SCABP8/CBL10, a Putative Calcium Sensor, Interacts with the Protein Kinase...

Plant Cell;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Arabidopsis thaliana. Under salt stress, the calcium sensor SOS3 activates the kinase SOS2 that...SOS3. SOS3 encodes an EF hand-type calcium sensor with an /V-myristoylation signal peptide...seems plausible that an additional calcium sensor(s) may exist to regulate SOS2 in shoot...

Enzyme-Catalyzed Modification of Oilseed Materials to Produce Eco-Friendly...

JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......reviews the biochemistry of enzymes in lipid modification (lipases, phospholipases, and lipoxygenases...recent conference entitled Enzymes in Lipid Modification was held in 2003 in Greifswald, Germany...to be used. BIOCATALYSTS USED FOR LIPID MODIFICATION Lipases (EC 3.1.1.3). ...

Combination Drug to Treat Cholesterol Disorders.(Brief Article)

American Family Physician;  March 15, 2002 ;     63 words ......cholesterol disorders. It is indicated for use in patients with hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia who have been previously treated with either component and who require more lipid modification than was achieved by the individual components.

Dual Lipid Modification of Arabidopsis G[gamma]-Subunits Is Required for...

Plant Physiology;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......cells. However, the functional interrelationships between lipid modification processes in plants remain unclear. Here we demonstrate...for each other in plants and suggest that differential lipid modification plays an important regulatory role in plant protein localization...

Characterization of Lipases and Esterases from Metagenomes for Lipid...

JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......of fatty-acid saturation [1]. They are widely used in lipid modification, but have also found numerous applications in other areas...acid selectivities and their potential application in lipid modification. Experimental Procedures Lipases and Chemicals All 350...

The Facilitated Probability of Quantal Secretion within an Array of...

Biophysical Journal;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......ms) if exocytosis is triggered by a calcium-sensor molecule with relatively low affinity...1980). Thus a single low-affinity calcium sensor molecule cannot account for the relatively...introduction of schemes in which two calcium sensor molecules, one with low and the other...

Measurement of membrane binding between recoverin, a calcium-myristoyl...

Biophysical Journal;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......transduction pathway, the Ca^sup 2+^-myristoyl switch acts as a calcium sensor involved in cell recovery from photoactivation. Ca^sup 2...Structure and calcium-binding properties of Frq1, a novel calcium sensor in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochemistry. 39...

Ca^sup 2+^-dependent Regulation of Phototransduction[dagger]

Photochemistry and Photobiology;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......cyclase-activating proteins (GCAPs) belong to the neuronal calcium sensor (NCS) family and are responsible for activating retinal...Ca^sup 2+^ from the cell (10). Retina-specific neuronal calcium sensor (NCS) proteins bind Ca^sup 2+^ at the higher concentrations...

The Role of Calsequestrin, Triadlin, and Junctin in Conferring Cardiac...

Biophysical Journal;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......calsequestrin (CSQ), triadin 1, and junctin in forming the luminal calcium sensor for the cardiac RyR. Recordings of single RyR channels incorporated...sensing remain unknown. One possibility is that the luminal calcium sensor is a part of the RyR protein itself. Alternatively, auxiliary...

Experts discover how calcium helps cells communicate

The Hindustan Times;  July 31, 2008 ;     335 words ......to sense and respond to its fluctuations long remained a mystery. Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers have discovered how calcium sensor protein calmodulin can gauge both the local flow of calcium, through the closest channel, as well as global calcium flow...

Cellular characterization of adenylate kinase and its isoform: Two-photon...

Biophysical Journal;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......hypothesized that these residues serve as a signal for protein lipid modification and targeting of the protein to the plasma membrane. To...additional residues might serve as a signal for protein lipid modification and targeting of the protein to the plasma membrane, based...

From catalytic selectivity to mouthfeel

International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials : INFORM;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The tremendous potential for using enzymes in oil and lipid modification is becoming increasingly obvious to industries as diverse as the chocolate, oil, margarine, fuel and pharmaceutical industries...

Swiss Inventor Develops Neuronal Calcium Sensor-1 Agonist Identification...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 18, 2007 ;     271 words ......identifying an agonist of neuronal calcium sensor-1 (NCS-1). According to the U.S. Patent...is an agonist of the neuron-specific calcium sensor-1 (NCS-1), for consideration of an...conditions to permit neuron-specific calcium sensor-1 (NCS-1) activity; and determining...

CIPK3, a calcium sensor-associated protein kinase that regulates abscisic...

Plant Cell;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......action in these pathways. Here, we show that CIPK3, a Ser/Thr protein kinase that associates with a calcineurin B-like calcium sensor, regulates ABA response during seed germination and ABA- and stress-induced gene expression in Arabidopsis. The expression...

The Calcium Sensor Calcineurin B-Like 9 Modulates Abscisic Acid...

Plant Cell;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......showed enhanced expression of genes involved in ABA signaling, such as ABA-INSENSITIVE 4 and 5. This study has identified a calcium sensor as a common element in the ABA signaling and stress-induced ABA biosynthesis pathways. INTRODUCTION The plant hormone abscisic...