A microscope-based screening platform for large-scale functional protein analysis in intact cells.

abstract：:In order to study the transactivational property of the X gene in the methylotropic yeast Pichia pastoris, a Rous sarcoma virus-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (RSV-CAT) cassette was co-transformed and integrated into the host yeast strain as a reporter which showed an overwhelming CAT activity. Immunoprecipitation ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lal SK,Kumar V

更新日期：1999-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:USP4, 11 and 15 are three closely related paralogues of the ubiquitin specific protease (USP) family of deubiquitinating enzymes. The DUSP domain and the UBL domain in these proteins are juxtaposed which may provide a functional unit conferring specificity. We determined the structures of the USP15 DUSP-UBL double dom...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Elliott PR,Liu H,Pastok MW,Grossmann GJ,Rigden DJ,Clague MJ,Urbé S,Barsukov IL

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The small GTPase Rho1 plays an essential role in controlling the organization of the actin cytoskeleton and synthesis of the cell wall in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Here we studied the role of Rho5 whose primary structure is very similar to that of Rho1. It was found that elevated expression of Rho5 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakano K,Arai R,Mabuchi I

更新日期：2005-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleomycin-reactive iron was detected in the sera of six out of nine adults undergoing intensive chemotherapy for acute non-lymphocytic leukemia. In these individuals the corresponding transferrin saturation ranged from 96% to 113% and the serum ferritin from 775 to 9975 micrograms/l. Nontransferrin-bound iron has been...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gordeuk VR,Brittenham GM

更新日期：1992-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplex structures in the 5' UTR of mRNAs have been shown to suppress translation. However, all experiments published so far made use of artificial reporter systems. Here, we investigate for the first time the biological effects of the genomic disruption of a G-quadruplex by CRISPR/Cas9. In melanoma cells lacking...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Serikawa T,Eberle J,Kurreck J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a phage display peptide library, we characterized the epitope of two monoclonal antibodies reacting with syndecan-1: B-B2 and B-B4. The identified epitopes QDIT, for B-B2, and LPEV, for B-B4, were found to align with residues 36-39 and 90-93 of the mature protein, respectively. In contrast to B-B4, the B-B2 epit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dore JM,Morard F,Vita N,Wijdenes J

更新日期：1998-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to osmotic cell swelling, Intestine 407 cells react with a rapid and transient activation of phospholipase D (PLD). To investigate the role of PLD during the regulatory volume decrease, cells were treated with 1-butanol resulting in a depletion of PLD substrates. Activation of volume-regulated anion channe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tomassen SF,van der Wijk T,de Jonge HR,Tilly BC

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmids for the high-level overproduction of wild-type, and C- and N-terminal His-tagged MurG N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase from Escherichia coli were constructed. In complementation tests the three forms were active in vivo. After IPTG induction, growth, spheroplast formation and lysis, overproduced MurG proteins...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Crouvoisier M,Mengin-Lecreulx D,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Unstimulated human fibrosarcoma cells (HT1080) constitutively secrete matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP 2) as a proenzyme requiring proteolytic cleavage by membrane type-1 MMP (MT1 MMP) for activation. Physiological and pharmacological stimuli induce clustering of MT1 MMP/tissue inhibitor of MMP 2 "receptors", promoting...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Atkinson SJ,English JL,Holway N,Murphy G

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric restriction (CR) is known to promote longevity in various species. Sirtuin-mediated deacetylation has been shown to be related to the promotion of longevity in some species. Here, we show that CR of rats led to an increase in the level of Werner syndrome protein (WRN), a recognized DNA repair protein. In addit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kahyo T,Mostoslavsky R,Goto M,Setou M

更新日期：2008-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In guinea pig caudate slices preloaded with [3H]choline, superfusion with medium containing Ca2+ and the phorbol ester TPA (12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate) produced an increase in the Ca2+-dependent, depolarization-evoked release of acetylcholine (ACh), with no significant effect on the evoked Ca2+ influx. The ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka C,Fujiwara H,Fujii Y

更新日期：1986-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of Cre-mediated conditional gene targeting in liver of mice has until now depended on the generation of Cre recombinase transgenic mice or on viral-mediated transduction. Here, we sought to establish the feasibility of using hydrodynamic gene delivery of Cre recombinase into liver, using a ROSA26 EGFP mous...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhu HZ,Wang W,Feng DM,Sai Y,Xue JL

更新日期：2006-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a mechanism of coupling periodate-oxidized nucleosides to proteins. Each of the dialdehyde groups of a periodate-oxidized nucleoside is shown to couple to lysine residues on different protein molecules through Schiff bases, thereby cross-linking different protein molecules, forming a polymer. This...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Senapathy P,Ali MA,Jacob MT

更新日期：1985-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The multidrug resistance protein (MRP) is an ATP-dependent transport protein for organic anions, as well as neutral or positively charged anticancer agents. In this study we report that dinitrophenyl-S-glutathione increases ATPase activity in plasma membrane vesicles prepared from the MRP-overexpressing cell line GLC4...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hooijberg JH,Broxterman HJ,Heijn M,Fles DL,Lankelma J,Pinedo HM

更新日期：1997-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the factors that regulate the proliferation of pancreatic islet beta-cells in vitro, and in particular on the intracellular pathways that convey the mitogenic signal into a proliferative response. Substances as diverse as nutrients, polypeptides, cytokines, adrenergic agents, lithium, phorbol es...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sjöholm A

更新日期：1992-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Localisation of mRNA encoding the four AMPA glutamate receptor subunits in the rat adrenal gland was investigated using in situ hybridisation. GluR1 is found in the zona glomerulosa of the cortex, GluR3 in the remaining parts of the cortex, GluR2 in adrenal medullary cells and GluR4 at a very low level in the zona glo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kristensen P

更新日期：1993-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of synthetic rat adrenomedullin (rAM), a novel vasorelaxant peptide originally isolated from human pheochromocytoma, on receptor binding and cAMP generation were studied in cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). A binding study using [125I]rAM revealed the presence of a single class of high-affi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Eguchi S,Hirata Y,Kano H,Sato K,Watanabe Y,Watanabe TX,Nakajima K,Sakakibara S,Marumo F

更新日期：1994-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Designed mutations within the Streptomyces lividans kcsA gene resulted in a set of mutant proteins, which were characterized in respect to their assembly and channel activities. (i) The amino acid residue leucine 81 located at the external side of KcsA was found to be exchangeable by a cysteine residue without affecti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Splitt H,Meuser D,Borovok I,Betzler M,Schrempf H

更新日期：2000-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The thioredoxin-catalyzed insulin reduction by dihydrolipoate was applied to study the 2-oxoacid: lipoate oxidoreductase activity of 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase complexes. The enzymatic and non-enzymatic mechanisms of the transfer of reducing equivalents from the complexes to free lipoic acid (alpha-lipoic acid, 6,8-thioo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bunik V,Shoubnikova A,Loeffelhardt S,Bisswanger H,Borbe HO,Follmann H

更新日期：1995-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin E2 receptors (EPR), which belong to the family of heterotrimeric G protein-coupled ectoreceptors with seven transmembrane domains, can be classified into four subtypes according to their ligand binding and G protein coupling specificity. Of these, EP3betaR is coupled to Gi, whereas EP4R is coupled to Gs....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Neuschäfer-Rube F,Hänecke K,Püschel GP

更新日期：1997-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Single rat hepatocytes microinjected with aequorin show free Ca oscillations when stimulated with Ca(2+)-mobilizing hormones. We show here that an inhibitor of diacylglycerol kinase (R 59 022) and an analogue of native diacylglycerol (diC8) inhibit free Ca oscillations induced by phenylephrine and vasopressin. These r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sanchez-Bueno A,Cobbold PH

更新日期：1992-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretreatment of tissues with potassium channel openers (KCO's) has been observed to be cytoprotective in a broad variety of insults. This phenomenon has been proposed to be intimately linked to activation of mitochondrial potassium channels which apparently modulate the mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen spec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Malinska D,Mirandola SR,Kunz WS

更新日期：2010-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanosarcina barkeri inserts pyrrolysine (Pyl) at an in-frame UAG codon in its monomethylamine methyltransferase gene. Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase acylates Pyl onto tRNAPyl, the amber suppressor pyrrolysine Pyl tRNA. Here we show that M. barkeri Fusaro tRNAPyl can be misacylated with serine by the M. barkeri bacteria...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gundllapalli S,Ambrogelly A,Umehara T,Li D,Polycarpo C,Söll D

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Atg18 and Atg21 are homologous S. cerevisiae autophagy proteins. Atg18 is essential for biogenesis of Cvt vesicles and autophagosomes, while Atg21 is only essential for Cvt vesicle formation. We found that mutated Atg18-(FTTGT), which lost almost completely its binding to PtdIns3P and PtdIns(3,5)P(2), is non-functiona...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krick R,Tolstrup J,Appelles A,Henke S,Thumm M

更新日期：2006-08-21 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：:Hordeum vulgare L. yellow stripe 1 (HvYS1) is a selective transporter for Fe(III)-phytosiderophores, involved in primary iron acquisition from soils in barley roots. In contrast, Zea mays yellow stripe 1 (ZmYS1) in maize possesses broad substrate specificity, despite a high homology with HvYS1. Here we revealed, by as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harada E,Sugase K,Namba K,Iwashita T,Murata Y

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase D (PLD) has been associated with necrosis. However, it is not clear whether PLD plays a causative role in this cellular process. We investigated the role of PLD in oxidative stress-induced necrosis of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). Pervanadate (hydrogen peroxide plus orthovanadate) but not hydroge...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shin EY,Min DS,Shin JC,Shin KS,Hyun MS,Ha KS,Kim HS,Ahn HY,Kim EG

更新日期：2001-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase maintains the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes, and its activity is an important parameter correlating with the proliferative capacity of cells. We have investigated cell cycle-specific changes in telomerase activity using cultures of Desmodesmus quadricauda, a model alga naturally synchronized by light/dark ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ševčíková T,Bišová K,Fojtová M,Lukešová A,Hrčková K,Sýkorová E

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptic digestion of bovine hemoglobin yields a fragment with antibacterial activity. This peptide was purified to homogeneity by a two-step procedure including anion exchange chromatography and preparative reversed-phase HPLC. Mass determination and fragmentation indicated that this peptide corresponded to the 1-23 fr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Froidevaux R,Krier F,Nedjar-Arroume N,Vercaigne-Marko D,Kosciarz E,Ruckebusch C,Dhulster P,Guillochon D

更新日期：2001-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-bound 3-chloro-4-hydroxyphenylacetate (Cl-OHPA) reductive dehalogenase from the chlorophenol-reducing anaerobe Desulfitobacterium hafniense was purified 11.3-fold to apparent homogeneity in the presence of the detergent CHAPS. The purified dehalogenase catalyzed the reductive dechlorination of Cl-OHPA to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Christiansen N,Ahring BK,Wohlfarth G,Diekert G

更新日期：1998-10-02 00:00:00