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A Phorbol Ester Response Element Within The Human T-Cell Receptor Beta-Chain Enhancer., Haydn M. Prosser, David Wotton, Anne Gegonne, Jacques Ghysdael, Shuwen Wang, Nancy A. Speck, Michael J. Owen
A Phorbol Ester Response Element Within The Human T-Cell Receptor Beta-Chain Enhancer., Haydn M. Prosser, David Wotton, Anne Gegonne, Jacques Ghysdael, Shuwen Wang, Nancy A. Speck, Michael J. Owen
Dartmouth Scholarship
The activity of the T-cell receptor beta-chain gene enhancer is increased by activators of the protein kinase C pathway during T-cell activation. Analysis of mutant enhancer constructs identified two elements, beta E2 and beta E3, conferring phorbol ester inducibility. Multimerized beta E2 acted in isolation as a phorbol ester-responsive element. Both beta E2 and beta E3, which contain a consensus Ets-binding site, were shown to bind directly to the product of the c-ets-1 protooncogene. Both regions also bound a second factor, core-binding factor. Mutation of the beta E2 Ets site abolished the inducibility of the beta E2 multimer. beta E2 …
Insulin Receptor And Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Dephosphorylation By Three Major Rat Liver Protein-Tyrosine Phosphatases Expressed In A Recombinant Bacterial System, Naotake Hashimoto, Wei-Ren Zhang, Barry J. Goldstein
Insulin Receptor And Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Dephosphorylation By Three Major Rat Liver Protein-Tyrosine Phosphatases Expressed In A Recombinant Bacterial System, Naotake Hashimoto, Wei-Ren Zhang, Barry J. Goldstein
Department of Medicine Faculty Papers
Protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) play an essential role in the regulation of signal transduction mediated by reversible protein-tyrosine phosphorylation. In order to characterize individual rat hepatic PTPases that might have specificity for autophosphorylated receptor tyrosine kinases, we isolated cDNA segments encoding three PTPases (PTPase 1B, LAR and LRP) that are expressed in insulin-sensitive liver and skeletal muscle tissue, and evaluated their catalytic activity in vitro. The intrinsic PTPase activities of the full-length PTPase 1B protein and the cytoplasmic domains of LAR and LRP were studied by expression of recombinant cDNA constructs in the inducible bacterial vector pKK233-2 using extracts of …
Characterization Of The Formate (For) Locus, Which Encodes The Cytosolic Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase Of Neurospora Crassa., C. Robertson Mcclung, Cynthia R. Davis, Karen M. Page, Sylvia A. Denome
Characterization Of The Formate (For) Locus, Which Encodes The Cytosolic Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase Of Neurospora Crassa., C. Robertson Mcclung, Cynthia R. Davis, Karen M. Page, Sylvia A. Denome
Dartmouth Scholarship
Serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) occupies a central position in one-carbon (C1) metabolism, catalyzing the reaction of serine and tetrahydrofolate to yield glycine and 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate. Methylenetetrahydrofolate serves as a donor of C1 units for the synthesis of numerous compounds, including purines, thymidylate, lipids, and methionine. We provide evidence that the formate (for) locus of Neurospora crassa encodes cytosolic SHMT. The for+ gene was localized to a 2.8-kb BglII fragment by complementation (restoration to formate-independent growth) of a strain carrying a recessive for allele, which confers a growth requirement for formate. The for+ gene encodes a polypeptide of 479 amino acids which shows …