Structure-activity relationship in vasoconstrictor effects of sarafotoxins and endothelin-1.

abstract：:The lipid A structure of the Gram-negative bacterium Helicobacter mustelae, a ferret gastric pathogen responsible for the onset of gastric diseases in its host, was investigated. Two variant lipid A structures were found in the same strain. One structure contained a bisphosphorylated beta-(1-->6)-linked D-glucosamine ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thérisod H,Monteiro MA,Perry MB,Caroff M

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrated that activation of tyrosine kinase of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) induces its association with G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2). Immunoprecipitation experiments showed that EGF stimulation increased GRK2 binding to EGFR complex in HEK293 cells coexpressing EGFR and GRK2. T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gao J,Li J,Chen Y,Ma L

更新日期：2005-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The first example of a new sub-family of toxins (alpha-KTx20.1) from the scorpion Tityus trivittatus was purified, sequenced and characterized physiologically. It has 29 amino acid residues, three disulfide bridges assumed to adopt the cysteine-stabilized alpha/beta scaffold with a pI value of 8.98. The sequence ident...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Abdel-Mottaleb Y,Coronas FV,de Roodt AR,Possani LD,Tytgat J

更新日期：2006-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the filamentous fungus Neurospora, the production of dsRNA can elicit a dsRNA-induced transcriptional response similar to the interferon response in vertebrates. However, how fungi sense the expression of dsRNA and activate gene expression is unknown. In this study, we established a dsRNA response reporter system i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li X,Shen Y,Sun J,Wang B,He Q

更新日期：2011-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNA) play an important role in tumorigenesis, proliferation, and differentiation. Altered miRNA expression in cancer indicates that miRNAs can function as tumor suppressors or oncogenes. MiR-449c downregulation in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared with normal lung tissues was investigated in thi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miao LJ,Huang SF,Sun ZT,Gao ZY,Zhang RX,Liu Y,Wang J

更新日期：2013-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Human legumain was characterized following overexpression in a murine cell line as the C-terminal Ig-fusion protein. Upon acid treatment, the prolegumain autoproteolyzed distal to two aspartic acid residues to yield a highly active form. The ability of mature legumain to cleave after aspartic acid residues was confirm...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Halfon S,Patel S,Vega F,Zurawski S,Zurawski G

更新日期：1998-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase toxin (CyaA) with complement receptor 3 (CR3, CD11b/CD18) involves N-linked oligosaccharide chains. To investigate the relative importance of the individual N-glycans of CR3 for toxin activity, the asparagine residues of the consensus N-glycosylation sites of C...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hasan S,Osickova A,Bumba L,Novák P,Sebo P,Osicka R

更新日期：2015-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect on cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) of cAMP analogues and the adenylate cyclase-stimulating agents forskolin, isoproterenol and glucagon has been examined in an insulin-secreting beta-cell line (HIT T-15) using fura 2. All these manipulations of the cAMP messenger system promoted a rise in [Ca2+]i whi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Prentki M,Glennon MC,Geschwind JF,Matschinsky FM,Corkey BE

更新日期：1987-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the connexin family differ most in their carboxy-termini, both with respect to sequence and length. In order to assess the contribution of this region to channel function, a series of carboxy-terminal deletion mutants were tested in the paired-oocyte expression system. Connexin-32 can be truncated by 64 ami...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rabadan-Diehl C,Dahl G,Werner R

更新日期：1994-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:PPP2R2C encodes a gamma isoform of the subunit B55 subfamily, which is a regulatory subunit of Protein phosphatase type 2A (PP2A). Our study shows that PPP2R2C is downregulated in glioma cells and human brain cancer patient samples. Overexpression of PPP2R2C inhibited cancer cell proliferation both in vitro and in viv...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fan YL,Chen L,Wang J,Yao Q,Wan JQ

更新日期：2013-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine phosphorylation of Cbl and its association with signal-transducing molecules in response to macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) were analyzed by using cell lines which express the wild-type and a mutant M-CSF receptor, Fms. We found that in a clone, F723 TF-1 cells expressing mutant Fms in which tyro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ota J,Sato K,Kimura F,Wakimoto N,Nakamura Y,Nagata N,Suzu S,Yamada M,Shimamura S,Motoyoshi K

更新日期：2000-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrin 2 (vasotocinyl-Gly), a hydroosmotic peptide resulting from differential processing of provasotocin and recently identified in frog neurohypophysis, has been looked for in the pituitary gland of an exotic toad (Bufo marinus) and of a reptile (Vipera aspis). Hydrin 2 has been found in the amphibian but not in the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Michel G,Rouillé Y,Chauvet MT,Chauvet J,Acher R

更新日期：1990-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Seminal plasmin (SPLN) a 47-residue peptide, isolated from bovine seminal plasma, exhibits antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Although SPLN strongly inhibits the transcription of various natural and synthetic templates by E. coli RNA polymerase in vitro, it also associates with mo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sitaram N,Krishnakumari V,Nagaraj R

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of the myeloid cell lines, U-937 or HL-60, with 10 nM of the phorbol ester, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), for 24 h increased the rate of incorporation of [3H]glycerol into total chloroform extracts. A proportionally greater labeling of the non-polar lipid (NL) fraction compared to the polar, ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ponzoni M,DeBell KE,Hoffman T,Bonvini E

更新日期：1990-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of (S)-alpha-methylproline (alpha-MePro) to stabilise reverse-turn conformations in the peptide hormone bradykinin (BK = Arg1-Pro2-Pro3-Gly4-Phe5-Ser6-Pro7-Phe8-Arg9) has been investigated. Two BK analogues containing alpha-MePro at position 3 or position 7 were synthesised and their conformations in aqueo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Welsh JH,Zerbe O,von Philipsborn W,Robinson JA

更新日期：1992-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:CD38, a type II transmembrane glycoprotein, behaves as a catalytically active transporter responsible for ectocellular generation of cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) from NAD+ and for subsequent influx of cADPR across membranes [Franco, L., Guida, L., Bruzzone, S., Zocchi, E., Usai, C. and De Flora, A. (1998) FASEB J. in pre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bruzzone S,Guida L,Franco L,Zocchi E,Corte G,De Flora A

更新日期：1998-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripeptidyl peptidase I (TPP-I) is a lysosomal enzyme that cleaves tripeptides from the N-terminus of polypeptides. A comparison of TPP-I amino acid sequences with sequences derived from an EST database suggested that TPP-I is identical to a pepstatin-insensitive carboxyl proteinase of unknown specificity which is mut...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vines DJ,Warburton MJ

更新日期：1999-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The key mechanism in prion disease is the conversion of cellular prion protein into an altered, pathogenic conformation, in which cellular mechanisms play a poorly understood role. Both forms of prion protein are lipid-anchored and reside in rafts that appear to protect the native conformation against conversion. Neur...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morris RJ,Parkyn CJ,Jen A

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression by RNA-binding proteins and by small non-coding RNAs plays an important role in cell biology. Our previous results show that in murine skeletal myoblasts, the expression of Pinch-2, a focal adhesion remodeling factor that regulates cell motility, is repressed by an RN...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boudoukha S,Rivera Vargas T,Dang I,Kropp J,Cuvellier S,Gautreau A,Polesskaya A

更新日期：2014-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Trefoil factor family (TFF)-domain peptides 1-3 are mucin-associated molecules, largely found in epithelia of gastrointestinal tissues. Structurally similar, resistant to enzymatic degradation, they are up-regulated around areas of epithelial damage such as ulcers. Transgenic expression or exogenous peptide ameliorate...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wright NA,Hoffmann W,Otto WR,Rio MC,Thim L

更新日期：1997-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Those aerobic archaea whose genomes have been sequenced possess a single 4-gene operon that, by sequence comparisons with Bacteria and Eukarya, appears to encode the three component enzymes of a 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase multienzyme complex. However, no catalytic activity of any such complex has ever been detected in th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Heath C,Jeffries AC,Hough DW,Danson MJ

更新日期：2004-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptotagmins (Syts) are involved in Ca(2+)-dependent insulin release. However, which Syt isoform is functional in primary beta-cells remains unknown. We demonstrate by electron microscopy of pancreatic islets, the association of Syt 9 with insulin granules. Silencing of Syt 9 by RNA interference adenovirus in islet ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iezzi M,Eliasson L,Fukuda M,Wollheim CB

更新日期：2005-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the truncated 7-37 glucagon-like peptide 1 (TGLP-1), a naturally occurring porcine intestinal peptide, and other members of the glucagon family, including pancreatic glucagon (G-29), GLP-1 and GLP-2 for their ability to activate the cAMP generating system in rat gastric glands and HGT-1 human gastric cancer ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hansen AB,Gespach CP,Rosselin GE,Holst JJ

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding and aggregation are linked to several degenerative diseases and are responsible for the formation of bacterial inclusion bodies. Roles of molecular chaperones in promoting protein deposition have been speculated but not proven in vivo. We have investigated the involvement of individual chaperones in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carrió MM,Villaverde A

更新日期：2003-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetracycline-controlled transcription system has become one of the most potent systems for experimental manipulations of transcription levels in vivo. Here we report on rtTA variants, which were generated by combining the existing positively regulated Tet repressor domains of rtTA and rtTA-M2 with a modified and m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kämper MR,Gohla G,Schlüter G

更新日期：2002-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The reversible folding/unfolding of a short peptide in solution is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The effects of long-range electrostatic interactions are examined and found to be important both for the equilibrium between folded and unfolded states and the dynamics of the folding process. The neglect of l...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aqvist J

更新日期：1999-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel gene encoding a new H3 histone varian (H3L) has been identified in P. lividus sea urchin embryo. It encodes a H3 histone protein showing the S.//.A.IG amino acid motif typical of the replication independent H3.3 variants but in a mRNA showing the 3' terminal stem-loop nucleotide sequence that is typical of the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fucci L,Forte A,Mancini P,Affaitati A,Branno M,Aniello F,Geraci G

更新日期：1997-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphopeptide Ser (P)-Ser(P)-Ser-(P)-Glu-Glu-Ser22-Ile-Thr, reproducing the 17-24 segment of beta-casein A2 including the seryl residue (Ser-22) which is targeted by casein kinase-1 was synthesized and used as model substrate for this enzyme. Its phosphorylation efficiency is actually higher than that of intact b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Meggio F,Perich JW,Reynolds EC,Pinna LA

更新日期：1991-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:African horse sickness virus (AHSV), a member of the orbivirus genus of the family Reoviridae, is an insect-vectored pathogen of horses of concern to the equine industry. Studies on AHSV replication and pathogenesis have been hampered by the lack of reverse genetics allowing targeted mutation of viral genomes. We demo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsuo E,Celma CC,Roy P

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The contact-dependent intrinsic pathway of fibrinolysis involving factor XII, prekallikrein (PK) and pro-urokinase (pro-UK) remains poorly understood. Casein autography of washed, intact platelets revealed both PK and pro-UK. Accordingly, platelets may mediate physiological thrombolysis by this pathway since factor XI...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gurewich V,Johnstone M,Loza JP,Pannell R

更新日期：1993-03-08 00:00:00