Structural basis of the specific interactions of GRAS family proteins.

abstract：:The retinal pigment epithelium-specific 65 kDa (RPE65) isomerase plays a pivotal role in photoreceptor survival and function. RPE65-catalyzed synthesis of 11-cis-retinol from all-trans-retinyl esters in the visual cycle is negatively regulated, through a heretofore unknown mechanism, by the fatty acid transport protei...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li S,Green JF,Jin M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypsin and chymotrypsin have specificity pockets of essentially the same geometry, yet trypsin is specific for basic while chymotrypsin for bulky hydrophobic residues at the P1 site of the substrate. A model by Steitz, Henderson and Blow suggested the presence of a negative charge at site 189 as the major specificity...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Venekei I,Szilágyi L,Gráf L,Rutter WJ

更新日期：1996-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (MAChRs), as detected by binding of [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB), was investigated under conditions which promote protein phosphorylation. Incubation of a crude heart membrane preparation in the presence of ATP/Mg2+ reduced MAChR number by 50%. Incubation with poly...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Creazzo TL,Wrenn RW

更新日期：1988-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of lipids in the interaction of the beta-adrenergic receptor (R) with the regulatory protein (Gs) was investigated. Solubilized preparations of R and of Gs from turkey erythrocytes were delipidated by gel filtration. They were subsequently combined and reconstituted by the addition of various lipids. When rec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kirilovsky J,Steiner-Mordoch S,Selinger Z,Schramm M

更新日期：1985-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) transplantation has been shown to decrease fibrosis in the heart; however, whether MSC directly influence the function of cardiac fibroblasts (CFB) remains unknown. MSC-conditioned medium significantly attenuated proliferation of CFB compared with CFB-conditioned medium. MSC-conditioned me...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohnishi S,Sumiyoshi H,Kitamura S,Nagaya N

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a viral center molecule for HBV infection and persistence. However, the cellular restriction factors of HBV cccDNA are not well understood. Here, we show that TGF-β can induce nuclear viral cccDNA degradation and hypermutation via activation-ind...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Qiao Y,Han X,Guan G,Wu N,Sun J,Pak V,Liang G

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large amounts of refined sequence material in the form of predicted, curated and annotated genes and expressed sequences tags (ESTs) have recently been added to the NCBI databases. We matched the transcript-sequences of RefSeq, Ensembl and dbEST in an attempt to provide an updated overview of how many unique human gen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Larsson TP,Murray CG,Hill T,Fredriksson R,Schiöth HB

更新日期：2005-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to determine the role of intracellular Ca(2+) in VEGF signaling. We demonstrate that reduction in Ca(2+) by chelating compound BAPTA-AM or by IP(3)-endoplasmic reticulum blocker 2-APB selectively inhibited VEGF-induced activation of c-Src-PI3K-Akt but not ERK1/2 in human coronary artery...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee M,Spokes KC,Aird WC,Abid MR

更新日期：2010-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied functional properties of peptide transport in the pheochromocytoma neuroendocrine cell line from rat. The neutral peptide D-Phe-L-Ala (resistant to hydrolysis) is a good substrate for uptake into these cells. Transport is substantially inhibited by diethylpyrocarbonate pretreatment and is stimulated by...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hussain I,Zanic-Grubisic T,Kudo Y,Boyd CA

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cav3.2 T-type Ca(2+) channel is required for the activation of calcineurin/NFAT signaling in cardiac hypertrophy. We aimed to investigate how Cav3.2 and calcineurin interact. We found that Ca(2+) and calmodulin modulate the Cav3.2/calcineurin interaction. Calcineurin binding to Cav3.2 decreases the enzyme's phosphatas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang CH,Chen YC,Chen CC

更新日期：2013-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), the causative agent of human botulism, are the most potent naturally occurring toxins known. BoNT/A1, the most studied BoNT, is also used as an important biopharmaceutical. In this study, the biological activity of BoNT/A1 is compared to that of BoNT/A2 using neuronal cell models. The da...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pier CL,Chen C,Tepp WH,Lin G,Janda KD,Barbieri JT,Pellett S,Johnson EA

更新日期：2011-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:While negative effect of smoking on the resistance to viral infections was known, the underlying mechanisms remained unclear. Here we report that products of cigarette smoking compromise the cellular anti-viral defenses by inhibiting the signaling induced by Type I interferon (IFN). Cigarette smoking condensate (but n...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： HuangFu WC,Liu J,Harty RN,Fuchs SY

更新日期：2008-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) on Rap1 expression was investigated in rat vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC). First, evidence for Rap1 proteins was shown by their: (i) detection in membranes using a specific anti-Rap1 antibody, (ii) typical shift in electrophoretic mobility as a consequence of red...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Quarck R,Bryckaert M,Magnier C,Corvazier E,Bredoux R,de Gunzburg J,Fontenay M,Tobelem G,Enouf J

更新日期：1994-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of tobacco plants as a novel expression system for the production of human homotrimeric collagen I is presented in this report. Constructs were engineered from cDNA encoding the human proalpha1(I) chain to generate transgenic tobacco plants expressing collagen I. The recombinant proalpha1(I) chains were expres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ruggiero F,Exposito JY,Bournat P,Gruber V,Perret S,Comte J,Olagnier B,Garrone R,Theisen M

更新日期：2000-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding a human liver UDPGT (HLUG 25) transcribed and translated in vitro showed that the encoded protein was synthesized as a precursor and was cleaved and glycosylated when dog pancreatic microsomes were present during translation. The UDPGT cDNA was transiently expressed in mammalian cell culture (COS-7 cel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fournel-Gigleux S,Jackson MR,Wooster R,Burchell B

更新日期：1989-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of mammalian DNA topoisomerase I by phospholipids was investigated using purified enzyme. Acidic phospholipids inhibited the DNA relaxation activity of topoisomerase I whereas neutral phospholipid, phosphatidylethanolamine, did not. Accumulation of a protein-DNA cleavable complex, an intermediate which is k...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tamura H,Ikegami Y,Ono K,Sekimizu K,Andoh T

更新日期：1990-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional control region of the Rouse sarcoma virus long terminal repeats (LTR) was shown to contain enhancer and promoter elements located within 200 base pairs upstream from the transcription initiation site [Cullen et al. (1985) Mol. Cell. Biol. 5, 438-447]. Deletion of these elements results in significa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krajewski WA

更新日期：1995-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate changes in gene expression associated with stage-specific programmed cell death (PCD) in intersegmental muscles (ISMs) of the moth, Manduca sexta. The technique of differential display reverse transcription PCR was applied to compare mRNA levels before and after the onset of PCD ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Löw P,Talián GC,Sass M

更新日期：2005-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminus of MDM2 proto-oncoprotein interacts with p53 and down modulates p53 activity by inhibiting transcriptional activity and promoting p53 degradation. MDMX is structurally related to MDM2 and also binds to p53. However, the function of MDMX has not been clarified yet. We found that MDM2 hetero-oligomerized ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanimura S,Ohtsuka S,Mitsui K,Shirouzu K,Yoshimura A,Ohtsubo M

更新日期：1999-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The 36 kDa fragment of actin molecule obtained with the protease from E. coli A2 strain [(1988) FEBS Lett. 228, 172] was shown to begin with Val-43 and retain the COOH-terminal amino acid residues of the parent molecule. The E. coli protease split actin preserves the NH2-terminal part of the polypeptide chain as well ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Khaitlina SYu,Collins JH,Kuznetsova IM,Pershina VP,Synakevich IG,Turoverov KK,Usmanova AM

更新日期：1991-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:H/D isotope exchange effects on P680+. reduction by Yz and electron abstraction from the water oxidizing complex (WOC) in redox state S3 by YZOX were analyzed in PS II core complexes from spinach by measurements of laser flash induced absorption changes at 820 nm and 355 nm. The results obtained reveal: (1) the rate o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karge M,Irrgang KD,Sellin S,Feinäugle R,Liu B,Eckert HJ,Eichler HJ,Renger G

更新日期：1996-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 40 years have passed since the original publication by Hayflick and Moorhead led to the concept of the 'Hayflick limit' of the maximum number of divisions which somatic cells undergo in vitro. This concept is still regarded as a fundamental characteristic of species longevity. Here we want to emphasize anoth...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yegorov YE,Zelenin AV

更新日期：2003-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:E. coli GroEL chaperonin monomers, isolated after urea-induced dissociation of GroEL14, undergo cold denaturation below 5 degrees C. Above 5 degrees C, these monomers undergo MgATP-dependent self-assembly. We have demonstrated a conformational transition at 0 degree C induced by interaction of monomeric GroEL with ade...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lissin NM,Hemmingsen SM

更新日期：1993-06-07 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：:Epichloë festucae Fl1 in association with Lolium perenne synthesizes a diverse range of indole-diterpene bioprotective metabolites, including lolitrem B, a potent tremorgen. The ltm genes responsible for the synthesis of these metabolites are organized in three clusters at a single sub-telomeric locus in the genome of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Saikia S,Takemoto D,Tapper BA,Lane GA,Fraser K,Scott B

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:TP53 belongs to a small gene family that includes, in mammals, two additional paralogs, TP63 and TP73. The p63 and p73 proteins are structurally and functionally similar to p53 and their activity as transcription factors is regulated by a wide repertoire of shared and unique post-translational modifications and intera...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Costanzo A,Pediconi N,Narcisi A,Guerrieri F,Belloni L,Fausti F,Botti E,Levrero M

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytocannabinoid Delta(9)-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta(9)-THC), the main psychoactive cannabinoid in cannabis, activates a number of signalling cascades including p53. This study examines the role of Delta(9)-THC in regulating the p53 post-translational modifier proteins, Murine double minute (Mdm2) and Small Ubqui...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gowran A,Murphy CE,Campbell VA

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of the new members of the UCP (uncoupling protein) family, UCP2 and UCP3, very few studies have dealt with the regulation of their expression. Bearing this in mind, administration of a single intravenous injection of TNF-alpha (100 microg/kg body weight) to rats resulted in a significant increase i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Busquets S,Sanchís D,Alvarez B,Ricquier D,López-Soriano FJ,Argilés JM

更新日期：1998-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase D was first described in plant tissue but has recently been shown to occur in mammalian cells where it is activated by cell surface receptors. Its mode of activation by receptors in unclear. Biochemical studies suggest that it may occur downstream of other effector proteins and that small GTP-dependent r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Holbrook PG,Geetha V,Beaven MA,Munson PJ

更新日期：1999-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeoprotein Engrailed (Engrailed-1/Engrailed-2, collectively En1/2) is not only a survival factor for mesencephalic dopaminergic (mDA) neurons during development, but continues to exert neuroprotective and physiological functions in adult mDA neurons. Loss of one En1 allele in the mouse leads to progressive demis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rekaik H,Blaudin de Thé FX,Prochiantz A,Fuchs J,Joshi RL

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00