Penn scientists find a protein that inhibits Ebola from reaching out to infect neighboring cells
...f Ebola virus VP40 VLPs. Addressing the molecular mechanism of this inhibition, the researchers demonstrated that ISG15 interacts with Nedd4 ubiquitin ligase and inhibits ubiquitination of VP40, thus blocking budding of VP40 VLPs. These data provide evidence of antiviral activity of ISG15 against Ebola viru...What is the more suitable for early detection of low abundant lamivudine-resistant mutants?
... and time required, exist in these methods. Real-time PCR is able to quantitatively detect a small portion of resistant mutants in HBV populations and ligase detection reaction (LDR) is a newly developed method for detection of low abundant mutants in the background of wild-type HBV. However, there are no s...JCI table of contents: Nov. 8, 2007
...scle damage and that inhibiting atrogin-1 function might protect against this unwanted side effect of statins. TITLE: The muscle-specific ubiquitin ligase atrogin-1/MAFbx mediates statin-induced muscle toxicity AUTHOR CONTACT: Stewart H. Lecker, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachu...Advances in drug screening: building a better haystack for the needles of tomorrow
...icine, The James Birrell and Lilah Funds for Neuroblastoma Research, and the Sick Kids Foundation. Identification of inhibitors for MDM2 ubiquitin ligase activity from natural products by a novel high throughput electrochemiluminescent screen: Abstract C 55. Scientists laboring intensively to develo...Understanding HIV Interference With Infected Cell Division
...r induce their degradation. The researchers demonstrated that association of Vpr with this ubiquitinating complex, also called an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, is essential for the defect in cell division induced by Vpr. Further characterization of this protein complex as well as the elucidation of t...Protein Targets for Carcinogenesis
...nzymes is needed to attach Ub to another protein: E1, E2 and E3. E1 activates Ub and transfers it to E2, which in turn cooperates with an so-called Ub ligase (E3) that couples Ub to a specific target protein. However, Dikic and colleagues discovered that certain proteins can be ubiquitinated independently o...Role Of Estrogen In Breast-Cancer
...ins fell to 20 percent of normal, the level of N-CoR's messenger RNA went untouched. The reduction of N-CoR followed an up regulation of the ubiquitin ligase Siah2, an enzyme that targets certain proteins for degradation. This "secondary effect" may have broad implications for other important cellular a...Muscle atrophy through thick but not thin
...ntaining thin filaments. During atrophy, this structure is disassembled, but exactly how was not known. MuRF1, an atrophy-related gene, is a ubiquitin ligase that "ubiquitylates," or tags a protein, by attaching a ubiquitin molecule, marking it for degradation by the cell. It was unclear when and how ubiqui...Lipid droplets lead a Spartin existence
...knocking-down the protein caused an increase in both the organelle's size and number. In turn, Spartin is regulated by ubiquitination by the ubiquitin ligase WWP1. Overexpressed WWP1 removed Spartin from LDs and promoted its degradation. A truncated form of Spartin found in a rare neuronal disease called...New research helps explain genetics of Parkinson's disease
...articles will be published online Monday, November 24 ( www.jcb.org ). Loss-of-function mutations in the gene Park2, which encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase (Parkin), are implicated in half the cases of recessive familial early-onset Parkinson's disease. Several lines of evidence suggest that Parkin loss i...Death, division or cancer? Newly discovered checkpoint process holds the line in cell division
... Yen, along with visiting researcher Avram Hershko, Ph.D., of Technion, discovered the ability of MCF2 to block mitosis by shutting down an ubiquitin ligase enzyme known as the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C). Hershko was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with former Fox Chase r...MIT probe may help untangle cells' signaling pathways
...oteins interact, the enzyme and substrate also interact, which can be easily detected. To create the probes, the researchers used the enzyme biotin ligase and its target, a 12-amino-acid peptide. Their work is conceptually related to an approach that uses GFPs (green fluorescent proteins), which glow ...Purple extremist thrives under inhospitable conditions
... hot or cold, , require mild environmental conditions. "The Ferroplasma DNA ligase is unique," states Olga Golyshina: "It actually requires extremely acidic c...n, but require magnesium or potassium to function. Extraordinarily, the DNA ligase of Ferroplasma contains iron and does not need either magnesium or potassiu...RING finger protein 5 may guide treatment for muscle disease in older adults
... identify and remove those proteins that are not properly folded. Ubiquitin ligase RNF5 (or RING Finger Protein 5) acts much like one of these quality-control...ains, still need to be addressed. We know the substrates for this ubiquitin ligase in C. elegans, but not yet in human muscle. ...RNA enzyme structure offers a glimpse into the origins of life
...een two RNA subunits. Robertson obtained the ligase ribozyme through a kind of test-tube evolution whe...ratch. In the Ellington lab, Robertson evolved the ligase ribozyme (called the L1 ligase) and determined whi...ly occuring enzymes, Robertson said. "The L1 ligase appears to use strategies of transition-state stab...Plant protection from cold decoded
...ine version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in a paper titled The Negative Regulator of Plant Cold Responses, HOS1 is a RING E3 ligase That Mediates the Ubiquitation and Degredation of ICE1. Zhu co-authored the paper with UCR colleagues Chun Hai Dong and Manu Agarwal; and Yiyue Zhang ...Telling axons where to go - and grow
...quitin/proteosome protein degradation pathway in the regulation of local actin dynamics in neurons. The authors are able to show that the ubiquitin ligase Rnf6 polyubiquitinates the kinase LIMK1, targeting it for proteosomal degradation in the growth cones of hippocampal neurons. LIMK1 regulates the dyn...High Electrotransformation Efficiencies Obtained With DNA From Ligation Mixtures
...ligation reactions consisted of DNA, 1x ligase buffer (50 mM Tris, pH 7.6, 10 mM MgCl 2 , 10 mM D...ATP, and 25 g/ml BSA), and 0.1 Weiss unit/l T4 DNA ligase (Bio-Rad). All ligations reactions were incubated at 16 C overnight. The ligase was heattreated by placing the mixtures...Cloning Based on Efficient Three-Fragment Assembly DNA Ligation
...ses. Therefore, we started the reaction at 26C, which was reported to be the optimal temperature for the joining of bluntended termini by T4 DNA ligase [7]. We followed this with cohesive-end ligation and circularization of our DNA at 14C, the temperature generally regarded as the best compromis...Eppendorf Perfectprep Gel Cleanup Kit
...p Alkaline Phosphatase (Promega ) T4 DNA ligase (New England BioLabs) TOP 10 Chemically C... end units (about 6 Weiss units) of T4 DNA ligase and 5% PEG 8000 were incubated at 14C overnight (15 hours). Following this, the ligase was inactivated by incubating the sampl...Mammalian Expression Vector for Efficient Cloning of PCR Fragments
...ting insert and vector in the presence of T4 DNA ligase and Srf I enzyme reduces the background of self-...ng reactivity of the Srf I enzyme and the T4 DNA ligase on nonrecombinant vector DNA. In many instan...r polishing, 3 Srf I restriction enzyme, T4 DNA ligase and Epicurian Coli XL10-Gold ultracompetent ...Constructing Directional cDNA Libraries from Limited Amounts of RNA
...od can be used for high-throughput 3 EST sequencing and for functional screening. Additionally, this method does not depend on the use of T4 DNA ligase to covalently link the vector and insert; consequently, the background of self-ligated vector is reduced. Since PCR products are cloned without en...Restriction Endonucleases Undergo Rigorous QC Testing to Ensure Optimal Performance
...cess of enzyme, and the enzyme is removed using StrataClean resin. The digestion products are ligated using Stratagenes T4 DNA ligase and then recut with the same restriction enzyme. Samples of the cut, ligated, and recut DNA are subsequently analyzed by agarose gel electr...Ready-To-Go T4 DNA Ligase from GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham Biosciences
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