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abstract：:Niemann-Pick C (NPC) disease is a progressive neurological disorder in which cholesterol, gangliosides and bis-monoacylglycerol phosphate accumulate in late endosomes/lysosomes. This disease is caused by mutations in either the NPC1 or NPC2 gene. NPC1 and NPC2 are involved in egress of lipids, particularly cholesterol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vance JE

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic cycle of heme peroxidases involves two reactive states, compound I and compound II. Although their reduction potentials at pH 7 are similar, compound I is in general more reactive towards organic substrates than compound II. The different reactivities have until now remained unexplained. In this study, t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Folkes LK,Candeias LP

更新日期：1997-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathelicidins are a group of myeloid antimicrobial peptide precursors found in a variety of mammalian species. Transcripts of this family show a highly conserved 5' region corresponding to the 5' untranslated region, signal peptide and propiece, and diverse 3' regions encoding structurally varied C-terminal sequences ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scocchi M,Wang S,Zanetti M

更新日期：1997-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In cooperative aggregation of bovine platelets induced by simultaneous addition of PAF and collagen at subthreshold concentrations the following observations were made. (i) Formation of phosphatidic acid and arachidonic acid metabolites, which characterize PAF and collagen alone-induced aggregation, respectively, was ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kojima S,Sekiya F,Inada Y,Sato F,Tsukada T,Saito Y

更新日期：1990-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type trypanosomal triosephosphate isomerase (wtTIM) is a very tight dimer. The interface residue His-47 of wtTIM has been mutated into an asparagine. Ultracentrifugation data show that this variant (H47N) only dimerises at protein concentrations above 3 mg/ml. H47N has been characterised at a protein concentratio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borchert TV,Zeelen JP,Schliebs W,Callens M,Minke W,Jaenicke R,Wierenga RK

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingolipids are implied in several regulatory processes, including cell death. Levels of the free sphingobase t18:0 (phytosphingosine) increase in Arabidopsis in response to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. To gain information on sphingobase-induced signaling, we determined kinetics of leaf reactive oxyg...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peer M,Bach M,Mueller MJ,Waller F

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated transactivation by NANOG in regulating growth and differentiation factor 3 (GDF3) expression in NCCIT cells. GDF3 expression was affected by shRNA-mediated downregulation and by exogenous overexpression of NANOG specifically, as well as by retinoic acid-mediated differentiation. GDF3 transcription was ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park SW,Lim HY,Do HJ,Sung B,Huh SH,Uhm SJ,Song H,Chung HJ,Kim JH,Kim NH,Kim JH

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein MtsA is a critical component of MtsABC responsible for iron binding and transport in the Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes. The present collective experimental data establish that Fe(2+) is the primary binding ion for MtsA under optimal physiologically relevant conditions. The binding affiniti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sun X,Ge R,Chiu JF,Sun H,He QY

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We searched for the previously defined uncoupling protein (UCP) signatures [Jezek, P. and Urbánková, E. (2000) IUBMB Life 49, 63-70] in genomes of Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Dictyostelium discoideum, and Arabidopsis thaliana. We identified four UCPs in Drosophila and one in Caenorhabditis or Dict...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hanák P,Jezek P

更新日期：2001-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A fusion gene was constructed consisting of heat labile enterotoxin chain B (LTB) of E. coli genetically linked at its C-terminus to the beta-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin in translational fusion, under the control of tac promoter and LTB signal sequence. Expression of the fusion gene (about 5 microgram/ml) ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pillai D,Dixit A,Alok D,Garg LC

更新日期：1996-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Crigler-Najjar (CN) disease is caused by a deficiency of the hepatic enzyme, bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (B-UGT). We have found two CN type II patients, who were homozygous for a leucine to arginine transition at position 15 of B-UGT1. This mutation is expected to disrupt the hydrophobic core of the signal p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seppen J,Steenken E,Lindhout D,Bosma PJ,Elferink RP

更新日期：1996-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:All acetylcholine receptor subunit genes contain E boxes and are blocked by membrane depolarization. We have used transfected C2C12 myogenic cells to investigate the response, to electrical stimulation and KCl, of wildtype and mutant regulatory regions of the chick acetylcholine receptor alpha, gamma and delta subunit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Su CT,Huang CF,Schmidt J

更新日期：1995-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine globin has been incubated with mice peritoneal macrophages in order to study its hydrolysis by lysosomal enzymes, among which chiefly cathepsin D. Analysis of resulting peptides, by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC), showed the release of a bioactive peptide, VV-hemorphin-7. When a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dagouassat N,Garreau I,Sannier F,Zhao Q,Piot JM

更新日期：1996-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The TSH-induced cyclic AMP response was studied using a 3-year-old ovine thyroid cell line TSH-independent for growth: OVNIS 5H. The kinetics of cyclic AMP production was followed both in cell layers and in cell culture media, with or without phosphodiesterase inhibitor. It is noteworthy that following the first wave ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fayet G,Aouani A,Hovsépian S

更新日期：1986-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of respiration-driven active transport of alkali cations from E. coli cells loaded with Na+ or Li+ showed that Li+ could not be expelled from the cells like Na+. K+ accumulation, which was fast in Na+-loaded cells, was strongly inhibited in Li+-loaded cells, despite high membrane potential and respiratory r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Verkhovskaya ML,Verkhovsky MI,Wikström M

更新日期：1996-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to Ca(2+) signaling, cytosolic phospholipase A(2)alpha (cPLA(2)alpha) translocates from the cytosol to the perinuclear membrane, where downstream eicosanoid-synthetic enzymes, such as cyclooxygenase (COX), are localized. Although the spatiotemporal perinuclear colocalization of cPLA(2)alpha and COXs has be...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murakami M,Das S,Kim YJ,Cho W,Kudo I

更新日期：2003-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A photoactive reaction center complex was isolated from a thermophilic green sulfur bacterium, Chlorobium tepidum under anaerobic conditions. The electron transfer occurred from heme c to the photo-oxidized reaction center chlorophyll, P840+, with a half time (t1/2) of 110 or 340 microseconds at 24 or 12 degrees C, re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oh-oka H,Kamei S,Matsubara H,Iwaki M,Itoh S

更新日期：1995-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Early in the course of pregnancy, at the preimplantation stage, the pig embryo is likely to exert a paracrine effect on the tissue intended to receive it, via the secretion of interferons. Our observations show that trophoblastic interferons induce an increase of some mRNAs in the epithelial cells of the gilt endometr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chwetzoff S,d'Andrea S

更新日期：1997-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats bearing the fast-growing AH-130 Yoshida ascites hepatoma showed a marked cachectic response which has been previously reported [Tessitore et al. (1987) Biochem. J. 241, 153-159]. Thus tumour-bearing animals showed significant decreases in body and muscle weight (soleus and gastrocnemius) as compared to both pair-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Llovera M,García-Martínez C,Agell N,Marzábal M,López-Soriano FJ,Argilés JM

更新日期：1994-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the filamentous fungus Neurospora, the production of dsRNA can elicit a dsRNA-induced transcriptional response similar to the interferon response in vertebrates. However, how fungi sense the expression of dsRNA and activate gene expression is unknown. In this study, we established a dsRNA response reporter system i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li X,Shen Y,Sun J,Wang B,He Q

更新日期：2011-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the molecular binding specificity of two rabbit polyclonal sera generated against phenolic glycolipid antigens namely PheG1 B and PheG1 B-3 from Mycobacterium bovis BCG. PheG1 B is the well-known mycoside B (2-O-Me-alpha-L-Rhap 1----aglycone), while PheG1 B-3 is a recently found glycolipid (alpha-L-Rhap-(1-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vercellone A,Riviere M,Fournié JJ,Puzo G

更新日期：1992-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-selective gastrin/cholecystokinin receptor antagonists proglumide and benzotript inhibit colon carcinoma cell proliferation by binding to the 78 kDa gastrin-binding protein (GBP) (Baldwin, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91 (1994) 7593-7597). However, although most colon carcinoma cell lines synthesize progastrin,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baldwin GS

更新日期：1995-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosolic NADP(+)-dependent methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase-methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase is ubiquitously expressed in all mouse tissues and cell lines examined. Northern analyses of the RNA indicated that there is an extensive variation in the levels of mRNA in ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peri KG,MacKenzie RE

更新日期：1991-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Among DNA repair pathways, nucleotide excision repair (NER) is able to recognize and process a wide variety of DNA lesions. The NER mechanism can be summarized in two stages: incision/excision of the lesion and DNA repair synthesis. Here, we have assessed the repair synthesis activity of protein extracts from differen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Coudoré F,Calsou P,Salles B

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In bovine heart mitochondria a protein of M(r) 18 kDa, phosphorylated by mtPKA, is associated to the NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase in the inner membrane and is present in purified preparation of this complex. The 18 kDa phosphoprotein has now been isolated and sequenced. It is identified as the 18 kDa (IP) AQDQ subun...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Papa S,Sardanelli AM,Cocco T,Speranza F,Scacco SC,Technikova-Dobrova Z

更新日期：1996-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we demonstrate that phage display technology is a suitable system for studying the interaction between the high-affinity receptor for IgE (Fc epsilon RI) and IgE. The alpha subunit extracellular domains of the human receptor were expressed on the surface of filamentous phage M13 fused to the carboxyl-ter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scarselli E,Esposito G,Traboni C

更新日期：1993-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ycf1p function is regulated by casein kinase 2α, Cka1p, via phosphorylation of Ser251. Cka1p-mediated phosphorylation of Ycf1p is attenuated in response to high salt stress. Previous results from our lab suggest a role for Ycf1p in cellular resistance to salt stress. Here, we show that Ycf1p plays an important role in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Paumi CM,Pickin KA,Jarrar R,Herren CK,Cowley ST

更新日期：2012-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here a combined GC-MS and LC-MS metabolic profiling approach to unraveling the pathological outcomes of aristolochic acid (AA)-induced nephrotoxicity. Urine samples were analyzed by GC-MS and LC-MS in combination with pattern recognition techniques, e.g. principal component analysis (PCA), orthogonal projec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ni Y,Su M,Qiu Y,Chen M,Liu Y,Zhao A,Jia W

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven peptides from subunit 9 (S9) of the human 26S proteasome were sequenced and this information was used to clone a HeLa cDNA that encodes the 46 kDa subunit. Rabbit polyclonal antisera were made against a ubiquitin fusion protein containing 12 amino acids from S9 and against a full-length S9 expressed in E. coli. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoffman L,Rechsteiner M

更新日期：1997-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) sequences of 33 GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) obtained from different geographic areas were determined through reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction and dideoxy chain termination sequencing, the alignment of sequences, the estimation of the number of nucleotide ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mukaide M,Mizokami M,Orito E,Ohba K,Nakano T,Ueda R,Hikiji K,Iino S,Shapiro S,Lahat N,Park YM,Kim BS,Oyunsuren T,Rezieg M,Al-Ahdal MN,Lau JY

更新日期：1997-04-21 00:00:00