Structures of the tumor necrosis factor alpha inducing protein Tipalpha: a novel virulence factor from Helicobacter pylori.

abstract：:Epidemiological studies testing the effect of beta-carotene in humans have found a relative risk for lung cancer in smokers supplemented with beta-carotene. We investigated the reactions of retinal and beta-apo-8'-carotenal, two beta-carotene oxidation products, with 2'-deoxyguanosine to evaluate their DNA damaging po...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marques SA,Loureiro AP,Gomes OF,Garcia CC,Di Mascio P,Medeiros MH

更新日期：2004-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid residues 3-15 of mycobacterial HSP60 define a dominant T-cell epitope for HLA-DR3+ve humans and Mamu-DR3+ve rhesus monkeys. Our results show that Mamu-DR3 molecules on PBMC can be efficiently loaded in vivo with the above-mentioned peptides when they are intravenously injected encapsulated in liposomes, but...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： t Hart BA,Elferink DG,Drijfhout JW,Storm G,van Blooijs L,Bontrop RE,de Vries RR

更新日期：1997-06-02 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：:We have expressed in E. coli segments of the rod portion of rabbit skeletal fast muscle myosin and compared physical properties of two different species, LMM-30 and LMM-30C'. LMM-30 consists of 263 amino acids including the original C-terminus of myosin heavy chain. LMM-30C' is colinear with LMM-30, but is devoid of 1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maeda K,Rösch A,Maéda Y,Kalbitzer HR,Wittinghofer A

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that myocardial adaptation to ischemia triggers a tyrosine kinase regulated signaling pathway leading to the translocation and activation of p38 MAP kinase and MAPKAP kinase 2. Since oxidative stress is developed during ischemic adaptation and since free radicals have recently been shown ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maulik N,Sato M,Price BD,Das DK

更新日期：1998-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction of alpha-chymotrypsin with AcTyr-OEt and with AcTrp-OEt at pH 7.0 and 7.8 was studied over a wide range of substrate concentrations. The reaction with AcTyr-OEt at pH 7.8 was shown to be non-hyperbolic using a variety of criteria whereas those at pH 7.0 with the same substrate and at both pH values with A...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garrell J,Cuchillo CM

更新日期：1985-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis strain deficient in seven extracellular proteases was used to produce human mast cell chymase and is a viable expression system for serine proteases and other classes of proteins. Chymase is produced at 0.3-0.5 mg/l and is purified by three chromatography steps. Two crystal forms of PMSF-treated ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McGrath ME,Osawa AE,Barnes MG,Clark JM,Mortara KD,Schmidt BF

更新日期：1997-08-25 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：:Several studies have indicated the existence of direct effects of melatonin on platelets. Here we show that, melatonin at high concentration is capable of significantly raising platelet intracellular calcium even in the absence of an agonist. The effect of melatonin on platelets was abolished by luzindole, a melatonin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kumari S,Dash D

更新日期：2011-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The MAP kinase module (Raf/MAPKKK-MAPKK-MAPK) has been shown to be sequentially activated after mitogenic stimulation. Here we demonstrate, by site directed mutagenesis, that MAPK is able to retrophosphorylate its own activator, MAPKK, on two threonine residues Thr-292 and Thr-386 in vitro, and that these sites are al...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brunet A,Pagès G,Pouysségur J

更新日期：1994-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of the present investigation relate the effects of the nutritional state and administration of clofibric acid (CLA), a hypolipidaemic drug and peroxisomal proliferator, on phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) synthesis in rat liver and fatty acid metabolism. Fasting and CLA treatment of animals causes an increase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lenart J,Komańska I,Pikuła S,Jasińska R

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of EcoRV DNA methyltransferase which methylates the amino group of the 5'-adenine residue of the target sequence GATATC has been found to be closely related to that of three other adenine methyltransferases, DpnII, dam and damT4, the target sequence of which is GATC. Despite large differences o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lauster R,Kriebardis A,Guschlbauer W

更新日期：1987-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:miR398 links expression of the three major chloroplast copper proteins, plastocyanin, CCS1 and Csd2, to copper availability. miR398 abundance was stronger plastocyanin-controlled in accessions from cold and continental habitats (Kas-1, Ms-0, WS) than in Cvi-0 and Col-0. Target gene regulation was broken for Csd2 in Cv...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Juszczak I,Baier M

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to improve our understanding of membrane protein solubilization by sodium dodecylsulphate, sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles have been treated with this surfactant at different detergent: protein mole ratios. Effects on Ca2(+)-ATPase activity, membrane protein solubilization, and protein conformation have been ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Prado A,Muga A,Castresana J,Goñi FM,Arrondo JL

更新日期：1990-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified mitochondria from potato (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Bintje) tubers were subfractionated into a matrix fraction, an inner membrane fraction and an outer membrane fraction with minimal cross-contamination. When the matrix and inner membrane fractions were incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP only one and three p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pical C,Fredlund KM,Petit PX,Sommarin M,Møller IM

更新日期：1993-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of the coenzyme Q (CoQ) pool in the inner mitochondrial membrane is reviewed in view of recent findings suggesting a supramolecular organization of the mitochondrial respiratory complexes. In spite of the structural evidence for preferential aggregations of the inner membrane components, most kinetic evid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lenaz G

更新日期：2001-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme is degraded by heme oxygenase to form iron, carbon monoxide (CO), and biliverdin. However, information about the catabolism of heme in erythroid cells is limited. In this study, we showed the production and export of bilirubin in murine erythroleukemia (MEL) cells. The production of bilirubin by MEL cells was enh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mu A,Li M,Tanaka M,Adachi Y,Tai TT,Liem PH,Izawa S,Furuyama K,Taketani S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria of amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii, a non-photosynthetic soil amoeboid protozoon, possess an uncoupling protein (AcUCP) that mediates free fatty acid-activated proton re-uptake dissipating the proton electrochemical gradient built up by respiration. The present study provides the first evidence that UCP c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jarmuszkiewicz W,Antos N,Swida A,Czarna M,Sluse FE

更新日期：2004-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of the new members of the UCP (uncoupling protein) family, UCP2 and UCP3, very few studies have dealt with the regulation of their expression. Bearing this in mind, administration of a single intravenous injection of TNF-alpha (100 microg/kg body weight) to rats resulted in a significant increase i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Busquets S,Sanchís D,Alvarez B,Ricquier D,López-Soriano FJ,Argilés JM

更新日期：1998-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy is used to estimate the secondary structure of bacteriorhodopsin dissolved in chloroform-methanol (1:1 v/v), 0.1 M LiClO4. Curve-fitting of the deconvolved spectra in the amide I region shows that the total content of alpha-helices, reverse turns and beta-sheets are similar to t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Torres J,Padrós E

更新日期：1993-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The selectively red excited emission spectrum, at room temperature, of the in vitro reconstituted Lhca4, has a pronounced non-equilibrium distribution, leading to enhanced emission from the directly excited low-energy pigments. Two different emitting forms (or states), with maximal emission at 713 and 735nm (F713 and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zucchelli G,Morosinotto T,Garlaschi FM,Bassi R,Jennings RC

更新日期：2005-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic, imido acid containing pentapeptides cyclo(Asp-Trp-(NMe)Nle-Asp-Phe) (cpp[NMeNle(3)]) and cyclo(Asp-Trp-Pro-Asp-Phe) (cpp[Pro(3)]) have been investigated by 1H-NMR spectroscopy in DMSO and by restrained molecular dynamics methods. The spectra indicate the existence of at least four cis/trans isomers for cpp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Weisshoff H,Wieprecht T,Henklein P,Frömmel C,Antz C,Mügge C

更新日期：1996-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:On April 1898 Camillo Golgi communicated to the Medical-Surgical Society of Pavia, the discovery of the "internal reticular apparatus", a novel intracellular organelle which he observed in nerve cells with the silver impregnation he had introduced for the staining of the nervous system. Soon after the discovery it bec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mazzarello P,Garbarino C,Calligaro A

更新日期：2009-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1) cause recessive form of Parkinson's disease (PD). PINK1 acts upstream of parkin, regulating mitochondrial integrity and functions. Here, we show that PINK1 in combination with parkin results in the perinuclear mitochondrial aggregation followed by their elimination. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kawajiri S,Saiki S,Sato S,Sato F,Hatano T,Eguchi H,Hattori N

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures and regulations of vertebrate channels responsible for sustained calcium elevations after hormone stimulation are largely unknown. Therefore, the Drosophila photoreceptor channels, trp and trpl, which are assumed to be involved in calcium influx, serve as model system, trpl expressed in Sf9 cells showed spo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harteneck C,Obukhov AG,Zobel A,Kalkbrenner F,Schultz G

更新日期：1995-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of human tumor necrosis factor (hTNF) was studied. The amino-terminal extension of the hTNF precursor (26 kDa polypeptide) was not cleaved off in a cell-free system supplemented with dog pancreas microsomes. Correct maturation of pre-hTNF was nevertheless not restricted to the macrophage system: in th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Müller R,Marmenout A,Fiers W

更新日期：1986-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein synthesis is initiated in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lumen upon transfer of a glycan (Glc3Man9GlcNAc2) from a lipid derivative to Asn residues (N-glycosylation). N-Glycan-dependent quality control of glycoprotein folding in the ER prevents exit to Golgi of folding intermediates, irreparably misfolded ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Caramelo JJ,Parodi AJ

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To search for negative regulatory components of the NF-kappaB activation pathways, we mutagenized Rat-1 fibroblasts and established a stable mutant cell line with a constitutive NF-kappaB activity. This mutant cell line, designated as TK26, showed permanently elevated I kappa B kinase (IKK) activity and a genetically ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chinanonwait N,Miura H,Yamamoto N,Yamaoka S

更新日期：2002-11-20 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：:Stimulation of mast cells through their high affinity IgE receptor (FcεRI) leads to the secretion of pre- and neoformed soluble mediators through vesicular carriers. This process is highly regulated in order to adapt the secretion of these potentially dangerous factors to the physiological needs. This regulation requi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benhamou M,Blank U

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00