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All rights reserved.OBJECTIVE To identify US drug brand (proprietary) names that are identical or similar to drug brand names used in other countries containing different active ingredients and name confusion medication errors associated with these drugs. METHODS We compared a list of brand names approved by the US Food and Drug Administration from 2006 through 2018 with a list of brand names from other countries generated by Uppsala Monitoring Centre using the WHODrug Dictionary. We evaluated drug name pairs that were identical or highly similar and had different active ingredients and searched for name confusion medication errors with these drugs. RESULTS A total of 27 US brand names were found to be identical to 38 drug brand names in other countries with different active ingredients. A total of 74 US drug brand names were highly similar to 93 brand names in other countries for drugs containing different active ingredients. We identified name confusion medication errors for one similar name pair. CONCLUSIONS US drug brand names that are identical to or highly similar to brand names in other countries may cause confusion that can lead to medication errors such as wrong drug errors and wrong drug information being consulted. Manufacturers should consider this risk prior to submitting proposed brand names to regulatory authorities. Regulatory authorities may consider incorporating this check in their brand name reviews and work with manufacturers to eliminate the use of the same or similar brand names for products with different ingredients. Consumers filling prescriptions at foreign pharmacies should also be aware of potential name confusion. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/LBH-589.html © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.Bacteria synthesize inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) in response to a variety of different stress conditions. PolyP protects bacteria by acting as a protein-stabilizing chaperone, metal chelator, or regulator of protein function, among other mechanisms. However, little is known about how stress signals are transmitted in the cell to lead to increased polyP accumulation. Previous work in the model enterobacterium Escherichia coli has indicated that the RNA polymerase-binding regulatory protein DksA is required for polyP synthesis in response to nutrient limitation stress. In this work, I set out to characterize the role of DksA in polyP regulation in more detail. I found that overexpression of DksA increases cellular polyP content (explaining the long-mysterious phenotype of dksA overexpression rescuing growth of a dnaK mutant at high temperature) and characterized the roles of known functional residues of DksA in this process, finding that binding to RNA polymerase is required, but none of the other functions .In bacterial chemotaxis, chemoreceptors in signaling complexes modulate activity of two-component histidine kinase CheA in response to chemical stimuli. CheA catalyzes phosphoryl transfer from ATP to a histidinyl residue of its P1 domain. That phosphoryl group is transferred to two response regulators. Receptor control is almost exclusively at autophosphorylation, but the aspect of enzyme action on which that control acts is unclear. We investigated by kinetic analysis of activated kinase in signaling complexes. We found that phosphoryl transfer from ATP to P1 is an ordered sequential reaction in which binding of ATP to CheA is the necessary first step, the second substrate, the CheA P1 domain, binds only to ATP-occupied enzyme and phosphorylated P1 is released prior to the second product, ADP. We confirmed crucial features of this kinetically deduced ordered mechanism by assaying P1 binding to the enzyme. In the absence of bound nucleotide, there was no physiologically significant binding, but enzyme occupie kinetic, mathematical modeling, structural, simulation and docking observations to conclude that chemoreceptors control activity of the chemotaxis kinase by regulating binding of the autophosphorylation substrate ATP. Previously observed conformational changes in the ATP lid of the enzyme active site provide a structural basis for the ordered mechanism. Such lids are characteristic of two-component histidine kinases in general, suggesting that ordered sequential mechanisms and regulation by controlling ATP binding are common features of these kinases. Copyright © 2020 American Society for Microbiology.The plasma membrane phospholipid phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) regulates the activity of diverse ion channels to include the epithelial Na+ channel ENaC. Whether PIP2 regulation of ENaC is due to a direct phospholipid-protein interaction, though, remains obscure. To date, possible interaction of PIP2 with ENaC primarily has been tested indirectly through assays of channel function. A fragment-based biochemical analysis approach is used here to directly quantify possible PIP2-ENaC interactions. We find using the CIBN-CRY2 optogenetic dimerization system that the phosphoryl group positioned at carbon 5 of PIP2 is necessary for interaction with ENaC. Previous studies have implicated conserved basic residues in the cytosolic portions of β- and γ-ENaC subunits as being important for PIP2-ENaC interactions. To test this, we used synthetic peptides of these regions of β- and γ-ENaC. Steady state intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy demonstrated that phosphoinositides change the local conformation of the N terminus of β-ENaC, and two sites of γ-ENaC adjacent to the plasma membrane, suggesting direct interactions of PIP2 with these three regions. Microscale thermophoresis elaborated PIP2 interactions with the amino termini of β- (Kd ~5.2 µM) and γ-ENaC (Kd ~13 µM). https://www.selleckchem.com/products/LBH-589.html A weaker interaction site within the carboxy terminus of γ-ENaC (Kd ~800 µM) was also observed. These results support that PIP2 regulates ENaC activity by directly interacting with at least three distinct regions within the cytoplasmic domains of the channel that contain conserved basic residues. These interactions are probably electrostatic in nature, and are likely to bear a key structural role in support of channel activity. Published under license by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
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