Voltage sensor mutations differentially target misfolded K+ channel subunits to proteasomal and non-proteasomal disposal pathways.

abstract：:The primary structure of a new sarafotoxin, SRTX-d, from the venom of Atractaspis engaddensis is described. SRTX-d differs from SRTX-b in two substitutions: Ile19 instead of Val and Thr2 instead of Ser. The toxicity of SRTX-d and its vasoconstriction potency are very low in comparison to SRTX-a and SRTX-b, whereas its...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bdolah A,Wollberg Z,Fleminger G,Kochva E

更新日期：1989-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The largest mammalian enzyme family is the kinases. Kinases and other nucleotide-binding proteins are key regulators of signal transduction pathways and the mutation or overexpression of these proteins is often the difference between health and disease. As a result, a massive research effort has focused on understandi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rosenblum JS,Nomanbhoy TK,Kozarich JW

更新日期：2013-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of opsin of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii has been deduced from the cDNA sequence. The opsin is composed of 376 amino acid residues including all the conservative residues characteristic of other members of the rhodopsin family. Comparison of sequences of all known opsins reveals that the majo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hariyama T,Ozaki K,Tokunaga F,Tsukahara Y

更新日期：1993-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis represents a fundamental process during fetal/post-natal testis development. Therefore pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins are essential to regulate testis physiology. c-Flip(L) is a known inhibitor of caspase 8/10 activity; in this study its perinatal expression in mouse male germ cells was investigated. In te...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giampietri C,Petrungaro S,Coluccia P,Antonangeli F,Paone A,Padula F,De Cesaris P,Ziparo E,Filippini A

更新日期：2006-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Low density lipoproteins are highly sensitive to oxidation by copper salts, and such peroxidation is accompanied by macrophage scavenger receptor recognition. This study shows that fresh human atherosclerotic material (aneurysms and endarterectomies) can contain detectable amounts of redox active iron and copper that ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swain J,Gutteridge JM

更新日期：1995-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:F-box proteins play pivotal roles in multiple cellular processes; however, little is known about their functions in glioma progression. In this study, we found that expression of the F-box and leucine-rich repeat protein 18 (FBXL18) is significantly upregulated in glioma tissues. Depletion of FBXL18 in glioma cells su...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang J,Yang Z,Ou J,Xia X,Zhi F,Cui J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several catalytic properties of the hydrogenase from Scenedesmus obliquus have been examined to optimize the purification conditions. The Km-value for H2-evolution in the presence of the most effective electron mediator methylviologen is 0.66 mM. The pH-optimum is 6.3, the temperature-optimum is 50 degrees C and the e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schnackenberg J,Schulz R,Senger H

更新日期：1993-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:(7-methoxycoumarin-4-yl)Acetyl-Pro-Leu-Gly-Leu-(3-[2,4-dinitrophenyl]-L- 2,3-diaminopropionyl)-Ala-Arg-NH2 (Mca-Pro-Leu-Gly-Leu-Dpa-Ala-Arg-NH2) has been synthesised as a fluorogenic substrate for the matrix metalloproteinases. The highly fluorescent 7-methoxycoumarin group is efficiently quenched by energy transfer t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Knight CG,Willenbrock F,Murphy G

更新日期：1992-01-27 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：:Prodigiosin 25-C inhibited the accumulation of 3-(2,4-dinitroanilino)-3'-amino-N-methyldipropylamine and acridine orange in the acidic compartments of baby hamster kidney cells with little perturbation of cellular ATP levels. In rat liver lysosomes, prodigiosin 25-C inhibited the proton pump activity with an IC50 of a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kataoka T,Muroi M,Ohkuma S,Waritani T,Magae J,Takatsuki A,Kondo S,Yamasaki M,Nagai K

更新日期：1995-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Antifungal activity has been associated with 2 immunochemically distinct proteins, protein R and S (Mr approximately 23 kDa; pI 9-10), which were isolated in pure form from barley grain. The proteins are homologous with thaumatin- and pathogenesis-related proteins of the PR5 family. The proteins inhibit growth of i.a....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hejgaard J,Jacobsen S,Svendsen I

更新日期：1991-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in phosphoproteins purified with the affinity peptide p9CKShs1 were analyzed from extracts of regenerating rat livers in order to define some G1 and G1/S regulations characteristic of mature hepatocytes stimulated to proliferate. We observed a 47 kDa phosphoprotein that occurred first at the end of G1 befo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bilodeau M,Talarmin H,Ilyin G,Rescan C,Glaise D,Cariou S,Loyer P,Guguen-Guillouzo C,Baffet G

更新日期：1999-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase C activator, phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), augments the cyclic AMP accumulation induced by forskolin in pheochromocytoma (PC 12) cells with an EC50 value of 14 nM, while having no effect on basal values. At a concentration of 100 nM PMA markedly augmented the magnitude of the forskolin resp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hollingsworth EB,Ukena D,Daly JW

更新日期：1986-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine erythropoietin-responsive Rauscher Red 5-1.5 cells were used to determine the contribution of glycosylation to the size and function of the erythropoietin receptor. The half life of the receptors was determined to be 4 h. The number of receptors was not significantly decreased in cells treated for 48 h with inh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mayeux P,Casadevall N,Muller O,Lacombe C

更新日期：1990-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:By using monoiodinated radioligands of both intact neuropeptide Y (NPY) and of a long C-terminal fragment, NPY13-36, two subtypes of binding sites, which differ in affinity and specificity, have been characterized. The Y1 type of binding site, characterized on a human neuroblastoma cell line, MC-IXC, and a rat pheochr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sheikh SP,Håkanson R,Schwartz TW

更新日期：1989-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to a synthetic peptide from the 'amphipathic helix' of the alpha-chain of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) bound both to detergent-solubilised and membrane-bound nAChR, indicating that this region, suggested as a component of the transmembrane ion channel in one model, is not buried in the membr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roth B,Schwendimann B,Hughes GJ,Tzartos SJ,Barkas T

更新日期：1987-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:AQP3 is a water/glycerol transporter expressed at the basolateral membrane of colonic epithelial cells. Although AQPs are expressed in the gastrointestinal tract, their effect on intestinal barrier has not been clear. Here, we showed that knockdown of AQP3 caused a dramatic, dose-dependent increase in E. coli C25 tran...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang W,Xu Y,Chen Z,Xu Z,Xu H

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological systems, from macromolecules to whole organisms, are robust if they continue to function, survive, or reproduce when faced with mutations, environmental change, and internal noise. I focus here on biological systems that are robust to mutations and ask whether such systems are more or less evolvable, in the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wagner A

更新日期：2005-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Molybdenum is an essential micronutrient required by plants. The mechanism of molybdenum uptake in plants is poorly understood, however, evidence has suggested that sulfate transporters may be involved. The sulfate transporter from Stylosanthes hamata, SHST1, restored growth of the sulfate transport yeast mutant, YSD1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fitzpatrick KL,Tyerman SD,Kaiser BN

更新日期：2008-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have raised monoclonal antibodies (Mab) to the Mr 55,000 desmin polypeptide, electrophoretically purified from cytoskeletal preparations of isolated bovine heart Purkinje fibers. One of the Mabs, 39AB6, revealed desmin only in cow Purkinje fibers and did not react with desmins from other muscle cells, including ven...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Virtanen I,Närvänen O,Thornell LE

更新日期：1990-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Both acute myeloid leukemia 1 and c-Fos are regulatory factors of hematopoietic cell differentiation. We identified that the c-fos promoter contains an acute myeloid leukemia 1 binding site at nucleotide positions -6-+14. c-fos promoter activity was induced by transient overexpression of acute myeloid leukemia 1 in Ju...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hwang ES,Hong JH,Bae SC,Ito Y,Lee SK

更新日期：1999-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloalkane dehalogenase hydrolyses various 1-halo-n-alkanes to the corresponding alcohols by covalent catalysis with formation of an alkyl-enzyme intermediate. The carboxylate function of the nucleophilic aspartate (Asp-124) that displaces the halogen during formation of the intermediate was changed to an amide by sit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pries F,Kingma J,Janssen DB

更新日期：1995-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II restriction endonucleases (REases) exist in multiple oligomeric forms. The tetrameric REases have two DNA binding interfaces and must synapse two recognition sites to achieve cleavage. It was hypothesised that binding of two recognition sites by tetrameric enzymes contributes to their fidelity. Here, we experi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zaremba M,Sasnauskas G,Siksnys V

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature on the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) uptake and on the presteady-state and transport-associated currents of the GABA cotransporter, rat gamma-aminobutyric acid transporter 1 (rGAT1), have been studied using heterologous oocyte expression and voltage-clamp. Increasing temperature from 15 to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Binda F,Bossi E,Giovannardi S,Forlani G,Peres A

更新日期：2002-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of synthetic cationic lipids on the structure of DNA was studied. The fluorescence enhancement of ethidium bromide on intercalation into DNA was suppressed by the addition of bilayer-forming lipids, but not by micellar ones. Results on the fluorescence depolarization index suggest that ethidium bromide is n...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akao T,Fukumoto T,Ihara H,Ito A

更新日期：1996-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In Graves' disease (GD) the presence of antibodies to the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor leads to stimulation of the thyroid gland. The thyroid stimulating activity of Graves' IgG is normally ascertained by bioassays measuring cAMP production. We have investigated the effect of Graves' IgG on the quantitat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kung AW,Collison K,Banga JP,McGregor AM

更新日期：1988-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that the rat beta 3-adrenergic receptor (beta 3-AR) gene has an intron. The intron starts with an in-frame stop codon with the result that unspliced transcripts will encode a C-terminal truncated protein. The reported protein sequences of mouse and human beta 3-AR were both deduced from genomic DNA sequences...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bensaid M,Kaghad M,Rodriguez M,Le Fur G,Caput D

更新日期：1993-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The band 3 protein-mediated, valinomycin-induced KCl efflux continues to increase with increasing [KCl] when the Cl-/Cl- equilibrium exchange becomes saturated. This suggests the existence of a band 3-mediated component of Cl- flux that contributes to the electrical conductance without being related to slippage; i.e.,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kaplan JH,Pring M,Passow H

更新日期：1983-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA complementary to mRNA extracted from the thyroid glands of patients suffering from medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MCT), a calcitonin-producing tumour, was inserted in the Pst site of pBR 322 by G-C tailing. The recombinant plasmids were used to transform Escherichia coli DP 50. Ampicillin-resistant clones wer...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Le Moullec JM,Jullienne A,Chenais J,Lasmoles F,Guliana JM,Milhaud G,Moukhtar MS

更新日期：1984-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastidic type I signal peptidase 1 (Plsp1) is necessary for proper chloroplast development although its mode of action is not completely understood. Here, we demonstrate by immunoblotting and electron microscopy immunolocalization that Plsp1 is evenly distributed in the envelope and thylakoids of developing chloropla...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shipman RL,Inoue K

更新日期：2009-03-04 00:00:00