Fc epsilon receptor mediated Ca2+ influx into mast cells is modulated by the concentration of cytosolic free Ca2+ ions.

abstract：:VP64 is widely used as a transcriptional activator to investigate the biological function of genes, but its potential for application in genetic improvement of crops has not been fully investigated. Here, we characterized an OsMYB1R1-VP64 fusion protein that enhanced the grain yield of rice cultivar 'Kita-ake' by 35%....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang J,Wu F,Zhu S,Xu Y,Cheng Z,Wang J,Li C,Sheng P,Zhang H,Cai M,Guo X,Zhang X,Wang C,Wan J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of artificial model membranes on the complement system was investigated. Incubation of the model membranes with human serum resulted in consumption of complement haemolytic activity when phosphatidylserine-containing vesicles were used. The activation of the complement system appeared to proceed through the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Comis A,Easterbrook-Smith SB

更新日期：1986-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of seminalplasmin, a basic antimicrobial and transcription-inhibitory protein from bovine seminal plasma, has been determined using an automated sequenator. This sequence is slightly different from that reported earlier by Theil and Scheit [(1983) EMBO J. 2, 1159-1163] and identical with that of caltrin, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sitaram N,Kumari VK,Bhargava PM

更新日期：1986-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system serves to export fully folded protein substrates across the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. Respiratory [NiFe] hydrogenases are synthesised as precursors with twin-arginine signal peptides and transported as large, cofactor-containing, multi-subunit complex...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dubini A,Sargent F

更新日期：2003-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Various structural models for amyloid β fibrils have been derived from a variety of experimental techniques. However, these models cannot differentiate between the relative position of the two arms of the β hairpin called the stagger. Amyloid fibrils of various hierarchical levels form left-handed helices composed of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： GhattyVenkataKrishna PK,Uberbacher EC,Cheng X

更新日期：2013-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the transcriptional activity of human cytomegalovirus, herpes thymidine kinase, human chorionic gonadotropin alpha, somatostatin, immunoglobulin kappa chain, alpha crystallin, albumin and interferon-beta promoters in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Among these, the human cytomegalovir...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Toyama R,Okayama H

更新日期：1990-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pioneer crystallographic studies of the isolated 30S ribosomal subunit provided the first structural insights into the decoding process. Recently, new crystallographic data on full 70S ribosomes with mRNA and tRNAs have shown that the formation of the tight decoding centre is ensured by conformational rearrangement of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Demeshkina N,Jenner L,Westhof E,Yusupov M,Yusupova G

更新日期：2013-06-27 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：:The glucagon-like peptide 1 (7-37)/(7-36) amide (GLP-1) receptor belongs to a new subclass of seven transmembrane domain, G-protein coupled receptors comprising several receptors for peptide hormones. The receptors of this family share many common motifs including a relatively large N-terminal extracellular domain. Th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wilmen A,Göke B,Göke R

更新日期：1996-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of yeast spheroplasts by DEAE-dextran in isoosmotic conditions allows isolation of relatively undamaged subcellular fractions from yeast. The preservation of mitochondria and vacuoles permits the simultaneous isolation of the cytosol with negligible contamination by vacuolar proteinases and therefore, virtu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schwencke J,Canut H,Flores A

更新日期：1983-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat brain microtubules were prepared at the adult stage and from immature (i.e., 4-day-old) animals. At an early stage of development, the composition of microtubule-associated proteins is qualitatively different from that found at the adult stage [(1982) Eur. J. Biochem. 129, 465-471]. The influence of calmodulin on ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Erneux C,Passareiro H,Nunez J

更新日期：1984-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete cDNA encoding rabbit uteroglobin was constructed and expressed in MDCK and Caco-2 cells. The MDCK cells secrete uteroglobin in approximately equal amounts to the apical and the basolateral side, whereas the Caco-2 cells secrete uteroglobin mainly to the basolateral side. Both MDCK and Caco-2 cells thus secr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vogel LK,Suske G,Beato M,Norén O,Sjöström H

更新日期：1993-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of oxLDL on CD36 expression has been assessed in preadipocytes induced to differentiate. Novel evidence is provided that oxLDL induce a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma-independent CD36 overexpression, by up-regulating nuclear factor erythroid 2 (NF-E2)-related factor 2 (Nrf2). The nuclear t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： D'Archivio M,Scazzocchio B,Filesi C,Varì R,Maggiorella MT,Sernicola L,Santangelo C,Giovannini C,Masella R

更新日期：2008-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian pancreatic phospholipase A2 (PLA2-I) has its specific receptor through which PLA2-I induces a variety of biological responses. In this study, a fundamental relationship between the enzymatic and the receptor-binding activities of PLA2-I was investigated. The specific binding of PLA2-I to the receptor was fou...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ishizaki J,Kishino J,Teraoka H,Ohara O,Arita H

更新日期：1993-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:500 MHz 1H NMR studies of human epidermal growth factor are described. The backbone resonances of the 1-48 derivative of hEGF have been assigned using two-dimensional techniques. Analysis of the type and magnitude of the observed sequential nuclear Overhauser effects and the NH-alpha CH spin-spin coupling constants al...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carver JA,Cooke RM,Esposito G,Campbell ID,Gregory H,Sheard B

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of histidine residues that were artificially introduced into complementarity-determining regions of antibodies on antigen-antibody interactions at different pH values. Using a monoclonal antibody specific for hen egg-white lysozyme and three mutant antibodies that contained a histidine residue,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ito W,Sakato N,Fujio H,Yutani K,Arata Y,Kurosawa Y

更新日期：1992-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The [Cu(I)-Cu(II)] half-met form of the dinuclear copper site of tyrosinase has been probed by continuous wave electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and hyperfine sublevel correlation (HYSCORE) spectroscopy in the presence and absence of inhibitors. In all cases the EPR spectrum is indicative of a d(x(2)-y(2)) ground ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Gastel M,Bubacco L,Groenen EJ,Vijgenboom E,Canters GW

更新日期：2000-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:2-thiouracil (TU), an established antithyroid drug and melanoma-seeker, was found to selectively inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in a competitive manner (K(i)=20 microM), being inactive on the other NOS isoforms. The drug apparently interfered with the substrate- and tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4))-binding t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Palumbo A,d'Ischia M,Cioffi FA

更新日期：2000-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Trypanosoma cruzi (TcG6PDH) catalyses the first step of the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) and is considered a promising target for the discovery of a new drug against Chagas diseases. In the present work, we describe the crystal structure of TcG6PDH obtained in a ter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mercaldi GF,Dawson A,Hunter WN,Cordeiro AT

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of necrotic and apoptotic pathways in cytolysis mediated by LAK cells was studied. The contribution of necrotic and apoptotic processes to cytolysis depends both on the LAK cells' phenotype and the type of target cells. CD16+/CD8+/CD3- LAK cells induced necrosis of K562 and L929 target cells. The cell death i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sashchenko LP,Kabanova OD,Blishchenko LYu,Lukjianova TI,Satpaev DK,Chertov OYu,Gnuchev NV

更新日期：1993-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (MbetaCD) was used to explore a role for cholesterol-enriched plasma membrane microdomains in coupling lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) stimulation to phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activation. Cholesterol depletion strongly inhibited the production of phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate and ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peres C,Yart A,Perret B,Salles JP,Raynal P

更新日期：2003-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The GTPase RhoA is essential for the development of pre-T cells in the thymus. To investigate the mechanisms used by RhoA to control thymocyte development we have used Affymetrix gene profiling to identify RhoA regulated genes in T cell progenitors. The data show that RhoA plays a specific and essential role in pre-T ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mullin M,Lightfoot K,Clarke R,Miller M,Lahesmaa R,Cantrell D

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduced rat ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) gene into OTC-deficient spf-ash mice by mating spf-ash heterozygotes with transgenic mice which carried recombinant DNA composed of 1.3 kb of the 5' flanking region of the gene fused onto rat OTC cDNA. The liver OTC activity of hemizygous spf-ash mice which carried th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shimada T,Noda T,Tashiro M,Murakami T,Takiguchi M,Mori M,Yamamura K,Saheki T

更新日期：1991-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for titin, a 4MDa myofibrillar protein, was analysed in golden hamster DNAs from different sources, using human cDNA probes and PCR. In the DNA from the BHK-21-Bi subline of baby hamster kidney cells, extended sequences coding for Z-line associated domains were missing, indicating a deletion that renders titi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jäckel M,Witt C,Antonova O,Curdt I,Labeit S,Jockusch H

更新日期：1997-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus nidulans catalase B (CatB) was purified to homogeneity and characterized as a hydroperoxidase which resembles typical catalases in some physicochemical characteristics: (1) it has an apparent molecular weight of 360000 and is composed of four glycosylated subunits, (2) it has hydrophobic properties as reve...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Calera JA,Sánchez-Weatherby J,López-Medrano R,Leal F

更新日期：2000-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Monomeric bovine pancreatic RNase A has been transformed into a dimeric ribonuclease with antitumor activity (Di Donato, A., Cafaro, V. and D'Alessio, G. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 17394-17396). This was accomplished by replacing the residues located in the RNase chain at positions 19, 28, 31, and 32, with proline, le...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cafaro V,Bracale A,Di Maro A,Sorrentino S,D'Alessio G,Di Donato A

更新日期：1998-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast, three AAA superfamily metalloproteases (Yme1p, Afg3p and Rca1p) are localized to the mitochondrial inner membrane where they perform roles in the assembly and turnover of the respiratory chain complexes. We have investigated the function of the proposed human orthologue of yeast Yme1p, encoded by the YME1L g...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shah ZH,Hakkaart GA,Arku B,de Jong L,van der Spek H,Grivell LA,Jacobs HT

更新日期：2000-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenesis depends on a coordinated network of transcription factors including Sp7. Emerging evidence indicates that microRNAs (miRNAs) act as pivotal regulators in various biological processes including osteoblast proliferation and differentiation. Here, we investigated the effect of miR-145 on osteogenic different...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jia J,Tian Q,Ling S,Liu Y,Yang S,Shao Z

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:LIM-homeodomain (LIM-HD) proteins are evolutionary conserved developmental transcription factors. LIM-HD Lmx1a and Lmx1b orchestrate complex temporal and spatial gene expression of the dopaminergic pathway, and evidence shows they are also involved in adult neuronal homeostasis. In this review, the multiple roles play...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Doucet-Beaupré H,Ang SL,Lévesque M

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cripto-1 and OCT4, expressed in stem cells and cancers, play important roles in tumorigenesis. Here, we demonstrate that Cripto-1 expression is regulated by OCT4 in human embryonic carcinoma NCCIT cells. The endogenous expression of Cripto-1 and OCT4 is significantly reduced during differentiation. Cripto-1 expression...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park SW,Do HJ,Han MH,Choi W,Kim JH

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00