Proteolytic cleavage of epidermal growth factor receptor by caspases.

abstract：:The role of two positively charged amino acid residues located at the active site of Escherichia coli maltodextrin phosphorylase was investigated by site-directed mutagenesis. Substitution of Lys539 by an arginine caused a 600-fold reduction, substitution of Arg534 by a glutamine caused an even larger 7000-fold reduct...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schinzel R,Drueckes P

更新日期：1991-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the extraction and stabilization in vitro of discrete complexes of interferon and cellular receptor proteins. A homogeneous complex of Mr 230 000 was extracted at the time of peak receptor binding (30 min). Complex formation was specific for human interferon. At later times a second complex could also be e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Eid P,Mogensen KE

更新日期：1983-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomyoglobin is a widely used model for studying the molecular mechanisms of globular protein folding. This work aimed to analyze the effects of rigidity and length of loops linking protein secondary structure elements on the stability of the molten globule intermediate state. For this purpose, we studied folding/unfo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Majorina MA,Balobanov VA,Uversky VN,Melnik BS

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexameric inorganic pyrophosphatase of Escherichia coli contains about 1 mol/mol of 'structural' pyrophosphate, which survives gel filtration and prolonged incubation with Mg2+, does not exchange with medium phosphate and pyrophosphate but is removed with 0.8 M perchloric acid. The site of pyrophosphate binding seems ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shestakov AA,Baykov AA,Avaeva SM

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Dystroglycan was quantitatively enriched from mammalian brain based on its uniform reactivity with Vicia villosa agglutinin and resolved into sub-populations possessing or lacking the sulfated glucuronic acid epitope recognized by monoclonal antibody HNK-1. We generated a new monoclonal antibody specific for a g...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McDearmon EL,Combs AC,Sekiguchi K,Fujiwara H,Ervasti JM

更新日期：2006-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA sequence putatively encoding a Delta(6)-fatty acid desaturase was isolated from Rhizopus arrhizus using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and rapid amplification of cDNA ends methods. Sequence analysis indicated that this cDNA sequence had an open reading frame of 1377 bp encoding 458 amino acids ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang Q,Li M,Ma H,Sun Y,Xing L

更新日期：2004-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity labeling studies have identified several conserved tyrosine residues in the alpha subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (alpha Y93, alpha Y190, and alpha Y198) as being in or near the ligand binding site. Mutagenesis studies from several laboratories have shown that substitution of phenylalanine for...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aylwin ML,White MM

更新日期：1994-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded protein response (UPR)--the endoplasmic reticulum stress response--is found in various pathologies including ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). However, its role during IRI is still unclear. Here, by combining two different bioinformatical methods--a method based on ordinary differential equations (Time S...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Le Pape S,Dimitrova E,Hannaert P,Konovalov A,Volmer R,Ron D,Thuillier R,Hauet T

更新日期：2014-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic design is based on computational modeling and optimization methods to provide prototype designs to targeted problems in an unsupervised manner. For biological circuits, we need to produce quantitative predictions of cell behavior for a given genotype as consequence of the different molecular interactions. Au...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodrigo G,Carrera J,Landrain TE,Jaramillo A

更新日期：2012-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine analogs of fusion peptide of influenza virus hemagglutinin whose membrane perturbation activity has been thoroughly tested [Murata et al. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 1986-1992; Murata et al. (1993) Biophys. J. 64, 724-734] were characterized by molecular modeling techniques with the aim of delineating any specific st...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Efremov RG,Nolde DE,Volynsky PE,Chernyavsky AA,Dubovskii PV,Arseniev AS

更新日期：1999-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine RANTES is a potent chemoattractant for eosinophils. RANTES is produced by lung epithelial cells during eosinophil-rich inflammatory diseases such as asthma. In this study, we examined the effects of thiazolidinediones (TZD) on RANTES expression in a human lung epithelial cell line, A549. In A549 cells, i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Momoi A,Murao K,Imachi H,Sayo Y,Nakamura H,Hosokawa H,Sato M,Fujita J,Okada H,Ishida T,Takahara J

更新日期：1999-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The usefulness of a gamma camera system for external imaging of the degradation sites of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is demonstrated in rats. [131I]LDL was injected intravenously in normal rats and rats pretreated with 17 alpha-ethinyl estradiol for LDL receptor induction. Distribution of the radioligand was followe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Friedrich E,Dresel HA,Sinn H,Schettler G

更新日期：1985-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult liver-specific IGF-II promoter P1 is activated by CCAAT/Enhancer Binding Proteins alpha and beta. Here we present evidence that promoter P1, in addition to positively regulating elements, contains two elements of 67 nucleotides that form an inverted repeat (IR) and suppress P1 activity. The two IR elements a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodenburg RJ,Krijger JJ,Holthuizen PE,Sussenbach JS

更新日期：1996-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Two phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) kinase genes (PPCk1 and PPCk2) are present in the Arabidopsis genome; only PPCk1 is expressed in rosette leaves. Homozygous lines of two independent PPCk1 T-DNA-insertional mutants showed very little (dln1), or no (csi8) light-induced PEPC phosphorylation and a clear retard i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Meimoun P,Gousset-Dupont A,Lebouteiller B,Ambard-Bretteville F,Besin E,Lelarge C,Mauve C,Hodges M,Vidal J

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a diethylpyrocarbonate (DEPC) modification [(1976) Prog. Nucl. Acids Res. 16, 189-262] to probe the accessibility of adenines essential for coat protein binding in the MS2 translational operator [(1983) Biochemistry 22, 2601-2610, 2610-2615, 4723-4730; (1987) Biochemistry 26, 1563-1568]. The essential ade...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Talbot SJ,Medina G,Fishwick CW,Haneef I,Stockley PG

更新日期：1991-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin stimulated protein kinase B alpha (PKB alpha) more than 10-fold and decreased glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) activity by 50 +/- 10% in skeletal muscle and adipocytes. Rapamycin did not prevent the activation of PKB, inhibition of GSK3 or stimulation of glycogen synthase up to 5 min. Thus rapamycin-insensiti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cross DA,Watt PW,Shaw M,van der Kaay J,Downes CP,Holder JC,Cohen P

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a mouse model for hepatic ischemia in which surgical subcutaneous transposition of the spleen allows hepatic ischemia to be applied without affecting other tissues. Using this mouse model we investigated the relationship between the length of ischemic periods in the liver and subsequent liver functio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Onishi I,Tani T,Hashimoto T,Shimizu K,Yagi M,Yamamoto K,Yoshioka K

更新日期：1997-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated that a GTP-binding protein (G-protein) is involved in the coupling of both CCK-8 and muscarinic cholinergic receptors to phosphoinositidase C (PIC) in the human embryonic pituitary cell line, Flow 9000. Pretreatment of these cells with cholera toxin, but not pertussis toxin, inhibited th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lo WW,Hughes J

更新日期：1987-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Vacuolar tandem-pore channels could not be analysed in Xenopus oocytes so far, due to misguided translocation. Owing to the conservation of their pore regions, we were able to prepare functional pore-chimeras between the plasma membrane localised TPK4 and vacuolar TPKs. Thereby, we found evidence that TPK2, TPK3 and T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marcel D,Müller T,Hedrich R,Geiger D

更新日期：2010-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Type V adenylyl cyclase (AC) was stably over-expressed in HEK293 cells (293AC-V). Forskolin-stimulated cAMP accumulation in 293AC-V was 5 times as great as that in control cells. PMA, a protein kinase C (PKC) activator, enhanced cAMP accumulation in 293AC-V cells dose-and time-dependently and this enhancement...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kawabe Ji,Ebina T,Toya Y,Oka N,Schwencke C,Duzic E,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：1996-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases mediate cellular responses to a wide variety of stimuli. Activation of a MAP kinase occurs after phosphorylation by an upstream dual-specificity protein kinase, known as a MAP kinase kinase or MEK. The Arabidopsis thaliana genome encodes 10 MEKs but few of these have been shown ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Melikant B,Giuliani C,Halbmayer-Watzina S,Limmongkon A,Heberle-Bors E,Wilson C

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of numerous studies, there appears to be no consensus regarding the orientation and aggregation state of membrane-bound melittin. We report here the restricted environment of the sole tryptophan residue in membrane-bound melittin using environment-induced effects on the rates of solvent relaxation. When incor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chattopadhyay A,Rukmini R

更新日期：1993-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA coding for a new subunit of soluble guanylyl cyclase with a calculated molecular mass of 81.7 kDa was cloned and sequenced. On the basis of sequence homology, the new subunit appears to be an isoform of the alpha 1-subunit and was designated alpha 2 as the new subunit is very similar to the alpha 1-subunit in t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harteneck C,Wedel B,Koesling D,Malkewitz J,Böhme E,Schultz G

更新日期：1991-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Laminin 5, an anchoring filament protein previously known as nicein/kalinin/epiligrin, consists of three polypeptide chains, alpha 3, beta 3, and gamma 2, encoded by the genes LAMA3, LAMB3, and LAMC2, respectively. The expression of laminin 5 was detected by Northern hybridization with specific cDNA probes in various ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Korang K,Christiano AM,Uitto J,Mauviel A

更新日期：1995-07-24 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：:The bacterial twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway is distinct from the Sec system by its remarkable capacity to export folded enzymes. To address the question whether the two systems are capable of translocating homologous enzymes catalyzing the same reaction, we cloned the tap gene encoding Thermus thermophilus...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Angelini S,Moreno R,Gouffi K,Santini C,Yamagishi A,Berenguer J,Wu L

更新日期：2001-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Free and membrane-bound polyribosomes were isolated from the livers of untreated and clofibrate-treated male C57B1/6 mice. The in vitro translation products were investigated in a rabbit reticulocyte cell-free system by immunoprecipitation of cytosolic epoxide hydrolase, catalase and albumin. The soluble forms of epox...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Joste V,Meijer J

更新日期：1989-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagellins of two Escherichia coli strains have been investigated by limited proteolysis and scanning microcalorimetry. It has been shown that a monomer flagellin consists of two parts: a central one cooperatively melting, rather resistant to proteases, and the other without a stable tertiary structure and thus easily...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kostyukova AS,Pyatibratov MG,Filimonov VV,Fedorov OV

更新日期：1988-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich's ataxia is caused by a deficit in the mitochondrial protein frataxin. The present work demonstrates that in vivo yeast frataxin Yfh1p and Isu1p, the mitochondrial scaffold protein for the Fe-S cluster assembly, have tightly linked biological functions, acting in concert to promote the Fe-S cluster assembly...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ramazzotti A,Vanmansart V,Foury F

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of p53 as the "guardian of the genome" in differentiated somatic cells, triggering various biological processes, is well established. Recent studies in the stem cell field have highlighted a profound role of p53 in stem cell biology as well. These studies, combined with basic data obtained 20 years ago, provi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aloni-Grinstein R,Shetzer Y,Kaufman T,Rotter V

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00