Conservation of local electric fields in the evolution of Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase.

abstract：:Eleven cloned hybridomas which secrete antibodies to acetylcholine receptors from human muscle have been prepared. All of these monoclonal antibodies to have the same basic specificity as shown by competition for binding to the main immunogenic region on the receptor, but these antibodies differ in fine specificity as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tzartos S,Langeberg L,Hochschwender S,Lindstrom J

更新日期：1983-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural and biochemical studies have begun to elucidate the pathway of RNA silencing that leads to the formation of the RISC complex. The outstanding feature of this pathway is the precise recognition and processing of double-stranded RNA. We present a review of recent structures that illustrate the molecular mecha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Collins RE,Cheng X

更新日期：2005-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion and deletion analyses of a protein have been less common than point mutation analyses, partly due to the lack in effective methods. This is the case with the green fluorescent protein (GFP), which is so widely applied in molecular biology and other fields. In this paper we first introduce a systematic approa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kitamura K,Yoshida C,Nishigaki K

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurogenic gene Drosophila big brain (bib) has a high sequence homology to aquaporin-4. However, its cellular functions in Drosophila neurogenesis have remained elusive. Here we investigated cell adhesion, and the ion and water permeability of Bib. The adhesive function was examined by a cell aggregation assay usi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tatsumi K,Tsuji S,Miwa H,Morisaku T,Nuriya M,Orihara M,Kaneko K,Okano H,Yasui M

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The trans----cis isomerization of Pro 93 was measured during refolding of bovine ribonuclease A. This isomerization is slow (tau = 500 s) under marginally stable folding conditions of 2.0 M GdmCl, pH 6, at 10 degrees C. However, it is strongly accelerated (tau = 100 s) in samples which, prior to isomerization, had bee...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schmid FX

更新日期：1986-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The contact-dependent intrinsic pathway of fibrinolysis involving factor XII, prekallikrein (PK) and pro-urokinase (pro-UK) remains poorly understood. Casein autography of washed, intact platelets revealed both PK and pro-UK. Accordingly, platelets may mediate physiological thrombolysis by this pathway since factor XI...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gurewich V,Johnstone M,Loza JP,Pannell R

更新日期：1993-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, capsaicin (trans-8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) induced an increase in the cell viability of the androgen-responsive prostate cancer LNCaP cells, which was reversed by the use of the TRPV1 antagonists capsazepine, I-RTX and SB 366791. In further studies we observed that capsaicin induced a decrease i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Malagarie-Cazenave S,Olea-Herrero N,Vara D,Díaz-Laviada I

更新日期：2009-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA of the human muscle type acylphosphatase was isolated and characterized. The mRNA presents a very long 5'-untranslated region, covering the first half of the molecule: 175 bases of this part were cloned and prediction of the possible secondary structure showed that a very stable stem-loop structure could be f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fiaschi T,Marzocchini R,Raugei G,Veggi D,Chiarugi P,Ramponi G

更新日期：1997-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of exogenous gangliosides on the occurrence of domes in MDCK cell cultures was investigated in view of the involvement of both dome formation and gangliosides in cell growth, differentiation and transepithelial transport. Dome formation was increased by gangliosides in medium free of fetal calf serum. Among...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodrig N,Osanai T,Iwamori M,Nagai Y

更新日期：1987-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle plays key roles in metabolic homeostasis. Loss of muscle mass, called muscle atrophy exacerbates disease-associated metabolic perturbations. In this study, we characterized the molecular functions and mechanisms underlying regulation of skeletal muscle atrophy induced by denervation. Denervation signif...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kang J,Jeong MG,Oh S,Jang EJ,Kim HK,Hwang ES

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1 alpha (PGC-1alpha), a highly inducible transcriptional coactivator regulating energy homeostasis, is down-regulated in hepatoma tissues. To dissect its role in hepato-tumorigenesis, Ingenuity Pathway Analysis was applied to construct pathways affected by P...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee HJ,Su Y,Lui WY,Chau GY,Yin PH,Lee HC,Chi CW

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a search for selective, mechanism-based covalent inhibitors of human pancreatic α-amylase we describe the chemoenzymatic synthesis of the disaccharide analog α-glucosyl epi-cyclophellitol, demonstrate its stoichiometric reaction with human pancreatic α-amylase and evaluate the time dependence of its inhibit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Caner S,Zhang X,Jiang J,Chen HM,Nguyen NT,Overkleeft H,Brayer GD,Withers SG

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS, E.C.6.1.1.2) is unable to catalyze in vitro formation of Ap4A in contrast to some other aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. However, in the presence of L-tryptophan, ATP-Mg2+ and ADP the enzyme catalyzes the Ap3A synthesis via adenylate intermediate. Ap3A (not Ap4A) may serve as a s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Merkulova T,Kovaleva G,Kisselev L

更新日期：1994-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, peroxiredoxins are both antioxidants and regulators of H(2)O(2)-mediated signaling. We previously found that peroxiredoxin-I (Prx-I) was overexpressed in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissue. Since overexpressed protein can induce a humoral immune response, we examined whether serum from NSCL...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chang JW,Lee SH,Jeong JY,Chae HZ,Kim YC,Park ZY,Yoo YJ

更新日期：2005-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified mitochondria from potato (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Bintje) tubers were subfractionated into a matrix fraction, an inner membrane fraction and an outer membrane fraction with minimal cross-contamination. When the matrix and inner membrane fractions were incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP only one and three p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pical C,Fredlund KM,Petit PX,Sommarin M,Møller IM

更新日期：1993-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomes are unicellular parasites and like all decent parasites, they try to obtain from the host as much material as possible, including lipids. However, the needs of a parasite are not always the same as those of the host, and therefore, mostly, some biosynthetic work still has to be done by the parasite itself...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Hellemond JJ,Tielens AG

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mona is an SH3 and SH2 domain-containing adapter molecule that is induced during monocytic differentiation. Here we have first shown that M-CSFR is the major Mona partner in M-CSF signaling, the interaction being mediated through tyrosine 697 of the receptor. Next we asked whether Mona expression would alter the Ras/M...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bourgin C,Bourette R,Mouchiroud G,Arnaud S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The off rate from the first calcium-binding site of the C2A domain of synaptotagmin I, a putative calcium receptor in neurotransmitter release, has been determined by 15N-nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation dispersion measurements. The exchange rate was obtained by fitting the dependence of the transverse relaxation...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Millet O,Bernadó P,Garcia J,Rizo J,Pons M

更新日期：2002-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase is a two-component metalloenzyme that catalyzes a MgATP hydrolysis driven reduction of substrates. Aluminum fluoride plus MgADP inhibits nitrogenase by stabilizing an intermediate of the on-enzyme MgATP hydrolysis reaction. We report here the redox properties and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spee JH,Arendsen AF,Wassink H,Marritt SJ,Hagen WR,Haaker H

更新日期：1998-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat soleus muscle strips cultured for 24 h in medium 199 were well preserved in terms of electron microscopy; ATP and creatine phosphate concentrations; rates of glucose utilization, glycogen and protein synthesis, and effects of insulin thereon. Culture led to modest changes in fluid spaces and intracellular (K+); in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stace PB,Marchington DR,Kerbey AL,Randle PJ

更新日期：1990-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Both cisplatin and the estrogen receptor (ER) are known to bend DNA. The influence of the bending of sequences by the d(GpG)cisPt adduct binding of ER to estrogen response element (ERE)-like sequences was examined. Three ERE-like oligonucleotides with different affinities for ER and which include a GG in the linker se...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Massaad-Massade L,Massaad C,Legendre F,Bas V,Chottard J,Beaune P,Barouki R

更新日期：2000-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:32 consensus patterns for a set of functional regions and structural motifs in protein sequences were constructed. The pattern definition is heuristic and based on 11 selected steric and physicochemical properties. By comparison with these patterns, it was possible to identify, without false detection, 1532 sites in 8...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bork P

更新日期：1989-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The operation of the human red cell glucose transporter has been studied at normal and high hydrostatic pressure to identify the step(s) which involve a volume change. Pressure inhibited zero-trans and equilibrium exchange influx to similar extents, by decreasing the Vmax but not significantly changing the Km. The Bma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thorne SD,Hall AC,Lowe AG

更新日期：1992-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:HERC proteins are characterized by having one or more RCC1-like domains as well as a C-terminal HECT domain in their amino acid sequences. This has led researchers to suggest that they may act as both guanine nucleotide exchange factors and E3 ubiquitin ligases. Here we describe a physical interaction between the HECT...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garcia-Gonzalo FR,Cruz C,Muñoz P,Mazurek S,Eigenbrodt E,Ventura F,Bartrons R,Rosa JL

更新日期：2003-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of platelets results in the liberation of arachidonic acid (AA) which is further metabolized via the cyclooxygenase or lipoxygenase (LPG) pathway. We have examined the effect of inhibition of LPG on (i) the ADP-induced increase of cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration and (ii) platelet aggregation. Lipoxygenase i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borin ML,Pinelis VG,Ivanova MA,Kudinov YuV,Azizova OA,Markov CM,Khodorov BI

更新日期：1989-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetracycline-controlled transcription system has become one of the most potent systems for experimental manipulations of transcription levels in vivo. Here we report on rtTA variants, which were generated by combining the existing positively regulated Tet repressor domains of rtTA and rtTA-M2 with a modified and m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kämper MR,Gohla G,Schlüter G

更新日期：2002-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Jasmonic acid (JA) and its derivatives are well-characterized signaling molecules in plant defense and development, but the site of their localization within plant tissue is entirely unknown. To address the question whether applied JA accumulates extracellularly or intracellularly, leaves of tomato and barley were fed...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bücking H,Förster H,Stenzel I,Miersch O,Hause B

更新日期：2004-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas/FasL interactions have been proposed as a potentially important mechanism mediating beta-cell death in type 1 diabetes. Recent investigations suggest RNA interference, afforded by small interfering RNAs (siRNA), can provide specific and robust gene silencing in mammalian cells. The current study attempted to inves...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Burkhardt BR,Lyle R,Qian K,Arnold AS,Cheng H,Atkinson MA,Zhang YC

更新日期：2006-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototaxis in the archaeon Halobacterium salinarium is mediated by a stable complex of the photoreceptor sensory rhodopsin I and its transducer HtrI, which relays the light stimulus to the signalling pathway. Removal of the cytoplasmic signalling domain of HtrI eliminated the SRI-specific motor response to light stimu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krah M,Marwan W,Oesterhelt D

更新日期：1994-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Barley thioredoxin h isozymes 1 (HvTrxh1) and barley thioredoxin h isozymes 2 (HvTrxh2) show distinct spatiotemporal distribution in germinating seeds. Using a novel approach involving measurement of bidirectional electron transfer rates between Escherichia coli thioredoxin, which exhibits redox-dependent fluorescence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maeda K,Hägglund P,Björnberg O,Winther JR,Svensson B

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00