Adaptive evolution in the snake venom Kunitz/BPTI protein family.

abstract：:Systemic AA-amyloidosis is a complication of chronic inflammatory diseases and the fibril protein AA derives from the acute phase reactant serum AA. AA-amyloidosis can be induced in mice by an inflammatory challenge. The lag phase before amyloid develops can be dramatically shortened by administration of a small amoun...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Westermark GT,Westermark P

更新日期：2009-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Several approaches have been used to identify the factors involved in mRNA splicing. None of them, however, comprises a straightforward reversible method for inhibiting the second step of splicing using an external reagent other than a chelator. This investigation demonstrates that the addition of boric acid to an in ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shomron N,Ast G

更新日期：2003-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of hydroxyl substituted chalcone (1a) and some chalcone analogues (1b-d) on isolated rat liver mitochondria to gain new insights into the cytotoxic mechanism of these compounds. We observed an inhibitory effect on phosphorylation and the partial uncoupling of compounds 1a and 1d. Increased r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guzy J,Vasková-Kubálková J,Rozmer Z,Fodor K,Mareková M,Poskrobová M,Perjési P

更新日期：2010-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A lowered efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation was recently found in a Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) proband carrying a mutation in the mtDNA gene for subunit 6 of the membrane-bound F0 segment of the F1F0-ATP synthase [9]. This phenotype was transferred to cytoplasmic hybrid cells together with the muta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Majander A,Lamminen T,Juvonen V,Aula P,Nikoskelainen E,Savontaus ML,Wikström M

更新日期：1997-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of neonatal rat islets of Langerhans with combined cytokines (interleukin-1beta 10(-10) M, tumour necrosis factor-alpha 10(-10) M, interferon-gamma 5 U/ml) led to extensive cell death, which was potentiated by Fas activation with the anti-Fas cytolytic antibody JO2. Pre-treatment with insulin (25 ng/ml) or i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harrison M,Dunger AM,Berg S,Mabley J,John N,Green MH,Green IC

更新日期：1998-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexaheme nitrite reductases purified to homogeneity from Escherichia coli K-12 and Wolinella succinogenes were studied by low-temperature EPR spectroscopy. In their isolated states, the two enzymes revealed nearly identical EPR spectra when measured at 12 K. Both high-spin and low-spin ferric heme EPR resonances with ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu MC,Liu MY,Payne WJ,Peck HD Jr,Le Gall J,DerVartanian DV

更新日期：1987-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripeptidyl peptidase I (TPP-I) is a lysosomal enzyme that cleaves tripeptides from the N-terminus of polypeptides. A comparison of TPP-I amino acid sequences with sequences derived from an EST database suggested that TPP-I is identical to a pepstatin-insensitive carboxyl proteinase of unknown specificity which is mut...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vines DJ,Warburton MJ

更新日期：1999-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher basal 2-deoxy-D-glucose uptake in rheumatoid synovial cells than in non-rheumatoid synovial cells, was found to be associated with an increased interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) secretion (respectively 850 +/- 238 vs. 8.3 +/- 2.4 pg/24 h/10(5) cells, mean +/- S.E.M.). When exogenous human recombinant IL-1 beta was...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hernvann A,Aussel C,Cynober L,Moatti N,Ekindjian OG

更新日期：1992-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamine depletion, obtained in FAO cells with specific inhibitors of biosynthetic enzymes, prevents or decreases the accumulation of hsp 70 mRNA following heat shock [Desiderio et al., Hepatology 24 (1996) 150-156]. The present study shows that under conditions of spermidine depletion caused by alpha-difluoromethylo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Desiderio MA,Dansi P,Tacchini L,Bernelli-Zazzera A

更新日期：1999-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyzing the primary structure we predicted that calponin may interact with phospholipids. In order to check this suggestion we investigated the interaction of calponin with phospholipids by ultracentrifugation, light scattering, vesicles leakage and differential scanning calorimetry. In agreement with our prediction...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bogatcheva NV,Gusev NB

更新日期：1995-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight couple 70 S ribosomes are converted to loose couple ones on enzymatic binding of phenylalanyl-tRNA. Enzymatic binding at 0 degree C as well as nonenzymatic binding does not lead to any change. Further, no change takes place when the P site is occupied by N-acetylphenylalanyl-tRNA. Loose couple 70 S ribosomes are...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Srivastava S,Burma DP

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active A1 peptide of cholera toxin was linked by a disulphide bond to the lectin of Wisteria floribunda. The resulting conjugate activated the adenylate cyclase of intact U937 or K562 cells at the same concentrations as native toxin did, but to a greater extent. Activation was inhibited by N-acetyl-D-galactosamine...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Heyningen S

更新日期：1983-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The archaeal exosome, a protein complex responsible for phosphorolytic degradation and tailing of RNA, has an RNA-binding platform containing Rrp4, Csl4, and DnaG. Aiming to detect novel interaction partners of the exosome, we copurified Nop5, which is a part of an rRNA methylating ribonucleoprotein complex, with the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gauernack AS,Lassek C,Hou L,Dzieciolowski J,Evguenieva-Hackenberg E,Klug G

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether aging is associated with a pro-inflammatory shift in the lung, inflammation and inflammation-related gene expression in the lungs of 12-week-old and 24-month-old Balb/c mice were studied. cDNA microarray and quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analyses showed that eight in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aoshiba K,Nagai A

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method was developed for the isolation of primase-free DNA polymerase-alpha from the DNA polymerase-alpha-primase complex of mouse FM3A cells. The polymerase was separated from primase subunits by chromatography on a single-stranded DNA-cellulose column in the presence of 50% etylene glycol. The primase-free ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takada-Takayama R,Suzuki M,Enomoto T,Hanaoka F,Ui M

更新日期：1990-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich's ataxia is caused by a deficit in the mitochondrial protein frataxin. The present work demonstrates that in vivo yeast frataxin Yfh1p and Isu1p, the mitochondrial scaffold protein for the Fe-S cluster assembly, have tightly linked biological functions, acting in concert to promote the Fe-S cluster assembly...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ramazzotti A,Vanmansart V,Foury F

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble aluminium (Al(3+)) is the major constraint to plant growth on acid soils. Plants have evolved mechanisms to tolerate Al(3+) and one type of mechanism relies on the efflux of organic anions that protect roots by chelating the Al(3+). Al(3+) resistance genes of several species have now been isolated and found to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Delhaize E,Gruber BD,Ryan PR

更新日期：2007-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential scanning microcalorimetry and fluorescence methods, using probes ANS and pyrene, have been employed to study thermotropic behaviour of rat liver microsomes in the presence and absence of Mg2+. Addition of Mg2+ yields three partially reversible phase transitions at 18, 27 and 32 degrees C, respectively...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akhrem AA,Kisel MA,Lunevich AY,Bokut SB,Andrianov VT,Kiselev PA

更新日期：1983-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, peroxiredoxins are both antioxidants and regulators of H(2)O(2)-mediated signaling. We previously found that peroxiredoxin-I (Prx-I) was overexpressed in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissue. Since overexpressed protein can induce a humoral immune response, we examined whether serum from NSCL...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chang JW,Lee SH,Jeong JY,Chae HZ,Kim YC,Park ZY,Yoo YJ

更新日期：2005-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray structure of bovine beta-lactoglobulin with the ligand 12-bromododecanoic acid as a model for fatty acids has been determined at a resolution of 2.23 A in the trigonal lattice Z form. The ligand binds inside the calyx, resolving a long-standing controversy as to where fatty-acid like ligands bind. The carbox...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Qin BY,Creamer LK,Baker EN,Jameson GB

更新日期：1998-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The integral membrane protein lactose permease of Escherichia coli was purified to homogeneity in detergent micelles. No other proteins could be detected in the final product. The molar ratio of lactose permease to lipid was less than 0.2 in detergent solution, thus the preparation was essentially lipid-free. All mole...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dornmair K

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dun1p and Rad53p of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are members of a conserved family of cell cycle checkpoint protein kinases that contain forkhead-associated (FHA) domains. Here, we demonstrate that these FHA domains contain 130-140 residues, and are thus considerably larger than previously predicted by s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hammet A,Pike BL,Mitchelhill KI,Teh T,Kobe B,House CM,Kemp BE,Heierhorst J

更新日期：2000-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion mechanisms of cathepsin L from osteoclasts in the process of bone resorption were investigated. The increases in bone pit numbers formed take place by PTH addition in parallel with the increases of cathepsin L and/or L-like proteinase activities in the culture medium of bone cells, and these were suppres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tagami K,Kakegawa H,Kamioka H,Sumitani K,Kawata T,Lenarcic B,Turk V,Katunuma N

更新日期：1994-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant vaccinia virus vectors were used to coexpress each of the candidate prohormone convertases PC1, PC2, furin, PACE4 and PC5 with rat prosomatostatin (rProSOM) in the constitutive secreting cell line LoVo and in the endocrine corticotroph cell line AtT-20, which exhibits regulated secretion. Mammalian ProSOM ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brakch N,Galanopoulou AS,Patel YC,Boileau G,Seidah NG

更新日期：1995-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotic aminoacylated-transfer RNAs often need to be efficiently segregated between translation and other cellular biosynthetic pathways. Many clinically relevant bacteria, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa direct some aminoacylated-tRNA spe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shepherd J,Ibba M

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein factor which inhibited adenylate cyclase was purified to apparent homogeneity from rat brain and identified as the beta gamma-subunits of the GTP-binding regulatory proteins of adenylate cyclase. (i) The beta gamma-subunits (protein factor) inhibited the partially purified catalytic unit of adenylate cyclase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Enomoto K,Asakawa T

更新日期：1986-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ras homology (Rho) guanine nucleotide exchange factor p115-RhoGEF couples the alpha(13) heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding protein (G protein) subunit to Rho GTPase. Alpha(13) binds to a regulator of G protein signaling (RGS) domain in p115-RhoGEF, but the mechanism of alpha(13) activation of p115-RhoGEF is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bhattacharyya R,Wedegaertner PB

更新日期：2003-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Three of four natural compounds, which are caffeic acid, eupatilin and 4'-demethyleupatilin, isolated from Chinese plant, Artemisia rubripes Nakai selectively inhibited 5-lipoxygenase of cultured mastocytoma cells. Half-inhibition doses (ID50) for caffeic acid, eupatilin and 4'-demethyleupatilin were 3.7, 14 and 18 X ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koshihara Y,Neichi T,Murota S,Lao A,Fujimoto Y,Tatsuno T

更新日期：1983-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the spatial expression patterns of two orphan receptor guanylyl cyclase genes OlGC4 and OlGC5 during embryogenesis of medaka and characterized the 5' flanking region required for tissue-specific expression of OlGC4 by introducing promoter-GFP fusion constructs into medaka embryos. Expression of OlGC5 is co...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kusakabe T,Suzuki N

更新日期：2000-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) sequences of 33 GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) obtained from different geographic areas were determined through reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction and dideoxy chain termination sequencing, the alignment of sequences, the estimation of the number of nucleotide ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mukaide M,Mizokami M,Orito E,Ohba K,Nakano T,Ueda R,Hikiji K,Iino S,Shapiro S,Lahat N,Park YM,Kim BS,Oyunsuren T,Rezieg M,Al-Ahdal MN,Lau JY

更新日期：1997-04-21 00:00:00