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Full-Text Articles in Molecular Biology
The Rna-Binding Site Of Bacteriophage Qβ Coat Protein, Francis Lim, Marc Spingola, David Peabody
The Rna-Binding Site Of Bacteriophage Qβ Coat Protein, Francis Lim, Marc Spingola, David Peabody
Biology Department Faculty Works
The coat proteins of the RNA bacteriophages Qβ and MS2 are specific RNA binding proteins. Although they possess common tertiary structures, they bind different RNA stem loops and thus provide useful models of specific protein-RNA recognition. Although the RNA-binding site of MS2 coat protein has been extensively characterized previously, little is known about Qβ. Here we describe the isolation of mutants that define the RNA-binding site of Qβ coat protein, showing that, as with MS2, it resides on the surface of a large β-sheet. Mutations are also described that convert Qβ coat protein to the RNA binding specificity of MS2. …
Mechanisms Of Cytokine-Mediated Localized Immunoprotection., Nora Sarvetnick
Mechanisms Of Cytokine-Mediated Localized Immunoprotection., Nora Sarvetnick
Journal Articles: Regenerative Medicine
No abstract provided.
Pancreatic Expression Of Interleukin-4 Abrogates Insulitis And Autoimmune Diabetes In Nonobese Diabetic (Nod) Mice., Regula Mueller, Troy Krahl, Nora Sarvetnick
Pancreatic Expression Of Interleukin-4 Abrogates Insulitis And Autoimmune Diabetes In Nonobese Diabetic (Nod) Mice., Regula Mueller, Troy Krahl, Nora Sarvetnick
Journal Articles: Regenerative Medicine
Diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice is a T cell-dependent autoimmune disease. The destructive activities of autoreactive T cells have been shown to be tightly regulated by effector molecules. In particular, T helper (Th) 1 cytokines have been linked to diabetes pathogenesis, whereas Th2 cytokines and the cells that release them have been postulated to be protective from disease. To test this hypothesis, we generated transgenic NOD mice that express interleukin (IL) 4 in their pancreatic beta cells under the control of the human insulin promoter. We found that transgenic NOD-IL-4 mice, both females and males, were completely protected from …
Il-10 Is Necessary And Sufficient For Autoimmune Diabetes In Conjunction With Nod Mhc Homozygosity., Myung-Shik Lee, Regula Mueller, Linda S. Wicker, Laurence B. Peterson, Nora Sarvetnick
Il-10 Is Necessary And Sufficient For Autoimmune Diabetes In Conjunction With Nod Mhc Homozygosity., Myung-Shik Lee, Regula Mueller, Linda S. Wicker, Laurence B. Peterson, Nora Sarvetnick
Journal Articles: Regenerative Medicine
Contrary to expectations based on in vitro experiments, we previously found that pancreatic IL-10 did not inhibit autoimmune diabetes but accelerated it in an MHC-dependent manner. Therefore, the ability of IL-10 to overcome the absence of all non-MHC diabetes susceptibility (Idd) alleles was studied in transgenic mice expressing pancreatic IL-10 backcrossed to B10.H2g7 congenic mice, which have no Idd alleles other than NOD MHC (H2g7). IL-10 transgenic backcross 1 (BC1) mice with H2g7/g7 haplotype developed clear-cut insulitis and diabetes, but neither transgenic mice with the H2g/b haplotype nor nontransgenic BC1 mice did so. Further implicating IL-10 in autoimmune diabetes, anti-IL-10 …
Anion Induced Blue To Purple Transition In Bacteriorhodopsin, Mrunalini Pattarkine, Anil K. Singh
Anion Induced Blue To Purple Transition In Bacteriorhodopsin, Mrunalini Pattarkine, Anil K. Singh
Faculty Works
Purple membrane (PM, λ" role="presentation">λmax" role="presentation">max 570 nm) of H. halobium on treatment with sulphuric acid changes its colour to blue (λ" role="presentation">λmax" role="presentation">max 608 nm). The purple chromophore can be regenerated from the blue chromophore by exogeneous addition of anions such as CI−" role="presentation">− and HPO42−" role="presentation">2−4. Chloride ion is found to be more effective than the dibasic phosphate ion in regenerating the purple chromophore. Nevertheless, one thing common to the anion regeneration is that both CI−" role="presentation">− and HPO42−" role="presentation">2−4 show marked pH effect. At pH 1.0 the efficiency of …
Interactions Involving The Human Rna Polymerase Ii Transcription/Nucleotide Excision Repair Complex Tfiih, The Nucleotide Excision Repair Protein Xpg, And Cockayne Syndrome Group B (Csb) Protein, Narayan Iyer, Michael S. Reagan, Kou-Juey Wu, Bertram Canagarajah, Errol C. Friedberg
Interactions Involving The Human Rna Polymerase Ii Transcription/Nucleotide Excision Repair Complex Tfiih, The Nucleotide Excision Repair Protein Xpg, And Cockayne Syndrome Group B (Csb) Protein, Narayan Iyer, Michael S. Reagan, Kou-Juey Wu, Bertram Canagarajah, Errol C. Friedberg
Biology Faculty Publications
The human basal transcription factor TFIIH plays a central role in two distinct processes. TFIIH is an obligatory component of the RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) transcription initiation complex. Additionally, it is believed to be the core structure around which some if not all the components of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) machinery assemble to constitute a nucleotide excision repairosome. At least two of the subunits of TFIIH (XPB and XPD proteins) are implicated in the disease xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). We have exploited the availability of the cloned XPB, XPD, p62, p44, and p34 genes (all …
Destabilizing Effect Of Proline Substitutions In Two Helical Regions Of T4 Lysozyme: Leucine 66 To Proline And Leucine 91 To Proline, Terry M. Gray, Eric J. Arnoys, Stephen Blankespoor, Tim Born
Destabilizing Effect Of Proline Substitutions In Two Helical Regions Of T4 Lysozyme: Leucine 66 To Proline And Leucine 91 To Proline, Terry M. Gray, Eric J. Arnoys, Stephen Blankespoor, Tim Born
University Faculty Publications and Creative Works
A class of temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of T4 lysozyme with reduced activity at 30 °C and no activity at 43 °C has been selected. These mutants, designated 'tight' ts mutants, differ from most other T4 lysozyme mutants that are active at 43 °C, but only manifest their ts lesion by a reduced halo size around phage plaques after exposure of the growth plates to chloroform vapors. For example, in the series of T4 lysozyme mutants at position 157, the original randomly selected mutant, T1571, is the least stable of the series, yet, apart from the halo assay and subsequent in …
The Chlorophyll Biosynthetic Enzyme Mg-Protoporphyrin Ix Monomethyl Ester (Oxidative) Cyclase, David Bollivar
The Chlorophyll Biosynthetic Enzyme Mg-Protoporphyrin Ix Monomethyl Ester (Oxidative) Cyclase, David Bollivar
Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-) Endocrinologist, Medical Physicist, Margaret Sylvia
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-) Endocrinologist, Medical Physicist, Margaret Sylvia
Faculty Publications
A biography of Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology/Medicine for the development of radioimmunoassay of peptides hormones. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine and first American woman to do so.
Modulation Of Queuine Uptake And Incorporation Into Trna By Protein Kinase C And Protein Phosphatase, Rana C. Morris, Bonnie J. Brooks, K. Lenore Hart, Mark S. Elliot
Modulation Of Queuine Uptake And Incorporation Into Trna By Protein Kinase C And Protein Phosphatase, Rana C. Morris, Bonnie J. Brooks, K. Lenore Hart, Mark S. Elliot
Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Publications
It has been suggested that the rate of queuine uptake into cultured human fibroblasts is controlled by phosphorylation levels within the cell. We show that the uptake of queuine is stimulated by activators of protein kinase C (PKC) and inhibitors of protein phosphatase; while inhibitors of PKC, and down-regulation of PKC by chronic exposure to phorbol esters inhibit the uptake of queuine into cultured human fibroblasts. Activators of cAMP- and cGMP-dependent kinases exert no effect on the uptake of queuine into fibroblast cell cultures. These studies suggest that PKC directly supports the activity of the queuine uptake mechanism, and that …