Characterisation of the expression and post-translational processing of the preprotachykinin-I gene and the regulated release of tachykinins by the RINm5F cell-line.

abstract：:Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a fatal type of cancer. We studied the role of the redox-active protein thioredoxin-1 (Trx-1) in apoptosis induced in MM cells and their non-malignant counterparts (Met-5A) by alpha-tocopheryl succinate (alpha-TOS) and TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). MM cells were suscepti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Freeman RE,Neuzil J

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome P-450 content of rat hepatocytes declined rapidly over 72 h in culture, due primarily to denaturation to cytochrome P-420. Six different media were investigated for their ability to conserve cytochrome P-450 during culture, and the most successful was a modified Earle's medium. After 72 h culture in thi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Grant MH,Melvin MA,Shaw P,Melvin WT,Burke MD

更新日期：1985-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of Thr90 to Ala has a profound effect on bacteriorhodopsin properties. T90A shows about 20% of the proton pumping efficiency of wild type, once reconstituted into liposomes. Mutation of Thr90 influences greatly the Schiff base/Asp85 environment, as demonstrated by altered lambda(max) of 555 nm and pK(a) of As...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Perálvarez A,Barnadas R,Sabés M,Querol E,Padrós E

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene trap methodology is a powerful tool to characterize novel genes and analyze their importance in biological phenomena. It is based on the use of mouse embryonic stem cells and reporter vectors designed to randomly integrate into the genome, tagging an insertion site and generating a mutation. Theoretically, al...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cecconi F,Meyer BI

更新日期：2000-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The orientation of the transition dipole moments in the ground state and the M-intermediate of bacteriorhodopsin were determined by time-resolved and steady-state polarized absorption spectroscopy on samples of oriented immobilized purple membranes. The angle between the transition dipole moment and the membrane norma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Otto H,Heyn MP

更新日期：1991-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Arp3 in mouse development was investigated utilizing a gene trap mutation in the Arp3 gene. Heterozygous Arp3(WT/GT) mice are normal, however, homozygous Arp3(GT/GT) embryos die at blastocyst stage. Earlier embryonic stages appear unaffected by the mutation, probably due to maternal Arp3 protein. Mutant bl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vauti F,Prochnow BR,Freese E,Ramasamy SK,Ruiz P,Arnold HH

更新日期：2007-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-induced order/disorder transition profiles were obtained from the membranes of intact Gram-negative bacterial cells by FT-IR analysis of the frequency shifts of the acyl chain methylene symmetric stretching band as a monitor. Cells grown at different temperatures yielded distinct transition profiles. At th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schultz C,Naumann D

更新日期：1991-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate compartmentalization in intracellular organelles has been long recognized as critical for plant physiology but the molecular identity of the proteins involved remained unclear for a long time. In Arabidopsis thaliana, AtClC-a has been recently shown to be a NO(3)(-)/H(+) antiporter critical for nitrate transpo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zifarelli G,Pusch M

更新日期：2010-05-17 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：:Complementary (c) DNAs encoding a glycine receptor (GlyR) isomer were cloned from libraries constructed in lambda ZAPII with poly (A)+ RNA of neonatal rat spinal cord. Northern blot analysis revealed that RNA hybridized to the cloned cDNA is detectable only for a period of late embryonic/early postnatal stage of the s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akagi H,Hirai K,Hishinuma F

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently the identity of the peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase (PPIase), which accelerates the cis/trans isomerization of prolyl peptide bonds and cyclophilin, the binding protein for the immunosuppressive drug Cyclosporin A (CsA), was discovered. The PPIase catalysis toward the substrate Suc-Ala-Phe-Pro-Phe-pNA has...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hübner D,Drakenberg T,Forsén S,Fischer G

更新日期：1991-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Like glutathione or dithiothreitol, metallothionein effects the formation of pancreatic ribonuclease A from its S-sulfonated derivative catalyzed by protein disulfide isomerase. EDTA increases the yield of ribonuclease A activity recovery with metallothionein but does not affect the reaction with glutathione or dithio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang S,Li J,Wang CC,Tsou CL

更新日期：1999-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that a high incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in rat liver can be induced by such azo dye carcinogens as 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene (3'-MeDAB). Mammalian S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) synthetase exists as two isozymes, non-hepatic-type and liver-type enzymes, which are the products of two diff...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Horikawa S,Kobayashi Y,Sugiyama T,Terashima H,Wada K,Tsukada K,Hirokawa S corrected to Horikawa S

更新日期：1993-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have revealed that the sensory nervous system is involved in bone metabolism. However, the mechanism of communication between neurons and osteoblasts is yet to be elucidated. In this study, we investigated the signaling pathways between sensory neurons of the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and the osteoblas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kodama D,Hirai T,Kondo H,Hamamura K,Togari A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human H19 gene is a paternally imprinted oncofetal gene, highly expressed in several fetal tissues, down-regulated in nearly all adult tissues but re-expressed in carcinomas of tissues which express the gene in fetal life. It has no known protein product and till today, no function could be designated to H19 RNA. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohana P,Kopf E,Bibi O,Ayesh S,Schneider T,Laster M,Tykocinski M,de Groot N,Hochberg A

更新日期：1999-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:CXCR4 (fusin) is a chemokine receptor which is involved as a coreceptor in gp120 binding to the cell surface. In this study we provide evidence that binding of gp120 triggers CXCR4 recruitment to glycosphingolipid-enriched microdomains. Scanning confocal microscopy showed a nearly complete localization of CXCR4 within...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sorice M,Garofalo T,Misasi R,Longo A,Mattei V,Sale P,Dolo V,Gradini R,Pavan A

更新日期：2001-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocyte stress 1 (MS1) is a recently described striated muscle actin-binding protein that is up-regulated in the early stages of pressure overload left ventricular hypertrophy. The aim of this study was to determine whether MS1 induces cellular hypertrophy and protects against apoptosis. Over-expressed MS1 co-localize...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koekemoer AL,Chong NW,Goodall AH,Samani NJ

更新日期：2009-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasminogen activation is regulated by the interaction between urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and its specific glycolipid-anchored cell surface receptor (uPAR). uPAR is composed of three homologous domains and is the only multi-domain member of the Ly-6 family of glycolipid-anchored membrane proteins. Rece...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ploug M,Ellis V

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new epsilon-N-trimethyllysine metabolite has been isolated from the mycelium of Neurospora crassa. The labelled compound produced from incubations in vivo and in vitro from epsilon-N-trimethyl ([14-C]H3)L-lysine has been identified as 2-keto-epsilon-N-trimethyl-hexanoic acid by reducing its 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Villanueva VR,Lederer E

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partially reduced metabolites of molecular oxygen, superoxide (O2-) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), are detected in respiratory tract lining fluid, and it is assumed that these are key components of innate immunity. Whether these reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced specifically by the respiratory epithelium in re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harper RW,Xu C,Eiserich JP,Chen Y,Kao CY,Thai P,Setiadi H,Wu R

更新日期：2005-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the dimeric C-terminal domain of the HIV-1 capsid protein (CA), recently determined by X-ray crystallography (Gamble et al. (1997)), has a notable resemblance to the structure of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) capsid protein (Cp) dimer, previously determined by cryo-electron microscopy (Conway et al. (19...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zlotnick A,Stahl SJ,Wingfield PT,Conway JF,Cheng N,Steven AC

更新日期：1998-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A photoactive reaction center complex was isolated from a thermophilic green sulfur bacterium, Chlorobium tepidum under anaerobic conditions. The electron transfer occurred from heme c to the photo-oxidized reaction center chlorophyll, P840+, with a half time (t1/2) of 110 or 340 microseconds at 24 or 12 degrees C, re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oh-oka H,Kamei S,Matsubara H,Iwaki M,Itoh S

更新日期：1995-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:FixK₂ is a CRP-like transcription factor that controls the endosymbiotic lifestyle of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. The reason for its noticeable protease sensitivity was explored here. The repertoire of Clp chaperone-proteases in B. japonicum was examined, and specifically ClpAP₁ and ClpXP₁ were purified and tested. FixK...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bonnet M,Stegmann M,Maglica Ž,Stiegeler E,Weber-Ban E,Hennecke H,Mesa S

更新日期：2013-01-04 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：:Constitutively secreted proteins have traditionally been believed to be excluded from the regulated secretory pathway. In this work we show that kappa light chain and Fc fragment, two markers of the constitutive pathway, are present in the regulated pathway in AtT-20 cells. They colocalize with the endogenous hormone ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Castle AM,Huang AY,Castle JD

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteolysis of beta-amyloid (Abeta) requires neprylisin, an enzyme that has been shown as reduced in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We investigated whether a decrease in neprilysin levels contributes to the accumulation of amyloid deposits not only in AD but also in the normal aging. We analyzed neprilysin mRNA and pro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Russo R,Borghi R,Markesbery W,Tabaton M,Piccini A

更新日期：2005-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple technique for rapid isolation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from animal cells is described. The method is based on the selective alkaline denaturation procedure of Birnboim and Doly [(1979) Nucleic Acids Res. 7, 1513-1523] and avoids the use of CsCl gradient centrifugation. The yield of mtDNA is comparable to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Palva TK,Palva ET

更新日期：1985-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated cDNAs encoding the glucocorticoid receptor from an androgen-dependent mouse tumor, Shionogi Carcinoma 115. The nucleotide sequence of the receptor revealed two different forms, designated as SC-GR I and SC-GR II. Both forms have a one-base substitution in the DNA binding domain of the wild-type mouse ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kasai Y

更新日期：1990-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The myristoylated N-terminal latching to the C-terminal lobe of c-Abl was recently demonstrated to be an important regulatory element for the kinase, playing a role similar to that of the tyrosine-phosphorylated C-terminal tail of c-Src. A potential mechanism for activating c-Abl is the dissociation of the myristoylat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou HX

更新日期：2003-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Domain structures of porcine lung and testicular angiotensin-converting enzymes (ACE) were studied by radiation inactivation to test the hypothesis that lung ACE has two catalytic sites localized to discrete, structurally independent domains (the N- and C-domains) of approximately equal size. The minimum functional si...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakaguchi H,Hirose S,Kume T,Hagiwara H

更新日期：1992-06-29 00:00:00