Mammalian ribonucleases. The absence of a glycosylated Asn-Pro-Thr sequence in horse ribonuclease and the presence of tryptophan at position 39 in horse and dromedary ribonuclease.

abstract：:The conversion of the cellular prion protein into the beta-sheet-rich scrapie prion protein is thought to be the key step in the pathogenesis of prion diseases. To gain insight into this structural conversion, we analyzed the intrinsic structural propensity of the amino acid sequence of the murine prion C-terminal dom...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jamin N,Coïc YM,Landon C,Ovtracht L,Baleux F,Neumann JM,Sanson A

更新日期：2002-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the quaternary agent meproadifen on ACh-activated channel currents were studied on myoballs cultured from hind limb muscles of neonatal rats. Meproadifen (0.02-0.1 microM) combined with ACh (0.1-0.3 microM) in the patch pipette caused an increase, followed by a decrease, in the frequency of channel open...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aracava Y,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1984-09-03 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：:A novel gene named fad104 (factor for adipocyte differentiation-104), whose expression level quickly increased in the early stage of adipogenesis, was isolated and characterized. The deduced amino acid sequence of fad104 revealed the possible presence of a fibronectin type III domain and transmembrane domain. The expr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tominaga K,Kondo C,Johmura Y,Nishizuka M,Imagawa M

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cold exposure and T4 administration on fructose 2,6-bisphosphate levels, phosphofructokinase-2 and pyruvate kinase activities were examined in rat brown adipose tissue. Cold adaptation (14 days) gave rise to a 2-fold increase in the amount of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate and phosphofructokinase-2 activity,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sobrino F,Gualberto A,Pintado E

更新日期：1988-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:African horse sickness virus (AHSV), a member of the orbivirus genus of the family Reoviridae, is an insect-vectored pathogen of horses of concern to the equine industry. Studies on AHSV replication and pathogenesis have been hampered by the lack of reverse genetics allowing targeted mutation of viral genomes. We demo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsuo E,Celma CC,Roy P

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The photophobic receptor (psRII) and its transducer pHtrII from Natronobacterium pharaonis were heterologously coexpressed in the phototaxis-deficient Halobacterium salinarium strain Pho81/w which lacks all four bacterial rhodopsins, i.e. the two ion pumps bacteriorhodopsin and halorhodopsin as well as the two sensory...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lüttenberg B,Wolff EK,Engelhard M

更新日期：1998-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases mediate cellular responses to a wide variety of stimuli. Activation of a MAP kinase occurs after phosphorylation by an upstream dual-specificity protein kinase, known as a MAP kinase kinase or MEK. The Arabidopsis thaliana genome encodes 10 MEKs but few of these have been shown ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Melikant B,Giuliani C,Halbmayer-Watzina S,Limmongkon A,Heberle-Bors E,Wilson C

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA from intact rat pancreatic islets, or from transformed hamster beta (HIT) cells, hybridized with the cDNA probe for type I (but not type II) phospholipase A2. The levels of phospholipase A2 mRNA increased in islets from fasted rats; they decreased in islets cultured in a high glucose concentration (contr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Metz S,Holmes D,Robertson RP,Leitner W,Draznin B

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconstituted Na+,K+-ATPase from either pig kidney or shark rectal glands was phosphorylated by cAMP dependent protein kinase, PKA. The stoichiometry was approximately 0.9 mol P(i)/mol alpha-subunit in the pig kidney enzyme and approximately 0.2 mol P(i)/mol alpha-subunit in the shark enzyme. In shark, Na+,K+-ATPase P...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cornelius F,Logvinenko N

更新日期：1996-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:VinJ is an amidohydrolase belonging to the serine peptidase family that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the terminal aminoacyl moiety of a polyketide intermediate during the biosynthesis of vicenistatin. Herein, we report the crystal structure of VinJ. VinJ possesses a unique hydrophobic tunnel for the recognition of the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shinohara Y,Miyanaga A,Kudo F,Eguchi T

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic analyses of cpTat-mediated protein transport across the thylakoid membrane were conducted, revealing three important characteristics of this translocation pathway. First, transport via the cpTAT system displays a non-Michaelis-Menten, sigmoidal rate-substrate relationship with an apparent Hill coefficient of 1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Alder NN,Theg SM

更新日期：2003-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein factor which inhibited adenylate cyclase was purified to apparent homogeneity from rat brain and identified as the beta gamma-subunits of the GTP-binding regulatory proteins of adenylate cyclase. (i) The beta gamma-subunits (protein factor) inhibited the partially purified catalytic unit of adenylate cyclase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Enomoto K,Asakawa T

更新日期：1986-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The F(1)F(0) ATP synthase has been purified from the hyperthermophilic eubacterium Aquifex aeolicus and characterized. Its subunits have been identified by MALDI-mass spectrometry through peptide mass fingerprinting and MS/MS. It contains the canonical subunits alpha, beta, gamma, delta and epsilon of F(1) and subunit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peng G,Bostina M,Radermacher M,Rais I,Karas M,Michel H

更新日期：2006-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of the catalytic domain of MMP-20, a member of the matrix metalloproteinases family not yet structurally characterized, complexed with N-Isobutyl-N-(4-methoxyphenylsulfonyl)glycyl hydroxamic acid (NNGH), is here reported and compared with other MMPs-NNGH adducts. The backbone dynamic has been ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arendt Y,Banci L,Bertini I,Cantini F,Cozzi R,Del Conte R,Gonnelli L

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone encoding cholesterol side-chain cleavage cytochrome P450 (P450scc) was isolated from a rainbow trout ovarian follicle cDNA library. The cDNA contains an open reading frame of 1,542 nucleotides encoding a protein of 514 amino acids. The predicted amino acid sequence of trout P450scc shows 48% homology with...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takahashi M,Tanaka M,Sakai N,Adachi S,Miller WL,Nagahama Y

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CDK11(p58), a 58kDa protein of the PITSLRE kinase family, plays an important role in cell cycle progression, and is closely related to cell apoptosis. To gain further insight into the function of CDK11(p58), we screened a human fetal liver cDNA library for its interacting proteins using the yeast two-hybrid system. He...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zong H,Li Z,Liu L,Hong Y,Yun X,Jiang J,Chi Y,Wang H,Shen X,Hu Y,Niu Z,Gu J

更新日期：2005-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The prohormone convertase PC2 is one of the major subtilisin/kexin-like enzymes responsible for the formation of small bioactive peptides in neural and endocrine cells. This convertase is unique among the members of the subtilisin/kexin-like mammalian serine proteinase family in that it undergoes zymogen processing of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benjannet S,Mamarbachi AM,Hamelin J,Savaria D,Munzer JS,Chrétien M,Seidah NG

更新日期：1998-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic biosynthesis of carotenoids in the purple facultative photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides was studied using mass spectrometry. We have demonstrated that (18)O from H2(18)O was incorporated into the 1-methoxy group of spheroidene and spheroidenone, the two major carotenoids produced by this bacte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yeliseev AA,Kaplan S

更新日期：1997-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the nuclear organization of the mouse Ig kappa locus and how it may relate to the formation of synapses during recombination, we have studied the kinetics of rearrangement of different V kappa gene families to J kappa gene segments in the pre-B cell line, 103bcl2. Remarkably, V kappa gene families...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li S,Garrard WT

更新日期：2003-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:ABCA3 mutations cause fatal surfactant deficiency and interstitial lung disease. ABCA3 protein is a lipid transporter indispensible for surfactant biogenesis and storage in lamellar bodies (LB). The protein folds in endoplasmic reticulum and is glycosylated in Golgi en route to the membrane of mature LB and their prec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Engelbrecht S,Kaltenborn E,Griese M,Kern S

更新日期：2010-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-induced order/disorder transition profiles were obtained from the membranes of intact Gram-negative bacterial cells by FT-IR analysis of the frequency shifts of the acyl chain methylene symmetric stretching band as a monitor. Cells grown at different temperatures yielded distinct transition profiles. At th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schultz C,Naumann D

更新日期：1991-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dark-adapted isolated spinach chloroplasts and leaves, unlike sub-chloroplast fractions, are capable of emitting ultraweak light spontaneously (50-125 counts/s per cm2). The emission of leaves is due to two processes with activation energies of 97 and 25 kJ/mol while in isolated chloroplasts, it is the result of a sin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hideg E,Kobayashi M,Inaba H

更新日期：1990-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular distribution of DNA methyltransferase has been analyzed in synchronously proliferating human cells. The localization of DNA methyltransferase was determined immunocytochemically using monoclonal antibodies directed against this enzyme. DNA methyltransferase was found to accumulate predominantly in nu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vogel MC,Papadopoulos T,Müller-Hermelink HK,Drahovsky D,Pfeifer GP

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a monoclonal antibody as conformational probe it has been shown that the weakly active nicked-beta 2 dimer of tryptophan synthase generated by proteolytic cleavage at Glu-296, does not undergo on association with alpha subunit a conformational change known to occur in intact beta 2 subunit. This alpha induced co...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Linkens HJ,Djavadi-Ohaniance L,Goldberg ME

更新日期：1993-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A native female-specific chemoreceptive protein of a swallowtail butterfly [oviposition stimulant binding protein (OSBP)] was shown to specifically bind to aristolochic acid, a main stimulant for oviposition from its host plant. Oviposition stimulants are recognized by chemoreceptive organs of insects. OSBP isolated p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsuchihara K,Wazawa T,Ishii Y,Yanagida T,Nishida R,Zheng XG,Ishiguro M,Yoshihara K,Hisatomi O,Tokunaga F

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins support neuronal survival, development, and plasticity through processes requiring gene expression. We studied how vgf target gene transcription is mediated by a critical promoter region containing E-box, CCAAT and cAMP response element (CRE) sites. The p300 acetylase was present in two distinct protein ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mandolesi G,Gargano S,Pennuto M,Illi B,Molfetta R,Soucek L,Mosca L,Levi A,Jucker R,Nasi S

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hst1At (accession number AB018695) was identified from the Arabidopsis thaliana sequencing project on BAC T3F12, and the corresponding cDNA was isolated by reverse transcription-PCR. Southern blot analysis reveals a single copy of this gene. The cDNA encodes a root specific sulfate transporter of 649 amino acids. Hete...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vidmar JJ,Tagmount A,Cathala N,Touraine B,Davidian JE

更新日期：2000-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial ADP/ATP carriers (AACs) catalyze the exchange of cytosolic ADP for matrix ATP. We have identified and characterized a novel member of the AAC subfamily of mitochondrial metabolite transport proteins, termed AAC4. The AAC4 gene maps to human chromosome 4q28.1, and its product AAC4 is 66-68% identical ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dolce V,Scarcia P,Iacopetta D,Palmieri F

更新日期：2005-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-107 (miR-107) has been demonstrated to regulate proliferation and apoptosis in many types of cancers. Nevertheless, its biological function in gastric cancer remains largely unexplored. Here, we found that the expression level of miR-107 was increased in gastric cancer in comparison with the adjacent normal t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li F,Liu B,Gao Y,Liu Y,Xu Y,Tong W,Zhang A

更新日期：2014-02-14 00:00:00