Evidence for a monooxygenase-catalyzed primary process in the catabolism of chlorophyll.

abstract：:Several protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes were analyzed by immunoblot and immunocytochemistry in cultures of hippocampal neurones at several stages of differentiation. Our findings reveal the existence of two distinct patterns of expression. Firstly, conventional PKC isozymes alpha, beta and gamma, that are expressed at...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tejero-Díez P,Rodríguez-Sánchez P,Díez-Guerra FJ

更新日期：1995-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible in vivo interaction of the Nicotiana tabacum agglutinin (Nictaba) with endogenous glycoproteins was corroborated using a combination of confocal/electron microscopy of an EGFP-Nictaba fusion protein expressed in tobacco Bright Yellow-2 (BY-2) cells and biochemical analyses. In vitro binding studies demons...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lannoo N,Peumans WJ,Pamel EV,Alvarez R,Xiong TC,Hause G,Mazars C,Van Damme EJ

更新日期：2006-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral deposits of beta/A4 amyloid protein is a pathologic sign of Alzheimer's disease. A synthetic partial-length (1-28) peptide of this protein contains one glutamine and two lysine residues. Here we show that this peptide can be a substrate of transglutaminase, which catalyzes cross-linking between glutamine and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ikura K,Takahata K,Sasaki R

更新日期：1993-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) is a multisubunit transmembrane complex that mediates the antigen-specific activation of T cells. Using a variety of techniques, several research groups have shown that TCRs are at least partially pre-clustered before antigen binding. These new findings are contradictory to the "class...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Molnár E,Deswal S,Schamel WW

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that the DNA binding Runt domain of the AML1/Runx1 transcription factor coordinates Cl(-) ions. In this paper we have determined Cl(-) binding affinities of AML1 by (35)Cl nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) linewidth analysis. The Runt domain binds Cl(-) with a dissociation constant (K(d,Cl)) of 34 mM. If CB...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wolf-Watz M,Bäckström S,Grundström T,Sauer U,Härd T

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Both soluble and microsomal fractions of Fusarium oxysporum contain cytochrome P-450(P-450). We report here that the P-450 in the soluble fraction was induced only when nitrate or nitrite was added to the growth medium, whereas the microsomal P-450 was synthesized regardless of the medium compositions. The reduced-CO ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shoun H,Suyama W,Yasui T

更新日期：1989-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Replacement of tryptophan 392 located in the active site cavity of pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC; EC 4.1.1.1) from Zymomonas mobilis by methionine or glutamine yields enzymes with smaller catalytic constants of 8.5 s(-1) and 3.6 s(-1) at 4 degrees C, compared to that of the wild-type enzyme (17 s(-1)). The rate constant...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tittmann K,Mesch K,Pohl M,Hübner G

更新日期：1998-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraction and identification of the non-covalently bound heme groups from crude membrane preparations of photoheterotrophically grown Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography and optical spectrophotometry led to the detection of heme O in addition to hemes B and A which latt...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peschek GA,Wastyn M,Fromwald S,Mayer B

更新日期：1995-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild sonication of eukaryotic cells produces native plasma membrane sheets that retain their docked organelles, cytoskeleton structures and cytoplasmic complexes. While the delicate organization of membranous protein complexes remains undisturbed, their inner plasmalemmel leaflet can be rapidly exposed to bathing solu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bar-On D,Winter U,Nachliel E,Gutman M,Fasshauer D,Lang T,Ashery U

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of Thr90 to Ala has a profound effect on bacteriorhodopsin properties. T90A shows about 20% of the proton pumping efficiency of wild type, once reconstituted into liposomes. Mutation of Thr90 influences greatly the Schiff base/Asp85 environment, as demonstrated by altered lambda(max) of 555 nm and pK(a) of As...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Perálvarez A,Barnadas R,Sabés M,Querol E,Padrós E

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Preformed phosphatidylethanolamine-containing liposomes were thiolated with 2-iminothiolane (Traut's reagent) and subsequently activated by mixed disulfide formation with 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid). Up to 65% of amino groups of the outer liposomal lamella, corresponding to 230 SH-groups per vesicle, were modi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lasch J,Niedermann G,Bogdanov AA,Torchilin VP

更新日期：1987-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The active A1 peptide of cholera toxin was linked by a disulphide bond to the lectin of Wisteria floribunda. The resulting conjugate activated the adenylate cyclase of intact U937 or K562 cells at the same concentrations as native toxin did, but to a greater extent. Activation was inhibited by N-acetyl-D-galactosamine...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Heyningen S

更新日期：1983-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies generated against synthetic peptides that correspond to highly conserved sequence motifs in the annexins reacted with a variety of annexins from different species. These include Xenopus laevis and Drosophila melanogaster, which contain cross-reacting polypeptides of apparent Mr 34,000 and 30,000. As expecte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gerke V

更新日期：1989-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of capacitative Ca(2+) entry was studied in two different multidrug resistance (MDR) protein (MRP1) overexpressing cell lines, HT29(col) and GLC4/ADR. MRP1 overexpression was accompanied by a decreased response to thapsigargin. Moreover, inhibition of capacitative Ca(2+) entry by D, L-threo-1-phenyl-2-decan...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Filipeanu CM,Nelemans A,Veldman RJ,de Zeeuw D,Kok JW

更新日期：2000-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, four proteins, Shu1, Shu2, Psy3 and Csm2, form a stable SHU-complex both in vivo and in vitro. These proteins are involved in the early stages of the homologous recombination DNA damage repair process. In this paper, the crystal structure of the Psy3-Csm2 sub-complex is presented at 1.8Å r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： She Z,Gao ZQ,Liu Y,Wang WJ,Liu GF,Shtykova EV,Xu JH,Dong YH

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A trisialoganglioside not found before in human tissue was isolated from showed this to be II3(NeuAc)3-LacCer or GT3. The ganglioside constituted 40% of the trisialogangliosides of human lung or 0.2 nmol ganglioside per g tissue. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Månsson JE,Mo HQ,Egge H,Svennerholm L

更新日期：1986-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:ent-Kaurene is the key intermediate in biosynthesis of gibberellins (GAs), plant hormones. In higher plants, ent-kaurene is synthesized successively by copalyl diphosphate synthase (CPS) and ent-kaurene synthase (KS) from geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGDP). On the other hand, fungal ent-kaurene synthases are bifunction...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hayashi K,Kawaide H,Notomi M,Sakigi Y,Matsuo A,Nozaki H

更新日期：2006-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase-I were examined in the presence of the anti-tumor drug cis-diaminedichloroplatinum(II) and its inactive geometric isomer trans-diaminedichloroplatinum(II). The trans-isomer did not inhibit the enzyme activity. The anti-tumor drug, on the other hand, retarded the enzyme in ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Duman RK,Heath RT,Bose RN

更新日期：1999-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The WW domain is known as one of the smallest protein modules with a triple-stranded beta-sheet fold. Here, we present the solution structure of the second WW domain from the mouse salvador homolog 1 protein. This WW domain forms a homodimer with a beta-clam-like motif, as evidenced by size exclusion chromatography, a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohnishi S,Güntert P,Koshiba S,Tomizawa T,Akasaka R,Tochio N,Sato M,Inoue M,Harada T,Watanabe S,Tanaka A,Shirouzu M,Kigawa T,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Apicomplexan parasites contain a vestigial plastid called apicoplast which has been suggested to be a site of [Fe-S] cluster biogenesis. Here we report the cloning of lipoic acid synthase (LipA) from Toxoplasma gondii, a well known [Fe-S] protein. It is able to complement a LipA-deficient Escherichia coli strain, clea...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thomsen-Zieger N,Schachtner J,Seeber F

更新日期：2003-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase is a two-component metalloenzyme that catalyzes a MgATP hydrolysis driven reduction of substrates. Aluminum fluoride plus MgADP inhibits nitrogenase by stabilizing an intermediate of the on-enzyme MgATP hydrolysis reaction. We report here the redox properties and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spee JH,Arendsen AF,Wassink H,Marritt SJ,Hagen WR,Haaker H

更新日期：1998-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA synthesis at primers d(pT)n, d(pA)n, d(pC)n, and d(pG)n in the presence of corresponding complementary templates and at hetero-oligoprimers complementary to M13 phage DNA was investigated. The values of both -log Km and log Vmax increased linearly if homo-oligoprimers contained less than 10 nucleotides. The length...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nevinsky GA,Nemudraya AV,Levina AS,Khomov VV

更新日期：1989-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion of platelets to the exposed extracellular matrix proteins at sites of vascular injury is partly regulated by the local fluid shear stress. Because the Leu33Pro (Pl(A)) polymorphism of integrin beta(3) confers only a modest increase in adhesion under static conditions, we used CHO and 293 cells expressing the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vijayan KV,Huang TC,Liu Y,Bernardo A,Dong JF,Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ,Alevriadou BR,Bray PF

更新日期：2003-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:AtCYP20-2 is one of 16 immunophilins in thylakoid lumen. The presence of the isomerase domain in AtCYP20-2, an enrichment of AtCYP20-2 in the stroma membranes and it's co-migration with NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (NDH) in native gels provide evidence that AtCYP20-2 is an auxiliary protein of NDH. When different NDH mutants...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sirpiö S,Holmström M,Battchikova N,Aro EM

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the purification and the analysis of the structural and functional properties of distinctin, a 5.4 kDa heterodimeric peptide with antimicrobial activity from the tree-frog Phyllomedusa distincta. This peptide was isolated from the crude extract of skin granular glands by different chromatographic steps...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Batista CV,Scaloni A,Rigden DJ,Silva LR,Rodrigues Romero A,Dukor R,Sebben A,Talamo F,Bloch C

更新日期：2001-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of green fluorescent protein (GFP) is sometimes important for a proper practical application of this protein. Random mutagenesis and targeted mutagenesis have been used to create better-folded variants of GFP, including recently reported extra-superfolder GFP. Our aim was to determine the crystal structure o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Choi JY,Jang TH,Park HH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BChla-containing B880-complex (core-complex) of Rhodopseudomonas marina (Rhodospirillaceae) was isolated with a new purification method. The isolation of the B880-complex was performed by solubilisation of the photosynthetic membranes with the detergent LDAO and subsequent fractionated ammonium-sulfate precipitati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Meckenstock RU,Brunisholz RA,Zuber H

更新日期：1992-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption frequencies of the C = O and C = C (neutral state) and of the C...O (semiquinone state) stretching vibrations of QB have been assigned by FTIR spectroscopy, using native and site-specifically 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-13C-labelled ubiquinone-10 (UQ10) reconstituted at the QB binding site of Rhodobacter sphaeroid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brudler R,de Groot HJ,van Liemt WB,Gast P,Hoff AJ,Lugtenburg J,Gerwert K

更新日期：1995-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats bearing the Yoshida AH-130 ascites hepatoma showed an increased expression of both uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2) (194%) and UCP3 (189%) mRNA levels in skeletal muscle 7 days after tumour inoculation. Interestingly, an even greater increase was observed in mRNA for both UCP2 (278%) and UCP3 (797%) in the pair-fed an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sanchís D,Busquets S,Alvarez B,Ricquier D,López-Soriano FJ,Argilés JM

更新日期：1998-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Foot-and-mouth disease virus leader proteinase (L(pro)), a papain-like cysteine proteinase, has six acidic amino acids between 4 A and 11 A of the catalytic dyad of Cys51 and His148. In contrast, in papain and related enzymes, only one acidic residue lies within this distance. We have examined by site-directed mutagen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kronovetr J,Skern T

更新日期：2002-09-25 00:00:00