Prooxidant iron and copper, with ferroxidase and xanthine oxidase activities in human atherosclerotic material.

abstract：:Rapidly generated high-titer Semliki Forest virus (SFV) vectors can infect numerous mammalian cell lines and primary cell cultures, and result in high levels of transgene expression. SFV-based expression of transmembrane receptors has been characterized by specific ligand-binding activity and functional responses. Ada...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lundstrom K,Schweitzer C,Rotmann D,Hermann D,Schneider EM,Ehrengruber MU

更新日期：2001-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:By use of the patch clamp technique, we have compared the electrophysiological signature of OmpC porin channels at neutral and acidic pH. The perfusion of pH 5.4 buffer to the periplasmic side of excised patches promoted the closure or block of approximately 20% of the open porins present in the patch without changes ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu N,Delcour AH

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell-derived factor 1alpha (SDF-1alpha) is a chemokine that has been shown to prevent infection of T-tropic HIV strains and is a possible substrate of CD26/dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV). In this study, we show that SDF-1alpha was cleaved at the N-terminal region by CD26/DPPIV and as a result the inhibitory a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohtsuki T,Hosono O,Kobayashi H,Munakata Y,Souta A,Shioda T,Morimoto C

更新日期：1998-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Three novel neuropeptides, isolated from ganglia of the African giant snail, Achatina fulica, were named WWamide-1, -2 and -3. These substances were biologically active heptapeptide amides with a Trp residue at both the N- and C-termini. WWamide-1, which displayed an inhibitory activity on a central neuron of the snai...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Minakata H,Ikeda T,Muneoka Y,Kobayashi M,Nomoto K

更新日期：1993-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the lysosomal storage disorder Gaucher disease (GD), glucosylceramide (GlcCer) accumulates due to the defective activity of glucocerebrosidase. A subset of GD patients develops neuropathology. We now show mislocalization of Limp2-positive puncta and a large reduction in the number of Lamp1-positive puncta, which ar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zigdon H,Meshcheriakova A,Farfel-Becker T,Volpert G,Sabanay H,Futerman AH

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a nonenzymatic reaction which results in the radiolabeling of proteins by 32P-containing nucleoside triphosphates. The labeling reaction does not require any cofactors, but is greatly enhanced by the presence of alcohols. Even under optimal conditions, less than 1% of the protein molecules undergo modificati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schmidt MC,Hanna MM

更新日期：1986-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-induced B cell activation requires mobilization of the Ca(2+) second messenger. This process is associated with the subcellular relocalization of signal effector proteins of the B cell antigen receptor such as the adaptor protein SLP65. Here we describe a broadly applicable live cell imaging method to simultan...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Junek S,Engelke M,Schild D,Wienands J

更新日期：2012-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The HBx protein of hepatitis B virus is involved in deregulation of cell cycle and development of hepatocellular carcinoma. Since c-Myc also plays an important role in cell proliferation and tumor development, we studied its regulation by HBx in a human hepatoma cell line. Co-expression of HBx and c-Myc resulted in in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kalra N,Kumar V

更新日期：2006-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, members of the Ero1 family control oxidative protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Yeast Ero1p is tightly associated with the ER membrane, despite cleavage of the leader peptide, the only hydrophobic sequence that could mediate lipid insertion. In contrast, human Ero1-Lalpha and a yeast mut...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pagani M,Pilati S,Bertoli G,Valsasina B,Sitia R

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Myometrial membranes, obtained from estrogen-dominated (day 0) rat uteri, were immunoblotted with antiserum (SG1), which recognizes the alpha subunits of both Gi1 and Gi2, with antiserum (LE2) specific for Gi2 alpha, and with I3B antiserum, specific for Gi3 alpha. The data revealed the absence of detectable levels of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanfin Z,Goureau O,Milligan G,Harbon S

更新日期：1991-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fas/Fas ligand interaction plays a crucial role in various liver diseases, and administration of agonistic anti-Fas antibody to mice causes massive hepatic apoptosis and fulminant hepatic failure. Several growth factors have recently been found to function in preventing apoptosis. In this study, we demonstrated th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kanda D,Takagi H,Toyoda M,Horiguchi N,Nakajima H,Otsuka T,Mori M

更新日期：2002-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncostatin M (OSM) is a potent modulator of human lung-derived epithelial cell function. This cytokine binds two distinct receptor complexes: type I OSM receptor which is also a functional receptor for leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), and type II OSM-specific receptor. The role of these two distinct receptors in medi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cichy J,Rose-John S,Puré E

更新日期：1998-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms controlling fat depot-specific metabolism are poorly understood. During starvation of mice, downregulation of lipogenic genes, suppression of fatty acid synthesis, and increases in lipid oxidation were all more pronounced in epididymal than in subcutaneous fat. In epididymal fat, relatively strong upreg...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sponarova J,Mustard KJ,Horakova O,Flachs P,Rossmeisl M,Brauner P,Bardova K,Thomason-Hughes M,Braunerova R,Janovska P,Hardie DG,Kopecky J

更新日期：2005-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexameric inorganic pyrophosphatase of Escherichia coli contains about 1 mol/mol of 'structural' pyrophosphate, which survives gel filtration and prolonged incubation with Mg2+, does not exchange with medium phosphate and pyrophosphate but is removed with 0.8 M perchloric acid. The site of pyrophosphate binding seems ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shestakov AA,Baykov AA,Avaeva SM

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular monoamine transporters (VMAT) catalyze transport of serotonin, dopamine, epinephrine and norepinephrine into subcellular storage organelles in a variety of cells. Accumulation of the neurotransmitter depends on the proton electrochemical gradient across the organelle membrane and involves VMAT-mediated excha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shirvan A,Laskar O,Steiner-Mordoch S,Schuldiner S

更新日期：1994-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogenase gene from Clostridium butyricum was cloned in Escherichia coli HK16 (Hyd-) using pBR322 and PstI. The plasmid, pCBH1, containing hydrogenase gene was 7.3 MDa and pCBH1 had 5 PstI-DNA fragments (3.9, 2.6, 0.7, 0.03-0.04, less than 0.02 MDa, respectively). The hydrogenase activity of HK16 (pCBH1) was about 3...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karube I,Urano N,Yamada T,Hirochika H,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1983-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP synthesis rate, measured as the variation in external Pi concentration, varied as a linear function of either delta mu H+ or delta Gpin, in such a manner that the delta Gpin/delta mu H+ ratio increased while VATP increased. We also observed a linear dependence of the flux control coefficient of the Pi carrier on...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Beauvoit B,Rigoulet M,Guerin B

更新日期：1989-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta-endotoxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. entomocidus induced the release of encapsulated [14C]sucrose from reverse-phase vesicles composed of phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol. No such release was detected when the phospholipid component of the vesicles was either phosphatidylethanolamine, phospha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yunovitz H,Yawetz A

更新日期：1988-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Phosphofructo-2-kinase catalyzes the synthesis and degradation of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, activator of phosphofructokinase-1 and inhibitor of fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase. These properties confer to this bifunctional enzyme a key role in the control of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis. Several mammalian isozymes gen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Riera L,Obach M,Navarro-Sabaté A,Duran J,Perales JC,Viñals F,Rosa JL,Ventura F,Bartrons R

更新日期：2003-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated mitotic chromosomes are able to form complexes with phosphatidylcholine liposomes in the presence and absence of Ca2+ ions, in the latter case in the presence of polyamines. Interactions with chromosomes stimulates liposome fusion. The fusion is promoted by condensed and EDTA-decondensed chromosomes. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Balakireva LA,Belyaev ND,Budker VG,Kiseleva EV

更新日期：1991-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of oxLDL on CD36 expression has been assessed in preadipocytes induced to differentiate. Novel evidence is provided that oxLDL induce a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma-independent CD36 overexpression, by up-regulating nuclear factor erythroid 2 (NF-E2)-related factor 2 (Nrf2). The nuclear t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： D'Archivio M,Scazzocchio B,Filesi C,Varì R,Maggiorella MT,Sernicola L,Santangelo C,Giovannini C,Masella R

更新日期：2008-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional co-activators, co-repressors and chromatin remodeling machines are essential elements in the transcriptional programs directed by the master adipogenic transcription factor PPARgamma. Many of these components have orthologs in other organisms, where they play roles in development and pattern formation,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denis GV,Nikolajczyk BS,Schnitzler GR

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexaheme nitrite reductases purified to homogeneity from Escherichia coli K-12 and Wolinella succinogenes were studied by low-temperature EPR spectroscopy. In their isolated states, the two enzymes revealed nearly identical EPR spectra when measured at 12 K. Both high-spin and low-spin ferric heme EPR resonances with ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu MC,Liu MY,Payne WJ,Peck HD Jr,Le Gall J,DerVartanian DV

更新日期：1987-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro methylation of the +6, +24, and -215 located 5'-CCGG-3' sequences in the late E2A promoter of adenovirus type 2 (Ad2) DNA abrogates promoter function. 5-Methyldeoxycytidine (5-mC) at positions +6 and +24 in both or either of the two DNA complements in the late E2A promoter abolishes the formation of a hig...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hermann R,Doerfler W

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome maintenance and integrity requires continuous alterations of the compaction state of the chromatin structure. Chromatin remodelers, among others the INO80 complex, help organize chromatin by repositioning, reshaping, or evicting nucleosomes. We report on INO80 nucleosome remodeling, assayed by single-molecule F...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schwarz M,Schall K,Kallis E,Eustermann S,Guariento M,Moldt M,Hopfner KP,Michaelis J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures and regulations of vertebrate channels responsible for sustained calcium elevations after hormone stimulation are largely unknown. Therefore, the Drosophila photoreceptor channels, trp and trpl, which are assumed to be involved in calcium influx, serve as model system, trpl expressed in Sf9 cells showed spo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harteneck C,Obukhov AG,Zobel A,Kalkbrenner F,Schultz G

更新日期：1995-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Prepro-vasoactive intestinal peptide (prepro VIP) was expressed in NIH 3T3 cells, and the prepro VIP-derived peptides produced by the cells were analyzed by chromatography combined with sequence-specific radio-immunoanalysis. In accordance with what has previously been reported on processing in non-endocrine cell line...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wulff BS,Georg B,Fahrenkrug J

更新日期：1994-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypo-osmotic swelling of human Intestine 407 cells leads to a significant increase of intracellular MAPKAP-kinase 2 activity and Hsp27 phosphorylation. Pre-treatment of the cells with the p38 MAP kinase inhibitor SB-203580 blocks this activation, indicating that the hypotonicity-induced activation of MAPKAP kinase 2 i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tilly BC,Gaestel M,Engel K,Edixhoven MJ,de Jonge HR

更新日期：1996-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II restriction endonucleases (REases) exist in multiple oligomeric forms. The tetrameric REases have two DNA binding interfaces and must synapse two recognition sites to achieve cleavage. It was hypothesised that binding of two recognition sites by tetrameric enzymes contributes to their fidelity. Here, we experi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zaremba M,Sasnauskas G,Siksnys V

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor structure of Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin type A was analysed by TLC immunostaining. GQ1b was found to be the most potent receptor, and the neurotoxin also bound to GT1b and GD1a, but not to GM3, GM2, GM1, GD3, GD1b and GT1a. Optimum binding of neurotoxin to the ganglioside appeared in 0.01 M phosphat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takamizawa K,Iwamori M,Kozaki S,Sakaguchi G,Tanaka R,Takayama H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1986-06-09 00:00:00