Construction of a fully active truncated alternansucrase partially deleted of its carboxy-terminal domain.

abstract：:Structural and biochemical studies have begun to elucidate the pathway of RNA silencing that leads to the formation of the RISC complex. The outstanding feature of this pathway is the precise recognition and processing of double-stranded RNA. We present a review of recent structures that illustrate the molecular mecha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Collins RE,Cheng X

更新日期：2005-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Large conductance voltage-dependent and Ca(2+)-modulated K(+) channels play a crucial role in myometrium contractility. Western blots and immunocytochemistry of rat uterine sections or isolated cells show that MaxiK channel protein signals drastically decrease towards the end of pregnancy. Consistent with a transcript...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Song M,Zhu N,Olcese R,Barila B,Toro L,Stefani E

更新日期：1999-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between the polyanionic ligands phosphate and sulphate and the type II dehydroquinases from Streptomyces coelicolor and Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been characterised using a combination of structural and kinetic methods. From both approaches, it is clear that interactions are more complex in the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Evans LD,Roszak AW,Noble LJ,Robinson DA,Chalk PA,Matthews JL,Coggins JR,Price NC,Lapthorn AJ

更新日期：2002-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic helminths remain major pathogens of both humans and animals throughout the world. The success of helminth infections depends on the capacity of the parasite to counteract host immune responses but also to exploit host-derived signal molecules for its development. Recent progress has been made in the characte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dissous C,Khayath N,Vicogne J,Capron M

更新日期：2006-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the endosome-lysosome transfer of internalized epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) complexes in a cell-free system from rat liver. Analytical subfractionation of a postmitochondrial supernatant fraction showed that a pulse of internalized [(125)I]EGF was largely associated with a light endosomal fr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Authier F,Chauvet G

更新日期：1999-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of adipocytes with 125I-insulin plus leupeptin or monensin, but not chloroquine, resulted in the appearance of a novel peak of 125I-insulin (modal density about 1.20 g/ml) on density gradient centrifugation; the appearance of the peak depended on the presence of specific insulin receptors on the cell surfac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jeffrey IW,Flint DJ,Vernon RG,Mayer RJ

更新日期：1985-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of human neutrophils with triphenyltin chloride (TPTCl)-inhibited superoxide (O-2) production stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). TPTCl was more potent as inhibitor of O-2 production than other phenyltin compounds. The O-2 production by the xanthine oxidase-acetaldehyde system was not inhibited ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsui H,Wada O,Ushijima Y,Akuzawa T

更新日期：1983-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-β family signaling through Smads is conceptually a simple and linear signaling pathway, driven by sequential phosphorylation, with type II receptors activating type I receptors, which in turn activate R-Smads. Nevertheless, TGF-β family proteins induce highly complex programs of gene expression responses that are ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu P,Liu J,Derynck R

更新日期：2012-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a single-chain antibody fragment directed against digoxin (named 1C10 scFv) was cloned in two expression systems. For this purpose, a new baculovirus transfer cassette fully compatible with the procaryotic pHEN vector was constructed. Baculovirus production led to higher yield than did Escherichia coli...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lemeulle C,Chardès T,Montavon C,Chaabihi H,Mani JC,Pugnière M,Cerutti M,Devauchelle G,Pau B,Biard-Piechaczyk M

更新日期：1998-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of cultured pituitary cells from a gonadotrope lineage (alpha T3-1) by the gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist analog [D-Trp6]GnRH (GnRH-A) resulted in a manifold increase in accumulation of phosphatidylethanol, a specific product of phospholipase D phosphatidyl transferase activity when ethanol is the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Netiv E,Liscovitch M,Naor Z

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the extraction and stabilization in vitro of discrete complexes of interferon and cellular receptor proteins. A homogeneous complex of Mr 230 000 was extracted at the time of peak receptor binding (30 min). Complex formation was specific for human interferon. At later times a second complex could also be e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Eid P,Mogensen KE

更新日期：1983-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The prohormone convertase PC2 is one of the major subtilisin/kexin-like enzymes responsible for the formation of small bioactive peptides in neural and endocrine cells. This convertase is unique among the members of the subtilisin/kexin-like mammalian serine proteinase family in that it undergoes zymogen processing of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benjannet S,Mamarbachi AM,Hamelin J,Savaria D,Munzer JS,Chrétien M,Seidah NG

更新日期：1998-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence has indicated that microRNAs (miRNAs) act as critical epigenetic regulators in tumor carcinogenesis. Here, we report that miR-199a-3p was significantly upregulated in gastric cancer (GC) cell lines and tissues. Functional studies demonstrated that miR-199a-3p dramatically increased cell prolifera...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang Z,Ma X,Cai Q,Wang X,Yu B,Cai Q,liu B,Zhu Z,Li C

更新日期：2014-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The stoichiometric complex formed between human leukocyte elastase and a synthetic MeO-Suc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Val chloromethyl ketone inhibitor was co-crystallized and its X-ray structure determined, using Patterson search methods. Its structure has been crystallographically refined to a final R value of 0.145 (8.0 and 2.3 A...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wei AZ,Mayr I,Bode W

更新日期：1988-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of the Sm-class of uridine-rich small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (U snRNPs), albeit spontaneous in vitro, has recently been shown to be dependent on the aid of a large number of assisting factors in vivo. These factors are organized in two interacting units termed survival motor neuron (SMN)- and protein ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Neuenkirchen N,Chari A,Fischer U

更新日期：2008-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:On incubation of 7-day-old wheat seedlings in the presence of [3H]thymidine, the radioactivity incorporated into coleoptile DNA is found to be localized mainly (greater than 95%) in the fraction of heavy mitochondrial DNA (H-mt DNA; rho = 1.716 gm/cm3). Upon long (48-72 h) incubation of cut-off seedlings in water, the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kirnos MD,Alexandrushkina NI,Zagorskaya GYa,Kireev II,Vanyushin BF

更新日期：1992-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The pluripotent nature of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) has attracted great interest in using them as a source of cells or tissue in cell therapy. However, in order to be used in regenerative medicine, the pluripotent hESC lines should be established and propagated according to good manufacturing practice quality ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Skottman H,Dilber MS,Hovatta O

更新日期：2006-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:EcL-DER, the aspartate/glutamate racemase from the pathogen Escherichia coli O157, exhibits racemase activity for l-aspartate and l-glutamate. This study reports the crystal structures of apo-EcL-DER, the EcL-DER-l-aspartate and the EcL-DER-d-aspartate complexes. The EcL-DER structure contains two domains, forming pse...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu X,Gao F,Ma Y,Liu S,Cui Y,Yuan Z,Kang X

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pulsed field gradient three-dimensional isotope-filtered 13C HMQC-NOESY experiment has been developed to characterize intermolecular contacts in a 37 kDa macromolecular ternary complex consisting of uniformly 13C labeled trp-repressor, its natural abundance co-repressor, L-tryptophan, and natural abundance operator ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee W,Revington MJ,Arrowsmith C,Kay LE

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli phosphofructokinase-2 (Pfk-2) is a homodimer whose subunits consist of a large domain and an additional beta-sheet that provides the interfacial contacts between the subunits, creating a beta-barrel flattened-like structure with the adjacent subunit's beta-sheet. To determine how the structural organi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baez M,Babul J

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A steady-state framework was applied to the ubiquitous tricyclic enzyme cascade structure, as seen in the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase system, to analyze the effect of upstream kinase concentrations on final output response. The results suggest that signal amplification achieved by the cascade structure ensu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mutalik VK,Singh AP,Edwards JS,Venkatesh KV

更新日期：2004-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A drastic inhibition of protein synthesis occurs in HeLa cells treated with human lymphoblastoid interferon and infected with poliovirus. At the time when this inhibition has been established no degradation of 32P-labelled ribosomal RNA can be detected. Isolation of the mRNAs from poliovirus-infected cells plus or min...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Muñoz A,Harvey R,Carrasco L

更新日期：1983-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of proteins found in body fluids and at cell surfaces, which are known to display carbohydrate-binding properties, continues to increase rapidly. In these proteins, in addition to a domain associated with lectin properties, one or more, non-lectin domains are present. It is possible that binding of sugar re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thiel S,Reid KB

更新日期：1989-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The photochemical reaction center of Chloroflexus (Cf.) aurantiacus, a membrane bound pigment-protein complex, has been crystallized in the presence of monodisperse polyoxyethylene detergents. The crystals possessed a pronounced polymorphism. Three different crystal forms belonging to triclinic, monoclinic and orthorh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Feick R,Ertlmaier A,Ermler U

更新日期：1996-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The alphavirus-like mRNA capping enzyme of Bamboo mosaic virus (BaMV) exhibits an AdoMet-dependent guanylyltransferase activity by which the methyl group of AdoMet is transferred to GTP, leading to the formation of m(7)GTP, and the m(7)GMP moiety is next transferred to the 5' end of ppRNA via a covalent enzyme-m(7)GMP...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lin HY,Yu CY,Hsu YH,Meng M

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We used site-directed mutagenesis to modify the Bacillus thuringiensis cry3A gene in amino acid residues 350-354. Two mutant toxins, A1 (R(345)A,Y(350)F,Y(351)F) and A2 (R(345)A,DeltaY(350), DeltaY(351)), showed significantly improved toxicity against Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm). The mutant toxin A1 was also mo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wu SJ,Koller CN,Miller DL,Bauer LS,Dean DH

更新日期：2000-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of yeast spheroplasts by DEAE-dextran in isoosmotic conditions allows isolation of relatively undamaged subcellular fractions from yeast. The preservation of mitochondria and vacuoles permits the simultaneous isolation of the cytosol with negligible contamination by vacuolar proteinases and therefore, virtu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schwencke J,Canut H,Flores A

更新日期：1983-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved method for expressing and purifying bovine pancreatic ribonuclease from a synthetic gene using the lambda promoter controlled by a temperature-sensitive repressor is described. The procedure involves isolation in the presence of a refolding buffer containing oxidized and reduced glutathione, under conditio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McGeehan GM,Benner SA

更新日期：1989-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats bearing the Yoshida AH-130 ascites hepatoma showed an increased expression of both uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2) (194%) and UCP3 (189%) mRNA levels in skeletal muscle 7 days after tumour inoculation. Interestingly, an even greater increase was observed in mRNA for both UCP2 (278%) and UCP3 (797%) in the pair-fed an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sanchís D,Busquets S,Alvarez B,Ricquier D,López-Soriano FJ,Argilés JM

更新日期：1998-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The KlICL1 gene, encoding isocitrate lyase in Kluyveromyces lactis, is essential for ethanol utilization. Deletion analyses identified two functional promoter elements, CSRE-A and CSRE-B. Transcription is activated on ethanol, but not on glucose, glycerol or lactate. Expression depends on the KlCat8p transcription fac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodicio R,López ML,Cuadrado S,Cid AF,Redruello B,Moreno F,Heinisch JJ,Hegewald AK,Breunig KD

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00