Crystal structure of a soluble decoy receptor IL-22BP bound to interleukin-22.

abstract：:Zinc cations at concentrations of 0.2 mM and greater catalyzed specific phosphorylation, by ATP, of two membrane-associated proteins from rat hippocampus. These proteins, corresponding to molecular weights of 60 and 49 kDa, were phosphorylated primarily at tyrosine residues. The 60-kDa protein was identified as p60c-s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vener AV,Loeb J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular uptake of a model antisense oligonucleotide complementary to 21 bases of the bovine GLUT-1 glucose transporter mRNA and a model vasopressin peptide that were biotinylated, was markedly stimulated by the presence of avidin, a cationic protein. Conversely, the bacteria homologue of avidin, streptavidin, whi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pardridge WM,Boado RJ

更新日期：1991-08-19 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

abstract：:A developmentally regulated exon has been identified in the 5'-alternatively spliced region of the human fast Troponin T (TnT) gene. Expressed in fetal (but not adult) muscle, this exon is homologous with the fetal exons recently described in the rabbit and rat fast TnT genes. They all exhibit a split codon organizati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Briggs MM,Maready M,Schmidt JM,Schachat F

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Luminescence of Tb3+ ions bound to a calmodulin fragment has been studied. It is shown that during their lifetime excited ions dissociate from the peptide. If concentration of free peptide is high enough they can be coordinated again. As a consequence, observed terbium luminescence lifetime and intensity depends not o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dadlez M,Góral J,Bierzyński A

更新日期：1991-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study [(1987) J. Mol. Biol. 194, 663-673], we isolated ten insertion/deletion mutants (indels) of the maltose binding protein for which the maltose binding constant was only a little or not at all affected. In this paper, we have localized these mutations in the recently solved three-dimensional structur...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Betton JM,Martineau P,Saurin W,Hofnung M

更新日期：1993-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that IκBL prevents experimental autoimmune arthritis. The molecular mechanism, however, still remains unclear. In contrast to four splicing-isoforms of IκBL in human, two isoforms were identified in mouse. The major isoform IκBL-α(S) suppressed LPS-induced NF-κB activation and transcription of T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chiba T,Miyashita K,Sugoh T,Warita T,Inoko H,Kimura M,Sato T

更新日期：2011-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice are widely used for exploring obesity physiology and treatment. However, thermal biology is different between small and large mammals. In this Review, we discuss how the effect of environmental temperature must be understood to ensure applicability of mouse experiments to human obesity. At ambient environmental t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Reitman ML

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fission yeast, the only known essential function of Ned8p is the modification of the cullin, Pcu1p, and subsequent Cullin-RING-Ligase (CRL) activation and substrate ubiquitination. We show here that a functional Pcu1p mutant, deleted for its C-terminal autoinhibitory domain, which negates the requirement of neddyla...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Girdwood D,Robertson M,Gordon C

更新日期：2012-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse spermatozoa stimulated with epidermal growth factor (EGF) or zona pellucida (ZP) experienced phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate hydrolysis, diacylglycerol (DAG) generation and acrosomal exocytosis. The agonists showed additive effects but the action of EGF is likely to be mediated by a distinct receptor becau...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murase T,Roldan ER

更新日期：1995-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Vig4/Vrg4 protein is a Golgi membrane protein which has multiple transmembrane domains and is essential for transport of GDP-mannose across the Golgi membrane. By immunoprecipitation of detergent-solubilized tagged protein, we found that this protein exists as oligomer. Two mutants vig4-1 and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Abe M,Hashimoto H,Yoda K

更新日期：1999-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Dried cells of Brevibacterium ammoniagenes are a good enzyme source for the preparative synthesis of CoA from pantothenic acid, L-cysteine and ATP. A problem with this synthesis is that the CoA synthesis is repressed by negative feedback inhibition by CoA to pantothenate kinase, the first step enzyme for the biosynthe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shimizu S,Komaki R,Tani Y,Yamada H

更新日期：1983-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Only recently have products of the enzymatic breakdown of the chlorophylls been characterized for the first time. All catabolites isolated until now from a chlorophyte and from angiosperms have in common the position at which the primary oxygenative ring cleavage occurs, yielding linear tetrapyrroles (19-formyl-1[21H,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Curty C,Engel N,Gossauer A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplex structures in the 5' UTR of mRNAs have been shown to suppress translation. However, all experiments published so far made use of artificial reporter systems. Here, we investigate for the first time the biological effects of the genomic disruption of a G-quadruplex by CRISPR/Cas9. In melanoma cells lacking...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Serikawa T,Eberle J,Kurreck J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several blood-feeding organisms, including the malaria parasite detoxify haem released from host haemoglobin by conversion to the insoluble crystalline ferriprotoporphyrin IX dimer known as haemozoin. To date the mechanism of haemozoin formation has remained unknown, although lipids or proteins have been suggested to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Egan TJ,Chen JY,de Villiers KA,Mabotha TE,Naidoo KJ,Ncokazi KK,Langford SJ,McNaughton D,Pandiancherri S,Wood BR

更新日期：2006-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:PGI is a housekeeping gene encoding phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) a glycolytic enzyme that also functions as a cytokine (autocrine motility factor (AMF)/neuroleukin/maturation factor) upon secretion from the cell and binding to its 78 kDa seven-transmembrane domain receptor (gp78/AMF-R). PGI contains a CXXC motif, ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsutsumi S,Gupta SK,Hogan V,Tanaka N,Nakamura KT,Nabi IR,Raz A

更新日期：2003-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Although transthyretin (TTR) is expressed in pancreatic alpha (glucagon) cells in the islets of Langerhans, the function of TTR in pancreatic alpha cells remains unknown. In this study, by using TTR knockout (TTR KO) mice, we determined the novel role of TTR in glucose homeostasis. We demonstrated that TTR KO mice evi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Su Y,Jono H,Misumi Y,Senokuchi T,Guo J,Ueda M,Shinriki S,Tasaki M,Shono M,Obayashi K,Yamagata K,Araki E,Ando Y

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have attempted to elucidate the mechanism of apoptotic cell death induced by hypoxia (very low oxygen conditions) in neuronal cells. Human neuroblastoma SK-N-MC cells under hypoxic conditions resulted in apoptosis in a time-dependent manner estimated by DNA fragmentation assay and nuclear morphology stained with fl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Araya R,Uehara T,Nomura Y

更新日期：1998-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state kinetic analysis was performed on the reaction between D-fructose and ferricyanide with the quinohemoprotein fructose dehydrogenase from Gluconobacter species. The D-fructose oxidation dependence on the ferricyanide concentration resulted in a series of parallel reciprocal plots, and the reaction was assu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marcinkeviciene J,Johansson G

更新日期：1993-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-toxins from scorpion venoms prolong the action potential of excitable cells by blocking sodium channel inactivation. We have purified bukatoxin, an alpha-toxin from scorpion (Buthus martensi Karsch) venom, to homogeneity. Bukatoxin produced marked relaxant responses in the carbachol-precontracted rat anococcygeu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Srinivasan KN,Nirthanan S,Sasaki T,Sato K,Cheng B,Gwee MC,Kini RM,Gopalakrishnakone P

更新日期：2001-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast integral plasma membrane protein Ist2 belongs to a group of membrane proteins which are synthesized from localized mRNAs. The protein reaches the plasma membrane via the ER on a route operating independently of the classical secretory pathway. We have identified a complex peptide-sorting signal located at th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Franz A,Maass K,Seedorf M

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of sodium butyrate on in vitro angiogenesis and cyclooxygenase (COX) expression using primary cultures of human intestinal microvascular endothelial cells (HIMEC). Butyrate inhibited VEGF-induced cellular proliferation, transmigration and tube formation of HIMEC. Butyrate also inhibited COX-2 ex...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ogawa H,Rafiee P,Fisher PJ,Johnson NA,Otterson MF,Binion DG

更新日期：2003-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription mediators are evolutionarily conserved from yeast to human. We previously reported the specific in vivo roles of mediators during development. Transcriptional mediators including med-6, med-7, and med-10 were shown to be involved in the regulated transcription of specific genes, but not in the transcript...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kwon JY,Kim-Ha J,Lee BJ,Lee J

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a portion of the canine gene encoding the orphan receptor RDC1 [1]. The complete coding sequence is contained in a single exon, and an intron divides the 5' untranslated region of RDC1 mRNA. The RDC1 protein is 94% homologous to the gene product of GPRN1, which has been proposed to serve as a VIP rece...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cook JS,Wolsing DH,Lameh J,Olson CA,Correa PE,Sadee W,Blumenthal EM,Rosenbaum JS

更新日期：1992-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) inhibits the activity of coagulation factors VIIa and Xa through Kunitz domains, thereby inhibiting the activity of tissue factor. However, it has been shown that the C-terminal of this inhibitor is essential for the maximal anticoagulant activity of TFPI. We have investigated th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ettelaie C,Adam JM,James NJ,Oke AO,Harrison JA,Bunce TD,Bruckdorfer KR

更新日期：1999-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypeptides rich in glutamic acid are strong inhibitors purified from isolated nuclei of Xenopus laevis oocytes of casein kinase II. The presence of tyrosine in these peptides greatly enhances their inhibitory capacity. Using casein as a substrate, copolyglu:tyr (4:1) has an I50 value of 20 nM, 250 fold lower than th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tellez R,Gatica M,Allende CC,Allende JE

更新日期：1990-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present a method to purify large amounts of highly pure and stably arrested ribosome-nascent chain complexes (RNCs) from Escherichia coli cells. It relies on the combined use of translation-arrest sequences to generate nascent polypeptides of specified length and subsequent tag purification of the RNCs. Moreov...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rutkowska A,Beerbaum M,Rajagopalan N,Fiaux J,Schmieder P,Kramer G,Oschkinat H,Bukau B

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) exposure uncouples proximal T-cell receptor (TCR)-signalling events. Here, we demonstrate that chronic TNF-alpha exposure also attenuates signalling distal to the TCR, by specifically inhibiting Ca2+ influx evoked by thapsigargin in CD4+ T-cells. Mitogen-induced Ca2+...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Church LD,Goodall JE,Rider DA,Bacon PA,Young SP

更新日期：2005-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The photochemical reaction center of Chloroflexus (Cf.) aurantiacus, a membrane bound pigment-protein complex, has been crystallized in the presence of monodisperse polyoxyethylene detergents. The crystals possessed a pronounced polymorphism. Three different crystal forms belonging to triclinic, monoclinic and orthorh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Feick R,Ertlmaier A,Ermler U

更新日期：1996-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycogen-binding (G) subunit of protein phosphatase-1G is phosphorylated stoichiometrically by glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3), and with a greater catalytic efficiency than glycogen synthase, but only after prior phosphorylation by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (A-kinase) at site 1. The residues phosphoryl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dent P,Campbell DG,Hubbard MJ,Cohen P

更新日期：1989-05-08 00:00:00