Many antibiotics inhibit the growth of sensitive bacteria by interfering with ribosome function. However, discovery of new protein synthesis inhibitors is curbed by the lack of facile techniques capable of readily identifying antibiotic target sites and modes of action. Furthermore, the frequent rediscovery of known antibiotic scaffolds, especially in natural product extracts, is time-consuming...

fusion of two genes at dna level produces a single protein, known as a chimeric protein. immunotoxins are chimeric proteins composed of specific cell targeting and cell killing moieties. bacterial or plant toxins are commonly used as the killing moieties of the chimeric immunotoxins. in this investigation, the catalytic domain of shiga-like toxin (a1) was fused to human granulocyte macrophage c...

Chlamydia trachomatis triggers reactive arthritis, a spondyloarthropathy linked to the human major histocompatibility complex molecule HLA-B27, through an unknown mechanism that might involve molecular mimicry between chlamydial and self-derived HLA-B27 ligands. Chlamydia-specific CD8(+) T-cells are found in reactive arthritis patients, but the immunogenic epitopes are unknown. A previous scree...

Rat hepatic triglyceride lipase was expressed as a bacterial fusion protein and as a secreted protein in eukaryotic cells. The bacterial fusion construct coded for seven amino acids at the N-terminus which are not present in the hepatic lipase cDNA, but otherwise consisted of only the complete mature lipase sequence. Fusion protein was isolated as an insoluble product which did not have lipase ...

As part of a trend toward healthy convenience foods, ready-to-eat (RTE) mixed-ingredient salads have become popular products among consumers. A mixed-ingredient salad contains combinations of raw (e.g. leafy vegetables and tomatoes) and processed (e.g. chicken, salmon, ham, pasta and couscous) ingredients. Contamination of leafy vegetables can occur during any step in the production chain and, ...

4. SEALING OF DNA FRAGMENTS 219 4.1. E. coli DNA ligase 4.2. Bacteriophage T 4 gene 30 protein 4.3. Mammalian DNA ligases I and II C O N F O R M A T I O N A L CHANGES OF DNA DURING REPLICATION 220 5.1. E. coli HDP 5.2. Bacteriophage-coded HDPs — T 4 gene 32 protein —T7 HDP —fd gene V protein 5.3. Eukaryotic HDPs 5.4. Bacterial DNA topoisomerases —Swivelases —DNA gyrase 5.5. Bacteriophage-coded ...

A set of conserved, or common, bacterial nodulation (nod) loci is required for host plant infection by Rhizobium melioti and other Rhizobium species. Four such genes, nodDABC, have beeii indicated in R. meliloti 021'by genetic analysis and DNA sequencing. An essential step toward Iunderstanding the function of these genes is to characterize their protein products. We used in vitro and maxicell ...

The gene for protein D, a membrane-associated protein with specific affinity for human immunoglobulin D, was cloned from a nontypeable strain of Haemophilus influenzae. The gene was expressed in Escherichia coli from an endogenous promoter, and the gene product has an apparent molecular weight equal to that of H. influenzae protein D (42,000). The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for pr...