Amino acid substitution in alpha-helix 7 of Cry1Ac delta-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis leads to enhanced toxicity to Helicoverpa armigera Hubner.

abstract：:We have demonstrated over a decade ago that hepoxilins cause the release of insulin from isolated pancreatic islets of Langerhans in vitro. However, no studies are available so far to indicate whether these compounds are active in vivo. The present study is the first to our knowledge which demonstrates that hepoxilins...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pace-Asciak CR,Demin PM,Estrada M,Liu G

更新日期：1999-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A characteristic of the antioxidant, probucol, is its inability to inhibit apolipoprotein B fragmentation in low density lipoprotein (LDL), despite a pronounced ability to inhibit lipid oxidation on relatively lengthy exposure to Cu(II). Here we show that a short exposure of LDL to hydrogen peroxide and Cu(II) leads t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hunt JV,Bailey JR,Schultz DL,McKay AG,Mitchinson MJ

更新日期：1994-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of sodium butyrate on in vitro angiogenesis and cyclooxygenase (COX) expression using primary cultures of human intestinal microvascular endothelial cells (HIMEC). Butyrate inhibited VEGF-induced cellular proliferation, transmigration and tube formation of HIMEC. Butyrate also inhibited COX-2 ex...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ogawa H,Rafiee P,Fisher PJ,Johnson NA,Otterson MF,Binion DG

更新日期：2003-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence intensity and anisotropy decays of the intrinsic tryptophan emission from six Fe/S proteins (ranging from the very simplest ones to enzyme complexes containing one, two or more Trp residues) were measured. All proteins were examined in the reduced and the oxidized state. In either redox state each pro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dorovska-Taran V,van Hoek A,Link TA,Visser AJ,Hagen WR

更新日期：1994-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Protein Data Bank (PDB) was established in 1971 as a repository for the three dimensional structures of biological macromolecules. Since then, more than 85000 biological macromolecule structures have been determined and made available in the PDB archive. Through analysis of the corpus of data, it is possible to id...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berman HM,Coimbatore Narayanan B,Di Costanzo L,Dutta S,Ghosh S,Hudson BP,Lawson CL,Peisach E,Prlić A,Rose PW,Shao C,Yang H,Young J,Zardecki C

更新日期：2013-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of human diseases can be linked to aberrations in protein folding which cause an imbalance in protein homeostasis. Molecular chaperones, including heat shock proteins, act to assist protein folding, stability and activity in the cell. Attention has begun to focus on modulating the expression and/or activity o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Powers MV,Workman P

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The sialic acid of complex N-glycans can be biochemically engineered by substituting the physiological precursor N-acetylmannosamine with non-natural N-acylmannosamines. The Kv3.1 glycoprotein, a neuronal voltage-gated potassium channel, contains sialic acid. Western blots of the Kv3.1 glycoprotein isolated from trans...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hall MK,Reutter W,Lindhorst T,Schwalbe RA

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the nuclear organization of the mouse Ig kappa locus and how it may relate to the formation of synapses during recombination, we have studied the kinetics of rearrangement of different V kappa gene families to J kappa gene segments in the pre-B cell line, 103bcl2. Remarkably, V kappa gene families...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li S,Garrard WT

更新日期：2003-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA from intact rat pancreatic islets, or from transformed hamster beta (HIT) cells, hybridized with the cDNA probe for type I (but not type II) phospholipase A2. The levels of phospholipase A2 mRNA increased in islets from fasted rats; they decreased in islets cultured in a high glucose concentration (contr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Metz S,Holmes D,Robertson RP,Leitner W,Draznin B

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is linked to functional brown adipose tissue (BAT) atrophy, partially due to adipocyte apoptosis. The brown adipocytes of obese rats have lower Bcl-2/Bax mRNA and protein ratios than those of their lean littermates. Exposure to a low temperature for three days markedly increased the Bcl-2/Bax ratio, by increas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Briscini L,Tonello C,Dioni L,Carruba MO,Nisoli E

更新日期：1998-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) induces decreased glutathione (GSH) and trypanothione [T(SH)2 ] pools in trypanosomatids, presumably because only gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (γECS) is blocked. However, some BSO effects cannot be explained by exclusive γECS inhibition; therefore, its effect on the T(SH)2 metabolism ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vázquez C,Mejia-Tlachi M,González-Chávez Z,Silva A,Rodríguez-Zavala JS,Moreno-Sánchez R,Saavedra E

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bchM gene of Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been sequenced and then overexpressed in E. coli producing a protein of M(r) approximately. 27,500. Cell-free extracts of the transformed E. coli strain are able to methylate added Mg protoporphyrin, resulting in the formation of Mg protoporphyrin monomethyl ester. The iden...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gibson LC,Hunter CN

更新日期：1994-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The entire structure of a 98 kb genomic region that abounds in genes related to magnetosome synthesis was first described in the Magnetospirillum sp. strain AMB-1. The deletion of this 98 kb genomic region and the circular form after excision from the chromosome was detected by PCR amplification. This strongly suggest...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fukuda Y,Okamura Y,Takeyama H,Matsunaga T

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of purified PKC-alpha, -beta and -gamma has been investigated. A series of synthetic peptides based upon the sequence surrounding serine-7 in glycogen synthase were generated and used to determine the basic residue requirements of these PKC isotypes. While PKC-alpha and -beta are indistinguis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marais RM,Nguyen O,Woodgett JR,Parker PJ

更新日期：1990-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to demonstrate the unique specificity of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100. Calcium flux assays with selected chemokine/cell combinations, affording distinct chemokine receptor specificities, revealed no interaction of AMD3100 with any of the chemokine receptors CXCR1 through CX...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hatse S,Princen K,Bridger G,De Clercq E,Schols D

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically obese (ob/ob) mice develop a marked insulin resistance in brown adipose tissue soon after weaning, and this is paralleled by a fall in the acute activation of the mitochondrial proton conductance pathway in the tissue on cold exposure. Treatment of ob/ob mice with ciglitazone, a new oral hypoglycaemic, led...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mercer SW,Trayhurn P

更新日期：1986-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously determined protein structures have been analysed, in order to find folding motifs similar to that proposed by NMR spectroscopy, for the N-terminal, 14 kDa fragment of the Ada protein. The analyses reveal only limited similarities with the NMR-derived structural data and strongly suggest that this region of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swindells MB

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of endothelin-1, a newly discovered potent bicyclic peptide vaso-constrictor agent, has been investigated using 1H NMR conformational constraints and distance geometry calculations. The conformation is constrained by two disulphide bridges between Cys1-Cys15 and Cys3-Cys11 but the NMR data and c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Munro S,Craik D,McConville C,Hall J,Searle M,Bicknell W,Scanlon D,Chandler C

更新日期：1991-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Several catalytic properties of the hydrogenase from Scenedesmus obliquus have been examined to optimize the purification conditions. The Km-value for H2-evolution in the presence of the most effective electron mediator methylviologen is 0.66 mM. The pH-optimum is 6.3, the temperature-optimum is 50 degrees C and the e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schnackenberg J,Schulz R,Senger H

更新日期：1993-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripeptidyl peptidase I (TPP-I) is a lysosomal enzyme that cleaves tripeptides from the N-terminus of polypeptides. A comparison of TPP-I amino acid sequences with sequences derived from an EST database suggested that TPP-I is identical to a pepstatin-insensitive carboxyl proteinase of unknown specificity which is mut...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vines DJ,Warburton MJ

更新日期：1999-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, resulting from asphyxia during birth, affects 2-3 in every 1000 term infants and depending on severity, brings about life-changing neurological consequences or death. This hypoxic-ischaemia (HI) results in a delayed neural energy failure during which the majority of brain injury occur...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thornton C,Jones A,Nair S,Aabdien A,Mallard C,Hagberg H

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raman spectra of active Na+,K+-ATPase from pig kidney and membrane-bound products of its two-stage trypsinolysis, including alpha-subunit hydrophobic regions as well as the intact beta-subunit and hydrophobic regions of alpha- and beta-subunits, were measured to calculate the secondary structure of hydrophilic and hyd...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ovchinnikov YuA,Arystarkhova EA,Arzamazova NM,Dzhandzhugazyan KN,Efremov RG,Nabiev IR,Modyanov NN

更新日期：1988-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Under hypobaric hypoxia, antioxidant defenses of the heart are stressed by the enhanced production of ROS. Mammalian heart acclimatizes to hypoxia through altered gene expression, which we studied in murine heart exposed to 10h of acute hypobaric hypoxia (AHH), equivalent to 15000ft, using cDNA arrays. Functional clas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karar J,Dolt KS,Mishra MK,Arif E,Javed S,Pasha MA

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystrophin is the recently discovered defective gene product in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD and BMD). Dystrophin transcripts have been amplified and identified in diagnostic needle muscle biopsy samples using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure. Using 5'- and 3'-primers, dystrophin transcript...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Muntoni F,Strong PN

更新日期：1989-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that Docetaxel-induced variable degrees of apoptosis in melanoma. In this report, we studied the beta-tubulin repertoire of melanoma cell lines and show that class III beta-tubulin expression correlated with Docetaxel-resistance. Sensitive cells showed low levels of class III beta-tubulin with...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mhaidat NM,Thorne RF,de Bock CE,Zhang XD,Hersey P

更新日期：2008-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The pl6INK4a tumor suppressor negatively regulates progression through the G1 phase of the mammalian cell cycle. To mimic the downmodulation of p16INK4a commonly seen in cancer, we designed and characterized a hammerhead ribozyme against exon E1alpha of the murine pl6INK4a transcript. Stable expression of the ribozyme...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nylandsted J,Rohde M,Bartek J,Strauss M

更新日期：1998-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was isolated and purified in its two forms, the activated A-ATPase from glucose-metabolizing cells, and the basal-level B-ATPase from cells with endogenous metabolism only. Using two-dimensional gel electrophoretic analysis, we showed that both enzyme p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lapathitis G,Tanfani F,Kotyk A,Bertoli E

更新日期：2001-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant Plasmodium falciparum glyoxalase I (PfGlx I) was characterized as monomeric Zn(2+)-containing enzyme of 44 kDa. The K(M) value of the methylglyoxal-glutathione adduct is 77+/-15 microM, the k(cat) value being 4000 min(-1) at 25 degrees C and pH 7.0. PfGlx I consists of two halves, each of which is homologo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iozef R,Rahlfs S,Chang T,Schirmer H,Becker K

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of the thiazolyl peptide antibiotic thiostrepton to the GTPase domain of 23S rRNA involves a few crucial nucleotides, notably A1067 (E. coli). Small RNA transcripts were prepared corresponding to the GTPase domain of the plastid 23S rRNA and the two forms of cytosolic 28S rRNAs found in the human malaria paras...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Clough B,Strath M,Preiser P,Denny P,Wilson IR

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the new view, hydrophobic free energy is measured by the work of solute transfer of hydrocarbon gases from vapor to aqueous solution. Reasons are given for believing that older values, measured by solute transfer from a reference solvent to water, are not quantitatively correct. The hydrophobic free energy from gas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baldwin RL

更新日期：2013-04-17 00:00:00