Flanking aromatic residue competition influences transmembrane peptide helix dynamics.

abstract：:In the new view, hydrophobic free energy is measured by the work of solute transfer of hydrocarbon gases from vapor to aqueous solution. Reasons are given for believing that older values, measured by solute transfer from a reference solvent to water, are not quantitatively correct. The hydrophobic free energy from gas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baldwin RL

更新日期：2013-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis (MAH) is an environmental bacterium causing opportunistic infections. The objective of this study was to identify flexible genome regions in MAH isolated from different sources. By comparing five complete and draft MAH genomes we identified a genomic island conferring additional ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lahiri A,Sanchini A,Semmler T,Schäfer H,Lewin A

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:WT1 encodes a zinc finger protein with a key role in urogenital development that is inactivated in a subset of Wilms' tumors. This tumor suppressor gene product contains an amino-terminal dimerization domain required for trans-inhibition of wild-type WT1 activity by mutants defective for DNA binding. In the course of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bruening W,Moffett P,Chia S,Heinrich G,Pelletier J

更新日期：1996-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic nuclear RNA binding proteins share a common sequence motif thought to be implicated in RNA binding. One of the two domains present in A1 hnRNP protein, has been modelled by homology in order to make a prediction of the main features of the RNA binding site. Acylphosphatase (EC 3.6.1.7) was selected as templ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ghetti A,Bolognesi M,Cobianchi F,Morandi C

更新日期：1990-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiloride, a specific inhibitor for the Na(+)-driven flagellar motors of alkalophilic Bacillus, is known to inhibit secondarily the growth of alkalophiles. The motility of a marine Vibrio, V. alginolyticus, was almost completely inhibited by 2 mM amiloride either at pH 7.0 or 8.5. We found that this concentration of a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Atsumi T,Maekawa Y,Tokuda H,Imae Y

更新日期：1992-12-14 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：:The molecular mass of the rabbit prolactin receptor (rbPRLR) deduced from cDNA cloning is 66 kDa. However, the molecular mass of the full-length receptor expressed in the insect Sf9 cells was found to be 94 kDa. In order to explain this discrepancy, we analyzed the possible post-translational modifications of the PRLR...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cahoreau C,Garnier L,Djiane J,Devauchelle G,Cerutti M

更新日期：1994-08-22 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：:Contactin and TAG-1 are glycan phosphatidyl inositol (GPI)-anchored cell adhesion molecules that play a crucial role in the organization of axonal subdomains at the node of Ranvier of myelinating fibers. Contactin and TAG-1 mediate axo-glial selective interactions in association with Caspr-family molecules at paranode...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Labasque M,Faivre-Sarrailh C

更新日期：2010-05-03 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：:Two genome sequences of Escherichia coli K-12 substrains, one partial W3110 and one complete MG1655, have been determined by Japanese and American genome projects, respectively. In order to estimate the rate of nucleotide changes, we directly compared 2 Mb of the nucleotide sequences from these closely-related E. coli...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Itoh T,Okayama T,Hashimoto H,Takeda J,Davis RW,Mori H,Gojobori T

更新日期：1999-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant porcine growth hormone (rPGH) was solubilised from inclusion bodies (IB's) using either 6 M guanidinium hydrochloride (GnHCl), 7.5 M urea or by a novel method using a cationic surfactant, cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC). Circular dichroism (CD) analysis of the secondary (2 degrees) structure of the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Puri NK,Cardamone M

更新日期：1992-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasopressin precursor is composed of 3 domains in line, namely vasopressin, MSEL-neurophysin and a glycopeptide referred to as copeptin, which are separated during the processing. In guinea pig neurohypophysis, the precursor is partially processed so that a two-domain fragment, MSEL-neurophysin--copeptin, can be f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chauvet MT,Chauvet J,Acher R

更新日期：1986-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The modifying effects of the products of the equimolar addition Of DL-alanine and DL-alanyl-DL-alanine to fullerene C60 on the structure and permeability of the lipid bilayer of phosphatidylcholine liposomes has been studied using the luminescence probe technique. It is shown that these water soluble amino acid and di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kotelnikova RA,Kotelnikov AI,Bogdanov GN,Romanova VS,Kuleshova EF,Parnes ZN,Vol'pin ME

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence intensity and anisotropy decays of the intrinsic tryptophan emission from six Fe/S proteins (ranging from the very simplest ones to enzyme complexes containing one, two or more Trp residues) were measured. All proteins were examined in the reduced and the oxidized state. In either redox state each pro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dorovska-Taran V,van Hoek A,Link TA,Visser AJ,Hagen WR

更新日期：1994-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO) reductase from R. capsulatus contains a molybdenum-pterin cofactor at its active site. As prepared the molybdenum is in the 6+ oxidation state, devoid of EPR signals. Stepwise reduction generates an EPR signal characteristic of Mo(V) having hyperfine coupling to a single proton and integratin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benson N,Farrar JA,McEwan AG,Thomson AJ

更新日期：1992-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (.NO) synthase (NOS) activity in subcellular fractions from cultured endothelial cells (EC) and lipopolysaccharide-activated J774.2 monocyte/macrophages was investigated by monitoring the .NO-mediated increase in intracellular cyclic GMP in LLC-PK1 pig kidney epithelial cells. The constitutive NOS in EC (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hecker M,Walsh DT,Vane JR

更新日期：1991-12-09 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：:We studied the effect of acrolein, an alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehyde that causes adduct-modification of lysine, cysteine, and histidine residues, on antithrombin, a key anticoagulant serpin. Intrinsic fluorescence, functionality (anti-FXa and anti-IIa activity), heparin affinity and conformational features of plasma ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Martínez-Martínez I,Ordóñez A,Guerrero JA,Pedersen S,Miñano A,Teruel R,Velázquez L,Kristensen SR,Vicente V,Corral J

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the urea stability of the human aromatic amino acid hydroxylases (AAAHs), key enzymes involved in neurotransmitter biosynthesis and amino acid homeostasis. Tyrosine-, tryptophan- and phenylalanine hydroxylase (TH, TPH and PAH, respectively) were transiently activated at low urea concentrations and rap...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kleppe R,Haavik J

更新日期：2004-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Native and carotenoid-depleted peripheral purple bacterial light-harvesting complex (LH2) were investigated by simultaneous two-photon excited (between 1300-1500 nm) fluorescence (TPF). TPF results from direct bacteriochlorophyll excitation in both samples. The spectral position of the 2A(g)(-) state of rhodopin [corr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krikunova M,Kummrow A,Voigt B,Rini M,Lokstein H,Moskalenko A,Scheer H,Razjivin A,Leupold D

更新日期：2002-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloning and nucleotide sequence analysis of the human calcitonin mRNA from the BEN lung carcinoma cell line, a cell line known to secrete high-Mr forms of calcitonin, showed no difference in the coding region at the nucleotide level compared with calcitonin mRNA isolated from medullary thyroid carcinoma which secretes...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Riley JH,Edbrooke MR,Craig RK

更新日期：1986-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern blotting using a 5'-proximal probe of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae CYR1 gene has revealed heterogeneity in laboratory strains. It is demonstrated that strain AB320 contains a Ty1 element inserted in the promoter region of CYR1. The Ty1 orientation suggests that transcription of CYR1 is initiated downstream fr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lenzen G,Masson P,Jacquemin JM,Danchin A

更新日期：1987-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The requirement for a proline residue at the C-terminus of the Ca(2+)-binding photoprotein, aequorin, was investigated by measuring luminescence activities of a series of C-terminal deletion mutants, substitution mutants and an addition mutant. CD spectral measurements of apoaequorin with the C-terminal proline delete...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nomura M,Inouye S,Ohmiya Y,Tsuji FI

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase CK2 is composed of two regulatory beta-subunits and two catalytic alpha- or alpha'-subunits. To analyse these subunits individually we generated antibodies against unique peptides derived from the alpha-, alpha'- and beta-subunit. Immunofluorescence studies with these antibodies revealed the presence of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Faust M,Schuster N,Montenarh M

更新日期：1999-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic exploration of the V(H)2/V(kappa)12-13 variable domains of the anti-CD4 monoclonal antibody (mAb) 13B8.2 was performed by the Spot method to screen for paratope-derived peptides (PDPs) demonstrating CD4 binding ability. Nine peptides, named CB1 to CB9, were identified, synthesized in a cyclic and soluble ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bès C,Briant-Longuet L,Cerruti M,De Berardinis P,Devauchelle G,Devaux C,Granier C,Chardès T

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The O2-dependent formation of side products during the oxidation of veratryl alcohol (VA) by lignin peroxidase has previously been proposed to start with the attack of H2O on the VA radical cation (VA*+). This initial reaction is unlikely since it would also lead to side product formation in the absence of O2, which i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： ten Have R,Franssen MC

更新日期：2001-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor receptor associated factor 6 (TRAF6) is an important signaling molecule involved in a diverse array of physiological processes. It has been proposed that TRAF6, a RING finger-containing protein, acts as a ubiquitin ligase (E3) and a target for Lys-63 linked polyubiquitination mediated by Ubc13-Ue...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wooff J,Pastushok L,Hanna M,Fu Y,Xiao W

更新日期：2004-05-21 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：:Ample evidence indicates that sphingosine-1-phosphate (SPP) can serve as an intracellular second messenger regulating calcium mobilization, and cell growth and survival. Moreover, the dynamic balance between levels of the sphingolipid metabolites, ceramide and SPP, and consequent regulation of opposing signaling pathw...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spiegel S,Milstien S

更新日期：2000-06-30 00:00:00