Degradation of type IX collagen by matrix metalloproteinase 3 (stromelysin) from human rheumatoid synovial cells.

abstract：:We examined the spatial expression patterns of two orphan receptor guanylyl cyclase genes OlGC4 and OlGC5 during embryogenesis of medaka and characterized the 5' flanking region required for tissue-specific expression of OlGC4 by introducing promoter-GFP fusion constructs into medaka embryos. Expression of OlGC5 is co...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kusakabe T,Suzuki N

更新日期：2000-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new three-disulfide intermediates have been found to be populated in the oxidative folding pathway of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A at a low temperature (15 degrees C). These intermediates, des-[26-84] and des-[58-110], possess all but one of the four native disulfide bonds and have a stable tertiary structure,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Welker E,Narayan M,Volles MJ,Scheraga HA

更新日期：1999-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-forming acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACD) catalyzes the interconversion of acetyl-CoA and acetate. The related succinyl-CoA synthetase follows a three-step mechanism involving a single phosphoenzyme, but a novel four-step mechanism with two phosphoenzyme intermediates was proposed for Pyrococcus ACD. Characterization of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jones CP,Khan K,Ingram-Smith C

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-8 (neutrophil-activating factor; NAP-1) has been crystallized by the vapour diffusion technique to give single crystals suitable for three-dimensional structural study at a resolution higher than 2.4 A. The crystals belong to the space group P3(1)21 or P3(2)21 and have unit cell dimensions a = b = 40.9 A, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Auer M,Kallen J,Schleischitz S,Walkinshaw MD,Wasserbauer E,Ehn G,Lindley IJ

更新日期：1990-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies generated against synthetic peptides that correspond to highly conserved sequence motifs in the annexins reacted with a variety of annexins from different species. These include Xenopus laevis and Drosophila melanogaster, which contain cross-reacting polypeptides of apparent Mr 34,000 and 30,000. As expecte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gerke V

更新日期：1989-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific binding sites for 3,3'-T2 can be detected in swollen and osmotically treated mitochondria (OTM) from normal and hypothyroid rat liver. In hypothyroid animals, maximal values of binding were obtained at 0 degrees C while values were lower at 37 degrees C and no specific binding could be observed at 60 degrees ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lanni A,Moreno M,Horst C,Lombardi A,Goglia F

更新日期：1994-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of iron-sulfur (Fe/S) clusters in a living cell is mediated by a complex machinery which, in eukaryotes, is localised within mitochondria. Here, we report on a new component of this machinery, the protein Isa2p of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The protein shares sequence similarity with yeast Isa1p ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pelzer W,Mühlenhoff U,Diekert K,Siegmund K,Kispal G,Lill R

更新日期：2000-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recombinant proteins in inclusion bodies expressed in Escherichia coli have been measured by Fourier transform infrared and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectra to provide the secondary structural characteristics of the proteins from hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 (hyperthermoph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Umetsu M,Tsumoto K,Ashish K,Nitta S,Tanaka Y,Adschiri T,Kumagai I

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid hormones (GHs) regulate cell proliferation of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) contributing to reduction of neurogenesis after stress. We show here that dexamethasone (Dex) decreases BRUCE/Apollon (BRUCE) in cultured NPCs in a GH-receptor-dependent manner. Downregulation of BRUCE by Dex or using silencing...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sippel M,Rajala R,Korhonen L,Bornhauser B,Sokka AL,Naito M,Lindholm D

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulators of G protein signaling RGS4 and RGS7 accelerate the kinetics of K(+) channels (GIRKs) in the Xenopus oocyte system. Here, via quantitative analysis of RGS expression, we reveal biphasic effects of RGSs on GIRK regulation. At low concentrations, RGS4 inhibited basal GIRK activity, but stimulated it at high c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Keren-Raifman T,Bera AK,Zveig D,Peleg S,Witherow DS,Slepak VZ,Dascal N

更新日期：2001-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that calpain subunits dissociate in the presence of Ca2+ has been tested by methods which avoid interference by Ca2+-induced aggregation and large subunit autolysis. Inactive Cys105Ser-m-calpain, bound either to Ni-NTA-agarose or to immobilized casein, after incubation with Ca2+, could be recovered in h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dutt P,Arthur JS,Croall DE,Elce JS

更新日期：1998-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) exerts multiple biological functions through G protein-coupled receptors (EDG2/LPA(1), EDG4/LPA(2), and EDG7/LPA(3)) and is present in serum where it is associated with albumin. In this study we examined LPA activity in various biological fluids by measuring the LPA-induced increase in the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hama K,Bandoh K,Kakehi Y,Aoki J,Arai H

更新日期：2002-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent three-dimensional structures of helical membrane proteins present new challenges for the prediction of structure from amino acid sequence. Membrane proteins reside stably in a thermodynamic free energy minimum after release into the membrane's bilayer fabric from the translocon complex. This means that structur...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： White SH

更新日期：2003-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that some of the enzymes underpinning cellulose solubilization by Ruminococcus albus 8 lack the conventional type of dockerin module characteristic of cellulosomal proteins and instead, bear an "X" domain of unknown function at their C-termini. We have now subcloned and expressed six X domains and s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu Q,Morrison M,Nelson KE,Bayer EA,Atamna N,Lamed R

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) transplantation is used for treatment of many diseases. The paracrine role of MSCs in tissue regeneration is attracting particular attention. We investigate the role of MSC exosomes in skeletal muscle regeneration. MSC exosomes promote myogenesis and angiogenesis in vitro, and muscle regene...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakamura Y,Miyaki S,Ishitobi H,Matsuyama S,Nakasa T,Kamei N,Akimoto T,Higashi Y,Ochi M

更新日期：2015-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable stability of c-myc during oogenesis contrasts with its degradation during the early developmental period in Xenopus laevis. Three evolutionary conserved motifs found in the 3'-untranslated region of Xenopus c-myc RNAs have been analyzed for a possible role in c-myc RNA degradation. No specific degradati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tchang F,Vriz S,Méchali M

更新日期：1991-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic, imido acid containing pentapeptides cyclo(Asp-Trp-(NMe)Nle-Asp-Phe) (cpp[NMeNle(3)]) and cyclo(Asp-Trp-Pro-Asp-Phe) (cpp[Pro(3)]) have been investigated by 1H-NMR spectroscopy in DMSO and by restrained molecular dynamics methods. The spectra indicate the existence of at least four cis/trans isomers for cpp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Weisshoff H,Wieprecht T,Henklein P,Frömmel C,Antz C,Mügge C

更新日期：1996-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:CD133 is a widely used cell surface marker of cancer stem cells that plays an important role in tumor initiation and metastasis. Increasing evidence shows that CD133 is secreted to the extracellular space. However, the underlying mechanisms of CD133 secretion remain largely unknown. In this study, we report that secre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li Y,Shi D,Yang F,Chen X,Xing Y,Liang Z,Zhuang J,Liu W,Gong Y,Jiang J,Wei Y

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:We present here the purification and the analysis of the structural and functional properties of distinctin, a 5.4 kDa heterodimeric peptide with antimicrobial activity from the tree-frog Phyllomedusa distincta. This peptide was isolated from the crude extract of skin granular glands by different chromatographic steps...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Batista CV,Scaloni A,Rigden DJ,Silva LR,Rodrigues Romero A,Dukor R,Sebben A,Talamo F,Bloch C

更新日期：2001-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal medullary homogenates and chromaffin granule membranes were separated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and GTP-binding proteins detected using [alpha-32P]GTP binding to nitrocellulose blots. Four GTP-binding polypeptides of 24, 22, 20 and 18 kDa were routinely found in medullary homogenates and all we...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Burgoyne RD,Morgan A

更新日期：1989-03-13 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：:In our study, transcriptome microarrays are used to identify differentially expressed miRNAs and mRNAs in cervical cancer specimens. We find that microRNA-145 (miR-145) expression is significantly decreased in cervical cancer tissues and cell lines, and is associated with advanced cancer stages, large tumor size and m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ye C,Sun NX,Ma Y,Zhao Q,Zhang Q,Xu C,Wang SB,Sun SH,Wang F,Li W

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:CDK11(p58), a 58kDa protein of the PITSLRE kinase family, plays an important role in cell cycle progression, and is closely related to cell apoptosis. To gain further insight into the function of CDK11(p58), we screened a human fetal liver cDNA library for its interacting proteins using the yeast two-hybrid system. He...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zong H,Li Z,Liu L,Hong Y,Yun X,Jiang J,Chi Y,Wang H,Shen X,Hu Y,Niu Z,Gu J

更新日期：2005-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of the zinc-requiring beta-lactamase II from Bacillus cereus strain 569 has been determined. It consists of a single polypeptide chain of 227 residues. It is the only example so far fully characterized of a class B beta-lactamase, and is structurally and mechanistically distinct from both the w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ambler RP,Daniel M,Fleming J,Hermoso JM,Pang C,Waley SG

更新日期：1985-09-23 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：:The regulation by insulin and carbohydrates of the gene expression of three key enzymes involved in glucose metabolism was studied in the liver of the Wistar fatty rat, a model of obese non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A high glucose or fructose diet, or insulin administration caused a similar magnitude of inc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Noguchi T,Matsuda T,Tomari Y,Yamada K,Imai E,Wang Z,Ikeda H,Tanaka T

更新日期：1993-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:MPD1, a yeast gene the overexpression of which suppresses the inviability caused by the loss of protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) was isolated and characterized. The MPD1 gene product retained a single disulfide isomerase active site sequence (APWCGHCK), an N-terminal putative signal sequence, and a C-terminal endopla...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tachikawa H,Takeuchi Y,Funahashi W,Miura T,Gao XD,Fujimoto D,Mizunaga T,Onodera K

更新日期：1995-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here a new set of aminoglycoside-arginine conjugates (AACs) that are either site-specific or per-arginine conjugates of paromomycin, neamine, and neomycin B as well as their structure-activity relationships. Their binding constants (KD) for TAR and RRE RNAs, measured by fluorescence anisotropy, revealed dep...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lapidot A,Vijayabaskar V,Litovchick A,Yu J,James TL

更新日期：2004-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult liver-specific IGF-II promoter P1 is activated by CCAAT/Enhancer Binding Proteins alpha and beta. Here we present evidence that promoter P1, in addition to positively regulating elements, contains two elements of 67 nucleotides that form an inverted repeat (IR) and suppress P1 activity. The two IR elements a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodenburg RJ,Krijger JJ,Holthuizen PE,Sussenbach JS

更新日期：1996-09-23 00:00:00