Glycine and other amino compounds prevent chromatin precipitation at physiological ionic strength.

abstract：:The multiline signal of the S(2) state in Photosystem II was measured both in frozen-solution and single-crystal preparations from the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus. The frozen-solution EPR spectrum shows a gaussian-like line shape without any resolution of Mn hyperfine couplings. This line shape can be...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Teutloff C,Kessen S,Kern J,Zouni A,Bittl R

更新日期：2006-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ala-30 and Asn-32 residues involved in the major antiparallel beta-sheet structure of human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) were substituted with various amino acid residues, and the receptor-binding affinities of the nine variant hEGFs were determined by the use of human KB cells. The Ala-30----Arg, Ala-30----His ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koide H,Muto Y,Kasai H,Hoshi K,Takusari H,Kohri K,Takahashi S,Sasaki T,Tsukumo K,Miyake T

更新日期：1992-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Using ultrastructural analysis and labeling with polyclonal antibodies that recognize peptide sequences specific for phospholipid binding, we mapped the functional domain structure of intact platelet talin and its proteolytic fragments. The talin dimer, which is crucial for actin and lipid binding, is built of a backb...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Isenberg G,Goldmann WH

更新日期：1998-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The spike (S) protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is an important viral structural protein. Based on bioinformatics analysis, 10 antigenic peptides derived from the S protein sequence were selected and synthesized. The antigenicity and immunoreactivity of all the peptides were tested in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lu W,Wu XD,Shi MD,Yang RF,He YY,Bian C,Shi TL,Yang S,Zhu XL,Jiang WH,Li YX,Yan LC,Ji YY,Lin Y,Lin GM,Tian L,Wang J,Wang HX,Xie YH,Pei G,Wu JR,Sun B

更新日期：2005-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular homeostasis in response to glucose availability is maintained through the tight coordination of various physiological processes, including cell proliferation, transcription, and metabolism. In this study, we use the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify proteins implicated in carbon source-depend...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Umekawa M,Shiraishi D,Fuwa M,Sawaguchi K,Mashima Y,Katayama T,Karita S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prochlorococcus marinus SS120 is an ecologically important and biochemically intriguing marine cyanobacterium. In addition to divinyl chlorophylls (DV-Chls) a and b it possesses a particular form of phycoerythrin (PE), but no other phycobilins and therefore no complete phycobilisomes. Here, a spectroscopic characteris...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Steglich C,Mullineaux CW,Teuchner K,Hess WR,Lokstein H

更新日期：2003-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Biotinyl phosphatidylethanolamine spin labelled at the C-14 position of the sn-2 chain has been incorporated at a level of 1 mol% in bilayers of dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine, and the effects on the chain mobility of binding avidin to the biotin lipid headgroup have been studied by electron spin resonance spectros...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swamy MJ,Marsh D

更新日期：1993-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed five mutated cDNAs encoding human interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) derivatives lacking 19-23 COOH-terminal residues and expressed them in Escherichia coli. All the derivatives were purified to homogeneity. They showed substantially the same order of antiviral activity in vitro as the intact molecule, and be...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakaguchi M,Honda S,Ozawa M,Nishimura O

更新日期：1988-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aging of population, neurological disorders, and especially disorders involving defects in protein conformation (also known as proteopathies) pose a serious socio-economic problem. So far there is no effective treatment for most proteopathies, including Parkinson's disease (PD). The mechanism underlying PD pa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oláh J,Ovádi J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) is suggested to protect mitochondria against aging and lipid-induced damage, possibly via modulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. Here we show that mice overexpressing UCP3 (UCP3Tg) have a blunted age-induced increase in ROS production, assessed by electron spin resonance sp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nabben M,Hoeks J,Briedé JJ,Glatz JF,Moonen-Kornips E,Hesselink MK,Schrauwen P

更新日期：2008-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to demonstrate the unique specificity of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100. Calcium flux assays with selected chemokine/cell combinations, affording distinct chemokine receptor specificities, revealed no interaction of AMD3100 with any of the chemokine receptors CXCR1 through CX...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hatse S,Princen K,Bridger G,De Clercq E,Schols D

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells and neutrophils synthesize and release potent vasodilatatory factors, i.e. endothelium-derived relaxing factors (EDRF) and neutrophil-derived relaxing factors (NDRF). One EDRF has been identified as nitric oxide (NO) derived from arginine. We studied the synthesis and release of NO from huma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schmidt HH,Seifert R,Böhme E

更新日期：1989-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The anomolous protein synthesis, sensitive to cycloheximide, which has been observed in brain mitochondrial and synaptosomal preparations, has been studied. It is concluded that this protein synthesis is due to the presence, as a contaminant in both preparations, of a ribosome-containing particle which contains solubl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morgan IG

更新日期：1970-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated insulin's effect on intestinal lipid, transport and, particularly, the biogenesis of apolipoproteins crucial to lipoprotein secretion. Adding insulin (3 mU) to the serum-free medium of cultured jejunal explants from human fetuses (17-20 weeks) reduced triglyceride and chylomicron production and inhibit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Levy E,Sinnett D,Thibault L,Nguyen TD,Delvin E,Ménard D

更新日期：1996-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The contributions of membrane type-1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) and of the glucose-6-phosphate transporter (G6PT) in sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P)-mediated Ca(2+) mobilization were assessed in glioblastoma cells. We show that gene silencing of MT1-MMP or G6PT decreased the extent of S1P-induced Ca(2+) mobiliza...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fortier S,Labelle D,Sina A,Moreau R,Annabi B

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the apoptosis of mouse liver nuclei induced in the cytosol of carrot cells by cytochrome c. Several typical characteristics of apoptosis, such as chromatin condensation, margination and apoptotic bodies, were detected. The result of DNA gel electrophoresis showed that DNA was degraded into nucleosomal f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhao Y,Jiang ZF,Sun YL,Zhai ZH

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of physiological processes requires the regulation and coordination of many different signals and is determined in part by the activation and repression of expression of specific target genes. RIP140 is a ligand dependent coregulator of many nuclear receptors that influence such diverse processes as muscle...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： White R,Morganstein D,Christian M,Seth A,Herzog B,Parker MG

更新日期：2008-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na-Ca exchanger is essential for the Ca2+ homeostasis in many cell types. This transporter has been difficult to investigate because no specific inhibitor is available. We have synthesized an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide directed against the rat cardiac Na-Ca exchanger mRNA. To estimate the activity of the Na-Ca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lipp P,Schwaller B,Niggli E

更新日期：1995-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-1-Antitrypsin is found in hepatocytes as a high-mannose glycoprotein (Mr 49 000), extracellularly as a complex-type glycoprotein (Mr 54 000). Deglycosylation of both forms with peptide: N-glycosidase led to proteins of identical app. Mr (41 000). The sequence of 26 N-terminal amino acids of rat alpha 1-antitryps...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gross V,Kaiser C,Tran-Thi TA,Schmelzer E,Witt I,Plummer TH Jr,Heinrich PC

更新日期：1983-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins were purified from bovine brain by immunoaffinity chromatography on immobilized anti G protein monoclonal antibody 3C2. Release of betagamma subunits was effectuated by exposure of immobilized trimeric G proteins to MgAlF4. The resultant betagamma subunits were pure and biologically active. F...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rehm A,Ploegh HL

更新日期：1997-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The interconversions of the inositol-containing lipids (PI, PI-P and PI-P2) and their products (DG, inositol phosphates and PA) in human and rabbit neutrophils stimulated with fMetLeuPhe and PMA have been examined. PMA causes only the phosphorylation of PI to PI-P whereas fMetLeuPhe causes phosphorylation of both PI a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cockcroft S,Barrowman MM,Gomperts BD

更新日期：1985-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of carbon into the carbon monoxide and cyanide ligands of [NiFe]-hydrogenases has been investigated by using (13)C labelling in infrared studies of the Allochromatium vinosum enzyme and by (14)C labelling experiments with overproduced Hyp proteins from Escherichia coli. The results suggest that the b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roseboom W,Blokesch M,Böck A,Albracht SP

更新日期：2005-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae the genes involved in galactose metabolism (GAL1,7,10) are transcriptionally activated more than a 1000-fold in the presence of galactose as the sole carbon source in the culture media. In the present work, we monitored the activity of the GAL10 gene promoter in different Ras-cAMP...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mirisola MG,Gallo A,De Leo G

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Coenzyme A ligases play an important role in metabolism by catalyzing the activation of carboxylic acids. In this study we describe the synthesis of aminoacyl-coenzyme As (CoAs) catalyzed by a CoA ligase from Penicillium chrysogenum. The enzyme accepted medium-chain length fatty acids as the best substrates, but the p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koetsier MJ,Jekel PA,Wijma HJ,Bovenberg RA,Janssen DB

更新日期：2011-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Some pathogenic mutations associated with Alzheimer's disease are thought to affect structural-dynamic properties and the lateral dimerization of amyloid precursor protein (APP) in neuron membrane. Dimeric structure of APP transmembrane fragment Gln(686)-Lys(726) was determined in membrane-mimicking dodecylphosphochol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nadezhdin KD,Bocharova OV,Bocharov EV,Arseniev AS

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Various antihyperlipemic peroxisome proliferators are known to be carcinogenic in rodents but not in human, other primates and guinea pig, which species lost their ability to synthesize ascorbate due to mutations in the gulonolactone oxidase gene. Ascorbate synthesis is accompanied by H2O2 production, consequently its...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Braun L,Mile V,Schaff Z,Csala M,Kardon T,Mandl J,Bánhegyi G

更新日期：1999-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast tRNA(Lys)CUU is nucleus-encoded and is partially imported into the mitochondria. Another lysine isoacceptor, tRNA(Lys)SUU, is also nucleus-encoded but is not imported. These two tRNAs differ in 21 bases. We have previously localised import selectivity determinants in the anticodon arm. By in vitro import of muta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kazakova HA,Entelis NS,Martin RP,Tarassov IA

更新日期：1999-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human interleukin-5 (hIL-5) has been expressed at high levels and produced in large quantities in baculovirus infected Sf9 insect cells. The glycosylated protein was purified using immuno-affinity chromatography and gel filtration. Purified hIL-5 has been crystallized using standard vapour diffusion techni...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guisez Y,Oefner C,Winkler FK,Schlaeger EJ,Zulauf M,Van der Heyden J,Plaetinck G,Cornelis S,Tavernier J,Fiers W

更新日期：1993-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the nuclear magnetic resonance solution secondary structure of the N-terminal region in human erythroid alpha-spectrin using a recombinant model peptide of alpha-spectrin consisting of residues 1-156. Pulsed field gradient diffusion coefficient measurements show that the model peptide exists as a monom...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park S,Johnson ME,Fung LW

更新日期：2000-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of phosphatidylethanolamine containing liposomes with malondialdehyde and other aldehydes with different chain lengths results in the fluorescence of chromolipids. Relative to malondialdehyde, the fluorescence was greatly enhanced with increasing chain length upon incubation of 2-alkenals with phospholipids...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Montfoort A,Bezstarosti K,Groh MM,Koster JF

更新日期：1987-12-21 00:00:00