Expression of the envelope antigen F1 of Yersinia pestis is mediated by the product of caf1M gene having homology with the chaperone protein PapD of Escherichia coli.

abstract：:The immunosuppressive agent FK-506 has received much attention due to its efficacy and potency in the areas of transplant rejection and autoimmune disease. Calcineurin, a Ca(2+)-calmodulin activated phosphatase, was recently implicated in the immunosuppressive mechanism of FK-506. In our ongoing search for superior im...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kawai M,Lane BC,Hsieh GC,Mollison KW,Carter GW,Luly JR

更新日期：1993-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of guanine nucleotides on arachidonic acid (AA) release were studied in intact and saponin-permeabilized human platelets. While GTP[S] itself caused a stimulation of AA release in permeabilized cells, GTP[S], GDP[S], GTP, ATP and other nucleotides inhibited AA release in response to thrombin and other agon...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rehm AG,Wu H,Halenda SP

更新日期：1988-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Several catalytic properties of the hydrogenase from Scenedesmus obliquus have been examined to optimize the purification conditions. The Km-value for H2-evolution in the presence of the most effective electron mediator methylviologen is 0.66 mM. The pH-optimum is 6.3, the temperature-optimum is 50 degrees C and the e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schnackenberg J,Schulz R,Senger H

更新日期：1993-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly polymorphic major histocompatibility complex class II (MHCII) polypeptides assemble in the ER with the assistance of invariant chain (Ii) chaperone. Ii binds to the peptide-binding pocket of MHCII heterodimers. We explored the mechanism how MHCII subunits attach to Ii. Expression with single alpha or beta s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Neumann J,Koch N

更新日期：2005-11-07 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：:Many extracellular stimuli, e.g. microbial products, cytokines etc., result in the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in macrophages. However, it is not known whether expression of the iNOS gene in response to microbial products is a primary response of macrophages, or is the result of paracrine/auto...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dahiya Y,Pandey RK,Bhatt KH,Sodhi A

更新日期：2010-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial DNA supercoiling is controlled by balancing the supercoiling activity of DNA gyrase and the relaxing activity of DNA topoisomerase I. We have characterized the gyrB gene from a top A deletion mutant of Escherichia coli (DM800) that has a compensatory mutation in gyrB, lowering the activity of gyrase 10-fold,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McEachern F,Fisher LM

更新日期：1989-08-14 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：:Two different isoforms of subunit VIIa have been found in cytochrome c oxidase isolated from human skeletal muscle. The first 22 residues of the N-terminal amino acid sequences showed 5 differences. Our results provide the first conclusive evidence for the existence of cytochrome c oxidase isoenzymes in man. Since the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Van Beeumen JJ,Van Kuilenburg AB,Van Bun S,Van den Bogert C,Tager JM,Muijsers AO

更新日期：1990-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The orientation of the transition dipole moments in the ground state and the M-intermediate of bacteriorhodopsin were determined by time-resolved and steady-state polarized absorption spectroscopy on samples of oriented immobilized purple membranes. The angle between the transition dipole moment and the membrane norma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Otto H,Heyn MP

更新日期：1991-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An open reading frame encoding a putative polypeptide very similar to several lysyl-tRNA synthetases was found 10 nucleotides downstream of Rhizobium meliloti gltX encoding glutamyl-tRNA synthetase. Expression of this gene complemented a mutation in lysS of Escherichia coli and led to the overexpression of a polypepti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pelchat M,Gagnon Y,Laberge S,Lapointe J

更新日期：1999-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Using sensitive methods of sequence analysis including hydrophobic cluster analysis, we report here a hitherto undescribed family of modules, the BAH (bromo-adjacent homology) family, which includes proteins such as eukaryotic DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransferases, the origin recognition complex 1 (Orc1) proteins, as we...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Callebaut I,Courvalin JC,Mornon JP

更新日期：1999-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Prohormone convertases (PCs) 1 and 2 are thought to mediate the proteolytic cleavage of many peptide precursors. Endogenous inhibitors of both PC1 and PC2 have now been identified; the 7B2 protein is a nanomolar inhibitor of PC2, while the novel protein proSAAS was recently reported to be a micromolar inhibitor of PC1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cameron A,Fortenberry Y,Lindberg I

更新日期：2000-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Using specific antisera, the expression of the G protein alpha subunits, G8, G(i1), G(i2), G(i3) and G0, were determined in 3T3-F442A cells during their differentiation to adipocytes in a hormonally defined medium. Differentiation caused distinct increases in the expression of two Gs isoforms and decreases in the expr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kilgour E,Anderson NG

更新日期：1993-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protection proteins (RPPs) confer bacterial resistance to tetracycline by releasing this antibiotic from ribosomes stalled in protein synthesis. RPPs share structural similarity to elongation factor G (EF-G), which promotes ribosomal translocation during normal protein synthesis. We constructed and functiona...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thakor NS,Nechifor R,Scott PG,Keelan M,Taylor DE,Wilson KS

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of retinoic acids (RA) on liver fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP) expression was investigated in the well differentiated FAO rat hepatoma cell line. 9-cis-Retinoic acid (9-cis-RA) specifically enhanced L-FABP mRNA levels in a time- and dose-dependent manner. The higher induction was found 6 h after addition...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Poirier H,Braissant O,Niot I,Wahli W,Besnard P

更新日期：1997-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for titin, a 4MDa myofibrillar protein, was analysed in golden hamster DNAs from different sources, using human cDNA probes and PCR. In the DNA from the BHK-21-Bi subline of baby hamster kidney cells, extended sequences coding for Z-line associated domains were missing, indicating a deletion that renders titi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jäckel M,Witt C,Antonova O,Curdt I,Labeit S,Jockusch H

更新日期：1997-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical properties of the p51 subunit of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) were studied in order to understand its role in the heterodimeric form p66/p51 found in virions. A recombinant form of RT, p51/p51, expressed in yeast, was purified and characterized. The enzyme was affinity labeled using a 5' modified o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： el Dirani-Diab R,Andreola ML,Nevinsky G,Tharaud D,Barr PJ,Litvak S,Tarrago-Litvak L

更新日期：1992-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new three-disulfide intermediates have been found to be populated in the oxidative folding pathway of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A at a low temperature (15 degrees C). These intermediates, des-[26-84] and des-[58-110], possess all but one of the four native disulfide bonds and have a stable tertiary structure,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Welker E,Narayan M,Volles MJ,Scheraga HA

更新日期：1999-11-05 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：:The contributions of membrane type-1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) and of the glucose-6-phosphate transporter (G6PT) in sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P)-mediated Ca(2+) mobilization were assessed in glioblastoma cells. We show that gene silencing of MT1-MMP or G6PT decreased the extent of S1P-induced Ca(2+) mobiliza...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fortier S,Labelle D,Sina A,Moreau R,Annabi B

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Microinjection of human liver mRNA from a patient homozygous for alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (PiZZ) into Xenopus oocytes led to a 2--10-fold increase in lysosomal activity. Stimulation of lysosomal activity was not observed when mRNA from a normal human liver (alpha 1-antitrypsin PiMM), or water was injected into t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bathurst IC,Errington DM,Foreman RC,Judah JD,Carrell RW

更新日期：1985-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective antigen (PA) is the central receptor binding component of anthrax toxin, which translocates catalytic components of the toxin into the cytosol of mammalian cells. Ever since the crystal structure of PA was solved, there have been speculations regarding the possible role of calcium ions present in domain I o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gupta PK,Chandra H,Gaur R,Kurupati RK,Chowdhury S,Tandon V,Singh Y,Maithal K

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Three single-stranded RNA transcripts synthesized in vitro by a virion-associated RNA polymerase of bacteriophage phi 6 were sequenced at their 5'- and 3'-termini. The sequences agreed with those of the + strands of the 3 double-stranded RNA segments [FEBS Lett. (1982) 141,111-115]. The results show that the transcrip...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Emori Y,Iba H,Okada Y

更新日期：1982-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral deposition of 40-42 residue amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) is a characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. Cathepsin D is possibly involved in the intracellular clearance of Abeta (Hamazaki, H. (1996) FEBS Lett., in press). The present work shows that cathepsin D hydrolyzes wild-type Abeta 20 times faster than ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hamazaki H

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In Alzheimer's disease, beta-amyloid peptides (betaA(1-40) and betaA(1-42)) are deposited on the brain cell surfaces as neurotoxic plaques. Some reports indicate that small heat shock proteins, Hsp27 and alphaB-crystallin, colocalize in the plaques, but their functions are not known. Interaction between betaA and alph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liang JJ

更新日期：2000-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoic acid is a coenzyme essential to the activity of enzymes such as pyruvate dehydrogenase, which play important roles in central metabolism. However, neither the enzymes responsible for biosynthesis nor the biosynthetic event of lipoic acid has been reported in mammalian cells. In this study, a mouse mLIP1 cDNA fo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morikawa T,Yasuno R,Wada H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The folding of HIV gp41 into a 6-helix bundle drives virus-cell membrane fusion. To examine the structural relationship between the 6-helix bundle core domain and other regions of gp41, we expressed in Escherichia coli, the entire ectodomain of HIV-2(ST) gp41 as a soluble, trimeric maltose-binding protein (MBP)/gp41 c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lay CS,Wilson KA,Kobe B,Kemp BE,Drummer HE,Poumbourios P

更新日期：2004-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A key step in sulfate assimilation into cysteine is the reduction of sulfite to sulfide by sulfite reductase (SiR). This enzyme is encoded by three genes in the moss Physcomitrella patens. To obtain a first insight into the roles of the individual isoforms, we deleted the gene encoding the SiR1 isoform in P. patens by...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wiedemann G,Hermsen C,Melzer M,Büttner-Mainik A,Rennenberg H,Reski R,Kopriva S

更新日期：2010-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of mast cells through their high affinity IgE receptor (FcεRI) leads to the secretion of pre- and neoformed soluble mediators through vesicular carriers. This process is highly regulated in order to adapt the secretion of these potentially dangerous factors to the physiological needs. This regulation requi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benhamou M,Blank U

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00