Oligomerization

3′ Untranslated regions (3' UTRs) length is regulated in relation to cellular state. To uncover key regulators of poly(A) site use in specific conditions, we have developed PAQR, a method for quantifying poly(A) site use from RNA sequencing data and KAPAC, an approach that infers activities of oligomeric sequence motifs on poly(A) site choice.

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In this study, the DNA fragment encoding for the C-terminus domain of the AopB from Aeromonas hydrophila AH-1 was cloned into pET-M expression vector and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) host cells. The recombinant AopB-C-terminus domain was successfully purified using immobilized nickel affinity chromatography as a soluble form. Crosslinking analysis among AopB-C-terminus molecules in solution showed that this domain existed as a mixture of tetramer, trimer, dimer, and monomer forms.

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Nước chanh là nguồn dồi dào vitamin C, chứa các hoạt chất sinh học tiềm năng bao gồm chủ yếu là nhóm chất chống oxy hóa phenolic, trong đó, các phenolic thiết yếu trong nước chanh thường được biết đến là flavonoid, tannin, oligomeric proanthocyanidins và lignan có nhiều lợi ích cho sức khỏe con người như chống ung thư, kháng viêm và chống béo phì.

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Pyruvate decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.1) was isolated and purified from the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis. The properties of this enzyme relating to the native oligomeric state, the subunit size, the nucleotide sequence of the coding gene(s), the catalytic activity, and protein fluorescence as well as circular dichroism are very similar to those of the well characterized pyruvate decarboxylase species from yeast.

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The case of homologous monomeric c-type and oligomeric b-type crystallins has been described and analyzed in evolutionary terms. Data and hypotheses from molecular genetics and structural investigations converge and suggest a novel three-phase model for the evolutionary history of crystallin-type proteins. In the divergent cascades of monomeric and oligomeric crystallins, a pivotal role was played by alterations in the gene segments encoding the C-terminal extensions and the intermotif or interdomain linker peptides.

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Heterologous expression of the extracellular domains (ECDs) of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) subunits may give large amounts of proteins for studying the functional and spatial characteristics of their ligand-binding sites. The ECD of the a7 subunit of the homo-oligomeric a7 neuronal AChR appears to be a more suitable object than the ECDs of other heteromeric neuronal or muscle-type AChRs. The rat a7 ECDs (amino-acid residues  1–210) were recently expressed in Escherichia coli as fusion proteins with maltose-binding protein...

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Oligomerization into multimeric complexes is a prerequisite for the chaperone function of almost all a-crystallin type heat shock proteins (a-Hsp), but the molecular details of complex assembly are poorly understood. The a-Hsp proteins from Bradyrhizobium japonicum are suitable bacterial models for structure-function studies of these ubiquitous stress proteins. They fall into two distinct classes, A and B, display chaperone activity in vitro and form oligomers of  24 subunits.

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Calcitonin (Ct) is a 32-residue peptide hormone that is mainly known for its hypocalcemic effect and the inhibition of bone resorption. Our previous studies have led to potent, side-chain lactam-bridged human Ct (hCt) analogues [Kapurniotu, A. Kayed, R., Taylor, J.W. & Voelter W. (1999) Eur. J. Biochem.265, 606±618; Kapurniotu, A. & Taylor, J.W. (1995)J. Med. Chem.38, 836±847]. We have hypothesized that a possibly type Ibturn/bsheet confor-mation in the region 17±21 may play an important role in hCt bioactivity. ...

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Hyaluronan-binding protein 1 (HABP1), a ubiquitous multifunctional protein, interacts with hyaluronan, globular head of complement component 1q (gC1q), and clustered mannose and has been shown to be involved in cell sig-nalling.In vitro, this recombinant protein isolated from human ®broblast exists in di€erent oligomeric forms, as is evident from the results of various independent techniques in near-physiological conditions.

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Human butyrylcholinesterase (BChE; EC 3.1.1.8) is of particular interest because it hydrolyzes or scavenges a wide range of toxic compounds including cocaine, organophos-phorus pesticides andnerveagents.The relative contribution of each N-linked glycan for the solubility, the stability and the secretionof the enzymewas investigated. Arecombinant monomeric BChE lacking four out of nine N-glycosylation sites and the C-terminal oligomerization domain was stably expressed as a monomer in CHO cells.

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To investigate how solubility and steric issues affect the laccase-catalysedoxidationof phenols, a series of oligomeric polyphenol compounds, having increasing size and decreasing solubility in water, was incubated with laccase. The extent of substrate conversion, and the nature of the products formed in buffered aqueous solutions, were com-pared to those obtained in the presence of an organic cosolvent, and also in the presence of twomediating species, i.e. N-hydroxyphthalimide (HPI) and 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-piperidin-1-yloxy (TEMPO). ...

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The efficacy of antiretroviral agents approved for the treat-ment of HIV-1 infection is limited by the virus’s ability to develop resistance. As such there is an urgent need for new ways of thinking about anti-HIV drug development, and accordingly novel viral and cellular targets critical toHIV-1 replication need to be explored and exploited. The retroviral RNA genome encodes for three enzymes essential for viral replication: HIV-1 protease (PR), HIV-1 reverse transcrip-tase (RT) and HIV-1 integrase (IN). ...

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The chaperone calreticulin is a highly conserved eukaryotic protein mainly located in the endoplasmic reticulum. It contains a free cysteine SH group but does not form disul-fide-bridged dimers under physiological conditions,indica-ting that the SH group may not be fully accessible in the native protein. Using PAGE,urea gradient gel electro-phoresis,capillary electrophoresis and MS,we show that dimerization through the SH group can be induced by lowering the pH to 5–6,heating,or under conditions that favour partial unfolding such as urea concentrations above 2.

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Human D2Long(D2L)andD2Short(D2S) dopamine receptor isoforms were modified at their N-terminus by the addition of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or a FLAG epitope tag. The receptors were then expressed inSpodop-tera frugiperda 9(Sf9)cells using the baculovirus system, and their oligomerization was investigated by means of co-immunoprecipitation and time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET).

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Hemocyanins are large oligomeric copper-containing pro-teins that serve for the transport of oxygen in many arth-ropod species. While studied in detail in the Chelicerata and Crustacea, hemocyanins had long been considered unnec-essary in the Myriapoda. Here we report the complete molecular structure of the hemocyanin from the common house centipedeScutigera coleoptrata(Myriapoda: Chilo-poda), as deduced from 2D-gel electrophoresis, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, protein and cDNA sequencing, and homology modeling....

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A conserved putative dimerization GxxxG motif located in the unique membrane-spanning segment of the ATP syn-thase subunit e was altered in yeast both by insertion of an alanine residue and by replacement of glycine by leucine residues. These alterations led to the loss of subunit gand the loss of dimeric and oligomeric forms of the yeast ATP syn-thase. Furthermore,as in null mutants devoid of either subunit e or subunit g,mitochondria displayed anomalous morphologies with onion-like structures. ...

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NTPDase1 and NTPDase2 are two related plasma mem-brane-located enzymes involved in the extracellular degra-dation of nucleoside 5¢-tri- and -diphosphates. They differ regarding their hydrolysis ratios for ATP and ADP. Both enzymes have a predicted transmembrane domain close to the N- and C-terminus, respectively, connected by an extensive extracellular domain that carries the active site.We expressed the rat-derived enzymes inXenopus laevisoocytes and analyzed their quarternary structure.

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The small heat shock proteins function as molecular chaperones, an activ-ity often requiring reversible oligomerization and which protects against irreversible protein denaturation. An abundantly produced small heat shock protein termed p26 is thought to contribute to the remarkable stress resistance exhibited by encysted embryos of the crustacean,Artemia francis-cana. Three novel sequence motifs termed G, R and TS were individually deleted from p26 by site-directed mutagenesis.

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A new baculovirus-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer (Bv-FRET) assay for measuringmultimerization of cell surface molecules in living cells is described. It has been demonstrated that gonadotropin-releasing hormone recep-tor (GnRH-R) was capable of forming oligomeric com-plexes in the plasma membrane under normal physiological conditions. The mouse gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor GnRH-R was used to evaluate the efficiency and potential applications of this assay.

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To achieve a structural context for the analysis of G-protein coupled recep-tor (GPCR) oligomers, molecular modeling must be used to predict the corresponding interaction interfaces. The task is complicated by the paucity of detailed structural data at atomic resolution, and the large number of possible modes in which the bundles of seven transmembrane (TM) seg-ments of the interacting GPCR monomers can be packed together into dimers and⁄or higher-order oligomers.

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