Comparative pharmacology and cloning of two novel arachnid sodium channels: Exploring the adaptive insensitivity of scorpion to its toxins.

abstract：:Local bending propensity and curvature of DNA can be characterized using a vector description of DNA bendability, based on a set of parameters derived from deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I) cleavage experiments. Two characteristics-arithmetic and vector averages of bendability-were successfully used to predict experimenta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gabrielian A,Simoncsits A,Pongor S

更新日期：1996-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between different amino acids at the beta 6 position of hemoglobin and tetramer stability was addressed by a site-directed mutagenesis approach. Precipitation rates during mechanical agitation of oxyhemoglobins with Gln, Ala, Val, Leu and Trp at the beta 6 position increased 2, 5, 13, 21 and 53 times,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adachi K,Kim JY,Konitzer P,Asakura T,Saviola B,Surrey S

更新日期：1993-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II (EMAP II) is a proinflammatory cytokine and a chemoattractant for leukocytes. The mature cytokine is formed in apoptotic cells by cleavage of the precursor proEMAP II. Here we show that caspase-7 is capable of cleaving proEMAP II in vitro. A proEMAP II mutant, in which th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Behrensdorf HA,van de Craen M,Knies UE,Vandenabeele P,Clauss M

更新日期：2000-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction of methyl-coenzyme M (CH3SCoM) to methane in methanogenic bacteria is dependent on component B (N-7-mercaptoheptanoyl-O-phospho-L-threonine, HSHTP). We report here that S-methyl-component B (N-7-(methylthio)heptanoyl-O-phospho-L-threonine, CH3SHTP) can substitute for neither CH3SCoM nor HSHTP in the meth...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ellermann J,Kobelt A,Pfaltz A,Thauer RK

更新日期：1987-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat chromosomal gene for uricase was cloned. The gene spans more than 20 kilobases and the coding region is divided into 8 exons by 7 introns. The organization of the rat uricase gene is so greatly different from that of the soybean gene that the difference may not have been caused only by the removal of some ance...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Motojima K,Goto S

更新日期：1990-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of mas-oncogene transfected 401L-C3 cells by angiotensins leads to the production of inositol phosphates. This response shows dose dependence, and has an apparent rank order of potency angiotensin III greater than or equal to angiotensin II much greater than angiotensin I. Preincubation with 12-O-tetradeca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jackson TR,Hanley MR

更新日期：1989-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is responsible for the neutral cholesterol ester hydrolase activity in macrophages. Incubation of intact WEHI macrophages or mouse peritoneal macrophages leads to phosphorylation of HSL, which is increased by incubation with either dibutyryl cyclic AMP and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine or ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Small CA,Rogers MP,Goodacre JA,Yeaman SJ

更新日期：1991-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The PDE4 catalytic machinery comprises, in part, two divalent cations in a binuclear motif. Here we report that PDE4A4 expressed in Sf9 cells exhibits a biphasic Mg(2+) dose-response (EC(50) of 0.15 and >10 mM) in catalyzing cAMP hydrolysis. In vitro phosphorylation of PDE4A4 by the PKA-catalytic subunit increases the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Laliberté F,Liu S,Gorseth E,Bobechko B,Bartlett A,Lario P,Gresser MJ,Huang Z

更新日期：2002-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:There is strong evidence of a key role for mitochondrial dysfunction in both sporadic and all forms of familial Parkinson's disease (PD). However, none of the clinical trials carried out with putative mitochondrial rescue agents have been successful. Firm establishment of a wet biomarker or a reliable readout from ima...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mortiboys H,Macdonald R,Payne T,Sassani M,Jenkins T,Bandmann O

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:Light-dependent Na+ and H+ transports, membrane potential (delta psi) and motility have been studied in the cells of the marine cyanobacterium Oscillatoria brevis. In the presence of a protonophorous uncoupler, carbonyl cyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone, the intracellular Na+ level is shown to increase in the dark and d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brown II,Fadeyev SI,Kirik II,Severina II,Skulachev VP

更新日期：1990-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study provides the first evidence that the abundance of catalytic alpha1-subunit of Na,K-ATPase increases in the course of T cell blast transformation. Immunodepressant cyclosporin A at anti-proliferative doses diminished the induction of alpha1 protein in activated lymphocytes. Furthermore, in competent T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marakhova I,Karitskaya I,Aksenov N,Zenin V,Vinogradova T

更新日期：2005-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:One type of covalent linkages connecting lignin and hemicellulose in plant cell walls is the ester linkage between 4-O-methyl-D-glucuronic acid of glucuronoxylan and lignin alcohols. An enzyme that could hydrolyze such linkages, named glucuronoyl esterase, occurs in the cellulolytic system of the wood-rotting fungus S...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li XL,Spániková S,de Vries RP,Biely P

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of fluorimetric equilibrium-binding isotherms of a proteolytic fragment of bacteriophage T4 gene 32 protein (g32P) lacking residues 1-9 shows that this region contains the site responsible for the function of the NH2-terminal 'B' domain (residues 1-21). The end codon of the frameshift mutant g32P-PR201 has be...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Casas-Finet JR

更新日期：1989-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein factor that specifically binds to the 5'-untranslated region of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) RNA has been found in extracts of ascites carcinoma Krebs-2 cells. This was done using UV-irradiation on extracts supplemented with in vitro synthesized 32P-labelled transcripts followed by analysis of crosslink...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borovjagin AV,Evstafieva AG,Ugarova TYu,Shatsky IN

更新日期：1990-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:PDZ domains are thought to act as protein-binding modules mediating the clustering of membrane and membrane-associated proteins. The INAD protein has been shown to interact via a PDZ domain with the calcium channel TRP which contributes to capacitative calcium entry into Drosophila photoreceptor cells. We have cloned ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Philipp S,Flockerzi V

更新日期：1997-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-cytokine autoantibodies in healthy individuals have been widely reported but the occurrence is variable and inconstant. We hypothesized that cytokine-binding in vivo may explain their variable and infrequent detection. Therefore, we focused on the detection of the cytokine-autoantibody complexes and found that an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Watanabe M,Uchida K,Nakagaki K,Kanazawa H,Trapnell BC,Hoshino Y,Kagamu H,Yoshizawa H,Keicho N,Goto H,Nakata K

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant toxin ricin has proven valuable as a membrane marker in studies of endocytosis as well as studies of different intracellular transport steps. The toxin, which consists of two polypeptide chains, binds by one chain (the B-chain) to both glycolipids and glycoproteins with terminal galactose at the cell surface...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sandvig K,van Deurs B

更新日期：1999-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis is catalyzed by a dissociated fatty acid synthase similar to those of plant plastids and bacteria. The crystal structure of a mitochondrial beta-ketoacyl-[acyl carrier protein] synthase (mtKAS), namely that from Arabidopsis thaliana, has been determined for the first time. This enzym...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Olsen JG,Rasmussen AV,von Wettstein-Knowles P,Henriksen A

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of intracellular guanosine 3',5'-bispyrophosphate ((p)ppGpp) level, the effector of the stringent response, is crucial for survival as well as optimal growth of prokaryotes and, thus, for bacterial pathogenesis and dormancy. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), (p)ppGpp synthesis and degradation are carried...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Singal B,Balakrishna AM,Nartey W,Manimekalai MSS,Jeyakanthan J,Grüber G

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of trehalose accumulation in most plant species has been partly attributed to the presence of an active trehalase. Although trehalose synthesis enzymes are thought to be cytosolic, and previous studies have indicated that trehalase activity is extracellular, the exact location of the enzyme has not yet been e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Frison M,Parrou JL,Guillaumot D,Masquelier D,François J,Chaumont F,Batoko H

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative modeling of intracellular processes often requires information about intracellular rate constants as well as the concentrations of low abundance species in individual cells. Single molecule imaging techniques offer not only new ways for obtaining such information but also the possibilities to test model-b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li GW,Elf J

更新日期：2009-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mona is an SH3 and SH2 domain-containing adapter molecule that is induced during monocytic differentiation. Here we have first shown that M-CSFR is the major Mona partner in M-CSF signaling, the interaction being mediated through tyrosine 697 of the receptor. Next we asked whether Mona expression would alter the Ras/M...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bourgin C,Bourette R,Mouchiroud G,Arnaud S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In dog-fish spermatid nuclei two intermediate proteins S1 and S2 replace histones before the setting down of protamines. These spermatid-specific proteins were isolated by carboxymethyl-cellulose chromatography and purified by high pressure liquid chromatography. S1 and S2 are characterized by a high content of basic ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chauviere M,Laine B,Sautiere P,Chevaillier P

更新日期：1983-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used ultraviolet laser crosslinking to characterize the DNA-binding properties of highly purified yeast topoisomerase II in the absence of ATP. A single 5 ns, 20 mJ pulse of 266 nm light produced optimal crosslinking to a short DNA duplex, with an efficiency of 0.25%. An equilibrium binding constant (Keq) of 1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hung F,Luo D,Sauvé DM,Muller MT,Roberge M

更新日期：1996-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat cerebrocortical synaptosomes, the addition of 4 beta-phorbol dibutyrate (4 beta-PDBu) and arachidonic acid enhances and decreases, respectively, the glutamate release evoked by 4-aminopyridine. Pretreatment of synaptosomes with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) or pre-incubation with staurosporine, pre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Herrero I,Miras-Portugal MT,Sánchez-Prieto J

更新日期：1992-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the regulation of the biosynthesis and the secretion of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) in cultured bovine chromaffin cells. The combined treatment with protein kinase A and -C activators induced a 6-fold increase of intracellular levels of CNP-(1-103). The biosynthesized CNP-(1-103) was co-released wi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Babinski K,Féthière J,Roy M,De Léan A,Ong H

更新日期：1992-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin is a potent activator of human glomerular epithelial cells (HGEC). Here we compare short-term and long-term effects of thrombin and thrombin receptor agonist peptide (TRAP) which selectively activates the functional thrombin receptor. TRAP, as thrombin, increases intracellular free Ca2+ concentration and acts...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zacharias U,He CJ,Nguyen G,Sraer JD,Rondeau E

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic form of human pancreatic growth hormone releasing factor (GRF-44-NH2) was shown to be a potent stimulator of growth hormone (GH) secretion and cellular cyclic AMP levels in cultured sheep pituitary cells. A small dose-dependent stimulation of prolactin secretion was also observed. Somatostatin (0.5 microM)...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Law GJ,Ray KP,Wallis M

更新日期：1984-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Alix and its homologs are involved in various phenomena such as endosomal protein-sorting and adaptation to stress conditions. In this study, we found that development of Dictyostelium discoideum Alix (DdAlix) deletion mutant (alx-) cells was impaired in alkaline pH environments. The fruiting body formation efficiency...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohkouchi S,Saito H,Aruga F,Maeda T,Shibata H,Maki M

更新日期：2005-03-14 00:00:00