Solution conformation of endothelin, a potent vaso-constricting bicyclic peptide. A combined use of 1H NMR spectroscopy and distance geometry calculations.

abstract：:Recently, we cloned several fluorescent proteins of different colors homologous to Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein, which have great biotechnological potential as in vivo markers of gene expression. However, later investigations revealed severe drawbacks in the use of novel fluorescent proteins (FPs), in p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yanushevich YG,Staroverov DB,Savitsky AP,Fradkov AF,Gurskaya NG,Bulina ME,Lukyanov KA,Lukyanov SA

更新日期：2002-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase mediates agonist-dependent phosphorylation of beta-adrenergic receptors, which is thought to represent the first step of homologous desensitization. We have expressed bovine and human beta ARK1 in Sf9 cells and purified them to apparent homogeneity in milligram quantities. The Km-va...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Söhlemann P,Hekman M,Buchen C,Elce JS,Lohse MJ

更新日期：1993-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Golgin45 plays important roles in Golgi stack assembly and is known to bind both the Golgi stacking protein GRASP55 and Rab2 in the medial-Golgi cisternae. In this study, we sought to further characterize the cisternal adhesion complex using a proteomics approach. We report here that Acyl-CoA binding domain containing...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yue X,Bao M,Christiano R,Li S,Mei J,Zhu L,Mao F,Yue Q,Zhang P,Jing S,Rothman JE,Qian Y,Lee I

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxypeptidase H (CPH) is one of several processing enzymes required for the conversion of peptide hormone precursors into their smaller active forms. In this study, high levels of CPH activity was found in a liver metastasis of a human ileal carcinoid which expresses beta-preprotachykinin mRNA and the tachykinin ne...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hook VY,Affolter HU

更新日期：1988-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a high-throughput sequencing approach that enables us to determine terminal telomere sequences from tens of thousands of individual Schizosaccharomyces pombe telomeres. This method provides unprecedented coverage of telomeric sequence complexity in fission yeast. S. pombe telomeres are composed of mo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bennett HW,Liu N,Hu Y,King MC

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uncoupling protein-3 (UCP3) is a mitochondrial protein expressed mainly in skeletal muscle. Among several hypotheses for its physiological function, UCP3 has been proposed to prevent excessive production of reactive oxygen species. In the present study, we evaluated the effect of an oxidative stress induced by hyp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Flandin P,Donati Y,Barazzone-Argiroffo C,Muzzin P

更新日期：2005-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) serves as a primase during replication of single-stranded plasmids and filamentous phages. Primer RNA (prRNA) synthesis from the origin regions of these replicons depends on the σ factor that normally participates in promoter recognition. However, it was proposed that σ may not be requi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Esyunina D,Pupov D,Kulbachinskiy A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor receptor associated factor 6 (TRAF6) is an important signaling molecule involved in a diverse array of physiological processes. It has been proposed that TRAF6, a RING finger-containing protein, acts as a ubiquitin ligase (E3) and a target for Lys-63 linked polyubiquitination mediated by Ubc13-Ue...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wooff J,Pastushok L,Hanna M,Fu Y,Xiao W

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Horse heart cytochrome c is cleaved by thermolysin in 50% aqueous TFE (v/v) at neutral pH (25 degrees C, 24 h) at the Gly56-Ile57 peptide bond of the 104-residue chain of the protein. Additional, but anyway minor, fragmentation at the Gly45-Phe46 and Met80-Ile81 peptide bonds is also observed. On the other hand, in bu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fontana A,Zambonin M,De Filippis V,Bosco M,Polverino de Laureto P

更新日期：1995-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide binding protein 35 (Nbp35)/cytosolic Fe-S cluster deficient 1 (Cfd1)/alternative pyrimidine biosynthetic protein C (ApbC) protein homologs have been identified in all three domains of life. In eukaryotes, the Nbp35/Cfd1 heterocomplex is an essential Fe-S cluster assembly scaffold required for the matura...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhao C,Lyu Z,Long F,Akinyemi T,Manakongtreecheep K,Söll D,Whitman WB,Vinyard DJ,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin was found to stimulate the phosphorylation of histone H1 but not protamine sulfate catalyzed by Ca2+/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C or PKC). The effect of heparin on histone H1 phosphorylation appeared to be due to an increase in phosphatidylserine affinity for PKC activation in the pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Goueli SA,Hanten JA,Ahmed K

更新日期：1991-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubrivivax gelatinosus is a facultative phototrophic non-sulfur bacterium belonging to the beta subclass of the purple bacteria. A terbutryn-resistant mutant of R. gelatinosus has been isolated and characterized. Increased resistance levels to terbutryn (300-fold), atrazine (6-fold) and o-phenanthroline (3-fold) were ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ouchane S,Picaud M,Astier C

更新日期：1995-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential scanning microcalorimetry and fluorescence methods, using probes ANS and pyrene, have been employed to study thermotropic behaviour of rat liver microsomes in the presence and absence of Mg2+. Addition of Mg2+ yields three partially reversible phase transitions at 18, 27 and 32 degrees C, respectively...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akhrem AA,Kisel MA,Lunevich AY,Bokut SB,Andrianov VT,Kiselev PA

更新日期：1983-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Leonor Michaelis spent the years of 1922-1926 as Professor of Biochemistry of the Aichi Medical College (now Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University) in Nagoya, Japan. Michaelis succeeded in gathering many bright young biochemists from all over Japan into his laboratory, and made tremendous contributions to the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nagatsu TT

更新日期：2013-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A human vesicular monoamine transporter cDNA has been identified by screening a human brainstem library using sequences from the rat brain synaptic vesicle monoamine transporter (SVMT) [(1992) Cell 70, 539-551; (1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 10993-10997]. The hSVMT shares 92% amino acid identity with the rat se...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Surratt CK,Persico AM,Yang XD,Edgar SR,Bird GS,Hawkins AL,Griffin CA,Li X,Jabs EW,Uhl GR

更新日期：1993-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A collagenase cleaving native type I [14C]collagen but inactive against the synthetic substrate Pz-Pro-Leu-Gly-Pro-D-Arg was extracted from mineralized human dental tissue. The enzyme specifically degrades native collagen into characteristic products (3/4) and (1/4). Its apparent molecular mass of 68 kDa is relatively...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dumas J,Hurion N,Weill R,Keil B

更新日期：1985-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes between the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and its type-2 inhibitor (PAI-2) are bound by a cell-surface receptor for uPA and rapidly cleaved into two fragments of 70 and 22 kDa. The 70-kDa fragment contains the active site of uPA and PAI-2, while the 22-kDa species was identified as the amino ter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ragno P,Montuori N,Vassalli JD,Rossi G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replacement of O2 with CO was studied on cobalt-iron hemoglobin hybrids. Both proto- and mesocobalt hemes were used for the reconstitution. In the oxy quaternary conformation no difference is observed between alpha- and beta-subunits when only proto hemes are present in the hybrid (k4 = 30 s-1, k'4/l'4 = 2.5). If ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oertle M,Winterhalter KH,Di Iorio EE

更新日期：1983-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of amino acid substitutions in the first extracellular loop region of the delta- and mu-opioid receptors were examined. Substitution of lysine-108 of the delta-receptor (delta K108) with asparagine improved affinity to [D-Ala2,MePhe4,Gly-ol5]enk ephalin (DAGO), a mu-selective peptide agonist, to be comparable ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fukuda K,Terasako K,Kato S,Mori K

更新日期：1995-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins support neuronal survival, development, and plasticity through processes requiring gene expression. We studied how vgf target gene transcription is mediated by a critical promoter region containing E-box, CCAAT and cAMP response element (CRE) sites. The p300 acetylase was present in two distinct protein ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mandolesi G,Gargano S,Pennuto M,Illi B,Molfetta R,Soucek L,Mosca L,Levi A,Jucker R,Nasi S

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Random sequences of 120-130 amino acid residues were inserted into a surface loop region of Escherichia coli RNase HI. This library was screened and about 10% of the clones were found to retain RNase H activity. Subsequent random mutagenesis led to an increase in RNase H activity and solubility of the protein. The ins...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Doi N,Itaya M,Yomo T,Tokura S,Yanagawa H

更新日期：1997-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimuli which enhance secretion from parathyroid cells such as low extracellular Ca2+ or Mg2+ are associated with a decrease in the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration as measured by quin2. Current evidence suggests that increased production of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) releases Ca2+ from cellular stores thus increas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Epstein PA,Prentki M,Attie MF

更新日期：1985-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:1H-NMR spectroscopy has been applied to identify components in the urine of subjects with a deficiency of the enzyme 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA lyase. One-dimensional spectra of samples from a pair of non-identical twins with this disorder were very similar and are probably diagnostic. The most intense signals wer...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iles RA,Jago JR,Williams SR,Chalmers RA

更新日期：1986-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Canine aortic strip studies revealed insensitivity of angiotensin II (AII)-induced aortic contraction to inhibition by the non-peptide antagonist DuP753 (pKB = 6.7 +/- 0.1). In order to determine the origin of this phenomenon we cloned the canine homologue of the AT1 AII receptor. Expression of this cDNA in COS-7 cell...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Burns L,Clark KL,Bradley J,Robertson MJ,Clark AJ

更新日期：1994-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus oocytes expressing neuronal alpha 1C, alpha 2 and beta 1b calcium channel subunit cDNAs were used in this study. During two-electric voltage clamp recording the oocyte was injected with 10-20 nl of a 100 mM BAPTA solution. Under these conditions, the endogenous Ca-activated Cl current was completely suppressed...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Charnet P,Bourinet E,Dubel SJ,Snutch TP,Nargeot J

更新日期：1994-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible interaction between tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) and other cytokines/growth factors in stimulating the production of nerve growth factor (NGF) in Swiss 3T3 cells was studied. TNF's stimulatory activity on fibroblast NGF production was synergized by interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), IL-1 beta and interf...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hattori A,Iwasaki S,Murase K,Tsujimoto M,Sato M,Hayashi K,Kohno M

更新日期：1994-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystrophin is the recently discovered defective gene product in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD and BMD). Dystrophin transcripts have been amplified and identified in diagnostic needle muscle biopsy samples using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure. Using 5'- and 3'-primers, dystrophin transcript...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Muntoni F,Strong PN

更新日期：1989-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane incorporation and aggregation of the peptide alamethicin have been investigated as a function of lipid type. Head group and acyl chain regions both contribute to modulate alamethicin incorporation. Specifically, the peptide prefers thin membranes and saturated chains; incorporation is reduced by the presence ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stankowski S,Schwarz G

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Several of the recently described leucocyte surface (glyco)-proteins with significant amino acid sequence similarity (human CD9, CD37, CD53, CD63, TAPA-1, CO-029 and R2 and several homologues of other species) are distinguished by the polypeptide chain apparently four times crossing the membrane. Although the biologic...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Horejsí V,Vlcek C

更新日期：1991-08-19 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