The shapes and sizes of two domains of tropomodulin, the P-end-capping protein of actin-tropomyosin.

abstract：:The CLN3 gene encodes an integral membrane protein of unknown function. Mutations in CLN3 can cause juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, or Batten disease, an inherited neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disease affecting children. Here, we report a topological study of the CLN3 protein using bioinformatic approa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nugent T,Mole SE,Jones DT

更新日期：2008-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified two growth factors from dogfish brain and retina by using their binding affinity for heparin-Sepharose. These growth factors were eluted at 1 and 2 M NaCl similarly to those purified from bovine brain or retina. Their mitogenic activity was assayed in vitro on the same mammalian cells: bovine lens epi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lagente O,Diry M,Courtois Y

更新日期：1986-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-Jun N-terminal Kinase (JNK) inhibitor SP600125 is widely used to inhibit the JNK-mediated Bax activation and cell apoptosis. However, this report demonstrates that SP600125 synergistically enhances the dihydroartemisinin (DHA)-induced human lung adenocarcinoma cell apoptosis by accelerating Bax translocation and...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lu YY,Chen TS,Wang XP,Qu JL,Chen M

更新日期：2010-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem I (PSI) complex of Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 consists of at least 11 subunits, 9 of which are resolved by high resolution gel electrophoresis. N-terminal amino acid sequences of the four subunits with molecular masses of 6.8, 5.2, 4.8 and 3.5 kDa were determined. Based on the sequence homology, the 3....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ikeuchi M,Nyhus KJ,Inoue Y,Pakrasi HB

更新日期：1991-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:FACS analysis together with PIPLC treatment was applied to PI-anchoring antigens such as DAF (decay-accerelating factor, CD55), 1F5 antigen (CD59), CD14 and CD16 on the cell surfaces of blood cells from a normal adult and a male patient with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglubinuria (PNH). Through the extensive analysis, th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taguchi R,Funahashi Y,Ikezawa H,Nakashima I

更新日期：1990-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:MRL mice bearing the lpr (Fas) or gld (Fas ligand) mutation, MRL-Fas(lpr) or MRL-FasL(gld), respectively, develop arthritis similar to rheumatoid arthritis, but C3H and C57BL/6 mice bearing such mutations do not. In MRL-Fas(lpr) mice, agalactosylated oligosaccharides in serum IgG increase significantly in comparison t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kuroda Y,Nakata M,Nose M,Kojima N,Mizuochi T

更新日期：2001-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA for a novel proton/organic cation transporter, OCTN1, was cloned from human fetal liver and its transport activity was investigated. OCTN1 encodes a 551-amino acid protein with 11 transmembrane domains and one nucleotide binding site motif. It is strongly expressed in kidney, trachea, bone marrow and fetal liver ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tamai I,Yabuuchi H,Nezu J,Sai Y,Oku A,Shimane M,Tsuji A

更新日期：1997-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The failure of insulin-regulated recruitment of the GLUT4 glucose transporter in cardiac muscle of obese Zucker rats is associated with alterations of the subcellular distribution of the small-molecular-mass GTP-binding protein rab4A. Here, we show by subcellular fractionation and Western blotting a translocation of t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Uphues I,Chern Y,Eckel J

更新日期：1995-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of high-intensity ultraviolet pulse laser radiation on a 161 bp fragment of pBR 322 DNA (EcoRI-MspI fragment) was studied. At doses up to 5 X 10(18) photons/cm2 the N-glycosidic bond splitting is negligible. The action of hot piperidine on irradiated DNA leads to chain splitting at the residues, modified vi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Budowsky EI,Kovalsky OI,Yakovlev DYu,Simukova NA,Rubin LB

更新日期：1985-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we cloned several fluorescent proteins of different colors homologous to Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein, which have great biotechnological potential as in vivo markers of gene expression. However, later investigations revealed severe drawbacks in the use of novel fluorescent proteins (FPs), in p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yanushevich YG,Staroverov DB,Savitsky AP,Fradkov AF,Gurskaya NG,Bulina ME,Lukyanov KA,Lukyanov SA

更新日期：2002-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Myogenesis is conducted by transcription factors including MyoD and myogenin. Myogenin is known to be polyubiquitinated by SCF (Skp1/Cullin 1/F-box protein) followed by proteasomal degradation, though the participating F-box protein is remaining unidentified. In this study, we found that myogenin in differentiated myo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jogo M,Shiraishi S,Tamura TA

更新日期：2009-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis and functional properties of a variant antithrombin (AT) protein. AT Budapest 3, were studied. A single base substitution was identified in codon 99, CTC----TTC, altering the normal leucine to phenylalanine. The proband presented with a history of venous thrombotic disease and was found to be homoz...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Olds RJ,Lane DA,Boisclair M,Sas G,Bock SC,Thein SL

更新日期：1992-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin, an inhibitor of inositol trisphosphate (InsP3)-induced Ca2+ release in smooth muscle and non-muscle cells, was injected into intact frog skeletal muscle fibres. Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum was elicited by the normal action potential mechanism and monitored by both fura-2 fluorescence and an i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pape PC,Konishi M,Baylor SM,Somlyo AP

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 23-residue synthetic peptide representing the N-terminus of HIV-1 gp41 is known to induce either leakage or fusion of lipid vesicles depending on the experimental conditions. In this paper we report that a polar amino acid substitution V-->E at position 2, known to block gp41 activity in vivo, makes the peptide un...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pereira FB,Goñi FM,Nieva JL

更新日期：1995-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Replacing the essential Cys-149 by a selenocysteine into the active site of phosphorylating glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) from Bacillus stearothermophilus leads to a selenoGAPDH that mimics a selenoperoxidase activity. Saturation kinetics were observed with cumenyl and tert-butyl hydroperoxides, wit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boschi-Muller S,Muller S,Van Dorsselaer A,Böck A,Branlant G

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone encoding cholesterol side-chain cleavage cytochrome P450 (P450scc) was isolated from a rainbow trout ovarian follicle cDNA library. The cDNA contains an open reading frame of 1,542 nucleotides encoding a protein of 514 amino acids. The predicted amino acid sequence of trout P450scc shows 48% homology with...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takahashi M,Tanaka M,Sakai N,Adachi S,Miller WL,Nagahama Y

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine-rich phosphorylated cystatin alpha (P-cystatin alpha) from newborn rat epidermis is a good substrate for epidermal transglutaminase (TGase) and also one of the component proteins of cornified envelope in the stratum corneum. Since the filaggrin linker segment peptide was efficiently conjugated with P-cystatin a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takahashi M,Tezuka T,Kakegawa H,Katunuma N

更新日期：1994-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The YukD protein in Bacillus subtilis was identified in a hidden Markov model (HMM) search as being related in sequence to ubiquitin. By solving the crystal structure we show that YukD adopts a fold that is most closely related to ubiquitin, yet has the shortest C-terminal tail of all known ubiquitin-like proteins. Th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van den Ent F,Löwe J

更新日期：2005-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania major promastigotes are parasites endowed with a plasma membrane electrogenic H+ pump and anionic channels. These systems have been thought to contribute to pH homeostasis of parasites and environmental adaptation by mediating extrusion of protons which are either generated metabolically or result from exog...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vieira L,Cabantchik ZI

更新日期：1995-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:1-Farnesylpyridinium (FPy), an analog of isoprenoid farnesol, initially induced morphological changes similar to those of typical apoptosis in human leukemia HL-60 cells but FPy-treated cells were characterized by the absolute absence of final apoptotic events such as fragmentation into apoptotic bodies. FPy-induced c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hamada M,Nishio K,Doe M,Usuki Y,Tanaka T

更新日期：2002-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A peroxidase with stability, chromatographic and immunoreactive properties similar to that of bovine lactoperoxidase has been partly purified from human colostrum. Hydrophobic interaction chromatography on Phenyl-Sepharose C1-4B gave a 10-fold purification with an apparent recovery of about 45%. The enzyme was quantit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Langbakk B,Flatmark T

更新日期：1984-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Two polypeptides antigenically related to mammalian HMG1/2 have been detected in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. One exhibits an electrophoretic mobility in the range of mammalian HMG1/2 whereas the second polypeptide comigrates with yeast HMG S4. Evidence for the presence of HMG14/17 in yeast has not been obtaine...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Estruch F,Pérez-Ortín JE,José M,Puigdomènech P,Franco L

更新日期：1986-03-03 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

abstract：:Proteins may undergo adaptive structural transitions to accommodate to their cellular milieu and respond to external signals. Modulation of conformational ensembles can rewire the intra- or intermolecular interaction networks and shift between different functional states. Adaptive conformational transitions are associ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miskei M,Gregus A,Sharma R,Duro N,Zsolyomi F,Fuxreiter M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-directed functional selectivity has stimulated much interest in the molecular delineation of drug pharmacology and the process of drug discovery. Here we describe the development of a label-free optical biosensor with microfluidics for whole cell sensing. The microfluidics controls the duration of agonist expos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Goral V,Wu Q,Sun H,Fang Y

更新日期：2011-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (EGCG) exhibits anti-tumor activity mediated via the 67-kDa laminin receptor (67LR). In this study, we found that 67LR protein levels are reduced by exposure to low O(2) levels (5%), without affecting the expression of HIF-1α. We also found that EGCG-induced anti-cancer activity is abr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsukamoto S,Yamashita S,Kim YH,Kumazoe M,Huang Y,Yamada K,Tachibana H

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Glucosidase hydrolyzes α-glucosides and transfers α-glucosyl residues to an acceptor through transglucosylation. In this study, GH13_31 α-glucosidase BspAG13_31A with high transglucosylation activity is reported in Bacillus sp. AHU2216 and biochemically and structurally characterized. This enzyme is specific to α-(1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Auiewiriyanukul W,Saburi W,Kato K,Yao M,Mori H

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological functions of transcribed spacer regions in eucaryotic pre-rRNAs remain elusive so far. Utilization of the comparative approach to analyse their secondary structure has been impeded by the extensive sequence divergence observed among most of the specimens available to date. However, we have taken advantage o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Michot B,Despres L,Bonhomme F,Bachellerie JP

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystatins A and C were both shown to inhibit cathepsin B by a two-step mechanism, involving an initial weak interaction followed by a conformational change. Disruption of the major salt bridge anchoring the occluding loop of cathepsin B to the main body of the enzyme by mutation of His110 to Ala converted the binding ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pavlova A,Krupa JC,Mort JS,Abrahamson M,Björk I

更新日期：2000-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-lipoxygenase-activating protein (FLAP) is usually described as an essential protein to activate the leukotriene (LTs) synthesis via the 5-lipoxygenase pathway. In the enterocyte model HT29 cl.19A cell line, 5-lipoxygenase metabolism was found despite the lack of FLAP expression. Therefore HT29 cl.19A represents a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Battu S,Beneytout JL,Pairet M,Rigaud M

更新日期：1998-10-16 00:00:00