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    Publication Date:
    2014-02-22
    Publisher:
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Print ISSN:
    0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN:
    1095-9203
    Topics:
    Biology
    Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Computer Science
    Medicine
    Natural Sciences in General
    Physics
    Keywords:
    Animals ; Antibodies, Monoclonal ; Antiviral Agents/*pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Cell Line ; Cell Nucleus/virology ; Cytidine/metabolism ; Cytidine Deaminase/biosynthesis ; DNA, Circular/*metabolism ; DNA, Viral/*metabolism ; Hepatitis B/*drug therapy ; Hepatitis B virus/*drug effects/metabolism ; Hepatocytes/*drug effects/metabolism/virology ; Humans ; Interferon-alpha/*pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Liver/drug effects/metabolism/virology ; Lymphotoxin beta Receptor/*agonists/antagonists & inhibitors ; Mice, SCID ; Proteins ; Up-Regulation
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    M. Trajkovski ; J. Hausser ; J. Soutschek ; B. Bhat ; A. Akin ; M. Zavolan ; M. H. Heim ; M. Stoffel
    Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
    Published 2011
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    Publication Date:
    2011-06-10
    Publisher:
    Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
    Print ISSN:
    0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN:
    1476-4687
    Topics:
    Biology
    Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Medicine
    Natural Sciences in General
    Physics
    Keywords:
    Adipocytes/cytology/metabolism ; Animals ; Caveolin 1/metabolism ; Cell Size ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/physiopathology ; Disease Models, Animal ; Gene Expression ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Gene Silencing ; Glucose/metabolism ; Homeostasis ; Hyperglycemia/physiopathology ; Insulin/*metabolism ; Liver/metabolism ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; MicroRNAs/genetics/*metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Up-Regulation
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    Heim, M. H. ; Blum, M. ; Beer, M. ; Meyer, U. A.

    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Published 1991
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    ISSN:
    1471-4159
    Source:
    Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics:
    Medicine
    Notes:
    Two rabbit arylamine N-acetyltransferases (NAT1 and NAT2, EC 2.3.1.5) have been cloned and characterized recently in this laboratory. They catalyze the acetylation of primary arylamine and hydrazine drugs and other substrates in the liver, including sulfamethazine, ρ-aminosalicylic acid, and ρ-aminobenzoic acid. In the pineal gland, serotonin is metabolized to N-acetylserotonin by an unknown N-acetyltransferase. Similarity of the liver enzymes and the pineal gland arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase (AA-NAT) has been suggested, because pineal gland homogenates were shown to metabolize arylamine substrates as ρ-phenetidine, aniline, or phenylethylamine, and liver homogenates or partially purified liver enzyme preparations catalyzed the N-acetylation of serotonin. The present study was undertaken to elucidate the possible role of NAT1 or NAT2 in serotonin acetylation in the pineal gland. We transiently expressed rNAT1 and rNAT2 genes in COS cells, studied the kinetics of the enzymes produced with various substrates, and compared these data with activities of rabbit pineal glands and livers. These enzymatic studies were complemented with western blot analysis with antibodies against NAT1 and NAT2. Cross-hybridization of rNAT1 or rNAT2 to the gene for the pineal gland AA-NAT was tested by Southern blot studies of genomic rabbit DNA. Our results indicate that although NAT1 is expressed in the pineal gland, it is not involved in the physiologically important step of N-acetylation of serotonin.
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