Reversal of oxidative phosphorylation in submitochondrial particles using glucose 6-phosphate and hexokinase as an ATP regenerating system.

abstract：:The 14 kDa protein was purified from human platelets. It displays high cytotoxic activity to the human ACL cells at 10 M concentration (21.8+/-7.1%). Its N-terminal sequence is YAPQXQFGP-, being highly homologous to region 241-249 residues of the human Cls complement component. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Golubeva TS,Paromov VM,Tuguz AR,Chertov OY,Kiselevsky MV

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs mainly inhibit coding genes and long non-coding RNA expression. Here, we report that hsa-miR-125b and oncogene SIRT7/oncogenic long non-coding RNA MALAT1 were inversely expressed in bladder cancer. Hsa-miR-125b mimic down-regulated, whereas hsa-miR-125b inhibitor up-regulated the expression of SIRT7 and MALA...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Han Y,Liu Y,Zhang H,Wang T,Diao R,Jiang Z,Gui Y,Cai Z

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen storage diseases type 1 (GSD 1) are a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by impairment of terminal steps of glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis. Mutations of the glucose-6-phosphatase gene are responsible for the most frequent form of GSD 1, the subtype 1a, while mutations of the glucose-6-ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Galli L,Orrico A,Marcolongo P,Fulceri R,Burchell A,Melis D,Parini R,Gatti R,Lam C,Benedetti A,Sorrentino V

更新日期：1999-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged incubation of membrane fragments containing homogeneous (Na+ + K+)-ATPase with Mg2+, K+ and VO-3 at 4 degrees C resulted in formation of two-dimensional crystals of this enzyme with unit cell parameters: a = 66 A, b = 118 A, gamma = 108 degrees. The crystals correspond to the two-sided plane group p21. By co...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ovchinnikov YuA,Demin VV,Barnakov AN,Kuzin AP,Lunev AV,Modyanov NN,Dzhandzhugazyan KN

更新日期：1985-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells to 5-azacytidine for 5 h resulted in a partial loss of ability of DNA to stimulate ADP-ribosyltransferase activity, as assessed in a reconstituted in vitro enzyme system consisting of purified calf thymus enzyme, calf thymus whole histone and DNA isolated from the cells. The deg...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoshino J,Nothacker HP,Schalge S,Kröger H

更新日期：1990-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:WW domains harbor substrates containing proline-rich motifs, but the substrate specificity and binding mechanism remain elusive for those WW domains less amenable for structural studies, such as human WWP2 (hWWP2). Herein we have employed multiple techniques to investigate the second WW domain (WW2) in hWWP2. Our resu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jiang J,Wang N,Jiang Y,Tan H,Zheng J,Chen G,Jia Z

更新日期：2015-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that CCK-8 may interact with opioids and that both systems are probably implicated in pain modulation. In order to elucidate this relationship we sought to examine factors governing the movement of CCK-8 from the spinal cord into the extracellular space. We report that CCK-8 like immunoreactivity, as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodríguez RE,Sacristán MP

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid residues 3-15 of mycobacterial HSP60 define a dominant T-cell epitope for HLA-DR3+ve humans and Mamu-DR3+ve rhesus monkeys. Our results show that Mamu-DR3 molecules on PBMC can be efficiently loaded in vivo with the above-mentioned peptides when they are intravenously injected encapsulated in liposomes, but...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： t Hart BA,Elferink DG,Drijfhout JW,Storm G,van Blooijs L,Bontrop RE,de Vries RR

更新日期：1997-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolded or unassembled secretory proteins are retained in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and subsequently degraded by the cytosolic ubiquitin-proteasome system. This requires their retrograde transport from the ER lumen into the cytosol, which is mediated by the Sec61 translocon. It had remained a mystery whether ER...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Plemper RK,Deak PM,Otto RT,Wolf DH

更新日期：1999-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the outcome of the interaction between TNF-related apoptosis-inducing factor (TRAIL) and tumor cells, we studied TRAIL-resistant melanoma cells resulting from prolonged exposure to TRAIL and found that they had higher proliferative activity than the parental cells both in vitro and in vivo. This w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wu JJ,Zhang XD,Gillespie S,Hersey P

更新日期：2005-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins containing the caspase recruiting domain (CARD) have emerged as critical regulators of different signal transduction pathways, including those controlling apoptosis and activation of necrosis factor (NF)-kappaB transcription factor. TUCAN/CARDINAL is a recently identified CARD-containing protein involved in r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stilo R,Leonardi A,Formisano L,Di Jeso B,Vito P,Liguoro D

更新日期：2002-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich ataxia is a recessively inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by deficiency of a highly conserved mitochondrial protein, frataxin. Frataxin deficiency results in mitochondrial iron accumulation and oxidative stress. Frataxin shows homology with the CyaY proteins of gamma-purple bacteria, whose function...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li DS,Ohshima K,Jiralerspong S,Bojanowski MW,Pandolfo M

更新日期：1999-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously obtained evidence for intrinsic aminopeptidase activity for leukotriene (LT)A4 hydrolase, an enzyme characterized to specifically catalyse the hydrolysis of LTA4 to LTB4, a chemotactic compound. From a sequence homology search between LTA4 hydrolase and several aminopeptidases, it became clear that they ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Minami M,Bito H,Ohishi N,Tsuge H,Miyano M,Mori M,Wada H,Mutoh H,Shimada S,Izumi T

更新日期：1992-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The type 1 ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) saporin 5 isolated from seeds of Saponaria officinalis L. strongly inhibited translation carried out by Vicia sativa L. purified ribosomes. The toxin multidepurinated V. sativa rRNA, which upon treatment with acid aniline releases several RNA fragments including an RNA fr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iglesias R,Arias FJ,Rojo MA,Escarmis C,Ferreras JM,Girbés T

更新日期：1993-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The labile iron pool of cells (LIP) constitutes the primary source of metabolic and catalytically reactive iron in the cytosol. We studied LIP homeostasis in K562 cells using the fluorescent metal-sensitive probe calcein. Following brief exposure to iron(II) salts or to oxidative or reductive stress, LIP rose by up to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Breuer W,Epsztejn S,Cabantchik ZI

更新日期：1996-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated enzymatic deglycosylation of glucoamylase from Aspergillus awamori X 100/D27, a glycoprotein which has two N-linked and about forty short mannose-bearing O-linked sugars per molecule. O-Linked sugars were modified by treatment with alpha-mannosidase and N-linked sugars were removed using...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Neustroev KN,Golubev AM,Firsov LM,Ibatullin FM,Protasevich II,Makarov AA

更新日期：1993-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain and epilepsy together affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. While traditional pharmacotherapy provides essential relief to the majority of patients, a large proportion remains resistant, and surgical intervention is only possible for a select few. As both disorders are characterised by neuronal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Snowball A,Schorge S

更新日期：2015-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone cytokinin plays a major role in regulating plant growth and development. Here we generated cytokinin-reduction Arabidopsis plants by overexpressing a heterologous cytokinin oxidase gene DSCKX1 from Dendrobium orchid. These transgenic plants exhibited reduced biomass, rapid root growth, decreased abil...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yang S,Yu H,Xu Y,Goh CJ

更新日期：2003-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A serum-free medium conditioned by U937, a human cell line of monocyte/macrophage origin, was found capable of inducing apoptosis on exponentially growing U937 cells themselves (autocrine suicide). The apoptosis-inducing agent is a macromolecule and possibly a protein (SKT factor), with a relative molecular mass in th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ghibelli L,Coppola S,Nosseri C,Bergamini A,Beninati S

更新日期：1994-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory complexes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes contain multiple co-factors, which are coordinated in defined positions so that they can function as electron wires. Intriguingly, co-factors are usually buried deep within hetero-oligomeric protein complexes and it is not clear when or how they are incorporated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Palombo I,Daley DO

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a member of the TNF family of cytokines that promotes apoptosis and NF-kappaB activation. Here we show that recombinant hu-TRAIL initiates the activation of multiple caspases, the loss of mitochondrial transmembrane potential, the cleavage of BI...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Keogh SA,Walczak H,Bouchier-Hayes L,Martin SJ

更新日期：2000-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Anandamide loses its cannabimimetic activities upon hydrolysis to arachidonic acid and ethanolamine. So far the anandamide hydrolyzing activity widely distributed in mammalian organs has been attributed exclusively to an enzyme referred to as anandamide amidohydrolase with an optimum pH around 9. We found another enzy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ueda N,Yamanaka K,Terasawa Y,Yamamoto S

更新日期：1999-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenylalanine-specific tRNA from yeast was hydrolysed with cobra venom ribonuclease in the double-stranded regions and the fragments isolated. The 'dissected' molecules with nicks in positions 28 and 41 were reconstructed from supplementary fragments and treated with T-4 RNA ligase. A phosphodiester bond between two f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boutorin AS,Vassilenko SK,Baklanov MM,Nechaev YS

更新日期：1984-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine-rich phosphorylated cystatin alpha (P-cystatin alpha) from newborn rat epidermis is a good substrate for epidermal transglutaminase (TGase) and also one of the component proteins of cornified envelope in the stratum corneum. Since the filaggrin linker segment peptide was efficiently conjugated with P-cystatin a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takahashi M,Tezuka T,Kakegawa H,Katunuma N

更新日期：1994-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of acrolein, an alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehyde that causes adduct-modification of lysine, cysteine, and histidine residues, on antithrombin, a key anticoagulant serpin. Intrinsic fluorescence, functionality (anti-FXa and anti-IIa activity), heparin affinity and conformational features of plasma ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Martínez-Martínez I,Ordóñez A,Guerrero JA,Pedersen S,Miñano A,Teruel R,Velázquez L,Kristensen SR,Vicente V,Corral J

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrated that unmodified and modified (phosphorothioate) oligonucleotides prevent cDNA synthesis by AMV or HIV reverse transcriptases. Antisense oligonucleotide/RNA hybrids specifically arrest primer extension. The blockage involves the degradation of the RNA fragment bound to the antisense oligonucleotide by t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hatta T,Kim SG,Nakashima H,Yamamoto N,Sakamoto K,Yokoyama S,Takaku H

更新日期：1993-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II (EMAP II) is a proinflammatory cytokine and a chemoattractant for leukocytes. The mature cytokine is formed in apoptotic cells by cleavage of the precursor proEMAP II. Here we show that caspase-7 is capable of cleaving proEMAP II in vitro. A proEMAP II mutant, in which th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Behrensdorf HA,van de Craen M,Knies UE,Vandenabeele P,Clauss M

更新日期：2000-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoglycaemia is a major complication of severe malaria [(1990) Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. 84 (suppl. 2) 1-65], especially cerebral malaria, in which it is associated with increased mortality [(1990) Lancet 336, 1039-1043; (1989) Quart. J. Med. (New series) 71, 441-459]; however, the mechanisms responsible have not b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taylor K,Carr R,Playfair JH,Saggerson ED

更新日期：1992-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that chemokine-like factor superfamily 8 (CKLFSF8), a member of the CKLF superfamily, has four putative transmembrane regions and a MARVEL domain. Its structure is similar to TM4SF11 (plasmolipin) and widely distributed in normal tissue. However, its function is not yet known. We show here that CKLFSF8 is ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jin C,Ding P,Wang Y,Ma D

更新日期：2005-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological amyloid aggregation occurs within the nuclei of stress-treated cells. These structures, termed Amyloid bodies (A-bodies), assemble through the rapid accumulation of proteins into dense membrane-less organelles, which possess the same biophysical properties as plaques observed in many amyloid-based diseas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marijan D,Tse R,Elliott K,Chandhok S,Luo M,Lacroix E,Audas TE

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00