Background: Salinity is a major environmental limiting factor, which affect agricultural production. The two Manilkara seedlings (M. roxburghiana and M. zapota) with high economic importance, could not adapt well to higher soil salinity and little is known about their proteomic mechanisms. Objectives: The mechanisms responsible ...

Accumulated evidence shows that some phytochemicals provide beneficial effects for human health. Recently, a number of mechanistic studies have revealed that direct interactions between phytochemicals and functional proteins play significant roles in exhibiting their bioactivities. However, their binding selectivities to biological molecules are considered to be lower due to their small and sim...

The present study aimed to determine the effects of ovariohysterectomy on blood serum concentrations of Heat Shock Protein (HSP) 70 and anti-HSP70 antibodies in dogs. For this purpose, 87 female stray dogs were used as the materials. Ten milliliters of blood was taken from the animals preoperatively and on the first day postoperatively. The concentration of extracellular HSP70 and anti-HSP70 an...

We have determined that the synthesis of heat shock proteins is regulated ultimately at the translational level in heat-shocked carrot callus cells and somatic embryos. Polysome analysis revealed that heat-shocked callus cells do not translate most heat shock transcripts, which they abundantly synthesize and accumulate. By contrast, heat-shocked globular embryos accumulate low levels of heat sh...

The heat shock response in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis was characterized with respect to synthesis of a unique set of proteins induced by thermal stress. A shift in temperature from 30 to 42 degrees C was sufficient to arrest the growth of L. lactis subsp. lactis, but growth resumed after a shift back to 30 degrees C. Heat shock at 50 degrees C reduced the viable cell population by 10; how...

All cells display a response to adverse environmental conditions by inducing the synthesis of a set of proteins, the heat shock proteins (Hsps). Hsp26 belongs to the family of small heat shock proteins (sHsps). The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has three major sHsps: Hsp26 [I], Hspl2 [2] and Hsp30 [3]. Small Hsps have certain common structural and regulatory charactenstics; they are induced by...

lstituto di Microbiologia’ and lstituto di Clinica Dermosif ilopaticaz, Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, Larghetto S.Aniello a Caponapoli, 2,801 38 Napoli, Italy Bacterial heat-shock proteins (HSPs) from Escherichia co/i (GroES, GroEL and DnaK) were studied for their ability to induce by themselves the expression and release of tumour necrosis factor-a ...