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  • 101
    Publication Date: 1999-11-24
    Description: Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients develop chronic airway infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA). Pseudomonas aeruginosa synthesized lipopolysaccharide (LPS) with a variety of penta- and hexa-acylated lipid A structures under different environmental conditions. CF patient PA synthesized LPS with specific lipid A structures indicating unique recognition of the CF airway environment. CF-specific lipid A forms containing palmitate and aminoarabinose were associated with resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides and increased inflammatory responses, indicating that they are likely to be involved in airway disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ernst, R K -- Yi, E C -- Guo, L -- Lim, K B -- Burns, J L -- Hackett, M -- Miller, S I -- R21 R13400/PHS HHS/ -- R55 HL 48888/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 19;286(5444):1561-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10567263" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acylation ; Arabinose/analogs & derivatives/analysis/metabolism ; Bacterial Proteins/genetics/physiology ; Cells, Cultured ; Cystic Fibrosis/complications/*microbiology ; Drug Resistance, Microbial ; Humans ; Infant ; Interleukin-8/biosynthesis ; Lipid A/*biosynthesis/*chemistry ; Lipopolysaccharides/chemistry/immunology ; Magnesium/pharmacology ; Mutation ; Palmitates/analysis/metabolism ; Peptides/pharmacology ; Polymyxins/pharmacology ; Pseudomonas Infections/*microbiology ; Pseudomonas aeruginosa/drug effects/genetics/*metabolism/pathogenicity ; Respiratory System/*microbiology ; Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization ; Virulence
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  • 102
    Publication Date: 1999-11-24
    Description: Contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle are regulated by myosin light-chain kinase and myosin phosphatase through phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of myosin light chains. Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-dependent protein kinase Ialpha (cGKIalpha) mediates physiologic relaxation of vascular smooth muscle in response to nitric oxide and cGMP. It is shown here that cGKIalpha is targeted to the smooth muscle cell contractile apparatus by a leucine zipper interaction with the myosin-binding subunit (MBS) of myosin phosphatase. Uncoupling of the cGKIalpha-MBS interaction prevents cGMP-dependent dephosphorylation of myosin light chain, demonstrating that this interaction is essential to the regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell tone.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Surks, H K -- Mochizuki, N -- Kasai, Y -- Georgescu, S P -- Tang, K M -- Ito, M -- Lincoln, T M -- Mendelsohn, M E -- HL09330/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL55309/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 19;286(5444):1583-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Cardiology Research Institute and Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine and New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10567269" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Motifs ; Amino Acid Substitution ; Animals ; Cells, Cultured ; Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Type I ; Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Histones/metabolism ; Humans ; Isoenzymes/chemistry/metabolism ; Leucine Zippers ; Muscle Contraction ; Muscle Relaxation ; Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/*enzymology/physiology ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Myosin Light Chains/*metabolism ; Myosin-Light-Chain Phosphatase ; Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/chemistry/*metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Precipitin Tests ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Substrate Specificity ; Transfection ; Two-Hybrid System Techniques
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  • 103
    Publication Date: 1999-09-08
    Description: A mevalonate-independent pathway of isoprenoid biosynthesis present in Plasmodium falciparum was shown to represent an effective target for chemotherapy of malaria. This pathway includes 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate (DOXP) as a key metabolite. The presence of two genes encoding the enzymes DOXP synthase and DOXP reductoisomerase suggests that isoprenoid biosynthesis in P. falciparum depends on the DOXP pathway. This pathway is probably located in the apicoplast. The recombinant P. falciparum DOXP reductoisomerase was inhibited by fosmidomycin and its derivative, FR-900098. Both drugs suppressed the in vitro growth of multidrug-resistant P. falciparum strains. After therapy with these drugs, mice infected with the rodent malaria parasite P. vinckei were cured.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jomaa, H -- Wiesner, J -- Sanderbrand, S -- Altincicek, B -- Weidemeyer, C -- Hintz, M -- Turbachova, I -- Eberl, M -- Zeidler, J -- Lichtenthaler, H K -- Soldati, D -- Beck, E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Sep 3;285(5433):1573-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Biochemistry, Academic Hospital Centre, Justus-Liebig-University, Friedrichstrasse 24, D-35392 Giessen, Germany. hassan.jomaa@biochemie.med.uni-giessen.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10477522" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aldose-Ketose Isomerases/*antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Antimalarials/*pharmacology ; Cloning, Molecular ; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Fosfomycin/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Genes, Protozoan ; *Hemiterpenes ; Malaria/*drug therapy/parasitology ; Malaria, Falciparum/drug therapy/parasitology ; Mevalonic Acid/metabolism ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Multienzyme Complexes/*antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Organelles/drug effects/metabolism ; Organophosphorus Compounds/metabolism ; Oxidoreductases/*antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Pentosephosphates/*metabolism ; Plasmodium falciparum/*drug effects/genetics/metabolism ; Recombinant Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Terpenes/*pharmacology
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  • 104
    Publication Date: 1999-07-20
    Description: A phytochrome-like protein called Ppr was discovered in the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum centenum. Ppr has a photoactive yellow protein (PYP) amino-terminal domain, a central domain with similarity to phytochrome, and a carboxyl-terminal histidine kinase domain. Reconstitution experiments demonstrate that Ppr covalently attaches the blue light-absorbing chromophore p-hydroxycinnamic acid and that it has a photocycle that is spectrally similar to, but kinetically slower than, that of PYP. Ppr also regulates chalcone synthase gene expression in response to blue light with autophosphorylation inhibited in vitro by blue light. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrates that R. centenum Ppr may be ancestral to cyanobacterial and plant phytochromes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jiang, Z -- Swem, L R -- Rushing, B G -- Devanathan, S -- Tollin, G -- Bauer, C E -- GM 40941/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM040941/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM053940/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jul 16;285(5426):406-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10411503" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acyltransferases/genetics ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Apoproteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/physiology ; Chemotaxis ; Cloning, Molecular ; Coumaric Acids/metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial ; Light ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Phosphorylation ; *Photoreceptors, Microbial ; Phylogeny ; Phytochrome/*chemistry ; Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Rhodospirillum/*chemistry/genetics/physiology ; Sequence Alignment
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  • 105
    Publication Date: 1999-01-23
    Description: Tumor necrosis factor receptor type 1 (TNF-R1) contains a cytoplasmic death domain that is required for the signaling of TNF activities such as apoptosis and nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB) activation. Normally, these signals are generated only after TNF-induced receptor aggregation. However, TNF-R1 self-associates and signals independently of ligand when overexpressed. This apparent paradox may be explained by silencer of death domains (SODD), a widely expressed approximately 60-kilodalton protein that was found to be associated with the death domain of TNF-R1. TNF treatment released SODD from TNF-R1, permitting the recruitment of proteins such as TRADD and TRAF2 to the active TNF-R1 signaling complex. SODD also interacted with death receptor-3 (DR3), another member of the TNF receptor superfamily. Thus, SODD association may be representative of a general mechanism for preventing spontaneous signaling by death domain-containing receptors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jiang, Y -- Woronicz, J D -- Liu, W -- Goeddel, D V -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jan 22;283(5401):543-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Tularik, Two Corporate Drive, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9915703" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigens, CD/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Apoptosis ; Carrier Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; Fas-Associated Death Domain Protein ; Humans ; Jurkat Cells ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; NF-kappa B/metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Proteins/metabolism ; Receptor Aggregation ; Receptor-Interacting Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases ; Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Member 25 ; Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; *Signal Transduction ; TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 1 ; TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 2 ; Transfection ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/pharmacology ; U937 Cells
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  • 106
    Publication Date: 1999-12-22
    Description: Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a substantial inflammatory component, and activated microglia may play a central role in neuronal degeneration. CD40 expression was increased on cultured microglia treated with freshly solublized amyloid-beta (Abeta, 500 nanomolar) and on microglia from a transgenic murine model of AD (Tg APPsw). Increased tumor necrosis factor alpha production and induction of neuronal injury occurred when Abeta-stimulated microglia were treated with CD40 ligand (CD40L). Microglia from Tg APPsw mice deficient for CD40L demonstrated reduction in activation, suggesting that the CD40-CD40L interaction is necessary for Abeta-induced microglial activation. Finally, abnormal tau phosphorylation was reduced in Tg APPsw animals deficient for CD40L, suggesting that the CD40-CD40L interaction is an early event in AD pathogenesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tan, J -- Town, T -- Paris, D -- Mori, T -- Suo, Z -- Crawford, F -- Mattson, M P -- Flavell, R A -- Mullan, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Dec 17;286(5448):2352-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Roskamp Institute, University of South Florida, 3515 East Fletcher Avenue, Tampa, FL 33613, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10600748" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alzheimer Disease/metabolism ; Amyloid beta-Peptides/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Animals ; Antigens, CD40/biosynthesis/*metabolism ; CD40 Ligand ; Cell Death ; Cells, Cultured ; Interferon-gamma/pharmacology ; Interleukins/pharmacology ; Ligands ; Membrane Glycoproteins/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic ; Microglia/cytology/immunology/*metabolism ; Neurons/cytology ; Peptide Fragments/pharmacology ; Phosphorylation ; Signal Transduction ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/biosynthesis/pharmacology ; tau Proteins/metabolism
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  • 107
    Publication Date: 1999-11-27
    Description: Apoptosis can be triggered by members of the Bcl-2 protein family, such as Bim, that share only the BH3 domain with this family. Gene targeting in mice revealed important physiological roles for Bim. Lymphoid and myeloid cells accumulated, T cell development was perturbed, and most older mice accumulated plasma cells and succumbed to autoimmune kidney disease. Lymphocytes were refractory to apoptotic stimuli such as cytokine deprivation, calcium ion flux, and microtubule perturbation but not to others. Thus, Bim is required for hematopoietic homeostasis and as a barrier to autoimmunity. Moreover, particular death stimuli appear to activate apoptosis through distinct BH3-only proteins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bouillet, P -- Metcalf, D -- Huang, D C -- Tarlinton, D M -- Kay, T W -- Kontgen, F -- Adams, J M -- Strasser, A -- CA43540/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA80188/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 26;286(5445):1735-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria 3050, Australia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10576740" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Apoptosis ; Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins ; Autoimmune Diseases/etiology ; *Autoimmunity ; B-Lymphocytes/physiology ; Carrier Proteins/*physiology ; Cells, Cultured ; Crosses, Genetic ; Female ; Gene Targeting ; Glomerulonephritis/etiology ; Hematopoietic Stem Cells/physiology ; Homeostasis ; Leukocyte Count ; Leukocytes/*physiology ; Male ; *Membrane Proteins ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic ; *Proto-Oncogene Proteins ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2/physiology ; Signal Transduction ; T-Lymphocyte Subsets/physiology
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  • 108
    Publication Date: 1999-04-02
    Description: The regulation of members of the knotted1-like homeobox (knox) gene family is required for the normal initiation and development of lateral organs. The maize rough sheath2 (rs2) gene, which encodes a Myb-domain protein, is expressed in lateral organ primordia and their initials. Mutations in the rs2 gene permit ectopic expression of knox genes in leaf and floral primordia, causing a variety of developmental defects. Ectopic KNOX protein accumulation in rs2 mutants occurs in a subset of the normal rs2-expressing cells. This variegated accumulation of KNOX proteins in rs2 mutants suggests that rs2 represses knox expression through epigenetic means.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Timmermans, M C -- Hudson, A -- Becraft, P W -- Nelson, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 2;284(5411):151-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10102816" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/genetics/physiology ; Down-Regulation ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; *Genes, Homeobox ; Genes, Plant ; Homeodomain Proteins/*genetics/metabolism ; Meristem/genetics/growth & development/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Plant Leaves/genetics/growth & development/metabolism ; Plant Proteins/chemistry/genetics/physiology ; *Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myb ; Repressor Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*physiology ; Sequence Alignment ; Zea mays/*genetics/growth & development/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-06-26
    Description: The photosynthetic apparatus in plant cells is associated with membranes of the thylakoids within the chloroplast and is embedded into a highly specialized lipid matrix. Diacylglycerol galactolipids are common in thylakoid membranes but are excluded from all others. Isolation of the gene DGD1, encoding a galactosyltransferase-like protein, now provides insights into assembly of the thylakoid lipid matrix and subcellular lipid trafficking in Arabidopsis thaliana.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dormann, P -- Balbo, I -- Benning, C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jun 25;284(5423):2181-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10381884" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Arabidopsis/genetics/growth & development/*metabolism ; *Arabidopsis Proteins ; Base Sequence ; Chloroplasts/metabolism ; Chromosome Mapping ; DNA, Complementary/genetics ; Endoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism ; Exons ; Galactolipids ; Galactosyltransferases/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism ; Genes, Plant ; Glycolipids/*biosynthesis ; Intracellular Membranes/metabolism ; *Lipid Metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Plants, Genetically Modified ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-07-03
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Barinaga, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jun 11;284(5421):1755-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10391789" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Brain/cytology/physiology ; Cells, Cultured ; Dendrites/physiology/ultrastructure ; Glutamic Acid/*physiology ; Long-Term Potentiation/*physiology ; Mice ; Neurons/physiology ; Rats ; Receptors, AMPA/*physiology ; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/*physiology ; Synapses/*physiology
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  • 111
    Publication Date: 1999-09-08
    Description: Studies on pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) have been hindered by lack of a positive marker, comparable to the CD34 marker of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs). In human postnatal hematopoietic tissues, 0.1 to 0.5% of CD34(+) cells expressed vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2, also known as KDR). Pluripotent HSCs were restricted to the CD34+KDR+ cell fraction. Conversely, lineage-committed HPCs were in the CD34+KDR- subset. On the basis of limiting dilution analysis, the HSC frequency in the CD34+KDR+ fraction was 20 percent in bone marrow (BM) by mouse xenograft assay and 25 to 42 percent in BM, peripheral blood, and cord blood by 12-week long-term culture (LTC) assay. The latter values rose to 53 to 63 percent in LTC supplemented with VEGF and to greater than 95 percent for the cell subfraction resistant to growth factor starvation. Thus, KDR is a positive functional marker defining stem cells and distinguishing them from progenitors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ziegler, B L -- Valtieri, M -- Porada, G A -- De Maria, R -- Muller, R -- Masella, B -- Gabbianelli, M -- Casella, I -- Pelosi, E -- Bock, T -- Zanjani, E D -- Peschle, C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Sep 3;285(5433):1553-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Tubingen, Otfried-Muller-Strasse 10, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10477517" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigens, CD34/*analysis ; Bone Marrow Cells/cytology ; Cell Lineage ; Cell Separation ; Cells, Cultured ; Endothelial Growth Factors/pharmacology ; Female ; Fetal Blood/cytology ; Fetus ; Flow Cytometry ; *Hematopoiesis ; Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ; Hematopoietic Stem Cells/chemistry/*cytology/drug effects/physiology ; Humans ; Lymphokines/pharmacology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred NOD ; Mice, SCID ; Phenotype ; Pregnancy ; Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/*analysis/physiology ; Receptors, Growth Factor/*analysis/physiology ; Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor ; Sheep ; Transplantation, Heterologous ; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A ; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors
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  • 112
    Publication Date: 1999-06-05
    Description: We purified, cloned, and expressed aggrecanase, a protease that is thought to be responsible for the degradation of cartilage aggrecan in arthritic diseases. Aggrecanase-1 [a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs-4 (ADAMTS-4)] is a member of the ADAMTS protein family that cleaves aggrecan at the glutamic acid-373-alanine-374 bond. The identification of this protease provides a specific target for the development of therapeutics to prevent cartilage degradation in arthritis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tortorella, M D -- Burn, T C -- Pratta, M A -- Abbaszade, I -- Hollis, J M -- Liu, R -- Rosenfeld, S A -- Copeland, R A -- Decicco, C P -- Wynn, R -- Rockwell, A -- Yang, F -- Duke, J L -- Solomon, K -- George, H -- Bruckner, R -- Nagase, H -- Itoh, Y -- Ellis, D M -- Ross, H -- Wiswall, B H -- Murphy, K -- Hillman, M C Jr -- Hollis, G F -- Newton, R C -- Magolda, R L -- Trzaskos, J M -- Arner, E C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jun 4;284(5420):1664-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Inflammatory Diseases Research, DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company, Wilmington, DE 19880-0400, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10356395" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: ADAM Proteins ; Aggrecans ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Arthritis/drug therapy ; Cartilage/metabolism ; Catalytic Domain ; Cloning, Molecular ; Disintegrins/chemistry/metabolism ; *Extracellular Matrix Proteins ; Humans ; Hydroxamic Acids/pharmacology ; Interleukin-1/pharmacology ; Lectins, C-Type ; Metalloendopeptidases/*chemistry/*genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Procollagen N-Endopeptidase ; Protease Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Protein Sorting Signals ; Proteoglycans/metabolism ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Sequence Analysis
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  • 113
    Publication Date: 1999-04-02
    Description: Leaves of higher plants develop in a sequential manner from the shoot apical meristem. Previously it was determined that perturbed leaf development in maize rough sheath2 (rs2) mutant plants results from ectopic expression of knotted1-like (knox) homeobox genes. Here, the rs2 gene sequence was found to be similar to the Antirrhinum PHANTASTICA (PHAN) gene sequence, which encodes a Myb-like transcription factor. RS2 and PHAN are both required to prevent the accumulation of knox gene products in maize and Antirrhinum leaves, respectively. However, rs2 and phan mutant phenotypes differ, highlighting fundamental differences in monocot and dicot leaf development programs.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tsiantis, M -- Schneeberger, R -- Golz, J F -- Freeling, M -- Langdale, J A -- GM14578/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM42610/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 2;284(5411):154-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3BR, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10102817" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*genetics ; Down-Regulation ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; *Genes, Homeobox ; Genes, Plant ; Homeodomain Proteins/*genetics/metabolism ; In Situ Hybridization ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Phenotype ; Plant Development ; Plant Leaves/cytology/genetics/*growth & development/metabolism ; Plant Proteins/chemistry/*genetics ; Plants/*genetics/metabolism ; *Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myb ; Repressor Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/physiology ; Sequence Alignment ; Zea mays/*genetics/growth & development/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-02-19
    Description: It is not known whether subsets of dendritic cells provide different cytokine microenvironments that determine the differentiation of either type-1 T helper (TH1) or TH2 cells. Human monocyte (pDC1)-derived dendritic cells (DC1) were found to induce TH1 differentiation, whereas dendritic cells (DC2) derived from CD4+CD3-CD11c- plasmacytoid cells (pDC2) induced TH2 differentiation by use of a mechanism unaffected by interleukin-4 (IL-4) or IL-12. The TH2 cytokine IL-4 enhanced DC1 maturation and killed pDC2, an effect potentiated by IL-10 but blocked by CD40 ligand and interferon-gamma. Thus, a negative feedback loop from the mature T helper cells may selectively inhibit prolonged TH1 or TH2 responses by regulating survival of the appropriate dendritic cell subset.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rissoan, M C -- Soumelis, V -- Kadowaki, N -- Grouard, G -- Briere, F -- de Waal Malefyt, R -- Liu, Y J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Feb 19;283(5405):1183-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Schering-Plough, Laboratory for Immunological Research, 27 chemin des Peupliers, Boite Postale 11, 69571, Dardilly, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10024247" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antigens, CD40 ; Apoptosis ; CD40 Ligand ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Lineage ; Cell Survival ; Cells, Cultured ; Coculture Techniques ; Dendritic Cells/*cytology/immunology ; Feedback ; Humans ; Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis/pharmacology ; Interleukin-12/biosynthesis/pharmacology/physiology ; Interleukin-4/biosynthesis/pharmacology/*physiology ; Interleukins/biosynthesis/pharmacology ; Lymphocyte Activation ; Membrane Glycoproteins/pharmacology ; Stem Cells/cytology ; Th1 Cells/*cytology/immunology ; Th2 Cells/*cytology/immunology
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    Publication Date: 1999-08-07
    Description: Calcium-permeable, stretch-activated nonselective cation (SA Cat) channels mediate cellular responses to mechanical stimuli. However, genes encoding such channels have not been identified in eukaryotes. The yeast MID1 gene product (Mid1) is required for calcium influx in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Functional expression of Mid1 in Chinese hamster ovary cells conferred sensitivity to mechanical stress that resulted in increases in both calcium conductance and the concentration of cytosolic free calcium. These increases were dependent on the presence of extracellular calcium and were reduced by gadolinium, a blocker of SA Cat channels. Single-channel analyses with cell-attached patches revealed that Mid1 acts as a calcium-permeable, cation-selective stretch-activated channel with a conductance of 32 picosiemens at 150 millimolar cesium chloride in the pipette. Thus, Mid1 appears to be a eukaryotic, SA Cat channel.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kanzaki, M -- Nagasawa, M -- Kojima, I -- Sato, C -- Naruse, K -- Sokabe, M -- Iida, H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Aug 6;285(5429):882-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cell Biology, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8510, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10436155" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; CHO Cells ; Calcium/metabolism ; Calcium Channels/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Cations/*metabolism ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; Cell Membrane Permeability ; Cesium/metabolism ; Chlorides/pharmacology ; Cricetinae ; Fungal Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Gadolinium/pharmacology ; Ion Channels/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Membrane Glycoproteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Membrane Potentials ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Pressure ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics/metabolism ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Stress, Mechanical ; Transfection ; Zinc Compounds/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1999-10-16
    Description: Although rapid sequencing of polynucleotides and polypeptides has become commonplace, it has not been possible to rapidly sequence femto- to picomole amounts of tissue-derived complex polysaccharides. Heparin-like glycosaminoglycans (HLGAGs) were readily sequenced by a combination of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry and a notation system for representation of polysaccharide sequences. This will enable identification of sequences that are critical to HLGAG biological activities in anticoagulation, cell growth, and differentiation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Venkataraman, G -- Shriver, Z -- Raman, R -- Sasisekharan, R -- GM 57073/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 15;286(5439):537-42.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10521350" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Carbohydrate Sequence ; Disaccharides/chemistry ; Glycosaminoglycans/*chemistry ; Heparin/chemistry ; Heparin Lyase/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Nitrous Acid ; Oligosaccharides/*chemistry ; Polysaccharide-Lyases/metabolism ; *Sequence Analysis ; Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
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    Publication Date: 1999-04-17
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vogel, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Mar 5;283(5407):1432-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10206866" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Cell Differentiation ; Cell Lineage ; Cells, Cultured ; Embryo, Mammalian/cytology ; Endoderm/cytology ; Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology ; Humans ; Mesoderm/cytology ; Neurons/cytology ; Stem Cells/*cytology/physiology
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    Publication Date: 1999-09-25
    Description: Cell proliferation requires cell growth; that is, cells only divide after they reach a critical size. However, the mechanisms by which cells grow and maintain their appropriate size have remained elusive. Drosophila deficient in the S6 kinase gene (dS6K) exhibited an extreme delay in development and a severe reduction in body size. These flies had smaller cells rather than fewer cells. The effect was cell-autonomous, displayed throughout larval development, and distinct from that of ribosomal protein mutants (Minutes). Thus, the dS6K gene product regulates cell size in a cell-autonomous manner without impinging on cell number.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Montagne, J -- Stewart, M J -- Stocker, H -- Hafen, E -- Kozma, S C -- Thomas, G -- F32 GM15926/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Sep 24;285(5436):2126-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Friedrich Miescher Institute, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10497130" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Body Constitution ; Cell Count ; Cell Division ; Cell Size ; Drosophila melanogaster/cytology/*enzymology/genetics/*growth & development ; Epithelial Cells/cytology ; Female ; Genes, Insect ; Larva/cytology/growth & development ; Male ; Metamorphosis, Biological ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases/genetics/*metabolism ; Wings, Animal/*cytology/growth & development
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    Publication Date: 1999-08-14
    Description: Many Gram-negative pathogens assemble architecturally and functionally diverse adhesive pili on their surfaces by the chaperone-usher pathway. Immunoglobulin-like periplasmic chaperones escort pilus subunits to the usher, a large protein complex that facilitates the translocation and assembly of subunits across the outer membrane. The crystal structure of the PapD-PapK chaperone-subunit complex, determined at 2.4 angstrom resolution, reveals that the chaperone functions by donating its G(1) beta strand to complete the immunoglobulin-like fold of the subunit via a mechanism termed donor strand complementation. The structure of the PapD-PapK complex also suggests that during pilus biogenesis, every subunit completes the immunoglobulin-like fold of its neighboring subunit via a mechanism termed donor strand exchange.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sauer, F G -- Futterer, K -- Pinkner, J S -- Dodson, K W -- Hultgren, S J -- Waksman, G -- R01AI29549/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01DK51406/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01GM54033/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Aug 13;285(5430):1058-61.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10446050" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Escherichia coli ; *Escherichia coli Proteins ; Fimbriae Proteins ; Fimbriae, Bacterial/chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Chaperones/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Periplasmic Proteins ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Sequence Alignment
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    Publication Date: 1999-12-03
    Description: Flowering in Arabidopsis is promoted via several interacting pathways. A photoperiod-dependent pathway relays signals from photoreceptors to a transcription factor gene, CONSTANS (CO), which activates downstream meristem identity genes such as LEAFY (LFY). FT, together with LFY, promotes flowering and is positively regulated by CO. Loss of FT causes delay in flowering, whereas overexpression of FT results in precocious flowering independent of CO or photoperiod. FT acts in part downstream of CO and mediates signals for flowering in an antagonistic manner with its homologous gene, TERMINAL FLOWER1 (TFL1).〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kobayashi, Y -- Kaya, H -- Goto, K -- Iwabuchi, M -- Araki, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Dec 3;286(5446):1960-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10583960" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Arabidopsis/*genetics/*growth & development ; *Arabidopsis Proteins ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/physiology ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; Genes, Plant ; MADS Domain Proteins ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phenotype ; Photoperiod ; Plant Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/physiology ; Plant Structures/growth & development ; Plants, Genetically Modified ; Signal Transduction ; Transcription Factors/chemistry/*genetics/physiology ; Up-Regulation
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    Publication Date: 1999-04-02
    Description: Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases catalyze aminoacylation of transfer RNAs (tRNAs). It is shown that human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase can be split into two fragments with distinct cytokine activities. The endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II-like carboxy-terminal domain has potent leukocyte and monocyte chemotaxis activity and stimulates production of myeloperoxidase, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and tissue factor. The catalytic amino-terminal domain binds to the interleukin-8 type A receptor and functions as an interleukin-8-like cytokine. Under apoptotic conditions in cell culture, the full-length enzyme is secreted, and the two cytokine activities can be generated by leukocyte elastase, an extracellular protease. Secretion of this tRNA synthetase may contribute to apoptosis both by arresting translation and producing needed cytokines.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wakasugi, K -- Schimmel, P -- GM23562/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 2;284(5411):147-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, Beckman Center, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10102815" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigens, CD/metabolism ; Apoptosis ; Binding, Competitive ; Catalytic Domain ; Chemotaxis, Leukocyte ; *Cytokines ; Humans ; Interleukin-8/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Leukocyte Elastase/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Monocytes/physiology ; Neoplasm Proteins/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Neutrophils/metabolism/physiology ; RNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Receptors, Interleukin/metabolism ; Receptors, Interleukin-8A ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; Tyrosine-tRNA Ligase/chemistry/*metabolism/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1999-10-26
    Description: Cryptochrome (CRY), a photoreceptor for the circadian clock in Drosophila, binds to the clock component TIM in a light-dependent fashion and blocks its function. In mammals, genetic evidence suggests a role for CRYs within the clock, distinct from hypothetical photoreceptor functions. Mammalian CRY1 and CRY2 are here shown to act as light-independent inhibitors of CLOCK-BMAL1, the activator driving Per1 transcription. CRY1 or CRY2 (or both) showed light-independent interactions with CLOCK and BMAL1, as well as with PER1, PER2, and TIM. Thus, mammalian CRYs act as light-independent components of the circadian clock and probably regulate Per1 transcriptional cycling by contacting both the activator and its feedback inhibitors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Griffin, E A Jr -- Staknis, D -- Weitz, C J -- MH-59943/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 22;286(5440):768-71.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10531061" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 3T3 Cells ; ARNTL Transcription Factors ; Animals ; Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors ; *Biological Clocks ; CLOCK Proteins ; Cell Cycle Proteins ; Cells, Cultured ; *Circadian Rhythm ; Cryptochromes ; Dimerization ; *Drosophila Proteins ; *Eye Proteins ; Flavoproteins/metabolism/*physiology ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes, Reporter ; Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs ; Humans ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins ; *Light ; Mice ; Nuclear Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/*genetics/metabolism ; Period Circadian Proteins ; *Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate ; Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled ; Trans-Activators/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Transcription Factors/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Transcriptional Activation ; Transfection
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    Publication Date: 1999-12-11
    Description: Human corneal equivalents comprising the three main layers of the cornea (epithelium, stroma, and endothelium) were constructed. Each cellular layer was fabricated from immortalized human corneal cells that were screened for use on the basis of morphological, biochemical, and electrophysiological similarity to their natural counterparts. The resulting corneal equivalents mimicked human corneas in key physical and physiological functions, including morphology, biochemical marker expression, transparency, ion and fluid transport, and gene expression. Morphological and functional equivalents to human corneas that can be produced in vitro have immediate applications in toxicity and drug efficacy testing, and form the basis for future development of implantable tissues.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Griffith, M -- Osborne, R -- Munger, R -- Xiong, X -- Doillon, C J -- Laycock, N L -- Hakim, M -- Song, Y -- Watsky, M A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Dec 10;286(5447):2169-72.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of Ottawa Eye Institute and Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital-General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L6, Canada. mgriffith@ogh.on.ca〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10591651" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Testing Alternatives ; *Biomedical Engineering ; Cell Line ; Cells, Cultured ; Chondroitin Sulfates ; Collagen ; *Cornea/cytology/growth & development/physiology ; Corneal Opacity/chemically induced ; Corneal Stroma/cytology/growth & development/physiology ; Corneal Transplantation ; Cross-Linking Reagents ; *Culture Techniques ; Electrophysiology ; Endothelium, Corneal/cytology/growth & development ; Epithelium, Corneal/cytology/growth & development ; Gene Expression ; Glutaral ; Humans ; Ion Channels ; Ouabain/pharmacology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1999-09-11
    Description: Electrical activity plays a critical role in shaping the structure and function of synaptic connections in the nervous system. In Xenopus nerve-muscle cultures, a brief burst of action potentials in the presynaptic neuron induced a persistent potentiation of neuromuscular synapses that exhibit immature synaptic functions. Induction of potentiation required an elevation of postsynaptic Ca2+ and expression of potentiation appeared to involve an increased probability of transmitter secretion from the presynaptic nerve terminal. Thus, activity-dependent persistent synaptic enhancement may reflect properties characteristic of immature synaptic connections, and bursting activity in developing spinal neurons may promote functional maturation of the neuromuscular synapse.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wan, J -- Poo, M -- NS22764/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Sep 10;285(5434):1725-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10481007" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials/drug effects ; Animals ; Bungarotoxins/pharmacology ; Calcineurin/physiology ; Calcineurin Inhibitors ; Calcium/metabolism ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2 ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Cells, Cultured ; Chelating Agents/pharmacology ; Egtazic Acid/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Electric Stimulation ; *Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/drug effects ; Long-Term Potentiation ; Motor Neurons/*physiology ; Neuromuscular Junction/drug effects/*physiology ; *Neuronal Plasticity/drug effects ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Receptors, Cholinergic/physiology ; Spinal Cord ; *Synaptic Transmission ; Xenopus
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    Publication Date: 1999-01-08
    Description: Immunoglobulin G (IgG) responses require major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted recognition of peptide fragments by conventional CD4(+) helper T cells. Immunoglobulin G responses to glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)- anchored protein antigens, however, were found to be regulated in part through CD1d-restricted recognition of the GPI moiety by thymus-dependent, interleukin-4-producing CD4(+), natural killer cell antigen 1.1 [(NK1.1)+] helper T cells. The CD1-NKT cell pathway regulated immunogobulin G responses to the GPI-anchored surface antigens of Plasmodium and Trypanosoma and may be a general mechanism for rapid, MHC-unrestricted antibody responses to diverse pathogens.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schofield, L -- McConville, M J -- Hansen, D -- Campbell, A S -- Fraser-Reid, B -- Grusby, M J -- Tachado, S D -- AI-40171/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- GM 41071/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jan 8;283(5399):225-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Post Office, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria 3050, Australia. schofield@wehi.edu.au〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9880256" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigen Presentation ; Antigen-Presenting Cells/immunology ; Antigens/analysis ; Antigens, CD1/*immunology ; Antigens, Ly ; Antigens, Protozoan/*immunology ; Antigens, Surface ; Cells, Cultured ; Glycosylphosphatidylinositols/*immunology ; Immunoglobulin G/*biosynthesis ; Interleukin-4/biosynthesis ; Lectins, C-Type ; Leishmania mexicana/immunology ; Major Histocompatibility Complex ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred Strains ; NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily B ; Plasmodium/immunology ; Proteins/analysis ; Protozoan Proteins/immunology ; T-Lymphocyte Subsets/*immunology ; T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/*immunology ; Trypanosoma brucei brucei/immunology ; Variant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosoma/immunology
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    Publication Date: 1999-07-10
    Description: Endotoxin, a constituent of Gram-negative bacteria, stimulates macrophages to release large quantities of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-1 (IL-1), which can precipitate tissue injury and lethal shock (endotoxemia). Antagonists of TNF and IL-1 have shown limited efficacy in clinical trials, possibly because these cytokines are early mediators in pathogenesis. Here a potential late mediator of lethality is identified and characterized in a mouse model. High mobility group-1 (HMG-1) protein was found to be released by cultured macrophages more than 8 hours after stimulation with endotoxin, TNF, or IL-1. Mice showed increased serum levels of HMG-1 from 8 to 32 hours after endotoxin exposure. Delayed administration of antibodies to HMG-1 attenuated endotoxin lethality in mice, and administration of HMG-1 itself was lethal. Septic patients who succumbed to infection had increased serum HMG-1 levels, suggesting that this protein warrants investigation as a therapeutic target.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, H -- Bloom, O -- Zhang, M -- Vishnubhakat, J M -- Ombrellino, M -- Che, J -- Frazier, A -- Yang, H -- Ivanova, S -- Borovikova, L -- Manogue, K R -- Faist, E -- Abraham, E -- Andersson, J -- Andersson, U -- Molina, P E -- Abumrad, N N -- Sama, A -- Tracey, K J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jul 9;285(5425):248-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Surgery, North Shore University Hospital-New York University School of Medicine, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA. hwang@picower.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10398600" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Bacteremia/*blood ; Carrier Proteins/genetics/immunology/*metabolism/toxicity ; Cell Line ; Cells, Cultured ; Endotoxemia/*blood ; Endotoxins/blood/*toxicity ; HMGB1 Protein ; High Mobility Group Proteins/genetics/immunology/*metabolism/toxicity ; Humans ; Immune Sera/immunology ; Immunization, Passive ; Interferon-gamma/pharmacology ; Interleukin-1/pharmacology ; Lethal Dose 50 ; Leukocytes, Mononuclear/metabolism ; Lipopolysaccharides/toxicity ; Macrophages/*metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Mice, Inbred C3H ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Time Factors ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1999-11-05
    Description: Phototropism of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings in response to a blue light source is initiated by nonphototropic hypocotyl 1 (NPH1), a light-activated serine-threonine protein kinase. Mutations in three loci [NPH2, root phototropism 2 (RPT2), and NPH3] disrupt early signaling occurring downstream of the NPH1 photoreceptor. The NPH3 gene, now cloned, encodes a NPH1-interacting protein. NPH3 is a member of a large protein family, apparently specific to higher plants, and may function as an adapter or scaffold protein to bring together the enzymatic components of a NPH1-activated phosphorelay.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Motchoulski, A -- Liscum, E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 29;286(5441):961-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10542152" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Arabidopsis/genetics/*metabolism ; *Arabidopsis Proteins ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; Cloning, Molecular ; Escherichia coli ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phosphoproteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/*metabolism ; Phototropism ; Plant Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Two-Hybrid System Techniques
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  • 128
    Publication Date: 1999-04-09
    Description: The Ca2+-activated protein phosphatase calcineurin induces apoptosis, but the mechanism is unknown. Calcineurin was found to dephosphorylate BAD, a pro-apoptotic member of the Bcl-2 family, thus enhancing BAD heterodimerization with Bcl-xL and promoting apoptosis. The Ca2+-induced dephosphorylation of BAD correlated with its dissociation from 14-3-3 in the cytosol and translocation to mitochondria where Bcl-xL resides. In hippocampal neurons, L-glutamate, an inducer of Ca2+ influx and calcineurin activation, triggered mitochondrial targeting of BAD and apoptosis, which were both suppressible by coexpression of a dominant-inhibitory mutant of calcineurin or pharmacological inhibitors of this phosphatase. Thus, a Ca2+-inducible mechanism for apoptosis induction operates by regulating BAD phosphorylation and localization in cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, H G -- Pathan, N -- Ethell, I M -- Krajewski, S -- Yamaguchi, Y -- Shibasaki, F -- McKeon, F -- Bobo, T -- Franke, T F -- Reed, J C -- AG-1593/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- CA-69381/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- HD25938/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 9;284(5412):339-43.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Burnham Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10195903" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 14-3-3 Proteins ; Animals ; *Apoptosis ; Calcineurin/genetics/*metabolism ; Calcineurin Inhibitors ; Calcium/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Carrier Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cells, Cultured ; Dimerization ; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Glutamic Acid/pharmacology ; Hippocampus/cytology ; Humans ; Mitochondria/metabolism ; Neurons/cytology/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism ; Proteins/metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2/metabolism ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Transfection ; *Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase ; bcl-Associated Death Protein ; bcl-X Protein
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    Publication Date: 1999-11-27
    Description: In the S locus-controlled self-incompatibility system of Brassica, recognition of self-related pollen at the surface of stigma epidermal cells leads to inhibition of pollen tube development. The female (stigmatic) determinant of this recognition reaction is a polymorphic transmembrane receptor protein kinase encoded at the S locus. Another highly polymorphic, anther-expressed gene, SCR, also encoded at the S locus, fulfills the requirements for the hypothesized pollen determinant. Loss-of-function and gain-of-function studies prove that the SCR gene product is necessary and sufficient for determining pollen self-incompatibility specificity, possibly by acting as a ligand for the stigmatic receptor.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schopfer, C R -- Nasrallah, M E -- Nasrallah, J B -- GM57527/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 26;286(5445):1697-700.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10576728" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Brassica/genetics/*physiology ; Cysteine/chemistry ; *Genes, Plant ; Germination ; Glycoproteins/genetics/metabolism ; Haplotypes ; Ligands ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Plant Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism/*physiology ; Plant Structures/genetics/physiology ; Pollen/genetics/*physiology ; Polymorphism, Genetic ; Protein Kinases/genetics/metabolism ; Sequence Alignment ; Transformation, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1999-04-16
    Description: A previously unknown giant sulfur bacterium is abundant in sediments underlying the oxygen minimum zone of the Benguela Current upwelling system. The bacterium has a spherical cell that exceeds by up to 100-fold the biovolume of the largest known prokaryotes. On the basis of 16S ribosomal DNA sequence data, these bacteria are closely related to the marine filamentous sulfur bacteria Thioploca, abundant in the upwelling area off Chile and Peru. Similar to Thioploca, the giant bacteria oxidize sulfide with nitrate that is accumulated to 〈/=800 millimolar in a central vacuole.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schulz, H N -- Brinkhoff, T -- Ferdelman, T G -- Marine, M H -- Teske, A -- Jorgensen, B B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 16;284(5413):493-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. hschulz@mpi-bremen.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10205058" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacteria/classification/cytology/*isolation & purification/*metabolism ; Cytoplasm/ultrastructure ; Genes, rRNA ; Geologic Sediments/*microbiology ; Microscopy, Electron ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Namibia ; Nitrates/analysis/*metabolism ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Phylogeny ; RNA, Bacterial/genetics ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics ; Sulfides/*metabolism ; Sulfur/*analysis/metabolism ; Terminology as Topic ; Vacuoles/chemistry/ultrastructure
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    Publication Date: 1999-06-12
    Description: The editing enzyme double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminase includes a DNA binding domain, Zalpha, which is specific for left-handed Z-DNA. The 2.1 angstrom crystal structure of Zalpha complexed to DNA reveals that the substrate is in the left-handed Z conformation. The contacts between Zalpha and Z-DNA are made primarily with the "zigzag" sugar-phosphate backbone, which provides a basis for the specificity for the Z conformation. A single base contact is observed to guanine in the syn conformation, characteristic of Z-DNA. Intriguingly, the helix-turn-helix motif, frequently used to recognize B-DNA, is used by Zalpha to contact Z-DNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schwartz, T -- Rould, M A -- Lowenhaupt, K -- Herbert, A -- Rich, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jun 11;284(5421):1841-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10364558" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Deaminase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; Helix-Turn-Helix Motifs ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; RNA-Binding Proteins ; Substrate Specificity ; Water/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-12-22
    Description: The phenomenon of posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS), which occurs when a transgene is introduced into a cell, is poorly understood. Here, the qde-3 gene, which is required for the activation and maintenance of gene silencing in the fungus Neurospora crassa, was isolated. Sequence analysis revealed that the qde-3 gene belongs to the RecQ DNA helicase family. The QDE3 protein may function in the DNA-DNA interaction between introduced transgenes or with an endogenous gene required for gene-silencing activation. In animals, genes that are homologous to RecQ protein, such as the human genes for Bloom's syndrome and Werner's syndrome, may also function in PTGS.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cogoni, C -- Macino, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Dec 17;286(5448):2342-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Cellulari ed Ematologia, Sezione di Genetica Molecolare, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Viale Regina Elena, 324, 00161 Roma, Italy. carlo@bce.med.uniroma1.it〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10600745" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphatases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Bloom Syndrome/genetics ; Camptothecin/pharmacology ; DNA Helicases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; DNA, Fungal/metabolism ; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Etoposide/pharmacology ; *Fungal Proteins ; *Gene Silencing ; Genes, Fungal ; Genetic Complementation Test ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Mutagenesis, Insertional ; Neurospora crassa/drug effects/enzymology/*genetics ; RecQ Helicases ; Sequence Alignment ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transgenes ; Werner Syndrome/genetics
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    Publication Date: 1999-12-22
    Description: The amino-terminal arginine-rich motif of coliphage HK022 Nun binds phage lambda nascent transcript, whereas the carboxyl-terminal domain interacts with RNA polymerase (RNAP) and blocks transcription elongation. RNA binding is inhibited by zinc (Zn2+) and stimulated by Escherichia coli NusA. To study these interactions, the Nun carboxyl terminus was extended by a cysteine residue conjugated to a photochemical cross-linker. The carboxyl terminus contacted NusA and made Zn2+-dependent intramolecular contacts. When Nun was added to a paused transcription elongation complex, it cross-linked to the DNA template. Nun may arrest transcription by anchoring RNAP to DNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Watnick, R S -- Gottesman, M E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Dec 17;286(5448):2337-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10600743" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Azides ; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism ; Bacteriophage lambda/genetics/physiology ; Cross-Linking Reagents ; DNA, Viral/*metabolism ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/metabolism ; Dithiothreitol/pharmacology ; Escherichia coli/enzymology/virology ; Escherichia coli Proteins ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Peptide Elongation Factors ; Phenanthrolines/metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Pyridines ; RNA, Messenger/*metabolism ; RNA, Viral/metabolism ; Templates, Genetic ; Transcription Factors/chemistry/*metabolism ; *Transcription, Genetic ; Transcriptional Elongation Factors ; Viral Plaque Assay ; Viral Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Zinc/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1999-12-22
    Description: Ribosome recycling factor (RRF), together with elongation factor G (EF-G), catalyzes recycling of ribosomes after one round of protein synthesis. The crystal structure of RRF was determined at 2.55 angstrom resolution. The protein has an unusual fold where domain I is a long three-helix bundle and domain II is a three-layer beta/alpha/beta sandwich. The molecule superimposes almost perfectly with a transfer RNA (tRNA) except that the amino acid-binding 3' end is missing. The mimicry suggests that RRF interacts with the posttermination ribosomal complex in a similar manner to a tRNA, leading to disassembly of the complex. The structural arrangement of this mimicry is entirely different from that of other cases of less pronounced mimicry of tRNA so far described.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Selmer, M -- Al-Karadaghi, S -- Hirokawa, G -- Kaji, A -- Liljas, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Dec 17;286(5448):2349-52.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Biophysics, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Post Office Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10600747" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Models, Molecular ; *Molecular Mimicry ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Peptide Elongation Factor G/chemistry ; Protein Biosynthesis ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; RNA, Bacterial/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Fungal/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer/*chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Phe/chemistry/metabolism ; Ribosomal Proteins ; Ribosomes/*metabolism ; Sequence Alignment ; Thermotoga maritima/*chemistry/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-11-05
    Description: Diatom cell walls are regarded as a paradigm for controlled production of nanostructured silica, but the mechanisms allowing biosilicification to proceed at ambient temperature at high rates have remained enigmatic. A set of polycationic peptides (called silaffins) isolated from diatom cell walls were shown to generate networks of silica nanospheres within seconds when added to a solution of silicic acid. Silaffins contain covalently modified lysine-lysine elements. The first lysine bears a polyamine consisting of 6 to 11 repeats of the N-methyl-propylamine unit. The second lysine was identified as epsilon-N,N-dimethyl-lysine. These modifications drastically influence the silica-precipitating activity of silaffins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kroger, N -- Deutzmann, R -- Sumper, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 5;286(5442):1129-32.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Lehrstuhl Biochemie I, Universitat Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany. nils.kroeger@vkl.uni-regensburg.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10550045" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Algal Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Amino Acid Motifs ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Cell Wall/chemistry/metabolism ; Chemical Precipitation ; Diatoms/*chemistry/metabolism ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Lysine/analogs & derivatives/chemistry ; Mass Spectrometry ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular ; Peptides ; Propylamines/chemistry ; Protein Isoforms/chemistry ; Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid ; Silicic Acid/chemistry/*metabolism ; Silicon Dioxide/chemistry/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-09-11
    Description: The cyclic expression of the period (PER) and timeless (TIM) proteins is critical for the molecular circadian feedback loop in Drosophila. The entrainment by light of the circadian clock is mediated by a reduction in TIM levels. To elucidate the mechanism of this process, the sensitivity of TIM regulation by light was tested in an in vitro assay with inhibitors of candidate proteolytic pathways. The data suggested that TIM is degraded through a ubiquitin-proteasome mechanism. In addition, in cultures from third-instar larvae, TIM degradation was blocked specifically by inhibitors of proteasome activity. Degradation appeared to be preceded by tyrosine phosphorylation. Finally, TIM was ubiquitinated in response to light in cultured cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Naidoo, N -- Song, W -- Hunter-Ensor, M -- Sehgal, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Sep 10;285(5434):1737-41.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10481010" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylcysteine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Animals ; *Biological Clocks ; Cells, Cultured ; *Circadian Rhythm ; Cysteine Endopeptidases/*physiology ; Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Darkness ; Drosophila ; *Drosophila Proteins ; Feedback ; Insect Proteins/*metabolism ; Leucine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Leupeptins/pharmacology ; *Light ; Multienzyme Complexes/*physiology ; Neurons/*metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Phosphotyrosine/metabolism ; Protease Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex ; Ubiquitins/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-01-05
    Description: Recently, GBR1, a seven-transmembrane domain protein with high affinity for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)B receptor antagonists, was identified. Here, a GBR1-related protein, GBR2, was shown to be coexpressed with GBR1 in many brain regions and to interact with it through a short domain in the carboxyl-terminal cytoplasmic tail. Heterologously expressed GBR2 mediated inhibition of adenylyl cyclase; however, inwardly rectifying potassium channels were activated by GABAB receptor agonists only upon coexpression with GBR1 and GBR2. Thus, the interaction of these receptors appears to be crucial for important physiological effects of GABA and provides a mechanism in receptor signaling pathways that involve a heterotrimeric GTP-binding protein.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kuner, R -- Kohr, G -- Grunewald, S -- Eisenhardt, G -- Bach, A -- Kornau, H C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jan 1;283(5398):74-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉BASF-LYNX Bioscience AG, Department of Neuroscience, Im Neuenheimer Feld 515, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9872744" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenylyl Cyclase Inhibitors ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Brain/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cyclic AMP/metabolism ; Dimerization ; G Protein-Coupled Inwardly-Rectifying Potassium Channels ; GABA-B Receptor Agonists ; Humans ; In Situ Hybridization ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Neurons/metabolism ; Potassium/metabolism ; Potassium Channels/metabolism ; *Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptors, GABA/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Receptors, GABA-B/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Sequence Alignment
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    Publication Date: 1999-04-16
    Description: The cytokines LIF (leukemia inhibitory factor) and BMP2 (bone morphogenetic protein-2) signal through different receptors and transcription factors, namely STATs (signal transducers and activators of transcription) and Smads. LIF and BMP2 were found to act in synergy on primary fetal neural progenitor cells to induce astrocytes. The transcriptional coactivator p300 interacts physically with STAT3 at its amino terminus in a cytokine stimulation-independent manner, and with Smad1 at its carboxyl terminus in a cytokine stimulation-dependent manner. The formation of a complex between STAT3 and Smad1, bridged by p300, is involved in the cooperative signaling of LIF and BMP2 and the subsequent induction of astrocytes from neural progenitors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nakashima, K -- Yanagisawa, M -- Arakawa, H -- Kimura, N -- Hisatsune, T -- Kawabata, M -- Miyazono, K -- Taga, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 16;284(5413):479-82.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Cell Fate Modulation Research Unit, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10205054" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Astrocytes/cytology ; Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 ; Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptors ; Bone Morphogenetic Proteins/metabolism/pharmacology ; COS Cells ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Nucleus/metabolism ; Cells, Cultured ; Cytokines/*pharmacology ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; E1A-Associated p300 Protein ; Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein/genetics ; Growth Inhibitors/metabolism/pharmacology ; *Interleukin-6 ; Leukemia Inhibitory Factor ; Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Receptor alpha Subunit ; Lymphokines/metabolism/pharmacology ; Mice ; Nuclear Proteins/*metabolism ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism ; Receptors, Cytokine/metabolism ; *Receptors, Growth Factor ; Receptors, OSM-LIF ; STAT3 Transcription Factor ; Sequence Deletion ; *Signal Transduction ; Smad Proteins ; Smad1 Protein ; Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism ; Telencephalon/embryology/metabolism ; Trans-Activators/*metabolism ; *Transcriptional Activation ; *Transforming Growth Factor beta
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  • 139
    Publication Date: 1999-06-26
    Description: Ethylene regulates plant growth, development, and responsiveness to a variety of stresses. Cloning of the Arabidopsis EIN2 gene identifies a central component of the ethylene signaling pathway. The amino-terminal integral membrane domain of EIN2 shows similarity to the disease-related Nramp family of metal-ion transporters. Expression of the EIN2 CEND is sufficient to constitutively activate ethylene responses and restores responsiveness to jasmonic acid and paraquat-induced oxygen radicals to mutant plants. EIN2 is thus recognized as a molecular link between previously distinct hormone response pathways. Plants may use a combinatorial mechanism for assessing various stresses by enlisting a common set of signaling molecules.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Alonso, J M -- Hirayama, T -- Roman, G -- Nourizadeh, S -- Ecker, J R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jun 25;284(5423):2148-52.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Plant Science Institute, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6018, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10381874" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Arabidopsis/chemistry/genetics/growth & development/*physiology ; *Arabidopsis Proteins ; Carrier Proteins/chemistry ; *Cation Transport Proteins ; Cloning, Molecular ; Cyclopentanes/metabolism/pharmacology ; *Defensins ; Ethylenes/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; Genes, Plant ; Genetic Complementation Test ; Herbicides/pharmacology ; *Iron-Binding Proteins ; Membrane Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*physiology ; Microsomes/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Nuclear Proteins/physiology ; Oxylipins ; Paraquat/pharmacology ; Plant Growth Regulators/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Plant Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*physiology ; Plants, Genetically Modified ; Protein Biosynthesis ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Receptors, Cell Surface/chemistry/genetics/*physiology ; *Signal Transduction ; *Transcription Factors
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  • 140
    Publication Date: 1999-10-16
    Description: The cystic fibrosis gene encodes a chloride channel, CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator), that regulates salt and water transport across epithelial tissues. Phosphorylation of the cytoplasmic regulatory (R) domain by protein kinase A activates CFTR by an unknown mechanism. The amino-terminal cytoplasmic tail of CFTR was found to control protein kinase A-dependent channel gating through a physical interaction with the R domain. This regulatory activity mapped to a cluster of acidic residues in the NH(2)-terminal tail; mutating these residues proportionately inhibited R domain binding and CFTR channel function. CFTR activity appears to be governed by an interdomain interaction involving the amino-terminal tail, which is a potential target for physiologic and pharmacologic modulators of this ion channel.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Naren, A P -- Cormet-Boyaka, E -- Fu, J -- Villain, M -- Blalock, J E -- Quick, M W -- Kirk, K L -- DA10509/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- DK50830/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK51868/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 15;286(5439):544-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10521352" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amino Acid Substitution ; Animals ; COS Cells ; Cyclic AMP/metabolism ; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance ; Regulator/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; Humans ; *Ion Channel Gating ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Oocytes ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Phosphorylation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Xenopus
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  • 141
    Publication Date: 1999-12-30
    Description: Voltage-gated proton (H+) channels are found in many human and animal tissues and play an important role in cellular defense against acidic stress. However, a molecular identification of these unique ion conductances has so far not been achieved. A 191-amino acid protein is described that, upon heterologous expression, has properties indistinguishable from those of native H+ channels. This protein is generated through alternative splicing of messenger RNA derived from the gene NOH-1 (NADPH oxidase homolog 1, where NADPH is the reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate).〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Banfi, B -- Maturana, A -- Jaconi, S -- Arnaudeau, S -- Laforge, T -- Sinha, B -- Ligeti, E -- Demaurex, N -- Krause, K H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Jan 7;287(5450):138-42.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Biology of Aging Laboratory, Department of Geriatrics, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva Medical School, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10615049" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Alternative Splicing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Cell Line ; Cytosol/metabolism ; Electric Conductivity ; Electron Transport ; Expressed Sequence Tags ; Humans ; Hydrogen/*metabolism ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Ion Channel Gating ; Ion Channels/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Membrane Glycoproteins/chemistry/*genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; NADPH Oxidase/chemistry/*genetics ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Protons ; Transfection ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; Zinc/pharmacology
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  • 142
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    Publication Date: 1998-12-29
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Amitai, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Nov 20;282(5393):1436-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Compugen Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel. mor@compugen.co.il〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9867651" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Databases, Factual ; *Markov Chains ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/chemistry/genetics ; Probability ; Proteins/*chemistry/genetics ; *Sequence Alignment ; Software
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  • 143
    Publication Date: 1998-02-07
    Description: An avian H5N1 influenza A virus (A/Hong Kong/156/97) was isolated from a tracheal aspirate obtained from a 3-year-old child in Hong Kong with a fatal illness consistent with influenza. Serologic analysis indicated the presence of an H5 hemagglutinin. All eight RNA segments were derived from an avian influenza A virus. The hemagglutinin contained multiple basic amino acids adjacent to the cleavage site, a feature characteristic of highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses. The virus caused 87.5 to 100 percent mortality in experimentally inoculated White Plymouth Rock and White Leghorn chickens. These results may have implications for global influenza surveillance and planning for pandemic influenza.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Subbarao, K -- Klimov, A -- Katz, J -- Regnery, H -- Lim, W -- Hall, H -- Perdue, M -- Swayne, D -- Bender, C -- Huang, J -- Hemphill, M -- Rowe, T -- Shaw, M -- Xu, X -- Fukuda, K -- Cox, N -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 16;279(5349):393-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Influenza Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9430591" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Chickens ; Child, Preschool ; Disease Outbreaks ; Fatal Outcome ; Female ; Genes, Viral ; Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/chemistry/*genetics ; Hong Kong/epidemiology ; Humans ; *Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype ; Influenza A virus/*genetics/isolation & purification/*pathogenicity ; Influenza in Birds/virology ; Influenza, Human/epidemiology/*virology ; Male ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Neuraminidase/genetics ; Phylogeny ; Virulence ; Virus Replication
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  • 144
    Publication Date: 1998-04-29
    Description: Toxins from scorpion venom interact with potassium channels. Resin-attached, mutant K+ channels from Streptomyces lividans were used to screen venom from Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus, and the toxins that interacted with the channel were rapidly identified by mass spectrometry. One of the toxins, agitoxin2, was further studied by mutagenesis and radioligand binding. The results show that a prokaryotic K+ channel has the same pore structure as eukaryotic K+ channels. This structural conservation, through application of techniques presented here, offers a new approach for K+ channel pharmacology.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉MacKinnon, R -- Cohen, S L -- Kuo, A -- Lee, A -- Chait, B T -- GM43949/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 3;280(5360):106-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. mackinn@rockvax.rockefeller.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9525854" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; *Bacterial Proteins ; Binding Sites ; Charybdotoxin/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Point Mutation ; Potassium Channel Blockers ; Potassium Channels/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; *Protein Conformation ; Radioligand Assay ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Scorpion Venoms/*metabolism ; Sequence Alignment ; Shaker Superfamily of Potassium Channels ; Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization ; Streptomyces/chemistry
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  • 145
    Publication Date: 1999-07-27
    Description: Candida glabrata is an important fungal pathogen of humans that is responsible for about 15 percent of mucosal and systemic candidiasis. Candida glabrata adhered avidly to human epithelial cells in culture. By means of a genetic approach and a strategy allowing parallel screening of mutants, it was possible to clone a lectin from a Candida species. Deletion of this adhesin reduced adherence of C. glabrata to human epithelial cells by 95 percent. The adhesin, encoded by the EPA1 gene, is likely a glucan-cross-linked cell-wall protein and binds to host-cell carbohydrate, specifically recognizing asialo-lactosyl-containing carbohydrates.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cormack, B P -- Ghori, N -- Falkow, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jul 23;285(5427):578-82.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Fairchild D039, 299 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5124, USA. bcormack@jhmi.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10417386" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Calcium/metabolism ; Candida/*genetics/*pathogenicity/physiology ; Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal/microbiology ; Carbohydrates/pharmacology ; Cell Adhesion ; Cloning, Molecular ; Epithelial Cells/*microbiology ; Female ; *Fungal Proteins ; Genes, Fungal ; Humans ; Lectins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Ligands ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred DBA ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutagenesis, Insertional ; Mutation ; Plasmids ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Transformation, Genetic ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; Virulence/genetics
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  • 146
    Publication Date: 1999-07-03
    Description: Regulation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor activity by kinases and phosphatases contributes to the modulation of synaptic transmission. Targeting of these enzymes near the substrate is proposed to enhance phosphorylation-dependent modulation. Yotiao, an NMDA receptor-associated protein, bound the type I protein phosphatase (PP1) and the adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase (PKA) holoenzyme. Anchored PP1 was active, limiting channel activity, whereas PKA activation overcame constitutive PP1 activity and conferred rapid enhancement of NMDA receptor currents. Hence, yotiao is a scaffold protein that physically attaches PP1 and PKA to NMDA receptors to regulate channel activity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Westphal, R S -- Tavalin, S J -- Lin, J W -- Alto, N M -- Fraser, I D -- Langeberg, L K -- Sheng, M -- Scott, J D -- F32 NS010202/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- GM 48231/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- NS10202/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS10543/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jul 2;285(5424):93-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Road, Portland, OR 97201, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10390370" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: A Kinase Anchor Proteins ; *Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Carrier Proteins/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cyclic AMP/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/*metabolism ; Cytoskeletal Proteins/*metabolism ; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Holoenzymes/metabolism ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Okadaic Acid/pharmacology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Peptide Fragments/pharmacology ; Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/*metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Rats ; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/*metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Thionucleotides/pharmacology ; Transfection
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  • 147
    Publication Date: 1999-08-24
    Description: The epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) are products of cytochrome P450 epoxygenases that have vasodilatory properties similar to that of endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor. The cytochrome P450 isoform CYP2J2 was cloned and identified as a potential source of EETs in human endothelial cells. Physiological concentrations of EETs or overexpression of CYP2J2 decreased cytokine-induced endothelial cell adhesion molecule expression, and EETs prevented leukocyte adhesion to the vascular wall by a mechanism involving inhibition of transcription factor NF-kappaB and IkappaB kinase. The inhibitory effects of EETs were independent of their membrane-hyperpolarizing effects, suggesting that these molecules play an important nonvasodilatory role in vascular inflammation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2720027/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2720027/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Node, K -- Huo, Y -- Ruan, X -- Yang, B -- Spiecker, M -- Ley, K -- Zeldin, D C -- Liao, J K -- HL-52233/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL-58108/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P01 HL048743/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P01 HL048743-080008/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P01 HL048743-090008/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL052233/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL052233-05/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL052233-06/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Aug 20;285(5431):1276-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Vascular Medicine and Atherosclerosis Unit, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, LMRC-322, Boston, MA 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10455056" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 8,11,14-Eicosatrienoic Acid/analogs & derivatives/*metabolism/*pharmacology ; Animals ; *Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal/metabolism/pharmacology ; Carotid Arteries/cytology ; Cattle ; Cell Adhesion/drug effects ; Cell Adhesion Molecules/biosynthesis ; Cells, Cultured ; Coronary Vessels/enzymology ; Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System/genetics/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Endothelium, Vascular/enzymology/*metabolism ; Humans ; Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acids/pharmacology ; I-kappa B Kinase ; *I-kappa B Proteins ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; NF-kappa B/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Oxygenases/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/antagonists & inhibitors/pharmacology ; Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1/biosynthesis/genetics
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  • 148
    Publication Date: 1999-11-24
    Description: The complete genome sequence of the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans R1 is composed of two chromosomes (2,648,638 and 412,348 base pairs), a megaplasmid (177,466 base pairs), and a small plasmid (45,704 base pairs), yielding a total genome of 3,284, 156 base pairs. Multiple components distributed on the chromosomes and megaplasmid that contribute to the ability of D. radiodurans to survive under conditions of starvation, oxidative stress, and high amounts of DNA damage were identified. Deinococcus radiodurans represents an organism in which all systems for DNA repair, DNA damage export, desiccation and starvation recovery, and genetic redundancy are present in one cell.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147723/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147723/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉White, O -- Eisen, J A -- Heidelberg, J F -- Hickey, E K -- Peterson, J D -- Dodson, R J -- Haft, D H -- Gwinn, M L -- Nelson, W C -- Richardson, D L -- Moffat, K S -- Qin, H -- Jiang, L -- Pamphile, W -- Crosby, M -- Shen, M -- Vamathevan, J J -- Lam, P -- McDonald, L -- Utterback, T -- Zalewski, C -- Makarova, K S -- Aravind, L -- Daly, M J -- Minton, K W -- Fleischmann, R D -- Ketchum, K A -- Nelson, K E -- Salzberg, S -- Smith, H O -- Venter, J C -- Fraser, C M -- R01 CA077712/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 19;286(5444):1571-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10567266" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacterial Proteins/biosynthesis/chemistry/genetics ; Catalase/genetics ; Chromosomes, Bacterial/genetics ; DNA Damage ; DNA Repair/genetics ; DNA, Bacterial/genetics ; Energy Metabolism ; Genes, Bacterial ; *Genome, Bacterial ; Gram-Positive Cocci/chemistry/classification/*genetics/radiation effects ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Open Reading Frames ; Oxidative Stress ; *Physical Chromosome Mapping ; Plasmids ; Radiation Tolerance ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; *Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Superoxide Dismutase/genetics ; Thermus/chemistry/genetics ; Ultraviolet Rays
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  • 149
    Publication Date: 1999-03-05
    Description: Ribonucleotide reductases catalyze the reduction of ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides. Three classes have been identified, all using free-radical chemistry but based on different cofactors. Classes I and II have been shown to be evolutionarily related, whereas the origin of anaerobic class III has remained elusive. The structure of a class III enzyme suggests a common origin for the three classes but shows differences in the active site that can be understood on the basis of the radical-initiation system and source of reductive electrons, as well as a unique protein glycyl radical site. A possible evolutionary relationship between early deoxyribonucleotide metabolism and primary anaerobic metabolism is suggested.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Logan, D T -- Andersson, J -- Sjoberg, B M -- Nordlund, P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Mar 5;283(5407):1499-504.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Department of Molecular Biology, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. derek@biokemi.su.se〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10066165" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetyltransferases/chemistry/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Anaerobiosis ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Dimerization ; Evolution, Molecular ; Glycine/*chemistry ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Ribonucleotide Reductases/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Viral Proteins/chemistry
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  • 150
    Publication Date: 1999-10-26
    Description: During mammalian development, electrical activity promotes the calcium-dependent survival of neurons that have made appropriate synaptic connections. However, the mechanisms by which calcium mediates neuronal survival during development are not well characterized. A transcription-dependent mechanism was identified by which calcium influx into neurons promoted cell survival. The transcription factor MEF2 was selectively expressed in newly generated postmitotic neurons and was required for the survival of these neurons. Calcium influx into cerebellar granule neurons led to activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase-dependent phosphorylation and activation of MEF2. Once activated, MEF2 regulated neuronal survival by stimulating MEF2-dependent gene transcription. These findings demonstrate that MEF2 is a calcium-regulated transcription factor and define a function for MEF2 during nervous system development that is distinct from previously well-characterized functions of MEF2 during muscle differentiation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mao, Z -- Bonni, A -- Xia, F -- Nadal-Vicens, M -- Greenberg, M E -- 5T32NS07112/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS28829/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P30-HD18655/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 22;286(5440):785-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital and Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10531066" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Apoptosis ; Calcium/metabolism ; Calcium Channels, L-Type/metabolism ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Survival ; Cells, Cultured ; Cerebellum/cytology/metabolism ; Cerebral Cortex/cytology/embryology/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Dimerization ; Immunohistochemistry ; MEF2 Transcription Factors ; Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Mitosis ; Mutation ; Myogenic Regulatory Factors ; Neurons/*cytology/*metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Rats ; Signal Transduction ; Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism ; *Transcription, Genetic ; Transfection ; p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
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  • 151
    Publication Date: 1999-04-30
    Description: The PDZ protein interaction domain of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) can heterodimerize with the PDZ domains of postsynaptic density protein 95 and syntrophin through interactions that are not mediated by recognition of a typical carboxyl-terminal motif. The nNOS-syntrophin PDZ complex structure revealed that the domains interact in an unusual linear head-to-tail arrangement. The nNOS PDZ domain has two opposite interaction surfaces-one face has the canonical peptide binding groove, whereas the other has a beta-hairpin "finger." This nNOS beta finger docks in the syntrophin peptide binding groove, mimicking a peptide ligand, except that a sharp beta turn replaces the normally required carboxyl terminus. This structure explains how PDZ domains can participate in diverse interaction modes to assemble protein networks.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hillier, B J -- Christopherson, K S -- Prehoda, K E -- Bredt, D S -- Lim, W A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 30;284(5415):812-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10221915" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Dimerization ; *Dystrophin-Associated Proteins ; Ligands ; Membrane Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Muscle Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Nitric Oxide Synthase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Signal Transduction
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  • 152
    Publication Date: 1999-04-02
    Description: Human mesenchymal stem cells are thought to be multipotent cells, which are present in adult marrow, that can replicate as undifferentiated cells and that have the potential to differentiate to lineages of mesenchymal tissues, including bone, cartilage, fat, tendon, muscle, and marrow stroma. Cells that have the characteristics of human mesenchymal stem cells were isolated from marrow aspirates of volunteer donors. These cells displayed a stable phenotype and remained as a monolayer in vitro. These adult stem cells could be induced to differentiate exclusively into the adipocytic, chondrocytic, or osteocytic lineages. Individual stem cells were identified that, when expanded to colonies, retained their multilineage potential.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pittenger, M F -- Mackay, A M -- Beck, S C -- Jaiswal, R K -- Douglas, R -- Mosca, J D -- Moorman, M A -- Simonetti, D W -- Craig, S -- Marshak, D R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 2;284(5411):143-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Osiris Therapeutics, 2001 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore, MD 21231-3043, USA. mpittenger@osiristx.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10102814" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adipocytes/*cytology ; Adult ; Apoptosis ; Bone Marrow Cells/cytology ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Division ; *Cell Lineage ; Cell Separation ; Cells, Cultured ; Chondrocytes/*cytology ; Fibroblasts/cytology ; Flow Cytometry ; Humans ; Mesoderm/*cytology ; Middle Aged ; Osteocytes/*cytology ; Phenotype ; Stem Cells/*cytology
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  • 153
    Publication Date: 1999-02-19
    Description: The vertebrate heart consists of two types of chambers, the atria and the ventricles, which differ in their contractile and electrophysiological properties. Little is known of the molecular mechanisms by which these chambers are specified during embryogenesis. Here a chicken iroquois-related homeobox gene, Irx4, was identified that has a ventricle-restricted expression pattern at all stages of heart development. Irx4 protein was shown to regulate the chamber-specific expression of myosin isoforms by activating the expression of the ventricle myosin heavy chain-1 (VMHC1) and suppressing the expression of the atrial myosin heavy chain-1 (AMHC1) in the ventricles. Thus, Irx4 may play a critical role in establishing chamber-specific gene expression in the developing heart.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bao, Z Z -- Bruneau, B G -- Seidman, J G -- Seidman, C E -- Cepko, C L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Feb 19;283(5405):1161-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10024241" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; *Atrial Myosins ; *Avian Proteins ; Chick Embryo ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ; Heart Atria/*embryology/metabolism/virology ; Heart Ventricles/*embryology/metabolism/virology ; Homeodomain Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*physiology ; In Situ Hybridization ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Muscle Proteins/*genetics ; Myosin Heavy Chains/genetics ; Myosins/*genetics ; Phenotype ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins ; Retroviridae/genetics/physiology
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  • 154
    Publication Date: 1999-02-12
    Description: Glucose metabolism in glycolysis and in mitochondria is pivotal to glucose-induced insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells. One or more factors derived from glycolysis other than pyruvate appear to be required for the generation of mitochondrial signals that lead to insulin secretion. The electrons of the glycolysis-derived reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) are transferred to mitochondria through the NADH shuttle system. By abolishing the NADH shuttle function, glucose-induced increases in NADH autofluorescence, mitochondrial membrane potential, and adenosine triphosphate content were reduced and glucose-induced insulin secretion was abrogated. The NADH shuttle evidently couples glycolysis with activation of mitochondrial energy metabolism to trigger insulin secretion.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Eto, K -- Tsubamoto, Y -- Terauchi, Y -- Sugiyama, T -- Kishimoto, T -- Takahashi, N -- Yamauchi, N -- Kubota, N -- Murayama, S -- Aizawa, T -- Akanuma, Y -- Aizawa, S -- Kasai, H -- Yazaki, Y -- Kadowaki, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Feb 12;283(5404):981-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan. Tokyo〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9974390" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Aminooxyacetic Acid/pharmacology ; Animals ; Aspartate Aminotransferases/antagonists & inhibitors ; Calcium/metabolism ; Citric Acid Cycle ; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Female ; Gene Targeting ; Glucose/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Glycerolphosphate Dehydrogenase/genetics/metabolism ; Glycolysis ; Insulin/*secretion ; Islets of Langerhans/metabolism/*secretion ; Male ; Membrane Potentials ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mitochondria/*metabolism ; Models, Biological ; Molecular Sequence Data ; NAD/*metabolism ; Pyruvic Acid/metabolism
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  • 155
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    Publication Date: 1999-04-16
    Description: The five members of the phytochrome photoreceptor family of Arabidopsis thaliana control morphogenesis differentially in response to light. Genetic analysis has identified a signaling pathway that is specifically activated by phytochrome A. A component in this pathway, SPA1 (for "suppressor of phyA-105"), functions in repression of photomorphogenesis and is required for normal photosensory specificity of phytochrome A. Molecular cloning of the SPA1 gene indicates that SPA1 is a WD (tryptophan-aspartic acid)-repeat protein that also shares sequence similarity with protein kinases. SPA1 can localize to the nucleus, suggesting a possible function in phytochrome A-specific regulation of gene expression.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hoecker, U -- Tepperman, J M -- Quail, P H -- GM-47475/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 16;284(5413):496-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10205059" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Arabidopsis/genetics/growth & development/*metabolism ; *Arabidopsis Proteins ; Cell Cycle Proteins/*chemistry/*physiology ; Cell Nucleus/metabolism ; Cloning, Molecular ; Darkness ; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; *Light ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Morphogenesis ; Mutation ; Nuclear Localization Signals ; Phytochrome/*metabolism ; Phytochrome A ; Plant Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/physiology ; Protein Kinases/chemistry ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid ; Repressor Proteins/chemistry ; Sequence Alignment ; *Signal Transduction
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  • 156
    Publication Date: 1999-01-05
    Description: Signaling by the Notch surface receptor controls cell fate determination in a broad spectrum of tissues. This signaling is triggered by the interaction of the Notch protein with what, so far, have been thought to be transmembrane ligands expressed on adjacent cells. Here biochemical and genetic analyses show that the ligand Delta is cleaved on the surface, releasing an extracellular fragment capable of binding to Notch and acting as an agonist of Notch activity. The ADAM disintegrin metalloprotease Kuzbanian is required for this processing event. These observations raise the possibility that Notch signaling in vivo is modulated by soluble forms of the Notch ligands.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Qi, H -- Rand, M D -- Wu, X -- Sestan, N -- Wang, W -- Rakic, P -- Xu, T -- Artavanis-Tsakonas, S -- NS14841/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS26084/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jan 1;283(5398):91-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536-0812, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9872749" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Cells, Cultured ; Disintegrins/genetics/*metabolism ; Drosophila/embryology/genetics/metabolism ; *Drosophila Proteins ; Female ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins ; Ligands ; Male ; Membrane Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Metalloendopeptidases/genetics/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Neurons/cytology ; Protein Processing, Post-Translational ; Receptors, Notch ; Signal Transduction ; Transfection
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  • 157
    Publication Date: 1999-10-09
    Description: Superoxide reductase from the hyperthermophilic anaerobe Pyrococcus furiosus uses electrons from reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, by way of rubredoxin and an oxidoreductase, to reduce superoxide to hydrogen peroxide, which is then reduced to water by peroxidases. Unlike superoxide dismutase, the enzyme that protects aerobes from the toxic effects of oxygen, SOR does not catalyze the production of oxygen from superoxide and therefore confers a selective advantage on anaerobes. Superoxide reductase and associated proteins are catalytically active 80 degrees C below the optimum growth temperature (100 degrees C) of P. furiosus, conditions under which the organism is likely to be exposed to oxygen.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jenney, F E Jr -- Verhagen, M F -- Cui, X -- Adams, M W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 8;286(5438):306-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7229, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10514376" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylation ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Anaerobiosis ; Bacteria, Anaerobic/enzymology/genetics ; Catalysis ; Cytochrome c Group/metabolism ; Hydrogen Peroxide/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; NADP/metabolism ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Oxidoreductases/chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism ; Pyrococcus/*enzymology/genetics ; Rubredoxins/metabolism ; Superoxide Dismutase/metabolism ; Superoxides/*metabolism ; Temperature ; Water/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-01-30
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ferber, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jan 8;283(5399):154-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9925469" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Cell Aging ; *Cell Division ; Cell Line ; *Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Cells, Cultured ; Humans ; Mutation ; Neoplasms/pathology ; Telomerase/genetics/*metabolism ; Telomere/metabolism
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  • 159
    Publication Date: 1999-12-11
    Description: Tubby-like proteins (TULPs) are found in a broad range of multicellular organisms. In mammals, genetic mutation of tubby or other TULPs can result in one or more of three disease phenotypes: obesity (from which the name "tubby" is derived), retinal degeneration, and hearing loss. These disease phenotypes indicate a vital role for tubby proteins; however, no biochemical function has yet been ascribed to any member of this protein family. A structure-directed approach was employed to investigate the biological function of these proteins. The crystal structure of the core domain from mouse tubby was determined at a resolution of 1.9 angstroms. From primarily structural clues, experiments were devised, the results of which suggest that TULPs are a unique family of bipartite transcription factors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Boggon, T J -- Shan, W S -- Santagata, S -- Myers, S C -- Shapiro, L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Dec 10;286(5447):2119-25.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Structural Biology Program, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Ruttenberg Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University, New York, NY 10029, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10591637" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Alternative Splicing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Cell Nucleus/chemistry ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/metabolism ; Eye Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Humans ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Sequence Alignment ; Transcription Factors/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Transcriptional Activation
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  • 160
    Publication Date: 1999-02-19
    Description: A highly fatal hemorrhagic disease has been identified in 10 young Asian and African elephants at North American zoos. In the affected animals there was ultrastructural evidence for herpesvirus-like particles in endothelial cells of the heart, liver, and tongue. Consensus primer polymerase chain reaction combined with sequencing yielded molecular evidence that confirmed the presence of two novel but related herpesviruses associated with the disease, one in Asian elephants and another in African elephants. Otherwise healthy African elephants with external herpetic lesions yielded herpesvirus sequences identical to that found in Asian elephants with endothelial disease. This finding suggests that the Asian elephant deaths were caused by cross-species infection with a herpesvirus that is naturally latent in, but normally not lethal to, African elephants. A reciprocal relationship may exist for the African elephant disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Richman, L K -- Montali, R J -- Garber, R L -- Kennedy, M A -- Lehnhardt, J -- Hildebrandt, T -- Schmitt, D -- Hardy, D -- Alcendor, D J -- Hayward, G S -- 1 K08 AI01526-01/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Feb 19;283(5405):1171-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Smithsonian, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC 20008, USA. lkrichma@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10024244" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Africa ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Animals, Zoo/*virology ; Asia ; Base Sequence ; DNA, Viral/genetics ; DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/chemistry/genetics ; Elephants/*virology ; Endodeoxyribonucleases/chemistry/genetics ; Endothelium, Vascular/pathology/*virology ; Female ; Genes, Viral ; Hemorrhage/pathology/veterinary/virology ; Herpesviridae/classification/genetics/*isolation & purification ; Herpesviridae Infections/pathology/transmission/*veterinary/virology ; Inclusion Bodies, Viral/ultrastructure ; Male ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phylogeny ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; United States ; Viral Proteins/genetics
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  • 161
    Publication Date: 1999-06-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉McLafferty, F W -- Fridriksson, E K -- Horn, D M -- Lewis, M A -- Zubarev, R A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 May 21;284(5418):1289-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-1301, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10383309" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; DNA/*chemistry/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Mass Spectrometry/instrumentation/*methods ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Proteins/*chemistry/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Sequence Analysis ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Thermodynamics ; Ubiquitins/chemistry
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  • 162
    Publication Date: 1999-04-24
    Description: The von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene is mutated in most human kidney cancers. The VHL protein is part of a complex that includes Elongin B, Elongin C, and Cullin-2, proteins associated with transcriptional elongation and ubiquitination. Here it is shown that the endogenous VHL complex in rat liver also includes Rbx1, an evolutionarily conserved protein that contains a RING-H2 fingerlike motif and that interacts with Cullins. The yeast homolog of Rbx1 is a subunit and potent activator of the Cdc53-containing SCFCdc4 ubiquitin ligase required for ubiquitination of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor Sic1 and for the G1 to S cell cycle transition. These findings provide a further link between VHL and the cellular ubiquitination machinery.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kamura, T -- Koepp, D M -- Conrad, M N -- Skowyra, D -- Moreland, R J -- Iliopoulos, O -- Lane, W S -- Kaelin, W G Jr -- Elledge, S J -- Conaway, R C -- Harper, J W -- Conaway, J W -- AG-11085/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- GM41628/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 23;284(5414):657-61.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Program in Molecular and Cell Biology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10213691" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Carrier Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Cell Cycle ; Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism ; Cell Line ; *Cullin Proteins ; Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor Proteins ; *F-Box Proteins ; Fungal Proteins/metabolism ; *Ligases ; Liver ; Male ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Peptide Synthases/*metabolism ; Proteins/*metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; S-Phase Kinase-Associated Proteins ; SKP Cullin F-Box Protein Ligases ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Sequence Alignment ; Transcription Factors/metabolism ; *Tumor Suppressor Proteins ; *Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases ; Ubiquitins/*metabolism ; Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein
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  • 163
    Publication Date: 1999-10-26
    Description: Cerebral deposition of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) is an early and critical feature of Alzheimer's disease. Abeta generation depends on proteolytic cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) by two unknown proteases: beta-secretase and gamma-secretase. These proteases are prime therapeutic targets. A transmembrane aspartic protease with all the known characteristics of beta-secretase was cloned and characterized. Overexpression of this protease, termed BACE (for beta-site APP-cleaving enzyme) increased the amount of beta-secretase cleavage products, and these were cleaved exactly and only at known beta-secretase positions. Antisense inhibition of endogenous BACE messenger RNA decreased the amount of beta-secretase cleavage products, and purified BACE protein cleaved APP-derived substrates with the same sequence specificity as beta-secretase. Finally, the expression pattern and subcellular localization of BACE were consistent with that expected for beta-secretase. Future development of BACE inhibitors may prove beneficial for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vassar, R -- Bennett, B D -- Babu-Khan, S -- Kahn, S -- Mendiaz, E A -- Denis, P -- Teplow, D B -- Ross, S -- Amarante, P -- Loeloff, R -- Luo, Y -- Fisher, S -- Fuller, J -- Edenson, S -- Lile, J -- Jarosinski, M A -- Biere, A L -- Curran, E -- Burgess, T -- Louis, J C -- Collins, F -- Treanor, J -- Rogers, G -- Citron, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 22;286(5440):735-41.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Amgen, Inc., One Amgen Center Drive, M/S 29-2-B, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1799, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10531052" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alzheimer Disease/drug therapy/*enzymology ; Amino Acid Motifs ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases ; Amyloid beta-Peptides/*biosynthesis ; Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor/*metabolism ; Animals ; Aspartic Acid Endopeptidases/chemistry/genetics/*isolation & ; purification/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Brain/enzymology/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cloning, Molecular ; Endopeptidases ; Endosomes/enzymology ; Gene Expression ; Gene Library ; Golgi Apparatus/enzymology ; Humans ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oligonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology ; Peptides/metabolism ; Protease Inhibitors/pharmacology ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Transfection
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  • 164
    Publication Date: 1999-02-26
    Description: Although broken chromosomes can induce apoptosis, natural chromosome ends (telomeres) do not trigger this response. It is shown that this suppression of apoptosis involves the telomeric-repeat binding factor 2 (TRF2). Inhibition of TRF2 resulted in apoptosis in a subset of mammalian cell types. The response was mediated by p53 and the ATM (ataxia telangiectasia mutated) kinase, consistent with activation of a DNA damage checkpoint. Apoptosis was not due to rupture of dicentric chromosomes formed by end-to-end fusion, indicating that telomeres lacking TRF2 directly signal apoptosis, possibly because they resemble damaged DNA. Thus, in some cells, telomere shortening may signal cell death rather than senescence.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Karlseder, J -- Broccoli, D -- Dai, Y -- Hardy, S -- de Lange, T -- GM49046/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Feb 26;283(5406):1321-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory for Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA. Cell Genesys, Foster City, CA 94405, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10037601" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenoviridae/genetics/physiology ; Animals ; *Apoptosis ; Ataxia Telangiectasia/pathology ; Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins ; B-Lymphocytes/cytology ; Cell Cycle Proteins ; Cell Line ; Cells, Cultured ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA Damage ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*physiology ; Genetic Vectors ; Humans ; In Situ Nick-End Labeling ; Mice ; Mitosis ; Phosphorylation ; *Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases ; Proteins/metabolism ; T-Lymphocytes/cytology ; Telomere/*physiology ; Telomeric Repeat Binding Protein 2 ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*metabolism ; Tumor Suppressor Proteins
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  • 165
    Publication Date: 1999-04-24
    Description: Human recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) may benefit ischemic stroke patients by dissolving clots. However, independent of thrombolysis, tPA may also have deleterious effects on neurons by promoting excitotoxicity. Zinc neurotoxicity has been shown to be an additional key mechanism in brain injuries. Hence, if tPA affects zinc neurotoxicity, this may provide additional insights into its effect on neuronal death. Independent of its proteolytic action, tPA markedly attenuated zinc-induced cell death in cortical culture, and, when injected into cerebrospinal fluid, also reduced kainate seizure-induced hippocampal neuronal death in adult rats.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kim, Y H -- Park, J H -- Hong, S H -- Koh, J Y -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 23;284(5414):647-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Creative Research Initiative Center for the Study of Central Nervous System Zinc and Department of Neurology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1 Poongnap-Dong Songpa-Gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10213688" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Death/drug effects ; Cells, Cultured ; Cerebral Cortex/cytology ; *Cytoprotection ; Fibrinolysin/pharmacology ; Hippocampus/pathology ; Humans ; Kainic Acid/pharmacology ; Male ; Mice ; N-Methylaspartate/pharmacology ; Neurons/*cytology/drug effects ; Neuroprotective Agents/*pharmacology ; Oxidative Stress ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Recombinant Proteins/cerebrospinal fluid/pharmacology ; Seizures/chemically induced/pathology ; Tissue Plasminogen Activator/cerebrospinal fluid/*pharmacology ; Zinc/metabolism/*toxicity
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    Publication Date: 1999-11-30
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chenn, A -- Walsh, C A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Oct 22;286(5440):689-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. shoogasmax@netzero.net〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10577225" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Communication ; Cell Count ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Nucleus/metabolism ; Cells, Cultured ; Cerebral Cortex/cytology/metabolism ; Humans ; Ligands ; Membrane Proteins/*metabolism ; Neurites/*physiology ; Neurons/*cytology/metabolism ; Receptor, Notch1 ; Receptor, Notch2 ; Receptors, Cell Surface/*metabolism ; *Signal Transduction ; Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism ; *Transcription Factors ; Transcriptional Activation ; Transfection
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  • 167
    Publication Date: 1999-04-16
    Description: Modular polyketide synthases catalyze the biosynthesis of medicinally important natural products through an assembly-line mechanism. Although these megasynthases display very precise overall selectivity, we show that their constituent modules are remarkably tolerant toward diverse incoming acyl chains. By appropriate engineering of linkers, which exist within and between polypeptides, it is possible to exploit this tolerance to facilitate the transfer of biosynthetic intermediates between unnaturally linked modules. This protein engineering strategy also provides insights into the evolution of modular polyketide synthases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gokhale, R S -- Tsuji, S Y -- Cane, D E -- Khosla, C -- CA66736/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM22172/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Apr 16;284(5413):482-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-5025, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10205055" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Catalysis ; Escherichia coli/enzymology/genetics ; Evolution, Molecular ; Genes, Bacterial ; Lactones/*metabolism ; Macrolides/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Multienzyme Complexes/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular ; Peptides/metabolism ; *Protein Engineering ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Streptomyces/enzymology
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  • 168
    Publication Date: 1999-11-13
    Description: Control of messenger RNA (mRNA) stability serves as an important mechanism for regulating gene expression. Analysis of Arabidopsis mutants that overaccumulate soluble methionine (Met) revealed that the gene for cystathionine gamma-synthase (CGS), the key enzyme in Met biosynthesis, is regulated at the level of mRNA stability. Transfection experiments with wild-type and mutant forms of the CGS gene suggest that an amino acid sequence encoded by the first exon of CGS acts in cis to destabilize its own mRNA in a process that is activated by Met or one of its metabolites.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chiba, Y -- Ishikawa, M -- Kijima, F -- Tyson, R H -- Kim, J -- Yamamoto, A -- Nambara, E -- Leustek, T -- Wallsgrove, R M -- Naito, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 12;286(5443):1371-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10558994" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Arabidopsis/*enzymology/genetics ; Carbon-Oxygen Lyases/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Exons ; Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; Genes, Plant ; Genes, Reporter ; Kinetics ; Methionine/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/*metabolism ; Sequence Alignment ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transfection
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  • 169
    Publication Date: 1999-09-08
    Description: Targeting of protein modification enzymes is a key biochemical step to achieve specific and effective posttranslational modifications. Two alternatively spliced ZIP1 and ZIP2 proteins are described, which bind to both Kvbeta2 subunits of potassium channel and protein kinase C (PKC) zeta, thereby acting as a physical link in the assembly of PKCzeta-ZIP-potassium channel complexes. ZIP1 and ZIP2 differentially stimulate phosphorylation of Kvbeta2 by PKCzeta. They also interact to form heteromultimers, which allows for a hybrid stimulatory activity to PKCzeta. Finally, ZIP1 and ZIP2 coexist in the same cell type and are elevated differentially by neurotrophic factors. These results provide a mechanism for specificity and regulation of PKCzeta-targeted phosphorylation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gong, J -- Xu, J -- Bezanilla, M -- van Huizen, R -- Derin, R -- Li, M -- NS33324/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Sep 3;285(5433):1565-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10477520" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alternative Splicing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Carrier Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cerebellum/metabolism ; DNA, Complementary ; Isoenzymes/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Myelin Basic Protein/metabolism ; Nerve Growth Factors/pharmacology ; Neurons/*metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Potassium Channels/*metabolism ; Protein Kinase C/*metabolism ; Pyramidal Cells/metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Substrate Specificity ; Transfection
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  • 170
    Publication Date: 1999-08-07
    Description: During the immediate-early response of mammalian cells to mitogens, histone H3 is rapidly and transiently phosphorylated by one or more unidentified kinases. Rsk-2, a member of the pp90rsk family of kinases implicated in growth control, was required for epidermal growth factor (EGF)-stimulated phosphorylation of H3. RSK-2 mutations in humans are linked to Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS). Fibroblasts derived from a CLS patient failed to exhibit EGF-stimulated phosphorylation of H3, although H3 was phosphorylated during mitosis. Introduction of the wild-type RSK-2 gene restored EGF-stimulated phosphorylation of H3 in CLS cells. In addition, disruption of the RSK-2 gene by homologous recombination in murine embryonic stem cells abolished EGF-stimulated phosphorylation of H3. H3 appears to be a direct or indirect target of Rsk-2, suggesting that chromatin remodeling might contribute to mitogen-activated protein kinase-regulated gene expression.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sassone-Corsi, P -- Mizzen, C A -- Cheung, P -- Crosio, C -- Monaco, L -- Jacquot, S -- Hanauer, A -- Allis, C D -- GM40922/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Aug 6;285(5429):886-91.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, INSERM, ULP, B. P. 163, 67404 Illkirch-Strasbourg, France. paolosc@igbmc.u-strasbg.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10436156" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 3T3 Cells ; Abnormalities, Multiple/genetics/metabolism ; Animals ; Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/metabolism ; Cell Line, Transformed ; Cell Nucleus/metabolism ; Cells, Cultured ; Epidermal Growth Factor/*pharmacology ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Gene Targeting ; Histones/*metabolism ; Humans ; Mice ; Mitosis ; Mutation ; Phosphorylation ; Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases/genetics/*metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism ; Syndrome
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  • 171
    Publication Date: 1999-06-12
    Description: The efficiency with which N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) trigger intracellular signaling pathways governs neuronal plasticity, development, senescence, and disease. In cultured cortical neurons, suppressing the expression of the NMDAR scaffolding protein PSD-95 (postsynaptic density-95) selectively attenuated excitotoxicity triggered via NMDARs, but not by other glutamate or calcium ion (Ca2+) channels. NMDAR function was unaffected, because receptor expression, NMDA currents, and 45Ca2+ loading were unchanged. Suppressing PSD-95 blocked Ca2+-activated nitric oxide production by NMDARs selectively, without affecting neuronal nitric oxide synthase expression or function. Thus, PSD-95 is required for efficient coupling of NMDAR activity to nitric oxide toxicity, and imparts specificity to excitotoxic Ca2+ signaling.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sattler, R -- Xiong, Z -- Lu, W Y -- Hafner, M -- MacDonald, J F -- Tymianski, M -- NS 39060/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jun 11;284(5421):1845-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Lab 11-416, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10364559" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Calcium Channels/metabolism ; Cell Survival ; Cells, Cultured ; Enzyme Activation ; Guanylate Kinase ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins ; Membrane Proteins ; Mice ; N-Methylaspartate/toxicity ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Neurons/cytology/*metabolism ; Nitric Oxide/*metabolism ; Nitric Oxide Synthase/metabolism ; Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I ; Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase/metabolism ; Oligodeoxyribonucleotides, Antisense ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/*metabolism ; Second Messenger Systems ; Signal Transduction
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  • 172
    Publication Date: 1999-06-05
    Description: Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) catalyze extracellular matrix degradation. Control of their activity is a promising target for therapy of diseases characterized by abnormal connective tissue turnover. MMPs are expressed as latent proenzymes that are activated by proteolytic cleavage that triggers a conformational change in the propeptide (cysteine switch). The structure of proMMP-2 reveals how the propeptide shields the catalytic cleft and that the cysteine switch may operate through cleavage of loops essential for propeptide stability.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Morgunova, E -- Tuuttila, A -- Bergmann, U -- Isupov, M -- Lindqvist, Y -- Schneider, G -- Tryggvason, K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jun 4;284(5420):1667-70.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Matrix Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10356396" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Catalytic Domain ; Enzyme Activation ; Enzyme Precursors/*chemistry/metabolism ; Fibronectins/chemistry ; Gelatinases/*chemistry/metabolism ; Hemopexin/chemistry ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 ; Metalloendopeptidases/*chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary
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  • 173
    Publication Date: 1998-12-16
    Description: Src homology 3 (SH3) and WW protein interaction domains bind specific proline-rich sequences. However, instead of recognizing critical prolines on the basis of side chain shape or rigidity, these domains broadly accepted amide N-substituted residues. Proline is apparently specifically selected in vivo, despite low complementarity, because it is the only endogenous N-substituted amino acid. This discriminatory mechanism explains how these domains achieve specific but low-affinity recognition, a property that is necessary for transient signaling interactions. The mechanism can be exploited: screening a series of ligands in which key prolines were replaced by nonnatural N-substituted residues yielded a ligand that selectively bound the Grb2 SH3 domain with 100 times greater affinity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nguyen, J T -- Turck, C W -- Cohen, F E -- Zuckermann, R N -- Lim, W A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 11;282(5396):2088-92.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9851931" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amino Acid Substitution ; Animals ; *Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins ; Carrier Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; GRB2 Adaptor Protein ; Helminth Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Humans ; Ligands ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oligopeptides/chemistry/*metabolism ; Phosphoproteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Proline/chemistry/*metabolism ; Protein Engineering ; Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-crk ; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid ; *src Homology Domains
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  • 174
    Publication Date: 1998-06-26
    Description: Members of the regulators of G protein signaling (RGS) family stimulate the intrinsic guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) activity of the alpha subunits of certain heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins). The guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for Rho, p115 RhoGEF, has an amino-terminal region with similarity to RGS proteins. Recombinant p115 RhoGEF and a fusion protein containing the amino terminus of p115 had specific activity as GTPase activating proteins toward the alpha subunits of the G proteins G12 and G13, but not toward members of the Gs, Gi, or Gq subfamilies of Galpha proteins. This GEF may act as an intermediary in the regulation of Rho proteins by G13 and G12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kozasa, T -- Jiang, X -- Hart, M J -- Sternweis, P M -- Singer, W D -- Gilman, A G -- Bollag, G -- Sternweis, P C -- GM31954/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM34497/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jun 26;280(5372):2109-11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9641915" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aluminum Compounds/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Fluorides/metabolism ; GTP Phosphohydrolases/*metabolism ; GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, G12-G13 ; GTP-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors ; Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate)/metabolism ; Guanosine Diphosphate/metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Humans ; Hydrolysis ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Sequence Alignment ; Signal Transduction
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    Publication Date: 1998-07-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sikorski, R -- Peters, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jun 19;280(5371):1956-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9669951" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cells, Cultured ; Dependovirus/*genetics ; Drug Resistance/genetics ; *Gene Targeting ; *Genetic Vectors ; HeLa Cells ; Humans ; Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase/genetics ; Neomycin/pharmacology ; *Recombination, Genetic ; *Transfection ; Virus Integration
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  • 176
    Publication Date: 1998-05-09
    Description: High-fidelity transfers of genetic information in the central dogma can be achieved by a reaction called editing. The crystal structure of an enzyme with editing activity in translation is presented here at 2.5 angstroms resolution. The enzyme, isoleucyl-transfer RNA synthetase, activates not only the cognate substrate L-isoleucine but also the minimally distinct L-valine in the first, aminoacylation step. Then, in a second, "editing" step, the synthetase itself rapidly hydrolyzes only the valylated products. For this two-step substrate selection, a "double-sieve" mechanism has already been proposed. The present crystal structures of the synthetase in complexes with L-isoleucine and L-valine demonstrate that the first sieve is on the aminoacylation domain containing the Rossmann fold, whereas the second, editing sieve exists on a globular beta-barrel domain that protrudes from the aminoacylation domain.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nureki, O -- Vassylyev, D G -- Tateno, M -- Shimada, A -- Nakama, T -- Fukai, S -- Konno, M -- Hendrickson, T L -- Schimmel, P -- Yokoyama, S -- GM15539/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 24;280(5363):578-82.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9554847" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Monophosphate ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Hydrolysis ; Isoleucine/*metabolism ; Isoleucine-tRNA Ligase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Chemical ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutagenesis ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; RNA, Transfer, Ile/metabolism ; Substrate Specificity ; Thermus thermophilus/enzymology ; Transfer RNA Aminoacylation ; Valine/*metabolism
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  • 177
    Publication Date: 1998-06-11
    Description: A human member of the immunoglobulin superfamily was shown to mediate entry of several alphaherpesviruses, including herpes simplex viruses (HSV) 1 and 2, porcine pseudorabies virus (PRV), and bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1). This membrane glycoprotein is poliovirus receptor-related protein 1 (Prr1), designated here as HveC. Incubation of HSV-1 with a secreted form of HveC inhibited subsequent infection of a variety of cell lines, suggesting that HveC interacts directly with the virus. Poliovirus receptor (Pvr) itself mediated entry of PRV and BHV-1 but not of the HSV strains tested. HveC was expressed in human cells of epithelial and neuronal origin; it is the prime candidate for the coreceptor that allows both HSV-1 and HSV-2 to infect epithelial cells on mucosal surfaces and spread to cells of the nervous system.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Geraghty, R J -- Krummenacher, C -- Cohen, G H -- Eisenberg, R J -- Spear, P G -- NS-30606/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS-36731/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI 36293/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jun 5;280(5369):1618-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9616127" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alphaherpesvirinae/*physiology ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; CHO Cells ; Cell Adhesion Molecules/genetics/*physiology ; Cells, Cultured ; Cricetinae ; Epithelial Cells/virology ; Gene Expression ; Herpesvirus 1, Bovine/physiology ; Herpesvirus 1, Human/*physiology ; Herpesvirus 1, Suid/physiology ; Herpesvirus 2, Human/*physiology ; Humans ; *Membrane Proteins ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Neurons/virology ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; *Receptors, Virus ; Transfection ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; Viral Envelope Proteins/metabolism
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  • 178
    Publication Date: 1998-10-02
    Description: Many organisms adapted to live at subzero temperatures express antifreeze proteins that improve their tolerance to freezing. Although structurally diverse, all antifreeze proteins interact with ice surfaces, depress the freezing temperature of aqueous solutions, and inhibit ice crystal growth. A protein purified from carrot shares these functional features with antifreeze proteins of fish. Expression of the carrot complementary DNA in tobacco resulted in the accumulation of antifreeze activity in the apoplast of plants grown at greenhouse temperatures. The sequence of carrot antifreeze protein is similar to that of polygalacturonase inhibitor proteins and contains leucine-rich repeats.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Worrall, D -- Elias, L -- Ashford, D -- Smallwood, M -- Sidebottom, C -- Lillford, P -- Telford, J -- Holt, C -- Bowles, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 2;282(5386):115-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Plant Laboratory, Biology Department, University of York, Post Office Box 373, York, YO1 5YW, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9756474" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antifreeze Proteins ; Cloning, Molecular ; Crystallization ; DNA, Complementary ; Daucus carota/*chemistry/physiology ; Glycoproteins/*chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/*physiology ; Glycosylation ; *Ice ; Isoelectric Point ; Leucine/chemistry ; Membrane Proteins/*chemistry/isolation & purification/*physiology/secretion ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Plant Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/*physiology ; Plant Roots/chemistry ; Plants, Genetically Modified ; Plants, Toxic ; Tobacco
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  • 179
    Publication Date: 1998-04-16
    Description: The genomic regulatory network that controls gene expression ultimately determines form and function in each species. The operational nature of the regulatory programming specified in cis-regulatory DNA sequence was determined from a detailed functional analysis of a sea urchin control element that directs the expression of a gene in the endoderm during development. Spatial expression and repression, and the changing rate of transcription of this gene, are mediated by a complex and extended cis-regulatory system. The system may be typical of developmental cis-regulatory apparatus. All of its activities are integrated in the proximal element, which contains seven target sites for DNA binding proteins. A quantitative computational model of this regulatory element was constructed that explicitly reveals the logical interrelations hard-wired into the DNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yuh, C H -- Bolouri, H -- Davidson, E H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Mar 20;279(5358):1896-902.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9506933" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cell Adhesion Molecules/*genetics/physiology ; Computer Simulation ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism ; Endoderm/metabolism ; Gastrula/metabolism ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ; Lithium Chloride/pharmacology ; Models, Genetic ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutagenesis ; Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics/*physiology ; Proteins/*genetics/physiology ; Sea Urchins/embryology/*genetics/metabolism ; *Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
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  • 180
    Publication Date: 1998-03-21
    Description: Entry into anaphase and exit from mitosis depend on a ubiquitin-protein ligase complex called the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) or cyclosome. At least 12 different subunits were detected in the purified particle from budding yeast, including the previously identified proteins Apc1p, Cdc16p, Cdc23p, Cdc26p, and Cdc27p. Five additional subunits purified in low nanogram amounts were identified by tandem mass spectrometric sequencing. Apc2p, Apc5p, and the RING-finger protein Apc11p are conserved from yeast to humans. Apc2p is similar to the cullin Cdc53p, which is a subunit of the ubiquitin-protein ligase complex SCFCdc4 required for the initiation of DNA replication.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zachariae, W -- Shevchenko, A -- Andrews, P D -- Ciosk, R -- Galova, M -- Stark, M J -- Mann, M -- Nasmyth, K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Feb 20;279(5354):1216-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 7, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9469814" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; *Anaphase ; Anaphase-Promoting Complex-Cyclosome ; Animals ; Cell Cycle Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; *Cullin Proteins ; Cyclins/metabolism ; DNA Replication ; Fungal Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification ; Genes, Fungal ; Humans ; Ligases/*chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification ; Mass Spectrometry ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*chemistry/*cytology/genetics ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; Sequence Alignment ; Spindle Apparatus/metabolism ; *Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes ; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases ; Ubiquitins/metabolism
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  • 181
    Publication Date: 1998-05-23
    Description: Acetylenic bonds are present in more than 600 naturally occurring compounds. Plant enzymes that catalyze the formation of the Delta12 acetylenic bond in 9-octadecen-12-ynoic acid and the Delta12 epoxy group in 12,13-epoxy-9-octadecenoic acid were characterized, and two genes, similar in sequence, were cloned. When these complementary DNAs were expressed in Arabidopsis thaliana, the content of acetylenic or epoxidated fatty acids in the seeds increased from 0 to 25 or 15 percent, respectively. Both enzymes have characteristics similar to the membrane proteins containing non-heme iron that have histidine-rich motifs.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lee, M -- Lenman, M -- Banas, A -- Bafor, M -- Singh, S -- Schweizer, M -- Nilsson, R -- Liljenberg, C -- Dahlqvist, A -- Gummeson, P O -- Sjodahl, S -- Green, A -- Stymne, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 May 8;280(5365):915-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Svalov-Weibull AB, S-268 81 Svalov, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9572738" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylene/metabolism ; Alkynes ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Arabidopsis/genetics ; Asteraceae/enzymology/genetics/*metabolism ; Catalysis ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA, Complementary ; Epoxy Compounds/chemical synthesis ; Fatty Acid Desaturases/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Genes, Plant ; Iron/analysis ; Linoleic Acid/metabolism ; Microsomes/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; NAD/metabolism ; NADP/metabolism ; Oleic Acids/*biosynthesis/chemical synthesis ; *Oxidoreductases ; *Plant Proteins ; Plants, Genetically Modified ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics ; Seeds/metabolism ; Sequence Alignment
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  • 182
    Publication Date: 1998-07-04
    Description: Methanogenic and sulfate-reducing Archaea are considered to have an energy metabolism involving C1 transfer coenzymes and enzymes unique for this group of strictly anaerobic microorganisms. An aerobic methylotrophic bacterium, Methylobacterium extorquens AM1, was found to contain a cluster of genes that are predicted to encode some of these enzymes and was shown to contain two of the enzyme activities and one of the methanogenic coenzymes. Insertion mutants were all unable to grow on C1 compounds, suggesting that the archaeal enzymes function in aerobic C1 metabolism. Thus, methylotrophy and methanogenesis involve common genes that cross the bacterial/archaeal boundaries.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chistoserdova, L -- Vorholt, J A -- Thauer, R K -- Lidstrom, M E -- GM36296/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jul 3;281(5373):99-102.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9651254" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Aminohydrolases/chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism ; Biological Evolution ; Escherichia coli/enzymology/genetics ; Euryarchaeota/*enzymology/genetics ; Genes, Archaeal ; Genes, Bacterial ; Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci/*enzymology/genetics ; Hydroxymethyl and Formyl Transferases/chemistry/genetics/isolation & ; purification/*metabolism ; Methanol/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; NAD/metabolism ; NADP/metabolism ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Pterins/chemistry/isolation & purification/*metabolism ; Sequence Alignment ; Succinic Acid/metabolism ; Transformation, Bacterial
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  • 183
    Publication Date: 1998-02-21
    Description: There are several forms of hereditary human hair loss, known collectively as alopecias, the molecular bases of which are entirely unknown. A kindred with a rare, recessively inherited type of alopecia universalis was used to search for a locus by homozygosity mapping, and linkage was established in a 6-centimorgan interval on chromosome 8p12 (the logarithm of the odds favoring linkage score was 6.19). The human homolog of a murine gene, hairless, was localized in this interval by radiation hybrid mapping, and a missense mutation was found in affected individuals. Human hairless encodes a putative single zinc finger transcription factor protein with restricted expression in the brain and skin.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ahmad, W -- Faiyaz ul Haque, M -- Brancolini, V -- Tsou, H C -- ul Haque, S -- Lam, H -- Aita, V M -- Owen, J -- deBlaquiere, M -- Frank, J -- Cserhalmi-Friedman, P B -- Leask, A -- McGrath, J A -- Peacocke, M -- Ahmad, M -- Ott, J -- Christiano, A M -- HG-00008/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- P30AR44535/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jan 30;279(5351):720-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Dermatology, Columbia University, 630 West 168 Street, VC-15-526, New York, NY 10032, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9445480" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alopecia/*genetics ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Brain/metabolism ; Chromosome Mapping ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8 ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics ; Female ; Forkhead Transcription Factors ; Gene Expression ; Genes, Recessive ; Homozygote ; Humans ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Hairless/genetics ; Microsatellite Repeats ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Pedigree ; Proteins/chemistry/*genetics ; Rats ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid ; Skin/metabolism ; Transcription Factors/genetics ; *Zinc Fingers
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  • 184
    Publication Date: 1998-10-02
    Description: Cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTLs) kill intracellular pathogens by a granule-dependent mechanism. Granulysin, a protein found in granules of CTLs, reduced the viability of a broad spectrum of pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and parasites in vitro. Granulysin directly killed extracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis, altering the membrane integrity of the bacillus, and, in combination with perforin, decreased the viability of intracellular M. tuberculosis. The ability of CTLs to kill intracellular M. tuberculosis was dependent on the presence of granulysin in cytotoxic granules, defining a mechanism by which T cells directly contribute to immunity against intracellular pathogens.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stenger, S -- Hanson, D A -- Teitelbaum, R -- Dewan, P -- Niazi, K R -- Froelich, C J -- Ganz, T -- Thoma-Uszynski, S -- Melian, A -- Bogdan, C -- Porcelli, S A -- Bloom, B R -- Krensky, A M -- Modlin, R L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 2;282(5386):121-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9756476" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/analysis/*immunology/pharmacology ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/ultrastructure ; Cells, Cultured ; Cytoplasmic Granules/immunology ; *Cytotoxicity, Immunologic ; Humans ; Macrophages/immunology/microbiology ; Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology/pharmacology ; Microscopy, Confocal ; Microscopy, Electron, Scanning ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/*immunology/physiology/ultrastructure ; Perforin ; Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins ; Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology ; T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/*immunology
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  • 185
    Publication Date: 1998-12-18
    Description: Mechanosensitive ion channels play a critical role in transducing physical stresses at the cell membrane into an electrochemical response. The MscL family of large-conductance mechanosensitive channels is widely distributed among prokaryotes and may participate in the regulation of osmotic pressure changes within the cell. In an effort to better understand the structural basis for the function of these channels, the structure of the MscL homolog from Mycobacterium tuberculosis was determined by x-ray crystallography to 3.5 angstroms resolution. This channel is organized as a homopentamer, with each subunit containing two transmembrane alpha helices and a third cytoplasmic alpha helix. From the extracellular side, a water-filled opening approximately 18 angstroms in diameter leads into a pore lined with hydrophilic residues which narrows at the cytoplasmic side to an occluded hydrophobic apex that may act as the channel gate. This structure may serve as a model for other mechanosensitive channels, as well as the broader class of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels exemplified by the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chang, G -- Spencer, R H -- Lee, A T -- Barclay, M T -- Rees, D C -- GM18486/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 18;282(5397):2220-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 147-75CH, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9856938" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Cell Membrane/chemistry ; Cloning, Molecular ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; *Escherichia coli Proteins ; *Ion Channel Gating ; Ion Channels/*chemistry/metabolism ; Ligands ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/*chemistry ; *Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Temperature
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  • 186
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-12-16
    Description: The 97-megabase genomic sequence of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans reveals over 19,000 genes. More than 40 percent of the predicted protein products find significant matches in other organisms. There is a variety of repeated sequences, both local and dispersed. The distinctive distribution of some repeats and highly conserved genes provides evidence for a regional organization of the chromosomes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉C. elegans Sequencing Consortium -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Dec 11;282(5396):2012-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9851916" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Caenorhabditis elegans/*genetics ; Chromosomes/genetics ; DNA, Helminth/*genetics ; Evolution, Molecular ; *Genes, Helminth ; *Genome ; Helminth Proteins/chemistry/genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Physical Chromosome Mapping ; RNA, Helminth/genetics ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; *Sequence Analysis, DNA
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  • 187
    Publication Date: 1998-11-13
    Description: The fungal metabolite fumagillin suppresses the formation of new blood vessels, and a fumagillin analog is currently in clinical trials as an anticancer agent. The molecular target of fumagillin is methionine aminopeptidase-2 (MetAP-2). A 1.8 A resolution crystal structure of free and inhibited human MetAP-2 shows a covalent bond formed between a reactive epoxide of fumagillin and histidine-231 in the active site of MetAP-2. Extensive hydrophobic and water-mediated polar interactions with other parts of fumagillin provide additional affinity. Fumagillin-based drugs inhibit MetAP-2 but not MetAP-1, and the three-dimensional structure also indicates the likely determinants of this specificity. The structural basis for fumagillin's potency and specificity forms the starting point for structure-based drug design.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, S -- Widom, J -- Kemp, C W -- Crews, C M -- Clardy, J -- CA24487/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA59021/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Nov 13;282(5392):1324-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉J. Clardy, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-1301, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9812898" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Aminopeptidases/antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Cyclohexanes ; Fatty Acids, Unsaturated/chemistry/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Metalloendopeptidases/antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Sequence Alignment ; Sesquiterpenes
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  • 188
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-07-31
    Description: The unc-129 gene, like the unc-6 netrin gene, is required to guide pioneer motoraxons along the dorsoventral axis of Caenorhabditis elegans. unc-129 encodes a member of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily of secreted signaling molecules and is expressed in dorsal, but not ventral, rows of body wall muscles. Ectopic expression of UNC-129 from ventral body wall muscle disrupts growth cone and cell migrations that normally occur along the dorsoventral axis. Thus, UNC-129 mediates expression of dorsoventral polarity information required for axon guidance and guided cell migrations in C. elegans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Colavita, A -- Krishna, S -- Zheng, H -- Padgett, R W -- Culotti, J G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jul 31;281(5377):706-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9685266" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Axons/*physiology ; Body Patterning ; Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics/growth & development/*physiology ; *Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins ; Cell Movement ; Gene Expression ; Helminth Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/*physiology ; Membrane Proteins/genetics/physiology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Motor Neurons/physiology ; Muscles/*metabolism ; *Nerve Tissue Proteins ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; *Receptors, Cell Surface ; Receptors, Growth Factor/genetics/physiology ; Sequence Deletion ; Signal Transduction ; Transforming Growth Factor beta/chemistry/*genetics/*physiology
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  • 189
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-10-30
    Description: Toward a genetic dissection of the processes involved in aging, a screen for gene mutations that extend life-span in Drosophila melanogaster was performed. The mutant line methuselah (mth) displayed approximately 35 percent increase in average life-span and enhanced resistance to various forms of stress, including starvation, high temperature, and dietary paraquat, a free-radical generator. The mth gene predicted a protein with homology to several guanosine triphosphate-binding protein-coupled seven-transmembrane domain receptors. Thus, the organism may use signal transduction pathways to modulate stress response and life-span.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lin, Y J -- Seroude, L -- Benzer, S -- AG12289/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- EY09278/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 30;282(5390):943-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9794765" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Animals, Genetically Modified ; Base Sequence ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA Transposable Elements ; *Drosophila Proteins ; Drosophila melanogaster/*genetics/*physiology ; Female ; Food Deprivation ; GTP-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism/physiology ; *Genes, Insect ; Hot Temperature ; Insecticide Resistance ; Longevity/genetics ; Male ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Oxidative Stress ; Paraquat/pharmacology ; Receptors, Cell Surface/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism/physiology ; *Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled ; Signal Transduction
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  • 190
    Publication Date: 1998-05-09
    Description: The gametophytic maternal effect mutant medea (mea) shows aberrant growth regulation during embryogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Embryos derived from mea eggs grow excessively and die during seed desiccation. Embryo lethality is independent of the paternal contribution and gene dosage. The mea phenotype is consistent with the parental conflict theory for the evolution of parent-of-origin-specific effects. MEA encodes a SET domain protein similar to Enhancer of zeste, a member of the Polycomb group. In animals, Polycomb group proteins ensure the stable inheritance of expression patterns through cell division and regulate the control of cell proliferation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Grossniklaus, U -- Vielle-Calzada, J P -- Hoeppner, M A -- Gagliano, W B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 17;280(5362):446-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Post Office Box 100, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA. grossnik@cshl.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9545225" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Arabidopsis/*embryology/*genetics ; *Arabidopsis Proteins ; Cell Division ; Cloning, Molecular ; Crosses, Genetic ; *Drosophila Proteins ; Gene Dosage ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; Genes, Plant ; Insect Proteins/genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Morphogenesis ; Mutation ; Nuclear Proteins/chemistry/genetics ; Plant Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/physiology ; Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 ; Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 ; *Repressor Proteins ; Seeds/genetics/growth & development ; Sequence Alignment
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  • 191
    Publication Date: 1998-07-31
    Description: Treatment-resistant Lyme arthritis is associated with immune reactivity to outer surface protein A (OspA) of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, and the major histocompatibility complex class II allele DRB1*0401. The immunodominant epitope of OspA for T helper cells was identified. A homology search revealed a peptide from human leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (hLFA-1) as a candidate autoantigen. Individuals with treatment-resistant Lyme arthritis, but not other forms of arthritis, generated responses to OspA, hLFA-1, and their highly related peptide epitopes. Identification of the initiating bacterial antigen and a cross-reactive autoantigen may provide a model for development of autoimmune disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gross, D M -- Forsthuber, T -- Tary-Lehmann, M -- Etling, C -- Ito, K -- Nagy, Z A -- Field, J A -- Steere, A C -- Huber, B T -- R01 AR20358/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Jul 31;281(5377):703-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111 USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9685265" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adolescent ; Adult ; Algorithms ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Antigen Presentation ; Antigens, Surface/immunology/metabolism ; Arthritis, Reactive/drug therapy/*immunology ; Autoantigens/*immunology ; Autoimmune Diseases/*immunology ; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/immunology/metabolism ; Bacterial Vaccines ; Borrelia burgdorferi Group/immunology ; Child ; Cross Reactions ; Female ; HLA-DR Antigens/genetics/immunology/metabolism ; HLA-DRB1 Chains ; Humans ; Immunodominant Epitopes ; *Lipoproteins ; Lyme Disease/drug therapy/*immunology ; Lymphocyte Function-Associated Antigen-1/chemistry/*immunology/metabolism ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Synovial Fluid/immunology ; T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/immunology
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  • 192
    Publication Date: 1998-08-14
    Description: Hemolin, an insect immunoglobulin superfamily member, is a lipopolysaccharide-binding immune protein induced during bacterial infection. The 3.1 angstrom crystal structure reveals a bound phosphate and patches of positive charge, which may represent the lipopolysaccharide binding site, and a new and unexpected arrangement of four immunoglobulin-like domains forming a horseshoe. Sequence analysis and analytical ultracentrifugation suggest that the domain arrangement is a feature of the L1 family of neural cell adhesion molecules related to hemolin. These results are relevant to interpretation of human L1 mutations in neurological diseases and suggest a domain swapping model for how L1 family proteins mediate homophilic adhesion.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Su, X D -- Gastinel, L N -- Vaughn, D E -- Faye, I -- Poon, P -- Bjorkman, P J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Aug 14;281(5379):991-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biology 156-29 and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9703515" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Cell Adhesion/*physiology ; Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal/chemistry ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Drosophila Proteins ; Drosophila melanogaster ; Humans ; Immunoglobulins ; Insect Proteins ; Leukocyte L1 Antigen Complex ; Membrane Glycoproteins/chemistry ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Moths ; Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules/chemistry ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Proteins/*chemistry/physiology ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry ; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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    Publication Date: 1999-12-28
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Niklason, L E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 19;286(5444):1493-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. nikla001@mc.duke.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10610551" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Arteries ; *Biomedical Engineering ; *Blood Vessel Prosthesis ; Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation ; Cells, Cultured ; Collagen ; Endothelium, Vascular/cytology/physiology ; Humans ; Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/cytology/physiology ; Pressure
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    Publication Date: 1999-01-29
    Description: Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) is an autosomal recessive human disease associated with multiple deletions of skeletal muscle mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which have been ascribed to a defect in communication between the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. Examination of 12 MNGIE probands revealed homozygous or compound-heterozygous mutations in the gene specifying thymidine phosphorylase (TP), located on chromosome 22q13.32-qter. TP activity in leukocytes from MNGIE patients was less than 5 percent of controls, indicating that loss-of-function mutations in TP cause the disease. The pathogenic mechanism may be related to aberrant thymidine metabolism, leading to impaired replication or maintenance of mtDNA, or both.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nishino, I -- Spinazzola, A -- Hirano, M -- R01-HL59657/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jan 29;283(5402):689-92.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Neurology, 630 West 168 Street, P & S 4-443, New York, NY 10032, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9924029" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22/genetics ; DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics/metabolism ; Exons ; Gastrointestinal Motility ; Humans ; Introns ; Mitochondria, Muscle/genetics ; Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies/enzymology/*genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Mutation ; Mutation, Missense ; Neovascularization, Physiologic ; Polymorphism, Genetic ; RNA Splicing ; Sequence Deletion ; Thymidine/metabolism ; Thymidine Phosphorylase/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-10-16
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hagmann, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Sep 24;285(5436):2042.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10523192" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Calcineurin/metabolism ; *Calcineurin Inhibitors ; Cells, Cultured ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Humans ; Immunosuppressive Agents/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology ; NFATC Transcription Factors ; *Nuclear Proteins ; Peptide Library ; Peptides/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology ; T-Lymphocytes/*drug effects/immunology ; Transcription Factors/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-12-22
    Description: In late summer 1999, an outbreak of human encephalitis occurred in the northeastern United States that was concurrent with extensive mortality in crows (Corvus species) as well as the deaths of several exotic birds at a zoological park in the same area. Complete genome sequencing of a flavivirus isolated from the brain of a dead Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis), together with partial sequence analysis of envelope glycoprotein (E-glycoprotein) genes amplified from several other species including mosquitoes and two fatal human cases, revealed that West Nile (WN) virus circulated in natural transmission cycles and was responsible for the human disease. Antigenic mapping with E-glycoprotein-specific monoclonal antibodies and E-glycoprotein phylogenetic analysis confirmed these viruses as WN. This North American WN virus was most closely related to a WN virus isolated from a dead goose in Israel in 1998.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lanciotti, R S -- Roehrig, J T -- Deubel, V -- Smith, J -- Parker, M -- Steele, K -- Crise, B -- Volpe, K E -- Crabtree, M B -- Scherret, J H -- Hall, R A -- MacKenzie, J S -- Cropp, C B -- Panigrahy, B -- Ostlund, E -- Schmitt, B -- Malkinson, M -- Banet, C -- Weissman, J -- Komar, N -- Savage, H M -- Stone, W -- McNamara, T -- Gubler, D J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Dec 17;286(5448):2333-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO 80522, USA. rsl2@cdc.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10600742" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology ; Antibodies, Viral/immunology ; Base Sequence ; Bird Diseases/epidemiology/virology ; Birds/virology ; *Disease Outbreaks ; Encephalitis Viruses, Japanese/classification/genetics ; Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect ; Genome, Viral ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; New England/epidemiology ; New York City/epidemiology ; Phylogeny ; Songbirds/virology ; Viral Envelope Proteins/chemistry/genetics/immunology ; West Nile Fever/*epidemiology/veterinary/*virology ; West Nile virus/*classification/*genetics/immunology/isolation & purification
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    Publication Date: 1999-05-15
    Description: The structure of a highly conserved complex between a 58-nucleotide domain of large subunit ribosomal RNA and the RNA-binding domain of ribosomal protein L11 has been solved at 2.8 angstrom resolution. It reveals a precisely folded RNA structure that is stabilized by extensive tertiary contacts and contains an unusually large core of stacked bases. A bulge loop base from one hairpin of the RNA is intercalated into the distorted major groove of another helix; the protein locks this tertiary interaction into place by binding to the intercalated base from the minor groove side. This direct interaction with a key ribosomal RNA tertiary interaction suggests that part of the role of L11 is to stabilize an unusual RNA fold within the ribosome.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Conn, G L -- Draper, D E -- Lattman, E E -- Gittis, A G -- R37 GM29048/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 May 14;284(5417):1171-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10325228" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Base Pairing ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Peptide Elongation Factor G ; Peptide Elongation Factors/metabolism ; Phylogeny ; Protein Conformation ; RNA, Bacterial/*chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Ribosomal/*chemistry/metabolism ; Ribosomal Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1999-06-18
    Description: In metazoans, two distinct spliceosomes catalyzing pre-messenger RNA splicing have been identified. Here, the human U11/U12 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP), a subunit of the minor (U12-dependent) spliceosome, was isolated. Twenty U11/U12 proteins were identified, including subsets unique to the minor spliceosome or common to both spliceosomes. Common proteins include four U2 snRNP polypeptides that constitute the essential splicing factor SF3b. A 35-kilodalton U11-associated protein homologous to the U1 snRNP 70K protein was also identified. These data provide fundamental information about proteins of the minor spliceosome and shed light on its evolutionary relationship to the major spliceosome.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Will, C L -- Schneider, C -- Reed, R -- Luhrmann, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jun 18;284(5422):2003-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institut fur Molekularbiologie und Tumorforschung, Philipps-Universitat, 35037 Marburg, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10373121" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Chromatography, Affinity ; Evolution, Molecular ; HeLa Cells ; Humans ; Introns ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; RNA Splicing ; Ribonucleoprotein, U1 Small Nuclear/*analysis/isolation & purification ; Ribonucleoprotein, U2 Small Nuclear/*analysis/isolation & purification ; Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nuclear/*analysis/isolation & purification ; Spliceosomes/*chemistry
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    Publication Date: 1999-01-29
    Description: Pure cultures of termite gut spirochetes were obtained and were shown to catalyze the synthesis of acetate from H2 plus CO2. The 16S ribosomal DNA sequences of two strains were 98 percent similar and were affiliated with those of the genus Treponema. However, neither was closely related to any known treponeme. These findings imply an important role for spirochetes in termite nutrition, help to reconcile the dominance of acetogenesis over methanogenesis as an H2 sink in termite hindguts, suggest that the motility of termite gut protozoa by means of attached spirochetes may be based on interspecies H2 transfer, and underscore the importance of termites as a rich reservoir of novel microbial diversity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Leadbetter, J R -- Schmidt, T M -- Graber, J R -- Breznak, J A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jan 29;283(5402):686-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1101, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9924028" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetates/*metabolism ; Anaerobiosis ; Animals ; Carbon Dioxide/metabolism ; Culture Media ; DNA, Bacterial/chemistry/genetics ; DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry/genetics ; Digestive System/microbiology ; Hydrogen/metabolism ; Isoptera/*microbiology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oxidation-Reduction ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics ; Spirochaetaceae/classification/isolation & purification/metabolism/physiology ; Treponema/classification/isolation & purification/*metabolism/physiology
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    Publication Date: 1999-07-31
    Description: Estrogen receptor alpha transcriptional activity is regulated by distinct conformational states that are the result of ligand binding. Phage display was used to identify peptides that interact specifically with either estradiol- or tamoxifen-activated estrogen receptor alpha. When these peptides were coexpressed with estrogen receptor alpha in cells, they functioned as ligand-specific antagonists, indicating that estradiol-agonist and tamoxifen-partial agonist activities do not occur by the same mechanism. The ability to regulate estrogen receptor alpha transcriptional activity by targeting sites outside of the ligand-binding pocket has implications for the development of estrogen receptor alpha antagonists for the treatment of tamoxifen-refractory breast cancers.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Norris, J D -- Paige, L A -- Christensen, D J -- Chang, C Y -- Huacani, M R -- Fan, D -- Hamilton, P T -- Fowlkes, D M -- McDonnell, D P -- DK48807/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jul 30;285(5428):744-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Duke University Medical Center, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Durham, NC 27710, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10426998" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Estradiol/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Estrogen Antagonists/*pharmacology ; Estrogen Receptor alpha ; Humans ; Ligands ; Mifepristone/pharmacology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Peptide Library ; Peptides/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/metabolism ; Receptors, Estrogen/agonists/*antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/*metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/pharmacology ; Tamoxifen/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Transcription Factor AP-1/genetics/metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
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