N-terminal sequence homologies in interstitial retinol-binding proteins from 10 vertebrate species.

abstract：:The photochemical reaction center of Chloroflexus (Cf.) aurantiacus, a membrane bound pigment-protein complex, has been crystallized in the presence of monodisperse polyoxyethylene detergents. The crystals possessed a pronounced polymorphism. Three different crystal forms belonging to triclinic, monoclinic and orthorh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Feick R,Ertlmaier A,Ermler U

更新日期：1996-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromodomains present in Brd4 and other chromatin proteins interact with acetylated histones to regulate transcription and cell growth. To study Brd4-chromatin interactions in vivo, histone H4 tail peptides were fused to a synthetic protein transduction domain (PTD) derived from the human immunodeficiency virus Tat and...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nishiyama A,Mochizuki K,Mueller F,Karpova T,McNally JG,Ozato K

更新日期：2008-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrolysis of GTP, bound to members of the G-protein superfamily, terminates their downstream signaling activity. A conserved glutamine serves a critical role in this pivotal guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) reaction. However, the role of the catalytic glutamine in GTP hydrolysis is still not well understood. We have...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zor T,Andorn R,Sofer I,Chorev M,Selinger Z

更新日期：1998-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature on the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) uptake and on the presteady-state and transport-associated currents of the GABA cotransporter, rat gamma-aminobutyric acid transporter 1 (rGAT1), have been studied using heterologous oocyte expression and voltage-clamp. Increasing temperature from 15 to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Binda F,Bossi E,Giovannardi S,Forlani G,Peres A

更新日期：2002-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here a new set of aminoglycoside-arginine conjugates (AACs) that are either site-specific or per-arginine conjugates of paromomycin, neamine, and neomycin B as well as their structure-activity relationships. Their binding constants (KD) for TAR and RRE RNAs, measured by fluorescence anisotropy, revealed dep...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lapidot A,Vijayabaskar V,Litovchick A,Yu J,James TL

更新日期：2004-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses have been etiologically implicated with leukemia in humans and animals. Understanding the virus life cycle, the proteins and enzymes involved in its replication, is essential for developing potent anti-viral drugs. Phosphorylation of retroviral proteins may alter their shape in such a way as to increase o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seri I,Priel E

更新日期：1996-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that alpha-dystroglycan links the dystrophin-associated protein complex and extracellular matrix and that the absence of dystrophin and alpha-dystroglycan in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) may lead to the breakdown of this linkage. In the present study, myotubes from DMD patients and murine X-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Angoli D,Corona P,Baresi R,Mora M,Wanke E

更新日期：1997-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast ERG4 gene encodes sterol C-24(28) reductase which catalyzes the final step in the biosynthesis of ergosterol. Deletion of ERG4 resulted in a complete lack of ergosterol and accumulation of the precursor ergosta-5,7,22,24(28)-tetraen-3beta-ol. An erg4 mutant strain exhibited pleiotropic defects such as hypers...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zweytick D,Hrastnik C,Kohlwein SD,Daum G

更新日期：2000-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In adipose cells, insulin induces the translocation of GLUT4 by stimulating their exocytosis from a basal intracellular compartment to the plasma membrane. Increasing overexpression of a hemagglutinin (HA) epitope-tagged GLUT4 in rat adipose cells results in a roughly proportional increase in cell surface HA-GLUT4 lev...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Al-Hasani H,Yver DR,Cushman SW

更新日期：1999-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication protein A (RP-A) was isolated from tobacco suspension cells and purified to near homogeneity by a procedure involving isolation of protoplasts, preparation of nuclei, nuclear lysis, binding to a column of single-stranded (ss) DNA cellulose and elution at different salt concentrations. The purified protein ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garcia-Maya MM,Buck KW

更新日期：1997-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The orientation of the transition dipole moments in the ground state and the M-intermediate of bacteriorhodopsin were determined by time-resolved and steady-state polarized absorption spectroscopy on samples of oriented immobilized purple membranes. The angle between the transition dipole moment and the membrane norma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Otto H,Heyn MP

更新日期：1991-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The L1CAM antibody A10-A3 efficiently reduces tumor growth in a nude mouse model. Here, we describe the crystal structure of the Fab fragment of A10-A3 determined at 2.0 angstrom resolution. The A10-A3 antibody H3 loop reveals a characteristic arrangement of exposed aromatic residues that may play an important role in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wei CH,Lee ES,Jeon JY,Heo YS,Kim SJ,Jeon YH,Kim KH,Hong HJ,Ryu SE

更新日期：2011-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C Virus core protein (HCVc) plays important roles in the development of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) contribute to tumor progression by interacting with downstream target genes. However, the regulation and role of miRNAs in HCV-related intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (HCV-ICC) is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zeng B,Li Z,Chen R,Guo N,Zhou J,Zhou Q,Lin Q,Cheng D,Liao Q,Zheng L,Gong Y

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Trace amounts of gangliosides were found in rabbit skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum and their main part was shown, by high performance thin layer chromatography. to be GM3. Addition of GM3 to the soybean phospholipids used for reconstitution of proteoliposomes markedly increased ATP hydrolysis as well as Ca2+ up...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang LH,Tu YP,Yang XY,Tsui ZC,Yang FY

更新日期：1996-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the dimeric C-terminal domain of the HIV-1 capsid protein (CA), recently determined by X-ray crystallography (Gamble et al. (1997)), has a notable resemblance to the structure of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) capsid protein (Cp) dimer, previously determined by cryo-electron microscopy (Conway et al. (19...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zlotnick A,Stahl SJ,Wingfield PT,Conway JF,Cheng N,Steven AC

更新日期：1998-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of T lymphocytes results in an increase in intracellular Ca2+ due in large part to influx of extracellular Ca2+. Using the patch clamp technique, an inward current in Jurkat T lymphocytes was observed upon depolarization from a holding potential of -90 mV but not from -60 mV. This whole-cell current was ins...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Densmore JJ,Szabo G,Gray LS

更新日期：1992-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of CMP-N-acetylneuraminate:GM1 sialyltransferase (SAT IV) activity of rat liver Golgi apparatus on GM1 ganglioside ceramide composition was evaluated. SAT IV activity was assayed on GM1 molecular species carrying homogeneous ceramide moieties containing long chain bases of different length (18 or 20 C a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pitto M,Palestini P,Masserini M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic animals are vulnerable to cold stress. Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) play an important role in regulating thermogenesis. We investigated the gene expressions of UCPs in brown adipose tissue (BAT), white adipose tissue (WAT), liver and gastrocnemius muscle of STZ-diabetic rats using N...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kageyama H,Suga A,Kashiba M,Oka J,Osaka T,Kashiwa T,Hirano T,Nemoto K,Namba Y,Ricquier D,Giacobino JP,Inoue S

更新日期：1998-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of point mutation within the putative 11th transmembrane domain (TM11) of the Na(+)/H(+) exchanger NHE1 on the plasma membrane expression. Of the 19 mutants tested, two mutants (Tyr454 or Arg458 replaced by Cys) were retained in the endoplasmic reticulum. Interestingly, Y454C was expressed on the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wakabayashi S,Pang T,Su X,Shigekawa M

更新日期：2000-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A catalytic sequence motif PDX10-30(E/D)XK is found in many restriction enzymes. On the basis of sequence similarities and mapping of the conserved residues to the crystal structure of NgoMIV we suggest that residues D160, K182, R186, R188 and E195 contribute to the catalytic/DNA binding site of the Ecl18kI restrictio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tamulaitis G,Solonin AS,Siksnys V

更新日期：2002-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the cDNA cloning and characterization of a novel short-chain isoprenyl diphosphate synthase from the aphid Myzus persicae. Of the three IPPS cDNAs we cloned, two yielded prenyltransferase activity following expression in Escherichia coli; these cDNAs encode identical proteins except for the presence, in o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vandermoten S,Charloteaux B,Santini S,Sen SE,Béliveau C,Vandenbol M,Francis F,Brasseur R,Cusson M,Haubruge E

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:EcL-DER, the aspartate/glutamate racemase from the pathogen Escherichia coli O157, exhibits racemase activity for l-aspartate and l-glutamate. This study reports the crystal structures of apo-EcL-DER, the EcL-DER-l-aspartate and the EcL-DER-d-aspartate complexes. The EcL-DER structure contains two domains, forming pse...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu X,Gao F,Ma Y,Liu S,Cui Y,Yuan Z,Kang X

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver microsomes contain a vitamin K and O2-dependent carboxylase that converts peptide-bound glutamyl residues to gamma-carboxyglutamate residues. The peptide Boc-O-phospho-Ser-O-phospho-Ser-Leu-OMe has now been synthesized. This peptide inhibits the carboxylation of endogenous protein precursors by a detergent-solub...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rich DH,Kawai M,Goodman HL,Engelke J,Suttie JW

更新日期：1983-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel protein that binds specifically to the intracellular domain of the p55 tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor was cloned by two-hybrid screening of a HeLa cell cDNA library. Data bank searches revealed high sequence similarity of the protein (55.11) to yeast, nematode and plant proteins, whose functions are yet ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boldin MP,Mett IL,Wallach D

更新日期：1995-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast genes involved in thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) synthesis are transcriptionally induced in response to thiamin starvation. In this system, three proteins (Thi2p, Thi3p, and Pdc2p) act as positive regulatory factors. Thi3p is a TPP-binding protein and upregulates THI genes expression when TPP is not bound. We found...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nosaka K,Onozuka M,Konno H,Akaji K

更新日期：2008-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The relevance of MDR-1 gene expression to the multidrug resistance phenotype was investigated. Drug-resistant cells, KB-V1 and MCF7/ADR, constantly expressed mRNA of the MDR-1 gene and were more resistant to vinblastine and adriamycin than drug-sensitive cells, KB-3-1 and MCF7. The drug efflux rate of KB-V1 was the sa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim HM,Oh GT,Hong DH,Kim MS,Kang JS,Park SM,Han SB

更新日期：1997-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a nonenzymatic reaction which results in the radiolabeling of proteins by 32P-containing nucleoside triphosphates. The labeling reaction does not require any cofactors, but is greatly enhanced by the presence of alcohols. Even under optimal conditions, less than 1% of the protein molecules undergo modificati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schmidt MC,Hanna MM

更新日期：1986-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the purification and the analysis of the structural and functional properties of distinctin, a 5.4 kDa heterodimeric peptide with antimicrobial activity from the tree-frog Phyllomedusa distincta. This peptide was isolated from the crude extract of skin granular glands by different chromatographic steps...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Batista CV,Scaloni A,Rigden DJ,Silva LR,Rodrigues Romero A,Dukor R,Sebben A,Talamo F,Bloch C

更新日期：2001-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In human colon carcinoma HT-29 Glc(-/+) cells, L-arginine is the common precursor of polyamines which are absolutely necessary for cellular proliferation and nitric oxide (NO) with reported anti-proliferative activity. The aim of the present work was to test the effect of the NO donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on pol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Blachier F,Robert V,Selamnia M,Mayeur C,Duee PH

更新日期：1996-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that hyperthermia promotes oxygen-centered free radical formation in cells; however, to date there is no direct evidence of this heat-induced increase in oxygen free radical flux. Using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spin trapping, we sought direct evidence for free radical generation d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Flanagan SW,Moseley PL,Buettner GR

更新日期：1998-07-17 00:00:00