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However, any debate on this subject is redundant for two reasons. The first is that the changes in the reversing signal can easily be compensated for using the following correction. 

A central tool for signal transmission in a cell is phosphorylation of proteins via protein kinases. Proteins can be reversibly activated or inactivated via phosphorylation. The phosphorylation status of a protein is controlled by the activity of both protein kinases and protein phosphatases (see chapter 7). Both classes of enzymes are elementary components of signaling pathways and their activity is subject to manifold regulation. 

Ohtsuru et al. (25) have recently investigated the behavior of phosphatidylcholine in a model system that simulated soy milk. They used spin-labelled phosphatidylcholine (PC ) synthesized from egg lysolecithin and 12-nitroxide stearic acid anhydride. The ESR spectrum of a mixture of PC (250 yg) and native soy protein (20 mg) homogenized in water by sonication resembled that observed for PC alone before sonication. However, when PC (250 yg) was sonicated in the presence of heat-denatured soy protein (20 mg), splitting of the ESR signal occurred. On this basis, they postulated the existence of two phases PC making up a fluid lamella phase and PC immobilized probably due to the hydrophobic interaction with the denatured protein. In a study of a soy-milk model, Ohtsuru et al. (25) reported that a ternary protein-oil-PC complex occurred when the three materials were subjected to sonication under the proper condition. Based on data from the ESR study, a schematic model has been proposed for the reversible formation-deformation of the ternary complex in soy milk (Figure 2). 

Recently, several studies suggested that protein nitration could be a cellular signaling mechanism and is often a reversible and selective process, similar to protein phosphorylation (Aulak et al., 2004 Koeck et al., 2004). In addition, modified proteins are believed to be either degraded or subject to processes that could lead to enzymatic denitration (Gow et al., 1996 Kamisaki et al., 1998 Me et al., 2003). The latter possibility is intriguing because this would allow the process of tyrosine nitration to be reversible and thus enable a more dynamic physiological role. Protein nitration is observed under normal conditions in all tissues. In AD brain levels of nitrated proteins were found to be increased compared to that of control (Smith et al.. 

There are two major ways of control. One mechanism involves reversible covalent modifications, such as phosphorylation dephosphorylation, the other requires conformational transitions by binding an allosteric ligand or regulator protein. It follows an example of regulation of an enzyme, of which the activity is subject to control by both mechanisms, then we compare the regulation of an enzyme with regulation of components of cellular signalling pathways, of which many have no enzymic activity. 

Nakamura et al. [42] developed a simple and rapid semi-micro colunm HPLC method with UV detection for the simultaneous determination of lornoxicam and other oxicams in human blood samples. The drugs including isoxicam as an internal standard were extracted from buffered plasma samples (pH 3) with dichloromethane and the resulting extracts were subjected to HPLC analysis. The separation was performed with a Ci8 reversed-phase semi-micro column (25 cm x 1.5 mm, 5 pm) at 35 °C. The mobile phase used was a mixture of acetonitrile-0.1 M acetate buffer (pH 5)-methanol, and the detection wavelength was set at 365 nm. The drugs were separated within 30 min without interference by the blood components. The detection limits of lornoxicam were 6.4 ng/ml in serum and 9.3 ng/ml in plasma at a signal-to-noise ratio of 3. The method was applied to the determination of lornoxicam in the sera of the patients. 

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