In memory of Professor Leonor Michaelis in Nagoya: great contributions to biochemistry in Japan in the first half of the 20th century.

abstract：:Amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene expression was investigated in primary cultures of neurons, astrocytes, microglial cells and oligodendrocytes. Neurons from various rat brain regions, as well as oligodendrocytes, contained RNA encoding APP695, while astrocytes and microglial cells expressed high levels of RNAs for...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gaul G,Dutly F,Frei K,Foguet M,Lübbert H

更新日期：1992-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogenic mutations disrupt the regulatory circuits that govern cell function, enabling tumor cells to undergo de-regulated mitogenesis, to resist to pro-apoptotic insults, and to invade through tissue boundaries. Cancer cell biology has played a crucial role in elucidating the signaling mechanisms by which oncogenic ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giancotti FG

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and yeast alcohol dehydrogenase ( YADH ) are inactivated when attacked by hydroxy free radicals (OH). Organic molecules with a high rate constant of reaction with OH such as ascorbate or urate can compete with the enzymes for these strongly oxidising radicals. However, although 10(-3)M asco...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kittridge KJ,Willson RL

更新日期：1984-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have expressed in E. coli segments of the rod portion of rabbit skeletal fast muscle myosin and compared physical properties of two different species, LMM-30 and LMM-30C'. LMM-30 consists of 263 amino acids including the original C-terminus of myosin heavy chain. LMM-30C' is colinear with LMM-30, but is devoid of 1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maeda K,Rösch A,Maéda Y,Kalbitzer HR,Wittinghofer A

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion of platelets to the exposed extracellular matrix proteins at sites of vascular injury is partly regulated by the local fluid shear stress. Because the Leu33Pro (Pl(A)) polymorphism of integrin beta(3) confers only a modest increase in adhesion under static conditions, we used CHO and 293 cells expressing the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vijayan KV,Huang TC,Liu Y,Bernardo A,Dong JF,Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ,Alevriadou BR,Bray PF

更新日期：2003-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of CMP-N-acetylneuraminate:GM1 sialyltransferase (SAT IV) activity of rat liver Golgi apparatus on GM1 ganglioside ceramide composition was evaluated. SAT IV activity was assayed on GM1 molecular species carrying homogeneous ceramide moieties containing long chain bases of different length (18 or 20 C a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pitto M,Palestini P,Masserini M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium ionophore (A23187)-induced high molecular weight (HMW) and internucleosomal DNA fragmentation were investigated in human leukemia cell lines. An apoptosis-sensitive cell line, HL-60, showed HMW, internucleosomal DNA fragmentation and morphological changes of apoptosis by A23187. MOLT-4, which is resistant to a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kataoka A,Kubota M,Wakazono Y,Okuda A,Bessho R,Lin YW,Usami I,Akiyama Y,Furusho K

更新日期：1995-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF), basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), dibutyryl cAMP and forskolin, known differentiating agents for pheochromocytoma PC12 cells, induced sustained activation of sphingosine kinase, the enzyme responsible for the formation of the sphingolipid second messenger, sphingosine-1-phosphate, which...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rius RA,Edsall LC,Spiegel S

更新日期：1997-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of H. chlorum membrane preparations with diethyl ether of high degrees of water saturation raised the bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) g' mole fraction, as determined by HPLC analysis of their acetone extracts, toward a level of 40% of total BChl g or higher. Starting from pure BChl g, the BChl g' mole fraction sh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kobayashi M,Watanabe T,Ikegami I,van de Meent EJ,Amesz J

更新日期：1991-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The effort to understand the mechanism of uncoupling by UCP has devolved into two models - the fatty acid protonophore model and the proton buffering model. Evidence for each hypothesis is summarized and evaluated. We also evaluate the obligatory requirement for fatty acids in UCP1-mediated uncoupling and the question...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garlid KD,Jabůrek M,Jezek P

更新日期：1998-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of human neutrophils with triphenyltin chloride (TPTCl)-inhibited superoxide (O-2) production stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). TPTCl was more potent as inhibitor of O-2 production than other phenyltin compounds. The O-2 production by the xanthine oxidase-acetaldehyde system was not inhibited ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsui H,Wada O,Ushijima Y,Akuzawa T

更新日期：1983-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Silver and gold compounds were tested as potential inhibitors of aquaporins of plant- and human origin. Silver as AgNO(3) or silver sulfadiazine inhibited with high potency (EC(50) 1-10 microM) the water permeability of the peribacteroid membrane from soybean (containing Nodulin 26), the water permeability of plasma m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Niemietz CM,Tyerman SD

更新日期：2002-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of renal transport of L-alanine by luminal-membrane vesicles from proximal straight tubules (pars recta) of rabbit kidney were investigated. The following picture emerges from transport studies. Two electrogenic and Na+ requiring systems confined to this region of the nephron exist for the transpor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vorum H,Jessen H,Jørgensen KE,Sheikh MI

更新日期：1988-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid sequence alignment of the amino-terminal of thrombomodulin and pancreatic stone protein with the hepatic asialoglycoprotein receptor shows that these proteins are homologous. From the known disulfide bridge pattern of other proteins belonging to the same family two disulfide bonds can be predicted. The homo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Petersen TE

更新日期：1988-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene conservation, duplication and constitutive expression are intricately linked and strong predictors of essentiality. Here, we introduce metrics based on diversity indices to measure gene conservation, duplication and constitutive expression and validate them by measuring their performance in prediction of essentia...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arun PV,Miryala SK,Chattopadhyay S,Thiyyagura K,Bawa P,Bhattacharjee M,Yellaboina S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) is a prototypical proinflammatory cytokine that can elicit strong inflammation in macrophages by activating NF-κB. The underlying epigenetic mechanism is obscure. We show here that megakaryocytic leukemia 1 (MKL1) is an epigenetic mediator of TNF-α-induced proinflammatory transcript...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Song M,Fang F,Dai X,Yu L,Fang M,Xu Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide (23 residues) that includes the antibacterial and lipopolysaccharide-binding regions of human lactoferricin, an antimicrobial sequence of lactoferrin, was used to study its action on cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli 0111 and E. coli phospholipid vesicles. The peptide caused a depolarization...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aguilera O,Ostolaza H,Quirós LM,Fierro JF

更新日期：1999-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of the catalytic domain of MMP-20, a member of the matrix metalloproteinases family not yet structurally characterized, complexed with N-Isobutyl-N-(4-methoxyphenylsulfonyl)glycyl hydroxamic acid (NNGH), is here reported and compared with other MMPs-NNGH adducts. The backbone dynamic has been ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arendt Y,Banci L,Bertini I,Cantini F,Cozzi R,Del Conte R,Gonnelli L

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA sequence putatively encoding a Delta(6)-fatty acid desaturase was isolated from Rhizopus arrhizus using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and rapid amplification of cDNA ends methods. Sequence analysis indicated that this cDNA sequence had an open reading frame of 1377 bp encoding 458 amino acids ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang Q,Li M,Ma H,Sun Y,Xing L

更新日期：2004-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the proteins involved in cell clump/cell adhesion of insect cellular defense reactions, we induced the cell clump/cell adhesion reaction in vitro with the hemolymph of larvae of the coleopteran insect, Tenebrio molitor. The 72 kDa protein was specifically enriched in the residues of cell clump/cell adh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee HS,Cho MY,Lee KM,Kwon TH,Homma K,Natori S,Lee BL

更新日期：1999-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper(II) was substituted for manganese(III) in Bacillus stearothermophilus Mn-superoxide dismutase. The (EPR) spectrum of the Cu(II) is distinctly rhombic, overlapping that of Cu(II) replacing zinc in copper/zinc superoxide dismutase. The copper-cyanide complex of the bacterial enzyme gives an EPR spectrum nearly id...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bannister JV,Desideri A,Rotilio G

更新日期：1985-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the availability of zinc in the periplasmic space of Escherichia coli using a mutant Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase whose dimerization is triggered by zinc binding. This mutant enzyme accumulates in the monomeric form when wild type cells are grown in minimal medium, but assembles in the dimeric form ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berducci G,Mazzetti AP,Rotilio G,Battistoni A

更新日期：2004-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposing a macrophage-like murine cell line to copper-oxidised low-density lipoprotein led to DNA fragmentation which was inhibited by the putative Ca2+/Mg2+ endonuclease inhibitor, zinc sulphate. DNA fragmentation preceded loss of membrane impermeability. These results suggest that apoptosis may be a mechanism of mac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Reid VC,Hardwick SJ,Mitchinson MJ

更新日期：1993-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In C4 plants the activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC; EC 4.1.1.31) is regulated by phosphorylation/dephosphorylation which is mediated by light/dark signals. The study using protein kinase inhibitors showed that the inhibition pattern of maize PEPC-protein kinase (PEPC-PK) is similar to that of myosin li...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ogawa N,Okumura S,Izui K

更新日期：1992-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbohydrate binding properties of jacalin lectin were examined using RAF9 cell-derived D-[6-3H]glucosamine-radiolabeled total glycopeptides containing N-linked and O-linked oligosaccharides. The binding of N-linked glycopeptides to jacalin was abolished by treatment of alpha-galactosidase whereas O-linked glycope...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Do SI,Lee KY

更新日期：1998-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that some arbitrarily chosen DNA sequences have the ability to influence the positioning of RecA monomers in RecA-DNA complexes. The preferential phase of binding of RecA monomers is shown to depend on the DNA sequence and its nucleotide composition. A simple rearrangement of bases in a limited DNA stretch inf...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Volodin AA,Smirnova EA,Bocharova TN,Camerini-Otero RD

更新日期：2003-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The thioredoxin-catalyzed insulin reduction by dihydrolipoate was applied to study the 2-oxoacid: lipoate oxidoreductase activity of 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase complexes. The enzymatic and non-enzymatic mechanisms of the transfer of reducing equivalents from the complexes to free lipoic acid (alpha-lipoic acid, 6,8-thioo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bunik V,Shoubnikova A,Loeffelhardt S,Bisswanger H,Borbe HO,Follmann H

更新日期：1995-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats bearing the Yoshida AH-130 ascites hepatoma showed an increased expression of both uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2) (194%) and UCP3 (189%) mRNA levels in skeletal muscle 7 days after tumour inoculation. Interestingly, an even greater increase was observed in mRNA for both UCP2 (278%) and UCP3 (797%) in the pair-fed an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sanchís D,Busquets S,Alvarez B,Ricquier D,López-Soriano FJ,Argilés JM

更新日期：1998-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein glycosylation, which is a key post-translational event, is catalysed by the glycosyltransferase family of enzymes. There is an increasing body of evidence to suggest that these enzymes may themselves be glycosylated, possibly as an autocatalytic event. Using a novel in vitro system, we have investigated the ro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Breen KC

更新日期：2002-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the molecular mechanism underlying PDT-induced apoptosis-dependent macrophage activation, particularly through NO production. We demonstrate that NO production is initially induced by HSP70 on the apoptotic cell surface, and is further enhanced by macrophage phagocytosis. Additionally, we found that apoptot...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Song S,Zhou F,Chen WR,Xing D

更新日期：2013-01-16 00:00:00