The glycine-rich loop of adenylate kinase forms a giant anion hole.

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：:A recombinant expression system was developed to analyse sequence determinants involved in O-glycosylation of proteins in mycobacteria. By expressing peptide sequences corresponding to known glycosylation sites within a chimeric lipoprotein construct, amino acids flanking modified threonine residues were found to have...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Herrmann JL,Delahay R,Gallagher A,Robertson B,Young D

更新日期：2000-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:WW domains harbor substrates containing proline-rich motifs, but the substrate specificity and binding mechanism remain elusive for those WW domains less amenable for structural studies, such as human WWP2 (hWWP2). Herein we have employed multiple techniques to investigate the second WW domain (WW2) in hWWP2. Our resu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jiang J,Wang N,Jiang Y,Tan H,Zheng J,Chen G,Jia Z

更新日期：2015-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA sequence putatively encoding a Delta(6)-fatty acid desaturase was isolated from Rhizopus arrhizus using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and rapid amplification of cDNA ends methods. Sequence analysis indicated that this cDNA sequence had an open reading frame of 1377 bp encoding 458 amino acids ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang Q,Li M,Ma H,Sun Y,Xing L

更新日期：2004-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The effort to understand the mechanism of uncoupling by UCP has devolved into two models - the fatty acid protonophore model and the proton buffering model. Evidence for each hypothesis is summarized and evaluated. We also evaluate the obligatory requirement for fatty acids in UCP1-mediated uncoupling and the question...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garlid KD,Jabůrek M,Jezek P

更新日期：1998-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloning and analysis of a cDNA clone encoding the soybean metalloproteinase obtained by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) reaction are described. The cDNA was constructed from poly(A)+ RNA isolated from 15-17 day old leaves. The deduced amino acid sequence of the cDNA ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pak JH,Liu CY,Huangpu J,Graham JS

更新日期：1997-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial ADP/ATP carriers (AACs) catalyze the exchange of cytosolic ADP for matrix ATP. We have identified and characterized a novel member of the AAC subfamily of mitochondrial metabolite transport proteins, termed AAC4. The AAC4 gene maps to human chromosome 4q28.1, and its product AAC4 is 66-68% identical ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dolce V,Scarcia P,Iacopetta D,Palmieri F

更新日期：2005-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome oxidase o has been isolated from the obligately aerobic, methylotrophic bacterium Methylophilus methylotrophus in the form of a cytochrome cL-o complex. The latter is comprised of cytochrome cL (Mr 21 000) and cytochrome o (Mr 29 000) in a 1-2:1 ratio, possibly in association with one or more minor polypept...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carver MA,Jones CW

更新日期：1983-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The 42 kDa precursor of surfactant protein B generates the 79 residue mature SP-B polypeptide, which belongs to the family of saposin-like proteins and has unique functional roles in pulmonary surfactant. From sequence comparisons it has been suggested that proSP-B, in addition to SP-B, contains two saposin-like domai...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zaltash S,Johansson J

更新日期：1998-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibody 791T /36, prepared against a human osteogenic sarcoma cell line, 791T , reacts with a variety of human tumours and also mitogen-stimulated PBMN cells. The target antigen as expressed upon 791T cells is a monomeric plasma membrane-associated glycoprotein with an apparent Mr of 72000. By quantita...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Price MR,Campbell DG,Robins RA,Blecher TE,Baldwin RW

更新日期：1984-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:One type of covalent linkages connecting lignin and hemicellulose in plant cell walls is the ester linkage between 4-O-methyl-D-glucuronic acid of glucuronoxylan and lignin alcohols. An enzyme that could hydrolyze such linkages, named glucuronoyl esterase, occurs in the cellulolytic system of the wood-rotting fungus S...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li XL,Spániková S,de Vries RP,Biely P

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidation of free methionine to methionine sulfoxide by chemically or enzymatically generated oxygen free radicals is presented. The physiological significance of this process in living cells is suggested. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scislowski PW,Davis EJ

更新日期：1987-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the connexin family differ most in their carboxy-termini, both with respect to sequence and length. In order to assess the contribution of this region to channel function, a series of carboxy-terminal deletion mutants were tested in the paired-oocyte expression system. Connexin-32 can be truncated by 64 ami...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rabadan-Diehl C,Dahl G,Werner R

更新日期：1994-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study shows a direct impairing action of a cytotoxin-producing Helicobacter pylori strain on the Na+,K(+)-ATPase (evaluated as K(+)-dependent phosphatase activity) of human gastric epithelial cells in culture. The toxin itself is likely involved in this action which may also account for the cell edema foun...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ricci V,Sommi P,Cova E,Fiocca R,Romano M,Ivey KJ,Solcia E,Ventura U

更新日期：1993-11-15 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：:The herpesvirus life cycle has two distinct phases: latency and lytic replication. The viral immediate early protein replication and transcription activator (RTA) plays a central role in mediating the balance between these two phases. Here, we demonstrate that a B cell terminal differentiation factor X-box binding pro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yu F,Feng J,Harada JN,Chanda SK,Kenney SC,Sun R

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the free form of IF1 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been determined at 1.47 A resolution. The structure adopts the expected OB fold and matches the high structural conservation among IF1 orthologues. In order to further explore the function of Mtb-IF1, we built a model of its interaction ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hatzopoulos GN,Mueller-Dieckmann J

更新日期：2010-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) 2 signal via different receptor systems. We have recently demonstrated that simultaneous stimulation of fetal mouse neuroepithelial cells with these distinct types of cytokines synergistically induces astrocyte differentiation in a 2-day culture. He...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakashima K,Yanagisawa M,Arakawa H,Taga T

更新日期：1999-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromodomains present in Brd4 and other chromatin proteins interact with acetylated histones to regulate transcription and cell growth. To study Brd4-chromatin interactions in vivo, histone H4 tail peptides were fused to a synthetic protein transduction domain (PTD) derived from the human immunodeficiency virus Tat and...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nishiyama A,Mochizuki K,Mueller F,Karpova T,McNally JG,Ozato K

更新日期：2008-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystatins A and C were both shown to inhibit cathepsin B by a two-step mechanism, involving an initial weak interaction followed by a conformational change. Disruption of the major salt bridge anchoring the occluding loop of cathepsin B to the main body of the enzyme by mutation of His110 to Ala converted the binding ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pavlova A,Krupa JC,Mort JS,Abrahamson M,Björk I

更新日期：2000-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer modelling with an energy minimization procedure is used here to obtain stereochemical and energetic details for complexes of the dye Hoechst 33258 with different oligonucleotide sequences. An optimised model of the dye with d(A)5 X d(T)5 is in conformity with previous proposed models. It has bifurcated hydrog...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gopalakrishna K,Kalia A,Royyuru AK,Mrigank,Atreyi M,Rao MV,Kothekar V

更新日期：1987-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA dehalogenase catalyzes the hydrolytic dechlorination of 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA via a two-step mechanism, namely nucleophilic aromatic substitution and ester hydrolysis. The mutation of an active-site Histidine residue has been shown to reduce the catalytic activity in both the substitution and sub...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu D,Guo H

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures and regulations of vertebrate channels responsible for sustained calcium elevations after hormone stimulation are largely unknown. Therefore, the Drosophila photoreceptor channels, trp and trpl, which are assumed to be involved in calcium influx, serve as model system, trpl expressed in Sf9 cells showed spo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harteneck C,Obukhov AG,Zobel A,Kalkbrenner F,Schultz G

更新日期：1995-01-30 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：:The secretion mechanisms of cathepsin L from osteoclasts in the process of bone resorption were investigated. The increases in bone pit numbers formed take place by PTH addition in parallel with the increases of cathepsin L and/or L-like proteinase activities in the culture medium of bone cells, and these were suppres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tagami K,Kakegawa H,Kamioka H,Sumitani K,Kawata T,Lenarcic B,Turk V,Katunuma N

更新日期：1994-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of CMP-N-acetylneuraminate:GM1 sialyltransferase (SAT IV) activity of rat liver Golgi apparatus on GM1 ganglioside ceramide composition was evaluated. SAT IV activity was assayed on GM1 molecular species carrying homogeneous ceramide moieties containing long chain bases of different length (18 or 20 C a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pitto M,Palestini P,Masserini M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that P4-ATPases, ATP10A/ATP8B1, and ATP11A/ATP11C have flippase activities toward phosphatidylcholine (PC), and aminophospholipids [phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine], respectively. Here, we investigate the effect of PC-specific flippases versus aminophospholipid-specific flippa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miyano R,Matsumoto T,Takatsu H,Nakayama K,Shin HW

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On April 1898 Camillo Golgi communicated to the Medical-Surgical Society of Pavia, the discovery of the "internal reticular apparatus", a novel intracellular organelle which he observed in nerve cells with the silver impregnation he had introduced for the staining of the nervous system. Soon after the discovery it bec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mazzarello P,Garbarino C,Calligaro A

更新日期：2009-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hordeum vulgare L. yellow stripe 1 (HvYS1) is a selective transporter for Fe(III)-phytosiderophores, involved in primary iron acquisition from soils in barley roots. In contrast, Zea mays yellow stripe 1 (ZmYS1) in maize possesses broad substrate specificity, despite a high homology with HvYS1. Here we revealed, by as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harada E,Sugase K,Namba K,Iwashita T,Murata Y

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is tightly associated with insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and obesity, but the molecular links between hepatic fat accumulation and insulin resistance are not fully identified. Excessive accumulation of triglycerides (TG) is one the main characteristics of non-alcoholic fatty liv...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denechaud PD,Dentin R,Girard J,Postic C

更新日期：2008-01-09 00:00:00