Unique molecular properties of superoxide dismutase from teleost fish skin.

abstract：:This review focuses on the factors that regulate the proliferation of pancreatic islet beta-cells in vitro, and in particular on the intracellular pathways that convey the mitogenic signal into a proliferative response. Substances as diverse as nutrients, polypeptides, cytokines, adrenergic agents, lithium, phorbol es...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sjöholm A

更新日期：1992-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicities of influenza viruses and paramyxoviruses have been proposed to be primarily determined by a host cell protease(s) that activates viral infectivity by proteolytic cleavage of the envelope glycoproteins. We recently isolated a trypsin-type endoprotease, named tryptase Clara, from rat bronchial and br...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kido H,Sakai K,Kishino Y,Tashiro M

更新日期：1993-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A human Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase (Cu,Zn-SOD) gene was fused with a gene fragment encoding the nine amino acid transactivator of transcription (Tat) protein transduction domain (RKKRRQRRR) of HIV-1 in a bacterial expression vector to produce a genetic in-frame Tat-SOD fusion protein. The expressed and purified Tat-SO...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kwon HY,Eum WS,Jang HW,Kang JH,Ryu J,Ryong Lee B,Jin LH,Park J,Choi SY

更新日期：2000-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli evolves H2 via multiple [Ni-Fe]-hydrogenases (Hyd). This activity under hyper- and hypo-osmotic stress was investigated with mutants lacking different Hyd enzymes during glycerol fermentation. Inhibitory effects of hypo-stress on H2 production was stronger at pH 6.5 in wild type and mutants except fhl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Trchounian K,Trchounian A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of expression of c-fos gene on proteoglycan synthesis, one of the important markers of cartilage metabolism, was examined by introducing the c-fos DNA into HCS 2/8 chondrocytes. The [35S]sulfate incorporation into proteoglycan was decreased in the c-fos transfectants expressing exogenous c-fos mRNA, when co...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsuji M,Funahashi S,Takigawa M,Seiki M,Fujii K,Yoshida T

更新日期：1996-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Renin, which catalyzes the initial proteolytic cleavage reaction in the production of angiotensins, is first synthesized as a zymogen, prorenin, and requires the proteolytic removal of an amino-terminal prosegment for activation in vivo. The lysosomal hydrolase cathepsin B has been proposed as a prorenin processing en...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jutras I,Reudelhuber TL

更新日期：1999-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human ECE-1 is expressed in four isoforms with different tissue distribution and its mRNA and protein levels are altered under certain pathophysiological conditions. To investigate the transcriptional regulation of ECE-1, we studied the regulatory region of ECE-1c, the major ECE-1 isoform. A genomic clone comprising t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Funke-Kaiser H,Bolbrinker J,Theis S,Lemmer J,Richter CM,Paul M,Orzechowski HD

更新日期：2000-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of extracellular matrix proteins is performed by metalloproteinases which are inhibited by tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMP). We expressed the murine TIMP-1 protein in E. coli and prepared a polyclonal antiserum against the recombinant protein. Using this antiserum we studied the biosynthesis ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roeb E,Graeve L,Müllberg J,Matern S,Rose-John S

更新日期：1994-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear proteins are actively and posttranslationally transported across the nuclear envelope. This transport is a highly selective process that can be divided into two steps, receptor-binding followed by translocation through the nuclear envelope. Receptor-binding is mediated by nuclear localization signals that have...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wagner P,Kunz J,Koller A,Hall MN

更新日期：1990-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of protein Z has been determined from sequence analysis performed on fragments obtained by chemical and enzymatic degradations. The polypeptide consists of a single chain containing 396 amino acid residues (Mr 43 677). Comparison with the vitamin K-dependent plasma proteins reveals an extensive...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Højrup P,Jensen MS,Petersen TE

更新日期：1985-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteasomes were purified from human hepatoma tissues, and their sensitivities to Na+ and K+ were examined. At concentrations of 10 mM or more, these cations were found to inhibit completely polylysine-activated casein degradation by the purified proteasomes. They also strongly inhibited the hydrolyses of peptides, al...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seol JH,Park SC,Ha DB,Chung CH,Tanaka K,Ichihara A

更新日期：1989-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanogenesis is an important biochemical process for the production of skin pigments which protect many animals from the damage of solar radiation. The abnormalities in melanogenesis are associated with albinism, vitiligo, as well as malignant melanoma in humans. In the lower forms of animals viz., insects, the exosk...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugumaran M

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Crigler-Najjar (CN) disease is caused by a deficiency of the hepatic enzyme, bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (B-UGT). We have found two CN type II patients, who were homozygous for a leucine to arginine transition at position 15 of B-UGT1. This mutation is expected to disrupt the hydrophobic core of the signal p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seppen J,Steenken E,Lindhout D,Bosma PJ,Elferink RP

更新日期：1996-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of phosphatidylcholine (PC) and sphingomyelin (SM) between the solubilized (micellar) and non-solubilized (lamellar) fractions arising from bilayers composed of PC and SM, with or without cholesterol (Chol) has been measured under conditions of partial, incomplete solubilization by Triton X-100. Quant...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ahyayauch H,Collado MI,Goñi FM,Lichtenberg D

更新日期：2009-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The predicted Exigobacterium sibiricum bacterirhodopsin gene was amplified from an ancient Siberian permafrost sample. The protein bacteriorhodopsin from Exiguobacterium sibiricum (ESR) encoded by this gene was expressed in Escherichia coli membrane. ESR bound all-trans-retinal and displayed an absorbance maximum at 5...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Petrovskaya LE,Lukashev EP,Chupin VV,Sychev SV,Lyukmanova EN,Kryukova EA,Ziganshin RH,Spirina EV,Rivkina EM,Khatypov RA,Erokhina LG,Gilichinsky DA,Shuvalov VA,Kirpichnikov MP

更新日期：2010-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The glucuronic acid analogue of 1-deoxynojirimycin, 2(S)-carboxy-3(R), 4(R), 5(S)-trihydroxypiperidine, recently isolated from seeds of Baphia racemosa, is a novel specific inhibitor of human liver beta-D-glucuronidase and alpha-L-iduronidase. No other glycosidases are inhibited. The inhibition of beta-D-glucuronidase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cenci di Bello I,Dorling P,Fellows L,Winchester B

更新日期：1984-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-jump measurements were carried out on myosin subfragment 1 (S1) labeled at Cys-707 with 5-(iodoacetamido)fluorescein (S1-AF). The relaxation was monitored by following the increase in the fluorescence intensity of the attached probe after a jump of 5.8 degrees C. A single relaxation process was observed ov...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lin SH,Cheung HC

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase D family of enzymes consists of three isoforms: PKD1/PKCmu PKD2 and PKD3/PKCnu. They all share a similar architecture with regulatory sub-domains that play specific roles in the activation, translocation and function of the enzymes. The PKD enzymes have recently been implicated in very diverse cellu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rykx A,De Kimpe L,Mikhalap S,Vantus T,Seufferlein T,Vandenheede JR,Van Lint J

更新日期：2003-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure determination of apotransketolase and the comparison of its three-dimensional structure with that of the holoenzyme has revealed that no large conformational changes are associated with cofactor binding. Two loops at the active site are flexible in the apoenzyme which enables ThDP to reach its binding si...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sundström M,Lindqvist Y,Schneider G

更新日期：1992-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(A)+ RNA isolated from post-mortem human hypothalami has been used to characterize the poly-protein precursors to vasopressin and oxytocin. Translation in a cell-free system and subsequent immuno-precipitation with antibodies raised against either vasopressin or neurophysin identified a product of Mr 19000 (prepro...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mohr E,Hillers M,Ivell R,Haulica ID,Richter D

更新日期：1985-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicochemical properties of proteins are controlled mainly by post-translational modifications such as amino acid phosphorylation. Although molecular dynamics simulations have been shown to be a valuable tool for studying the effects of phosphorylation on protein structure and dynamics, most of the previous studies ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kawade R,Kuroda D,Tsumoto K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of 125I-labelled high-density lipoprotein ([125I]HDL3) with monospecific polyclonal antibodies against apolipoproteins A-I and A-II resulted in a dose-dependent inhibition of the [125I]HDL3 binding to isolated human small intestine epithelial cells by 25% and 50%, respectively. Both antibodies also inhibited...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sviridov DD,Ehnholm C,Tenkanen H,Pavlov MYu,Safonova IG,Repin VS

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) has been viewed as an important target for the treatment of insulin resistance. Here, by proteomic analysis, we found that expression of heat shock protein beta-1 (HSPB1) was induced by the AMP analog 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide 1-β-D-ribofuranoside in palmitate-ind...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yuan H,Wang T,Niu Y,Liu X,Fu L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insolubility in non-ionic detergents such as Triton X-100 is a widely used biochemical criterion for characterization of membrane domains. We report here a novel green fluorescent protein fluorescence-based approach to directly determine detergent insolubility of specific membrane proteins. We have applied this method...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kalipatnapu S,Chattopadhyay A

更新日期：2004-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystrophin is the recently discovered defective gene product in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD and BMD). Dystrophin transcripts have been amplified and identified in diagnostic needle muscle biopsy samples using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure. Using 5'- and 3'-primers, dystrophin transcript...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Muntoni F,Strong PN

更新日期：1989-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The fat mouse strain exhibits a late-onset obesity syndrome associated with a mutation in the gene encoding carboxypeptidase E (CPE). Since CPE plays a central role in the biosynthesis of a number of regulatory peptides, including gastrin, we examined the biogenesis and processing of progastrin in fat/fat mice by meas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lacourse KA,Friis-Hansen L,Rehfeld JF,Samuelson LC

更新日期：1997-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient sensing of danger and a rapid activation of the immune system are crucial for the survival of plants. Conserved pathogen/microbe-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs/MAMPs) and endogenous molecular patterns, which are present only when the tissue is infected or damaged (damage-associated molecular pattern...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： De Lorenzo G,Brutus A,Savatin DV,Sicilia F,Cervone F

更新日期：2011-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Three proteinase inhibitor genes have been identified in the rapeseed (Brassica napus) genome. They are highly homologous to other genes of the mustard inhibitor (MSI) family of proteinase inhibitors characteristic of Cruciferae. In germinating seeds, only the transcript of one gene, coding for a trypsin inhibitor, is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： De Leo F,Volpicella M,Sciancalepore M,Gallerani R,Ceci LR

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Though phospholipase C PLCgamma2 is known to play an important role in platelet activation by collagen and fibrinogen, its importance in GPIb-mediated platelet activation is less well understood. To better understand the role of PLCgamma2 in GPIb-mediated adhesion and thrombus formation, we examined the ability of wil...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rathore V,Wang D,Newman DK,Newman PJ

更新日期：2004-08-27 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