Tuberculosis kills nearly 2 million people through out the world, every year. The outcome of M. tuberculosis infection is determined by the host and bacterial factors. A strong host immune response controls the growth of the bacilli effectively. However, in a host with suboptimal immune response,...
The Rv0805 gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes a metallophosphoesterase which shows cAMP-hydrolytic activity. Overexpression of Rv0805 has been used as a tool to lower intracellular cAMP levels and thereby elucidate the roles of cAMP in mycobacteria. Here we show that levels of cAMP in M. tub...
The low-resolution structure of a nucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase from Euphorbia characias latex (ELNPP) has been determined in solution by means of Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS). To improve the structural resolution of ELNPP a partial sequencing after proteolytic cleavage of the ...
Detailed description (other than provided below) of growth conditions, RNA preparation, cDNA synthesis and hybridization conditions can be found in the submitted paper. GSM956794-GSM956801: Bacillus subtilis 168 wild type and its ymdB derivative strain were grown in CSE-Glu medium and cells were ha...
Inhibition of phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A) promotes cyclic nucleotide signaling, increases striatal activation, and decreases behavioral activity. Enhanced cyclic nucleotide signaling is a well established route to producing changes in gene expression. We hypothesized that chronic suppression of P...
Cyclic nucleotide signaling is pivotal to the asexual growth of T. gondii; however, little do we know about its counter-regulation in this parasite. We identified 18 phosphodiesterase (PDE1-18) enzymes, most of which form apicomplexan-specific clades and lack typical regulatory motifs found in mamma...
An intron-spliced hairpin RNA approach was used for the targeted silencing of the MtTdp1α gene encoding the αisoform of tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 in Medicago truncatula Gaertn. Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1, involved in the repair of DNA topoisomerase I-mediated DNA damage, has been poorly...
Analysis of MDA-MB-231 breast tumor cell from knocking-down phosphodiesterase 3A (PDE3A), a cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase. Results provide insight into the role of PDE3A in breast tumor progression and metastasis.