Amino acid residue: is it structural or functional?

abstract：:A high-throughput cell-free protein synthesis method has been described. The methodology is based on a bilayer diffusion system that enables the continuous supply of substrates, together with the continuous removal of small byproducts, through a phase between the translation mixture and substrate mixture. With the use...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sawasaki T,Hasegawa Y,Tsuchimochi M,Kamura N,Ogasawara T,Kuroita T,Endo Y

更新日期：2002-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli outer membrane protease OmpT has been characterised as a serine protease based on its inhibitor profile, but serine protease consensus sequences are absent. By site-directed mutagenesis we substituted all conserved serines and histidines. Substitution of His(101) and His(212) by Ala, Asn or Gln result...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kramer RA,Dekker N,Egmond MR

更新日期：2000-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and its canonical receptor Ret can signal together or independently to fulfill many important functions in the midbrain dopaminergic (DA) system. While Ret signaling clearly impacts on the development, maintenance and regeneration of the mesostriatal DA system, the ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kramer ER,Liss B

更新日期：2015-12-21 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：:Friedreich ataxia is the most common recessive neurodegenerative disease and is caused by reduced expression of mitochondrial frataxin. Frataxin depletion causes impairment in iron-sulfur cluster and heme biosynthesis, disruption of iron homeostasis and hypersensitivity to oxidants. Currently no pharmacological treatm...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lefevre S,Sliwa D,Auchère F,Brossas C,Ruckenstuhl C,Boggetto N,Lesuisse E,Madeo F,Camadro JM,Santos R

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel structural classification of beta proteins is presented from the viewpoint of the ring-shaped structure and the zipper-like contact pattern, based on the fact that 92% and 60% of beta proteins have the ring topology and the zippered contact pattern, respectively. We discuss the implication of the unexpectedly ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koike R,Kinoshita K,Kidera A

更新日期：2003-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:tRNAs play a central role in protein translation, acting as the carrier of amino acids. By cloning microRNAs, we unexpectedly obtained some tRNA fragments generated by tRNA cleavage in the anticodon loop. These tRNA fragments are present in many cell lines and different mouse tissues. In addition, various stress condi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fu H,Feng J,Liu Q,Sun F,Tie Y,Zhu J,Xing R,Sun Z,Zheng X

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The malaria parasite has for long been thought to escape host complement attack as a survival strategy. However, it was only recently that complement evasion mechanisms of the parasite were described. Simultaneously, the role of complement in antibody-mediated naturally acquired and vaccine-induced protection against ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kiyuka PK,Meri S,Khattab A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural and biochemical studies have begun to elucidate the pathway of RNA silencing that leads to the formation of the RISC complex. The outstanding feature of this pathway is the precise recognition and processing of double-stranded RNA. We present a review of recent structures that illustrate the molecular mecha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Collins RE,Cheng X

更新日期：2005-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological studies suggest that adrenal medulla chromaffin cells in situ are polarised, but functional evidence is lacking. We present here the first demonstration for polarisation of exocytosis in isolated, spherical, bovine chromaffin cells. Cells were stimulated with 70 mM K(+) to cause a marked enhancement of ca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cuchillo-Ibáñez I,Michelena P,Albillos A,García AG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin F2alpha, platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and calcium ionophore A23187 stimulated the rapid (within 25 s) generation of polyunsaturated 1,2-diacylglycerol (DAG) species, in particular 18:0/20:3n-9, 18:0/20:4n-6 and 18:0/20:5n-3, in Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts. This was followed by a second sustained phase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pettitt TR,Wakelam MJ

更新日期：1998-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A new mutant alpha-1-antichymotrypsin (variant ACT) was found by direct sequencing and PCR-single strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP). This variant ACT was a point mutation of exon V of ACT, with the substitution of Met by Val. Four out of six individuals with this variant ACT had occlusive-cerebrovascular dis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsuda M,Sei Y,Yamamura M,Yamamoto M,Shinohara Y

更新日期：1992-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy is used to estimate the secondary structure of bacteriorhodopsin dissolved in chloroform-methanol (1:1 v/v), 0.1 M LiClO4. Curve-fitting of the deconvolved spectra in the amide I region shows that the total content of alpha-helices, reverse turns and beta-sheets are similar to t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Torres J,Padrós E

更新日期：1993-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of T-cells infected by HIV-1 results in activation of long terminal repeat (LTR)-dependent viral transcription and ultimately the production of infectious virus. Although full T-cell activation requires a complex series of intracellular signals, including protein kinase C activation, calcium mobilisation, a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baldari CT,Macchia G,Massone A,Telford JL

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase is a membrane-bound redox-driven proton pump that harbors two proton-transfer pathways, D and K, which are used at different stages of the reaction cycle. Here, we address the question if a D pathway with a modified energy landscape for proton transfer could take over the role of the K pathway whe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vilhjálmsdóttir J,Albertsson I,Blomberg MRA,Ädelroth P,Brzezinski P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently purified two closely related 33 kDa proteins from rat hepatic cytosol, designated bile acid binder I and II, which selectively bind bile acids with comparable affinity as glutathione S-transferase B. This work has now been extended to human liver in which we have identified a similar cytosolic binding acti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stolz A,Sugiyama Y,Kuhlenkamp J,Kaplowitz N

更新日期：1984-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A human liver cDNA clone which encodes the UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase was isolated by complementation of a bacterial galU mutant. The deduced amino acid sequence of the human enzyme comprised 508 amino acids with a calculated molecular mass of 56,950. The human enzyme significantly resembles those of potato tuber a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peng HL,Chang HY

更新日期：1993-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of the mRNA were used to investigate the expression of dopamine receptors in human peripheral blood lymphocytes. The RT-PCR products contained three types of sequences, each corresponding to those of the D5 dopamine receptor gene and the two relat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takahashi N,Nagai Y,Ueno S,Saeki Y,Yanagihara T

更新日期：1992-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel antimicrobial peptide, named misgurin, was isolated and characterized from the loach (mudfish), Misgurnus anguillicaudatus. The 21-amino-acid peptide with a molecular mass of 2502 Da was purified to homogeneity using a heparin-affinity column and C18 reverse-phase and gel-permeation high-performance liquid chr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park CB,Lee JH,Park IY,Kim MS,Kim SC

更新日期：1997-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:3C-like (3CL) protease is essential for the life cycle of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and therefore represents a key anti-viral target. A compound library consisting of 960 commercially available drugs and biologically active substances was screened for inhibition of SARS-CoV 3CL protease....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hsu JT,Kuo CJ,Hsieh HP,Wang YC,Huang KK,Lin CP,Huang PF,Chen X,Liang PH

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) exerts multiple biological functions through G protein-coupled receptors (EDG2/LPA(1), EDG4/LPA(2), and EDG7/LPA(3)) and is present in serum where it is associated with albumin. In this study we examined LPA activity in various biological fluids by measuring the LPA-induced increase in the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hama K,Bandoh K,Kakehi Y,Aoki J,Arai H

更新日期：2002-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman (RR) spectra of the monomeric cyanomethaemoglobin CTT III from insect larvae of Chironomus thummi thummi are shown for the range of 200-550 cm-1. By iron and cyanide isotope exchange a line varying between 307 cm-1 for 57Fe-13C15N and 311 cm-1 for 54Fe-12C14N, has been assigned to the Fe-N epsilon stre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kerr EA,Yu NT,Gersonde K

更新日期：1984-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypsin treatment of HeLa cells results in a limited proteolysis of the coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR) after which the cleaved CAR remains cell-associated and tryptic peptides remain associated through disulfide bonds. Trypsin-treated HeLa cells remain susceptible to infection with coxsackievirus B and p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carson SD

更新日期：2000-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence dye 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate (ANS) was used as a probe of non-polar binding sites in 4-aminobutyrate aminotransferase. ANS binds to a single binding site of the dimeric protein with a Kd of 6 microM. Nanosecond emission anisotropy measurements were performed on the ANS-enzyme in an effort to d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Churchich JE,Kim DS,Schnackerz KD

更新日期：1983-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were designed to elucidate the mechanism by which unsaturated fatty acids inhibit the binding of triiodothyronine (T3) ro rat liver nuclei. The possibility of a direct interaction between oleic acid and T3 was excluded by dialysis experiments. Oleic acid inhibits nuclear T3 binding in a strictly competitive ma...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van der Klis FR,Wiersinga WM,de Vijlder JJ

更新日期：1989-03-27 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：:A novel allergenic member of the family of Ca(2+)-binding proteins has been cloned from olive tree pollen. The isolated DNA codes for a protein of 171 amino acid residues, which displays four EF-hand sequence motifs. The encoded protein was overproduced in Escherichia coli and purified. The protein (18¿ omitted¿795 Da...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ledesma A,Villalba M,Rodríguez R

更新日期：2000-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of flux control coefficients of a glycolytic system in starved rat liver has been determined. The flux control coefficient profile in starved conditions is compared with normal fed conditions showing that in the former phosphofructokinase enhances more than 2-fold its flux control coefficient while gl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Torres NV,Mateo F,Meléndez-Hevia E

更新日期：1988-06-06 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：:The modification of homeodomain-interacting protein kinase 2 (HIPK2) by small ubiquitin-like modifier 1 (SUMO-1) plays an important role in its targeting into the promyelocytic leukemia body, as well as in its differential interaction with binding partner, but the desumoylation of HIPK2 by SUMO-specific proteases is l...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim YH,Sung KS,Lee SJ,Kim YO,Choi CY,Kim Y

更新日期：2005-11-07 00:00:00