The kinetics of the reaction of superoxide radical with Fe(III) complexes of EDTA, DETAPAC and HEDTA.

abstract：:The effect of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) on Rap1 expression was investigated in rat vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC). First, evidence for Rap1 proteins was shown by their: (i) detection in membranes using a specific anti-Rap1 antibody, (ii) typical shift in electrophoretic mobility as a consequence of red...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Quarck R,Bryckaert M,Magnier C,Corvazier E,Bredoux R,de Gunzburg J,Fontenay M,Tobelem G,Enouf J

更新日期：1994-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An essential difference between eukaryotic ferritins and bacterioferritins is that the latter contain naturally, in vivo haem as Fe-protoporphyrin IX. This haem is located in a hydrophobic pocket along the 2-fold symmetry axes and is liganded by two Met 52. However, in in vivo studies, a cofactor has been isolated in ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： de Val N,Herschbach H,Potier N,Dorsselaer AV,Crichton RR

更新日期：2006-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of tubulin/Na(+),K(+)-ATPase (NKA) complex in erythrocytes of hypertensive subjects results in a 50% reduction in NKA activity. We demonstrate here that detyrosinated tubulin, which is increased in hypertensive erythrocytes membranes, enhances the inhibitory effect of acetylated tubulin on NKA activity. More...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Amaiden MR,Santander VS,Monesterolo NE,Nigra AD,Rivelli JF,Campetelli AN,Pie J,Casale CH

更新日期：2015-01-30 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：:Curcumin, the active ingredient of the rhizome of Curcuma longa has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antiproliferative activities. Although its precise mode of action remains elusive, studies have shown that chemopreventive action of curcumin might be due to its ability to induce apoptosis in cancer cells. Curcumin ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bhaumik S,Anjum R,Rangaraj N,Pardhasaradhi BV,Khar A

更新日期：1999-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A heat-stable activator for ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF)-dependent phospholipase D (PLD) was purified to near homogeneity from rat kidney cytosol by a sequential column chromatography. The purified activator has a molecular mass of 23 kDa on SDS-PAGE. Using a partially purified ARF-dependent PLD from rat kidney, the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akisue T,Jinnai H,Hitomi T,Miwa N,Yoshida K,Nakamura S

更新日期：1998-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The alkaline phosphatase of beef, horse, pig and sheep brain have been purified. In each case, the alkaline phosphatase activity can be separated into two or three components by DEAE-cellulose chromatography and by electrophoresis. Although the properties of these enzyme fractions are very similar, there are sufficien...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brunel C,Cathala G

更新日期：1970-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the unfolded protein response (UPR), Ire1 activates Hac1 to coordinate the transcription of hundreds of genes to mitigate ER stress. Recent work in Caenorhabditis elegans suggests that oxidative stress inhibits this canonical Ire1 signalling pathway, activating instead an antioxidant stress response. We sought to d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guerra-Moreno A,Ang J,Welsch H,Jochem M,Hanna J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Synuclein (αSyn) is a key player in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease and other synucleinopathies. Here, we report the existence of a novel soluble α-helical conformer of αSyn, obtained through transient interaction with lipid interfaces, and propose dynamic oligomerization as the mechanism underlying its stab...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rovere M,Sanderson JB,Fonseca-Ornelas L,Patel DS,Bartels T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed on the intrinsically disordered 39-residue N-terminal transactivation domain of p53 (p53(1-39)). Simulations not only revealed that p53(1-39) is natively compact, but also possesses a folded structure. Furthermore, leucine-rich hydrophobic clusters were found to play ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Espinoza-Fonseca LM

更新日期：2009-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity labelling of E. coli ribosomes with the 2',3'-O-[4-(N-2-chloroethyl)-N-methylamino]benzylidene derivative of AUGU6 was studied within the initiation complex (complex I) obtained by using fMet-tRNAMetf and initiation factors and within the pretranslocational complex (complex II) obtained by treatment of comple...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Babkina GT,Veniaminova AG,Vladimirov SN,Karpova GG,Yamkovoy VI,Berzin VA,Gren EJ,Cielens IE

更新日期：1986-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces lividans 1326-9, a bldA+ strain, and its bldA39 mutant derivative J1725 were transformed with a cosmid containing the pur cluster, which determines the puromycin biosynthetic pathway from Streptomyces alboniger. bldA+ transformants produced puromycin in typical amounts, whereas bldA39 transformants did so...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tercero JA,Espinosa JC,Jiménez A

更新日期：1998-01-16 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 mitochondrial outer membrane contains a protein complex with at least eight subunits responsible for recognition and translocation of preproteins synthesized in the cytosol. Two subunits, the receptors Tom20 and Tom70, contain tetratrico peptide repeats that are thought to be involved in protein-protein interactio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bömer U,Pfanner N,Dietmeier K

更新日期：1996-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycogen branching enzyme from Vibrio vulnificus (VvGBE) transfers short side chains (DP 3-5) significantly greater than any other bacterial glycogen branching enzyme (GBE). To elucidate the role of the N-domain of VvGBE in the unique branching pattern, domain-truncated (N1 and N) and N1-domain-swapped (with VvGBE...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jo HJ,Park S,Jeong HG,Kim JW,Park JT

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins participate in many important cellular regulatory processes. The absence of a well-defined structure in the free state of a disordered domain, and even on occasion when it is bound to physiological partners, is fundamental to its function. Disordered domains are frequently the locatio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berlow RB,Dyson HJ,Wright PE

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In cooperative aggregation of bovine platelets induced by simultaneous addition of PAF and collagen at subthreshold concentrations the following observations were made. (i) Formation of phosphatidic acid and arachidonic acid metabolites, which characterize PAF and collagen alone-induced aggregation, respectively, was ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kojima S,Sekiya F,Inada Y,Sato F,Tsukada T,Saito Y

更新日期：1990-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:FixK₂ is a CRP-like transcription factor that controls the endosymbiotic lifestyle of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. The reason for its noticeable protease sensitivity was explored here. The repertoire of Clp chaperone-proteases in B. japonicum was examined, and specifically ClpAP₁ and ClpXP₁ were purified and tested. FixK...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bonnet M,Stegmann M,Maglica Ž,Stiegeler E,Weber-Ban E,Hennecke H,Mesa S

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (mAb) has been produced which reacts with human mitofilin, a mitochondrial inner membrane protein. This mAb immunocaptures its target protein in association with six other proteins, metaxins 1 and 2, SAM50, CHCHD3, CHCHD6 and DnaJC11, respectively. The first three are outer membrane proteins, CHC...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xie J,Marusich MF,Souda P,Whitelegge J,Capaldi RA

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory mechanism by which GATA-3 suppresses IFN-gamma gene expression was investigated. A reduction of GATA-3 using RNA interference technology enhanced, whereas overexpression of GATA-3 suppressed IFN-gamma mRNA expression. IL-4 expression was reciprocally affected by GATA-3. GATA-3-mediated down-regulation o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kaminuma O,Kitamura F,Kitamura N,Miyagishi M,Taira K,Yamamoto K,Miura O,Miyatake S

更新日期：2004-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study [(1987) J. Mol. Biol. 194, 663-673], we isolated ten insertion/deletion mutants (indels) of the maltose binding protein for which the maltose binding constant was only a little or not at all affected. In this paper, we have localized these mutations in the recently solved three-dimensional structur...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Betton JM,Martineau P,Saurin W,Hofnung M

更新日期：1993-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis B viral X protein (HBx) is a multifunctional protein that plays a role in the activation of the NF-kappaB signaling pathway. In this study, we demonstrate that HBx up-regulates expression of TANK-binding kinase-1 (TBK1) at the transcriptional level. Increased levels of TBK1 protein then induce the phosph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim HR,Lee SH,Jung G

更新日期：2010-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the identification of bovine miRNAs by cloning small RNAs from adipose tissue and the mammary gland. Fifty-nine distinct miRNAs were identified, five of them were not homologous to known mammalian miRNAs, and many of them had 3' and/or 5' end variants. Ribonuclease protection assays indicated that miR-23a an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gu Z,Eleswarapu S,Jiang H

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of membrane lipid composition within strict limits is critical to maintain optimum cellular function. The biophysical properties of the membrane can be influenced among other factors by the saturation/unsaturation of the phospholipid fatty acyl chain. The rate-limiting enzyme in unsaturated fatty acid ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hagen RM,Rodriguez-Cuenca S,Vidal-Puig A

更新日期：2010-06-18 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：:Spin-trapping techniques and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy were used to study the relationship between the effect of streptozotocin (STZ) on pancreatic beta-cells and free radical formation by these cells. Results showed that STZ enhanced generation of the DMPO-OH radical adduct, which is a degradation pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nukatsuka M,Sakurai H,Yoshimura Y,Nishida M,Kawada J

更新日期：1988-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA binding motif protein 5 (RBM5) is a candidate tumor suppressor gene. Recent studies showed that RBM5 functions as an alternative splicing regulator of apoptosis-related genes. Here, we identify DHX15 and PRP19, two spliceosome components, as novel RBM5-interacting partners. We then show that the G-patch domain of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Niu Z,Jin W,Zhang L,Li X

更新日期：2012-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, human tau protein aggregates into paired helical filaments and neurofibrillary tangles. However, such tau aggregates have not yet been demonstrated in transgenic mouse models of the disease. One of the possible explanations would be that mouse tau has different properties ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kampers T,Pangalos M,Geerts H,Wiech H,Mandelkow E

更新日期：1999-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:While the majority of studies have focused on the biological roles of heparin-binding proteins, relatively little is known about their key residues and structural elements responsible for heparin interaction. In this study, we employed the IgG-binding domain B1 of Streptococcal protein G as a miniature scaffold to inv...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cheng YY,Cheng CS,Lee TR,Chang WS,Lyu PC

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molybdenum is an essential micronutrient required by plants. The mechanism of molybdenum uptake in plants is poorly understood, however, evidence has suggested that sulfate transporters may be involved. The sulfate transporter from Stylosanthes hamata, SHST1, restored growth of the sulfate transport yeast mutant, YSD1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fitzpatrick KL,Tyerman SD,Kaiser BN

更新日期：2008-04-30 00:00:00