Drosophila proteins

The insect ecdysteroid receptor consists of a heterodimer between EcR and the RXR-orthologue, USP. We addressed the question of whether this heterodimer, like all other RXR heterodimers, may be formed in the absence of ligand and whether ligand promotes dimerization. We found that C-terminal protein fragments that comprised the ligand binding, but not the DNA binding domain of EcR and USP and which were equipped with the activation or DNA binding region of GAL4, respectively, exhibit a weak ability to interact spontaneously with each other.

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Laboratory for Lipoprotein Chemistry and 4Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Department of Medical Protein Research, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Ghent University, Belgium; 2Laboratory of Biomolecular Dynamics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; 3Ecole Normale Supe´rieure, Paris, France Penetratin is a 16-amino-acid peptide, derived from the homeodomain of antennapedia, a Drosophila transcription factor, which can be used as a vector for the intracellular delivery of peptides or oligonucleotides....

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An earlier described CK2btes gene of Drosophila melano-gasteris shown to encode amale germline speci®c isoformof regulatory bsubunit of casein kinase 2. Western-analysis using anti-CK2btes Ig revealed CK2btes protein in Drosophila testes extract. Expression of a CK2btes± b-galactosidase fusion protein driven by the CK2btes pro-moter was found in transgenic ¯ies at postmitotic stages of spermatogenesis.

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A putativeDrosophilanucleotide sugar transporter was characterized and shown to be theDrosophilahomologue of the human UDP-Gal transporter (hUGT). When the Drosophila melanogasterUDP-Gal transporter (DmUGT) was expressed in mammalian cells, the transporter protein was localized in the Golgi membranes and complemented the UDP-Gal transport de®ciency of Lec8 cells but not the CMP-Sia transport de®ciency of Lec2 cells.

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Themosquito,Anopheles gambiae, is an important vector of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Full genome analysis revealed that, as in Drosophila melanogaster,the enzyme glutathione reductase is absent inA. gambiaeand func-tionally substituted by the thioredoxin system. The key enzyme of this system is thioredoxin reductase-1, a homo-dimeric FAD-containing protein of 55.3 kDa per subunit, which catalyses the reaction NADPH + H + + thio-redoxin disulfidefiNADP + + thioredoxin dithiol.

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Drosophilais a powerful model system to study the regula-tory and effector mechanisms of innate immunity. To iden-tify molecules induced in the course of viral infection in this insect, we have developed a model based on intrathoracic injection of the picorna-like DrosophilaCvirus(DCV).We have used MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to compare the hemolymph of DCV infected flies and control flies. By contrast with the strong humoral response triggered by injectionof bacteriaor fungal spores, we have identifiedonly one molecule induced in the hemolymph of virus infected flies....

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A Drosophila melanogaster cDNA clone (GH01916) encoding a putative 723-residue long (82 kDa) protein (CG 7415) and displaying 50% identity with mammalian cytosolic dipeptidyl aminopeptidase (DPP) III was func-tionally expressed in Schneider S2 cells. Immunocytochemi-cal studies using anti-(rat liver DPP III) Ig indicated the expression of this putative DPP III at the outer cell mem-brane and into the cytosol of transfected cells.

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A cDNA was cloned from the cabbage looperTricho-plusia ni based on similarity to other cloned dopamine transporters (DATs). The total nucleotide sequence is 3.8kb in length and contains an open reading frame for a protein of 612 amino acids. The predicted moth DAT protein (TrnDAT) has greatest amino acid sequence identity with Drosophila melanogasterDAT (73%) andCaenorhabdi-tis elegans DAT (51%). TrnDAT shares only 45% amino acid sequence identity with an octopamine transporter (TrnOAT) cloned recently from this moth. ...

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Four distinct eukaryotic initiation factor 2a(eIF2a)kinases phosphorylate eIF2aat S51and regulateprotein synthesis in response to various environmental stresses. These are the hemin-regulated inhibitor (HRI), the interferon-inducible dsRNA-dependent kinase (PKR), the endoplasmic reticu-lum (ER)-resident kinase (PERK) and the GCN2 protein kinase. Whereas HRI and PKR appear to be restricted to mammalian cells, GCN2 and PERK seem to be widely distributed in eukaryotes.

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Mitochondrial biogenesis is a complex and highly regulated process that requires the controlled expression of hundreds of genes encoded in two separated genomes, namely the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. To identify regulatory proteins involved in the transcriptional control of key nuc-lear-encoded mitochondrial genes, we have performed a detailed analysis of the promoter region of theasubunit of the Drosophila melanogasterF1F0 ATP synthase complex.

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Eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) 4B is part of the protein complex involved in the recognition and binding of mRNA to the ribosome. Drosophila eIF4Bis a single-copy gene that encodes two isoforms, termed eIF4B-L (52.2 kDa) and eIF4B-S (44.2 kDa), generated as a result of the alternative recognition of two polyadeynlation signals during tran-scription termination and subsequent alternative splicing of the two pre-mRNAs. Both eIF4B mRNAs and proteins are expressed during the entire embryogenesis and life cycle....

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Three point mutations R335S, L336V and V476L, distin-guish the sequence of a cytochrome P450CYP6A2 variant assumed to be responsible for 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis-(4¢-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) resistance in theRDDT R strain ofDrosophila melanogaster. To determine the impact of each mutation on the function of CYP6A2, the wild-type enzyme (CYP6A2wt) ofCyp6a2was expressed inEscheri-chia colias well as three variants carrying a single mutation, the double mutant CYP6A2vSV and the triple mutant CYP6A2vSVL. All CYP6A2 variants were less stable than the CYP6A2wt protein. ...

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In insects, the functional molecules responsible for the taste system are still obscure. The gene for a 28.5 kDa protein purified from taste sensilla of the blowflyPhormia reginabelongs to a gene family that includestakeout of Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed that the PhormiaTakeout-like protein is most similar to the protein encoded by a member of theDrosophila takeoutgene family, CG14661, whose expression and function have not been identified yet.

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Septins are a family of conserved proteins that are essential for cytokinesis in a wide range of organisms including fungi, Drosophila and mammals. In budding yeast, where they were first discovered, they are thought to form a filamentous ring at the bridge between the mother and bud cells.

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Translin protein is highly conserved in eukaryotes. Human translin binds both ssDNA and RNA. Its nucleic acid binding site results from a combina-tion of basic regions in the octameric structure. We report here the first bio-chemical characterization of wild-typeDrosophila melanogaster(drosophila) translin and a chimeric translin, and present 3.5 A ˚ resolution crystal struc-tures of drosophila P168S mutant translin from two crystal forms.

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The humanmyeloid leukemia factor 1(hMLF1) gene was first identified as anNPM–hMLF1fusion gene produced by chromosomal translocation. In Drosophila, dMLF has been identified as a protein homologous to hMLF1 and hMLF2, which interacts with various factors involved in transcrip-tional regulation.

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Enhancer of rudimentary homolog (Drosophila) (ERH) is a small, highly conserved, nuclear protein with a unique three-dimensional structure, whose gene has been identified in animals, plants and protists, but not in fungi.

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Jumonji (Jmj) is a transcriptional repressor that plays important roles in the suppression of cell proliferation and development of various tissues in the mouse. To further clarify the roles of Jmj during development and gain insight into mechanisms of Jmj-mediated transcriptional regulation, we have taken advantage ofDrosophilaas a model organism.

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The unique ability of mammals to detect and discriminate between thou-sands of different odorant molecules is governed by the diverse array of olfactory receptors expressed by olfactory sensory neurons in the nasal epithelium. Olfactory receptors consist of seven transmembrane domain G protein-coupled receptors and comprise the largest gene superfamily in the mammalian genome.

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Calpain B is one of the two catalytically competent calpain (calcium-acti-vated papain) isoenzymes in Drosophila melanogaster. Because structural predictions hinted at the presence of several potential phosphorylation sites in this enzyme, we investigated the in vitro phosphorylation of the recombi-nant protein by protein kinase A as well as by the extracellular signal-regu-lated protein kinases (ERK) 1 and 2.

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