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Thus, the relatively short half-life of egr-1 mRNA resulted in an underestimation of IL-1 induction of this gene in the microarray.
Such a decrease in collagen type I half-life is likely to reflect a significant imbalance between anabolic and catabolic processes at the focal area of metastatic invasion [ 11 ] .
The half-life of myosin between these pools has been measured to be ~ 7 sec, indicating the importance of dynamic assembly control in the localization of the protein) [ 5 ] . When a cell migrates, myosin II accumulates in the posterior of the cell.
The long half-life of Tag would not normally implicate protein stability, however, the magnitude of changes that we discuss here, although biologically relevant, are within two fold and might be affected by small differences in protein stability.
This is in good agreement with kinetic studies of the isomerisation and racemisation reactions, where it was shown that the α DCTX form accumulates with the lowest kinetic rate [ 9 ] . The α L/α DCTX ratio will thus be most affected by changes of bone turnover processes influencing the half-life of collagen type I in the bone matrix.