A pre-existing protease is a common effector of thymocyte apoptosis mediated by diverse stimuli.

abstract：:A structural tree for proteins and domains containing S-like beta-sheets has been constructed. An S-like beta-sheet is taken as a starting structure in modelling or as a root structure of the tree. Larger structures are obtained by a stepwise addition of beta-strands and/or alpha-helices to the root S-like beta-sheet ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Efimov AV

更新日期：1998-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To complete the amino acid sequence of GTP:AMP phosphotransferase (MgGTP + AMP in equilibrium with MgGDP + ADP) from beef heart mitochondria it was necessary to sequence an intermediate region of about 33 residues after position 102 [(1984) Eur. J. Biochem. 143, 331-339] and find a suitable overlap with the rest of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tomasselli AG,Frank R,Schiltz E

更新日期：1986-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the ADP-ribosylation of total proteins and purified histones of rat liver nuclei after phenobarbital treatment (80 mg/kg, 24 h) have been studied. The [32P]NAD incorporation into total trichloroacetic acid precipitated proteins, in histone Hl and in core histones was evaluated, the specific radioactivities ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bràz J,Lechner MC

更新日期：1986-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Dicarbonyl/L-xylulose reductase (DCXR) converts l-xylulose into xylitol, and reduces various α-dicarbonyl compounds, thus performing a dual role in carbohydrate metabolism and detoxification. In this study, we identified DHS-21 as the only DCXR ortholog in Caenorhabditis elegans. The dhs-21 gene is expressed in variou...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Son le T,Ko KM,Cho JH,Singaravelu G,Chatterjee I,Choi TW,Song HO,Yu JR,Park BJ,Lee SK,Ahnn J

更新日期：2011-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We focused on the functional involvement of transforming growth factor-beta-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) in transcriptional regulation of interleukin-2 (IL-2) in T cells. Costimulation of Jurkat cells with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate and A23187 leads to a rapid phosphorylation of TAK1 and TAK1-binding protein 1 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakurai H,Singhirunnusorn P,Shimotabira E,Chino A,Suzuki S,Koizumi K,Saiki I

更新日期：2005-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Several clinical studies have shown that cyclosporin A (CsA) is effective for treating a variety of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Because reactive oxygen species are believed to play a key role in the development of these diseases, causing cell apoptosis, we investigated whether CsA inhibits H2O2-induc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugano N,Ito K,Murai S

更新日期：1999-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of a calcium-inhibitable adenylyl cyclase type VI (type VI AC) in the central nervous system using an antiserum directed against the N-terminus of type VI AC. Our results indicate that type VI AC immunoreactivity is generally expressed in many brain regions wit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu FC,Wu GC,Hsieh ST,Lai HL,Wang HF,Wang TW,Chern Y

更新日期：1998-09-25 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：:Astrocytes (AC) induce blood-brain barrier (BBB) properties in brain endothelial cells (EC). As antioxidative activity (AOA) is assumed to be a BBB characteristic, we tested whether AC improve AOA of EC. Monocultivated AC showed higher AOA [manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (Cat), glutathione peroxidase (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schroeter ML,Mertsch K,Giese H,Müller S,Sporbert A,Hickel B,Blasig IE

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently developed a method to produce native human proinsulin using a bacterial expression system. A proinsulin fusion protein was recovered from inclusion bodies and cleaved using cyanogen bromide. The released proinsulin polypeptide was S-sulfonated and purified by anion exchange chromatography. Following r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cowley DJ,Mackin RB

更新日期：1997-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman (RR) spectra of the monomeric cyanomethaemoglobin CTT III from insect larvae of Chironomus thummi thummi are shown for the range of 200-550 cm-1. By iron and cyanide isotope exchange a line varying between 307 cm-1 for 57Fe-13C15N and 311 cm-1 for 54Fe-12C14N, has been assigned to the Fe-N epsilon stre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kerr EA,Yu NT,Gersonde K

更新日期：1984-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin B is a central regulator of transition from the G(2) phase of the cell cycle to mitosis. In mammalian cells two B-type cyclins have been characterised, cyclin B1 and B2. Both are expressed with a maximum in G(2) and their synthesis is mainly regulated on the transcriptional level. We show that a single cell cyc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wasner M,Tschöp K,Spiesbach K,Haugwitz U,Johne C,Mössner J,Mantovani R,Engeland K

更新日期：2003-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Using time-resolved low-temperature spectroscopy, we have examined whether or not bovine rhodopsin has a unique transducin-binding state, meta Ib, previously detected from chicken rhodopsin. Unlike chicken meta Ib, bovine meta Ib was detected only by detailed kinetics analysis of the bleaching process, but it was stab...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tachibanaki S,Imai H,Terakita A,Shichida Y

更新日期：1998-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Smad ubiquitination regulatory factor 2 (Smurf2), a ubiquitin ligase for Smads, plays critical roles in the regulation of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta)-Smad signaling via ubiquitin-dependent degradation of Smad2 and Smad7. We found that TGF-beta stimulates Smurf2 expression. TGF-beta activated the Smurf2 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohashi N,Yamamoto T,Uchida C,Togawa A,Fukasawa H,Fujigaki Y,Suzuki S,Kitagawa K,Hattori T,Oda T,Hayashi H,Hishida A,Kitagawa M

更新日期：2005-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine can be metabolized by chicken erythrocytes as a carbon source maintaining ATP levels. In addition, it stimulates glucose uptake and lactate production. Adenosine effects do not involve binding to membrane receptors. They are dependent on the provision of a carbon source to glycolysis and correlate with the i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Espinet C,Bartrons R,Carreras J

更新日期：1989-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of substrate analogs containing the tetrazolyl group instead of the C-terminal carboxy group on the peptidase activity of carboxypeptidase A is studied. The analogs compete with the substrate for the secondary binding site thus showing activation phenomena. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kojro E,Willhardt I,Römbach A,Grzonka Z,Hermann P

更新日期：1987-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of DNA duplexes with 3-amino-1,4-dimethyl-5H-pyrido[4,3-b]indole (Trp-P-1), a potent mutacarcinogen isolated from tryptophan pyrolysate, have been studied using CD spectroscopy. The results are that (a) the spectral change of B-form DNA caused by the interaction with Trp-P-1 is biphasic, i.e. the enla...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Inohara T,Tarui M,Doi M,Inoue M,Ishida T

更新日期：1993-06-21 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：:We have identified and characterized a genomic DNA fragment containing the coding sequences corresponding to the human gamma-glutamyltransferase type 1 mRNA. The coding part of the gene spans over 16 kb and comprises 12 exons and 11 introns exhibiting a similar organization as for the mouse and rat GGT genes. The exon...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Leh H,Chikhi N,Ichino K,Guellaën G,Wellman M,Siest G,Visvikis A

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins involved in protein translocation across the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum assemble into different oligomeric complexes depending on their state of function. To analyse such membrane protein complexes we fractionated proteins of mammalian rough microsomes and analysed them using blue native PAGE and i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang L,Dobberstein B

更新日期：1999-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-selective gastrin/cholecystokinin receptor antagonists proglumide and benzotript inhibit colon carcinoma cell proliferation by binding to the 78 kDa gastrin-binding protein (GBP) (Baldwin, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91 (1994) 7593-7597). However, although most colon carcinoma cell lines synthesize progastrin,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baldwin GS

更新日期：1995-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although insulin secretion is usually regarded as a Ca2+-dependent mechanism, recent studies have suggested the existence of a Ca2+-independent pathway of regulation by glucose. Here, mouse islets were used to compare the contribution of Ca2+-dependent and -independent pathways. Glucose increased insulin release in a ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sato Y,Nenquin M,Henquin JC

更新日期：1998-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble aluminium (Al(3+)) is the major constraint to plant growth on acid soils. Plants have evolved mechanisms to tolerate Al(3+) and one type of mechanism relies on the efflux of organic anions that protect roots by chelating the Al(3+). Al(3+) resistance genes of several species have now been isolated and found to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Delhaize E,Gruber BD,Ryan PR

更新日期：2007-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes from extremely halophilic archaea are readily denatured in the absence of a high salt concentration. However, we have observed here that a nucleoside diphosphate kinase prepared from Halobacterium salinarum was active and stable in the absence of salt, though it has the amino acid composition characteristic of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ishibashi M,Tokunaga H,Hiratsuka K,Yonezawa Y,Tsurumaru H,Arakawa T,Tokunaga M

更新日期：2001-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Association reactions of a recombinant CFTR-NBF-2 polypeptide fused to glutathione S-transferase with guanine nucleotides were monitored quantitatively by recording the fluorescence enhancement of excited trinitrophenol (TNP)-labelled GTP after binding to NBF-2. Binding of TNP-GTP to the recombinant NBF-2 polypeptide ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Randak C,Neth P,Auerswald EA,Assfalg-Machleidt I,Roscher AA,Hadorn HB,Machleidt W

更新日期：1996-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein C (PC) is a vitamin K-dependent zymogen that inactivates factors Va and VIIIa after its activation by thrombin complexed to thrombomodulin. We characterized a monoclonal antibody (mAb) against PC, whose only influence on PC functions was to inhibit PC activation by the thrombin-thrombomodulin complex. It recog...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vincenot A,Gaussem P,Pittet JL,Debost S,Aiach M

更新日期：1995-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A rat urokinase receptor (uPAR) cDNA fragment was amplified by RT-PCR from RNA of the rat osteoblastic cell line CFK-1. Using this DNA species as a hybridization probe two rat uPAR cDNAs were isolated from a CFK-1 cDNA library. These two cDNAs encode an identical uPAR protein except for a single base mutation which re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rabbani SA,Rajwans N,Achbarou A,Murthy KK,Goltzman D

更新日期：1994-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:While the majority of studies have focused on the biological roles of heparin-binding proteins, relatively little is known about their key residues and structural elements responsible for heparin interaction. In this study, we employed the IgG-binding domain B1 of Streptococcal protein G as a miniature scaffold to inv...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cheng YY,Cheng CS,Lee TR,Chang WS,Lyu PC

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of proteins found in body fluids and at cell surfaces, which are known to display carbohydrate-binding properties, continues to increase rapidly. In these proteins, in addition to a domain associated with lectin properties, one or more, non-lectin domains are present. It is possible that binding of sugar re...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thiel S,Reid KB

更新日期：1989-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of intracellular guanosine 3',5'-bispyrophosphate ((p)ppGpp) level, the effector of the stringent response, is crucial for survival as well as optimal growth of prokaryotes and, thus, for bacterial pathogenesis and dormancy. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), (p)ppGpp synthesis and degradation are carried...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Singal B,Balakrishna AM,Nartey W,Manimekalai MSS,Jeyakanthan J,Grüber G

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00