Crystal structure of Escherichia coli SufC, an ABC-type ATPase component of the SUF iron-sulfur cluster assembly machinery.

abstract：:The astroglial growth factor (AGF), which induces a characteristic morphological change in cultured rat astroglial cells and stimulates their proliferation, was purified to homogeneity from bovine brain. Two different methods were used, the second one including heparin-Sepharose affinity chromatography. AGF is actuall...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pettmann B,Weibel M,Sensenbrenner M,Labourdette G

更新日期：1985-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of endothelin-1, a newly discovered potent bicyclic peptide vaso-constrictor agent, has been investigated using 1H NMR conformational constraints and distance geometry calculations. The conformation is constrained by two disulphide bridges between Cys1-Cys15 and Cys3-Cys11 but the NMR data and c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Munro S,Craik D,McConville C,Hall J,Searle M,Bicknell W,Scanlon D,Chandler C

更新日期：1991-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA (miRNA) play a pivotal role in the development of liver fibrosis. However, the functions of miRNA in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver fibrosis remain unclear. In this study, we systematically analyzed the microarray data of the serum miRNA in patients with HCV-induced hepatic fibrosis. Among 41 dysregula...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Niu X,Fu N,Du J,Wang R,Wang Y,Zhao S,Du H,Wang B,Zhang Y,Sun D,Nan Y

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For good function, membrane lipids have to be arranged appropriately and be in the correct physical state. In poikilotherms, exposure to cold stress or heat shock can alter membrane properties such that, unless they are corrected quickly, damage and, possibly, death can result. Low temperature stress is countered by m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guschina IA,Harwood JL

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary (c) DNAs encoding a glycine receptor (GlyR) isomer were cloned from libraries constructed in lambda ZAPII with poly (A)+ RNA of neonatal rat spinal cord. Northern blot analysis revealed that RNA hybridized to the cloned cDNA is detectable only for a period of late embryonic/early postnatal stage of the s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akagi H,Hirai K,Hishinuma F

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulatory effects of several DNA-binding basic proteins (histone and protamine) and HIV-1 Rev with arginine (Arg)-rich clusters on the activity of casein kinase II (CK-II) were investigated in vitro. It was found that recombinant Rev (rRev) and the synthetic oligo-fragments corresponding to the amino acid sequen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohtsuki K,Maekawa T,Harada S,Karino A,Morikawa Y,Ito M

更新日期：1998-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13) plays a critical role in parathyroid hormone (PTH)-induced bone resorption. PTH acts via protein kinase A (PKA) to phosphorylate and stimulate the transactivation of Runx2 for MMP-13 promoter activation. We show here that PTH stimulated Runx2 phosphorylation in rat osteoblastic cel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Selvamurugan N,Shimizu E,Lee M,Liu T,Li H,Partridge NC

更新日期：2009-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their differential cell tropisms, HIV-1 and HCV dramatically influence disease progression in coinfected patients. Macrophages are important target cells of HIV-1. We hypothesized that secreted HCV core protein might modulate HIV-1 replication. We demonstrate that HCV core significantly enhances HIV-1 replicat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swaminathan G,Pascual D,Rival G,Perales-Linares R,Martin-Garcia J,Navas-Martin S

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:MDNCF is a human monocyte-derived, 72-residue chemotactic peptide, which has sequence similarity with members of a family of pro-inflammatory cytokines. The peptide was synthesized by the solid-phase method, and is identical to the natural peptide in amino acid composition, sequence and chemotactic potency. MDNCF form...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka S,Robinson EA,Yoshimura T,Matsushima K,Leonard EJ,Appella E

更新日期：1988-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient receptor potential (TRP) proteins are sensory-related cation channels. TRPV subfamily responds to vanilloids, generating a Ca(2+) current. TRPV1, a thermal-sensitive non-selective ion channel, possesses six transmembrane helices and the intracellular N- and C-terminal domains. The latter contains the PIP(2) ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aguado-Llera D,Bacarizo J,Gregorio-Teruel L,Taberner FJ,Cámara-Artigas A,Neira JL

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial alternative oxidase is a diiron carboxylate quinol oxidase (Dox) found in plants and some fungi and protists, but not animals. The plastid terminal oxidase is distantly related to alternative oxidase and is most likely also a Dox protein. Database searches revealed that the alpha-proteobacterium Novo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Finnegan PM,Umbach AL,Wilce JA

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable epidemiological evidence that tea drinking lowers the risk of heart disease. However, the mechanism by which tea can be protective is unknown. Hamsters were fed a normal or high cholesterol diet for 2 weeks and drank green or black tea ad libitum. The plasma lipid profile was significantly improv...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vinson JA,Dabbagh YA

更新日期：1998-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Several types of post-translational modifications contribute to the high level of tubulin heterogeneity in the brain. An important modification is glutamylation of the major brain-specific isotypes, such as class Ia/b of alpha-tubulin and classes II and III of beta-tubulin. Here we describe experiments to determine if...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mary J,Redeker V,Le Caer JP,Promé JC,Rossier J

更新日期：1994-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin is a multifunctional enzyme involved in coagulation, cell modulation and inflammation. We recently reported a novel membrane-associated prothrombin activator, abbreviated as MAPA, found in cultured fibroblasts and glial cell lines. In this study, we examined the physiological role of this enzyme. MAPA-like ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shikamoto Y,Shibusawa S,Okuyama I,Morita T

更新日期：1997-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients suffering from Refsum disease have a defect in the alpha-oxidation pathway which results in the accumulation of phytanic acid in plasma and tissues. Our previous studies have shown that phytanic acid is also a substrate for the omega-oxidation pathway. With the use of specific inhibitors we now show that memb...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Komen JC,Wanders RJ

更新日期：2006-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of the amino- and carboxyl-terminal domains of the yeast plasma membrane H+-ATPase have been investigated by constructing deletions in vitro and selectively expressing the mutant enzymes in vivo. The first 27 amino acids are dispensable but deletion of a further 33 amino acids greatly decreases the appear...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Portillo F,de Larrinoa IF,Serrano R

更新日期：1989-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The amyloid precursor protein (APP) is proteolytically processed by β- and γ-secretases to release amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), the main component found in senile plaques of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patient brains. Alternatively, APP can be cleaved within the Aβ sequence by α-secretase, thus precluding the generation of Aβ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： León-Otegui M,Gómez-Villafuertes R,Díaz-Hernández JI,Díaz-Hernández M,Miras-Portugal MT,Gualix J

更新日期：2011-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, it has been shown that really interesting new gene (RING)-in between ring finger (IBR)-RING domain-containing proteins, such as Parkin and Parc, are E3 ubiquitin ligases and are involved in regulation of apoptosis. In this report, we show that p53-inducible RING-finger protein (p53RFP), a p53-inducible E3 ub...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang J,Xu LG,Liu T,Zhai Z,Shu HB

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channels derived from sarcoplasmic reticulum of frog skeletal muscle were fused with planar lipid bilayers. Fractional open times displayed two types of calcium dependence: (i) blockable channels showed a bell-shaped calcium dependence with an activation constant of 4.5 microM, a Hill coefficient for activatio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bull R,Marengo JJ

更新日期：1993-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Coenzyme A ligases play an important role in metabolism by catalyzing the activation of carboxylic acids. In this study we describe the synthesis of aminoacyl-coenzyme As (CoAs) catalyzed by a CoA ligase from Penicillium chrysogenum. The enzyme accepted medium-chain length fatty acids as the best substrates, but the p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koetsier MJ,Jekel PA,Wijma HJ,Bovenberg RA,Janssen DB

更新日期：2011-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have expressed the cloned rat kappa-opioid receptor in human embryonic kidney 293 cells and studied the ability of kappa-selective ligands to inhibit adenylyl cyclase. In transfected 293 cells, activation of the kappa-opioid receptor by U50,488 and the dynorphins resulted in the inhibition of cAMP accumulation. The...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lai HW,Minami M,Satoh M,Wong YH

更新日期：1995-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the leading theory, the agent responsible for prion diseases would be the conformational isomer PrP(Sc) of a cellular protein PrP(C), the pathogenic form PrP(Sc) multiplying by converting the normal protein into a likeness of itself. The pathogenic isoform could catalyze the conformational transition so t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Laurent M

更新日期：1997-04-21 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：:The pancreatic ATP-sensitive potassium channels comprise two subunits: SUR1 and Kir6.2. Two SUR1 mutations, A116P and V187D, reduce channel activity causing persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy. We investigated whether these mutations cause temperature sensitive misfolding. We show that the processing d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yang K,Fang K,Fromondi L,Chan KW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of monocytes/macrophages with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) results in activation of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB), which plays crucial roles in regulating expression of many genes involved in the subsequent inflammatory responses. Here, we investigated roles of transforming growth factor-beta activated kin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Irie T,Muta T,Takeshige K

更新日期：2000-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of tobacco plants as a novel expression system for the production of human homotrimeric collagen I is presented in this report. Constructs were engineered from cDNA encoding the human proalpha1(I) chain to generate transgenic tobacco plants expressing collagen I. The recombinant proalpha1(I) chains were expres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ruggiero F,Exposito JY,Bournat P,Gruber V,Perret S,Comte J,Olagnier B,Garrone R,Theisen M

更新日期：2000-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we used a reductant, N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), to investigate the redox-sensitive step(s) in the signalling pathway from the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor to nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB). We found that NAC suppressed NF-kappaB activation triggered by TNF or by overexpression of either the TNF recept...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oka S,Kamata H,Kamata K,Yagisawa H,Hirata H

更新日期：2000-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The urokinase receptor (uPAR) on the cell surface plays an important role in extracellular proteolysis, cell migration and adhesion. Soluble uPAR (suPAR) has been recently discovered in plasma, but its origin is unclear. Our results now demonstrate that both unstimulated blood mononuclear and endothelial cells can rel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mustjoki S,Sidenius N,Vaheri A

更新日期：2000-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired functioning of the proteasome pathway is one of the molecular mechanism underlying neurodegenerative changes in Alzheimer's disease. In this study, we report that dysfunction of the proteasome pathway in astroglial cells leads to decreased survival and dysregulation of chemokines by differential regulation of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Choi K,Lee J,Choi C

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of cytoplasmic inclusion bodies by Escherichia coli overproducing Clostridium thermocellum endoglucanase D (EGD) was investigated. EGD was found in inclusion bodies as a 68 kDa form, whereas the size of the cytoplasmic form was 65 kDa. Upon solubilization with urea followed by dialysis, the 68 kDa form w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tokatlidis K,Dhurjati P,Millet J,Béguin P,Aubert JP

更新日期：1991-04-22 00:00:00