Genetic characterization

Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by the replacement of the right ventricular myocardium with fibrous and fatty tissue, increasing the risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD), particularly in young people and athletes.

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Though the hybridoma technology has been widely applied in the production of monoclonal antibodies, it has existed some disadvantages including low yield and genetic instability. Therefore, an alternative approach should be taken into account. Recently, recombinant monoclonal antibody technology has emerged as the best choice to cure hybridoma related drawbacks.

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Escherichia coli are important pathogens that cause serious infections in hospitalized patients. This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of β-lactamase genes in twelve ESBL-producing E. coli isolated from patients in the Santa Casa de Misericordia de Sobral-CE, a teaching hospital in Northeastern Brazil, and analyze the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of these microorganisms.

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Understanding the genetic complexity of traits is an important objective of small grain temperate cereals yield and adaptation improvements. Bi-parental quantitative trait loci (QTL) linkage mapping is a powerful method to identify genetic regions that co-segregate in the trait of interest within the research population. However, recently, association or linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) became an approach for unraveling the molecular genetic basis underlying the natural phenotypic variation.

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A recombinant lipase cloned from Pseudomonas fragi strain IFO 3458 (PFL) was found to retain significant activity at low temperature. In an attempt to elucidate the structural basis of this behaviour, a model of its three-dimensional structure was built by homology and compared with homologous mesophilic lipases, i.e. the Pseudomonas aeruginosa lipase (45% sequence identity) and Burkholderia cepacia lipase (38%).

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Division of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Iowa, USA; 2Department of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark Synthetic peptides based on amino-acid residues 27–38 of human serum amyloid P component represent a novel type of heparin binders as they do not contain clusters of basic amino acids or other known features associated with protein or peptide heparin binding.

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a Gram-negative, phytopathogenic bacterium and is characterized by an unique mode of action on dicotyledonous plants: it is able to genetically modify the host, and because of this feature, it is used as a tool for transgenic plants. Many experiments have demonstrated that lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) play an important role for the disease development, as they are involved in the adhesion process of the bacterium on the plant cell wall.

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We previously demonstrated that the major ecto-nucleoside triphosphate phosphohydrolase in the chicken liver membranes is an ecto-ATP-diphosphohydrolase (ectoATPDase) [Caldwell, C., Davis, M.D. & Knowles, A.F. (1999) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 362, 46–58]. Enzymatic properties of the liver membrane ecto-ATPDase are similar to those of the chicken oviduct ecto-ATPDase that we have previously purified and cloned. Using antibody developed against the latter, we have purified the chicken liver ecto-ATPDase to homogeneity. ...

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AnN-acyl-D-amino acid amidohydrolase (N-D-AAase) was identified in cell extracts of a strain, Iso1, isolated from an environment containing N-acetyl-D-methionine. The bac-terium was classified as Variovorax paradoxusby phylo-genetic analysis. The gene was cloned and sequenced. The gene consisted of a 1467-bpORF encoding a polypeptide of 488 amino acids. TheV.

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The serpin plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) plays an important role in physiological processes such as thrombolysis and ®brinolysis, as well as pathophysiological processes such as thrombosis, tumor invasion and metas-tasis. In addition to inhibiting serine proteases, mainly tissue-type (tPA) and urokinase-type (uPA) plasminogen activators, PAI-1 interacts with di€erent components of the extracellular matrix, i.e. ®brin, heparin (Hep) and vitronectin (Vn).

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All living organisms contain redox systems involving thior-edoxins (Trx), proteins featuringanextremelyconservedand reactive active site that perform thiol-disul®de interchanges with disul®de bridges of target proteins. In photosynthetic organisms, numerous isoforms of Trx coexist, as revealedby sequencing ofArabidopsisgenome. The speci®c functions of many of them are still unknown.

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The present study reports the first purification and kinetic characterization of two plant arogenate dehydrogenases (EC 1.3.1.43), an enzyme that catalyses the oxidative decarboxylation of arogenate into tyrosine in presence of NADP. The twoArabidopsis thalianaarogenate dehy-drogenases TyrAAT1 and TyrAAT2 were overproduced in Escherichia coliand purified to homogeneity. Bio-chemical comparison of the two forms revealed that at low substrate concentration TyrAAT1 is four times more efficient in catalyzing the arogenate dehydrogenase reac-tion than TyrAAT2. ...

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ThemaltoseATP-binding cassette transporter ofSalmonella typhimurium is composed of a membrane-associated com-plex (MalFGK2) and a periplasmic receptor (MalE). In addition to its role in transport, the complex acts as a repressor ofmaltose-regulatedgene expressionand is subject to inhibition in the process of inducer exclusion. These activities are thought to be mediated by interactions of the ATPase subunit, MalK, with the transcriptional activator, MalT, and nonphosphorylated enzyme IIA of the glucose phosphotransferase system, respectively. ...

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A sialylated lacto-N-neotetraose (Sial-lNnT) structural unit was identified and structurally characterized in the lipo-polysaccharide (LPS) from the genome-sequenced strain Road (RM118) of the human pathogenHaemophilus influ-enzaegrown in the presence of sialic acid. A combination of molecular genetics, MS and NMR spectroscopy techniques showed that this structural unit extended from the proximal heptose residue of the inner core regionof theLPSmolecule.

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A nitroalkane-oxidizing enzyme gene (naoA) was cloned from a genomic DNA library ofStreptomyces ansochromo-genes7100. The deduced protein (NaoA) of this gene con-tains 363 amino acids and has high similarity to several nitroalkane-oxidizing enzymes from various micro-organ-isms.ThenaoAgenewas subcloned intoanexpressionvector pET23b and overexpressed inEscherichia coliBL21(DE3). The protein was then purified, and its characteristics were studied. Experimental results showed that NaoA can con-vert 1-nitropropane, 2-nitropropane and nitroethane into the corresponding carbonyl compounds....

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Ina search for genes regulated in response to cAMPwe have identified a newprotein, p76 RBE , whosemRNAand protein expression is enhanced in thyrocytes following thyrotropin stimulation of the cAMP transduction cascade. This protein presents important similarities with Rhophilin and contains different protein–protein interactionmotifs. The presence of HR1 and PDZ motifs as well as a potential PDZ binding domain motif suggests that p76 RBE could be implicated in targeting or scaffolding processes....

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Trihaem cytochromec3 (also known as cytochrome c551.5 and cytochromec7 ) is isolated fromthe periplasmic space of Desulfuromonas acetoxidans, a sulfur-reducing bacterium. Thermodynamic and kinetic data for the trihaem cyto-chromec3are presented and discussed in the context of the possible physiological implications of its functional proper-ties with respect to the natural habitat of D. acetoxidans, namelyas a symbiontwithgreensulfurbacteriaworkingas a mini-sulfuretum.

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Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL) has been known to induce tumor-specific apoptosis and to share the structural and functional char-acteristics with the proteins of TNF family. Recently, the crystal structure of humanTRAIL showed that TRAIL is a homotrimeric protein whose subunits contain mainly b-sheets. We characterized the structural changes of recombinant human TRAIL induced byacidification and the biological implication of the structural characteristics at acidic pH in the interaction with the lipid bilayer. ...

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Mitochondrial ribosomal proteins (mrps) of the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, have been extensively characterized genetically and biochemically. However, the list of thegenes encoding individualmrps is still not complete and quite a fewof the mrps are only predicted from their similarity to bacterial ribosomal proteins. We have con-structed a yeast strain in which one of the small subunit proteins, termed Mrp4, was tagged with S-peptide and used for affinity purification of mitochondrial ribosome. ...

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We report a comprehensive physicochemical characteriza-tion of a glycoglycerolipid from Mycoplasma fermentans, MfGl-II, in relation to its bioactivityand compared thiswith the respective behaviors of phosphatidylcholine (PC) and a bacterial glycolipid, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from deep rough mutantSalmonella minnesotastrain R595. Theb«a gel-to-liquid crystalline phase transition behavior of the hydrocarbon chains withTc¼30Cfor MfGl-II as well as for LPS exhibits high similarity between the two glycolipids.

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