Abnormal IgG galactosylation and arthritis in MRL-Fas(lpr) or MRL-FasL(gld) mice are under the control of the MRL genetic background.

abstract：:Tropomodulin, the P-end (slow-growing end)-capping protein of the actin-tropomyosin filament, and its fragment (C20) of the C-terminal half were studied by synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering, restoring low-resolution shapes using an ab initio shape-determining procedure. Tropomodulin is elongated (115 A long) an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fujisawa T,Kostyukova A,Maéda Y

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(+)/H(+) antiporters are ubiquitous membrane proteins and play an important role in cell homeostasis. We amplified a gene encoding a member of the monovalent cation:proton antiporter-2 (CPA2) family (TC 2.A.37) from the Thermus thermophilus genome and expressed it in Escherichia coli. The gene product was identified...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Furrer EM,Ronchetti MF,Verrey F,Pos KM

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although bird species studied thus far have no distinct brown adipose tissue (BAT) or a related thermogenic tissue, there is now strong evidence that non-shivering mechanisms in birds may play an important role during cold exposure. Recently, increased expression of the duckling homolog of the avian uncoupling protein...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Toyomizu M,Ueda M,Sato S,Seki Y,Sato K,Akiba Y

更新日期：2002-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first X-ray study of a member of the arrestin family, the bovine retinal arrestin. Arrestin is essential for the fine regulation and termination of the light-induced enzyme cascade in vertebrate rod outer segments. It plays an important role in quenching phototransduction by its ability to preferentiall...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wilden U,Choe HW,Krafft B,Granzin J

更新日期：1997-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleoside analogues previously found to be inactive against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may be activated by simple chemical derivatisation. As part of our effort to deliver masked phosphates inside living cells we have discovered that certain phosphate triester derivatives of inactive nucleoside analogues ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McGuigan C,Kinchington D,Wang MF,Nicholls SR,Nickson C,Galpin S,Jeffries DJ,O'Connor TJ

更新日期：1993-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic biosynthesis of carotenoids in the purple facultative photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides was studied using mass spectrometry. We have demonstrated that (18)O from H2(18)O was incorporated into the 1-methoxy group of spheroidene and spheroidenone, the two major carotenoids produced by this bacte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yeliseev AA,Kaplan S

更新日期：1997-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The interferon inducible transmembrane (IFITM) proteins mediate several cellular processes such as homotypic cell adhesion functions of interferons (IFNs) and cellular anti-proliferative activities. We show that the BAF complex-mediated induction of IFITM3 is dependent on binding of the transcriptional enhancer factor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cuddapah S,Cui K,Zhao K

更新日期：2008-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of the eclosion hormone from the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta has been determined, using less than 500 pmol of protein and microanalytical techniques. The protein contains 62 amino acid residues and has a molecular mass of 6813 Da. The amino-terminal sequence is similar to that of a 13-residu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marti T,Takio K,Walsh KA,Terzi G,Truman JW

更新日期：1987-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The spike (S) protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is an important viral structural protein. Based on bioinformatics analysis, 10 antigenic peptides derived from the S protein sequence were selected and synthesized. The antigenicity and immunoreactivity of all the peptides were tested in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lu W,Wu XD,Shi MD,Yang RF,He YY,Bian C,Shi TL,Yang S,Zhu XL,Jiang WH,Li YX,Yan LC,Ji YY,Lin Y,Lin GM,Tian L,Wang J,Wang HX,Xie YH,Pei G,Wu JR,Sun B

更新日期：2005-04-11 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：:Plants have evolved to cope with fluctuations in water supply by gating their water channels known as aquaporins. During flooding, a rapid drop of cytosolic pH due to anoxia leads to a simultaneous closure of the aquaporins in the plasma membrane. The closing mechanism has been suggested to involve a conserved histidi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Frick A,Järvå M,Törnroth-Horsefield S

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor 11 (FGF11) is an intracellular FGF. Although induction of FGF11 by hypoxia has been observed in several cell types, the molecular function of FGF11 is not clearly understood yet. Here, we investigated the role of FGF11 under hypoxia. We identified hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) as an int...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee KW,Yim HS,Shin J,Lee C,Lee JH,Jeong JY

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), originally described as a product of activated lymphocytes, has been defined as a 12 kDa protein, expressed in a wide variety of tissues. Here MIF is identified as a phenylpyruvate tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.1) having p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate and phenylpyruvate as its natural ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rosengren E,Aman P,Thelin S,Hansson C,Ahlfors S,Björk P,Jacobsson L,Rorsman H

更新日期：1997-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphate triester derivatives of the anti-neoplastic alkyl lyso phospholipid (ALP) have been prepared as novel potential therapeutic agents. In particular, symmetrical phosphate triesters have been prepared, using phosphorochloridate chemistry. The compounds have been fully characterised by a range of techniques, and...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McGuigan C,Wang Y,Riley PA

更新日期：1995-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The two activators of protein kinase C, oleoylacetylglycerol (OAG) and dioctanoylglycerol (DOG), are able to induce a concentration-dependent rise in cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration in gel-filtered human platelets, detected as an increase in quin2 fluorescence. The phorbol ester phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PM...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bruns C,Schächtele C,Marmé D

更新日期：1987-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of flux control coefficients of a glycolytic system in starved rat liver has been determined. The flux control coefficient profile in starved conditions is compared with normal fed conditions showing that in the former phosphofructokinase enhances more than 2-fold its flux control coefficient while gl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Torres NV,Mateo F,Meléndez-Hevia E

更新日期：1988-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The scorpion toxin peptide BeKm-1 was synthesised by fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl solid phase chemistry and folded by air oxidation. The peptide's effects on heterologous human ether-a-go-go-related gene potassium current (I(HERG)) in HEK293 cells were assessed using 'whole-cell' patch clamp. Blockade of I(HERG) by BeKm-1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Milnes JT,Dempsey CE,Ridley JM,Crociani O,Arcangeli A,Hancox JC,Witchel HJ

更新日期：2003-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane (PM) sphingolipid composition is the result of a series of well-known metabolic pathways comprising neobiosynthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum and in the Golgi apparatus followed by vesicular delivery to the plasma membrane, membrane turnover with final catabolism in lysosomes, and shedding of me...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sonnino S,Aureli M,Loberto N,Chigorno V,Prinetti A

更新日期：2010-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pep12 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a member of the syntaxin family thought to function as target membrane receptor (t-SNARE) for vesicular intermediates travelling between the Golgi apparatus and the vacuole. Exploiting the temperature-sensitive growth phenotype of pep12 deletion strains, we identified V...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Götte M,Gallwitz D

更新日期：1997-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:PTPRO is often silenced by DNA hypermethylation in primary human tumors and cancer cell lines and functions as a tumor suppressor. Here we show that PTPRO is a target of E2F1. In addition, the microRNA cluster miR-17-92, another target of E2F1, participates in PTPRO regulation. PTPRO mRNA was up-regulated during S pha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu X,Hong Y,Kong C,Xu L,Tan J,Liang Q,Huang B,Lu J

更新日期：2008-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pioneer crystallographic studies of the isolated 30S ribosomal subunit provided the first structural insights into the decoding process. Recently, new crystallographic data on full 70S ribosomes with mRNA and tRNAs have shown that the formation of the tight decoding centre is ensured by conformational rearrangement of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Demeshkina N,Jenner L,Westhof E,Yusupov M,Yusupova G

更新日期：2013-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing of tau exon 10 generates tau isoforms with three or four microtubule-binding repeats, named 3R- or 4R-tau. Normal adult human brain expresses equal levels of them. Imbalance of 3R-tau and 4R-tau associates with several tauopathies. Splicing factor 9G8 suppresses tau exon 10 inclusion and its funct...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gu J,Shi J,Wu S,Jin N,Qian W,Zhou J,Iqbal IG,Iqbal K,Gong CX,Liu F

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Free radicals, including dopamine (DA)-oxidized metabolites, have long been implicated in pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the relationships between such oxidative stresses and alpha-synuclein (alpha-S), a major constituent of Lewy bodies, remain unknown. In this study, we established neuronal cells ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hasegawa T,Matsuzaki-Kobayashi M,Takeda A,Sugeno N,Kikuchi A,Furukawa K,Perry G,Smith MA,Itoyama Y

更新日期：2006-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the identification and characterization of the BMH1 gene from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The gene encodes a putative protein of 292 amino acids which is more than 50% identical with the bovine brain 14-3-3 protein and proteins isolated from sheep brain which are strong inhibitors of protein kinase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Heusden GP,Wenzel TJ,Lagendijk EL,de Steensma HY,van den Berg JA

更新日期：1992-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:C6 rat glioma cells persistently infected with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis virus (C6/SSPE) were treated with measles antiserum and purified anti-measles IgG. This stimulated phosphoinositide breakdown and an increase in inositol phosphates. In uninfected C6 cells, however, only fetal calf serum (FCS), but not ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Weinmann-Dorsch C,Koschel K

更新日期：1989-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells express two different types of voltage-independent Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channels with small (SK) and intermediate (IK) conductance that serve important roles in the activation of T lymphocytes. In contrast to the IK channels from T lymphocytes which are upregulated upon mitogen stimulation, SK channels of Jur...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jäger H,Adelman JP,Grissmer S

更新日期：2000-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-dependent Na+ and H+ transports, membrane potential (delta psi) and motility have been studied in the cells of the marine cyanobacterium Oscillatoria brevis. In the presence of a protonophorous uncoupler, carbonyl cyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone, the intracellular Na+ level is shown to increase in the dark and d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brown II,Fadeyev SI,Kirik II,Severina II,Skulachev VP

更新日期：1990-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that CCK-8 may interact with opioids and that both systems are probably implicated in pain modulation. In order to elucidate this relationship we sought to examine factors governing the movement of CCK-8 from the spinal cord into the extracellular space. We report that CCK-8 like immunoreactivity, as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodríguez RE,Sacristán MP

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse spermatozoa stimulated with epidermal growth factor (EGF) or zona pellucida (ZP) experienced phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate hydrolysis, diacylglycerol (DAG) generation and acrosomal exocytosis. The agonists showed additive effects but the action of EGF is likely to be mediated by a distinct receptor becau...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murase T,Roldan ER

更新日期：1995-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar granule cells differentiated in culture were incubated with ganglioside [3H-Sph]GM1 in order to have it inserted into the plasma membrane and metabolized. Among the formed metabolites radioactive sphingosine and ceramide were identified. [3H]Ceramide started to be measurable after 10 min of incubation (puls...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Riboni L,Bassi R,Sonnino S,Tettamanti G

更新日期：1992-03-30 00:00:00