31P NMR as a tool for monitoring detergent solubilization of sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes.

abstract：:Zinc cations at concentrations of 0.2 mM and greater catalyzed specific phosphorylation, by ATP, of two membrane-associated proteins from rat hippocampus. These proteins, corresponding to molecular weights of 60 and 49 kDa, were phosphorylated primarily at tyrosine residues. The 60-kDa protein was identified as p60c-s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vener AV,Loeb J

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:The androgen-binding protein (ABP) has been purified 87,500-fold from rat testis using 4 steps of HPLC, with a yield of 14%. The molecule was 99% pure with a specific activity estimated to 16,600 pmol/mg protein. The iodinated molecule was eluted in 2 peaks in Sephacryl S300 gel filtration with a molecular mass estima...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gueant JL,Khanfri J,Gerard H,Fremont S,Gerard A,Grignon G,Nicolas JP

更新日期：1986-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we assessed the contribution of acidic sphingomyelinase (ASMase), a ceramide generating enzyme, in tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-mediated apoptosis in human colon HT-29 cells. TNF induced apoptosis in HT-29 cells in a time- and dose-dependent fashion. Downregulation of the active endogenous ASMase f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colell A,Morales A,Fernández-Checa JC,García-Ruiz C

更新日期：2002-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Auxin increases phospholipase A(2) activity within 2min (Paul, R., Holk, A. and Scherer, G.F.E. (1998) Fatty acids and lysophospholipids as potential second messengers in auxin action. Rapid activation of phospholipase A(2) activity by auxin in suspension-cultured parsley and soybean cells. Plant J. 16, 601-611) and t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scherer GF,Zahn M,Callis J,Jones AM

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (.NO) synthase (NOS) activity in subcellular fractions from cultured endothelial cells (EC) and lipopolysaccharide-activated J774.2 monocyte/macrophages was investigated by monitoring the .NO-mediated increase in intracellular cyclic GMP in LLC-PK1 pig kidney epithelial cells. The constitutive NOS in EC (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hecker M,Walsh DT,Vane JR

更新日期：1991-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ileal bile acid-binding protein (I-BABP) is a 14 kDa cytosolic protein which binds bile acids with a high affinity. It is thought to be implicated in the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids and, hence, in cholesterol homeostasis. Using a combination of in vivo and in vitro experiments, we have recently shown that ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Landrier JF,Grober J,Demydchuk J,Besnard P

更新日期：2003-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids are essential eukaryotic cellular constituents. Lipid metabolism has a strong impact on cell physiology, and despite good progress in this area, many important basic questions remain unanswered concerning the functional diversity of lipid species and on the mechanisms that cells employ to sense and adjust their...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Santos AX,Riezman H

更新日期：2012-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Stresses that impair the function of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lead to an accumulation of unfolded protein in the ER. Under these conditions, the expression of a variety of genes involved in preventing the accumulation of the unfolded proteins is induced. Yeast Hrd1p is an ER stress-inducible ER membrane protein ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kaneko M,Ishiguro M,Niinuma Y,Uesugi M,Nomura Y

更新日期：2002-12-04 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：:Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is the most abundant protein in neutrophils and plays a central role in microbial killing and inflammatory tissue damage. Because most of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and other drugs contain a thiol group, it is necessary to understand how these substrates are oxidized by MPO. We hav...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Burner U,Jantschko W,Obinger C

更新日期：1999-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a potent platelet aggregation inducer from the crude venom of Calloselasma rhodostoma (Malayan pit viper), termed rhodoaggretin, with a novel oligomeric structure consisting of a dimer of C-type lectin-like heterodimers. On the basis of its native molecular mass of 66 kDa, and a M(r) of 30 kDa for its...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang R,Kong C,Kolatkar P,Chung MC

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were infused intravenously with a bolus of mevalonolactone or cholesterol-rich chylomicron and microsomes prepared from the livers at times up to 2 h after the infusion. Acyl-CoA cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) activity was measured in the microsomes under conditions that define the activity state of the enzym...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Suckling KE,Stange EF,Dietschy JM

更新日期：1983-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:FixK₂ is a CRP-like transcription factor that controls the endosymbiotic lifestyle of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. The reason for its noticeable protease sensitivity was explored here. The repertoire of Clp chaperone-proteases in B. japonicum was examined, and specifically ClpAP₁ and ClpXP₁ were purified and tested. FixK...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bonnet M,Stegmann M,Maglica Ž,Stiegeler E,Weber-Ban E,Hennecke H,Mesa S

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Helical membrane-active antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are known to act via a range of mechanisms, including the formation of barrel-stave and toroidal pores and the micellisation of the membrane (carpet mechanism). Different mechanisms imply that the peptides adopt different 3D structures when bound at the water-mem...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van den Bergen G,Stroet M,Caron B,Poger D,Mark AE

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine analogs of fusion peptide of influenza virus hemagglutinin whose membrane perturbation activity has been thoroughly tested [Murata et al. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 1986-1992; Murata et al. (1993) Biophys. J. 64, 724-734] were characterized by molecular modeling techniques with the aim of delineating any specific st...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Efremov RG,Nolde DE,Volynsky PE,Chernyavsky AA,Dubovskii PV,Arseniev AS

更新日期：1999-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood reprogramming, in which induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are derived from haematopoietic lineages, has rapidly advanced over the past decade. Since the first report using human blood, haematopoietic cell types from various sources, such as the peripheral bone marrow and cord blood, have been successfully r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chen Y,Yi Y,Xu J,Chan WK,Loh YH

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are numerous examples of how fundamental research has been required to understand and treat human disease. This article focuses on three human diseases of lipid metabolism in which advancements in understanding and treatment would not have been possible without basic research. Fabry disease is an inherited metab...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vance DE

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycinebetaine (betaine), an osmoregulant in halophilic plants, stabilized the evolution of oxygen and the synthesis of ATP by thylakoid membranes from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 when it was present during the preparation and incubation of the thylakoid membranes. Moreover, betaine enhanced the evolution...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mamedov MD,Hayashi H,Wada H,Mohanty PS,Papageorgiou GC,Murata N

更新日期：1991-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycogen-binding (G) subunit of protein phosphatase-1G is phosphorylated stoichiometrically by glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3), and with a greater catalytic efficiency than glycogen synthase, but only after prior phosphorylation by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (A-kinase) at site 1. The residues phosphoryl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dent P,Campbell DG,Hubbard MJ,Cohen P

更新日期：1989-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the deposition of amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) plaques in the brain. Full-length amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) is processed by alpha- and beta-secretases to yield soluble APP derivatives and membrane-bound C-terminal fragments, which are further processed by gamma-secreta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lundin C,Johansson S,Johnson AE,Näslund J,von Heijne G,Nilsson I

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-membrane fusion during fertilization of oocyte by spermatozoa is believed to be mainly mediated by so called "fusion proteins". In the present study we have tried to demonstrate that beside the proteins, lipid components of membrane may play an important role in fusion of oocyte with spermatozoa. Conventi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Atif SM,Hasan I,Ahmad N,Khan U,Owais M

更新日期：2006-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway is distinct from the Sec system by its remarkable capacity to export folded enzymes. To address the question whether the two systems are capable of translocating homologous enzymes catalyzing the same reaction, we cloned the tap gene encoding Thermus thermophilus...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Angelini S,Moreno R,Gouffi K,Santini C,Yamagishi A,Berenguer J,Wu L

更新日期：2001-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of conservation of HeLa interphase chromatin nonhistone antigens among the nonhistones of isolated metaphase chromosomes was determined with immunological procedures. Proteins were separated on SDS-polyacrylamide gels and electrophoretically transferred to diazophenylthioether (DPT)-paper, which was then ov...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adolph KW

更新日期：1984-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic cycle of heme peroxidases involves two reactive states, compound I and compound II. Although their reduction potentials at pH 7 are similar, compound I is in general more reactive towards organic substrates than compound II. The different reactivities have until now remained unexplained. In this study, t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Folkes LK,Candeias LP

更新日期：1997-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A single chain ribosome-inactivating protein with RNA N-glycosidase activity, here named Dianthin 29, was isolated from leaves of Dianthus barbatus L. Incubation of intact Escherichia coli ribosomes with Dianthin 29 and subsequent aniline treatment of the isolated rRNA releases a rRNA fragment of 243 nucleotides from ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Prestle J,Hornung E,Schönfelder M,Mundry KW

更新日期：1992-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly selective affinity labeling of the primer site of E. coli DNA polymerase I was performed with the 5'-reactive derivatives of oligothymidylate in the presence of poly(dA) template. Subtilysine cleavage proved that the site of affinity modification belonged to the 'Klenow' part of DNA polymerase I. If taken separ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mitina RL,Mustaev AA,Zaychikov EF,Khomov VV,Lavrik OI

更新日期：1990-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolin is a protein present in membrane specializations termed caveolae where it may play a structural role. Previous studies on the cDNA sequence of chicken caveolin demonstrated that it is an integral membrane protein without significant homology to any known protein. The cDNA sequence of human lung caveolin is pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Glenney JR Jr

更新日期：1992-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of the proteasome gene family in higher plants was investigated by identification and sequencing cDNA clones from the Arabidopsis thaliana database showing homologies to 20S proteasome subunits. We identified plant counterparts for each of the 14 proteasomal subunit subfamilies. Moreover, several of the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Parmentier Y,Bouchez D,Fleck J,Genschik P

更新日期：1997-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium sigma vegetative-dependent promoters are different from those of enteric bacteria and have never been characterized before. We report here the biochemical characterization of the ORF1-ntrBC promoter of Rhizobium etli. The minimal promoter region was located by means of a transcriptional fusion and further ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Martino M,Riccio A,Defez R,Iaccarino M,Patriarca EJ

更新日期：1996-06-10 00:00:00