Pore mutations affecting tetrameric assembly and functioning of the potassium channel KcsA from Streptomyces lividans.

abstract：:Organisms using the thiosulfate-oxidizing Sox enzyme system fall into two groups: group 1 forms sulfur globules as intermediates (Allochromatium vinosum), group 2 does not (Paracoccus pantotrophus). While several components of their Sox systems are quite similar, i.e. the proteins SoxXA, SoxYZ and SoxB, they differ by...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Welte C,Hafner S,Krätzer C,Quentmeier A,Friedrich CG,Dahl C

更新日期：2009-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been suggested that the mammary cell could produce prolactin (PRL). This hypothesis was investigated by incubation with [35S]methionine-cysteine followed by SDS-PAGE, immunoblotting and autoradiography of immunoprecipitated PRL, and by electron microscopic analysis after incubation without or with cy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lkhider M,Delpal S,Le Provost F,Ollivier-Bousquet M

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosslinking of histones in mouse liver nuclei and extended chromatin with a bifunctional reagent leads to the formation of H1-H1o heterodimers as well as H1o-H1o homodimers. H1o can be also crosslinked to the core histones. Thus, the location of histone H1o within the basic repeating chromatin structure seems to be a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dashkevich VK,Nikolaev LG,Zlatanova JS,Glotov BO,Severin ES

更新日期：1983-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine leukaemia virus (BLV) is the aetiological agent of Leukosis enzootica bovis [Viral Oncology (1980), G. Klein (Ed.) Raven Press, New York, pp. 231-238], a widely spread disease in cattle. BLV is reported as the animal model of human T-cell leukaemia virus (HLTV) which is the causative agent of adult T-cell leuka...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Précigoux G,Geoffre S,Léonard R,Llido S,Dautant A,d'Estaintot BL,Picard P,Ménard A,Guillemain B,Hospital M

更新日期：1993-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase, a key enzyme of methanogenesis, was purified 100-fold from methanol grown Methanosarcina barkeri to apparent homogeneity and a specific activity of 34 mumol.min-1.mg protein-1. Molybdenum was found to co-migrate with the enzyme activity. The molybdenum content of purified preparations...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karrasch M,Börner G,Enssle M,Thauer RK

更新日期：1989-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet-activating protein (IAP) suppressed Ca2+-induced histamine release and phospholipase A2 activation in Gpp(NH)p-loaded mast cells. Since the guanine nucleotide-binding protein involved in adenylate cyclase inhibition is known to lose its function upon being ADP-ribosylated by IAP, the nucleotide-binding protein i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakamura T,Ui M

更新日期：1984-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The known functions of type II thioesterases (TEIIs) in type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) include selecting of starter acyl units, removal of aberrant extender acyl units, releasing of final products, and dehydration of polyketide intermediates. In this study, we characterized two TEIIs (ScnI and PKSIaTEII) from Stre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang YY,Ran XX,Chen WB,Liu SP,Zhang XS,Guo YY,Jiang XH,Jiang H,Li YQ

更新日期：2014-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Micromolar concentrations of arachidonic acid cause in Ca2+ loaded heart mitochondria matrix swelling and Ca2+ release. These effects appear to be unrelated to the classical membrane permeability transition (MPT), as they are CsA insensitive, membrane potential independent and can also be activated by Sr2+. Atractylos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Di Paola M,Zaccagnino P,Oliveros-Celis C,Lorusso M

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Hyperhomocysteinemia has recently been identified as an important risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). One of the potential mechanisms underlying harmful effects of homocysteine (Hcy) is site-specific acylation of proteins at lysine residues by homocysteine thiolactone (HCTL). The accumulation of amyloid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Khodadadi S,Riazi GH,Ahmadian S,Hoveizi E,Karima O,Aryapour H

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to analyze the interaction of GTP-tubulin with rhodamine-labeled RB3, a neural protein of the stathmin family, and to determine the kinetic pathway of the association process. RB3 displayed slow association-dissociation kinetics with tubulin depending on the square of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krouglova T,Amayed P,Engelborghs Y,Carlier MF

更新日期：2003-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a fatal type of cancer. We studied the role of the redox-active protein thioredoxin-1 (Trx-1) in apoptosis induced in MM cells and their non-malignant counterparts (Met-5A) by alpha-tocopheryl succinate (alpha-TOS) and TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). MM cells were suscepti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Freeman RE,Neuzil J

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathelicidins are a group of myeloid antimicrobial peptide precursors found in a variety of mammalian species. Transcripts of this family show a highly conserved 5' region corresponding to the 5' untranslated region, signal peptide and propiece, and diverse 3' regions encoding structurally varied C-terminal sequences ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scocchi M,Wang S,Zanetti M

更新日期：1997-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Platinum electrodes can be coated with cytochrome b5-phospholipid monolayers by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique. Cyclic voltammetry of a series of dyes shows that the coated electrodes become selective for certain electroactive species. The electron transfer reactions of negatively charged species are inhibited at the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zaba BN,Wilkinson MC,Taylor DM,Lewis TJ,Laidman DL

更新日期：1987-03-09 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：:After initial purification of ovine placental lactogen (oPL) using the procedures described previously [(1976) Endocrinology 98, 65-75], the oPL preparation was further purified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using an anionic exchange column (Bio-Sil TSK DEAE-2-SW). Two forms of oPL with different re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chan JS,Nie ZR,Seidah NG,Chrétien M

更新日期：1986-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidoreductase ERp57 is a component of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I peptide-loading complex. ERp57 can interact directly with MHC class I molecules, however, little is known about which of the cysteine residues within the MHC class I molecule are relevant to this interaction. MHC class I mole...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Antoniou AN,Santos SG,Campbell EC,Lynch S,Arosa FA,Powis SJ

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have attempted to elucidate the mechanism of apoptotic cell death induced by hypoxia (very low oxygen conditions) in neuronal cells. Human neuroblastoma SK-N-MC cells under hypoxic conditions resulted in apoptosis in a time-dependent manner estimated by DNA fragmentation assay and nuclear morphology stained with fl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Araya R,Uehara T,Nomura Y

更新日期：1998-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc cations at concentrations of 0.2 mM and greater catalyzed specific phosphorylation, by ATP, of two membrane-associated proteins from rat hippocampus. These proteins, corresponding to molecular weights of 60 and 49 kDa, were phosphorylated primarily at tyrosine residues. The 60-kDa protein was identified as p60c-s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vener AV,Loeb J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulated production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by plasma membrane-associated nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidases (Nox) in non-phagocytic cells regulates a number of biological processes including growth, vessel tone, and oxygen sensing. The purpose of this study was to investigate H(2)O(2)-sti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colston JT,de la Rosa SD,Strader JR,Anderson MA,Freeman GL

更新日期：2005-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick C (NPC) disease is a progressive neurological disorder in which cholesterol, gangliosides and bis-monoacylglycerol phosphate accumulate in late endosomes/lysosomes. This disease is caused by mutations in either the NPC1 or NPC2 gene. NPC1 and NPC2 are involved in egress of lipids, particularly cholesterol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vance JE

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA of a novel form of type V adenylyl cyclase has been cloned from rabbit myocardium using oligonucleotide probes derived from peptides that were produced by enzymatic cleavage of purified heart cyclase. A corresponding mRNA (6 kb) has been detected in rabbit myocardial tissue by Northern blot analysis. The cDNA e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wallach J,Droste M,Kluxen FW,Pfeuffer T,Frank R

更新日期：1994-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to previously published data, we have found that in mammalian skeletal muscles, phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM) is organized in a regular, striated fashion within the sarcomere. In the absence of the enzyme effectors, PGM localizes mainly at the M-line, but under conditions typical for contracting muscle, the e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kowalski W,Gizak A,Rakus D

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural basis of GABA-gated chloride channels in mammalian brain is presently explored by the functional expression of cDNAs coding for the alpha, beta or gamma-subunits of the receptor and their isoforms. In this context, we expressed the cloned cDNA coding for the rat beta 1-subunit of the GABAA receptor in t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sigel E,Baur R,Malherbe P,Möhler H

更新日期：1989-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Horse plasma gelsolin labelled with benzophenone-4-isothiocyanate can be photochemically cross-linked to rabbit cardiac tropomyosin. The cross-linking proceeds with greater efficiency in calcium-containing buffers. Further evidence for interaction between these proteins is provided by retention of fluorescently labell...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koepf EK,Burtnick LD

更新日期：1992-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Okadaic acid is an inhibitor of the protein Ser/Thr phosphatases PP1 and PP2A, which blocks the activation of extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase 5 (ERK5), a member of the MAP kinase family activated by growth factors and several types of stressors. The blocking of ERK5 activation by okadaic acid was observe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garcia L,Garcia F,Llorens F,Unzeta M,Itarte E,Gómez N

更新日期：2002-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA is very stable in its double-stranded form. For many processes of DNA metabolism, such as replication, repair, recombination and transcription, the DNA has to be brought transiently into a single-stranded form. DNA helicases are enzymes capable of melting the hydrogen bonds of base pairs by using the energy of nuc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thömmes P,Hübscher U

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-107 (miR-107) has been demonstrated to regulate proliferation and apoptosis in many types of cancers. Nevertheless, its biological function in gastric cancer remains largely unexplored. Here, we found that the expression level of miR-107 was increased in gastric cancer in comparison with the adjacent normal t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li F,Liu B,Gao Y,Liu Y,Xu Y,Tong W,Zhang A

更新日期：2014-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A large protein complex (approx. 2000 kDa) was found in the cytosol of the hyperthermophilic archaebacterium Staphylothermus marinus. The purified protein was shown to be a homomultimer of 93 kDa subunits, the primary structure of which was determined by nucleotide sequence analysis. The protein belongs to the family ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cicicopol C,Peters J,Kellermann J,Baumeister W

更新日期：1994-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel structural classification of beta proteins is presented from the viewpoint of the ring-shaped structure and the zipper-like contact pattern, based on the fact that 92% and 60% of beta proteins have the ring topology and the zippered contact pattern, respectively. We discuss the implication of the unexpectedly ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koike R,Kinoshita K,Kidera A

更新日期：2003-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent release of TCA-precipitable peptides from mitochondria-containing stroma (MCS) is described. The process is independent of ubiquitin, but is sensitive to hemin and to heat treatment. Neither chloramphenicol nor EGTA inhibit. 50% of the activity is dependent on charged tRNA. The peptides released from MCS...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dubiel W,Drung I,Müller M,Rapoport SM

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00