Substrate recognition of holocytochrome c synthase: N-terminal region and CXXCH motif of mitochondrial cytochrome c.

abstract：:Incubation of adipocytes with 125I-insulin plus leupeptin or monensin, but not chloroquine, resulted in the appearance of a novel peak of 125I-insulin (modal density about 1.20 g/ml) on density gradient centrifugation; the appearance of the peak depended on the presence of specific insulin receptors on the cell surfac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jeffrey IW,Flint DJ,Vernon RG,Mayer RJ

更新日期：1985-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteases not only play a fundamental role in numerous physiological processes, but are also involved in several human diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). A key protease implicated in AD is the so far unidentified gamma-secretase, which cleaves the membrane-bound beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) at th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Steiner H,Pesold B,Haass C

更新日期：1999-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we assessed the contribution of acidic sphingomyelinase (ASMase), a ceramide generating enzyme, in tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-mediated apoptosis in human colon HT-29 cells. TNF induced apoptosis in HT-29 cells in a time- and dose-dependent fashion. Downregulation of the active endogenous ASMase f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colell A,Morales A,Fernández-Checa JC,García-Ruiz C

更新日期：2002-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Perhydrohistrionicotoxin at micromolar concentrations blocked the nicotine-evoked transmitter release from perfused striatal (dopaminergic) and hippocampal (cholinergic) nerve terminals. Perhydrohistrionicotoxin failed to compete with [3H]nicotine for its high-affinity binding site in rat brain, suggesting that the ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rapier C,Wonnacott S,Lunt GG,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1987-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission of receptor-generated cytoplasmic Ca2+ signals between communicating pancreatic acinar cells has been investigated by comparing patch-clamp recordings of Ca(2+)-dependent Cl- current in internally perfused single cells and small multi-cell clusters. Acetylcholine (50 nM) generates shortlasting repetit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Petersen CC,Petersen OH

更新日期：1991-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Human kallikrein 8 (KLK8) is a member of the human kallikrein gene family of serine proteases, and its protein, hK8, has recently been suggested to serve as a new ovarian cancer marker. To gain insights into the physiological role of hK8, the active recombinant enzyme was obtained in a pure state for biochemical and e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rajapakse S,Ogiwara K,Takano N,Moriyama A,Takahashi T

更新日期：2005-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitronectin is the carrier protein of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1). We used a well-characterized panel of anti-human PAI-1 monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) to localize the vitronectin-binding site on PAI-1. By employing a direct vitronectin/PAI-1 binding assay and two vitronectin-dependent inhibition assays,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Meijer M,Gebbink RK,Preissner KT,Pannekoek H

更新日期：1994-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoenzymes of creatine kinase (CK, EC 2.7.3.2) in guinea-pig smooth, cardiac and skeletal muscles as well as in brain were analyzed by cellulose acetate electrophoresis and FPLC gel permeation chromatography. In crude tissue extracts of smooth muscles brain type BB-CK and the hybrid form MB-CK were detected, but in en...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ishida Y,Wyss M,Hemmer W,Wallimann T

更新日期：1991-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An abundant matrix protein was purified under native conditions from adult bovine tendon and identified as cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) by immunochemical crossreaction, amino acid sequence identity of tryptic peptides derived from both N- and C-terminal regions, and structure revealed by electron microsc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： DiCesare P,Hauser N,Lehman D,Pasumarti S,Paulsson M

更新日期：1994-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Piericidin is a potent inhibitor of the mitochondrial and bacterial type I NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductases (Complex I) and is considered to bind at or close to the ubiquinone binding site(s) of the enzyme. Piericidin-resistant mutants of the bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus have been isolated and the present work demo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Darrouzet E,Issartel JP,Lunardi J,Dupuis A

更新日期：1998-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for the hypothalamic hormones vasopressin and oxytocin are located in close proximity to each other within the rat genome. They are separated by only approx. 11 kbp of DNA sequence and oriented in such a way that their transcription occurs on opposite DNA strands. Although the two genes are structurally very...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mohr E,Bahnsen U,Kiessling C,Richter D

更新日期：1988-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Several of the recently described leucocyte surface (glyco)-proteins with significant amino acid sequence similarity (human CD9, CD37, CD53, CD63, TAPA-1, CO-029 and R2 and several homologues of other species) are distinguished by the polypeptide chain apparently four times crossing the membrane. Although the biologic...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Horejsí V,Vlcek C

更新日期：1991-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of either crude or purified preparations of the gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA)/benzodiazepine receptor complex with arginine-specific reagents resulted in a time- and concentration-dependent loss of [3H]muscimol binding activity. Following exposure to either 2,3-butanedione or phenylglyoxal (less than or equal t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Widdows KB,Kirkness EF,Turner AJ

更新日期：1987-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretoneurin is a recently characterized neuropeptide present in the primary amino acid sequence of secretogranin II. We investigated the proteolytic processing of secretogranin II by prohormone convertases in vivo in a cellular system using the vaccinia virus system. Both PC1 and PC2 can cleave the secretogranin II ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoflehner J,Eder U,Laslop A,Seidah NG,Fischer-Colbrie R,Winkler H

更新日期：1995-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ample evidence indicates that sphingosine-1-phosphate (SPP) can serve as an intracellular second messenger regulating calcium mobilization, and cell growth and survival. Moreover, the dynamic balance between levels of the sphingolipid metabolites, ceramide and SPP, and consequent regulation of opposing signaling pathw...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spiegel S,Milstien S

更新日期：2000-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The E-E* model for calcium pumping by the CaATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum includes two distinct conformational states of the enzyme, E and E*. Exterior Ca2+ binds only to E and interior Ca2+ binds only to E*. Therefore, it is expected that there will be competition between the binding of calcium to the unphosphoryl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Myung J,Jencks WP

更新日期：1991-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:500 MHz 1H NMR studies of human epidermal growth factor are described. The backbone resonances of the 1-48 derivative of hEGF have been assigned using two-dimensional techniques. Analysis of the type and magnitude of the observed sequential nuclear Overhauser effects and the NH-alpha CH spin-spin coupling constants al...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carver JA,Cooke RM,Esposito G,Campbell ID,Gregory H,Sheard B

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of stimulation of hepatic respiration by fatty acids was studied in isolated rat hepatocytes. Stimulation of respiration by fatty acids varied from about 35% to about 105% depending on chain length. The stimulatory effect of octanoate (1 mM) or oleate (0.5 mM) was prevented by oligomycin (2 micrograms/ml...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Plomp PJ,van Roermund CW,Groen AK,Meijer AJ,Tager JM

更新日期：1985-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Maculatin 1.1 is an antimicrobial peptide isolated from the Australian tree frog Litoria genimaculata that adopts an amphipathic, alpha-helical structure in solution. Its orientation and conformation when incorporated to pre-formed DMPG (1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoglycerol) and DMPC (1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycer...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chia CS,Torres J,Cooper MA,Arkin IT,Bowie JH

更新日期：2002-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The black-eyed pea trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitor (BTCI) is a member of the Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor (BBI) family. The three-dimensional model of the BTCI-chymotrypsin complex was built based on the homology to Bowman-Birk inhibitors with known structures. An extensive theoretical and experimental study of t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： de Freitas SM,de Mello LV,da Silva MC,Vriend G,Neshich G,Ventura MM

更新日期：1997-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A covalent complex formed by bacterial tRNAs and prothymosin alpha, an abundant acidic nuclear protein involved in proliferation of mammalian cells, upon production of the recombinant rat protein in Escherichia coli cells was studied. Several tRNA attachment sites were identified in the prothymosin alpha molecule usin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lukashev DE,Chichkova NV,Vartapetian AB

更新日期：1999-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The WRN protein is mutated in the chromosomally unstable Werner syndrome (WS) and the Nbs1 protein is mutated in Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS). The Nbs1 protein is an integral component of the M/R/N complex. Although WRN is known to interact with this complex in response to gamma-irradiation, the mechanism of actio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cheng WH,Sakamoto S,Fox JT,Komatsu K,Carney J,Bohr VA

更新日期：2005-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemokine receptor, CXCR4, and its endogenous ligand, stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1), have been recognized to be involved in the metastasis of several types of cancers. T140 analogs are peptidic CXCR4 antagonists composed of 14 amino acid residues that were previously developed as anti-HIV agents having inhib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tamamura H,Hori A,Kanzaki N,Hiramatsu K,Mizumoto M,Nakashima H,Yamamoto N,Otaka A,Fujii N

更新日期：2003-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The further biochemical characterization and subcellular localization of cardiotin, a high molecular weight (300 kDa) constituent of cardiac muscle, is described. Immunofluorescence assays revealed a colocalization of cardiotin and the Ca2+ pump SERCA2a in the longitudinal sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). However, in cont...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schaart G,Moens L,Endert JM,Ramaekers FC

更新日期：1997-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fas/Fas ligand interaction plays a crucial role in various liver diseases, and administration of agonistic anti-Fas antibody to mice causes massive hepatic apoptosis and fulminant hepatic failure. Several growth factors have recently been found to function in preventing apoptosis. In this study, we demonstrated th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kanda D,Takagi H,Toyoda M,Horiguchi N,Nakajima H,Otsuka T,Mori M

更新日期：2002-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) with trypsin results in a fourfold increase in the Vmax of this enzyme, without affecting the Km. This activation is shown to be due to the removal of the C-terminal lysine residue. The C-terminal sequence folds back over the N-terminal domain and contacts the extreme N...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adams B,Fowler R,Hudson M,Pain RH

更新日期：1996-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Using conserved fingerprints in the glycosyltransferase (GTase) domain of high-molecular-weight penicillin-binding proteins (PBP), a gene (mgt) encoding a putative monofunctional glycosyltransferase has been identified in Haemophilus influenzae and in other bacteria] species. Here we report the cloning of the homologo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Di Berardino M,Dijkstra A,Stüber D,Keck W,Gubler M

更新日期：1996-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxins are a class of small proteins that play a key role in regulating many cellular redox processes. We report here the characterization of the first member of the thioredoxin family in metazoans that is mainly associated with neurons. The Caenorhabditis elegans gene B0228.5 encodes a thioredoxin (TRX-1) that ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miranda-Vizuete A,Fierro González JC,Gahmon G,Burghoorn J,Navas P,Swoboda P

更新日期：2006-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone cytokinin plays a major role in regulating plant growth and development. Here we generated cytokinin-reduction Arabidopsis plants by overexpressing a heterologous cytokinin oxidase gene DSCKX1 from Dendrobium orchid. These transgenic plants exhibited reduced biomass, rapid root growth, decreased abil...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yang S,Yu H,Xu Y,Goh CJ

更新日期：2003-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial cell wall muramyl dipeptides MDP and glucosaminyl-MDP (GMDP) are powerful immunostimulators but their binding target remains controversial. We previously reported expression cloning of GMDP-binding polypeptides and identification of Y-box protein 1 (YB-1) as their sole target. Here we show specific bindi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Laman AG,Lathe R,Savinov GV,Shepelyakovskaya AO,Boziev KhM,Baidakova LK,Chulin AN,Brovko FA,Svirshchevskaya EV,Kotelevtsev Y,Eliseeva IA,Guryanov SG,Lyabin DN,Ovchinnikov LP,Ivanov VT

更新日期：2015-07-08 00:00:00