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Nieuwenhuizen, W.F. (author), Pieters, R.H.H. (author), Knippels, L.M.J. (author), Jansen, M.C.J.F. (author), Koppelman, S.J. (author)Coeliac disease is a T-cell-mediated autoimmune disease of the small intestine that is induced by ingestion of gluten proteins from wheat, barley, or rye. We postulate that Candida albicans is a trigger in the onset of coeliac disease. The virulence factor of C albicans - hyphal wall protein 1 (HWP1) - contains aminoacid sequences that are...article 2003
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Duim, B. (author), Godschalk, P.C.R. (author), van den Braak, N. (author), Dingle, K.E. (author), Dijkstra, J.R. (author), Leyde, E. (author), van der Plas, J. (author), Colles, F.M. (author), Endtz, H.P. (author), Wagenaar, J.A. (author), Maiden, M.C.J. (author), van Belkum, A. (author)Campylobacter jejuni isolates (n = 234) associated with gastroenteritis and the Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in the island of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, and collected from March 1999 to March 2000 were investigated by a range of molecular typing techniques. Data obtained by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), amplified fragment length...article 2003
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- Noort, D. (author), Fidder, A. (author), Hulst, A.G. (author), Prins Maurits Laboratorium TNO (author) article 2003
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Prins Maurits Laboratorium TNO (author), Broekhuijsen, M.P. (author), Larsson, P. (author), Johansson, A. (author), Byström, M. (author), Eriksson, U. (author), Larsson, E. (author), Prior, R.G. (author), Sjöstedt, A. (author), Titball, R.W. (author), Forsman, M. (author)Francisella tularensis is a potent pathogen and a possible bioterrorism agent. Little is known, however, to explain the molecular basis for its virulence and the distinct differences in virulence found between the four recognized subspecies, F. tularensis subsp. tularensis, F. tularensis subsp. mediasiatica, F. tularensis subsp. holarctica, and...article 2003
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TNO Voeding (author), Pouvreau, L. (author), Gruppen, H. (author), van Koningsveld, G.A. (author), van den Broek, L.A.M. (author), Voragen, A.G.J. (author)The gene of the most abundant protease inhibitor in potato cv. Elkana was isolated and sequenced. The deduced amino acid sequence of this gene showed 98% identity with potato serine protease inhibitor (PSPI), a member of the Kunitz family. Therefore, the most abundant protease inhibitor was considered to be one of the isoforms of PSPI. The PSPI...article 2003
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Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO TNO Voeding (author), Korthout, H.A.A.J (author), Caspers, M.P.M (author), Kottenhagen, M.J. (author), Helmer, Q. (author), Wang, M. (author)Over the past few years the presence of p53-like proteins in plants was frequently reported, by using the monoclonal antibody Pab240. By means of protein purification and screening a cDNA library, a Pab240 cross-reacting protein and a cDNA clone were isolated from barley. Peptide- and DNA-sequence analysis identified one and the same protein: 2...article 2002
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TNO Voeding Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author), Posthuma, C.C. (author), Bader, R. (author), Engelmann, R. (author), Postma, P.W. (author), Hengstenberg, W. (author), Pouwels, P.H. (author)Purification of xylulose 5-phosphate phosphoketolase (XpkA), the central enzyme of the phosphoketolase pathway (PKP) in lactic acid bacteria, and cloning and sequence analysis of the encoding gene, xpkA, from Lactobacillus pentosus MD363 are described, xpkA encodes a 788-amino-acid protein with a calculated mass of 88,705 Da. Expression of xpkA...article 2002
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Smit, E. (author), Oling, F. (author), Demel, R. (author), Martinez, B. (author), Pouwels, P.H. (author), Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)Lactobacillus acidophilus, like many other bacteria, harbors a surface layer consisting of a protein (SA-protein) of 43 kDa. SA-protein could be readily extracted and crystallized in vitro into large crystalline patches on lipid monolayers with a net negative charge but not on lipids with a net neutral charge. Reconstruction of the S-layer from...article 2001
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Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO TNO Voeding (author), van der Vlugt-Bergmans, C.J.B. (author), van der Werf, M.J. (author)A monoterpene ε-lactone hydrolase (MLH) from Rhodococcus erythropolis DCL14, catalyzing the ring opening of lactones which are formed during degradation of several monocyclic monoterpenes, including carvone and menthol, was purified to apparent homogeneity. It is a monomeric enzyme of 31 kDa that is active with (4R)-4-isopropenyl-7-methyl-2-oxo...article 2001
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Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO TNO Voeding (author), Jore, J.P.M. (author), van Luijk, N. (author), Luiten, R.G.M. (author), van der Werf, M.J. (author), Pouwels, P.H. (author)A 3.6-kb endogenous plasmid was isolated from a Propionibacterium freudenreichii strain and sequenced completely. Based on homologies with plasmids from other bacteria, notably a plasmid from Mycobacterium, a region harboring putative replicative functions was defined. Outside this region two restriction enzyme recognition sites were used for...article 2001
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van Mechelen, J.R. (author), Schuurink, R.C. (author), Smits, M. (author), Graner, A. (author), Douma, A.C. (author), Sedee, N.J.A. (author), Schmitt, N.F. (author), Valk, B.E. (author), Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)Two full-length lipoxygenase cDNA sequences (LoxB and LoxC) from barley (Hordeum distichum cv. L. Triumph) are described. The cDNAs share high homology with the barley LoxA cDNA. Southern blotting experiments indicate single copy numbers of the three lipoxygenase genes. RFLP mapping revealed the presence of single lipoxygenase loci. LoxA and...article 1999
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Jespersen, S. (author), Chaurand, P. (author), van Strien, F.J.C. (author), Spengler, B. (author), van Greef, J.D. (author), Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)Dissected tissue pieces of the pituitary pars intermedia from the amphibian Xenopus laevis was directly subjected to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass analysis. The obtained MALDI peptide profile revealed both previously known and unexpected processing products of the proopiomelanocortin gene. Mass spectrometric peptide...article 1999
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Vriesema, A.J.M. (author), Dankert, J. (author), Zaat, S.A.J. (author), Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)We aimed to identify transcription signal sequences from Streptococcus gordonii strain CH1 by random chromosomal cloning. Five genomic fragments from a Sau3A digest, which constitutively activated transcription of a promoterless spectinomycin resistance gene in this strain, were isolated and characterized. Additionally, one promoter fragment was...article 1999
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Mientjes, E.J. (author), Luiten-Schuite, A. (author), van der Wolf, E. (author), Borsboom, Y. (author), Bergmans, A. (author), Berends, F. (author), Lohman, P.H.M. (author), Baan, R.A. (author), van Delft, J.H.M. (author), Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)To investigate tissue-specific relations between DNA adducts and mutagenesis in vivo, λlacZ transgenic mice were treated i.p. with N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU), diethylnitrosamine (DEN), and ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS). In liver, bone marrow, and brain DNA from mice sacrificed at several time points after treatment O6-ethylguanine (O6-EtG) and...article 1998
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Chaillou, S. (author), Lokman, B.C. (author), Leer, R.J. (author), Posthuma, C. (author), Postma, P.W. (author), Pouwels, P.H. (author)Two genes, xylP and xylQ, from the xylose regulon of Lactobacillus pentosus were cloned and sequenced. Together with the repressor gene of the regulon, xylR, the xylPQ genes form an operon which is inducible by xylose and which is transcribed from a promoter located 145 bp upstream of xylP. A putative xylR binding site (xylO) and a cre-like...article 1998
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van Nistelrooy, J.G.M. (author), van den Brink, J.M. (author), van Kan, J.A.L. (author), van Gorcom, R.F.M. (author), de Waard, M.A. (author), Prins Maurits Laboratorium TNO (author)The CYP51 gene encoding eburicol 14α-demethylase (P450(14DM)) was cloned from a genomic library of the filamentous fungal plant pathogen Penicillium italicum, by heterologous hybridisation with the corresponding gene encoding lanosterol 14α-demethylase from the yeast Candida tropicalis. The nucleotide sequence of a 1739-bp genomic fragment and...article 1996
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TNO Nutrition and Food Research (author), van Gemeren, I.A. (author), Beijersbergen, A. (author), Musters, W. (author), Gouka, R.J. (author), van den Hondel, C.A.M.J.J. (author), Verrips, C.T. (author)A synthetic derivative of the cutinase cDNA of Fusarium solani pisi was expressed in Aspergillus awamori using the A. awamori endoxylanase II (exlA) promoter and terminator. The influence of the origin of the pre-sequence and the presence of a pro-sequence on the efficiency of extracellular cutinase production was analyzed in single-copy...article 1996
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Offermans, M.T.C. (author), Struyk, L. (author), de Geus, B. (author), Breedveld, F.C. (author), van den Elsen, P.J. (author), Rozing, J. (author), TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author)In order to define the extent of T cell heterogeneity and clonality, unique DNA sequences in the junctional region in rearranged T cell receptor (TcR) genes can be studied. For this purpose we have adapted a non-denaturing nucleic acid gel electrophoresis procedure to detect TcR junctional diversity. Detection of junctional diversity is based...article 1996
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Hennis, B.C. (author), van Boheemen, P.A. (author), Wakabayashi, S. (author), Koide, T. (author), Hoffmann, J.J.M.L. (author), Kievit, P. (author), Dooijewaard, G. (author), Jansen, J.G. (author), Klutf, C. (author), TNO Preventie en Gezondheid (author)Two forms of histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG) were detected on SDS-PAGE by silver staining and immunoblotting after isolation of the protein from pooled plasma using immune-affinity chromatography followed by chromatography with heparin-Sepharose. Both forms were single-chain molecules and the apparent molecular weights of form 1 and form 2...article 1995
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van Mechelen, J.R. (author), Smits, M. (author), Douma, A.C. (author), Rouster, J. (author), Cameron-Mills, V. (author), Heidekamp, F. (author), Valk, B.E. (author), Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO (author)A full length cDNA sequence for a barley grain lipoxygenase was obtained. It includes a 5' untranslated region of 69 nucleotides, an open reading frame of 2586 nucleotides encoding a protein of 862 amino acid residues and a 3' untranslated region of 142 nucleotides. The molecular mass of the encoded polypeptide was calculated to be 96.392. Its...article 1995