Analysis of NMR spectra of sugar chains of glycolipids by 1D homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn and NOE experiments.

abstract：:Mitochondria of amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii were used to determine the role of two energy-dissipating systems, i.e., a free fatty acid (FFA)-activated, purine nucleotide-inhibited uncoupling protein (AcUCP) and a FFA-insensitive, purine nucleotide-activated ubiquinol alternative oxidase (AcAOX), in decreasing reac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Czarna M,Jarmuszkiewicz W

更新日期：2005-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of plant tissues contain an uncoupling mitochondrial protein (PUMP), recently described and characterized by our group. In this study we show that the inhibition of PUMP activity in potato tuber mitochondria significantly increases mitochondrial H2O2 generation, while PUMP substrates, such as linoleic acid, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kowaltowski AJ,Costa AD,Vercesi AE

更新日期：1998-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:To address biophysical principles and lipid interactions that underlie the properties of membrane proteins, modifications that vary the neighbors of tryptophan residues in the highly dynamic transmembrane helix of GW4,20 ALP23 (acetyl-GGAW4 A(LA)6 LAW20 AGA-amide) were examined using deuterium NMR spectroscopy. It was...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McKay MJ,Greathouse DV,Koeppe RE 2nd

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) from human pancreas, designated hPLA2-I, functions as a digestive enzyme. Interestingly, the present study demonstrated that the mature form of hPLA2-I stimulated the growth of a human pancreatic cancer cell line MIAPaCa-2, whereas the pro-form was ineffective. PLA2s from Laticauda semifasciata...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hanada K,Kinoshita E,Itoh M,Hirata M,Kajiyama G,Sugiyama M

更新日期：1995-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature dermal glands of Xenopus laevis contain storage granules with a characteristic ellipsoid shape. A few major proteins are present in these granules, including two with the same amino-terminal sequence and apparent molecular masses of 26 and 28 kDa. Using antibodies against these proteins, positive clones were is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berger H,Kreil G

更新日期：1989-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the action of hydrocortisosone on arachidonic acid mobilisation in cultures of mouse peritoneal macrophages, mouse L929 cells and the mouse macrophage-like cell line RAW264. Hydrocortisone inhibits both arachidonic acid release and prostaglandin production by L929 cells. However, prostaglandin pro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wood JN,Coote PR,Rhodes J

更新日期：1984-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms using the thiosulfate-oxidizing Sox enzyme system fall into two groups: group 1 forms sulfur globules as intermediates (Allochromatium vinosum), group 2 does not (Paracoccus pantotrophus). While several components of their Sox systems are quite similar, i.e. the proteins SoxXA, SoxYZ and SoxB, they differ by...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Welte C,Hafner S,Krätzer C,Quentmeier A,Friedrich CG,Dahl C

更新日期：2009-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiovascular system consists of many cell types with distinct embryonic origins. Cells from an Islet1 (Isl1)-expressing progenitor population make a substantial contribution to the developing heart. We reasoned that cells derived from Isl1-expressing progenitors might contribute more widely to the cardiovascular...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Keenan ID,Rhee HJ,Chaudhry B,Henderson DJ

更新日期：2012-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In guinea pig caudate slices preloaded with [3H]choline, superfusion with medium containing Ca2+ and the phorbol ester TPA (12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate) produced an increase in the Ca2+-dependent, depolarization-evoked release of acetylcholine (ACh), with no significant effect on the evoked Ca2+ influx. The ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka C,Fujiwara H,Fujii Y

更新日期：1986-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, four proteins, Shu1, Shu2, Psy3 and Csm2, form a stable SHU-complex both in vivo and in vitro. These proteins are involved in the early stages of the homologous recombination DNA damage repair process. In this paper, the crystal structure of the Psy3-Csm2 sub-complex is presented at 1.8Å r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： She Z,Gao ZQ,Liu Y,Wang WJ,Liu GF,Shtykova EV,Xu JH,Dong YH

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Three single-stranded RNA transcripts synthesized in vitro by a virion-associated RNA polymerase of bacteriophage phi 6 were sequenced at their 5'- and 3'-termini. The sequences agreed with those of the + strands of the 3 double-stranded RNA segments [FEBS Lett. (1982) 141,111-115]. The results show that the transcrip...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Emori Y,Iba H,Okada Y

更新日期：1982-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a variety of peptide analogues of oxytocin (OT) and Arg8-vasopressin (AVP), OT-mediated induction of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) was examined in LLC-PK1 renal epithelial cells, which possess distinct high-affinity receptors of both the OT- and vasopressin renal (V2-) types. OT or OT-receptor speci...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jans DA,Pavo I,Fahrenholz F

更新日期：1993-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta-endotoxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. entomocidus induced the release of encapsulated [14C]sucrose from reverse-phase vesicles composed of phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol. No such release was detected when the phospholipid component of the vesicles was either phosphatidylethanolamine, phospha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yunovitz H,Yawetz A

更新日期：1988-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitatively measured protective antigen (PA) binding to human cells targeted by anthrax lethal toxin (LT). Affinities were less than 50 nM for all cells, but differentiated cells (macrophages and neutrophils) had significantly increased PA binding and endothelial cells demonstrated the most binding. Combined wit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Deshpande A,Hammon RJ,Sanders CK,Graves SW

更新日期：2006-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania internalize hemoglobin (Hb) via a specific receptor (HbR) for their survival. To identify the Hb-binding domain of HbR, we cloned and expressed several truncated proteins of HbR and determined their ability to bind Hb. Our findings reveal that 90% of Hb-binding activity is retained in HbR41-80 in comparison...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rastogi R,Verma JK,Singh V,Krishnamurthy G,Sood C,Kapoor A,Kumar K,Ansari I,Mukhopadhyay A

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous bacterial strains produce surface lectins, commonly in the form of fimbriae that are filamentous assemblies of protein subunits. Among the best characterized of these are the type 1 (mannose specific) fimbrial lectins of Escherichia coli that consist almost exclusively of one class of subunit with a molecular...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sharon N

更新日期：1987-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Boar spermadhesins are a group of seminal plasma, heparin-binding proteins which appear to be involved in sperm capacitation and gamete interaction. Using a proteolytic protection assay we have identified regions of AQN-1, AQN-3, PSP-I and AWN which remain attached to a heparin-Sepharose column following in-column dig...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Calvete JJ,Dostàlova Z,Sanz L,Adermann K,Thole HH,Töpfer-Petersen E

更新日期：1996-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the formation of DNA triple helices between the oligonucleotides T8XT8 (X = A,C,G,T) and DNA fragments containing the target sequences A8XA8.T8YT8 (X = T,C,G; Y = A,G,C), by DNase I footprinting. We find that A8GA8.T8CT8 yields a footprint with T8CT8 and shows a weaker interaction with T17 and T8GT8. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chandler SP,Fox KR

更新日期：1993-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In vertebrate photoreceptors the soluble protein arrestin (45 kDa) is involved in controlling the light dependent activity of receptor proteins such as transducin or the cGMP-phosphodiesterase. Arrestin has further been identified as the retinal-S-antigen which is assumed to cause the autoimmune disease uveitis. In a ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Glitscher W,Rüppel H

更新日期：1991-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In washed anterior pituitary membranes, there is enough GTP to occupy Ns and therefore to obtain activation of adenylate cyclase by vasointestinal peptide. GTP concentrations needed to obtain adenylate cyclase inhibition by dopamine (above 5 X 10- M) stimulate the adenylate cyclase. The dopamine effect is a blockade o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bockaert J,Sebben-Perez M

更新日期：1983-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A human vesicular monoamine transporter cDNA has been identified by screening a human brainstem library using sequences from the rat brain synaptic vesicle monoamine transporter (SVMT) [(1992) Cell 70, 539-551; (1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 10993-10997]. The hSVMT shares 92% amino acid identity with the rat se...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Surratt CK,Persico AM,Yang XD,Edgar SR,Bird GS,Hawkins AL,Griffin CA,Li X,Jabs EW,Uhl GR

更新日期：1993-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:SP-40,40 is a two-chain serum protein which acts in vitro as a potent inhibitor of the assembly of the membrane attack complex of human complement. It contains 10 cysteine residues, the numbers and locations of which are conserved in several mammalian species. Evidence is presented that all the cysteine residues are i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kirszbaum L,Bozas SE,Walker ID

更新日期：1992-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and characterized a genomic DNA fragment containing the coding sequences corresponding to the human gamma-glutamyltransferase type 1 mRNA. The coding part of the gene spans over 16 kb and comprises 12 exons and 11 introns exhibiting a similar organization as for the mouse and rat GGT genes. The exon...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leh H,Chikhi N,Ichino K,Guellaën G,Wellman M,Siest G,Visvikis A

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently proposed mechanistic concept of a receptor-regulated entrance compartment for hexose transport formed by microvilli on 3T3-L1 adipocytes predicted a preferential localization of glucose transporters in these structures. The cytochalasin B-binding technique was used to determine in basal and insulin-stimul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lange K,Brandt U

更新日期：1990-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:CHO SSF3 cells grow as a suspension culture in unmodified commercial medium with only low-molecular weight ingredients. Continuous serum-free culture unexpectedly induced expression of a low dihydrofolate reductase activity in the originally dhfr- CHO cells. Nevertheless, it was possible with methotrexate to induce am...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gandor C,Leist C,Fiechter A,Asselbergs FA

更新日期：1995-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Picoloine-2,2':6',2"-terpyridine-platinum(II) is shown in a ligation assay to unwind and so intercalate into DNA. Circular dichroism is used to determine an equilibrium binding constant of approximately 2 x 10(7) M(-1) for the most stable binding mode of 4-picoline-2,2':6',2"-terpyridine-platinum(II) to poly[d(A-T)2...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McCoubrey A,Latham HC,Cook PR,Rodger A,Lowe G

更新日期：1996-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We focused on the functional involvement of transforming growth factor-beta-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) in transcriptional regulation of interleukin-2 (IL-2) in T cells. Costimulation of Jurkat cells with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate and A23187 leads to a rapid phosphorylation of TAK1 and TAK1-binding protein 1 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakurai H,Singhirunnusorn P,Shimotabira E,Chino A,Suzuki S,Koizumi K,Saiki I

更新日期：2005-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible molecular heterogeneity of human transferrin receptors was analyzed using two murine monoclonal antibodies, Tü15 and Tü67. Both reagents precipitated from lysates of 125I-labeled HL-60 cells a major component of 88 kDa which could be identified as the transferrin receptor by comparison with the proteins d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Uchańska-Ziegler B,Wernet P,Liangru S,Ziegler A

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preillumination of intact cells of the eukaryotic, halotolerant, cell-wall-less green alga Dunaliella salina induces a dark ATPase activity the magnitude of which is about 3-5-fold higher than the ATPase activity observed in dark-adapted cells. The light-induced activity arises from the activation and stabilization in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Selman-Reimer S,Selman BR

更新日期：1988-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovine trophoblastic protein B (oTPB), an embryonic protein, is a 20 kDa secretory protein which is synthesized by the ovine conceptus from days 12 to 22 of pregnancy. oTPB was purified by HPLC using ion-exchange chromatography on a DEAE column and was subsequently chromatographed on a reversed-phase column. Automated ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Charpigny G,Reinaud P,Huet JC,Guillomot M,Charlier M,Pernollet JC,Martal J

更新日期：1988-02-08 00:00:00