Revisiting the scissor-like mechanism of activation for the erythropoietin receptor.

abstract：:PMA-induced leukotriene C4 synthase (LTC4S) phosphorylation was investigated over a period of 8 h in a monocytic cell line (THP-1). The level of LTC4S phosphorylation was increased 3-5 fold over a 4 h period decreasing to basal levels after 8 h. This phosphorylation event was found to be specific to THP-1 cells as the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gupta N,Nicholson DW,Ford-Hutchinson AW

更新日期：1999-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene trap methodology is a powerful tool to characterize novel genes and analyze their importance in biological phenomena. It is based on the use of mouse embryonic stem cells and reporter vectors designed to randomly integrate into the genome, tagging an insertion site and generating a mutation. Theoretically, al...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cecconi F,Meyer BI

更新日期：2000-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human prothymosin alpha mutants were generated with the aid of random mutagenesis and screened for their ability to inhibit yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell growth. Conversion of Lys-87 to Glu resulted in an inactivated prothymosin alpha mutant, which lost the ability of the wild-type protein to block yeast cell gr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rubtsov Y,Vartapetian A

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine can be metabolized by chicken erythrocytes as a carbon source maintaining ATP levels. In addition, it stimulates glucose uptake and lactate production. Adenosine effects do not involve binding to membrane receptors. They are dependent on the provision of a carbon source to glycolysis and correlate with the i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Espinet C,Bartrons R,Carreras J

更新日期：1989-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, many responses to hypoxia including angiogenesis and erythropoiesis are mediated by the alpha/beta-heterodimeric transcription factor hypoxia inducible factor (HIF). The stability and/or activity of human HIF-1alpha are modulated by post-translational modifications including prolyl and asparaginyl hydroxyla...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murray-Rust TA,Oldham NJ,Hewitson KS,Schofield CJ

更新日期：2006-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mediatophore is a protein purified from the nerve terminal membranes of Torpedo electric organ. It confers to artificial membranes a calcium-dependent mechanism that translocates acetylcholine. When similar reconstitution experiments are applied to rat brain synaptosomal membranes they reveal the presence of mediatoph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Israël M,Lesbats B,Morel N,Manaranche R,Le Gal la Salle G

更新日期：1988-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian voltage-activated Shaker K+ channels associate with at least three cytoplasmic proteins: Kv beta 1, Kv beta 2 and Kv beta 3. These beta subunits contain variable N-termini, which can modulate the inactivation of Shaker alpha subunits, but are homologous throughout an aldo-keto reductase core. Human and ferre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McCormack K,McCormack T,Tanouye M,Rudy B,Stühmer W

更新日期：1995-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a portion of the canine gene encoding the orphan receptor RDC1 [1]. The complete coding sequence is contained in a single exon, and an intron divides the 5' untranslated region of RDC1 mRNA. The RDC1 protein is 94% homologous to the gene product of GPRN1, which has been proposed to serve as a VIP rece...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cook JS,Wolsing DH,Lameh J,Olson CA,Correa PE,Sadee W,Blumenthal EM,Rosenbaum JS

更新日期：1992-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that narcotic antagonists interact with many cholinergic pathways but less in known about specific mechanisms. Using neonatal rat myoballs to study single channel behaviour of the acetylcholinegated nicotinic receptor, it was found that micromolar concentrations of naltrexone had no effect on channel condu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Madsen BW,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1985-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We here cloned a cDNA encoding STAM2, a new member of the STAM family, which contains an SH3 domain and ITAM. STAM2 like STAM1 is associated with Jak2 and Jak3, and involved in the signaling for DNA synthesis and c-myc induction mediated by IL-2 and GM-CSF. Co-expression of the SH3 deletion mutants of STAM1 and STAM2 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Endo K,Takeshita T,Kasai H,Sasaki Y,Tanaka N,Asao H,Kikuchi K,Yamada M,Chenb M,O'Shea JJ,Sugamura K

更新日期：2000-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A characteristic of the antioxidant, probucol, is its inability to inhibit apolipoprotein B fragmentation in low density lipoprotein (LDL), despite a pronounced ability to inhibit lipid oxidation on relatively lengthy exposure to Cu(II). Here we show that a short exposure of LDL to hydrogen peroxide and Cu(II) leads t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hunt JV,Bailey JR,Schultz DL,McKay AG,Mitchinson MJ

更新日期：1994-08-08 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：:A novel gene for advanced red-shifted protein with an emission maximum at 593 nm was cloned from Discosoma coral. The protein, named dsFP593, is highly homologous to the recently described GFP-like protein drFP583 with an emission maximum at 583 nm. Using the remarkable similarity of the drFP583 and dsFP593 genes, we ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fradkov AF,Chen Y,Ding L,Barsova EV,Matz MV,Lukyanov SA

更新日期：2000-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Trace amounts of gangliosides were found in rabbit skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum and their main part was shown, by high performance thin layer chromatography. to be GM3. Addition of GM3 to the soybean phospholipids used for reconstitution of proteoliposomes markedly increased ATP hydrolysis as well as Ca2+ up...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang LH,Tu YP,Yang XY,Tsui ZC,Yang FY

更新日期：1996-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Data obtained from peptide mapping of the active and inactive forms of human renin show that there are extensive regions of common sequence in the two forms of the enzyme, and are consistent with the hypothesis that inactive renin is a renin zymogen. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McIntyre GD,Chaudhuri S,Coggins JR

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:The marked difference in auxin sensitivity between plant roots and shoots was studied in terms of auxin-induced stimulation of membrane P-type ATPase. The results suggest the existence in rice seedlings of, at least, two isoforms of soluble proteinous factors (SPF), SPF(I) and SPF(II), which are involved in the stimul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim D,Kim YS,Jung J

更新日期：1997-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in bidirectional transport along microtubules remain largely unknown. We explored the collective action of kinesin-2 and dynein motors during transport of melanosomes in Xenopus laevis melanophores. These motors are attached to organelles through accessory proteins establishing a complex molecu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： De Rossi MC,De Rossi ME,Sued M,Rodríguez D,Bruno L,Levi V

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic Ca2+ concentration and membrane potential were monitored in individual cultured endothelial cells mechanically stimulated with a micropipette attached to the stage of a microscope. Both dimpling and poking of endothelial cells resulted in Ca2+i transients (from 63 +/- 12 to 397 +/- 52 nM, characterized by a ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Goligorsky MS

更新日期：1988-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pb, Eu and Mg-induced cleavages in E. coli and lupine tRNAPhe have been characterized and compared with those found in yeast tRNAPhe. The pattern of lupine tRNAPhe hydrolysis closely resembles that of yeast tRNAPhe, while several major differences occur in the specificity and efficiency of the E. coli tRNAPhe hydr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marciniec T,Ciesiołka J,Wrzesinski J,Krzyzosiak WJ

更新日期：1989-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A new mutant alpha-1-antichymotrypsin (variant ACT) was found by direct sequencing and PCR-single strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP). This variant ACT was a point mutation of exon V of ACT, with the substitution of Met by Val. Four out of six individuals with this variant ACT had occlusive-cerebrovascular dis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsuda M,Sei Y,Yamamura M,Yamamoto M,Shinohara Y

更新日期：1992-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Annexin-I is a calcium dependent phospholipid binding and phospholipase A2 (PLA2) inhibitory protein. A 'substrate depletion' model has been proposed for the mechanism of PLA2 inhibition by annexin-I in studies with 14 to 18 kDa PLA2s. Herein, we have studied the inhibition mechanism using 100 kDa cytosolic PLA2 from ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim KM,Kim DK,Park YM,Kim CK,Na DS

更新日期：1994-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The 21-residue peptide KLLLLKLLLLKLLLLKLLLLK (KL4) has been synthesized and analyzed regarding its secondary structure and orientation in lipid environments. Fourier transform infrared and circular dichroism spectroscopy shows that the peptide exhibits approximately 80% alpha-helical content both in dodecylphosphochol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gustafsson M,Vandenbussche G,Curstedt T,Ruysschaert JM,Johansson J

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Redox homeostasis is a prerequisite for survival of the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) which employs the low molecular weight thiol mycothiol (MSH). The Mycobacterial NADPH-dependent mycothione reductase (MtMtr), composed of an NADPH-, FAD-, and a dimerization-domain connected by linkers, regulates the bala...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kumar A,Subramanian Manimekalai MS,Grüber G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine analogs of fusion peptide of influenza virus hemagglutinin whose membrane perturbation activity has been thoroughly tested [Murata et al. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 1986-1992; Murata et al. (1993) Biophys. J. 64, 724-734] were characterized by molecular modeling techniques with the aim of delineating any specific st...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Efremov RG,Nolde DE,Volynsky PE,Chernyavsky AA,Dubovskii PV,Arseniev AS

更新日期：1999-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Single enzyme molecules display inevitable, stochastic fluctuations in their catalytic activity. In metabolism, for instance, the stochastic activity of individual enzymes is averaged out due to their high copy numbers per single cell. However, many processes inside cells rely on single enzyme activity, such as transc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schwabe A,Maarleveld TR,Bruggeman FJ

更新日期：2013-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the Ala38 variant of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c, in which the previously unchanged Arg38 has been replaced, has been characterised by NMR. The NMR data indicate that the structure of the Ala38 variant is very similar to that of the wild type protein. In particular, the heme environment and interactions ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thurgood AG,Pielak GJ,Cutler RL,Davies AM,Greenwood C,Mauk AG,Smith M,Williamson DJ,Moore GR

更新日期：1991-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli phosphofructokinase-2 (Pfk-2) is a homodimer whose subunits consist of a large domain and an additional beta-sheet that provides the interfacial contacts between the subunits, creating a beta-barrel flattened-like structure with the adjacent subunit's beta-sheet. To determine how the structural organi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baez M,Babul J

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) has evolved sophisticated strategies to survive in several niches within the human body either as a harmless commensal or as a serious pathogen causing a variety of diseases. The dynamic interaction between pneumococci and resident host cells during colonization of the upper res...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kohler S,Voß F,Gómez Mejia A,Brown JS,Hammerschmidt S

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine globin has been incubated with mice peritoneal macrophages in order to study its hydrolysis by lysosomal enzymes, among which chiefly cathepsin D. Analysis of resulting peptides, by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC), showed the release of a bioactive peptide, VV-hemorphin-7. When a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dagouassat N,Garreau I,Sannier F,Zhao Q,Piot JM

更新日期：1996-03-11 00:00:00