p21ras contributes to HIV-1 activation in T-cells.

abstract：:We have isolated a 1785-bp complementary DNA (cDNA) encoding the murine P2X7 receptor subunit from NTW8 mouse microglial cells. The encoded protein has 80%, and 85% homology to the human and rat P2X7 subunits, respectively. Functional properties of the heterologously expressed murine P2X7 homomeric receptor broadly re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chessell IP,Simon J,Hibell AD,Michel AD,Barnard EA,Humphrey PP

更新日期：1998-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of mutants of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have led to the identification of genes required for high affinity iron uptake. Reduction of iron (III) outside the cell is accomplished by means of reductases encoded by FRE1 and FRE2, homologues of the gp91-phox component of the oxygen reductase of human granu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klausner RD,Dancis A

更新日期：1994-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An up to 14-fold increase in total hexokinase activity induced by low-frequency stimulation in rat fast-twitch muscle was followed by a rapid decay in enzyme activity after cessation of stimulation. In vivo labeling revealed that these alterations were related to rapid changes in [35S]methionine incorporation into hex...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Weber FE,Pette D

更新日期：1990-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane incorporation and aggregation of the peptide alamethicin have been investigated as a function of lipid type. Head group and acyl chain regions both contribute to modulate alamethicin incorporation. Specifically, the peptide prefers thin membranes and saturated chains; incorporation is reduced by the presence ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stankowski S,Schwarz G

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) is a serine-threonine protein kinase encoded by the myotonic dystrophy (DM) locus on human chromosome 19q13.3. It is a close relative of other kinases that interact with members of the Rho family of small GTPases. We show here that the actin cytoskeleton-linked GTPase Rac-1 bin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shimizu M,Wang W,Walch ET,Dunne PW,Epstein HF

更新日期：2000-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a high-throughput sequencing approach that enables us to determine terminal telomere sequences from tens of thousands of individual Schizosaccharomyces pombe telomeres. This method provides unprecedented coverage of telomeric sequence complexity in fission yeast. S. pombe telomeres are composed of mo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bennett HW,Liu N,Hu Y,King MC

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cDNA encoding a precursor of dermorphin from the skin of Pachymedusa dacnicolor. Besides four copies of this opioid peptide, the deduced sequence also contains the genetic information for a novel peptide Tyr-Ile-Phe-His-Leu-Met-Asp-NH2. This differs from Met-deltorphin by the presence of Ile at posi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wechselberger C,Severini C,Kreil G,Negri L

更新日期：1998-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Proline-rich tyrosine kinase2 (Pyk2) is a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase related to focal adhesion kinase. Pyk2 expression has been known to be restricted to neuronal and hematopoietic cells and Pyk2 tyrosine phosphorylation and its kinase activity is important for the function of monocytes/macrophages. In NB4 acute prom...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park MH,Park SY,Kim Y

更新日期：2008-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial permeability transition pore, a cyclosporin A-sensitive channel, is controlled by the transmembrane electric potential difference across the inner membrane. Here, we show that treatment of rat liver mitochondria with the arginine reagent phenylglyoxal inhibits the permeability transition pore trigger...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Eriksson O,Fontaine E,Petronilli V,Bernardi P

更新日期：1997-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptide reproducing the G-H loop amino acid sequence of foot-and-mouth disease virus VP1 protein was fused to the solvent-exposed C-terminus of the bacteriophage P22 tailspike protein [Carbonell and Villaverde (1996) Gene, in press], a homotrimeric polypeptide with a strong beta-helical structure. This fusion does n...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carbonell X,Benito A,Villaverde A

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The STARD1 subfamily of 'START' lipid trafficking proteins can reduce macrophage lipid content and inflammatory status (STARD1; StAR), and traffic cholesterol from endosomes (STARD3/MLN64). During macrophage differentiation, STARD1 mRNA and protein increase with sterol content, while the reverse is true for STARD3. St...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borthwick F,Taylor JM,Bartholomew C,Graham A

更新日期：2009-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract disease in infants. The HRSV small hydrophobic (SH) protein plays an important role in HRSV pathogenesis, although its mode of action is unclear. Analysis of the ability of SH protein to induce membrane permeability and form homo-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carter SD,Dent KC,Atkins E,Foster TL,Verow M,Gorny P,Harris M,Hiscox JA,Ranson NA,Griffin S,Barr JN

更新日期：2010-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:For studying the role of Ser132 in the putative catalytic site of human lipoprotein lipase (LPL), mutant LPL cDNAs expressing LPLs with amino acid substitutions of Gly or Asn for Ser132 were obtained by site-directed mutagenesis, and were expressed in COS-1 cells. Considerable amounts of LPL enzyme protein mass were d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tashiro J,Kobayashi J,Shirai K,Saito Y,Fukamachi I,Hashimoto H,Nishida T,Shibui T,Morimoto Y,Yoshida S

更新日期：1992-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Deoxyglucose and 5-thioglucose, in the same fashion as glucose, cause the inactivation of the rat hepatocyte glycogen phosphorylase and the activation of glycogen synthase. However, 6-deoxyglucose and 1,5-anhydroglucitol inactivate phosphorylase without increasing the activation state of glycogen synthase. With 3-O-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carabaza A,Ciudad CJ,Baqué S,Guinovart JJ

更新日期：1992-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated cDNA molecules encoding a protein with the characteristic sequence elements that are conserved between the catalytic domains of protein kinases. This protein is apparently a serine/threonine kinase and is most closely related to the amino-terminal half of the ribosomal protein S6 kinase II first chara...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harmann B,Kilimann MW

更新日期：1990-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Insolubility in non-ionic detergents such as Triton X-100 is a widely used biochemical criterion for characterization of membrane domains. We report here a novel green fluorescent protein fluorescence-based approach to directly determine detergent insolubility of specific membrane proteins. We have applied this method...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kalipatnapu S,Chattopadhyay A

更新日期：2004-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylglycerophosphate (PGP) synthase, encoded by PGP1 and PGP2 in Arabidopsis, catalyzes a committed step in the biosynthesis of phosphatidylglycerol (PG). In this study, we isolated a pgp1pgp2 double mutant of Arabidopsis to study the function of PG. In this mutant, embryo development was delayed and the major...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanoue R,Kobayashi M,Katayama K,Nagata N,Wada H

更新日期：2014-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies testing the effect of beta-carotene in humans have found a relative risk for lung cancer in smokers supplemented with beta-carotene. We investigated the reactions of retinal and beta-apo-8'-carotenal, two beta-carotene oxidation products, with 2'-deoxyguanosine to evaluate their DNA damaging po...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marques SA,Loureiro AP,Gomes OF,Garcia CC,Di Mascio P,Medeiros MH

更新日期：2004-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a rat model in which continuous supply of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) prevents liver injury induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) and E. coli 011:B4 lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Rat fibroblasts genetically modified to secrete rat HGF were implanted in syngenic rat spleen 7 days before administration of the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kaido T,Yamaoka S,Seto S,Funaki N,Kasamatsu T,Tanaka J,Nakamura T,Imamura M

更新日期：1997-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:While long-term effects of temperature treatment in respect of, e.g., gene-expression and cellular function have already been studied in some detail, nothing is known on the physiological responses of lymphocytes during short-term hypothermal shifts. In this report, we characterized the effects of such a stimulation u...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wurm S,Paar C,Sonnleitner A,Sonnleitner M,Höglinger O,Romanin C,Wechselberger C

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:RKIP was first identified as an inhibitor of the Raf-MEK-ERK signaling pathway. RKIP was also found to play an important role in the NF-kappaB pathway. Genetic and biochemical studies demonstrated that RKIP functioned as a scaffold protein facilitating the phosphorylation of IkappaB by upstream kinases. However, contr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tang H,Park S,Sun SC,Trumbly R,Ren G,Tsung E,Yeung KC

更新日期：2010-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a new member of the von Willebrand factor A-domain protein superfamily, WARP (for von Willebrand factor A-domain-related protein). The full-length mouse WARP cDNA is 2.3 kb in size and predicts a protein of 415 amino acids which contains a signal sequence, a VA-like domain, two fibronectin type III-like repe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fitzgerald J,Tay Ting S,Bateman JF

更新日期：2002-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatocellular carcinoma cells (Hep G2) were shown to secrete apo A-I as a proprotein . No apo A-I synthesis could be detected with endothelial cells from human umbilical cord veins. Conversion of proapo A-I into apo A-I is a slow (of the order of hours) process, mediated by a Ca2+/Mg2+-dependent enzyme which is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kooistra T,van Hinsbergh V,Havekes L,Kempen HJ

更新日期：1984-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble factors derived from human CD8+ T-lymphocytes inhibit HIV-1 replication by suppressing transcription from the viral long terminal repeat (LTR), an effect shown to be mediated in part by an NFAT-1 enhancer sequence. We show here that the CD8+ derived beta-chemokines, RANTES, MIP1-alpha, and MIP-1beta, known sup...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Handen JS,Rosenberg HF

更新日期：1997-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate ozone damage to hairless mouse skin, two parameters of oxidative damage, vitamin E depletion and malondialdehyde (MDA) production, were measured in vitamin E-enriched and in control skin from mice exposed to ozone (10 ppm). A 5% vitamin E solution (tocotrienol-rich fraction, TRF) in polyethylene glycol (PE...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thiele JJ,Traber MG,Podda M,Tsang K,Cross CE,Packer L

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Putrescine N-methyltransferase (PMT) catalyses S-adenosylmethionine (SAM)-dependent methylation of putrescine in tropane alkaloid biosynthesis. PMT presumably evolved from the ubiquitous spermidine synthase (SPDS). SPDS protein structure suggested that only few amino acid exchanges in the active site were necessary to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Biastoff S,Reinhardt N,Reva V,Brandt W,Dräger B

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin, the active ingredient of the rhizome of Curcuma longa has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antiproliferative activities. Although its precise mode of action remains elusive, studies have shown that chemopreventive action of curcumin might be due to its ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cells. Curcumin ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bhaumik S,Anjum R,Rangaraj N,Pardhasaradhi BV,Khar A

更新日期：1999-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The four-step caffeine biosynthetic pathway includes three methylation steps that utilise S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) as the methyl donor. In the process SAM is converted to S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH) which in turn is hydrolysed to L-homocysteine and adenosine. Significant amounts of radioactivity from [methyl-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koshiishi C,Kato A,Yama S,Crozier A,Ashihara H

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) are 22-28 amino acid-long sequence motifs found in a family of cytoplasmic, membrane and extracellular proteins. There is evidence that LRRs function in signal transduction, cellular adhesion and protein-protein interactions. Here we report unusual properties of a synthetic LRR peptide deri...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gay NJ,Packman LC,Weldon MA,Barna JC

更新日期：1991-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The metastasis suppressor KAI1/CD82 has been implicated in various cellular processes; however, its function in development is not fully understood. Here, we generated and characterized mutants of Tsp66E and Tsp74F, which are Drosophila homologues of KAI1/CD82 and Tspan11, respectively. These mutants exhibited egg elo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Han SY,Lee M,Hong YK,Hwang S,Choi G,Suh YS,Park SH,Lee S,Lee SH,Chung J,Baek SH,Cho KS

更新日期：2012-11-16 00:00:00