Ground state isomerization of a model green fluorescent protein chromophore.

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：:Rhodamine 6G (3 microM) effectively inhibited delta pH-driven ATP synthesis in Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum while delta pNa-driven ATP synthesis was not affected by it. Rhodamine 6G inhibited Mg(2+)-stimulated ATPase activity of membrane vesicles prepared from these cells but the ATPase catalytic sector detach...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Smigán P,Majerník A,Greksák M

更新日期：1994-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The 23-residue synthetic peptide representing the N-terminus of HIV-1 gp41 is known to induce either leakage or fusion of lipid vesicles depending on the experimental conditions. In this paper we report that a polar amino acid substitution V-->E at position 2, known to block gp41 activity in vivo, makes the peptide un...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pereira FB,Goñi FM,Nieva JL

更新日期：1995-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid (FA) uniport via mitochondrial uncoupling protein (UcP) was detected fluorometrically with PBFI, potassium-binding benzofuran phthalate and SPQ, 6-methoxy-N-(3-sulfopropyl)-quinolinium, indicating K+ and H+, respectively. The FA structural patterns required for FA flip-flop, UcP-mediated FA uniport, activat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jezek P,Modrianský M,Garlid KD

更新日期：1997-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The β-xylosidase B from Bifidobacterium adolescentis ATCC15703 belongs to the newly characterized family 120 of glycoside hydrolases. In order to investigate its catalytic mechanism, an extensive kinetic study of the wild-type enzyme and mutants targeting the three highly conserved residues Asp(393), Glu(416) and Glu(...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cecchini DA,Fauré R,Laville E,Potocki-Veronese G

更新日期：2015-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term goal of the field of interactome modeling is to understand how global and local properties of complex macromolecular networks impact on observable biological properties, and how changes in such properties can lead to human diseases. The information available at this stage of development of the field provid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vidal M

更新日期：2005-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibrillary tangles formed by abnormally aggregated tau protein are a histopathological feature of tauopathies. A tau aggregation inhibitor is a potential therapeutic agent for tauopathies. In this study, we prepared a monoclonal antibody for tau, monoclonal antibody to tau protein (Tau2r3), using as epitope the 2...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsuchida T,Susa K,Kibiki T,Tsuchiya T,Miyamoto K,In Y,Minoura K,Taniguchi T,Ishida T,Tomoo K

更新日期：2020-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Tom1 (Target of Myb1) is suggested to be involved in the transport of ubiquitinated proteins, through the interaction of its GAT (GGA and Tom1) domain with ubiquitin. Here, we demonstrate that the three-helix bundle of Tom1-GAT has two ubiquitin-binding sites recognizing the hydrophobic Ile44 surface of ubiquitin. The...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akutsu M,Kawasaki M,Katoh Y,Shiba T,Yamaguchi Y,Kato R,Kato K,Nakayama K,Wakatsuki S

更新日期：2005-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of newly synthesized human immunodeficiency virus type 1 env gp160 was examined in COS-1 cells. The results of morphological chase experiments involving cycloheximide demonstrated that gp160 was retained in the Golgi apparatus for longer than the half-life of the molecule. The degradation of gp160 was insensi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kimura T,Nishikawa M,Fujisawa J

更新日期：1996-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed microarray and computational gene network analyses to identify the detailed mechanisms by which sodium butyrate (SB) induces cell growth arrest and the differentiation of mouse colonic epithelial MCE301 cells. Two thousand six hundred four differentially expressed probe sets were identified in the cells t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tabuchi Y,Takasaki I,Doi T,Ishii Y,Sakai H,Kondo T

更新日期：2006-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Living isolated mitochondria incubated with iron(II) show a major alteration in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) conformational forms as assessed by Southern blot analysis of undigested mtDNA. In the presence of iron(II), form I is transformed into form III in a dose-dependent manner. This alteration in mtDNA conformation sh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Asín J,Pérez-Martos A,Fernández-Silva P,Montoya J,Andreu AL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described a partial cDNA sequence encoding a RhoGAP protein, GAP25 that is homologous to the recently reported ArhGAP9 and ArhGAP12. We now describe a related new member ArhGAP15 that shares a number of domain similarities, including a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain, a RhoGAP domain and a novel mot...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seoh ML,Ng CH,Yong J,Lim L,Leung T

更新日期：2003-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In Graves' disease (GD) the presence of antibodies to the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor leads to stimulation of the thyroid gland. The thyroid stimulating activity of Graves' IgG is normally ascertained by bioassays measuring cAMP production. We have investigated the effect of Graves' IgG on the quantitat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kung AW,Collison K,Banga JP,McGregor AM

更新日期：1988-05-09 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：:The crystal structure of Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase (ARP) in complex with benzhydroxamic acid (BHA) as determined by X-ray analysis at 1.6 A shows unambiguously how BHA binds to ARP. BHA is located in the distal heme pocket. Its functional groups are held by three hydrogen bonds to His56N(epsilon), Arg52N(epsilon)...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Itakura H,Oda Y,Fukuyama K

更新日期：1997-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of increasing low density lipoprotein (LDL) concentrations on the synthesis of basement membrane components was investigated in proliferating porcine aortic endothelial cells (PAEC) in culture. Basement membrane-associated heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) and fibronectin were determined by enzyme immunoa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Olgemöller B,Schleicher ED,Schwaabe S,Guretzki HJ,Gerbitz KD

更新日期：1990-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The fraction of polyclonal caldesmon antibodies cross-reacting with rabbit skeletal troponin T are shown to compete with smooth muscle tropomyosin for caldesmon and troponin T, as revealed by ELISA method. The epitope recognized by these antibodies was also found in Mr 77 kDa non-muscle caldesmon. These results provid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Birukov KG,Shirinsky VP,Vorotnikov AV,Gusev NB

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast gene, ACP1, encoding the mitochondrial acyl carrier protein, was deleted by gene replacement. The resulting acp1-deficient mutants had only 5-10% of the wild-type lipoic acid content remaining, and exhibited a respiratory-deficient phenotype. Upon meiosis, the lipoate deficiency co-segregated with the acp1 d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brody S,Oh C,Hoja U,Schweizer E

更新日期：1997-05-19 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：:Protein gene product 9.5 (PGP 9.5), which in the normal nervous system is restricted to certain neurons, has been detected in two glioma cell lines, rat C6 and human GL15, by immunoblotting and immunocytochemistry. Its expression in these cells depends on the cellular growth state, being maximal between the first and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giambanco I,Bianchi R,Ceccarelli P,Pula G,Sorci G,Antonioli S,Bocchini V,Donato R

更新日期：1991-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5.8S and 28S rRNA sequences of the oomycete Phytophthora megasperma were determined in order to study the secondary structure of these molecules and to assess the phylogenetic position of the oomycetes among the eukaryotes. Preliminary results point to an affiliation between the oomycetes, dinoflagellates and cili...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Van der Auwera G,Chapelle S,De Wachter R

更新日期：1994-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear proteins are actively and posttranslationally transported across the nuclear envelope. This transport is a highly selective process that can be divided into two steps, receptor-binding followed by translocation through the nuclear envelope. Receptor-binding is mediated by nuclear localization signals that have...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wagner P,Kunz J,Koller A,Hall MN

更新日期：1990-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:High-molecular-weight [14C]hyaluronate was incubated with cultured fibroblasts from human uterine cervix and skin, and then the depolymerization of the hyaluronate was investigated. [14C]Hyaluronate in the medium of skin fibroblasts was depolymerized into a constant molecular weight (M(r) about 40,000), whereas that o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka K,Nakamura T,Ikeya H,Higuchi T,Tanaka A,Morikawa A,Saito Y,Takagaki K,Endo M

更新日期：1994-06-20 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：:We propose a dynamic model for the competition between exon-exon ligation and 3'-end hydrolysis valid for sequentially folded pre-mRNA introns of group I. This model accounts for the delay in the formation of conserved helix P10 until the 5' exon has been cleaved, a requirement to prevent hydrolysis at the 3' end of t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fernández A

更新日期：1992-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular species compositions of monoacylglycerols obtained from various rat tissues were examined by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses. We confirmed that 2-arachidonoylglycerol, an endogenous cannabinoid receptor agonist, is one ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kondo S,Kondo H,Nakane S,Kodaka T,Tokumura A,Waku K,Sugiura T

更新日期：1998-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In several reactions catalyzed by highly purified peptide elongation factor 1 from rabbit reticulocytes, GTP may be fully replaced by CTP but not by ATP or UTP. This holds true for the factor-dependent binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to ribosomes, GTPase activity, GTP-dependent autophosphorylation of the factor protein and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tuhácková Z,Havránek M,Hradec J

更新日期：1984-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Blebs of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membrane of heart muscle cells were generated after saponin perforation of the plasma membrane followed by complete hypercontraction of the cell. Although characteristic proteins of the plasma membrane, namely the beta1-adrenoreceptor and Galphai, were stained by monoclonal ant...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Böhle T,Brandt MC,Henn N,Schmidt A,Bloch W,Beuckelmann DJ

更新日期：2001-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blinded, placebo-controlled cross-over trial was carried out with 27 hypercholesterolemic men with coronary heart disease. During the 6-week treatment period lovastatin (60 mg/day) decreased fasting serum LDL cholesterol by 45%, LDL phosphorus by 38% and apoB by 33%. Ubiquinol content diminished by 13% as mea...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Palomäki A,Malminiemi K,Metsä-Ketelä T

更新日期：1997-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of endothelin-1, a newly discovered potent bicyclic peptide vaso-constrictor agent, has been investigated using 1H NMR conformational constraints and distance geometry calculations. The conformation is constrained by two disulphide bridges between Cys1-Cys15 and Cys3-Cys11 but the NMR data and c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Munro S,Craik D,McConville C,Hall J,Searle M,Bicknell W,Scanlon D,Chandler C

更新日期：1991-01-14 00:00:00