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abstract：:The effect of the myotoxic drug chlorpromazine was studied in vitro on proteins of sarcoplasmic reticulum and mitochondrial matrix of skeletal muscle in the normal mouse. Our results indicate that the drug is specific for calcium-binding proteins (calcium ATPase, calsequestrin and calmitine). Its proteolytic effect on...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lucas-Heron B,Le Ray B,Schmitt N

更新日期：1995-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium release from internal stores of Entamoeba histolytica, a parasitic protozoan, was observed by measuring fluorescence of Fura-2. Emptying of inositol(1,4,5)trisphosphate (Ins(1,4,5)P3)-sensitive calcium pools in permeabilized E. histolytica did not significantly affect subsequent calcium release by inositol(1,3...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Raha S,Giri B,Bhattacharyya B,Biswas BB

更新日期：1995-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal retention of Delta F508 CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) in the endoplasmic reticulum is a major cause of cystic fibrosis (CF). We show that calnexin Delta 185-520 but not calnexin can partially reverse the mislocalization of Delta F508 CFTR. This 256-amino acid protein has neither t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okiyoneda T,Wada I,Jono H,Shuto T,Yoshitake K,Nakano N,Nagayama S,Harada K,Isohama Y,Miyata T,Kai H

更新日期：2002-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A metallothionein cDNA was generated from pea (Pisum sativum L.) roots, amplified by PCR and inserted into a plasmid for expression in E. coli. Purification of the resultant product generated 3 pools of cadmium-containing material after DEAE-cellulose chromatography. The amino acid composition of each was in excellent...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kille P,Winge DR,Harwood JL,Kay J

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Both soluble and microsomal fractions of Fusarium oxysporum contain cytochrome P-450(P-450). We report here that the P-450 in the soluble fraction was induced only when nitrate or nitrite was added to the growth medium, whereas the microsomal P-450 was synthesized regardless of the medium compositions. The reduced-CO ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shoun H,Suyama W,Yasui T

更新日期：1989-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2D-NMR) was used to assign the proton resonances of ferricytochrome C553 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough. The spin systems of 76 out of 79 amino acids were identified by J-correlation spectroscopy (COSY and HOHAHA) in H20 and D20 and correlated by nucl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Blanchard L,Blackledge MJ,Marion D,Guerlesquin F

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tea-catechin derivatives are shown to inhibit activities of caspases-3, 2 and 7 in vitro, and prevented experimental apoptosis at the cell and animal levels. Epigallo-catechin-gallate showed the strongest inhibition at 1 x 10(-7)M to these caspases, but cysteine cathepsins and caspase-8 were not inhibited. Caspase-3 i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Katunuma N,Ohashi A,Sano E,Ishimaru N,Hayashi Y,Murata E

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas/FasL interactions have been proposed as a potentially important mechanism mediating beta-cell death in type 1 diabetes. Recent investigations suggest RNA interference, afforded by small interfering RNAs (siRNA), can provide specific and robust gene silencing in mammalian cells. The current study attempted to inves...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Burkhardt BR,Lyle R,Qian K,Arnold AS,Cheng H,Atkinson MA,Zhang YC

更新日期：2006-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding protein kinase from amphibian oocytes modifies serine and threonine residues in the molecules of substrates and utilizes both ATP and GTP. Low concentrations of heparin inhibit protein kinase. The foregoing suggests that this enzyme is casein kinase II. It is shown that RNA-binding proteins lack active for...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kandror KV,Stepanov AS

更新日期：1984-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the complex of Ras with the Ras-binding domain of its effector RalGDS (RGS-RBD), the first genuine Ras-effector complex, has been solved by X-ray crystallography. As with the Rap-RafRBD complex (Nasser et al., 1995), the interaction is via an inter-protein beta-sheet between the switch I region of Ras...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vetter IR,Linnemann T,Wohlgemuth S,Geyer M,Kalbitzer HR,Herrmann C,Wittinghofer A

更新日期：1999-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding protein beta structures has been hindered by the challenge of designing small, well-folded β-sheet systems. A β-capping motif was previously designed to help solve this problem, but not without limitations, as the termini of this β-cap were not fully available for chain extension. Combining Coulombic sid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Anderson JM,Kier BL,Shcherbakov AA,Andersen NH

更新日期：2014-12-20 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：:The C1 domains are 50 amino acid sequences present in protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes that are responsible for binding of phorbol esters and the lipid second messenger diacylglycerol (DAG). We found that bacterially expressed C1b domain of PKCdelta induces germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) when microinjected into Xeno...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aroca P,Santos E,Kazanietz MG

更新日期：2000-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Micromolar concentrations of arachidonic acid cause in Ca2+ loaded heart mitochondria matrix swelling and Ca2+ release. These effects appear to be unrelated to the classical membrane permeability transition (MPT), as they are CsA insensitive, membrane potential independent and can also be activated by Sr2+. Atractylos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Di Paola M,Zaccagnino P,Oliveros-Celis C,Lorusso M

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study reported the isolation and characterization of a novel human secreted protein, named as hPAP21 (human protease-associated domain-containing protein, 21 kDa), encoded by the hypothetical gene chromosome 2 open reading frame 7 (C2orf7) that contains signal peptide in its N-terminus, without transmembra...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou YB,Liu F,Zhu ZD,Zhu H,Zhang X,Wang ZQ,Liu JH,Han ZG

更新日期：2004-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(A)-binding protein (PABP) mRNA is subject to autoregulation through a 61 nucleotides long A-rich sequence in its 5' untranslated region (UTR). Here, we show that this mode of regulation is exerted in a cell type-specific manner. Thus, overexpression of PABP in mouse NIH 3T3 fibroblasts represses the translation o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hornstein E,Harel H,Levy G,Meyuhas O

更新日期：1999-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for isolation of two iso-plastocyanins from parsley has been described here. Three consecutive chromatographic steps on DE-52-Whatman cellulose were applied for isolation of two total plastocyanin (PC) fractions, oxidized [PC(II)] and reduced [PC(I)]. By chromatofocusing of PC(II) on Polybuffer exchanger 7...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dimitrov MI,Donchev AA,Egorov TA

更新日期：1990-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant hormone involved in many developmental and physiological processes, but as yet, no ABA receptor has been identified. Flow cytometry of rice protoplasts and immunoblotting of purified plasma membranes (PMs) have been used to demonstrate that the monoclonal antibody JIM19 recognizes carboh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Desikan R,Hagenbeek D,Neill SJ,Rock CD

更新日期：1999-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:From human PBMC stimulated with PHA, we have isolated cDNA clones encoding a novel cytokine named SCM-1, which is significantly related to the CC and the CXC chemokines but has only the 2nd and the 4th of the four cysteines conserved in these proteins. Its gene is also distinctly mapped to human chromosome 1. SCM-1 is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoshida T,Imai T,Kakizaki M,Nishimura M,Yoshie O

更新日期：1995-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to determine the role of intracellular Ca(2+) in VEGF signaling. We demonstrate that reduction in Ca(2+) by chelating compound BAPTA-AM or by IP(3)-endoplasmic reticulum blocker 2-APB selectively inhibited VEGF-induced activation of c-Src-PI3K-Akt but not ERK1/2 in human coronary artery...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee M,Spokes KC,Aird WC,Abid MR

更新日期：2010-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoaffinity labelling with [alpha-32P]GTP allowed to detect a 54 kDa GTP-binding protein in rat pancreatic plasma membranes and in pancreatic AR 4-2J cell membranes. Like the 42 and 48 kDa Gs alpha subunits and the 41 kDa Gi alpha subunit, this protein was absent from zymogen granule membranes. Contrastingly, a new ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lambert M,Bui ND,Christophe J

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several blood-feeding organisms, including the malaria parasite detoxify haem released from host haemoglobin by conversion to the insoluble crystalline ferriprotoporphyrin IX dimer known as haemozoin. To date the mechanism of haemozoin formation has remained unknown, although lipids or proteins have been suggested to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Egan TJ,Chen JY,de Villiers KA,Mabotha TE,Naidoo KJ,Ncokazi KK,Langford SJ,McNaughton D,Pandiancherri S,Wood BR

更新日期：2006-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Frame shift mutations of the polyglutamine binding protein-1 (PQBP1) gene lead to total or partial truncation of the C-terminal domain (CTD) and cause mental retardation in human patients. Interestingly, normal Drosophila homologue of PQBP-1 lacks CTD. As a model to analyze the molecular network of PQBP-1 affecting in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoshimura N,Horiuchi D,Shibata M,Saitoe M,Qi ML,Okazawa H

更新日期：2006-04-17 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：:Escherichia coli phosphofructokinase-2 (Pfk-2) is a homodimer whose subunits consist of a large domain and an additional beta-sheet that provides the interfacial contacts between the subunits, creating a beta-barrel flattened-like structure with the adjacent subunit's beta-sheet. To determine how the structural organi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baez M,Babul J

更新日期：2009-06-18 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：:A novel member of the human UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase gene family, designated GalNAc-T7, was cloned and expressed. GalNAc-T7 exhibited different properties compared to other characterized members of this gene family, in showing apparent exclusive specificity for partial...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bennett EP,Hassan H,Hollingsworth MA,Clausen H

更新日期：1999-10-29 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：:Alterations in protein composition or dosage within chromatin may trigger changes in processes such as gene expression and DNA repair. Through transposon mutagenesis and targeted gene deletions in haploids and diploids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we identified mutations that affect telomeric silencing in genes encodi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benbow SZ,DuBois ML

更新日期：2008-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Furin, a member of the subtilisin-like pro-protein convertase family, is a type I membrane protein that undergoes ectodomain shedding. Metabolic labeling of cells stably expressing furin demonstrated that the shed form of furin is detected after 30 min. Moreover, sequence analysis revealed that specific residues of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denault J,Bissonnette L,Longpré J,Charest G,Lavigne P,Leduc R

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00