The trans-inhibitory Rep78 protein of adeno-associated virus binds to TAR region DNA of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 long terminal repeat.

abstract：:Chromogranin A is known to undergo pH induced conformational changes, and the difference in conformation is supposed to be responsible for the difference in Ca2+ binding property. To gain insight regarding the overall structure and the nature of pH-induced conformational changes of chromogranin A, limited trypsin dige...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoo SH,Ferretti JA

更新日期：1993-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunometabolism focuses on the mechanisms regulating the impact of metabolism on lymphocyte activity and autoimmunity outbreak. The adipose tissue is long known to release adipokines, either pro- or anti-inflammatory factors bridging nutrition and immune function. More recently, adipocytes were discovered to also rel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： de Candia P,De Rosa V,Gigantino V,Botti G,Ceriello A,Matarese G

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barley thioredoxin h isozymes 1 (HvTrxh1) and barley thioredoxin h isozymes 2 (HvTrxh2) show distinct spatiotemporal distribution in germinating seeds. Using a novel approach involving measurement of bidirectional electron transfer rates between Escherichia coli thioredoxin, which exhibits redox-dependent fluorescence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maeda K,Hägglund P,Björnberg O,Winther JR,Svensson B

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:It was believed that there was no natural suppressor tRNA in Escherichia coli, however, it has been suggested that selC, relating to the synthesis of formate dehydrogenase of a selenoprotein [(1988) Nature 331, 723-725], codes for tRNA, even though the presence of tRNA has not yet been demonstrated. We detected the pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mizutani T,Maruyama N,Hitaka T,Sukenaga Y

更新日期：1989-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on the variations in phosphoinositide metabolism depending upon alphaIIbbeta3-integrin/fibrinogen interaction without previous activation of platelet agonist receptors. We found that adhesion of resting human platelets to immobilized fibrinogen stimulates phosphatidic acid production and a concomita...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gironcel D,Racaud-Sultan C,Payrastre B,Haricot M,Borchert G,Kieffer N,Breton M,Chap H

更新日期：1996-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthases catalyze the polymerization reaction of the acyl moiety of hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A into polyester. The catalytic subunit PhaC of PHA synthase has the PhaC box sequence at the active site that is typically described as G-X-C-X-G-G (X is an arbitrary amino acid), and cysteine is an ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nambu Y,Ishii-Hyakutake M,Harada K,Mizuno S,Tsuge T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We counted base transitions (Ts) and transversions (Tv) in mutations among various types of hepatitis C virus (HCV) sequences. The Ts/Tv ratio was useful for distinguishing the (geno)type of the compared HCV sequences, since the ratio was 4.0 or more among sequences of the same type, while it was less than 2.0 among s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka T,Kato N,Hijikata M,Shimotohno K

更新日期：1993-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome P-450 content of rat hepatocytes declined rapidly over 72 h in culture, due primarily to denaturation to cytochrome P-420. Six different media were investigated for their ability to conserve cytochrome P-450 during culture, and the most successful was a modified Earle's medium. After 72 h culture in thi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Grant MH,Melvin MA,Shaw P,Melvin WT,Burke MD

更新日期：1985-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Na+/H+ exchange in protein kinase C-mediated effects in platelets was investigated by studying the effect of removal of extracellular Na+ ([Na+]e) on the different responses induced by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and 1,2-dioctanoylglycerol (diC8). None of the responses studied, namely, protein ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krishnamurthi S,Patel Y,Morgan WA,Wheeler-Jones CP,Kakkar VV

更新日期：1989-07-31 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：: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：:A rapid and highly efficient method of purifying the aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been developed. This method relies upon a six-histidine affinity tag fused to the C-terminus of subunit I, which confers to the oxidase a high affinity for Ni(2+)-nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) agarose. The...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mitchell DM,Gennis RB

更新日期：1995-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheromone receptors are expressed in the accessory olfactory system, which is vital for non-specific chemical communication and for sexual behavior. Under the hypothesis that some of the pheromone molecules released from female reproductive organs might regulate sperm chemotaxis or chemokinesis, we examined whether th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tatsura H,Nagao H,Tamada A,Sasaki S,Kohri K,Mori K

更新日期：2001-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of the water oxidising manganese complex of photosystem II with the aqueous environment has been investigated using electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and electron spin echo envelope modulation spectroscopy to detect interaction of [2H]methanol with the complex in the S2 state. The experiments sh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Evans MC,Gourovskaya K,Nugent JH

更新日期：1999-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of the domains of Trichoderma reesei endoglucanase I (EGI) has been studied. Truncated EGI proteins were expressed from the 3'-end deleted cDNAs in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the control of the ADC1 expression cassette. EGI protein was detected by monoclonal antibody EI-2 and EGI activity as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aho S

更新日期：1991-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte tight junctional permeability has been shown to be regulated by hormones that exert their effects via phospholipase C activation. However, the precise transduction pathway involved in this effect is not known. The present study has employed the selective inhibitor of microsomal Ca2+ sequestration, 2,5-di(te...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Llopis J,Kass GE,Duddy SK,Farell GC,Gahm A,Orrenius S

更新日期：1991-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The scorpion toxin peptide BeKm-1 was synthesised by fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl solid phase chemistry and folded by air oxidation. The peptide's effects on heterologous human ether-a-go-go-related gene potassium current (I(HERG)) in HEK293 cells were assessed using 'whole-cell' patch clamp. Blockade of I(HERG) by BeKm-1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Milnes JT,Dempsey CE,Ridley JM,Crociani O,Arcangeli A,Hancox JC,Witchel HJ

更新日期：2003-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) is a serine-threonine protein kinase encoded by the myotonic dystrophy (DM) locus on human chromosome 19q13.3. It is a close relative of other kinases that interact with members of the Rho family of small GTPases. We show here that the actin cytoskeleton-linked GTPase Rac-1 bin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shimizu M,Wang W,Walch ET,Dunne PW,Epstein HF

更新日期：2000-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the three platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) isoforms AA, AB and BB on the induction of the early growth response genes c-fos, egr-1 and c-myc mRNA in vascular smooth muscle cells from rat was compared with their respective mitogenic potency. The three PDGF isoforms strongly stimulated the induction t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sachinidis A,Schulte K,Ko Y,Meyer zu Brickwedde MK,Hoppe V,Hoppe J,Vetter H

更新日期：1993-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the mechanism of intracellular Ca2+ mobilization, mouse oocytes were micro-injected with 'caged'-inositol-1,4,5 triphosphate caged-InsP3) together with the Ca2+ indicator Fluo-3 to directly induce and monitor Ca2+ redistribution. Photo-released InsP3 elicits [Ca2+]i changes exhibiting several kine...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peres A

更新日期：1990-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the incorporation of [(14)C]serine and of [(3)H]sphingosine into sphingomyelin in the presence or absence of brefeldin A (BFA) in three different cell types. Administration of BFA (1 microgram/ml) to fibroblasts for 24 h increased the incorporation of label into sphingomyelin 1.5-3 fold compared with u...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sadeghlar F,Sandhoff K,van Echten-Deckert G

更新日期：2000-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel member of the human UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase gene family, designated GalNAc-T7, was cloned and expressed. GalNAc-T7 exhibited different properties compared to other characterized members of this gene family, in showing apparent exclusive specificity for partial...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bennett EP,Hassan H,Hollingsworth MA,Clausen H

更新日期：1999-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of 1-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (1-acyl-GPC) to peroxisomes decreased the production of acid-soluble radioactivity formed by beta-oxidation of [1-(14)C]arachidonate due to substrate removal by esterification into the acceptor. This peroxisomal-associated acyl-CoA:1-acyl-GPC acyltransferase activity ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baykousheva SP,Luthria DL,Sprecher H

更新日期：1995-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Vacuolar tandem-pore channels could not be analysed in Xenopus oocytes so far, due to misguided translocation. Owing to the conservation of their pore regions, we were able to prepare functional pore-chimeras between the plasma membrane localised TPK4 and vacuolar TPKs. Thereby, we found evidence that TPK2, TPK3 and T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marcel D,Müller T,Hedrich R,Geiger D

更新日期：2010-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a single-chain antibody fragment directed against digoxin (named 1C10 scFv) was cloned in two expression systems. For this purpose, a new baculovirus transfer cassette fully compatible with the procaryotic pHEN vector was constructed. Baculovirus production led to higher yield than did Escherichia coli...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lemeulle C,Chardès T,Montavon C,Chaabihi H,Mani JC,Pugnière M,Cerutti M,Devauchelle G,Pau B,Biard-Piechaczyk M

更新日期：1998-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane incorporation and aggregation of the peptide alamethicin have been investigated as a function of lipid type. Head group and acyl chain regions both contribute to modulate alamethicin incorporation. Specifically, the peptide prefers thin membranes and saturated chains; incorporation is reduced by the presence ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stankowski S,Schwarz G

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase can be protected against partial inactivation by N-ethylmaleimide by low concentrations of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate or high concentrations of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate. The partially inactivated enzyme has a much reduced sensitivity to high substrate inhibition and has lost the s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Meek DW,Nimmo HG

更新日期：1983-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA sequence putatively encoding a Delta(6)-fatty acid desaturase was isolated from Rhizopus arrhizus using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and rapid amplification of cDNA ends methods. Sequence analysis indicated that this cDNA sequence had an open reading frame of 1377 bp encoding 458 amino acids ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang Q,Li M,Ma H,Sun Y,Xing L

更新日期：2004-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Replacements of Asp-295 by Asn (D295N) and Glu (D295E) decreased the catalytic center activity of Leuconostoc mesenteroides sucrose phosphorylase to about 0.01% of the wild-type level (k(cat)=200s(-1)). Glucosylation and deglucosylation steps of D295N were affected uniformly, approximately 10(4.3)-fold, and independen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mueller M,Nidetzky B

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Two synthetic photoactive azidoarylphosphatidylcholines were used to investigate the level of interaction between D-beta-hydroxybutyrate apodehydrogenase (apoBDH), an amphipathic membrane protein, with the hydrophobic domain of phospholipids. The two synthetic lecithins, PL I (1-myristoyl-2-12-N-(4-azido-2-nitrophenyl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： el Kebbaj MS,Berrez JM,Lakhlifi T,Morpain C,Latruffe N

更新日期：1985-03-11 00:00:00