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We have recently hypothesized that the marine toxin domoic acid might affect the developing brain by directly activating neonatal rat microglia and causing a subsequent release of potentially neurotoxic mediators [ 21 ] .
Transformants were then pooled and transferred onto plates lacking histidine and leucine in order to select for peptide sequences capable of activating the lexA-operator-driven LEU2 reporter.
On the basis of a simple two-state model, one might predict an increased affinity of the agonist for the mutant form, but in our studies binding of the agonist, unlike the antagonist, is not affected by the activating mutation, suggesting that a more complex model requiring two binding sites and perhaps multiple active conformations is needed to account for the observations.
We know that such signals must be transduced to the nucleus, activating certain genes and suppressing others, for myofiber plasticity to occur.
Whereas the activating mutation was present in tumor cells before treatment with erlotinib or gefitinib, the second mutation was not found in pre-treatment biopsies from these patients, nor in over 150 lung cancer samples from patients who had not been treated with either drug.