DNA from Ehrlich ascites tumor (EAT) cells and from human placenta was examined for covalent bonds between hydroxy amino acid residues in peptides and nucleotide phosphate groups. The residual proteinaceous material in highly purified DNA was radiolabelled with 125Iodine and the linking-groups between peptides and nucleotides released by combined protease and nuclease treatment were investigate...

Polyclonal antibodies against the Hop1 phospho-T318 and phospho-S298 were obtained as following: The α-pT318 polyclonal antibody [Cambridge Research Biochemicals] was obtained by immunising two rabbits with the antigenic [C]-Ahx-ASIQP-[pT]-QFVSN where C is a cysteine residue added at the N-terminus of the peptide, Ahx is aminohexanoicacid and pT is a phosphorylated threonine residue. Upon bleed...

In the structural-based mutagenesis of Mucor pusillus pepsin (MPP), understanding how κ-casein interacts with MPP is a great challenge for us to explore. Chymosin-sensitive peptide is the key domain of κ-casein that regulates milk clotting through the specific proteolytic cleavage of its peptide bond (Phe¹⁰⁵-Met¹⁰⁶) by MPP to produce insoluble para-κ-casein. Here, we built the model of this lar...

The aggregation of cellular intermediate filaments is an important step in the terminal differentiation of keratinocytes. It has been shown that epidermal filaggrin can cause intermediate filaments to aggregate in vitro and may also have the same function in vivo. Filaggrin is derived via dephosphorylation and proteolysis from a highly phosphorylated precursor, profilaggrin, which is found in t...

The Nand C-terminal segments of bovine αs1-caseinB (f1-23 and f136-196) were characterized under conditions that promoted or inhibited self-association to determine the relative contributions of each fragment to the interaction of αs1-casein with itself or with other caseins. In earlier studies of f1-23, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data and circular dichroism (CD) spectra showed that its c...

Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive, malignant brain tumor that inevitably develops resistance to conventional chemotherapy and radiation treatments. In order to identify signaling pathways involved in the development of radiation resistance, we performed mass spectrometry-based phospho-proteomic profiling of GBM cell lines and normal human astrocytes before and after radiation treatment. We fo...

Posttranslational modification by phosphorylation is a ubiquitous regulatory mechanism in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Intracellular phosphorylation by protein kinases, triggered in response to extracellular signals, provides a mechanism for the cell to switch on or switch off many diverse processes. These processes include metabolic pathways, kinase cascade activation, membrane transport, ...

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is characterized by epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) overexpression, where EGFR levels correlate with survival. To date, EGFR targeting has shown limited antitumor effects in head and neck cancer when administrated as monotherapy. We previously identified a gastrin-releasing peptide/gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRP/GRPR) aurocrine regu...

The use of 4,4-difluoro-5,7-dimethyl-4-bora-3a, 4a-diaza-s-indacene-3-propionic acid (BODIPY-FL) labeled casein in autoquenching assays of proteolytic activity has been recently described, and we have adapted this assay to measurement of calpain activity. BODIPY-FL coupled to casein at a ratio of 8 mol of BODIPY-FL/mol of casein or higher produces a BODIPY-FL-casein substrate that can be used i...