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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Nonprofit•Melbourne, Victoria, Australia•
About: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research is a nonprofit organization based out in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Antigen & Immune system. The organization has 5012 authors who have published 10620 publications receiving 873561 citations.
Topics: Antigen, Immune system, Population, T cell, Plasmodium falciparum
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TL;DR: A direct role for ADF/cofilin is indicated in the generation of the barbed ends that are required for lamellipod extension in response to EGF stimulation.
Abstract: In metastatic rat mammary adenocarcinoma cells, cell motility can be induced by epidermal growth factor. One of the early events in this process is the massive generation of actin barbed ends, which elongate to form filaments immediately adjacent to the plasma membrane at the tip of the leading edge. As a result, the membrane moves outward and forms a protrusion. To test the involvement of ADF/cofilin in the stimulus-induced barbed end generation at the leading edge, we inhibited ADF/cofilin's activity in vivo by increasing its phosphorylation level using the kinase domain of LIM-kinase 1 (GFP-K). We report here that expression of GFP-K in rat cells results in the near total phosphorylation of ADF/cofilin, without changing either the G/F-actin ratio or signaling from the EGF receptor in vivo. Phosphorylation of ADF/cofilin is sufficient to completely inhibit the appearance of barbed ends and lamellipod protrusion, even in the continued presence of abundant G-actin. Coexpression of GFP-K, together with an active, nonphosphorylatable mutant of cofilin (S3A cofilin), rescues barbed end formation and lamellipod protrusion, indicating that the effects of kinase expression are caused by the phosphorylation of ADF/cofilin. These results indicate a direct role for ADF/cofilin in the generation of the barbed ends that are required for lamellipod extension in response to EGF stimulation.
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TL;DR: To investigate the molecular basis of the selectivity of certain BH3-only ligands, the solution structure of the C-terminal Bcl-2-like domain of Mcl-1 was determined and mutagenesis of potential binding site residues was used to probe the contributions of groove residues to the binding properties of M cl-1.
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TL;DR: It is shown that after UV radiation, MIHA prevented apoptosis by inhibiting caspases 9 and caspase 3 activation and DIABLO bound to MIHA and disrupted its association with processed caspasing, thereby allowing caspased 9 to activate casp enzyme 3, resulting in apoptosis.
Abstract: MIHA is an inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) that can inhibit cell death by direct interaction with caspases, the effector proteases of apoptosis. DIABLO is a mammalian protein that can bind to IAPs and antagonize their antiapoptotic effect, a function analogous to that of the proapoptotic Drosophila molecules, Grim, Reaper, and HID. Here, we show that after UV radiation, MIHA prevented apoptosis by inhibiting caspase 9 and caspase 3 activation. Unlike Bcl-2, MIHA functioned after release of cytochrome c and DIABLO from the mitochondria and was able to bind to both processed caspase 9 and processed caspase 3 to prevent feedback activation of their zymogen forms. Once released into the cytosol, DIABLO bound to MIHA and disrupted its association with processed caspase 9, thereby allowing caspase 9 to activate caspase 3, resulting in apoptosis.
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TL;DR: It is defined for the first time a novel posttranslational modification that is required for T cell recognition of the insulin A-chain in T1D.
Abstract: The autoimmune process that destroys the insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells in type 1 diabetes (T1D) is targeted at insulin and its precursor, proinsulin. T cells that recognize the proximal A-chain of human insulin were identified recently in the pancreatic lymph nodes of subjects who had T1D. To investigate the specificity of proinsulin-specific T cells in T1D, we isolated human CD4(+) T cell clones to proinsulin from the blood of a donor who had T1D. The clones recognized a naturally processed, HLA DR4-restricted epitope within the first 13 amino acids of the A-chain (A1-13) of human insulin. T cell recognition was dependent on the formation of a vicinal disulfide bond between adjacent cysteine residues at A6 and A7, which did not alter binding of the peptide to HLA DR4. CD4(+) T cell clones that recognized this epitope were isolated from an HLA DR4(+) child with autoantibodies to insulin, and therefore, at risk for T1D, but not from two healthy HLA DR4(+) donors. We define for the first time a novel posttranslational modification that is required for T cell recognition of the insulin A-chain in T1D.
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Martin White | 196 | 2038 | 232387 |
Stuart H. Orkin | 186 | 715 | 112182 |
Tien Yin Wong | 160 | 1880 | 131830 |
Mark J. Smyth | 153 | 713 | 88783 |
Anne B. Newman | 150 | 902 | 99255 |
James P. Allison | 137 | 483 | 83336 |
Scott W. Lowe | 134 | 396 | 89376 |
Rajkumar Buyya | 133 | 1066 | 95164 |
Peter Hall | 132 | 1640 | 85019 |
Ralph L. Brinster | 131 | 382 | 56455 |
Nico van Rooijen | 130 | 513 | 62623 |
David A. Hafler | 128 | 558 | 64314 |
Andreas Strasser | 128 | 509 | 66903 |
Marc Feldmann | 125 | 663 | 64916 |
Herman Waldmann | 118 | 586 | 49942 |