Conversion of the sodium channel activator aconitine into a potent alpha 7-selective nicotinic ligand.

abstract：:The Arabidopsis thalina genome database was searched for homologues of the Candida cloacae fao1 gene which encodes a membrane bound, flavin-containing, hydrogen peroxide generating, long chain alcohol oxidase. This gene has not been isolated from plants or animals. Four putative candidates were found in the database b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cheng Q,Liu HT,Bombelli P,Smith A,Slabas AR

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:S100, a subfamily of the EF-hand type calcium sensing proteins, is implicated in many cellular functions including muscle contractility. Two isoforms, S100A1 and S100B, at 2-10 microM significantly inhibit active tension, stiffness and ATPase of skinned single rabbit psoas muscle fibers at sub-maximal (pCa approximate...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adhikari BB,Wang K

更新日期：2001-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Golgi apparatus is known to modify and sort newly synthesized secretory proteins. However, fundamental mysteries remain about the structure, operation, and dynamics of this organelle. Important insights have emerged from studying the Golgi in yeasts. For example, yeasts have provided direct evidence for Golgi cist...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Papanikou E,Glick BS

更新日期：2009-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleckstrin homology (PH) domains are protein modules found in proteins involved in many cellular processes. The majority of PH domain-containing proteins require membrane association for their function. It has been shown that most PH domains interact directly with the cell membrane by binding to phosphoinositides with...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maffucci T,Falasca M

更新日期：2001-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Two free radical scavengers, bioflavonoid rutin and the copper-rutin complex Cu(Rut)Cl2, inhibited lucigenin-amplified chemiluminescence and lipid peroxidation in rat liver microsomes, Cu(Rut)Cl2 being a 5-9 times more efficient inhibitor than rutin. The enhanced inhibitory activity of Cu(Rut)Cl2 was due to the presen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Afanas'ev IB,Ostrachovich EA,Korkina LG

更新日期：1998-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified the binding region of a new Ca2+ antagonist semotiadil in the skeletal muscle Ca2+ channel. To the same semotiadil derivatives, the cardiac counterpart showed distinct and different binding characteristics: semotiadil and its photoaffinity analog D51-4700 inhibited [3H]PN200-110 binding t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ii N,Kuniyasu A,Kawahara K,Shibano T,Schwartz A,Nakayama H

更新日期：1998-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated p38gamma MAP kinase exhibited significant basal ATPase activity in the absence of a kinase substrate, and addition of a phosphoacceptor substrate increased k(cat)/K(m)20-fold. AMP-PCP was competitive with ATP binding and non-competitive with phosphoacceptor substrate binding. The nucleotide binding site affi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fox T,Fitzgibbon MJ,Fleming MA,Hsiao HM,Brummel CL,Su MS

更新日期：1999-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) 2 signal via different receptor systems. We have recently demonstrated that simultaneous stimulation of fetal mouse neuroepithelial cells with these distinct types of cytokines synergistically induces astrocyte differentiation in a 2-day culture. He...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakashima K,Yanagisawa M,Arakawa H,Taga T

更新日期：1999-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminopeptidase yscXVI was purified from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. By SDS-PAGE the enzyme has a molecular weight of 45,000 Da, and in chromatofocusing, elution was observed at pH 6.2. The synthetic substrate cystinyl-4-nitroanilide (Km 22.5 microM, Vmax 12.9 mU/mg) is cleaved most efficiently in the pH range ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tisljar U,Wolf DH

更新日期：1993-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenomedullin (ADM) functions as a survival factor against hypoxic cell death. However, molecular mechanisms underlying the cell survival pathway remain largely unknown. In this report, we showed that ADM suppressed reactive oxygen species (ROS) increase by inhibiting reduction of glutathione (GSH) level in hypoxia/r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim SM,Kim JY,Lee S,Park JH

更新日期：2010-01-04 00:00:00

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：:Six charged amino acid residues located in the ectodomain of the full-length type I transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta receptor were individually mutated to alanine. Mutation of residues D47, D98, K102 and E104 resulted in functionally impaired receptors as demonstrated by a marked decrease in ligand-dependent sign...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guimond A,Sulea T,Zwaagstra JC,Ekiel I,O'Connor-McCourt MD

更新日期：2002-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene spa P (formerly designated as spa P1) encoding the Mr 185,000 surface antigen (I/II) of Streptococcus mutans, serotype c (NG5), has been sequenced. The gene (4683 bp) encodes a protein of 1561 amino acid residues including putative signal peptide (residues 1-38) and transmembrane (residues 1537-1556) sequence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kelly C,Evans P,Bergmeier L,Lee SF,Progulske-Fox A,Harris AC,Aitken A,Bleiweis AS,Lehner T

更新日期：1989-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of human thrombocytes in the presence of [3H]palmitic acid leads to incorporation of this fatty acid into the alpha subunit of Gs as described [Linder et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90 (1993) 3675-3679; Degtyarev et al., Biochemistry 32 (1993) 8057-8061] but also into the catalyst of adenylyl cyclase wh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mollner S,Beck K,Pfeuffer T

更新日期：1995-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretoneurin is a recently characterized neuropeptide present in the primary amino acid sequence of secretogranin II. We investigated the proteolytic processing of secretogranin II by prohormone convertases in vivo in a cellular system using the vaccinia virus system. Both PC1 and PC2 can cleave the secretogranin II ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoflehner J,Eder U,Laslop A,Seidah NG,Fischer-Colbrie R,Winkler H

更新日期：1995-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic neuroleptic treatment induces an increase in the density of D2 dopamine receptors in the striatum. The effect of prolonged administration of haloperidol on mRNA levels of the short (D2S) and long (D2L) isoforms of the D2 dopamine receptor and the D3 dopamine receptor in different brain regions was examined. Ha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fishburn CS,David C,Carmon S,Fuchs S

更新日期：1994-02-14 00:00:00

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：:Using a cDNA library from bovine adrenal medulla, and, subsequently, a bovine genomic library, we have isolated the gene coding for a non inactivating potassium channel. This gene encodes a 597-amino acid protein which we have called BAK5 as its sequence is very similar to members of Kv1.5 potassium channel family. Ne...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： García-Guzmán M,Sala F,Criado M,Sala S

更新日期：1994-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyzing the primary structure we predicted that calponin may interact with phospholipids. In order to check this suggestion we investigated the interaction of calponin with phospholipids by ultracentrifugation, light scattering, vesicles leakage and differential scanning calorimetry. In agreement with our prediction...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bogatcheva NV,Gusev NB

更新日期：1995-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast PMR2/ENA1 gene encodes an ATPase involved in sodium extrusion and induced by NaCl. At low salt concentrations (0.3 M) induction is mediated by the HOG-MAP kinase pathway, a system activated by non-specific osmotic stress. At high salt concentrations (0.8 M) induction is mediated by the protein phosphatase ca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Márquez JA,Serrano R

更新日期：1996-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of AMP-aminohydrolase, which under steady state conditions shows a typical sigmoid dependence of initial velocities versus substrate concentration, have been examined by rapid mixing methods. Using this technique it was observed that when substrate or substrate plus activator (K(+)) were mixed with enzyme...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Suelter CH,Kovacs AL,Antonini E

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) is abundant in developing monocyte/macrophage cells and may affect hematopoiesis by reducing formation of reactive oxygen species. The aims of this study were to further characterize the involvement of UCP2 in hematopoiesis. In situ hybridization in mouse embryos identified UC...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Flachs P,Sponarova J,Kopecky P,Horvath O,Sediva A,Nibbelink M,Casteilla L,Medrikova D,Neckar J,Kolar F,Kopecky J

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin phospholipidic fraction, as previously demonstrated, shows the same localization as RNA inside the nuclei. DNase and RNase treatment of nuclei removed almost totally the DNA, 63% of RNA and caused a 50% loss of phospholipids. The aim of the present investigation is to study the fraction of RNase undigested n...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Micheli M,Albi E,Leray C,Magni MV

更新日期：1998-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The gamma subunit of the F1 moiety of the bovine mitochondrial H(+)-ATP synthase is shown to function as a component of the gate. Addition of purified gamma subunit to F0-liposomes inhibits transmembrane proton conduction. This inhibition can be removed by the bifunctional thiol reagent diamide. Immunoblot analysis sh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Papa S,Guerrieri F,Zanotti F,Fiermonte M,Capozza G,Jirillo E

更新日期：1990-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The high cGMP sensitivity of cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (type II) (PKAII) from invertebrates led to the hypothesis that cGMP directly activates PKAII under physiological conditions. We tested this idea using PKAII holoenzyme purified from the honeybee brain in an assay with short stimulation times. In the presenc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leboulle G,Müller U

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the role of crystallinity in biological response, we quantitated the generation of reactive oxygen metabolites in human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) with a chemiluminescence assay using three hydroxyapatite preparations with sintering temperatures of 1,200 degrees C and 900 degrees C and a drying tempe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nagase M,Nishiya H,Abe Y

更新日期：1993-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:vp165 (or gp160) is an aminopeptidase that has been identified as one of the major proteins of the GLUT4-containing vesicles. In the present study we have determined the degree of co-localization between vp165 and GLUT4 in rat adipose cells and used perturbation by wortmannin to assess the exocytic and endocytic steps...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Malide D,St-Denis JF,Keller SR,Cushman SW

更新日期：1997-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of the weight of desmosterol produced during its biosynthesis in the presence of tritiated water and triparanol has permitted a direct determination of the relative flux of carbon and tritium (the H/C ratio) into sterol in hepatocytes. The H/C ratio increased with time of incubation irrespective of the nut...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Björnsson OG,Pullinger CR,Gibbons GF

更新日期：1985-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors activate a member of the INK4 family, the p19INK4d gene, causing G1 phase arrest. We report here that HDAC inhibitor, Trichostatin A, activates another member of the INK4 family, the p18INK4c gene, through its promoter in Jurkat cells. Interestingly, the acti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yokota T,Matsuzaki Y,Sakai T

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A 15-ns molecular dynamics simulation of the fully hydrated liquid-crystalline dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine-cholesterol (DMPC-Chol) bilayer containing approximately 22 mol% Chol was carried out. The generated trajectory was analysed to investigate the mechanism of the Chol condensing effect on DMPC hydrocarbon chain...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Róg T,Pasenkiewicz-Gierula M

更新日期：2001-07-27 00:00:00