Caenorhabditis elegans DLC-1 associates with ribonucleoprotein complexes to promote mRNA regulation.

abstract：:We have shown by electrophoretic mobility shift assays that the nucleotide sequence CE-LPH1, centred at position -49 with respect to the transcription start site of the rat gene encoding intestinal lactase-phlorizin hydrolase, interacts in vitro with nuclear proteins present in the jejunum of suckling animals. Protein...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boukamel R,Freund JN

更新日期：1994-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Replacement of tryptophan 392 located in the active site cavity of pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC; EC 4.1.1.1) from Zymomonas mobilis by methionine or glutamine yields enzymes with smaller catalytic constants of 8.5 s(-1) and 3.6 s(-1) at 4 degrees C, compared to that of the wild-type enzyme (17 s(-1)). The rate constant...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tittmann K,Mesch K,Pohl M,Hübner G

更新日期：1998-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermediate in the reaction catalyzed by 4-chlorobenzoate dehalogenase from Pseudomonas sp. CBS3 was identified as 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA. One component of 4-chlorobenzoate dehalogenase worked as a a 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA ligase catalyzing the formation of 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA from 4-chlorobenzoate, coenzyme A and ATP....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Löffler F,Müller R

更新日期：1991-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:ZAP-70 is a protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) that plays a critical role in T cell activation. To study the role of ZAP-70 catalytic activity in this process, a substrate capable of distinguishing between the activities of ZAP-70 and other PTKs would be useful, especially since it has recently been shown that ZAP-70 inter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Watts JD,Brabb T,Bures EJ,Wange RL,Samelson LE,Aebersold R

更新日期：1996-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction of methyl-coenzyme M (CH3SCoM) to methane in methanogenic bacteria is dependent on component B (N-7-mercaptoheptanoyl-O-phospho-L-threonine, HSHTP). We report here that S-methyl-component B (N-7-(methylthio)heptanoyl-O-phospho-L-threonine, CH3SHTP) can substitute for neither CH3SCoM nor HSHTP in the meth...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ellermann J,Kobelt A,Pfaltz A,Thauer RK

更新日期：1987-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins were purified from bovine brain by immunoaffinity chromatography on immobilized anti G protein monoclonal antibody 3C2. Release of betagamma subunits was effectuated by exposure of immobilized trimeric G proteins to MgAlF4. The resultant betagamma subunits were pure and biologically active. F...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rehm A,Ploegh HL

更新日期：1997-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase immobilized within semipermeable microcapsules has an assayed enzyme activity which is 20% +/- 4% of the enzyme in free solution. The Km for the immobilized enzyme remained the same as that of the free enzyme. The pH optimum also remained unchanged at pH 8.5 +/- 1.0. At the lower pH range, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bourget L,Chang TM

更新日期：1985-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of membrane lipid composition within strict limits is critical to maintain optimum cellular function. The biophysical properties of the membrane can be influenced among other factors by the saturation/unsaturation of the phospholipid fatty acyl chain. The rate-limiting enzyme in unsaturated fatty acid ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hagen RM,Rodriguez-Cuenca S,Vidal-Puig A

更新日期：2010-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature on the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) uptake and on the presteady-state and transport-associated currents of the GABA cotransporter, rat gamma-aminobutyric acid transporter 1 (rGAT1), have been studied using heterologous oocyte expression and voltage-clamp. Increasing temperature from 15 to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Binda F,Bossi E,Giovannardi S,Forlani G,Peres A

更新日期：2002-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein D2 forms the water-filled pore across the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and allows the penetration of imipenem. We cloned the protein D2 gene by the antibody screening technique. When the imipenem-resistant mutant lacking protein D2 harbored the plasmid with the cloned D2 gene, the mutant overproduc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoneyama H,Nakae T

更新日期：1991-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the intron/exon organization and the intramolecular homology of DNA sequences, I propose a novel model for genesis of the calmodulin gene. A primordial calmodulin gene consisting of 51 base pairs (17 amino acids) was subjected to three-fold duplication to create modern calmodulin with four calcium-bind...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nojima H

更新日期：1987-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Xenopus P2Y receptor that shares only weak homology with members of the mammalian P2Y family, being most similar to human P2Y(11). When activated by nucleotide analogs, it stimulates both calcium and cAMP mobilization pathways, a feature unique, among mammalian P2Y receptors, to P2Y(11). Activity can be ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Devader C,Drew CM,Geach TJ,Tabler J,Townsend-Nicholson A,Dale L

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Urate oxidase from Aspergillus flavus is a 135 kDa homo-tetramer which has a hydrophobic cavity buried within each monomer and located close to its active site. Crystallographic studies under moderate gas pressure and high hydrostatic pressure have shown that both gas presence and high pressure would rigidify the cavi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colloc'h N,Prangé T

更新日期：2014-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A Synechococcus PCC7942 mutant in which the psbO gene was inactivated by insertion of a chloramphenicol interposon and which did not contain any detectable manganese stabilizing protein in immunoblot experiments, was constructed. Such a Synechococcus mutant was able to grow under photoautotrophic conditions. Isolated ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bockholt R,Masepohl B,Pistorius EK

更新日期：1991-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In nucleus, eIF4E regulates the nucleus export of specific mRNA. In this study, altered 4E-BP3 (eIF4E-binding protein 3) expression resulted in profoundly affected cyclin D1 protein levels, partially due to changes in the cytoplasmic cyclin D1 mRNA levels in both U2OS and MCF7 cells, whereas altered 4E-BP1 expression ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chen CC,Lee JC,Chang MC

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The half-lives of mRNAs in yeast vary from about 1 to over 100 min. While mRNA stabilities must strongly influence overall gene expression in this organism, very little is known about how they are determined. Labellings of yeast cells were conducted to investigate whether the 5'-cap structures of yeast mRNAs might inf...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Piper PW,Curran B,Davies W,Hirst K,Seward K

更新日期：1987-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the yeast two hybrid system and overlay assays we identified a putative rholrac effector, citron, which interacts with the GTP-bound forms of rho and rac1, but not with cdc42. Extensive homologies to known proteins were not observed. This 183 kDa protein contains a C6H2 zinc finger, a PH domain, and a long coile...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Madaule P,Furuyashiki T,Reid T,Ishizaki T,Watanabe G,Morii N,Narumiya S

更新日期：1995-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An interpretation of alternative crystal structures of the erythropoietin receptor, with and without ligand, led to the proposal of a scissor-like mechanism of activation. This model has been propagated in the literature and is still being used to interpret crystal structures of related type-I cytokine receptors. Here...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Corbett MS,Poger D,Mark AE

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pumpkin 2S albumin with ribonuclease (RNase) activity was purified from pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita sp.) by liquid chromatographic techniques. It manifested potent RNase activity toward baker's yeast RNA and calf liver RNA, and some polyhomoribonucleotides, including poly(A), poly(U) and poly(C) but not poly(G). Moreov...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fang EF,Wong JH,Lin P,Ng TB

更新日期：2010-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The retromer complex is a key element of the endosomal protein sorting machinery that is conserved through evolution and has been shown to play a role in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Through sorting various membrane proteins (cargo), the function of retromer complex has been linked to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mukadam AS,Seaman MN

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and primary structure of a novel gastrointestinal peptide, designated valosin, is described. The peptide was purified from porcine upper gut extracts using an HPLC and N-terminal sequence screening strategy which depends on chromatographic and structural characteristics as isolation criterion. The amino ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schmidt WE,Mutt V,Carlquist M,Kratzin H,Conlon JM,Creutzfeldt W

更新日期：1985-10-28 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：:The cDNA coding for mature human alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor (alpha 1-PI) has been inserted into a variety of yeast expression vectors. Yeast cells transformed with these plasmids were then assayed for the production of mature, unglycosylated alpha 1-PI. The production level is optimal when the recombinant plasmid ca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoylaerts M,Weyens A,Bollen A,Harford N,Cabezón T

更新日期：1986-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Both cisplatin and the estrogen receptor (ER) are known to bend DNA. The influence of the bending of sequences by the d(GpG)cisPt adduct binding of ER to estrogen response element (ERE)-like sequences was examined. Three ERE-like oligonucleotides with different affinities for ER and which include a GG in the linker se...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Massaad-Massade L,Massaad C,Legendre F,Bas V,Chottard J,Beaune P,Barouki R

更新日期：2000-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human kallikrein 8 (KLK8) is a member of the human kallikrein gene family of serine proteases, and its protein, hK8, has recently been suggested to serve as a new ovarian cancer marker. To gain insights into the physiological role of hK8, the active recombinant enzyme was obtained in a pure state for biochemical and e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rajapakse S,Ogiwara K,Takano N,Moriyama A,Takahashi T

更新日期：2005-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Phlorizin, a potent inhibitor of the Na+/D-glucose cotransporter, was derivatised to 3-aminophlorizin and subsequently coupled to Affi-Gel 15. Affinity chromatography of pig kidney brush border membranes solubilised in Triton X-100 allowed the purification of a 60 kDa protein on this resin. We consider this protein to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kitlar T,Morrison AI,Kinne R,Deutscher J

更新日期：1988-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A new insertion sequence, IS186, has been identified from Escherichia coli and sequenced. It contains 1336 base pairs with a terminal inverted repeat of 22 nucleotides. A long open reading frame, from an ATG codon at position 55 to a TAG termination codon at 1327, could code for a polypeptide of 424 amino acids. This ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chong P,Hui I,Loo T,Gillam S

更新日期：1985-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Furin, a member of the subtilisin-like pro-protein convertase family, is a type I membrane protein that undergoes ectodomain shedding. Metabolic labeling of cells stably expressing furin demonstrated that the shed form of furin is detected after 30 min. Moreover, sequence analysis revealed that specific residues of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denault J,Bissonnette L,Longpré J,Charest G,Lavigne P,Leduc R

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of delta-selectivity of linear and cyclic analogues of enkephalin in rat brain was found to be: [D-Pen2, L-Pen5] enkephalin (DPLPE) greater than [D-Pen2, D-Pen5] enkephalin (DPDPE) greater than [D-Thr2, Leu5] enkephalyl-Thr6 (DTLET) greater than [D-Ser2, Leu5] enkephalyl-Thr6 (DSLET). Saturation experiments ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Delay-Goyet P,Zajac JM,Rigaudy P,Foucaud B,Roques BP

更新日期：1985-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:MRL mice bearing the lpr (Fas) or gld (Fas ligand) mutation, MRL-Fas(lpr) or MRL-FasL(gld), respectively, develop arthritis similar to rheumatoid arthritis, but C3H and C57BL/6 mice bearing such mutations do not. In MRL-Fas(lpr) mice, agalactosylated oligosaccharides in serum IgG increase significantly in comparison t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kuroda Y,Nakata M,Nose M,Kojima N,Mizuochi T

更新日期：2001-10-26 00:00:00