The conformation of the main immunogenic region on the alpha-subunit of muscle acetylcholine receptor is affected by neighboring receptor subunits.

abstract：:In this paper we demonstrate that phage display technology is a suitable system for studying the interaction between the high-affinity receptor for IgE (Fc epsilon RI) and IgE. The alpha subunit extracellular domains of the human receptor were expressed on the surface of filamentous phage M13 fused to the carboxyl-ter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scarselli E,Esposito G,Traboni C

更新日期：1993-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of complexes between relaxed circular plasmid pBR322 DNA and tripeptide L-Val-L-Val-L-Val-NH-NH-Dns (TVP) at different peptide/DNA ratios was studied by electron microscopy. The results show that interaction of TVP with circular DNA leads to the formation of perfect torus-shaped particles. The torus par...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vengerov YY,Semenov TE,Streltsov SA,Makarov VL,Khorlin AA,Gursky GV

更新日期：1985-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the envelope glycoprotein precursor gp160 of HIV-1 is a prerequisite for the infectivity of HIV-1, and occurs at least in part before gp160 reaches the cell surface. Kexin/subtilisin-related endopeptidases are proposed enzyme candidates for this intracellular processing. In this study, we reveal the possib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okumura Y,Yano M,Murakami M,Mori S,Towatari T,Kido H

更新日期：1999-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the regulation of the biosynthesis and the secretion of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) in cultured bovine chromaffin cells. The combined treatment with protein kinase A and -C activators induced a 6-fold increase of intracellular levels of CNP-(1-103). The biosynthesized CNP-(1-103) was co-released wi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Babinski K,Féthière J,Roy M,De Léan A,Ong H

更新日期：1992-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Immature Drosophila rhodopsin is N-glycosylated, but undergoes complete deglycosylation during the process of protein maturation. In order to elucidate the site of glycosylation and its role in rhodopsin synthesis, we investigated the in vitro and in vivo synthesis of rhodopsin whose putative N-glycosylation sites (As...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Katanosaka K,Tokunaga F,Kawamura S,Ozaki K

更新日期：1998-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible interaction between tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) and other cytokines/growth factors in stimulating the production of nerve growth factor (NGF) in Swiss 3T3 cells was studied. TNF's stimulatory activity on fibroblast NGF production was synergized by interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), IL-1 beta and interf...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hattori A,Iwasaki S,Murase K,Tsujimoto M,Sato M,Hayashi K,Kohno M

更新日期：1994-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia kirovani cell walls possess a lipidic fraction, a lipolysaccharidic fraction and a peptidoglycan. The lipidic part is composed of glycerides, C(16) and C(18) free fatty acids, nocardic acids and of a carotenoid pigment. The lipopolysaccharidic part is composed of an arabinogalactan esterified by nocardic acid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guinand M,Vacheron MJ,Michel G

更新日期：1970-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of hyperphosphorylated Tau is associated with a number of neurodegenerative diseases collectively known as tauopathies. Differences in clinical and cognitive profiles among them suggest differential sensitivity of neuronal populations to Tau levels, phosphorylation and mutations. We used tissue specific e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Grammenoudi S,Kosmidis S,Skoulakis EM

更新日期：2006-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) increases injury in several liver, lung and kidney disease models. The objective of this investigation was to assess the effect of PAI-1 deficiency on cholestatic liver fibrosis and determine PAI-1 influenced fibrogenic mechanisms. We found that PAI-1(-/-) mice had less fibros...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang H,Zhang Y,Heuckeroth RO

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly-ADP ribosylation of nuclear proteins is activated when poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), a nuclear zinc-finger enzyme, binds to single-strand DNA breaks. To understand how the signal emerging from its DNA-binding domain (DBD) bound to such breaks is transduced to its catalytic domain, the structure-function rel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Trucco C,Flatter E,Fribourg S,de Murcia G,Ménissier-de Murcia J

更新日期：1996-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Proline residues are rarely found in the three most C-terminal positions of bacterial signal peptides, and have never been found in position +1 immediately following the cleavage site. It was recently shown that a Pro+1 mutation in the E. coli maltose binding protein precursor not only prevents cleavage of the signal ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nilsson I,von Heijne G

更新日期：1992-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of rat testis carbonyl reductase (rCR1) and rat ovary carbonyl reductase (rCR2) are 98% identical, differing only at amino acids 140, 141, 143, 235 and 238. Despite such strong sequence identity, we find that rCR1 and rCR2 have different catalytic constants for metabolism of menadione and 4-benzoyl-pyrid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sciotti MA,Tam S,Wermuth B,Baker ME

更新日期：2006-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Localisation of mRNA encoding the four AMPA glutamate receptor subunits in the rat adrenal gland was investigated using in situ hybridisation. GluR1 is found in the zona glomerulosa of the cortex, GluR3 in the remaining parts of the cortex, GluR2 in adrenal medullary cells and GluR4 at a very low level in the zona glo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kristensen P

更新日期：1993-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpesvirus life cycle has two distinct phases: latency and lytic replication. The viral immediate early protein replication and transcription activator (RTA) plays a central role in mediating the balance between these two phases. Here, we demonstrate that a B cell terminal differentiation factor X-box binding pro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yu F,Feng J,Harada JN,Chanda SK,Kenney SC,Sun R

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of synthetic UTP analogues containing methyl groups in different positions of the ribose moiety were tested as substrates for T7 RNA polymerase (T7 RNAP). Two of these compounds (containing substituents in the 5' position) were shown to be weak substrates of T7 RNAP. 3'Me-UTP was neither substrate nor inhib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tunitskaya VL,Rusakova EE,Padyukova NSh,Ermolinsky BS,Chernyi AA,Kochetkov SN,Lysov YuP,Mikhailov SN

更新日期：1997-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A lowered efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation was recently found in a Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) proband carrying a mutation in the mtDNA gene for subunit 6 of the membrane-bound F0 segment of the F1F0-ATP synthase [9]. This phenotype was transferred to cytoplasmic hybrid cells together with the muta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Majander A,Lamminen T,Juvonen V,Aula P,Nikoskelainen E,Savontaus ML,Wikström M

更新日期：1997-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the C-terminal domain of Bcl-2 family members may contain a signal anchor sequence that targets these proteins to the mitochondrial outer membrane. We have investigated the consequence of deleting this domain upon cytochrome c release in yeast strains that coexpress truncated forms of Bax (i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Priault M,Camougrand N,Chaudhuri B,Manon S

更新日期：1999-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The diterpene forskolin stimulated rat cardiac adenylate cyclase activity at least 20-fold and potentiated the effect of NaF. The stimulatory effect of forskolin was reduced in the presence of Gpp(NH)p. Ethanol markedly reduced the stimulation of adenylate cyclase by forskolin while potentiating NaF and Gpp(NH)p stimu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Robberecht P,Waelbroeck M,Chatelain P,Camus JC,Christophe J

更新日期：1983-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloalkane dehalogenase hydrolyses various 1-halo-n-alkanes to the corresponding alcohols by covalent catalysis with formation of an alkyl-enzyme intermediate. The carboxylate function of the nucleophilic aspartate (Asp-124) that displaces the halogen during formation of the intermediate was changed to an amide by sit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pries F,Kingma J,Janssen DB

更新日期：1995-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fas/Fas ligand interaction plays a crucial role in various liver diseases, and administration of agonistic anti-Fas antibody to mice causes massive hepatic apoptosis and fulminant hepatic failure. Several growth factors have recently been found to function in preventing apoptosis. In this study, we demonstrated th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kanda D,Takagi H,Toyoda M,Horiguchi N,Nakajima H,Otsuka T,Mori M

更新日期：2002-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Epiregulin (EPR), a novel member of epidermal growth factor (EGF) family, is a ligand for ErbB-1 and ErbB-4 receptors. The binding affinity of EPR for the receptors is lower than those of other EGF-family ligands. The solution structure of EPR was determined using two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscop...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sato K,Nakamura T,Mizuguchi M,Miura K,Tada M,Aizawa T,Gomi T,Miyamoto K,Kawano K

更新日期：2003-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factors EF-G and EF-Tu are structural homologues and share near-identical binding sites on the ribosome, which encompass the GTPase-associated centre (GAC) and the sarcin-ricin loop (SRL). The SRL is fixed structure in the ribosome and contacts elongation factors in the vicinity of their GTP-binding site. I...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sergiev PV,Bogdanov AA,Dontsova OA

更新日期：2005-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-xL, a close homolog of Bcl2, is an important regulator of apoptosis and is overexpressed in human cancer. Phosphorylation of Bcl-xL can be induced by microtubule-damaging drugs such as taxol or 2-methoxyestradiol (2-ME). By site-directed mutagenesis studies, we have identified that serine 62 is the necessary site ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Basu A,Haldar S

更新日期：2003-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat liver, transcription of the serine:pyruvate/alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (SPT/AGT) gene occurs from two sites, +1 and +66, in exon 1, resulting in the formation of two mRNAs, one for a precursor of mitochondrial SPT/AGT and the other for peroxisomal SPT/AGT, respectively. In this study, we attempted ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugiyama T,Uchida C,Oda T,Kitagawa M,Hayashi H,Ichiyama A

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the endosymbiont hypothesis, mitochondria are descended from ancient aerobic bacteria that were engulfed by protoeukaryotic cells. Experiments described here show that a synthetic peptide corresponding to a yeast mitochondrial targeting sequence can be imported into Paracoccus denitrificans, a soil bacter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roise D,Maduke M

更新日期：1994-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The astroglial growth factor (AGF), which induces a characteristic morphological change in cultured rat astroglial cells and stimulates their proliferation, was purified to homogeneity from bovine brain. Two different methods were used, the second one including heparin-Sepharose affinity chromatography. AGF is actuall...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pettmann B,Weibel M,Sensenbrenner M,Labourdette G

更新日期：1985-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyllycaconitine (MLA) is a competitive antagonist of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, with a remarkable preference for neuronal [125I]alpha Bgt binding sites. We have begun to investigate the structural basis of its potency and subtype selectivity. MLA is a substituted norditerpenoid alkaloid linked to a 2-(methy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hardick DJ,Cooper G,Scott-Ward T,Blagbrough IS,Potter BV,Wonnacott S

更新日期：1995-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of electron transport by unnatural (-)-antimycin A3 was examined with rat liver mitochondria and compared with that of natural (+)-antimycin A3. (-)-Antimycin A3 inhibited respiration about 1/100th as strongly as natural (+)-antimycin A3. (-)-Antimycin A3 binding to the cytochrome bc1 complex did not se...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miyoshi H,Kondo H,Oritani T,Saitoh I,Iwamura H

更新日期：1991-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Contactin and TAG-1 are glycan phosphatidyl inositol (GPI)-anchored cell adhesion molecules that play a crucial role in the organization of axonal subdomains at the node of Ranvier of myelinating fibers. Contactin and TAG-1 mediate axo-glial selective interactions in association with Caspr-family molecules at paranode...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Labasque M,Faivre-Sarrailh C

更新日期：2010-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of yeast spheroplasts by DEAE-dextran in isoosmotic conditions allows isolation of relatively undamaged subcellular fractions from yeast. The preservation of mitochondria and vacuoles permits the simultaneous isolation of the cytosol with negligible contamination by vacuolar proteinases and therefore, virtu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schwencke J,Canut H,Flores A

更新日期：1983-06-13 00:00:00