Transbilayer reorientation of platelet-activating factor in the erythrocyte membrane.

abstract：:Vitamin D3, cholecalciferol, induces cell-cell communication via gap junctions in murine fibroblasts (C3H/10T 1/2 cells) at concentrations between 0.01 and 1.0 microM, as assayed by the dye transfer method using Lucifer yellow CH. The extent of induction is similar to that obtained with the positive controls, canthaxa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stahl W,Nicolai S,Hanusch M,Sies H

更新日期：1994-09-19 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：:Retinal dehydrogenase (RALDH) catalyzes the oxidation of retinal to all-trans and 9-cis retinoic acid, which function as ligands controlling RAR and RXR nuclear receptor-signaling pathways. We have recently shown the expression of RALDH transcript in the stomach and small intestine by reverse transcription polymerase ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bhat PV

更新日期：1998-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:RKIP was first identified as an inhibitor of the Raf-MEK-ERK signaling pathway. RKIP was also found to play an important role in the NF-kappaB pathway. Genetic and biochemical studies demonstrated that RKIP functioned as a scaffold protein facilitating the phosphorylation of IkappaB by upstream kinases. However, contr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tang H,Park S,Sun SC,Trumbly R,Ren G,Tsung E,Yeung KC

更新日期：2010-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaves and chloroplasts from Arabidopsis plants with increased amounts of PsbS protein showed the same percentage increase in nonphotochemical quenching in comparison to the wild type both in the presence and absence of zeaxanthin. The absorption change at 525-535 nm was also more pronounced in both cases. It is sugge...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Crouchman S,Ruban A,Horton P

更新日期：2006-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal microbiota is essential for nutrient acquisition, immune development, and exclusion of invading pathogens. The upper respiratory tract (URT) microbiota is less well studied and does not appear to abide by many of the paradigms of the gastrointestinal tract. Decades of carriage studies in children have d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schenck LP,Surette MG,Bowdish DM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association reactions of a recombinant CFTR-NBF-2 polypeptide fused to glutathione S-transferase with guanine nucleotides were monitored quantitatively by recording the fluorescence enhancement of excited trinitrophenol (TNP)-labelled GTP after binding to NBF-2. Binding of TNP-GTP to the recombinant NBF-2 polypeptide ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Randak C,Neth P,Auerswald EA,Assfalg-Machleidt I,Roscher AA,Hadorn HB,Machleidt W

更新日期：1996-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominance of oxidative stress in many tumour cell environments provides a means to selectively target these cells via protein oxidation. The zinc fingers of transcription factors utilise cysteine thiols for structural zinc coordination. Redox control of DNA binding regulates transcription and therefore the over...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giles NM,Gutowski NJ,Giles GI,Jacob C

更新日期：2003-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to demonstrate the unique specificity of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100. Calcium flux assays with selected chemokine/cell combinations, affording distinct chemokine receptor specificities, revealed no interaction of AMD3100 with any of the chemokine receptors CXCR1 through CX...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hatse S,Princen K,Bridger G,De Clercq E,Schols D

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence comparisons among methionyl-tRNA synthetases from different organisms reveal only one block of homology beyond the last beta strand of the mononucleotide fold. We have introduced a series of semi-conservative amino acid replacements in the conserved motif of yeast methionyl-tRNA synthetase. The results indica...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Despons L,Walter P,Senger B,Ebel JP,Fasiolo F

更新日期：1991-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We established a medium-scale real-time RT-PCR system focusing on transcription factors and applied it to their expression profiles in the adult mouse 11 brain regions (http://genome.gsc.riken.jp/qRT-PCR/). Almost 90% of the examined genes showed significant expression in at least one region. We successfully extracted...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Suzuki H,Okunishi R,Hashizume W,Katayama S,Ninomiya N,Osato N,Sato K,Nakamura M,Iida J,Kanamori M,Hayashizaki Y

更新日期：2004-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific binding sites for 3,3'-T2 can be detected in swollen and osmotically treated mitochondria (OTM) from normal and hypothyroid rat liver. In hypothyroid animals, maximal values of binding were obtained at 0 degrees C while values were lower at 37 degrees C and no specific binding could be observed at 60 degrees ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lanni A,Moreno M,Horst C,Lombardi A,Goglia F

更新日期：1994-09-05 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：:Apomyoglobin is a widely used model for studying the molecular mechanisms of globular protein folding. This work aimed to analyze the effects of rigidity and length of loops linking protein secondary structure elements on the stability of the molten globule intermediate state. For this purpose, we studied folding/unfo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Majorina MA,Balobanov VA,Uversky VN,Melnik BS

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously obtained evidence for intrinsic aminopeptidase activity for leukotriene (LT)A4 hydrolase, an enzyme characterized to specifically catalyse the hydrolysis of LTA4 to LTB4, a chemotactic compound. From a sequence homology search between LTA4 hydrolase and several aminopeptidases, it became clear that they ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Minami M,Bito H,Ohishi N,Tsuge H,Miyano M,Mori M,Wada H,Mutoh H,Shimada S,Izumi T

更新日期：1992-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta), the major constituent of senile plaques in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain, is the main source of oxidative stress leading to neurodegeneration. The methionine residue in this peptide is reported to be responsible for neurotoxicity. Structurally similar substitution with methionine 35 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dai XL,Sun YX,Jiang ZF

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Stopped-flow kinetics showed that the inhibition of the lysosomal cysteine proteinase, cathepsin B, by its endogenous inhibitor, cystatin C, occurs by a two-step mechanism, in which an initial, weak interaction is followed by a conformational change. The initial interaction most likely involves binding of the N-termin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nycander M,Estrada S,Mort JS,Abrahamson M,Björk I

更新日期：1998-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic modification of lysozyme was attempted to improve the bactericidal activity against Gram-negative bacteria E. coli. The different lengths of hydrophobic peptides were attached to the C-terminus of the hen egg white lysozyme to investigate the most effective length of the hydrophobic peptides for killing ba...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arima H,Ibrahim HR,Kinoshita T,Kato A

更新日期：1997-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic processing is an important post-translational modification affecting protein activity and stability. In the current study, we investigate the N-terminal cleavage of Trop2, a protein which is overexpressed in many cancers. We demonstrate that Trop2 is cleaved at Arg87 by a transmembrane serine protease, mat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kamble PR,Rane S,Breed AA,Joseph S,Mahale SD,Pathak BR

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a Xenopus P2Y receptor that shares only weak homology with members of the mammalian P2Y family, being most similar to human P2Y(11). When activated by nucleotide analogs, it stimulates both calcium and cAMP mobilization pathways, a feature unique, among mammalian P2Y receptors, to P2Y(11). Activity can be ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Devader C,Drew CM,Geach TJ,Tabler J,Townsend-Nicholson A,Dale L

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyphosphates (polyP) are long chains of inorganic phosphates that can be attached to lysine residues of target proteins as a nonenzymatic post-translational modification. This modification, termed polyphosphorylation, may be particularly prevalent in bacterial and fungal species that synthesize large quantities of p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McCarthy L,Bentley-DeSousa A,Denoncourt A,Tseng YC,Gabriel M,Downey M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellulases cellobiohydrolase 1 (CBH 1) and endoglucanase 1 (EG 1) from the fungus Trichoderma reesei are closely related with 40% sequence identity and very similar in structure. In CBH 1 the active site is enclosed by long loops and some antiparallel beta-strands forming a 40 A long tunnel, whereas in EG 1 part o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Henriksson H,Ståhlberg J,Isaksson R,Pettersson G

更新日期：1996-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Deoxyglucose and 5-thioglucose, in the same fashion as glucose, cause the inactivation of the rat hepatocyte glycogen phosphorylase and the activation of glycogen synthase. However, 6-deoxyglucose and 1,5-anhydroglucitol inactivate phosphorylase without increasing the activation state of glycogen synthase. With 3-O-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carabaza A,Ciudad CJ,Baqué S,Guinovart JJ

更新日期：1992-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:trans-3-Chloroacrylic acid dehalogenase (CaaD) catalyzes the hydrolytic dehalogenation of trans-3-haloacrylates to yield malonate semialdehyde by a mechanism utilizing βPro-1, αArg-8, αArg-11, and αGlu-52. These residues are implicated in a promiscuous hydratase activity where 2-oxo-3-pentynoate is processed to acetop...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Poelarends GJ,Serrano H,Huddleston JP,Johnson WH Jr,Whitman CP

更新日期：2013-09-02 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：:Choroidal melanoma (CM) remains the most prevalent form of intraocular malignancy, and the prognosis of affected patients is poor. While the E3 ubiquitin ligase TRAF-interacting protein (TRIP) is known to play key regulatory roles in multiple diseases, its relevance in CM remains uncertain. In the present study, we fo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wei C,Zhao X,Wang L,Zhang H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the brain inwardly rectifying potassium channel Kir7.1 subunits are predominantly expressed in the choroid plexus and meninges. To investigate this tissue-specific expression pattern, we characterized the genomic organization and the 5' proximal promoter of the rat Kir7.1 gene (Kcnj13). Starting from the major tran...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Döring F,Karschin A

更新日期：2000-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional hydrophobic clusters analysis (HCA) was used to compare the distribution of hydrophobic clusters along various actin sequence. HCA-deduced patterns were not altered by amino-acid variations throughout the evolution of actin and we observed similar hydrophobic motifs comprising myosin subfragment-1 ATP-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Labbé JP,Boyer M,Benyamin Y

更新日期：1995-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A modular microscope-based screening platform, with applications in large-scale analysis of protein function in intact cells is described. It includes automated sample preparation, image acquisition, data management and analysis, and the genome-wide automated retrieval of bioinformatic information. The modular nature ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liebel U,Starkuviene V,Erfle H,Simpson JC,Poustka A,Wiemann S,Pepperkok R

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau is reversibly hyperphosphorylated in the mouse brain by starvation or cold water swimming. Here, we report tau phosphorylation in the hippocampus of normal mouse after ether anesthesia, known to trigger typical stress reactions. Robust phosphorylation of tau was observed immediately and 10min after ether vapor exp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ikeda Y,Ishiguro K,Fujita SC

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00