Human chorionic gonadotropin alpha and human cytomegalovirus promoters are extremely active in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

abstract：:We have recorded (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of [3-(13)C]Ala, [1-(13)C]Val-labeled pharaonis phoborhodopsin (ppR or sensory rhodopsin II) incorporated into egg PC (phosphatidylcholine) bilayer, by means of site-directed high-resolution solid-state NMR techniques. Seven (13)C NMR signals from transme...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arakawa T,Shimono K,Yamaguchi S,Tuzi S,Sudo Y,Kamo N,Saitô H

更新日期：2003-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Scorpion toxins have been found lacking effect on Na(+) current of its own sodium channel, whereas the molecular mechanism remains mystery. In this study, the binding affinity of pharmacologically distinct scorpion toxins was found much weaker to scorpion (Buthus martensii) nerve synaptosomes than to spider (Ornithoct...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zuo XP,He HQ,He M,Liu ZR,Xu Q,Ye JG,Ji YH

更新日期：2006-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine kinase is one of the enzymes potentially responsible for the formation of cytokinin nucleotides in plants. Using a zeatin affinity column a 40 kDa protein was isolated from tobacco Bright Yellow 2 (TBY-2) and identified by mass spectrometry as adenosine kinase. The ligand interaction reported here can be dis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Laukens K,Lenobel R,Strnad M,Van Onckelen H,Witters E

更新日期：2003-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of p53 plays a central role in the cell's response to various stress signals. We investigated whether p53 is activated upon disruption of actin microfilaments, caused by cytochalasin D (CD). We show that treatment with CD leads to accumulation of p53 in the cells and activation of p53-dependent transcriptio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rubtsova SN,Kondratov RV,Kopnin PB,Chumakov PM,Kopnin BP,Vasiliev JM

更新日期：1998-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A peroxidase with stability, chromatographic and immunoreactive properties similar to that of bovine lactoperoxidase has been partly purified from human colostrum. Hydrophobic interaction chromatography on Phenyl-Sepharose C1-4B gave a 10-fold purification with an apparent recovery of about 45%. The enzyme was quantit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Langbakk B,Flatmark T

更新日期：1984-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The major anthocyanin in A. thaliana is a cyanidin derivative modified by glycosylation as well as by the addition of three acyl moieties: malonyl, p-coumaroyl, and sinapoyl. We have isolated a member of the BAHD acyltransferase family which catalyzes this malonylation reaction by combining a reverse genetics approach...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： D'Auria JC,Reichelt M,Luck K,Svatos A,Gershenzon J

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesothelial cells, which cover the surface of visceral organs and serous cavities in mammals, play a crucial role in preventing adhesion. We previously reported that primary mesothelial progenitor cells (MPCs) can not only prevent postoperative adhesion but also promote liver regeneration after hepatectomy. Induced pl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Inagaki NF,Inagaki FF,Kokudo N,Miyajima A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several myeloid precursors of antibacterial peptides have recently been shown to share homologous pre- and pro-regions. Taking advantage of this homology, a novel cDNA was cloned from pig bone marrow RNA. This encodes a 166-residue polypeptide with highly conserved pre- (29 residues) and pro- (101 residues) sequences,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Storici P,Scocchi M,Tossi A,Gennaro R,Zanetti M

更新日期：1994-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of folate to Lactobacillus casei dihydrofolate reductase in the presence and absence of NADP+ has been studied by 15N NMR, using [5-15N]folate. In the presence of NADP+, three separate signals were observed for the single 15N atom, in agreement with our earlier evidence from 1H and 13C NMR for multiple con...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Birdsall B,De Graw J,Feeney J,Hammond S,Searle MS,Roberts GC,Colwell WT,Crase J

更新日期：1987-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax is a severe bacterial infection that occurs when Bacillus anthracis spores gain access into the body and germinate in macrophages, causing septicemia and toxemia. Anthrax toxin is a binary A-B toxin composed of protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF), and edema factor (EF). PA mediates the entry of either ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ascenzi P,Visca P,Ippolito G,Spallarossa A,Bolognesi M,Montecucco C

更新日期：2002-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the biochemical properties of insulin receptors of a Type A insulin resistant patient with a single heterozygous point mutation substituting Gln for Arg1174. Insulin binding capacity and affinity to Epstein-Barr virus transformed lymphocytes was normal. Quantitative analysis of autophosphorylation and subs...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Moritz W,Froesch ER,Böni-Schnetzler M

更新日期：1994-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectral imaging was used for analyzing biochemical changes in tumor cells. Metabolic parameters of human lung A549/8 adenocarcinoma and U87 glioma cells were compared under stress conditions in culture along with tumor progression after cell implantation onto the chick embryo chorio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Petibois C,Drogat B,Bikfalvi A,Déléris G,Moenner M

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation of Asp198 to Asn in the receptor for glucagon-like peptide-1(7-36)amide (GLP-1) had no effect upon GLP-1 affinity whereas substitution with Ala greatly reduced affinity, demonstrating the importance of polarity rather than negative charge at Asp198. However, the Asp198-Ala mutation had less effect upon th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： López de Maturana R,Donnelly D

更新日期：2002-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatocellular carcinoma cells (Hep G2) were shown to secrete apo A-I as a proprotein . No apo A-I synthesis could be detected with endothelial cells from human umbilical cord veins. Conversion of proapo A-I into apo A-I is a slow (of the order of hours) process, mediated by a Ca2+/Mg2+-dependent enzyme which is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kooistra T,van Hinsbergh V,Havekes L,Kempen HJ

更新日期：1984-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Redox homeostasis is a prerequisite for survival of the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) which employs the low molecular weight thiol mycothiol (MSH). The Mycobacterial NADPH-dependent mycothione reductase (MtMtr), composed of an NADPH-, FAD-, and a dimerization-domain connected by linkers, regulates the bala...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kumar A,Subramanian Manimekalai MS,Grüber G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vacuolar membrane H(+)-translocating pyrophosphatase (H(+)-PPase) was purified from pumpkin seedlings. Its enzymatic properties including molecular size of constituting polypeptide (75 kDa) were very similar to those of mung bean H(+)-PPase [(1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 20068-20073]. The native, functional molecular siz...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sato MH,Maeshima M,Ohsumi Y,Yoshida M

更新日期：1991-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic porins are a group of membrane proteins whose best known role is to form an aqueous pore channel in the mitochondrial outer membrane. As opposed to the bacterial porins (a large family of protein whose 3D structure has been determined by X-ray diffraction), the structure of eukaryotic porins (also termed VD...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Casadio R,Jacoboni I,Messina A,De Pinto V

更新日期：2002-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and analysis of the primary structure of the CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase revealed that this enzyme is the first iron-sulphur protein of the Rieske type to be found in the cytosol of Eukarya. The dithionite-reduced hydroxylase exhibited an EPR signal known ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schlenzka W,Shaw L,Kelm S,Schmidt CL,Bill E,Trautwein AX,Lottspeich F,Schauer R

更新日期：1996-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:CD38, a type II transmembrane glycoprotein, behaves as a catalytically active transporter responsible for ectocellular generation of cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) from NAD+ and for subsequent influx of cADPR across membranes [Franco, L., Guida, L., Bruzzone, S., Zocchi, E., Usai, C. and De Flora, A. (1998) FASEB J. in pre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bruzzone S,Guida L,Franco L,Zocchi E,Corte G,De Flora A

更新日期：1998-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of mutants of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have led to the identification of genes required for high affinity iron uptake. Reduction of iron (III) outside the cell is accomplished by means of reductases encoded by FRE1 and FRE2, homologues of the gp91-phox component of the oxygen reductase of human granu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klausner RD,Dancis A

更新日期：1994-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the biophysical analysis of plant K+ channels in their natural environment, three members from the green branch of the evolutionary tree of life KAT1, AKT1, and KST1 have recently been identified on the molecular level. Among them, we focussed on the expression and characterization of the Arabidopsis thalian...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marten I,Gaymard F,Lemaillet G,Thibaud JB,Sentenac H,Hedrich R

更新日期：1996-02-19 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：:We have identified an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA, designated as AtTBP1, encoding a protein with a predicted size of 70.6 kDa that specifically binds to the plant telomeric repeat sequence TTTAGGG. AtTBP1 is present as a single-copy gene in Arabidopsis genome and is expressed ubiquitously in various organs. AtTBP1 has a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hwang MG,Chung IK,Kang BG,Cho MH

更新日期：2001-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A new insertion sequence, IS186, has been identified from Escherichia coli and sequenced. It contains 1336 base pairs with a terminal inverted repeat of 22 nucleotides. A long open reading frame, from an ATG codon at position 55 to a TAG termination codon at 1327, could code for a polypeptide of 424 amino acids. This ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chong P,Hui I,Loo T,Gillam S

更新日期：1985-11-11 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：:13CO NMR chemical shifts and 12CO infrared stretching frequencies have been measured for cytochrome P-450cam-CO in the presence of D-camphor and of various camphor analogues. A linear correlation between both parameters delta (13C) and v(CO) was found indicating that the steric and electrostatic interactions acting on...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Legrand N,Bondon A,Simonneaux G,Jung C,Gill E

更新日期：1995-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet aggregation is accompanied by the tyrosine phosphorylation of several proteins including syk. However, some of these proteins are not identified. Recent studies showed that LAT is a syk substrate and is tyrosine phosphorylated during T cell stimulation. In this study, we demonstrated that LAT is present in pl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sarkar S

更新日期：1998-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin is shown to interact with human spectrin dimer. The binding was highly calcium-dependent and observed in two different kinds of experiments. Firstly, affinity chromatography of calmodulin on a Sepharose 4B column with immobilized spectrin, and secondly, partition in aqueous two-phase polymer systems. In the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berglund A,Backman L,Shanbhag VP

更新日期：1984-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the patch-clamp technique, we demonstrate here the opening of K+ channels evoked by the actively transported amino acid L-alanine in isolated Necturus enterocytes. These channels had a conductance of about 30 pS and their activation was dependent on transmembrane electrical potential and cytosolic Ca2+. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sheppard DN,Giraldez F,Sepúlveda FV

更新日期：1988-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibody recognising acetylated core histones was used to immunoprecipitate chromatin fragments from proliferating human K562 cells and from cells induced to differentiate with the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). The DNA of the acetylated chromatin was probed with sequences of platelet der...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Clayton AL,Hebbes TR,Thorne AW,Crane-Robinson C

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00