The glycine residue of ATP regulatory module in receptor guanylate cyclases that is essential in natriuretic factor signaling.

abstract：:Farnesoic acid is a signaling molecule that inhibits the transition from budding yeast to filament formation in Candida albicans, but the molecular mechanism regulated by this substance is unknown. In this study, we analyzed the function of CaPHO81, which is induced by farnesoic acid. The pho81Δ mutant cells existed e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chung SC,Kim TI,Ahn CH,Shin J,Oh KB

更新日期：2010-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) inhibits the activity of coagulation factors VIIa and Xa through Kunitz domains, thereby inhibiting the activity of tissue factor. However, it has been shown that the C-terminal of this inhibitor is essential for the maximal anticoagulant activity of TFPI. We have investigated th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ettelaie C,Adam JM,James NJ,Oke AO,Harrison JA,Bunce TD,Bruckdorfer KR

更新日期：1999-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine of the cbi genes from the 17.5 kb cob operon of Salmonella typhimurium previously shown by genetic studies to be involved in the biosynthesis of cobinamide from precorrin-2, have been subcloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Seven of the gene products were found in the soluble fraction of cell lysates and hav...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roessner CA,Warren MJ,Santander PJ,Atshaves BP,Ozaki S,Stolowich NJ,Iida K,Scott AI

更新日期：1992-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat glutathione transferase 8-8 is one of the less abundant cytosolic glutathione transferases, accounting for approx. 1% of the total activity with 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene in liver. The enzyme is eluted at pH 6.3 upon chromatofocusing and has so far been identified in liver, kidney, lung and testis. Characteristi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jensson H,Guthenberg C,Alin P,Mannervik B

更新日期：1986-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin-binding proteins are necessary for pathogens to obtain iron from Hb. Entamoeba histolytica can grow using Hb as source of iron, but the underlying mechanism has not previously been established. In this work, we identified a 45 kDa Hb-binding protein of E. histolytica, which we named Ehhmbp45. In silico anal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cruz-Castañeda A,Olivares-Trejo JJ

更新日期：2008-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of progesterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and 17beta-estradiol on the synthesis and degradation of hyaluronate were investigated using human uterine cervix fibroblasts. The cells were incubated with [3H]glucosamine in the presence of the hormones and then [3H]hyaluronate was isolated from the medium....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka K,Nakamura T,Takagaki K,Funahashi M,Saito Y,Endo M

更新日期：1997-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify genes whose expression is modulated by heregulin-beta1 (HRG), a regulatory polypeptide for mammary epithelial cells, we performed differential display screening of MCF-7 cell mRNA. One cDNA clone upregulated by HRG was identical to human ADP-ribosylation factor 3 (ARF3), a guanine nucleotide-binding protei...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li F,Mandal M,Mishra SK,Barnes CJ,Kumar R

更新日期：2002-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is associated with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Although most clinical isolates of STEC produce hemolysin (called enterohemolysin), the precise role of enterohemolysin in the pathogenesis of STEC infections is unknown. Here we demonstrated that E. coli carrying the clo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taneike I,Zhang HM,Wakisaka-Saito N,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2002-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (MAChRs), as detected by binding of [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB), was investigated under conditions which promote protein phosphorylation. Incubation of a crude heart membrane preparation in the presence of ATP/Mg2+ reduced MAChR number by 50%. Incubation with poly...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Creazzo TL,Wrenn RW

更新日期：1988-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripeptidyl peptidase I (TPP-I) is a lysosomal enzyme that cleaves tripeptides from the N-terminus of polypeptides. A comparison of TPP-I amino acid sequences with sequences derived from an EST database suggested that TPP-I is identical to a pepstatin-insensitive carboxyl proteinase of unknown specificity which is mut...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vines DJ,Warburton MJ

更新日期：1999-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lines of evidence led to the conclusion that mammalian ribosomal protein synthesis is a highly organized biological process in vivo. A wealth of data support the concept according to which tRNA aminoacylation, formation of the ternary complex on EF1A and delivery of aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome is a processi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mirande M

更新日期：2010-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the amino acid alignment, Caenorhabditis elegans F32D1.1 was identified to be a homologue of the mammalian fidgetin. We produced and purified the F32D1.1 protein by using a baculovirus-expression system. F32D1.1 has an ATPase activity, which is sensitive to N-ethylmaleimide. Km and Vmax for the ATPase activit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yakushiji Y,Yamanaka K,Ogura T

更新日期：2004-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalent structure and most of the stereochemistry of the pseudomycins, bioactive metabolites of a transposon-generated mutant of a Pseudomonas syringae wild-type strain proposed for the biological control of Dutch elm disease, have been determined. While two pseudomycins are identical to the known syringopeptins ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ballio A,Bossa F,Di Giorgio D,Ferranti P,Paci M,Pucci P,Scaloni A,Segre A,Strobel GA

更新日期：1994-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pi binding by the F(1)-ATPase of beef heart mitochondria and of the Escherichia coli plasma membrane (E. coli F(1)) was examined by two methods: the centrifuge column procedure [Penefsky, H.S. (1977) J. Biol. Chem. 252, 2891-2899] and the Paulus pressure dialysis cell [Paulus, H. (1969) Anal. Biochem. 32, 91-100]. The...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Penefsky HS

更新日期：2005-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermal blockage of QA-. oxidation was analysed in PS II membrane fragments by monitoring flash-induced changes of the relative fluorescence quantum yield as a function of temperature. The results obtained reveal: (a) in dark-adapted samples the fraction of QA-. that is not reoxidised within a time domain of 10 s ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Reifarth F,Renger G

更新日期：1998-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomes are unicellular parasites and like all decent parasites, they try to obtain from the host as much material as possible, including lipids. However, the needs of a parasite are not always the same as those of the host, and therefore, mostly, some biosynthetic work still has to be done by the parasite itself...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： van Hellemond JJ,Tielens AG

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The interconversions of the inositol-containing lipids (PI, PI-P and PI-P2) and their products (DG, inositol phosphates and PA) in human and rabbit neutrophils stimulated with fMetLeuPhe and PMA have been examined. PMA causes only the phosphorylation of PI to PI-P whereas fMetLeuPhe causes phosphorylation of both PI a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cockcroft S,Barrowman MM,Gomperts BD

更新日期：1985-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal metabolite brefeldin A (BFA) is known to disrupt the Golgi apparatus resulting in redistribution of Golgi proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum and inhibition of protein secretion. BFA was found to inhibit protein synthesis in rat glioma C6 cells by up to 70% between 0.1 and 1 microgram/ml. Inhibition was b...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fishman PH,Curran PK

更新日期：1992-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise interactions between the subunits of Gs (alpha s, beta, gamma) and the plasma membrane remain to be established. If alpha s is associated loosely with the inner membrane, is labile during activation, or is always present to some extent in the cytoplasm, then it should fractionate to the supernatant of a hi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roth DA,Urasawa K,Leiber D,Insel PA,Hammond HK

更新日期：1992-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the expression of formyl peptide receptor (FPR) and its functional role in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). We analyzed the expression of FPR by using ligand-binding assay with radio-labeled N-formyl-met-leu-phe (fMLF), and found that MSCs express FPR. FMLF stimulated intracellu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim MK,Min do S,Park YJ,Kim JH,Ryu SH,Bae YS

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, capsaicin (trans-8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) induced an increase in the cell viability of the androgen-responsive prostate cancer LNCaP cells, which was reversed by the use of the TRPV1 antagonists capsazepine, I-RTX and SB 366791. In further studies we observed that capsaicin induced a decrease i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Malagarie-Cazenave S,Olea-Herrero N,Vara D,Díaz-Laviada I

更新日期：2009-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 tumour suppressor protein is tightly controlled by the E3 ubiquitin ligase, mouse double minute 2 (MDM2), but maintains MDM2 expression as part of a negative feedback loop. We have identified the immunophilin, 25kDa FK506-binding protein (FKBP25), previously shown to be regulated by p53-mediated repression, as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ochocka AM,Kampanis P,Nicol S,Allende-Vega N,Cox M,Marcar L,Milne D,Fuller-Pace F,Meek D

更新日期：2009-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Although signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1) mediated regulation of p53 transcription and apoptosis has been previously reported, modulation of other members of the p53 family of transcription factors remains poorly understood. In this study, we found that STAT1 and TA-p73 can interact directly ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Soond SM,Carroll C,Townsend PA,Sayan E,Melino G,Behrmann I,Knight RA,Latchman DS,Stephanou A

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The crawling locomotion and shape of eukaryotic cells have been associated with the stochastic molecular dynamics of actin and its protein regulators, chiefly Arp2/3 and Rho family GTPases, in making a cytoskeleton meshwork within cell extensions. However, the cell's actin-dependent oscillatory shape and extension dyn...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vicker MG

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In a wild-type strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cadmium induces the activities of both gamma-glutamyl transferase (gamma-GT) and glutathione transferase 2 (Gtt2). However, Gtt2 activity did not increase under gamma-GT or Ycf1 deficiencies, suggesting that the accumulation of glutathione-cadmium in the cytosol inhib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adamis PD,Mannarino SC,Eleutherio EC

更新日期：2009-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication and pathogenesis involve both virus-encoded proteins and cellular factors. In our study, we showed that NS5B, the HCV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, interacted with M2 type pyruvate kinase (M2PK) but not L type pyruvate kinase. We confirmed the interaction by GST pull down, coimmunop...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wu X,Zhou Y,Zhang K,Liu Q,Guo D

更新日期：2008-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimuli which enhance secretion from parathyroid cells such as low extracellular Ca2+ or Mg2+ are associated with a decrease in the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration as measured by quin2. Current evidence suggests that increased production of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) releases Ca2+ from cellular stores thus increas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Epstein PA,Prentki M,Attie MF

更新日期：1985-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide bond formation is a critical step in the folding of many secretory proteins. In bacteria, disulfide bonds are introduced by the periplasmic dithiol oxidase DsbA, which transfers its catalytic disulfide bond to folding polypeptides. Reduced DsbA is reoxidized by ubiquinone Q8, catalyzed by inner membrane quin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Malojcić G,Owen RL,Grimshaw JP,Glockshuber R

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence techniques were used to study conformational changes that occur in inactive E. coli 30 S ribosomal subunits during activation by heating in 12 mM Mg2+. Activation is associated with movement of a fluorophore on the 3'-end of 16 S RNA into a less polar environment and towards a probe on the cysteine thiol ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Odom OW,Stöffler G,Hardesty B

更新日期：1984-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:There are now at least 14 distinct diseases linked to germ line mutations in the 21 genes that encode the connexin (Cx) family of gap junction proteins. This review focuses on the links between germ-line mutations in the gene encoding Cx43 (GJA1) and the human disease termed oculodentodigital dysplasia (ODDD). This di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Laird DW

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00