Promiscuous activity of arginine:glycine amidinotransferase is responsible for the synthesis of the novel cardiovascular risk factor homoarginine.

abstract：:Octopus, squid and cuttle-fish organs were examined for alcohol dehydrogenase activity. Only one form was detectable, with properties typical of mammalian class III alcohol dehydrogenase. The corresponding protein was purified from octopus and enzymatically characterized. Ion-exchange and affinity chromatography produ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rosario Fernández M,Jörnvall H,Moreno A,Kaiser R,Parés X

更新日期：1993-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of a novel biologically active peptide, designated galanin, is described. The peptide was discovered by the detection of its C-terminal amide structure in porcine intestinal extract using a chemical method. It was found that galanin consists of 29 amino acids and the complete amino acid sequence is: Gly-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tatemoto K,Rökaeus A,Jörnvall H,McDonald TJ,Mutt V

更新日期：1983-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we cloned several fluorescent proteins of different colors homologous to Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein, which have great biotechnological potential as in vivo markers of gene expression. However, later investigations revealed severe drawbacks in the use of novel fluorescent proteins (FPs), in p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yanushevich YG,Staroverov DB,Savitsky AP,Fradkov AF,Gurskaya NG,Bulina ME,Lukyanov KA,Lukyanov SA

更新日期：2002-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (EGCG) exhibits anti-tumor activity mediated via the 67-kDa laminin receptor (67LR). In this study, we found that 67LR protein levels are reduced by exposure to low O(2) levels (5%), without affecting the expression of HIF-1α. We also found that EGCG-induced anti-cancer activity is abr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsukamoto S,Yamashita S,Kim YH,Kumazoe M,Huang Y,Yamada K,Tachibana H

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) in Crithidia fasciculata was shown to be correlated to the growth of the parasite. An increase in activity was observed during exponential growth. Inhibition of protein synthesis induced an extremely rapid decay of AdoMetDC activity. The half-life of the en...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nasizadeh S,Persson L

更新日期：2003-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding a human liver UDPGT (HLUG 25) transcribed and translated in vitro showed that the encoded protein was synthesized as a precursor and was cleaved and glycosylated when dog pancreatic microsomes were present during translation. The UDPGT cDNA was transiently expressed in mammalian cell culture (COS-7 cel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fournel-Gigleux S,Jackson MR,Wooster R,Burchell B

更新日期：1989-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of nascent gamma B-crystallin peptides accumulating during in vitro translation in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate cell-free system was carried out. As a consequence of the irregular distribution of rare codons along the polypeptide chain of gamma B-crystallin, translation of the two-domain protein is a non-unif...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Komar AA,Jaenicke R

更新日期：1995-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes (AC) induce blood-brain barrier (BBB) properties in brain endothelial cells (EC). As antioxidative activity (AOA) is assumed to be a BBB characteristic, we tested whether AC improve AOA of EC. Monocultivated AC showed higher AOA [manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (Cat), glutathione peroxidase (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schroeter ML,Mertsch K,Giese H,Müller S,Sporbert A,Hickel B,Blasig IE

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-jump measurements were carried out on myosin subfragment 1 (S1) labeled at Cys-707 with 5-(iodoacetamido)fluorescein (S1-AF). The relaxation was monitored by following the increase in the fluorescence intensity of the attached probe after a jump of 5.8 degrees C. A single relaxation process was observed ov...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lin SH,Cheung HC

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of all possible codons corresponding to the second and third amino acid (isoleucine and threonine) on the expression level of hirudin in E. coli has been analysed. These levels could not be correlated with changes in primary and secondary mRNA structure. A decrease in the rate of synthesis and of product ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Degryse E

更新日期：1990-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of glia (astrocytes and oligodendrocytes) in Drosophila requires the gene glial cells missing (gcm), which controls lineage determination. In the absence of gcm, neuroglia progenitors exclusively differentiate into neurons, instead of into both neurons and glia. In contrast, ectopic overexpression of g...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Altshuller Y,Copeland NG,Gilbert DJ,Jenkins NA,Frohman MA

更新日期：1996-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of acetylcholine receptor (AChR) gene expression was analyzed in alpha-bungarotoxin (alpha-BTX) treated rats. A reduction in available 125I-alpha-BTX binding sites was accompanied by an increase in the various AChR transcripts. The increase in the AChR alpha-, beta- epsilon- and delta-subunit mRNAs was simi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Asher O,Provenzano C,Fuchs S

更新日期：1991-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:1,2-sn-Dihexanoylglycerol (HHG) reduced the ATP content of HL-60 cells. This concentration-related (10-100 microM) effect reached a maximum of over 90%, was enantiomerically specific and not accompanied by release of lactate dehydrogenase. Oleoylacetylglycerols (3-100 microM) had no effect on ATP levels while phorbol ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dawson J,Thompson NT,Bonser RW,Hodson HF,Garland LG

更新日期：1987-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic animals are vulnerable to cold stress. Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) play an important role in regulating thermogenesis. We investigated the gene expressions of UCPs in brown adipose tissue (BAT), white adipose tissue (WAT), liver and gastrocnemius muscle of STZ-diabetic rats using N...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kageyama H,Suga A,Kashiba M,Oka J,Osaka T,Kashiwa T,Hirano T,Nemoto K,Namba Y,Ricquier D,Giacobino JP,Inoue S

更新日期：1998-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein E (apoE) is predominantly synthesized by astrocytes in the brain. In this study, we investigated the role of apoE in astrocyte apoptosis. We demonstrated that apoE protects astrocytes from hypoxia-induced apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. Glutamate release from astrocytic cultures is significantly l...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou S,Wu H,Zeng C,Xiong X,Tang S,Tang Z,Sun X

更新日期：2013-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine peptidases, thrombocytin and PA-BJ, isolated from the venom of Bothrops atrox and Bothrops jararaca, respectively, induce platelet aggregation and granule secretion without clotting fibrinogen. The specific platelet aggregation activity of each enzyme was about 15 times lower than that of thrombin. This act...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Santos BF,Serrano SM,Kuliopulos A,Niewiarowski S

更新日期：2000-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A change in the conformational plasticity of α-Synuclein (α-Syn) is hypothesised to be a key step in the pathogenic mechanism of Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we report the study of extracellular α-Syn interaction with whole cells and membranes isolated from the neuronal SH-SY5Y cells, exploiting NMR and CD spectros...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Smaldone G,Diana D,Pollegioni L,Di Gaetano S,Fattorusso R,Pedone E

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:o-Aminophenol was found to be rapidly metabolized to a brown compound in the presence of purified human oxy- and methemoglobin, coupled with the oxidation and reduction of these hemoglobins by o-aminophenol. The final product of o-aminophenol was identified as 2-aminophenoxazine-3-one, by using spectrophotometry and H...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tomoda A,Yamaguchi J,Kojima H,Amemiya H,Yoneyama Y

更新日期：1986-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The colony-forming ability of catalase-deficient Escherichia coli mutant genetically modified to produce eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) showed less decrease than in a control strain producing no EPA, when treated with 0.3mM hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) under non-growth conditions. H(2)O(2)-induced protein carbonylation w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nishida T,Orikasa Y,Watanabe K,Okuyama H

更新日期：2006-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression plasmids encoding native human preporenin and a mutant deleted in its entire prosegment were transfected into Chinese hamster ovary cells. The cells transfected with the expression plasmid of native preporenin secreted exclusively inactive prorenin, while the cells transfected with the mutant secreted the a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nagahama M,Nakayama K,Hori H,Murakami K

更新日期：1989-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The prohormone convertase PC2 is one of the major subtilisin/kexin-like enzymes responsible for the formation of small bioactive peptides in neural and endocrine cells. This convertase is unique among the members of the subtilisin/kexin-like mammalian serine proteinase family in that it undergoes zymogen processing of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benjannet S,Mamarbachi AM,Hamelin J,Savaria D,Munzer JS,Chrétien M,Seidah NG

更新日期：1998-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin receptor family consists of the homologous tyrosine kinase receptors, insulin receptor (IR), insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1R) and insulin receptor-related receptor. The three-dimensional structures of the tyrosine kinase domain of the IR and the first three extracellular domains (L1, Cys-rich ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marino-Buslje C,Mizuguchi K,Siddle K,Blundell TL

更新日期：1998-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Three novel neuropeptides, isolated from ganglia of the African giant snail, Achatina fulica, were named WWamide-1, -2 and -3. These substances were biologically active heptapeptide amides with a Trp residue at both the N- and C-termini. WWamide-1, which displayed an inhibitory activity on a central neuron of the snai...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Minakata H,Ikeda T,Muneoka Y,Kobayashi M,Nomoto K

更新日期：1993-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:JAK2 V617F mutant induces transformation through aberrant activation of various transcription factors. We found that the expression of Aurora kinase A (Aurka) was significantly induced by mutant JAK2 through c-Myc expression. Interestingly, mutant JAK2 enhanced resistance to cisplatin (CDDP)-induced DNA damage, and ef...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sumi K,Tago K,Kasahara T,Funakoshi-Tago M

更新日期：2011-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The corpus of the scientific literature has reached such size that a lot of useful data, dispersed throughout millions different articles, are now hard to recover. For instance, many articles in the biological domain describe relationships between entities (gene, proteins, small molecules, etc.) yet this crucial infor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ceol A,Chatr-Aryamontri A,Licata L,Cesareni G

更新日期：2008-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathway is responsible for key aspects of tumor progression, and is frequently hyperactivated in cancer. We have recently identified palladin, an actin-bundling protein that functions to control the actin cytoskeleton, as an Akt1-specific substrate that inhibits breast cancer cell...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chin YR,Toker A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalent conjugation of oligonucleotides to antibody Fab' fragments was optimized by using oligonucleotides modified with a hexaethylene linker arm bearing three amino groups. One oligonucleotide was coupled to antibody of one specificity and a complementary oligonucleotide to antibody of a second specificity. The...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chaudri ZN,Bartlet-Jones M,Panayotou G,Klonisch T,Roitt IM,Lund T,Delves PJ

更新日期：1999-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) 2 signal via different receptor systems. We have recently demonstrated that simultaneous stimulation of fetal mouse neuroepithelial cells with these distinct types of cytokines synergistically induces astrocyte differentiation in a 2-day culture. He...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakashima K,Yanagisawa M,Arakawa H,Taga T

更新日期：1999-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a cDNA library from bovine adrenal medulla, and, subsequently, a bovine genomic library, we have isolated the gene coding for a non inactivating potassium channel. This gene encodes a 597-amino acid protein which we have called BAK5 as its sequence is very similar to members of Kv1.5 potassium channel family. Ne...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： García-Guzmán M,Sala F,Criado M,Sala S

更新日期：1994-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel GTP binding protein (G protein) alpha subunit cDNA was isolated from a T cell leukemia cell line, Jurkat, utilizing polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The predicted amino acid sequence of this G protein alpha subunit showed the highest identity (96.6%) to bovine cone cell-specific transducin (Tc alpha). The orga...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kubo M,Hirano T,Kakinuma M

更新日期：1991-10-21 00:00:00