The regulation of gene expression by insulin is differentially impaired in the liver of the genetically obese-hyperglycemic Wistar fatty rat.

abstract：:The synthetic cRNA encoding for the major T lymphocyte K+ channel (Kv1.3) was injected into Xenopus fertilized eggs. Somites from embryos of stage 20-22 (about 40 h post-fertilization at 19 degrees C) were dissociated and myotomal muscle cells were cultured in vitro for 2 days. The whole cell configuration of the tigh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Honoré E,Guillemare E,Lesage F,Barhanin J,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1994-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:omega-Conotoxin MVIIC binds to P/Q-type calcium channels with high affinity and N-type channels with low affinity. To reveal the residues essential for subtype selectivity, we synthesized Ala-scanning analogs of MVIIC. Binding assays using rat cerebellar P(2) membranes suggested that Thr(11), Tyr(13) and Lys(2) are es...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sato K,Raymond C,Martin-Moutot N,Sasaki T,Ohtake A,Minami K,Van Renterghem C,Kim JI,Takahashi M,Seagar MJ

更新日期：2000-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of carbon into the carbon monoxide and cyanide ligands of [NiFe]-hydrogenases has been investigated by using (13)C labelling in infrared studies of the Allochromatium vinosum enzyme and by (14)C labelling experiments with overproduced Hyp proteins from Escherichia coli. The results suggest that the b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roseboom W,Blokesch M,Böck A,Albracht SP

更新日期：2005-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia kirovani cell walls possess a lipidic fraction, a lipolysaccharidic fraction and a peptidoglycan. The lipidic part is composed of glycerides, C(16) and C(18) free fatty acids, nocardic acids and of a carotenoid pigment. The lipopolysaccharidic part is composed of an arabinogalactan esterified by nocardic acid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guinand M,Vacheron MJ,Michel G

更新日期：1970-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence comparison based on Hydrophobic Cluster Analysis procedures shows that the extracellular approximately 200 amino acids domains of cytokines receptors belonging to the Cytokine/Growth hormone/Prolactin receptor family and to the Interferon one are organized in two homologous subdomains. Further, comparison of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thoreau E,Petridou B,Kelly PA,Djiane J,Mornon JP

更新日期：1991-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that CCK-8 may interact with opioids and that both systems are probably implicated in pain modulation. In order to elucidate this relationship we sought to examine factors governing the movement of CCK-8 from the spinal cord into the extracellular space. We report that CCK-8 like immunoreactivity, as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodríguez RE,Sacristán MP

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS, E.C.6.1.1.2) is unable to catalyze in vitro formation of Ap4A in contrast to some other aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. However, in the presence of L-tryptophan, ATP-Mg2+ and ADP the enzyme catalyzes the Ap3A synthesis via adenylate intermediate. Ap3A (not Ap4A) may serve as a s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Merkulova T,Kovaleva G,Kisselev L

更新日期：1994-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal microbiota is essential for nutrient acquisition, immune development, and exclusion of invading pathogens. The upper respiratory tract (URT) microbiota is less well studied and does not appear to abide by many of the paradigms of the gastrointestinal tract. Decades of carriage studies in children have d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schenck LP,Surette MG,Bowdish DM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the activity of STAT family members throughout a mammary developmental cycle. Transcripts for Stat 5 were upregulated during pregnancy whilst STAT1 and STAT3 mRNAs were expressed at constant levels. DNA binding complexes containing both STAT5a and 5b showed differing affinities for two naturally o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Philp JA,Burdon TG,Watson CJ

更新日期：1996-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate cDNA data is useful to validate gene structures in a genome. We sequenced 35189 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) obtained from the highly destructive rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. Our custom-made computational programs mapped these ESTs on the M. grisea genome sequence, and reconstructed gene structure...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Numa H,Nishimura M,Tanaka T,Kanamori H,Yang CC,Matsumoto T,Nagamura Y,Itoh T

更新日期：2009-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperthermia such as that occurring during fever may improve cell survival during infection, although its mechanism of action is largely unknown. Here we show that acute exposure to mild, but not severe, heat shock induces the synthesis of cyclin D1 that plays a critical role(s) in G1 progression of the cell cycle. Th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Han SI,Oh SY,Jeon WJ,Kim JM,Lee JH,Chung HY,Choi YH,Yoo MA,Kim HD,Kang HS

更新日期：2002-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosolic peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase cyclophilin from pig kidney can accelerate catalytically the cis/trans isomerization of prolyl peptide bonds. One- and two-dimensional 1H NMR spectroscopy was used to prove that the polypeptide hormone calcitonin is a substrate for cyclophilin. Isomerization of only on...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kern D,Drakenberg T,Wikström M,Forsén S,Bang H,Fischer G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using top-of-the-line fold recognition methods, we assigned an oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding (OB)-fold structure to a family of previously uncharacterized hypothetical proteins from several bacterial genomes. This novel family of bacterial OB-fold (BOF) proteins present in a number of pathogenic strains enco...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ginalski K,Kinch L,Rychlewski L,Grishin NV

更新日期：2004-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 tumor suppressor coordinates a multitude of cellular and organismal processes and exerts its activities mainly by activation of gene transcription. Here we describe the transcriptional activation of ectodysplasin A2 receptor (EDA2R) by p53 in a variety of cell types and tissues. We demonstrate that treatment o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brosh R,Sarig R,Natan EB,Molchadsky A,Madar S,Bornstein C,Buganim Y,Shapira T,Goldfinger N,Paus R,Rotter V

更新日期：2010-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state kinetic analysis was performed on the reaction between D-fructose and ferricyanide with the quinohemoprotein fructose dehydrogenase from Gluconobacter species. The D-fructose oxidation dependence on the ferricyanide concentration resulted in a series of parallel reciprocal plots, and the reaction was assu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marcinkeviciene J,Johansson G

更新日期：1993-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A pumpkin 2S albumin with ribonuclease (RNase) activity was purified from pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita sp.) by liquid chromatographic techniques. It manifested potent RNase activity toward baker's yeast RNA and calf liver RNA, and some polyhomoribonucleotides, including poly(A), poly(U) and poly(C) but not poly(G). Moreov...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fang EF,Wong JH,Lin P,Ng TB

更新日期：2010-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis represents a fundamental process during fetal/post-natal testis development. Therefore pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins are essential to regulate testis physiology. c-Flip(L) is a known inhibitor of caspase 8/10 activity; in this study its perinatal expression in mouse male germ cells was investigated. In te...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giampietri C,Petrungaro S,Coluccia P,Antonangeli F,Paone A,Padula F,De Cesaris P,Ziparo E,Filippini A

更新日期：2006-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between Trypanosoma cruzi and the extracellular matrix play an important role in cellular invasion. Here we show that T. cruzi increases the levels of thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) expression in host cells during early infection. Stable RNA interference of host cell TSP-1 knocks down the levels of TSP-1 transc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Simmons KJ,Nde PN,Kleshchenko YY,Lima MF,Villalta F

更新日期：2006-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A native female-specific chemoreceptive protein of a swallowtail butterfly [oviposition stimulant binding protein (OSBP)] was shown to specifically bind to aristolochic acid, a main stimulant for oviposition from its host plant. Oviposition stimulants are recognized by chemoreceptive organs of insects. OSBP isolated p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsuchihara K,Wazawa T,Ishii Y,Yanagida T,Nishida R,Zheng XG,Ishiguro M,Yoshihara K,Hisatomi O,Tokunaga F

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described that NO. leads to destruction of ZnS clusters and release of Zn2+ from various proteins including zinc finger transcription factors. To assess the relevance in living cells, we investigated, whether exogenous NO. leads to an increase of cytoplasmic and nuclear free Zn2+. L929 cells, mouse splen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berendji D,Kolb-Bachofen V,Meyer KL,Grapenthin O,Weber H,Wahn V,Kröncke KD

更新日期：1997-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor 11 (FGF11) is an intracellular FGF. Although induction of FGF11 by hypoxia has been observed in several cell types, the molecular function of FGF11 is not clearly understood yet. Here, we investigated the role of FGF11 under hypoxia. We identified hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) as an int...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee KW,Yim HS,Shin J,Lee C,Lee JH,Jeong JY

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the biochemical properties of insulin receptors of a Type A insulin resistant patient with a single heterozygous point mutation substituting Gln for Arg1174. Insulin binding capacity and affinity to Epstein-Barr virus transformed lymphocytes was normal. Quantitative analysis of autophosphorylation and subs...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Moritz W,Froesch ER,Böni-Schnetzler M

更新日期：1994-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of either crude or purified preparations of the gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA)/benzodiazepine receptor complex with arginine-specific reagents resulted in a time- and concentration-dependent loss of [3H]muscimol binding activity. Following exposure to either 2,3-butanedione or phenylglyoxal (less than or equal t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Widdows KB,Kirkness EF,Turner AJ

更新日期：1987-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Small RNAs (miR159-like RNAs) identical to some plant miR159s were found in Xenopus tropicalis miRNA cDNA libraries (30 miRNA families consisting of 75 unique sequences). Preferential expression of this RNA species was found in neural tissues during development. A sequence matching to this RNA species was not found in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hikosaka A,Takaya K,Jinno M,Kawahara A

更新日期：2007-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), TIMP-1 and TIMP-2, are also angiogenesis inhibitors. Cathepsin B and MMPs are found at sites of neovascularization in pathologies such as cancer and osteoarthritis. Treatment of TIMP-1, TIMP-2, and of a mixture of both inhibitors from human articular chondrocy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kostoulas G,Lang A,Nagase H,Baici A

更新日期：1999-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) is mitogenic for the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7; here we investigate some of the signaling pathways subserving this activity. FGF-2 stimulation of MCF-7 cells resulted in a global increase of intracellular tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins, particularly FGF receptor subst...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vercoutter-Edouart A,Lemoine J,Smart CE,Nurcombe V,Boilly B,Peyrat J,Hondermarck H

更新日期：2000-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine leukaemia virus (BLV) is the aetiological agent of Leukosis enzootica bovis [Viral Oncology (1980), G. Klein (Ed.) Raven Press, New York, pp. 231-238], a widely spread disease in cattle. BLV is reported as the animal model of human T-cell leukaemia virus (HLTV) which is the causative agent of adult T-cell leuka...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Précigoux G,Geoffre S,Léonard R,Llido S,Dautant A,d'Estaintot BL,Picard P,Ménard A,Guillemain B,Hospital M

更新日期：1993-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural basis of GABA-gated chloride channels in mammalian brain is presently explored by the functional expression of cDNAs coding for the alpha, beta or gamma-subunits of the receptor and their isoforms. In this context, we expressed the cloned cDNA coding for the rat beta 1-subunit of the GABAA receptor in t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sigel E,Baur R,Malherbe P,Möhler H

更新日期：1989-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A single protein from human leukocytes possesses both 5-lipoxygenase and leukotriene A4 (LTA4) synthase activities. It has been reported that LTA4 production is more efficient when the enzyme utilizes arachidonic acid, than when 5-HPETE is exogenously supplied as substrate. In the present study, human leukocyte homoge...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Puustinen T,Scheffer MM,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1987-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake of cholesterol by isolated rat hepatocytes in a serum-free medium was remarkably enhanced by dispersion with several kinds of phosphatidylcholine. Of the various phosphatidylcholines tested, dilinoylphosphatidylcholine had the strongest accelerating effect, while dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine was the weakest. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nagamura Y,Sasaki K,Ito M,Saito K,Ogitsu N,Ishiguro I

更新日期：1986-07-14 00:00:00