A preferential pole for exocytosis in cultured chromaffin cells revealed by confocal microscopy.

abstract：:The X-ray crystal structures of the complexes formed with bovine trypsin and the N alpha-tosylated piperidides of m-amidino-, p-amidino- and p-guanidino-D,L-phenylalanine (3-TAPAP, 4-TAPAP and 4-TGPAP) were determined with data to 1.8 A resolution. The L-stereoisomer of 3-TAPAP binds as a compact entity into the activ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Turk D,Stürzebecher J,Bode W

更新日期：1991-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) to rat hepatocytes in primary culture resulted in the formation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (Ins(1,4,5)P3) and 1,2-diacylglycerol (DG) by a phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC). DG showed a biphasic increase; the first phase, corresponding with the peak ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Osada S,Nakashima S,Saji S,Nakamura T,Nozawa Y

更新日期：1992-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell leukemia and bovine leukemia viruses have a potential transforming gene, termed X. In addition to the major open reading frame known to encode a functional protein, the X gene harbors another short open reading frame which overlaps this major one. Both of these open reading frames are found on a single sp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sagata N,Yasunaga T,Ikawa Y

更新日期：1985-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor 11 (FGF11) is an intracellular FGF. Although induction of FGF11 by hypoxia has been observed in several cell types, the molecular function of FGF11 is not clearly understood yet. Here, we investigated the role of FGF11 under hypoxia. We identified hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) as an int...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee KW,Yim HS,Shin J,Lee C,Lee JH,Jeong JY

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise interactions between the subunits of Gs (alpha s, beta, gamma) and the plasma membrane remain to be established. If alpha s is associated loosely with the inner membrane, is labile during activation, or is always present to some extent in the cytoplasm, then it should fractionate to the supernatant of a hi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roth DA,Urasawa K,Leiber D,Insel PA,Hammond HK

更新日期：1992-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric proteins composed of ricin toxin A chain (RTA) and staphylococcal protein A (PA) have been produced in E. coli. Constructs consisting of N-terminal RTA and C-terminal PA (RTA-PA) or N-terminal PA and C-terminal (PA-RTA) were capable of binding to immunoglobulin G (via PA) and of specifically depurinating 28 S...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： O'Hare M,Brown AN,Hussain K,Gebhardt A,Watson G,Roberts LM,Vitetta ES,Thorpe PE,Lord JM

更新日期：1990-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein translocation apparatus in Escherichia coli has been studied both genetically and biochemically. In vitro protein translocation systems involving everted membrane vesicles or reconstituted proteoliposomes have significantly contributed to biochemical clarification of the structure, mechanism and energetics...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tokuda H

更新日期：1994-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurogenic gene Drosophila big brain (bib) has a high sequence homology to aquaporin-4. However, its cellular functions in Drosophila neurogenesis have remained elusive. Here we investigated cell adhesion, and the ion and water permeability of Bib. The adhesive function was examined by a cell aggregation assay usi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tatsumi K,Tsuji S,Miwa H,Morisaku T,Nuriya M,Orihara M,Kaneko K,Okano H,Yasui M

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of physiological processes requires the regulation and coordination of many different signals and is determined in part by the activation and repression of expression of specific target genes. RIP140 is a ligand dependent coregulator of many nuclear receptors that influence such diverse processes as muscle...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： White R,Morganstein D,Christian M,Seth A,Herzog B,Parker MG

更新日期：2008-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Properties of Klebsiella pneumoniae respiratory chain enzymes catalyzing NADH oxidation have been studied. Using constructed K. pneumoniae mutant strains, it was shown that three enzymes belonging to different families of NADH:quinone oxidoreductases operate in this bacterium. The NDH-2-type enzyme is not coupled with...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bertsova YV,Bogachev AV

更新日期：2004-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human prothymosin alpha mutants were generated with the aid of random mutagenesis and screened for their ability to inhibit yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell growth. Conversion of Lys-87 to Glu resulted in an inactivated prothymosin alpha mutant, which lost the ability of the wild-type protein to block yeast cell gr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rubtsov Y,Vartapetian A

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut microbiota comprises approximately 100 trillion microbial cells and has a significant effect on many aspects of human physiology including metabolism, nutrient absorption and immune function. Disruption of this population has been implicated in many conditions and diseases, including examples such as obe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Walsh CJ,Guinane CM,O'Toole PW,Cotter PD

更新日期：2014-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Those aerobic archaea whose genomes have been sequenced possess a single 4-gene operon that, by sequence comparisons with Bacteria and Eukarya, appears to encode the three component enzymes of a 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase multienzyme complex. However, no catalytic activity of any such complex has ever been detected in th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Heath C,Jeffries AC,Hough DW,Danson MJ

更新日期：2004-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The red cell membrane is comprised of a lipid bilayer studded with transmembrane proteins, and laminated by a protein network, the membrane skeleton, at the surface of the inner monolayer. The erythrocyte owes its mechanical properties to the membrane skeleton. Hereditary spherocytosis, hereditary elliptocytosis or po...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Delaunay J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus undergoes phase variation among colonial morphotypes, including a virulent opaque form which produces capsular polysaccharide (CPS) and a translucent phenotype that produces little or no CPS and is attenuated. Here, we found that a V. vulnificus mutant defective for RfaH antitermin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garrett SB,Garrison-Schilling KL,Cooke JT,Pettis GS

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral mobility of the vasopressin renal-type V2-receptor was investigated in LLC-PK1 porcine epithelial cells using the technique of fluorescence microphotolysis (photobleaching) and a rhodamine-labelled vasopressin analogue. At various times after ligand addition, cells were analyzed for both receptor lateral mobil...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jans DA,Peters R,Fahrenholz F

更新日期：1990-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybrid protein from Neisseria meningitidis, which contains both a peroxiredoxin and a glutaredoxin domain, has been isolated. The enzyme was active in the reduction of various peroxides and dehydroascorbate in the presence of reduced glutathione. These findings suggest that both the peroxiredoxin and glutaredoxin do...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rouhier N,Jacquot JP

更新日期：2003-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduced rat ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) gene into OTC-deficient spf-ash mice by mating spf-ash heterozygotes with transgenic mice which carried recombinant DNA composed of 1.3 kb of the 5' flanking region of the gene fused onto rat OTC cDNA. The liver OTC activity of hemizygous spf-ash mice which carried th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shimada T,Noda T,Tashiro M,Murakami T,Takiguchi M,Mori M,Yamamura K,Saheki T

更新日期：1991-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta-endotoxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. entomocidus induced the release of encapsulated [14C]sucrose from reverse-phase vesicles composed of phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol. No such release was detected when the phospholipid component of the vesicles was either phosphatidylethanolamine, phospha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yunovitz H,Yawetz A

更新日期：1988-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau phosphorylation plays a crucial role in microtubule stabilization and in Alzheimer's disease. To characterize the molecular mechanisms of tau binding on microtubules, we synthesized the peptide R1 (QTAPVPMPDLKNVKSKIGSTENLKHQPGGGKVQI), reproducing the first tau microtubule binding motif. We thermodynamically charac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Devred F,Douillard S,Briand C,Peyrot V

更新日期：2002-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the identification of bovine miRNAs by cloning small RNAs from adipose tissue and the mammary gland. Fifty-nine distinct miRNAs were identified, five of them were not homologous to known mammalian miRNAs, and many of them had 3' and/or 5' end variants. Ribonuclease protection assays indicated that miR-23a an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gu Z,Eleswarapu S,Jiang H

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:WT1 encodes a zinc finger protein with a key role in urogenital development that is inactivated in a subset of Wilms' tumors. This tumor suppressor gene product contains an amino-terminal dimerization domain required for trans-inhibition of wild-type WT1 activity by mutants defective for DNA binding. In the course of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bruening W,Moffett P,Chia S,Heinrich G,Pelletier J

更新日期：1996-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Snake venoms are rich sources of serine proteinase inhibitors that are members of the Kunitz/BPTI (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor) family. However, only a few of their gene sequences have been determined from snakes. We therefore cloned the cDNAs for the trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitors from a Vipera ammodytes...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zupunski V,Kordis D,Gubensek F

更新日期：2003-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (MbetaCD) was used to explore a role for cholesterol-enriched plasma membrane microdomains in coupling lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) stimulation to phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activation. Cholesterol depletion strongly inhibited the production of phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate and ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peres C,Yart A,Perret B,Salles JP,Raynal P

更新日期：2003-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To study Bax-induced release of cytochrome c in vivo, we have expressed a cytochrome c-GFP (green fluorescent protein) fusion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells null for the expression of the endogenous cytochrome. We show here that cytochrome c-GFP is efficiently localised to mitochondria and able to function as an el...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roucou X,Prescott M,Devenish RJ,Nagley P

更新日期：2000-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The alternative nitrogenase of Rhodobacter capsulatus, isolated from a nifHDK deletion mutant, has been purified to near homogeneity and identified as an 'iron only' nitrogenase. The dithionite-reduced component 1 ('FeFe protein') of this enzyme showed an EPR spectrum consisting of two components: a minor S = 1/2 sign...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Müller A,Schneider K,Knüttel K,Hagen WR

更新日期：1992-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia/reperfusion induces nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) and AP-1 in rat hearts after 15 min of ischemia followed by reperfusion (R) for various periods of time (15 and 30 min, 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, and 24 h). Low levels of NF-kappaB and no signal for AP-1 were detected in shams and in non-ischemic tissue distant from...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chandrasekar B,Freeman GL

更新日期：1997-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of mastoparan on phospholipase C-catalysed phosphoinositide hydrolysis were examined in [3H]inositol-labelled human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. [3H]Inositol phosphate formation in intact cells was not altered by 20 microM mastoparan. In contrast, [3H]inositol phosphate formation in electrically permeabili...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wojcikiewicz RJ,Nahorski SR

更新日期：1989-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthyretin (TTR) is a circulatory protein which plays an important role in the transport of both thyroid hormone and retinol. Hep G2 cells, a human hepatoma-derived cell line, have been used extensively in studies of protein secretion by liver cells. The original description of this cell line indicated that this li...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Blaner WS,Bonifácio MJ,Feldman HD,Piantedosi R,Saraiva MJ

更新日期：1991-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their g = 1.94 EPR signal, nitrogenase Fe-proteins from Azotobacter vinelandii, Azotobacter chroococcum and Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibit a weak EPR signal with g approximately equal to 5. Temperature dependence of the signal was consistent with an S = 3/2 system with negative zero-field splitting, D = ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hagen WR,Eady RR,Dunham WR,Haaker H

更新日期：1985-09-23 00:00:00