhibited by staurosporine, GF109203X, and by pretreatment with TPA, but not by calcium chelation. A small secretion response was induced by thapsigargin, which releases Ca2+ from intracellular stores, but this was completely eliminated by extracellular calcium chelation. Ionomycin- and TPA-induced HB-EGF-AP secretion was not dependent on the presence of the proHB-EGF cytoplasmic domain and was specifically inhibited by the metalloproteinase inhibitors 1,10-phenanthroline and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1). These data demonstrate that extracellular Ca2+ influx activates a membrane-associated metalloproteinase to process proHB-EGF by a pathway that does not require PKC. J. Cell. Biochem. 69:143-153, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Characterization of the heat shock protein P70 in rat spermatogenic cells (1995)
    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Molecular Reproduction and Development 40 (1995), S. 186-195 
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    ISSN: 1040-452X
    Keywords: Germ cells ; Testis ; Gene expression ; Sperm ; Proacrosin ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: A number of hsp70-like proteins are associated with developing male germ cells. One of these molecules, P70, is not sensitive to heat stress and is germ cell-specific, and its expression is developmentally regulated. We have characterized the association of the rat P70(rP70) with differentiating germ cells in the testis and with posttesticular sperm. An antibody originally raised against human sperm proacrosin (designated C3; Siegel et al., 1987: J Reprod Immunol 11:307-319) was found to immunostain rP70 by immunoblot analysis and was used in subsequent studies of the rP70 molecule. The C3 antibody reacted with P70 isoforms in rat, human, mouse, guinea pig, boar, and rooster testicular homogenates. In the developing rat testis, abundant rP70 protein levels were first detected on postnatal day 22, with upregulation to adult levels occurring after postnatal day 28. Purified populations of adult rat pachytene spermatocytes, round spermatids, and elongating spermatids, isolated by unit gravity velocity sedimentation, all expressed rP70. Posttesticular sperm exhibited a loss of the rP70 molecule; caput epididymal sperm were weakly immunoreactive for rP70, but no immunoreactivity was observed in either cauda epididymal sperm or epididymal fluid. In contrast to human ejaculated sperm, rat ejaculated sperm did not express rP70. The loss of P70 from rat posttesticular sperm may reflect species-specific differences in P70 functions, which are thought to include a role in the structural modifications that occur during germ cell differentiation. © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Positive regulation of T cell activation and integrin adhesion by the adapter Fyb/Slap (2001)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2001-09-22
    Description: The molecular adapter Fyb/Slap regulates signaling downstream of the T cell receptor (TCR), but whether it plays a positive or negative role is controversial. We demonstrate that Fyb/Slap-deficient T cells exhibit defective proliferation and cytokine production in response to TCR stimulation. Fyb/Slap is also required in vivo for T cell-dependent immune responses. Functionally, Fyb/Slap has no apparent role in the activation of known TCR signaling pathways, F-actin polymerization, or TCR clustering. Rather, Fyb/Slap regulates TCR-induced integrin clustering and adhesion. Thus, Fyb/Slap is the first molecular adapter to be identified that couples TCR stimulation to the avidity modulation of integrins governing T cell adhesion.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Griffiths, E K -- Krawczyk, C -- Kong, Y Y -- Raab, M -- Hyduk, S J -- Bouchard, D -- Chan, V S -- Kozieradzki, I -- Oliveira-Dos-Santos, A J -- Wakeham, A -- Ohashi, P S -- Cybulsky, M I -- Rudd, C E -- Penninger, J M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Sep 21;293(5538):2260-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Amgen Institute, 620 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2C1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11567140" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Actins/metabolism ; *Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Animals ; Antigens, CD/metabolism ; Antigens, CD3/metabolism ; Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/metabolism ; B-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Carrier Proteins/genetics/*physiology ; Cell Adhesion ; Cell Adhesion Molecules/metabolism ; Chimera ; Gene Targeting ; Humans ; Immunization ; Immunoglobulin G/biosynthesis ; Integrins/*metabolism ; Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1/metabolism ; Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis ; Interleukin-2/biosynthesis/pharmacology ; Lectins, C-Type ; *Lymphocyte Activation ; Lymphocyte Function-Associated Antigen-1/metabolism ; Mice ; Phosphoproteins/genetics/*physiology ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology/metabolism ; Receptors, Interleukin-2/metabolism ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology/metabolism/*physiology
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Mimicry of CD40 signals by Epstein-Barr virus LMP1 in B lymphocyte responses (1999)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1999-10-09
    Description: The effect of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) on the activation and differentiation of normal B cells was investigated. B cells of transgenic mice expressing LMP1 under the control of immunoglobulin promoter/enhancer displayed enhanced expression of activation antigens and spontaneously proliferated and produced antibody. Humoral immune responses of LMP1 transgenic mice in CD40-deficient or normal backgrounds revealed that LMP1 mimics CD40 signals to induce extrafollicular B cell differentiation but, unlike CD40, blocks germinal center formation. Thus, these specific properties of LMP1 may determine the site of primary B cell infection and the state of infection in the natural course of EBV infection, whereas subsequent loss of LMP1 expression may affect the site of persistent latent infection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Uchida, J -- Yasui, T -- Takaoka-Shichijo, Y -- Muraoka, M -- Kulwichit, W -- Raab-Traub, N -- Kikutani, H -- CA19014/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 8;286(5438):300-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Immunology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10514374" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antibody Affinity ; Antigens, CD40/genetics/*metabolism ; B-Lymphocytes/*immunology/metabolism/virology ; Cell Differentiation ; Female ; Germinal Center/immunology/metabolism ; Herpesvirus 4, Human/*metabolism/physiology ; Immunization ; Immunoglobulin Class Switching ; Immunoglobulins/biosynthesis ; Interleukin-4/pharmacology ; *Lymphocyte Activation ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mice, Transgenic ; *Molecular Mimicry ; NF-kappa B/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Spleen/immunology ; Viral Matrix Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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