Molecular cloning and expression of a new alpha-subunit of soluble guanylyl cyclase. Interchangeability of the alpha-subunits of the enzyme.

abstract：:Ghrelin is a novel gastrointestinal peptide that stimulates growth hormone secretion, food intake, and body weight gain. Increased ghrelin secretion has been reported in such negative energy states as starvation and low body weight. We investigated the dynamics of ghrelin in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Masaoka T,Suzuki H,Hosoda H,Ota T,Minegishi Y,Nagata H,Kangawa K,Ishii H

更新日期：2003-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Internalization of membrane proteins has been studied for more than three decades without solving all the underlying mechanisms. Our knowledge of the clathrin-coated endocytosis is sufficient to understand the basic principles. However, more detailed insight is required to recognize why different proteins enter clathr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Strous GJ,Gent J

更新日期：2002-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a fatal type of cancer. We studied the role of the redox-active protein thioredoxin-1 (Trx-1) in apoptosis induced in MM cells and their non-malignant counterparts (Met-5A) by alpha-tocopheryl succinate (alpha-TOS) and TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). MM cells were suscepti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Freeman RE,Neuzil J

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Data obtained from peptide mapping of the active and inactive forms of human renin show that there are extensive regions of common sequence in the two forms of the enzyme, and are consistent with the hypothesis that inactive renin is a renin zymogen. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McIntyre GD,Chaudhuri S,Coggins JR

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method for isolation and fluorescence labelling of Leydig cells (L-cells) from rat testes was developed. Lateral diffusion coefficients of both lipid and protein membrane fluorescent probes were measured by the method of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP). Age-dependent changes in diffusibility...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zlatanov IV,Foley M,Birmingham J,Garland PB

更新日期：1987-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the mechanism by which eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) inhibit platelet activation induced by thromboxane A2. DHA was found to be more potent than EPA in blocking platelet aggregation induced by the stable thromboxane A2 mimetic, U46619. Furthermore, this inhib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swann PG,Venton DL,Le Breton GC

更新日期：1989-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding specific cargo distribution in differentiated cells is a major challenge. Trafficking kinesin proteins (TRAKs) are kinesin adaptors. They bind the cargo binding domain of kinesin-1 motor proteins forming a link between the motor and their cargoes. To refine the TRAK1/2 binding sites within the kinesin-1 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Randall TS,Moores C,Stephenson FA

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular monoamine transporters (VMAT) catalyze transport of serotonin, dopamine, epinephrine and norepinephrine into subcellular storage organelles in a variety of cells. Accumulation of the neurotransmitter depends on the proton electrochemical gradient across the organelle membrane and involves VMAT-mediated excha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shirvan A,Laskar O,Steiner-Mordoch S,Schuldiner S

更新日期：1994-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of Cre-mediated conditional gene targeting in liver of mice has until now depended on the generation of Cre recombinase transgenic mice or on viral-mediated transduction. Here, we sought to establish the feasibility of using hydrodynamic gene delivery of Cre recombinase into liver, using a ROSA26 EGFP mous...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhu HZ,Wang W,Feng DM,Sai Y,Xue JL

更新日期：2006-08-07 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：:We developed a novel method to quantitatively measure GTP gamma S binding to specific G proteins in crude membranes using G-protein antibodies. The basic strategy was that the materials were initially incubated with [35S]GTP gamma S at 37 degrees C. After 4 degrees C incubation in the wells of an ELISA plate precoated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okamoto T,Ikezu T,Murayama Y,Ogata E,Nishimoto I

更新日期：1992-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that myocardial adaptation to ischemia triggers a tyrosine kinase regulated signaling pathway leading to the translocation and activation of p38 MAP kinase and MAPKAP kinase 2. Since oxidative stress is developed during ischemic adaptation and since free radicals have recently been shown ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maulik N,Sato M,Price BD,Das DK

更新日期：1998-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of complexes between relaxed circular plasmid pBR322 DNA and tripeptide L-Val-L-Val-L-Val-NH-NH-Dns (TVP) at different peptide/DNA ratios was studied by electron microscopy. The results show that interaction of TVP with circular DNA leads to the formation of perfect torus-shaped particles. The torus par...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vengerov YY,Semenov TE,Streltsov SA,Makarov VL,Khorlin AA,Gursky GV

更新日期：1985-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the effect of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) on proliferation of hepatic oval cells, we transferred HGF gene into liver of the Solt-Farber rat model. Male Fisher 344 rats were infected with a recombinant adenovirus carrying the cDNA for HGF (pAxCAHGF) from tail vein. HGF mRNA showed its peak at 4 days, and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shiota G,Kunisada T,Oyama K,Udagawa A,Nomi T,Tanaka K,Tsutsumi A,Isono M,Nakamura T,Hamada H,Sakatani T,Sell S,Sato K,Ito H,Kawasaki H

更新日期：2000-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To demonstrate the interaction of calpastatin (CS) domain L (CSL) with Cav1.2 channel, we investigated the binding of CSL with various C-terminus-derived peptides at≈free, 100 nM, 10 μM, and 1mM Ca(2+) by using the GST pull-down assay method. Besides binding with the IQ motif, CSL was also found to bind with the PreIQ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sun W,Feng R,Hu H,Guo F,Gao Q,Shao D,Yin D,Wang H,Sun X,Zhao M,Minobe E,Sun Y,Jiao G,Kameyama M,Hao L

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane (PM) sphingolipid composition is the result of a series of well-known metabolic pathways comprising neobiosynthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum and in the Golgi apparatus followed by vesicular delivery to the plasma membrane, membrane turnover with final catabolism in lysosomes, and shedding of me...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sonnino S,Aureli M,Loberto N,Chigorno V,Prinetti A

更新日期：2010-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature suggests that the physiological functions for which mitochondria sequester Ca(2+) are (1). to stimulate and control the rate of oxidative phosphorylation, (2). to induce the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) and perhaps apoptotic cell death, and (3). to modify the shape of cytosolic Ca(2+) pul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gunter TE,Yule DI,Gunter KK,Eliseev RA,Salter JD

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic distribution of divergently related protein families into the three domains of life (archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes) can signify the presence or absence of entire cellular processes in these domains and their ancestors. We can thus study the emergence of the major transitions during cellular evoluti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ouzounis C,Kyrpides N

更新日期：1996-07-22 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 family of lipases (triacylglycerol-acyl-hydrolases EC 3.1.1.3) constitutes an interesting class of enzymes because of their ability to interact with lipid-water interfaces, their wide range of substrate specificities, and their potential industrial applications. Here we report the first crystal structure of a bact...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Noble ME,Cleasby A,Johnson LN,Egmond MR,Frenken LG

更新日期：1993-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane incorporation and aggregation of the peptide alamethicin have been investigated as a function of lipid type. Head group and acyl chain regions both contribute to modulate alamethicin incorporation. Specifically, the peptide prefers thin membranes and saturated chains; incorporation is reduced by the presence ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stankowski S,Schwarz G

更新日期：1989-07-03 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：:In adipose cells, insulin induces the translocation of GLUT4 by stimulating their exocytosis from a basal intracellular compartment to the plasma membrane. Increasing overexpression of a hemagglutinin (HA) epitope-tagged GLUT4 in rat adipose cells results in a roughly proportional increase in cell surface HA-GLUT4 lev...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Al-Hasani H,Yver DR,Cushman SW

更新日期：1999-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence and part of the DNA sequence of a glutamic acid-specific serine protease from Streptomyces griseus is reported. This protease is shown to be homologous with other serine proteases. An improved purification protocol for this enzyme is described. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Svendsen I,Jensen MR,Breddam K

更新日期：1991-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR), an endogenous NAD+ metabolite in many mammalian and invertebrate tissues, is a potent mediator of calcium mobilization in sea urchin eggs. Our results show that cADPR also stimulates calcium release from rat brain microsomes, marked release occurring over the concentration range 10-250 nM. T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： White AM,Watson SP,Galione A

更新日期：1993-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat calvaria cells grown in culture for one week had properties of osteoblasts: a high content in alkaline phosphatase and a marked cyclic AMP response to parathyroid hormone (PTH). In short-term experiments, insulin-like growth factor I (IGF I) stimulated the incorporation of [14C] glucose into glycogen. When IGF I w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schmid C,Steiner T,Froesch ER

更新日期：1984-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that the phospholipid-N-methyltransferases from yeast are capable of acting upon a phospholipid substrate, localized in a different membrane than in which the enzymes reside ('trans-catalysis' hypothesis), was investigated using cho2 and opi3 gene disruptant strains, which are defective in phosphatidyl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Janssen MJ,de Jong HM,de Kruijff B,de Kroon AI

更新日期：2002-02-27 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：:The sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase loses hydrolytic activity and the ability to be phosphorylated by Pi following incubation with EDC [1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide]. 4 nmol of tempamine per mg SR protein can be coupled to either a glu or an asp side chain through the EDC reaction. Mg2+ protects ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Coan C,Jakobs P,Ji JY,Murphy AJ

更新日期：1993-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblotting analysis of purified human urokinase plasminogen activator (u-PA), gives a positive signal when reacted with anti-phosphotyrosine monoclonal antibodies (MoAb anti-P-Tyr); competition with o-phospho-DL-tyrosine (P-Tyr) but not o-phospho-DL-threonine or serine (P-Treo, P-Ser) completely suppresses this si...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Barlati S,Paracini F,Bellotti D,De Petro G

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00