Promiscuous actions of small molecule inhibitors of the protein kinase D-class IIa HDAC axis in striated muscle.

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：:A human placenta cDNA expression library was screened for genes inducing flat reversion when transfected into a v-K-ras-transformed NIH3T3 cell line, DT. One such gene was found to encode a Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor, tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2 (TFPI-2). While the TFPI-2 mRNA can be detected in norma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Izumi H,Takahashi C,Oh J,Noda M

更新日期：2000-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A tetradecapeptide with a sequence identical to residues 26-39 of the cro protein from bacteriophage lambda has been synthesized. This peptide has no secondary structure in an aqueous buffer but adopts an alpha-helical conformation in the presence of 20% hexafluoroisopropanol. The fluorescence of the single tyrosyl re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mayer R,Lancelot G,Hélène C

更新日期：1983-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Clusters of codons pairing to low-abundance tRNAs synchronize the translation with co-translational folding of single domains in multidomain proteins. Although proven with some examples, the impact of the ribosomal speed on the folding and solubility on a global, cell-wide level remains elusive. Here we show that upre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fedyunin I,Lehnhardt L,Böhmer N,Kaufmann P,Zhang G,Ignatova Z

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin stimulated protein kinase B alpha (PKB alpha) more than 10-fold and decreased glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) activity by 50 +/- 10% in skeletal muscle and adipocytes. Rapamycin did not prevent the activation of PKB, inhibition of GSK3 or stimulation of glycogen synthase up to 5 min. Thus rapamycin-insensiti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cross DA,Watt PW,Shaw M,van der Kaay J,Downes CP,Holder JC,Cohen P

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoic acid is a coenzyme essential to the activity of enzymes such as pyruvate dehydrogenase, which play important roles in central metabolism. However, neither the enzymes responsible for biosynthesis nor the biosynthetic event of lipoic acid has been reported in mammalian cells. In this study, a mouse mLIP1 cDNA fo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morikawa T,Yasuno R,Wada H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FACS analysis together with PIPLC treatment was applied to PI-anchoring antigens such as DAF (decay-accerelating factor, CD55), 1F5 antigen (CD59), CD14 and CD16 on the cell surfaces of blood cells from a normal adult and a male patient with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglubinuria (PNH). Through the extensive analysis, th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taguchi R,Funahashi Y,Ikezawa H,Nakashima I

更新日期：1990-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we investigated the molecular mechanism underlying the changes in the distribution of nucleolin. Our study identified PI3K/Akt signaling as an essential pathway regulating the distribution of nucleolin. Furthermore, nucleolin can interact with phospho-PI3K-p55, and changes in the distribution of nucleolin were r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wu DM,Zhang P,Liu RY,Sang YX,Zhou C,Xu GC,Yang JL,Tong AP,Wang CT

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypeptides rich in glutamic acid are strong inhibitors purified from isolated nuclei of Xenopus laevis oocytes of casein kinase II. The presence of tyrosine in these peptides greatly enhances their inhibitory capacity. Using casein as a substrate, copolyglu:tyr (4:1) has an I50 value of 20 nM, 250 fold lower than th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tellez R,Gatica M,Allende CC,Allende JE

更新日期：1990-06-04 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：:Azide-binding to the heme-copper binuclear center of bo-type ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli was investigated with Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Deconvolution analyses of infrared spectra of the azide (14N3)-inhibited air-oxidized form showed a major infrared azide antisymmetric stretching band at 2...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsubaki M,Mogi T,Hori H

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that Rap1 as well as its guanine nucleotide exchange factor Epac1 increases cell-cell junction formation. Here, we show that activation of Epac1 with the exchange protein directly activated by cAMP (Epac)-specific cAMP analog 8CPT-2'O-Me-cAMP (007) resulted in a tightening of the junctions and...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kooistra MR,Corada M,Dejana E,Bos JL

更新日期：2005-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously found a brain-specific glycoprotein in the rat brain. It postnatally increases and is rich in the mature brain. We cloned cDNA of this protein. It is composed of a signal peptide, a V-type immunoglobulin domain, two C1-type immunoglobulin domains, a transmembrane segment and a cytoplasmic region containi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sano S,Ohnishi H,Omori A,Hasegawa J,Kubota M

更新日期：1997-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Using specific monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, we have analyzed protein kinase C alpha and beta isozyme expression in human T cells from peripheral blood (PB) and from thymus. While the PKC beta isozyme was present in all T cell sub-types isolated from both PB and thymus, the alpha isozyme was found only in sing...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tarantino N,Debré P,Körner M

更新日期：1994-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Stopped-flow kinetics showed that the inhibition of the lysosomal cysteine proteinase, cathepsin B, by its endogenous inhibitor, cystatin C, occurs by a two-step mechanism, in which an initial, weak interaction is followed by a conformational change. The initial interaction most likely involves binding of the N-termin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nycander M,Estrada S,Mort JS,Abrahamson M,Björk I

更新日期：1998-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The GTPases of the Rho family are molecular switches that play an important role in a wide range of cellular processes and are increasingly implicated in tumourigenesis. Unlike what was found for the Ras oncogenes in tumours, hardly any activating mutations have been found in the genes encoding Rho proteins. In the pa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mertens AE,Roovers RC,Collard JG

更新日期：2003-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-residue peptide containing the first 12 amino acids of the N-terminal part of the signal sequence of yeast cytochrome c oxidase subunit IV is shown by chemical crosslinking to interact with a mitochondrial protein. This result is obtained with mitochondria from four different origins. Submitochondrial localizatio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Font B,Goldschmidt D,Chich JF,Thieffry M,Henry JP,Gautheron DC

更新日期：1991-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors activate a member of the INK4 family, the p19INK4d gene, causing G1 phase arrest. We report here that HDAC inhibitor, Trichostatin A, activates another member of the INK4 family, the p18INK4c gene, through its promoter in Jurkat cells. Interestingly, the acti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yokota T,Matsuzaki Y,Sakai T

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:cAMP levels in Paramecium increased dose dependently after a step increase of [Ca] or [Sr] in the incubation, provided K was present. Two mM Ca or Sr tripled cAMP concentrations within 3 s and induced an increase in forward swimming speed. The increase in cAMP formation was strictly dependent on the Donnan ratio [K]: ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schultz JE,Grünemund R,von Hirschhausen R,Schönefeld U

更新日期：1984-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the nuclear organization of the mouse Ig kappa locus and how it may relate to the formation of synapses during recombination, we have studied the kinetics of rearrangement of different V kappa gene families to J kappa gene segments in the pre-B cell line, 103bcl2. Remarkably, V kappa gene families...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li S,Garrard WT

更新日期：2003-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinal pigment epithelium-specific 65 kDa (RPE65) isomerase plays a pivotal role in photoreceptor survival and function. RPE65-catalyzed synthesis of 11-cis-retinol from all-trans-retinyl esters in the visual cycle is negatively regulated, through a heretofore unknown mechanism, by the fatty acid transport protei...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li S,Green JF,Jin M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanosarcina barkeri inserts pyrrolysine (Pyl) at an in-frame UAG codon in its monomethylamine methyltransferase gene. Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase acylates Pyl onto tRNAPyl, the amber suppressor pyrrolysine Pyl tRNA. Here we show that M. barkeri Fusaro tRNAPyl can be misacylated with serine by the M. barkeri bacteria...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gundllapalli S,Ambrogelly A,Umehara T,Li D,Polycarpo C,Söll D

更新日期：2008-10-15 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：: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：:Proteorhodopsin (PR), a retinal-containing seven transmembrane helix protein, functions as a light-driven proton pump. Using PCR, we isolated 18 PR variants originating from the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Their absorption maxima were between 517 and 546 nm at pH 7. One of the isolates turned out to be identical to G...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jung JY,Choi AR,Lee YK,Lee HK,Jung KH

更新日期：2008-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation and characterization of the cDNA coding for the 216-residue Xenopus laevis prion protein is reported. Existence of this protein in amphibians was suggested by an EST fragment (accession number BG813008), while a conclusive demonstration is presented here. This protein exhibits a higher identity level to avia...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Strumbo B,Ronchi S,Bolis LC,Simonic T

更新日期：2001-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, resulting from asphyxia during birth, affects 2-3 in every 1000 term infants and depending on severity, brings about life-changing neurological consequences or death. This hypoxic-ischaemia (HI) results in a delayed neural energy failure during which the majority of brain injury occur...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thornton C,Jones A,Nair S,Aabdien A,Mallard C,Hagberg H

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes (AC) induce blood-brain barrier (BBB) properties in brain endothelial cells (EC). As antioxidative activity (AOA) is assumed to be a BBB characteristic, we tested whether AC improve AOA of EC. Monocultivated AC showed higher AOA [manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (Cat), glutathione peroxidase (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schroeter ML,Mertsch K,Giese H,Müller S,Sporbert A,Hickel B,Blasig IE

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataxin-3, which is encoded by a gene that has been associated with Machado-Joseph disease, contains a catalytic N-terminal Josephin domain with deubiquitinase activity. Here, we show that the Josephin domain of ataxin 3 catalyzes endo-type cleavage of Lys48-linked polyubiquitin. Furthermore, NMR data obtained followin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Satoh T,Sumiyoshi A,Yagi-Utsumi M,Sakata E,Sasakawa H,Kurimoto E,Yamaguchi Y,Li W,Joazeiro CA,Hirokawa T,Kato K

更新日期：2014-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of protein HU from Escherichia coli to nucleic acids was investigated by affinity chromatography under various conditions, by a nitrocellulose retention assay and by isopycnic centrifugations in metrizamide gradients. The results indicate that HU has a preference for binding to RNA and single-stranded DNA ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Holck A,Kleppe K

更新日期：1985-06-03 00:00:00