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Sepharose 4B column with antibody to tyrosine aminotransferase (E.C. 2.6.1.5) (TAT) covalently bound can selectively remove a specific fraction of TAT polysomes from rat liver homogenates. From the polysomes which was adsorbed by immunosorbent one may obtain mRNA containing a segment of poly-adenilate-rich residues, having sedimentation constant of 11--16S. This mRNA may program synthesis of the specific protein in a cell free system. Near 70% of the protein was synthesized in such a system, may react with the antibody to TAT.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:Extraction of tyrosine aminotransferase mRNA by polyribosome immunosorption on sepharose 4B. 2 21

The influence of denaturation conditions upon the character of partial denaturation of DNA with random base distribution were thoroughly studied. Maps of partial DNA denaturation were obtained at T less than TAT for phage phiB DNA at pH 10.7 and 5.5; Tg9 DNA at pH 8.8; at T less than TAT for phiB DNA at pH 10.9 and Tg9 DNA at pH 8.8. The map quality was better when obtained at higher pH values; the peaks became sharper and higher against the background. We failed to obtain maps of partial denaturation at pH 5.5, T less than TAT. The improvement of the map quality and existence of the partial denaturation maps at T less than TAT at pH 10.9 were explained by the increase of primary melting probability of AT-rich DNA regions. At high pH the denaturation map quality was temperature independent. This was explained by a very weak temperature dependence of primary melting probability for all maps of equal quality. The map quality became worse, when the quantity of loops was increased.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:[Nature of the easily melted portions of DNA with a quasi-random base sequence]. 2 79

HTC cell variants chosen for their lack of tyrosine aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.5) (TAT) induction by glucocorticoids were tested for interrelated effects on other glucocorticoid responses: TAT induction by dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dBcAMP) +/- dexamethasone, glutamine synthetase (GS) induction, cyclic nucleotide phosphodieterase (PDE) suppression, inhibition of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB) uptake, inhibition of plasminogen activator (PA), and induction of mouse mammary tumor virus (MTV). Loss of TAT induction by steroid was accompanied by loss of TAT induction by dBcAMP and of PDE suppression by steroid. In addition, subclones of MTV-infected cells were examined for the effect of the virus on glutamine synthetase (GS) and TAT induction. The virus had no effect on their induction in wild-type cells and no effect on GS induction in the variants. One MTV-infected subclone from a TAT variant, however, showed significant return of TAT induction.
Mol Cell Endocrinol 1979 Sep
PMID:Unlinked control of multiple glucocorticoid-induced processes in HTC cells. 3 58

An ampicillin transposon Tn901 was used as a "mutagen" to isolate insertion mutants of the bacteriocinogenic plasmid Clo DF13. By combining the obtained heteroduplex and restriction maps of the Clo DF13::Tn901 plasmids (van Emboden et al., 1977b) with their polypeptide pattern in minicells, we were able to map five genes on the Clo DF13 genome. These five genes designated A (cloacin gene), B, C, D, and G cover 55% of the coding capacity of Clo DF13 DNA. Since integration of Tn901 within these five genes did not result in a loss of the Clo DF13::Tn901 plasmids involved, it is suggested that these genes do not play an essential role in the maintenance of these plasmid insertion mutants. In addition, the described methods allowed us to indicate the initiation site of cloacin synthesis and to propose the counter-clockwise direction of transcription of the cloacin gene. The Tn901 DNA directed the synthesis of at least three polypeptides one of which is shown to be a TEM-1 beta-lactamase.
Mol Gen Genet 1978 Mar 20
PMID:Genetic map of the bacteriocinogenic plasmid CLO DF13 derived by insertion of the transposon Tn901. 34 43

Using TEM and immunofluorescence microscope, a study was made on podocytes in vertebrates where an intermediate-sized filament system is replaced by a microtubule system, accompanied by highly developed microfilaments structures. A comparative immunofluorescence study was carried out on cryotome renal sections of plaice (Pleuronectes platessa L.) and rats, using specific antibodies anti-cytokeratins and anti-vimentin. With polyclonal anti-vimentin serum the capillaries of the renal glomeruli showed a bright colour of plaice and only a week one in the rats. Double staining of renal tissue of mongrel rats of different ages (6-7 weeks and 1.8 years old) with antibodies for actin and anti-vimentin polyclonal serum revealed in young rats an intensive fluorescence for actin and a slight fluorescence for the intermediate filaments. Renal glomeruli of old rats demonstrate a strong vimentin-activity and lower actin one. The ultrastructural study of human podocytes showed two different cytoskeleton age-depending types (2, 4, 6, 37 and 65 years old). It is suggested that during individual development and ageing in kidneys of higher animals and human, physiological changes induce morphological cytoskeleton restructuration accompanied by intensive development of intermediate filaments and simultaneous "involution" of microtubules and microfilaments.
Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 1992 Dec
PMID:Cytoskeleton of podocytes in vertebrate animals and human. 128 25

The genetic environment of plasmid-borne blaTEM mutant genes, encoding nine distinct TEM-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases, was studied in transconjugants from clinical isolates of enterobacteria. Colony hybridization with probes specific for tnpA and tnpR of Tn3, tnpA and tnpI of Tn21, aacA4, and IS15, and restriction endonuclease analysis of plasmid DNA indicated that the structural genes for the enzymes were always associated with intact or deleted variants of the Tn3 family. Four of the nine blaTEM variants, which account for 62% of 222 isolates in a molecular epidemiological study, were associated with replicons indistinguishable from the epidemic Inc7-M plasmid pCFF04 that carries the blaTEM-3 gene. This suggests that mutant genes were selected from the same prototype plasmid carrying penicillinase genes blaTEM-1 or -2. A 6.6 kb DNA fragment of pCFF04 containing blaTEM-3 was characterized by amplification mapping and sequencing. The results obtained indicated that blaTEM-3 was present on a copy of Tn1 interrupted at the start codon of the transposase by a DNA sequence reminiscent of the inverted repeats of class II transposons. This partial Tn1 copy was in turn, inserted into the transposase gene of a Tn21-like transposon containing an integron expressing an aacA4 gene. The presence of an integron can account for the various assortments of aminoglycoside resistance genes found associated with blaTEM-3.
Mol Gen Genet 1992 Oct
PMID:A new example of physical linkage between Tn1 and Tn21: the antibiotic multiple-resistance region of plasmid pCFF04 encoding extended-spectrum beta-lactamase TEM-3. 133 47

Broad-host-range plasmids carrying alpha-amylase or beta-lactamase reporter genes lacking a signal sequence were used to select export elements from Lactococcus lactis chromosomal DNA that could function as signal sequences. Fragments containing such elements were identified by their ability to direct the export of the reporter proteins in Escherichia coli. Several of the selected export elements were also active in Bacillus subtilis and L. lactis, although the efficiencies depended strongly on the host organism and reporter gene used. The export elements AL9 and BL1 were highly efficient in L. lactis in the expression and secretion of at least two heterologous proteins (Bacillus licheniformis alpha-amylase and E. coli TEM-beta-lactamase). AL9 even permitted growth of this organism on starch as the sole carbon source. Nucleotide sequence analysis of five selected fragments indicated that these encode oligopeptides with the major characteristics of typical signal peptides. The putative expression signals had a limited similarity to previously described expression signals for E. coli, B. subtilis and L. lactis. Differences in both expression and export efficiency are likely to underlie the host-specific effects.
Mol Gen Genet 1992 Sep
PMID:Protein export elements from Lactococcus lactis. 140 86

DP-TAT-59, (Z)-2-(4-(1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-(4-isopropylphenyl)-1-butenyl) phenoxy)-N, N-dimethylethylamine, has been reported to inhibit estrogen-stimulated growth of MCF-7 cells as well as rat uterus at lower concentrations than the hydroxymetabolite of tamoxifen (4-OH-TAM). In the present study, the growth of mouse Leydig cell tumor, B-1F cells were also more effectively inhibited by DP-TAT-59 than 4-OH-TAM. Additionally, the expression of estrogen responsive element ligated CAT gene transfected into B-1F cells was also suppressed by DP-TAT-59. Thus, the interaction of DP-TAT-59 with estrogen receptor (ER) was characterized and compared with that of 4-OH-TAM using immature rat and bovine uteri. The dissociation constant of DP-TAT-59 to ER of immature rat uterus was 0.24 nM and was similar to that of 4-OH-TAM (Kd = 0.20 nM) and estradiol (Kd = 0.29 nM). Using sucrose density gradients, the sedimentation constant of DP-TAT-59 with bovine uterus was 4.9S, which was similar to that of estradiol (5.1S) and 4-OH-TAM (5.3S). However, the elution profile of the DP-TAT-59-ER complex from a DEAE-Sephadex column was different for both estradiol-and 4-OH-TAM-ER complexes. These results suggest that ER forms different complexes with DP-TAT-59 than estradiol or 4-OH-TAM, while the ER binding affinity of these compounds are similar to each other.
J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 1992 Nov
PMID:Interaction of DP-TAT-59, an active metabolite of new triphenylethylene-derivative (TAT-59), with estrogen receptors. 141 85

A certain nucleotide sequence in the promoter region of Vicia faba rRNA genes that specifically binds to a nuclear protein fraction has been identified by using a gel retardation assay and DNase I footprinting technique. The binding site of this protein fraction is located about 60 bp upstream from the initiation site of the pre-rRNA transcript. This location does not correspond with previously reported results on maize rRNA genes. However, both of the binding sites share a bi-partite consensus sequence, TAT-G(N)xCAGG. Methylation interference experiments show that two G residues in TATG and the complementary strand of CAGG are important for specific DNA-protein interaction. Furthermore, competition analyses using point-mutated synthetic DNAs show that two G residues in CAGG are essential for this interaction. Similar sequences are found in promoter regions of other plant and animal rRNA genes. We suggest that these sequences may be a cis-control element commonly involved in rRNA transcription.
Plant Mol Biol 1992 Dec
PMID:Characterization of nucleotide sequences that interact with a nuclear protein fraction in rRNA gene of Vicia faba. 146 30

The sperm entry site (SES) of zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio) eggs was studied before and during fertilization by fluorescence, scanning, and transmission electron microscopy. Rhodamine phalloidin (RhPh), used to detect polymerized filamentous actin, was localized to microvilli of the SES and to cytoplasm subjacent to the plasma membrane in the unfertilized egg. The distribution of RhPh staining at the SES correlated with the ultrastructural localization of a submembranous electrondense layer of cortical cytoplasm approximately 500 nm thick and containing 5- to 6-nm filaments. Actin, therefore, was organized at the SES as a tightly knit meshwork of filaments prior to fertilization. Contact between the fertilizing sperm and the filamentous actin network was observed by 15-20 sec postinsemination or just before the onset of fertilization cone formation. Growing fertilization cones of either artificially activated or inseminated eggs exhibited intense RhPh staining and substantial increase in thickness of the actin meshwork. Collectively, TEM and RhPh fluorescence images of inseminated eggs demonstrated that the submembranous actin became rearranged in fertilization cones to form a thickened meshwork around the sperm nucleus during incorporation. The results reported here suggest that activation of the egg triggers a dramatic polymerization of actin beneath the plasma membrane of the fertilization cone. Furthermore, the actin involved in sperm incorporation is sensitive to the action of cytochalasins.
Mol Reprod Dev 1992 Jul
PMID:The sperm entry site during fertilization of the zebrafish egg: localization of actin. 149 71


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