N-terminal amino acid sequences of precursor and mature forms of alpha-1-antitrypsin.

abstract：:The success of Cre-mediated conditional gene targeting in liver of mice has until now depended on the generation of Cre recombinase transgenic mice or on viral-mediated transduction. Here, we sought to establish the feasibility of using hydrodynamic gene delivery of Cre recombinase into liver, using a ROSA26 EGFP mous...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhu HZ,Wang W,Feng DM,Sai Y,Xue JL

更新日期：2006-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant antibody light chain (L chain) maintained under non-denaturing conditions displayed preferential cleavage of synthetic peptides conjugated to methylcoumarinamide (MCA) on the C-terminal side of Arg and Lys residues. The same L chain renatured from a denaturing solvent (guanidine hydrochloride) acquired t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sun M,Paul S

更新日期：1997-05-05 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：:It is demonstrated by filter-binding assay that casein kinase 2 from Rana temporaria oocytes binds rRNA in vitro with high affinity. Ligand-blotting shows that rRNA-binding activity is inherent to alpha and alpha' subunits of the enzyme. Increase of pH from 6.5 to 7.5 has little effect on casein kinase but completely ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kandror KV,Kapkov DV,Turapov OA,Stepanov AS

更新日期：1991-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylases from various organisms contain two conserved lysine residues. In the C4 dicot Flaveria trinervia, one of these residues is Lys600. Converting this Lys600 to Arg600 or Thr600 mainly increased the Km values and but had minimal effect on the Vmax. The Km for PEP, Mg2+ increased by up to 3...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gao Y,Woo KC

更新日期：1995-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The (beta alpha)(8)-barrel is the most frequent and most versatile fold among enzymes [Höcker et al., Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 12 (2001) 376-381; Wierenga, FEBS Lett. 492 (2001) 193-198]. Structural and functional evidence suggests that (beta alpha)(8)-barrels evolved from an ancestral half-barrel, which consisted of f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Höcker B,Schmidt S,Sterner R

更新日期：2002-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of protein synthesis in the chloroplast compartment have revealed a unique combination of translational autoregulations and trans-regulations due to the delivery of a variety of nuclear factors that act post-transcriptionally. We show how these two characteristics concur to set the major step in the regulation...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Choquet Y,Wollman FA

更新日期：2002-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:WT1 encodes a zinc finger protein with a key role in urogenital development that is inactivated in a subset of Wilms' tumors. This tumor suppressor gene product contains an amino-terminal dimerization domain required for trans-inhibition of wild-type WT1 activity by mutants defective for DNA binding. In the course of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bruening W,Moffett P,Chia S,Heinrich G,Pelletier J

更新日期：1996-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Protein Data Bank (PDB) was established in 1971 as a repository for the three dimensional structures of biological macromolecules. Since then, more than 85000 biological macromolecule structures have been determined and made available in the PDB archive. Through analysis of the corpus of data, it is possible to id...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berman HM,Coimbatore Narayanan B,Di Costanzo L,Dutta S,Ghosh S,Hudson BP,Lawson CL,Peisach E,Prlić A,Rose PW,Shao C,Yang H,Young J,Zardecki C

更新日期：2013-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of protein kinase C (PKC) in cellular regulation of L-type Ca2+ channels was investigated in human umbilical vein smooth muscle. Activation of PKC, by low concentrations (< 30 nM) of 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) caused inhibition of Ca2+ channels, while higher concentrations of TPA (> 100 nM) e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schuhmann K,Groschner K

更新日期：1994-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ycf1p function is regulated by casein kinase 2α, Cka1p, via phosphorylation of Ser251. Cka1p-mediated phosphorylation of Ycf1p is attenuated in response to high salt stress. Previous results from our lab suggest a role for Ycf1p in cellular resistance to salt stress. Here, we show that Ycf1p plays an important role in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Paumi CM,Pickin KA,Jarrar R,Herren CK,Cowley ST

更新日期：2012-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrovirus genomic mRNA exhibits a several hundred nucleotides-long untranslated region (5' UTR) which encloses many control elements required for retrovirus replication. In addition, this 5' UTR contains translation regulatory elements, such as internal ribosome entry sites (IRESes) that have been described in oncore...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Waysbort A,Bonnal S,Audigier S,Estève JP,Prats AC

更新日期：2001-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeodomain-interacting protein kinase 2 (HIPK2) interacts with and phosphorylates various transcription factors that are critical regulators of cell fate decisions and apoptosis during development. Here we show that lysine 25 of HIPK2 is the major sumoylation site, both in vitro and in vivo, and that the sumoylation ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sung KS,Go YY,Ahn JH,Kim YH,Kim Y,Choi CY

更新日期：2005-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of physiological processes requires the regulation and coordination of many different signals and is determined in part by the activation and repression of expression of specific target genes. RIP140 is a ligand dependent coregulator of many nuclear receptors that influence such diverse processes as muscle...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： White R,Morganstein D,Christian M,Seth A,Herzog B,Parker MG

更新日期：2008-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise of antibiotic resistance combined with the lack of new products entering the market has led to bacterial infections becoming one of the biggest threats to global health. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify novel antibiotic targets, such as dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHDPS), an enzyme involved in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Impey RE,Lee M,Hawkins DA,Sutton JM,Panjikar S,Perugini MA,Soares da Costa TP

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermediate in the reaction catalyzed by 4-chlorobenzoate dehalogenase from Pseudomonas sp. CBS3 was identified as 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA. One component of 4-chlorobenzoate dehalogenase worked as a a 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA ligase catalyzing the formation of 4-chlorobenzoyl-CoA from 4-chlorobenzoate, coenzyme A and ATP....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Löffler F,Müller R

更新日期：1991-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA binding characteristics of a mono-, di- and trimeric derivative of 9-aminoacridine were studied. The length of the linking carboxamidoalkyl chains was selected to allow bis- or tris-intercalation according to the excluded-site model. Measurements of DNA unwinding angle using closed circular DNA showed that the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gaugain B,Markovits J,Le Pecq JB,Roques BP

更新日期：1984-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocyte-macrophages were incubated for 24 h in Ham's F-10 medium with human low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in the presence or absence of beta-carotene, canthaxanthin or zeaxanthin, at final concentrations of 2.5, 12.5 and 25 mg/l. LDL oxidation, measured by agarose gel electrophoresis, the thiobarbituric acid as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carpenter KL,van der Veen C,Hird R,Dennis IF,Ding T,Mitchinson MJ

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine oxidase B (MAO B) is an outer mitochondrial membrane protein that oxidizes arylalkylamine neurotransmitters and has been a valuable drug target for many neurological disorders. The 1.7 angstrom resolution structure of human MAO B shows the enzyme is dimeric with a C-terminal transmembrane helix protruding fr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Binda C,Hubálek F,Li M,Edmondson DE,Mattevi A

更新日期：2004-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain and epilepsy together affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. While traditional pharmacotherapy provides essential relief to the majority of patients, a large proportion remains resistant, and surgical intervention is only possible for a select few. As both disorders are characterised by neuronal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Snowball A,Schorge S

更新日期：2015-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we found that intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) affect photomorphogenesis in Neurospora crassa. In this study, we investigated the physiological roles of ROS in the response to light and found that the exposure of mycelia to air was important for the light-induced carotenogenesis. Mycelia treated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iigusa H,Yoshida Y,Hasunuma K

更新日期：2005-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-apoptotic functions of the BH3-only protein BAD are negatively regulated by survival signal-mediated phosphorylation at several serine residues. Recently, we found that the mutant BAD (BADD119G) with an amino acid substitution of Asp (Asp119 to Gly) within the BH3 domain displays strong pro-apoptotic activity in s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adachi M,Zhang YB,Imai K

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Dark-grown angiosperm seedlings lack chlorophylls, but accumulate protochlorophyllide a complexed with the light-dependent enzyme NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase. Previous investigators correlated spectral heterogeneity of in vivo protochlorophyllide forms and a shift of chlorophyllide forms from 680 to 672 n...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klement H,Oster U,Rüdiger W

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison is made between the PQA----P+QA- and PQAQB----P+QAQB-transitions in Rps. viridis and Rb. sphaeroides reaction centers (RCs) by the use of light-induced Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy. In Rb. sphaeroides RCs, we identify a signal at 1650 cm-1 which is present in the P+QA-minus-PQ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nabedryk E,Bagley KA,Thibodeau DL,Bauscher M,Mäntele W,Breton J

更新日期：1990-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A potent inhibitor of a dual-specificity protein phosphatase, VHR (vaccinia H1 related), was isolated during a screening of microbial metabolites. This inhibitor was identified as 4-isoavenaciolide (4-iA), and was determined to irreversibly inhibit VHR phosphatase activity with a 50% inhibitory concentration of 1.2 mi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ueda K,Usui T,Nakayama H,Ueki M,Takio K,Ubukata M,Osada H

更新日期：2002-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein gene product 9.5 (PGP 9.5), which in the normal nervous system is restricted to certain neurons, has been detected in two glioma cell lines, rat C6 and human GL15, by immunoblotting and immunocytochemistry. Its expression in these cells depends on the cellular growth state, being maximal between the first and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giambanco I,Bianchi R,Ceccarelli P,Pula G,Sorci G,Antonioli S,Bocchini V,Donato R

更新日期：1991-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The chaotropic character of several ions determines their partition on membrane interfaces with aqueous media as predicted by the Hofmeister series. However, specific characteristics of each individual ion determine its ability to cross the membrane and to influence Ca2+, H+ and electrical gradients produced by the sa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yu X,Inesi G

更新日期：1993-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse somatostatin (SS) receptor cDNA was cloned from neuroblastoma x glioma (NG108-15) cells. The sequence is almost identical to that of the mouse SSTR2 receptor [(1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 251)] but lacks about 300 nucleotides between transmembrane domain VII and the C-terminus. This spliced variant of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vanetti M,Kouba M,Wang X,Vogt G,Höllt V

更新日期：1992-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of mutation of residue tyrosine M210 on the primary donor bacteriochlorophylls have been investigated by near infrared FT-Raman spectroscopy in reaction centres purified from an antenna-deficient strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. We find that mutation at the M210 position does not significantly perturb th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jones MR,Heer-Dawson M,Mattioli TA,Hunter CN,Robert B

更新日期：1994-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence and part of the DNA sequence of a glutamic acid-specific serine protease from Streptomyces griseus is reported. This protease is shown to be homologous with other serine proteases. An improved purification protocol for this enzyme is described. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Svendsen I,Jensen MR,Breddam K

更新日期：1991-11-04 00:00:00