A new caffeine biosynthetic pathway in tea leaves: utilisation of adenosine released from the S-adenosyl-L-methionine cycle.

abstract：:The contact-dependent intrinsic pathway of fibrinolysis involving factor XII, prekallikrein (PK) and pro-urokinase (pro-UK) remains poorly understood. Casein autography of washed, intact platelets revealed both PK and pro-UK. Accordingly, platelets may mediate physiological thrombolysis by this pathway since factor XI...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gurewich V,Johnstone M,Loza JP,Pannell R

更新日期：1993-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of cDNA clones in summary encoding 700 amino acid residues from the N-end of rat liver elongation factor 2 (EF-2) and including 49 nucleotides of the 5'-untranslated mRNA region have been obtained. EF-2 cDNA clones were isolated from gradually constructed small (1000-5000 clones) specific cDNA libraries using...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oleinikov AV,Jokhadze GG,Alakhov YuB

更新日期：1989-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:FITC-labeled LPS from Neisseria meningitidis can be used as a probe to follow the process of LPS incorporation into liposomal membrane and to study its interaction with a bilayer. The incorporation of FITC-LPS into the bilayer was proved by physicochemical methods as well as by liposomal LPS toxicity decrease in actin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Trubetskoy VS,Koshkina NV,Omel'yanenko VG,L'vov VL,Dmitriev BA,Petrov AB,Torchilin VP

更新日期：1990-08-20 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：:Photoaffinity labelling with [alpha-32P]GTP allowed to detect a 54 kDa GTP-binding protein in rat pancreatic plasma membranes and in pancreatic AR 4-2J cell membranes. Like the 42 and 48 kDa Gs alpha subunits and the 41 kDa Gi alpha subunit, this protein was absent from zymogen granule membranes. Contrastingly, a new ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lambert M,Bui ND,Christophe J

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coeliac disease is a chronic enteropathy caused by the ingestion of wheat gliadin and other cereal prolamines derived from rye and barley. In the present work, we investigated the mechanisms underlying altered barrier function properties exerted by gliadin-derived peptides in human Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sander GR,Cummins AG,Henshall T,Powell BC

更新日期：2005-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory supercomplex factor (Rcf) 1 is a membrane-bound protein that modulates the activity of cytochrome c oxidase (CytcO) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria. To investigate this regulatory mechanism, we studied the interactions of CytcO with potassium cyanide (KCN) upon removal of Rcf1. While the addition ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rydström Lundin C,Brzezinski P

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human platelet membranes enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation of certain proteins was observed when Zn2+ instead of Mg2+ or Mn2+ was used as a divalent cation for the kinase reaction. An enhanced level of phosphate incorporation into tyrosine residues occurred into a 68 kDa polypeptide besides the 45 kDa and 105 kDa p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Findik D,Presek P

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the effects of anticancer drugs, inhibitors of microtubule organisation, on the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (PTP) in Ehrlich ascites tumour cells. Taxol (5-20 microM) and colchicine (100-500 microM) prevented closing of the cyclosporin A-sensitive PTP. No taxol or colchicine effects on oxidati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Evtodienko YV,Teplova VV,Sidash SS,Ichas F,Mazat JP

更新日期：1996-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Damage to the central nervous system triggers rapid activation and specific migration of glial cells towards the lesion site. There, glial cells contribute heavily to secondary neuronal changes that take place after lesion. In an attempt to identify the molecular cues of glial activation following brain trauma we perf...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bräuer AU,Nitsch R,Savaskan NE

更新日期：2004-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of incomplete segments of Escherichia coli lactose permease to form transport-competent complexes in vivo was further tested. Two series of mutant lacY genes were constructed. One encoded N-terminal lactose permease segments of different length. The proteins specified by the other group contained deletion...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wrubel W,Stochaj U,Ehring R

更新日期：1994-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that, in rabbits, the allotypes of the b locus carried by the light chains of the IgG molecules cross-react. Nothing similar has been described for the allotypes of the a locus carried by the heavy chains of the IgG molecules. This paper describes a cross-reaction between the rabbit allotypic markers ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Renneboog-Squilbin C

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two subunits of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (EC 2.3.2.2) are derived from a single-chain glycosylated precursor. A small fraction of the propeptide survives proteolytic processing in the rat kidney and has been purified by an immunoaffinity technique. The propeptide contains determinants for both the subunits an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tate SS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we show the existence of a functional nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in rat liver mitochondria. The enzyme uses L-arginine (L-arg) to produce nitric oxide (NO) and L-citrulline, and is Ca2+-dependent. L-Arg analogues, N(omega)monomethyl-L-arg and N(omega)-nitro-L-arg, inhibit the enzyme, and D-argini...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ghafourifar P,Richter C

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic reaction center is one of the most complicated molecular complexes. Transducing photon energy to a transmembrane electrochemical potential difference for protons, it is the direct or indirect energy source for virtually all life. We show here that it operates in a simple, battery-like manner, with a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Rotterdam BJ,Crielaard W,van Stokkum IH,Hellingwerf KJ,Westerhoff HV

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Fas (Apo-1) and TNF receptor-1 with their respective ligands can lead to cell death. The so-called death domain, a sequence motif present in the cytoplasmic portion of the two receptors, has been identified as a critical structural element involved in signal transduction that leads to apoptosis. Her...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hofmann K,Tschopp J

更新日期：1995-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Jasmonic acid (JA) and its derivatives are well-characterized signaling molecules in plant defense and development, but the site of their localization within plant tissue is entirely unknown. To address the question whether applied JA accumulates extracellularly or intracellularly, leaves of tomato and barley were fed...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bücking H,Förster H,Stenzel I,Miersch O,Hause B

更新日期：2004-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is a major component of green tea polyphenols which displays potential properties of anticancer and neuroprotection. Here we show that protection of motor neuron by EGCG is associated with regulating glutamate level in organotypic culture of rat spinal cord. In this model, EGCG blocke...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yu J,Jia Y,Guo Y,Chang G,Duan W,Sun M,Li B,Li C

更新日期：2010-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Unstimulated human fibrosarcoma cells (HT1080) constitutively secrete matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP 2) as a proenzyme requiring proteolytic cleavage by membrane type-1 MMP (MT1 MMP) for activation. Physiological and pharmacological stimuli induce clustering of MT1 MMP/tissue inhibitor of MMP 2 "receptors", promoting...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Atkinson SJ,English JL,Holway N,Murphy G

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock (44 degrees C for 10 min) or ATP depletion by an uncoupler (CCCP for 20 min) is shown to result in stimulation of hsp68/70 synthesis in Ehrlich tumor cells. After 3 h of recovery, the cells become thermotolerant. Surprisingly, repeated ATP depletion caused by CCCP or rotenone (a respiratory inhibitor) treat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gabai VL,Kabakov AE

更新日期：1993-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcarboxylase from Propionibacterium shermanii is a complex biotin-containing enzyme composed of 30 polypeptides of three different types. It is composed of six dimeric outer subunits associated with a central cylindrical hexameric subunit through 12 biotinyl subunits; three outer subunits on each face of the centr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thornton CG,Kumar GK,Shenoy BC,Haase FC,Phillips NF,Park VM,Magner WJ,Hejlik DP,Wood HG,Samols D

更新日期：1993-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although initially viewed as housekeeping enzymes, research over the last 15 years has revealed that the protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are critical regulators of tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent signaling events and may represent novel targets for therapeutic intervention in a variety of human diseases. In th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tonks NK

更新日期：2003-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy is a major anticancer therapeutic modality, however, multidrug resistance (MDR) is frequently observed and hinders treatment efficacy. Here, we investigated the role and potential mechanism of the long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) FENDRR in adriamycin resistance of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) cells. FENDRR ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang F,Ni H,Li X,Liu H,Xi T,Zheng L

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dark-grown angiosperm seedlings lack chlorophylls, but accumulate protochlorophyllide a complexed with the light-dependent enzyme NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase. Previous investigators correlated spectral heterogeneity of in vivo protochlorophyllide forms and a shift of chlorophyllide forms from 680 to 672 n...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klement H,Oster U,Rüdiger W

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential scanning microcalorimetry and fluorescence methods, using probes ANS and pyrene, have been employed to study thermotropic behaviour of rat liver microsomes in the presence and absence of Mg2+. Addition of Mg2+ yields three partially reversible phase transitions at 18, 27 and 32 degrees C, respectively...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akhrem AA,Kisel MA,Lunevich AY,Bokut SB,Andrianov VT,Kiselev PA

更新日期：1983-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Human D-type prostanoid (DP) and E-type prostanoid 2 (EP2) receptors are regarded as the most closely related receptors among prostanoid receptors. Although these receptors are generated by tandem duplication, their physiological outputs often oppose one another. In the present study, we extracted mutations occurring ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanimoto J,Fujino H,Takahashi H,Murayama T

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA molecules have been found to play important roles in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair, but the exact underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we aimed to clarify the function of RNase L, an important ribonuclease in the immune system of vertebrates, in DSB repair. Knockdown of RNase L reduces cell survival ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhong Y,Pan B,Zhu J,Fu H,Zheng X

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MDM2 oncoprotein is overexpressed in many human tumors and cancers. MDM2 functions as an E3 ligase for p53 and for itself. MDM2 also interacts with the retinoblastoma protein (RB) and the transcription factor E2F1 to promote cell cycle S-phase entry. Here, we report that MDM2 protein expression is cell cycle-regul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gu L,Ying H,Zheng H,Murray SA,Xiao ZX

更新日期：2003-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human class Alpha glutathione transferase (GST) A1-1 has been subjected to site-directed mutagenesis of a Tyr residue conserved in all classes of cytosolic GSTs. The change of Tyr8----Phe lowers the specific activities with three substrates to 2-8% of the values for the wild-type enzyme. The changes in the kinetic par...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stenberg G,Board PG,Mannervik B

更新日期：1991-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for human tetranectin was isolated from a genomic library with a mixture of degenerate oligonucleotide probes. The gene is about 12 kbp and contains two intervening sequences. The gene encodes a protein of 202 amino acid residues, with a signal peptide of 21 amino acid residues, followed by the tetranectin se...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berglund L,Petersen TE

更新日期：1992-08-31 00:00:00