Eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid are antagonists at the thromboxane A2/prostaglandin H2 receptor in human platelets.

abstract：:Islet-activating protein (IAP) suppressed Ca2+-induced histamine release and phospholipase A2 activation in Gpp(NH)p-loaded mast cells. Since the guanine nucleotide-binding protein involved in adenylate cyclase inhibition is known to lose its function upon being ADP-ribosylated by IAP, the nucleotide-binding protein i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakamura T,Ui M

更新日期：1984-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of p53 plays a central role in the cell's response to various stress signals. We investigated whether p53 is activated upon disruption of actin microfilaments, caused by cytochalasin D (CD). We show that treatment with CD leads to accumulation of p53 in the cells and activation of p53-dependent transcriptio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rubtsova SN,Kondratov RV,Kopnin PB,Chumakov PM,Kopnin BP,Vasiliev JM

更新日期：1998-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanine nucleotide exchange reaction catalyzed by elongation factor Ts is proposed to arise from the intrusion of the side chains of D80 and F81 near the Mg2+ binding site in EF-Tu. D80A and F81A mutants of E. coli EF-Ts were 2-3-fold less active in promoting GDP exchange with E. coli EF-Tu while the D80AF81A muta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang Y,Li X,Spremulli LL

更新日期：1996-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that calpain subunits dissociate in the presence of Ca2+ has been tested by methods which avoid interference by Ca2+-induced aggregation and large subunit autolysis. Inactive Cys105Ser-m-calpain, bound either to Ni-NTA-agarose or to immobilized casein, after incubation with Ca2+, could be recovered in h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dutt P,Arthur JS,Croall DE,Elce JS

更新日期：1998-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are crucial components of the innate immune system, coupling pathogen recognition to a cellular response. We used the MAPPIT mammalian two-hybrid technique to investigate protein-protein interactions in the early steps in TLR signalling. A partial TLR-adaptor interaction map was constructed ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ulrichts P,Peelman F,Beyaert R,Tavernier J

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Myc is a transcriptional regulator involved in carcinogenesis through its role in growth control and cell cycle progression. Here we attempt to relate its role in stimulating the G1-S transition to the ability to affect functioning of key cell cycle regulators, and we focus on how its property of modulating transcri...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nasi S,Ciarapica R,Jucker R,Rosati J,Soucek L

更新日期：2001-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The open reading frame YLR070c of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has high sequence similarity to S. cerevisiae sorbitol dehydrogenase and to xylitol dehydrogenase of Pichia stipitis. Overexpression of this open reading frame in S. cerevisiae resulted in xylitol dehydrogenase activity. The enzyme is specific for NADH. The fo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Richard P,Toivari MH,Penttilä M

更新日期：1999-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the novel, naturally occurring nucleotide cyclic diguanylic acid (c-di-GMP) on the lymphoblastoid CD4+ Jurkat cell line was studied. When exposed to 50 microM c-di-GMP, Jurkat cells exhibited a markedly elevated expression of the CD4 receptor of up to 6.3-fold over controls. C-di-GMP also causes blockage...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Steinberger O,Lapidot Z,Ben-Ishai Z,Amikam D

更新日期：1999-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the mechanisms involved in the developmental expression of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens we examined the gene structure and transcription properties of the major shed trypomastigote antigen (SAPA). We report in this paper that SAPA is encoded by a small family of at lest 6 genes which differ mainly i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Affranchino JL,Pollevick GD,Frasch AC

更新日期：1991-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:EcL-DER, the aspartate/glutamate racemase from the pathogen Escherichia coli O157, exhibits racemase activity for l-aspartate and l-glutamate. This study reports the crystal structures of apo-EcL-DER, the EcL-DER-l-aspartate and the EcL-DER-d-aspartate complexes. The EcL-DER structure contains two domains, forming pse...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu X,Gao F,Ma Y,Liu S,Cui Y,Yuan Z,Kang X

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective antigen (PA) is the central receptor binding component of anthrax toxin, which translocates catalytic components of the toxin into the cytosol of mammalian cells. Ever since the crystal structure of PA was solved, there have been speculations regarding the possible role of calcium ions present in domain I o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gupta PK,Chandra H,Gaur R,Kurupati RK,Chowdhury S,Tandon V,Singh Y,Maithal K

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, and results from loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. The aggregation and fibrillation of alpha-synuclein in the form of intracellular proteinaceous aggregates (Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites) have been implicated as a causative f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Uversky VN,Fink AL

更新日期：2002-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum albumin (HSA) contains a single tryptophan residue at position 214. The emission properties of tryptophan 214 from recombinant albumins, namely, normal HSA, FDH-HSA and a methionine 218 HSA were examined. In all cases, the excited state lifetimes were best described by a two component model consisting main...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Helms MK,Petersen CE,Bhagavan NV,Jameson DM

更新日期：1997-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat gastric H+,K(+)-ATPase alpha subunit gene was cloned and the nucleotide sequence of its 5'-upstream region was determined. Sequence comparison with the corresponding part of the human gene indicated the presence of highly conserved regions which may be important for specific transcription of the alpha subunit ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oshiman K,Motojima K,Mahmood S,Shimada A,Tamura S,Maeda M,Futai M

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-induced changes in protein kinase C were examined in cytosol and membrane fractions of rat adipocytes enzymatically after Mono Q column chromatography and by immunoblotting. During a 5-20 min period of insulin treatment, cytosolic protein kinase C decrease by approximately 50%, whereas membrane protein kinase ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ishizuka T,Cooper DR,Farese RV

更新日期：1989-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of human diseases can be linked to aberrations in protein folding which cause an imbalance in protein homeostasis. Molecular chaperones, including heat shock proteins, act to assist protein folding, stability and activity in the cell. Attention has begun to focus on modulating the expression and/or activity o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Powers MV,Workman P

更新日期：2007-07-31 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：:Gastric H+,K+-ATPase activity is not affected by Na+ at pH 7.0 but is significantly stimulated by Na+ at pH 8.5. For the stimulation at the latter pH, the presence of both Na+ and K+ were essential. Contrary the H+,K+-ATPase, the associated K+-pNPPase was inhibited by Na+ at both pH values. Sodium competes with K+ for...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ray TK,Nandi J

更新日期：1985-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a BAL31 exonuclease assay to determine the sites of 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen photocrosslinking in DNA we have shown that 5'-TA sites which are accessible to psoralen DNA interstrand photocrosslinking in naked DNA become inaccessible when protein, in casu, lambda-repressor E. coli or RNA polymerase are bound at t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhen WP,Jeppesen C,Nielsen PE

更新日期：1988-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid extracts of rat pituitary neuro-intermediate lobes have been shown by ion-exchange chromatography and radio-immunoassay to contain predominantly the inactive derivatives of beta-endorphin, alpha, N-acetyl beta-endorphin 1-27 and alpha, N-acetyl beta-endorphin 1-26; the biologically active form, beta-endorphin 1-3...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ham J,Smyth DG

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor mRNA of approximately 16,000 nucleotides codes 5,037 amino acid residues constituting the calcium release channel in skeletal muscle. In this study, RNA blot hybridization analysis shows that the brain contains an RNA species with an estimated size o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takeshima H,Nishimura S,Nishi M,Ikeda M,Sugimoto T

更新日期：1993-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic modification of lysozyme was attempted to improve the bactericidal activity against Gram-negative bacteria E. coli. The different lengths of hydrophobic peptides were attached to the C-terminus of the hen egg white lysozyme to investigate the most effective length of the hydrophobic peptides for killing ba...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arima H,Ibrahim HR,Kinoshita T,Kato A

更新日期：1997-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Viperin is a radical SAM enzyme that possesses antiviral properties against a broad range of enveloped viruses. Here, we describe the activity of human viperin with two molecules of the mevalonate pathway, geranyl pyrophosphate, and farnesyl pyrophosphate, involved in cholesterol biosynthesis. We postulate that the ra...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mikulecky P,Andreeva E,Amara P,Weissenhorn W,Nicolet Y,Macheboeuf P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the first de novo position of the secondary quinone QB in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center (RC) using phases derived by the single wavelength anomalous dispersion method from crystals with selenomethionine substitution. We found that in frozen RC crystals, QB occupies primarily the proxim...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pokkuluri PR,Laible PD,Crawford AE,Mayfield JF,Yousef MA,Ginell SL,Hanson DK,Schiffer M

更新日期：2004-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation change of Thermus thermophilus tRNA(1Ile) upon complex formation with T. thermophilus elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) was studied by analysis of the circular dichroism (CD) bands at 315 nm (due to the 2-thioribothymidine residue in the T-loop) and at 295 nm (due to the core structure of tRNA). Formation ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Haruki M,Matsumoto R,Hara-Yokoyama M,Miyazawa T,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1990-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The labile iron pool of cells (LIP) constitutes the primary source of metabolic and catalytically reactive iron in the cytosol. We studied LIP homeostasis in K562 cells using the fluorescent metal-sensitive probe calcein. Following brief exposure to iron(II) salts or to oxidative or reductive stress, LIP rose by up to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Breuer W,Epsztejn S,Cabantchik ZI

更新日期：1996-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosine methylation of binding sites for transcription factors is a straightforward mechanism to prevent transcription, while data on an indirect mechanism, by methylation outside of the factor binding sites, are still scarce. We have studied the latter effect using a model promoter construct. For this, a 69 bp G + C...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hug M,Silke J,Georgiev O,Rusconi S,Schaffner W,Matsuo K

更新日期：1996-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We transfected the COS-7 cells with cDNAs encoding different human somatostatin receptor (hSSTR) subtypes, and found that hSSTR subtypes mediate not only the inhibition of forskolin-induced cAMP accumulation but also the stimulation of phospholipase C (PLC) and Ca2+ mobilization. Activation of PLC by 1 microM somatost...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Akbar M,Okajima F,Tomura H,Majid MA,Yamada Y,Seino S,Kondo Y

更新日期：1994-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The CA microsatellite repeat marker, D7S522, is located at the center of a approximately 1000 kb smallest common deleted region that is lost in many forms of human cancer. It has been proposed that a putative tumor suppressor gene lies in close proximity to D7S522, within this smallest common deleted region. However, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Engelman JA,Zhang XL,Lisanti MP

更新日期：1999-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide T, an octapeptide of sequence ASTTTNYT that binds to human T cells, was studied as a zwitterion in DMSOd6 solution by means of proton NMR spectroscopy at 500 MHz. The unusual dispersion of the resonances of residues of the same type (T) makes it possible to assign all resonances to specific residues by means o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Picone D,Temussi PA,Marastoni M,Tomatis R,Motta A

更新日期：1988-04-11 00:00:00