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  • 1
    Publication Date: 1988-07-01
    Description: Expression of the interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R alpha) gene is activated by the transcriptional activator protein, Tax (previously referred to as the tat gene product), encoded by the human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-I). Multiple protein binding sites for specific DNA-protein interactions were identified over the upstream IL-2R alpha transcriptional regulatory sequences. However, only one region, which includes the sequence motif GGGGAATCTCCC, was required for activation by both the tax gene product and mitogenic stimulation. Remarkably, this sequence also bound the nuclear factor NF kappa B, which is important for induction of kappa-immunoglobulin gene expression. A model is presented whereby regulation of cellular gene expression by the HTLV-I tax gene product occurs via an indirect mechanism that may involve a post-translational modification of preexistent cellular transcription factors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ruben, S -- Poteat, H -- Tan, T H -- Kawakami, K -- Roeder, R -- Haseltine, W -- Rosen, C A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 1;241(4861):89-92.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Oncology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ 07110.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2838905" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cell Line ; DNA/genetics/metabolism ; Deltaretrovirus/*genetics ; Gene Expression Regulation/*drug effects ; Gene Products, tat ; Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains/genetics ; Mutation ; Plasmids ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Receptors, Immunologic/*genetics ; Receptors, Interleukin-2 ; Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Transcription Factors/genetics/metabolism/*pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1988-02-19
    Description: Point mutations were introduced into the overlapping trans-regulatory genes (tat-III and trs) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), and the mutants were evaluated for virus expression. The results showed that tat-III has a positive transacting role and is required for transcriptional activation. A chain terminating mutation early in the trs gene resulted in an increase in transcription of viral messenger RNA as measured by nuclear transcription experiments, but only one major species of viral messenger RNA (1.8 kilobases) was detected, and little or no viral structural proteins were made. Thus, the trs gene product is essential for expression of virus structural proteins but, at the same time, may have a negative trans-regulatory role in transcription. Cotransfection of the point mutant proviruses defective in tat or trs with each other or with a complementary DNA clone containing tat and trs sequences restored the normal transcription pattern and subsequent virus production.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sadaie, M R -- Benter, T -- Wong-Staal, F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Feb 19;239(4842):910-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3277284" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetyltransferases/genetics ; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/immunology ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase ; Codon ; DNA/genetics ; *Genes, Regulator ; *Genes, Viral ; HIV/*genetics ; Humans ; Immunosorbent Techniques ; *Mutation ; Plasmids ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; RNA, Viral/genetics ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transfection
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    Publication Date: 1988-05-13
    Description: Mitotic spindle disassembly requires major structural alterations in the associated cytoskeletal proteins and mitosis is known to be associated with Ca2+-sequestering phenomena and calcium transients. To examine the possible involvement of a ubiquitous Ca2+-activated protease, calpain II, in the mitotic process, synchronized PtK1 cells were monitored by immunofluorescence for the relocation of calpain II. The plasma membrane was the predominant location of calpain II in interphase. However, as mitosis progressed, calpain II relocated to (i) an association with mitotic chromosomes, (ii) a perinuclear location in anaphase, and (iii) a mid-body location in telophase. Microinjection of calpain II near the nucleus of a PtK1 cell promoted the onset of metaphase. Injection of calpain II at late metaphase promoted a precocious disassembly of the mitotic spindle and the onset of anaphase. These data suggest that calpain II is involved in mitosis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schollmeyer, J E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 May 13;240(4854):911-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉U.S. Department of Agriculture, Roman L. Hruska Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE 68933.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2834825" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Anaphase/drug effects ; Animals ; Calcium/pharmacology ; Calcium-Binding Proteins/pharmacology ; Calpain/antagonists & inhibitors/pharmacology/*physiology ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/enzymology ; Cell Nucleus/enzymology ; Chromosomes/metabolism ; Enzyme Activation ; Fluorescent Antibody Technique ; Fluorescent Dyes ; Interphase ; Metaphase/drug effects ; *Mitosis ; Muscles/enzymology ; Rhodamines ; Spindle Apparatus/drug effects ; Swine
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    Publication Date: 1988-08-26
    Description: Retroviruses contain two copies of the plus stranded viral RNA genome. As a means of determining whether both of these RNA's are used in the reverse transcription reaction, cells were infected with heterozygous virus particles that varied in nucleotide sequence at two separate locations at the RNA termini. The DNA proviruses formed from a single cycle of reverse transcription were then examined. Of the 12 proviruses that were characterized, all exhibited long terminal repeats (LTR's) that would be expected to arise only if both RNA templates were used for the generation of minus strand DNA. In contrast, only a single minus strand DNA appeared to be used as template for the plus strand DNA in the generation of fully double-stranded viral DNA. These results indicate that the first strand transfer step in reverse transcription is an intermolecular event while that of the second transfer is intramolecular. Thus, retroviruses contain two functionally active RNA's, and both may be required for the generation of a single linear DNA molecule. Formation of heterozygotes during retrovirus infection would be expected to result in the efficient generation of LTR recombinants.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Panganiban, A T -- Fiore, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 26;241(4869):1064-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2457948" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Line ; DNA Restriction Enzymes ; DNA, Viral/*genetics/metabolism ; Deoxyribonuclease HindIII ; Genes, Viral ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length ; RNA, Viral/*genetics/metabolism ; RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/*metabolism ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Retroviridae/*genetics ; Templates, Genetic ; *Transcription, Genetic ; Transfection ; Virion/genetics ; Virus Replication
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 1988-09-16
    Description: In the proposed "zinc finger" DNA-binding motif, each repeat unit binds a zinc metal ion through invariant Cys and His residues and this drives the folding of each 30-residue unit into an independent nucleic acid-binding domain. To obtain structural information, we synthesized single and double zinc finger peptides from the yeast transcription activator ADR1, and assessed the metal-binding and DNA-binding properties of these peptides, as well as the solution structure of the metal-stabilized domains, with the use of a variety of spectroscopic techniques. A single zinc finger can exist as an independent structure sufficient for zinc-dependent DNA binding. An experimentally determined model of the single finger is proposed that is consistent with circular dichroism, one- and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance, and visual spectroscopy of the single-finger peptide reconstituted in the presence of zinc.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Parraga, G -- Horvath, S J -- Eisen, A -- Taylor, W E -- Hood, L -- Young, E T -- Klevit, R E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Sep 16;241(4872):1489-92.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3047872" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Circular Dichroism ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; *DNA-Binding Proteins ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Metalloproteins ; Protein Conformation ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; *Transcription Factors ; Zinc/*physiology
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 1988-07-01
    Description: A method of combinatorial cassette mutagenesis was designed to readily determine the informational content of individual residues in protein sequences. The technique consists of simultaneously randomizing two or three positions by oligonucleotide cassette mutagenesis, selecting for functional protein, and then sequencing to determine the spectrum of allowable substitutions at each position. Repeated application of this method to the dimer interface of the DNA-binding domain of lambda repressor reveals that the number and type of substitutions allowed at each position are extremely variable. At some positions only one or two residues are functionally acceptable; at other positions a wide range of residues and residue types are tolerated. The number of substitutions allowed at each position roughly correlates with the solvent accessibility of the wild-type side chain.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Reidhaar-Olson, J F -- Sauer, R T -- AI-15706/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 1;241(4861):53-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3388019" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Codon ; DNA/genetics/metabolism ; *DNA-Binding Proteins ; Macromolecular Substances ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Plasmids ; Protein Conformation ; Repressor Proteins/*genetics ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Transcription Factors/*genetics ; Viral Proteins ; Viral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 1988-06-24
    Description: Inclusion of normal rabbit serum (NRS) in culture medium after interspecific fusion of hyperimmunized rabbit spleen cells with murine SP2/0 myeloma cells produced 271 rabbit-mouse hybridomas (RMHs) that secreted rabbit immunoglobulin against group A Streptococcus (GAS). Continued use of NRS-supplemented medium during cloning yielded stabilized monoclonal RMH lines that have secreted GAS-specific rabbit antibody at concentrations similar to murine hybridomas (3 to 8 micrograms per 10(6) cells per 24 hours), for over 4 months of culture in vitro. The use of NRS as a medium supplement during initial culture, cloning, and stabilization of RMHs enables production of considerably more specific rabbit monoclonal antibody (mAb)-secreting RMHs than have previously been reported.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Raybould, T J -- Takahashi, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 24;240(4860):1788-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Allelix Inc., Diagnostics Division, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3289119" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antibodies, Bacterial/*immunology ; Antibodies, Monoclonal/*immunology ; Antibody Specificity ; Cell Fusion ; Cell Line ; Hybridomas/*immunology ; Karyotyping ; Mice/*immunology ; Rabbits/*immunology ; Streptococcus pyogenes/immunology ; Time Factors
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 1988-04-15
    Description: The solution conformation of plastocyanin from the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus has been determined from distance and dihedral angle constraints derived by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Structures were generated with distance geometry and restrained molecular dynamics calculations. A novel molecular replacement method was also used with the same NMR constraints to generate solution structures of S. obliquus plastocyanin from the x-ray structure of the homologous poplar protein. Scenedesmus obliquus plastocyanin in solution adopts a beta-barrel structure. The backbone conformation is well defined and is similar overall to that of poplar plastocyanin in the crystalline state. The distinctive acidic region of the higher plant plastocyanins, which functions as a binding site for electron transfer proteins and inorganic complexes, differs in both shape and charge in S. obliquus plastocyanin.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Moore, J M -- Case, D A -- Chazin, W J -- Gippert, G P -- Havel, T F -- Powls, R -- Wright, P E -- GM36643/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM38221/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Apr 15;240(4850):314-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA 92037.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3353725" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Calorimetry ; Chlorophyta/*metabolism ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/methods ; Models, Molecular ; *Plant Proteins ; *Plastocyanin ; Protein Conformation
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 1988-02-12
    Description: Mesoderm induction in the amphibian embryo can be studied by exposing animal region explants (destined to become ectoderm) to appropriate stimuli and assaying the appearance of mesodermal products like alpha-actin messenger RNA. Transforming growth factor beta 2 (TGF-beta 2), but not TGF-beta 1, was active in alpha-actin induction, while addition of fibroblast growth factor had a small synergistic effect. Medium conditioned by Xenopus XTC cells (XTC-CM), known to have powerful mesoderm-inducing activity, was shown to contain TGF-beta-like activity as measured by a radioreceptor binding assay, colony formation in NRK cells, and growth inhibition in CCL64 cells. The activity of XTC-CM in mesoderm induction and in growth inhibition of CCL64 cells was inhibited partially by antibodies to TGF-beta 2 but not by antibodies to TGF-beta 1. Thus, a TGF-beta 2-like molecule may be involved in mesoderm induction.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rosa, F -- Roberts, A B -- Danielpour, D -- Dart, L L -- Sporn, M B -- Dawid, I B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Feb 12;239(4841 Pt 1):783-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3422517" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Actins/genetics ; Amphibians/*embryology ; Animals ; Cell Division/drug effects ; Cell Line ; Embryo, Nonmammalian/physiology ; Growth Substances/*physiology ; Mesoderm/*physiology ; Peptides/pharmacology/*physiology ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Transforming Growth Factors ; Xenopus
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    Publication Date: 1988-11-25
    Description: The gp120 envelope glycoprotein of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which is expressed on the surface of many HIV-infected cells, binds to the cell surface molecule CD4. Soluble derivatives of recombinant CD4 (rCD4) that bind gp120 with high affinity are attractive vehicles for targeting a cytotoxic reagent to HIV-infected cells. Soluble rCD4 was conjugated to the active subunit of the toxin ricin. This conjugate killed HIV-infected H9 cells but was 1/1000 as toxic to uninfected H9 cells (which do not express gp120) and was not toxic to Daudi cells (which express major histocompatibility class II antigens, the putative natural ligand for cell surface CD4). Specific killing of infected cells can be blocked by rgp120, rCD4, or a monoclonal antibody to the gp120 binding site on CD4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Till, M A -- Ghetie, V -- Gregory, T -- Patzer, E J -- Porter, J P -- Uhr, J W -- Capon, D J -- Vitetta, E S -- CA-09082/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA-28149/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA-41081/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Nov 25;242(4882):1166-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2847316" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/*administration & dosage/immunology ; Binding Sites ; Cell Line ; Cell Survival ; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel ; HIV/*immunology ; HIV Envelope Protein gp120 ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology ; Humans ; Recombinant Proteins/administration & dosage/immunology ; Retroviridae Proteins/*immunology/metabolism ; Ricin/metabolism/*pharmacology ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology/microbiology/physiology
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  • 11
    Publication Date: 1988-12-02
    Description: D-galactose-binding (or chemoreceptor) protein of Escherichia coli serves as an initial component for both chemotaxis towards galactose and glucose and high-affinity active transport of the two sugars. Well-refined x-ray structures of the liganded forms of the wild-type and a mutant protein isolated from a strain defective in chemotaxis but fully competent in transport have provided a molecular view of the sugar-binding site and of a site for interacting with the Trg transmembrane signal transducer. The geometry of the sugar-binding site, located in the cleft between the two lobes of the bilobate protein, is novel in that it is designed for tight binding and sequestering of either the alpha or beta anomer of the D-stereoisomer of the 4-epimers galactose and glucose. Binding specificity and affinity are conferred primarily by polar planar side-chain residues that form intricate networks of cooperative and bidentate hydrogen bonds with the sugar substrates, and secondarily by aromatic residues that sandwich the pyranose ring. Each of the pairs of anomeric hydroxyls and epimeric hydroxyls is recognized by a distinct Asp residue. The site for interaction with the transducer is about 18 A from the sugar-binding site. Mutation of Gly74 to Asp at this site, concomitant with considerable changes in the local ordered water structures, contributes to the lack of productive interaction with the transmembrane signal transducer.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vyas, N K -- Vyas, M N -- Quiocho, F A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 2;242(4883):1290-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3057628" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacterial Proteins/*ultrastructure ; Binding Sites ; *Calcium-Binding Proteins ; Carrier Proteins/*ultrastructure ; *Chemotaxis ; Computer Simulation ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; Escherichia coli ; Galactose/metabolism ; Glucose/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; *Monosaccharide Transport Proteins ; *Periplasmic Binding Proteins ; Protein Conformation ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; X-Ray Diffraction
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    Publication Date: 1988-07-08
    Description: Gramicidin, a linear polypeptide composed of hydrophobic amino acids with alternating L- and D- configurations, forms transmembrane ion channels. The crystal structure of a gramicidin-cesium complex has been determined at 2.0 angstrom resolution. In this structure, gramicidin forms a 26 angstrom long tube comprised of two polypeptide chains arranged as antiparallel beta strands that are wrapped into a left-handed helical coil with 6.4 residues per turn. The polypeptide backbone forms the interior of the hydrophilic, solvent-filled pore and the side chains form a hydrophobic and relatively regular surface on the outside of the pore. This example of a crystal structure of a solvent-filled ion pore provides a basis for understanding the physical nature of ion translocation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wallace, B A -- Ravikumar, K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 8;241(4862):182-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2455344" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Cesium ; Computer Simulation ; Crystallography ; *Gramicidin ; *Ion Channels ; Ligands ; Macromolecular Substances ; *Membrane Proteins ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Conformation
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-21
    Description: The translational diffusion of wild-type and underglycosylated molecules of a membrane-integral glycoprotein the Ld class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigen has been measured. The Ld mutant molecules, which lack one or more glycosylation sites, had larger translational diffusion coefficients, D, than did wild-type Ld molecules glycosylated at three sites. The increase in D is linear with loss of glycosylation. The highest value of D approaches that for translational diffusion of molecules constrained only by viscosity of the membrane lipid bilayer. These results indicate that the external portions of cell surface glycoproteins interact significantly with other nearby molecules.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wier, M -- Edidin, M -- AI-14584/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 21;242(4877):412-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3175663" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/immunology ; Diffusion ; Glycosylation ; *Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics ; Humans ; Lipid Bilayers ; Major Histocompatibility Complex ; Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Mutation
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    Publication Date: 1988-09-02
    Description: Study of proteins that recognize specific DNA sequences has yielded much information, but the field is still in its infancy. Already two major structural motifs have been discovered, the helix-turn-helix and zinc finger, and numerous examples of DNA-binding proteins containing either of them are known. The restriction enzyme Eco RI uses yet a different motif. Additional motifs are likely to be found as well. There is a growing understanding of some of the physical chemistry involved in protein-DNA binding, but much remains to be learned before it becomes possible to engineer a protein that binds to a specific DNA sequence.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schleif, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Sep 2;241(4870):1182-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Graduate Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2842864" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acids/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Chemical Phenomena ; Chemistry ; DNA/metabolism ; DNA Restriction Enzymes/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI ; Electrochemistry ; Nucleic Acids/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Zinc
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    Publication Date: 1988-07-08
    Description: The amyloid beta protein peptide is a major constituent of amyloid plaque cores in Alzheimer's disease and is apparently derived from a higher molecular weight precursor. It is now shown that the core protein of a heparan sulfate proteoglycan secreted from a nerve cell line (PC12) has an amino acid sequence and a size very similar to those of the amyloid beta protein precursor and that these molecules are antigenically related. This amyloid beta protein precursor-related protein is not found in the conditioned medium of a variant cell line (F3 PC12) that does not secrete heparan sulfate proteoglycan. The synaptic localization and metabolism of this class of proteoglycans are consistent with its potential involvement in central nervous system dysfunction.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schubert, D -- Schroeder, R -- LaCorbiere, M -- Saitoh, T -- Cole, G -- AG 05131/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- F2 AG 05424A/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- NS 09658/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 8;241(4862):223-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA 92138.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2968652" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alzheimer Disease/*metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amyloid/*metabolism ; Amyloid beta-Peptides ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans/*metabolism ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Glycosaminoglycans/*metabolism ; Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans ; Heparitin Sulfate/*metabolism ; Immunologic Techniques ; Peptide Fragments ; Proteoglycans/*metabolism ; Rats ; Viral Core Proteins/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1988-12-16
    Description: The expression of a laboratory strain of HIV-1 (HTLV-IIIB) has been studied in mitogen-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) and in two lymphoid cell lines (CEM cells and C8166 cells). HIV-expressing cells contained from 300,000 to 2,500,000 copies of viral RNA per cell. Near-synchronous expression of an active infection could be achieved in C8166 cells. In these cells, the high copy numbers of viral RNA used as much as 40% of total protein synthesis for the production of viral gag protein, with high levels of viral RNA and protein synthesis preceding cell death by 2 to 4 days.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Somasundaran, M -- Robinson, H L -- AI 24474/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- N01-HB-6-7022/HB/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 16;242(4885):1554-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01655.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3201245" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Line ; *Cell Transformation, Viral ; HIV-1/*genetics/growth & development/metabolism ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Lymphocytes/*microbiology ; RNA, Viral/*biosynthesis ; Viral Proteins/*biosynthesis
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  • 17
    Publication Date: 1988-11-11
    Description: A systematic series of low molecular weight protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors were synthesized; they had progressively increasing affinity over a 2500-fold range toward the substrate site of epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor kinase domain. These compounds inhibited EGF receptor kinase activity up to three orders of magnitude more than they inhibited insulin receptor kinase, and they also effectively inhibited the EGF-dependent autophosphorylation of the receptor. The most potent compounds effectively inhibited the EGF-dependent proliferation of A431/clone 15 cells with little or no effect on the EGF-independent proliferation of these cells. The potential use of tyrosine protein kinase inhibitors as antiproliferative agents is demonstrated.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yaish, P -- Gazit, A -- Gilon, C -- Levitzki, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Nov 11;242(4880):933-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3263702" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding, Competitive ; Cell Division/drug effects ; Cell Line ; Epidermal Growth Factor/*pharmacology ; Molecular Structure ; Molecular Weight ; Phosphorylation ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/*antagonists & inhibitors ; Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor/*metabolism ; Receptor, Insulin/metabolism ; Solubility ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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    Publication Date: 1988-08-12
    Description: Interleukin-6 (IL-6/BSF-2/IFN beta 2) is a multifunctional cytokine that regulates the growth and differentiation of various tissues, and is known particularly for its role in the immune response and acute phase reactions. A complementary DNA encoding the human IL-6 receptor (IL-6-R) has now been isolated. The IL-6-R consists of 468 amino acids, including a signal peptide of approximately 19 amino acids and a domain of approximately 90 amino acids that is similar to a domain in the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily. The cytoplasmic domain of approximately 82 amino acids lacks a tyrosine/kinase domain, unlike other growth factor receptors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yamasaki, K -- Taga, T -- Hirata, Y -- Yawata, H -- Kawanishi, Y -- Seed, B -- Taniguchi, T -- Hirano, T -- Kishimoto, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 12;241(4867):825-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Immunology, Osaka University, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3136546" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; *Cloning, Molecular ; DNA/genetics/isolation & purification ; *Genes ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains/genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Receptors, Immunologic/genetics ; Receptors, Interleukin-6 ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; *Transcription, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1988-12-16
    Description: Severe heat shocks block the splicing of intervening sequences from messenger RNA precursors. The RNA's that accumulate after a severe heat shock have normal transcription start sites and are uncut at both their 5' and 3' splice junctions. Some of these unspliced transcripts leave the nucleus and enter the pool of cytoplasmic messenger RNA. Translation of these RNA's proceeds into their intervening sequences, resulting in the production of abnormal proteins. Thus, the repression of normal transcription, which usually accompanies the heat shock response, may protect the cell from the large-scale synthesis of abnormal RNA's and aberrant proteins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yost, H J -- Lindquist, S -- GM25784/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 16;242(4885):1544-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, IL 60637.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3201243" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Line ; DNA Probes ; Heat-Shock Proteins/biosynthesis/*genetics ; Hot Temperature ; Introns ; *Protein Biosynthesis ; RNA Precursors/*genetics ; *RNA Splicing ; *Transcription, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1988-12-16
    Description: Protein extracts derived from bone can initiate the process that begins with cartilage formation and ends in de novo bone formation. The critical components of this extract, termed bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), that direct cartilage and bone formation as well as the constitutive elements supplied by the animal during this process have long remained unclear. Amino acid sequence has been derived from a highly purified preparation of BMP from bovine bone. Now, human complementary DNA clones corresponding to three polypeptides present in this BMP preparation have been isolated, and expression of the recombinant human proteins have been obtained. Each of the three (BMP-1, BMP-2A, and BMP-3) appears to be independently capable of inducing the formation of cartilage in vivo. Two of the encoded proteins (BMP-2A and BMP-3) are new members of the TGF-beta supergene family, while the third, BMP-1, appears to be a novel regulatory molecule.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wozney, J M -- Rosen, V -- Celeste, A J -- Mitsock, L M -- Whitters, M J -- Kriz, R W -- Hewick, R M -- Wang, E A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 16;242(4885):1528-34.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Tissue Growth and Repair Program, Genetics Institute, Inc., Cambridge, MA 02140.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3201241" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Bone Morphogenetic Proteins ; Cartilage/cytology/drug effects ; Cell Line ; DNA/genetics ; Growth Substances/*genetics ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Osteogenesis ; Proteins/*genetics/pharmacology ; Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; Transforming Growth Factors/genetics
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-14
    Description: The signal sequence of simian virus 40 (SV40) large T-antigen for translocation into the nucleus is composed of positively charged amino acids Lys-Lys-Lys-Arg-Lys. Rabbit antibodies to a synthetic peptide containing the negatively charged amino acid sequence Asp-Asp-Asp-Glu-Asp were obtained. Indirect immunofluorescence of the antigens recognized by the antibody was punctate at the nuclear rim or the nuclear surface, depending on the plane of focus. The antibody blocked transport of nuclear proteins into the nucleus. The antigens recognized by the antibody were predominantly localized to the nuclear pores.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yoneda, Y -- Imamoto-Sonobe, N -- Matsuoka, Y -- Iwamoto, R -- Kiho, Y -- Uchida, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 14;242(4876):275-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3051382" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Antigens/immunology ; Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming ; Biological Transport ; Cell Line ; Cell Nucleus/*metabolism ; Fluorescent Antibody Technique ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nuclear Proteins/*metabolism ; Nucleoplasmins ; Oligopeptides/immunology/*physiology ; *Phosphoproteins ; Protein Sorting Signals/*physiology ; Rats
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  • 22
    Publication Date: 1988-04-22
    Description: These studies were set up to determine whether those oncogenes participating in the initiation of mammary carcinogenesis (for example, ras oncogenes) play a direct role in the outcome of events associated with the late stages of tumor development such as loss of hormone dependency. Mammary carcinomas induced by a single carcinogenic insult in pubescent rats was selected as an in vivo model system with direct relevance to human breast cancer. Acquisition of hormone-independent growth in these carcinogen-induced tumors was found to be independent of the activation of ras oncogenes during the early stages of carcinogenesis. In agreement with these observations, introduction of a human ras oncogene into human MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells did not abrogate their hormonal dependency for growth in vivo. These findings suggest that those events responsible for the critical stages of breast cancer development occur independently and in an uncoordinated manner.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sukumar, S -- Carney, W P -- Barbacid, M -- N01-CO-74101/CO/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Apr 22;240(4851):524-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Developmental Oncology Section, Basic Research Program, Frederick Cancer Research Facility, MD 21701.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3282307" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Breast Neoplasms/*physiopathology ; Cell Line ; Estrogens/*physiology ; Gene Expression Regulation ; *Genes, ras ; Humans ; Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/*physiopathology ; Methylnitrosourea ; Mice ; Mice, Nude ; Neoplasm Transplantation ; Rats ; Receptors, Estrogen/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 1988-11-11
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Marx, J L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Nov 11;242(4880):863-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2460921" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/prevention & control ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigens/*immunology ; Epitopes/immunology ; Major Histocompatibility Complex ; Protein Conformation ; T-Lymphocytes/*immunology ; Viral Vaccines
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    Publication Date: 1988-02-19
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Marx, J L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Feb 19;239(4842):863.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3124269" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Humans ; Neoplasms/genetics ; Protein Conformation ; *Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)
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    Publication Date: 1988-07-22
    Description: The alpha subunits of Gs and Gi link different sets of hormone receptors to stimulation and inhibition, respectively, of adenylyl cyclase. A chimeric alpha i/alpha s cDNA was constructed that encodes a polypeptide composed of the amino terminal 60% of an alpha i chain and the carboxyl terminal 40% of alpha s. The cDNA was introduced via a retroviral vector into S49 cyc- cells, which lack endogenous alpha s. Although less than half of the hybrid alpha chain is derived from alpha s, its ability to mediate beta-adrenoceptor stimulation of adenylyl cyclase matched that of the normal alpha s polypeptide expressed from the same retroviral vector in cyc- cells. This result indicates that carboxyl terminal amino acid sequences of alpha s contain the structural features that are required for specificity of interactions with the effector enzyme, adenylyl cyclase, as well as with the hormone receptor.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Masters, S B -- Sullivan, K A -- Miller, R T -- Beiderman, B -- Lopez, N G -- Ramachandran, J -- Bourne, H R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 22;241(4864):448-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco 94143.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2899356" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenylyl Cyclases/*physiology ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/physiology ; Cholera Toxin/pharmacology ; Colforsin/pharmacology ; Enzyme Activation ; GTP-Binding Proteins/*physiology ; Guanosine Triphosphate/pharmacology ; Isoproterenol/pharmacology ; Mice ; Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/*physiology ; Recombinant Proteins ; Somatostatin/pharmacology ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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    Publication Date: 1988-11-11
    Description: A peptide 60 residues in length that corresponds to the homeo domain of Antennapedia (Antp), a protein governing development in Drosophila, was synthesized by segment condensation with protected peptide segments prepared on an oxime resin. A footprinting assay showed that the homeo domain binds specifically to a TAA repeat DNA sequence in the Antp gene. Thus the Antp homeo domain has a sequence-specific DNA binding property. The circular dichroism spectra of the homeo domain peptide showed the presence of a significant amount of alpha-helical structure in aqueous solution and in 50 percent trifluoroethanol. The alpha helicity measured in water appears to depend on the peptide concentration, which suggests that the peptide aggregates. These results support the hypothesis that the homeo domain binds to DNA through a helix-turn-helix motif.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mihara, H -- Kaiser, E T -- RR 862/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Nov 11;242(4880):925-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2903553" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; Circular Dichroism ; DNA/*metabolism ; Drosophila/*growth & development ; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel ; *Genes, Homeobox ; Insect Hormones/*chemical synthesis/genetics/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Peptide Fragments/*chemical synthesis/genetics ; Protein Conformation ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
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    Publication Date: 1988-04-29
    Description: The first step in the infection of human T lymphocytes by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is attachment to the target cell receptor, the CD4 antigen. This step may be vulnerable to attack by antibodies, chemicals, or small peptides. Dextran sulfate (molecular weight approximately 8000), which has been given to patients as an anticoagulant or antilipemic agent for more than two decades, was found to block the binding of virions to various target T lymphocytes, inhibit syncytia formation, and exert a potent inhibitory effect against HIV-1 in vitro at concentrations that may be clinically attainable in human beings. This drug also suppressed the replication of HIV-2 in vitro. These observations could have theoretical and clinical implications in the strategy to develop drugs against HIV types 1 and 2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mitsuya, H -- Looney, D J -- Kuno, S -- Ueno, R -- Wong-Staal, F -- Broder, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Apr 29;240(4852):646-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Clinical Oncology Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2452480" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte ; Cell Line ; DNA, Viral/analysis ; Dextran Sulfate ; Dextrans/*pharmacology ; *Dideoxynucleosides ; Fluorescent Antibody Technique ; HIV/*drug effects/genetics/physiology ; HIV Envelope Protein gp120 ; Immunologic Techniques ; RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/metabolism ; Retroviridae Proteins/physiology ; Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors ; Suramin/pharmacology ; T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/drug effects/immunology/*microbiology ; Thymidine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Viral Fusion Proteins/physiology ; Virion/*drug effects/physiology ; Zidovudine
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-28
    Description: Monocytes and macrophages, which may play a central role in the pathogenesis of infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), express the CD4 molecule and Fc receptors (FcR) for immunoglobulin G (IgG). To explore the possibility that FcR mediate HIV-1 infection of monocytes, studies were conducted with the human monocytic cell line U937. These cells were exposed to HIV-1 complexed with various concentrations of serum from HIV-1 antibody-positive individuals and monitored for HIV-1 replication. Serum samples from antibody-negative normal individuals did not affect virus yields. High concentrations of antibody-positive sera showed virus-neutralizing activity; however, cells infected with HIV-1 in the presence of antibody-positive sera at subneutralizing concentrations significantly enhanced virus replication. This infection enhancement was blocked by heat-aggregated gamma-globulin. Moreover, the IgG fraction from an HIV-1 antibody-positive serum enhanced HIV-1 infection at the same serum dilution equivalents. In contrast, IgG-F(ab')2 did not enhance HIV-1 infection but showed neutralizing activity with HIV-1. These results are compatible with the concept of FcR-mediated infection enhancement and suggest that this immunological response to HIV-1, instead of protecting the host, potentially facilitates the infection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Takeda, A -- Tuazon, C U -- Ennis, F A -- R01-AI24750/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32-AI07272/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- U01-AI26458/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 28;242(4878):580-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2972065" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/immunology/*microbiology ; Antigen-Antibody Complex ; Antigens, Differentiation/*physiology ; Cell Line ; HIV Antibodies/*immunology ; HIV-1/immunology/*pathogenicity ; Humans ; In Vitro Techniques ; Monocytes/*microbiology ; Receptors, Fc/*physiology ; Receptors, IgG
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    Publication Date: 1988-06-17
    Description: The specificity of complex formation between cytochrome b5 (cyt b5) and cytochrome c (cyt c) is believed to involve the formation of salt linkages between specific carboxylic acid residues of cyt b5 with lysine residues on cyt c. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to alter the specified acidic residues of cyt b5 to the corresponding amide analogues, which resulted in a lower affinity for complex formation with cyt c. The dissociation of the complex under high pressure resulted in specific volume changes, the magnitude of which reflected the degree of solvation of the acidic residues in the proposed protein-protein interface.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rodgers, K K -- Pochapsky, T C -- Sligar, S G -- GM 31756/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 33775/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 17;240(4859):1657-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2837825" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cytochrome b Group/genetics/*metabolism ; Cytochrome c Group/*metabolism ; Cytochromes b5 ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Hydrostatic Pressure ; Macromolecular Substances ; Mutation ; Protein Conformation ; Rats ; Solubility ; Thermodynamics
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    Publication Date: 1988-07-08
    Description: Mammalian cell lines (BSC-40, NG108-15, and GH4C1) that cannot process the murine neuroendocrine peptide precursor prepro-opiomelanocortin (mPOMC) when its synthesis is directed by a vaccinia virus vector were coinfected with a second recombinant vaccinia virus carrying the yeast KEX2 gene, which encodes an endopeptidase that cleaves at pairs of basic amino acid residues. mPOMC was cleaved intracellularly to a set of product peptides normally found in vivo, including mature gamma-lipotropin and beta-endorphin1-31. In GH4C1 cells (a rat pituitary line), product peptides were incorporated into stored secretory granules. These results suggest that the inability of any particular cell line to process a prohormone precursor is due to the absence of a suitable endogenous processing enzyme.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Thomas, G -- Thorne, B A -- Thomas, L -- Allen, R G -- Hruby, D E -- Fuller, R -- Thorner, J -- AI20563/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- DK37274/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- HD18438/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 8;241(4862):226-30.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3291117" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Line ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA, Recombinant ; Endopeptidases/*metabolism ; In Vitro Techniques ; Pro-Opiomelanocortin/*metabolism ; Protein Precursors/*metabolism ; Protein Processing, Post-Translational ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology
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    Publication Date: 1988-03-18
    Description: In the anterior pituitary gland, there are five phenotypically distinct cell types, including cells that produce either prolactin (lactotrophs) or growth hormone (somatotrophs). Multiple, related cis-active elements that exhibit synergistic interactions appear to be the critical determinants of the transcriptional activation of the rat prolactin and growth hormone genes. A common positive tissue-specific transcription factor, referred to as Pit-1, appears to bind to all the cell-specific elements in each gene and to be required for the activation of both the prolactin and growth hormone genes. The data suggest that, in the course of development, a single tissue-specific factor activates sets of genes that ultimately exhibit restricted cell-specific expression and define cellular phenotype.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nelson, C -- Albert, V R -- Elsholtz, H P -- Lu, L I -- Rosenfeld, M G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Mar 18;239(4846):1400-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Eukaryotic Regulatory Biology Program, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 92093.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2831625" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Avian Sarcoma Viruses/genetics ; Binding, Competitive ; Cell Line ; DNA, Recombinant ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Growth Hormone/*genetics ; Phenotype ; Photochemistry ; Pituitary Gland, Anterior/metabolism ; Prolactin/*genetics ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Rats ; Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Transcription Factors/*physiology ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1988-07-22
    Description: The central portion (region P) of the 742-nucleotide noncoding 5' end of poliovirus allows the RNA to initiate protein synthesis in the absence of the usual 5' 7-methylguanosine capping group. Poliovirus 5' noncoding region was fused to a reporter gene and transfected into cells. There was extensive augmentation of the expression of this gene by poliovirus-mediated inhibition of cap-dependent protein synthesis. That the construct initiated in a cap-independent manner was verified through in vitro experiments. Small lesions throughout region P blocked its initiation function, implying that a coherent functional unit, hundreds of nucleotides long, is responsible for cap-independent initiation by poliovirus RNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Trono, D -- Pelletier, J -- Sonenberg, N -- Baltimore, D -- AI 22346/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 22;241(4864):445-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2839901" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetyltransferases/genetics ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Cell-Free System ; Cercopithecus aethiops ; Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; DNA, Recombinant ; Poliovirus/*genetics ; Protein Biosynthesis ; RNA Caps ; RNA, Messenger/genetics
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    Publication Date: 1988-12-16
    Description: Human T cell leukemia viruses (HTLV-I and HTLV-II) can infect many cell types in vitro. HTLV-I and HTLV-II use the same cell surface receptor, as shown by interference with syncytium formation and with infection by vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) pseudotypes bearing the HTLV envelope glycoproteins. Human-mouse somatic cell hybrids were used to determine which human chromosome was required to confer susceptibility to VSV(HTLV) infection. The only human chromosome common to all susceptible cell hybrids was chromosome 17, and the receptor gene was localized to 17cen-qter. Antibodies to surface antigens known to be determined by genes on 17q did not block the HTLV receptor.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sommerfelt, M A -- Williams, B P -- Clapham, P R -- Solomon, E -- Goodfellow, P N -- Weiss, R A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 16;242(4885):1557-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Chester Beatty Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research, London, U.K.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3201246" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cattle ; Cell Line ; Chromosome Mapping ; *Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17 ; Cricetinae ; *Genes ; Human T-lymphotropic virus 1/*physiology ; Human T-lymphotropic virus 2/*physiology ; Humans ; Hybrid Cells/cytology/microbiology ; Mice ; Rats ; Receptors, Virus/*genetics
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    Publication Date: 1988-08-05
    Description: Qa-2, a cell-surface glycoprotein anchored by phosphatidylinositol (PI), is structurally related to the class I transplantation antigens H-2 K, D, and L, which are integral membrane glycoproteins. The predicted transmembrane segment of Qa-2 differs from those of H-2 K, D, and L by the presence of an aspartate in place of a valine at position 295. A single base change that replaced this aspartate with valine resulted in cell-surface Qa-2 molecules that were insensitive to hydrolysis by a PI-specific phospholipase C and more resistant to papain cleavage, properties shared by H-2D. Cells expressing Asp----Val mutant Qa-2 proteins were still able to attach a PI anchor to endogenous proteins such as Thy-1 and J11D. It therefore appears that this single amino acid change converts Qa-2 from a PI-linked form into an integral membrane protein.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Waneck, G L -- Stein, M E -- Flavell, R A -- AI24562/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 5;241(4866):697-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Biogen Research Corporation, Cambridge, MA 02142.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3399901" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; *Antigens, Surface/genetics ; *Aspartic Acid ; Cell Line ; DNA/genetics ; H-2 Antigens ; *Histocompatibility Antigens/genetics ; *Histocompatibility Antigens Class I ; Membrane Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Mutation ; Papain/metabolism ; Phosphatidylinositols/*metabolism ; Thymoma ; Thymus Neoplasms ; Transfection ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; Type C Phospholipases/metabolism ; *Valine
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    Publication Date: 1988-12-16
    Description: Three variations to the structure of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent L-lactate dehydrogenase from Bacillus stearothermophilus were made to try to change the substrate specificity from lactate to malate: Asp197----Asn, Thr246----Gly, and Gln102----Arg). Each modification shifts the specificity from lactate to malate, although only the last (Gln102----Arg) provides an effective and highly specific catalyst for the new substrate. This synthetic enzyme has a ratio of catalytic rate (kcat) to Michaelis constant (Km) for oxaloacetate of 4.2 x 10(6)M-1 s-1, equal to that of native lactate dehydrogenase for its natural substrate, pyruvate, and a maximum velocity (250 s-1), which is double that reported for a natural malate dehydrogenase from B. stearothermophilus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wilks, H M -- Hart, K W -- Feeney, R -- Dunn, C R -- Muirhead, H -- Chia, W N -- Barstow, D A -- Atkinson, T -- Clarke, A R -- Holbrook, J J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 16;242(4885):1541-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3201242" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Geobacillus stearothermophilus/*enzymology/genetics ; Kinetics ; L-Lactate Dehydrogenase/*genetics/metabolism ; Malate Dehydrogenase/*metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Conformation ; Substrate Specificity
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    Publication Date: 1988-02-05
    Description: An expression vector for the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor was introduced into the 32D myeloid cell line, which is devoid of EGF receptors and absolutely dependent on interleukin-3 (IL-3) for its proliferation and survival. Expression of the EGF receptor conferred the ability to utilize EGF for transduction of a mitogenic signal. When the transfected cells were propagated in EGF, they exhibited a more mature myeloid phenotype than was observed under conditions of IL-3-directed growth. Moreover, exposure to EGF led to a rapid stimulation of phosphoinositide metabolism, while IL-3 had no detectable effect on phosphoinositide turnover either in control or EGF receptor-transfected 32D cells. Although the transfected cells exhibited high levels of functional EGF receptors, they remained nontumorigenic. In contrast, transfection of v-erbB, an amino-terminal truncated form of the EGF receptor with constitutive tyrosine kinase activity, not only abrogated the IL-3 growth factor requirement of 32D cells, but caused them to become tumorigenic in nude mice. These results show that a naive hematopoietic cell expresses all of the intracellular components of the EGF-signaling pathway necessary to evoke a mitogenic response and sustain continuous proliferation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pierce, J H -- Ruggiero, M -- Fleming, T P -- Di Fiore, P P -- Greenberger, J S -- Varticovski, L -- Schlessinger, J -- Rovera, G -- Aaronson, S A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Feb 5;239(4840):628-31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3257584" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Division ; Cell Line ; *Cloning, Molecular ; DNA Replication/drug effects ; Epidermal Growth Factor/metabolism/pharmacology ; Genetic Vectors ; Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology/drug effects/*metabolism ; Interleukin-3/*pharmacology ; Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor/*genetics/metabolism ; *Transfection
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-28
    Description: The T cell antigen receptor consists of an antigen-binding heterodimer that is noncovalently associated with at least five CD3 subunits (gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, and eta). The CD3-zeta chains are either disulfide-linked homodimers (CD3-zeta 2) or disulfide-linked heterodimers with eta (CD3-zeta eta). Variants of a murine antigen-specific T cell hybridoma that express normal amounts of CD3-zeta 2 but decreased amounts of CD3-zeta eta were isolated. When activated, the parental cell line increased both phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis and serine-specific protein kinase activity to a much greater extent than the variants. In contrast, the activation of a tyrosine-specific kinase after stimulation with a cross-linking antibody to CD3 was similar among these cells. There was a positive linear relation between the expression of CD3-zeta eta and phosphoinositide hydrolysis stimulated by the TCR, suggesting a differential coupling of the T cell alpha beta heterodimer to signal transduction mechanisms due to alpha beta association with either CD3-zeta 2 or CD3-zeta eta.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mercep, M -- Bonifacino, J S -- Garcia-Morales, P -- Samelson, L E -- Klausner, R D -- Ashwell, J D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 28;242(4878):571-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Biological Response Modifiers Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2845582" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigens/immunology ; Antigens, CD3 ; Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/*physiology ; Cell Line ; Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional ; Macromolecular Substances ; *Membrane Proteins ; Mice ; Phosphatidylinositols/*metabolism ; Phosphoproteins/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Precipitin Tests ; Protein Kinase C/physiology ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/*physiology ; T-Lymphocytes/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 1988-03-11
    Description: Two-dimensional crystals of cholera toxin bound to receptors in a lipid membrane give diffraction extending to 15 A resolution. Three-dimensional structure determination reveals a ring of five B subunits on the membrane surface, with one-third of the A subunit occupying the center of the ring. The remaining mass of the A subunit appears to penetrate the hydrophobic interior of the membrane. Cleavage of a disulfide bond in the A subunit, which activates the toxin, causes a major conformational change, with the A subunit mostly exiting from the B ring.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ribi, H O -- Ludwig, D S -- Mercer, K L -- Schoolnik, G K -- Kornberg, R D -- AI21144/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- GM07276-12/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM07365/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Mar 11;239(4845):1272-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3344432" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Cholera Toxin ; G(M1) Ganglioside ; *Liposomes ; Macromolecular Substances ; Microscopy, Electron ; Models, Molecular ; Phosphatidylethanolamines ; Protein Conformation
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-14
    Description: An unexpected immunoglobulin gene rearrangement, signal sequence replacement, was observed in which the recombinational signal sequences of a VH gene segment are fused intact to the 5' end of a DJH element. Nucleotides are not lost from the signal sequences, but they may be lost from the DJH coding sequence. Signal sequence replacement may result from the alternative resolution of an intermediate in VH-to-DJH recombination. This type of rearrangement provides a means to alter the targeting of immunoglobulin gene segments and suggests a mechanism for the occurrence of VH-JH junctions in vivo. Signal sequence replacement may represent an additional pathway for the generation of antibody diversity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Morzycka-Wroblewska, E -- Lee, F E -- Desiderio, S V -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 14;242(4876):261-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute Laboratory of Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3140378" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; DNA, Recombinant ; *Gene Rearrangement ; *Genes, Immunoglobulin ; Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics ; Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Protein Sorting Signals/*genetics ; Recombination, Genetic ; Retroviridae/genetics
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    Publication Date: 1988-08-05
    Description: The presence of macrophages is required for the regeneration of many cell types during wound healing. Macrophages have been reported to express a wide range of mitogenic factors and cytokines, but none of these factors has been shown in vivo to sustain all the wound-healing processes. It has been suggested that transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) may mediate angiogenesis, epidermal regrowth, and formation of granulation tissue in vivo. Macrophages isolated from a wound site, and not exposed to cell culture conditions, expressed messenger RNA transcripts for TGF-alpha, TGF-beta, platelet-derived growth factor A-chain, and insulin-like growth factor-1. The expression of these transcripts was determined by a novel method for RNA analysis in which low numbers of mouse macrophages were isolated from wound cylinders, their RNA was purified and reverse-transcribed, and the complementary DNA was amplified in a polymerase chain reaction primed with growth factor sequence-specific primers. This single-cell RNA phenotyping procedure is rapid and has the potential for quantification, and mRNA transcripts from a single cell or a few cells can be unambiguously demonstrated, with the simultaneous analysis of several mRNA species. Macrophages from wounds expressed TGF-alpha antigen, and wound fluids contained TGF-alpha. Elicited macrophages in culture also expressed TGF-alpha transcripts and polypeptide in a time-dependent manner after stimulation with modified low-density lipoproteins and lipopolysaccharide endotoxin, which are characteristic of the activators found in injured tissues.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rappolee, D A -- Mark, D -- Banda, M J -- Werb, Z -- AR 32746/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 27345/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 5;241(4866):708-12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Radiobiology and Environmental Health, University of California, San Francisco 94143.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3041594" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Line ; DNA/genetics ; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ; Epidermal Growth Factor/biosynthesis/genetics ; Fibroblast Growth Factors/biosynthesis/genetics ; Fibroblasts/metabolism ; Fluorescent Antibody Technique ; Growth Substances/*biosynthesis/genetics ; Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/biosynthesis/genetics ; Macrophages/*metabolism ; Male ; Mice ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; *Peptide Biosynthesis ; Peptides/genetics ; Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/biosynthesis/genetics ; Protein Biosynthesis ; RNA, Messenger/*biosynthesis ; Rabbits ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transforming Growth Factors ; *Wound Healing ; Wounds and Injuries/*pathology
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    Publication Date: 1988-09-16
    Description: An in vitro assay was developed to study the positive factors that regulate the onset of DNA replication during the mammalian cell cycle. Extracts prepared from cells at defined positions in the cell cycle were used to examine the replication of SV40 DNA in a cell free system. Extracts prepared from S phase cells were ten times more efficient at initiating replication at the SV40 origin than were extracts from G1 cells, whereas elongation rates were similar in G1 and S reactions. At a discrete point in the cell cycle, just before the cell's entry into S, an activity appeared that was required, in conjunction with SV40 T antigen, for site specific initiation at the SV40 origin. This factor had a role in unwinding DNA at the replication origin.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Roberts, J M -- D'Urso, G -- AG0005/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Sep 16;241(4872):1486-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98104.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2843984" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/physiology ; *Cell Cycle ; Cell Line ; Cell-Free System ; *DNA Replication ; Humans ; In Vitro Techniques ; Interphase ; Simian virus 40/genetics ; Virus Replication
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    Publication Date: 1988-08-26
    Description: Several complementary DNAs (cDNAs) coding for sphingolipid activator protein-2 (SAP-2) were isolated from a lambda gt-11 human hepatoma library by means of polyclonal antibodies. The nucleotide sequence of the largest cDNA was colinear with the derived amino acid sequence of SAP-2 and with the nucleotide sequence of the cDNA coding for the 70-kilodalton precursor of SAP-1 (SAP precursor cDNA). The coding sequence for mature SAP-2 was located 3' to that coding for SAP-1 in the SAP precursor cDNA. Both SAP-1 and SAP-2 appeared to be derived by proteolytic processing from a common precursor that is coded by a genetic locus on human chromosome 10. Two other domains similar to SAP-1 and SAP-2 were also identified in SAP precursor protein. Each of the four domains was approximately 80 amino acid residues long, had nearly identical placement of cysteine residues, potential glycosylation sites, and proline residues. Each domain also contained internal amino acid sequences capable of forming amphipathic helices separated by helix breakers to give a cylindrical hydrophobic domain that is probably stabilized by disulfide bridges. Protein immunoblotting experiments indicated that SAP precursor protein (70 kilodaltons) as well as immunoreactive SAP-like proteins of intermediate sizes (65, 50, and 31 kilodaltons) are present in most human tissues.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉O'Brien, J S -- Kretz, K A -- Dewji, N -- Wenger, D A -- Esch, F -- Fluharty, A L -- DK 38795/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- HD 18983/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- NS 08682/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 26;241(4869):1098-101.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2842863" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/analysis ; Chromosome Mapping ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10 ; DNA/genetics/isolation & purification ; Glycoproteins/analysis/*genetics ; Humans ; Liver Neoplasms/analysis ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Nude ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Precursors/analysis/genetics ; Protein Processing, Post-Translational ; Rats ; Saposins ; Sphingolipid Activator Proteins ; Tissue Distribution
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    Publication Date: 1988-07-22
    Description: The steroid molting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone is the physiological inducer of molting and metamorphosis in insects. In ecdysone-sensitive Drosophila Kc cells, the insecticide RH 5849 (1,2-dibenzoyl-1-tert-butylhydrazine) mimics the action of 20-hydroxyecdysone by causing the formation of processes, an inhibition of cell proliferation, and induction of acetylcholinesterase. RH 5849 also competes with [3H]ponasterone A for high-affinity ecdysone receptor sites from Kc cell extracts. Resistant cell populations selected by growth in the continued presence of either RH 5849 or 20-hydroxyecdysone are insensitive to both compounds and exhibit a decreased titer of measurable ecdysone receptors. Although it is less potent than 20-hydroxyecdysone in both whole-cell and cell-free receptor assays, RH 5849 is the first nonsteroidal ecdysone agonist.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wing, K D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 22;241(4864):467-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Research Labs, Rohm and Haas Co., Spring House, PA 19477.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3393913" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylcholinesterase/biosynthesis ; Animals ; Binding, Competitive ; Cell Differentiation/drug effects ; Cell Line ; Drosophila/cytology/*drug effects ; Ecdysterone/analogs & derivatives/metabolism ; Hydrazines/*pharmacology ; Insecticides/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Receptors, Steroid/metabolism
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  • 44
    Publication Date: 1988-11-11
    Description: Manganous superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) scavenges potentially toxic superoxide radicals produced in the mitochondria. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) was found to induce the messenger RNA for MnSOD, but not the mRNAs for other antioxidant or mitochondrial enzymes tested. The increase in MnSOD mRNA occurred rapidly and was blocked by actinomycin D, but not by cycloheximide. Induction of MnSOD mRNA was also observed with TNF-beta, interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), and IL-1 beta but not with other cytokines or agents tested. TNF-alpha induced MnSOD mRNA in all cell lines and normal cells examined in vitro and in various organs of mice in vivo. These effects of TNF-alpha and IL-1 on target cells may contribute to their reported protective activity against radiation as well as their ability to induce resistance to cell killing induced by the combination of TNF-alpha and cycloheximide.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wong, G H -- Goeddel, D V -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Nov 11;242(4880):941-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Genentech, San Francisco, CA 94080.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3263703" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Catalase/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cycloheximide/pharmacology ; Dactinomycin/pharmacology ; Enzyme Induction/drug effects ; Humans ; Interleukin-1/pharmacology ; Kinetics ; Mice ; Mitochondria/enzymology ; RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis ; Rats ; Superoxide Dismutase/*biosynthesis/genetics/metabolism ; Tissue Distribution ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*pharmacology
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  • 45
    Publication Date: 1988-02-05
    Description: To investigate the relation between protein stability and the predicted stabilities of individual secondary structural elements, residue Pro86 in an alpha-helix in phage T4 lysozyme was replaced by ten different amino acids. The x-ray crystal structures of seven of the mutant lysozymes were determined at high resolution. In each case, replacement of the proline resulted in the formation of an extended alpha-helix. This involves a large conformational change in residues 81 to 83 and smaller shifts that extend 20 angstroms across the protein surface. Unexpectedly, all ten amino acid substitutions marginally reduce protein thermostability. This insensitivity of stability to the amino acid at position 86 is not simply explained by statistical and thermodynamic criteria for helical propensity. The observed conformational changes illustrate a general mechanism by which proteins can tolerate mutations.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Alber, T -- Bell, J A -- Sun, D P -- Nicholson, H -- Wozniak, J A -- Cook, S -- Matthews, B W -- GM 20066/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 21967/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Feb 5;239(4840):631-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3277275" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Enzyme Stability ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; Models, Molecular ; Muramidase/*genetics/metabolism ; Mutation ; *Proline ; Protein Conformation ; T-Phages/*enzymology/genetics ; X-Ray Diffraction
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  • 46
    Publication Date: 1988-07-15
    Description: Although steroid hormone receptors are known to activate gene expression by binding to specific hormone-dependent enhancers, the mechanisms by which steroids inhibit the transcription of specific genes are unknown. It is shown here by gene transfer studies that the same glucocorticoid receptor that activates gene expression can negatively regulate expression of the human glycoprotein hormone alpha-subunit gene. Glucocorticoid inhibition was conferred by a 52-nucleotide region that also contains elements crucial both for adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) responsiveness and for placental-specific expression of this gene and was observed only under conditions in which these elements were functioning as enhancers. Purified glucocorticoid receptor was found to bind to DNA that overlap the cAMP responsive elements sites in this region. It is hypothesized that steroid receptors negatively regulate gene expression by interfering with the activity or binding of other important transcription factors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Akerblom, I E -- Slater, E P -- Beato, M -- Baxter, J D -- Mellon, P L -- R01 HD020377/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 15;241(4863):350-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Regulatory Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2838908" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Line ; Chorionic Gonadotropin/*genetics ; Cyclic AMP/*physiology ; DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology ; Dexamethasone/*pharmacology ; *Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Humans ; In Vitro Techniques ; Receptors, Steroid/*physiology ; *Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Transcription Factors/physiology
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  • 47
    Publication Date: 1988-01-22
    Description: Overexpression of the cellular src gene in NIH 3T3 cells causes reduction of cell-to-cell transmission of molecules in the 400- to 700-dalton range. This down-regulation of gap junctional communication correlates with the activity of the gene product, the protein tyrosine kinase pp60c-src. The down-regulation was enhanced by point mutation of Tyr527 (a site that is phosphorylated in pp60c-src and that inhibits kinase activity) or by substitution of the viral-src for the cellular-src carboxyl-terminal coding region. Mutation of Tyr416 (a site phosphorylated upon Tyr527 mutation) suppresses both the down-regulation of communication by Tyr527 mutation and that by gene overexpression. The regulation of communication by src may be important in the control of embryonic development and cellular growth.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Azarnia, R -- Reddy, S -- Kmiecik, T E -- Shalloway, D -- Loewenstein, W R -- CA-14464/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA-32317/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jan 22;239(4838):398-401.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33136.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2447651" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Cell Communication ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane Permeability ; Gene Expression Regulation ; *Intercellular Junctions ; Mice ; Mutation ; Phosphorylation ; Plasmids ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/*genetics ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics/*physiology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins pp60(c-src) ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transfection ; Tyrosine/metabolism
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  • 48
    Publication Date: 1988-12-23
    Description: Homozygous inheritance of the Z-type mutant form of the alpha 1-antitrypsin (alpha 1AT) gene results in the most common form of alpha 1AT deficiency, a human hereditary disease associated with a high risk for the development of emphysema and an increased incidence of neonatal hepatitis. The alpha 1AT-synthesizing cells of individuals with the Z gene have normal alpha 1AT messenger RNA levels, but alpha 1AT secretion is markedly reduced secondary to accumulation of newly synthesized alpha 1AT in the rough endoplasmic reticulum. Crystallographic analysis of alpha 1AT predicts that in normal alpha 1AT, a negatively charged Glu342 is adjacent to positively charged Lys290. Thus the Glu342----Lys342 Z mutation caused the loss of a normal salt bridge, resulting in the intracellular aggregation of the Z molecule. The prediction was made that a second mutation in the alpha 1AT genet that changed the positively charged Lys290 to a negatively charged Glu290 would correct the secretion defect. When the second mutation was added to the Z-type complementary DNA, the resulting gene directed the synthesis and secretion of amounts of alpha 1AT similar to that directed by the normal alpha 1AT complementary DNA in an in vitro eukaryotic expression system. This suggests the possibility that a human hereditary disease can be corrected by inserting an additional mutation in the same gene.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Brantly, M -- Courtney, M -- Crystal, R G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 23;242(4886):1700-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2904702" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Line ; Codon ; DNA/genetics ; Electrochemistry ; Endoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism ; Glutamates ; Glutamic Acid ; Humans ; Lysine ; *Mutation ; Protein Conformation ; RNA, Messenger/metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Transfection ; alpha 1-Antitrypsin/*genetics/secretion ; alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
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  • 49
    Publication Date: 1988-08-12
    Description: The interaction between receptors and guanine nucleotide binding (G) proteins leads to G protein activation and subsequent regulation of effector enzymes. The molecular basis of receptor-G protein interaction has been examined by using the ability of the G protein from rods (transducin) to cause a conformational change in rhodopsin as an assay. Synthetic peptides corresponding to two regions near the carboxyl terminus of the G protein alpha subunit, Glu311-Val328 and Ile340-Phe350, compete with G protein for interaction with rhodopsin. Amino acid substitution studies show that Cys321 is required for this effect. Ile340-Phe350 and a modified peptide, acetyl-Glu311-Lys329-amide, mimic G protein effects on rhodopsin conformation, showing that these peptides bind to and stabilize the activated conformation of rhodopsin.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hamm, H E -- Deretic, D -- Arendt, A -- Hargrave, P A -- Koenig, B -- Hofmann, K P -- EY06062/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- EY06225/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- RP05369/PHS HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 12;241(4867):832-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60680.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3136547" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antibodies, Monoclonal ; Antigen-Antibody Complex ; Binding Sites ; GTP-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Kinetics ; Macromolecular Substances ; Membrane Proteins/*metabolism ; Peptides/metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Retinal Pigments/*metabolism ; Rhodopsin/analogs & derivatives/*metabolism ; Transducin
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  • 50
    Publication Date: 1988-06-03
    Description: The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) uses the CD4 protein as a receptor for infection of susceptible cells. A candidate structure for the HIV-1 binding site on the CD4 protein was identified by epitope mapping with a family of eight functionally distinct CD4-specific monoclonal antibodies in conjunction with a panel of large CD4-derived synthetic peptides. All of the seven epitopes that were located reside within two immunoglobulin-like disulfide loops situated between residues 1 and 168 of the CD4 protein. The CD4-specific monoclonal antibody OKT4A, a potent inhibitor of HIV-1 binding, recognized a site between residues 32 and 47 on the CD4 protein. By analogy to other members of the immunoglobulin superfamily of proteins, this particular region has been predicted to exist as a protruding loop. A synthetic analog of this loop (residues 25 to 58) showed a concentration-dependent inhibition of HIV-1-induced cell fusion. It is proposed that a loop extending from residues 37 to 53 of the CD4 protein is a binding site for the AIDS virus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jameson, B A -- Rao, P E -- Kong, L I -- Hahn, B H -- Shaw, G M -- Hood, L E -- Kent, S B -- AI25784/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 3;240(4857):1335-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2453925" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology ; Binding, Competitive ; Cell Fusion ; Disulfides/metabolism ; Epitopes/immunology ; Fluorescent Antibody Technique ; HIV/immunology/*metabolism ; HIV Envelope Protein gp120 ; Humans ; Immunoglobulins ; Peptide Fragments/chemical synthesis/immunology ; Protein Conformation ; Radioimmunoassay ; Receptors, HIV ; Receptors, Virus/*immunology ; Retroviridae Proteins/immunology ; T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/immunology/*microbiology
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  • 51
    Publication Date: 1988-09-16
    Description: During the early stages of its developmental program, Dictyostelium discoideum expresses cell surface cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) receptors. It has been suggested that these receptors coordinate the aggregation of individual cells into a multicellular organism and regulate the expression of a large number of developmentally regulated genes. The complementary DNA (cDNA) for the cyclic AMP receptor has now been cloned from lambda gt-11 libraries by screening with specific antiserum. The 2-kilobase messenger RNA (mRNA) that encodes the receptor is undetectable in growing cells, rises to a maximum at 3 to 4 hours of development, and then declines. In vitro transcribed complementary RNA, when hybridized to cellular mRNA, specifically arrests in vitro translation of the receptor polypeptide. When the cDNA is expressed in Dictyostelium cells, the undifferentiated cells specifically bind cyclic AMP. Cell lines transformed with a vector that expresses complementary mRNA (antisense) do not express the cyclic AMP receptor protein. These cells fail to enter the aggregation stage of development during starvation, whereas control and wild-type cells aggregate and complete the developmental program within 24 hours. The phenotype of the antisense transformants suggests that the cyclic AMP receptor is essential for development. The deduced amino acid sequence of the receptor reveals a high percentage of hydrophobic residues grouped in seven domains, similar to the rhodopsins and other receptors believed to interact with G proteins. It shares amino acid sequence identity and is immunologically cross-reactive with bovine rhodopsin. A model is proposed in which the cyclic AMP receptor crosses the bilayer seven times with a serine-rich cytoplasmic carboxyl terminus, the proposed site of ligand-induced receptor phosphorylation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Klein, P S -- Sun, T J -- Saxe, C L 3rd -- Kimmel, A R -- Johnson, R L -- Devreotes, P N -- GM 34933/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Sep 16;241(4872):1467-72.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3047871" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Cloning, Molecular ; Dictyostelium/*growth & development/physiology ; Membrane Proteins/physiology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Conformation ; Receptors, Cyclic AMP/*physiology ; Solubility
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  • 52
    Publication Date: 1988-06-10
    Description: Clinical and seroepidemiological studies in West Africa indicate that human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) is widespread and associated with immunodeficiency states of variable degree. In this study, an isolate of HIV-2 from a patient in Senegal was molecularly cloned and characterized. This isolate (HIV-2ST) was shown by hybridization and restriction enzyme analysis to be more related to the prototype HIV-2ROD than to other human or primate retroviruses. Cultures of HIV-2ST showed genotypic polymorphism, and clones of the virus had transmembrane envelope glycoproteins of 30 and 42 kilodaltons. Unlike other immunodeficiency viruses, HIV-2ST did not cause cell death or induce cell fusion in peripheral blood lymphocytes or in any of four CD4+ cell lines tested. Although HIV-2ST entered cells by a CD4-dependent mechanism and replicated actively, cell-free transmission of the virus was retarded at the level of cell entry. These findings suggest that immunodeficiency viruses prevalent in West African populations are members of the HIV-2 virus group and that certain strains of this virus have attenuated virulence.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kong, L I -- Lee, S W -- Kappes, J C -- Parkin, J S -- Decker, D -- Hoxie, J A -- Hahn, B H -- Shaw, G M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 10;240(4858):1525-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Internal Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3375832" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Line ; Cell Survival ; DNA, Viral/genetics ; Genes, Viral ; HIV/classification/*isolation & purification/pathogenicity ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Lymphocytes/microbiology ; Senegal ; Species Specificity
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  • 53
    Publication Date: 1988-03-11
    Description: The magnitude of the response to interferons and the requirement for individual elements in the promoter of the H-2Dd gene were shown to be cell-specific and dependent on the type of interferon used. Three DNA sequences in the promoter were found to bind murine nuclear factors. Two of these sequences are in functionally defined enhancer regions and also bind to the transcription factor AP-1. The third sequence is part of the region involved in interferon regulation and is homologous to the enhancer element of the interferon beta gene. A model for interferon regulation of H-2 promoters is discussed.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Korber, B -- Mermod, N -- Hood, L -- Stroynowski, I -- AI 19624/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32GM7616/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Mar 11;239(4845):1302-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3125612" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; H-2 Antigens/*genetics ; Interferon Type I/*immunology ; Interferon-gamma/*immunology ; *Major Histocompatibility Complex ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Promoter Regions, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1988-08-26
    Description: An assay for the presence of given DNA sequences has been developed, based on the ability of two oligonucleotides to anneal immediately adjacent to each other on a complementary target DNA molecule. The two oligonucleotides are then joined covalently by the action of a DNA ligase, provided that the nucleotides at the junction are correctly base-paired. Thus single nucleotide substitutions can be distinguished. This strategy permits the rapid and standardized identification of single-copy gene sequences in genomic DNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Landegren, U -- Kaiser, R -- Sanders, J -- Hood, L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 26;241(4869):1077-80.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3413476" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; DNA/*analysis/genetics/metabolism ; DNA Ligases/*metabolism ; DNA, Recombinant/metabolism ; Fluorescent Dyes ; Globins/genetics ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Denaturation ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Polymorphism, Genetic ; Polynucleotide Ligases/*metabolism
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  • 55
    Publication Date: 1988-06-24
    Description: A 30-amino-acid segment of C/EBP, a newly discovered enhancer binding protein, shares notable sequence similarity with a segment of the cellular Myc transforming protein. Display of these respective amino acid sequences on an idealized alpha helix revealed a periodic repetition of leucine residues at every seventh position over a distance covering eight helical turns. The periodic array of at least four leucines was also noted in the sequences of the Fos and Jun transforming proteins, as well as that of the yeast gene regulatory protein, GCN4. The polypeptide segments containing these periodic arrays of leucine residues are proposed to exist in an alpha-helical conformation, and the leucine side chains extending from one alpha helix interdigitate with those displayed from a similar alpha helix of a second polypeptide, facilitating dimerization. This hypothetical structure is referred to as the "leucine zipper," and it may represent a characteristic property of a new category of DNA binding proteins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Landschulz, W H -- Johnson, P F -- McKnight, S L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 24;240(4860):1759-64.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD 21210.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3289117" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Computer Simulation ; *DNA-Binding Proteins ; *Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; *Leucine ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Conformation ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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  • 56
    Publication Date: 1988-07-08
    Description: The crystal structure of the uncomplexed orthorhombic form of gramicidin A has been determined at 120 K and at 0.86 angstrom resolution. The pentadecapeptide crystallizes as a left-handed antiparallel double-stranded helical dimer with 5.6 amino acid residues per turn. The helix has an overall length of 31 angstroms and an average inner channel diameter of 4.80 angstroms. The channel of this crystalline form is void of ions or solvent molecules. The channel diameter varies from a minimum of 3.85 angstroms to a maximum of 5.47 angstroms and contains three pockets where the cross-channel contacts are 5.25 angstroms or greater. The range of variation seen for the phi and psi torsion angles of the backbone of the helix suggests that these potential ion binding sites can be induced to travel the length of the channel in a peristaltic manner by cooperatively varying these angles. The indole rings of the eight tryptophan residues of the dimer are overlapped in three separate regions on the outer surface of the helix when viewed down the barrel of the channel. This arrangement would permit long-chained lipid molecules to nest parallel to the outer channel surface between these protruding tryptophan regions and act like molecular splines to constrain helical twist deformations of the channel.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Langs, D A -- GM32812/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HL32303/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 8;241(4862):188-91.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Medical Foundation of Buffalo, NY 14203.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2455345" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Crystallography ; *Gramicidin ; *Ion Channels ; *Membrane Proteins ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Conformation
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    Publication Date: 1988-01-15
    Description: Tau protein is a family of microtubule binding proteins, heterogeneous in molecular weight, that are induced during neurite outgrowth and are found prominently in neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease. The predicted amino acid sequences of two forms of tau protein from mouse brain were determined from complementary DNA clones. These forms are identical in their amino-terminal sequences but differ in their carboxyl-terminal domains. Both proteins contain repeated sequences that may be tubulin binding sites. The sequence suggests that tau is an elongated molecule with no extensive alpha-helical or beta-sheet domains. These complementary DNAs should enable the study of various functional domains of tau and the study of tau expression in normal and pathological states.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lee, G -- Cowan, N -- Kirschner, M -- GM32099/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jan 15;239(4837):285-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3122323" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; *Brain Chemistry ; Codon ; DNA/genetics ; DNA, Recombinant ; Mice ; Microtubule-Associated Proteins/*genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics ; Protein Conformation ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; tau Proteins
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1988-07-01
    Description: Arsenic is a well-established carcinogen in humans, but there is little evidence for its carcinogenicity in animals and it is inactive as an initiator or tumor promoter in two-stage models of carcinogenicity in mice. Two arsenic salts (sodium arsenite and sodium arsenate) induced a high frequency of methotrexate-resistant 3T6 cells, which were shown to have amplified copies of the dihydrofolate reductase gene. The ability of arsenic to induce gene amplification may relate to its carcinogenic effects in humans since amplification of oncogenes is observed in many human tumors. The inability of arsenic to induce gene mutations may relate to the negative results of arsenic in long-term animal studies and suggests that these experiments may not detect some environmental agents that act late in the carcinogenic process in humans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lee, T C -- Tanaka, N -- Lamb, P W -- Gilmer, T M -- Barrett, J C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 1;241(4861):79-81.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3388020" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Arsenates/*pharmacology ; Arsenic/*pharmacology ; *Arsenites ; Cell Line ; DNA/genetics ; Drug Resistance ; Gene Amplification/*drug effects ; Humans ; Methotrexate ; Mice ; Neoplasms, Experimental/chemically induced/genetics ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Oncogenes ; *Sodium Compounds ; Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase/*genetics
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    Publication Date: 1988-04-15
    Description: The androgen receptor (AR) mediates the actions of male sex steroids. Human AR genomic DNA was cloned from a flow-sorted human X chromosome library by using a consensus nucleotide sequence from the DNA-binding domain of the family of nuclear receptors. The AR gene was localized on the human X chromosome between the centromere and q13. Cloned complementary DNA, selected with an AR-specific oligonucleotide probe, was expressed in monkey kidney (COS) cells and yielded a high-affinity androgen-binding protein with steroid-binding specificity corresponding to that of native AR. A predominant messenger RNA species of 9.6 kilobases was identified in human, rat, and mouse tissues known to contain AR and was undetectable in tissues lacking AR androgen-binding activity, including kidney and liver from androgen-insensitive mice. The deduced amino acid sequence of AR within the DNA-binding domain has highest sequence identity with the progesterone receptor.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lubahn, D B -- Joseph, D R -- Sullivan, P M -- Willard, H F -- French, F S -- Wilson, E M -- HD04466/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- HD16910/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- HD21744/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Apr 15;240(4850):327-30.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3353727" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; Chromosome Mapping ; *Cloning, Molecular ; Codon ; *Genes ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Receptors, Androgen/*genetics ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; *X Chromosome
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    Publication Date: 1988-04-29
    Description: Apolipoprotein E is a plasma protein that serves as a ligand for low density lipoprotein receptors and, through its interaction with these receptors, participates in the transport of cholesterol and other lipids among various cells of the body. A mutant form of apolipoprotein E that is defective in binding to low density lipoprotein receptors is associated with familial type III hyperlipoproteinemia, a genetic disorder characterized by elevated plasma cholesterol levels and accelerated coronary artery disease. Apolipoprotein E is synthesized in various organs, including liver, brain, spleen, and kidney, and is present in high concentrations in interstitial fluid, where it appears to participate in cholesterol redistribution from cells with excess cholesterol to those requiring cholesterol. Apolipo-protein E also appears to be involved in the repair response to tissue injury; for example, markedly increased amounts of apolipoprotein E are found at sites of peripheral nerve injury and regeneration. Other functions of apolipoprotein E, unrelated to lipid transport, are becoming known, including immunoregulation and modulation of cell growth and differentiation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mahley, R W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Apr 29;240(4852):622-30.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Gladstone Foundation Laboratories for Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco 94140-0608.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3283935" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Apolipoproteins E/genetics/*physiology ; Biological Transport ; Cholesterol/*metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Humans ; Hyperlipoproteinemia Type III/genetics/metabolism ; Immunity ; Lipid Metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Polymorphism, Genetic ; Protein Conformation ; Receptors, LDL/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1988-11-11
    Description: The repressors of temperate bacteriophages such as 434 and lambda control transcription by binding to a set of DNA operator sites. The different affinity of repressor for each of these sites ensures efficient regulation. High-resolution x-ray crystallography was used to study the DNA-binding domain of phage 434 repressor in complex with a synthetic DNA operator. The structure shows recognition of the operator by direct interactions with base pairs in the major groove, combined with the sequence-dependent ability of DNA to adopt the required conformation on binding repressor. In particular, a network of three-centered bifurcated hydrogen bonds among base pairs in the operator helps explain why 434 repressor prefers certain sites over others. These bonds, which stabilize the conformation of the bound DNA, can form only with certain sequences.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Aggarwal, A K -- Rodgers, D W -- Drottar, M -- Ptashne, M -- Harrison, S C -- GMS-29109/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Nov 11;242(4880):899-907.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3187531" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Composition ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; DNA/*metabolism ; *DNA-Binding Proteins ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Molecular Structure ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; *Operator Regions, Genetic ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Repressor Proteins/*metabolism ; Software ; Transcription Factors/*metabolism ; Viral Proteins/*metabolism ; Viral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins ; X-Ray Diffraction
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    Publication Date: 1988-09-23
    Description: Jurkat T cell lines constitutively expressing Tax, the 40-kilodalton transactivator protein of human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), were used to investigate the mechanism by which this viral product deregulates the expression of the interleukin-2 receptor alpha gene (IL-2R alpha, Tac). Transfection of deleted forms of the IL-2R alpha promoter and in vitro DNA-binding studies revealed that a 12-base pair promoter segment, which has homology with the binding site for NF-kappa B, was required for Tax-induced activation of the IL-2R alpha promoter in vivo. An 18-base pair oligonucleotide containing this kappa B-like regulatory element proved sufficient to confer Tax inducibility upon a heterologous promoter. DNA affinity precipitation assays showed that Tax, like mitogenic stimuli, induced the expression of the 86-kilodalton cellular protein HIVEN86A, which specifically binds to the IL-2R alpha kappa B element in vitro. Furthermore, DNA/protein cross-linking studies revealed that several polypeptides interact with this sequence motif. Thus, the deregulation of IL-2R alpha gene expression encountered in HTLV-I leukemias appears to involve Tax activation of one or more cellular proteins that are normally induced by mitogens and that directly contribute to transcriptional activation of this receptor gene.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ballard, D W -- Bohnlein, E -- Lowenthal, J W -- Wano, Y -- Franza, B R -- Greene, W C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Sep 23;241(4873):1652-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2843985" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetyltransferases/genetics ; Cell Line ; Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*biosynthesis/physiology ; Deltaretrovirus/genetics/*physiology ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Nuclear Proteins/*biosynthesis/physiology ; Plasmids ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/*genetics ; Receptors, Immunologic/*genetics ; Receptors, Interleukin-2 ; Retroviridae Proteins/*physiology ; Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate/pharmacology ; Trans-Activators ; Transcription Factors/*physiology ; Transfection ; Viral Proteins/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-14
    Description: Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis of the codons for glutamine-68 (Gln68), lysine-72 (Lys72), isoleucine-79 (Ile79), alanine-80 (Ala80), and threonine-81 (Thr81) of the Escherichia coli trpR (tryptophan aporepressor) gene was used to make mutant repressors with each of 36 different amino acid changes. Mutant repressors were tested for binding to each member of a set of 28 different operators closely related to the consensus trp operator. Of the 36 mutant repressors, 11 bind a subset of the 28 operators; 5 of these have new binding specificities. These new specificities indicate that the hydroxyl group of Thr81 makes a specific contact with one of the four critical base pairs in a trp operator half-site, and the methyl group of Thr81 determines specificity at a second, critical base pair. The Trp repressor does not use the first two amino acids of its "recognition alpha-helix," Ile79 and Ala80, to make sequence-specific DNA contacts, and interacts with its operator in vivo in a way fundamentally different from the way that phage lambda repressor, lambda Cro protein, and coliphage 434 repressor contact their respective binding sites.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bass, S -- Sorrells, V -- Youderian, P -- GM34150/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 14;242(4876):240-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-1481.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3140377" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alanine/genetics ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Apoproteins/*genetics/metabolism ; Bacterial Proteins ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Codon ; DNA, Bacterial/*metabolism ; Escherichia coli/*genetics ; *Escherichia coli Proteins ; Glutamine/genetics ; Isoleucine/genetics ; Lysine/genetics ; Mutation ; Operator Regions, Genetic ; Protein Conformation ; Repressor Proteins/*genetics/metabolism ; Threonine/genetics ; Transcription Factors/*genetics
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    Publication Date: 1988-12-16
    Description: The class II (Ia) major histocompatibility complex antigens are a family of integral membrane proteins whose expression is limited to certain cell types, predominantly B lymphocytes, macrophages, and thymic epithelial cells. In B cells, Ia expression is both developmentally regulated and responsive to external stimuli. The differentiation of early B stem cells to mature B lymphocytes is accompanied by the appearance of cell surface Ia antigens; the transition to plasma cells results in loss of class II gene expression. In Ia-expressing B cells, the T cell-derived lymphokine interleukin-4 (IL-4) increases such expression by an as yet undefined mechanism. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene expression was cis-activated by a region of the Ia A alpha k gene in a B lymphoma line, but not in a myeloma line. A nuclear protein that bound to two sites within this region, upstream from previously described transcription elements, was found in normal spleen cells. This binding activity was also found in spleen extracts from athymic mice, which lack T lymphocytes, and in Ia-positive B lymphocyte tumor cell lines, demonstrating that it is a B cell protein. Further analysis showed the activity to be undetectable in an Ia-negative pre-B cell line and in three plasmacytoma cell lines that are Ia negative. IL-4 treatment of normal and athymic mouse spleen cells greatly increased the binding of this nuclear protein to these two sites, concomitant with increased MHC class II gene transcription. Thus, B cells contain a sequence-specific DNA-binding activity whose level is influenced both by IL-4 and by differentiation signals.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Boothby, M -- Gravallese, E -- Liou, H C -- Glimcher, L H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 16;242(4885):1559-62.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cancer Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3144043" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: B-Lymphocytes/cytology/drug effects/*immunology ; Base Sequence ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Line ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Genes, MHC Class II ; Humans ; Interleukin-4 ; Interleukins/*pharmacology ; Molecular Sequence Data
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    Publication Date: 1988-11-18
    Description: The induction of immunoglobulin kappa light chain expression in 70Z/3 pre-B cells treated with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) requires the activation of the B cell-specific factor NF-kappa B, which binds to the kappa enhancer motif, GGGACTTTCC. This sequence alone can function as a tissue-specific enhancer for LPS-induced gene expression. A potent inhibitor of B lymphopoiesis [transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta)] was used to explore the mechanisms in the activation of kappa transcription by LPS and by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma). TGF-beta inhibited LPS-induced kappa transcription but not the activation and in vitro binding of NF-kappa B. This indicates that NF-kappa B activation, while necessary, is not sufficient for LPS-induced kappa transcription. TGF-beta had no effect on IFN-gamma-induced kappa transcription, and NF-kappa B was not activated by IFN-gamma. These results reveal that LPS and IFN-gamma activate transcription through different mechanisms.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Briskin, M -- Kuwabara, M D -- Sigman, D S -- Wall, R -- CA 12800/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM 21199/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 40185/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Nov 18;242(4881):1036-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, University of California 90024.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3143155" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: B-Lymphocytes/*physiology ; Cell Line ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects ; *Genes, Immunoglobulin ; Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains/*genetics ; Immunoglobulin mu-Chains/genetics ; In Vitro Techniques ; Interferon-gamma/*pharmacology ; Lipopolysaccharides/pharmacology ; Transcription Factors/*physiology ; Transcription, Genetic/*drug effects ; Transforming Growth Factors/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1988-05-20
    Description: The T lymphocyte antigen-receptor complex mediates antigen-specific cell activation, at least in part, through the production of inositolphospholipid-derived second messengers. Little is known about how second messenger events, typically measured within minutes of ligand binding, eventually lead to distal biologic responses such as expression of lymphokine genes. Several monoclonal antibodies directed against the receptor complex were tested for their ability to elicit transmembrane signaling in the parental Jurkat line and in a somatic mutant (J.CaM1) with a deficient receptor function. One antibody elicited substantial early Ca2+ mobilization responses in both cells but was unable to promote expression of the interleukin-2 gene in J.CaM1. In J.CaM1 there was a diminished production of phosphatidylinositol second messengers, and the elevation in intracellular free Ca2+ was transient. Thus, short-term Ca2+ mobilization does not always indicate complete signal transmission and lead to a full cellular response.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Goldsmith, M A -- Weiss, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 May 20;240(4855):1029-31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3259335" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Calcium/physiology ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/immunology ; Genes ; Humans ; Interleukin-2/biosynthesis/genetics ; Mutation ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/*physiology ; T-Lymphocytes/*immunology
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    Publication Date: 1988-12-09
    Description: Many plasma membrane proteins, including Thy-1, are anchored by a carboxyl terminal glycophospholipid. This unit is absent from the Thy-1 of several lymphoma mutants that synthesize the Thy-1 polypeptide but fail to express it at the cell surface. Recessive mutants of complementation groups A to C, E, and F contain Thy-1 mRNA of normal size, which suggests that their Thy-1 polypeptide is normal. To identify possible metabolic lesions, each mutant was grown with various supplements. The class F and B mutants exhibited a reversible induction of surface lipid anchored Thy-1 when grown with the aminoglycoside G418. Other aminoglycosides, sugars, and ethanolamine were inactive. These unexpected observations are discussed in the context of lipid anchor biosynthesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gupta, D -- Tartakoff, A -- Tisdale, E -- AI21269/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- DK27651/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK38181/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 9;242(4884):1446-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2904699" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology ; Antigens, Surface/*genetics ; Antigens, Thy-1 ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/drug effects/immunology ; Gentamicins/pharmacology ; Glycosylation ; Lymphoma/*genetics/immunology ; Membrane Lipids/*physiology ; *Mutation ; Phospholipids/*physiology ; Protein Processing, Post-Translational ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/isolation & purification
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    Publication Date: 1988-08-12
    Description: A novel x-ray diffraction technique, multiple-wavelength anomalous dispersion (MAD) phasing, has been applied to the de novo determination of an unknown protein structure, that of the "blue" copper protein isolated from cucumber seedlings. This method makes use of crystallographic phases determined from measurements made at several wavelengths and has recently been made technically feasible through the use of intense, polychromatic synchrotron radiation together with accurate data collection from multiwire electronic area detectors. In contrast with all of the conventional methods of solving protein structures, which require either multiple isomorphous derivatives or coordinates of a similar structure for molecular replacement, this technique allows direct solution of the classical "phase problem" in x-ray crystallography. MAD phase assignment should be particularly useful for determining structures of small to medium-sized metalloproteins for which isomorphous derivatives are difficult or impossible to make. The structure of this particular protein provides new insights into the spectroscopic and redox properties of blue copper proteins, an important class of metalloproteins widely distributed in nature.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Guss, J M -- Merritt, E A -- Phizackerley, R P -- Hedman, B -- Murata, M -- Hodgson, K O -- Freeman, H C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 12;241(4867):806-11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3406739" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; *Bacterial Proteins ; *Metalloproteins/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Plants/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; X-Ray Diffraction/methods
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-21
    Description: Single-chain antigen-binding proteins are novel recombinant polypeptides, composed of an antibody variable light-chain amino acid sequence (VL) tethered to a variable heavy-chain sequence (VH) by a designed peptide that links the carboxyl terminus of the VL sequence to the amino terminus of the VH sequence. These proteins have the same specificities and affinities for their antigens as the monoclonal antibodies whose VL and VH sequences were used to construct the recombinant genes that were expressed in Escherichia coli. Three of these proteins, one derived from the sequence for a monoclonal antibody to growth hormone and two derived from the sequences of two different monoclonal antibodies to fluorescein, were designed, constructed, synthesized, purified, and assayed. These proteins are expected to have significant advantages over monoclonal antibodies in a number of applications.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bird, R E -- Hardman, K D -- Jacobson, J W -- Johnson, S -- Kaufman, B M -- Lee, S M -- Lee, T -- Pope, S H -- Riordan, G S -- Whitlow, M -- 1-R43-GM39646-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- 1-R43-GM39662-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 21;242(4877):423-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Genex Corporation, Gaithersburg, MD 20877.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3140379" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Escherichia coli/genetics ; Genes ; Genetic Vectors ; Humans ; *Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics ; *Immunoglobulin Light Chains/genetics ; *Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Conformation ; *Recombinant Proteins ; X-Ray Diffraction
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    Publication Date: 1988-09-09
    Description: Human platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) consists of two distinct but related polypeptide chains designated PDGF-A and PDGF-B. The gene encoding PDGF-B has given rise to the v-sis oncogene. In the present study the transforming activities of PDGF-A and PDGF-B genes are compared. The PDGF-A chain gene is markedly less efficient in inducing transformation than the PDGF-B gene under the influence of the same promoter. There are significant differences in the secretory and growth stimulating properties of the two chains. These properties appear to account for the much more potent transforming ability of the PDGF-B gene. These findings provide insights into biologic properties of a growth factor responsible for potent autocrine stimulation of abnormal cell proliferation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Beckmann, M P -- Betsholtz, C -- Heldin, C H -- Westermark, B -- Di Marco, E -- Di Fiore, P P -- Robbins, K C -- Aaronson, S A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Sep 9;241(4871):1346-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2842868" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Compartmentation ; Cell Line ; *Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Immunologic Techniques ; Mice ; Molecular Weight ; Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/*physiology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/*physiology ; Receptors, Cell Surface/*physiology ; Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor ; Solubility
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  • 71
    Publication Date: 1988-08-12
    Description: The association of Wilms' tumor with aniridia (the WAGR complex) in children with 11p13 chromosomal abnormalities has been established, but the paucity of molecular probes in 11p13 has hampered identification of the responsible genes. Two new anonymous DNA segments have been identified that map to the WAGR region of 11p13. Both DNA probes identify a cytologically undetectable deletion associated with a balanced chromosome translocation inherited by a patient with familial aniridia, but not Wilms' tumor. The same two DNA segments are also included in the distal p13-p14.1 deletion of another patient, who has aniridia, Wilms' tumor, and hypogonadism, but they are not included in the p12-p13 deletion of a third patient, who does not have aniridia but has had a Wilms' tumor. The discovery of this aniridia deletion and these two DNA segments that physically separate the Wilms' tumor and aniridia loci should facilitate identification of the genes in the WAGR locus, beginning with the aniridia gene.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Davis, L M -- Stallard, R -- Thomas, G H -- Couillin, P -- Junien, C -- Nowak, N J -- Shows, T B -- CA28853/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM20454/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 12;241(4867):840-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Human Genetics, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2841760" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Line ; Chromosome Deletion ; *Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11 ; DNA/*genetics ; Humans ; Hybrid Cells/cytology ; Iris/*abnormalities ; Kidney Neoplasms/*genetics ; *Translocation, Genetic ; Wilms Tumor/*genetics
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  • 72
    Publication Date: 1988-02-19
    Description: The crystal structure at 2.7 A resolution of the normal human c-H-ras oncogene protein lacking a flexible carboxyl-terminal 18 residue reveals that the protein consists of a six-stranded beta sheet, four alpha helices, and nine connecting loops. Four loops are involved in interactions with bound guanosine diphosphate: one with the phosphates, another with the ribose, and two with the guanine base. Most of the transforming proteins (in vivo and in vitro) have single amino acid substitutions at one of a few key positions in three of these four loops plus one additional loop. The biological functions of the remaining five loops and other exposed regions are at present unknown. However, one loop corresponds to the binding site for a neutralizing monoclonal antibody and another to a putative "effector region"; mutations in the latter region do not alter guanine nucleotide binding or guanosine triphosphatase activity but they do reduce the transforming activity of activated proteins. The data provide a structural basis for understanding the known biochemical properties of normal as well as activated ras oncogene proteins and indicate additional regions in the molecule that may possibly participate in other cellular functions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉de Vos, A M -- Tong, L -- Milburn, M V -- Matias, P M -- Jancarik, J -- Noguchi, S -- Nishimura, S -- Miura, K -- Ohtsuka, E -- Kim, S H -- CA 45593/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM 29287/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Feb 19;239(4842):888-93.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkely 94720.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2448879" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology ; Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Crystallization ; Epitopes/immunology ; Escherichia coli/genetics ; GTP Phosphohydrolases ; Guanosine Diphosphate/metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Neoplasms/genetics ; Phosphates/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics/immunology/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras) ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism ; X-Ray Diffraction
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  • 73
    Publication Date: 1988-02-26
    Description: Patch clamp recordings of whole-cell and single channel currents revealed the presence of two voltage-sensitive calcium channel types in the membrane of 3T3 fibroblasts. The two calcium channel types were identified by their unitary properties and pharmacological sensitivities. Both calcium channel types were present in all control 3T3 cells, but one type was selectively suppressed in 3T3 cells that had been transformed by activated c-H-ras, EJ-ras, v-fms, or polyoma middle T oncogenes. The presence of voltage-sensitive calcium channels in these nonexcitable cells and the control of their functional expression by transforming oncogenes raises questions about their role in the control of calcium-sensitive processes such as cell motility, cytoskeletal organization, and cell growth.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chen, C F -- Corbley, M J -- Roberts, T M -- Hess, P -- CA21082/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- HL37124/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Feb 26;239(4843):1024-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2449730" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Calcium Channel Agonists ; Cell Division ; Cell Line ; Cell Line, Transformed ; *Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Electric Conductivity ; Fibroblasts/*physiology ; Ion Channels/drug effects/*physiology ; Kinetics ; Membrane Potentials ; Mice ; Nicotinic Acids/pharmacology ; Oncogenes ; *Oxadiazoles
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-28
    Description: The disease xeroderma pigmentosum is characterized by deficient repair of damaged DNA. Fusions of cells from different patients have defined nine genetic complementation groups (A through I), implying that DNA repair in humans involves multiple gene products. In this report, an extension of the gel electrophoresis binding assay was used to identify at least one nuclear factor that (i) bound to DNA damaged by ultraviolet radiation or the antitumor drug cisplatin, but (ii) was notably absent in cells from complementation group E. Therefore, the factor appears to participate in a versatile DNA repair pathway at the stage of binding and recognition.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chu, G -- Chang, E -- CA44949/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 28;242(4878):564-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3175673" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Line ; Cisplatin ; *DNA Damage ; DNA Probes ; *DNA Repair ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*genetics ; Genetic Complementation Test ; HeLa Cells ; Nuclear Proteins/*genetics ; Ultraviolet Rays ; Xeroderma Pigmentosum/*genetics
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  • 75
    Publication Date: 1988-04-22
    Description: The three-dimensional structure of most enzymes is unknown; however, many enzymes may have structural motifs similar to those in the known structures of functionally related enzymes. Evidence is presented that an enzyme of unknown structure [Ile-transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetase] may share a functionally important structural motif with an enzyme of related function (Tyr-tRNA synthetase). This approach involves (i) identifying segments of Ile-tRNA synthetase that have been unusually conserved during evolution, (ii) predicting the function of one such segment by assuming a structural relation between Ile-tRNA synthetase and Tyr-tRNA synthetase, and (iii) testing the predicted function by mutagenesis and subsequent biochemical analysis. Random mutations were introduced by cassette mutagenesis into a ten-amino-acid segment of Ile-tRNA synthetase that was predicted to be involved in the formation of the binding site for isoleucine. Few amino acid substitutions appear to be tolerated in this region. However, one substitution (independently isolated twice) increased the Michaelis constant Km for isoleucine in the adenylate synthesis reaction by greater than 6000-fold, but had little effect on the Km for adenosine triphosphate, the apparent Km for tRNA, or the rate constant kcat.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Clarke, N D -- Lien, D C -- Schimmel, P -- GM15539/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Apr 22;240(4851):521-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3282306" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases ; Binding Sites ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; *Isoleucine-tRNA Ligase ; Kinetics ; Protein Conformation ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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  • 76
    Publication Date: 1988-04-08
    Description: Site-directed mutagenesis of the large fragment of DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment) yielded two mutant proteins lacking 3',5'-exonuclease activity but having normal polymerase activity. Crystallographic analysis of the mutant proteins showed that neither had any alteration in protein structure other than the expected changes at the mutation sites. These results confirmed the presumed location of the exonuclease active site on the small domain of Klenow fragment and its physical separation from the polymerase active site. An anomalous scattering difference Fourier of a complex of the wild-type enzyme with divalent manganese ion and deoxythymidine monophosphate showed that the exonuclease active site has binding sites for two divalent metal ions. The properties of the mutant proteins suggest that one metal ion plays a role in substrate binding while the other is involved in catalysis of the exonuclease reaction.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Derbyshire, V -- Freemont, P S -- Sanderson, M R -- Beese, L -- Friedman, J M -- Joyce, C M -- Steitz, T A -- GM-22778/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-28550/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- RR-01644/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Apr 8;240(4849):199-201.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, CT 06510.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2832946" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; *DNA Polymerase I/genetics ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; Exonucleases ; Metals ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Conformation ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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  • 77
    Publication Date: 1988-06-10
    Description: A new isolate of the human immunodeficiency virus type 2, designated HIV-2UC1, was recovered from an Ivory Coast patient with normal lymphocyte numbers who died with neurologic symptoms. Like some HIV-1 isolates, HIV-2UC1 grows rapidly to high titers in human peripheral blood lymphocytes and macrophages and has a differential ability to productively infect established human cell lines of lymphocytic and monocytic origin. Moreover, infection with this isolate also appears to involve the CD4 antigen. However, unlike other HIV isolates, HIV-2UC1 does not cause cytopathic effects in susceptible T cells nor does it lead to loss of CD4 antigen expression on the cell surface. These results indicate that HIV-2 may be found in individuals with neurologic symptoms and that the biological characteristics of this heterogeneous subgroup can differ from those typical of HIV-1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Evans, L A -- Moreau, J -- Odehouri, K -- Legg, H -- Barboza, A -- Cheng-Mayer, C -- Levy, J A -- AI-24499/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI-24286/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 10;240(4858):1522-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2836951" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/immunology/microbiology ; Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/*genetics ; Cell Line ; Cote d'Ivoire ; HIV/*classification/immunology/pathogenicity ; Humans ; Lymphocytes/immunology/microbiology ; Monocytes/immunology/microbiology
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  • 78
    Publication Date: 1988-12-23
    Description: Hypocalcemic vitamin D-resistant rickets is a human genetic disease resulting from target organ resistance to the action of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. Two families with affected children homozygous for this autosomal recessive disorder were studied for abnormalities in the intracellular vitamin D receptor (VDR) and its gene. Although the receptor displays normal binding of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 hormone, VDR from affected family members has a decreased affinity for DNA. Genomic DNA isolated from these families was subjected to oligonucleotide-primed DNA amplification, and each of the nine exons encoding the receptor protein was sequenced for a genetic mutation. In each family, a different single nucleotide mutation was found in the DNA binding domain of the protein; one family near the tip of the first zinc finger (Gly----Asp) and one at the tip of the second zinc finger (Arg----Gly). The mutant residues were created in vitro by oligonucleotide directed point mutagenesis of wild-type VDR complementary DNA and this cDNA was transfected into COS-1 cells. The produced protein is biochemically indistinguishable from the receptor isolated from patients.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hughes, M R -- Malloy, P J -- Kieback, D G -- Kesterson, R A -- Pike, J W -- Feldman, D -- O'Malley, B W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 23;242(4886):1702-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2849209" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Calcitriol/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cell Line, Transformed ; Codon ; DNA/genetics/metabolism ; Exons ; Female ; Gene Amplification ; Homozygote ; Humans ; Hypocalcemia/*genetics ; Immunoblotting ; Male ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Mutation ; Receptors, Calcitriol ; Receptors, Steroid/*genetics/metabolism ; Rickets/*genetics ; Transfection
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    Publication Date: 1988-05-06
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jasny, B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 May 6;240(4853):722-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3363357" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Information Systems ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Protein Conformation ; *Proteins ; X-Ray Diffraction
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  • 80
    Publication Date: 1988-08-05
    Description: The x-ray structures of the allosteric enzyme aspartate transcarbamylase from Escherichia coli have been solved and refined for both allosteric forms. The T form was determined in the presence of the heterotropic inhibitor cytidine triphosphate, CTP, while the R form was determined in the presence of the bisubstrate analog N-phosphonacetyl-L-aspartate. These two x-ray structures provide the starting point for an understanding of how allosteric enzymes are able to control the rates of metabolic pathways. Insights into the mechanisms of both catalysis and homotropic cooperativity have been obtained by using site-directed mutagenesis to probe residues thought to be critical to the function of the enzyme based on these x-ray structures.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kantrowitz, E R -- Lipscomb, W N -- GM 06920/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM26237/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 5;241(4866):669-74.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Boston College, MA 02167.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3041592" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Allosteric Regulation ; Allosteric Site ; Aspartate Carbamoyltransferase/*physiology ; Binding Sites ; Chemical Phenomena ; Chemistry ; Escherichia coli/*enzymology ; Macromolecular Substances ; Protein Conformation ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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  • 81
    Publication Date: 1988-05-20
    Description: A chimeric mouse-human Fab protein that binds specifically to the human carcinoma cell line C3347 has been expressed and secreted from Escherichia coli. This molecule, which contains functionally assembled kappa and Fd proteins, binds as effectively to sites on the surface of C3347 cells as Fab fragments prepared proteolytically from whole chimeric or mouse antibody. The production in Escherichia coli of foreign heterodimeric protein reagents, such as Fab, should prove useful in the management of human disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Better, M -- Chang, C P -- Robinson, R R -- Horwitz, A H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 May 20;240(4855):1041-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉International Genetic Engineering Inc. (INGENE), Santa Monica, CA 90404.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3285471" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Antigen-Antibody Complex/immunology ; Antigens, Surface/immunology ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; *Chimera ; Escherichia coli/*genetics ; Genes, Immunoglobulin ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments/*genetics/immunology ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-07
    Description: Voltage-sensitive ion channels mediate action potentials in electrically excitable cells and play important roles in signal transduction in other cell types. In the past several years, their protein components have been identified, isolated, and restored to functional form in the purified state. Na+ and Ca2+ channels consist of a principal transmembrane subunit, which forms the ion-conducting pore and is expressed with a variable number of associated subunits in different cell types. The principal subunits of voltage-sensitive Na+, Ca2+, and K+ channels are homologous members of a gene family. Models relating the primary structures of these principal subunits to their functional properties have been proposed, and experimental results have begun to define a functional map of these proteins. Coordinated application of biochemical, biophysical, and molecular genetic methods should lead to a clear understanding of the molecular basis of electrical excitability.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Catterall, W A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 7;242(4875):50-61.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2459775" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Electric Conductivity ; Ion Channels/*physiology ; Membrane Glycoproteins/*genetics ; Models, Molecular ; Neurotoxins/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Receptors, Cholinergic/physiology
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  • 83
    Publication Date: 1988-07-01
    Description: The three-dimensional structure of ribulose-1,5-biphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO), has been determined at 2.6 A resolution. This enzyme initiates photosynthesis by combining carbon dioxide with ribulose bisphosphate to form two molecules of 3-phosphoglycerate. In plants, RuBisCO is built from eight large (L) and eight small (S) polypeptide chains, or subunits. Both S chains and the NH2-terminal domain (N) of L are antiparallel beta, "open-face-sandwich" domains with four-stranded beta sheets and flanking alpha helices. The main domain (B) of L is an alpha/beta barrel containing most of the catalytic residues. The active site is in a pocket at the opening of the barrel that is partly covered by the N domain of a neighboring L chain. The domain contacts of the molecule and its conserved residues are discussed in terms of this structure.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chapman, M S -- Suh, S W -- Curmi, P M -- Cascio, D -- Smith, W W -- Eisenberg, D S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 1;241(4861):71-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3133767" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Macromolecular Substances ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Plants/*enzymology ; Protein Conformation ; Rhodospirillum rubrum/enzymology ; *Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase ; X-Ray Diffraction
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    Publication Date: 1988-08-26
    Description: The role proteoglycans play in tumor formation was examined by measuring the tumorigenicity of proteoglycan-deficient Chinese hamster ovary cell mutants in nude mice. When 10(7) cells were injected subcutaneously, mutants with less than about 15% of the wild-type level of proteoglycan synthesis did not produce tumors. Mutants defective in the synthesis of heparan sulfate proteoglycans also did not form tumors, whereas mutants with altered chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans were tumorigenic. Tumors arose from mixtures of wild-type and nontumorigenic mutant cells and contained both cell types, suggesting that wild-type cell proteoglycans enabled mutant cells to survive. The failure of heparan sulfate-deficient mutants to form tumors depended on the ability of the host to mount a B cell-mediated immune reaction.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Esko, J D -- Rostand, K S -- Weinke, J L -- GM33063/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Aug 26;241(4869):1092-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3137658" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; B-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Cell Line ; Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans/genetics/physiology ; Chondroitin Sulfates/genetics/physiology ; Cricetinae ; Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans ; Heparitin Sulfate/genetics/physiology ; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes/immunology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Mice, Nude ; Mutation ; Neoplasm Transplantation ; Neoplasms, Experimental/*etiology ; Pentosyltransferases/genetics/metabolism ; Proteoglycans/*physiology
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  • 85
    Publication Date: 1988-06-10
    Description: The human platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) receptor complementary DNA was cloned and expressed by transfection of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) fibroblasts. The ability of CHO cells expressing the human receptor complementary DNA (CHO-HR5) to interact with different recombinant forms of PDGF (AA and BB homodimers) was tested. Both forms of PDGF bind to the transfected receptor, stimulate the receptor tyrosine kinase activity, and elicit a mitogenic response in a manner that was indistinguishable from the responses of Balb/c 3T3 cells to AA and BB forms of PDGF can be attributed to a single type of receptor and show that the AA form, like the BB form, is a true mitogen.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Escobedo, J A -- Navankasatussas, S -- Cousens, L S -- Coughlin, S R -- Bell, G I -- Williams, L T -- HL-32898/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 10;240(4858):1532-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2836953" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Division/drug effects ; Cell Line ; Cells, Cultured ; DNA Replication/drug effects ; Enzyme Activation ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Macromolecular Substances ; Mice ; Phosphorylation ; Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/genetics/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/*metabolism ; Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics/*metabolism ; Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor ; Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology ; Transfection
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    Publication Date: 1988-01-08
    Description: A bioassay that is based on trans-activation has been developed for the detection and quantitation of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Indicator cell lines were constructed that contain the HIV-1 long terminal repeat ligated to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene. Infection of these cells by HIV activates the expression of CAT protein. Isolates of HIV-1 with divergent nucleotide sequences activated the indicator cell lines to a similar extent, approximately 500- to 1000-fold. Human T cell lymphotropic viruses types 1 and 2, equine infectious anemia virus, and herpes simplex virus 1 did not activate the indicator cell lines. Isolates of simian immunodeficiency virus and human T cell lymphotropic virus type 4 activated these cells to a much lesser extent, which suggests that these viruses contain similar, but distinct, trans-activators. This assay can be used for the detection, quantitation, and typing of HIV and for studying the effect of drugs on the replication of HIV in different cellular backgrounds.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Felber, B K -- Pavlakis, G N -- N01-CO-74101/CO/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jan 8;239(4836):184-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research Facility, Bionetics Research, Inc., MD 21701.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3422113" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetyltransferases/genetics ; Antiviral Agents/pharmacology ; Cell Line ; Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase ; DNA, Recombinant ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes, Viral ; HIV/analysis/drug effects/*genetics ; Humans ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Virus Replication/drug effects
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  • 87
    Publication Date: 1988-12-09
    Description: Erythropoietin (Epo), the hormone that stimulates red blood cell production, is synthesized in the kidney and liver in response to hypoxia. The human hepatoma cell line Hep3B regulates its production of Epo in a physiologic manner. Either hypoxia or cobalt chloride markedly increases expression of Epo mRNA as well as production of biologically active and immunologically distinct Epo protein. New protein synthesis is required before the induction of increased levels of hypoxia- or cobalt-induced Epo mRNA. Hypoxia, cobalt chloride, and nickel chloride appear to stimulate Epo production through a common pathway. The inhibition of Epo production at low partial pressures of oxygen by carbon monoxide provides evidence that a heme protein is integrally involved in the oxygen-sensing mechanism. This hypothesis is further supported by the finding that when heme synthesis is blocked, hypoxia-, cobalt-, and nickel-induced Epo production are all markedly inhibited. A model is proposed in which a ligand-dependent conformational change in a heme protein accounts for the mechanism by which hypoxia as well as cobalt and nickel stimulate the production of Epo.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Goldberg, M A -- Dunning, S P -- Bunn, H F -- DK01401/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 9;242(4884):1412-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2849206" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Anaerobiosis ; Carbon Monoxide/pharmacology ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/genetics/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cobalt/pharmacology ; Cycloheximide/pharmacology ; Erythropoietin/*genetics ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; *Genes/drug effects ; Hemeproteins/*physiology ; Humans ; Iron/pharmacology ; Liver Neoplasms/genetics/metabolism ; Manganese/pharmacology ; Nickel/pharmacology ; *Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
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  • 88
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    Publication Date: 1988-04-01
    Description: Tat, the transactivating protein from HIV, forms a metal-linked dimer with metal ions bridging cysteine-rich regions from each monomer. This novel arrangement is distinct from the "zinc finger" domain observed in other eukaryotic regulatory proteins. Ultraviolet absorption spectra show that Tat binds two Zn2+ or two Cd2+ ions per monomer, and electrophoresis of the Tat-metal complexes demonstrates that the protein forms metal-linked dimers. Partial proteolysis and circular dichroism spectra suggest that metal binding has its primary effects in the cysteine-rich region and relatively little effect on the folding of other regions. These results suggest new directions for biological studies and new approaches to drug design.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Frankel, A D -- Bredt, D S -- Pabo, C O -- GM31471/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Apr 1;240(4848):70-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2832944" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cadmium/*metabolism ; Circular Dichroism ; Cobalt/metabolism ; Cysteine ; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel ; Gene Products, tat ; HIV/*analysis ; Macromolecular Substances ; Metals/metabolism ; Oncogene Proteins, Viral ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Peptide Fragments/metabolism ; Peptide Hydrolases/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Spectrophotometry ; Sulfhydryl Compounds/metabolism ; Transcription Factors/*metabolism ; Zinc/*metabolism ; tat Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
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  • 89
    Publication Date: 1988-03-04
    Description: The Fos protein complex and several Fos-related antigens bind directly or indirectly to a common sequence element that is similar to the consensus binding site for HeLa cell activator protein 1 (AP-1). This element is present in a negative regulatory sequence in the differentiation-sensitive adipocyte gene, aP2; in a transcriptional enhancer for the Gibbon ape leukemia virus; and in a region of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) long terminal repeat partially characterized as a negative regulatory element. The protein level and binding activity of Fos and Fos-related antigens increase rapidly after calcium ionophore treatment of a CD4+ human lymphoblast cell line, H9. These data suggest that several proteins may associate with the AP-1 binding site. Moreover, temporally regulated control of the level of each protein could represent a mechanism for modulation of these putative mediators of gene expression.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Franza, B R Jr -- Rauscher, F J 3rd -- Josephs, S F -- Curran, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Mar 4;239(4844):1150-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY 11724.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2964084" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Calcimycin/pharmacology ; Cell Line ; Chemical Precipitation ; Dna ; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; HIV/genetics ; Humans ; Immunoassay ; Immunosorbent Techniques ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/analysis/genetics/immunology/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos ; Proto-Oncogenes ; Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/cytology/drug effects
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  • 90
    Publication Date: 1988-06-10
    Description: The human T cell receptor delta (TCR delta) gene encodes one component of the TCR gamma delta-CD3 complex found on subsets of peripheral blood and thymic T cells. Human TCR delta diversity was estimated by characterizing rearrangements in TCR gamma delta cell lines and determining the structures of complementary DNA clones representing functional and nonfunctional transcripts in these cell lines. One V delta segment and one J delta segment were identified in all functional transcripts, although a distinct J delta segment was identified in a truncated transcript. Further, one D delta element was identified, and evidence for the use of an additional D delta element was obtained. Thus human TCR delta genes appear to use a limited number of germline elements. However, the apparent use of two D delta elements in tandem coupled with imprecise joining and extensive incorporation of N nucleotides generates unprecedented variability in the junctional region.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hata, S -- Satyanarayana, K -- Devlin, P -- Band, H -- McLean, J -- Strominger, J L -- Brenner, M B -- Krangel, M S -- K01-AM01598/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- R01-AM30241/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- S07RR05526-24/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 10;240(4858):1541-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3259726" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; *Genes ; Genetic Variation ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/*genetics ; T-Lymphocytes/*immunology
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  • 91
    Publication Date: 1988-11-11
    Description: The crystal structure of a complex containing the DNA-binding domain of lambda repressor and a lambda operator site was determined at 2.5 A resolution and refined to a crystallographic R factor of 24.2 percent. The complex is stabilized by an extensive network of hydrogen bonds between the protein and the sugar-phosphate backbone. Several side chains form hydrogen bonds with sites in the major groove, and hydrophobic contacts also contribute to the specificity of binding. The overall arrangement of the complex is quite similar to that predicted from earlier modeling studies, which fit the protein dimer against linear B-form DNA. However, the cocrystal structure reveals important side chain-side chain interactions that were not predicted from the modeling or from previous genetic and biochemical studies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jordan, S R -- Pabo, C O -- GM-31471/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Nov 11;242(4880):893-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3187530" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Composition ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Chemical Phenomena ; Chemistry ; Crystallization ; DNA/*metabolism ; *DNA-Binding Proteins ; Glutamine/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Structure ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; *Operator Regions, Genetic ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Repressor Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Sugar Phosphates/metabolism ; Transcription Factors/*metabolism ; Viral Proteins ; Viral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins
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  • 92
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    Publication Date: 1988-12-16
    Description: A novel method has been developed for modulating the expression of an endogenous chromosomal gene in a higher eukaryote, by competitive inhibition at the level of gene transcription. The gene studied was the hsp70 gene, which encodes a 72-kilodalton (kD) heat shock protein that is synthesized after thermal stress. The 5' control region of the hsp70 gene was inserted on a plasmid containing the eukaryotic gene for dihydrofolate reductase. The hybrid plasmid was then introduced into a Chinese hamster ovary cell line and elevated in copy number approximately 20,000-fold by selection of cells with methotrexate. Heat-inducible expression from the intact hsp70 gene was reduced by at least 90% in the modified cells when compared with the induction in control cells, and the modified cells also displayed elevated thermosensitivity. The change in heat shock protein synthesis is presumably caused by competition among the increased number of binding sites for the heat-shock transcription factor, leading to altered expression from the native heat shock gene. These results support a role for heat shock protein in the recovery of mammalian cells from acute thermal stress.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Johnston, R N -- Kucey, B L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Dec 16;242(4885):1551-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3201244" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Line ; Cell Survival ; DNA/genetics/isolation & purification ; Gene Amplification ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; *Genes ; Heat-Shock Proteins/biosynthesis/*genetics ; Hot Temperature ; Methotrexate/pharmacology ; Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase/genetics ; *Transcription, Genetic
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  • 93
    Publication Date: 1988-05-06
    Description: Insulin receptor complementary DNA has been cloned from an insulin-resistant patient with leprechaunism whose receptors exhibited multiple abnormalities in insulin binding. The patient is a compound heterozygote, having inherited two different mutant alleles of the insulin receptor gene. One allele contains a missense mutation encoding the substitution of glutamic acid for lysine at position 460 in the alpha subunit of the receptor. The second allele has a nonsense mutation causing premature chain termination after amino acid 671 in the alpha subunit, thereby deleting both the transmembrane and tyrosine kinase domains of the receptor. Interestingly, the father is heterozygous for this nonsense mutation and exhibits a moderate degree of insulin resistance. This raises the possibility that mutations in the insulin receptor gene may account for the insulin resistance in some patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kadowaki, T -- Bevins, C L -- Cama, A -- Ojamaa, K -- Marcus-Samuels, B -- Kadowaki, H -- Beitz, L -- McKeon, C -- Taylor, S I -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 May 6;240(4853):787-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Biochemistry and Molecular Pathophysiology Section, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2834824" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; Cell Transformation, Viral ; DNA/genetics ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/*genetics ; Endocrine System Diseases/genetics ; Female ; Gene Amplification ; Growth Disorders/genetics ; Herpesvirus 4, Human ; Heterozygote ; Humans ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Insulin/blood ; Insulin Resistance/*genetics ; Lymphocytes/metabolism ; Monocytes/metabolism ; Mutation ; Receptor, Insulin/*genetics ; Syndrome ; Transfection
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  • 94
    Publication Date: 1988-04-08
    Description: The responses of retinoblastoma tumor cells and normal retinal cells to various growth inhibitory factors were examined. Whereas fetal retinal cells were highly sensitive to the antimitogenic effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1), retinoblastoma tumor cell lines were all resistant to this factor. Binding assays and affinity labeling of these cells with radioiodinated TGF-beta 1 revealed that the cells did not have TGF-beta receptors. The retinoblastoma cells lacked the three affinity-labeled proteins of 65, 95, and 300 kilodaltons typically seen in human cell lines and thus differed from normal retinal cells and from other types of neuroectodermal tumors that display the normal pattern of receptors. Loss of TGF-beta receptors, which is a rare event among tumor cells, may represent one mechanism through which these cells escape from negative control and form retinoblastomas.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kimchi, A -- Wang, X F -- Weinberg, R A -- Cheifetz, S -- Massague, J -- CA34610/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA39826/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Apr 8;240(4849):196-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Virology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2895499" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Division ; Cell Line ; Humans ; Peptides/*physiology ; Receptors, Cell Surface/*physiology ; Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta ; Retina/cytology ; Retinoblastoma/pathology/*physiopathology ; Transforming Growth Factors
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  • 95
    Publication Date: 1988-06-24
    Description: Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is a naturally occurring phospholipid that serves as a critical mediator in diverse biological and pathophysiological processes. In this study of the interactions of PAF with neuronal cells, it was found that PAF increased the intracellular levels of free calcium ions in cells of the clones NG108-15 and PC12. The increase was dependent on extracellular calcium and was inhibited by the antagonistic PAF analog CV-3988 and by the calcium-influx blockers prenylamine and diltiazem. A functional consequence of this interaction was revealed by measuring a PAF-elicited, Ca2+-dependent secretion of adenosine triphosphate from PC12 cells. Exposure of NG108-15 cells for 3 to 4 days to low concentrations of PAF induced neuronal differentiation; higher concentrations were neurotoxic. Thus, by influencing Ca2+ fluxes, PAF may play a physiological role in neuronal development and a pathophysiological role in the degeneration that occurs when neurons are exposed to circulatory factors as a result of trauma, stroke, or spinal cord injury.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kornecki, E -- Ehrlich, Y H -- HL 32594/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 24;240(4860):1792-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington 05405.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3381103" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adrenergic Fibers/cytology ; Animals ; Benzodiazepines/pharmacology ; Calcium/*physiology ; Calcium Channel Blockers/pharmacology ; Cell Line ; Cell Survival/drug effects ; Cholinergic Fibers/cytology ; Neurons/cytology/*physiology ; *Neurotoxins ; Phospholipid Ethers/pharmacology ; Platelet Activating Factor/*pharmacology
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  • 96
    Publication Date: 1988-06-03
    Description: The alpha 2 and beta 2 adrenergic receptors, both of which are activated by epinephrine, but which can be differentiated by selective drugs, have opposite effects (inhibitory and stimulatory) on the adenylyl cyclase system. The two receptors are homologous with each other, rhodopsin, and other receptors coupled to guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins and they contain seven hydrophobic domains, which may represent transmembrane spanning segments. The function of specific structural domains of these receptors was determined after construction and expression of a series of chimeric alpha 2-,beta 2-adrenergic receptor genes. The specificity for coupling to the stimulatory guanine nucleotide regulatory protein lies within a region extending from the amino terminus of the fifth hydrophobic domain to the carboxyl terminus of the sixth. Major determinants of alpha 2- and beta 2-adrenergic receptor agonist and antagonist ligand binding specificity are contained within the seventh membrane spanning domain. Chimeric receptors should prove useful for elucidating the structural basis of receptor function.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kobilka, B K -- Kobilka, T S -- Daniel, K -- Regan, J W -- Caron, M G -- Lefkowitz, R J -- HL 16037/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jun 3;240(4857):1310-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2836950" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; *Chimera ; Cloning, Molecular ; GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Pindolol/analogs & derivatives/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha/*genetics ; Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/*genetics ; Yohimbine/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1988-10-28
    Description: The principle of transition-state stabilization asserts that the occurrence of enzymic catalysis is equivalent to saying that an enzyme binds the transition state much more strongly than it binds the ground-state reactants. An outline of the origin and gradual acceptance of this idea is presented, and elementary transition-state theory is reviewed. It is pointed out that a misconception about the theory has led to oversimplification of the accepted expression relating catalysis and binding, and an amended expression is given. Some implications of the transition-state binding principle are then explored. The amended expression suggests that internal molecular dynamics may also play a role in enzymic catalysis. Although such effects probably do not make a major contribution, their magnitude is completely unknown. Two examples of recent advances due to application of the transition-state binding principle are reviewed, one pertaining to the zinc protease mechanism and the other to the generation of catalytic antibodies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kraut, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Oct 28;242(4878):533-40.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3051385" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Catalysis ; Chemistry, Physical ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; Enzymes/*physiology ; Physicochemical Phenomena ; Protein Conformation ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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