Homodimerization of coronin A through the C-terminal coiled-coil domain is essential for multicellular differentiation of Dictyostelium discoideum.

abstract：:Small RNAs (miR159-like RNAs) identical to some plant miR159s were found in Xenopus tropicalis miRNA cDNA libraries (30 miRNA families consisting of 75 unique sequences). Preferential expression of this RNA species was found in neural tissues during development. A sequence matching to this RNA species was not found in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hikosaka A,Takaya K,Jinno M,Kawahara A

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA clone (RASC8) encoding glutaredoxin (thioltransferase) was isolated from a cDNA library of an aleurone layer prepared from a developing seed of rice (Oryza sativa L.). RASC8, 568bp in length, contained an ATG codon and two possible polyadenylation signals, and encoded 112 amino acid residues. Cys-Pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Minakuchi K,Yabushita T,Masumura T,Ichihara K,Tanaka K

更新日期：1994-01-10 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：:Oligonucleotides 5'-d(CT)5-L-d(AG)5-L-d(GA)5-3' and 5'-d(GA)5-L-d(TC)5-L-d(GA)5-3' [L = pO(CH2CH2O)3p] were studied by thermal denaturation, chemical modification and binding of fluorescent dyes. Both oligonucleotides are shown to fold back on itself twice forming at pH 7 a sufficiently stable triplex ether with antip...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shchyolkina AK,Borisova OF,Minyat EE,Timofeev EN,Il'icheva IA,Khomyakova EB,Florentiev VL

更新日期：1995-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperate phage phi H of the extremely halophilic archaebacterium Halobacterium salinarium encodes a repressor, Rep, which in the immune state represses the production of an early lytic transcript, denoted T4. Rep acts at the transcriptional level by blocking the promoter for T4. The promoter for the rep gene itse...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stolt P,Zillig W

更新日期：1994-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition of recurrent aberrant regions in cancer is important to the discovery of candidate cancer related genes. Here we first constructed a genome-wide gene expression map of squamous lung carcinoma from the Stanford Microarray Database. High-resolution detection of aberrant chromosomal regions was performed ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang XY,Hu Y,Cui YP,Miao XP,Tian F,Xia YJ,Wu YQ,Liu X

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It was determined that flavan-3-ols and procyanidins have an inhibitory effect on angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) activity, and the effect was dependent on the number of epicatechin units forming the procyanidin. The inhibition by flavan-3-ols and procyanidins was competitive with the two substrates assayed: N-h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Actis-Goretta L,Ottaviani JI,Keen CL,Fraga CG

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The high cGMP sensitivity of cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (type II) (PKAII) from invertebrates led to the hypothesis that cGMP directly activates PKAII under physiological conditions. We tested this idea using PKAII holoenzyme purified from the honeybee brain in an assay with short stimulation times. In the presenc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leboulle G,Müller U

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of removal of Ca2+ bound to thrombospondin (TSP) on the protein structure in solution has been investigated using ESR spin-label techniques. A maleimide spin label was selectively attached to the free thiol group presumably near the carboxyl-terminal domain in which Ca2+-binding sites are situated. The ESR ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Slane JM,Mosher DF,Lai CS

更新日期：1988-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid analyses were carried out on transplantable murine Friend leukemia cell tumors, 6 h after intratumoral administration of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF). The levels of the major phospholipid classes were uniformly decreased to about 70% of control values; free fatty acids were increased to about 170%; diacylgl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bravo E,Carpinelli G,Proietti E,Belardelli F,Cantafora A,Podo F

更新日期：1990-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Male germ cells specifically express paralogues of components of the general transcription apparatus including ALF a paralogue of TFIIAalpha/beta. We show that endogenous ALF is proteolytically cleaved to give alpha- and beta-subunits and we map the proteolytic cleavage site by mass spectrometry. Immunoprecipitations ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Catena R,Argentini M,Martianov I,Parello C,Brancorsini S,Parvinen M,Sassone-Corsi P,Davidson I

更新日期：2005-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable CHO cell clones which selectively express all three rat tachykinin receptors were established by transfection. The binding of radiolabled substance P and neurokinin A (substance K) to CHO clones expressing the NK1 and NK2 receptors, respectively, were saturatable and of high affinity (Kd = 0.17 nM (NK1); 3.4 nM...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gether U,Marray T,Schwartz TW,Johansen TE

更新日期：1992-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological systems, from macromolecules to whole organisms, are robust if they continue to function, survive, or reproduce when faced with mutations, environmental change, and internal noise. I focus here on biological systems that are robust to mutations and ask whether such systems are more or less evolvable, in the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wagner A

更新日期：2005-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang II), a potent hypertrophic factor for vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC), induces activation of the ras proto-oncogene product (Ras) and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases, and tyrosine phosphorylation of a focal adhesion-associated protein, paxillin. Forskolin, a direct activator of adenylat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takahashi T,Kawahara Y,Okuda M,Yokoyama M

更新日期：1996-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the structural basis required for the holoenzyme formation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase, we have prepared rabbit anti-peptide antibodies that can block the holoenzyme formation without affecting the catalytic activity of the enzyme. The antibodies were raised against a specific site in the catalytic (C)...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sahara S,Sato K,Kaise H,Mori K,Sato A,Aoto M,Tokmakov AA,Fukami Y

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid synthase (Fasn) is a key component of energy metabolism that is dynamically induced by food intake. Although extensive studies have revealed a number of transcription factors involved in the fasting/refeeding transition of Fasn expression in hepatocytes, much less evidence is available for adipocytes. Using...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nishi-Tatsumi M,Yahagi N,Takeuchi Y,Toya N,Takarada A,Murayama Y,Aita Y,Sawada Y,Piao X,Oya Y,Shikama A,Masuda Y,Kubota M,Izumida Y,Matsuzaka T,Nakagawa Y,Sekiya M,Iizuka Y,Kawakami Y,Kadowaki T,Yamada N,Shimano

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of three fatty acids and their respective ethyl esters, to promote generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), was compared in a preparation of rat brain synaptosomes. Arachidonic but not palmitic or linoleic acids promoted ROS generation. Ethyl esterification of each fatty acid significantly enhanced ROS...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bondy SC,Marwah S

更新日期：1995-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated B61.SF.1 and CTLL-2 T lymphocyte clones which are strictly dependent on interleukin-2 (IL-2) for growth were used to study the activation of Na+/K+-ATPase. 50% of [3H]thymidine maximal incorporation was obtained when the extracellular concentration of Na+ or K+ was reduced to 50 or 2 mM, respectively. 'Quies...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Redondo JM,López Rivas A,Fresno M

更新日期：1986-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of the G-proteins present in the pre- and post-synaptic plasma membranes and in the synaptic vesicles of cholinergic nerve terminals purified from the Torpedo electric organ was investigated. In pre- and post-synaptic plasma membranes, Bordetella pertussis toxin, known to catalyze the ADP-ribosylation of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Toutant M,Bockaert J,Homburger V,Rouot B

更新日期：1987-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of fibrils by amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) is considered as a key step in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Inhibiting the aggregation of Abeta is a promising approach for AD therapy. In this study, we used biocompatible nanogels composed of a polysaccharide pullulan backbone with hydrophobic ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ikeda K,Okada T,Sawada S,Akiyoshi K,Matsuzaki K

更新日期：2006-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of the relative proportions of ribosomes and polysomes released by a standardized lysing procedure from isogenic RC(str) and RC(rel) strains of Escherichia coli shows that a 20-min period of amino acid starvation of RC(str) bacteria reduces the fraction of ribosomes recovered in polysomes to about 60% of its val...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matzura H

更新日期：1970-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Malonyl-CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase (MCAT) transfers the malonyl group from malonyl-CoA to holo-acyl carrier protein (ACP), and since malonyl-ACP is a key building block for fatty-acid biosynthesis it is considered as a promising antibacterial target. The crystal structures of MCAT from Staphylococcus aureus...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hong SK,Kim KH,Park JK,Jeong KW,Kim Y,Kim EE

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Casein kinase Ialpha (CKIalpha) belongs to a family of serine/threonine protein kinases involved in membrane trafficking, RNA processing, mitotic spindle formation and cell cycle progression. In this report, we identified several CKIalpha interacting proteins including RCC1, high mobility group proteins 1 and 2 (HMG1,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dubois T,Howell S,Zemlickova E,Aitken A

更新日期：2002-04-24 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：:We have recently demonstrated that myocardial adaptation to ischemia triggers a tyrosine kinase regulated signaling pathway leading to the translocation and activation of p38 MAP kinase and MAPKAP kinase 2. Since oxidative stress is developed during ischemic adaptation and since free radicals have recently been shown ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maulik N,Sato M,Price BD,Das DK

更新日期：1998-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro cultured blood cells for transfusion purposes provide a safe alternative to donor blood, particularly for patients who require recurrent transfusions, and can be used as carriers of therapeutic molecules. In vitro derivation of hematopoietic cell types from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) allows ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hansen M,von Lindern M,van den Akker E,Varga E

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A functional NAD molecule was immobilized at the active site of Alcohol dehydrogenase within a proteic membrane. The presence and the functionality of the cofactor was checked by fluorescence analysis. The dehydrogenase NAD membrane does not require addition of soluble cofactor for its activity. The system represents ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Legoy MD,le Moullec JM,Thomas D

更新日期：1978-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There are numerous examples of how fundamental research has been required to understand and treat human disease. This article focuses on three human diseases of lipid metabolism in which advancements in understanding and treatment would not have been possible without basic research. Fabry disease is an inherited metab...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vance DE

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the mechanism by which eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) inhibit platelet activation induced by thromboxane A2. DHA was found to be more potent than EPA in blocking platelet aggregation induced by the stable thromboxane A2 mimetic, U46619. Furthermore, this inhib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swann PG,Venton DL,Le Breton GC

更新日期：1989-01-30 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