Regulatory T-cells in systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis.

abstract：:A serum-free medium conditioned by U937, a human cell line of monocyte/macrophage origin, was found capable of inducing apoptosis on exponentially growing U937 cells themselves (autocrine suicide). The apoptosis-inducing agent is a macromolecule and possibly a protein (SKT factor), with a relative molecular mass in th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ghibelli L,Coppola S,Nosseri C,Bergamini A,Beninati S

更新日期：1994-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junction channels may be comprised of either connexin or pannexin proteins (innexins and pannexins). Membrane topologies of both families are similar, but sequence similarity is lacking. Recently, connexin-like sequences have been identified in mammalian and zebrafish genomes that have only four conserved cysteine...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iovine MK,Gumpert AM,Falk MM,Mendelson TC

更新日期：2008-01-23 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：:Since the discovery of the new members of the UCP (uncoupling protein) family, UCP2 and UCP3, very few studies have dealt with the regulation of their expression. Bearing this in mind, administration of a single intravenous injection of TNF-alpha (100 microg/kg body weight) to rats resulted in a significant increase i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Busquets S,Sanchís D,Alvarez B,Ricquier D,López-Soriano FJ,Argilés JM

更新日期：1998-12-04 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：:The cAMP-dependent induction of 2,5-oligoadenylate (2-5A) synthetase and cAMP-dependent inhibition of 2-5A phosphodiesterase are shown. Variations in activities of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and the enzymes of 2-5A metabolism in the cells deepening into the resting state were found to be compatible with the above f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Itkes AV,Turpaev KT,Kartasheva ON,Tunitskaya VL,Kafiani CA

更新日期：1984-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies testing the effect of beta-carotene in humans have found a relative risk for lung cancer in smokers supplemented with beta-carotene. We investigated the reactions of retinal and beta-apo-8'-carotenal, two beta-carotene oxidation products, with 2'-deoxyguanosine to evaluate their DNA damaging po...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marques SA,Loureiro AP,Gomes OF,Garcia CC,Di Mascio P,Medeiros MH

更新日期：2004-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades of neuroscience research have shed light on the hippocampus as a key structure for the formation of episodic memory. The hippocampus is divided into distinct subfields - CA1, CA2 and CA3. While accumulating evidence points to cellular and synaptic heterogeneity within each subfield, this heterogeneity has not ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Igarashi KM,Ito HT,Moser EI,Moser MB

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free system derived from carrot cell cytosol extract has been developed for reassembling nuclear structure around the added demembranated sperm chromatin of Xenopus. Morphological evidence suggests that reassembled nuclei display the typical characteristics of normal eukaryotic nuclei, such as double-layered nu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhao Y,Liu X,Wu M,Tao W,Zhai Z

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible regulation of the expression of uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2) mRNA by thyroid hormones in different tissues was examined in rats. Triiodothyronine (T3) was found to produce an organ-specific enhancement of UCP2 expression in rat tissues. The effect of T3 was markedly observed in heart, whereas a moderate ef...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lanni A,De Felice M,Lombardi A,Moreno M,Fleury C,Ricquier D,Goglia F

更新日期：1997-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogenic mutations disrupt the regulatory circuits that govern cell function, enabling tumor cells to undergo de-regulated mitogenesis, to resist to pro-apoptotic insults, and to invade through tissue boundaries. Cancer cell biology has played a crucial role in elucidating the signaling mechanisms by which oncogenic ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giancotti FG

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor Va is an essential cofactor which combines with the serine protease factor Xa on a phospholipid surface to form the prothrombinase complex. In the present study, the structure of factor Va interacting with lipid surfaces containing phosphatidylserine was studied by electron microscopy. Two-dimension...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stoylova S,Mann KG,Brisson A

更新日期：1994-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a novel nuclear gene for a ribosomal protein of rice and Arabidopsis that is like the bacterial ribosomal protein S9. To determine the subcellular localization of the gene product, we fused the N-terminal region and green fluorescent protein and expressed it transiently in rice seedlings. Localized fluo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arimura S,Takusagawa S,Hatano S,Nakazono M,Hirai A,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：1999-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of 20 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase from Streptomyces hydrogenans was determined after FPLC purification of a commercial preparation. Peptides obtained from different proteolytic cleavages were purified by reverse phase HPLC. The 255-residue structure deduced was found to be distantly homolog...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marekov L,Krook M,Jörnvall H

更新日期：1990-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:ISG20 is an interferon-induced antiviral exoribonuclease that acts on single-stranded RNA and also has minor activity towards single-stranded DNA. It belongs to the DEDDh group of RNases of the DEDD exonuclease superfamily. We have solved the crystal structure of human ISG20 complexed with two Mn2+ ions and uridine 5'...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Horio T,Murai M,Inoue T,Hamasaki T,Tanaka T,Ohgi T

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We counted base transitions (Ts) and transversions (Tv) in mutations among various types of hepatitis C virus (HCV) sequences. The Ts/Tv ratio was useful for distinguishing the (geno)type of the compared HCV sequences, since the ratio was 4.0 or more among sequences of the same type, while it was less than 2.0 among s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka T,Kato N,Hijikata M,Shimotohno K

更新日期：1993-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented here that cupric ions play a part in the natural spinning of Bombyx mori silk. Proton induced X-ray emission studies revealed that the copper content increased from the posterior part to the anterior part of silk gland, and then further increased in the silk fiber. Spectrophotometric analysis dem...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou L,Chen X,Shao Z,Zhou P,Knight DP,Vollrath F

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:HSP73, the constitutive form of heat-shock protein 70, has been implicated in the translocation of preproteins across the mitochondrial membranes, being required for maintaining mitochondrial preproteins in an import competent conformation. Here we report that highly purified mitochondrial outer membranes contain a pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lithgow T,Ryan M,Anderson RL,Høj PB,Hoogenraad NJ

更新日期：1993-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The acronym CK2 denotes a highly pleiotropic Ser/Thr protein kinase whose over-expression correlates with neoplastic growth. A vexed question about the enigmatic regulation of CK2 concerns the actual existence in living cells of the catalytic (alpha and/or alpha') and regulatory beta-subunits of CK2 not assembled into...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Salvi M,Sarno S,Marin O,Meggio F,Itarte E,Pinna LA

更新日期：2006-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerase alpha-primase is a heterotetrameric complex essential for simian vacuolating virus 40 (SV40) DNA replication. We show that the C-terminal 67 amino acid residues of the human p180 subunit are essential for SV40 DNA replication as they are required for binding of the p68 subunit and play a role in the int...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Smith RW,Nasheuer HP

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that the taurine uptake and transporter (TAUT) mRNA expression were upregulated by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in Caco-2 cells. In this present study, the signaling molecules related to this upregulation were investigated. Pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate, a nuclear factor kappaB...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mochizuki T,Satsu H,Shimizu M

更新日期：2005-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The crawling locomotion and shape of eukaryotic cells have been associated with the stochastic molecular dynamics of actin and its protein regulators, chiefly Arp2/3 and Rho family GTPases, in making a cytoskeleton meshwork within cell extensions. However, the cell's actin-dependent oscillatory shape and extension dyn...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vicker MG

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized somatostatinergic phenotype markers of the human neuroblastoma, LA-N-2. A single mRNA-transcript (approximately 850bp) and two cellular somatostatin immunoreactivity forms, a high molecular weight form (M(r) 15,000) and a fragment corresponding to somatostatin-28 was found, while the somatostatin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nilsson L,Bergström L,Meyersson G,Påhlman S,Winblad B,Folkesson R

更新日期：1995-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of sulfatide and its precursor galactosylceramide (gal-cer) on the kinetics of production of cytokines were studied. In human mononuclear leucocytes, gal-cer but not sulfatide induced significantly increased amounts of interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-6 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) mRNA. In phytohemagglutinin-sti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bovin LF,Fredman P,Månsson JE,Buschard K,Bendtzen K

更新日期：1999-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Three mutant polypeptides of the type I 37-residue winter flounder 'antifreeze' protein have been synthesized. All four threonine residues in the native peptide were been mutated to serine, valine and glycine respectively and two additional salt bridges were incorporated into the sequences in order to improve aqueous ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Haymet AD,Ward LG,Harding MM,Knight CA

更新日期：1998-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH-I), which regulates reproduction, was the first isoform of GnRH that was identified in mammals. Recently, we and others have demonstrated the existence of a second isoform of GnRH in the brain of mammals. The presence of a third isoform of GnRH, GnRH-III, in the brain...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yahalom D,Chen A,Ben-Aroya N,Rahimipour S,Kaganovsky E,Okon E,Fridkin M,Koch Y

更新日期：1999-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Red fluorescent proteins (RFPs) combined with GFP are attractive probes for double-fluorescence labeling of proteins in live cells. However, the application of these proteins is restrained by stable oligomer formation and by their weak fluorescence in vivo. Previous attempts to eliminate these problems by mutagenesis ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fischer M,Haase I,Simmeth E,Gerisch G,Müller-Taubenberger A

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In higher plants, two types of nitrate transporters, NRT1 and NRT2, have been identified. In Arabidopsis, there are 53 NRT1 genes and 7 NRT2 genes. NRT2 are high-affinity nitrate transporters, while most members of the NRT1 family are low-affinity nitrate transporters. The exception is CHL1 (AtNRT1.1), which is a dual...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsay YF,Chiu CC,Tsai CB,Ho CH,Hsu PK

更新日期：2007-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A tetradecapeptide with a sequence identical to residues 26-39 of the cro protein from bacteriophage lambda has been synthesized. This peptide has no secondary structure in an aqueous buffer but adopts an alpha-helical conformation in the presence of 20% hexafluoroisopropanol. The fluorescence of the single tyrosyl re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mayer R,Lancelot G,Hélène C

更新日期：1983-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The high cGMP sensitivity of cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (type II) (PKAII) from invertebrates led to the hypothesis that cGMP directly activates PKAII under physiological conditions. We tested this idea using PKAII holoenzyme purified from the honeybee brain in an assay with short stimulation times. In the presenc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leboulle G,Müller U

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00