Aromatic structure of tyrosine-92 in the extrinsic PsbU protein of red algal photosystem II is important for its functioning.

abstract：:Amiloride, a specific inhibitor for the Na(+)-driven flagellar motors of alkalophilic Bacillus, is known to inhibit secondarily the growth of alkalophiles. The motility of a marine Vibrio, V. alginolyticus, was almost completely inhibited by 2 mM amiloride either at pH 7.0 or 8.5. We found that this concentration of a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Atsumi T,Maekawa Y,Tokuda H,Imae Y

更新日期：1992-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the interaction of the yeast RAS2 protein with guanine nucleotides using energetic parameters for the dissociation of RAS.nucleotide complexes. The results indicated that a Gly-->Ser substitution at position 82 led to an altered interaction with GppNHp and, to a lesser extent, also with GDP. It was als...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： De Vendittis E,Fasano O

更新日期：1994-06-27 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 inhibitory effect of actin on protein phosphorylation by three distinct protein kinases (CK-II, A-kinase and MAP-kinase) was examined in vitro. It was found that: (i) actin inhibits the activities of alpha-monomeric CK-II (CK-IIalpha) as well as oligomeric CK-II (alpha2beta2) in a dose-dependent manner, but has no...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karino A,Tanoue S,Fukuda M,Nakamura T,Ohtsuki K

更新日期：1996-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T-cells (Tregs) are the guardians of peripheral tolerance acting to prevent autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythomatosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Defects in Tregs have been reported in these two diseases despite significant differences in their clinical phenotype and pathogenesis. In...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chavele KM,Ehrenstein MR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are members of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family that signal via type I and type II serine/threonine kinase receptors and intracellular Smad transcription factors. BMPs are multifunctional regulators of development and tissue homeostasis and they were initially characte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cai J,Pardali E,Sánchez-Duffhues G,ten Dijke P

更新日期：2012-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication protein A (RP-A) was isolated from tobacco suspension cells and purified to near homogeneity by a procedure involving isolation of protoplasts, preparation of nuclei, nuclear lysis, binding to a column of single-stranded (ss) DNA cellulose and elution at different salt concentrations. The purified protein ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garcia-Maya MM,Buck KW

更新日期：1997-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 400 human proteases documented in secondary databases can already be delineated in genomic sequence. A Genome Ontology annotation of 30585 sequences in the provisional human proteome set recognises 498 proteases, i.e. 1.6%. Homology searches against finished sequence and comparisons between mouse and zebrafish ar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Southan C

更新日期：2001-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrin 2 (vasotocinyl-Gly), a hydroosmotic peptide resulting from differential processing of provasotocin and recently identified in frog neurohypophysis, has been looked for in the pituitary gland of an exotic toad (Bufo marinus) and of a reptile (Vipera aspis). Hydrin 2 has been found in the amphibian but not in the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Michel G,Rouillé Y,Chauvet MT,Chauvet J,Acher R

更新日期：1990-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:CAP (c-Cbl associated protein)/ponsin belongs to a family of adaptor proteins implicated in cell adhesion and signaling. Here we show that CAP binds to and co-localizes with the essential endocytic factor dynamin. We demonstrate that CAP promotes the formation of dynamin-decorated tubule like structures, which are als...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tosoni D,Cestra G

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Using RT-PCR we distinguished mRNAs for all known G-protein coupled serotonin receptors expressed in various rat and porcine blood vessels. Nearly all vessels expressed 5HT1D beta, 5-HT2A, 5-HT2B, 5-HT4, and 5-HT7 receptor mRNA to different extents. New splice variants of the porcine 5-HT4 receptor were observed. Simi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ullmer C,Schmuck K,Kalkman HO,Lübbert H

更新日期：1995-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrin repeats are three-helix bundle structures which occur in a large number of diverse proteins, either as single copies or in tandem arrangements of multiple repeats. They can serve structural purposes, by coordination of cytoskeletal interactions with high spatial precision, as well as a 'switchboard' for inter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Djinovic-Carugo K,Gautel M,Ylänne J,Young P

更新日期：2002-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of angiotensin II (Ang II) on the early growth response gene-1 (Egr-1) mRNA, on the Egr-1 protein and on the phosphoinositide PI turnover signalling system was investigated in the presence and absence of EXP3174, a potent non-peptide Ang II receptor antagonist. Ang II induced an accumulation of 3.4 kb Egr-1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sachinidis A,Weisser P,Ko Y,Schulte K,Meyer zu Brickwedde K,Neyses L,Vetter H

更新日期：1992-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of low M(r) phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase (PTPase) in the control of cell proliferation was studied. A synthetic gene coding for PTPase was transfected and expressed in NIH/3T3 fibroblasts. The effects of the enzyme were particularly evident when cells were stimulated by platelet-derived growth factor (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berti A,Rigacci S,Raugei G,Degl'Innocenti D,Ramponi G

更新日期：1994-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of fibronectin was studied in quiescent vs growing cells from several species. Fibronectin secreted by actively growing cells exhibits a significantly higher level of phosphorylation than does the fibronectin secreted by quiescent cells of the same species. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ali IU

更新日期：1983-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fanconi anemia (FA) pathway, of which the FANCD2 protein is a key component, plays crucial roles in the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells and suppression of carcinogenesis. However, the function of FANCD2 remains unclear. Here, we report that FANCD2 is a novel and specific substrate of caspase 3. Cleavage of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakai W,Sugasawa K

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A steady-state framework was applied to the ubiquitous tricyclic enzyme cascade structure, as seen in the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase system, to analyze the effect of upstream kinase concentrations on final output response. The results suggest that signal amplification achieved by the cascade structure ensu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mutalik VK,Singh AP,Edwards JS,Venkatesh KV

更新日期：2004-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid extracts of rat pituitary neuro-intermediate lobes have been shown by ion-exchange chromatography and radio-immunoassay to contain predominantly the inactive derivatives of beta-endorphin, alpha, N-acetyl beta-endorphin 1-27 and alpha, N-acetyl beta-endorphin 1-26; the biologically active form, beta-endorphin 1-3...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ham J,Smyth DG

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Okadaic acid, a specific inhibitor of protein phosphatase 1 in Paramecium causes sustained backward swimming in response to depolarising stimuli (S. Klumpp et al. (1990) EMBO J. 9, 685). Here, we employ okadaic acid, tautomycin, microcystin LR and inhibitor 1 as phosphatase inhibitors to identify a 42 kDa protein in t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klumpp S,Schultz JE

更新日期：1991-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the identification, gene expression and biological activity of two parathyroid hormones (PTH; PTHA and PTHB), two PTH-related peptides (PTHrP; PTHrPA and PTHrPB) and a PTH-like ligand (PTH-L) with hybrid characteristics in puffer fishes (Takifugu rubripes and Tetraodon fluviatilis). Experimental data are con...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Canario AV,Rotllant J,Fuentes J,Guerreiro PM,Rita Teodósio H,Power DM,Clark MS

更新日期：2006-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have explored the mechanisms involved in the facilitation of glutamate release mediated by the activation of kainate receptors (KARs) in the cortex using isolated nerve terminals (synaptosomes). Kainate (KA) produced an increase on glutamate release at 100 μM. The effect of KA was antagonized by NBQX (with AMPA rec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodríguez-Moreno A,Sihra TS

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the Pseudomonas saccharophila gene encoding maltotetraohydrolase (G4-forming amylase) has been determined. The coding region for the G4-forming amylase precursor contained 1653 nucleotides. The deduced precursor protein included an N-terminal 21-residue putative signal peptide; the deduced m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou JH,Baba T,Takano T,Kobayashi S,Arai Y

更新日期：1989-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers still have great difficulty in isolating individual ribosomal proteins from the ribosome in quantities high enough for structural research. To this end, when studying protein S7, we created an E. coli overproducer of the recombinant protein S7 of Thermus thermophilus. The vector for expression was pQE-32 h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karginov AV,Karginova OA,Spiridonova VA,Kopylov AM

更新日期：1995-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloning and nucleotide sequence analysis of the human calcitonin mRNA from the BEN lung carcinoma cell line, a cell line known to secrete high-Mr forms of calcitonin, showed no difference in the coding region at the nucleotide level compared with calcitonin mRNA isolated from medullary thyroid carcinoma which secretes...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Riley JH,Edbrooke MR,Craig RK

更新日期：1986-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of synthetic UTP analogues containing methyl groups in different positions of the ribose moiety were tested as substrates for T7 RNA polymerase (T7 RNAP). Two of these compounds (containing substituents in the 5' position) were shown to be weak substrates of T7 RNAP. 3'Me-UTP was neither substrate nor inhib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tunitskaya VL,Rusakova EE,Padyukova NSh,Ermolinsky BS,Chernyi AA,Kochetkov SN,Lysov YuP,Mikhailov SN

更新日期：1997-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:While many antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) disrupt bacterial membranes, some translocate into bacteria and interfere with intracellular processes. Buforin II and DesHDAP1 are thought to kill bacteria by interacting with nucleic acids. Here, molecular modeling and experimental measurements are used to show that neither n...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sim S,Wang P,Beyer BN,Cutrona KJ,Radhakrishnan ML,Elmore DE

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils contain four uncharacterized protein kinases with molecular masses of ca. 69, 63, 49 and 40 kDa that are rapidly activated upon stimulation of these cells with the chemoattractant fMet-Leu-Phe [Ding, J. and Badwey, J.A. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 17326-17333]. We now report that wortmannin and 1-butanol bl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ding J,Badwey JA

更新日期：1994-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfatide, which binds to influenza A viruses and prevents the viral infection, was found to inhibit the sialidase activities of influenza A viruses in a pH-dependent manner. The kinetic parameters of the effect of sulfatide on the sialidase activities of human influenza A viruses using fluorometric assay indicated th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Suzuki T,Takahashi T,Nishinaka D,Murakami M,Fujii S,Hidari KI,Miyamoto D,Li YT,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2003-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyglutamine tract-binding protein 1 (PQBP1) is an intrinsically disordered protein abundantly expressed in the brain. Mutations in the PQBP1 gene are causative for X-linked mental retardation disorders. Here, we investigated the structure of the C-terminal segment within the context of full-length PQBP1. We produced...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nabeshima Y,Mizuguchi M,Kajiyama A,Okazawa H

更新日期：2014-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Criteria for the design of peptide vaccines to prevent AIDS are presented. The best vaccine candidates contain both B and T lymphocyte-defined epitopes in regions conserved in sequence between viral isolates. We propose that attention should focus on proteins specified by the gag and, possibly, pol genes in addition t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sternberg MJ,Barton GJ,Zvelebil MJ,Cookson J,Coates AR

更新日期：1987-06-29 00:00:00