Structural basis for pH gating of plant aquaporins.

abstract：:Foot-and-mouth disease virus leader proteinase (L(pro)), a papain-like cysteine proteinase, has six acidic amino acids between 4 A and 11 A of the catalytic dyad of Cys51 and His148. In contrast, in papain and related enzymes, only one acidic residue lies within this distance. We have examined by site-directed mutagen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kronovetr J,Skern T

更新日期：2002-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether a proposed spatial proximity between Asp114(2.50) and Asn332(7.49) affected the functional properties of the mu opioid receptor. The D114(2.50)N mutant had reduced binding affinities for morphine, DAMGO and CTAP, but not for naloxone and [3H]diprenorphine; this mutation also abolished agonist-induc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu W,Ozdener F,Li JG,Chen C,de Riel JK,Weinstein H,Liu-Chen LY

更新日期：1999-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of calcyclin in different cell lines and mouse tissues was determined with polyclonal antibodies raised against calcyclin from Ehrlich ascites tumour (EAT) cells. The protein was detected in mouse skeletal and cardiac muscle, in lung, kidney and spleen, and was especially enriched in mouse smooth muscle as ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kuźnicki J,Filipek A,Heimann P,Kaczmarek L,Kamińska B

更新日期：1989-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylin, a 37 amino acid product of pancreatic beta-cells, inhibits insulin-stimulated radioglucose incorporation into muscle glycogen. In the current study, we exercised rats and then prelabelled the glycogen pool by infusing [3-3H]glucose along with glucose and insulin. Subsequent amylin administration increased the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Young AA,Carlo P,Smith P,Wolfe-Lopez D,Pittner R,Wang MW,Rink T

更新日期：1993-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Truncated cyclin A and cyclin B lacking the N-terminal domain comprising the 'destruction box' escape from proteolysis and arrest cells at metaphase. Mutation of a conserved arginine residue of the destruction domain makes cyclin B resistant to proteolysis. Here we show that mutation of the same residue also makes cyc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lorca T,Devault A,Colas P,Van Loon A,Fesquet D,Lazaro JB,Dorée M

更新日期：1992-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase mediates agonist-dependent phosphorylation of beta-adrenergic receptors, which is thought to represent the first step of homologous desensitization. We have expressed bovine and human beta ARK1 in Sf9 cells and purified them to apparent homogeneity in milligram quantities. The Km-va...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Söhlemann P,Hekman M,Buchen C,Elce JS,Lohse MJ

更新日期：1993-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Early B-cell factor 1 (Ebf1) is a transcription factor whose inactivation in all cells results in high bone mass because of an increase in bone formation. This observation suggests Ebf1 may be an inhibitor of osteoblast differentiation. To test this contention, we analyzed Ebf1 pattern of expression and function in os...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zee T,Boller S,Györy I,Makinistoglu MP,Tuckermann JP,Grosschedl R,Karsenty G

更新日期：2013-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixture of 55 and 53 kDa boar proacrosins was autoactivated at pH 8.5 to produce a 43 kDa intermediate form and a 35 kDa mature acrosin, and each of four forms of (pro)acrosins was isolated. Analysis of the N-terminal sequences of the two proacrosins indicated the existence of a segment corresponding to the acrosin ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baba T,Michikawa Y,Kawakura K,Arai Y

更新日期：1989-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II collagen is the major protein of cartilage and is synthesized as a procollagen in two forms (IIA and IIB), generated by differential splicing of the gene primary transcript. Previous studies have indicated that only type IIB is expressed in differentiated chondrocytes. Here, we examined the effects of bone mor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Valcourt U,Gouttenoire J,Aubert-Foucher E,Herbage D,Mallein-Gerin F

更新日期：2003-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two RNA silencing-related phenomena, quelling and meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA (MSUD) have been identified in the fungus Neurospora crassa. Similar to the case with the siRNA and miRNA pathways in Drosophila, different sets of protein components including RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, argonaute and dicer, are use...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakayashiki H

更新日期：2005-10-31 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：:Phosphorylcholine, phosphorylcreatine, lactate, glutathione, glycine and leucine were identified in living HeLa cells in the first study of this cell type by 1H spin echo NMR spectroscopy. The technique has the advantage that it is non-invasive, providing detailed structural information on individual species present i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Reglinski J,Smith WE,Suckling CJ,Al-Kabban M,Watson ID,Stewart MJ

更新日期：1987-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular organisation of the Prochlorococcus marinus rnpB gene and the catalytic activity of the encoded RNA were characterised. Kinetic parameters for several pre-tRNA substrates were comparable to those from other eubacterial RNase P RNAs, although unusually high cation concentrations were required. The CCA-end...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hess WR,Fingerhut C,Schön A

更新日期：1998-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fas/Fas ligand interaction plays a crucial role in various liver diseases, and administration of agonistic anti-Fas antibody to mice causes massive hepatic apoptosis and fulminant hepatic failure. Several growth factors have recently been found to function in preventing apoptosis. In this study, we demonstrated th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kanda D,Takagi H,Toyoda M,Horiguchi N,Nakajima H,Otsuka T,Mori M

更新日期：2002-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the involvement of protein phosphatases (PP) in differentiation of human myelogenous leukemia HL-60 cells, we made use of potent inhibitors of PP1 and PP2A, calyculin-A (CAL-A) and okadaic acid (OKA). CAL-A and OKA could augment all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-induced granulocytic differentiation, whereas t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morita K,Nishikawa M,Kobayashi K,Deguchi K,Ito M,Nakano T,Shima H,Nagao M,Kuno T,Tanaka C

更新日期：1992-12-21 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：:Statistically significant similarity was revealed between amino acid sequences of NTP-binding pattern-containing domains which are among the most conserved protein segments in dissimilar groups of ss and dsDNA viruses (papova-, parvo-, geminiviruses and P4 bacteriophage), and RNA viruses (picorna-, como- and nepovirus...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gorbalenya AE,Koonin EV,Wolf YI

更新日期：1990-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthases catalyze the polymerization reaction of the acyl moiety of hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A into polyester. The catalytic subunit PhaC of PHA synthase has the PhaC box sequence at the active site that is typically described as G-X-C-X-G-G (X is an arbitrary amino acid), and cysteine is an ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nambu Y,Ishii-Hyakutake M,Harada K,Mizuno S,Tsuge T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most geckos are nocturnal forms and possess rod retinas, but some diurnal genera have pure-cone retinas. We isolated cDNAs encoding the diurnal gecko opsins, dg1 and dg2, similar to nocturnal gecko P521 and P467, respectively. Despite the large morphological differences between the diurnal and nocturnal gecko photorec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taniguchi Y,Hisatomi O,Yoshida M,Tokunaga F

更新日期：1999-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of adipose conversion in 3T3-L1 cells by bezafibrate has been shown to be enhanced by dibutyryl-cAMP. We here report that the induction of adipose conversion in 3T3-L1 cells, by either bezafibrate and dibutyryl cAMP, or isobutylmethyxanthine alone, is associated with a very early phosphorylation of a 60-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brandes R,Arad R,Bar-Tana J

更新日期：1991-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of human plasma apolipoprotein C-III (apoC-III) isolated from normal subjects is described. ApoC-III is a linear polypeptide chain of 79 amino acids. Tryptic digestion of intact apoC-III produced 5 major peptides, while tryptic digestion of the citraconylated protein yielded two peptid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hospattankar AV,Brewer HB Jr,Ronan R,Fairwell T

更新日期：1986-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular chaperone protein Hsp78, a member of the Clp/Hsp100 family localized in the mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is required for maintenance of mitochondrial functions under heat stress. To characterize the biochemical mechanisms of Hsp78 function, Hsp78 was purified to homogeneity and its role in t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krzewska J,Langer T,Liberek K

更新日期：2001-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS, E.C.6.1.1.2) is unable to catalyze in vitro formation of Ap4A in contrast to some other aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. However, in the presence of L-tryptophan, ATP-Mg2+ and ADP the enzyme catalyzes the Ap3A synthesis via adenylate intermediate. Ap3A (not Ap4A) may serve as a s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Merkulova T,Kovaleva G,Kisselev L

更新日期：1994-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:TLR3 and TLR4 utilize adaptor TRIF to activate interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3), resulting in interferon β (IFN-β) production to mediate anti-viral infection. In this report, we analyzed the effect of two known phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitors LY294002 and wortmannin on LPS- and poly(I:C)-induced I...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhao W,Qi J,Wang L,Zhang M,Wang P,Gao C

更新日期：2012-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction of ubiquinone in the high-affinity quinone-binding site (QH) in bo-type ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli was revealed by EPR and optical studies. In the QH site, ubiquinol was shown to be oxidized to ubisemiquinone and to ubiquinone, while no semiquinone signal was detected in the oxidase isolated from...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sato-Watanabe M,Itoh S,Mogi T,Matsuura K,Miyoshi H,Anraku Y

更新日期：1995-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common tumors worldwide, in which the genetic mechanisms of oncogenesis are still unclear. To investigate whether the genomic DNA copy number alterations may contribute to primary HCC, the cDNA microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) analysis was...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang J,Sheng HH,Shen T,Hu YJ,Xiao HS,Zhang Q,Zhang QH,Han ZG

更新日期：2006-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine kinases (CK) play a prominent role in cell energy distribution through an energy shuttle between mitochondria and other organelles. Human brain CK was cloned and overexpressed in COS-7 cells. We then deleted His-65 and/or Pro-66 situated near the center of a flexible loop as shown by X-ray crystallography on ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mourad-Terzian T,Steghens JP,Min KL,Collombel C,Bozon D

更新日期：2000-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid sequences of cytotoxin-like basic proteins (CLBPs), purified from the venoms of Formosan cobra (Naja naja atra) and Indian cobra (Naja naja), were reinvestigated. The determined sequences differed from those reported previously by Takechi et al. [(1985) Biochem. Int. 11, 795-802; (1987) Biochem. Int. 14, 14...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Inoue S,Okumura K,Tsujino M,Ohkura K,Ikeda K,Takechi M,Tanaka Y,Hayashi K

更新日期：1989-11-06 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

abstract：:We used a xenograft model to investigate whether the aryl hydrocarbon receptor deletion construct CDelta553 suppresses tumor growth. HeLa cells that were infected with CDelta553 expressing adenovirus (Ad553) formed very small tumors whereas the control adenovirus-infected cells formed large tumors at day 15. CDelta553...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang D,Faridi JS,Li Y,Chan WK

更新日期：2009-09-17 00:00:00