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 | In vivo cytotoxic T lymphocyte elicitation by mycobacterial heat shock protein 70 fusion proteins maps... | Figure 3: Production of OVA.TBhsp70 fusion proteins using TBhsp70 segments. (A) Functional and structural domains of TBhsp70 based on crystal structures of the ATPase domain of bovine hsp70 (reference 38) and the peptide-binding domain of E. coli DnaK (reference 39)....Bottom Line: We found that the ability to elicit CD8(+) CTLs depends on a discrete 200-amino acid protein domain, indicating that the fusion protein's immunogenicity for CD8(+) T cells does not require coupled chaperone function or peptide binding.Further, we found that... | Huang Q, Richmond JF, Suzue K, Eisen HN, Young RA - J. Exp. Med. (2000) |
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 | Liver volumetry plug and play: do it yourself with ImageJ. | Fig3: Correlation between volume of resection calculated with ImageJ and actual measured weights of the resection specimens (n = 15, Pearson’s test)Bottom Line: Volumes of virtual liver resection specimens measured with ImageJ were compared with specimen weights and calculated volumes obtained during pathology examination after resection.There was an excellent correlation between the volumes calculated with ImageJ... | Dello SA, van Dam RM, Slangen JJ, van de Poll MC, et al. - World J Surg (2007) |
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 | Near-infrared spectroscopy technique to evaluate the effects of red blood cell transfusion on tissue... | Figure 2: Relationship between baseline muscle oxygen consumption and change in muscle oxygen consumption. x axis: baseline muscle oxygen consumption (NIR VO2; arbitrary units); y axis: difference in NIR VO2 after and before transfusion (ΔNIR VO2; arbitrary units)....Bottom Line: Muscle oxygen consumption (NIR VO2; arbitrary units) was calculated as the product of the inverse StO2 desaturation slope and the mean THI over the first minute of arterial occlusion.Blood transfusion resulted in increases in hemoglobin (from 7.1 (6.7 to 7.7)... | Creteur J, Neves AP, Vincent JL - Crit Care (2009) |
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 | A novel integrin-linked kinase-binding protein, affixin, is involved in the early stage of cell-substrate... | Figure 5: ILK phosphorylates affixin in vitro. (A) Kinase activity of wild-type ILK and its point mutants overexpressed in COS-7 cells. Flag-tagged ILK or its mutants were overexpressed and immunoprecipitated from COS-7 cell lysates with monoclonal anti-Flag antibody....Bottom Line: Overexpression of the COOH-terminal region of affixin, which is phosphorylated by ILK in vitro, blocks cell spreading at the initial stage, presumably by interfering with the formation of FAs and stress fibers.The coexpression of ILK enhances this effect.These... | Yamaji S, Suzuki A, Sugiyama Y, Koide Y, Yoshida M, et al. - J. Cell Biol. (2001) |
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 | Fluorescence-based duplex-quadruplex competition test to screen for telomerase RNA quadruplex ligands. | Figure 1: Principle of the assay. In the presence of a bona fide quadruplex ligand, duplex formation is inhibited in the F22 + 37Q system (quadruplex prone, A) and thus fluorescence of the F22 is high (not quenched) whereas duplex formation is unperturbed on the...Bottom Line: From an initial panel of 169 different molecules, 11 were found to be excellent P1 duplex inhibitors.Interestingly, some of the compounds not only exhibit a strong selectivity for quadruplexes over duplexes, but also demonstrated a preference for G4-RNA over... | Lacroix L, Séosse A, Mergny JL - Nucleic Acids Res. (2010) |
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 | Coaggregation of FcepsilonRI with FcgammaRIIB Inhibits Degranulation but Not Induction of Bcl-2 Family... | Figure 6: Schematic diagram showing the effect of coengagement of FcεRI with FcγRIIB. Coaggregation of FcεRI with FcγRIIB inhibits degranulation but not the induction of Bim and A1.Bottom Line: Coaggregation led to an attenuation of Akt phosphorylation but did not inhibit phosphorylation of transcription factor Foxo3a or its proapoptotic target, Bim.Similarly, FcepsilonRI-dependent expression of the prosurvival gene A1 was not affected by coaggregation.Our... | Ekoff M, Möller C, Xiang Z, Nilsson G - Allergy Asthma Clin Immunol (2006) |
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 | Establishing a relationship between prolactin and altered fatty acid β-oxidation via carnitine palmitoyl... | Figure 8: Proposed mechanism by which PRL may affect CPT1 enzyme activity in breast cancer cells. PRL signaling may alter CPT1 enzyme activity in two distinct manners, with potential cross-talk. In 1), PRL mediates its effect through LKB1, resulting in activation of...Bottom Line: A siRNA against liver kinase B1 (LKB1) reversed these effects in breast cancer cells.These PRL-mediated effects are partially dependent on the LKB1-AMPK pathway, although the regulation of CPT1 is also likely to be influenced by other mechanisms.Targeting metabolic... | Linher-Melville K, Zantinge S, Sanli T, Gerstein H, et al. - BMC Cancer (2011) |
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 | Elevated contractile responses to acetylcholine in organ cultured rabbit carotid artery. | Figure 4: Concentration-response relationship of the effect of SNP on endothelium-denuded carotid arteries that were freshly isolated (●), cultured for 3 days (○) and 7 days (▲). Sodium nitroprusside (SNP) was cumulatively added after PE-induced contraction had...Bottom Line: In endothelium (EC)-intact arteries cultured under serum-free conditions, acetylcholine (ACh)-induced relaxation responses were partially, yet significantly, reduced when compared with freshly isolated arteries.Furthermore, ACh caused a significant increase... | Lee Y, Jung S, Won JE, Nam T, Ahn D - Yonsei Med. J. (2006) |
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 | Fatty acid synthase impacts the pathobiology of Candida parapsilosis in vitro and during mammalian infection. | pone-0008421-g003: Growth dependence of Fas2 KO strain on different exogenous fatty acids in YPD.Different amounts of myristic (14∶0), palmitic (16∶0), stearic (18∶0), oleic (18∶1) acids, and T80 (Tween 80) were added to YPD broth. Yeast growth was determined by cell...Bottom Line: The Fas2 KO strains were unable to form normal biofilms and were more efficiently killed by murine-like macrophages, J774.16, than the wild type, heterozygous and reconstituted strains.The Fas2 KO cells were also hypersensitive to human serum, and inhibition... | Nguyen LN, Trofa D, Nosanchuk JD - PLoS ONE (2009) |
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 | Aqua-[4-chloro-2-(2-pyridylmethyl-imino-meth-yl)phenolato]copper(II) nitrate monohydrate. | Fap1: The molecular structure of the title molecule, with the atom-numbering scheme. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level.Bottom Line: In the title mononuclear complex, [Cu(C(13)H(10)ClN(2)O)(H(2)O)]-NO(3)·H(2)O, the Cu(II) atom is four-coordinated by two N atoms and one O atom of the tridentate Schiff base ligand and one O atom from the coordinated water mol-ecule in a slightly distorted... | Liang Q, Chen X, Zhang H, Zou Z - Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2009) |
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 | An ortho-rhom-bic polymorph of 6-de-oxy-6-iodo-1,2:3,4-di-O-isopropyl-idene-α-d-galactopyran-oside. | Fap1: The molecular structure of (I), showing 50% probability displacement ellipsoids and the atom numbering scheme.Bottom Line: Bull.The six-membered ring has a twist-boat conformation while both of the five-membered rings have envelope conformations.The crystal structure is stabilized by a network of C-H⋯O contacts linking the mol-ecules into a two-dimensional array parallel to the... | Fun HK, Liew WC, Rai S, Shetty P, Isloor AM - Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2009) |
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 | Disruption of reducing pathways is not essential for efficient disulfide bond formation in the cytoplasm... | Figure 1: Dual pathways for disulfide bond reduction in the cytoplasm of E. coli. Dual pathways for disulfide bond reduction in the cytoplasm of E. coli. On the knockout of both pathways the reduction of disulfide bonds is inhibited, but there is no active system to...Bottom Line: The formation of native disulfide bonds is a complex and essential post-translational modification for many proteins.The large scale production of these proteins can be difficult and depends on targeting the protein to a compartment in which disulfide bond... | Hatahet F, Nguyen VD, Salo KE, Ruddock LW - Microb. Cell Fact. (2010) |
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 | Pseudomonas aeruginosa suppresses host immunity by activating the DAF-2 insulin-like signaling pathway... | ppat-1000175-g007: Model of P. aeruginosa activation of insulin-like signaling.PA14 infection causes an insulin agonist-mediated activation of DAF-2, which likely involves expression of ins-7. Upon DAF-2 activation, several serine-threonine kinases phorphorylate DAF-16, causing...Bottom Line: Some pathogens have evolved mechanisms to overcome host immune defenses by inhibiting host defense signaling pathways and suppressing the expression of host defense effectors.By visualizing the subcellular localization of DAF-16::GFP fusion protein in live... | Evans EA, Kawli T, Tan MW - PLoS Pathog. (2008) |
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 | Poly[hexa-aqua-copper(II) [di-μ(3)-sulfato-disodiate(I)]]. | Fap1: ORTEP plot of 1 with 30% probability ellipsoid.Bottom Line: Copper occupies a special position ().The Na atom is coordinated by five O atoms of four sulfates [Na-O distances are between 2.825 (3) and 2.983 (3) Å].The four O atoms of the sulfate ligand are coordinated to four Na atoms, the sulfate ligands coordinating... | Wu W, Xie JM, Xie DP, Xuan YW - Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2008) |
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![In vivo [32P]-GTP binding to live, intact Tetrahymena showed saturable, high-affinity binding to surface receptors in both control and deadapted cells but this binding was virtually lost in adapted cells. (A) The amount of [32P]-GTP bound to cells increased in a concentration-dependent manner in both control (open squares) and de-adapted (closed circles) cells but adapted cells (closed triangles) showed no measurable binding at any concentration tested. Each point represents the mean ± SD of three experiments. (B) Scatchard analysis showed that the apparent KD of control cells (open squares) and de-adapted cells (closed circles) were identical while the Bmax values were comparable. Adapted cells showed far less binding (closed triangles). (From Kuruvilla et al. [36].)](/imgs/rescaled137/2096533_11302_2005_Article_6213_Fig3.png) | Responses of the ciliates Tetrahymena and Paramecium to external ATP and GTP. | Fig3: In vivo [32P]-GTP binding to live, intact Tetrahymena showed saturable, high-affinity binding to surface receptors in both control and deadapted cells but this binding was virtually lost in adapted cells. (A) The amount of [32P]-GTP bound to cells increased...Bottom Line: Both ciliates show high affinity, saturable external binding of (32)P-GTP and (32)P-ATP but GTP does not compete for ATP binding and vice versa.A Paramecium mutant (ginA) lacks the GTP-induced oscillating depolarizations but does show AR in GTP, unveiling isolated... | Hennessey TM - Purinergic Signal. (2005) |
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 | Production and processing of siRNA precursor transcripts from the highly repetitive maize genome. | pgen-1000598-g003: Crossing scheme used to assess role of RMR1 in establishing Muk-based silencing of MuDR.Bottom Line: In contrast, plants deficient for RNA Polymerase IV (Pol IV) function show an increase in polyadenylated LTR RNA transcripts.These findings support a model in which Pol IV functions independently of the small RNA accumulation facilitated by RMR1 and RDR2 and... | Hale CJ, Erhard KF, Lisch D, Hollick JB - PLoS Genet. (2009) |
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 | m144, a murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV)-encoded major histocompatibility complex class I homologue, confers... | Figure 2: Western analysis of m144 expression in RMA-m144 and RMA-S-m144 transfectants. (A) Parental lymphoma cell lines (lanes 1 and 2) compared with RMA-m144 and RMA-S-m144 transfectants (lanes 3 and 4) when probed with anti-m144 15C6 mAb. The m144 protein migrated...Bottom Line: In vivo NK cell-mediated rejection of RMA-S-m144 lymphomas was reduced compared with rejection of parental or mock-transfected RMA-S clones, indicating the ability of m144 to regulate NK cell-mediated responses in vivo.Significantly, the accumulation of NK... | Cretney E, Degli-Esposti MA, Densley EH, Farrell HE, et al. - J. Exp. Med. (1999) |
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 | (6S,7S,8S,8aS)-6-Ethyl-7,8-dihy-droxy-1,5,6,7,8,8a-hexa-hydro-indolizin-3(2H)-one monohydrate. | Fap1: Molecular structure of (I) with the atomic numbering scheme. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 50% probability level (Brandenburg, 2001).Bottom Line: The absolute configuration of the title compound, C(10)H(17)NO(3)·H(2)O, was assigned from the synthesis.In the mol-ecular structure, the central six-membered ring of the indolizine moiety adopts a chair conformation, with two atoms displaced by -0.578 (2)... | Vrábel V, Svorc L, Safář P, Zúžiová J - Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2010) |
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 | Elevated stress-hemoconcentration in major depression is normalized by antidepressant treatment: secondary... |  Bottom Line: Hematologic and hemorheologic measures of stress-hemoconcentration included blood cell counts, hematocrit, hemoglobin, total serum protein, and albumin, and whole blood viscosity.Subjects with mild to moderate MDD had significantly increased hemorheologic measures... | Wong ML, Dong C, Esposito K, Thakur S, Liu W, et al. - PLoS ONE (2008) |
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