Primary structure of the alpha-subunit of vacuolar-type Na(+)-ATPase in Enterococcus hirae. Amplification of a 1000-bp fragment by polymerase chain reaction.

abstract：:Accumulation of hyperphosphorylated Tau is associated with a number of neurodegenerative diseases collectively known as tauopathies. Differences in clinical and cognitive profiles among them suggest differential sensitivity of neuronal populations to Tau levels, phosphorylation and mutations. We used tissue specific e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Grammenoudi S,Kosmidis S,Skoulakis EM

更新日期：2006-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamine depletion, obtained in FAO cells with specific inhibitors of biosynthetic enzymes, prevents or decreases the accumulation of hsp 70 mRNA following heat shock [Desiderio et al., Hepatology 24 (1996) 150-156]. The present study shows that under conditions of spermidine depletion caused by alpha-difluoromethylo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Desiderio MA,Dansi P,Tacchini L,Bernelli-Zazzera A

更新日期：1999-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ballistic transfection, based on cell and tissue bombardment by the tungsten and gold microparticles covered with the gene DNA, was used for the delivery of a bacterial beta-galactosidase and a full-length cDNA copy of the human dystrophin genes into mouse skeletal muscles. CMV-lacZ, SV40-lacZ, LTR-lacZneo and full-le...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zelenin AV,Kolesnikov VA,Tarasenko OA,Shafei RA,Zelenina IA,Mikhailov VV,Semenova ML,Kovalenko DV,Artemyeva OV,Ivaschenko TE,Evgrafov OV,Dickson G,Baranovand VS

更新日期：1997-09-08 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 pl6INK4a tumor suppressor negatively regulates progression through the G1 phase of the mammalian cell cycle. To mimic the downmodulation of p16INK4a commonly seen in cancer, we designed and characterized a hammerhead ribozyme against exon E1alpha of the murine pl6INK4a transcript. Stable expression of the ribozyme...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nylandsted J,Rohde M,Bartek J,Strauss M

更新日期：1998-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanosarcina barkeri inserts pyrrolysine (Pyl) at an in-frame UAG codon in its monomethylamine methyltransferase gene. Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase acylates Pyl onto tRNAPyl, the amber suppressor pyrrolysine Pyl tRNA. Here we show that M. barkeri Fusaro tRNAPyl can be misacylated with serine by the M. barkeri bacteria...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gundllapalli S,Ambrogelly A,Umehara T,Li D,Polycarpo C,Söll D

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we used a reductant, N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), to investigate the redox-sensitive step(s) in the signalling pathway from the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor to nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB). We found that NAC suppressed NF-kappaB activation triggered by TNF or by overexpression of either the TNF recept...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oka S,Kamata H,Kamata K,Yagisawa H,Hirata H

更新日期：2000-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:As an attempt to investigate the dynamic interactions between plasma serine protease, coagulation factor VIIa (VIIa) and its cofactor, tissue factor (TF), we performed normal mode analysis (NMA) of the complex of VIIa with soluble TF (the extracellular part of TF; sTF). We compared fluctuations of Calpha atoms of VIIa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Soejima K,Kurihara Y,Kamiya K,Umeyama H

更新日期：1999-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The carboxy-terminal half of the c-src protein fused to the protein A moiety was expressed in bacteria. The protein A/truncated c-src fusion protein, which does not have SH2 and SH3 domains, is found in the periplasmic space allowing for a simple one-step purification and demonstrated high efficiency in autophosphoryl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Saya H,Lee PS,Nishi T,Izawa I,Nakajima M,Gallick GE,Levin VA

更新日期：1993-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray structure of bovine beta-lactoglobulin with the ligand 12-bromododecanoic acid as a model for fatty acids has been determined at a resolution of 2.23 A in the trigonal lattice Z form. The ligand binds inside the calyx, resolving a long-standing controversy as to where fatty-acid like ligands bind. The carbox...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Qin BY,Creamer LK,Baker EN,Jameson GB

更新日期：1998-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing of the Alzheimer's amyloid beta protein precursor (ABPP) message leads to the production of several variants of this precursor polypeptide. Two of these variants contain a domain that is highly homologous to members of the Kunitz class of protease inhibitors. In order to initiate a study of the ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Castro M,Marks CB,Nilsson B,Anderson S

更新日期：1990-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pin2/TRF1 was independently identified as a telomeric DNA-binding protein (TRF1) that regulates telomere length, and as a protein (Pin2) that can bind the mitotic kinase NIMA and suppress its lethal phenotype. We have previously demonstrated that Pin2/TRF1 levels are cell cycle-regulated and its overexpression induces...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakamura M,Zhou XZ,Kishi S,Lu KP

更新日期：2002-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolded or unassembled secretory proteins are retained in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and subsequently degraded by the cytosolic ubiquitin-proteasome system. This requires their retrograde transport from the ER lumen into the cytosol, which is mediated by the Sec61 translocon. It had remained a mystery whether ER...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Plemper RK,Deak PM,Otto RT,Wolf DH

更新日期：1999-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Y RNAs are approximately 100 nucleotide long conserved cytoplasmic non-coding RNAs, which produce smaller RNA fragments during apoptosis. Here we show that these smaller RNA molecules are also produced in non-stressed cells and in a range of human cancerous and non-cancerous cell types. Recent reports have speculated ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nicolas FE,Hall AE,Csorba T,Turnbull C,Dalmay T

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the molecular cloning of a variant isoform of the low-affinity levocabastine-sensitive neurotensin receptor isolated from mouse brain. Although the corresponding mRNA encodes for a 282 amino acid protein unable to bind neurotensin after transient transfection in COS-7 cells, this non-functional neu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Botto JM,Sarret P,Vincent JP,Mazella J

更新日期：1997-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete [1H]NMR resonance assignments are presented for the second of the three zinc fingers from SW15 as it appears in both 1- and 2-finger constructs. Signals from finger 2 are unaffected by the presence or absence of finger 1, showing that the protein has a modular construction. The structure of finger 2 comprises...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Neuhaus D,Nakaseko Y,Nagai K,Klug A

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent dimerization of the adrenocorticotropin fragment ACTH11-24 increases its antagonistic potency on the ACTH-induced steroidogenesis in isolated bovine fasciculata/reticularis cells by 3 orders of magnitude when the C-termini are linked via a 10 A long spacer. This strong potentiation, probably mediated by cross...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fauchère JL,Rossier M,Capponi A,Vallotton MB

更新日期：1985-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:2-( Dimethylaminostyryl )-l-methyl pyridinium, a fluorescent indicator of mitochondrial membrane potential, is accumulated up to 400-fold by intact, isolated brown adipocytes from cold-adapted guinea pigs. The indicator can be optically localized within the in situ mitochondria. Ionophores which would be predicted to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rafael J,Nicholls DG

更新日期：1984-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-forming acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACD) catalyzes the interconversion of acetyl-CoA and acetate. The related succinyl-CoA synthetase follows a three-step mechanism involving a single phosphoenzyme, but a novel four-step mechanism with two phosphoenzyme intermediates was proposed for Pyrococcus ACD. Characterization of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jones CP,Khan K,Ingram-Smith C

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have raised monoclonal antibodies (Mab) to the Mr 55,000 desmin polypeptide, electrophoretically purified from cytoskeletal preparations of isolated bovine heart Purkinje fibers. One of the Mabs, 39AB6, revealed desmin only in cow Purkinje fibers and did not react with desmins from other muscle cells, including ven...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Virtanen I,Närvänen O,Thornell LE

更新日期：1990-07-02 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：:Conformational changes in the extradiscal regions of rhodopsin induced by illumination were investigated by modifying the visual pigment by mild treatment with cyanogen bromide prior to and after light exposure. Light induced an increased yield of cleavage of the Met bond 253-254 and a new cleavage at the Met bond 155...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pellicone C,Nullans G,Virmaux N

更新日期：1985-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleocapsid (N) protein of SARS coronavirus (SARS_CoV) is a major structural component of virions, which appears to be a multifunctional protein involved in viral RNA replication and translation. Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 (hnRNP A1) is related to the pre-mRNA splicing in the nucleus and translati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Luo H,Chen Q,Chen J,Chen K,Shen X,Jiang H

更新日期：2005-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The pET(scF11) plasmid was constructed comprising the gene of a single-chain antibody against human ferritin. This plasmid encodes the leader peptide pelB followed by the heavy chain variable V(H) domain, (Gly4Ser)3 linker peptide, and light chain variable V(L) domain. The correctly processed scF11 antibody was expres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Martsev SP,Kravchuk ZI,Chumanevich AA,Vlasov AP,Dubnovitsky AP,Bespalov IA,Arosio P,Deyev SM

更新日期：1998-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic constants of internalization of asialoorosomucoid were determined for normal and jejuno-ileal by-passed rat hepatocytes. In by-passed rats the maximum velocity of asialoorosomucoid internalization is decreased 3-fold, without any modification of apparant constant of internalization. Moreover, the rate cons...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Serbource-Goguel N,Dodeur M,Borel B,Feger J,Agneray J,Durand G

更新日期：1985-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuritic plaques are the key pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease, and amyloid beta (Abeta) peptides are major component of these plaques. In this study, we demonstrated the influence of aluminum (Al) on the Abeta peptide degradation by cathepsin D. Al did not directly affect the cathepsin D activity using smal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakamoto T,Saito H,Ishii K,Takahashi H,Tanabe S,Ogasawara Y

更新日期：2006-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions and their connexin components are indispensable in mediating the cellular coordination required for tissue and organ homeostasis. The critical nature of their existence mandates a connection to disease while at the same time offering therapeutic potential. Therapeutic intervention may be offered through ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Grek CL,Rhett JM,Ghatnekar GS

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The cAMP-dependent induction of 2,5-oligoadenylate (2-5A) synthetase and cAMP-dependent inhibition of 2-5A phosphodiesterase are shown. Variations in activities of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and the enzymes of 2-5A metabolism in the cells deepening into the resting state were found to be compatible with the above f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Itkes AV,Turpaev KT,Kartasheva ON,Tunitskaya VL,Kafiani CA

更新日期：1984-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of Na(+)-dependent glutamate transport was studied in isolated luminal and abluminal plasma membranes derived from the bovine blood-brain barrier. Abluminal membranes have Na(+)-dependent glutamate transporters while luminal membranes have facilitative transporters. This organization allows glutamate to be ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hawkins RA,Simpson IA,Mokashi A,Viña JR

更新日期：2006-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular homeostasis in response to glucose availability is maintained through the tight coordination of various physiological processes, including cell proliferation, transcription, and metabolism. In this study, we use the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify proteins implicated in carbon source-depend...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Umekawa M,Shiraishi D,Fuwa M,Sawaguchi K,Mashima Y,Katayama T,Karita S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00