Effects of acrolein, a natural occurring aldehyde, on the anticoagulant serpin antithrombin.

abstract：:When MCF-7 cells were treated with 17 beta-estradiol, dexamethasone, or promegestone at 37 degrees C, the KD of receptors for their cognate ligands was found to decrease as compared to that measured at 2 degrees C. Cell incubation with hormone at 37 degrees C did not affect the Bmax of glucocorticoid and progesterone ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rossini GP,Malaguti C

更新日期：1995-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of cases of early-onset familial Alzheimer disease are caused by mutations in the recently identified presenilin 1 (PS1) gene, located on chromosome 14. PS1, a 467 amino acid protein, is predicted to be an integral membrane protein containing seven putative transmembrane domains and a large hydrophilic lo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mercken M,Takahashi H,Honda T,Sato K,Murayama M,Nakazato Y,Noguchi K,Imahori K,Takashima A

更新日期：1996-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a dynamic model for the competition between exon-exon ligation and 3'-end hydrolysis valid for sequentially folded pre-mRNA introns of group I. This model accounts for the delay in the formation of conserved helix P10 until the 5' exon has been cleaved, a requirement to prevent hydrolysis at the 3' end of t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fernández A

更新日期：1992-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is a key glycolytic enzyme regulated by many diverse mechanisms. In this study we present evidence that GAPDH activity is stimulated in the presence of oxyhemoglobin (2.3-fold, P < 0.005). No stimulation was seen by myoglobin, and only slight stimulation (1.2-fold, not ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brookes PS,Land JM,Clark JB,Heales SJ

更新日期：1997-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:o-Aminophenol was found to be rapidly metabolized to a brown compound in the presence of purified human oxy- and methemoglobin, coupled with the oxidation and reduction of these hemoglobins by o-aminophenol. The final product of o-aminophenol was identified as 2-aminophenoxazine-3-one, by using spectrophotometry and H...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tomoda A,Yamaguchi J,Kojima H,Amemiya H,Yoneyama Y

更新日期：1986-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that the DNA binding Runt domain of the AML1/Runx1 transcription factor coordinates Cl(-) ions. In this paper we have determined Cl(-) binding affinities of AML1 by (35)Cl nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) linewidth analysis. The Runt domain binds Cl(-) with a dissociation constant (K(d,Cl)) of 34 mM. If CB...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wolf-Watz M,Bäckström S,Grundström T,Sauer U,Härd T

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoic acid is a coenzyme essential to the activity of enzymes such as pyruvate dehydrogenase, which play important roles in central metabolism. However, neither the enzymes responsible for biosynthesis nor the biosynthetic event of lipoic acid has been reported in mammalian cells. In this study, a mouse mLIP1 cDNA fo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morikawa T,Yasuno R,Wada H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF), a potent mitogen and migration factor for vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC), promoted neovascularization in vivo in the rabbit cornea. MRI demonstrated quantitatively the angiogenic effect of HB-EGF when introduced subcutaneously into nude mice. HB-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Abramovitch R,Neeman M,Reich R,Stein I,Keshet E,Abraham J,Solomon A,Marikovsky M

更新日期：1998-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (MAChRs), as detected by binding of [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB), was investigated under conditions which promote protein phosphorylation. Incubation of a crude heart membrane preparation in the presence of ATP/Mg2+ reduced MAChR number by 50%. Incubation with poly...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Creazzo TL,Wrenn RW

更新日期：1988-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Furin, a member of the subtilisin-like pro-protein convertase family, is a type I membrane protein that undergoes ectodomain shedding. Metabolic labeling of cells stably expressing furin demonstrated that the shed form of furin is detected after 30 min. Moreover, sequence analysis revealed that specific residues of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denault J,Bissonnette L,Longpré J,Charest G,Lavigne P,Leduc R

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera were raised against a phosphoprotein of 65 kDa (PP65) from Paramecium cells (shown before to be selectively dephosphorylated during synchronous exocytosis) and specified by immunoblotting. By immunofluorescence PP65 has been localized within the cortex, beneath the cell membrane. This corresponds to data obta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stecher B,Höhne B,Gras U,Momayezi M,Glas-Albrecht R,Plattner H

更新日期：1987-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Tid-1 (hTid-1) is a DnaJ chaperone protein with homology to the Drosophila tumor suppressor Tid56. We report the first case of a tumor-associated mutation at the human TID1 locus, which was identified in the SF767 glioma cell line giving rise to aberrantly high levels of a hTid-1(L) mutant variant. In this study...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Trentin GA,He Y,Wu DC,Tang D,Rozakis-Adcock M

更新日期：2004-12-17 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 Arabidopsis thalina genome database was searched for homologues of the Candida cloacae fao1 gene which encodes a membrane bound, flavin-containing, hydrogen peroxide generating, long chain alcohol oxidase. This gene has not been isolated from plants or animals. Four putative candidates were found in the database b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cheng Q,Liu HT,Bombelli P,Smith A,Slabas AR

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated stellate cells are myofibroblast-like cells associated with the generation of fibrotic scaring in chronically damaged liver. Gene chip analysis was performed on cultured fibrotic stellate cells. Of the 51 human CYP genes known, 13 CYP and 5 CYP reduction-related genes were detected with 4 CYPs (CYP1A1, CYP2E...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marek CJ,Tucker SJ,Koruth M,Wallace K,Wright MC

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic protease activating factor-1 (Apaf-1) is an adaptor molecule essential for caspase-9 activation. Subcellular analysis of Apaf-1 in NIH-3T3 fibroblasts and the immature murine B cell lymphoma WEHI-231 indicates that Apaf-1 is localized in the Golgi apparatus and cytoplasm. Bcl-2 overexpression in WEHI-231 cel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ruiz-Vela A,Albar JP,Martínez CA

更新日期：2001-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the effects of high cholesterol (HC) intake and reduced apolipoprotein E (apoE) activity on tau phosphorylation and on the activities of the major tau kinases and phosphatases in brains from wild-type and apoE-knockout (apoEKO) mice. We show that HC diet potently induced intraneuronal accumulation of hyper...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rahman A,Akterin S,Flores-Morales A,Crisby M,Kivipelto M,Schultzberg M,Cedazo-Mínguez A

更新日期：2005-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis is catalyzed by a dissociated fatty acid synthase similar to those of plant plastids and bacteria. The crystal structure of a mitochondrial beta-ketoacyl-[acyl carrier protein] synthase (mtKAS), namely that from Arabidopsis thaliana, has been determined for the first time. This enzym...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Olsen JG,Rasmussen AV,von Wettstein-Knowles P,Henriksen A

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant Golgi bodies possess unique morphological and functional characteristics that are key to several biological and biotechnological processes, such as transport of the cell's building blocks to energy-rich compartments, including chloroplasts, storage vacuoles and a cellulosic cell wall. During the last decade it h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Faso C,Boulaflous A,Brandizzi F

更新日期：2009-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The pre-steady state process in the thermolysin-catalyzed hydrolysis of Cbz-Gly-Phe-Ala was observed at pH 4.5 by fluorescence stopped-flow method using Dns-Phe as a displacement probe. After the confirmation of the pre-equilibrium hypothesis for the binary interaction, the nonlinear substrate concentration dependence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kunugi S,Yokoyama M,Sakamoto A

更新日期：1995-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of oligomeric double and triple helical DNAs with irregular sequences of homopurine and homopyrimidine strands were prepared. DNA triplexes were identified by CD spectroscopy and thermal denaturation profiles (biphasic helix-coil transition). Condensation of oligonucleotides on single and double-stranded DNA ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dolinnaya NG,Pyatrauskene OV,Shabarova ZA

更新日期：1991-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicities of influenza viruses and paramyxoviruses have been proposed to be primarily determined by a host cell protease(s) that activates viral infectivity by proteolytic cleavage of the envelope glycoproteins. We recently isolated a trypsin-type endoprotease, named tryptase Clara, from rat bronchial and br...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kido H,Sakai K,Kishino Y,Tashiro M

更新日期：1993-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide, KKKKRFSFKKSFKLSGFSFKK, containing the phosphorylation sites of the acidic 80-87 kDa protein kinase C substrate was used to identify phosphopeptides in enzyme digests of this protein from mouse fibroblast C3H/10T1/2 cells. Stimulation of phosphorylation occurred, in vivo, with TPA at Ser7, Ser11 an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Amess B,Manjarrez-Hernandez HA,Howell SA,Learmonth M,Aitken A

更新日期：1992-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Protein Data Bank (PDB) was established in 1971 as a repository for the three dimensional structures of biological macromolecules. Since then, more than 85000 biological macromolecule structures have been determined and made available in the PDB archive. Through analysis of the corpus of data, it is possible to id...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berman HM,Coimbatore Narayanan B,Di Costanzo L,Dutta S,Ghosh S,Hudson BP,Lawson CL,Peisach E,Prlić A,Rose PW,Shao C,Yang H,Young J,Zardecki C

更新日期：2013-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we used the fungal antibiotic brefeldin A (BFA) to analyze its effect on viral replication. Analysis by electron microscopy demonstrated that no viral particles were observed in cells treated before the onset of viral replication. In the presence of BFA expression of IE2, MCP, pUL104, pUL56 and pUL89 wer...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kregler O,Schilf R,Lander A,Bannert N,Bogner E

更新日期：2009-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modification of lysine residues in glucose oxidase was carried out using citraconic anhydride. Modification brought about changes in the kinetic properties of the enzyme as evident by substantial lowering of V(max) and K(m). Enhancement of tryptophan fluorescence was observed with a dramatic change in its pH ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hosseinkhani S,Ranjbar B,Naderi-Manesh H,Nemat-Gorgani M

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of the glycine-rich loop of adenylate kinase is described in detail. It forms a giant anion hole for a sulfate ion, which presumably mimicks a nucleotide phosphoryl group. This loop had been called flexible, because at pH values of 6 or below it is displaced in the crystal. In the region of this loop ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dreusicke D,Schulz GE

更新日期：1986-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of glia (astrocytes and oligodendrocytes) in Drosophila requires the gene glial cells missing (gcm), which controls lineage determination. In the absence of gcm, neuroglia progenitors exclusively differentiate into neurons, instead of into both neurons and glia. In contrast, ectopic overexpression of g...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Altshuller Y,Copeland NG,Gilbert DJ,Jenkins NA,Frohman MA

更新日期：1996-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional co-activators, co-repressors and chromatin remodeling machines are essential elements in the transcriptional programs directed by the master adipogenic transcription factor PPARgamma. Many of these components have orthologs in other organisms, where they play roles in development and pattern formation,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denis GV,Nikolajczyk BS,Schnitzler GR

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) is one of the most important HSPs for maintenance of cell integrity during normal cellular growth as well as pathophysiological conditions. Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) is a crucial signaling transducer that regulates a diverse array of physiologica...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chen H,Wu Y,Zhang Y,Jin L,Luo L,Xue B,Lu C,Zhang X,Yin Z

更新日期：2006-05-29 00:00:00