Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts: Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound   Target Concepts: Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound

---

Query: EC:3.2.1.23 (beta-galactosidase)
14,648 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

Acid hydrolases were isolated from the lysosome fraction of beta-galactosidase-deficient human fibroblasts and from the mannose 6-phosphate containing medium in which they were grown. Nearly half of the total beta-hexosaminidase and beta-glucuronidase from both sources bound to Ricin specifically. Lysosomal beta-hexosaminidase, metabolically labelled with [35S]-methionine, was also fractionated on Ricin-agarose. SDS-PAGE of immunoprecipitates from Ricin-binding and non-binding fractions revealed approximately equivalent amounts of cross-reacting material at the appropriate MW. We interpret these results to mean that acid hydrolases which are segregated to lysosomes are exposed to trans-Golgi processing enzymes to about the same extent as enzymes which are secreted, and that segregation by the Man 6-P receptor occurs after transit through the trans-Golgi compartment.
...
PMID:Ricin-binding properties of acid hydrolases from isolated lysosomes implies prior processing by terminal transferases of the trans-Golgi apparatus. 293 47

We isolated and characterized cis-acting mutations that affect the regulation of the metB gene of Salmonella typhimurium LT2. The mutations were isolated in an Escherichia coli lac deletion strain lysogenized with lambda bacteriophage carrying a metB-lacZ gene fusion (lambda JBlac) in which beta-galactosidase production is dependent upon metB gene expression. The mutant lysogens show elevated, poorly regulated beta-galactosidase production. The altered regulation is a result of disruption of the methionine control system mediated by the metJ repressor. The mutations are located in a region of dyad symmetry centered near the -35 sequence of the metB promoter. We propose that these mutations alter the repressor binding site and define the metB operator sequence. In addition, we discuss a highly conserved, nonsymmetric DNA sequence of unknown function which occurs in the control regions of the metA, metC, metE, metF, metG, and metJB genes of both S. typhimurium and E. coli.
...
PMID:Mutations affecting the regulation of the metB gene of Salmonella typhimurium LT2. 294 97

A human factor IX cDNA clone isolated from a liver cDNA library constructed in phage lambda gt11 vector was shown to express factor IX protein in Escherichia coli. A factor IX immunospecific protein of 46.8 kDa was expressed, but was not a beta-galactosidase-factor IX fusion protein. Expression was seen when the factor IX cDNA was cloned into two different vector systems, lambda gt11 and pUC9, in both orientations with respect to the vector lacZ promoter. The expression of factor IX was not under control of the lacZ promoter of either vector system. In addition, when the factor IX cDNA fragment was subcloned in both orientations into a promoterless cloning vector (p CPP3), the factor IX cDNA fragment demonstrated promoter activity when inserted in only one orientation resulting in expression of chloramphenicol acetyl transferase in E. coli and Bacillus subtilis. A DNA computer search of the N-terminal sequences of the factor IX gene revealed prokaryotic-like promoter and ribosome-binding site (RBS) sequences with strong homology to the E. coli consensus sequences. The predicted sites homologous with prokaryotic promoter and RBS consensus sequences are followed by an in-frame methionine which could correspond to the translation start codon of the expressed factor IX. This report provides the first evidence that a eukaryotic gene encodes the information necessary for both transcription and translation to control gene expression in a prokaryotic host.
...
PMID:Evidence for prokaryotic transcription and translation control regions in the human factor IX gene. 296 65

Antisera were raised in rabbits against fusion proteins consisting of beta-galactosidase and partial amino acid sequences of Semliki Forest virus (SFV)-specific non-structural proteins nsP1, nsP2, nsP3 and nsP4. The antisera were specific since each of them precipitated only one labelled protein of a size expected for nsP1, nsP2, nsP3 or nsP4 from lysates of [35S]methionine-labelled SFV-infected BHK-21 cells. The specific antisera also precipitated p220 (with sequences of nsP1, nsP2 and nsP3), p155 (nsP1 and nsP2) and p135 (nsP3 and nsP4) which have been previously shown to be cleavage products of the polyprotein precursor of the non-structural proteins. nsP1, nsP4 and most of nsP3, together with the virus-specific RNA polymerase activity, were in the mitochondrial pellet (P15) fraction of infected BHK-21 cells whereas nsP2 was evenly distributed between P15 and the supernatant fraction (S15). Only antisera directed against nsP3 sequences precipitated a labelled protein from cells incubated with [32P]orthophosphate during SFV infection. Treatment of the immunoprecipitate with calf alkaline intestinal phosphatase reduced the amount of labelled nsP3 considerably. Immunoprecipitated 32P-labelled nsP3, isolated by SDS-PAGE, was subjected to acid hydrolysis. Both phosphoserine and phosphothreonine but not phosphotyrosine could be identified in the hydrolysate. Approximately twice as much [32P]serine as [32P]threonine was detected in nsP3. P15 and S15 fractions were prepared from [35S]methionine- and 32P-labelled SFV-infected cells and the 35S/32P ratio of nsP3 was determined after immunoprecipitation and SDS-PAGE. The nsP3 in S15 was less heavily phosphorylated (about 50%) than P15-associated nsP3. Anti-nsP3 serum revealed large cytoplasmic vesicles in SFV-infected cells in indirect immunofluorescence microscopy.
...
PMID:Semliki Forest virus-specific non-structural protein nsP3 is a phosphoprotein. 297 May 23

The gene coding for the Neurospora crassa copper metallothionein (MT) was synthesized and inserted in the lacZ' gene of pUC18 plasmid to give the same translational reading frame as the latter gene. The MT-beta-galactosidase fused gene was expressed in Escherichia coli to produce a fused protein in which the amino and carboxy termini of MT are linked to the beta-galactosidase through methionine residues. An MT derivative containing an extra homoserine residue at the carboxy terminus was prepared by cyanogen bromide cleavage of the fused protein followed by a reverse-phase HPLC separation. The spectral features of the MT derivative and its copper complex were similar to those of the corresponding native MTs.
...
PMID:Chemical synthesis and expression of copper metallothionein gene of Neurospora crassa. 297 86

The guaC gene encodes GMP reductase, which converts GMP to inosine monophosphate. Regulation of guaC expression was examined by use of guaC-lac fusions created by Mu d1(lac). In these strains, beta-galactosidase is induced by guanine derivatives, and this induction is prevented by adenine. Our previous implication that glutamine acts as a negative effector of transcription was confirmed by showing that glutamine analogs (diazo-oxo-norleucine and methionine sulfoximine) can also induce beta-galactosidase. GMP was implicated as a likely candidate for the in vivo inducer by introducing a gpt block to prevent the conversion of guanine to GMP and a deoD block to prevent the interconversion of guanine and guanosine. Regulatory mutants were isolated by growth on lactose plus adenine. Though these showed high constitutive levels of beta-galactosidase, they were normal for the regulation of GMP reductase when the fusion was corrected by transduction to guaC+ or when guaC+ was introduced by plasmid complementation. The regulatory mutants were linked to guaC.
...
PMID:Regulation of guaC expression in Escherichia coli. 299 79

Blunt-end palindromic DNA linkers with a central restriction site have been designed for the multiple reading frame insertion (abbreviated MURFI) of a sense or nonsense codon into DNA. We have utilized an amber MURFI linker, 5'CTAG TCTAGA CTAG3' to disrupt the lacZ gene, yielding truncated beta-galactosidase proteins. Conditional disruption of the tetr gene in E. coli has also been demonstrated. Nonsense codon MURFI linkers permit conditional fusion of multiple gene products while sense codon linkers can add structural elements (e.g. beta-turn, cationic segment, hydrophobic segment) or a desired amino acid to a protein (e.g. methionine, cysteine). Shotgun or alternatively site-directed insertion of the symmetric linkers is possible. The over-all length of the linker may be adjusted to retain the original reading frame, matching nucleotide additions or subtractions at recipient DNA sites. If a linker restriction site occurs elsewhere in the target DNA, single linker copies may still be inserted using non-phosphorylated linkers.
...
PMID:The MURFI linker for multiple reading frame insertion of a sense or nonsense codon into DNA. 300 88

Extracts of the pathogenic ameba Naegleria fowleri, prepared by freeze-thawing and sonication, were analyzed for their content of various hydrolytic enzymes that have acid pH optima. The organism is rich in acid phosphatase activity as well as a variety of glycosidases which include beta-glucosidase, beta-galactosidase, beta-fucosidase, alpha-mannosidase, hexosaminidase, arylsulfatase A, and beta-glucuronidase. The crude extract contained only negligible levels of sphingomyelinase, neuraminidase, or arylsulfatase B. All of the hydrolases exhibited higher activity at pH 5.5 than at 7.0, indicating that they are truly "acid" hydrolases. In general, after centrifugation (100,000 g, 1 h), except for arylsulfatase B, more than half of the activity of each of the various hydrolases was recovered in the supernatant fraction. The acid phosphatase in the high-speed supernatant was purified 45-fold (32% yield) by chromatography on QAE-Sephadex and Sephadex G-200 and shown to have the following properties: pH optima, 5.5; Km (4-methylumbelliferyl phosphate), 0.60 mM; molecular weight (estimated by gel filtration chromatography), 92,000; inhibited by heteropolymolybdate complexes but not by L(+) sodium tartrate (0.5 mM) or sodium fluoride (0.5 mM). In addition, unlike the tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase of Leishmania donovani, the major acid phosphatase of N. fowleri is less than 5% as effective in inhibiting superoxide anion production by f-Met-Leu-Phe-stimulated human neutrophils. The finding of high levels of a number of acid hydrolases in Naegleria fowleri raises several questions that merit further study: Do the hydrolases perform a housekeeping function in this single cell eukaryote or do they play some role in the pathogenic process that ensues when the organism infects a suitable host?
...
PMID:Demonstration of various acid hydrolases and preliminary characterization of acid phosphatase in Naegleria fowleri. 301 38

The collagen-binding domain of human fibronectin has been expressed as a cro/beta-galactosidase fusion protein in Escherichia coli. The hybrid polypeptide was recognized by an anti-(human plasma fibronectin) serum and bound specifically to gelatin-Sepharose. The collagen-binding region was subdivided by constructing a series of overlapping bacterial expression plasmids. The fusion proteins produced by these constructs were analysed for gelatin-binding activity. The results indicate that the binding site lies within an approximately 12.5 kd fragment of fibronectin, and show that the following 14 amino acid sequence is critical for gelatin-binding activity: Ala-Ala-His-Glu-Glu-Ile-Cys-Thr-Thr-Asn-Glu-Gly-Val-Met. This sequence links the second type II homology unit with the adjacent type I repeat in the amino-terminal third of the fibronectin molecule.
...
PMID:Mapping the collagen-binding site of human fibronectin by expression in Escherichia coli. 302 62

The BamHI Nhet fragment of the B958 strain of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) encodes a membrane protein (BNLF-1) that is present in cells transformed by EBV. We made a hybrid protein in which a polypeptide sequence from the carboxyl-terminal part of BNLF-1 is fused to Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase. This hybrid protein was used to immunize rabbits, and the resulting antiserum was purified by immunoaffinity chromatography. The antiserum was able to immunoprecipitate BNLF-1 from cell lysates. We found that BNLF-1 is phosphorylated at serines in EBV genome-positive B-cell lines. Pulse-chase analyses with [35S]methionine indicated that BNLF-1 is turned over in lymphoblasts with a half-life of approximately 5 h. Protein immunoblots of EBV genome-positive B-cell lines revealed both a 62,000-molecular-mass band corresponding to BNLF-1 and a myriad of lower-molecular-mass bands. We postulate that these lower-molecular-mass bands are degradation products resulting from the turnover of BNLF-1 in cells. The BNLF-1 gene was expressed in COS cells, and the protein was both phosphorylated and turned over in these cells.
...
PMID:Posttranslational processing of an Epstein-Barr virus-encoded membrane protein expressed in cells transformed by Epstein-Barr virus. 302 13


<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next >>

---