Arginine-95 is important for recruiting superoxide to the active site of the FerB flavoenzyme of Paracoccus denitrificans.

abstract：:A method was developed to study amino acids as possible precursors of PQQ biosynthesis. Cultures of Hyphomicrobium X, growing on [13C]methanol, were supplemented with unlabelled amino acids. Uptake and participation in metabolism were determined via gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of derivatized amino acids, obta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Kleef MA,Duine JA

更新日期：1988-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of intracellular guanosine 3',5'-bispyrophosphate ((p)ppGpp) level, the effector of the stringent response, is crucial for survival as well as optimal growth of prokaryotes and, thus, for bacterial pathogenesis and dormancy. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), (p)ppGpp synthesis and degradation are carried...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Singal B,Balakrishna AM,Nartey W,Manimekalai MSS,Jeyakanthan J,Grüber G

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic cRNA encoding for the major T lymphocyte K+ channel (Kv1.3) was injected into Xenopus fertilized eggs. Somites from embryos of stage 20-22 (about 40 h post-fertilization at 19 degrees C) were dissociated and myotomal muscle cells were cultured in vitro for 2 days. The whole cell configuration of the tigh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Honoré E,Guillemare E,Lesage F,Barhanin J,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1994-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical properties of the p51 subunit of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) were studied in order to understand its role in the heterodimeric form p66/p51 found in virions. A recombinant form of RT, p51/p51, expressed in yeast, was purified and characterized. The enzyme was affinity labeled using a 5' modified o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： el Dirani-Diab R,Andreola ML,Nevinsky G,Tharaud D,Barr PJ,Litvak S,Tarrago-Litvak L

更新日期：1992-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Atg18 and Atg21 are homologous S. cerevisiae autophagy proteins. Atg18 is essential for biogenesis of Cvt vesicles and autophagosomes, while Atg21 is only essential for Cvt vesicle formation. We found that mutated Atg18-(FTTGT), which lost almost completely its binding to PtdIns3P and PtdIns(3,5)P(2), is non-functiona...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krick R,Tolstrup J,Appelles A,Henke S,Thumm M

更新日期：2006-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The amyloid precursor protein (APP) is proteolytically processed by β- and γ-secretases to release amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), the main component found in senile plaques of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patient brains. Alternatively, APP can be cleaved within the Aβ sequence by α-secretase, thus precluding the generation of Aβ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： León-Otegui M,Gómez-Villafuertes R,Díaz-Hernández JI,Díaz-Hernández M,Miras-Portugal MT,Gualix J

更新日期：2011-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Gibberellins are ent-kaurene-derived diterpenoid phytohormones produced by plants, fungi, and bacteria. The distinct gibberellin biosynthetic pathways in plants and fungi are known, but not that in bacteria. Plants typically use two diterpene synthases to form ent-kaurene, while fungi use only a single bifunctional di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Morrone D,Chambers J,Lowry L,Kim G,Anterola A,Bender K,Peters RJ

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) has been shown to inhibit the production and the effects of proinflammatory cytokines. Since interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) directly mediates cartilage degradation in osteoarthritis, we investigated the capability of PPARgamma ligands to modu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boyault S,Simonin MA,Bianchi A,Compe E,Liagre B,Mainard D,Bécuwe P,Dauça M,Netter P,Terlain B,Bordji K

更新日期：2001-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 tumor suppressor coordinates a multitude of cellular and organismal processes and exerts its activities mainly by activation of gene transcription. Here we describe the transcriptional activation of ectodysplasin A2 receptor (EDA2R) by p53 in a variety of cell types and tissues. We demonstrate that treatment o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brosh R,Sarig R,Natan EB,Molchadsky A,Madar S,Bornstein C,Buganim Y,Shapira T,Goldfinger N,Paus R,Rotter V

更新日期：2010-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a bulk degradation process conserved among eukaryotes. In macro-autophagy, autophagosomes sequester cytoplasmic components and deliver their contents to lysosomes/vacuoles. Autophagosome formation requires the conjugation of Atg8, a ubiquitin-like protein, to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). Here we report ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hanada T,Satomi Y,Takao T,Ohsumi Y

更新日期：2009-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first committed reaction of chlorophyll biosynthesis, magnesium chelatase couples ATP hydrolysis to the thermodynamically unfavorable Mg(2+) insertion into protoporphyrin IX (ΔG°' of circa 25-33 kJ·mol(-1) ). We explored the thermodynamic constraints on magnesium chelatase and demonstrate the effect of nucleoti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adams NB,Brindley AA,Hunter CN,Reid JD

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc metallopeptidases that contain the His-Glu-Xaa-Xaa-His (HEXXH) motif generally have a third ligand of the metal ion that may be either a Glu residue (in clan MA) or a His residue (in clan MB) (Rawlings and Barrett (1995) Methods Enzymol. 248, 183-228). Thimet oligopeptidase has not yet been assigned to either cla...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chen JM,Stevens RA,Wray PW,Rawlings ND,Barrett AJ

更新日期：1998-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange measurements in low and moderate concentrations of GuHCI were conducted on the side chain H(N) atoms of the seven tryptophans of pseudo wild-type human carbonic anhydrase II. Tryptophans 5, 16 and 245, situated in or close to the N-terminal domain were found to have little protection ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jonasson P,Kjellsson A,Sethson I,Jonsson BH

更新日期：1999-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural gene expression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) requires a viral regulatory protein, Rev transactivator. We investigated Rev-dependency of HIV-1 gene expression by various reporter systems. Expression of unspliced and single-spliced viral mRNAs was demonstrated to be differentially dependent ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakai H,Furuta RA,Tokunaga K,Kawamura M,Hatanaka M,Adachi A

更新日期：1995-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-β family signaling through Smads is conceptually a simple and linear signaling pathway, driven by sequential phosphorylation, with type II receptors activating type I receptors, which in turn activate R-Smads. Nevertheless, TGF-β family proteins induce highly complex programs of gene expression responses that are ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu P,Liu J,Derynck R

更新日期：2012-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Anillin is a type of actin filament cross-linking protein that stabilizes the actin-based contractile ring during cytokinesis. To elucidate the underlying intermolecular interactions between actin filaments and anillin, we utilized total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) and high-speed atomic force m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsuda K,Sugawa M,Yamagishi M,Kodera N,Yajima J

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:Read-through or mutations of a stop codon resulting in translation of the 3'-UTR produce potentially toxic C-terminally extended proteins. However, quality control mechanisms for such proteins are poorly understood in mammalian cells. Here, a comprehensive analysis of the 3'-UTRs of genes associated with hereditary di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hashimoto S,Nobuta R,Izawa T,Inada T

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal beta-galactosidase precursor is processed to a mature form and associated with protective protein in lysosomes. In this study we used two cysteine protease proinhibitors, E64-d for cathepsins B, S, H, and L, and CA074Me for cathepsin B. They are converted intracellularly to active forms, E-64c and CA074, res...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okamura-Oho Y,Zhang S,Callahan JW,Murata M,Oshima A,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene array profiling of RNA from cells engineered to express a dominant-negative version of the ETS family member transcription factor Pea3 (polyomavirus enhancer activator 3) identified WT1 as a candidate downstream gene. Given the co-expression of WT1 and Pea3 in developing kidney and breast tissue undergoing mesenc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Discenza MT,Vaz D,Hassell JA,Pelletier J

更新日期：2004-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria consume nitric oxide (NO) mainly through reaction with superoxide anion (O(2)(-)). Here, we analyzed the O(2)(-) sources for NO degradation by isolated rat liver mitochondria. Electron leakage from complex III and reverse electron transport to complex I accounted for O(2)(-)-dependent NO degradation by mi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Oliveira HC,Saviani EE,Salgado I

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin receptors (IRs) that are truncated at the end of the ectodomain form dimers that bind insulin with different characteristics to wild type receptors. These soluble IRs have lowered affinity for insulin compared with full-length IR, and exhibit linear Scatchard plots in contrast to the curvilinear plots obtained...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoyne PA,Cosgrove LJ,McKern NM,Bentley JD,Ivancic N,Elleman TC,Ward CW

更新日期：2000-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The class A Ca2+ channel alpha 1 subunit (alpha 1A) was expressed in Xenopus oocytes alone or in combination with the beta 1b, beta 2a, beta 3, or beta 4 subunit. Analysis of voltage-dependent activation and inactivation in the presence of 1.8 mM external Ca2+ showed an hyperpolarising shift of both relations when com...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cens T,Mangoni ME,Nargeot J,Charnet P

更新日期：1996-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor Va is an essential cofactor which combines with the serine protease factor Xa on a phospholipid surface to form the prothrombinase complex. In the present study, the structure of factor Va interacting with lipid surfaces containing phosphatidylserine was studied by electron microscopy. Two-dimension...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stoylova S,Mann KG,Brisson A

更新日期：1994-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to demonstrate the unique specificity of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100. Calcium flux assays with selected chemokine/cell combinations, affording distinct chemokine receptor specificities, revealed no interaction of AMD3100 with any of the chemokine receptors CXCR1 through CX...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hatse S,Princen K,Bridger G,De Clercq E,Schols D

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Using conserved fingerprints in the glycosyltransferase (GTase) domain of high-molecular-weight penicillin-binding proteins (PBP), a gene (mgt) encoding a putative monofunctional glycosyltransferase has been identified in Haemophilus influenzae and in other bacteria] species. Here we report the cloning of the homologo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Di Berardino M,Dijkstra A,Stüber D,Keck W,Gubler M

更新日期：1996-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatography of the soluble porcine lymphocyte phospholipase C on cellulose phosphate resolves the activity into two species. An HPLC method is described for separating the enzyme products, Ins 1,2 greater than P and Ins 1P. Use of these methods reveals that the two iso-enzymes liberate, with a high degree of reprod...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carter HR,Bird IM,Smith AD

更新日期：1986-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdissected, beta-cell-rich pancreatic islets from ob/ob mice were used in studies of 86Rb+ transport. D-Glucose (20 mM) induced a biphasic reduction in 86Rb+ efflux. The reduction stabilized within 10 min at 34% of the efflux rate at zero glucose. The initial 86Rb+ uptake (5 min) was dose-dependently reduced by ou...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lindström P,Norlund L,Sehlin J

更新日期：1986-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocation of folded proteins by the Tat system of Escherichia coli is believed to rely on the presence of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and the negatively charged phospholipids cardiolipin (CL) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG). Here, we show that while PE is indeed essential for activity, the Tat system is fully func...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rathmann C,Schlösser AS,Schiller J,Bogdanov M,Brüser T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The (beta alpha)(8)-barrel is the most frequent and most versatile fold among enzymes [Höcker et al., Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 12 (2001) 376-381; Wierenga, FEBS Lett. 492 (2001) 193-198]. Structural and functional evidence suggests that (beta alpha)(8)-barrels evolved from an ancestral half-barrel, which consisted of f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Höcker B,Schmidt S,Sterner R

更新日期：2002-01-16 00:00:00