P4-0127 — Annual report 2010
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Nuclear import impairment causes DNA-binding protein accumulation and is associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Trans-activation response DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) accumulation is the major component of ubiquitinated protein inclusions found in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Authors propose that cellular apoptosis susceptibility protein associated defective nuclear transport may play a mechanistic role in the pathogenesis of the TDP-43 positive frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

COBISS.SI-ID: 23645223
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Versatile loops in mycocypins inhibit three protease families

Mycocypins inhibit their target cysteine protease by a unique mechanism. The crystal structures of the complex of clitocypin with the papain-like cysteine protease cathepsin V and of macrocypin and clitocypin alone have revealed yet another motif of binding to papain like-cysteine proteases, which in a yet unrevealed way occludes the catalytic residue.

COBISS.SI-ID: 23263527
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Procoagulant properties of bare and highly PEGylated vinyl-modified silica nanoparticles

Undesired alterations of the blood clotting balance may follow the intravascular injection of nanotherapeutics/diagnostics. It was demonstrated that highly PEGylated ORMOSIL-NPs and PEGylated PLGA NPs were particularly averse to the interaction with the soluble factors and cellular elements that may lead to intravascular blood coagulation.

COBISS.SI-ID: 2846833
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Gamma-1-syntrophin mediates trafficking of gamma-enolase towards the plasma membrane and enhances its neurotrophic activity

Syntrophins are scaffold proteins that can bind signaling molecules and localize them to the plasma membrane. We demonstrate that in neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells, brain-specific ?1-syntrophin binds the neurotrophic factor ?-enolase through its PDZ domain, and translocates it to the plasma membrane. The cleavage of two amino acids at the C-terminal end of ?-enolase by cathepsin X prevents binding with the ?1-syntrophin PDZ domain and consequently, ?-enolase neurotrophic signalling.

COBISS.SI-ID: 2965617
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Comparison of isolation methods for the determination of buckwheat volatile compounds

Five different isolation techniques were combined with gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric determination of aroma compounds from buckwheat. Among all methods SDE was chosen as the most suitable technique to obtain the aroma compounds of cooked buckwheat.

COBISS.SI-ID: 33728005