Cloning of a glycine receptor subtype expressed in rat brain and spinal cord during a specific period of neuronal development.

abstract：:The labile iron pool of cells (LIP) constitutes the primary source of metabolic and catalytically reactive iron in the cytosol. We studied LIP homeostasis in K562 cells using the fluorescent metal-sensitive probe calcein. Following brief exposure to iron(II) salts or to oxidative or reductive stress, LIP rose by up to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Breuer W,Epsztejn S,Cabantchik ZI

更新日期：1996-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the glycosaminoglycans exposed on the surface of endothelial cells cultured in vitro. The cells were labelled with [35S]sodium sulfate. Chondroitin sulfate, heparan sulfate and dermatan sulfate are the main sulfated glycosaminoglycans present on the cell surface. They are synthesized by endothelial ce...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cavari S,Vannucchi S

更新日期：1993-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibody recognising acetylated core histones was used to immunoprecipitate chromatin fragments from proliferating human K562 cells and from cells induced to differentiate with the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). The DNA of the acetylated chromatin was probed with sequences of platelet der...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Clayton AL,Hebbes TR,Thorne AW,Crane-Robinson C

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human preimplantation developmental studies are difficult to accomplish due to associated ethical and moral issues. Preimplantation cells are rare and exist only in transient cell states. From a single cell, it is very challenging to analyse the origination of the heterogeneity and complexity inherent to the human bod...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Otte J,Wruck W,Adjaye J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular expression of recombinant antibodies in mammalian cells is an experimental strategy to inhibit in vivo the function of selected molecules. However, one limitation of this technology is represented by the unpredictable behaviour of antibodies, under conditions of intracellular expression. For this rea...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gargano N,Cattaneo A

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogenic mutations disrupt the regulatory circuits that govern cell function, enabling tumor cells to undergo de-regulated mitogenesis, to resist to pro-apoptotic insults, and to invade through tissue boundaries. Cancer cell biology has played a crucial role in elucidating the signaling mechanisms by which oncogenic ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giancotti FG

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:As yet, the physiological significance of hydroxylation of anandamide and linoleoyl amides is unknown. Therefore, we investigated whether hydroxylation of ODNHEtOH and ODNH2 influences their binding abilities to the CB-1 receptor and whether it alters their reactivity towards a fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) from r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van der Stelt M,Paoletti AM,Maccarrone M,Nieuwenhuizen WF,Bagetta G,Veldink GA,Finazzi Agrò A,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：1997-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of a novel subunit of the mouse NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor channel, designated epsilon 4, has been revealed by cloning and sequencing the cDNA. The epsilon 4 subunit shares high amino acid sequence identity with the epsilon 1, epsilon 2 and epsilon 3 subunits of the mouse NMDA receptor ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ikeda K,Nagasawa M,Mori H,Araki K,Sakimura K,Watanabe M,Inoue Y,Mishina M

更新日期：1992-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells and neutrophils synthesize and release potent vasodilatatory factors, i.e. endothelium-derived relaxing factors (EDRF) and neutrophil-derived relaxing factors (NDRF). One EDRF has been identified as nitric oxide (NO) derived from arginine. We studied the synthesis and release of NO from huma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schmidt HH,Seifert R,Böhme E

更新日期：1989-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-lipoxygenase-activating protein (FLAP) is usually described as an essential protein to activate the leukotriene (LTs) synthesis via the 5-lipoxygenase pathway. In the enterocyte model HT29 cl.19A cell line, 5-lipoxygenase metabolism was found despite the lack of FLAP expression. Therefore HT29 cl.19A represents a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Battu S,Beneytout JL,Pairet M,Rigaud M

更新日期：1998-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Using top-of-the-line fold recognition methods, we assigned an oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding (OB)-fold structure to a family of previously uncharacterized hypothetical proteins from several bacterial genomes. This novel family of bacterial OB-fold (BOF) proteins present in a number of pathogenic strains enco...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ginalski K,Kinch L,Rychlewski L,Grishin NV

更新日期：2004-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptide reproducing the G-H loop amino acid sequence of foot-and-mouth disease virus VP1 protein was fused to the solvent-exposed C-terminus of the bacteriophage P22 tailspike protein [Carbonell and Villaverde (1996) Gene, in press], a homotrimeric polypeptide with a strong beta-helical structure. This fusion does n...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carbonell X,Benito A,Villaverde A

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described that NO. leads to destruction of ZnS clusters and release of Zn2+ from various proteins including zinc finger transcription factors. To assess the relevance in living cells, we investigated, whether exogenous NO. leads to an increase of cytoplasmic and nuclear free Zn2+. L929 cells, mouse splen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berendji D,Kolb-Bachofen V,Meyer KL,Grapenthin O,Weber H,Wahn V,Kröncke KD

更新日期：1997-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular species compositions of monoacylglycerols obtained from various rat tissues were examined by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses. We confirmed that 2-arachidonoylglycerol, an endogenous cannabinoid receptor agonist, is one ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kondo S,Kondo H,Nakane S,Kodaka T,Tokumura A,Waku K,Sugiura T

更新日期：1998-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:USP4, 11 and 15 are three closely related paralogues of the ubiquitin specific protease (USP) family of deubiquitinating enzymes. The DUSP domain and the UBL domain in these proteins are juxtaposed which may provide a functional unit conferring specificity. We determined the structures of the USP15 DUSP-UBL double dom...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Elliott PR,Liu H,Pastok MW,Grossmann GJ,Rigden DJ,Clague MJ,Urbé S,Barsukov IL

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:JAK2 V617F mutant induces transformation through aberrant activation of various transcription factors. We found that the expression of Aurora kinase A (Aurka) was significantly induced by mutant JAK2 through c-Myc expression. Interestingly, mutant JAK2 enhanced resistance to cisplatin (CDDP)-induced DNA damage, and ef...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sumi K,Tago K,Kasahara T,Funakoshi-Tago M

更新日期：2011-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular distribution of DNA methyltransferase has been analyzed in synchronously proliferating human cells. The localization of DNA methyltransferase was determined immunocytochemically using monoclonal antibodies directed against this enzyme. DNA methyltransferase was found to accumulate predominantly in nu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vogel MC,Papadopoulos T,Müller-Hermelink HK,Drahovsky D,Pfeifer GP

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation of Asp198 to Asn in the receptor for glucagon-like peptide-1(7-36)amide (GLP-1) had no effect upon GLP-1 affinity whereas substitution with Ala greatly reduced affinity, demonstrating the importance of polarity rather than negative charge at Asp198. However, the Asp198-Ala mutation had less effect upon th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： López de Maturana R,Donnelly D

更新日期：2002-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Calpain, a Ca2+-dependent biomodulator, alters the properties of substrate proteins by cleaving them at a limited number of specific sites. Recent studies of the structure-function relationship of calpain and X-ray analysis of its Ca2+-binding domain have revealed hitherto unknown features of the regulation of calpain...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Suzuki K,Sorimachi H

更新日期：1998-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of mildly acidic conditions on the free energy of unfolding (DeltaG(u)(buff)) of the pore-forming alpha-hemolysin (alphaHL) from Staphylococcus aureus were assessed between pH 5.0 and 7.5 by measuring intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence, circular dichroism and elution time in size exclusion chromatography du...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bortoleto RK,Ward RJ

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The contact-dependent intrinsic pathway of fibrinolysis involving factor XII, prekallikrein (PK) and pro-urokinase (pro-UK) remains poorly understood. Casein autography of washed, intact platelets revealed both PK and pro-UK. Accordingly, platelets may mediate physiological thrombolysis by this pathway since factor XI...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gurewich V,Johnstone M,Loza JP,Pannell R

更新日期：1993-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:When a cell divides prior to completion of DNA replication, serious DNA damage may occur. Thus, in addition to accuracy, the processivity of the replication forks is important. DNA synthesis at replication forks should be completed in time, and forks overcome aberrant structures on the template DNA, including damaged ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hizume K,Araki H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article presents the results of the first regular study of Russian populations by sequencing the control region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The sequenced region is the most variable on mtDNA molecule and is commonly used for population and evolutionary studies. Russians form one of the largest ethnic groups (mor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Orekhov V,Poltoraus A,Zhivotovsky LA,Spitsyn V,Ivanov P,Yankovsky N

更新日期：1999-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in hepatocyte activation, we examined the expression of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), the putative receptor for LPS in human hepatocytes. TLR4 mRNA and protein expression was confirmed in human hepatocytes. Stimulation of human hepatocytes with LPS results in rapid de...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Migita K,Abiru S,Nakamura M,Komori A,Yoshida Y,Yokoyama T,Daikoku M,Ueki T,Takii Y,Yano K,Yastuhashi H,Eguchi K,Ishibashi H

更新日期：2004-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide, KKKKRFSFKKSFKLSGFSFKK, containing the phosphorylation sites of the acidic 80-87 kDa protein kinase C substrate was used to identify phosphopeptides in enzyme digests of this protein from mouse fibroblast C3H/10T1/2 cells. Stimulation of phosphorylation occurred, in vivo, with TPA at Ser7, Ser11 an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Amess B,Manjarrez-Hernandez HA,Howell SA,Learmonth M,Aitken A

更新日期：1992-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Rev is a small RNA-binding protein which is essential for viral replication. To investigate the structure of Rev we have mapped the binding sites of a panel of monoclonal antibodies (mAb) by protein footprinting and identified a mAb protecting amino acids within both the N- ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jensen TH,Jensen A,Szilvay AM,Kjems J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells lacking the metacaspase-encoding gene YCA1 (Deltayca1) were compared with wild-type (WT) cells with respect to the occurrence, nature and time course of acetic-acid triggered death. We show that Deltayca1 cells undergo programmed cell death (PCD) with a rate lower than that of the WT and that PCD in WT cel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guaragnella N,Pereira C,Sousa MJ,Antonacci L,Passarella S,Côrte-Real M,Marra E,Giannattasio S

更新日期：2006-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological studies suggest that adrenal medulla chromaffin cells in situ are polarised, but functional evidence is lacking. We present here the first demonstration for polarisation of exocytosis in isolated, spherical, bovine chromaffin cells. Cells were stimulated with 70 mM K(+) to cause a marked enhancement of ca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cuchillo-Ibáñez I,Michelena P,Albillos A,García AG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dual function of the regulatory beta-subunit of protein kinase CK2 is highlighted by its ability to abolish calmodulin phosphorylation in contrast to its stimulatory effect on the phosphorylation of peptide substrates. Here we show that a synthetic peptide reproducing the C-terminal region of the beta-subunit (bet...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marin O,Meggio F,Boldyreff B,Issinger OG,Pinna LA

更新日期：1995-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The red cell membrane is comprised of a lipid bilayer studded with transmembrane proteins, and laminated by a protein network, the membrane skeleton, at the surface of the inner monolayer. The erythrocyte owes its mechanical properties to the membrane skeleton. Hereditary spherocytosis, hereditary elliptocytosis or po...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Delaunay J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00