Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to study long-chain fatty acid amide metabolism.

abstract：:Chemotaxis induction is a major effect evoked by stimulation of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 with its sole ligand CXCL12. We now report that treatment of CHP-100 human neuroepithelioma cells with the glucosylceramide synthase (GCS) inhibitor DL-threo-1-phenyl-2-hexadecanoylamino-3-pyrrolidino-1-propanol inhibits CXCR4...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Limatola C,Massa V,Lauro C,Catalano M,Giovanetti A,Nuccitelli S,Spinedi A

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that tau protein kinase II (TPKII) from bovine brain was composed of 30 kDa and 23 kDa subunits. The 30 kDa subunit of TPKII can be regarded as a catalytic subunit because of its ATP-binding activity. Antibodies directed against TPKII-phosphorylated tau also reacted with tau phosphorylated by cd...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kobayashi S,Ishiguro K,Omori A,Takamatsu M,Arioka M,Imahori K,Uchida T

更新日期：1993-12-06 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：:Mutual arrangement of histone H1 molecules in chromatin extended in low salt-EDTA buffer and additionally in the presence of urea was studied by means of reversible cross-linking combined with chymotryptic digestion. In the chromatins tested, the chymotryptic halves of H1 were cross-linked in all possible combinations...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nikolaev LG,Glotov BO,Dashkevich VK,Barbashov SF,Severin ES

更新日期：1983-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) is implicated in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we provide genetic evidence that Drosophila Ide (dIde) antagonizes the insulin signaling pathway and human Abeta-induced neurotoxicity in Drosophila. In this study, we also generated a ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsuda M,Kobayashi T,Matsuo T,Aigaki T

更新日期：2010-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genome sequences of Escherichia coli K-12 substrains, one partial W3110 and one complete MG1655, have been determined by Japanese and American genome projects, respectively. In order to estimate the rate of nucleotide changes, we directly compared 2 Mb of the nucleotide sequences from these closely-related E. coli...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Itoh T,Okayama T,Hashimoto H,Takeda J,Davis RW,Mori H,Gojobori T

更新日期：1999-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthases catalyze the polymerization reaction of the acyl moiety of hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A into polyester. The catalytic subunit PhaC of PHA synthase has the PhaC box sequence at the active site that is typically described as G-X-C-X-G-G (X is an arbitrary amino acid), and cysteine is an ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nambu Y,Ishii-Hyakutake M,Harada K,Mizuno S,Tsuge T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper 1 (Th1) cell fate is induced by overlapping signaling pathways, whose kinetic principles and regulatory motifs are largely unknown. We identified a simple positive feedback loop in the STAT4 signaling pathway, whereby activation by IL-12 leads to the increased expression in IL-12 receptor. A computational ana...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Becskei A,Grusby MJ

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of fibroblast growth factor (FGF-10) on alveolar epithelial cell (AEC) Na,K-ATPase regulation. Within 30 min FGF-10 increased Na,K-ATPase activity and alpha1 protein abundance by 2.5-fold at the AEC plasma membrane. Pretreatment of AEC with the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitor U...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Upadhyay D,Lecuona E,Comellas A,Kamp DW,Sznajder JI

更新日期：2003-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin-like protein Urm1 from budding yeast and its E1-like activator Uba4 have dual roles in protein urmylation and tRNA thiolation pathways. To study whether these are conserved among eukaryotes, we used gene shuffles to replace the yeast proteins by their human counterparts, hURM1 and hUBA4/MOCS3. As judged ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jüdes A,Ebert F,Bär C,Thüring KL,Harrer A,Klassen R,Helm M,Stark MJ,Schaffrath R

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a benzyloxycarbonyl(Z)-Leu-Leu-Leu-4-methylcoumaryl-7-amide (ZLLL-MCA) degrading activity in proteasome as a candidate for the regulator of neurite outgrowth. As its counterpart, we purified a protein from bovine brain that specifically inhibits the ZLLL-MCA degrading activity in proteasome. T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsubuki S,Saito Y,Kawashima S

更新日期：1994-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:ent-Kaurene is the key intermediate in biosynthesis of gibberellins (GAs), plant hormones. In higher plants, ent-kaurene is synthesized successively by copalyl diphosphate synthase (CPS) and ent-kaurene synthase (KS) from geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGDP). On the other hand, fungal ent-kaurene synthases are bifunction...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hayashi K,Kawaide H,Notomi M,Sakigi Y,Matsuo A,Nozaki H

更新日期：2006-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic extracts of trout and turkey erythrocytes were tested for their immunoreactivity with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies to retinal arrestin (S-antigen), a cytosolic protein of photoreceptor cells involved in the desensitization of rhodopsin. After adsorption or immunoaffinity chromatography of the extract...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mirshahi M,Borgese F,Razaghi A,Scheuring U,Garcia-Romeu F,Faure JP,Motais R

更新日期：1989-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:It was recently shown that there is a predominance of phase 1 introns near the cleavage site of signal peptides encoded by human genes. It was suggested that this biased distribution was due to intron insertion at AGmid R:G proto-splice sites. However, we found that there is no disproportional excess of AGmid R:G that...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vibranovski MD,Sakabe NJ,de Souza SJ

更新日期：2006-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombomodulin (TM) is a single-transmembrane glycoprotein receptor for thrombin, which is best known as a cofactor for thrombin-mediated activation of anticoagulant protein C. C-type lectin-like domain (CTLD) of TM has distinct coagulation/fibrinolysis-independent anti-inflammatory properties. Here we found anti-infl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jin H,Yang X,Liu K,Gu Q,Xu X

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The gas phase of the soil plays an important role in plant growth and development. We investigated the effect of rhizospheric NO as a signalling compound for N uptake of beech roots. Following exposure to NO, ammonium and glutamine uptake into roots were determined using (15)N-labelling, and gene expression of selecte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Simon J,Stoelken G,Rienks M,Rennenberg H

更新日期：2009-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylglycerophosphate (PGP) synthase, encoded by PGP1 and PGP2 in Arabidopsis, catalyzes a committed step in the biosynthesis of phosphatidylglycerol (PG). In this study, we isolated a pgp1pgp2 double mutant of Arabidopsis to study the function of PG. In this mutant, embryo development was delayed and the major...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanoue R,Kobayashi M,Katayama K,Nagata N,Wada H

更新日期：2014-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The MDM2 oncoprotein is overexpressed in many human tumors and cancers. MDM2 functions as an E3 ligase for p53 and for itself. MDM2 also interacts with the retinoblastoma protein (RB) and the transcription factor E2F1 to promote cell cycle S-phase entry. Here, we report that MDM2 protein expression is cell cycle-regul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gu L,Ying H,Zheng H,Murray SA,Xiao ZX

更新日期：2003-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo toxicity of vanadium(V) has been found to correlate with the depletion of cellular glutathione and related non-protein thiols. With a view to understanding the mechanism for this observation, we have investigated the oxidation of glutathione, cysteine N-acetylcysteine and penicillamine by vanadium(V), usin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shi XL,Sun XY,Dalal NS

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MET receptor tyrosine kinase is deregulated primarily via overexpression or point mutations in various human cancers and different strategies for MET inhibition are currently evaluated in clinical trials. We observed by Western blot analysis and by Flow cytometry that MET inhibition by different MET small molecule...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leiser D,Pochon B,Blank-Liss W,Francica P,Glück AA,Aebersold DM,Zimmer Y,Medová M

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrin (G17) and N-carboxymethylgastrin (G17-Gly) have been shown to stimulate the growth of colon cancer cells both in vivo and in vitro. The identity of the receptor mediating these effects is controversial. A recent study demonstrated the presence of a low affinity binding site for G17 and G17-Gly on the DLD-1 hum...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ahmed S,Budai B,Herédi-Szabó K,Farkas J,Tóth G,Murphy RF,Lovas S

更新日期：2004-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses have been etiologically implicated with leukemia in humans and animals. Understanding the virus life cycle, the proteins and enzymes involved in its replication, is essential for developing potent anti-viral drugs. Phosphorylation of retroviral proteins may alter their shape in such a way as to increase o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seri I,Priel E

更新日期：1996-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dark-grown angiosperm seedlings lack chlorophylls, but accumulate protochlorophyllide a complexed with the light-dependent enzyme NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase. Previous investigators correlated spectral heterogeneity of in vivo protochlorophyllide forms and a shift of chlorophyllide forms from 680 to 672 n...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klement H,Oster U,Rüdiger W

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynein is a minus end-directed microtubule motor that serves multiple cellular functions. We have performed a fine mapping of the 8 kDa dynein light chain (LC8) binding sites throughout the development of a library of consecutive synthetic dodecapeptides covering the amino acid sequences of the various proteins known ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodríguez-Crespo I,Yélamos B,Roncal F,Albar JP,Ortiz de Montellano PR,Gavilanes F

更新日期：2001-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers still have great difficulty in isolating individual ribosomal proteins from the ribosome in quantities high enough for structural research. To this end, when studying protein S7, we created an E. coli overproducer of the recombinant protein S7 of Thermus thermophilus. The vector for expression was pQE-32 h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karginov AV,Karginova OA,Spiridonova VA,Kopylov AM

更新日期：1995-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an in vitro co-culture approach comprising cultured murine superior cervical ganglia and MC3T3-E1 osteoblast-like cells, we found that the addition of scorpion venom (SV) elicited neurite activation via intracellular Ca2+ mobilization and, after a lag period, osteoblastic Ca2+ mobilization. SV did not have any d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Obata K,Furuno T,Nakanishi M,Togari A

更新日期：2007-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock (44 degrees C for 10 min) or ATP depletion by an uncoupler (CCCP for 20 min) is shown to result in stimulation of hsp68/70 synthesis in Ehrlich tumor cells. After 3 h of recovery, the cells become thermotolerant. Surprisingly, repeated ATP depletion caused by CCCP or rotenone (a respiratory inhibitor) treat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gabai VL,Kabakov AE

更新日期：1993-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the lysosomal storage disorder Gaucher disease (GD), glucosylceramide (GlcCer) accumulates due to the defective activity of glucocerebrosidase. A subset of GD patients develops neuropathology. We now show mislocalization of Limp2-positive puncta and a large reduction in the number of Lamp1-positive puncta, which ar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zigdon H,Meshcheriakova A,Farfel-Becker T,Volpert G,Sabanay H,Futerman AH

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replacing the essential Cys-149 by a selenocysteine into the active site of phosphorylating glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) from Bacillus stearothermophilus leads to a selenoGAPDH that mimics a selenoperoxidase activity. Saturation kinetics were observed with cumenyl and tert-butyl hydroperoxides, wit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boschi-Muller S,Muller S,Van Dorsselaer A,Böck A,Branlant G

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated mitotic chromosomes are able to form complexes with phosphatidylcholine liposomes in the presence and absence of Ca2+ ions, in the latter case in the presence of polyamines. Interactions with chromosomes stimulates liposome fusion. The fusion is promoted by condensed and EDTA-decondensed chromosomes. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Balakireva LA,Belyaev ND,Budker VG,Kiseleva EV

更新日期：1991-06-24 00:00:00