The TRAF6 RING finger domain mediates physical interaction with Ubc13.

abstract：:The thermal stability of PQQ glucose dehydrogenases (PQQGDHs) which were chimeras with more than 95% made up of the N-terminal region of Escherichia coli PQQGDH and the rest made up of the C-terminal region of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus PQQGDH was investigated. Among the chimeric PQQGDHs, E97A3 (E. coli 97% and A. ca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sode K,Watanabe K,Ito S,Matsumura K,Kikuchi T

更新日期：1995-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin (ET-1) has been shown to exert vasoconstrictor activity in vivo and mobilize Ca2+ in vascular smooth muscle cells in culture. In this paper we show that the human skin fibroblast exhibits specific receptors to ET-1 and that activation of these receptors results in increased intracellular Ca2+ (Ca2+i) and ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gardner JP,Maher E,Aviv A

更新日期：1989-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Bfl-1 is an anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family member. Here, we found that Bfl-1 was converted into a potent death-promoting protein by green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion with its N-terminus. The transient expression of GFP-Bfl-1 induced cytochrome c release and triggered apoptosis in 293T cells, which depended on ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ko JK,Choi KH,Kim HJ,Choi HY,Yeo DJ,Park SO,Yang WS,Kim YN,Kim CW

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The human mutT homolog, hMTH1, suppresses spontaneous mutations by degrading the endogeneous mutagen, 8-hydroxy-dGTP. We previously reported the broad substrate specificity of hMTH1, which also degrades the oxidatively damaged purine nucleotides, 2-hydroxy-dATP, 8-hydroxy-dATP, 2-hydroxy-ATP, and 8-hydroxy-GTP, in add...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fujikawa K,Yakushiji H,Nakabeppu Y,Suzuki T,Masuda M,Ohshima H,Kasai H

更新日期：2002-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factors EF-G and EF-Tu are structural homologues and share near-identical binding sites on the ribosome, which encompass the GTPase-associated centre (GAC) and the sarcin-ricin loop (SRL). The SRL is fixed structure in the ribosome and contacts elongation factors in the vicinity of their GTP-binding site. I...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sergiev PV,Bogdanov AA,Dontsova OA

更新日期：2005-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sufficient highly purified native pea cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase was obtained to characterize some of its kinetic and spectral properties. Its rate constant for compound I formation from reaction with H2O2 is 4.O x 10(7) M-1 s-1, somewhat faster than is typical for peroxidases. Compound I has the typical optical s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marquez LA,Quitoriano M,Zilinskas BA,Dunford HB

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsomal membranes from the slow-growing Morris hepatoma 9618A catalyze, in the presence of t-butyl hydroperoxide, lower rates of lipid peroxidation than rat liver microsomes. The cytochrome P-450 content of hepatoma microsomes is about 40% that of the liver. SKF 525-A, an inhibitor of mixed-function oxidase, produc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borrello S,Galeotti T,Palombini G,Minotti G

更新日期：1986-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of phosphatidylinositol(4,5)-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P(2)) to profilin at a region distinct from the actin interaction surface is demonstrated by experiments with covalently cross-linked profilin:beta-actin. The result is in agreement with observations made with several mutant profilins and provides strong ev...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Skare P,Karlsson R

更新日期：2002-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In the phylogeny of plant polyamine oxidases (PAOs), clade III members from angiosperms, such as Arabidopsis thaliana PAO5 and Oryza sativa PAO1, prefer spermine and thermospermine as substrates and back-convert both of these substrates to spermidine in vitro. A clade III representative of lycophytes, SelPAO5 from Sel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sagor GH,Inoue M,Kim DW,Kojima S,Niitsu M,Berberich T,Kusano T

更新日期：2015-10-07 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：:We have examined the activity of protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) and glutaredoxin (Grx) 1, 2 and 3 from Escherichia coli to catalyze the cleavage of glutathionylated ribonuclease A (RNase-SG) by 1 mM GSH to yield reduced RNase. Apparent Km values for RNase-SG were similar, 2-10 microM, for Grx 1, 3 and PDI but Grx I...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lundström-Ljung J,Vlamis-Gardikas A,Aslund F,Holmgren A

更新日期：1999-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study discusses the efficacy of Aloe emodin-8-O-glycoside (AEG), a plant derived anthroquinone, on alleviating insulin resistance and augmenting glycogen synthesis in L6 myotubes and 3T3L1 adipocytes. Dose-dependent increase in glucose uptake activity (GUA) was observed in both cell lines. Immunoblot analy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Anand S,Muthusamy VS,Sujatha S,Sangeetha KN,Bharathi Raja R,Sudhagar S,Poornima Devi N,Lakshmi BS

更新日期：2010-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:OmpC, a surface antigen of Salmonella typhi was crystallized after several attempts, using PEG 3350. Well shaped hexagonal crystals were grown from vapor diffusion method using octyl glucoside and C12E9 as detergents. Crystals are sensitive to X-ray and diffract weakly up to 7 A. Porin isoforms, due to the bound lipop...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arockiasamy A,Krishnaswamy S

更新日期：1999-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The β-xylosidase B from Bifidobacterium adolescentis ATCC15703 belongs to the newly characterized family 120 of glycoside hydrolases. In order to investigate its catalytic mechanism, an extensive kinetic study of the wild-type enzyme and mutants targeting the three highly conserved residues Asp(393), Glu(416) and Glu(...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cecchini DA,Fauré R,Laville E,Potocki-Veronese G

更新日期：2015-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Arabidopsis thaliana L. produces flavonoid pigments, i.e. flavonols, anthocyanidins and proanthocyanidins, from dihydroflavonol substrates. A small family of putative flavonol synthase (FLS) genes had been recognized in Arabidopsis, and functional activity was attributed only to FLS1. Nevertheless, other FLS activitie...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Preuss A,Stracke R,Weisshaar B,Hillebrecht A,Matern U,Martens S

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Seryl-tRNA synthetases (SerRSs) fall into two distinct evolutionary groups of enzymes, bacterial and methanogenic. These two types of SerRSs display only minimal sequence similarity, primarily within the class II conserved motifs, and possess distinct modes of tRNA(Ser) recognition. In order to determine whether the t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ahel D,Slade D,Mocibob M,Söll D,Weygand-Durasevic I

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic islet amyloid is a characteristic feature of type 2 diabetes. The major protein component of islet amyloid is the polypeptide hormone known as islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP, or amylin). IAPP is stored with insulin in the β-cell secretory granules and is released in response to the stimuli that lead to ins...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cao P,Marek P,Noor H,Patsalo V,Tu LH,Wang H,Abedini A,Raleigh DP

更新日期：2013-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of neonatal rat islets of Langerhans with combined cytokines (interleukin-1beta 10(-10) M, tumour necrosis factor-alpha 10(-10) M, interferon-gamma 5 U/ml) led to extensive cell death, which was potentiated by Fas activation with the anti-Fas cytolytic antibody JO2. Pre-treatment with insulin (25 ng/ml) or i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harrison M,Dunger AM,Berg S,Mabley J,John N,Green MH,Green IC

更新日期：1998-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:vp165 (or gp160) is an aminopeptidase that has been identified as one of the major proteins of the GLUT4-containing vesicles. In the present study we have determined the degree of co-localization between vp165 and GLUT4 in rat adipose cells and used perturbation by wortmannin to assess the exocytic and endocytic steps...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Malide D,St-Denis JF,Keller SR,Cushman SW

更新日期：1997-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation in solution of the biantennary complex type oligosaccharide unit derived from human serotransferrin has been investigated using 1H-1H Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) measurements at 300 MHz. From quantitation of the NOE, the alpha(1-3) antenna is shown to exist in a preferred solution conformation wit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Homans SW,Dwek RA,Fernandes DL,Rademacher TW

更新日期：1982-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Prefibrillar cytotoxicity was suggested as a common amyloid characteristic. We showed two types of albebetin prefibrillar oligomers are formed during incubation at pH 7.3. Initial round-shaped oligomers consist of 10-15 molecules determined by atomic force microscopy, do not bind thioflavin-T and do not affect viabili...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zamotin V,Gharibyan A,Gibanova NV,Lavrikova MA,Dolgikh DA,Kirpichnikov MP,Kostanyan IA,Morozova-Roche LA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spike (S) protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is an important viral structural protein. Based on bioinformatics analysis, 10 antigenic peptides derived from the S protein sequence were selected and synthesized. The antigenicity and immunoreactivity of all the peptides were tested in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lu W,Wu XD,Shi MD,Yang RF,He YY,Bian C,Shi TL,Yang S,Zhu XL,Jiang WH,Li YX,Yan LC,Ji YY,Lin Y,Lin GM,Tian L,Wang J,Wang HX,Xie YH,Pei G,Wu JR,Sun B

更新日期：2005-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The tomato saponin alpha-tomatine has been proposed to kill sensitive cells by binding to cell membranes followed by leakage of cell components. However, details of the modes of action of the compound on fungal cells are poorly understood. In the present study, mechanisms involved in alpha-tomatine-induced cell death ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ito S,Ihara T,Tamura H,Tanaka S,Ikeda T,Kajihara H,Dissanayake C,Abdel-Motaal FF,El-Sayed MA

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor VII contains ten gamma-carboxyglutamic acid residues in the N-terminal region (Gla-domain) which are essential for the hemostatic function of FVII. The present study shows that granulocyte cathepsin G degrades the Gla-domain of FVIIa in vitro. Characterization of the truncated FVIIa by SDS-PAGE and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nicolaisen EM,Petersen LC,Thim L,Jacobsen JK,Christensen M,Hedner U

更新日期：1992-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:S100, a subfamily of the EF-hand type calcium sensing proteins, is implicated in many cellular functions including muscle contractility. Two isoforms, S100A1 and S100B, at 2-10 microM significantly inhibit active tension, stiffness and ATPase of skinned single rabbit psoas muscle fibers at sub-maximal (pCa approximate...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adhikari BB,Wang K

更新日期：2001-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithrombin III Hamilton is a structural variant of antithrombin III (AT-III) with normal heparin affinity but impaired serine protease inhibitory activity. The molecular defect of AT-III-Hamilton is a substitution of threonine for alanine at amino acid residue 382. Recently it has been shown that both plasma-derived...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Austin RC,Rachubinski RA,Blajchman MA

更新日期：1991-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of cDNA clones in summary encoding 700 amino acid residues from the N-end of rat liver elongation factor 2 (EF-2) and including 49 nucleotides of the 5'-untranslated mRNA region have been obtained. EF-2 cDNA clones were isolated from gradually constructed small (1000-5000 clones) specific cDNA libraries using...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oleinikov AV,Jokhadze GG,Alakhov YuB

更新日期：1989-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel gene encoding a new H3 histone varian (H3L) has been identified in P. lividus sea urchin embryo. It encodes a H3 histone protein showing the S.//.A.IG amino acid motif typical of the replication independent H3.3 variants but in a mRNA showing the 3' terminal stem-loop nucleotide sequence that is typical of the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fucci L,Forte A,Mancini P,Affaitati A,Branno M,Aniello F,Geraci G

更新日期：1997-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is highly expressed in liver and intestine where it controls bile acid (BA), lipid and glucose homeostasis. Here we show that FXR is expressed and functional, as assessed by target gene expression analysis, in human islets and beta-cell lines. FXR is predominantly cytosolic-localized in the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Popescu IR,Helleboid-Chapman A,Lucas A,Vandewalle B,Dumont J,Bouchaert E,Derudas B,Kerr-Conte J,Caron S,Pattou F,Staels B

更新日期：2010-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuritic plaques are the key pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease, and amyloid beta (Abeta) peptides are major component of these plaques. In this study, we demonstrated the influence of aluminum (Al) on the Abeta peptide degradation by cathepsin D. Al did not directly affect the cathepsin D activity using smal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakamoto T,Saito H,Ishii K,Takahashi H,Tanabe S,Ogasawara Y

更新日期：2006-12-11 00:00:00