Amyloid excess in Alzheimer's disease: what is cholesterol to be blamed for?

abstract：:Curcumin, the yellow pigment from Curcuma longa, has been shown to possess tumoricidal activity. We have earlier reported the induction of apoptosis in AK-5, rat histiocytic cells by curcumin leading to the inhibition of tumor growth in vivo. In this study we have observed differential activation status in host macrop...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bhaumik S,Jyothi MD,Khar A

更新日期：2000-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:FixK₂ is a CRP-like transcription factor that controls the endosymbiotic lifestyle of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. The reason for its noticeable protease sensitivity was explored here. The repertoire of Clp chaperone-proteases in B. japonicum was examined, and specifically ClpAP₁ and ClpXP₁ were purified and tested. FixK...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bonnet M,Stegmann M,Maglica Ž,Stiegeler E,Weber-Ban E,Hennecke H,Mesa S

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The nef gene of human and simian immunodeficiency virus is a key factor in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome pathogenesis and virus replication. Several Nef-induced phenomena, including the down-regulation of CD4 molecule, have been previously reported. In this study, we have identified and cloned a novel cellular pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fukushi M,Dixon J,Kimura T,Tsurutani N,Dixon MJ,Yamamoto N

更新日期：1999-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of high-intensity ultraviolet pulse laser radiation on a 161 bp fragment of pBR 322 DNA (EcoRI-MspI fragment) was studied. At doses up to 5 X 10(18) photons/cm2 the N-glycosidic bond splitting is negligible. The action of hot piperidine on irradiated DNA leads to chain splitting at the residues, modified vi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Budowsky EI,Kovalsky OI,Yakovlev DYu,Simukova NA,Rubin LB

更新日期：1985-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the incorporation of [(14)C]serine and of [(3)H]sphingosine into sphingomyelin in the presence or absence of brefeldin A (BFA) in three different cell types. Administration of BFA (1 microgram/ml) to fibroblasts for 24 h increased the incorporation of label into sphingomyelin 1.5-3 fold compared with u...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sadeghlar F,Sandhoff K,van Echten-Deckert G

更新日期：2000-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding an antifreeze protein (AFP) was isolated from carrot (Daucus carota) using sequence information derived from the purified protein. The carrot AFP is highly similar to the polygalacturonase inhibitor protein (PGIP) family of apoplastic plant leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins. Expression of the AFP gene...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Meyer K,Keil M,Naldrett MJ

更新日期：1999-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial translocation of ceramides triggers Bax-dependent apoptosis. To elucidate how ceramides activate Bax and commit cells to death, we developed a switchable version of the ceramide transfer protein CERT, sCERT. Upon its drug-induced recruitment to mitochondria, sCERT retains the ability to bind VAP proteins...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jain A,Dadsena S,Holthuis JCM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenesis depends on a coordinated network of transcription factors including Sp7. Emerging evidence indicates that microRNAs (miRNAs) act as pivotal regulators in various biological processes including osteoblast proliferation and differentiation. Here, we investigated the effect of miR-145 on osteogenic different...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jia J,Tian Q,Ling S,Liu Y,Yang S,Shao Z

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxysterols result from cholesterol by enzymatic or oxidative processes. Some exert cytotoxic effects leading to necrosis or apoptosis. Detoxification of these compounds mainly occurs in the liver and requires transport from peripheral tissues towards it. Some ATP-binding cassette transporters are involved in export of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Engel T,Kannenberg F,Fobker M,Nofer JR,Bode G,Lueken A,Assmann G,Seedorf U

更新日期：2007-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The main role of voltage-gated proton channels (Hv1) is to extrude protons from the intracellular milieu when, mediated by different cellular processes, the H(+) concentration increases. Hv1 are exquisitely selective for protons and their structure is homologous to the voltage sensing domain (VSD) of other voltage-gat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Castillo K,Pupo A,Baez-Nieto D,Contreras GF,Morera FJ,Neely A,Latorre R,Gonzalez C

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis B viral X protein (HBx) is a multifunctional protein that plays a role in the activation of the NF-kappaB signaling pathway. In this study, we demonstrate that HBx up-regulates expression of TANK-binding kinase-1 (TBK1) at the transcriptional level. Increased levels of TBK1 protein then induce the phosph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim HR,Lee SH,Jung G

更新日期：2010-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural differences between platelet and endothelial cell thrombospondin (TBSP) were found in two protease-resistant domains (70 and 18 kDa). The 70 kDa fragment is involved in the binding of TBSP to fibrinogen and the 18 kDa fragment in the attachment to various cultured cells. Despite these structural differences...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Clezardin P,Bourdillon MC,Hunter NR,McGregor JL

更新日期：1988-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+-dependent chromatography of soluble cytosolic proteins on calmodulin-Sepharose gave a fraction that exhibited Ca2+- and calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation of several polypeptides, including 60, 56 and 45 kDa species. At 0.2 microM beef calmodulin the phosphorylation was optimal at 3 microM free Ca2+, and at 80 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Londesborough J,Nuutinen M

更新日期：1987-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholamban (PLB), an integral membrane protein of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), is described as the regulator of the Ca(2+)-ATPase pump, via its phosphorylation-dephosphorylation of Ser-16. Recently it has been shown that a direct interaction between the N-terminal hydrophilic domain of PLB and Ca(2+)-ATPase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Terzi E,Poteur L,Trifilieff E

更新日期：1992-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Guluronate and mannuronate oligomers with various degree of polymerization were prepared from polyguluronate (PG) and polymannuronate (PM) with an alginate lyase from a Pseudoalteromonas sp., and their activities to induce cytokine secretion from mouse macrophage cell line RAW264.7 cells were examined. Enzymatically d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iwamoto M,Kurachi M,Nakashima T,Kim D,Yamaguchi K,Oda T,Iwamoto Y,Muramatsu T

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric antibodies composed of mouse-derived variable regions and human-derived constant regions have been developed for clinical use. However, construction of chimeric mouse/human genes in expression vectors is time-consuming work. In this study, we developed convenient vectors for construction of chimeric mouse/hum...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kameyama K,Imai K,Itoh T,Taniguchi M,Miura K,Kurosawa Y

更新日期：1989-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of oligomeric double and triple helical DNAs with irregular sequences of homopurine and homopyrimidine strands were prepared. DNA triplexes were identified by CD spectroscopy and thermal denaturation profiles (biphasic helix-coil transition). Condensation of oligonucleotides on single and double-stranded DNA ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dolinnaya NG,Pyatrauskene OV,Shabarova ZA

更新日期：1991-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen truncated forms of Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B512-F dextransucrase, involving N-, C- or N- plus C-terminal domain truncations were tested for their ability to bind dextrans. The shortest fragment (14kDa molecular weight) that still exhibited a strong interaction with dextran was localized between amino a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Suwannarangsee S,Moulis C,Potocki-Veronese G,Monsan P,Remaud-Simeon M,Chulalaksananukul W

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost 30 years, Wnt proteins have been known as key regulators of many developmental decisions, including the formation of the embryonic axes, patterning of the CNS, limb bud outgrowth and segment polarity. However, live cell imaging of active Wnt proteins was rarely reported. Here, we have generated a Wnt2b-EGFP...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Holzer T,Liffers K,Rahm K,Trageser B,Ozbek S,Gradl D

更新日期：2012-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of protein kinase C (PKC), a key enzyme in signal transduction, has not been investigated in fungal cells. The phorbol ester TPA, an activator of PKC, may be used as an indicator of the presence and role of PKC in Phycomyces blakesleeanus spores. Activation of spore germination by acetate was prevented by...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carrillo-Rayas T,Garcia-Soto J,Martinez-Cadena G

更新日期：1988-10-10 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：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae the genes involved in galactose metabolism (GAL1,7,10) are transcriptionally activated more than a 1000-fold in the presence of galactose as the sole carbon source in the culture media. In the present work, we monitored the activity of the GAL10 gene promoter in different Ras-cAMP...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mirisola MG,Gallo A,De Leo G

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive βAR stimulation is an independent factor in inducing pathological cardiac hypertrophy. Here, we report miR-145 regulates both expression and localization of GATA6, thereby protecting the heart against cardiomyocyte hypertrophy induced by isoproterenol (ISO). The protective activity of miR-145 was associated ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li R,Yan G,Zhang Q,Jiang Y,Sun H,Hu Y,Sun J,Xu B

更新日期：2013-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA coding for the mouse hepatic triglyceride lipase has been isolated from a mouse liver cDNA library. The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA shows an open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 510 amino acids that is 91.5% and 86% homologous to rat and human hepatic lipase, respectively. The most drastic protein s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chang SF,Netter HJ,Will H

更新日期：1991-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence intensity of the Ca2+,Mg2(+)-ATPase protein of rabbit skeletal sarcoplasmic reticulum that incorporated about 2 mol of 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (NBD-Cl) was enhanced at high MgATP concentrations with or without 50 microM calcium. The observed enhancement indicates that the fluorophore, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bailin G,Huang JR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:32P-Labelled washed rabbit platelets were incubated with 0.6 nM platelet activating factor (PAF-acether), giving a full aggregation and release response within 30-60 s. The major phospholipid changes observed under these conditions were: (1) An increased labelling of phosphatidic acid (PA) within 10 s and of phosphati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mauco G,Chap H,Douste-Blazy L

更新日期：1983-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The E-E* model for calcium pumping by the CaATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum includes two distinct conformational states of the enzyme, E and E*. Exterior Ca2+ binds only to E and interior Ca2+ binds only to E*. Therefore, it is expected that there will be competition between the binding of calcium to the unphosphoryl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Myung J,Jencks WP

更新日期：1991-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Siamycin I disrupts growth and quorum sensing in Enterococcus faecalis. Using purified intact protein, we demonstrate here that quorum membrane sensor kinase FsrC is a direct target of siamycin I, reducing pheromone-stimulated autophosphorylation activity by up to 91%. Inhibition was non-competitive with ATP as substr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ma P,Nishiguchi K,Yuille HM,Davis LM,Nakayama J,Phillips-Jones MK

更新日期：2011-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(+)/H(+) antiporters are ubiquitous membrane proteins and play an important role in cell homeostasis. We amplified a gene encoding a member of the monovalent cation:proton antiporter-2 (CPA2) family (TC 2.A.37) from the Thermus thermophilus genome and expressed it in Escherichia coli. The gene product was identified...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Furrer EM,Ronchetti MF,Verrey F,Pos KM

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminal regions of Kv1 K+ channels show little conservation between isoforms except for the last four C-terminal residues, (E/L)TDV, which are well conserved from Drosophila to man. Deletions of the 4, 16, and 57 C-terminal residues of the human Kv1.5 channel did not affect whole cell current amplitude, midpoin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Uebele VN,Yeola SW,Snyders DJ,Tamkun MM

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00