A novel combination of prosthetic groups in a fungal laccase; PQQ and two copper atoms.

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 investigated the expression of formyl peptide receptor (FPR) and its functional role in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). We analyzed the expression of FPR by using ligand-binding assay with radio-labeled N-formyl-met-leu-phe (fMLF), and found that MSCs express FPR. FMLF stimulated intracellu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim MK,Min do S,Park YJ,Kim JH,Ryu SH,Bae YS

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+ receptor mechanism of the parathyroid cell was studied using La3+ as a probe. La3+ was found to bind to the cell surface without further penetration. Measurements of 45Ca fluxes and the cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration (Ca2+i) revealed a stimulatory component in the action of La3+ on Ca2+ permeability resulting...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gylfe E,Larsson R,Johansson H,Nygren P,Rastad J,Wallfelt C,Akerström G

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis strain deficient in seven extracellular proteases was used to produce human mast cell chymase and is a viable expression system for serine proteases and other classes of proteins. Chymase is produced at 0.3-0.5 mg/l and is purified by three chromatography steps. Two crystal forms of PMSF-treated ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McGrath ME,Osawa AE,Barnes MG,Clark JM,Mortara KD,Schmidt BF

更新日期：1997-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of purified PKC-alpha, -beta and -gamma has been investigated. A series of synthetic peptides based upon the sequence surrounding serine-7 in glycogen synthase were generated and used to determine the basic residue requirements of these PKC isotypes. While PKC-alpha and -beta are indistinguis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marais RM,Nguyen O,Woodgett JR,Parker PJ

更新日期：1990-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated stellate cells are myofibroblast-like cells associated with the generation of fibrotic scaring in chronically damaged liver. Gene chip analysis was performed on cultured fibrotic stellate cells. Of the 51 human CYP genes known, 13 CYP and 5 CYP reduction-related genes were detected with 4 CYPs (CYP1A1, CYP2E...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marek CJ,Tucker SJ,Koruth M,Wallace K,Wright MC

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The critical urea concentration (C3*) which destabilizes the structure of bovine serum albumin and chymotrypsinogen was determined by UV difference spectroscopy. The increase of the relative content of mobile rotating water molecules in aqueous urea was formerly shown by millimeter spectroscopy [1]. The rise of rotato...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Khurgin Yu,Maksareva E

更新日期：1993-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Laminin 5, an anchoring filament protein previously known as nicein/kalinin/epiligrin, consists of three polypeptide chains, alpha 3, beta 3, and gamma 2, encoded by the genes LAMA3, LAMB3, and LAMC2, respectively. The expression of laminin 5 was detected by Northern hybridization with specific cDNA probes in various ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Korang K,Christiano AM,Uitto J,Mauviel A

更新日期：1995-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI-3 kinase) activity has been linked to cell proliferation and growth regulation. Therefore, we studied changes in phosphoinositide metabolism during the cell cycle of HT-29 cells, a colonic epithelial cell line. HT29 cells were treated with the microtubule disrupter, nocodozole, separa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dobos GJ,Wu XR,Traynor-Kaplan A

更新日期：1993-06-14 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：:Apolipoprotein E (apoE) is predominantly synthesized by astrocytes in the brain. In this study, we investigated the role of apoE in astrocyte apoptosis. We demonstrated that apoE protects astrocytes from hypoxia-induced apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. Glutamate release from astrocytic cultures is significantly l...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou S,Wu H,Zeng C,Xiong X,Tang S,Tang Z,Sun X

更新日期：2013-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco SABP2, a 29kDa protein catalyzes the conversion of methyl salicylic acid (MeSA) into salicylic acid (SA) to induce SAR. Pretreatment of plants with acibenzolar-S-methyl (ASM), a functional analog of salicylic acid induces systemic acquired resistance (SAR). Data presented in this paper suggest that SABP2 catal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tripathi D,Jiang YL,Kumar D

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsaicin, a major ingredient of hot pepper, is considered to exhibit anti-inflammatory properties. Our previous study demonstrated that capsaicin inhibited the production of pro-inflammatory mediators through NF-kappaB inactivation in LPS-stimulated macrophages. In order to further clarify the mechanism underlying th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park JY,Kawada T,Han IS,Kim BS,Goto T,Takahashi N,Fushiki T,Kurata T,Yu R

更新日期：2004-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The effort to understand the mechanism of uncoupling by UCP has devolved into two models - the fatty acid protonophore model and the proton buffering model. Evidence for each hypothesis is summarized and evaluated. We also evaluate the obligatory requirement for fatty acids in UCP1-mediated uncoupling and the question...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garlid KD,Jabůrek M,Jezek P

更新日期：1998-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical, immunohistochemical and molecular biological methods were used to detect fetal myosin heavy chain (MyHC) in the human masseter of elderly and young subjects. Samples from the elderly subjects contained larger amounts of fetal MyHC than those of young adults. Only a very small amount of embryonic MyHC coul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Monemi M,Eriksson PO,Dubail I,Butler-Browne GS,Thornell LE

更新日期：1996-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the apoptosis of mouse liver nuclei induced in the cytosol of carrot cells by cytochrome c. Several typical characteristics of apoptosis, such as chromatin condensation, margination and apoptotic bodies, were detected. The result of DNA gel electrophoresis showed that DNA was degraded into nucleosomal f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhao Y,Jiang ZF,Sun YL,Zhai ZH

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase can be protected against partial inactivation by N-ethylmaleimide by low concentrations of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate or high concentrations of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate. The partially inactivated enzyme has a much reduced sensitivity to high substrate inhibition and has lost the s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Meek DW,Nimmo HG

更新日期：1983-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effects of 'hydrophobic mismatch' between a poly-Leu transmembrane helix (TMH) and the ER membrane using a glycosylation mapping approach. The simplest interpretation of our results is that the lumenal end of the TMH is located deeper in the membrane for both short (negative mismatch) and long (pos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Monné M,von Heijne G

更新日期：2001-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloroplast inner envelope translocon subunit Tic110 is imported via a soluble stromal translocation intermediate. In this study an in-organellar import system is established which allows for an accumulation of this intermediate in order to analyze its requirements for reexport. All results demonstrate that the re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vojta L,Soll J,Bölter B

更新日期：2007-06-12 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：:We have studied the interaction of the yeast RAS2 protein with guanine nucleotides using energetic parameters for the dissociation of RAS.nucleotide complexes. The results indicated that a Gly-->Ser substitution at position 82 led to an altered interaction with GppNHp and, to a lesser extent, also with GDP. It was als...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： De Vendittis E,Fasano O

更新日期：1994-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of 20:4 (arachidonic acid) in alkenylacyl, alkylacyl and diacyl lipid classes in choline glycerophospholipids (CGP) and ethanolamine glycerophospholipids (EGP) in rabbit alveolar macrophages was examined. [3H]20:4 was very rapidly incorporated into diacyl glycerophosphocholine (GPC). After the removal o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugiura T,Katayama O,Fukui J,Nakagawa Y,Waku K

更新日期：1984-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylated cellulases from Cellulomonas fimi were compared with their non-glycosylated counterparts synthesized in Escherichia coli from recombinant DNA. Glycosylation of the enzymes does not significantly affect their kinetic properties, or their stabilities towards heat and pH. However, the glycosylated enzymes ar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Langsford ML,Gilkes NR,Singh B,Moser B,Miller RC Jr,Warren RA,Kilburn DG

更新日期：1987-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have indicated the existence of direct effects of melatonin on platelets. Here we show that, melatonin at high concentration is capable of significantly raising platelet intracellular calcium even in the absence of an agonist. The effect of melatonin on platelets was abolished by luzindole, a melatonin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kumari S,Dash D

更新日期：2011-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Major myelin proteolipid (MMPL, also called PLP) and DM-20 are the two major intrinsic membrane proteins of CNS myelin. A specific immunological probe was obtained for MMPL by raising antibodies against the synthetic tridecapeptide 117-129 of MMPL. Antibodies against this peptide reacted with the MMPL but did not cros...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Trifilieff E,Luu B,Nussbaum JL,Roussel G,Espinosa de los Monteros A,Sabatier JM,Van Rietschoten J

更新日期：1986-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Transglutaminase 2 (TG2) is a GTP-binding protein with transglutaminase activity. Despite advances in the characterization of TG2 functions and their impact on cellular processes, the role of TG2 in Human chronic myelogenous leukemia K562 cell line is still poorly understood. To understand the biological significance ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kang SK,Lee JY,Chung TW,Kim CH

更新日期：2004-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory protein kinases are involved in various cellular processes such as proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Using cDNA differential display, we identified MOK, a member of the mitogen-activated protein kinase superfamily, as one of the genes induced by a caudal-related homeobox transcription factor, C...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Uesaka T,Kageyama N

更新日期：2004-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha3/beta4 subtype of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) was stably expressed in human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells that co-expressed a voltage-gated Ca2+ channel. alpha3/beta4-nAChR-expressing clones were identified using the fura-2 Ca2+ imaging technique, and were further characterised by si...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stetzer E,Ebbinghaus U,Storch A,Poteur L,Schrattenholz A,Kramer G,Methfessel C,Maelicke A

更新日期：1996-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:FoxM1 (previously named WIN, HFH-11 or Trident) is a Forkhead box (Fox) transcription factor widely expressed in proliferating cells. Various findings, including a recent analysis of FoxM1 knockout mice, suggest that FoxM1 is required for normal S-M coupling during cell cycle progression. To study the regulatory role ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leung TW,Lin SS,Tsang AC,Tong CS,Ching JC,Leung WY,Gimlich R,Wong GG,Yao KM

更新日期：2001-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaves and chloroplasts from Arabidopsis plants with increased amounts of PsbS protein showed the same percentage increase in nonphotochemical quenching in comparison to the wild type both in the presence and absence of zeaxanthin. The absorption change at 525-535 nm was also more pronounced in both cases. It is sugge...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Crouchman S,Ruban A,Horton P

更新日期：2006-04-03 00:00:00