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The A and B fragments of normal type I procollagen have a similar thermal stability to proteinase digestion but are selectively destabilized by structural mutations

Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; VOGEL, B. E.; JEFFREY, J. J.; PROCKOP, D. J. (1987)

Previous studies demonstrated that the thermal stability of the procollagen triple helix can be assayed by digesting the protein for short periods with high concentrations of trypsin and chymotrypsin. Here we cleaved human ...

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Altered Phosphorylation, Biosynthesis and Degradation of the 170 kDa Isoform of Topoisomerase II in Amsacrine-Resistant Human Leukemia Cells

Ganapathi, R.; Zwelling, L.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Ford, J.; Grabowski, D. (1993)

Resistance to amsacrine in HL-60/AMSA is 50-100 fold compared to the parental HL-60/S cells. Synthesis and phosphorylation of topoisomerase II (TOPO II) were 2-3 fold lower in HL-60/AMSA compared to HL-60/S cells metabolically ...

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A base substitution at IVS-19 3′-end splice junction causes exon 20 skipping in proα2(I) collagen mRNA and produces mild osteogenesis imperfecta

Mottes, M.; Sangalli, A.; Valli, M.; Forlino, A.; Gomez-Lira, M.; Antoniazzi, F.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Cetta, G.; Pignatti, P. F. (1994)

Molecular investigations on a young patient and her family were undertaken to identify the molecular defect responsible for a mild form of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) with blue sclerae, dentinogenesis imperfecta and joint ...

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Cancer chemopreventive activity of brassinin, a phytoalexin from cabbage

Mehta, R. G.; Liu, J.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Thomas, C. F.; Hawthorne, M.; You, M.; Gerhäuser, C.; Pezzuto, J. M.; Moon, R. C.; Moriarty, R. M. (1995)

Brassinin [3-(S-methyldithiocarbamoyl aminomethyl indole], a phytoalexin first identified as a constituent of cabbage, was synthesized and evaluated for cancer chemopreventive activity. Dose-dependent inhibition of ...

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Chemopreventive effects of soy protein and purified soy isoflavones on DMBA-induced mammary tumors in female Sprague-Dawley rats

Constantinou, Andreas I.; Lantvit, D.; Hawthorne, M.; Xu, X.; Van Breemen, R. B.; Pezzuto, J. M. (2001)

There are conflicting reports on the effect of soy and its components on mammary carcinogenesis in adult female rats, mainly because of different rodent models that are used in chemoprevention studies. The present study ...

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Chromosome 4 localization of a second gene for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

Peters, D. J. M.; Spruit, L.; Saris, J. J.; Ravine, D.; Sandkuijl, L. A.; Fossdal, R.; Boersma, J.; van Eijk, R.; Nørby, S.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Briessenden, J. E.; Frants, R. R.; van Ommen, G. -J B.; Breuning, M. H. (1993)

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder. A gene defect located on the short arm of chromosome 16 is responsible for the disease in roughly 86% of affected European ...

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Cystic fibrosis patients from the black sea region: The 1677delTA mutation

Angelicheva, D.; Boteva, Kalina; Jordanova, A.; Savov, A.; Kufardjieva, A.; Tolun, A.; Telatar, M.; Akarsubaşi, A.; Köprübaşi, F.; Aydoǧdu, S.; Demirkol, M.; Kurdoǧlu, G.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Georgiou, Christina; Dean, M.; Ivaschenko, T.; Baranov, V.; Kalaydjieva, L. (1994)

A 2 bp deletion in exon 10 of the CFTR gene, 1677delTA, which is very rare among CF chromosomes worldwide, was found to be a relatively common cause of cystic fibrosis in countries located in the region of the Black Sea. ...

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Delta-like and Gtl2 are reciprocally expressed differentially methylated linked imprinted genes on mouse chromosome 12

Takada, S.; Tevendale, M.; Baker, J.; Georgiades, Pantelis; Campbell, E.; Freeman, T.; Johnson, M. H.; Paulsen, M.; Ferguson-Smith, A. C. (2000)

The distal portion of mouse chromosome 12 is imprinted. To date, however, Gtl2 is the only imprinted gene identified on chromosome 12. Gtl2 encodes multiple alternatively spliced transcripts with no apparent open reading ...

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Efficient training of neural network models in classification of electromyographic data

Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Charalambous, Chris; Middleton, Lefkos T. (1995)

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An error in dystrophin mRNA processing in golden retriever muscular dystrophy, an animal homologue of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Sharp, N. J. H.; Kornegay, J. N.; Van Camp, S. D.; Herbstreith, M. H.; Secore, S. L.; Kettle, S.; Hung, W. -Y; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Dykstra, M. J.; Roses, A. D.; Bartlett, R. J. (1992)

Golden retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD) is a spontaneous, X-linked, progressively fatal disease of dogs and is also a homologue of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Two-thirds of DMD patients carry detectable deletions ...

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Expression of recombinant horseradish peroxidase C in Escherichia coli

Burke, J. F.; Smith, A.; Santama, Niovi; Bray, R. C.; Thorneley, R. N. F.; Dacey, S.; Griffiths, J.; Catlin, G.; Edwards, M. (1989)

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Expression of type I procollagen genes.

Prockop, D. J.; Kadler, K. E.; Hojima, Y.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Dombrowski, K. E.; Kuivaniemi, H.; Tromp, G.; Vogel, B. (1988)

All of the type I collagen in connective tissue is the product of one structural gene for the pro alpha 1(I) chain and another for the pro alpha 2(I) chain of type I procollagen. An intriguing question therefore is how the ...

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Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) mutations occur frequently in the Greek-Cypriot population of Cyprus

Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Mean, R.; Rossou, Elena; Costi, Constantina Eleni; Koupepidou, P.; Hadjiyanni, I.; Koptides, Michael; Hadjiroussos, V.; Petrou, P.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Lamnissou, Klea; Koptides, M. (2002)

Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease of high prevalence within Mediterranean countries and particularly common in four ethnic populations: Arabs, non-Ashkenazi Jews, Armenians, and Turks. ...

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A family with the branchio-oto-renal syndrome: Clinical and genetic correlations

Pierides, Alkis M.; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Demetriou, Kyproula; Koptides, Michael; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2002)

Background. The branchio-oto-renal (BOR) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by hearing loss of early onset, preauricular pits, branchial clefts, and early progressive chronic renal failure in up to 40% ...

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Free energy simulations: The meaning of the individual contributions from a component analysis

Boresch, S.; Archontis, Georgios Z.; Karplus, M. (1994)

A theoretical analysis is made of the decomposition into contributions from individual interactions of the free energy calculated by thermodynamic integration. It is demonstrated that such a decomposition, often referred ...

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G to A polymorphism in exon 45 of the COL1A1 gene

Sokolov, B. P.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Tsuneyoshi, T.; Zhuang, J.; Prockop, D. J. (1991)

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Genetic analysis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 strains from patients in cyprus: Identification of a new subtype designated subtype I

Kostrikis, Leontios G.; Bagdades, Evis K.; Cao, Yun Zhen; Zhang, Lin Qi; Dimitriou, D.; Ho, David D. (1995)

DNA sequences encoding the C2 to V3 region of envelope glycoprotein gp120 of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) were amplified by PCR from uncultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from 24 of 25 HIV-1- ...

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Genetic heterogeneity in adult dominant polycystic kidney disease in Cypriot families

Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Papageorgiou, Elena; Boteva, Kalina; Christodoulou, Kyproula; Breuning, M. H.; Peters, D. J. M.; Pierides, Alkis M. (1995)

Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited heterogeneous disorder that affects approximately 1:1000 Europeans. It is characterized mainly by the formation of cysts in the kidney that lead to end-stage renal failure with ...

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The identification and characterization of KRAB-domain-containing zinc finger proteins

Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Gilbert, J.; Bartlett, R. J.; Herbstreith, M.; Roses, A. D.; Lee, J. E. (1992)

The zinc finger motif is a highly conserved tandemly repeated sequence of 28-30 amino acids that was first identified in transcription factor TFIIIA from Xenopus laevis. Subsequently, similar motifs were found and characterized ...

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Identification, Distribution and Physiological Activity of Three Novel Neuropeptides of Lymnaea: FLRlamide and pQFYRlamide Encoded by the FMRFamide Gene, and a Related Peptide

Santama, Niovi; Wheeler, C. H.; Skingsley, D. R.; Yeoman, M. S.; Bright, K.; Kaye, I.; Burke, J. F.; Benjamin, P. R. (1995)

We are interested in analysing the detailed modulation of defined neuronal systems by multiple neuropeptides encoded in the FMRFamide locus of the snail Lymnaea. Cloning of the FMRFamide gene has predicted the existence ...