• br Conclusions The PQQ dependent CcPDH is the

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  Conclusions The PQQ-dependent CcPDH is the first PQQ-dependent enzyme identified in eukaryotes. The PQQ cofactor binds the enzyme with high affinity, reflected in a Kd of 1.1 nM, and the enzyme oxidizes 2KG, l-fucose, and rare sugars such as d-arabinose and l-galactose. The AA8 cytochrome b domai

• NE 100 hydrochloride mg br Materials and methods br Acknowle

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  Materials and methods Acknowledgements SD was supported by a pre-doctoral research fellowship from the Flanders Agency for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO-Flanders, Belgium). YB is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, Belgium). We thank Isabelle

• The levels of circulating pro inflammatory cytokines are

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  The levels of circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines are markedly elevated in ESRD, and have been speculated to play an important role as causative factors in a number of uremic complications [37]. The impairment of phagocyte functions and deregulated cytokine productions are highly prevalent in CRF

• Citrus plants are of great interest because they contain

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  Citrus plants are of great interest because they contain large amounts of flavonoids, and citrus fruits and their juices are consumed in large quantities around the world [18]. The flavonoid contents and profiles of citrus juices vary greatly with the type of fruit. It has been determined that citru

• IL is not expressed in tissues constitutively because of

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  IL-8 is not expressed in tissues constitutively because of its strong chemoattractant, proinflammatory, and angiogenic activities. Rather, it is an inducible factor, produced by a variety of cell types, including leukocytes, fibroblasts, endothelial and epithelial cells, in response to proinflammato

• Apart from neutrophil mediated inflammation the production o

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  Apart from neutrophil-mediated inflammation, the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines from PGD2/CRTH2 activated macrophages could further aggravate LPS-induced lung injury (Eguchi et al., 2011; Jandl et al., 2016). Interestingly, genetic ablation of CRTH2 diminishes the TNF-α prod

• One strategy which is different

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  One strategy which is different from the above is to isolate a similar enzyme to the one under study which will not be recognized by the antibody of the original protein. This approach will lead to prolonging an enzyme’s activity. For example, a novel variant of Carboxypeptidase G2 (CPG2), which has

• The enzyme cyclooxygenase COX or

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  The enzyme cyclooxygenase (COX) or prostaglandin endoperoxide H synthase (PGHS) is the key enzyme in the conversion of arachidonic MLN 2480 receptor (AA) into prostaglandins (PGs) [1]. In 1991, researchers found that there were two isoforms of this enzyme called COX-1 and COX-2 with independent gen

• It is interesting that of the control groups female TG

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  It is interesting that of the control groups, female TG controls only had significantly higher MB-COMT protein than non-TG male controls (Supplemental Table 9, P = 0.005), while these two groups have almost equal expression of S-COMT protein (8.54- vs. 8.34-fold) and their COMT enzyme activity is al

• br Materials and methods br Results Recombinant N terminally

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  Materials and methods Results Recombinant, N-terminally His6-tagged vCPH was purified to near homogeneity via a modification of the reported procedure and its identity confirmed by intact protein mass spectrometry (Supplementary Fig. 1). As reported, vCPH catalysed two hydroxylations of a PAPK

• The immune control of CMV replication in vivo is

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  The immune control of CMV replication in vivo is primarily driven by the T-cell-mediated response, a characteristic that has been proposed as a tool to individualize and therefore to optimize antiviral treatment [6], [7], and it has been associated with spontaneous clearance of CMV viraemia in patie

• Prenylation may turn a flavonoid from

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  Prenylation may turn a flavonoid from an agonist to an antagonist and improve the selectivity to both ERs depending on the position of the substitution. C-8 prenylation appears to promote antagonism to a larger extent than C-6 in ERα due to steric hindrance against generation of agonistic conformati

• Prostaglandin E PGE is involved in several biological proces

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  Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is involved in several biological processes such as renal function, inflammation, angiogenesis, and tumor growth. The various biological effects of PGE2 are mediated by the so-called E-type prostanoid receptors (EP1 to EP4). Among these, the EP4 receptor has been well studied

• br Acknowledgements We would like to thank Dr Ron

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  Acknowledgements We would like to thank Dr Ron Mason (NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC) for helpful discussion regarding the analysis of CCl4 metabolism, to Dr Karla Thrall and Dr Rick Corley (Battelle) for helpful discussions regarding study design and data interpretation, and to Jim Merdink an

• br Genes involved in oxysterol metabolism

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  Genes involved in oxysterol metabolism The main enzymes that participate in the metabolism of oxysterols generally belong into one of two groups: transferases or oxidoreductases [22]. The following chapter describes those genes of oxysterol metabolism whose polymorphisms have been associated with

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