Evidence that bovine forebrain embryonic zinc finger-like gene influences immune response associated with mastitis resistance.
Authors:Sugimoto M,Fujikawa A,Womack JE,Sugimoto Y
Journal:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
PubMed ID:16611727
Mastitis, a mammary gland inflammation in response to bacterial infection, is a major problem in the dairy industry. We found that cows susceptible to mastitis have a three-base insertion in a glycine-coding stretch of the gene for forebrain embryonic zinc finger-like (FEZL), a transcription factor with a role in neuronal ... More
Characterization of aquaporin-6 as a nitrate channel in mammalian cells. Requirement of pore-lining residue threonine 63.
Aquaporins (AQP) were originally regarded as plasma membrane channels that are freely permeated by water or small uncharged solutes but not by ions. Unlike other aquaporins, AQP6 overexpressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes was previously found to exhibit Hg2+ or pH-activated ion conductance. AQP6 could not be analyzed electrophysiologically in mammalian ... More
Folding of the striated muscle myosin motor domain.
Authors: Chow Diana; Srikakulam Rajani; Chen Ying; Winkelmann Donald A;
Journal:J Biol Chem
PubMed ID:12110670
'We have investigated the folding of the myosin motor domain using a chimera of an embryonic striated muscle myosin II motor domain fused on its COOH terminus to a thermal stable, fast folding variant of green fluorescent protein (GFP). In in vitro expression assays, the GFP domain of the chimeric ... More
Mammalian cell penetration, siRNA transfection, and DNA transfection by supercharged proteins.
Authors:McNaughton BR, Cronican JJ, Thompson DB, Liu DR,
Journal:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
PubMed ID:19307578
'Nucleic acid reagents, including small interfering RNA (siRNA) and plasmid DNA, are important tools for the study of mammalian cells and are promising starting points for the development of new therapeutic agents. Realizing their full potential, however, requires nucleic acid delivery reagents that are simple to prepare, effective across many ... More
Dynamic fluorescent imaging of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gag in live cells by biarsenical labeling.
Authors:Rudner L, Nydegger S, Coren LV, Nagashima K, Thali M, Ott DE,
Journal:J Virol
PubMed ID:15767407
'Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Gag is the primary structural protein of the virus and is sufficient for particle formation. We utilized the recently developed biarsenical-labeling method to dynamically observe HIV-1 Gag within live cells by adding a tetracysteine tag (C-C-P-G-C-C) to the C terminus of Gag in both ... More