The cleavable prepiece of an imported mitochondrial protein is sufficient to direct cytosolic dihydrofolate reductase into the mitochondrial matrix.

abstract：:The O-chain polysaccharide (O-PS) of Bordetella avium was isolated from the lipopolysaccharide by mild acid hydrolysis to remove the lipid A, followed by hydrofluorolysis to remove the lipopolysaccharide core oligosaccharide leaving a residual O-PS for structural analysis. High resolution (1)H and (13)C NMR and MALDI ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Larocque S,Brisson JR,Thérisod H,Perry MB,Caroff M

更新日期：2003-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcellular fractionation revealed that a significant fraction of total sphingosine kinase, the enzyme that phosphorylates sphingosine to form the bioactive lipid metabolite sphingosine-1-phosphate, resides in the nuclei of Swiss 3T3 cells, localized to both the nuclear envelope and the nucleoplasm. Platelet-derived g...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kleuser B,Maceyka M,Milstien S,Spiegel S

更新日期：2001-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat soleus muscle strips cultured for 24 h in medium 199 were well preserved in terms of electron microscopy; ATP and creatine phosphate concentrations; rates of glucose utilization, glycogen and protein synthesis, and effects of insulin thereon. Culture led to modest changes in fluid spaces and intracellular (K+); in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stace PB,Marchington DR,Kerbey AL,Randle PJ

更新日期：1990-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell leukemia and bovine leukemia viruses have a potential transforming gene, termed X. In addition to the major open reading frame known to encode a functional protein, the X gene harbors another short open reading frame which overlaps this major one. Both of these open reading frames are found on a single sp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sagata N,Yasunaga T,Ikawa Y

更新日期：1985-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal-binding peptides in proteolytic digest maps have been identified by matrix-assisted UV laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LDTOF-MS). The plasma and milk metal transport protein chosen to demonstrate this process, histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG), was purified and then digested with trypsin; the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hutchens TW,Nelson RW,Yip TT

更新日期：1992-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the expression of formyl peptide receptor (FPR) and its functional role in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). We analyzed the expression of FPR by using ligand-binding assay with radio-labeled N-formyl-met-leu-phe (fMLF), and found that MSCs express FPR. FMLF stimulated intracellu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim MK,Min do S,Park YJ,Kim JH,Ryu SH,Bae YS

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To demonstrate the interaction of calpastatin (CS) domain L (CSL) with Cav1.2 channel, we investigated the binding of CSL with various C-terminus-derived peptides at≈free, 100 nM, 10 μM, and 1mM Ca(2+) by using the GST pull-down assay method. Besides binding with the IQ motif, CSL was also found to bind with the PreIQ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sun W,Feng R,Hu H,Guo F,Gao Q,Shao D,Yin D,Wang H,Sun X,Zhao M,Minobe E,Sun Y,Jiao G,Kameyama M,Hao L

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Low density lipoproteins are highly sensitive to oxidation by copper salts, and such peroxidation is accompanied by macrophage scavenger receptor recognition. This study shows that fresh human atherosclerotic material (aneurysms and endarterectomies) can contain detectable amounts of redox active iron and copper that ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swain J,Gutteridge JM

更新日期：1995-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Malonyl-CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase (MCAT) transfers the malonyl group from malonyl-CoA to holo-acyl carrier protein (ACP), and since malonyl-ACP is a key building block for fatty-acid biosynthesis it is considered as a promising antibacterial target. The crystal structures of MCAT from Staphylococcus aureus...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hong SK,Kim KH,Park JK,Jeong KW,Kim Y,Kim EE

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Several components of translation, e.g. eIF4E and PKR, are implicated in cancer. The e-subunit (p48) of mammalian initiation factor 3 is encoded by the Int6 gene, a common site for integration of the mouse mammary tumor virus genome, leading to the production of a truncated eukaryotic initiation factor-3e (eIF3e). Sta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mayeur GL,Hershey JW

更新日期：2002-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Zwittermicin A (ZwA) is a hybrid polyketide-non-ribosomal peptide that is thought to be biosynthesized from five proposed building blocks, including the 2,3-diaminopropionate. Candidate genes for de novo biosynthesis of 2,3-diaminopropionate, zwa5A and zwa5B, have been identified in a previous study. In this research,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhao C,Song C,Luo Y,Yu Z,Sun M

更新日期：2008-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbohydrate chains of the pathological human immunoglobulins M from two patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia were released by hydrazinolysis. The N-acetyllactosamine-type glycans were obtained by affinity chromatography on concanavalin A and fractionated by high-voltage paper electrophoresis. The primary...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cahour A,Debeire P,Hartmann L,Montreuil J,van Halbeek H,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：1984-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Most geckos are nocturnal forms and possess rod retinas, but some diurnal genera have pure-cone retinas. We isolated cDNAs encoding the diurnal gecko opsins, dg1 and dg2, similar to nocturnal gecko P521 and P467, respectively. Despite the large morphological differences between the diurnal and nocturnal gecko photorec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taniguchi Y,Hisatomi O,Yoshida M,Tokunaga F

更新日期：1999-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of respiration-driven active transport of alkali cations from E. coli cells loaded with Na+ or Li+ showed that Li+ could not be expelled from the cells like Na+. K+ accumulation, which was fast in Na+-loaded cells, was strongly inhibited in Li+-loaded cells, despite high membrane potential and respiratory r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Verkhovskaya ML,Verkhovsky MI,Wikström M

更新日期：1996-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin-depolymerising factor (ADF)/cofilin group of proteins are stimulus-responsive actin-severing proteins, members of which are regulated by reversible phosphorylation. The phosphorylation site on the maize ADF, ZmADF3, is Ser-6 but the kinase responsible is unknown [Smertenko et al., Plant J. 14 (1998) 187-193]...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Allwood EG,Smertenko AP,Hussey PJ

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence comparisons of 5 S and other ribosomal RNAs by segments can be useful in understanding anomalous primary and secondary structures and in assessing phylogenetic relationships. In a segmented analysis, the 5'-half of the Chlamydomonas reinhardii chloroplast 5 S ribosomal RNA is found to have a very close sequen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Delihas N

更新日期：1987-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A developmentally regulated exon has been identified in the 5'-alternatively spliced region of the human fast Troponin T (TnT) gene. Expressed in fetal (but not adult) muscle, this exon is homologous with the fetal exons recently described in the rabbit and rat fast TnT genes. They all exhibit a split codon organizati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Briggs MM,Maready M,Schmidt JM,Schachat F

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The polytopic transmembrane protein, Niemann-Pick C1-Like 1 (NPC1L1), is enriched in the apical membrane of small intestine absorptive enterocytes where it mediates extracellular sterol transport across the brush border membrane. It is essential for intestinal sterol absorption and is the molecular target of ezetimibe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Betters JL,Yu L

更新日期：2010-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat liver, transcription of the serine:pyruvate/alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (SPT/AGT) gene occurs from two sites, +1 and +66, in exon 1, resulting in the formation of two mRNAs, one for a precursor of mitochondrial SPT/AGT and the other for peroxisomal SPT/AGT, respectively. In this study, we attempted ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugiyama T,Uchida C,Oda T,Kitagawa M,Hayashi H,Ichiyama A

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate at which dinucleoside phosphates are cleaved by RNases is supposed to be determined by the mole fraction of enzyme-substrate complexes in which the phosphodiester moiety of a dinucleoside phosphate has a highly reactive conformation. The mole fraction of such complexes for a particular RNase depends on the na...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yakovlev GI,Bocharov AL,Moiseyev GP,Mikhaylov SN

更新日期：1985-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the subunit composition of axonemal inner-arm dynein, we examined a 38 kDa protein (p38) co-purified with a Chlamydomonas inner arm subspecies, dynein d. We found it is a novel protein conserved among a variety of organisms with motile cilia and flagella. Immunoprecipitation using specific antibody verifi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yamamoto R,Yanagisawa HA,Yagi T,Kamiya R

更新日期：2006-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Y RNAs are approximately 100 nucleotide long conserved cytoplasmic non-coding RNAs, which produce smaller RNA fragments during apoptosis. Here we show that these smaller RNA molecules are also produced in non-stressed cells and in a range of human cancerous and non-cancerous cell types. Recent reports have speculated ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nicolas FE,Hall AE,Csorba T,Turnbull C,Dalmay T

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based technique for N-terminal attachment of green fluorescent protein (GFP) to a yeast protein is described. Genomic integration of a PCR-generated loxPkanMX4loxP-yEGFP fusion cassette immediately upstream of the open reading frame (ORF) allows for selection of G418 resis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Prein B,Natter K,Kohlwein SD

更新日期：2000-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-tyrosine phosphorylation and dephosphorylation are directly associated with cellular growth, signal transduction, and neoplastic transformation. Here we report the isolation of a complementary DNA (cDNA) clone encoding a novel protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) from a human T cell PEER cDNA library. The predic...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adachi M,Sekiya M,Miyachi T,Matsuno K,Hinoda Y,Imai K,Yachi A

更新日期：1992-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Engrailed-2 (En-2) belongs to an evolutionarily conserved family of DNA binding homeodomain-containing proteins that are expressed in mammalian brain during development. Here, we demonstrate that serine 267 in the homeodomain of En-2 is phosphorylated by protein kinase A (PKA) in forskolin-treated COS-7 cells. Further...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hjerrild M,Stensballe A,Jensen ON,Gammeltoft S,Rasmussen TE

更新日期：2004-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid synthase (Fasn) is a key component of energy metabolism that is dynamically induced by food intake. Although extensive studies have revealed a number of transcription factors involved in the fasting/refeeding transition of Fasn expression in hepatocytes, much less evidence is available for adipocytes. Using...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nishi-Tatsumi M,Yahagi N,Takeuchi Y,Toya N,Takarada A,Murayama Y,Aita Y,Sawada Y,Piao X,Oya Y,Shikama A,Masuda Y,Kubota M,Izumida Y,Matsuzaka T,Nakagawa Y,Sekiya M,Iizuka Y,Kawakami Y,Kadowaki T,Yamada N,Shimano

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of oligomeric double and triple helical DNAs with irregular sequences of homopurine and homopyrimidine strands were prepared. DNA triplexes were identified by CD spectroscopy and thermal denaturation profiles (biphasic helix-coil transition). Condensation of oligonucleotides on single and double-stranded DNA ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dolinnaya NG,Pyatrauskene OV,Shabarova ZA

更新日期：1991-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein D2 forms the water-filled pore across the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and allows the penetration of imipenem. We cloned the protein D2 gene by the antibody screening technique. When the imipenem-resistant mutant lacking protein D2 harbored the plasmid with the cloned D2 gene, the mutant overproduc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoneyama H,Nakae T

更新日期：1991-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate peptide bond cleaved by cathepsins B and L is determined not by the amino acid contributing the carboxyl group to this bond as in the case of serine proteases but rather by the presence of a neighboring amino acid with a large hydrophobic side chain. From a study of the inhibitory potency in a series, Cb...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kirschke H,Wikstrom P,Shaw E

更新日期：1988-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) has been shown to inhibit the growth of some cell types and stimulate the proliferation of others by a mechanism that is not understood. In the present study, we investigated the effect of transfection of NIH-3T3 cells with either the basic fibroblast growth factor gene (bFGF) or the kaposi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aggarwal BB,Pocsik E,Totpal K

更新日期：1995-09-18 00:00:00