Publications by authors named "A A Kaloshin"

The interaction of antirenalase antibodies with full-length recombinant human renalases RNLS1 and RNLS2, as well as fragments of these proteins encoded by alternative exons 9 and 10 and expressed as fusion proteins with dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) in Escherichia coli cells has been investigated. In this study we used custom made polyclonal antibodies to the full-length recombinant RNLS1 (amino acid residues (aa) 1-342), created at our request, as well as commercially available monoclonal antibodies to the renalase fragment (aa - 18-342), specific for the RNLS1 isoform and its C-terminal sequence encoded by exon 9. According to Western blot analysis, the antibodies interacted not only with recombinant RNLS1 and RNLS2 preparations, but also with fusion proteins containing C-terminal sequences specific for these isoforms (DHFR-RNLS-9ex and DHFR-RNLS-10ex).

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A recombinant form of pneumolysin from Streptococcus pneumoniae was obtained. By using Vector NTI Advance 11.0 bioinformatic analysis software, specific primers were designed in order to amplify the genome fragment of strain No.

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Renalase (RNLS) is a recently discovered protein involved in blood pressure regulation. It exists both as an intracellular catalytically active flavoprotein (EC 1.6.

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Background/aims: Renalase is a recently discovered flavoprotein involved in regulation of blood pressure. Altered renalase levels have been found in blood of patients with end stage renal disease. The antihypertensive effect of circulating renalase is attributed to putative FAD-dependent monoamine oxidase activity demonstrated by some authors.

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Renalase is a recently discovered protein, involved in regulation of blood pressure in humans and animals. Although several splice variants of human renalase mRNA transcripts have been recognized, only one protein product, hRenalase1, has been found so far. In this study, we have used polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based amplification of individual exons of the renalase gene and their joining for construction of full-length hRenalase2 coding sequence followed by expression of hRenalase2 as a polyHis recombinant protein in Escherichia coli cells.

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