Kinetic mechanism of pyruvate decarboxylase. Evidence for a specific protonation of the enzymic intermediate.

abstract：:Adrenomedullin, a potently hypotensive peptide isolated from human pheochromocytoma, is known to elicit a rise in cAMP levels within mammalian endothelial and smooth muscle cells. Until now, however, little has been known about the adrenomedullin receptor. Recently, a group called receptor activity-modifying proteins ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kamitani S,Asakawa M,Shimekake Y,Kuwasako K,Nakahara K,Sakata T

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane monooxygenase (MMO) catalyses the biological transformation of methane to methanol at a binuclear iron site. Guided by the three-dimensional structure of the R2 protein of E. coli ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), we have aligned the sequences of two different MMOs with the sequences of the iron coordinating fou...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nordlund P,Dalton H,Eklund H

更新日期：1992-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a prototypic virus commonly used in studies of endocytosis and membrane trafficking. One proposed mechanism for VSV entry involves initial fusion with internal vesicles of multivesicular endosomes followed by back-fusion of these vesicles into the cytoplasm. One feature of endosomal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roth SL,Whittaker GR

更新日期：2011-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron dependent regulator, IdeR, regulates the expression of genes in response to intracellular iron levels in M. tuberculosis. Orthologs of IdeR are present in all the sequenced genomes of mycobacteria. We have used a computational approach to identify conserved IdeR regulated genes across the mycobacteria and the gen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yellaboina S,Ranjan S,Vindal V,Ranjan A

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of oligomeric double and triple helical DNAs with irregular sequences of homopurine and homopyrimidine strands were prepared. DNA triplexes were identified by CD spectroscopy and thermal denaturation profiles (biphasic helix-coil transition). Condensation of oligonucleotides on single and double-stranded DNA ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dolinnaya NG,Pyatrauskene OV,Shabarova ZA

更新日期：1991-06-24 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 fluorescence intensity and anisotropy decays of the intrinsic tryptophan emission from six Fe/S proteins (ranging from the very simplest ones to enzyme complexes containing one, two or more Trp residues) were measured. All proteins were examined in the reduced and the oxidized state. In either redox state each pro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dorovska-Taran V,van Hoek A,Link TA,Visser AJ,Hagen WR

更新日期：1994-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferric reductase B (FerB) is a flavin mononucleotide (FMN)-containing NAD(P)H:acceptor oxidoreductase structurally close to the Gluconacetobacter hansenii chromate reductase (ChrR). The crystal structure of ChrR was previously determined with a chloride bound proximal to FMN in the vicinity of Arg101, and the authors ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sedláček V,Kučera I

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first evidence of a mitochondrial NO synthase (mtNOS) in bird skeletal muscle. In vitro, mtNOS activity stimulated by L-arginine reduced intermyofibrillar mitochondrial oxygen uptake and ATP synthesis rates, stimulated endogenous H(2)O(2) generation, but had no effect on oxidative phosphorylation efficie...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rey B,Roussel D,Teulier L,Eyenga P,Degletagne C,Belouze M,Duchamp C

更新日期：2011-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have engineered a genomic HDV ribozyme to construct several trans-acting ribozymes for use in trans to cleave target RNAs. Among the 10 different combinations attempted, only HDV88-Trans had cleavage activity on the 13-nucleotide substrate, R13, in vitro. To improve the cleavage efficiency, at least in vitro, of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kawakami J,Yuda K,Suh YA,Kumar PK,Nishikawa F,Maeda H,Taira K,Ohtsuka E,Nishikawa S

更新日期：1996-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic porins are a group of membrane proteins whose best known role is to form an aqueous pore channel in the mitochondrial outer membrane. As opposed to the bacterial porins (a large family of protein whose 3D structure has been determined by X-ray diffraction), the structure of eukaryotic porins (also termed VD...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Casadio R,Jacoboni I,Messina A,De Pinto V

更新日期：2002-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(+)/H(+) antiporters are ubiquitous membrane proteins and play an important role in cell homeostasis. We amplified a gene encoding a member of the monovalent cation:proton antiporter-2 (CPA2) family (TC 2.A.37) from the Thermus thermophilus genome and expressed it in Escherichia coli. The gene product was identified...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Furrer EM,Ronchetti MF,Verrey F,Pos KM

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-kDa protein component of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II is essential for photosynthesis, and it has been believed that mutants with deletion of this 33-kDa protein are not found in higher plants. We report here the first isolation of an Arabidopsis thaliana mutant with a defect in one of the genes ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murakami R,Ifuku K,Takabayashi A,Shikanai T,Endo T,Sato F

更新日期：2002-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Undifferentiated rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells were voltage clamped using the whole cell technique. After blockade of outward currents, calcium currents were elicited from -40 and -100 mV. A subpopulation of cells displayed only one current component activated at -10 mV and slowly decaying. In other cells this curre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Janigro D,Maccaferri G,Meldolesi J

更新日期：1989-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The dual function of the regulatory beta-subunit of protein kinase CK2 is highlighted by its ability to abolish calmodulin phosphorylation in contrast to its stimulatory effect on the phosphorylation of peptide substrates. Here we show that a synthetic peptide reproducing the C-terminal region of the beta-subunit (bet...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marin O,Meggio F,Boldyreff B,Issinger OG,Pinna LA

更新日期：1995-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding specific cargo distribution in differentiated cells is a major challenge. Trafficking kinesin proteins (TRAKs) are kinesin adaptors. They bind the cargo binding domain of kinesin-1 motor proteins forming a link between the motor and their cargoes. To refine the TRAK1/2 binding sites within the kinesin-1 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Randall TS,Moores C,Stephenson FA

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver plasma membrane removed sialic acid from mixed bovine brain gangliosides more efficiently than from sialyllactose and orosomucoid with an optimal pH of 4.5. When individual gangliosides, each labeled with [14C]sialic acid or [3H]sphingosine, were tested, not only GD1a and GM3 but also GM2 and GM1, both of wh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miyagi T,Tsuiki S

更新日期：1986-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular homeostasis in response to glucose availability is maintained through the tight coordination of various physiological processes, including cell proliferation, transcription, and metabolism. In this study, we use the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify proteins implicated in carbon source-depend...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Umekawa M,Shiraishi D,Fuwa M,Sawaguchi K,Mashima Y,Katayama T,Karita S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barth syndrome (BTHS) is a rare X-linked genetic disorder caused by mutations in the gene encoding the transacylase tafazzin and characterized by loss of cardiolipin and severe cardiomyopathy. Mitochondrial oxidants have been implicated in the cardiomyopathy in BTHS. Eleven mitochondrial sites produce superoxide/hydro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Goncalves RLS,Schlame M,Bartelt A,Brand MD,Hotamışlıgil GS

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In hepatocytes from control rats, the ureogenic action of epinephrine is mainly mediated through alpha 1-adrenoceptors and the effect is independent of the presence of extracellular calcium. In hepatocytes from adrenalectomized rats, both alpha 1- and beta-adrenoceptors are involved in the action of epinephrine. Furth...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hernández-Sotomayor SM,García-Sáinz JA

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin stimulated protein kinase B alpha (PKB alpha) more than 10-fold and decreased glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) activity by 50 +/- 10% in skeletal muscle and adipocytes. Rapamycin did not prevent the activation of PKB, inhibition of GSK3 or stimulation of glycogen synthase up to 5 min. Thus rapamycin-insensiti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cross DA,Watt PW,Shaw M,van der Kaay J,Downes CP,Holder JC,Cohen P

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Azotobacter vinelandii (Av) and chroococcum (Ac) ferredoxin I contain [3Fe-4S]1 + 0 and [4Fe-4S]2+1+ clusters, when isolated aerobically, which undergo one-electron redox cycles at potentials of -460 +/- 10 mV (vs SHE) at pH 8.3 and -645 +/- 10 mV, respectively. The X-ray structure of Fd I (Av) reveals that the N-term...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thomson AJ

更新日期：1991-07-22 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：:The role of p53 as the "guardian of the genome" in differentiated somatic cells, triggering various biological processes, is well established. Recent studies in the stem cell field have highlighted a profound role of p53 in stem cell biology as well. These studies, combined with basic data obtained 20 years ago, provi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aloni-Grinstein R,Shetzer Y,Kaufman T,Rotter V

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine kinases (CK) play a prominent role in cell energy distribution through an energy shuttle between mitochondria and other organelles. Human brain CK was cloned and overexpressed in COS-7 cells. We then deleted His-65 and/or Pro-66 situated near the center of a flexible loop as shown by X-ray crystallography on ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mourad-Terzian T,Steghens JP,Min KL,Collombel C,Bozon D

更新日期：2000-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum albumin (HSA) contains a single tryptophan residue at position 214. The emission properties of tryptophan 214 from recombinant albumins, namely, normal HSA, FDH-HSA and a methionine 218 HSA were examined. In all cases, the excited state lifetimes were best described by a two component model consisting main...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Helms MK,Petersen CE,Bhagavan NV,Jameson DM

更新日期：1997-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Perhydrohistrionicotoxin at micromolar concentrations blocked the nicotine-evoked transmitter release from perfused striatal (dopaminergic) and hippocampal (cholinergic) nerve terminals. Perhydrohistrionicotoxin failed to compete with [3H]nicotine for its high-affinity binding site in rat brain, suggesting that the ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rapier C,Wonnacott S,Lunt GG,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1987-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The widely studied macrophage scavenger receptor system is known to bind both acetylated low density lipoprotein and oxidized low density lipoprotein. Although only the latter ligand has been shown to occur in vivo, acetylated low density lipoprotein is often used to evaluate the contribution of scavenger receptors to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Volf I,Moeslinger T,Cooper J,Schmid W,Koller E

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In exocrine acinar cells a variety of neurotransmitters (e.g. acetylcholine) stimulate phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate hydrolysis elevating intracellular calcium to activate calcium-dependent membrane currents (outward K+ and inward Cl-). This study shows that in lacrimal acinar cells extracellular application o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sasaki T,Gallacher DV

更新日期：1990-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of the present investigation relate the effects of the nutritional state and administration of clofibric acid (CLA), a hypolipidaemic drug and peroxisomal proliferator, on phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) synthesis in rat liver and fatty acid metabolism. Fasting and CLA treatment of animals causes an increase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lenart J,Komańska I,Pikuła S,Jasińska R

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00