Immunological characterization of the mitochondrial 2-oxoglutarate carrier from liver and heart. Organ specificity.

abstract：:An electrometric technique was used to investigate electron transfer between spinach plastocyanin (Pc) and photooxidized primary electron donor P700 in photosystem I (PS I) complexes from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. In the presence of Pc, the fast unresolvable kinetic phase of membrane potential gen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mamedov MD,Mamedova AA,Chamorovsky SK,Semenov AY

更新日期：2001-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a cationic lipid bilayer, we show that DNA can be reliably adsorbed to the bilayer surface for atomic force microscopy (AFM) in aqueous buffers at high resolution. The measured width of the dsDNA is close to 2 nm, and a periodic modulation on dsDNA is reproducibly detected by the AFM. The measured period is 3.4 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mou J,Czajkowsky DM,Zhang Y,Shao Z

更新日期：1995-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Male germ cells specifically express paralogues of components of the general transcription apparatus including ALF a paralogue of TFIIAalpha/beta. We show that endogenous ALF is proteolytically cleaved to give alpha- and beta-subunits and we map the proteolytic cleavage site by mass spectrometry. Immunoprecipitations ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Catena R,Argentini M,Martianov I,Parello C,Brancorsini S,Parvinen M,Sassone-Corsi P,Davidson I

更新日期：2005-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin, the yellow pigment from Curcuma longa, has been shown to possess tumoricidal activity. We have earlier reported the induction of apoptosis in AK-5, rat histiocytic cells by curcumin leading to the inhibition of tumor growth in vivo. In this study we have observed differential activation status in host macrop...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bhaumik S,Jyothi MD,Khar A

更新日期：2000-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of the thiazolyl peptide antibiotic thiostrepton to the GTPase domain of 23S rRNA involves a few crucial nucleotides, notably A1067 (E. coli). Small RNA transcripts were prepared corresponding to the GTPase domain of the plastid 23S rRNA and the two forms of cytosolic 28S rRNAs found in the human malaria paras...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Clough B,Strath M,Preiser P,Denny P,Wilson IR

更新日期：1997-04-07 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：:Novel peptides containing the sequence -Pro-Leu-Ama(NHOH)- were synthesized and characterized by spectroscopic techniques. Their inhibitory properties towards the activated form of native human gelatinase B (MMP-9) and the catalytic domain of neutrophil collagenase (cdMMP-8) were determined. The most effective inhibit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krumme D,Wenzel H,Tschesche H

更新日期：1998-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae causes the cholera disease through secretion of cholera toxin (CT), resulting in severe diarrhoea by modulation of membrane transporters in the intestinal epithelium. Genes encoding membrane-spanning transporters identified as being differentially expressed during cholera disease in a microarray screen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Flach CF,Qadri F,Bhuiyan TR,Alam NH,Jennische E,Holmgren J,Lönnroth I

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Designed mutations within the Streptomyces lividans kcsA gene resulted in a set of mutant proteins, which were characterized in respect to their assembly and channel activities. (i) The amino acid residue leucine 81 located at the external side of KcsA was found to be exchangeable by a cysteine residue without affecti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Splitt H,Meuser D,Borovok I,Betzler M,Schrempf H

更新日期：2000-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils contain four uncharacterized protein kinases with molecular masses of ca. 69, 63, 49 and 40 kDa that are rapidly activated upon stimulation of these cells with the chemoattractant fMet-Leu-Phe [Ding, J. and Badwey, J.A. (1993) J. Biol. Chem. 268, 17326-17333]. We now report that wortmannin and 1-butanol bl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ding J,Badwey JA

更新日期：1994-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific receptors for angiotensin II (AII) were expressed in albino Xenopus laevis oocytes co-injected with poly(A)+ mRNA isolated from rat adrenal cortex and the calcium-specific photoprotein, aequorin. In such oocytes, AII elicited rapid, dose-dependent rises in cytosolic free calcium with light emission responses ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sandberg K,Markwick AJ,Trinh DP,Catt KJ

更新日期：1988-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Crystallin, the major protein of the ocular lens, is known to have extensive similarities to small heat shock proteins and to act as a molecular chaperone. The exposure of hydrophobic surfaces on alpha-crystallin was studied by fluorescence spectroscopy using the hydrophobic probe bis-ANS. Upon heating the prote...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Das KP,Surewicz WK

更新日期：1995-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic NADP(+)-dependent malic enzyme (ME) from human tumor cells was characterized in detail and compared to ME from normal human tissues produced in recombinant E. coli. Kinetic properties, size as seen in SDS gels, and HPLC elution profiles of tryptic digests of human 'normal cell' ME and NADP(+)-ME from tumor c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Loeber G,Dworkin MB,Infante A,Ahorn H

更新日期：1994-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The bcl-2 gene is an important antagonist of apoptosis, the programmed cell death. Bcl-2 is highly expressed in a variety of lymphomas. Lymphocytes of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) express high amounts of bcl-2 even in the absence of the t(14;18) translocation, resulting in a strong resistance towar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Körner I,Weber-Nordt R,Pfaff P,Finke J

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligopeptidase B (OpdB) from Trypanosoma brucei is a candidate therapeutic target in African trypanosomiasis. OpdB is an atypical serine peptidase, since activity is inhibited by thiol-blocking reagents and enhanced by reducing agents. We have identified C256 as the reactive cysteine residue that mediates OpdB inhibit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morty RE,Shih AY,Fülöp V,Andrews NW

更新日期：2005-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome bd is one of the two terminal ubiquinol oxidases in the respiratory chain of Escherichia coli catalyzing reduction of O2 to H2O. The enzyme is expressed under low oxygen tension; due to high affinity for O2 it is isolated mainly as a stable oxygenated complex. Direct measurement of O2 binding to heme d in t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Belevich I,Borisov VB,Konstantinov AA,Verkhovsky MI

更新日期：2005-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the effects of anticancer drugs, inhibitors of microtubule organisation, on the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (PTP) in Ehrlich ascites tumour cells. Taxol (5-20 microM) and colchicine (100-500 microM) prevented closing of the cyclosporin A-sensitive PTP. No taxol or colchicine effects on oxidati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Evtodienko YV,Teplova VV,Sidash SS,Ichas F,Mazat JP

更新日期：1996-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acids comprise a family of terminal sugars essential for a variety of biological recognition systems. UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase catalyzes the first step of their biosynthesis. Periodate-oxidized UDP-N-acetylglucosamine, namely 2',3'-dialdehydo-UDP-alpha-D-N-acetylglucosamine, was found to be an effect...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Blume A,Chen H,Reutter W,Schmidt RR,Hinderlich S

更新日期：2002-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:L- and D-specific nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent dehydrogenases map to the same structural protein superfamily as defined by the Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) and are based on the Rossmann fold type domains. A detailed classification of these domains is proposed using a novel diagnost...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kutzenko AS,Lamzin VS,Popov VO

更新日期：1998-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A functional rat heart Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger gene has been obtained by splicing and ligating two partially overlapping clones isolated from a rat heart lambda ZAP cDNA library. The deduced primary structure of the protein encoded by the open reading frame corresponds to 971 amino acids, that can be organized into 12 tr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Low W,Kasir J,Rahamimoff H

更新日期：1993-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyketide synthase associated with the biosynthesis of enediyne-containing calicheamicin contains a putative phosphopantetheinyl transferase (PPTase) domain. By cloning and expressing the C-terminal region of the polyketide synthase and in vitro phosphopantetheinylation assay, we found that the PPTase domain exhi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murugan E,Liang ZX

更新日期：2008-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic properties of dUTPase from equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) were investigated. K(M) (1.1 +/- 0.1 microM) and k(cat) (25 s(-1)) were found to be independent of pH in the neutral pH range. Above pH 8.0, K(M) increases slightly. Below pH 6.0, the enzyme is rapidly deactivated. Detergent was found to enha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nord J,Larsson G,Kvassman JO,Rosengren AM,Nyman PO

更新日期：1997-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a benzyloxycarbonyl(Z)-Leu-Leu-Leu-4-methylcoumaryl-7-amide (ZLLL-MCA) degrading activity in proteasome as a candidate for the regulator of neurite outgrowth. As its counterpart, we purified a protein from bovine brain that specifically inhibits the ZLLL-MCA degrading activity in proteasome. T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsubuki S,Saito Y,Kawashima S

更新日期：1994-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of the beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptide of Alzheimer's disease may relate to its polymerisation state (i.e. fibril content). We have shown previously that plasma lipoproteins, particularly when oxidised, greatly enhance Abeta polymerisation. In the present study the nature of the interactions between both nat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stanyer L,Betteridge DJ,Smith CC

更新日期：2002-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein E- (ApoE-) rich high-density lipoprotein (HDL), which was prepared from the bound fraction of normolipemic volunteers on heparin-Sepharose and from a hyperalphalipoproteinemic patient, potently inhibited aggregation of human platelets in a dose-dependent fashion. Dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine liposome...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Higashihara M,Kinoshita M,Teramoto T,Kume S,Kurokawa K

更新日期：1991-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of purified PKC-alpha, -beta and -gamma has been investigated. A series of synthetic peptides based upon the sequence surrounding serine-7 in glycogen synthase were generated and used to determine the basic residue requirements of these PKC isotypes. While PKC-alpha and -beta are indistinguis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marais RM,Nguyen O,Woodgett JR,Parker PJ

更新日期：1990-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus undergoes phase variation among colonial morphotypes, including a virulent opaque form which produces capsular polysaccharide (CPS) and a translucent phenotype that produces little or no CPS and is attenuated. Here, we found that a V. vulnificus mutant defective for RfaH antitermin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garrett SB,Garrison-Schilling KL,Cooke JT,Pettis GS

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) have a variety of physiological functions and are related to numerous disorders. The key step of VLCFA elongation is catalyzed by members of the elongase family, ELOVLs. Mammals have seven ELOVLs (ELOVL1-7), yet none of them has been purified and analyzed. In the presented study we...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Naganuma T,Sato Y,Sassa T,Ohno Y,Kihara A

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of physiological processes requires the regulation and coordination of many different signals and is determined in part by the activation and repression of expression of specific target genes. RIP140 is a ligand dependent coregulator of many nuclear receptors that influence such diverse processes as muscle...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： White R,Morganstein D,Christian M,Seth A,Herzog B,Parker MG

更新日期：2008-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome bc(1) complex catalyzes electron transfer from ubiquinol to cytochrome c by a protonmotive Q cycle mechanism in which electron transfer is linked to proton translocation across the inner mitochondrial membrane. In the Q cycle mechanism proton translocation is the net result of topographically segregated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hunte C,Palsdottir H,Trumpower BL

更新日期：2003-06-12 00:00:00