Codon reading properties of an unmodified transfer RNA.

abstract：:The key mechanism in prion disease is the conversion of cellular prion protein into an altered, pathogenic conformation, in which cellular mechanisms play a poorly understood role. Both forms of prion protein are lipid-anchored and reside in rafts that appear to protect the native conformation against conversion. Neur...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morris RJ,Parkyn CJ,Jen A

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ample evidence indicates that sphingosine-1-phosphate (SPP) can serve as an intracellular second messenger regulating calcium mobilization, and cell growth and survival. Moreover, the dynamic balance between levels of the sphingolipid metabolites, ceramide and SPP, and consequent regulation of opposing signaling pathw...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spiegel S,Milstien S

更新日期：2000-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel antimicrobial peptide, named misgurin, was isolated and characterized from the loach (mudfish), Misgurnus anguillicaudatus. The 21-amino-acid peptide with a molecular mass of 2502 Da was purified to homogeneity using a heparin-affinity column and C18 reverse-phase and gel-permeation high-performance liquid chr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park CB,Lee JH,Park IY,Kim MS,Kim SC

更新日期：1997-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper 1 (Th1) cell fate is induced by overlapping signaling pathways, whose kinetic principles and regulatory motifs are largely unknown. We identified a simple positive feedback loop in the STAT4 signaling pathway, whereby activation by IL-12 leads to the increased expression in IL-12 receptor. A computational ana...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Becskei A,Grusby MJ

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Guluronate and mannuronate oligomers with various degree of polymerization were prepared from polyguluronate (PG) and polymannuronate (PM) with an alginate lyase from a Pseudoalteromonas sp., and their activities to induce cytokine secretion from mouse macrophage cell line RAW264.7 cells were examined. Enzymatically d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iwamoto M,Kurachi M,Nakashima T,Kim D,Yamaguchi K,Oda T,Iwamoto Y,Muramatsu T

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHOdehase; EC 1.3.99.11) is a target of anti-proliferative, immunosuppressive and anti-parasitic agents. Here, redoxal, (2,2'-[3,3'-dimethoxy[1, 1'-biphenyl]-4,4'-diyl)diimino]bis-benzoic acid, was studied with isolated mitochondria and the purified recombinant human and rat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Knecht W,Löffler M

更新日期：2000-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The human ether-a-go-go-related gene (herg) encodes a K+ current (I(HERG)) which plays a fundamental role in heart excitability and in neurons by contributing to action potential repolarization and to spike-frequency adaptation, respectively. In this paper we show that I(HERG), recorded in neuroblastoma cells and guin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rosati B,Rocchetti M,Zaza A,Wanke E

更新日期：1998-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient-receptor-potential channels (TRPs) underlie the sensing of chemicals, heat, and mechanical force. We expressed the rat TRPV1 and TRPV4 subtypes in yeast and monitored their activities in vivo as Ca(2+) rise using transgenic aequorin. Heat and capsaicin activate TRPV1 but not TRPV4 in yeast. Hypotonic shocks ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Loukin SH,Su Z,Kung C

更新日期：2009-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Human red cells suspended in lead-citrate buffers (2.6 microM Pb2+) take up much less Pb than predicted from studies of equilibrium binding of Pb to haemolysates. Pb uptake is increased by ATP depletion, or by loading at 0 degrees C. Tracer studies with 203Pb indicate that the low uptake at 37 degrees C in the presenc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Simons TJ

更新日期：1984-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Conserved residues of the proteolytic domain of Escherichia coli protease Lon, putative members of the classic catalytic triad (H665, H667, D676, and D743) were identified by comparison of amino acid sequences of Lon proteases. Mutant enzymes containing substitutions D676N, D743N, H665Y, and H667Y were obtained by sit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Starkova NN,Koroleva EP,Rumsh LD,Ginodman LM,Rotanova TV

更新日期：1998-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:At least two of the introns in the antithrombin-III (AT-III) gene are located in positions different from those of the other three proteins in this superfamily for which the gene structures are known, namely, ovalbumin, alpha 1-antitrypsin and angiotensinogen. In another part of the 3'-portion of the AT-III gene there...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jagd S,Vibe-Pedersen K,Magnusson S

更新日期：1985-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoglucomutases (PGM) Pgm1, Pgm2, and Pgm3 of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were tested for their ability to interconvert ribose-1-phosphate and ribose-5-phosphate. The purified proteins were studied in vitro with regard to their kinetic properties on glucose-1-phosphate and ribose-1-phosphate. All tested...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Walther T,Baylac A,Alkim C,Vax A,Cordier H,François JM

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein D2 forms the water-filled pore across the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and allows the penetration of imipenem. We cloned the protein D2 gene by the antibody screening technique. When the imipenem-resistant mutant lacking protein D2 harbored the plasmid with the cloned D2 gene, the mutant overproduc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoneyama H,Nakae T

更新日期：1991-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin Binding Hemagglutinin A (HBHA) is hitherto the sole virulence factor associated with tuberculosis dissemination from the lungs, the site of primary infection, to epithelial cells. We have previously reported the solution structure of HBHA, a dimeric and elongated molecule. Since oligomerisation of HBHA is asso...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Esposito C,Carullo P,Pedone E,Graziano G,Del Vecchio P,Berisio R

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous transcription factor Sp1 has been implicated in the mechanism which maintains CpG islands methylation-free. Plasmids containing GC boxes (Sp1 sites) were in vitro methylated at every CpG dinucleotide. After stable introduction into F9 embryonal carcinoma cells, we analysed the methylation of the sequenc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Silke J,Rother KI,Georgiev O,Schaffner W,Matsuo K

更新日期：1995-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 400 human proteases documented in secondary databases can already be delineated in genomic sequence. A Genome Ontology annotation of 30585 sequences in the provisional human proteome set recognises 498 proteases, i.e. 1.6%. Homology searches against finished sequence and comparisons between mouse and zebrafish ar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Southan C

更新日期：2001-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The trans----cis isomerization of Pro 93 was measured during refolding of bovine ribonuclease A. This isomerization is slow (tau = 500 s) under marginally stable folding conditions of 2.0 M GdmCl, pH 6, at 10 degrees C. However, it is strongly accelerated (tau = 100 s) in samples which, prior to isomerization, had bee...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schmid FX

更新日期：1986-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of Ca(2+) in the response to high Mn(2+), Co(2+), Ni(2+), Cu(2+), Zn(2+), Cd(2+), and Hg(2+) was investigated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The yeast cells responded through a sharp increase in cytosolic Ca(2+) when exposed to Cd(2+), and to a lesser extent to Cu(2+), but not to Mn(2+), Co(2+), Ni(2+), ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ruta LL,Popa VC,Nicolau I,Danet AF,Iordache V,Neagoe AD,Farcasanu IC

更新日期：2014-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In unicellular species codon usage is determined by mutational biases and natural selection. Among prokaryotes, the influence of these factors is different if the genome is skewed towards AT or GC, since in AT-rich organisms translational selection is absent. On the other hand, in AT-rich unicellular eukaryotes the tw...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Naya H,Romero H,Carels N,Zavala A,Musto H

更新日期：2001-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the modulation and pharmacological properties of two anion channels in T84 cells by recording single channel and transepithelial currents. One channel had an outwardly rectifying current-voltage I/V curve, was rarely active in cell-attached patches, and was unaffected by cAMP. The other channel had low...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tabcharani JA,Low W,Elie D,Hanrahan JW

更新日期：1990-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid sequences coded for by 13 different genes of mammalian mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) including 8 unassigned open reading frames (URFs) were compared in pairs. It was found that significant homologies exist among the amino acid sequences of the three URFs (URF2, URF4 and URF5) with a probability of occurrence of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kikuno R,Miyata T

更新日期：1985-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine kinase catalyzes the reversible transphosphorylation between adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and phosphoarginine, which is involved in temporal and spatial adenosine triphosphate (ATP) buffering. Here we demonstrate that the homologous overexpression of the Trypanosoma cruzi arginine kinase improves the ability o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pereira CA,Alonso GD,Ivaldi S,Silber AM,Alves MJ,Torres HN,Flawiá MM

更新日期：2003-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding and aggregation are linked to several degenerative diseases and are responsible for the formation of bacterial inclusion bodies. Roles of molecular chaperones in promoting protein deposition have been speculated but not proven in vivo. We have investigated the involvement of individual chaperones in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carrió MM,Villaverde A

更新日期：2003-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modification of lysine residues in glucose oxidase was carried out using citraconic anhydride. Modification brought about changes in the kinetic properties of the enzyme as evident by substantial lowering of V(max) and K(m). Enhancement of tryptophan fluorescence was observed with a dramatic change in its pH ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hosseinkhani S,Ranjbar B,Naderi-Manesh H,Nemat-Gorgani M

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of prevalent protein phosphatases decreased by nearly 95% and those of individual protein kinases were differentially reduced at low temperature. Inhibition of phosphatase activity at temperatures below 12 degrees C resulted in marked hyperphosphorylation of a 58-kDa protein (PP58). The temperature threshol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Monroy AF,Labbé E,Dhindsa RS

更新日期：1997-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase, a key enzyme of methanogenesis, was purified 100-fold from methanol grown Methanosarcina barkeri to apparent homogeneity and a specific activity of 34 mumol.min-1.mg protein-1. Molybdenum was found to co-migrate with the enzyme activity. The molybdenum content of purified preparations...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karrasch M,Börner G,Enssle M,Thauer RK

更新日期：1989-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas ligand (FasL) binds Fas (CD95) to induce apoptosis or activate other signaling pathways. In addition, FasL transduces bidirectional or 'reverse signals'. The intracellular domain of FasL contains consensus sequences for phosphorylation and an extended proline rich region, which regulate its surface expression thro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thornhill PB,Cohn JB,Drury G,Stanford WL,Bernstein A,Desbarats J

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiloride, a specific inhibitor for the Na(+)-driven flagellar motors of alkalophilic Bacillus, is known to inhibit secondarily the growth of alkalophiles. The motility of a marine Vibrio, V. alginolyticus, was almost completely inhibited by 2 mM amiloride either at pH 7.0 or 8.5. We found that this concentration of a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Atsumi T,Maekawa Y,Tokuda H,Imae Y

更新日期：1992-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of Thr90 to Ala has a profound effect on bacteriorhodopsin properties. T90A shows about 20% of the proton pumping efficiency of wild type, once reconstituted into liposomes. Mutation of Thr90 influences greatly the Schiff base/Asp85 environment, as demonstrated by altered lambda(max) of 555 nm and pK(a) of As...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Perálvarez A,Barnadas R,Sabés M,Querol E,Padrós E

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:It is increasingly clear that microRNAs play a crucial role in tumorigenesis. Recently, emerging evidence suggested that miR-26a is aberrantly expressed in tumor tissues. In our study, frequent down-regulation of miR-26a was observed in 10 human bladder cancer tissues. Forced expression of miR-26a in the bladder cance...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lin Y,Chen H,Hu Z,Mao Y,Xu X,Zhu Y,Xu X,Wu J,Li S,Mao Q,Zheng X,Xie L

更新日期：2013-08-02 00:00:00