Activation of leukocyte rolling by the cysteine-rich domain and the hyper-variable region of HF3, a snake venom hemorrhagic metalloproteinase.

abstract：:A cDNA of a type 7 adenylyl cyclase isoform was cloned from a bovine retinal pigment epithelium cDNA library using oligonucleotides developed to conserved regions common to mammalian adenylyl cyclases. A 6.7 kb mRNA of very high abundance was uniquely present on Northern blots containing mRNA or total RNA from the pig...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Völkel H,Beitz E,Klumpp S,Schultz JE

更新日期：1996-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell-derived factor 1alpha (SDF-1alpha) is a chemokine that has been shown to prevent infection of T-tropic HIV strains and is a possible substrate of CD26/dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV). In this study, we show that SDF-1alpha was cleaved at the N-terminal region by CD26/DPPIV and as a result the inhibitory a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohtsuki T,Hosono O,Kobayashi H,Munakata Y,Souta A,Shioda T,Morimoto C

更新日期：1998-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is linked to functional brown adipose tissue (BAT) atrophy, partially due to adipocyte apoptosis. The brown adipocytes of obese rats have lower Bcl-2/Bax mRNA and protein ratios than those of their lean littermates. Exposure to a low temperature for three days markedly increased the Bcl-2/Bax ratio, by increas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Briscini L,Tonello C,Dioni L,Carruba MO,Nisoli E

更新日期：1998-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Monomeric bovine pancreatic RNase A has been transformed into a dimeric ribonuclease with antitumor activity (Di Donato, A., Cafaro, V. and D'Alessio, G. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 17394-17396). This was accomplished by replacing the residues located in the RNase chain at positions 19, 28, 31, and 32, with proline, le...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cafaro V,Bracale A,Di Maro A,Sorrentino S,D'Alessio G,Di Donato A

更新日期：1998-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The corpus of the scientific literature has reached such size that a lot of useful data, dispersed throughout millions different articles, are now hard to recover. For instance, many articles in the biological domain describe relationships between entities (gene, proteins, small molecules, etc.) yet this crucial infor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ceol A,Chatr-Aryamontri A,Licata L,Cesareni G

更新日期：2008-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate compartmentalization in intracellular organelles has been long recognized as critical for plant physiology but the molecular identity of the proteins involved remained unclear for a long time. In Arabidopsis thaliana, AtClC-a has been recently shown to be a NO(3)(-)/H(+) antiporter critical for nitrate transpo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zifarelli G,Pusch M

更新日期：2010-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of incomplete segments of Escherichia coli lactose permease to form transport-competent complexes in vivo was further tested. Two series of mutant lacY genes were constructed. One encoded N-terminal lactose permease segments of different length. The proteins specified by the other group contained deletion...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wrubel W,Stochaj U,Ehring R

更新日期：1994-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of the chemically transformed fibroblasts BP-A31 and other cell lines with low concentrations of cycloheximide (CHM) for 72 h followed by the removal of the protein synthesis inhibitor leads to the proliferation of alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO)-resistant phenotypes. These drug-resistant cells contain ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Medrano EE,Burrone OR,Ferrer MM,Cafferata EG,Algranati ID

更新日期：1986-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Data obtained from peptide mapping of the active and inactive forms of human renin show that there are extensive regions of common sequence in the two forms of the enzyme, and are consistent with the hypothesis that inactive renin is a renin zymogen. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McIntyre GD,Chaudhuri S,Coggins JR

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Glucosidase hydrolyzes α-glucosides and transfers α-glucosyl residues to an acceptor through transglucosylation. In this study, GH13_31 α-glucosidase BspAG13_31A with high transglucosylation activity is reported in Bacillus sp. AHU2216 and biochemically and structurally characterized. This enzyme is specific to α-(1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Auiewiriyanukul W,Saburi W,Kato K,Yao M,Mori H

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms underlying the association between fibroblastic growth factor 23 (FGF-23) and inflammation are uncertain. We found that FGF-23 was markedly up-regulated in LPS/INF-γ-induced proinflammatory M1 macrophages and Hyp mouse-derived peritoneal macrophages, but not in IL-4-induced M2 anti-inflammatory macrophages....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Han X,Li L,Yang J,King G,Xiao Z,Quarles LD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) kinase genes (PPCk1 and PPCk2) are present in the Arabidopsis genome; only PPCk1 is expressed in rosette leaves. Homozygous lines of two independent PPCk1 T-DNA-insertional mutants showed very little (dln1), or no (csi8) light-induced PEPC phosphorylation and a clear retard i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Meimoun P,Gousset-Dupont A,Lebouteiller B,Ambard-Bretteville F,Besin E,Lelarge C,Mauve C,Hodges M,Vidal J

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To address biophysical principles and lipid interactions that underlie the properties of membrane proteins, modifications that vary the neighbors of tryptophan residues in the highly dynamic transmembrane helix of GW4,20 ALP23 (acetyl-GGAW4 A(LA)6 LAW20 AGA-amide) were examined using deuterium NMR spectroscopy. It was...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McKay MJ,Greathouse DV,Koeppe RE 2nd

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium sigma vegetative-dependent promoters are different from those of enteric bacteria and have never been characterized before. We report here the biochemical characterization of the ORF1-ntrBC promoter of Rhizobium etli. The minimal promoter region was located by means of a transcriptional fusion and further ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Martino M,Riccio A,Defez R,Iaccarino M,Patriarca EJ

更新日期：1996-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors purified from porcine atrium were phosphorylated, depending on the presence of agonists, by a protein kinase partially purified from porcine brain, which had similar properties to the beta-adrenergic receptor kinase. GTP-binding regulatory proteins (Go) had dual effects on the phosph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Haga K,Haga T

更新日期：1990-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraction and identification of the non-covalently bound heme groups from crude membrane preparations of photoheterotrophically grown Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography and optical spectrophotometry led to the detection of heme O in addition to hemes B and A which latt...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peschek GA,Wastyn M,Fromwald S,Mayer B

更新日期：1995-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic nuclear RNA binding proteins share a common sequence motif thought to be implicated in RNA binding. One of the two domains present in A1 hnRNP protein, has been modelled by homology in order to make a prediction of the main features of the RNA binding site. Acylphosphatase (EC 3.6.1.7) was selected as templ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ghetti A,Bolognesi M,Cobianchi F,Morandi C

更新日期：1990-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural differences between platelet and endothelial cell thrombospondin (TBSP) were found in two protease-resistant domains (70 and 18 kDa). The 70 kDa fragment is involved in the binding of TBSP to fibrinogen and the 18 kDa fragment in the attachment to various cultured cells. Despite these structural differences...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Clezardin P,Bourdillon MC,Hunter NR,McGregor JL

更新日期：1988-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin 14 (SS 14) has been isolated from pancreatic extracts, but open gel filtration immunoreactive SS often elutes in two peaks. We isolated both peaks, but upon sequence analysis only authentic SS 14 could be identified. By further gel filtration experiments it turned out that both synthetic and extractable S...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bersani M,Johnsen AH,Holst JJ

更新日期：1991-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In Ruminococcus albus, 4-O-β-D-mannosyl-D-glucose phosphorylase (RaMP1) and β-(1,4)-mannooligosaccharide phosphorylase (RaMP2) belong to two subfamilies of glycoside hydrolase family 130. The two enzymes phosphorolyze β-mannosidic linkages at the nonreducing ends of their substrates, and have substantially diverse sub...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ye Y,Saburi W,Odaka R,Kato K,Sakurai N,Komoda K,Nishimoto M,Kitaoka M,Mori H,Yao M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native and carotenoid-depleted peripheral purple bacterial light-harvesting complex (LH2) were investigated by simultaneous two-photon excited (between 1300-1500 nm) fluorescence (TPF). TPF results from direct bacteriochlorophyll excitation in both samples. The spectral position of the 2A(g)(-) state of rhodopin [corr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krikunova M,Kummrow A,Voigt B,Rini M,Lokstein H,Moskalenko A,Scheer H,Razjivin A,Leupold D

更新日期：2002-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced depression of phosphoinositide (PI) hydrolysis was investigated using rat aortas. In LPS-pretreated aortas, the 5-hydroxytryptamine-stimulated accumulation of inositol monophosphate and incorporation of exogenous myo-inositol into PIs were significantly less th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sotoda Y,Negoro M,Wakabayashi I

更新日期：2002-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbohydrate chains of the pathological human immunoglobulins M from two patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia were released by hydrazinolysis. The N-acetyllactosamine-type glycans were obtained by affinity chromatography on concanavalin A and fractionated by high-voltage paper electrophoresis. The primary...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cahour A,Debeire P,Hartmann L,Montreuil J,van Halbeek H,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：1984-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](i)) changes were measured in cell bodies of cultured rat hippocampal neurones with the fluorescent indicator Fluo-3. In the absence of external Ca(2+), the cholinergic agonist carbachol (200 microM) and the sarcoendoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) pump inhibitor thapsigargin (0.4 microM) both t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bouron A

更新日期：2000-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed on the intrinsically disordered 39-residue N-terminal transactivation domain of p53 (p53(1-39)). Simulations not only revealed that p53(1-39) is natively compact, but also possesses a folded structure. Furthermore, leucine-rich hydrophobic clusters were found to play ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Espinoza-Fonseca LM

更新日期：2009-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin-binding proteins are necessary for pathogens to obtain iron from Hb. Entamoeba histolytica can grow using Hb as source of iron, but the underlying mechanism has not previously been established. In this work, we identified a 45 kDa Hb-binding protein of E. histolytica, which we named Ehhmbp45. In silico anal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cruz-Castañeda A,Olivares-Trejo JJ

更新日期：2008-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades of neuroscience research have shed light on the hippocampus as a key structure for the formation of episodic memory. The hippocampus is divided into distinct subfields - CA1, CA2 and CA3. While accumulating evidence points to cellular and synaptic heterogeneity within each subfield, this heterogeneity has not ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Igarashi KM,Ito HT,Moser EI,Moser MB

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate changes in gene expression associated with stage-specific programmed cell death (PCD) in intersegmental muscles (ISMs) of the moth, Manduca sexta. The technique of differential display reverse transcription PCR was applied to compare mRNA levels before and after the onset of PCD ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Löw P,Talián GC,Sass M

更新日期：2005-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta), the major constituent of senile plaques in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain, is the main source of oxidative stress leading to neurodegeneration. The methionine residue in this peptide is reported to be responsible for neurotoxicity. Structurally similar substitution with methionine 35 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dai XL,Sun YX,Jiang ZF

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of the domains of Trichoderma reesei endoglucanase I (EGI) has been studied. Truncated EGI proteins were expressed from the 3'-end deleted cDNAs in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the control of the ADC1 expression cassette. EGI protein was detected by monoclonal antibody EI-2 and EGI activity as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aho S

更新日期：1991-10-07 00:00:00