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G-Proteins Expressed in the Ocellus of the Hydromedusan, Spirocodon saltatrix.

  • Iwasa, Tatsuo;Shimazaki, Yumiko;Yamamoto, Masamichi;Ohtsu, Kohzoh
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.278-280
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    • 2002
  • We have cloned a hydromedusan opsin cDNA and showed that the deduced amino acid sequence of the cytoplasmic loop between helices 5 and 6 (loop 5-6) was clearly different from that reported so far. The amino acid sequence of the loop 5-6 is important on determination of the specificity for the coupled G- protein. To clarify which class of G-protein mediates the phototransduction system in the ocellus of the hydromedusan, we investigated G-proteins expressed in the ocellus. By PCR against the cDNA of the ocellus with primers designed according to the conserved amino acid sequence in G-protein a subunit, we obtained three kinds of cDNA fragments. Based on the sequence similarities, ttwo of them (JGI and JG3) were classified as $G_{i}$ and $G_{q}$, respectively. The other one (JG2) was a new subtype within $G_{*}$ class. Electron microscopic immunocytochemistry with the antiserum against the C-terminal sequence of $G_{q}$ or $G_{t}$ revealed the presence. of the both classes in the ocellus. The similarity of the C-terminal sequence of the JG2 with that of bovine $G_{t}$ suggests that the anti- $G_{t}$ antiserum would bind to JG2. These results suggest the possibility that the hydromedusan rhodopsin decides the specificity for the coupled G-protein by the other domain than the loop 5-6.oop 5-6.5-6.

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G-vector-valued Sequence Space Frames

  • Osgooei, Elnaz
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.56 no.3
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    • pp.793-806
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    • 2016
  • G-vector-valued sequence space frames and g-Banach frames for Banach spaces are introduced and studied in this paper. Also, the concepts of duality mapping and ${\beta}$-dual of a BK-space are used to define frame mapping and synthesis operator of these frames, respectively. Finally, some results regarding the existence of g-vector-valued sequence space frames and g-Banach frames are obtained. In particular, it is proved that if X is a separable Banach space and Y is a Banach space with a Schauder basis, then there exist a Y-valued sequence space $Y_v$ and a g-Banach frame for X with respect to Y and $Y_v$.

Toxicity of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Glycoprotein Signal Peptide and Promoter Activity of th 5' UTR

  • Park, Tae-Jin;Kim, Sun-Chang;Thomas L. German
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.313-318
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    • 1999
  • Cloning of the 5'untranslated region (5' UTR) and Nterminus of the glycoprotein precursor (G2G1) open reading frame of tomato spotted wilt virus has been problematic, possibly because of the toxicity of a signal peptide at the beginning of th G2G1 protein precursor. The toxicity of the signal peptide to bacterial growth and the reason for the expression of the peptide gene in Escherichia coli were investigated by cloning the 5' UTR and the signal peptide sequence separately. Cells transformed with the plasmid containing both the first 30 amino acids of the glycoprotein and the 5' UTR showed a severe growth inhibition whereas transformants harboring either the plasmid with the signal sequence or the 5'UTR alone did not show any ingibition. An E. coli promoter-like sequence was found in the 5'UTR and tis promoter acivity was confirmed with a promoter-less GUS gene cloned downstream of the 5'UTR. In the cloning of the Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) glycoprotein G2G1 open reading frame all the recovered plasmids contained stop codons in the signal sequence region. However, clones containing no stop codon were recovered when the signal sequence and the 5'UTR were cloned separately.

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A $G_{4}$ Sequence within PHR1 Promoter Acts as a Gate for Cross-Talks between Damage-Signaling Pathway and Multi-Stress Response

  • Jang, Yeun-Kyu;Kim, Eun-Mi;Park, Sang-Dai
    • Animal cells and systems
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.271-275
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    • 2002
  • Rph1 and Gisl are damage-responsive repressors involved in PHR1 expression. They have two $C_{2}$H/ sub 2/ zinc finger motifs as putative DNA binding domains and N-terminal conserved domain with unknown function. They are also found in the human retinoblastoma binding protein 2 and the mouse jumonji- encoded protein. The repressors are able to bind to A $G_{4}$ sequence within a 39-bp sequence called upstream repressing sequence of PHR1 promoter (UR $S_{PHR1}$) responsible for the damage-response of PHR1. We report here that Rph1 is predominantly localized in the nucleus as examined by fluorescence microscopic analysis with GFP-Rph1 fusion protein. On the basis of the fact that the A $G_{4}$ sequence that is recognized by Rph1 and Gisl is also recognized by Msn2 and Msn4 in a process of stress response, we a1so tried to examine the in vivo function of A $G_{4}$ and the role of Msn2 and Msn4 in PHR1 expression. Our results demonstrate that Msn2 and Msn4 are actually required for the basal transcription of PHR1 expression but not for its damage induction. When A $G_{4}$ sequence was inserted into the minimal promoter of the cyc1-LacZ reporter, the increased LacZ expression was observed indicating its involvement in transcriptional activation. The data suggest that the A $G_{4}$ is primarily required for basal transcriptional activation of PHR1 or CYC1 promoter through the possible involvement of Msn2 and Msn4. However, since the A $G_{4}$ is also involved in the repression of PHR1 via Rphl and Gisl, it is proposed that A $G_{4}$ functions as either URS or upstream activating sequence (UAS) depending on the promoter context.t.

ON THE k-LUCAS NUMBERS VIA DETERMINENT

  • Lee, Gwang-Yeon;Lee, Yuo-Ho
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.28 no.5_6
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    • pp.1439-1443
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    • 2010
  • For a positive integer k $\geq$ 2, the k-bonacci sequence {$g^{(k)}_n$} is defined as: $g^{(k)}_1=\cdots=g^{(k)}_{k-2}=0$, $g^{(k)}_{k-1}=g^{(k)}_k=1$ and for n > k $\geq$ 2, $g^{(k)}_n=g^{(k)}_{n-1}+g^{(k)}_{n-2}+{\cdots}+g^{(k)}_{n-k}$. And the k-Lucas sequence {$l^{(k)}_n$} is defined as $l^{(k)}_n=g^{(k)}_{n-1}+g^{(k)}_{n+k-1}$ for $n{\geq}1$. In this paper, we give a representation of nth k-Lucas $l^{(k)}_n$ by using determinant.

Expression and Production of Human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) in Silkworm Cell Line (누에세포를 이용한 인간 G-CSF의 발현 및 생산)

  • Park, Jeong-Hae;Jang, Ho-Jung;Kang, Seok-Woo;Goo, Tae-Won;Chung, Kyung-Tae
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.1577-1581
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    • 2010
  • Granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) is a hematopoietic cytokine that stimulates bone marrow cells to proliferate and differentiate into granulocytes. G-CSF is approved and used for therapeutic purposes. The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) signal peptide of hG-CSF was replaced with silkworm-specific signal peptides to express and efficiently secrete recombinant hG-CSF by silkworm cells. Plasmids that contain cDNAs for hG-CSF and hG-CSF fused with silkworm- specific signal peptides of prophenoloxidase activating enzyme (PPAE), protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), and bombyxin (BX) were constructed. The G-CSF protein was expressed in insect cell line BM5 and was detected by western blot analysis. The cells transfected with plasmids containing rhG-CSF genes with silkworm-specific signal sequences released mature rhG-CSF protein more efficiently than the cells transfected with pG-CSF, the plasmid containing human G-CSF gene, including its own signal sequence. The production of hG-CSF reached maximal level at four days post-transfection and remained at a high level until 7 days post-transfection. These data demonstrate that the modification of the human G-CSF mimic to insect proteins synthesized in ER greatly improves the production of the protein.

LOCALIZATION PROPERTY AND FRAMES

  • HA, YOUNG-HWA;RYU, JU-YEON
    • Honam Mathematical Journal
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.233-241
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    • 2005
  • A sequence $\{f_i\}^{\infty}_{i=1}$ in a Hilbert space H is said to be exponentially localized with respect to a Riesz basis $\{g_i\}^{\infty}_{i=1}$ for H if there exist positive constants r < 1 and C such that for all i, $j{\in}N$, ${\mid}{\mid}{\leq}Cr^{{\mid}i-j{\mid}}$ and ${\mid}{\mid}{\leq}Cr^{{\mid}i-j{\mid}}$ where $\{{\tilde{g}}_i\}^{\infty}_{i=1}$ is the dual basis of $\{g_i\}^{\infty}_{i=1}$. It can be shown that such sequence is always a Bessel sequence. We present an additional condition which guarantees that $\{f_i\}^{\infty}_{i=1}$ is a frame for H.

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Nucleotide Sequence of the Penicillin G Acylase Gene from Bacillus megaterium and Characteristics of the Enzyme (Bacillus megaterium에서 발견된 Penicillin G Acylse 유전자의 염기서열과 그 효소의 특성)

  • Gang, Ju-Hyeon;Kim, Seong-Jae;Park, Yong-Chjun;Hwang, Young;Yoo, Ook-Joon;Kim, Young-Chang
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.215-221
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    • 1994
  • The complete nucleotide sequence of the cloned pga gene encoding the penicillin G acylase of Bacillus megaterium ATCC 14945 and its 5'- and 3'-flanking regions was determined. The sequence revealed only one large open reading frame (2,406 hp) of the penicillin G acylase (pga) gene. Upstream from ATG of the pga gene, there was a putative ribosome binding site, Shine-Dalgarno sequence. The promoter-like structure, - 10 and - 35 sequences, was also found. Following the stop codon, TAG, a structure reminiscent of the E. coli rho-independent transcription terminator was present. The amino acid sequence was deduced from the nucleotide sequence. The molecular mass of the polypeptide was 91,983 Da. There was a potential signal sequence in its amino-terminal region. A comparison of its deduced amino acid sequence with other characterized penicillin G acylases and the result of SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the purified enzyme showed that a precursor polypeptide of 92 kDa was processed into two dissimilar ${\alpha}$ and ${\beta}$-subunits of 25 and 61 kDa.

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