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

abstract：:Human seminal fluid contains a number of tripeptide amides with similar structures to thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH), two of which have been identified as pGlu-Glu-Pro amide and pGlu-Phe-Pro amide. To determine whether these peptides originate in the same tissues and have the same molecular origin, TRH-immunoreac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Linden H,del Rio Garcia J,Huber A,Kreil G,Smyth D

更新日期：1996-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The purinergic P2X(7) receptor is an ATP-receptor channel predominantly expressed in immune cells. P2X(7) has been cloned from human, rat and mouse. Here we report cloning of the Xenopus laevis P2X(7) receptor (xP2X(7)). xP2X(7) is only about 50% identical to the mammalian homologues, shows a broad tissue expression p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Paukert M,Hidayat S,Gründer S

更新日期：2002-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The labile iron pool of cells (LIP) constitutes the primary source of metabolic and catalytically reactive iron in the cytosol. We studied LIP homeostasis in K562 cells using the fluorescent metal-sensitive probe calcein. Following brief exposure to iron(II) salts or to oxidative or reductive stress, LIP rose by up to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Breuer W,Epsztejn S,Cabantchik ZI

更新日期：1996-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:As a SNARE binding protein, tomosyn has been reported to negatively regulate synaptic exocytosis via arresting syntaxin-1 and SNAP-25 into a nonfusogenic product that precludes synaptobrevin-2 entry, raising the question how the assembly of the SNARE complex is achieved. Here, we have investigated new functions of tom...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li Y,Wang S,Li T,Zhu L,Ma C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) dose-dependently increased HIF1α expression in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs). Inhibition of protein synthesis did not affect ET-1-induced HIF1α expression. The maximum effect of ET-1 was similar to that caused by proteasome inhibitor MG132. Further study indicates that ET-1 also dos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li M,Liu Y,Jin F,Sun X,Li Z,Liu Y,Fang P,Shi H,Jiang X

更新日期：2012-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaflets of Vicia faba with closed stomata or with opening stomata were freeze-dried. Excised guard-cell pairs were assayed individually under suboptimal conditions (pH 7.1 and subsaturating substrate) for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC; EC 4.1.1.31) using quantitative histochemical procedures. L-Malate, 400 mi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang SQ,Outlaw WH Jr,Chollet R

更新日期：1994-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides its canonical function of catalyzing the formation of telomeric repeats, many groups have recently reported non-canonical functions of hTERT in particular, and telomerase in general. Regulating transcription is the central basis of non-canonical functions of telomerase. However, unlike reverse transcriptase ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akıncılar SC,Low KC,Liu CY,Yan TD,Oji A,Ikawa M,Li S,Tergaonkar V

更新日期：2015-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+) entering cells through store-operated channels (SOCs) affects most cell functions, and excess SOC is associated with pathologies. The molecular makeup of SOCs and their mechanisms of gating were clarified with the discovery of the Orais and STIM1. Another form of SOCs are the TRPCs. STIM1 gates both Orai and TR...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee KP,Yuan JP,Hong JH,So I,Worley PF,Muallem S

更新日期：2010-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) is known to act as a lipid phosphatase hydrolyzing phosphatidylinositol (PI)(3,4,5)P(3) to PI(4,5)P(2). Since the PI3-kinase product, PI(3,4,5)P(3), is an important second messenger leading to the metabolic action of insulin, PTEN functions as a potent neg...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ishihara H,Sasaoka T,Kagawa S,Murakami S,Fukui K,Kawagishi Y,Yamazaki K,Sato A,Iwata M,Urakaze M,Ishiki M,Wada T,Yaguchi S,Tsuneki H,Kimura I,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:cAMP levels in Paramecium increased dose dependently after a step increase of [Ca] or [Sr] in the incubation, provided K was present. Two mM Ca or Sr tripled cAMP concentrations within 3 s and induced an increase in forward swimming speed. The increase in cAMP formation was strictly dependent on the Donnan ratio [K]: ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schultz JE,Grünemund R,von Hirschhausen R,Schönefeld U

更新日期：1984-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that the potent chloride channel blocker NPPB has protonophoric activity in the mitochondria and across the plasma membrane of phagocytic cells. The resting O2 consumption of murine peritoneal macrophages was stimulated up to 2.5-fold in the presence of NPPB, with a K0.5 of 15 microM. The stimulato...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lukacs GL,Nanda A,Rotstein OD,Grinstein S

更新日期：1991-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of chromatin structure are tightly regulated by multiple epigenetic mechanisms such as histone modifications and incorporation of histone variants. In the current work, differentiation of an embryonal carcinoma cell line, NT2, was induced by retinoic acid, and total histone proteins were compared througho...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shahhoseini M,Favaedi R,Baharvand H,Sharma V,Stunnenberg HG

更新日期：2010-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate ozone damage to hairless mouse skin, two parameters of oxidative damage, vitamin E depletion and malondialdehyde (MDA) production, were measured in vitamin E-enriched and in control skin from mice exposed to ozone (10 ppm). A 5% vitamin E solution (tocotrienol-rich fraction, TRF) in polyethylene glycol (PE...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thiele JJ,Traber MG,Podda M,Tsang K,Cross CE,Packer L

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Seryl-tRNA synthetases (SerRSs) fall into two distinct evolutionary groups of enzymes, bacterial and methanogenic. These two types of SerRSs display only minimal sequence similarity, primarily within the class II conserved motifs, and possess distinct modes of tRNA(Ser) recognition. In order to determine whether the t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ahel D,Slade D,Mocibob M,Söll D,Weygand-Durasevic I

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of the domains of Trichoderma reesei endoglucanase I (EGI) has been studied. Truncated EGI proteins were expressed from the 3'-end deleted cDNAs in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the control of the ADC1 expression cassette. EGI protein was detected by monoclonal antibody EI-2 and EGI activity as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aho S

更新日期：1991-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate changes in gene expression associated with stage-specific programmed cell death (PCD) in intersegmental muscles (ISMs) of the moth, Manduca sexta. The technique of differential display reverse transcription PCR was applied to compare mRNA levels before and after the onset of PCD ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Löw P,Talián GC,Sass M

更新日期：2005-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of membrane lipid composition within strict limits is critical to maintain optimum cellular function. The biophysical properties of the membrane can be influenced among other factors by the saturation/unsaturation of the phospholipid fatty acyl chain. The rate-limiting enzyme in unsaturated fatty acid ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hagen RM,Rodriguez-Cuenca S,Vidal-Puig A

更新日期：2010-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs encoding the isoform I alpha of the cGMP-dependent protein kinase were isolated from a bovine trachea smooth muscle cDNA library constructed in lambda gt10. The deduced protein sequence is identical with the protein sequence obtained by Edman degradation of the bovine lung enzyme [(1984) Biochemistry 23, 4207-42...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wernet W,Flockerzi V,Hofmann F

更新日期：1989-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The O-chain polysaccharide (O-PS) of Bordetella avium was isolated from the lipopolysaccharide by mild acid hydrolysis to remove the lipid A, followed by hydrofluorolysis to remove the lipopolysaccharide core oligosaccharide leaving a residual O-PS for structural analysis. High resolution (1)H and (13)C NMR and MALDI ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Larocque S,Brisson JR,Thérisod H,Perry MB,Caroff M

更新日期：2003-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Human kallikrein 8 (KLK8) is a member of the human kallikrein gene family of serine proteases, and its protein, hK8, has recently been suggested to serve as a new ovarian cancer marker. To gain insights into the physiological role of hK8, the active recombinant enzyme was obtained in a pure state for biochemical and e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rajapakse S,Ogiwara K,Takano N,Moriyama A,Takahashi T

更新日期：2005-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of lipids in the interaction of the beta-adrenergic receptor (R) with the regulatory protein (Gs) was investigated. Solubilized preparations of R and of Gs from turkey erythrocytes were delipidated by gel filtration. They were subsequently combined and reconstituted by the addition of various lipids. When rec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kirilovsky J,Steiner-Mordoch S,Selinger Z,Schramm M

更新日期：1985-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome display is a powerful tool for selecting and evolving protein functions through ligand-binding. Here, this in vitro system was used to perform selection based on the folding properties of proteins, independent of specific ligand-binding. The selection is based on two properties of misfolded proteins: (1) incr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsuura T,Plückthun A

更新日期：2003-03-27 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：:Human prothymosin alpha mutants were generated with the aid of random mutagenesis and screened for their ability to inhibit yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell growth. Conversion of Lys-87 to Glu resulted in an inactivated prothymosin alpha mutant, which lost the ability of the wild-type protein to block yeast cell gr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rubtsov Y,Vartapetian A

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells take up D-gluconate, as an alternative carbon source for growth, during glucose starvation or when cultured on glycerol-containing medium. Gluconate uptake is not detectable while cells are growing logarithmically on glucose. The addition of D-glucose as well as its non-metabolizable an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Caspari T,Urlinger S

更新日期：1996-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterotrophic nitrifier Paracoccus denitrificans expresses a membrane-associated ammonia monooxygenase. The active enzyme has been solubilized in the detergent dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside and purified by standard chromatographic techniques. This is the first purification of an ammonia monooxygenase. The enzyme consis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Moir JW,Crossman LC,Spiro S,Richardson DJ

更新日期：1996-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The dinuclear paramagnetic center of the soluble CuA domain of the cytochrome c oxidase from Bacillus subtilis has been studied using 1H NMR. The spectrum possesses remarkably sharp shifted resonances. Comparison with the spectrum of the CuA amicyanin variant provides the spin density distribution in the CuA site of c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dennison C,Berg A,de Vries S,Canters GW

更新日期：1996-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the apoptosis of mouse liver nuclei induced in the cytosol of carrot cells by cytochrome c. Several typical characteristics of apoptosis, such as chromatin condensation, margination and apoptotic bodies, were detected. The result of DNA gel electrophoresis showed that DNA was degraded into nucleosomal f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhao Y,Jiang ZF,Sun YL,Zhai ZH

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras-GEF Cdc25p has been found to be hyperphosphorylated upon glucose addition. This work provides evidence indicating that PKA activity positively regulates the degree of Cdc25p phosphorylation, and that the intracellular association of Cdc25p and Ras2p is independent of PKA activity. In vitro experiments revealed tha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jian D,Aili Z,Xiaojia B,Huansheng Z,Yun H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human liver contains hydrolytic activity toward 3 beta-glucosido-chenodeoxycholic acid. This beta-glucosidase activity, localized predominantly in the microsomal fraction, was optimally active in the presence of divalent metal ions close to pH 5.0 and was inhibited by EDTA. Kinetic parameters and other catalytic prope...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matern H,Gartzen R,Matern S

更新日期：1992-12-14 00:00:00