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Biomaterials 2016 11 28;108:120-8. Epub 2016 Aug 28.

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14214, USA. Electronic address:

The simultaneous and spatially controlled display of different proteins on nanocarriers is a desirable property not often achieved in practice. Here, we report the use of clathrin triskelions as a versatile platform for functional protein display. We hypothesized that site-specific molecular epitope recognition would allow for effective and ordered protein attachment to clathrin triskelions. Read More

Structure 2010 Aug;18(8):966-75

Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, MSC 7760, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3990, USA.

RING1B, a Polycomb Group (PcG) protein, binds methylated chromatin through its association with another PcG protein called Polycomb (Pc). However, RING1B can associate with nonmethylated chromatin suggesting an alternate mechanism for RING1B interaction with chromatin. Here, we demonstrate that two proteins with little sequence identity between them, the Pc cbox domain and RYBP, bind the same surface on the C-terminal domain of RING1B (C-RING1B). Read More

Biochemistry 2008 Aug 11;47(31):8007-15. Epub 2008 Jul 11.

Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, MSC 7760, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900, USA.

Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are required for maintaining cell identity and stem cell self-renewal. RING1B and Polycomb (Pc) are two components of a multiprotein complex called polycomb repression complex 1 (PRC1) that is essential for establishing and maintaining long-term repressed gene states. Here we characterize the interaction between the C-terminal region of RING1B (C-RING1B) and the Pc cbox domain. Read More

Eur J Biochem 2001 Nov;268(21):5497-503

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories, Stockholm University, Sweden.

The human adenine nucleotide translocator-2 promoter is activated by adjacent Sp1 activation elements centered at nucleotides -79 and -68 (Abox and Bbox, respectively), and is repressed by Sp1 bound to a GC element (Cbox) that lies adjacent to transcription start. Here, we address the mechanism of this unique Sp1-mediated repression using transfected Drosophila SL2 and mammalian cell lines. We show that repression is not due to steric interference with assembly of the transcription machinery, as Sp1 bound to the Cbox can, under certain conditions, activate the promoter. Read More