Molecular mechanisms for mammalian melanogenesis. Comparison with insect cuticular sclerotization.

abstract：:The flash-induced voltage response of halorhodopsin at high NaCl concentration comprises two main kinetic components. The first component with tau approximately 1 micros does not exceed 4% of the overall response amplitude and is probably associated with the formation of the L (hR520) intermediate. The second main com...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kalaidzidis IV,Kalaidzidis YL,Kaulen AD

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hybrid proteins between Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (PE) and poliovirus protease 2Apro have been generated. One hybrid protein contains the poliovirus 2Apro sequence replacing the region of PE corresponding to amino acids 413-607. The other hybrid contains in addition the transforming growth factor sequence....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Novoa I,Feduchi E,Carrasco L

更新日期：1994-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Myometrial membranes, obtained from estrogen-dominated (day 0) rat uteri, were immunoblotted with antiserum (SG1), which recognizes the alpha subunits of both Gi1 and Gi2, with antiserum (LE2) specific for Gi2 alpha, and with I3B antiserum, specific for Gi3 alpha. The data revealed the absence of detectable levels of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanfin Z,Goureau O,Milligan G,Harbon S

更新日期：1991-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel structural classification of beta proteins is presented from the viewpoint of the ring-shaped structure and the zipper-like contact pattern, based on the fact that 92% and 60% of beta proteins have the ring topology and the zippered contact pattern, respectively. We discuss the implication of the unexpectedly ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koike R,Kinoshita K,Kidera A

更新日期：2003-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Vacuolar membrane H(+)-translocating pyrophosphatase (H(+)-PPase) was purified from pumpkin seedlings. Its enzymatic properties including molecular size of constituting polypeptide (75 kDa) were very similar to those of mung bean H(+)-PPase [(1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 20068-20073]. The native, functional molecular siz...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sato MH,Maeshima M,Ohsumi Y,Yoshida M

更新日期：1991-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of protein-protein interactions involved turn or loop regions. The excised linear peptides from these regions reveal complex conformational averaging. To circumvent this motional averaging and to stabilize the beta-turn conformation, extensive effort has been devoted to the design of constrained peptido...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee MS,Gardner B,Kahn M,Nakanishi H

更新日期：1995-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed structural models of di-cluster seven-iron ferredoxins constitute a valuable resource for folding and stability studies relating the metal cofactors' role in protein stability. The here reported, hemihedric twinned crystal structure at 2.0 A resolution from Acidianus ambivalens ferredoxin, shows an integral 1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Frazão C,Aragão D,Coelho R,Leal SS,Gomes CM,Teixeira M,Carrondo MA

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Insight into the regulation of the actions of the protein-tyrosine kinases will be greatly facilitated by the full characterization of the family of protein-tyrosine phosphatases. A search for novel phosphatases resulted in the isolation of a cDNA, termed HLPR, encoding a member of the family of human receptor-like pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jirik FR,Janzen NM,Melhado IG,Harder KW

更新日期：1990-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses have been etiologically implicated with leukemia in humans and animals. Understanding the virus life cycle, the proteins and enzymes involved in its replication, is essential for developing potent anti-viral drugs. Phosphorylation of retroviral proteins may alter their shape in such a way as to increase o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seri I,Priel E

更新日期：1996-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The active A1 peptide of cholera toxin was linked by a disulphide bond to the lectin of Wisteria floribunda. The resulting conjugate activated the adenylate cyclase of intact U937 or K562 cells at the same concentrations as native toxin did, but to a greater extent. Activation was inhibited by N-acetyl-D-galactosamine...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Heyningen S

更新日期：1983-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A lowered efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation was recently found in a Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) proband carrying a mutation in the mtDNA gene for subunit 6 of the membrane-bound F0 segment of the F1F0-ATP synthase [9]. This phenotype was transferred to cytoplasmic hybrid cells together with the muta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Majander A,Lamminen T,Juvonen V,Aula P,Nikoskelainen E,Savontaus ML,Wikström M

更新日期：1997-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases p42mapk and p44mapk are activated by dual tyrosine and threonine phosphorylation in vivo. Both MAPKs are phosphorylated and activated in vitro by an activator recently identified as a protein-tyrosine/threonine kinase. We have isolated a putative cDNA for a MAP kinase kinase (MA...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Haystead CM,Wu J,Gregory P,Sturgill TW,Haystead TA

更新日期：1993-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A potent inhibitor of a dual-specificity protein phosphatase, VHR (vaccinia H1 related), was isolated during a screening of microbial metabolites. This inhibitor was identified as 4-isoavenaciolide (4-iA), and was determined to irreversibly inhibit VHR phosphatase activity with a 50% inhibitory concentration of 1.2 mi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ueda K,Usui T,Nakayama H,Ueki M,Takio K,Ubukata M,Osada H

更新日期：2002-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The urokinase receptor (uPAR) on the cell surface plays an important role in extracellular proteolysis, cell migration and adhesion. Soluble uPAR (suPAR) has been recently discovered in plasma, but its origin is unclear. Our results now demonstrate that both unstimulated blood mononuclear and endothelial cells can rel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mustjoki S,Sidenius N,Vaheri A

更新日期：2000-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Maurotoxin (MTX) is a 34-residue toxin that has been isolated from the venom of the chactidae scorpion Scorpio maurus palmatus, and characterized. Together with Pi1 and HsTx1, MTX belongs to a family of short-chain four-disulfide-bridged scorpion toxins acting on potassium channels. However, contrary to other members ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carlier E,Fajloun Z,Mansuelle P,Fathallah M,Mosbah A,Oughideni R,Sandoz G,Di Luccio E,Geib S,Regaya I,Brocard J,Rochat H,Darbon H,Devaux C,Sabatier JM,de Waard M

更新日期：2001-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase from sheep vesicular gland has been deduced by cloning and sequence analysis of DNA complementary to its messenger RNA. The results were confirmed by digestion of the enzyme with carboxypeptidase Y and by automated Edman degradation of the intact ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yokoyama C,Takai T,Tanabe T

更新日期：1988-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a search for selective, mechanism-based covalent inhibitors of human pancreatic α-amylase we describe the chemoenzymatic synthesis of the disaccharide analog α-glucosyl epi-cyclophellitol, demonstrate its stoichiometric reaction with human pancreatic α-amylase and evaluate the time dependence of its inhibit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Caner S,Zhang X,Jiang J,Chen HM,Nguyen NT,Overkleeft H,Brayer GD,Withers SG

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of insulin and IGF-I on the cell surface quantities of GLUT1, GLUT3 and GLUT4 glucose transporters in L6 myotubes were determined with the exofacial bis-mannose phololabel (ATB-BMPA). In basal cells, an equal molar quantity of each transporter isoform was found at the cell surface. Insulin stimulated the t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wilson CM,Mitsumoto Y,Maher F,Klip A

更新日期：1995-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial DNA supercoiling is controlled by balancing the supercoiling activity of DNA gyrase and the relaxing activity of DNA topoisomerase I. We have characterized the gyrB gene from a top A deletion mutant of Escherichia coli (DM800) that has a compensatory mutation in gyrB, lowering the activity of gyrase 10-fold,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McEachern F,Fisher LM

更新日期：1989-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The pre-steady state process in the thermolysin-catalyzed hydrolysis of Cbz-Gly-Phe-Ala was observed at pH 4.5 by fluorescence stopped-flow method using Dns-Phe as a displacement probe. After the confirmation of the pre-equilibrium hypothesis for the binary interaction, the nonlinear substrate concentration dependence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kunugi S,Yokoyama M,Sakamoto A

更新日期：1995-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of amino acid substitutions in the first extracellular loop region of the delta- and mu-opioid receptors were examined. Substitution of lysine-108 of the delta-receptor (delta K108) with asparagine improved affinity to [D-Ala2,MePhe4,Gly-ol5]enk ephalin (DAGO), a mu-selective peptide agonist, to be comparable ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fukuda K,Terasako K,Kato S,Mori K

更新日期：1995-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild sonication of eukaryotic cells produces native plasma membrane sheets that retain their docked organelles, cytoskeleton structures and cytoplasmic complexes. While the delicate organization of membranous protein complexes remains undisturbed, their inner plasmalemmel leaflet can be rapidly exposed to bathing solu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bar-On D,Winter U,Nachliel E,Gutman M,Fasshauer D,Lang T,Ashery U

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1) cause recessive form of Parkinson's disease (PD). PINK1 acts upstream of parkin, regulating mitochondrial integrity and functions. Here, we show that PINK1 in combination with parkin results in the perinuclear mitochondrial aggregation followed by their elimination. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kawajiri S,Saiki S,Sato S,Sato F,Hatano T,Eguchi H,Hattori N

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The NAD+-requiring enzymes of glycoside hydrolase family 4 (GHF4) contain a region with a conserved Gly-XXX-Gly-Ser (GXGS) motif near their N-termini that is reminiscent of the fingerprint region of the Rossmann fold, a conserved structural motif of classical nicotinamide nucleotide-binding proteins. The function of t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Raasch C,Armbrecht M,Streit W,Höcker B,Sträter N,Liebl W

更新日期：2002-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The acronym CK2 denotes a highly pleiotropic Ser/Thr protein kinase whose over-expression correlates with neoplastic growth. A vexed question about the enigmatic regulation of CK2 concerns the actual existence in living cells of the catalytic (alpha and/or alpha') and regulatory beta-subunits of CK2 not assembled into...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Salvi M,Sarno S,Marin O,Meggio F,Itarte E,Pinna LA

更新日期：2006-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfate assimilation pathway is highly responsive to changes in environment, but the mechanisms of such regulation are only slowly beginning to unravel. Here we show evidence that PHYTOCHROME AND FLOWERING TIME 1 (PFT1) may be another component of the sulfate assimilation regulatory circuit. Transcriptional regulation...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koprivova A,Calderwood A,Lee BR,Kopriva S

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotic and abiotic stress induces the formation of galactolipids esterified with the phytohormones 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA) and dinor-oxo-phytodienoic acid (dnOPDA) in Arabidopsis thaliana. The biosynthetic pathways of free (dn)OPDA is well described, but it is unclear how they are incorporated into galactolipi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nilsson AK,Fahlberg P,Ellerström M,Andersson MX

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:SV40 large T antigen is phosphorylated at up to ten different amino acids clustered in an N-terminal and a C-terminal part of the polypeptide chain. The N-terminal phosphorylated residues include Ser 123 and Thr 124. We have analyzed the oligomerization, the complex formation with the cellular oncoprotein p53 and the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Montenarh M,Müller D

更新日期：1987-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The chaotropic character of several ions determines their partition on membrane interfaces with aqueous media as predicted by the Hofmeister series. However, specific characteristics of each individual ion determine its ability to cross the membrane and to influence Ca2+, H+ and electrical gradients produced by the sa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yu X,Inesi G

更新日期：1993-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of recent observations have suggested that the endocytic and biosynthetic pathways may share fundamentally similar transport mechanisms at the molecular level. Some of the more striking of these suggestions have come from a comparison of the effects of the macrocyclic lactone brefeldin A (BFA) on endosomes an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hunziker W,Whitney JA,Mellman I

更新日期：1992-07-27 00:00:00