Ras-pathway has a dual role in yeast galactose metabolism.

abstract：:The Escherichia coli twin-arginine translocation (Tat) system serves to export fully folded protein substrates across the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. Respiratory [NiFe] hydrogenases are synthesised as precursors with twin-arginine signal peptides and transported as large, cofactor-containing, multi-subunit complex...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dubini A,Sargent F

更新日期：2003-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A chloroperoxidase gene from Pseudomonas pyrrocinia was cloned into Escherichia coli using the cosmid vector pJB8. The gene coding for the chloroperoxidase could be localized to a 1.5 kb fragment of DNA which was subcloned into the high-copy-number plasmid pUC18. In one subclone increased halogenating activity could b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wolfframm C,van Pée KH,Lingens F

更新日期：1988-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide variety of phospholipase A2 inhibitors blocks intra-Golgi protein transport reconstituted in a cell-free system. Phospholipase A2 activity detectable under the protein transport assay conditions is actually inhibited by the inhibitors. There is a good correlation between the inhibition of protein transport and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tagaya M,Henomatsu N,Yoshimori T,Yamamoto A,Tashiro Y,Fukui T

更新日期：1993-06-14 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 protozoan parasite and human pathogen Entamoeba histolytica is protected against killing by its own lytic effector proteins. Amoebae withstand doses of amoebapores, their pore-forming polypeptides, that readily kill human Jurkat T cells. Moreover, the polypeptides do not bind to the amoebic surface membrane as evi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Andrä J,Berninghausen O,Leippe M

更新日期：2004-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of lignified Zinnia elegans hypocotyls by both alkaline nitrobenzene oxidation and thioacidolysis reveals that coniferyl alcohol units are mainly found as part of 4-O-linked end groups and aryl-glycerol-beta-aryl ether (beta-O-4) structures. Z. elegans hypocotyls also contain a basic peroxidase (EC 1....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pomar F,Caballero N,Pedreño M,Ros Barceló A

更新日期：2002-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the signaling pathways participating in hyperosmotic regulation of the human taurine transporter (TAUT) by using specific inhibitors of various intracellular signaling molecules. Among them, the specific inhibitor of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (Ca(2+)/CaM kinase II) completely repre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Satsu H,Manabe M,Shimizu M

更新日期：2004-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:When cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells (ECs) were incubated with porcine big endothelin-1 (bit ET-1(1-39)), there was a time-dependent increase in immunoreactive (IR)-ET in the culture supernatant, in addition to an endogenous IR-ET release fron the cells. Reverse-phase HPLC of the culture supernatant revealed...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ikegawa R,Matsumura Y,Tsukahara Y,Takaoka M,Morimoto S

更新日期：1991-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Annexin-I is a calcium dependent phospholipid binding and phospholipase A2 (PLA2) inhibitory protein. A 'substrate depletion' model has been proposed for the mechanism of PLA2 inhibition by annexin-I in studies with 14 to 18 kDa PLA2s. Herein, we have studied the inhibition mechanism using 100 kDa cytosolic PLA2 from ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim KM,Kim DK,Park YM,Kim CK,Na DS

更新日期：1994-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible relationship between pyridoxal phosphate-dependent ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity has been studied in the osteoblasts of the growth-plate of metatarsals of rats fed a pyridoxine-deficient diet, which caused depressed G6PD levels. The G6PD activ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dodds RA,Dunham J,Bitensky L,Chayen J

更新日期：1986-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (formerly Methanococcus jannaschii) protein Mj0968 has been reported to represent a soluble P-type ATPase [Ogawa et al., FEBS Lett. 471 (2000) 99-102]. In this study, we report that the heterologously expressed Mj0968-His(10) protein exhibits high rates of phosphatase activity, wherea...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bramkamp M,Gassel M,Herkenhoff-Hesselmann B,Bertrand J,Altendorf K

更新日期：2003-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes of intact nuclear DNA with proteins undissociable by 2.0 M NaCl and nonionic detergents were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis following physical or enzymatic fragmentation. Sulfhydryl molecules converted these DNAs (but not the bacteriophage lambda DNA) into smaller-Mr forms. Following limited restric...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taş S,De Larco J,Altiok E

更新日期：1985-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of histidine residues that were artificially introduced into complementarity-determining regions of antibodies on antigen-antibody interactions at different pH values. Using a monoclonal antibody specific for hen egg-white lysozyme and three mutant antibodies that contained a histidine residue,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ito W,Sakato N,Fujio H,Yutani K,Arata Y,Kurosawa Y

更新日期：1992-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of Brucella inside eukaryotic cells is essential for pathogenesis, and successful infection requires rapid adaptation to the intracellular milieu. Close relatives of Brucella use the two-component system FixLJ to survive inside the host. We aimed to identify a homologous sensor in Brucella abortus. A predi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roset MS,Almirón MA

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubrivivax gelatinosus is a facultative phototrophic non-sulfur bacterium belonging to the beta subclass of the purple bacteria. A terbutryn-resistant mutant of R. gelatinosus has been isolated and characterized. Increased resistance levels to terbutryn (300-fold), atrazine (6-fold) and o-phenanthroline (3-fold) were ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ouchane S,Picaud M,Astier C

更新日期：1995-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Golgin45 plays important roles in Golgi stack assembly and is known to bind both the Golgi stacking protein GRASP55 and Rab2 in the medial-Golgi cisternae. In this study, we sought to further characterize the cisternal adhesion complex using a proteomics approach. We report here that Acyl-CoA binding domain containing...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yue X,Bao M,Christiano R,Li S,Mei J,Zhu L,Mao F,Yue Q,Zhang P,Jing S,Rothman JE,Qian Y,Lee I

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Locus control regions (LCRs) are cis-acting elements that confer position-independent and copy-number-dependent expression upon associated genes in transgenic mice. Here we show the second example of the use of an LCR (the rat LAP LCR) in a stable expression vector system, used here in conjunction with the rat liver (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shelton PA,Dart C

更新日期：1996-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient receptor potential (TRP) proteins are sensory-related cation channels. TRPV subfamily responds to vanilloids, generating a Ca(2+) current. TRPV1, a thermal-sensitive non-selective ion channel, possesses six transmembrane helices and the intracellular N- and C-terminal domains. The latter contains the PIP(2) ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aguado-Llera D,Bacarizo J,Gregorio-Teruel L,Taberner FJ,Cámara-Artigas A,Neira JL

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Diapause is an important overwintering strategy enabling Locusta migratoria to survive under stressed conditions. We identified a novel dual-specificity kinase gene that is differentially expressed between long and short day-treated L. migratoria. To determine its function on photoperiodic diapause induction, we clone...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hao K,Ullah H,Jarwar AR,Nong X,Tu X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria consume nitric oxide (NO) mainly through reaction with superoxide anion (O(2)(-)). Here, we analyzed the O(2)(-) sources for NO degradation by isolated rat liver mitochondria. Electron leakage from complex III and reverse electron transport to complex I accounted for O(2)(-)-dependent NO degradation by mi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oliveira HC,Saviani EE,Salgado I

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomes are ribozymes exerting substrate positioning and promoting substrate-mediated catalysis. Peptide-bonds are formed within a symmetrical region, thus suggesting that ribosomes evolved by gene-fusion. Remote interactions dominate substrate positioning at stereochemistry suitable for peptide-bond formation and e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baram D,Yonath A

更新日期：2005-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Urate oxidase from Aspergillus flavus is a 135 kDa homo-tetramer which has a hydrophobic cavity buried within each monomer and located close to its active site. Crystallographic studies under moderate gas pressure and high hydrostatic pressure have shown that both gas presence and high pressure would rigidify the cavi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colloc'h N,Prangé T

更新日期：2014-05-02 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：:Misfolding of the prion protein yields amyloidogenic isoforms, and it shows exacerbating neuronal damage in neurodegenerative disorders including prion diseases. Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) potently stimulate neuritogenesis and survival of neuronal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Onoue S,Ohshima K,Endo K,Yajima T,Kashimoto K

更新日期：2002-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular memory is a ubiquitous phenomenon in cell biology. Using numerical simulation and theoretical analysis, we explored the robustness of cellular memory to intrinsic noise in a transcriptional positive feedback system. Without noise, the system could create two stable steady states and function as a memory modul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cheng Z,Liu F,Zhang XP,Wang W

更新日期：2008-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplex structures in the 5' UTR of mRNAs have been shown to suppress translation. However, all experiments published so far made use of artificial reporter systems. Here, we investigate for the first time the biological effects of the genomic disruption of a G-quadruplex by CRISPR/Cas9. In melanoma cells lacking...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Serikawa T,Eberle J,Kurreck J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomeric structures of the four LOV domains in Arabidopsis phototropin1 (phot1) and 2 (phot2) were studied using crosslinking. Both LOV1 domains of phot1 and phot2 form a dimer independently on the light conditions, suggesting that the LOV1 domain can be a stable dimerization site of phot in vivo. In contrast, phot1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Katsura H,Zikihara K,Okajima K,Yoshihara S,Tokutomi S

更新日期：2009-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) from human pancreas, designated hPLA2-I, functions as a digestive enzyme. Interestingly, the present study demonstrated that the mature form of hPLA2-I stimulated the growth of a human pancreatic cancer cell line MIAPaCa-2, whereas the pro-form was ineffective. PLA2s from Laticauda semifasciata...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hanada K,Kinoshita E,Itoh M,Hirata M,Kajiyama G,Sugiyama M

更新日期：1995-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cap-independent translation (CIT) occurs at the leader sequences of uncapped plant viral RNAs, but also at a number of normally capped cellular mRNAs and has been correlated with sequence complementarity to 18S rRNA. The ribosomal protein S18 (RPS18) is a component of the small ribosomal subunit and is encoded by thre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vanderhaeghen R,De Clercq R,Karimi M,Van Montagu M,Hilson P,Van Lijsebettens M

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Atg18 and Atg21 are homologous S. cerevisiae autophagy proteins. Atg18 is essential for biogenesis of Cvt vesicles and autophagosomes, while Atg21 is only essential for Cvt vesicle formation. We found that mutated Atg18-(FTTGT), which lost almost completely its binding to PtdIns3P and PtdIns(3,5)P(2), is non-functiona...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krick R,Tolstrup J,Appelles A,Henke S,Thumm M

更新日期：2006-08-21 00:00:00