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Blumenthal, Donald K. | In vivo evaluation of the delivery and efficacy of a sirolimus-laden polymer gel for inhibition of hyperplasia in a porcine model of arteriovenous hemodialysis graft stenosis | Synthetic arteriovenous (AV) hemodialysis grafts are plagued by hyperplasia resulting in occlusion and graft failure yet there are no clinically available preventative treatments. Here the delivery and degradation of a sirolimus-laden polymer gel were monitored in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging ... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Blumenthal, Donald K. | C subunits binding to the protein kinase A RI alpha dimer induce a large conformational change. | We present structural data on the RI alpha isoform of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase A that reveal, for the first time, a large scale conformational change within the RI alpha homodimer upon catalytic subunit binding. This result infers that the inhibition of catalytic subunit activity is not the... | Protein Kinase; cAMP | 2004-04-30 |
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Blumenthal, Donald K.; Wangsgard, Wendy P.; Meixell, Glenn E. | Activation and inhibition of phosphorylase kinase by monospecific antibodies raised against peptides from the regulatory domain of the gamma-subunit. | The C terminus of the catalytic gamma-subunit of phosphorylase kinase comprises a regulatory domain that contains regions important for subunit interactions and autoinhibitory functions. Monospecific antibodies raised against four synthetic peptides from this region, PhK1 (362-386), PhK5 (342-366), ... | Subunit Interaction; Autoinhibitory Functions; Immunology; Antagonists & Inhibitors | 1995-08-30 |
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Asche, Carl V. | Management of community-acquired respiratory tract infections in an era of increasing antibiotic resistance. | Community-acquired respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are prevalent conditions in U.S. and represent a major burden in health care. This article provides an overview of empirical antibiotic treatment options for patients with community-acquired RYIs, including newer classes of agents, such as the r... | Costs and Cost Analysis | 2006-02-01 |
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Digre, Kathleen B.; Warner, Judith E. A.; Bernstein, Paul S.; Alder, Stephen C. | Vitamin A in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with and without idiopathic intracranial hypertension | We quantified vitamin A in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, elevated intracranial pressure of other causes and normal intracranial pressure. Vitamin A could be detected by high-pressure liquid chromatography in most of the specimens. There was a signific... | Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Headache | 2002-11 |
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Asche, Carl V.; Jackson, Kenneth C 2nd; Oderda, Gary M. | Economic evaluations in pain management: principles and methods. | This paper describes how investigators may design, conduct, and report economic evaluations of pharmacotherapy for pain and symptom management. Because economic evaluation of therapeutic interventions is becoming increasingly important, there is a need for guidance on how economic evaluations can be... | Costs and Cost Analysis; Economics, Pharmaceutical | 2006 |
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Frederick, Jeanne M.; Thulin, Craig; Bernstein, Paul S. | Identification and characterization of a Pi isoform of glutathione S-transferase (GSTP1) as a zeaxanthin-binding protein in the macula of the human eye | Uptake, metabolism, and stabilization of xanthophyll carotenoids in the retina are thought to be mediated by specific xanthophyll-binding proteins (XBPs). A membrane-associated XBP was purified from human macula using ion-exchange chromatography followed by gel-exclusion chromatography. Two-dimensio... | Circular Dichroism; Isoelectric Focusing; Macula Lutea; Xanthophylls | 2004 |
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Blumenthal, Donald K. | Dephosphorylation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase regulatory subunit (type II) by calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase. Determinants of substrate specificity. | Calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase purified from bovine cardiac muscle catalyzed the rapid dephosphorylation of Ser-95 of bovine cardiac cAMP-dependent protein kinase regulatory subunit (RII). The kinetic constants determined for the reaction (Km = 20 microM; Vmax = 2 mumol min-1 mg-1) are com... | Metabolism; High Pressure Liquid; Enzymology | 1985-06-25 |
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Blumenthal, Donald K.; Underwood, Clayton J. | Adaptation of the protein kinase filter paper assay to a 96-well microtiter format. | The most widely used method for assaying protein kinase activities involves incorporation of radioactive phosphate into a protein or peptide substrate with subsequent binding or precipitaion of the radiolabeled substrate onto filter paper squares. We have adapted this assay for use with readily avai... | Protein Kinase Activities; Filter Papers; Radioactive Phosphate | 1999-02-01 |
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Blumenthal, Donald K. | Characterization of the calmodulin-binding and catalytic domains in skeletal muscle myosin light chain kinase. | Limited proteolysis has been utilized to study the structural organization of rabbit skeletal muscle myosin light chain kinase. The enzyme (Mr approximately 89,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) consists of an amino-terminal, protease-susceptible region of unidentified... | Enzymology; Skeletal Muscle; Proteolysis, Peptide Fragments | 1995-09-15 |
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Poulter, Charles Dale | Isopentenyl diphosphate:dimethylallyl diphosphate isomerase. An improved purification of the enzyme and isolation of the gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. | Isopentenyl diphosphate:dimethylallyl diphosphate isomerase (IPP isomerase) is an enzyme in the isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway which catalyzes the interconversion of the primary five-carbon homoallylic and allylic diphosphate building blocks. We report a substantially improved procedure for purific... | Amino Acid Sequence; Base Sequence; Chromatography, Gel; Chromatography, Ion Exchange | 1989-11-15 |
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Blumenthal, Donald K. | Gamma-subunit of skeletal muscle phosphorylase kinase contains two noncontiguous domains that act in concert to bind calmodulin. | Phosphorylase kinase is a Ca2+-regulated, multisubunit enzyme that contains calmodulin as an integral subunit (termed the delta-subunit). Ca2+-dependent activity of the enzyme is thought to be regulated by direct interaction of the delta-subunit with the catalytic subunit (the gamma-subunit) in the ... | Pharmacology; Metabolism; Enzymology | 1989-10-15 |
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Blumenthal, Donald K. | Characterization of the regulatory domain of the gamma-subunit of phosphorylase kinase. The two noncontiguous calmodulin-binding subdomains are also autoinhibitory. | Phosphorylase kinase is a multimeric protein kinase (alpha 4 beta 4 gamma 4 delta 4) whose enzymatic activity is conferred by its gamma-subunit. A library of 18 overlapping synthetic peptides spanning residues 277-386 of the gamma-subunit has been prepared to use in identifying important regulatory ... | Metabolism; Phosphorylase Kinase | 1995-09-22 |
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Poulter, Charles Dale; Davis, Darrell R. | 15N labeled e. coli tRNAMet, tRNAGlu, tRNATyr, and tRNAPhe. Double resonance and two dimensional NMR of H-N1 units in pseudouridine | The N1 imino units in Escherichia coli tRNAfMet, tRNAGlu, tRNAPhe, and tRNATyr were studied by 1H-15N NMR using three different techniques to suppress signals of protons not attached to 15N. Two of the procedures, Fourier internuclear difference spectroscopy and two-dimensional forbidden echo spectr... | Escherichia coli; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Nucleic acid conformation | 1985-08-15 |
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Hendee, Shonn P.; Faour, Fouad A.; Christensen, Douglas A.; Patrick, Baharah; Durney, Carl H.; Blumenthal, Donald K. | Effects of weak extremely low frequency magnetic fields on calcium/calmodulin interactions. | Mechanisms by which weak electromagnetic fields may affect biological systems are of current interest because of their potential health effects. Lednev has proposed an ion parametric resonance hypothesis (Lednev, 1991, Bioelectromagnetics, 12:71-75), which predicts that when the ac, frequency of a c... | Electromagnetic Fields; Calcium-binding Proteins; Lednev's Theory | 1996-06 |
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Blumenthal, Donald K. | Phosphorylation of cardiac troponin by guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate-dependent protein kinase. | Homogeneous cGMP-dependent protein kinase catalyzes the rapid incorporation of phosphate, specifically into the inhibitory subunit of purified cardiac troponin with a maximal incorporation of 1 mol of phosphate/mol of troponin. When troponin was incubated in the presence of both cGMP- and cAMP-depen... | Protein Kinases | 1978-01-25 |
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Bernstein, Paul S. | HPLC measurement of ocular carotenoid levels in human donor eyes in the lutein supplementation era. | PURPOSE: A substantial proportion of the population at risk for visual loss from age-related macular degeneration consumes supplements containing high doses of lutein, but clinical studies to date have shown only modest and variable increases in macular carotenoid pigments in response to supplementa... | Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Dietary Supplements; Tissue Donors | 2007-02 |
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Gussin, Gary N.; Capecchi, Mario R. | Protein synthesis directed by DNA phage messengers. | Even through the amino acids corresponding to most of the 64 nucleotide triplets are now known, several important aspects of the genetic code are not yet fully understood. In particular we need more knowledge about the "punctuation marks" of the code-for example, the signals necessary for the initia... | Carbon Isotopes; Escherichia coli; Genetic Code; Methionine | 1967-09-01 |
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Poulter, Charles Dale; Davis, Darrell R. | 15N-labeled tRNA. Identification of dihydrouridine in Escherichia coli tRNAfMet, tRNALys, and tRNAPhe by 1H-15N two-dimensional NMR. | The N3 imino units of dihydrouridine were identified in samples of 15N-labeled Escherichia coli tRNAfMet, tRNALys, and tRNAPhe by 1H-15N two-dimensional NMR. The peaks for dihydrouridine had high field 1H (9.7-9.8 ppm) and 15N (147.8-149.5 ppm) chemical shifts. Assignments were made by 1H-15N chemic... | Hydrogen Bonding; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | 1986-03-15 |
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Poulter, Charles Dale | Farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase. Mechanistic studies of the 1'-4 coupling reaction with 2-fluorogeranyl pyrophosphate. | The mechanism of the 1'-4 coupling reaction between isopentenyl pyrophosphate and geranyl pyrophosphate catalyzed by farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase from porcine liver was studied with the allylic substrate analogue 2-fluorogeranyl pyrophosphate. 2-Fluorogeranyl pyrophosphate is an alternate subst... | Kinetics; Liver; Mass Spectrometry; Organophosphorus Compounds; Protein Binding | 1978-10-25 |
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Askew, Eldon W.; Bernstein, Paul S. | Serum and macular responses to antioxidant supplementation verus a carotenoid-rich dietary intervention in the elderly. | The aim of this study was to observe responses of serum antioxidants, oxidative stress biomarkers, and macular carotenoid pigments to antioxidant supplements or dietary intervention in a single-masked, randomized, pilot clinical study of elderly subjects receiving antioxidant supplements or a dietar... | Macula; Serum Carotenoids; Zeaxanthin | 2006-02-01 |
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Asche, Carl V. | Comparison of hospitalization rates in patients with community-acquired pneumonia treated with telithromycin for 5 or 7 days or clarithromycin for 10 days. | AIMS: To compare the impact on hospitalization rates and the clinical efficacy of oral telithromycin and clarithromycin treatment in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). METHODS: A total of 581 patients with CAP were enrolled in this randomized, double-blind, parallel group, multination... | Administration, Orall; Treatment Outcome | 2004-08-01 |
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Blumenthal, Donald K. | Identification of the substrate and pseudosubstrate binding sites of phosphorylase kinase gamma-subunit. | Using site-directed mutagenesis, we proposed that an autoinhibitory domain(s) is located at the C-terminal region (301-386) of the phosphorylase kinase gamma-subunit (Huang, C.-Y.F., Yuan C.-J., Livanova, N.B., and Graves, D.J. (1993) Mol. Cell. Biochem. 127/128, 7-18). Removal of the putative inhib... | Mutagenesis; Autoinhibitory Domain; Peptides | 1995-03-31 |
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Blumenthal, Donald K. | Effects of deletions in the central helix of calmodulin on enzyme activation and peptide binding. | Using site-directed mutagenesis we have expressed in Escherichia coli three engineered calmodulins (CaM) containing deletions in the solvent-exposed region of the central helix. These are CaM delta 84, Glu-84 removed; CaM delta 83-84, Glu-83 and Glu-84 removed; and CaM delta 81-84, Ser-81 through Gl... | Drug Effects; Genetics; Metabolism | 1989-05-15 |
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Baehr, Wolfgang; Prestwich, Glenn D. | Photoreceptor cGMP phosphodiesterase delta subunit (PDEdelta) functions as a prenyl-binding protein | Bovine PDEdelta was originally copurified with rod cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) and shown to interact with prenylated, carboxymethylated C-terminal Cys residues. Other studies showed that PDEdelta can interact with several small GTPases including Rab13, Ras, Rap, and Rho6, all of which are prenylate... | Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; GTP Phosphohydrolases; Immunohistochemistry | 2004 |