Kinesin subfamily UNC104 contains a FHA domain: boundaries and physicochemical characterization.

abstract：:Treatment of the chemically transformed fibroblasts BP-A31 and other cell lines with low concentrations of cycloheximide (CHM) for 72 h followed by the removal of the protein synthesis inhibitor leads to the proliferation of alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO)-resistant phenotypes. These drug-resistant cells contain ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Medrano EE,Burrone OR,Ferrer MM,Cafferata EG,Algranati ID

更新日期：1986-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In kidney cortex tubules isolated from fed rabbits L-alanine is not utilized as glucose precursor, when added as a sole substrate. However, this amino acid decreases gluconeogenesis from low (up to 1 mM) 2-oxoglutarate concentrations and stimulates this process at higher (2.5-10 mM) ketoacid contents in the suspension...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zabłocki K,Bryła J

更新日期：1989-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tert-butyl hydroperoxide (BHP), hydrogen peroxide and diamide caused a rapid and simultaneous release of glutathione disulfide (GSSG) and K+ in the isolated perfused rat liver. Both BHP-induced effluxes were suppressed by prior depletion of hepatic glutathione, but not by co-infusion of desferrioxamine which prevented...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Masuda Y,Ozaki M,Aoki S

更新日期：1993-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel gene named fad104 (factor for adipocyte differentiation-104), whose expression level quickly increased in the early stage of adipogenesis, was isolated and characterized. The deduced amino acid sequence of fad104 revealed the possible presence of a fibronectin type III domain and transmembrane domain. The expr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tominaga K,Kondo C,Johmura Y,Nishizuka M,Imagawa M

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the proteins involved in cell clump/cell adhesion of insect cellular defense reactions, we induced the cell clump/cell adhesion reaction in vitro with the hemolymph of larvae of the coleopteran insect, Tenebrio molitor. The 72 kDa protein was specifically enriched in the residues of cell clump/cell adh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee HS,Cho MY,Lee KM,Kwon TH,Homma K,Natori S,Lee BL

更新日期：1999-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The ADP(Mg2+)-deactivated oligomycin-sensitive F1-F0 ATPase of coupled submitochondrial particles treated with the substoichiometric amount of oligomycin was studied to test whether ATP synthesis and hydrolysis proceed in either direction through the same intermediates. The initial rates of ATP hydrolysis, oxidative p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Syroeshkin AV,Vasilyeva EA,Vinogradov AD

更新日期：1995-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator protein 1 (AP1) is a complex of Fos and Jun, and it regulates the transcription of genes possessing the AP1-binding sequence. The purpose of this study was to detect living cells that express AP1 after stimulation with a tumor promoter. The Fos and Jun components of AP1 were induced rapidly and transiently i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shimokawa N,Miura M

更新日期：1996-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of type IX collagen, a minor collagen in cartilage, was examined by treatment with three different types of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) purified from the culture medium of rheumatoid synovial cells. Neither MMP-1 (collagenase) nor MMP-2 (so-called 'gelatinase') could digest type IX collagen, but M...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okada Y,Konomi H,Yada T,Kimata K,Nagase H

更新日期：1989-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of newly synthesized human immunodeficiency virus type 1 env gp160 was examined in COS-1 cells. The results of morphological chase experiments involving cycloheximide demonstrated that gp160 was retained in the Golgi apparatus for longer than the half-life of the molecule. The degradation of gp160 was insensi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kimura T,Nishikawa M,Fujisawa J

更新日期：1996-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene spa P (formerly designated as spa P1) encoding the Mr 185,000 surface antigen (I/II) of Streptococcus mutans, serotype c (NG5), has been sequenced. The gene (4683 bp) encodes a protein of 1561 amino acid residues including putative signal peptide (residues 1-38) and transmembrane (residues 1537-1556) sequence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kelly C,Evans P,Bergmeier L,Lee SF,Progulske-Fox A,Harris AC,Aitken A,Bleiweis AS,Lehner T

更新日期：1989-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplex ligands DODC and TMPyP4 have different binding modes to quadruplex structure and cause cell proliferation arrest. Here we showed that DODC was more efficient in cell growth inhibition than TMPyP4. Both G-quadruplex ligands induced nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling and accumulation of TERT in mitochondria. Thi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhuang XY,Yao YG

更新日期：2013-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A Synechococcus PCC7942 mutant in which the psbO gene was inactivated by insertion of a chloramphenicol interposon and which did not contain any detectable manganese stabilizing protein in immunoblot experiments, was constructed. Such a Synechococcus mutant was able to grow under photoautotrophic conditions. Isolated ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bockholt R,Masepohl B,Pistorius EK

更新日期：1991-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein D2 forms the water-filled pore across the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and allows the penetration of imipenem. We cloned the protein D2 gene by the antibody screening technique. When the imipenem-resistant mutant lacking protein D2 harbored the plasmid with the cloned D2 gene, the mutant overproduc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoneyama H,Nakae T

更新日期：1991-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that some of the enzymes underpinning cellulose solubilization by Ruminococcus albus 8 lack the conventional type of dockerin module characteristic of cellulosomal proteins and instead, bear an "X" domain of unknown function at their C-termini. We have now subcloned and expressed six X domains and s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu Q,Morrison M,Nelson KE,Bayer EA,Atamna N,Lamed R

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylcholine, phosphorylcreatine, lactate, glutathione, glycine and leucine were identified in living HeLa cells in the first study of this cell type by 1H spin echo NMR spectroscopy. The technique has the advantage that it is non-invasive, providing detailed structural information on individual species present i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Reglinski J,Smith WE,Suckling CJ,Al-Kabban M,Watson ID,Stewart MJ

更新日期：1987-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to antimalarial drugs has often threatened malaria elimination efforts and historically has led to the short-term resurgence of malaria incidences and deaths. With concentrated malaria eradication efforts currently underway, monitoring drug resistance in clinical settings complemented by in vitro drug susce...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Petersen I,Eastman R,Lanzer M

更新日期：2011-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common tumors worldwide, in which the genetic mechanisms of oncogenesis are still unclear. To investigate whether the genomic DNA copy number alterations may contribute to primary HCC, the cDNA microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) analysis was...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang J,Sheng HH,Shen T,Hu YJ,Xiao HS,Zhang Q,Zhang QH,Han ZG

更新日期：2006-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome bd is a bacterial respiratory oxidase carrying three hemes but no copper. We show that nitric oxide (NO) reacts with the intermediate F of cytochrome bd from Azotobacter vinelandii: (i) with a 1:1 stoichiometry, (ii) rapidly (k=1.2 +/- 0.1 x 10(5)M(-1)s(-1) at 20 degrees C), and (iii) yielding the oxidized ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borisov VB,Forte E,Sarti P,Brunori M,Konstantinov AA,Giuffrè A

更新日期：2006-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sigma factor binding proteins are involved in modifying the promoter preferences of the RNA polymerase in bacteria. We found the nuclear encoded protein (SibI) that is transported into chloroplasts and interacts specifically with the region 4 of Sig1 in Arabidopsis. SibI and its homologue, T3K9.5 are novel proteins, w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morikawa K,Shiina T,Murakami S,Toyoshima Y

更新日期：2002-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study provides the first evidence that the abundance of catalytic alpha1-subunit of Na,K-ATPase increases in the course of T cell blast transformation. Immunodepressant cyclosporin A at anti-proliferative doses diminished the induction of alpha1 protein in activated lymphocytes. Furthermore, in competent T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marakhova I,Karitskaya I,Aksenov N,Zenin V,Vinogradova T

更新日期：2005-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:LH-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in membrane preparations of bovine luteal cells could be enhanced by treating the cells with either phospholipase D or its hydrolysis product, phosphatidic acid. Similar augmentary effects were also produced following treatment of the cells with EGF. Moreover, EGF could stimula...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Budnik LT,Mukhopadhyay AK

更新日期：1993-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycinebetaine (betaine), an osmoregulant in halophilic plants, stabilized the evolution of oxygen and the synthesis of ATP by thylakoid membranes from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 when it was present during the preparation and incubation of the thylakoid membranes. Moreover, betaine enhanced the evolution...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mamedov MD,Hayashi H,Wada H,Mohanty PS,Papageorgiou GC,Murata N

更新日期：1991-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Various vertebrates use ultraviolet (UV) vision for such basic behaviors as mating, foraging, and predation. We have successfully interchanged the color-sensitivities of the mouse UV pigment and the human blue pigment by introducing forward and reverse mutations at five sites. This unveils for the first time the gener...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yokoyama S,Shi Y

更新日期：2000-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase-I were examined in the presence of the anti-tumor drug cis-diaminedichloroplatinum(II) and its inactive geometric isomer trans-diaminedichloroplatinum(II). The trans-isomer did not inhibit the enzyme activity. The anti-tumor drug, on the other hand, retarded the enzyme in ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Duman RK,Heath RT,Bose RN

更新日期：1999-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The 21-residue peptide KLLLLKLLLLKLLLLKLLLLK (KL4) has been synthesized and analyzed regarding its secondary structure and orientation in lipid environments. Fourier transform infrared and circular dichroism spectroscopy shows that the peptide exhibits approximately 80% alpha-helical content both in dodecylphosphochol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gustafsson M,Vandenbussche G,Curstedt T,Ruysschaert JM,Johansson J

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant porcine growth hormone (rPGH) was solubilised from inclusion bodies (IB's) using either 6 M guanidinium hydrochloride (GnHCl), 7.5 M urea or by a novel method using a cationic surfactant, cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC). Circular dichroism (CD) analysis of the secondary (2 degrees) structure of the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Puri NK,Cardamone M

更新日期：1992-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The class III phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K-III) complex and its phosphorylated lipid product phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PtdIns3P) control the three topologically related membrane-involution processes autophagy, endocytosis, and cytokinesis. The activity of the catalytic unit of PI3K-III complex, the Vacu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Abrahamsen H,Stenmark H,Platta HW

更新日期：2012-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppression of electron flow (and its subsequent restoration with 3-10 mM NaHCO3) on the donor side of photosystem II is shown upon either a partial depletion of pea subchloroplast membranes in bicarbonate or the addition of 5-20 microM formate. At higher concentrations (5 mM) formate induces the known 'bicarbonate ef...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klimov VV,Allakhverdiev SI,Feyziev YaM,Baranov SV

更新日期：1995-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Helical filaments of bacterial flagella are built up by a self-assembly process from thousands of flagellin subunits. To clarify how the disordered terminal regions of flagellin interact upon filament formation, polymerization ability of various terminally truncated fragments was investigated. Fragments deprived of 19...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gugolya Z,Muskotál A,Sebestyén A,Diószeghy Z,Vonderviszt F

更新日期：2003-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The high cGMP sensitivity of cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (type II) (PKAII) from invertebrates led to the hypothesis that cGMP directly activates PKAII under physiological conditions. We tested this idea using PKAII holoenzyme purified from the honeybee brain in an assay with short stimulation times. In the presenc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leboulle G,Müller U

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00