Ectodomain shedding of furin: kinetics and role of the cysteine-rich region.

abstract：:Communication between endothelial and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) contributes to atherosclerosis induced by atherogenic factors, such as oxide LDL. Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), a newly found cardiovascular risk factor, accumulates in the culture medium of oxide LDL (oxLDL)-treated endothelial cells and positivel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sun L,Zhang T,Yu X,Xin W,Lan X,Zhang D,Huang C,Du G

更新日期：2011-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of vitronectin (VN) to Neisseria gonorrhoeae expressing the heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) specific Opa50 protein was recently shown to trigger bacterial internalization into distinct epithelial cell lines. We have investigated the role of VN-binding integrin receptors and protein kinase C (PKC) in VN-tri...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dehio M,Gómez-Duarte OG,Dehio C,Meyer TF

更新日期：1998-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xenopus prophase-blocked oocytes, it is assumed that progesterone interacts with the plasma membrane to initiate a signalling cascade that ultimately leads to MPF activation. Progesterone regulates negatively the cAMP pathway through an inhibition of adenylate cyclase. However, the mechanisms linking the initial ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： De Smedt V,Rime H,Jessus C,Ozon R

更新日期：1995-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that the mitotic inhibitor, vinblastine (VLB), is highly toxic to the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. In cultures in vitro growth is inhibited by 50% at a VLB level of about 28 nM, and totally abolished at a level of 100 nM. By tests on synchronized cultures we have found that the effect of VLB tak...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Usanga EA,O'Brien E,Luzzato L

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfate assimilation pathway is highly responsive to changes in environment, but the mechanisms of such regulation are only slowly beginning to unravel. Here we show evidence that PHYTOCHROME AND FLOWERING TIME 1 (PFT1) may be another component of the sulfate assimilation regulatory circuit. Transcriptional regulation...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koprivova A,Calderwood A,Lee BR,Kopriva S

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Calf chymosin molecules exist in the two alternative structural forms: the first one has S1 and S3 binding pockets occluded by its own Tyr77 residue (the self-inhibited form); the second has these pockets free for a substrate binding (the active form). The preliminary incubation of the enzyme with a pentapeptide corre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gustchina E,Rumsh L,Ginodman L,Majer P,Andreeva N

更新日期：1996-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The high affinity (low Km) cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) is activated by GTP, while the cyclic AMP PDE is not. GTP and its hydrolysis-resistant analogue, guanylylimidodiphosphate (GppNHp), display a half-maximal stimulating effect at almost the same concentration (5 X 10(-6) M). The GTP stimulating effect is not ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spina A,Chiosi E,Paolisso G,Laurenza A,Illiano G

更新日期：1983-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene regulates the extracellular matrix by controlling fibronectin deposition. To identify novel VHL target genes, we subjected mRNA from VHL-deficient RCC cells (786-0-pRC) and a transfectant re-expressing wildtype VHL (786-0-VHL) to differential expression profiling. Amon...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bluyssen HA,Lolkema MP,van Beest M,Boone M,Snijckers CM,Los M,Gebbink MF,Braam B,Holstege FC,Giles RH,Voest EE

更新日期：2004-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:On April 1898 Camillo Golgi communicated to the Medical-Surgical Society of Pavia, the discovery of the "internal reticular apparatus", a novel intracellular organelle which he observed in nerve cells with the silver impregnation he had introduced for the staining of the nervous system. Soon after the discovery it bec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mazzarello P,Garbarino C,Calligaro A

更新日期：2009-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The 14 kDa protein was purified from human platelets. It displays high cytotoxic activity to the human ACL cells at 10 M concentration (21.8+/-7.1%). Its N-terminal sequence is YAPQXQFGP-, being highly homologous to region 241-249 residues of the human Cls complement component. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Golubeva TS,Paromov VM,Tuguz AR,Chertov OY,Kiselevsky MV

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes code for calcitonin gene-related peptides (CGRPs). One expresses by tissue-specific alternate splicing calcitonin and CGRP I mRNAs, the other CGRP II mRNA. Calcitonin is the marker of sporadic or hereditary human medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). CGRP II expression is not well established in normal or tumor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lasmoles F,Minvielle S,Cohen R,Guliana JM,Delehaye MC,Segond N,Calmettes C,Milhaud G,Moukhtar MS

更新日期：1990-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of acrolein, an alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehyde that causes adduct-modification of lysine, cysteine, and histidine residues, on antithrombin, a key anticoagulant serpin. Intrinsic fluorescence, functionality (anti-FXa and anti-IIa activity), heparin affinity and conformational features of plasma ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Martínez-Martínez I,Ordóñez A,Guerrero JA,Pedersen S,Miñano A,Teruel R,Velázquez L,Kristensen SR,Vicente V,Corral J

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are complexed with plasma proteins and proteolysis of plasma reduced the protein-GAG ratio about 140-fold. After dialysis, analysis by gradient PAGE revealed heparinase-1-sensitive GAGs, thus suggesting that heparin could be among the plasma GAGs. However, after dialysis most of the plasma GA...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chevanne M,Caldini R,Manao G,Ruggiero M,Vannucchi S

更新日期：1999-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of artificial model membranes on the complement system was investigated. Incubation of the model membranes with human serum resulted in consumption of complement haemolytic activity when phosphatidylserine-containing vesicles were used. The activation of the complement system appeared to proceed through the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Comis A,Easterbrook-Smith SB

更新日期：1986-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the involvement of protein phosphatases (PP) in differentiation of human myelogenous leukemia HL-60 cells, we made use of potent inhibitors of PP1 and PP2A, calyculin-A (CAL-A) and okadaic acid (OKA). CAL-A and OKA could augment all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-induced granulocytic differentiation, whereas t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morita K,Nishikawa M,Kobayashi K,Deguchi K,Ito M,Nakano T,Shima H,Nagao M,Kuno T,Tanaka C

更新日期：1992-12-21 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：:Using a monoclonal antibody as conformational probe it has been shown that the weakly active nicked-beta 2 dimer of tryptophan synthase generated by proteolytic cleavage at Glu-296, does not undergo on association with alpha subunit a conformational change known to occur in intact beta 2 subunit. This alpha induced co...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Linkens HJ,Djavadi-Ohaniance L,Goldberg ME

更新日期：1993-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We synthesized and evaluated by surface plasmon resonance 64 LNA/2'-O-methyl sequences corresponding to all possible combinations of such residues in a kissing aptamer loop complementary to the 6-nt loop of the TAR element of HIV-1. Three combinations of LNA/2'-O-methyl nucleoside analogues where one or two LNA units ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Di Primo C,Rudloff I,Reigadas S,Arzumanov AA,Gait MJ,Toulmé JJ

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) is a serine-threonine protein kinase encoded by the myotonic dystrophy (DM) locus on human chromosome 19q13.3. It is a close relative of other kinases that interact with members of the Rho family of small GTPases. We show here that the actin cytoskeleton-linked GTPase Rac-1 bin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shimizu M,Wang W,Walch ET,Dunne PW,Epstein HF

更新日期：2000-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction of ubiquinone in the high-affinity quinone-binding site (QH) in bo-type ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli was revealed by EPR and optical studies. In the QH site, ubiquinol was shown to be oxidized to ubisemiquinone and to ubiquinone, while no semiquinone signal was detected in the oxidase isolated from...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sato-Watanabe M,Itoh S,Mogi T,Matsuura K,Miyoshi H,Anraku Y

更新日期：1995-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate additional functions of the T cell adaptor, Src homology 2 (SH2) domain-containing leukocyte protein of 76 kD (SLP-76), we performed a yeast two-hybrid assay using the N-terminal region of SLP-76 fused with the kinase domain of Syk. By screening a human leukemia cDNA library, we identified the p85 subun...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shim EK,Moon CS,Lee GY,Ha YJ,Chae SK,Lee JR

更新日期：2004-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Dried cells of Brevibacterium ammoniagenes are a good enzyme source for the preparative synthesis of CoA from pantothenic acid, L-cysteine and ATP. A problem with this synthesis is that the CoA synthesis is repressed by negative feedback inhibition by CoA to pantothenate kinase, the first step enzyme for the biosynthe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shimizu S,Komaki R,Tani Y,Yamada H

更新日期：1983-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) serves as a primase during replication of single-stranded plasmids and filamentous phages. Primer RNA (prRNA) synthesis from the origin regions of these replicons depends on the σ factor that normally participates in promoter recognition. However, it was proposed that σ may not be requi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Esyunina D,Pupov D,Kulbachinskiy A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite (ONOO-) has recently been implicated in connective tissue destruction in vivo. We have studied the effect of ONOO- on the activity of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) in vitro. The inactivation of TIMP-1 by ONOO- was dose dependent with 50 microM ONOO- reducing the inhibitory activity of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Frears ER,Zhang Z,Blake DR,O'Connell JP,Winyard PG

更新日期：1996-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Two protein phosphatases of 103 and 29 kDa as determined by gel filtration, were purified from hen oviducts. The 103 -kDa phosphatase was purified 7300-fold to near homogeneity and dissociated into two polypeptides in the presence of SDS. Molecular masses of these polypeptides were estimated to be 60 and 38 kDa by SDS...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kanayama K,Wada K,Negami A,Yamamura H,Tanabe T

更新日期：1985-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genome sequences of Escherichia coli K-12 substrains, one partial W3110 and one complete MG1655, have been determined by Japanese and American genome projects, respectively. In order to estimate the rate of nucleotide changes, we directly compared 2 Mb of the nucleotide sequences from these closely-related E. coli...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Itoh T,Okayama T,Hashimoto H,Takeda J,Davis RW,Mori H,Gojobori T

更新日期：1999-04-30 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：:In blood-borne metastasis, intravasated metastatic tumor cells are thought to localize at the target site via a series of processes involving platelet aggregation, adhesion to endothelium, and invasion through the basal membrane. In the present study, we examined how platelet aggregation contributes to the trafficking...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koike C,Watanabe M,Isoai A,Kumagai H,Tsukada H,Irimura T,Okada S,Oku N

更新日期：1998-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase is a membrane-bound redox-driven proton pump that harbors two proton-transfer pathways, D and K, which are used at different stages of the reaction cycle. Here, we address the question if a D pathway with a modified energy landscape for proton transfer could take over the role of the K pathway whe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vilhjálmsdóttir J,Albertsson I,Blomberg MRA,Ädelroth P,Brzezinski P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functionality of the disintegrin-like/cysteine-rich domains of snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs) has been shown to reside in the cysteine-rich region, which can interact with VWA-containing proteins. Recently, the hyper-variable region (HVR) of the cysteine-rich domain was suggested to constitute a potential ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Menezes MC,Paes Leme AF,Melo RL,Silva CA,Della Casa M,Bruni FM,Lima C,Lopes-Ferreira M,Camargo AC,Fox JW,Serrano SM

更新日期：2008-11-26 00:00:00