pH dependence studies provide insight into the structure and mechanism of thimet oligopeptidase (EC 3.4.24.15).

abstract：:Human hepatocellular carcinoma cells (Hep G2) were shown to secrete apo A-I as a proprotein . No apo A-I synthesis could be detected with endothelial cells from human umbilical cord veins. Conversion of proapo A-I into apo A-I is a slow (of the order of hours) process, mediated by a Ca2+/Mg2+-dependent enzyme which is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kooistra T,van Hinsbergh V,Havekes L,Kempen HJ

更新日期：1984-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed five mutated cDNAs encoding human interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) derivatives lacking 19-23 COOH-terminal residues and expressed them in Escherichia coli. All the derivatives were purified to homogeneity. They showed substantially the same order of antiviral activity in vitro as the intact molecule, and be...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakaguchi M,Honda S,Ozawa M,Nishimura O

更新日期：1988-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The site-specific recombination system of bacteriophage P1 is composed of the Cre recombinase that recognizes a 34-bp loxP site. The Cre/loxP system has been extensively used to manipulate eukaryotic genomes for functional genomic investigations. The creation of additional heterologous loxP sequences potentially expan...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Siegel RW,Jain R,Bradbury A

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here a combined GC-MS and LC-MS metabolic profiling approach to unraveling the pathological outcomes of aristolochic acid (AA)-induced nephrotoxicity. Urine samples were analyzed by GC-MS and LC-MS in combination with pattern recognition techniques, e.g. principal component analysis (PCA), orthogonal projec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ni Y,Su M,Qiu Y,Chen M,Liu Y,Zhao A,Jia W

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine O-sulfation is one of the post-translational modification processes that occur to membrane proteins and secreted proteins in eukaryotes. Tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase (TPST) is responsible for this modification, and in this report, we describe the expression pattern and the biological role of TPST-A in the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim TH,Hwang SB,Jeong PY,Lee J,Cho JW

更新日期：2005-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:When bottromycin A2 was added to an in vitro protein synthesis system carried out by naturally occurring polysomes, it inhibited protein synthesis effectively. Examination of the 3 steps of peptide chain elongation revealed that the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the polyribosomes was inhibited by bottromycin A2. In con...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Otaka T,Kaji A

更新日期：1983-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant cell lines expressing D2 and D3 dopamine receptor isoforms have been used to study coupling of these receptors to G-proteins from the effects of GTP to reduce agonist binding affinities in agonist/[3H]spiperone competition experiments. D2(short) expressed in Ltk- cells, D2(long) expressed in Ltk- or CHO ce...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Castro SW,Strange PG

更新日期：1993-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical conjugation of fatty acids to antibodies generates lipid-modified molecules which have found use in the targeting of liposome-mediated drug delivery and in liposome-based immunoassays. Alternatively, bacterial expression of antibodies as single-chain FV fragments fused to lipoprotein signal peptide and N-term...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Keinänen K,Laukkanen ML

更新日期：1994-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteases not only play a fundamental role in numerous physiological processes, but are also involved in several human diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). A key protease implicated in AD is the so far unidentified gamma-secretase, which cleaves the membrane-bound beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) at th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Steiner H,Pesold B,Haass C

更新日期：1999-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In PC12 cells, cAMP stimulates the MAP kinase pathway by an unknown mechanism. Firstly, we examined the role of calcium ion mobilization and of protein kinase C in cAMP-stimulated MAP kinase activation. We show that cAMP stimulates p44mapk independently of these events. Secondly, we studied the role of B-Raf in this p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peraldi P,Frödin M,Barnier JV,Calleja V,Scimeca JC,Filloux C,Calothy G,Van Obberghen E

更新日期：1995-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat glutathione transferase 8-8 is one of the less abundant cytosolic glutathione transferases, accounting for approx. 1% of the total activity with 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene in liver. The enzyme is eluted at pH 6.3 upon chromatofocusing and has so far been identified in liver, kidney, lung and testis. Characteristi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jensson H,Guthenberg C,Alin P,Mannervik B

更新日期：1986-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Epichloë festucae Fl1 in association with Lolium perenne synthesizes a diverse range of indole-diterpene bioprotective metabolites, including lolitrem B, a potent tremorgen. The ltm genes responsible for the synthesis of these metabolites are organized in three clusters at a single sub-telomeric locus in the genome of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Saikia S,Takemoto D,Tapper BA,Lane GA,Fraser K,Scott B

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of mild uncoupling caused by free fatty acids (mediated by plant uncoupling mitochondrial protein (PUMP) and ATP/ADP carrier (AAC)) and non-coupled respiration (alternative oxidase (AO)) on H(2)O(2) formation by plant mitochondria were examined. Both laurate and oleate prevent H(2)O(2) formation dependent on...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Casolo V,Braidot E,Chiandussi E,Macrì F,Vianello A

更新日期：2000-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the esterification of the 3'(2') hydroxyl group of tRNA on the hydrolysis by venom phosphodiesterase (Crotalus adamanteus) was studied. It was shown that this esterification does not change the rate of hydrolysis. At pH 7-8, no significant differences were observed either when the alpha amino group of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yot P,Gueguen P,Chapeville F

更新日期：1968-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen dioxide (NO2.) is often present in inhaled air and may be generated in vivo from nitric oxide. Exposure of human blood plasma to NO2. caused rapid losses of ascorbic acid, uric acid and protein thiol groups, as well as lipid peroxidation and depletions of alpha-tocopherol, bilirubin and ubiquinol-10. No incre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Halliwell B,Hu ML,Louie S,Duvall TR,Tarkington BK,Motchnik P,Cross CE

更新日期：1992-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It was recently shown that there is a predominance of phase 1 introns near the cleavage site of signal peptides encoded by human genes. It was suggested that this biased distribution was due to intron insertion at AGmid R:G proto-splice sites. However, we found that there is no disproportional excess of AGmid R:G that...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vibranovski MD,Sakabe NJ,de Souza SJ

更新日期：2006-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the cysteines (positions 668 and 714) were generated in the IF2 C domain of Bacillus stearothermophilus translation initiation factor IF2. The corresponding proteins were characterized functionally and structurally. Most (yet not all) amino acid replacements at both positions resulted in severe reduction ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Misselwitz R,Welfle K,Krafft C,Welfle H,Brandi L,Caserta E,Gualerzi CO

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The enantiomers of U50,488, ligands highly selective for kappa-opioid receptors, have been prepared by a refined procedure and their optical purity demonstrated. The absolute configuration of (+)-trans-2-pyrrolidinyl-N-methylcyclohexylamine, a chemically versatile intermediate for synthesis of analogs of kappa-opioid ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： DeCosta B,George C,Rothman RB,Jacobson AE,Rice KC

更新日期：1987-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotide probes based on the known amino acid sequence of salmon calcitonin were used to screen a cDNA library obtained from ultimobranchial glands of salmon for clones encoding salmon calcitonin. From the cDNA sequence of strongly hybridizing clones the complete primary structure of the calcitonin precursor co...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pöschl E,Lindley I,Hofer E,Seifert JM,Brunowsky W,Besemer J

更新日期：1987-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases play a crucial role in the regulation of cellular processes. Most eukaryotes reserve about 2.5% of their genes for protein kinases. We analysed the genome of the single-celled ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia and identified 2606 kinases, about 6.6% of its genes, representing the largest kinome to date. A...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bemm F,Schwarz R,Förster F,Schultz J

更新日期：2009-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabphilin is a synaptic vesicle-associated protein proposed to play a role in regulating neurotransmitter release. Here we report the isolation and identification of a novel protein complex containing rabphilin, annexin A4 and synaptotagmin 1. We show that the rabphilin C2B domain interacts directly with the N-terminu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Willshaw A,Grant K,Yan J,Rockliffe N,Ambavarapu S,Burdyga G,Varro A,Fukuoka S,Gawler D

更新日期：2004-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of protoporphyrin IX (Proto IX) in light-sensitive mutants of Escherichia coli was detected by spectrofluorimetry. Fluorescence emission and excitation spectra were recorded from extracts of bacterial cells. Proto IX clearly accumulated in cells with mutations in the visA (hemH) gene but not in the wi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miyamoto K,Nishimura K,Masuda T,Tsuji H,Inokuchi H

更新日期：1992-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A heat-stable activator for ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF)-dependent phospholipase D (PLD) was purified to near homogeneity from rat kidney cytosol by a sequential column chromatography. The purified activator has a molecular mass of 23 kDa on SDS-PAGE. Using a partially purified ARF-dependent PLD from rat kidney, the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akisue T,Jinnai H,Hitomi T,Miwa N,Yoshida K,Nakamura S

更新日期：1998-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila PTEN (dPTEN) plays indispensable roles in the development of Drosophila melanogaster by controlling cell size and number. Although three potential spliced forms of dPTEN have been isolated, functional distinction among these forms remains elusive. In this study, we demonstrate that all spliced forms of dPTE...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maehama T,Kosaka N,Okahara F,Takeuchi K,Umeda M,Dixon JE,Kanaho Y

更新日期：2004-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxysterol binding proteins (OSBPs) are believed to control cholesterol homeostasis but their precise mechanism of action is not well understood. The Dictyostelium osbA gene encodes a predicted OSBP, OSBPa, which lacks the PH domain that in most other OSBPs directs targetting to the Golgi. OSBPa instead localises s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fukuzawa M,Williams JG

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the calcium-mimic dye, Stains-all, is a convenient probe to study the structural features of the individual calcium-binding sites of calmodulin (CaM) and related calcium-binding proteins (CaBP). These peptides bind the dye in their calcium-binding sites, and induce a circular dichroism (CD) band in the bo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sharma Y,Gopalakrishna A,Balasubramanian D,Fairwell T,Krishna G

更新日期：1993-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of the bicarbonate dehydration reaction in thylakoid suspension under conditions of saturating light at pH 7.6-8.0 was discovered. This effect was inhibited by nigericin or the lipophilic carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitor ethoxyzolamide (EZ), but not by the hydrophilic CA inhibitor, acetazolamide. It was s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Moskvin OV,Ivanov BN,Ignatova LK,Kollmeier MA

更新日期：2000-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Internal promoters of some genes transcribed by RNA polymerase III (e.g. tRNA genes, adenovirus VA1 RNA gene, human retroposons of the Alu family) contain a conserved sequence element, B-box, interacting with basal transcription factor TFIIIC2 which initiates assembly of the full transcription complex on the genes, an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kropotov AV,Tomilin NV

更新日期：1996-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of GE82832, a translocation inhibitor produced by a soil microorganism, is shown to be highly related to that of dityromycin, a bicyclodecadepsipeptide antibiotic discovered long ago whose characterization had never been pursued beyond its structural elucidation. GE82832 and dityromycin were shown to int...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brandi L,Maffioli S,Donadio S,Quaglia F,Sette M,Milón P,Gualerzi CO,Fabbretti A

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Gabapentin (GBP) is a gamma-aminobutyric acid analog effective in the treatment of seizures. A high-affinity interaction between GBP and the alpha(2)delta subunit of the voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels has been documented. In this report, we examined the effects of the chronic treatment with GBP on neuronal recombinant ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kang MG,Felix R,Campbell KP

更新日期：2002-09-25 00:00:00