Increased muscarinic receptor binding in heart membranes by an inhibitor of protein kinase C.

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate homoharringtonine alkaloid effect on: (i) the nonenzymatic and eEF-1-dependent Phe-tRNAPhe binding to poly(U)-programmed human placenta 80 S ribosomes; (ii) diphenylalanine synthesis accompanying nonenzymatic Phe-tRNAPhe binding; and (iii) acetylphenylalanyl-puromycin fo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tujebajeva RM,Graifer DM,Karpova GG,Ajtkhozhina NA

更新日期：1989-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies were raised, in rabbits, against an arachidonate- and U46619-binding protein purified from calf platelets. Spectral measurements and immunodiffusion experiments were employed to follow conformational responses of the protein in relation to platelet activation. Upon treatment with the platelet agonists, arac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krishnan LK,Jamaluddin MP

更新日期：1987-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease T1 can be unfolded and refolded without forming noticeable amounts of aggregates allowing to characterise the dimensions of a protein in different denatured states in terms of the Stokes radius RS. Upon thermal unfolding RS increases from 1.74 nm at 20 degrees C to 2.14 nm at 60 degrees C. By contrast, RS...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gast K,Zirwer D,Damaschun H,Hahn U,Müller-Frohne M,Wirth M,Damaschun G

更新日期：1997-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The 27 kDa platelet membrane protein (Gn27) that binds [alpha-32P]GTP on nitrocellulose blots of SDS-polyacrylamide gels [(1987) Biochem. J. 245, 617-620] was compared with other low molecular mass GTP-binding proteins. Platelet membranes also contained 21 kDa proteins that bound anti-ras p21 antibody and 22-23 kDa pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bhullar RP,Haslam RJ

更新日期：1988-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It had been shown previously by heterologous expression in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, that the two monosaccharide/H+ symporters HUP1 and HUP2 of Chlorella kessleri differ significantly concerning their substrate specificity: HUP1 transports predominantly D-glucose while HUP2 prefers D-galactose. Several chimeric trans...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Will A,Tanner W

更新日期：1996-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of pre-PhoS under conditions of PhoS overproduction has been previously described. It is now demonstrated that during the induction of PhoS, a delay in the completion of polypeptide chain elongation can be detected. This delay is related to the extent of jamming of export sites by pre-PhoS or by other...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Anba J,Lazdunski C,Pages JM

更新日期：1986-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady-state oxidation of ferrocytochrome c by cytochrome oxidase monitored spectrophotometrically showed that: (1) the kinetics were strictly biphasic with purified enzyme, while mitochondrial membrane-bound enzyme exhibited multiphasic kinetics with extended low affinity phases; (2) the TNmax for the highest aff...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Speck SH,Neu CA,Swanson MS,Margoliash E

更新日期：1983-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone cytokinin plays a major role in regulating plant growth and development. Here we generated cytokinin-reduction Arabidopsis plants by overexpressing a heterologous cytokinin oxidase gene DSCKX1 from Dendrobium orchid. These transgenic plants exhibited reduced biomass, rapid root growth, decreased abil...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yang S,Yu H,Xu Y,Goh CJ

更新日期：2003-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether aging is associated with a pro-inflammatory shift in the lung, inflammation and inflammation-related gene expression in the lungs of 12-week-old and 24-month-old Balb/c mice were studied. cDNA microarray and quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analyses showed that eight in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aoshiba K,Nagai A

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic AA-amyloidosis is a complication of chronic inflammatory diseases and the fibril protein AA derives from the acute phase reactant serum AA. AA-amyloidosis can be induced in mice by an inflammatory challenge. The lag phase before amyloid develops can be dramatically shortened by administration of a small amoun...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Westermark GT,Westermark P

更新日期：2009-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine heart cytochrome-c oxidase was reconstituted in liposomes and the kinetics of cytochrome c oxidation were measured by the polarographic and photometric method under uncoupled conditions in the presence of various polyvalent anions. In order to distinguish between specific and unspecific ionic effects of ATP, th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hüther FJ,Kadenbach B

更新日期：1986-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomodulin, the P-end (slow-growing end)-capping protein of the actin-tropomyosin filament, and its fragment (C20) of the C-terminal half were studied by synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering, restoring low-resolution shapes using an ab initio shape-determining procedure. Tropomodulin is elongated (115 A long) an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fujisawa T,Kostyukova A,Maéda Y

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) often establishes a persistent infection that leads to chronic liver diseases. The viral core protein modulates various cellular activities involved in this process. We found two mutations, K23E and V31A, in the core gene of the transfected HCV JFH-1 genome, which had been replicated for a prol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kang JI,Kwon YC,Ahn BY

更新日期：2012-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine insulin can be split into several fractions by gel filtration on Sephadex G50. These are, in order of decreasing molecular weight, a new unidentified substance, proinsulin, and a large fraction containing several substances. Ultracentrifugal examination of the proinsulin in acetic acid solution (pH 2.3) gave a ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zühlke H,Behlke J

更新日期：1968-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (MbetaCD) was used to explore a role for cholesterol-enriched plasma membrane microdomains in coupling lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) stimulation to phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activation. Cholesterol depletion strongly inhibited the production of phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate and ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peres C,Yart A,Perret B,Salles JP,Raynal P

更新日期：2003-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectral variants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) have been extensively used as reporters to image molecular interactions in living cells by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). However, those GFP variants which are the most efficient donor acceptor pairs for FRET measurements show a high degree of sp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zimmermann T,Rietdorf J,Girod A,Georget V,Pepperkok R

更新日期：2002-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:ROPs constitute a family of plant-specific, RHO-like small GTPases that serve as molecular switches in a wide range of signaling pathways. The activities of ROPs are regulated by guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs). ROP11, a member of the ROP GTPase family in Arabidopsis, is a negative regulator of multiple ABA...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li Z,Liu D

更新日期：2012-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermal blockage of QA-. oxidation was analysed in PS II membrane fragments by monitoring flash-induced changes of the relative fluorescence quantum yield as a function of temperature. The results obtained reveal: (a) in dark-adapted samples the fraction of QA-. that is not reoxidised within a time domain of 10 s ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Reifarth F,Renger G

更新日期：1998-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocyte stress 1 (MS1) is a recently described striated muscle actin-binding protein that is up-regulated in the early stages of pressure overload left ventricular hypertrophy. The aim of this study was to determine whether MS1 induces cellular hypertrophy and protects against apoptosis. Over-expressed MS1 co-localize...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koekemoer AL,Chong NW,Goodall AH,Samani NJ

更新日期：2009-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs encoding rat adipose tissue hormone-sensitive lipase were expressed in COS cells, under the control of the SV40 promoter to half the level in rat adipocytes, the richest native source of the enzyme. A cDNA lacking most of the long 5'-untranslated region of the full-length rat hormone-sensitive lipase cDNA was, w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Holm C,Davis RC,Fredrikson G,Belfrage P,Schotz MC

更新日期：1991-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 tumour suppressor protein is tightly controlled by the E3 ubiquitin ligase, mouse double minute 2 (MDM2), but maintains MDM2 expression as part of a negative feedback loop. We have identified the immunophilin, 25kDa FK506-binding protein (FKBP25), previously shown to be regulated by p53-mediated repression, as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ochocka AM,Kampanis P,Nicol S,Allende-Vega N,Cox M,Marcar L,Milne D,Fuller-Pace F,Meek D

更新日期：2009-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Human CBS1 is a methionine sulfoxide reductase of type B (MSRB) as it specifically reduced Met-R-SO in peptides with dithiothreitol or the thioredoxin system as reductants. Mutation C169S in the active site completely abolished enzymatic activity, while mutation W110A only reduced activity and C105S had no effect. Lik...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jung S,Hansel A,Kasperczyk H,Hoshi T,Heinemann SH

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Among DNA repair pathways, nucleotide excision repair (NER) is able to recognize and process a wide variety of DNA lesions. The NER mechanism can be summarized in two stages: incision/excision of the lesion and DNA repair synthesis. Here, we have assessed the repair synthesis activity of protein extracts from differen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Coudoré F,Calsou P,Salles B

更新日期：1997-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique has been developed to probe directly RecA-DNA interactions by the use of the fluorescent chromophore, (+)anti-benzo(a)pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide (BPDE), covalently attached to DNA. The 24-mer oligonucleotide 5'-d(CTACTAAACATGTACAAATCATCC) was specifically modified on the exocyclic nitrogen of the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wittung P,Funk M,Jernström B,Nordén B,Takahashi M

更新日期：1995-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although decapping is an important process in eukaryotic mRNA turnover, little is known about this process in plants. Here, we identified Arabidopsis thaliana decapping proteins AtDCP1 and AtDCP2 and showed that (I) AtDCP2 is an active decapping enzyme, (II) AtDCP1 interacts with itself, (III) AtDCP1 and AtDCP2 are lo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iwasaki S,Takeda A,Motose H,Watanabe Y

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Arf proteins are guanine nucleotide binding proteins that are implicated in endocytotic pathways and vesicle trafficking. The two widely studied isoforms of Arf proteins (Arf1 and Arf6) have different cellular functions and localizations but similar structures. Arf proteins have an N-terminal helix with a covalently b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gizachew D,Oswald R

更新日期：2006-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Syndecans are transmembrane heparan sulfate proteoglycans, with roles in development, tumorigenesis and inflammation, and growing evidence for involvement in tissue regeneration. This is a fast developing field with the prospect of utilizing tissue engineering and biomaterials in novel therapies. Syndecan receptors ar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chung H,Multhaupt HA,Oh ES,Couchman JR

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin L is a ubiquitously expressed papain-like cysteine protease involved in the endosomal degradation of proteins and has numerous roles in physiological and pathological processes, such as arthritis, osteoporosis, and cancer. Insight into the specificity of cathepsin L is important for elucidating its physiolog...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sosnowski P,Turk D

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), we identified a gene family including more than 60 members which encoded similar G protein-coupled seven-transmembrane receptors. Sequence analyses of six representatives out of the 60 PCR clones showed that they had significant structural similarity to olfactory and optic re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Abe K,Kusakabe Y,Tanemura K,Emori Y,Arai S

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic phospholipase A(2)alpha (cPLA(2)alpha) plays an important role in arachidonate pathway. To investigate the contribution of cPLA(2)alpha to autoimmune diabetes, we established non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse, an excellent model for human type 1 diabetes, deficient in cPLA(2)alpha. These mice showed severe insu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oikawa Y,Yamato E,Tashiro F,Yamamoto M,Uozumi N,Shimada A,Shimizu T,Miyazaki J

更新日期：2005-07-18 00:00:00