Hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase determines the reaction direction of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 as an oxoreductase.

abstract：:Glycinebetaine (betaine), an osmoregulant in halophilic plants, stabilized the evolution of oxygen and the synthesis of ATP by thylakoid membranes from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 when it was present during the preparation and incubation of the thylakoid membranes. Moreover, betaine enhanced the evolution...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mamedov MD,Hayashi H,Wada H,Mohanty PS,Papageorgiou GC,Murata N

更新日期：1991-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear receptor CAR, a phenobarbital (PB)-responsive transcription factor, translocates into the nucleus of hepatocytes after PB induction. In non-induced mice, CAR forms a physical complex with heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) in the cytoplasm. In response to PB induction, protein phosphatase 2A is recruited to the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoshinari K,Kobayashi K,Moore R,Kawamoto T,Negishi M

更新日期：2003-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase can be protected against partial inactivation by N-ethylmaleimide by low concentrations of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate or high concentrations of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate. The partially inactivated enzyme has a much reduced sensitivity to high substrate inhibition and has lost the s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Meek DW,Nimmo HG

更新日期：1983-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Snake venoms are rich sources of serine proteinase inhibitors that are members of the Kunitz/BPTI (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor) family. However, only a few of their gene sequences have been determined from snakes. We therefore cloned the cDNAs for the trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitors from a Vipera ammodytes...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zupunski V,Kordis D,Gubensek F

更新日期：2003-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The maturation of Borna disease virus (BDV) glycoprotein GP was studied in regard to intracellular compartmentalization, compartmentalization signal-domains, proteolytic processing, and packaging into virus particles. Our data show that BDV-GP is (i) predominantly located in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), (ii) partia...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Eickmann M,Kiermayer S,Kraus I,Gössl M,Richt JA,Garten W

更新日期：2005-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic helminths remain major pathogens of both humans and animals throughout the world. The success of helminth infections depends on the capacity of the parasite to counteract host immune responses but also to exploit host-derived signal molecules for its development. Recent progress has been made in the characte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dissous C,Khayath N,Vicogne J,Capron M

更新日期：2006-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the inhibition by a phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotide (17PScap) of cDNA synthesis performed by either avian or murine reverse transcriptase. Three different mechanisms of inhibition were identified: at low concentrations (< 100 nM), the cleavage of the RNA template by the retroviral RNase H at the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boiziau C,Moreau S,Toulmé JJ

更新日期：1994-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between ground state cis-trans isomerization and protonation state is explored for a model green fluorescent protein chromophore, 4-hydroxybenzylidene-1,2-dimethylimidazolinone (HBDI). We find that the protonation state has only a modest effect on the free energy differences between cis and trans isom...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： He X,Bell AF,Tonge PJ

更新日期：2003-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm beta-acrosin activity is inhibited by suramin, a polysulfonated naphthylurea compound with therapeutic potential as a combined antifertility agent and microbicide. A kinetic analysis of enzyme inhibition suggests that three and four molecules of suramin bind to one molecule of ram and boar beta-acrosins respecti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hermans JM,Haines DS,James PS,Jones R

更新日期：2003-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin was found to stimulate the phosphorylation of histone H1 but not protamine sulfate catalyzed by Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C or PKC). The effect of heparin on histone H1 phosphorylation appeared to be due to an increase in phosphatidylserine affinity for PKC activation in the pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Goueli SA,Hanten JA,Ahmed K

更新日期：1991-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Human ECE-1 is expressed in four isoforms with different tissue distribution and its mRNA and protein levels are altered under certain pathophysiological conditions. To investigate the transcriptional regulation of ECE-1, we studied the regulatory region of ECE-1c, the major ECE-1 isoform. A genomic clone comprising t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Funke-Kaiser H,Bolbrinker J,Theis S,Lemmer J,Richter CM,Paul M,Orzechowski HD

更新日期：2000-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:By analyzing human embryonic kidney 293 cell transfectants stably overexpressing various types of phospholipase A2 (PLA2), we have shown that polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) preferentially activate type IIA secretory PLA2 (sPLA2-IIA)-mediated arachidonic acid (AA) release from interleukin-1 (IL-1)-stimulated cells...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kambe T,Murakami M,Kudo I

更新日期：1999-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloroplast inner envelope translocon subunit Tic110 is imported via a soluble stromal translocation intermediate. In this study an in-organellar import system is established which allows for an accumulation of this intermediate in order to analyze its requirements for reexport. All results demonstrate that the re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vojta L,Soll J,Bölter B

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The ACTH/MSH melanocortin core peptide sequence possesses neurotrophic properties in peripheral nerve. During functional neuroanatomical recovery after damage to peripheral nerves, Schwann cells play a significant role in facilitating regeneration. Here we employ a modified super-potent alpha-MSH analogue to solubilis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dyer JK,Ahmed AR,Oliver GW,Poulton CW,Haynes LW

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibronectin type II (FnII) domain, present in diverse vertebrate proteins, plays crucial roles in several fundamental biological processes. PDC-109, the major bovine seminal plasma protein, contains two FnII domains that bind to choline phospholipids on sperm plasma membrane and induce lipid efflux crucial for suc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Singh BP,Asthana A,Basu A,Tangirala R,Mohan Rao C,Swamy MJ

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic activities of orexin A (OXA) in mature adipocytes are mediated via PI3K/PKB and PPARγ. However, the effects of OXA on preadipocytes are largely unknown. We report here that OXA stimulates the proliferation and viability of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and protects them from apoptosis via ERK1/2, but not through PKB....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Skrzypski M,Kaczmarek P,Le TT,Wojciechowicz T,Pruszyńska-Oszmalek E,Szczepankiewicz D,Sassek M,Arafat A,Wiedenmann B,Nowak KW,Strowski MZ

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In our study, transcriptome microarrays are used to identify differentially expressed miRNAs and mRNAs in cervical cancer specimens. We find that microRNA-145 (miR-145) expression is significantly decreased in cervical cancer tissues and cell lines, and is associated with advanced cancer stages, large tumor size and m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ye C,Sun NX,Ma Y,Zhao Q,Zhang Q,Xu C,Wang SB,Sun SH,Wang F,Li W

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:P67, a new protein binding to a specific RNA probe, was purified from radish seedlings [Echeverria, M. and Lahmy, S. (1995) Nucleic Acids Res. 23, 4963-4970]. Amino acid sequence information obtained from P67 microsequencing allowed the isolation of genes encoding P67 in radish and Airabidopsis thaliana. Immunolocalis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lahmy S,Barnèche F,Derancourt J,Filipowicz W,Delseny M,Echeverria M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle plays key roles in metabolic homeostasis. Loss of muscle mass, called muscle atrophy exacerbates disease-associated metabolic perturbations. In this study, we characterized the molecular functions and mechanisms underlying regulation of skeletal muscle atrophy induced by denervation. Denervation signif...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kang J,Jeong MG,Oh S,Jang EJ,Kim HK,Hwang ES

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of green fluorescent protein (GFP) is sometimes important for a proper practical application of this protein. Random mutagenesis and targeted mutagenesis have been used to create better-folded variants of GFP, including recently reported extra-superfolder GFP. Our aim was to determine the crystal structure o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Choi JY,Jang TH,Park HH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of HeLa and HL60 cells to sodium arsenite or cadmium chloride led to marked increases in cellular heme oxygenase activity. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of [35S]methionine-labeled cellular proteins indicated that these treatments also resulted in the induction of a 32-kDa protein. Immunoblot analysis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taketani S,Kohno H,Yoshinaga T,Tokunaga R

更新日期：1989-03-13 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：:TP53 belongs to a small gene family that includes, in mammals, two additional paralogs, TP63 and TP73. The p63 and p73 proteins are structurally and functionally similar to p53 and their activity as transcription factors is regulated by a wide repertoire of shared and unique post-translational modifications and intera...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Costanzo A,Pediconi N,Narcisi A,Guerrieri F,Belloni L,Fausti F,Botti E,Levrero M

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of the weight of desmosterol produced during its biosynthesis in the presence of tritiated water and triparanol has permitted a direct determination of the relative flux of carbon and tritium (the H/C ratio) into sterol in hepatocytes. The H/C ratio increased with time of incubation irrespective of the nut...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Björnsson OG,Pullinger CR,Gibbons GF

更新日期：1985-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor 11 (FGF11) is an intracellular FGF. Although induction of FGF11 by hypoxia has been observed in several cell types, the molecular function of FGF11 is not clearly understood yet. Here, we investigated the role of FGF11 under hypoxia. We identified hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) as an int...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee KW,Yim HS,Shin J,Lee C,Lee JH,Jeong JY

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The (beta alpha)(8)-barrel is the most frequent and most versatile fold among enzymes [Höcker et al., Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 12 (2001) 376-381; Wierenga, FEBS Lett. 492 (2001) 193-198]. Structural and functional evidence suggests that (beta alpha)(8)-barrels evolved from an ancestral half-barrel, which consisted of f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Höcker B,Schmidt S,Sterner R

更新日期：2002-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The MET receptor tyrosine kinase is deregulated primarily via overexpression or point mutations in various human cancers and different strategies for MET inhibition are currently evaluated in clinical trials. We observed by Western blot analysis and by Flow cytometry that MET inhibition by different MET small molecule...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leiser D,Pochon B,Blank-Liss W,Francica P,Glück AA,Aebersold DM,Zimmer Y,Medová M

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell leukemia and bovine leukemia viruses have a potential transforming gene, termed X. In addition to the major open reading frame known to encode a functional protein, the X gene harbors another short open reading frame which overlaps this major one. Both of these open reading frames are found on a single sp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sagata N,Yasunaga T,Ikawa Y

更新日期：1985-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Okadaic acid is an inhibitor of the protein Ser/Thr phosphatases PP1 and PP2A, which blocks the activation of extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase 5 (ERK5), a member of the MAP kinase family activated by growth factors and several types of stressors. The blocking of ERK5 activation by okadaic acid was observe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garcia L,Garcia F,Llorens F,Unzeta M,Itarte E,Gómez N

更新日期：2002-07-17 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