Syndromic and non-syndromic disease-linked Cx43 mutations.

abstract：:VirG, PhoB, and OmpR are positive regulators of the virulence, phosphate, and osmolarity regulons, respectively. Their target genes are attended with one or more significant blocks of similar 6-bp sequences in their regulatory regions. The distance between the block(s) and transcriptional start site varies with the ta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aoyama T,Oka A

更新日期：1990-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic cross-reactivity between purified chick, eel and mouse electrolectins (endogenous beta-D-galactoside specific lectins) have been studied using a solid phase radioimmunoassay. The immune serum raised against the eel electrolectin crossreacts both with the chick and the mouse electrolectins, while the anti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Levi G,Teichberg VI

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera were raised against a phosphoprotein of 65 kDa (PP65) from Paramecium cells (shown before to be selectively dephosphorylated during synchronous exocytosis) and specified by immunoblotting. By immunofluorescence PP65 has been localized within the cortex, beneath the cell membrane. This corresponds to data obta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stecher B,Höhne B,Gras U,Momayezi M,Glas-Albrecht R,Plattner H

更新日期：1987-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane (PM) sphingolipid composition is the result of a series of well-known metabolic pathways comprising neobiosynthesis in the endoplasmic reticulum and in the Golgi apparatus followed by vesicular delivery to the plasma membrane, membrane turnover with final catabolism in lysosomes, and shedding of me...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sonnino S,Aureli M,Loberto N,Chigorno V,Prinetti A

更新日期：2010-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The bchM gene of Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been sequenced and then overexpressed in E. coli producing a protein of M(r) approximately. 27,500. Cell-free extracts of the transformed E. coli strain are able to methylate added Mg protoporphyrin, resulting in the formation of Mg protoporphyrin monomethyl ester. The iden...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gibson LC,Hunter CN

更新日期：1994-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented here that cupric ions play a part in the natural spinning of Bombyx mori silk. Proton induced X-ray emission studies revealed that the copper content increased from the posterior part to the anterior part of silk gland, and then further increased in the silk fiber. Spectrophotometric analysis dem...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou L,Chen X,Shao Z,Zhou P,Knight DP,Vollrath F

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyunsaturated N-acylethanolamines (NAEs), including anandamide (20:4n-6 NAE), elicit a variety of biological effects through cannabinoid receptors, whereas saturated and monounsaturated NAEs are inactive. Arachidonic acid mobilization induced by treatment of intact mouse peritoneal macrophages with Ca2+ ionophore A2...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kuwae T,Shiota Y,Schmid PC,Krebsbach R,Schmid HH

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid sequencing of a 48/46 kDa glycoprotein from human plantar callus, recognised by antisera raised against the desmosomal cadherins DGII/III, has revealed N-terminal homology to the DNA-derived sequence of human and bovine DGII/III. However, a tryptic fragment has homology only with a bovine clone. We propose ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： King IA,Magee AI,Rees DA,Buxton RS

更新日期：1991-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Rab proteins are small GTPases involved in the regulation of membrane traffic. Rab5a has been shown to regulate transport in the early endocytic pathway. Here we report the isolation of cDNA clones encoding two highly related isoforms, Rab5b and Rab5c. The two proteins share with Rab5a all the structural features requ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bucci C,Lütcke A,Steele-Mortimer O,Olkkonen VM,Dupree P,Chiariello M,Bruni CB,Simons K,Zerial M

更新日期：1995-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The fat mouse strain exhibits a late-onset obesity syndrome associated with a mutation in the gene encoding carboxypeptidase E (CPE). Since CPE plays a central role in the biosynthesis of a number of regulatory peptides, including gastrin, we examined the biogenesis and processing of progastrin in fat/fat mice by meas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lacourse KA,Friis-Hansen L,Rehfeld JF,Samuelson LC

更新日期：1997-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and characterized a genomic DNA fragment containing the coding sequences corresponding to the human gamma-glutamyltransferase type 1 mRNA. The coding part of the gene spans over 16 kb and comprises 12 exons and 11 introns exhibiting a similar organization as for the mouse and rat GGT genes. The exon...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leh H,Chikhi N,Ichino K,Guellaën G,Wellman M,Siest G,Visvikis A

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding a human liver UDPGT (HLUG 25) transcribed and translated in vitro showed that the encoded protein was synthesized as a precursor and was cleaved and glycosylated when dog pancreatic microsomes were present during translation. The UDPGT cDNA was transiently expressed in mammalian cell culture (COS-7 cel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fournel-Gigleux S,Jackson MR,Wooster R,Burchell B

更新日期：1989-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that autocrine tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production in the TNF-sensitive L929sA fibrosarcoma cell line induced TNF resistance, which is correlated with downmodulation of both TNF receptors on the cell surface. We now analyzed whether autocrine TNF production also interfered with intracellular TN...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Decoster E,Vandevoorde V,Beyaert R,Haegeman G,Fiers W

更新日期：1997-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the volume and enthalpy changes accompanying CO photodissociation from the mixed valence form of cytochrome bo3 oxidase from Escherichia coli. The results of photoacoustic calorimetry indicate two kinetic phases with distinct volume and enthalpy changes accompanying CO photodissociation from heme o3 an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miksovská J,Gennis RB,Larsen RW

更新日期：2005-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The malaria parasite has for long been thought to escape host complement attack as a survival strategy. However, it was only recently that complement evasion mechanisms of the parasite were described. Simultaneously, the role of complement in antibody-mediated naturally acquired and vaccine-induced protection against ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kiyuka PK,Meri S,Khattab A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian culture cells have the potential for periodicity, since high concentrations of serum can elicit the circadian expression of clock genes in rat-1 fibroblasts. However, the mechanism by which serum affects circadian gene expression remains unclear. In the present study, we incubated rat-1 cells with forskolin ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yagita K,Okamura H

更新日期：2000-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the Ca(2+)-activated tyrosine kinase, Pyk2, in the pleiotropic coupling of nerve cell stimulation to the MAP kinase cascade still remains undefined. Using a panel of PC12 clones, one of which was defective in Pyk2, we demonstrate (1) that the MAP kinase response induced by a [Ca(2+)](i) rise (following app...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Barsacchi R,Heider H,Girault J,Meldolesi J

更新日期：1999-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that p21-activated kinase 1 (Pak1) phosphorylates estrogen receptor-alpha (ER alpha) at Ser 305 and also promotes its transactivation function. Here, we sought to investigate whether substitution of serine 305 in ER with glutamic acid (ER alpha-S305E), which mimics the phosphorylation state, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Balasenthil S,Barnes CJ,Rayala SK,Kumar R

更新日期：2004-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of an experimental confluence between carcinogenesis and oxidative phosphorylation, we published in 1971 'A Unitary Hypothesis for Carcinogenesis' [(1971) J. Antibiot. Tokyo 24, 405-417]. According to this hypothesis, damaged mitochondria release mitochondrial genetic material which like that from an oncog...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hadler HI

更新日期：1989-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Residues 370-383 (helix C) of the human nerve growth factor receptor (NGF-R) are highly similar to the sequence of the 14 residue wasp toxin, mastoparan. Both regions are predicted to form amphiphilic alpha-helices, as is the amino-terminal region of the third intracytoplasmic loop (i3) of the beta 2-adrenergic recept...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Feinstein DL,Larhammar D

更新日期：1990-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of cultured carrot cells with dibutyryl cAMP or forskolin resulted in the appreciable decrease in extracellular K+ concentration. This decrease was found to be transient and the concentration of the ion in the culture medium restored to the original level within few minutes. The cAMP-induced decrease in K+ l...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kurosaki F

更新日期：1997-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of exogenous gangliosides on the occurrence of domes in MDCK cell cultures was investigated in view of the involvement of both dome formation and gangliosides in cell growth, differentiation and transepithelial transport. Dome formation was increased by gangliosides in medium free of fetal calf serum. Among...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodrig N,Osanai T,Iwamori M,Nagai Y

更新日期：1987-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based technique for N-terminal attachment of green fluorescent protein (GFP) to a yeast protein is described. Genomic integration of a PCR-generated loxPkanMX4loxP-yEGFP fusion cassette immediately upstream of the open reading frame (ORF) allows for selection of G418 resis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Prein B,Natter K,Kohlwein SD

更新日期：2000-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of retinoic acids (RA) on liver fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP) expression was investigated in the well differentiated FAO rat hepatoma cell line. 9-cis-Retinoic acid (9-cis-RA) specifically enhanced L-FABP mRNA levels in a time- and dose-dependent manner. The higher induction was found 6 h after addition...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Poirier H,Braissant O,Niot I,Wahli W,Besnard P

更新日期：1997-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcalorimetric titrations of the two major isotypes of parvalbumin (PA1 and PA2) from bullfrog skeletal muscle with Ca2+ in the presence and absence of Mg2+ have been carried out at 25 degrees C and pH 7.0. The observed enthalpy titration curves were analyzed by the least-squares method. The measured enthalpy chang...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanokura M,Yamada K

更新日期：1985-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional crystalline arrays of annexin IV were generated by interaction of the purified protein with a phospholipid monolayer. Image analysis of electron micrographs of the protein crystals, which diffracted to 3.5 nm respectively, revealed p6 and p3 symmetry. Annexin IV gave two crystal forms with unit cells o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Newman RH,Leonard K,Crumpton MJ

更新日期：1991-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that N-1 in adenine of chromosomal DNA is methylated by treatment of metaphase chromosomes with dimethylsulphate while this is not the case in chromatin. The data on methylation are consistent with those obtained from the experiments with S1-nuclease treatment of chromatin and chromosomes. This suggests a disa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Belyaev ND,Budker VG,Dubrovskaya VA,Matveeva NM

更新日期：1983-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ileal bile acid-binding protein (I-BABP) is a 14 kDa cytosolic protein which binds bile acids with a high affinity. It is thought to be implicated in the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids and, hence, in cholesterol homeostasis. Using a combination of in vivo and in vitro experiments, we have recently shown that ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Landrier JF,Grober J,Demydchuk J,Besnard P

更新日期：2003-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal processing of MADH from the bacterium T. versutus and the N-terminal heterogeneity of the isolated alpha subunit of the alpha 2 beta 2 protein complex was demonstrated by a combination of Edman sequence analysis of an electroblotted band, in situ digested with pyroglutamate aminopeptidase, and accurate ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Van Beeumen J,Van Driessche G,Huitema F,Duine JA,Canters GW

更新日期：1993-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarafotoxins (SRTa, SRTb and SRTc) as well as endothelin-1 (ET-1) produced vasoconstrictions in rat thoracic aorta, rat isolated perfused mesentery and pithed rat in various of extents. The potency was ET-1 greater than SRTb greater than SRTa greater than SRTc at lower doses, but SRTb greater than ET-1 greater than SR...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kitazumi K,Shiba T,Nishiki K,Furukawa Y,Takasaki C,Tasaka K

更新日期：1990-01-29 00:00:00