An element of symmetry in yeast TATA-box binding protein transcription factor IID. Consequence of an ancestral duplication?

abstract：:A conformational transition between E2 and E1 forms of Na, K-ATPase induced by different nucleotides has been studied under steady state conditions using the enzyme labelled with 5-iodoacetamidofluorescein. In the presence of K+ the plot of fluorescence as a function of [ATP], [ADP] or [CTP] (in a range of 5 microM-12...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lopina OD,Pindel EV,Boldyrev AA

更新日期：1990-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) is suggested to protect mitochondria against aging and lipid-induced damage, possibly via modulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. Here we show that mice overexpressing UCP3 (UCP3Tg) have a blunted age-induced increase in ROS production, assessed by electron spin resonance sp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nabben M,Hoeks J,Briedé JJ,Glatz JF,Moonen-Kornips E,Hesselink MK,Schrauwen P

更新日期：2008-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We solved the crystal structure of a functionally uncharacterized protein, HP0902, from Helicobacter pylori. Its structure demonstrated an all-β cupin fold that cannot bind metal ions due to the absence of a metal-binding histidine that is conserved in many metallo-cupins. In contrast, isothermal titration calorimetry...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sim DW,Kim JH,Kim HY,Jang JH,Lee WC,Kim EH,Park PJ,Lee KH,Won HS

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of fibronectin and fibronectin fragments to the enterotoxigenic strain E. coli B34289c was studied. E. coli cells bound to two distinct sites of fibronectin, one being the N-terminal domain, which also contains the binding sites for staphylococci and streptococci, and the other located within the central h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Visai L,Bozzini S,Petersen TE,Speciale L,Speziale P

更新日期：1991-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:NDRG1 is phosphorylated by SGK1 (but not PKB) in vivo at three residues each contained within three nonapeptide repeats. Here, we demonstrate that this nonapeptide, like the NDRG1 protein, is phosphorylated by SGK1, but not by PKBalpha or RSK1 in vitro. The inability of PKBalpha and RSK1 to phosphorylate the nonapepti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murray JT,Cummings LA,Bloomberg GB,Cohen P

更新日期：2005-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The requirement for a proline residue at the C-terminus of the Ca(2+)-binding photoprotein, aequorin, was investigated by measuring luminescence activities of a series of C-terminal deletion mutants, substitution mutants and an addition mutant. CD spectral measurements of apoaequorin with the C-terminal proline delete...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nomura M,Inouye S,Ohmiya Y,Tsuji FI

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological activities of five synthetic lipid A analogues (D-glucosamine derivatives) were examined to elucidate the structure required for expression of the biological activities of endotoxin. Proclotting enzyme of horseshoe crab activation, interferon-inducing and tumor necrosis factor-inducing activities were signi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsuura M,Kojima Y,Homma JY,Kubota Y,Yamamoto A,Kiso M,Hasegawa A

更新日期：1984-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A functional NAD molecule was immobilized at the active site of Alcohol dehydrogenase within a proteic membrane. The presence and the functionality of the cofactor was checked by fluorescence analysis. The dehydrogenase NAD membrane does not require addition of soluble cofactor for its activity. The system represents ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Legoy MD,le Moullec JM,Thomas D

更新日期：1978-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway is distinct from the Sec system by its remarkable capacity to export folded enzymes. To address the question whether the two systems are capable of translocating homologous enzymes catalyzing the same reaction, we cloned the tap gene encoding Thermus thermophilus...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Angelini S,Moreno R,Gouffi K,Santini C,Yamagishi A,Berenguer J,Wu L

更新日期：2001-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy in the yeast is similar to that in mammalian cells. A mutant designated as apg1 (autophagy) defective in accumulation of autophagic bodies in the vacuoles was isolated by selection using a light microscope from a mutagenized proteinase-deficient strain. In the apg1 strain, which has normal vacuolar proteinas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsukada M,Ohsumi Y

更新日期：1993-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:CAP (c-Cbl associated protein)/ponsin belongs to a family of adaptor proteins implicated in cell adhesion and signaling. Here we show that CAP binds to and co-localizes with the essential endocytic factor dynamin. We demonstrate that CAP promotes the formation of dynamin-decorated tubule like structures, which are als...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tosoni D,Cestra G

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) is a multi-substrate cytoplasmic enzyme that regulates many important biological processes. Recently, some reports have implicated HDAC6 in viral infection. However, nothing is known about its regulation in virus-infected cells. The data presented here for the first time demonstrate the c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Husain M,Harrod KS

更新日期：2009-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the tRNA cycle is in itself capable of keeping the translational error level almost unaffected by amino acid starvation. There is no need to assume any yet unknown mechanism or property. Kinetic analysis shows that the concentration of aminoacyl-tRNA can stay high even for large reductions in aminoacyl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liljenström H

更新日期：1987-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vacuolar H(+)-PPase, a membrane bound proton-translocating pyrophosphatase found in various species including plants, some protozoan and prokaryotes, has been demonstrated to be localized to the vacuolar membrane in plants. Using a GUS reporter system and a green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion protein, we investigat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mitsuda N,Enami K,Nakata M,Takeyasu K,Sato MH

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular vesicular transport involves targeting of vesicles to their correct destination and subsequent fusion with the target membrane. These processes employ unique compartment-specific proteins in combination with general components which act at several transport steps. This review will summarize recent progre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Söllner T

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the Ala38 variant of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c, in which the previously unchanged Arg38 has been replaced, has been characterised by NMR. The NMR data indicate that the structure of the Ala38 variant is very similar to that of the wild type protein. In particular, the heme environment and interactions ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thurgood AG,Pielak GJ,Cutler RL,Davies AM,Greenwood C,Mauk AG,Smith M,Williamson DJ,Moore GR

更新日期：1991-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed five mutated cDNAs encoding human interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) derivatives lacking 19-23 COOH-terminal residues and expressed them in Escherichia coli. All the derivatives were purified to homogeneity. They showed substantially the same order of antiviral activity in vitro as the intact molecule, and be...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakaguchi M,Honda S,Ozawa M,Nishimura O

更新日期：1988-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between the polyanionic ligands phosphate and sulphate and the type II dehydroquinases from Streptomyces coelicolor and Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been characterised using a combination of structural and kinetic methods. From both approaches, it is clear that interactions are more complex in the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Evans LD,Roszak AW,Noble LJ,Robinson DA,Chalk PA,Matthews JL,Coggins JR,Price NC,Lapthorn AJ

更新日期：2002-10-23 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：:An antibody recognising acetylated core histones was used to immunoprecipitate chromatin fragments from proliferating human K562 cells and from cells induced to differentiate with the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). The DNA of the acetylated chromatin was probed with sequences of platelet der...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Clayton AL,Hebbes TR,Thorne AW,Crane-Robinson C

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Small RNAs (miR159-like RNAs) identical to some plant miR159s were found in Xenopus tropicalis miRNA cDNA libraries (30 miRNA families consisting of 75 unique sequences). Preferential expression of this RNA species was found in neural tissues during development. A sequence matching to this RNA species was not found in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hikosaka A,Takaya K,Jinno M,Kawahara A

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, peroxiredoxins are both antioxidants and regulators of H(2)O(2)-mediated signaling. We previously found that peroxiredoxin-I (Prx-I) was overexpressed in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissue. Since overexpressed protein can induce a humoral immune response, we examined whether serum from NSCL...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chang JW,Lee SH,Jeong JY,Chae HZ,Kim YC,Park ZY,Yoo YJ

更新日期：2005-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A 15-ns molecular dynamics simulation of the fully hydrated liquid-crystalline dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine-cholesterol (DMPC-Chol) bilayer containing approximately 22 mol% Chol was carried out. The generated trajectory was analysed to investigate the mechanism of the Chol condensing effect on DMPC hydrocarbon chain...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Róg T,Pasenkiewicz-Gierula M

更新日期：2001-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of lignified Zinnia elegans hypocotyls by both alkaline nitrobenzene oxidation and thioacidolysis reveals that coniferyl alcohol units are mainly found as part of 4-O-linked end groups and aryl-glycerol-beta-aryl ether (beta-O-4) structures. Z. elegans hypocotyls also contain a basic peroxidase (EC 1....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pomar F,Caballero N,Pedreño M,Ros Barceló A

更新日期：2002-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The high affinity (low Km) cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) is activated by GTP, while the cyclic AMP PDE is not. GTP and its hydrolysis-resistant analogue, guanylylimidodiphosphate (GppNHp), display a half-maximal stimulating effect at almost the same concentration (5 X 10(-6) M). The GTP stimulating effect is not ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spina A,Chiosi E,Paolisso G,Laurenza A,Illiano G

更新日期：1983-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A bark lectin, RBL, from Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust), binds galactose-related sugars specifically. Recombinant RBL (rRBL) with a histidine tag was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified and characterized. rRBL agglutinated rabbit erythrocytes and the hemagglutination was inhibited by galactose and related sug...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nishiguchi M,Yoshida K,Sumizono T,Tazaki K

更新日期：1997-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Folding of nascent chains resembles the decoding of spoken language in that information is emitted as a unidirectional, one-dimensional string of elements, with higher structures and long-distance interactions emerging with time. Applying a "pseudolinguistic' analysis of structure to a set of all 36 possible six-stran...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gross M

更新日期：1996-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin receptors (IRs) that are truncated at the end of the ectodomain form dimers that bind insulin with different characteristics to wild type receptors. These soluble IRs have lowered affinity for insulin compared with full-length IR, and exhibit linear Scatchard plots in contrast to the curvilinear plots obtained...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoyne PA,Cosgrove LJ,McKern NM,Bentley JD,Ivancic N,Elleman TC,Ward CW

更新日期：2000-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Protamines are polycationic proteins that are widely used for neutralisation of the anticoagulant action of heparin. However, several reports have shown adverse, mast cell-dependent reactions to protamine. The exact mechanism by which protamine causes these adverse effects is not clear. In the present study, the possi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pejler G

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein (IRBP) is limited to photoreceptor cells of the retina and pinealocytes of the pineal gland. We sought to define cis-elements of the mouse IRBP 5' flanking region that are required for this restricted activity. In vitro transient transfections of retinoblas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boatright JH,Knox BE,Jones KM,Stodulkova E,Nguyen HT,Padove SA,Borst DE,Nickerson JM

更新日期：2001-08-24 00:00:00