A 5 S rRNA-like secondary structure in the 7 SL RNA may define a ribosomal binding site of the signal recognition particle.

abstract：:Light and heavy lysosomes of mouse forebrain were separated from each other by centrifugation on a Percoll gradient. Light lysosomes were then freed from mitochondria and membranes by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and further purified by floatation-centrifugation on a sucrose gradient. The final preparations...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fiorilli A,Siniscalco C,Chiarini A,Di Francesco L,Venerando B,Tettamanti G

更新日期：1991-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-induced order/disorder transition profiles were obtained from the membranes of intact Gram-negative bacterial cells by FT-IR analysis of the frequency shifts of the acyl chain methylene symmetric stretching band as a monitor. Cells grown at different temperatures yielded distinct transition profiles. At th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schultz C,Naumann D

更新日期：1991-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure/function relationships in troponin C are studied with vertebrate fast-twitch fibers by exchanging the skeletal troponin C with two bacterially synthesized recombinant proteins designed by site-directed mutagenesis of cardiac troponin C. One mutant (CBM1) contained an additional active site, by deleting Val-2...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gulati J,Babu A,Putkey JA

更新日期：1989-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and analysis of the primary structure of the CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase revealed that this enzyme is the first iron-sulphur protein of the Rieske type to be found in the cytosol of Eukarya. The dithionite-reduced hydroxylase exhibited an EPR signal known ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schlenzka W,Shaw L,Kelm S,Schmidt CL,Bill E,Trautwein AX,Lottspeich F,Schauer R

更新日期：1996-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of trehalose accumulation in most plant species has been partly attributed to the presence of an active trehalase. Although trehalose synthesis enzymes are thought to be cytosolic, and previous studies have indicated that trehalase activity is extracellular, the exact location of the enzyme has not yet been e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Frison M,Parrou JL,Guillaumot D,Masquelier D,François J,Chaumont F,Batoko H

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate uptake by rat hepatocytes in primary monolayer culture was found to be mediated by a Na+-independent and by two Na+-dependent transport systems of high and low affinity. Inhibition studies with cysteate and other model amino acids rules out the participation of the neutral amino acid transport systems A, ASC...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gebhardt R,Mecke D

更新日期：1983-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) are emerging as important regulators of diverse biological functions. Although mechanistic models are starting to emerge, it is also clear that the lncRNA field needs appropriate model systems in order to better elucidate the functions of lncRNA and their roles in both physiological and pat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leone S,Santoro R

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiration in all cells depends upon synthesis of ATP by the ATP synthase complex, a rotary motor enzyme. The structure of the catalytic moiety of ATP synthase, the so-called F(1) headpiece, is well established. F(1) is connected to the membrane-bound and ion translocating F(0) subcomplex by a central stalk. A periph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dudkina NV,Heinemeyer J,Keegstra W,Boekema EJ,Braun HP

更新日期：2005-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium azide inhibited multi-site (steady-state) ATPase activity of E. coli F1 more than 90%, but did not affect uni-site (single-site) ATPase activity. Thus azide inhibited multi-site ATPase activity by lowering catalytic cooperativity. Consistent with this observation, azide changed the ligand-induced fluorescence r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Noumi T,Maeda M,Futai M

更新日期：1987-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions and their connexin components are indispensable in mediating the cellular coordination required for tissue and organ homeostasis. The critical nature of their existence mandates a connection to disease while at the same time offering therapeutic potential. Therapeutic intervention may be offered through ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Grek CL,Rhett JM,Ghatnekar GS

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocytes are exceptionally suited for analysis of non-exocytotic release mechanisms of ATP, because these cells under physiological conditions lack vesicles. Previous studies have indicated, that Pannexin1 (Panx1) provides a key ATP permeation pathway in many cell types, including human and frog erythrocytes. Here...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Qiu F,Wang J,Spray DC,Scemes E,Dahl G

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigeon liver malic enzyme (EC 1.1.1.40) has a double dimer quaternary structure. The NADP+ analogs, aminopyridine adenine dinucleotide phosphate and nicotinamide-1,N6-ethenoadenosine dinucleotide phosphate, bind to the enzyme anti-cooperatively. In the presence of non-cooperative competing ligand NADP+, the binding pa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee HJ,Chang GG

更新日期：1990-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian red blood cells contain a millimolar amount of inositol polyphosphate which plays a role as an allosteric effector of hemoglobin. We confirmed the structure of this substance by NMR techniques as purely myo-inositol 1,3,4,5,6-pentakisphosphate. Based on present knowledge this effector is synthesized from inosito...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mayr GW,Dietrich W

更新日期：1987-03-23 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：:Cytochrome c oxidase is a membrane-bound redox-driven proton pump that harbors two proton-transfer pathways, D and K, which are used at different stages of the reaction cycle. Here, we address the question if a D pathway with a modified energy landscape for proton transfer could take over the role of the K pathway whe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vilhjálmsdóttir J,Albertsson I,Blomberg MRA,Ädelroth P,Brzezinski P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(7-methoxycoumarin-4-yl)Acetyl-Pro-Leu-Gly-Leu-(3-[2,4-dinitrophenyl]-L- 2,3-diaminopropionyl)-Ala-Arg-NH2 (Mca-Pro-Leu-Gly-Leu-Dpa-Ala-Arg-NH2) has been synthesised as a fluorogenic substrate for the matrix metalloproteinases. The highly fluorescent 7-methoxycoumarin group is efficiently quenched by energy transfer t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Knight CG,Willenbrock F,Murphy G

更新日期：1992-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian pancreatic phospholipase A2 (PLA2-I) has its specific receptor through which PLA2-I induces a variety of biological responses. In this study, a fundamental relationship between the enzymatic and the receptor-binding activities of PLA2-I was investigated. The specific binding of PLA2-I to the receptor was fou...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ishizaki J,Kishino J,Teraoka H,Ohara O,Arita H

更新日期：1993-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras-GEF Cdc25p has been found to be hyperphosphorylated upon glucose addition. This work provides evidence indicating that PKA activity positively regulates the degree of Cdc25p phosphorylation, and that the intracellular association of Cdc25p and Ras2p is independent of PKA activity. In vitro experiments revealed tha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jian D,Aili Z,Xiaojia B,Huansheng Z,Yun H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews our present knowledge of sphingomyelinases as enzymes, and as enzymes acting on a membrane constituent lipid, sphingomyelin. Six types of sphingomyelinases are considered, namely acidic, secretory, Mg(2+)-dependent neutral, Mg(2+)-independent neutral, alkaline, and bacterial enzymes with both phosph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Goñi FM,Alonso A

更新日期：2002-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) ligands have been shown to inhibit the effects of proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta). This cytokine plays a key role in articular pathophysiologies by inducing the production of inflammatory mediators such as nitric oxide (NO) and...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boyault S,Bianchi A,Moulin D,Morin S,Francois M,Netter P,Terlain B,Bordji K

更新日期：2004-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The urokinase receptor (uPAR) on the cell surface plays an important role in extracellular proteolysis, cell migration and adhesion. Soluble uPAR (suPAR) has been recently discovered in plasma, but its origin is unclear. Our results now demonstrate that both unstimulated blood mononuclear and endothelial cells can rel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mustjoki S,Sidenius N,Vaheri A

更新日期：2000-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of cytochrome c oxidase subunits I-III was studied in vitro in isolated rat liver mitochondria pre-labeled with [35S]methionine. Individual subunits were immunoabsorbed with monospecific antibodies. Isolated heme a from rat liver mitochondria, when added to radiolabeled mitochondria, induced assembly of s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wielburski A,Nelson BD

更新日期：1984-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Rhodococcus fascians, the causal agent of leafy gall disease, on the mitotic behavior of synchronized tobacco Bright Yellow-2 (BY-2) cells was investigated. Incubation of aphidicolin-synchronized BY-2 cells with R. fascians cells specifically resulted in a broader mitotic index peak, an effect that was l...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Temmerman W,Ritsema T,Simón-Mateo C,Van Montagu M,Mironov V,Inzé D,Goethals K,Holsters M

更新日期：2001-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of insulin and IGF-I on the cell surface quantities of GLUT1, GLUT3 and GLUT4 glucose transporters in L6 myotubes were determined with the exofacial bis-mannose phololabel (ATB-BMPA). In basal cells, an equal molar quantity of each transporter isoform was found at the cell surface. Insulin stimulated the t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wilson CM,Mitsumoto Y,Maher F,Klip A

更新日期：1995-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoblastic cells have been shown to be involved in osteoclast formation through cell to cell contacts. This study was designed to examine the possible function of vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM-1) during osteoclastogenesis. As a source for stromal cells we used the recently established mouse bone marrow str...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Feuerbach D,Feyen JH

更新日期：1997-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomato Cf-9, a receptor-like protein (RLP), confers resistance to races of the fungal pathogen Cladosporium fulvum that express the Avr9 avirulence gene. CITRX (Cf-9-interacting thioredoxin) was previously identified in a yeast two-hybrid screen as a protein interacting with the cytoplasmic domain of Cf-9 and shown to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nekrasov V,Ludwig AA,Jones JD

更新日期：2006-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the molecular analysis of the transthyretin gene in a large Italian pedigree with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy and demonstrate the presence of a Met30 mutation. The usefulness of the genetic analysis in the identification of presymptomatic persons and the diagnosis of individuals with partial symptoms...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Strocchi P,Tang XM,Cambi F

更新日期：1995-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:There are numerous examples of how fundamental research has been required to understand and treat human disease. This article focuses on three human diseases of lipid metabolism in which advancements in understanding and treatment would not have been possible without basic research. Fabry disease is an inherited metab...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vance DE

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretreatment of tissues with potassium channel openers (KCO's) has been observed to be cytoprotective in a broad variety of insults. This phenomenon has been proposed to be intimately linked to activation of mitochondrial potassium channels which apparently modulate the mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen spec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Malinska D,Mirandola SR,Kunz WS

更新日期：2010-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:14-3-3s predominantly form homo-/heterodimers that are in equilibrium with corresponding monomers. Dimer/monomer equilibrium depends on the nature and phosphorylation of Ser58 of certain 14-3-3 isoforms. The structure and properties of 14-3-3 dimers are well characterized, whereas 14-3-3 monomers are less investigated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sluchanko NN,Gusev NB

更新日期：2012-12-14 00:00:00