N-myristoylation is a common form of co-translational protein fatty acylation resulting from the attachment of myristate to a required N-terminal glycine residue.1,2 We show that aberrantly acquired N-myristoylation of SHOC2, a leucine-rich repeat-containing protein that positively modulates ...

To establish a strategy for the comprehensive identification of human N-myristoylated proteins, the susceptibility of human cDNA clones to protein N-myristoylation was evaluated by metabolic labeling and MS analyses of proteins expressed in an insect cell-free protein ...

BackgroundN-myristoylation is a crucial covalent modification of numerous eukaryotic and viral proteins that is catalyzed by N-myristoyltransferase (NMT). Prokaryotes are lacking endogeneous NMT activity. Recombinant production of N-myristoylated proteins in E. coli cells can be achieved by coexpression of heterologous NMT with the ...

The covalent attachment of fatty acids to eukaryotic cellular proteins occurs via one of three linkages - amide linkage to amino-terminal glycine; ester linkage to cysteine, serine, or threonine; and carboxy terminal addition of glycophospholipid. This work investigates the fatty acid specificity of protein acylation and the enzymology of one type of ...

Protein N-myristoylation refers to the covalent attachment of a myristoyl group (C14:0), via amide linkage, to the NH{sub 2}-terminal glycine residue of certain cellular and viral proteins. Myristoyl-CoA:protein N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) catalyzes this cotranslational modification. The authors have developed a ...

Noonan syndrome (NS) is a relatively common, clinically variable and genetically heterogeneous developmental disorder characterized by postnatally reduced growth, distinctive facial dysmorphism, cardiac defects and variable cognitive deficits. Other associated features include ectodermal and skeletal defects, cryptorchidism, lymphatic dysplasias, bleeding tendency, and, rarely, predisposition to ...

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N-myristoylation, one of the co- or post-translational modifications of proteins, has so far been regarded as necessary for anchoring of proteins to membranes. Recently, we have revealed that N^?-myristoylation of several brain proteins unambiguously regulates certain ...

Polarized hyphal growth dominates the life cycle of filamentous fungi and is essential to disease progression for many fungal pathogens. Despite its importance, much of the basic biology controlling the process remains to be elucidated. Protein Nmyristoylation is one process important to hyphal growth for which the direct mechanism for this connection is not understood. ...

This review summarizes recent findings on the metabolism and biological functions of saturated fatty acids (SFA). Some of these findings show that SFA may have important and specific roles in the cells. Elucidated biochemical mechanisms like protein acylation (N-myristoylation, S-palmitoylation) and regulation of gene transcription are presented. In terms ...

Cotranslational and posttranslational modifications are increasingly recognized as important in the regulation of numerous essential cellular functions. N-myristoylation is a lipid modification ensuring the proper function and intracellular trafficking of proteins involved in many signaling pathways. Arabidopsis thaliana, like human, has two tightly ...

Cotranslational and posttranslational modifications are increasingly recognized as important in the regulation of numerous essential cellular functions. N-myristoylation is a lipid modification ensuring the proper function and intracellular trafficking of proteins involved in many signaling pathways. Arabidopsis thaliana, like human, has two tightly ...

We explore the localization of a guest N-myristoylated methyl glycine anchor dipeptide in a phospholipid environment. The dipeptide is part of a conservative sequence, which ensures proper association of a wide group of proteins in living organisms with a cellular phospholipid membrane. Using linear and two-color anharmonic infrared spectroscopy, we ...

A number of viral and cellular proteins contain covalently bound lipids. In a subset of these acyl proteins, the 14-carbon saturated fatty acid myristic acid is attached through an amide linkage to an NH2-terminal glycine residue. Myristoyl-CoA:protein N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) transfers the myristoyl moiety from myristoyl-CoA to ...

Covalent attachment of myristic acid (C14:0) to the NH{sub 2}-terminal glycine residue of a number of cellular, viral, and oncogene-encoded proteins is essential for full expression of their biological function. Substitution of oxygen for methylene groups in this fatty acid does not produce a significant change in chain length or stereochemistry but does result in a reduction ...

Protein S-palmitoylation, the covalent lipid modification of the side chain of Cys residues with the 16-carbon fatty acid palmitate, is the most common acylation of proteins in eukaryotic cells. This post-translational modification provides an important mechanism for regulating protein subcellular localization, stability, trafficking, ...

Incubation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain JR153 with either (/sup 3/H)myristate or (/sup 3/H)palmitate demonstrates the synthesis of proteins that contain covalently bound fatty acids. A unique set of proteins is labeled by each fatty acid. Detailed analysis of a 20-kDa protein labeled with myristic acid demonstrates that myristate ...

... by an aberrant protein rather than by a virus, bacteria, or other pathogen that contains nucleic acids. Prevalence ... ...

Protein N-myristoylation is a lipidic modification which refers to the covalent attachment of myristate, a 14-carbon saturated fatty acid, to the N-terminal glycine residue of a number of mammalian, viral, and fungal proteins. In this paper, we have cloned the gene coding for myristoyl-CoA:protein ...

The family of vertebrate globins includes hemoglobin, myoglobin, and other O₂-binding proteins of yet unclear functions. Among these, globin X is restricted to fish and amphibians. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) globin X is expressed at low levels in neurons of the central nervous system and appears to be associated with the sensory system. The ...

Improved materials and methods for reducing the production of aberrant products during RNA synthesis and protein production are provided.

The cDNA of RPS15 was cloned successfully for the first time from the Giant Panda using RT-PCR technology, which was also sequenced and analyzed preliminarily. The cDNA fragment is 442bp in size, containing an open reading frame (ORF) of 438bp encoding 145 amino acids. Alignment analysis indicates that the nucleotide sequence and the deduced amino acid sequence show a high homology to those of ...

Recoverin is cotranslationally modified by the covalent linkage of a myristoyl group to its N terminus. It is a member of a family of Ca(2+)-myristoyl switch proteins. Recombinant myristoylated revoverin is currently produced by the cotransformation of bacteria with recoverin and an enzyme that allows N-myristoylation and by supplementing the culture ...

Mammalian NADH-cytochrome b(5) reductase (b5R) is an N-myristoylated protein that is dually targeted to ER and mitochondrial outer membranes. The N-linked myristate is not required for anchorage to membranes because a stretch of hydrophobic amino acids close to the NH₂ terminus guarantees a tight interaction of the protein with the ...

N-Myristoyl transferase is an essential enzyme for fungal growth and survival. The continuous interest in the development of new antifungal agents prompted recent interest in developing new potent inhibitors of fungal N-myristoyl transferase. In this context, we combined pharmacophore and QSAR modeling to explore the structural requirements for potent ...

African sleeping sickness or human African trypanosomiasis, caused by Trypanosoma brucei spp., is responsible for {approx}30,000 deaths each year. Available treatments for this disease are poor, with unacceptable efficacy and safety profiles, particularly in the late stage of the disease when the parasite has infected the central nervous system. Here we report the validation of a molecular target ...

African sleeping sickness or human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), caused by Trypanosoma brucei spp., is responsible for ~30,000 deaths each year. Available treatments for this neglected disease are poor, with unacceptable efficacy and safety profiles, particularly in the late stage of the disease, when the parasite has infected the central nervous system. Here, we report the validation of a ...

Rice architecture is an important agronomic trait that affects grain yield. We characterized a tillering dwarf mutant d88 derived from Oryza sativa ssp. japonica cultivar Lansheng treated with EMS. The mutant had excessive shorter tillers and smaller panicles and seeds compared to the wild-type. A reduction in number and size of parenchyma cells around stem marrow cavity as well as a delay in the ...

... development. As a result of aberrant neuronal motility affected individuals may suffer from seizures mental retardation and autism. ...

... Abstract : Our group previously showed that FOXO proteins are aberrantly localized to the cytoplasm in cells that have sustained loss of functional ...

... were lumped into four general areas to include chromosomal aberrations, effects on protein synthesis, teratogenesis and oncogensis. ...

... Abnormal, aberrant, or damaged proteins are also targets for destruction by the proteasome such as in cystic fibrosis. In this disease the mutated ...

Palmitoylation of the vacuolar membrane protein Vac8p is essential for vacuole fusion in yeast (Veit, M., R. Laage, L. Dietrich, L. Wang, and C. Ungermann. 2001. EMBO J. 20:3145�3155; Wang, Y.X., E.J. Kauffman, J.E. Duex, and L.S. Weisman. 2001. J. Biol. Chem. 276:35133�35140). Proteins that contain an Asp-His-His-Cys (DHHC)�cysteine rich domain ...

Mitochondrial ATP synthase (F1Fo-ATPase) is regulated by an intrinsic ATPase inhibitor protein. In the present study, using RT-PCR combined with in silico cloning, we isolated and sequenced the cDNA encoding the inhibitor protein of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). The deduced protein sequence showed that the ...

... TITLE: Critical Importance of Protein 4.1 in Centrosome and Mitiotic Spindle Aberrations in Breast Cancer Pathogenesis ...

The cDNA and the genomic sequence of ribosomal protein S13 (RPS13) of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) was cloned using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and touchdown-PCR, respectively. These two sequences were sequenced and analyzed, and the cDNA of the RPS13 gene was overexpressed in Escherichia coli BL21. We compared the nucleotide sequences ...

RPS19 is a component of the 40S small ribosomal subunit encoded by RPS19 gene. The cDNA of RPS19 was cloned successfully for the first time from the Giant Panda using RT-PCR technology. It was also sequenced, analyzed preliminarily, and expressed in Escherichia coli. The length of cDNA fragment cloned is 469 bp, and it contains an open-reading frame of 438 bp encoding 145 amino acids. Alignment ...

Purpose.The lens beaded filament proteins filensin and CP49 are phosphorylated proteins that undergo proteolytic degradation with fiber cell age; however, the specific sites of modifications remain largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to identify posttranslational modifications (PTMs) in bovine lens beaded filament ...

AbstractN-Myristoyltransferase (NMT) catalyses the attachment of the 14-carbon saturated fatty acid, myristate, to the amino-terminal glycine residue of a subset of eukaryotic proteins that function in multiple cellular processes, including vesicular protein trafficking and signal transduction. In these pathways, N-myristoylation ...

RPS14 is a component of the 40S ribosomal subunit encoded by the RPS14 gene and is required for its maturation. The cDNA and the genomic sequence of RPS14 were cloned successfully from the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) using RT-PCR technology and touchdown-PCR, respectively; they were both sequenced and analyzed. The length of the cloned cDNA fragment was 492 bp; it contained an ...

RPLP1 is one of acidic ribosomal phosphoproteins encoded by RPLP1 gene, which plays an important role in the elongation step of protein synthesis. The cDNA of RPLP1 was cloned successfully for the first time from the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) using RT-PCR technology, which was also sequenced, analyzed preliminarily and expressed in E.coli. The cDNA fragment cloned ...

RPLP1 is one of acidic ribosomal phosphoproteins encoded by RPLP1 gene, which plays an important role in the elongation step of protein synthesis. The cDNA of RPLP1 was cloned successfully for the first time from the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) using RT-PCR technology, which was also sequenced, analyzed preliminarily and expressed in E.coli. The cDNA fragment cloned ...

The Gag polyprotein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) organizes the assembly of nascent virions at the plasma membrane of infected cells. Here we demonstrate that a population of Gag is present in distinct raft-like membrane microdomains that we have termed �barges.� Barges have a higher density than standard rafts, most likely due to the presence of oligomeric Gag-Gag assembly ...

Aberrations induced by x radiation and ultraviolet radiation in pollen tube chromosomes of Tradescantia were compared. Data are presented on dose curve responses to varying moisture conditions and the influence of a protein synthesis inhibitor on the radioinduced aberrations. Tentative data indicate that the breaks resulting ...

Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) in plants typically contain a C-terminal calmodulin-like domain with four EF-hand calcium-binding motifs. We have isolated a carrot somatic embryo cDNA clone which encodes a new, divergent isoform of this family, designated CRK (CDPK-related kinase). The catalytic domain of CRK shares a high degree of homology with the catalytic ...

Heat-shocks (10 and 30 min at 40 degrees C) prior to treatment with MH or TEM significantly reduced the yield of metaphases with chromatid aberrations. No such effect was observed when ethanol was used for aberration induction. The 'heat-shock effect' on aberration induction by MH and TEM is comparable to 'clastogenic adaptation' ...

Light microscopy of thick biological samples, such as tissues, is often limited by aberrations caused by refractive index variations within the sample itself. This problem is particularly severe for live imaging, a field of great current excitement due to the development of inherently fluorescent proteins. We describe a method of removing such ...

BackgroundThe human EED protein, a member of the superfamily of Polycomb group (PcG) proteins with WD-40 repeats, has been found to interact with three HIV-1 components, namely the structural Gag matrix protein (MA), the integrase enzyme (IN) and the Nef protein. The aim of the present study was to analyze the ...

... including a subset of renal proximal tubules, some cells of the ... myc and cyclin D1, proteins involved in cell growth and ... carcinoma cells [12, 17, 18]. ...

... We reasoned that aberrant 4.1 expression could engender defects in functions of centrosomes, mitotic spindles and in cytokinesis. ...

Dr. Giubellino research has focused on cancer biomarkers and on pre-clinical drug development, specifically targeting aberrant protein signaling networks associated with cancer as a new therapeutic strategy.