Recognition of inter-transmembrane regions of acetylcholine receptor alpha subunit by antibodies, T cells and neurotoxins. Implications for membrane-subunit organization.

abstract：:Plants have evolved to cope with fluctuations in water supply by gating their water channels known as aquaporins. During flooding, a rapid drop of cytosolic pH due to anoxia leads to a simultaneous closure of the aquaporins in the plasma membrane. The closing mechanism has been suggested to involve a conserved histidi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Frick A,Järvå M,Törnroth-Horsefield S

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Human natural killer (NK) cells possess an arsenal of receptors programmed to regulate the NK cell functions, once encountering a target cell. In general, the activating receptors mediate cytotoxicity when engaged by their tumor specific, stress induced, virally encoded, or rarely, self ligands. Whereas, the inhibitor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stanietsky N,Mandelboim O

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Saturable binding sites for the labelled calcium antagonist (+/-)[3H]nimodipine were found in guinea-pig hind limb skeletal muscle homogenates. Binding sites were enriched in a microsomal pellet by differential centrifugation of the homogenate. [3H]Nimodipine binding (Kd = 1.5 +/- 0.03 nM, Bmax = 2.1 +/- 0.25 pmol/pro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ferry DR,Glossmann H

更新日期：1982-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na+-induced release of accumulated Ca2+ from heart mitochondria is inhibited by amiloride, benzamil and several other amiloride analogues. These drugs do not affect uptake or release of Ca2+ mediated by the ruthenium red-sensitive uniporter and their effects, like those of diltiazem and other Ca2+-antagonists, app...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jurkowitz MS,Altschuld RA,Brierley GP,Cragoe EJ Jr

更新日期：1983-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we investigated electron transport around the photosynthetic pigment-protein complex of Photosystem I (PS I) mediated by external high-potential electron carrier 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphtoquinone (Cl2 NQ) and ascorbate. It has been demonstrated that the oxidized species of Cl2 NQ and ascorbate serve as inte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Petrova AA,Trubitsin BV,Boskhomdzhieva BK,Semenov AY,Tikhonov AN

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of lipases (triacylglycerol-acyl-hydrolases EC 3.1.1.3) constitutes an interesting class of enzymes because of their ability to interact with lipid-water interfaces, their wide range of substrate specificities, and their potential industrial applications. Here we report the first crystal structure of a bact...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Noble ME,Cleasby A,Johnson LN,Egmond MR,Frenken LG

更新日期：1993-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though the plant photoreceptors cryptochromes were discovered more than 20 years ago, the mechanism through which they transduce light signals to their partner molecules such as COP1 (Constitutive Photomorphogenic 1) or SPA1 (Suppressor of Phytochrome A) still remains to be established. We propose that a negative...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Müller P,Bouly JP

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different isoforms of subunit VIIa have been found in cytochrome c oxidase isolated from human skeletal muscle. The first 22 residues of the N-terminal amino acid sequences showed 5 differences. Our results provide the first conclusive evidence for the existence of cytochrome c oxidase isoenzymes in man. Since the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Van Beeumen JJ,Van Kuilenburg AB,Van Bun S,Van den Bogert C,Tager JM,Muijsers AO

更新日期：1990-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:There are now at least 14 distinct diseases linked to germ line mutations in the 21 genes that encode the connexin (Cx) family of gap junction proteins. This review focuses on the links between germ-line mutations in the gene encoding Cx43 (GJA1) and the human disease termed oculodentodigital dysplasia (ODDD). This di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Laird DW

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between two codon-anticodon duplexes of the ribosomal A- and P-site-bound tRNAs is the key feature of the proposed model. This interaction prohibits non-canonical base pairing at the first and second positions of the codon and controls base pairing at the third position (wobbling rules ensuing from the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lim VI,Venclovas C

更新日期：1992-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The O-chain polysaccharide (O-PS) of Bordetella avium was isolated from the lipopolysaccharide by mild acid hydrolysis to remove the lipid A, followed by hydrofluorolysis to remove the lipopolysaccharide core oligosaccharide leaving a residual O-PS for structural analysis. High resolution (1)H and (13)C NMR and MALDI ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Larocque S,Brisson JR,Thérisod H,Perry MB,Caroff M

更新日期：2003-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of mutations leading to amino acid substitutions have been described in the transthyretin gene in association with different familial amyloidoses and have been implicated to be involved in the pathogenesis of amyloid deposits. However, there has been disagreement whether or not a transthyretin mutation is pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Christmanson L,Betsholtz C,Gustavsson A,Johansson B,Sletten K,Westermark P

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory divergence is likely a major driving force in evolution. Comparative genomics is being increasingly used to infer the evolution of gene regulation. Ascomycota fungi are uniquely suited among eukaryotes for regulatory evolution studies, due to broad phylogenetic scope, many sequenced genomes, and tractabilit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thompson DA,Regev A

更新日期：2009-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Using oligonucleotide primers derived from the vesicular monoamine transporters sequences, a cDNA predicted to encode the bovine chromaffin granule amine transporter has been cloned (b-VMAT2). Surprisingly, its structure is more similar to the rat brain transporter (VMAT2), than to the rat adrenal counterpart (VMAT1)....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Howell M,Shirvan A,Stern-Bach Y,Steiner-Mordoch S,Strasser JE,Dean GE,Schuldiner S

更新日期：1994-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of 2'-OH groups in the binding of mRNA to human ribosomes were studied using site-directed cross-linking. We found that both mRNA and mDNA analogues bearing a cross-linker can modify ribosomal proteins (rps) S3e and S2e at the mRNA entry site independently on tRNA presence, but only mRNA analogues were capab...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Graifer D,Zhigailov A,Ven'yaminova A,Malygin A,Iskakov B,Karpova G

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The thioredoxin-catalyzed insulin reduction by dihydrolipoate was applied to study the 2-oxoacid: lipoate oxidoreductase activity of 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase complexes. The enzymatic and non-enzymatic mechanisms of the transfer of reducing equivalents from the complexes to free lipoic acid (alpha-lipoic acid, 6,8-thioo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bunik V,Shoubnikova A,Loeffelhardt S,Bisswanger H,Borbe HO,Follmann H

更新日期：1995-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Calf chymosin molecules exist in the two alternative structural forms: the first one has S1 and S3 binding pockets occluded by its own Tyr77 residue (the self-inhibited form); the second has these pockets free for a substrate binding (the active form). The preliminary incubation of the enzyme with a pentapeptide corre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gustchina E,Rumsh L,Ginodman L,Majer P,Andreeva N

更新日期：1996-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous data have suggested an involvement of MDR/PGP-like ABC transporters in transport of the plant hormone auxin and, recently, AtPGP1 has been demonstrated to catalyze the primary active export of auxin. Here we show that related isoform AtPGP4 is expressed predominantly during early root development. AtPGP4 loss...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Santelia D,Vincenzetti V,Azzarello E,Bovet L,Fukao Y,Düchtig P,Mancuso S,Martinoia E,Geisler M

更新日期：2005-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied whether the cooperative insecticidal effect of certain scorpion toxin pairs, namely either a combination of excitatory and depressant, or alpha and depressant scorpion toxins, would improve the efficacy of Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) over a virus expressing only a single toxin,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Regev A,Rivkin H,Inceoglu B,Gershburg E,Hammock BD,Gurevitz M,Chejanovsky N

更新日期：2003-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor VII contains ten gamma-carboxyglutamic acid residues in the N-terminal region (Gla-domain) which are essential for the hemostatic function of FVII. The present study shows that granulocyte cathepsin G degrades the Gla-domain of FVIIa in vitro. Characterization of the truncated FVIIa by SDS-PAGE and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nicolaisen EM,Petersen LC,Thim L,Jacobsen JK,Christensen M,Hedner U

更新日期：1992-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (MbetaCD) was used to explore a role for cholesterol-enriched plasma membrane microdomains in coupling lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) stimulation to phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activation. Cholesterol depletion strongly inhibited the production of phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate and ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peres C,Yart A,Perret B,Salles JP,Raynal P

更新日期：2003-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of the present investigation relate the effects of the nutritional state and administration of clofibric acid (CLA), a hypolipidaemic drug and peroxisomal proliferator, on phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) synthesis in rat liver and fatty acid metabolism. Fasting and CLA treatment of animals causes an increase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lenart J,Komańska I,Pikuła S,Jasińska R

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that conformational changes of receptor proteins brought about by binding of a ligand induce changes in the lipid environment of the receptor that can be monitored by fluorescent lipid probes. On this basis a new approach to studies of ligand-receptor binding is proposed. Using the interaction of the ricin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Manevich EM,Tonevitsky AG,Bergelson LD

更新日期：1986-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters constitute one of the largest families of proteins in evolution. The ATM1 gene of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes an ABC protein, which is localized to the mitochondrial inner membrane. A deletion of ATM1 results in the accumulation of up to a 30-fold excess of mi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chloupková M,Reaves SK,LeBard LM,Koeller DM

更新日期：2004-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Insight into the regulation of the actions of the protein-tyrosine kinases will be greatly facilitated by the full characterization of the family of protein-tyrosine phosphatases. A search for novel phosphatases resulted in the isolation of a cDNA, termed HLPR, encoding a member of the family of human receptor-like pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jirik FR,Janzen NM,Melhado IG,Harder KW

更新日期：1990-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In photosynthetic reaction centers, the excitation with light leads to the formation of a charge separated state across the photosynthetic membrane. For the reaction center of purple non-sulphur bacteria, it was previously generally assumed that this primary charge separation could only start with the excitation of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Brederode ME,van Grondelle R

更新日期：1999-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Preformed phosphatidylethanolamine-containing liposomes were thiolated with 2-iminothiolane (Traut's reagent) and subsequently activated by mixed disulfide formation with 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid). Up to 65% of amino groups of the outer liposomal lamella, corresponding to 230 SH-groups per vesicle, were modi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lasch J,Niedermann G,Bogdanov AA,Torchilin VP

更新日期：1987-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble aluminium (Al(3+)) is the major constraint to plant growth on acid soils. Plants have evolved mechanisms to tolerate Al(3+) and one type of mechanism relies on the efflux of organic anions that protect roots by chelating the Al(3+). Al(3+) resistance genes of several species have now been isolated and found to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Delhaize E,Gruber BD,Ryan PR

更新日期：2007-05-25 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：:Activation gating in KcsA is elicited by changes in intracellular proton concentration. Thompson et al. identified a charge cluster around the inner gate that plays a key role in defining proton activation in KcsA. Here, through functional and spectroscopic approaches, we confirmed the role of this charge cluster and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cuello LG,Cortes DM,Jogini V,Sompornpisut A,Perozo E

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00