We show that the CD40mAb containing liposomes are able to bind to CD40, and confer enhanced immunogenicity on the entrapped antigen, while entrapment of the CD40mAb also serves to reduce its toxicity.
Interestingly, elements related to each of these have been shown previously to have stabilizing effects for individual genes: a GA-rich element has been implicated in stabilizing the elastin mRNA [27], CA repeats bind to hnRNP L and confer resistance to decay [28] and CU-rich and pyrimidine-rich elements interact with HuR or αCP complexes to stabilize mRNAs [29], [30].
P-Smads bind to DNA directly and/or interact with different DNA-binding partner cofactors such as FoxH1, which bind to specific enhancers and confer target gene specificity [5].
MTs may affect GBM in many ways: 1) High levels of MTs may bind alkylating agents and confer resistance to chemotherapy 2) MTs bind zinc and switch p53 folding to the inactive form and thus prevent chemotherapy-activated p53 mediated apoptosis.
Hence, while chemical dispersants such as Kentera or polyethylene glycol likely bind and confer aqueous solubility to nanotube bundles as well as to single nanotubes, DNA binding likely favors complex formation with single nanotubes as was observed in AFM and SEM images.
Prior to the emergence of coded protein synthesis - and the evolution of proteins able to bind to and protect RNA - an acidic environment may have conferred stability to RNA necessary for its evolution.
The amino acids surrounding the substrate amino acid confer specificity to which kinase can bind correctly to the substrate and confer a phosphate group to the acceptor.
wP- and aP-induced antibodies bind less well to B. parapertussis and confer little protection against B. parapertussis in vivo (33 ).
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Plausibly, the HSCR-associated alleles are bound to alter the regulation of NRG1 transcription and confer susceptibility to HSCR by affecting, in turn, the role of NRG1 signalling during ENS development.
