Search Results - "Tavaré, J M"
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Akt phosphorylation on Thr308 but not on Ser473 correlates with Akt protein kinase activity in human non-small cell lung cancer
Published in British journal of cancer (24-05-2011)“…Background: The activity of the protein kinase Akt is frequently dysregulated in cancer and is an important factor in the growth and survival of tumour cells…”
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Subcellular Imaging of Intramitochondrial Ca2+ with Recombinant Targeted Aequorin: Significance for the Regulation of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Activity
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-05-1996)“…Specific targeting of the recombinant, Ca2+-sensitive photoprotein, aequorin to intracellular organelles has provided new insights into the mechanisms of…”
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Rosiglitazone enhances glucose uptake in glomerular podocytes using the glucose transporter GLUT1
Published in Diabetologia (01-09-2009)“…Aims/hypothesis Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) γ agonists are used increasingly in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. In the context of renal…”
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Studies on the autophosphorylation of the insulin receptor from human placenta. Analysis of the sites phosphorylated by two-dimensional peptide mapping
Published in Biochemical journal (01-06-1988)“…1. A partially purified preparation of human placental insulin receptors was incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP in the presence or absence of insulin. The…”
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Analysis of insulin-receptor phosphorylation sites in intact cells by two-dimensional phosphopeptide mapping
Published in Biochemical journal (01-08-1988)“…Insulin stimulates the autophosphorylation of the partially purified insulin receptor initially on tyrosine residues 1146, 1150 and 1151. This is followed by…”
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Divergent signalling mechanisms involved in insulin-stimulated GLUT4 vesicle trafficking to the plasma membrane
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Central Role for Phosphatidylinositide 3-Kinase in the Repression of Glucose-6-phosphatase Gene Transcription by Insulin
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (07-08-1998)“…Transcription of the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) is stimulated by glucocorticoids and strongly repressed by insulin…”
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Rapid caspase-3 activation during apoptosis revealed using fluorescence-resonance energy transfer
Published in EMBO reports (01-09-2000)“…Caspase‐3 is a crucial component of the apoptotic machinery in many cell types. Here, we report the timescale of caspase‐3 activation in single living cells…”
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Role of protein kinase B in insulin-regulated glucose uptake
Published in Biochemical Society transactions (01-04-2005)“…The activation of protein kinase B (or Akt) plays a central role in the stimulation of glucose uptake by insulin. Currently, however, numerous questions remain…”
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Using green fluorescent protein to study intracellular signalling
Published in Journal of endocrinology (01-08-2001)“…Subcellular compartmentalisation of signalling molecules is an important phenomenon not only in defining how a signalling pathway is activated but also in…”
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Identification of in vivo brain-derived neurotrophic factor-stimulated autophosphorylation sites on the TrkB receptor tyrosine kinase by site-directed mutagenesis
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (02-12-1994)“…Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) interacts with the TrkB receptor tyrosine kinase, the tyrosine kinase domain of which has homology with the insulin…”
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Wortmannin inhibits the effects of insulin and serum on the activities of glycogen synthase kinase-3 and mitogen-activated protein kinase
Published in Biochemical journal (01-10-1994)“…We have previously shown that insulin causes inactivation of glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) in Chinese hamster ovary cells over-expressing the human…”
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Role for the microtubule cytoskeleton in GLUT4 vesicle trafficking and in the regulation of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake
Published in Biochemical journal (01-12-2000)“…Insulin stimulates glucose uptake into adipocytes by promoting the translocation of the glucose transporter isoform 4 (GLUT4) from intracellular vesicles to…”
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Naturally Occurring Tyrosine Kinase Inserts Block High Affinity Binding of Phospholipase Cγ and Shc to TrkC and Neurotrophin-3 Signaling (∗)
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (01-09-1995)“…Neurotrophin-3 binds to the receptor tyrosine kinase, TrkC. Several naturally occurring splice variants of TrkC exist including those with 14- and 39-amino…”
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Progress Toward Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotrophic Factor Signalling
Published in Cellular Signalling (01-03-1998)“…Understanding the mechanism of action of the neurotrophic factors is central to unravelling of the mysteries of some of the neurodegenerative disorders. In…”
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The protein kinase C inhibitors bisindolylmaleimide I (GF 109203x) and IX (Ro 31-8220) are potent inhibitors of glycogen synthase kinase-3 activity
Published in FEBS letters (05-11-1999)“…Here we report that the widely used protein kinase C inhibitors, bisindolylmaleimide I and IX, are potent inhibitors of glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3)…”
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Site-specific anti-phosphopeptide antibodies: use in assessing insulin receptor serine/threonine phosphorylation state and identification of serine-1327 as a novel site of phorbol ester-induced phosphorylation
Published in Biochemical journal (01-11-1994)“…Rabbit antisera were raised against synthetic phosphopeptides corresponding to defined or putative sites of insulin receptor serine/threonine phosphorylation…”
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Insulin-dependent translocation of ARNO to the plasma membrane of adipocytes requires phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
Published in Current biology (09-04-1998)“…ADP-ribosylation factors (ARFs) are small GTP-binding proteins that are regulators of vesicle trafficking in eukaryotic cells [1]. ARNO is a member of the…”
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Molecular mechanisms of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in adipocytes
Published in Diabetes & metabolism (01-04-2002)“…The stimulation of muscle and adipose tissue glucose metabolism, which is ultimately responsible for bringing about post-absorptive blood glucose clearance, is…”
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Differentiation of PC12 cells in response to a cAMP analogue is accompanied by sustained activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase: Comparison with the effects of insulin, growth factors and phorbol esters
Published in FEBS letters (31-01-1994)“…It has been proposed previously that the sustained activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase may be necessary for the differentiation of PC12 cells…”
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