Cyclic mononucleotides modulate potassium and calcium flux responses to H2O2 in Arabidopsis roots.

abstract：:To assess the role of crystallinity in biological response, we quantitated the generation of reactive oxygen metabolites in human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) with a chemiluminescence assay using three hydroxyapatite preparations with sintering temperatures of 1,200 degrees C and 900 degrees C and a drying tempe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nagase M,Nishiya H,Abe Y

更新日期：1993-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) has been shown to inhibit the production and the effects of proinflammatory cytokines. Since interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) directly mediates cartilage degradation in osteoarthritis, we investigated the capability of PPARgamma ligands to modu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boyault S,Simonin MA,Bianchi A,Compe E,Liagre B,Mainard D,Bécuwe P,Dauça M,Netter P,Terlain B,Bordji K

更新日期：2001-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) may reduce mitochondrial ROS production, and thereby protect against mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle. UCP3 has been suggested to specifically fulfill this role under high-fat conditions. Here we show that UCP3 knockout mice indeed have elevated mitochondrial ROS production afte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nabben M,Hoeks J,Moonen-Kornips E,van Beurden D,Briedé JJ,Hesselink MK,Glatz JF,Schrauwen P

更新日期：2011-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a fatal type of cancer. We studied the role of the redox-active protein thioredoxin-1 (Trx-1) in apoptosis induced in MM cells and their non-malignant counterparts (Met-5A) by alpha-tocopheryl succinate (alpha-TOS) and TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). MM cells were suscepti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Freeman RE,Neuzil J

更新日期：2006-05-15 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：: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 hypothesis that specific protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms regulate dopamine transporter (DAT) function was tested in Xenopus laevis oocytes expressing human (h)DAT. Activation of conventional PKCs (cPKCs) and novel PKCs (nPKCs) using 10 nM phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) significantly inhibited DAT-associated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Doolen S,Zahniser NR

更新日期：2002-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) is a potent antagonist of caspases, and functions as a ubiquitin-E3 ligase by itself and for caspases. Recently, NEDD8, a ubiquitin-like modifier, has been suggested to be used for modification of caspase-7 mediated by XIAP. However, it is not clear whether caspase-7 is a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nagano T,Hashimoto T,Nakashima A,Kikkawa U,Kamada S

更新日期：2012-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of the glycine-rich loop of adenylate kinase is described in detail. It forms a giant anion hole for a sulfate ion, which presumably mimicks a nucleotide phosphoryl group. This loop had been called flexible, because at pH values of 6 or below it is displaced in the crystal. In the region of this loop ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dreusicke D,Schulz GE

更新日期：1986-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of intracellular purine nucleotides on tolbutamide-induced block of ATP-dependent K+ channels from mouse pancreatic B-cells were studied using the patch-clamp technique. When applied to the inside of excised patches, tolbutamide alone blocked channel activity half-maximally at 55 microM and the concentrati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zünkler BJ,Lins S,Ohno-Shosaku T,Trube G,Panten U

更新日期：1988-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven cloned hybridomas which secrete antibodies to acetylcholine receptors from human muscle have been prepared. All of these monoclonal antibodies to have the same basic specificity as shown by competition for binding to the main immunogenic region on the receptor, but these antibodies differ in fine specificity as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tzartos S,Langeberg L,Hochschwender S,Lindstrom J

更新日期：1983-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of mild uncoupling caused by free fatty acids (mediated by plant uncoupling mitochondrial protein (PUMP) and ATP/ADP carrier (AAC)) and non-coupled respiration (alternative oxidase (AO)) on H(2)O(2) formation by plant mitochondria were examined. Both laurate and oleate prevent H(2)O(2) formation dependent on...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Casolo V,Braidot E,Chiandussi E,Macrì F,Vianello A

更新日期：2000-05-26 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：:The expression of myf-5, a key component of myogenic regulatory genes, declines progressively in mature somitic cells during vertebrate myogenesis. Little is known about how this down-regulation takes place. Here we provide evidence that an interferon regulatory factor binding element (IRF element) within the Xenopus ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mei W,Yang J,Tao Q,Geng X,Rupp RA,Ding X

更新日期：2001-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNA for a novel proton/organic cation transporter, OCTN1, was cloned from human fetal liver and its transport activity was investigated. OCTN1 encodes a 551-amino acid protein with 11 transmembrane domains and one nucleotide binding site motif. It is strongly expressed in kidney, trachea, bone marrow and fetal liver ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tamai I,Yabuuchi H,Nezu J,Sai Y,Oku A,Shimane M,Tsuji A

更新日期：1997-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Contribution of sphingosine kinase (SPK)-catalyzed production of sphingosine-1-phosphate (SPP), in comparison to phospholipase C (PLC), to Ca(2+) signalling by epidermal growth factor (EGF) was studied in two HEK-293 cell clones (HEK2 and HEK3), expressing functional EGF receptors and exhibiting release of stored Ca(2...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Meyer zu Heringdorf D,Lass H,Kuchar I,Alemany R,Guo Y,Schmidt M,Jakobs KH

更新日期：1999-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the identification, gene expression and biological activity of two parathyroid hormones (PTH; PTHA and PTHB), two PTH-related peptides (PTHrP; PTHrPA and PTHrPB) and a PTH-like ligand (PTH-L) with hybrid characteristics in puffer fishes (Takifugu rubripes and Tetraodon fluviatilis). Experimental data are con...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Canario AV,Rotllant J,Fuentes J,Guerreiro PM,Rita Teodósio H,Power DM,Clark MS

更新日期：2006-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome oxidase o has been isolated from the obligately aerobic, methylotrophic bacterium Methylophilus methylotrophus in the form of a cytochrome cL-o complex. The latter is comprised of cytochrome cL (Mr 21 000) and cytochrome o (Mr 29 000) in a 1-2:1 ratio, possibly in association with one or more minor polypept...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carver MA,Jones CW

更新日期：1983-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion and deletion analyses of a protein have been less common than point mutation analyses, partly due to the lack in effective methods. This is the case with the green fluorescent protein (GFP), which is so widely applied in molecular biology and other fields. In this paper we first introduce a systematic approa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kitamura K,Yoshida C,Nishigaki K

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, proteins are efficiently sorted to reach their final destinations in a whole range of subcellular compartments. Targeting is mediated by hydrophobic signal sequences or hydrophilic targeting sequences depending upon the compartment, these sequences being often processed. Protei...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lazdunski CJ,Benedetti H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this investigation was to study the effect of intramitochondrial acyl-CoA on the respiration of rabbit heart mitochondria over the whole range of stationary respiratory rates between States 4 and 3. The creatine phosphokinase system was used for stabilization of extramitochondrial adenine nucleotide concent...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borutaite V,Mildaziene V,Ivanoviene L,Kholodenko B,Toleikis A,Praskevicius A

更新日期：1989-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototaxis in the archaeon Halobacterium salinarium is mediated by a stable complex of the photoreceptor sensory rhodopsin I and its transducer HtrI, which relays the light stimulus to the signalling pathway. Removal of the cytoplasmic signalling domain of HtrI eliminated the SRI-specific motor response to light stimu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krah M,Marwan W,Oesterhelt D

更新日期：1994-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulysin, a crude cellulase from the plant parasitic fungus Trichoderma viride, induces the biosynthesis of volatiles in higher plants (Nicotiana plumbaginifolia, Phaseolus lunatus, and Zea mays) when applied to cut petioles by the transpiration stream. The pattern of the emitted volatiles largely resembles that fro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Piel J,Atzorn R,Gäbler R,Kühnemann F,Boland W

更新日期：1997-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies have been raised against two synthetic peptides reproducing the 48-64 and 353-369 sequences of CSK, a protein tyrosine kinase implicated in the down-regulation of src-related protein kinases. Both antibodies specifically recognize recombinant CSK and a CSK-related 49 kDa protein tyrosine kinase p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brunati AM,Allee G,Marin O,Donella-Deana A,Cesaro L,Bougeret C,Fagard R,Benarous R,Fischer S,Pinna LA

更新日期：1992-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that anthocyanins can function as potent inhibitors of the formation of nitrated tyrosine in vitro, and clarified how pelargonidin (Pel), which has a mono-hydroxyl group on the B-ring, can scavenge peroxynitrite (ONOO(-)) by detection of the reaction products. Pel was reacted with ONOO(-), then the reaction mi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsuda T,Kato Y,Osawa T

更新日期：2000-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of dioleoyl N-(monomethoxy polyethyleneglycol succinyl)phosphatidylethanolamine (PEG-PE) into large unilamellar liposomes composed of egg phosphatidylcholine:cholesterol (1:1) does not significantly increase the content leakage when the liposomes are exposed to 90% human serum at 37 degrees C, yet the li...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klibanov AL,Maruyama K,Torchilin VP,Huang L

更新日期：1990-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylin, a 37 amino acid C-terminal amidated peptide is an integral part of secretory granules of pancreatic beta-cells. Utilizing a specific radioimmunoassay system we demonstrate in the present study a cosecretion of amylin and insulin from the isolated rat pancreas. The secretion pattern of both peptides during gluc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fehmann HC,Weber V,Göke R,Göke B,Arnold R

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A Trp-free alphaA-crystallin mutant (W9F) was prepared by site-directed mutation. This mutant appears to be identical to the wild-type in terms of conformation (secondary and tertiary structures). W9F was labeled with a sulfhydryl-specific fluorescent probe, 2-(4'-maleimidylanilino) naphthalene-6-sulfonate (MIANS), an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sun TX,Akhtar NJ,Liang JJ

更新日期：1998-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Coeliac disease is a chronic enteropathy caused by the ingestion of wheat gliadin and other cereal prolamines derived from rye and barley. In the present work, we investigated the mechanisms underlying altered barrier function properties exerted by gliadin-derived peptides in human Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sander GR,Cummins AG,Henshall T,Powell BC

更新日期：2005-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Stresses that impair the function of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lead to an accumulation of unfolded protein in the ER. Under these conditions, the expression of a variety of genes involved in preventing the accumulation of the unfolded proteins is induced. Yeast Hrd1p is an ER stress-inducible ER membrane protein ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kaneko M,Ishiguro M,Niinuma Y,Uesugi M,Nomura Y

更新日期：2002-12-04 00:00:00