Amino-terminal fragments of listeriolysin O (LLO) of 240 and 411 residues (fragments LLO240 and LLO411, respectively) were expressed in Escherichia coli as fusion polypeptides with maltose-binding protein (MBP) with the aim of producing specific antigens for use in serological tests. In Western blots (immunoblots) with crude bacterial extracts of the fusion polypeptides, the reactivities of MBP...

Mannan (mannose)-binding protein (MBP) is a C-type serum lectin that plays a key role in innate immunity. MBP forms large multimers (200-600 kDa) and exhibits broad specificity for mannose, N-acetylglucosamine, and fucose. MBP exhibits high affinity for unique oligosaccharides that have been isolated from human colorectal carcinoma (SW1116) cells and characterized as highly fucosylated high m.w...

Traditionally, myelin is viewed as insulation around axons, however, more recent studies have shown it also plays an important role in plasticity, axonal metabolism, and neuroimmune signaling. Myelin is a complex multi-protein structure composed of hundreds of proteins, with Myelin Basic Protein (MBP) being the most studied. MBP has two families: Classic-MBP that is necessary for activity drive...

Myostatin (MSTN) is a potent negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth. MSTN propeptide (MSTNpro) inhibits MSTN binding to its receptor through complex formation with MSTN, implying that MSTNpro can be a useful agent to improve skeletal muscle growth in meat-producing animals. Four different truncated forms of pig MSTNpro containing N-terminal maltose binding protein (MBP) as a fusion partne...

BACKGROUND mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) consists of orthograde fluid preparation to clean the bowel. MBP is considered to prevent postoperative complications. METHODS meta-analysis of prospective randomised clinical trials (RCT) evaluating MBP versus no MBP. RESULTS following a medline search we retrieved 15 prospective trials of which only 5 where RCT comparing MBP versus no MBP in e...

background: acanthamoeba keratitis develops by pathogenic acanthamoeba such as a. pal­es­tinen­sis . indeed this species is one of the known causative agents of amoebic keratitis in iran. mannose binding protein (mbp) is the main pathogenicity factors for developing this sight threatening disease. we aimed to characterize mbp gene in pathogenic acanthamoeba isolates such as a. palestinensis . m...

Human serum (MBP) and human recombinant (rMBP) mannose-binding protein bind to mannose-rich, serum-resistant Salmonella montevideo (SH5770), enhance C3 deposition, and render the organisms serum-sensitive. We investigated structural features of MBP necessary for this effect. MBP has a cysteine-rich amino-terminal region, a collagen-like region, and a carboxyl-terminal carbohydrate-recognition d...

Oligodendroglial Myelin Basic Protein (MBP) synthesis is essential for myelin formation in the central nervous system. During oligodendrocyte differentiation, MBP mRNA is kept in a translationally silenced state while intracellularly transported, until neuron-derived signals initiate localized MBP translation. Here we identify the small non-coding RNA 715 (sncRNA715) as an inhibitor of MBP tran...

Herrera, Victoria L. M., Aristides Tsikoudakis, Lorenz R. B. Ponce, Yuichi Matsubara, and Nelson Ruiz-Opazo. Sex-specific QTLs and interacting loci underlie salt-sensitive hypertension and target organ complications in Dahl S/jr hypertensive rats. Physiol Genomics 26: 172–179, 2006. First published May 23, 2006; doi:10.1152/physiolgenomics.00285.2005.—Sex-specific differences in polygenic (esse...

We have identified a myelin basic protein (MBP) isoform in mouse embryos that includes an exon upstream of the usual transcription initiation site. This isoform, embryonic-neonatal MBP (E-MBP), is expressed at the protein level in the embryonic nervous system at a time when other MBP isoforms are not detected. In addition to the central and peripheral nervous systems of the embryo and neonate, ...