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Recently, a new method for the specific covalent labeling of fusion proteins in vitro and in living cells has been developed. This method is based on the unusual mechanism of a DNA repair protein: the O6-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase (AGT). In addition ...
Groundwater contamination by organochloric compounds became a major concern for public health during the last century. Chloroethenes, commonly used since the 1920's as degreasing and cleaning agents and as intermediates in chemical synthesis, accumulated i ...
Homologues of Gpi8p, Gaa1p, Gpi16p, Gpi17p, and Cdc91p are essential components of the GPI transamidase complex that adds glycosylphosphatidylinositols (GPIs 1) to newly synthesized proteins in the ER. In mammalian cells, these five subunits remain stably ...
In contrast to most primary metabolism genes, the genes involved in secondary metabolism and certain nutrient utilization pathways are clustered in fungi. Recently a nuclear protein, LaeA, was found to be required for the transcription of several secondary ...
A review. Directed evolution consists of repetitive cycles of random mutagenesis of the protein/peptide sequence followed by screening or selection of candidates with desired properties. Many different approaches are used to introduce mutations into a gene ...
To clone novel type 1 Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase (BVMO) genes, we isolated or collected 25 bacterial strains able to grow on alicyclic compounds. Twelve of the bacterial strains yielded polymerase chain reaction (PCR) fragments with highly degenerate pr ...
Our group is working on the development of reliable access to biol. relevant, long, and modified RNA sequences. Here, we briefly present the chem. synthesis of such sequences with 2'-O-triisopropylsilyloxymethyl (= 2'-O-tom) protected ribonucleoside phosph ...
Neuronal ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase (UCH-L1) has been linked to Parkinson's disease (PD), the progression of certain nonneuronal tumors, and neuropathic pain. Certain lung tumor-derived cell lines express UCH-L1 but it is not expressed in normal lung t ...
The determination of the protonation state of enzyme active sites may be crucial for the investigation of their mechanism of action. In the bizinc beta-lactamase family of enzymes, no consensus has been reached on the protonation state of a fully conserved ...
Interleukin-6 mRNA is unstable and degraded with a half-life of 30 min. Instability determinants can entirely be attributed to the 3' untranslated region. By grafting segments of this region to stable green fluorescent protein mRNA and subsequent scanning ...
