An endoplasmic reticulum/plasma membrane junction: STIM1/Orai1/TRPCs.

abstract：:A human insulinoma cDNA (PC2) that encodes a protein homologous to the Kex2/subtilisin-like proteinases has recently been described [1990, J. Biol. Chem. 265, 2997-3000]. In order to characterise the associated proteinase activity, mRNA encoding PC2 was synthesised in vitro and microinjected into Xenopus oocytes. The ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shennan KI,Smeekens SP,Steiner DF,Docherty K

更新日期：1991-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of rat ribosomal protein L26 was deduced from the sequence of nucleotides in a recombinant cDNA and confirmed from the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of the protein. Rat L26 contains 145 amino acids and has a molecular mass of 17,266 Da. Hybridization of the cDNA to digests of nuclear DNA sug...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Paz V,Olvera J,Chan YL,Wool IG

更新日期：1989-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Human high- and low-Mr kininogens were shown to be potent inhibitors of cysteine proteinases such as cathepsin L and papain (Ki = 17-48 pM). A strong immunological cross-reaction between the kininogens and low-Mr alpha-cysteine proteinase inhibitor from human plasma was found. Comparison of partial amino acid sequence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Müller-Esterl W,Fritz H,Machleidt W,Ritonja A,Brzin J,Kotnik M,Turk V,Kellermann J,Lottspeich F

更新日期：1985-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity labelling of E. coli ribosomes with the 2',3'-O-[4-(N-2-chloroethyl)-N-methylamino]benzylidene derivative of AUGU6 was studied within the initiation complex (complex I) obtained by using fMet-tRNAMetf and initiation factors and within the pretranslocational complex (complex II) obtained by treatment of comple...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Babkina GT,Veniaminova AG,Vladimirov SN,Karpova GG,Yamkovoy VI,Berzin VA,Gren EJ,Cielens IE

更新日期：1986-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial alternative oxidase is a diiron carboxylate quinol oxidase (Dox) found in plants and some fungi and protists, but not animals. The plastid terminal oxidase is distantly related to alternative oxidase and is most likely also a Dox protein. Database searches revealed that the alpha-proteobacterium Novo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Finnegan PM,Umbach AL,Wilce JA

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoenzymes of creatine kinase (CK, EC 2.7.3.2) in guinea-pig smooth, cardiac and skeletal muscles as well as in brain were analyzed by cellulose acetate electrophoresis and FPLC gel permeation chromatography. In crude tissue extracts of smooth muscles brain type BB-CK and the hybrid form MB-CK were detected, but in en...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ishida Y,Wyss M,Hemmer W,Wallimann T

更新日期：1991-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ failure induced by endotoxic shock has recently been associated with affected mitochondrial function. In this study, effects of in vivo lipopolysaccharide-challenge on protein patterns of rat liver mitochondria in treated animals versus controls were studied by two-dimensional electrophoresis (differential image...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miller I,Gemeiner M,Gesslbauer B,Kungl A,Piskernik C,Haindl S,Nürnberger S,Bahrami S,Redl H,Kozlov AV

更新日期：2006-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase, a key enzyme of methanogenesis, was purified 100-fold from methanol grown Methanosarcina barkeri to apparent homogeneity and a specific activity of 34 mumol.min-1.mg protein-1. Molybdenum was found to co-migrate with the enzyme activity. The molybdenum content of purified preparations...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karrasch M,Börner G,Enssle M,Thauer RK

更新日期：1989-08-14 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：:Several clinical studies have shown that cyclosporin A (CsA) is effective for treating a variety of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Because reactive oxygen species are believed to play a key role in the development of these diseases, causing cell apoptosis, we investigated whether CsA inhibits H2O2-induc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugano N,Ito K,Murai S

更新日期：1999-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of removal of Ca2+ bound to thrombospondin (TSP) on the protein structure in solution has been investigated using ESR spin-label techniques. A maleimide spin label was selectively attached to the free thiol group presumably near the carboxyl-terminal domain in which Ca2+-binding sites are situated. The ESR ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Slane JM,Mosher DF,Lai CS

更新日期：1988-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Gibberellins are ent-kaurene-derived diterpenoid phytohormones produced by plants, fungi, and bacteria. The distinct gibberellin biosynthetic pathways in plants and fungi are known, but not that in bacteria. Plants typically use two diterpene synthases to form ent-kaurene, while fungi use only a single bifunctional di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morrone D,Chambers J,Lowry L,Kim G,Anterola A,Bender K,Peters RJ

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding and aggregation are linked to several degenerative diseases and are responsible for the formation of bacterial inclusion bodies. Roles of molecular chaperones in promoting protein deposition have been speculated but not proven in vivo. We have investigated the involvement of individual chaperones in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carrió MM,Villaverde A

更新日期：2003-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P-450scc (P-450scc), a cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme from bovine adrenocortical mitochondria, has been crystallized for the first time. Upon removal of glycerol from the solution of the native enzyme complexed with pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) by microdialysis against distilled water, reddish and p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iwamoto Y,Tsubaki M,Hiwatashi A,Ichikawa Y

更新日期：1988-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The photochemical reaction center of Chloroflexus (Cf.) aurantiacus, a membrane bound pigment-protein complex, has been crystallized in the presence of monodisperse polyoxyethylene detergents. The crystals possessed a pronounced polymorphism. Three different crystal forms belonging to triclinic, monoclinic and orthorh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Feick R,Ertlmaier A,Ermler U

更新日期：1996-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete [1H]NMR resonance assignments are presented for the second of the three zinc fingers from SW15 as it appears in both 1- and 2-finger constructs. Signals from finger 2 are unaffected by the presence or absence of finger 1, showing that the protein has a modular construction. The structure of finger 2 comprises...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Neuhaus D,Nakaseko Y,Nagai K,Klug A

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV) is a positive-strand RNA virus able to infect Arabidopsis thaliana. To establish a TYMV infection system in Arabidopsis cell culture, TYMV replicons with the capsid protein gene replaced by a reporter gene expressing the Sh ble protein conferring zeocin resistance were used to transfe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Camborde L,Tournier V,Noizet M,Jupin I

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We synthesized and evaluated by surface plasmon resonance 64 LNA/2'-O-methyl sequences corresponding to all possible combinations of such residues in a kissing aptamer loop complementary to the 6-nt loop of the TAR element of HIV-1. Three combinations of LNA/2'-O-methyl nucleoside analogues where one or two LNA units ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Di Primo C,Rudloff I,Reigadas S,Arzumanov AA,Gait MJ,Toulmé JJ

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixture of 55 and 53 kDa boar proacrosins was autoactivated at pH 8.5 to produce a 43 kDa intermediate form and a 35 kDa mature acrosin, and each of four forms of (pro)acrosins was isolated. Analysis of the N-terminal sequences of the two proacrosins indicated the existence of a segment corresponding to the acrosin ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baba T,Michikawa Y,Kawakura K,Arai Y

更新日期：1989-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:By applying the 'recognition mask' strategy to 300 mammalian sequences containing NotI sites we demonstrated that 5' ends of genes are highly enriched in NotI sites. A NotI linking clone NL2-252 (D3S1678) containing transferrin receptor (TFRC) gene was used as an initial point for chromosomal jumping. One of the jumpi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kashuba VI,Gizatullin RZ,Protopopov AI,Allikmets R,Korolev S,Li J,Boldog F,Tory K,Zabarovska V,Marcsek Z,Sumegi J,Klein G,Zabarovsky ER,Kisselev L

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified the binding region of a new Ca2+ antagonist semotiadil in the skeletal muscle Ca2+ channel. To the same semotiadil derivatives, the cardiac counterpart showed distinct and different binding characteristics: semotiadil and its photoaffinity analog D51-4700 inhibited [3H]PN200-110 binding t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ii N,Kuniyasu A,Kawahara K,Shibano T,Schwartz A,Nakayama H

更新日期：1998-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In cardiac cells the effects of n-3 PUFAs on the whole genome are still unknown despite their recognized cardioprotective effects and ability to modulate gene expression. We have evaluated the effects of n-3 PUFAs supplementation on the global gene expression profile in cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes, detecting ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bordoni A,Astolfi A,Morandi L,Pession A,Danesi F,Di Nunzio M,Franzoni M,Biagi P,Pession A

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cells containing the ner gene of phage Mu inserted into pBR322 express a binding activity with specificity for the left-end EcoRI.C fragment of Mu DNA. Crude extracts containing either Mu repressor or ner protein have been used to localize binding sites on TaqI subfragments of the EcoRI.C fragment. There are...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Barlach S,Schumann W

更新日期：1983-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia/reperfusion induces nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) and AP-1 in rat hearts after 15 min of ischemia followed by reperfusion (R) for various periods of time (15 and 30 min, 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, and 24 h). Low levels of NF-kappaB and no signal for AP-1 were detected in shams and in non-ischemic tissue distant from...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chandrasekar B,Freeman GL

更新日期：1997-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) is the key regulator of cell motility and smooth muscle contraction in higher vertebrates. We searched for the features of the high molecular weight MLCK (MLCK-210) associated with its unique N-terminal sequence not found in a more ubiquitous lower molecular weight MLCK (MLCK-108). MLC...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kudryashov DS,Chibalina MV,Birukov KG,Lukas TJ,Sellers JR,Van Eldik LJ,Watterson DM,Shirinsky VP

更新日期：1999-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of calf thymus DNA with 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1), which simultaneously generates nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide (O2-), induced a significant increase of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG). Peroxynitrite also increased 8-OH-dG in calf thymus DNA. Addition of free hydroxyl radical (.OH) scavengers inh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Inoue S,Kawanishi S

更新日期：1995-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages play vital roles in inflammatory responses, and their number at sites of inflammation is strictly regulated by cell death and division. Here, we demonstrate that production of nitric oxide (NO) is a major mechanism whereby ceramide-1-phosphate (C1P) blocks apoptosis in macrophages. However, NO failed to st...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gangoiti P,Granado MH,Arana L,Ouro A,Gómez-Muñoz A

更新日期：2008-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of additives during X-irradiation of malate synthase led to radioprotective effects against primary and post-irradiation inactivation. Pronounced effects were provided by typical scavengers, sulfhydryl reagents and specific ligands (substrates, products, analogues). The results show that scavenging and sp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Durchschlag H,Zipper P

更新日期：1988-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of rat testis carbonyl reductase (rCR1) and rat ovary carbonyl reductase (rCR2) are 98% identical, differing only at amino acids 140, 141, 143, 235 and 238. Despite such strong sequence identity, we find that rCR1 and rCR2 have different catalytic constants for metabolism of menadione and 4-benzoyl-pyrid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sciotti MA,Tam S,Wermuth B,Baker ME

更新日期：2006-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymocytes previously loaded with quin 2 were rapidly permeabilized by the photon activation of erythrosin and the rate of permeabilization monitored by measuring fluorimetrically the increasing saturation of quin 2 with calcium. The extent of permeabilization was assessed also by the loss of [3H]quin 2 from the thymo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yonuschot G,Matthews EK,Corps AN,Metcalfe JC

更新日期：1987-03-23 00:00:00