Assembly of major histocompatibility complex class II subunits with invariant chain.

abstract：:The 23-residue synthetic peptide representing the N-terminus of HIV-1 gp41 is known to induce either leakage or fusion of lipid vesicles depending on the experimental conditions. In this paper we report that a polar amino acid substitution V-->E at position 2, known to block gp41 activity in vivo, makes the peptide un...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pereira FB,Goñi FM,Nieva JL

更新日期：1995-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Some members of the Pax (paired box) and Six (sine oculis homeobox) gene families function as components of a gene regulatory network controlling eye development. To investigate the early evolution of the genetic interaction between Pax and Six genes, we identified and sequenced members of the Pax and Six gene familie...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoshiyama D,Iwabe N,Miyata T

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is the most abundant protein in neutrophils and plays a central role in microbial killing and inflammatory tissue damage. Because most of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and other drugs contain a thiol group, it is necessary to understand how these substrates are oxidized by MPO. We hav...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Burner U,Jantschko W,Obinger C

更新日期：1999-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamin plays an important role in actin cytoskeleton organization, membrane stabilization, and anchoring of transmembrane proteins. Using short interfering RNA (siRNA) to selectively target the filamin A gene and silence its expression, we studied the role of filamin A in G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang C,Wu Z,Hujer KM,Miller RT

更新日期：2006-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocyte-macrophages were incubated for 24 h in Ham's F-10 medium with human low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in the presence or absence of beta-carotene, canthaxanthin or zeaxanthin, at final concentrations of 2.5, 12.5 and 25 mg/l. LDL oxidation, measured by agarose gel electrophoresis, the thiobarbituric acid as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carpenter KL,van der Veen C,Hird R,Dennis IF,Ding T,Mitchinson MJ

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The crawling locomotion and shape of eukaryotic cells have been associated with the stochastic molecular dynamics of actin and its protein regulators, chiefly Arp2/3 and Rho family GTPases, in making a cytoskeleton meshwork within cell extensions. However, the cell's actin-dependent oscillatory shape and extension dyn...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vicker MG

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent dimerization of the adrenocorticotropin fragment ACTH11-24 increases its antagonistic potency on the ACTH-induced steroidogenesis in isolated bovine fasciculata/reticularis cells by 3 orders of magnitude when the C-termini are linked via a 10 A long spacer. This strong potentiation, probably mediated by cross...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fauchère JL,Rossier M,Capponi A,Vallotton MB

更新日期：1985-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human high- and low-Mr kininogens were shown to be potent inhibitors of cysteine proteinases such as cathepsin L and papain (Ki = 17-48 pM). A strong immunological cross-reaction between the kininogens and low-Mr alpha-cysteine proteinase inhibitor from human plasma was found. Comparison of partial amino acid sequence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Müller-Esterl W,Fritz H,Machleidt W,Ritonja A,Brzin J,Kotnik M,Turk V,Kellermann J,Lottspeich F

更新日期：1985-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis is catalyzed by a dissociated fatty acid synthase similar to those of plant plastids and bacteria. The crystal structure of a mitochondrial beta-ketoacyl-[acyl carrier protein] synthase (mtKAS), namely that from Arabidopsis thaliana, has been determined for the first time. This enzym...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Olsen JG,Rasmussen AV,von Wettstein-Knowles P,Henriksen A

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the creation of cell adhesion mediated by cell surface engineering. The Flt3-ligand was fused to a membrane anchor made of the diphtheria toxin translocation domain. The fusion protein was attached to the surface of a cell by an acid pulse. Contact with another cell expressing the receptor Flt3 lead to its...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Perier A,Gourier C,Pichard S,Husson J,Lajeunesse E,Babon A,Menez A,Gillet D

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting gene therapy vectors to abundant receptors on airway epithelia may allow a significant enhancement of gene delivery and thereby be of particular importance for the gene therapy of cystic fibrosis. Alpha9beta1-integrins are highly expressed throughout the human airway epithelia in vivo, irrespective of any pa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schneider H,Harbottle RP,Yokosaki Y,Kunde J,Sheppard D,Coutelle C

更新日期：1998-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The first example of a new sub-family of toxins (alpha-KTx20.1) from the scorpion Tityus trivittatus was purified, sequenced and characterized physiologically. It has 29 amino acid residues, three disulfide bridges assumed to adopt the cysteine-stabilized alpha/beta scaffold with a pI value of 8.98. The sequence ident...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Abdel-Mottaleb Y,Coronas FV,de Roodt AR,Possani LD,Tytgat J

更新日期：2006-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of electron transport by unnatural (-)-antimycin A3 was examined with rat liver mitochondria and compared with that of natural (+)-antimycin A3. (-)-Antimycin A3 inhibited respiration about 1/100th as strongly as natural (+)-antimycin A3. (-)-Antimycin A3 binding to the cytochrome bc1 complex did not se...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miyoshi H,Kondo H,Oritani T,Saitoh I,Iwamura H

更新日期：1991-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome maintenance and integrity requires continuous alterations of the compaction state of the chromatin structure. Chromatin remodelers, among others the INO80 complex, help organize chromatin by repositioning, reshaping, or evicting nucleosomes. We report on INO80 nucleosome remodeling, assayed by single-molecule F...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schwarz M,Schall K,Kallis E,Eustermann S,Guariento M,Moldt M,Hopfner KP,Michaelis J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The O2-dependent formation of side products during the oxidation of veratryl alcohol (VA) by lignin peroxidase has previously been proposed to start with the attack of H2O on the VA radical cation (VA*+). This initial reaction is unlikely since it would also lead to side product formation in the absence of O2, which i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： ten Have R,Franssen MC

更新日期：2001-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Under heat shock conditions translation of Xenopus laevis normal mRNAs in a rabbit reticulocyte cell-free system is blocked whereas hsp70 mRNA is translated. mRNA for E. coli beta-galactosidase containing the last four sense codons of Drosophila hsp70 at its 3'-end was constructed. This mRNA is efficiently translated ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denisenko ON,Yarchuk OB

更新日期：1989-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a physiological process for active cell removal. One of its hallmarks is an increased cytosolic Ca2+ content. Several genes involved in apoptosis control have been identified, but their mode of action is not understood in detail. Apoptosis may relate to oncogenesis, in that some malignant tumors may grow ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Richter C

更新日期：1993-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Atg18 and Atg21 are homologous S. cerevisiae autophagy proteins. Atg18 is essential for biogenesis of Cvt vesicles and autophagosomes, while Atg21 is only essential for Cvt vesicle formation. We found that mutated Atg18-(FTTGT), which lost almost completely its binding to PtdIns3P and PtdIns(3,5)P(2), is non-functiona...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krick R,Tolstrup J,Appelles A,Henke S,Thumm M

更新日期：2006-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of superoxide and nitric oxide induced in U87 glioma treated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) was examined by electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy using a newly designed flow-type quartz cuvette without detaching cells from the culture plate. ESR spectra of 2,2,6, 6-t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakagawa H,Moritake T,Tsuboi K,Ikota N,Ozawa T

更新日期：2000-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes of intact nuclear DNA with proteins undissociable by 2.0 M NaCl and nonionic detergents were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis following physical or enzymatic fragmentation. Sulfhydryl molecules converted these DNAs (but not the bacteriophage lambda DNA) into smaller-Mr forms. Following limited restric...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taş S,De Larco J,Altiok E

更新日期：1985-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacterial polypeptide synthesis aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA) bound to elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) and GTP is part of a crucial intermediate ribonucleoprotein complex involved in the decoding of messenger RNA. The conformation and topology as well as the affinity of the macromolecules in this ternary aa-tRNA X EF-Tu X ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Faulhammer HG,Joshi RL

更新日期：1987-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-cytokine autoantibodies in healthy individuals have been widely reported but the occurrence is variable and inconstant. We hypothesized that cytokine-binding in vivo may explain their variable and infrequent detection. Therefore, we focused on the detection of the cytokine-autoantibody complexes and found that an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Watanabe M,Uchida K,Nakagaki K,Kanazawa H,Trapnell BC,Hoshino Y,Kagamu H,Yoshizawa H,Keicho N,Goto H,Nakata K

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bchH gene of Rhodobacter capsulatus has been cloned into an expression strain of Escherichia coli. Following induction of expression of the BchH protein, it was found that the E. coli strain also accumulated porphyrins with the fluorescence properties of protoporphyrin and zinc protoporphyrin. It was also found th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hinchigeri SB,Hundle B,Richards WR

更新日期：1997-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase immobilized within semipermeable microcapsules has an assayed enzyme activity which is 20% +/- 4% of the enzyme in free solution. The Km for the immobilized enzyme remained the same as that of the free enzyme. The pH optimum also remained unchanged at pH 8.5 +/- 1.0. At the lower pH range, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bourget L,Chang TM

更新日期：1985-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomyoglobin is a widely used model for studying the molecular mechanisms of globular protein folding. This work aimed to analyze the effects of rigidity and length of loops linking protein secondary structure elements on the stability of the molten globule intermediate state. For this purpose, we studied folding/unfo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Majorina MA,Balobanov VA,Uversky VN,Melnik BS

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolin is a protein present in membrane specializations termed caveolae where it may play a structural role. Previous studies on the cDNA sequence of chicken caveolin demonstrated that it is an integral membrane protein without significant homology to any known protein. The cDNA sequence of human lung caveolin is pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Glenney JR Jr

更新日期：1992-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of the proteasome gene family in higher plants was investigated by identification and sequencing cDNA clones from the Arabidopsis thaliana database showing homologies to 20S proteasome subunits. We identified plant counterparts for each of the 14 proteasomal subunit subfamilies. Moreover, several of the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Parmentier Y,Bouchez D,Fleck J,Genschik P

更新日期：1997-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling via G-protein coupled receptors is initiated by receptor-catalyzed nucleotide exchange on Galpha subunits normally bound to GDP and Gbetagamma. Activated Galpha . GTP then regulates effectors such as adenylyl cyclase. Except for Gbetagamma, no known regulators bind the adenylyl cyclase-stimulatory subunit Ga...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Johnston CA,Ramer JK,Blaesius R,Fredericks Z,Watts VJ,Siderovski DP

更新日期：2005-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is a transcription factor activated by hypoxia. The HIF-1 activation transduction pathway is poorly understood. In this report, we investigated the activation of extracellular regulated kinases (ERK) in hypoxia and their involvement in HIF-1 activation. We demonstrated that in human ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Minet E,Arnould T,Michel G,Roland I,Mottet D,Raes M,Remacle J,Michiels C

更新日期：2000-02-18 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