What's the difference between hypoxanthin and sarcin?
Hypoxanthin
Definition:
(n.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
(2) The incorporation of inosine or hypoxanthine into the IMP and ITP has been proved.
(3) This method has been used to identify cells with biochemical lesions in the oxidation of propionate, galactose, hypoxanthine and pyruvate; it has allowed us to identify a new variant of methylmalonicaciduria; we believe it can be extended to include other metabolites and pathways.
(4) Here we report that phenol hydroxylation to hydroquinone is also catalyzed by human myeloperoxidase in the presence of a superoxide anion radical generating system, hypoxanthine and xanthine oxidase.
(5) Regulation of the uric acid-xanthine transport system and the hypoxanthine-adenine-guanine transport system was studied.
(6) The oxidation of vitamin E-deficient rat red blood cells (RBCs) induced by the hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase (HX-XOD) system has been performed in an aqueous suspension.
(7) Only the content of uricogenic bases (adenine and hypoxanthine) varied among the test meals.
(8) We applied a sensitive, precise liquid-chromatographic method of analysis for inosine, hypoxanthine, and xanthine to the study of fructose metabolism in humans and in rats.
(9) The paired cervical and rectal isolates from one patient with uncomplicated gonorrhea differed only with respect to a requirement for hypoxanthine.
(10) Two apparent types of alterations of this enzyme were distinguished: (1) increased specific activity with a normal half life as in megaloblastic anemia, and (2) a prolonged half life with or without an elevation of specific activity as in the deficiency of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase.
(11) Inosine and hypoxanthine release were attenuated at the higher dose of deoxycoformycin.
(12) Recovered hybrid cells produced the chick hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase exclusively, as demonstrated by electrophoretic mobility and immunoprecipitation tests, even though no chick chromosomes or chick cell-surface antigens could be identified in the hybrids.
(13) In synchronous cells, uracil DNA glycosylase and hypoxanthine DNA glycosylase were induced with an extent of induction (5-6-fold) comparable to that observed for normal human cells.
(14) Our aim was to evaluate the sensitivity of human fibroblasts, in comparison with umbilical vein endothelial cells, to two common reactive oxygen metabolites, to superoxide produced by hypoxanthine and xanthine oxidase, and to reagent hydrogen peroxide.
(15) Guanosine greater than inosine = hypoxanthine greater than adenosine were taken up with decreasing initial velocities, respectively; adenine was not transported.
(16) Etheno-NADP+, 3-acetylpyridine-adenine dinucleotide phosphate, and nicotinamide-hypoxanthine dinucleotide phosphate act as alternative coenzymes for the enzyme.
(17) A dramatic increase in the concentrations of adenosine, inosine and hypoxanthine was detected by microdialysis in the dorsal part of hippocampus and in the striatum immediately after 5 min bilateral occlusion of the carotid arteries.
(18) If guanine were to be substituted for hypoxanthine in an isogeometrical molecular structure, additional hydrogen bonds could be made between every N-2 and N-7.
(19) HPLC tracing of radiolabelled purines or purine nucleosides revealed that adenine, adenosine and hypoxanthine are incorporated into adenine nucleotides and IMP through a similar channel while guanine and guanosine are salvaged into guanine nucleotides via another route.
(20) Among the four purine bases, adenine and hypoxanthine have been reported to be more uricogenic than guanine and xanthine.
Sarcin
Definition:
(n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, alpha-sarcin is a convenient tool for detecting compact domains in isolated RNA.
(2) The integrity of the alpha-sarcin loop in 28 S ribosomal RNA is critical during protein synthesis.
(3) Kingdom-specific nucleotides have been identified that are associated with antibiotic binding sites at functional centres in 23 S-like RNAs: in the peptidyl transferase centre (erythromycin-domain V) the archaebacterial RNAs classify with the eukaryotic RNAs; at the elongation factor-dependent GTPase centre (thiostrepton-domain II) they fall with the eubacteria, and at the putative amino acyl tRNA site (alpha-sarcin-domain VI) they resemble eukaryotes.
(4) Ribosomes in lysates prepared from the mycelia of Aspergillus giganteus MDH 18894, which are actively secreting alpha-sarcin, do not contain the alpha-sarcin lesion.
(5) SDS treatment as well as trifluoroethanol also increase the helical content of alpha-sarcin.
(6) These data are the first to indicate that the ribosome-inactivating catalytic toxins, in addition to alpha-sarcin, exhibit RNase activity.
(7) The amino acid sequence of mitogillin shows 86% homology with another cytotoxic protein called alpha-sarcin.
(8) Alpha sarcin causes the specific cleavage of RNA from 80S ribosomes and 60S subunits of yeast, but not from the 40S subunits to produce a small RNA fragment.
(9) The above helicogenic treatments produce a decrease on the structural quenching in alpha-sarcin which is consistent with the existence of hydrophobic protein-lipid interactions.
(10) Unlike previously available methods, based on the separation of RNA fragments by gel electrophoresis, the new method allows one to investigate the activity of ricin on ribosomes pretreated with alpha-sarcin, a cytotoxin which cleaves 28S rRNA at one nucleotide distance from the site of attack of ricin.
(11) Most of the colonies were Gram-positive cocci (micrococci, indifferent streptococci, sarcins).
(12) In addition to the early permeabilization that takes place during virus entry, increased entry of hygromycin B and alpha-sarcin also occurs in SFV-infected cells from 2 to 3 hr postinfection, but not when late viral replication is blocked by means of interferon treatment.
(13) We report here that in oocytes alpha-sarcin specifically cuts 28 S rRNA 377 nucleotides from its 3' end, even when used at concentrations that would degrade deproteinized RNA.
(14) When ribosomes were treated with both ricin and alpha-sarcin, the extent of labelling of protein L3 was reduced compared to that observed after treatment with alpha-sarcin alone.
(15) Elongation factor 1 (EF1) and GTP-dependent Phe-tRNA binding to ribosomes in the presence of poly(U) was inhibited by these three toxins, but EF1 and guanylyl (beta, gamma-methylene)-diphosphate-dependent Phe-tRNA binding was inhibited by alpha-sarcin only.
(16) Binding experiments reveal a strong interaction between alpha-sarcin and acidic vesicles, with Kd = 0.06 microM.
(17) By using a double-labelling technique in which ribosomes were incubated with the toxins and then treated with 3H-labelled or 14C-labelled N-ethylmaleimide, it was found that labelling of protein L14 was specifically reduced by treatment with ricin, and that of proteins L3 and L4 by treatment with alpha-sarcin, suggesting that the toxins alter the conformation of ribosomes in the vicinity of these proteins.
(18) The alpha-sarcin immunotoxin exerted toxic effects in tissue culture against the EJ human bladder carcinoma cell line, expressing the antigen recognised by the Fib75 antibody, inhibiting the incorporation of [3H]leucine by 50% at a concentration of 0.46 nM.
(19) However, the addition of exogenous alpha-sarcin to these same lysates results in cleavage of the 26 S rRNA of the 60 S ribosomal subunit, characteristic of the cytotoxic action of alpha-sarcin.
(20) An immunotoxin was synthesized by the attachment of alpha-sarcin, the ribosome-inactivating protein derived from the mould Aspergillus giganteus, to a monoclonal mouse IgG2 antibody Fib75.