The balance between pre- and post-transfer editing in tRNA synthetases.

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：:Data from a number of model systems support a role for proteolysis in apoptotic cell death. Using immature rat thymocytes, we demonstrate that the inhibitors N-tosyl-L-lysyl chloromethylketone (TLCK) and N-tosyl-L-phenylalanyl chloromethylketone (TPCK) have very different effects on apoptosis. TLCK inhibits apoptosis ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fearnhead HO,Rivett AJ,Dinsdale D,Cohen GM

更新日期：1995-01-09 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：:Bacterial DNA supercoiling is controlled by balancing the supercoiling activity of DNA gyrase and the relaxing activity of DNA topoisomerase I. We have characterized the gyrB gene from a top A deletion mutant of Escherichia coli (DM800) that has a compensatory mutation in gyrB, lowering the activity of gyrase 10-fold,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McEachern F,Fisher LM

更新日期：1989-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity of tonoplast slow vacuolar (SV, or TPC1) channels has to be under a tight control, to avoid undesirable leak of cations stored in the vacuole. This is particularly important for salt-grown plants, to ensure efficient vacuolar Na(+) sequestration. In this study we show that choline, a cationic precursor of gly...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pottosin I,Bonales-Alatorre E,Shabala S

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Quiescent fibroblasts derived from human fetal lung can be stimulated to reinitiate DNA synthesis by sequential addition of 3 nM IGF-1 and a low concentration (8 pM) of EGF or by continuous exposure to 10% fetal calf serum or 10 ng/ml PDGF. Bradykinin blocks the IGF-1 and EGF-dependent signals without affecting the re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Newman EL,Hyldahl L,Larsson O,Engström W,Rees AR

更新日期：1989-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromatin structure in one-cell-stage mouse embryos is extremely loose and becomes tighter at the two-cell stage. As linker histones are involved in higher-order chromatin structure, we examined the involvement of the linker histone variant H1foo in the change of chromatin looseness between the one- and two-cell s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Funaya S,Ooga M,Suzuki MG,Aoki F

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin fragment A is able to inhibit protein synthesis in the eukaryotic cell by ADP-ribosylating the diphthamide residue of elongation factor-2 (EF-2) [(1980) J. Biol. Chem. 255, 10710-10720]. The reaction requires NAD as ADP-ribose donor. This work reports on the capacity of an NAD analog, the nicotinamide...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giovane A,Balestrieri C,Quagliuolo L,Servillo L

更新日期：1985-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurogenic gene Drosophila big brain (bib) has a high sequence homology to aquaporin-4. However, its cellular functions in Drosophila neurogenesis have remained elusive. Here we investigated cell adhesion, and the ion and water permeability of Bib. The adhesive function was examined by a cell aggregation assay usi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tatsumi K,Tsuji S,Miwa H,Morisaku T,Nuriya M,Orihara M,Kaneko K,Okano H,Yasui M

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligopeptidase B (OpdB) from Trypanosoma brucei is a candidate therapeutic target in African trypanosomiasis. OpdB is an atypical serine peptidase, since activity is inhibited by thiol-blocking reagents and enhanced by reducing agents. We have identified C256 as the reactive cysteine residue that mediates OpdB inhibit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morty RE,Shih AY,Fülöp V,Andrews NW

更新日期：2005-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of flux control coefficients of a glycolytic system in starved rat liver has been determined. The flux control coefficient profile in starved conditions is compared with normal fed conditions showing that in the former phosphofructokinase enhances more than 2-fold its flux control coefficient while gl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Torres NV,Mateo F,Meléndez-Hevia E

更新日期：1988-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV gp120 is specifically cleaved at a single site in the V3 loop between Arg315 and Ala316 by thrombin. Previous observations by others have indicated that binding to CD4 enhances the rate of V3 loop cleavage, and that this cleavage is a prerequisite for HIV infection. Other observations also suggest that the cleavag...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Johnson ME,Lin Z,Padmanabhan K,Tulinsky A,Kahn M

更新日期：1994-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear factor NF-IL6 had been suggested to be responsible for the IL-6-mediated induction of several acute-phase proteins. To obtain evidence for the involvement of NF-IL6 in the induction of acute-phase proteins, we introduced the NF-IL6 gene and its truncated mutant (delNFIL6) gene into a hepatoma cell line Hep...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Natsuka S,Isshiki H,Akira S,Kishimoto T

更新日期：1991-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins implicated as intracellular chloride channels include the intracellular ClC proteins, the bestrophins, the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, the CLICs, and the recently described Golgi pH regulator. This paper examines current hypotheses regarding roles of intracellular chloride channels an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Edwards JC,Kahl CR

更新日期：2010-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike the human blood group Sd(a+) Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (THGP), the Sd(a-) one lacks terminal GalNAcbeta1--> residues at the nonreducing ends. The binding properties of this glycoprotein and its asialo product with lectins were characterized by quantitative precipitin (QPA) and precipitin inhibition assays. Amo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wu JH,Watkins WM,Chen CP,Song SC,Wu AM

更新日期：1996-04-22 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 article presents the results of the first regular study of Russian populations by sequencing the control region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The sequenced region is the most variable on mtDNA molecule and is commonly used for population and evolutionary studies. Russians form one of the largest ethnic groups (mor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Orekhov V,Poltoraus A,Zhivotovsky LA,Spitsyn V,Ivanov P,Yankovsky N

更新日期：1999-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of intracellular purine nucleotides on tolbutamide-induced block of ATP-dependent K+ channels from mouse pancreatic B-cells were studied using the patch-clamp technique. When applied to the inside of excised patches, tolbutamide alone blocked channel activity half-maximally at 55 microM and the concentrati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zünkler BJ,Lins S,Ohno-Shosaku T,Trube G,Panten U

更新日期：1988-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) and Rho-kinase are related. An important function of Rho-kinase is to phosphorylate the myosin-binding subunit of myosin phosphatase (MYPT1) and inhibit phosphatase activity. Experiments were carried out to determine if DMPK could function similarly. MYPT1 was phosphorylated by...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murányi A,Zhang R,Liu F,Hirano K,Ito M,Epstein HF,Hartshorne DJ

更新日期：2001-03-30 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：:The atomic structures of K+ channels have added a new dimension to our understanding of K+ channel function. I will briefly review how structures have influenced our views on ion conduction, gating of the pore, and voltage sensing. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： MacKinnon R

更新日期：2003-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5'-flanking sequences of the human macrophage inflammatory protein-3alpha/CCL20 gene were cloned and transfected into G-361 human melanoma cells in a luciferase reporter construct. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) treatment stimulated luciferase expression, and promoter truncations demonstrated that TNF-alp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harant H,Eldershaw SA,Lindley IJ

更新日期：2001-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) and poly ADP-ribosylation on DNA synthesis supported by human replicative DNA polymerase (DNA pol) alpha, delta, and epsilon has been examined using the replication system containing poly(dA)4500-oligo(dT)12-18 as the template primer. PARP alone inhibited the pol ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Eki T

更新日期：1994-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagellins of two Escherichia coli strains have been investigated by limited proteolysis and scanning microcalorimetry. It has been shown that a monomer flagellin consists of two parts: a central one cooperatively melting, rather resistant to proteases, and the other without a stable tertiary structure and thus easily...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kostyukova AS,Pyatibratov MG,Filimonov VV,Fedorov OV

更新日期：1988-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes (AC) induce blood-brain barrier (BBB) properties in brain endothelial cells (EC). As antioxidative activity (AOA) is assumed to be a BBB characteristic, we tested whether AC improve AOA of EC. Monocultivated AC showed higher AOA [manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (Cat), glutathione peroxidase (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schroeter ML,Mertsch K,Giese H,Müller S,Sporbert A,Hickel B,Blasig IE

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:PA28, a 200 kDa activator of 20S proteasomes, was purified from human placenta and was gel electrophoretically resolved into two different subunits, alpha and beta. In reconstitution experiments, alpha-subunits alone were found to re-associate forming homooligomers with an M(r) of about 200 kDa, which elicit a stimula...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kuehn L,Dahlmann B

更新日期：1996-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Latent transforming growth factor-beta 1 binding protein (LTBP) is a constituent of the latent high molecular weight complex of TGF-beta 1 in human platelets. In the present communication, we show that LTBP binds Ca2+ in its free form as well as in the latent TGF-beta 1 complex. The binding of Ca2+ induces a structura...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colosetti P,Hellman U,Heldin CH,Miyazono K

更新日期：1993-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) is a multifunctional cytokine that exerts a myriad of biological actions in numerous different tissues including adipocytes through its two distinct cell surface receptors. To address the role of each TNF receptor in the biological actions of TNFalpha in adipocytes, we have deve...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sethi JK,Xu H,Uysal KT,Wiesbrock SM,Scheja L,Hotamisligil GS

更新日期：2000-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretoneurin is a recently characterized neuropeptide present in the primary amino acid sequence of secretogranin II. We investigated the proteolytic processing of secretogranin II by prohormone convertases in vivo in a cellular system using the vaccinia virus system. Both PC1 and PC2 can cleave the secretogranin II ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoflehner J,Eder U,Laslop A,Seidah NG,Fischer-Colbrie R,Winkler H

更新日期：1995-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulatory effects of several DNA-binding basic proteins (histone and protamine) and HIV-1 Rev with arginine (Arg)-rich clusters on the activity of casein kinase II (CK-II) were investigated in vitro. It was found that recombinant Rev (rRev) and the synthetic oligo-fragments corresponding to the amino acid sequen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohtsuki K,Maekawa T,Harada S,Karino A,Morikawa Y,Ito M

更新日期：1998-05-29 00:00:00