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Molecular analysis of key events in the targeting and assembly of mammalian PDC and OGDC

ReferenceC05142
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor John Lindsay
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution University of Glasgow
DepartmentIBLS Division of Biochemistry & Molecula
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 176,294
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/07/1996
End date 31/07/2000
Duration49 months

Abstract

The major study will examine the role(s) of the extended N-terminal presequences located on the cytoplasmic E2 precursors of human PDC and OGDC. The PCR-amplified presequences (and various deletion constructs) will be fused directly to the CAT reporter gene for transfection analysis of their effects on the efficiency of E2 targeting and assembly in COS cells. In addition, the sub-gene encoding the putative compact E3 binding domain, integrated into the E1 enzyme of OGDC, will be overexpressed in E. coli and the purified domain examined for its efficacy as a competitive inhibitor in preventing OGDC and PDC reconstitution, for analysis of its stoichiometry of interaction (and that of native E1) with E3 and for structural analysis by 2D- NMR.

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Committee Closed Committee - Biochemistry & Cell Biology (BCB)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
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