Insulin-degrading enzyme antagonizes insulin-dependent tissue growth and Abeta-induced neurotoxicity in Drosophila.

abstract：:The toxicity of the beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptide of Alzheimer's disease may relate to its polymerisation state (i.e. fibril content). We have shown previously that plasma lipoproteins, particularly when oxidised, greatly enhance Abeta polymerisation. In the present study the nature of the interactions between both nat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stanyer L,Betteridge DJ,Smith CC

更新日期：2002-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:PsbU is one of the extrinsic proteins in red algal Photosystem II (PSII) and functions to optimize the availability of Ca(2+) and Cl(-) cofactors for water oxidation. To determine the functional residue of PsbU, we constructed various PsbU mutants from a red alga Cyanidium caldarium and reconstituted these mutants wit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okumura A,Sano M,Suzuki T,Tanaka H,Nagao R,Nakazato K,Iwai M,Adachi H,Shen JR,Enami I

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of histidine residues that were artificially introduced into complementarity-determining regions of antibodies on antigen-antibody interactions at different pH values. Using a monoclonal antibody specific for hen egg-white lysozyme and three mutant antibodies that contained a histidine residue,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ito W,Sakato N,Fujio H,Yutani K,Arata Y,Kurosawa Y

更新日期：1992-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of the binding equilibrium for the interaction of alpha-actinin with F-actin is complicated by secondary reactions involving cross-linking and/or bundling of the actin filaments. To quantitate the initial binding event, we studied the interaction of the bacterially expressed actin-binding domain (ABD) of c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kuhlman PA,Ellis J,Critchley DR,Bagshaw CR

更新日期：1994-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ), a ligand-regulated nuclear hormone receptor, plays critical roles in metabolism and adipogenesis. PPARγ ligands such as thiazolidinediones (TZDs) exert insulin sensitizing and anti-inflammatory effects primarily through action on adipocytes, and are thus widely...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugii S,Evans RM

更新日期：2011-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The MDM2 oncoprotein is overexpressed in many human tumors and cancers. MDM2 functions as an E3 ligase for p53 and for itself. MDM2 also interacts with the retinoblastoma protein (RB) and the transcription factor E2F1 to promote cell cycle S-phase entry. Here, we report that MDM2 protein expression is cell cycle-regul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gu L,Ying H,Zheng H,Murray SA,Xiao ZX

更新日期：2003-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated permeability changes have been detected in mitochondria across species. We review here their key features, with the goal of assessing whether a "permeability transition" similar to that observed in higher eukaryotes is present in other species. The recent discoveries (i) that treatment with cyclosporin A (Cs...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Azzolin L,von Stockum S,Basso E,Petronilli V,Forte MA,Bernardi P

更新日期：2010-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins and peptides are readily and specifically modified at their sulfhydryl groups by the vapors of a mixture of 4-vinylpyridine and tributylphosphine. The phenylthiohydantoin derivative of S-beta-(4-pyridylethyl)cysteine formed during sequence analysis is easily detectable in current identification systems. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Amons R

更新日期：1987-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The main immunogenic region (MIR) of the acetylcholine receptor (AChR) is the target for the majority of high-affinity autoantibodies produced in myasthenia gravis patients. Some monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to the MIR bind specifically, but with low affinity, to synthetic AChR alpha subunit peptides with the sequence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Saedi MS,Anand R,Conroy WG,Lindstrom J

更新日期：1990-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Phalloidin and fluorescently labeled phalloidin analogs are established reagents to stabilize and mark actin filaments for the investigation of acto-myosin interactions. In the present study, we employed transient and steady-state kinetic measurements as well as in vitro motility assays to show that phalloidin perturb...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Diensthuber RP,Müller M,Heissler SM,Taft MH,Chizhov I,Manstein DJ

更新日期：2011-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:TATA-box binding factor TFIID is one of the key factors in transcriptional activation. Surprisingly, the yeast TFDII protein [(1989) Nature 341, 299-303; (1989) Cell 56, 1173-1181; (1989) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 86, 7785-7789] reveals only limited homology with other DNA-binding proteins. From computer-assisted sear...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stucka R,Feldmann H

更新日期：1990-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:PsbY is one of the low molecular mass subunits of oxygen-evolving photosystem II (PSII). Its location, however, has not been identified in the current crystal structure of PSII. We constructed a PsbY-deletion mutant of Thermosynechococcus elongatus, crystallized, and analyzed the crystal structure of the mutant PSII d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kawakami K,Iwai M,Ikeuchi M,Kamiya N,Shen JR

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (EGCG), a polyphenol in green tea, induces apoptosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells without affecting normal cells. In this study, we observed that cGMP acts as a cell death mediator of the EGCG-induced anti-AML effect through acid sphingomyelinase activation. EGCG activated the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kumazoe M,Kim Y,Bae J,Takai M,Murata M,Suemasu Y,Sugihara K,Yamashita S,Tsukamoto S,Huang Y,Nakahara K,Yamada K,Tachibana H

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) have a variety of physiological functions and are related to numerous disorders. The key step of VLCFA elongation is catalyzed by members of the elongase family, ELOVLs. Mammals have seven ELOVLs (ELOVL1-7), yet none of them has been purified and analyzed. In the presented study we...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Naganuma T,Sato Y,Sassa T,Ohno Y,Kihara A

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral deposition of 40-42 residue amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) is a characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. Cathepsin D is possibly involved in the intracellular clearance of Abeta (Hamazaki, H. (1996) FEBS Lett., in press). The present work shows that cathepsin D hydrolyzes wild-type Abeta 20 times faster than ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hamazaki H

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO) reductase from R. capsulatus contains a molybdenum-pterin cofactor at its active site. As prepared the molybdenum is in the 6+ oxidation state, devoid of EPR signals. Stepwise reduction generates an EPR signal characteristic of Mo(V) having hyperfine coupling to a single proton and integratin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benson N,Farrar JA,McEwan AG,Thomson AJ

更新日期：1992-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a portion of the canine gene encoding the orphan receptor RDC1 [1]. The complete coding sequence is contained in a single exon, and an intron divides the 5' untranslated region of RDC1 mRNA. The RDC1 protein is 94% homologous to the gene product of GPRN1, which has been proposed to serve as a VIP rece...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cook JS,Wolsing DH,Lameh J,Olson CA,Correa PE,Sadee W,Blumenthal EM,Rosenbaum JS

更新日期：1992-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-ribosylation of HeLa nonhistone proteins was investigated by using [3H]adenosine as an in vivo radioactive label. The aim was to determine basic differences in the patterns of modification of interphase and metaphase nonhistones. Fluorography revealed a relatively small number of modified proteins for isolated met...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adolph KW,Song MK

更新日期：1985-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A structure of residues 1-177 of the cyclophilin domain of a large divergent cyclophilin from the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi has been crystallised and solved in two different crystal forms. The active site has a similar structure to that of human cyclophilin A. Two of the 13 residues important in forming...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taylor P,Page AP,Kontopidis G,Husi H,Walkinshaw MD

更新日期：1998-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged incubation of membrane fragments containing homogeneous (Na+ + K+)-ATPase with Mg2+, K+ and VO-3 at 4 degrees C resulted in formation of two-dimensional crystals of this enzyme with unit cell parameters: a = 66 A, b = 118 A, gamma = 108 degrees. The crystals correspond to the two-sided plane group p21. By co...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ovchinnikov YuA,Demin VV,Barnakov AN,Kuzin AP,Lunev AV,Modyanov NN,Dzhandzhugazyan KN

更新日期：1985-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The prokaryotic tubulin homologue FtsZ polymerizes in vitro in a nucleotide dependent fashion. Here we report that replacement of the strictly conserved Asp212 residue of Escherichia coli FtsZ by a Cys or Asn, but not by a Glu residue results in FtsZ that polymerizes with divalent cations in the absence of added GTP. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scheffers DJ,de Wit JG,den Blaauwen T,Driessen AJ

更新日期：2001-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Several apolipoproteins including apoE and apoA-I are known to be associated with amyloid beta-peptide, a major component of senile plaques in Alzheimer's disease. In the present study the interaction between three human amphipathic apolipoproteins apoE3, apoA-I and apoA-II and immobilized amyloid beta-peptide (1-40) ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shuvaev VV,Siest G

更新日期：1996-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces lividans 1326-9, a bldA+ strain, and its bldA39 mutant derivative J1725 were transformed with a cosmid containing the pur cluster, which determines the puromycin biosynthetic pathway from Streptomyces alboniger. bldA+ transformants produced puromycin in typical amounts, whereas bldA39 transformants did so...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tercero JA,Espinosa JC,Jiménez A

更新日期：1998-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Using RT-PCR we distinguished mRNAs for all known G-protein coupled serotonin receptors expressed in various rat and porcine blood vessels. Nearly all vessels expressed 5HT1D beta, 5-HT2A, 5-HT2B, 5-HT4, and 5-HT7 receptor mRNA to different extents. New splice variants of the porcine 5-HT4 receptor were observed. Simi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ullmer C,Schmuck K,Kalkman HO,Lübbert H

更新日期：1995-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Many proteins located in the intermembrane space (IMS) of mitochondria are characterized by a low molecular mass, contain highly conserved cysteine residues and coordinate metal ions. Studies on one of these proteins, Tim13, revealed that net translocation across the outer membrane is driven by metal-dependent folding...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Terziyska N,Lutz T,Kozany C,Mokranjac D,Mesecke N,Neupert W,Herrmann JM,Hell K

更新日期：2005-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific receptors for angiotensin II (AII) were expressed in albino Xenopus laevis oocytes co-injected with poly(A)+ mRNA isolated from rat adrenal cortex and the calcium-specific photoprotein, aequorin. In such oocytes, AII elicited rapid, dose-dependent rises in cytosolic free calcium with light emission responses ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sandberg K,Markwick AJ,Trinh DP,Catt KJ

更新日期：1988-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Culturing human fibroblasts in a three-dimensional collagen matrix leads to a reduction of collagen I by more than 90%, both on the level of mRNA steady-state as well as protein. In order to differentiate changes in de novo transcription and posttranscriptional control, nuclear run on assays and pulse/chase experiment...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Eckes B,Mauch C,Hüppe G,Krieg T

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates that cell-cycle regulating proteins are involved in apoptotic process in post-mitotic neurons. In this study, we examined cell-cycle regulators for G1/S cell-cycle progression after a transient focal cerebral ischemia induced by middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion. In the cerebral frontopa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wen Y,Yang S,Liu R,Simpkins JW

更新日期：2005-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem I (PSI) complex of Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 consists of at least 11 subunits, 9 of which are resolved by high resolution gel electrophoresis. N-terminal amino acid sequences of the four subunits with molecular masses of 6.8, 5.2, 4.8 and 3.5 kDa were determined. Based on the sequence homology, the 3....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ikeuchi M,Nyhus KJ,Inoue Y,Pakrasi HB

更新日期：1991-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Oogenesis of amphibians is an atypical situation in which histone mRNA is polyadenylated. The poly(A) tract on H4 mRNA has been examined by S1 nuclease analysis. Throughout oogenesis the poly(A) tract is very short, and nonexistent on some mRNA molecules. The poly(A) tract is completely removed during maturation of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ballantine JE,Woodland HR

更新日期：1985-01-28 00:00:00