Amino acid residues encoded

EDS VII is a combination of classical and vascular EDS caused mostly by in-frame deletions of 18 or 24 amino acid residues encoding exon-6 of COL1A1 or COL1A2, the downstream splice site for procollagen N-peptidase. Mutations of procollagen N-peptidase (Sect. 8.2.1, Fig. 8.5) also cause this form of EDS. 

TBP binds with high affinity to the TATA box present in many RNA pol II promoters (Figure 24 6), and amino-acid residues encoding the DNA binding domain of TBP have evolutionarily been conserved from archaebacteria to humans. 

The genetic code, regardless of whether it is a product of a "frozen accident" [1] or a deterministic interaction between the nucleotides and the amino acids [2], displays an apparent correlation between the nucleotides found at particular codon positions and the physico-chemical properties of the protein amino acid residues encoded by the nucleotides [2-10]. A variety of analytical methods have been employed to quantitatively examine these relationships. SjdstrOm and Wold [5], for example, have used Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to relate twenty physical properties of the amino acids to the genetic code. They find that 58% of the variance in the data can be accounted for by considering just three factors. In order of importance, the predominant contributions are 1) hydrophobicity, 2) molar volume, and 3) electronic descriptors (e.g. pKgS and NMR chemical shifts). Fig. 1 presents a concise display of... 

Biosynthesis. Two closely related genes encode the three mammalian tachykinins. The preprotachykinin A gene encodes both substance P and substance K, while the preprotachykinin B gene encodes neuromedin K (45—47). The active sequences are flanked by the usual double-basic amino acid residues, and the carboxy-terrninal amino acid is a glycine residue which is decarboxylated to an amide. As with most neuropeptide precursors, intermediates in peptide processing can be detected, but their biological activities are not clear (ca 1994). 

The unique characteristic of each protein is the distinctive sequence of amino acid residues in its polypeptide chain(s). Indeed, it is the amino acid sequence of proteins that is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of DNA. This amino acid sequence, then, is a form of genetic information. By convention, the amino acid sequence is read from the N-terminal end of the polypeptide chain through to the C-terminal end. As an example, every molecule of ribonucle-... 

A cDNA encoding apoobelin was obtained from O. longissima and sequenced (Illarionov et al., 1995). The deduced amino acid sequence of the apoobelin consists of 195 amino acid residues, with a calculated molecular mass of about 22.2 kDa, closely matching the apoproteins of other Ca2+-sensitive photoproteins such as aequorin from the jellyfish Aequorea (Inouye et al., 1985 Prasher et al., 1985) and clytin from the jellyfish Phialidium gregarium (Inouye and Tsuji, 1993). To obtain recombinant apoobelin, the cDNA encoding apoobelin was expressed in E. coli (Illarionov et al., 2000). The recombinant apoobelin produced was purified and converted into obelin by incubation with coelenterazine in the presence of molecular oxygen and 2-mercaptoethanol or dithioerythritol, as in the case of aequorin. 

This minimal K+ channel (MinK) encoded by KCNEl consists of 130 amino acid residues and has a single transmembrane segment. A slowly activating K+ current-induced MinK cRNA is expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Coexpression of KvLQTl with MinK induced a current that has characteristics similar to cardiac slowly activating delayed-rectifier K+ current, DCS, in contrast to DCR that has relative fast activation and is composed of hERG/MiRPl. 

Parkin is a ubiquitin ligase encoded by a gene affected in autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP). This gene is located on chromosome 6 and encodes a protein of 465 amino acid residues with moderate similarity to ubiquitin at the amino terminus and a RING-finger motif at the carboxy terminus. 

The Rieske protein in mitochondrial bci complexes is assembled when the protein is incorporated into the complex. The Rieske protein is encoded in the nucleus and synthesized in the cytosol with a mitochondrial targeting presequence, which is required to direct the apoprotein to the mitochondrial matrix. The C-terminus is then targeted back to the outside of the inner mitochondrial membrane where the Rieske cluster is assembled. In addition, the presequence is removed and the protein is processed to its mature size after the protein is inserted into the bci complex. In mammals, the presequence is cleaved in a single step by the core proteins 1 and 2, which are related to the general mitochondrial matrix processing protease (MPP) a and (3 subunits the bovine heart presequence is retained as a 8.0 kDa subunit of the complex (42, 107). In Saccharomyces cerevis-iae, processing occurs in two steps Initially, the yeast MPP removes 22 amino acid residues to convert the precursor to the intermediate form, and then the mitochondrial intermediate protease (MIP) removes 8 residues after the intermediate form is in the bci complex (47). Cleavage by MIP is independent of the assembly of the Rieske cluster Conversion of the intermediate to the mature form was observed in a yeast mutant that did not assemble any Rieske cluster (35). However, in most mutants where the assembly of the Rieske cluster is prevented, the amount of Rieske protein is drastically reduced, most likely because of instability (35, 44). 

Although carotenogenesis in plants takes place in plastids, all of the carotenoid biosynthesis genes are nuclear encoded and their polypeptide products are imported into the plastids. Therefore, they contain a N-terminal transit peptide sequence. For example, the size of the transit peptide of PSY from ripe tomato fruit is approximately 9 kDa, corresponding to about 80 amino acid residues (Misawa et al, 1994). 

In humans, the structural gene locus is on chromosome 19 (M17), and the gene spans over 40 kilobases (kb) including 18 exons and 17 introns (W2, X2). Neu-roleukin, a protein that acts as both a neurotrophic factor and a lymphokine, has been isolated from mouse salivary glands (G7), and subsequently the primary structure of neuroleukin was found to be identical to that of GPI by comparison of the cDNA sequences (C7, FI). The cDNA sequence encodes 558 amino acid residues. The enzyme consists of two identical subunits with a molecular weight of approximately 63,000 and neuroleukin is active as a monomer. 

Urinary proteins were analyzed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), and a 70-kDa protein was identified as the major component of cat urine (Fig. 4.1 A). Comparative analysis of urinary proteins in several other mammals such as humans, mice, dogs, and cattle did not detect a 70-kDa protein. Therefore, the 70-kDa protein was purified from cat urine and characterized by biochemical methods (Miyazaki, Kamiie, Soeta, Taira and Yamashita 2003). Analysis of tissue distribution indicated that the 70-kDa protein is expressed in the kidney in a tissue-specific manner and secreted from the proximal straight tubular cells of the kidney into the urine (Fig. 4.IB). A full-length cDNA for a 70-kDa protein was cloned from a cat kidney cDNA library. The cDNA clone encoded a polypeptide of 545 amino acid residues. The deduced amino acid sequence shared 47% identity with cat carboxylesterase (CES, EC 3.1.1.1), and contained both the CES family protein motif (EDCLY) and a conserved active site motif (GESAG) associated with... 

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