Effects of a novel peptide derived from human thrombomodulin on endotoxin-induced uveitis in vitro and in vivo.

abstract：:The chemokine RANTES is a potent chemoattractant for eosinophils. RANTES is produced by lung epithelial cells during eosinophil-rich inflammatory diseases such as asthma. In this study, we examined the effects of thiazolidinediones (TZD) on RANTES expression in a human lung epithelial cell line, A549. In A549 cells, i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Momoi A,Murao K,Imachi H,Sayo Y,Nakamura H,Hosokawa H,Sato M,Fujita J,Okada H,Ishida T,Takahara J

更新日期：1999-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosslinking of histones in mouse liver nuclei and extended chromatin with a bifunctional reagent leads to the formation of H1-H1o heterodimers as well as H1o-H1o homodimers. H1o can be also crosslinked to the core histones. Thus, the location of histone H1o within the basic repeating chromatin structure seems to be a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dashkevich VK,Nikolaev LG,Zlatanova JS,Glotov BO,Severin ES

更新日期：1983-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:MiR-140 is a microRNA specially involved in chondrogenesis and osteoarthritis pathogenesis. However, its transcriptional regulation and target genes in cartilage development are not fully understood. Here we detected that miR-140 was uniquely expressed in chondrocyte and suppressed by Wnt/β-catenin signalling. The miR...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yang J,Qin S,Yi C,Ma G,Zhu H,Zhou W,Xiong Y,Zhu X,Wang Y,He L,Guo X

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Three homologous aspartate aminotransferases with virtually identical spatial structures and pairwise amino acid sequence identities of > 40% differ markedly with respect to the yield of renaturation upon dilution from 6 M guanidine hydrochloride (mitochondrial < cytosolic < Escherichia coli). The enzymes also respond...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Widmann M,Christen P

更新日期：1995-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Small organic molecules, like Congo red and lacmoid, have been shown to modulate the self-assembly of the amyloid β peptide (Aβ). Here, we show that Aβ forms NMR invisible non-toxic co-aggregates together with lacmoid as well as Congo red. We find that the interaction involves two distinct kinetic processes and at eve...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Abelein A,Lang L,Lendel C,Gräslund A,Danielsson J

更新日期：2012-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-membrane fusion during fertilization of oocyte by spermatozoa is believed to be mainly mediated by so called "fusion proteins". In the present study we have tried to demonstrate that beside the proteins, lipid components of membrane may play an important role in fusion of oocyte with spermatozoa. Conventi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Atif SM,Hasan I,Ahmad N,Khan U,Owais M

更新日期：2006-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the outcome of the interaction between TNF-related apoptosis-inducing factor (TRAIL) and tumor cells, we studied TRAIL-resistant melanoma cells resulting from prolonged exposure to TRAIL and found that they had higher proliferative activity than the parental cells both in vitro and in vivo. This w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wu JJ,Zhang XD,Gillespie S,Hersey P

更新日期：2005-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue transglutaminase is a multifunctional enzyme which has been involved in the regulation of cell growth, differentiation, and apoptosis. Recently, nuclear localization of tTG has been reported indicating the potential of active nuclear transport. In this study we use the yeast two-hybrid assay and co-immunoprecip...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peng X,Zhang Y,Zhang H,Graner S,Williams JF,Levitt ML,Lokshin A

更新日期：1999-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fas/Fas ligand interaction plays a crucial role in various liver diseases, and administration of agonistic anti-Fas antibody to mice causes massive hepatic apoptosis and fulminant hepatic failure. Several growth factors have recently been found to function in preventing apoptosis. In this study, we demonstrated th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kanda D,Takagi H,Toyoda M,Horiguchi N,Nakajima H,Otsuka T,Mori M

更新日期：2002-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced depression of phosphoinositide (PI) hydrolysis was investigated using rat aortas. In LPS-pretreated aortas, the 5-hydroxytryptamine-stimulated accumulation of inositol monophosphate and incorporation of exogenous myo-inositol into PIs were significantly less th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sotoda Y,Negoro M,Wakabayashi I

更新日期：2002-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcoplasmic reticulum-bound creatine kinase from rabbit skeletal muscle was inhibited by the nitric oxide donor S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO). This led to a decrease in Ca2+ uptake in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles when the transport was driven by ATP generated from phosphocreatine and ADP. In contrast, the Ca 2+ ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wolosker H,Panizzutti R,Engelender S

更新日期：1996-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Crk and CrkL adaptors play essential neuronal positioning roles downstream of Reelin-induced Dab1 tyrosine phosphorylation. Recently we identified Cin85 to be a CrkL-SH3 binding partner from embryonic murine brain while others found Cin85 binds directly to Dab1. Here using mass spectrometry, biochemical and mutational...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bior BK,Ballif BA

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first X-ray study of a member of the arrestin family, the bovine retinal arrestin. Arrestin is essential for the fine regulation and termination of the light-induced enzyme cascade in vertebrate rod outer segments. It plays an important role in quenching phototransduction by its ability to preferentiall...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wilden U,Choe HW,Krafft B,Granzin J

更新日期：1997-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report that splice blocking morpholinos (Sb MO) against zebrafish sox31 elicit developmental arrest, likely through creating a series of dominant negative splicing variants. Embryos injected with the Sb MO develop normally before the Mid-Blastula Transition (MBT); however, they do not initiate epiboly. Microar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hu SN,Yu H,Zhang YB,Wu ZL,Yan YC,Li YX,Li YY,Li YP

更新日期：2012-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin inhibits insulin secretion partly via induction of IA-2beta. However, the orexigenic effect of ghrelin is mediated by the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)-uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) pathway. Here, we demonstrate that ghrelin's inhibitory effect on insulin secretion also occurs through the AMPK-UCP2 pathway...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang Y,Nishi M,Doi A,Shono T,Furukawa Y,Shimada T,Furuta H,Sasaki H,Nanjo K

更新日期：2010-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the Pseudomonas saccharophila gene encoding maltotetraohydrolase (G4-forming amylase) has been determined. The coding region for the G4-forming amylase precursor contained 1653 nucleotides. The deduced precursor protein included an N-terminal 21-residue putative signal peptide; the deduced m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou JH,Baba T,Takano T,Kobayashi S,Arai Y

更新日期：1989-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells and neutrophils synthesize and release potent vasodilatatory factors, i.e. endothelium-derived relaxing factors (EDRF) and neutrophil-derived relaxing factors (NDRF). One EDRF has been identified as nitric oxide (NO) derived from arginine. We studied the synthesis and release of NO from huma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schmidt HH,Seifert R,Böhme E

更新日期：1989-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA helicase Rok1 plays a role in rRNA processing and in control of cell cycle progression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We identified two upstream open reading frames (uORFs) within the ROK1 5' untranslated region, which inhibited Rok1 translation. Mutating uATG to uAAG or generation of a premature stop codon in t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jeon S,Kim J

更新日期：2010-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Annexin V is an alpha-helical protein which shows anticoagulatory and antiinflammatory activity. It is supposed to be involved in membrane fusion and exocytosis. In this study acid-induced equilibrium unfolding of the human annexin V is investigated by fluorescence and circular dichroism spectroscopy. The spectroscopi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Beermann ofm cap BB,Hinz HJ,Hofmann A,Huber R

更新日期：1998-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Undifferentiated rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells were voltage clamped using the whole cell technique. After blockade of outward currents, calcium currents were elicited from -40 and -100 mV. A subpopulation of cells displayed only one current component activated at -10 mV and slowly decaying. In other cells this curre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Janigro D,Maccaferri G,Meldolesi J

更新日期：1989-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether activation of integrin receptors could modulate the expression of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) in human hepatic stellate cells (HSC), mesenchymal cells responsible for extracellular matrix synthesis within the liver. When compared to non-adherent cells, HSC plated on collagen types I ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marra F,Pastacaldi S,Romanelli RG,Pinzani M,Ticali P,Carloni V,Laffi G,Gentilini P

更新日期：1997-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase-I were examined in the presence of the anti-tumor drug cis-diaminedichloroplatinum(II) and its inactive geometric isomer trans-diaminedichloroplatinum(II). The trans-isomer did not inhibit the enzyme activity. The anti-tumor drug, on the other hand, retarded the enzyme in ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Duman RK,Heath RT,Bose RN

更新日期：1999-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two alpha-type CK2-activated PKAs (CK2-aPKAIalpha and CK2-aPKAIIalpha) were biochemically characterized in vitro using GST-HBV core fusion protein (GST-Hcore) and GST-Hcore157B as phosphate acceptors. It was found that (i), in the absence of cAMP, these two CK2-aPKAs phosphorylated both Ser-170 and Ser-178 on GST-Hcor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Enomoto M,Sawano Y,Kosuge S,Yamano Y,Kuroki K,Ohtsuki K

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of iron-sulfur (Fe/S) clusters in a living cell is mediated by a complex machinery which, in eukaryotes, is localised within mitochondria. Here, we report on a new component of this machinery, the protein Isa2p of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The protein shares sequence similarity with yeast Isa1p ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pelzer W,Mühlenhoff U,Diekert K,Siegmund K,Kispal G,Lill R

更新日期：2000-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blinded, placebo-controlled cross-over trial was carried out with 27 hypercholesterolemic men with coronary heart disease. During the 6-week treatment period lovastatin (60 mg/day) decreased fasting serum LDL cholesterol by 45%, LDL phosphorus by 38% and apoB by 33%. Ubiquinol content diminished by 13% as mea...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Palomäki A,Malminiemi K,Metsä-Ketelä T

更新日期：1997-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular retinoic acid binding proteins (CRABPs) bind all-trans-retinoic acid (atRA) tightly. This study aimed to determine whether atRA is channeled directly to cytochrome P450 (CYP) CYP26B1 by CRABPs, and whether CRABPs interact directly with CYP26B1. atRA bound to CRABPs (holo-CRABP) was efficiently metabolized by ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nelson CH,Peng CC,Lutz JD,Yeung CK,Zelter A,Isoherranen N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of a brain peptide identical to the intestinal peptide PHI (peptide HI) is described. The peptide was isolated from porcine brain extract using a chemical assay method based on its C-terminal isoleucine amide structure. The complete amino acid sequence of the peptide was found to be: His-Ala-Asp-Gly-Val-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tatemoto K,Carlquist M,McDonald TJ,Mutt V

更新日期：1983-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a prostate-specific antigen cDNA as a hybridization probe, clones containing the kallikrein genes encoding prostate-specific antigen, human glandular kallikrein-1 and pancreas/kidney kallikrein were isolated from a human genomic library. Clones containing the prostate-specific antigen gene and the human glandula...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Riegman PH,Vlietstra RJ,Klaassen P,van der Korput JA,Geurts van Kessel A,Romijn JC,Trapman J

更新日期：1989-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II collagen is the major protein of cartilage and is synthesized as a procollagen in two forms (IIA and IIB), generated by differential splicing of the gene primary transcript. Previous studies have indicated that only type IIB is expressed in differentiated chondrocytes. Here, we examined the effects of bone mor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Valcourt U,Gouttenoire J,Aubert-Foucher E,Herbage D,Mallein-Gerin F

更新日期：2003-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory cilia contain cyclic nucleotide-gated and Ca2+-dependent Cl- conductances that underlie excitatory chemotransduction, and a Ca2+-dependent K+ (KCa) conductance, apparently involved in inhibitory transduction. Previous single-channel patch-clamp studies on olfactory cilia revealed four different KCas, with di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Castillo K,Bacigalupo J,Wolff D

更新日期：2005-03-14 00:00:00