Mitochondrial membrane potential monitored in situ within isolated guinea pig brown adipocytes by a styryl pyridinium fluorescent indicator.

abstract：:The regulation by insulin and carbohydrates of the gene expression of three key enzymes involved in glucose metabolism was studied in the liver of the Wistar fatty rat, a model of obese non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A high glucose or fructose diet, or insulin administration caused a similar magnitude of inc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Noguchi T,Matsuda T,Tomari Y,Yamada K,Imai E,Wang Z,Ikeda H,Tanaka T

更新日期：1993-08-09 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：:Streptomyces lividans 1326-9, a bldA+ strain, and its bldA39 mutant derivative J1725 were transformed with a cosmid containing the pur cluster, which determines the puromycin biosynthetic pathway from Streptomyces alboniger. bldA+ transformants produced puromycin in typical amounts, whereas bldA39 transformants did so...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tercero JA,Espinosa JC,Jiménez A

更新日期：1998-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Light and heavy lysosomes of mouse forebrain were separated from each other by centrifugation on a Percoll gradient. Light lysosomes were then freed from mitochondria and membranes by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and further purified by floatation-centrifugation on a sucrose gradient. The final preparations...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fiorilli A,Siniscalco C,Chiarini A,Di Francesco L,Venerando B,Tettamanti G

更新日期：1991-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A structural tree for proteins and domains containing S-like beta-sheets has been constructed. An S-like beta-sheet is taken as a starting structure in modelling or as a root structure of the tree. Larger structures are obtained by a stepwise addition of beta-strands and/or alpha-helices to the root S-like beta-sheet ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Efimov AV

更新日期：1998-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of synthetic rat adrenomedullin (rAM), a novel vasorelaxant peptide originally isolated from human pheochromocytoma, on receptor binding and cAMP generation were studied in cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). A binding study using [125I]rAM revealed the presence of a single class of high-affi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Eguchi S,Hirata Y,Kano H,Sato K,Watanabe Y,Watanabe TX,Nakajima K,Sakakibara S,Marumo F

更新日期：1994-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase D (PLD) has been associated with necrosis. However, it is not clear whether PLD plays a causative role in this cellular process. We investigated the role of PLD in oxidative stress-induced necrosis of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). Pervanadate (hydrogen peroxide plus orthovanadate) but not hydroge...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shin EY,Min DS,Shin JC,Shin KS,Hyun MS,Ha KS,Kim HS,Ahn HY,Kim EG

更新日期：2001-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Biotinyl phosphatidylethanolamine spin labelled at the C-14 position of the sn-2 chain has been incorporated at a level of 1 mol% in bilayers of dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine, and the effects on the chain mobility of binding avidin to the biotin lipid headgroup have been studied by electron spin resonance spectros...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swamy MJ,Marsh D

更新日期：1993-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of cases of early-onset familial Alzheimer disease are caused by mutations in the recently identified presenilin 1 (PS1) gene, located on chromosome 14. PS1, a 467 amino acid protein, is predicted to be an integral membrane protein containing seven putative transmembrane domains and a large hydrophilic lo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mercken M,Takahashi H,Honda T,Sato K,Murayama M,Nakazato Y,Noguchi K,Imahori K,Takashima A

更新日期：1996-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Luminescence of Tb3+ ions bound to a calmodulin fragment has been studied. It is shown that during their lifetime excited ions dissociate from the peptide. If concentration of free peptide is high enough they can be coordinated again. As a consequence, observed terbium luminescence lifetime and intensity depends not o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dadlez M,Góral J,Bierzyński A

更新日期：1991-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver plasma membrane removed sialic acid from mixed bovine brain gangliosides more efficiently than from sialyllactose and orosomucoid with an optimal pH of 4.5. When individual gangliosides, each labeled with [14C]sialic acid or [3H]sphingosine, were tested, not only GD1a and GM3 but also GM2 and GM1, both of wh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miyagi T,Tsuiki S

更新日期：1986-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly polymorphic major histocompatibility complex class II (MHCII) polypeptides assemble in the ER with the assistance of invariant chain (Ii) chaperone. Ii binds to the peptide-binding pocket of MHCII heterodimers. We explored the mechanism how MHCII subunits attach to Ii. Expression with single alpha or beta s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Neumann J,Koch N

更新日期：2005-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The informational content of the primary structure of thymopoietin (TP) is investigated using the informational spectrum method (ISM). We show that the sequence of TP shares common information with the sequences of long postsynaptic snake neurotoxins, although no apparent similarity was found among their primary struc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Skerl V,Pavlović M

更新日期：1988-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of a calcium-inhibitable adenylyl cyclase type VI (type VI AC) in the central nervous system using an antiserum directed against the N-terminus of type VI AC. Our results indicate that type VI AC immunoreactivity is generally expressed in many brain regions wit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu FC,Wu GC,Hsieh ST,Lai HL,Wang HF,Wang TW,Chern Y

更新日期：1998-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We amplified, using the polymerase chain reaction and calcitonin receptor (CTR) specific primers, RNA extracted from medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) and the derived TT cell line. Both secrete large amounts of calcitonin. Electrophoresis of amplification products revealed, in both cases, an ethidium bromide-stained b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Frendo JL,Pichaud F,Mourroux RD,Bouizar Z,Segond N,Moukhtar MS,Jullienne A

更新日期：1994-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic activities of orexin A (OXA) in mature adipocytes are mediated via PI3K/PKB and PPARγ. However, the effects of OXA on preadipocytes are largely unknown. We report here that OXA stimulates the proliferation and viability of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and protects them from apoptosis via ERK1/2, but not through PKB....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Skrzypski M,Kaczmarek P,Le TT,Wojciechowicz T,Pruszyńska-Oszmalek E,Szczepankiewicz D,Sassek M,Arafat A,Wiedenmann B,Nowak KW,Strowski MZ

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis repressor with caspase recruitment domain is expressed at high levels in brain and myogenic tissues, consistent with a role to inhibit apoptosis in the terminally differentiated cells. Expression of ARC in cancers is not known. In this study, we reported that ARC was highly expressed in various non-myogenic ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang M,Qanungo S,Crow MT,Watanabe M,Nieminen AL

更新日期：2005-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA, designated as AtTBP1, encoding a protein with a predicted size of 70.6 kDa that specifically binds to the plant telomeric repeat sequence TTTAGGG. AtTBP1 is present as a single-copy gene in Arabidopsis genome and is expressed ubiquitously in various organs. AtTBP1 has a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hwang MG,Chung IK,Kang BG,Cho MH

更新日期：2001-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13) plays a critical role in parathyroid hormone (PTH)-induced bone resorption. PTH acts via protein kinase A (PKA) to phosphorylate and stimulate the transactivation of Runx2 for MMP-13 promoter activation. We show here that PTH stimulated Runx2 phosphorylation in rat osteoblastic cel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Selvamurugan N,Shimizu E,Lee M,Liu T,Li H,Partridge NC

更新日期：2009-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:alphaArg-376, betaLys-155, and betaArg-182 are catalytically important ATP synthase residues that were proposed to be involved in substrate Pi binding and subsequent steps of ATP synthesis [Senior, A.E., Nadanaciva, S. and Weber, J. (2002) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1553, 188-211]. Here, it was shown using purified Escher...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ahmad Z,Senior AE

更新日期：2005-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Those aerobic archaea whose genomes have been sequenced possess a single 4-gene operon that, by sequence comparisons with Bacteria and Eukarya, appears to encode the three component enzymes of a 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase multienzyme complex. However, no catalytic activity of any such complex has ever been detected in th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Heath C,Jeffries AC,Hough DW,Danson MJ

更新日期：2004-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether aging is associated with a pro-inflammatory shift in the lung, inflammation and inflammation-related gene expression in the lungs of 12-week-old and 24-month-old Balb/c mice were studied. cDNA microarray and quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analyses showed that eight in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aoshiba K,Nagai A

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:14-3-3 proteins were the first signaling molecules to be identified as discrete phosphoserine/threonine binding modules. This family of proteins, which includes seven isotypes in human cells and up to 15 in plants, plays critical roles in cell signaling events that control progress through the cell cycle, transcriptio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yaffe MB

更新日期：2002-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimycin, 2-nonyl-4-hydroxyquinoline N-oxide and funiculosin induce O.2(-) generation by submitochondrial particles oxidizing succinate, whereas KCN, mucidin, myxothiazol or 2,3-dimercaptopropanol inhibit O.2(-) generation. Thenoyltrifluoroacetone does not induce superoxide production by itself but slightly stimulate...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ksenzenko M,Konstantinov AA,Khomutov GB,Tikhonov AN,Ruuge EK

更新日期：1983-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein RPE65 has an important role in retinoid processing and/or retinoid transport in the eye. Retinoids are involved in cell differentiation, embryogenesis and carcinogenesis. Since the kidney is known as an important site for retinoid metabolism, the expression of RPE65 in normal kidney and transformed kidney ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ma JX,Zhang D,Laser M,Brownlee NA,Re GG,Hazen-Martin DJ,Redmond TM,Crouch RK

更新日期：1999-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The known functions of type II thioesterases (TEIIs) in type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) include selecting of starter acyl units, removal of aberrant extender acyl units, releasing of final products, and dehydration of polyketide intermediates. In this study, we characterized two TEIIs (ScnI and PKSIaTEII) from Stre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang YY,Ran XX,Chen WB,Liu SP,Zhang XS,Guo YY,Jiang XH,Jiang H,Li YQ

更新日期：2014-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a number of model systems support a role for proteolysis in apoptotic cell death. Using immature rat thymocytes, we demonstrate that the inhibitors N-tosyl-L-lysyl chloromethylketone (TLCK) and N-tosyl-L-phenylalanyl chloromethylketone (TPCK) have very different effects on apoptosis. TLCK inhibits apoptosis ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fearnhead HO,Rivett AJ,Dinsdale D,Cohen GM

更新日期：1995-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal metabolite brefeldin A (BFA) is known to disrupt the Golgi apparatus resulting in redistribution of Golgi proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum and inhibition of protein secretion. BFA was found to inhibit protein synthesis in rat glioma C6 cells by up to 70% between 0.1 and 1 microgram/ml. Inhibition was b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fishman PH,Curran PK

更新日期：1992-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of vitronectin (VN) to Neisseria gonorrhoeae expressing the heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) specific Opa50 protein was recently shown to trigger bacterial internalization into distinct epithelial cell lines. We have investigated the role of VN-binding integrin receptors and protein kinase C (PKC) in VN-tri...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dehio M,Gómez-Duarte OG,Dehio C,Meyer TF

更新日期：1998-03-06 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