Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase immobilized in semipermeable microcapsules for enzyme replacement in phenylketonuria.

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：:alpha-Dystroglycan was quantitatively enriched from mammalian brain based on its uniform reactivity with Vicia villosa agglutinin and resolved into sub-populations possessing or lacking the sulfated glucuronic acid epitope recognized by monoclonal antibody HNK-1. We generated a new monoclonal antibody specific for a g...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McDearmon EL,Combs AC,Sekiguchi K,Fujiwara H,Ervasti JM

更新日期：2006-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) ligands have been shown to inhibit the effects of proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta). This cytokine plays a key role in articular pathophysiologies by inducing the production of inflammatory mediators such as nitric oxide (NO) and...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boyault S,Bianchi A,Moulin D,Morin S,Francois M,Netter P,Terlain B,Bordji K

更新日期：2004-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this investigation was to study the effect of intramitochondrial acyl-CoA on the respiration of rabbit heart mitochondria over the whole range of stationary respiratory rates between States 4 and 3. The creatine phosphokinase system was used for stabilization of extramitochondrial adenine nucleotide concent...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Borutaite V,Mildaziene V,Ivanoviene L,Kholodenko B,Toleikis A,Praskevicius A

更新日期：1989-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Using reverse transcription followed by PCR amplification (RT-PCR), we have identified multiple messenger RNAs encoding for the neuronal pore-forming Ca(2+) channel subunits alpha(1A) (P/Q channel), alpha(1B) (N channel), alpha(1D) (neuronal/endocrine L channel), alpha(1E) (R channel), alpha(1G-H) (T channel) and alph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： García-Palomero E,Cuchillo-Ibáñez I,García AG,Renart J,Albillos A,Montiel C

更新日期：2000-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated enzymatic deglycosylation of glucoamylase from Aspergillus awamori X 100/D27, a glycoprotein which has two N-linked and about forty short mannose-bearing O-linked sugars per molecule. O-Linked sugars were modified by treatment with alpha-mannosidase and N-linked sugars were removed using...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Neustroev KN,Golubev AM,Firsov LM,Ibatullin FM,Protasevich II,Makarov AA

更新日期：1993-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Two free radical scavengers, bioflavonoid rutin and the copper-rutin complex Cu(Rut)Cl2, inhibited lucigenin-amplified chemiluminescence and lipid peroxidation in rat liver microsomes, Cu(Rut)Cl2 being a 5-9 times more efficient inhibitor than rutin. The enhanced inhibitory activity of Cu(Rut)Cl2 was due to the presen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Afanas'ev IB,Ostrachovich EA,Korkina LG

更新日期：1998-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The gatC, gatA and gatB genes encoding the three subunits of glutamyl-tRNA(Gln) amidotransferase from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, an acidophilic bacterium used in bioleaching of minerals, have been cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. As in Bacillus subtilis the three gat genes are organized in an operon-like...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Salazar JC,Zúñiga R,Raczniak G,Becker H,Söll D,Orellana O

更新日期：2001-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mg2+ -dependent catechol-O-methyltransferases occur in animals as well as in bacteria, fungi and plants, often with a pronounced selectivity towards one of the substrate's hydroxyl groups. Here, we show that the bacterial MxSafC exhibits excellent regioselectivity for para as well as for meta methylation, depending on...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Siegrist J,Netzer J,Mordhorst S,Karst L,Gerhardt S,Einsle O,Richter M,Andexer JN

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Locus control regions (LCRs) are cis-acting elements that confer position-independent and copy-number-dependent expression upon associated genes in transgenic mice. Here we show the second example of the use of an LCR (the rat LAP LCR) in a stable expression vector system, used here in conjunction with the rat liver (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shelton PA,Dart C

更新日期：1996-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of a GPI-linked oncofetal protein (PLAP) from HEp-2 cells has been studied as an indicator of endogenous PI-specific PLC activation. A non-hydrolysable GTP analogue, EGF and insulin all produced a dose-dependent release of PLAP from these cells. This indicates that an increase in PLC activity following eit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roberts JM,Kenton P,Johnson PM

更新日期：1990-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A human insulinoma cDNA (PC2) that encodes a protein homologous to the Kex2/subtilisin-like proteinases has recently been described [1990, J. Biol. Chem. 265, 2997-3000]. In order to characterise the associated proteinase activity, mRNA encoding PC2 was synthesised in vitro and microinjected into Xenopus oocytes. The ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shennan KI,Smeekens SP,Steiner DF,Docherty K

更新日期：1991-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemoregulatory peptide PyroGlu-Glu-Asp-Cys-Lys (HP5b), which inhibits myelopoietic colony formation in vitro, is shown to be a sequence motif which is also part of the effector domain of Gi alpha proteins. Out of 8 synthetic peptides with sequence variations of HP5b, those with the closest similarity to the Gi alp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Laerum OD,Frostad S,Tøn HI,Kamp D

更新日期：1990-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of rat adipocytes with the phorbol ester TPA caused a dose-dependent, persistent increase in phosphatidate phosphohydrolase activity and decrease in fatty acyl-CoA synthetase activity. Half-maximal effects were obtained with 1-2 X 10(-10) M TPA. TPA did not alter basal or noradrenaline-stimulated lipolysis....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hall M,Taylor SJ,Saggerson ED

更新日期：1985-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural integrity may be needed for the glutathione-linked peroxidase activity of human ceruloplasmin. Intact human ceruloplasmin has a potent peroxidase property to decompose H2O2 in the presence of reduced glutathione. However, the fragment of approximately 116000 Da produced by proteolytic degradation had less t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim IG,Park SY

更新日期：1998-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The human mutT homolog, hMTH1, suppresses spontaneous mutations by degrading the endogeneous mutagen, 8-hydroxy-dGTP. We previously reported the broad substrate specificity of hMTH1, which also degrades the oxidatively damaged purine nucleotides, 2-hydroxy-dATP, 8-hydroxy-dATP, 2-hydroxy-ATP, and 8-hydroxy-GTP, in add...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fujikawa K,Yakushiji H,Nakabeppu Y,Suzuki T,Masuda M,Ohshima H,Kasai H

更新日期：2002-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the molecular cloning, nucleotide sequence, and predicted amino acid sequence of an alpha-subunit of the developmentally useful model, Artemia. The amino acid sequence shows divergence from that of mammals, birds, Torpedo, and Drosophila. However, regions in the putative ATP binding and transmembrane do...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baxter-Lowe LA,Guo JZ,Bergstrom EE,Hokin LE

更新日期：1989-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:CAP (c-Cbl associated protein)/ponsin belongs to a family of adaptor proteins implicated in cell adhesion and signaling. Here we show that CAP binds to and co-localizes with the essential endocytic factor dynamin. We demonstrate that CAP promotes the formation of dynamin-decorated tubule like structures, which are als...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tosoni D,Cestra G

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Both soluble and microsomal fractions of Fusarium oxysporum contain cytochrome P-450(P-450). We report here that the P-450 in the soluble fraction was induced only when nitrate or nitrite was added to the growth medium, whereas the microsomal P-450 was synthesized regardless of the medium compositions. The reduced-CO ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shoun H,Suyama W,Yasui T

更新日期：1989-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a unified framework for the identification of functional interaction structures of biomolecular networks in a way that leads to a new experimental design procedure. In developing our approach, we have built upon previous work. Thus we begin by pointing out some of the restrictions associated with existing s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cho KH,Choo SM,Wellstead P,Wolkenhauer O

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The UDP-GlcNAc:lysosomal enzyme, N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphotransferase (GlcNAc-1-PT), is an α2 β2 γ2 hexamer that mediates the initial step in the formation of the mannose 6-phosphate targeting signal on newly synthesized lysosomal acid hydrolases. The GNPTAB gene encodes the 1256 amino acid long α/β precursor whic...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu L,Lee WS,Doray B,Kornfeld S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (formerly Methanococcus jannaschii) protein Mj0968 has been reported to represent a soluble P-type ATPase [Ogawa et al., FEBS Lett. 471 (2000) 99-102]. In this study, we report that the heterologously expressed Mj0968-His(10) protein exhibits high rates of phosphatase activity, wherea...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bramkamp M,Gassel M,Herkenhoff-Hesselmann B,Bertrand J,Altendorf K

更新日期：2003-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin 14 (SS 14) has been isolated from pancreatic extracts, but open gel filtration immunoreactive SS often elutes in two peaks. We isolated both peaks, but upon sequence analysis only authentic SS 14 could be identified. By further gel filtration experiments it turned out that both synthetic and extractable S...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bersani M,Johnsen AH,Holst JJ

更新日期：1991-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In C4 plants the activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC; EC 4.1.1.31) is regulated by phosphorylation/dephosphorylation which is mediated by light/dark signals. The study using protein kinase inhibitors showed that the inhibition pattern of maize PEPC-protein kinase (PEPC-PK) is similar to that of myosin li...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ogawa N,Okumura S,Izui K

更新日期：1992-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium release from internal stores of Entamoeba histolytica, a parasitic protozoan, was observed by measuring fluorescence of Fura-2. Emptying of inositol(1,4,5)trisphosphate (Ins(1,4,5)P3)-sensitive calcium pools in permeabilized E. histolytica did not significantly affect subsequent calcium release by inositol(1,3...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Raha S,Giri B,Bhattacharyya B,Biswas BB

更新日期：1995-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae causes the cholera disease through secretion of cholera toxin (CT), resulting in severe diarrhoea by modulation of membrane transporters in the intestinal epithelium. Genes encoding membrane-spanning transporters identified as being differentially expressed during cholera disease in a microarray screen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Flach CF,Qadri F,Bhuiyan TR,Alam NH,Jennische E,Holmgren J,Lönnroth I

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate ozone damage to hairless mouse skin, two parameters of oxidative damage, vitamin E depletion and malondialdehyde (MDA) production, were measured in vitamin E-enriched and in control skin from mice exposed to ozone (10 ppm). A 5% vitamin E solution (tocotrienol-rich fraction, TRF) in polyethylene glycol (PE...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thiele JJ,Traber MG,Podda M,Tsang K,Cross CE,Packer L

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The selectively red excited emission spectrum, at room temperature, of the in vitro reconstituted Lhca4, has a pronounced non-equilibrium distribution, leading to enhanced emission from the directly excited low-energy pigments. Two different emitting forms (or states), with maximal emission at 713 and 735nm (F713 and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zucchelli G,Morosinotto T,Garlaschi FM,Bassi R,Jennings RC

更新日期：2005-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation of Asp198 to Asn in the receptor for glucagon-like peptide-1(7-36)amide (GLP-1) had no effect upon GLP-1 affinity whereas substitution with Ala greatly reduced affinity, demonstrating the importance of polarity rather than negative charge at Asp198. However, the Asp198-Ala mutation had less effect upon th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： López de Maturana R,Donnelly D

更新日期：2002-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic preconditioning (IPrec) improves post-ischemic dysfunctions of the myocardium along with activation of protein kinase C isozymes including PKCdelta. Moreover, expression of cardio-protective determinants can reduce ischemic damages. Because IPrec is limited in aged hearts, we assessed in an experimental model...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bartling B,Hilgefort C,Friedrich I,Silber RE,Simm A

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00