Promiscuity in the part-phosphorylative Entner-Doudoroff pathway of the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.

abstract：:Complexes between the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and its type-2 inhibitor (PAI-2) are bound by a cell-surface receptor for uPA and rapidly cleaved into two fragments of 70 and 22 kDa. The 70-kDa fragment contains the active site of uPA and PAI-2, while the 22-kDa species was identified as the amino ter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ragno P,Montuori N,Vassalli JD,Rossi G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A membrane-bound phospholipase C-like hydrolase present in lysates of bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei rapidly converts the membrane form of the variant surface protein to the soluble form and 1,2-dimyristoylglycerol [(1985) M.A.J. Ferguson et al. J. Biol. Chem., 260, 4963-4968]. The hydrolase is inhibited by p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bülow R,Overath P

更新日期：1985-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains two acetyl-CoA synthetase genes, ACS1 and ACS2. While ACS1 transcription is glucose repressible, ACS2 shows coregulation with structural genes of fatty acid biosynthesis. The ACS2 upstream region contains an ICRE (inositol/choline-responsive element) as an activating sequenc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hiesinger M,Wagner C,Schüller HJ

更新日期：1997-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the complex of Ras with the Ras-binding domain of its effector RalGDS (RGS-RBD), the first genuine Ras-effector complex, has been solved by X-ray crystallography. As with the Rap-RafRBD complex (Nasser et al., 1995), the interaction is via an inter-protein beta-sheet between the switch I region of Ras...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vetter IR,Linnemann T,Wohlgemuth S,Geyer M,Kalbitzer HR,Herrmann C,Wittinghofer A

更新日期：1999-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In higher eukaryotes, nine aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases form a multienzyme complex also comprising the three auxiliary proteins p18, p38 and p43, of apparent molecular masses of 18, 38 and 43 kDa. The function of these proteins, invariably found associated to the synthetase components of the complex, is unknown. In orde...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Quevillon S,Mirande M

更新日期：1996-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), originally described as a product of activated lymphocytes, has been defined as a 12 kDa protein, expressed in a wide variety of tissues. Here MIF is identified as a phenylpyruvate tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.1) having p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate and phenylpyruvate as its natural ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rosengren E,Aman P,Thelin S,Hansson C,Ahlfors S,Björk P,Jacobsson L,Rorsman H

更新日期：1997-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:SUPERMAN was identified as a putative regulator of transcription that acts in floral development, but its function remains to be clarified. We demonstrate here that SUPERMAN is an active repressor whose repression domain is located in the carboxy-terminal region. Ectopic expression of SUPERMAN that lacked the repressi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hiratsu K,Ohta M,Matsui K,Ohme-Takagi M

更新日期：2002-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistant states are associated with an increase in the beta cell mass and also high levels of circulating insulin. Ultimately the beta cells undergo a failure that leads to diabetes. At this stage, a question arises if those persistent high levels of circulating insulin may contribute to beta cell damage. To ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guillen C,Bartolomé A,Nevado C,Benito M

更新日期：2008-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the intron/exon organization and the intramolecular homology of DNA sequences, I propose a novel model for genesis of the calmodulin gene. A primordial calmodulin gene consisting of 51 base pairs (17 amino acids) was subjected to three-fold duplication to create modern calmodulin with four calcium-bind...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nojima H

更新日期：1987-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Analogues of S-prenylated cysteine like N-acetyl-S-trans,trans-farnesyl-L-cysteine (AFC) have previously been shown to inhibit the carboxyl methylation of proteins carrying a C-terminal S-prenylated cysteine residue and to block the endotoxin-activated serum-elicited chemotactic response of mouse macrophages. Here, we...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scheer A,Gierschik P

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A point mutation (Ala-589 to Thr) in the transmembrane protein of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has been shown to decrease the sensitivity of the virus to the neutralizing effect of human HIV-1 specific antibodies [(1990) J. Virol. 64, 3240-3248]. Here 17-residue peptides with the parental and mutant...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klasse J,Pipkorn R,Blomberg J,Han KH,Hilton B,Ferretti JA

更新日期：1993-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A high intake of dietary fat has been suggested to diminish mitochondrial functioning in skeletal muscle, possibly attributing to muscular fat accumulation. Here we show however, that an 8-week high-fat dietary intervention did not affect intrinsic functioning of rat skeletal muscle mitochondria assessed by respiromet...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoeks J,Briedé JJ,de Vogel J,Schaart G,Nabben M,Moonen-Kornips E,Hesselink MK,Schrauwen P

更新日期：2008-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human interleukin-5 (hIL-5) has been expressed at high levels and produced in large quantities in baculovirus infected Sf9 insect cells. The glycosylated protein was purified using immuno-affinity chromatography and gel filtration. Purified hIL-5 has been crystallized using standard vapour diffusion techni...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guisez Y,Oefner C,Winkler FK,Schlaeger EJ,Zulauf M,Van der Heyden J,Plaetinck G,Cornelis S,Tavernier J,Fiers W

更新日期：1993-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat synapse associated protein SAP90 is a member of a superfamily of potential guanylate kinases localized at cell-cell contact sites. This superfamily includes the synapse associated protein SAP97, a close relative of SAP90, the Drosophila tumor suppressor gene product dlg-Ap, the mammalian zonula occludens prote...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kistner U,Garner CC,Linial M

更新日期：1995-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxin causes swelling and necrosis in insect cells, but the route(s) and significance of the water influx involved in its cytotoxicity are unclear. Here, we assessed the role of aquaporins (AQPs), known as water channels, in Cry toxin intoxication. An AQP inhibitor did not interfere with...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Endo H,Azuma M,Adegawa S,Kikuta S,Sato R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic AA-amyloidosis is a complication of chronic inflammatory diseases and the fibril protein AA derives from the acute phase reactant serum AA. AA-amyloidosis can be induced in mice by an inflammatory challenge. The lag phase before amyloid develops can be dramatically shortened by administration of a small amoun...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Westermark GT,Westermark P

更新日期：2009-08-20 00:00:00

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：:The secretion mechanisms of cathepsin L from osteoclasts in the process of bone resorption were investigated. The increases in bone pit numbers formed take place by PTH addition in parallel with the increases of cathepsin L and/or L-like proteinase activities in the culture medium of bone cells, and these were suppres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tagami K,Kakegawa H,Kamioka H,Sumitani K,Kawata T,Lenarcic B,Turk V,Katunuma N

更新日期：1994-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of cultured carrot cells with dibutyryl cAMP or forskolin resulted in the appreciable decrease in extracellular K+ concentration. This decrease was found to be transient and the concentration of the ion in the culture medium restored to the original level within few minutes. The cAMP-induced decrease in K+ l...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kurosaki F

更新日期：1997-05-12 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：:Numerous biological proteins exhibit intrinsic disorder at their termini, which are associated with multifarious functional roles. Here, we show the surprising result that an increased percentage of terminal short transiently disordered regions with enhanced flexibility (TstDREF) is associated with accelerated folding...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mallik S,Ray T,Kundu S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in bidirectional transport along microtubules remain largely unknown. We explored the collective action of kinesin-2 and dynein motors during transport of melanosomes in Xenopus laevis melanophores. These motors are attached to organelles through accessory proteins establishing a complex molecu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： De Rossi MC,De Rossi ME,Sued M,Rodríguez D,Bruno L,Levi V

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of CMP-N-acetylneuraminate:GM1 sialyltransferase (SAT IV) activity of rat liver Golgi apparatus on GM1 ganglioside ceramide composition was evaluated. SAT IV activity was assayed on GM1 molecular species carrying homogeneous ceramide moieties containing long chain bases of different length (18 or 20 C a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pitto M,Palestini P,Masserini M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human prothymosin alpha mutants were generated with the aid of random mutagenesis and screened for their ability to inhibit yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell growth. Conversion of Lys-87 to Glu resulted in an inactivated prothymosin alpha mutant, which lost the ability of the wild-type protein to block yeast cell gr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rubtsov Y,Vartapetian A

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Among DNA repair pathways, nucleotide excision repair (NER) is able to recognize and process a wide variety of DNA lesions. The NER mechanism can be summarized in two stages: incision/excision of the lesion and DNA repair synthesis. Here, we have assessed the repair synthesis activity of protein extracts from differen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Coudoré F,Calsou P,Salles B

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a slow, infectious, progressive neurological disorder which results in human dementia. Synaptic membranes from various brain regions of guinea pigs infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease show increased guanyl nucleotide- or 5-hydroxytryptamine-mediated activation of adenylate cyclase. Thi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rasenick MM,Valley S,Manuelidis EE,Manuelidis L

更新日期：1986-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of type IX collagen, a minor collagen in cartilage, was examined by treatment with three different types of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) purified from the culture medium of rheumatoid synovial cells. Neither MMP-1 (collagenase) nor MMP-2 (so-called 'gelatinase') could digest type IX collagen, but M...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okada Y,Konomi H,Yada T,Kimata K,Nagase H

更新日期：1989-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between Trypanosoma cruzi and the extracellular matrix play an important role in cellular invasion. Here we show that T. cruzi increases the levels of thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) expression in host cells during early infection. Stable RNA interference of host cell TSP-1 knocks down the levels of TSP-1 transc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Simmons KJ,Nde PN,Kleshchenko YY,Lima MF,Villalta F

更新日期：2006-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of the alpha-subunit of Gi, the human adenylate cyclase inhibiting GTP-binding protein, has been deduced from the nucleotide sequence of a DNA clone complementary to Gi alpha mRNA from differentiated U937 cells. The cDNA encodes a polypeptide of 355 amino acids (Mr 40456). The amino acid sequen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Didsbury JR,Ho YS,Snyderman R

更新日期：1987-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a portion of the canine gene encoding the orphan receptor RDC1 [1]. The complete coding sequence is contained in a single exon, and an intron divides the 5' untranslated region of RDC1 mRNA. The RDC1 protein is 94% homologous to the gene product of GPRN1, which has been proposed to serve as a VIP rece...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cook JS,Wolsing DH,Lameh J,Olson CA,Correa PE,Sadee W,Blumenthal EM,Rosenbaum JS

更新日期：1992-03-30 00:00:00