New design platform for malonyl-CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase.

abstract：:Bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS, E.C.6.1.1.2) is unable to catalyze in vitro formation of Ap4A in contrast to some other aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. However, in the presence of L-tryptophan, ATP-Mg2+ and ADP the enzyme catalyzes the Ap3A synthesis via adenylate intermediate. Ap3A (not Ap4A) may serve as a s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Merkulova T,Kovaleva G,Kisselev L

更新日期：1994-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A truncated human Na(+)/glucose cotransporter (C(5), residues 407-664) was expressed and purified from Escherichia coli using a GST fusion vector and glutathione affinity chromatography. The truncated transporter (C(5)) was cleaved from GST-C(5) by Factor Xa proteolysis and purified by gel filtration chromatography. U...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Panayotova-Heiermann M,Leung DW,Hirayama BA,Wright EM

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the effect of melatonin on membrane fluidity in microsomes of a rat liver model in which lipid peroxidation was induced by the addition of FeCl3, ADP and NADPH. Membrane fluidity was monitored using fluorescence spectroscopy and lipid peroxidation was estimated by quantifying malonaldehyde (MDA)+4-hydroxyalk...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： García JJ,Reiter RJ,Guerrero JM,Escames G,Yu BP,Oh CS,Muñoz-Hoyos A

更新日期：1997-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of cultured carrot cells with dibutyryl cAMP or forskolin resulted in the appreciable decrease in extracellular K+ concentration. This decrease was found to be transient and the concentration of the ion in the culture medium restored to the original level within few minutes. The cAMP-induced decrease in K+ l...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kurosaki F

更新日期：1997-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of an experimental confluence between carcinogenesis and oxidative phosphorylation, we published in 1971 'A Unitary Hypothesis for Carcinogenesis' [(1971) J. Antibiot. Tokyo 24, 405-417]. According to this hypothesis, damaged mitochondria release mitochondrial genetic material which like that from an oncog...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hadler HI

更新日期：1989-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular expression of recombinant antibodies in mammalian cells is an experimental strategy to inhibit in vivo the function of selected molecules. However, one limitation of this technology is represented by the unpredictable behaviour of antibodies, under conditions of intracellular expression. For this rea...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gargano N,Cattaneo A

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroidal melanoma (CM) remains the most prevalent form of intraocular malignancy, and the prognosis of affected patients is poor. While the E3 ubiquitin ligase TRAF-interacting protein (TRIP) is known to play key regulatory roles in multiple diseases, its relevance in CM remains uncertain. In the present study, we fo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wei C,Zhao X,Wang L,Zhang H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of galanin (GAL) on basal and phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu) induced protein phosphorylation in rat ventral hippocampal miniprisms was investigated. GAL (0.5, 1 and 2 microM) inhibited PDBu stimulation in a concentration-dependent manner without altering basal protein phosphorylation. This inhibitory effec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： La Porta C,Bianchi R,Sozzani S,Bartfai T,Consolo S

更新日期：1992-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome bd is a bacterial respiratory oxidase carrying three hemes but no copper. We show that nitric oxide (NO) reacts with the intermediate F of cytochrome bd from Azotobacter vinelandii: (i) with a 1:1 stoichiometry, (ii) rapidly (k=1.2 +/- 0.1 x 10(5)M(-1)s(-1) at 20 degrees C), and (iii) yielding the oxidized ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borisov VB,Forte E,Sarti P,Brunori M,Konstantinov AA,Giuffrè A

更新日期：2006-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin elicited a dose-dependent inhibition of glucagon-induced cAMP accumulation in isolated hepatocytes. This response was not diminished by incubation of cells with the calmodulin antagonists trifluoperazine or chlorpromazine and was only slightly reduced in Ca2+-depleted hepatocytes. Half-maximal inhibition o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morgan NG,Shipp CC,Exton JH

更新日期：1983-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that specific protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms regulate dopamine transporter (DAT) function was tested in Xenopus laevis oocytes expressing human (h)DAT. Activation of conventional PKCs (cPKCs) and novel PKCs (nPKCs) using 10 nM phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) significantly inhibited DAT-associated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Doolen S,Zahniser NR

更新日期：2002-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T-cells (Tregs) are the guardians of peripheral tolerance acting to prevent autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythomatosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Defects in Tregs have been reported in these two diseases despite significant differences in their clinical phenotype and pathogenesis. In...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chavele KM,Ehrenstein MR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcellular fractionation revealed that a significant fraction of total sphingosine kinase, the enzyme that phosphorylates sphingosine to form the bioactive lipid metabolite sphingosine-1-phosphate, resides in the nuclei of Swiss 3T3 cells, localized to both the nuclear envelope and the nucleoplasm. Platelet-derived g...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kleuser B,Maceyka M,Milstien S,Spiegel S

更新日期：2001-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we summarize the currently available information on the membrane topology of some key members of the human ABC protein subfamilies, and present the predicted domain arrangements. In the lack of high-resolution structures for eukaryotic ABC transporters this topology is based only on prediction algorith...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tusnády GE,Sarkadi B,Simon I,Váradi A

更新日期：2006-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of CMP-N-acetylneuraminate:GM1 sialyltransferase (SAT IV) activity of rat liver Golgi apparatus on GM1 ganglioside ceramide composition was evaluated. SAT IV activity was assayed on GM1 molecular species carrying homogeneous ceramide moieties containing long chain bases of different length (18 or 20 C a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pitto M,Palestini P,Masserini M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, human tau protein aggregates into paired helical filaments and neurofibrillary tangles. However, such tau aggregates have not yet been demonstrated in transgenic mouse models of the disease. One of the possible explanations would be that mouse tau has different properties ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kampers T,Pangalos M,Geerts H,Wiech H,Mandelkow E

更新日期：1999-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehrlich ascites tumor cells were found to be in a low bioenergetic status, as evaluated by acridine orange uptake and ATP content, when resuspended in a glucose medium shortly after removal from the animal. Dye uptake as well as ATP content then increased for about 2 h at room temperature. This effect was only slightl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dell'Antone P

更新日期：1994-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic AMP phosphodiesterases type 4 (PDE4s) are expressed in a cell specific manner, with intracellular targeting directed by unique N-terminal anchor domains. All long form PDE4s are phosphorylated and activated by PKA phosphorylation within their upstream conserved region 1 (UCR1). Here, we identify and charact...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Byrne AM,Elliott C,Hoffmann R,Baillie GS

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase is a two-component metalloenzyme that catalyzes a MgATP hydrolysis driven reduction of substrates. Aluminum fluoride plus MgADP inhibits nitrogenase by stabilizing an intermediate of the on-enzyme MgATP hydrolysis reaction. We report here the redox properties and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spee JH,Arendsen AF,Wassink H,Marritt SJ,Hagen WR,Haaker H

更新日期：1998-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli evolves H2 via multiple [Ni-Fe]-hydrogenases (Hyd). This activity under hyper- and hypo-osmotic stress was investigated with mutants lacking different Hyd enzymes during glycerol fermentation. Inhibitory effects of hypo-stress on H2 production was stronger at pH 6.5 in wild type and mutants except fhl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Trchounian K,Trchounian A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been discovered that glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase (FALDH) exhibits a strong S-nitrosoglutathione reductase activity. Plants use NO and S-nitrosothiols as signaling molecules to activate defense mechanisms. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the regulation of FALDH by mechan...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Díaz M,Achkor H,Titarenko E,Martínez MC

更新日期：2003-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human nuclear cyclophilin 33 (hCyP33) was the first protein which was found to contain an RNA-binding motif and a PPIase domain. It was not known what cellular and physiological roles are played by the RNA-binding activity as well as the PPIase activity of hCyP33. In this paper, we investigated the binding specificity...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang Y,Han R,Zhang W,Yuan Y,Zhang X,Long Y,Mi H

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation gating in KcsA is elicited by changes in intracellular proton concentration. Thompson et al. identified a charge cluster around the inner gate that plays a key role in defining proton activation in KcsA. Here, through functional and spectroscopic approaches, we confirmed the role of this charge cluster and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cuello LG,Cortes DM,Jogini V,Sompornpisut A,Perozo E

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the molecular cloning, nucleotide sequence, and predicted amino acid sequence of an alpha-subunit of the developmentally useful model, Artemia. The amino acid sequence shows divergence from that of mammals, birds, Torpedo, and Drosophila. However, regions in the putative ATP binding and transmembrane do...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baxter-Lowe LA,Guo JZ,Bergstrom EE,Hokin LE

更新日期：1989-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Silent information regulator 2 (Sir2) is an NAD(+)-dependent histone deacetylase that establishes repressive chromatin status and extends the life span of both budding yeast and the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. There is growing evidence that its mammalian homologue Sir2alpha protects cells from stress-induced...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohsawa S,Miura M

更新日期：2006-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen is an essential element in the survival of complex organisms, however the level of oxygen, low or high, can be a source of stress depending on the biological context. Low levels of oxygen in tissues (hypoxia) can be the consequence of a number of pathophysiological conditions including ischemic disorders and ca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brahimi-Horn MC,Pouysségur J

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:pMNEI, a single chain sweet protein related to monellin, has been studied by means of 1H NMR at 500 MHz. A partial sequential assignment performed by means of the MCD method allowed the determination of the secondary structure of a large portion of the beta-sheet of pMNEI that contains a likely 'sweet finger': the loo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tancredi T,Iijima H,Saviano G,Amodeo P,Temussi PA

更新日期：1992-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we provide evidence that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress suppresses DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair and increases radiosensitivity of tumor cells by altering Rad51 levels. We show that the ER stress inducer tunicamycin stimulates selective degradation of Rad51 via the 26S proteasome, impairing DS...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yamamori T,Meike S,Nagane M,Yasui H,Inanami O

更新日期：2013-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor VII contains ten gamma-carboxyglutamic acid residues in the N-terminal region (Gla-domain) which are essential for the hemostatic function of FVII. The present study shows that granulocyte cathepsin G degrades the Gla-domain of FVIIa in vitro. Characterization of the truncated FVIIa by SDS-PAGE and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nicolaisen EM,Petersen LC,Thim L,Jacobsen JK,Christensen M,Hedner U

更新日期：1992-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, a group of enzymes catalyzing aminoacyl-tRNA formation, may possess inherent editing activity to clear mistakes arising through the selection of non-cognate amino acid. It is generally assumed that both editing substrates, non-cognate aminoacyl-adenylate and misacylated tRNA, are hydrolyzed...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gruic-Sovulj I,Rokov-Plavec J,Weygand-Durasevic I

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00