Identification of a novel Bcl-xL phosphorylation site regulating the sensitivity of taxol- or 2-methoxyestradiol-induced apoptosis.

abstract：:Upon in vitro translation of mRNAs from slow (soleus) muscles of the mouse a hitherto undescribed translation product has been detected that was absent from fast skeletal muscles and was termed p19/6.8 according to its position in 2-dimensional gels. mRNA for p19/6.8 was also found in the ventricle of the heart. p19/6...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kluxen FW

更新日期：1988-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H1(0) is found in tissues with little or no cellular proliferation and has been shown to accumulate during cellular terminal differentiation. Two subtypes of H1(0), H1 a and H1 b, are present in any tissue where the protein has been detected. We report here the first evidence of an age-dependent change in the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Piña B,Suau P

更新日期：1987-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaporin-4, a predominant water channel in the central nervous system, has two isoforms, M1 and M23, whose transcripts are driven by distinct promoters. Using a reporter assay, we found that a fragment located between exons 0 and 1 of the mouse aquaporin-4 gene, which had been thought to be the promoter for M23, lack...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Abe Y,Goda W,Ikeshima-Kataoka H,Yasui M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric antibodies composed of mouse-derived variable regions and human-derived constant regions have been developed for clinical use. However, construction of chimeric mouse/human genes in expression vectors is time-consuming work. In this study, we developed convenient vectors for construction of chimeric mouse/hum...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kameyama K,Imai K,Itoh T,Taniguchi M,Miura K,Kurosawa Y

更新日期：1989-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Sucrose synthase (SuSy) plays an important role in sucrose degradation and occurs both as a soluble and as a membrane-associated enzyme in higher plants. We show that membrane association can vary in vivo in response to gravistimulation, apparently involving SuSy dephosphorylation, and is a reversible process in vitro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Winter H,Huber JL,Huber SC

更新日期：1997-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In Alzheimer disease (AD) the microtubule associated protein (MAP) tau is hyperphosphorylated at several sites. In the present study, like AD tau, tau in the human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y was found to be hyperphosphorylated, at Ser-199/202, Thr-231, Ser-396 and Ser-404. However, in contrast to AD, the tau in SY5Y cells ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka T,Iqbal K,Trenkner E,Liu DJ,Grundke-Iqbal I

更新日期：1995-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic AMP phosphodiesterases type 4 (PDE4s) are expressed in a cell specific manner, with intracellular targeting directed by unique N-terminal anchor domains. All long form PDE4s are phosphorylated and activated by PKA phosphorylation within their upstream conserved region 1 (UCR1). Here, we identify and charact...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Byrne AM,Elliott C,Hoffmann R,Baillie GS

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel protein that binds specifically to the intracellular domain of the p55 tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor was cloned by two-hybrid screening of a HeLa cell cDNA library. Data bank searches revealed high sequence similarity of the protein (55.11) to yeast, nematode and plant proteins, whose functions are yet ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boldin MP,Mett IL,Wallach D

更新日期：1995-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein D2 forms the water-filled pore across the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and allows the penetration of imipenem. We cloned the protein D2 gene by the antibody screening technique. When the imipenem-resistant mutant lacking protein D2 harbored the plasmid with the cloned D2 gene, the mutant overproduc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoneyama H,Nakae T

更新日期：1991-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin receptor family consists of the homologous tyrosine kinase receptors, insulin receptor (IR), insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1R) and insulin receptor-related receptor. The three-dimensional structures of the tyrosine kinase domain of the IR and the first three extracellular domains (L1, Cys-rich ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marino-Buslje C,Mizuguchi K,Siddle K,Blundell TL

更新日期：1998-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein deglutathionylation is mainly catalyzed by glutaredoxins (GRXs). We have analyzed the biochemical properties of four of the six different GRXs of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Kinetic parameters were determined for disulfide and dehydroascorbate reduction but also for deglutathionylation of artificial and protein...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gao XH,Zaffagnini M,Bedhomme M,Michelet L,Cassier-Chauvat C,Decottignies P,Lemaire SD

更新日期：2010-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:SV40 large T antigen is phosphorylated at up to ten different amino acids clustered in an N-terminal and a C-terminal part of the polypeptide chain. The N-terminal phosphorylated residues include Ser 123 and Thr 124. We have analyzed the oligomerization, the complex formation with the cellular oncoprotein p53 and the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Montenarh M,Müller D

更新日期：1987-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin fragment A is able to inhibit protein synthesis in the eukaryotic cell by ADP-ribosylating the diphthamide residue of elongation factor-2 (EF-2) [(1980) J. Biol. Chem. 255, 10710-10720]. The reaction requires NAD as ADP-ribose donor. This work reports on the capacity of an NAD analog, the nicotinamide...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giovane A,Balestrieri C,Quagliuolo L,Servillo L

更新日期：1985-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes a significant amino acid sequence homology between neuronal Cdk5 activator (nck5a) and an open reading frame of an unknown gene on the yeast S. cerevisiae chromosome III. A cDNA encoding a 25 kDa fragment of this yeast protein, the region containing homologous sequence to nck5a was cloned a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang QQ,Lee KY,Wang JH

更新日期：1996-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Coding region and intronic mutations in the gene for microtubule-associated protein tau cause frontotemporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). Most coding region mutations effect a reduced ability of tau protein to interact with microtubules and lead to the formation of a filamentous patholo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Smith MJ,Crowther RA,Goedert M

更新日期：2000-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIIa is a vitamin K-dependent enzyme whose gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla)-containing domain is important for calcium ion-dependent binding to the cofactor tissue factor and membrane surfaces. This domain contains 10 Gla residues, the individual roles and importance of which are not known. Comparisons with the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Persson E,Nielsen LS

更新日期：1996-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Horse heart cytochrome c is cleaved by thermolysin in 50% aqueous TFE (v/v) at neutral pH (25 degrees C, 24 h) at the Gly56-Ile57 peptide bond of the 104-residue chain of the protein. Additional, but anyway minor, fragmentation at the Gly45-Phe46 and Met80-Ile81 peptide bonds is also observed. On the other hand, in bu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fontana A,Zambonin M,De Filippis V,Bosco M,Polverino de Laureto P

更新日期：1995-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical properties of amino acids were investigated in order to evaluate their possible relationship to the assignment of codons for amino acids in the genetic code. A comparison of the interconversion probability between amino acids and the distances between the amino acids for individual physical properties rev...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sitaramam V

更新日期：1989-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate has been claimed to be both a substrate analogue and an allosteric inhibitor of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. The results reported here show that fructose 2,6-bisphosphate can be both an inhibitor and an activator of the enzyme, depending on the substrate concentration. This biphasic behaviour...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Corredor C,Boscá L,Sols A

更新日期：1984-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A drastic inhibition of protein synthesis occurs in HeLa cells treated with human lymphoblastoid interferon and infected with poliovirus. At the time when this inhibition has been established no degradation of 32P-labelled ribosomal RNA can be detected. Isolation of the mRNAs from poliovirus-infected cells plus or min...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Muñoz A,Harvey R,Carrasco L

更新日期：1983-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor mRNA of approximately 16,000 nucleotides codes 5,037 amino acid residues constituting the calcium release channel in skeletal muscle. In this study, RNA blot hybridization analysis shows that the brain contains an RNA species with an estimated size o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takeshima H,Nishimura S,Nishi M,Ikeda M,Sugimoto T

更新日期：1993-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel allergenic member of the family of Ca(2+)-binding proteins has been cloned from olive tree pollen. The isolated DNA codes for a protein of 171 amino acid residues, which displays four EF-hand sequence motifs. The encoded protein was overproduced in Escherichia coli and purified. The protein (18¿ omitted¿795 Da...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ledesma A,Villalba M,Rodríguez R

更新日期：2000-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In guinea pig caudate slices preloaded with [3H]choline, superfusion with medium containing Ca2+ and the phorbol ester TPA (12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate) produced an increase in the Ca2+-dependent, depolarization-evoked release of acetylcholine (ACh), with no significant effect on the evoked Ca2+ influx. The ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka C,Fujiwara H,Fujii Y

更新日期：1986-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a cationic lipid bilayer, we show that DNA can be reliably adsorbed to the bilayer surface for atomic force microscopy (AFM) in aqueous buffers at high resolution. The measured width of the dsDNA is close to 2 nm, and a periodic modulation on dsDNA is reproducibly detected by the AFM. The measured period is 3.4 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mou J,Czajkowsky DM,Zhang Y,Shao Z

更新日期：1995-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Equine platelet beta tropomyosin (247 residues), like rabbit skeletal muscle alpha tropomyosin (284 residues) has a repeating pattern of amino acid residues characteristic of a coiled-coil structure. When compared with the muscle protein, it is extended by 5 residues at the NH2-terminus and possesses two 21 residue de...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lewis WG,Cote GP,Mak AS,Smillie LB

更新日期：1983-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, human tau protein aggregates into paired helical filaments and neurofibrillary tangles. However, such tau aggregates have not yet been demonstrated in transgenic mouse models of the disease. One of the possible explanations would be that mouse tau has different properties ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kampers T,Pangalos M,Geerts H,Wiech H,Mandelkow E

更新日期：1999-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure at pH 4 of the complex of glucoamylase II(471) from Aspergillus awamori var. X100 with the pseudotetrasaccharide D-gluco-dihydroacarbose has been refined to an R-factor of 0.125 against data to 2.2 A resolution. The first two residues of the inhibitor bind at a position nearly identical to those ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stoffer B,Aleshin AE,Firsov LM,Svensson B,Honzatko RB

更新日期：1995-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein (IRBP) is limited to photoreceptor cells of the retina and pinealocytes of the pineal gland. We sought to define cis-elements of the mouse IRBP 5' flanking region that are required for this restricted activity. In vitro transient transfections of retinoblas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boatright JH,Knox BE,Jones KM,Stodulkova E,Nguyen HT,Padove SA,Borst DE,Nickerson JM

更新日期：2001-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrolysis of GTP, bound to members of the G-protein superfamily, terminates their downstream signaling activity. A conserved glutamine serves a critical role in this pivotal guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) reaction. However, the role of the catalytic glutamine in GTP hydrolysis is still not well understood. We have...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zor T,Andorn R,Sofer I,Chorev M,Selinger Z

更新日期：1998-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistically significant similarity was revealed between amino acid sequences of NTP-binding pattern-containing domains which are among the most conserved protein segments in dissimilar groups of ss and dsDNA viruses (papova-, parvo-, geminiviruses and P4 bacteriophage), and RNA viruses (picorna-, como- and nepovirus...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gorbalenya AE,Koonin EV,Wolf YI

更新日期：1990-03-12 00:00:00