Hypotonic shocks activate rat TRPV4 in yeast in the absence of polyunsaturated fatty acids.

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 octapeptide Ala-Ser-Thr-Thr-Thr-Asn-Tyr-Thr (peptide T) and two structural analogs are potent agonists of human monocyte chemotaxis, evincing identical rank potency orders as was previously shown for their inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) envelope binding and T cell infectivity. Chemotactic activit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ruff MR,Martin BM,Ginns EI,Farrar WL,Pert CB

更新日期：1987-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman spectra were observed for compound II of horseradish peroxidase A2, and the Fe(IV) = O stretching Raman line was identified at 775 cm-1. This Raman line shifted to 741 cm-1 upon a change of solvent from H2(16)O to H2(18)O, indicating occurrence of the oxygen exchange between the Fe(IV) = O heme and bul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hashimoto S,Nakajima R,Yamazaki I,Tatsuno Y,Kitagawa T

更新日期：1986-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-directed functional selectivity has stimulated much interest in the molecular delineation of drug pharmacology and the process of drug discovery. Here we describe the development of a label-free optical biosensor with microfluidics for whole cell sensing. The microfluidics controls the duration of agonist expos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Goral V,Wu Q,Sun H,Fang Y

更新日期：2011-04-06 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：:A unique Cu,Zn-SOD was found and isolated from plaice Paralichthys olivaceus skin. Surprisingly, the properties of purified fish skin SOD were very different from those of SOD from other sources reported so far. The purified SOD was composed of four same subunits of 16 kDa and the molecular weight of the native SOD wa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakano T,Sato M,Takeuchi M

更新日期：1995-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Domain structures of porcine lung and testicular angiotensin-converting enzymes (ACE) were studied by radiation inactivation to test the hypothesis that lung ACE has two catalytic sites localized to discrete, structurally independent domains (the N- and C-domains) of approximately equal size. The minimum functional si...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakaguchi H,Hirose S,Kume T,Hagiwara H

更新日期：1992-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat brain astroglia-enriched cultures long-term treatment with interleukin-1beta induces NO release and stimulation of soluble guanylyl cyclase. The cGMP formed is recovered in the extracellular medium but not in the cell monolayer. The interleukin-1beta effect is mediated by type I receptor and potentiated by inte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pedraza CE,Baltrons MA,García A

更新日期：2001-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To test if mitochondrial uncoupling in white adipocytes is responsible for obesity resistance of the aP2-Ucp transgenic mice expressing ectopic uncoupling protein 1 (UCPI) in white fat, mitochondrial membrane potential (delta psi(m)) was estimated by flow cytometry in adipocytes isolated from gonadal fat. Ectopic UCP1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baumruk F,Flachs P,Horáková M,Floryk D,Kopecký J

更新日期：1999-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters constitute one of the largest families of proteins in evolution. The ATM1 gene of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes an ABC protein, which is localized to the mitochondrial inner membrane. A deletion of ATM1 results in the accumulation of up to a 30-fold excess of mi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chloupková M,Reaves SK,LeBard LM,Koeller DM

更新日期：2004-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells homozygous for disruption of the MSK1 gene had no detectable MSK1 activity. However, their activators (extracellular signal related kinase (ERK)1/ERK2) were stimulated normally in mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase (MSK)1-/- and wild type cells in response to tetradecanoylphor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arthur JS,Cohen P

更新日期：2000-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoblastic differentiation is regulated by various factors, including hormones and transcription factors. Runt-related transcription factor 2 (Runx2) is an essential player in osteoblastogenesis and transactivates its molecular target by creating a protein complex with its hetero-dimeric partner core binding factor ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fukuda T,Ochi H,Sunamura S,Haiden A,Bando W,Inose H,Okawa A,Asou Y,Takeda S

更新日期：2015-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In exocrine acinar cells a variety of neurotransmitters (e.g. acetylcholine) stimulate phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate hydrolysis elevating intracellular calcium to activate calcium-dependent membrane currents (outward K+ and inward Cl-). This study shows that in lacrimal acinar cells extracellular application o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sasaki T,Gallacher DV

更新日期：1990-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) in Crithidia fasciculata was shown to be correlated to the growth of the parasite. An increase in activity was observed during exponential growth. Inhibition of protein synthesis induced an extremely rapid decay of AdoMetDC activity. The half-life of the en...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nasizadeh S,Persson L

更新日期：2003-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved stress response that promotes the lysosomal degradation of intracellular components. The bone marrow stromal cell-derived growth inhibitor (BDGI) functions as a stress sensor which is upregulated by oxidative stress and DNA damage. However, the role of BDGI in autophagic respon...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang J,Wang L,Xu J,Tang Y,Huang B,Chen Z,Zhang T,Shen HM,Wu Y,Xia D

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle phosphofructokinase interacts with microtubule-associated protein-free microtubules resulting in a reduction of the overall activity of the enzyme [Lehotzky et al. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 10888-10894] and periodical cross-linking of the tubules [Lehotzky et al. (1994) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 204, 585-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vértessy BG,Kovács J,Ovádi J

更新日期：1996-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is responsible for the neutral cholesterol ester hydrolase activity in macrophages. Incubation of intact WEHI macrophages or mouse peritoneal macrophages leads to phosphorylation of HSL, which is increased by incubation with either dibutyryl cyclic AMP and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine or ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Small CA,Rogers MP,Goodacre JA,Yeaman SJ

更新日期：1991-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (PRL) has been implicated as a modulator of immune function, and some of its actions may be linked to NO synthesis. Because NO acts as a mediator of inflammation, we speculated that an inflammatory milieu could unmask pathways by which PRL could affect NO synthesis. Here, we show that pro-inflammatory cytoki...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Corbacho AM,Macotela Y,Nava G,Eiserich JP,Cross CE,Martínez de la Escalera G,Clapp C

更新日期：2003-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli maltose-binding protein (MBP) is frequently used as an affinity tag to facilitate the purification of recombinant proteins. An important additional attribute of MBP is its remarkable ability to enhance the solubility of its fusion partners. MBPs are present in a wide variety of microorganisms includin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fox JD,Routzahn KM,Bucher MH,Waugh DS

更新日期：2003-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The WRN protein is mutated in the chromosomally unstable Werner syndrome (WS) and the Nbs1 protein is mutated in Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS). The Nbs1 protein is an integral component of the M/R/N complex. Although WRN is known to interact with this complex in response to gamma-irradiation, the mechanism of actio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cheng WH,Sakamoto S,Fox JT,Komatsu K,Carney J,Bohr VA

更新日期：2005-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein factor that specifically binds to the 5'-untranslated region of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) RNA has been found in extracts of ascites carcinoma Krebs-2 cells. This was done using UV-irradiation on extracts supplemented with in vitro synthesized 32P-labelled transcripts followed by analysis of crosslink...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borovjagin AV,Evstafieva AG,Ugarova TYu,Shatsky IN

更新日期：1990-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Snake venoms are rich sources of serine proteinase inhibitors that are members of the Kunitz/BPTI (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor) family. However, only a few of their gene sequences have been determined from snakes. We therefore cloned the cDNAs for the trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitors from a Vipera ammodytes...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zupunski V,Kordis D,Gubensek F

更新日期：2003-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ), a ligand-regulated nuclear hormone receptor, plays critical roles in metabolism and adipogenesis. PPARγ ligands such as thiazolidinediones (TZDs) exert insulin sensitizing and anti-inflammatory effects primarily through action on adipocytes, and are thus widely...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugii S,Evans RM

更新日期：2011-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:It is demonstrated by filter-binding assay that casein kinase 2 from Rana temporaria oocytes binds rRNA in vitro with high affinity. Ligand-blotting shows that rRNA-binding activity is inherent to alpha and alpha' subunits of the enzyme. Increase of pH from 6.5 to 7.5 has little effect on casein kinase but completely ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kandror KV,Kapkov DV,Turapov OA,Stepanov AS

更新日期：1991-06-03 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：:The NusB protein is involved in transcriptional regulation in bacteriophage lambda. NusB binds to the RNA form of the nut site and along with N, NusA, NusE and NusG, stabilizes the RNA polymerase transcription complex and allows stable, persistent antitermination. NusB contains a 10 residue Arg-rich RNA-binding motif ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Altieri AS,Mazzulla MJ,Zhou H,Costantino N,Court DL,Byrd RA

更新日期：1997-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32 kDa phospholipase A2 inhibitory protein was isolated from pig thyroid gland after calcium precipitation and fast protein liquid anion-exchange chromatography. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed the purity of the protein. The protein activity was assessed by the inhibition of pancreatic phospholipase ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Antonicelli F,Rothhut B,Martiny L,Aguie-Aguie G,Lambert B,Bellon G,Russo-Marie F,Jacquemin C,Haye B

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:xxR/KxRxxSxx sequences were phosphorylated with high efficiency by both p70 S6 kinase (p70S6K) and MAPKAP kinase-1. The best substrate for MAPKAP kinase-1 (KKKNRTLSVA) was phosphorylated with a Km of 0.17 microM, and the best substrate for p70S6K (KKRNRTLSVA) with a Km of 1.5 microM. The requirement of both enzymes fo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leighton IA,Dalby KN,Caudwell FB,Cohen PT,Cohen P

更新日期：1995-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium has two intracellular beta-glucosidases (BGL1A and BGL1B) belonging to glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 1. BGL1B effectively hydrolyzes cellobiose and cellobionolactone, but BGL1A does not. We have determined the crystal structure of BGL1A in substrate-free and gluconola...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nijikken Y,Tsukada T,Igarashi K,Samejima M,Wakagi T,Shoun H,Fushinobu S

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunometabolism focuses on the mechanisms regulating the impact of metabolism on lymphocyte activity and autoimmunity outbreak. The adipose tissue is long known to release adipokines, either pro- or anti-inflammatory factors bridging nutrition and immune function. More recently, adipocytes were discovered to also rel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： de Candia P,De Rosa V,Gigantino V,Botti G,Ceriello A,Matarese G

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00