RNA silencing platforms in plants.

abstract：:Trypsin treatment of HeLa cells results in a limited proteolysis of the coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR) after which the cleaved CAR remains cell-associated and tryptic peptides remain associated through disulfide bonds. Trypsin-treated HeLa cells remain susceptible to infection with coxsackievirus B and p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carson SD

更新日期：2000-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to study amino acids as possible precursors of PQQ biosynthesis. Cultures of Hyphomicrobium X, growing on [13C]methanol, were supplemented with unlabelled amino acids. Uptake and participation in metabolism were determined via gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of derivatized amino acids, obta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Kleef MA,Duine JA

更新日期：1988-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Scorpion toxins have been found lacking effect on Na(+) current of its own sodium channel, whereas the molecular mechanism remains mystery. In this study, the binding affinity of pharmacologically distinct scorpion toxins was found much weaker to scorpion (Buthus martensii) nerve synaptosomes than to spider (Ornithoct...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zuo XP,He HQ,He M,Liu ZR,Xu Q,Ye JG,Ji YH

更新日期：2006-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The 40 N-terminal amino acids of the 20 kDa antigen A2 from Brucella melitensis were sequenced and showed important similarities with 4 bacterioferrins. A monoclonal antibody raised against this antigen cross-reacted with Escherichia coli bacterioferritin. Hybridization of two sets of degenerate primers with B. melite...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denoel PA,Zygmunt MS,Weynants V,Tibor A,Lichtfouse B,Briffeuil P,Limet JN,Letesson JJ

更新日期：1995-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:FixK₂ is a CRP-like transcription factor that controls the endosymbiotic lifestyle of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. The reason for its noticeable protease sensitivity was explored here. The repertoire of Clp chaperone-proteases in B. japonicum was examined, and specifically ClpAP₁ and ClpXP₁ were purified and tested. FixK...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bonnet M,Stegmann M,Maglica Ž,Stiegeler E,Weber-Ban E,Hennecke H,Mesa S

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding and aggregation are linked to several degenerative diseases and are responsible for the formation of bacterial inclusion bodies. Roles of molecular chaperones in promoting protein deposition have been speculated but not proven in vivo. We have investigated the involvement of individual chaperones in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carrió MM,Villaverde A

更新日期：2003-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion is stimulated by low extracellular calcium (Ca2+) in association with a reduction in cyosolic Ca2+, indicating that this cell type does not conform to classical models of stimulus-secretion coupling. We used the phorbol ester TPA (12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate), which direct...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brown EM,Redgrave J,Thatcher J

更新日期：1984-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic reaction center is one of the most complicated molecular complexes. Transducing photon energy to a transmembrane electrochemical potential difference for protons, it is the direct or indirect energy source for virtually all life. We show here that it operates in a simple, battery-like manner, with a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Rotterdam BJ,Crielaard W,van Stokkum IH,Hellingwerf KJ,Westerhoff HV

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Under hypobaric hypoxia, antioxidant defenses of the heart are stressed by the enhanced production of ROS. Mammalian heart acclimatizes to hypoxia through altered gene expression, which we studied in murine heart exposed to 10h of acute hypobaric hypoxia (AHH), equivalent to 15000ft, using cDNA arrays. Functional clas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karar J,Dolt KS,Mishra MK,Arif E,Javed S,Pasha MA

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:At alpha 1-adrenergic receptors in isolated rat liver parenchymal cells, (-)-epinephrine is potent in eliciting a maximal increase in glycogenolysis (Kact = 24 nM). This contrasts with a 100-fold lower affinity for the agonist at alpha 1-adrenergic receptors of intact hepatocytes determined from equilibrium competitio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schwarz KR,Lanier SM,Carter EA,Graham RM,Homcy CJ

更新日期：1985-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of the alkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing autotroph strain AL3 contained sulfide:cytochrome c oxidoreductase. This was active above pH 8, and was associated with the cell membranes. Although up to 60% of the initial activity was lost during Triton X-100 extraction, further purification resulted in an enzyme that c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sorokin DYu,de Jong GA,Robertson LA,Kuenen GJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli maltose-binding protein (MBP) is frequently used as an affinity tag to facilitate the purification of recombinant proteins. An important additional attribute of MBP is its remarkable ability to enhance the solubility of its fusion partners. MBPs are present in a wide variety of microorganisms includin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fox JD,Routzahn KM,Bucher MH,Waugh DS

更新日期：2003-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors activate a member of the INK4 family, the p19INK4d gene, causing G1 phase arrest. We report here that HDAC inhibitor, Trichostatin A, activates another member of the INK4 family, the p18INK4c gene, through its promoter in Jurkat cells. Interestingly, the acti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yokota T,Matsuzaki Y,Sakai T

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ala-30 and Asn-32 residues involved in the major antiparallel beta-sheet structure of human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) were substituted with various amino acid residues, and the receptor-binding affinities of the nine variant hEGFs were determined by the use of human KB cells. The Ala-30----Arg, Ala-30----His ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koide H,Muto Y,Kasai H,Hoshi K,Takusari H,Kohri K,Takahashi S,Sasaki T,Tsukumo K,Miyake T

更新日期：1992-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosslinking of histones in mouse liver nuclei and extended chromatin with a bifunctional reagent leads to the formation of H1-H1o heterodimers as well as H1o-H1o homodimers. H1o can be also crosslinked to the core histones. Thus, the location of histone H1o within the basic repeating chromatin structure seems to be a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dashkevich VK,Nikolaev LG,Zlatanova JS,Glotov BO,Severin ES

更新日期：1983-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmids for the high-level overproduction of wild-type, and C- and N-terminal His-tagged MurG N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase from Escherichia coli were constructed. In complementation tests the three forms were active in vivo. After IPTG induction, growth, spheroplast formation and lysis, overproduced MurG proteins...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Crouvoisier M,Mengin-Lecreulx D,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant cell lines expressing D2 and D3 dopamine receptor isoforms have been used to study coupling of these receptors to G-proteins from the effects of GTP to reduce agonist binding affinities in agonist/[3H]spiperone competition experiments. D2(short) expressed in Ltk- cells, D2(long) expressed in Ltk- or CHO ce...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Castro SW,Strange PG

更新日期：1993-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide T, an octapeptide of sequence ASTTTNYT that binds to human T cells, was studied as a zwitterion in DMSOd6 solution by means of proton NMR spectroscopy at 500 MHz. The unusual dispersion of the resonances of residues of the same type (T) makes it possible to assign all resonances to specific residues by means o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Picone D,Temussi PA,Marastoni M,Tomatis R,Motta A

更新日期：1988-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity labelling of E. coli ribosomes with the 2',3'-O-[4-(N-2-chloroethyl)-N-methylamino]benzylidene derivative of AUGU6 was studied within the initiation complex (complex I) obtained by using fMet-tRNAMetf and initiation factors and within the pretranslocational complex (complex II) obtained by treatment of comple...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Babkina GT,Veniaminova AG,Vladimirov SN,Karpova GG,Yamkovoy VI,Berzin VA,Gren EJ,Cielens IE

更新日期：1986-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Various cDNAs coding for part or all of human pre-pro lactase-phlorizin hydrolase (pre-proLPH) were transfected into COS cells and the subcellular location of the lactase-related proteins assessed. Only the complete proLPH reached the plasma membrane. LPH without the pro sequence, and a construct containing the pro se...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oberholzer T,Mantei N,Semenza G

更新日期：1993-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Using ultrastructural analysis and labeling with polyclonal antibodies that recognize peptide sequences specific for phospholipid binding, we mapped the functional domain structure of intact platelet talin and its proteolytic fragments. The talin dimer, which is crucial for actin and lipid binding, is built of a backb...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Isenberg G,Goldmann WH

更新日期：1998-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho proteins and phosphatidylinositide 3-kinases (PI 3-kinases) have been widely implicated in regulating cell motility both in cultured cells and in animal models. Monocytes are recruited from the bloodstream in response to inflammatory signals, and migrate across the endothelial barrier into the tissues, where they ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ridley AJ

更新日期：2001-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmembrane protein gp130 is the common signalling receptor subunit for the interleukin-6 (IL-6)-type cytokines. It has recently been shown that the cytoplasmic domain of gp130 contains a dileucine internalization motif and that endocytosis of gp130 occurs signal-independent. Here, we have studied whether gp130 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thiel S,Dahmen H,Martens A,Müller-Newen G,Schaper F,Heinrich PC,Graeve L

更新日期：1998-12-18 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 white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium has two intracellular beta-glucosidases (BGL1A and BGL1B) belonging to glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 1. BGL1B effectively hydrolyzes cellobiose and cellobionolactone, but BGL1A does not. We have determined the crystal structure of BGL1A in substrate-free and gluconola...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nijikken Y,Tsukada T,Igarashi K,Samejima M,Wakagi T,Shoun H,Fushinobu S

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Association reactions of a recombinant CFTR-NBF-2 polypeptide fused to glutathione S-transferase with guanine nucleotides were monitored quantitatively by recording the fluorescence enhancement of excited trinitrophenol (TNP)-labelled GTP after binding to NBF-2. Binding of TNP-GTP to the recombinant NBF-2 polypeptide ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Randak C,Neth P,Auerswald EA,Assfalg-Machleidt I,Roscher AA,Hadorn HB,Machleidt W

更新日期：1996-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:RCR cells are NRK clones in which Raf-1 production is blocked by the expression of an antisense RNA, and consequently they are refractory to transformation by various oncogenes. In RCR cells, MAP kinases (ERK1 and ERK2) were activated to an extent and in a time course similar to those of the original NRK cells, irresp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kizaka-Kondoh S,Okayama H

更新日期：1993-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ribosomal protein L5 on the conformation of 5 S rRNA in the 5 S rRNA-protein L5 complex extracted from rat liver ribosomes have been studied by laser Raman spectroscopy. A comparison of the spectra shows small protein-induced conformational changes in the 5 S rRNA, but most of the base-paired regions ap...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fabian H,Böhm S,Carius W,Misselwitz R,Welfle H

更新日期：1983-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathelicidins are a group of myeloid antimicrobial peptide precursors found in a variety of mammalian species. Transcripts of this family show a highly conserved 5' region corresponding to the 5' untranslated region, signal peptide and propiece, and diverse 3' regions encoding structurally varied C-terminal sequences ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scocchi M,Wang S,Zanetti M

更新日期：1997-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular homeostasis in response to glucose availability is maintained through the tight coordination of various physiological processes, including cell proliferation, transcription, and metabolism. In this study, we use the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify proteins implicated in carbon source-depend...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Umekawa M,Shiraishi D,Fuwa M,Sawaguchi K,Mashima Y,Katayama T,Karita S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00