Investigating the nucleic acid interactions of histone-derived antimicrobial peptides.

abstract：:We report on the cDNA cloning and characterization of a novel short-chain isoprenyl diphosphate synthase from the aphid Myzus persicae. Of the three IPPS cDNAs we cloned, two yielded prenyltransferase activity following expression in Escherichia coli; these cDNAs encode identical proteins except for the presence, in o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vandermoten S,Charloteaux B,Santini S,Sen SE,Béliveau C,Vandenbol M,Francis F,Brasseur R,Cusson M,Haubruge E

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:PPP2R2C encodes a gamma isoform of the subunit B55 subfamily, which is a regulatory subunit of Protein phosphatase type 2A (PP2A). Our study shows that PPP2R2C is downregulated in glioma cells and human brain cancer patient samples. Overexpression of PPP2R2C inhibited cancer cell proliferation both in vitro and in viv...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fan YL,Chen L,Wang J,Yao Q,Wan JQ

更新日期：2013-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Crosslinking of proteins by tissue transglutaminase (tTG) is enhanced in amyloid (Abeta) deposits characteristic of Alzheimer's disease and sporadic inclusion body myositis. Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) also occur in amyloid deposits. We here report the substrate characteristics for tTG of six sHsps. Hsp27, Hsp20...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boros S,Kamps B,Wunderink L,de Bruijn W,de Jong WW,Boelens WC

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistically significant similarity was revealed between amino acid sequences of NTP-binding pattern-containing domains which are among the most conserved protein segments in dissimilar groups of ss and dsDNA viruses (papova-, parvo-, geminiviruses and P4 bacteriophage), and RNA viruses (picorna-, como- and nepovirus...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gorbalenya AE,Koonin EV,Wolf YI

更新日期：1990-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Using radiolysis with (32)P enriched phosphate as an internal source of ionizing radiation, the formation of hydroperoxo-ferric complex from oxy-ferrous precursor with a high yield was monitored at 77 K in heme oxygenase (HO) by means of optical absorption spectroscopy. Well-resolved absorption spectra (maxima at 421 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denisov IG,Ikeda-Saito M,Yoshida T,Sligar SG

更新日期：2002-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Small RNAs are non-coding regulatory RNA molecules that control gene expression by mediating mRNA degradation, translational inhibition, or chromatin modification. Virus-derived small RNAs induce silencing of viral RNAs and are essential for antiviral defense in both animal and plant systems. The role of host endogeno...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jin H

更新日期：2008-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper 1 (Th1) cell fate is induced by overlapping signaling pathways, whose kinetic principles and regulatory motifs are largely unknown. We identified a simple positive feedback loop in the STAT4 signaling pathway, whereby activation by IL-12 leads to the increased expression in IL-12 receptor. A computational ana...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Becskei A,Grusby MJ

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic form of human pancreatic growth hormone releasing factor (GRF-44-NH2) was shown to be a potent stimulator of growth hormone (GH) secretion and cellular cyclic AMP levels in cultured sheep pituitary cells. A small dose-dependent stimulation of prolactin secretion was also observed. Somatostatin (0.5 microM)...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Law GJ,Ray KP,Wallis M

更新日期：1984-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Neprilysin-2 (NEP2) is a novel metallopeptidase homologous to neprilysin (NEP), an enzyme involved in regulation of neuropeptide signalling. NEP2 exists as two alternatively spliced isoforms, NEP2 and NEP2(Delta). In this study, we cloned and expressed both human isoforms. Human NEP2 exists as a membrane-bound and sol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Whyteside AR,Turner AJ

更新日期：2008-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To address biophysical principles and lipid interactions that underlie the properties of membrane proteins, modifications that vary the neighbors of tryptophan residues in the highly dynamic transmembrane helix of GW4,20 ALP23 (acetyl-GGAW4 A(LA)6 LAW20 AGA-amide) were examined using deuterium NMR spectroscopy. It was...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McKay MJ,Greathouse DV,Koeppe RE 2nd

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cAMP on the transcriptional activity of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat/enhancer was investigated and compared to the effect of cAMP on virus replication. In culture cAMP repressed virus replication in vivo using different cell types. Transient transfection studies with HIV-1 enhancer-derived luciferase r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Banas B,Eberle J,Banas B,Schlöndorff D,Luckow B

更新日期：2001-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the antioxidant effects of reduced coenzyme Q10 (ubiquinol, UQH2) and vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) was investigated in beef heart submitochondrial particles in which lipid peroxidation was initiated by incubation with ascorbate + ADP-Fe3+. These effects were examined after extraction of coenzy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Forsmark P,Aberg F,Norling B,Nordenbrand K,Dallner G,Ernster L

更新日期：1991-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncostatin M (OSM) is a potent modulator of human lung-derived epithelial cell function. This cytokine binds two distinct receptor complexes: type I OSM receptor which is also a functional receptor for leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), and type II OSM-specific receptor. The role of these two distinct receptors in medi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cichy J,Rose-John S,Puré E

更新日期：1998-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously on the ability of Lactobacillus reuteri to produce a compound with vitamin B(12) activity. Here we report on the chemical characterisation of this corrinoid-like molecule. High performance liquid chromatography coupled to an ultraviolet diode array detector, mass spectrometry and nuclear ma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Santos F,Vera JL,Lamosa P,de Valdez GF,de Vos WM,Santos H,Sesma F,Hugenholtz J

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:2-( Dimethylaminostyryl )-l-methyl pyridinium, a fluorescent indicator of mitochondrial membrane potential, is accumulated up to 400-fold by intact, isolated brown adipocytes from cold-adapted guinea pigs. The indicator can be optically localized within the in situ mitochondria. Ionophores which would be predicted to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rafael J,Nicholls DG

更新日期：1984-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A phylogenetic analysis, using the open reading frame I sequence of 93 TT viruses (TTV) obtained from various geographical areas, indicated that the virus could be classified into six different genotypes including three hitherto unreported genotypes. The high reliability of the six clusters was confirmed by bootstrap ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka Y,Mizokami M,Orito E,Ohno T,Nakano T,Kato T,Kato H,Mukaide M,Park YM,Kim BS,Ueda R

更新日期：1998-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:When bottromycin A2 was added to an in vitro protein synthesis system carried out by naturally occurring polysomes, it inhibited protein synthesis effectively. Examination of the 3 steps of peptide chain elongation revealed that the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the polyribosomes was inhibited by bottromycin A2. In con...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Otaka T,Kaji A

更新日期：1983-03-07 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：:One key area of protein kinase research is the identification of cognate substrates. The search for substrates is hampered by problems in unambiguously assigning substrates to a particular kinase in vitro and in vivo. One solution to this impasse is to engineer the kinase of interest to accept an ATP analogue which is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hindley AD,Park S,Wang L,Shah K,Wang Y,Hu X,Shokat KM,Kolch W,Sedivy JM,Yeung KC

更新日期：2004-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:FoxM1 (previously named WIN, HFH-11 or Trident) is a Forkhead box (Fox) transcription factor widely expressed in proliferating cells. Various findings, including a recent analysis of FoxM1 knockout mice, suggest that FoxM1 is required for normal S-M coupling during cell cycle progression. To study the regulatory role ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leung TW,Lin SS,Tsang AC,Tong CS,Ching JC,Leung WY,Gimlich R,Wong GG,Yao KM

更新日期：2001-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A structure of residues 1-177 of the cyclophilin domain of a large divergent cyclophilin from the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi has been crystallised and solved in two different crystal forms. The active site has a similar structure to that of human cyclophilin A. Two of the 13 residues important in forming...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taylor P,Page AP,Kontopidis G,Husi H,Walkinshaw MD

更新日期：1998-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in protein composition or dosage within chromatin may trigger changes in processes such as gene expression and DNA repair. Through transposon mutagenesis and targeted gene deletions in haploids and diploids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we identified mutations that affect telomeric silencing in genes encodi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benbow SZ,DuBois ML

更新日期：2008-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria continually fuse and divide to dynamically adapt to changes in metabolism and stress. Mitochondrial dynamics are also required for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) integrity; however, the underlying reason is not known. In this study, we examined the link between mitochondrial fusion and mtDNA maintenance in Sch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Delerue T,Khosrobakhsh F,Daloyau M,Emorine LJ,Dedieu A,Herbert CJ,Bonnefoy N,Arnauné-Pelloquin L,Belenguer P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platinum electrodes can be coated with cytochrome b5-phospholipid monolayers by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique. Cyclic voltammetry of a series of dyes shows that the coated electrodes become selective for certain electroactive species. The electron transfer reactions of negatively charged species are inhibited at the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zaba BN,Wilkinson MC,Taylor DM,Lewis TJ,Laidman DL

更新日期：1987-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse somatostatin (SS) receptor cDNA was cloned from neuroblastoma x glioma (NG108-15) cells. The sequence is almost identical to that of the mouse SSTR2 receptor [(1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 251)] but lacks about 300 nucleotides between transmembrane domain VII and the C-terminus. This spliced variant of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vanetti M,Kouba M,Wang X,Vogt G,Höllt V

更新日期：1992-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum stress (ER-stress) is associated with ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene. We present here conclusive data showing that ATM blocks ER-stress induced by tunicamycin or ionizing radiation (IR). X-box protein-1 (XBP-1) splicing, GRP78 expression and caspase-12 activation were increased by tunic...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： He L,Kim SO,Kwon O,Jeong SJ,Kim MS,Lee HG,Osada H,Jung M,Ahn JS,Kim BY

更新日期：2009-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Casein phosphopeptides beta-CN(1-25)4P and alpha(s1)-CN(59-79)5P, from beta- and alpha(s1)-casein, respectively, both carrying the characteristic 'acidic motif' Ser(P)-Ser(P)-Ser(P)-Glu-Glu, were chemically synthesized and administered to HT-29 cells differentiated in culture, which are a used model of intestinal epit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ferraretto A,Gravaghi C,Fiorilli A,Tettamanti G

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured rat hepatocytes exhibit acid phospholipase A activity. On the basis of product formation from stereospecifically radiolabeled phosphatidylethanolamine substrates, phospholipases A1 and A2 have been identified with optimal activities at pH 4.5. According to subcellular fractionation studies, the acid phospholi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kunze H,Löffler BM,Schmidt M

更新日期：1988-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural basis of GABA-gated chloride channels in mammalian brain is presently explored by the functional expression of cDNAs coding for the alpha, beta or gamma-subunits of the receptor and their isoforms. In this context, we expressed the cloned cDNA coding for the rat beta 1-subunit of the GABAA receptor in t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sigel E,Baur R,Malherbe P,Möhler H

更新日期：1989-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxysterol binding proteins (OSBPs) are believed to control cholesterol homeostasis but their precise mechanism of action is not well understood. The Dictyostelium osbA gene encodes a predicted OSBP, OSBPa, which lacks the PH domain that in most other OSBPs directs targetting to the Golgi. OSBPa instead localises s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fukuzawa M,Williams JG

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00