Cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) is an abundant component of tendon.

abstract：:The formation of coenzyme A thiol esters of cinnamic, p-coumaric, p-methoxy cinnamic, and ferulic acids was catalyzed by enzyme preparations from cell suspension cultures of leaf petioles from parsley (Petroselinum hortense Hoffm.). Of these acids, p-coumaric acid served as the most efficient substrate. Enzyme activit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hahlbrock K,Grisebach H

更新日期：1970-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and efficient method for the purification of malate synthase, an enzyme uniquely confined to glyoxysomes, from cotyledons of Brassica napus L. has been developed. The two step purification procedure is based on the consequent utilization of the tendency of malate synthase to form high molecular weight aggregat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoppe A,Theimer RR

更新日期：1995-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a yeast mutant with temperature-sensitive growth defects that were rescued by VCP expression. The mutation occurred in GPI10, which encodes a mannosyl transferase for glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor formation in the endoplasmic reticulum, and caused a Gly469Glu substitution in Gpi10. The mutant exhib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohnuma Y,Takata T,Kawawaki J,Yasuda K,Tanaka K,Kimura Y,Kakizuka A

更新日期：2015-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H1(0) is found in tissues with little or no cellular proliferation and has been shown to accumulate during cellular terminal differentiation. Two subtypes of H1(0), H1 a and H1 b, are present in any tissue where the protein has been detected. We report here the first evidence of an age-dependent change in the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Piña B,Suau P

更新日期：1987-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Azide-binding to the heme-copper binuclear center of bo-type ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli was investigated with Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Deconvolution analyses of infrared spectra of the azide (14N3)-inhibited air-oxidized form showed a major infrared azide antisymmetric stretching band at 2...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsubaki M,Mogi T,Hori H

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The (beta alpha)(8)-barrel is the most frequent and most versatile fold among enzymes [Höcker et al., Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 12 (2001) 376-381; Wierenga, FEBS Lett. 492 (2001) 193-198]. Structural and functional evidence suggests that (beta alpha)(8)-barrels evolved from an ancestral half-barrel, which consisted of f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Höcker B,Schmidt S,Sterner R

更新日期：2002-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A-disintegrin and metalloproteinase 10 (ADAM10) is involved in the generation of amyloid-β (Aβ) during amyloid precursor protein (APP) processing, and has a protective effect against Aβ neurotoxicity. We explored how metallothionein-III (MT-III) is regulated in the non-amyloidogenic pathway to generate soluble APPα (s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park BH,Kim HG,Jin SW,Song SG,Jeong HG

更新日期：2014-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological studies suggest that adrenal medulla chromaffin cells in situ are polarised, but functional evidence is lacking. We present here the first demonstration for polarisation of exocytosis in isolated, spherical, bovine chromaffin cells. Cells were stimulated with 70 mM K(+) to cause a marked enhancement of ca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cuchillo-Ibáñez I,Michelena P,Albillos A,García AG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear factor NF-IL6 had been suggested to be responsible for the IL-6-mediated induction of several acute-phase proteins. To obtain evidence for the involvement of NF-IL6 in the induction of acute-phase proteins, we introduced the NF-IL6 gene and its truncated mutant (delNFIL6) gene into a hepatoma cell line Hep...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Natsuka S,Isshiki H,Akira S,Kishimoto T

更新日期：1991-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of rhodanese with hche aperonins GroEL and GroES (1:2 GroEL14:GroES7 molar ratio) under functional and steady state conditions for ATP leads to the formation of a high proportion of rhodanese-bound symmetric complexes (GroEL14(GroES7)2), as revealed by native electrophoresis. Aliquots of such samples were o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Llorca O,Marco S,Carrascosa JL,Valpuesta JM

更新日期：1997-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the connexin family differ most in their carboxy-termini, both with respect to sequence and length. In order to assess the contribution of this region to channel function, a series of carboxy-terminal deletion mutants were tested in the paired-oocyte expression system. Connexin-32 can be truncated by 64 ami...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rabadan-Diehl C,Dahl G,Werner R

更新日期：1994-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutively secreted proteins have traditionally been believed to be excluded from the regulated secretory pathway. In this work we show that kappa light chain and Fc fragment, two markers of the constitutive pathway, are present in the regulated pathway in AtT-20 cells. They colocalize with the endogenous hormone ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Castle AM,Huang AY,Castle JD

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Low density lipoproteins are highly sensitive to oxidation by copper salts, and such peroxidation is accompanied by macrophage scavenger receptor recognition. This study shows that fresh human atherosclerotic material (aneurysms and endarterectomies) can contain detectable amounts of redox active iron and copper that ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swain J,Gutteridge JM

更新日期：1995-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous investigation of the rDNA region in Tetrahymena pyriformis mitochondrial DNA, we identified a putative tRNA(Met) gene [Heinonen et al. (1987) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 2879-2887]. On the basis of Northern hybridization analyses, we suggested that this gene is expressed, even though the resulting tRNA would be ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schnare MN,Greenwood SJ,Gray MW

更新日期：1995-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to determine the role of intracellular Ca(2+) in VEGF signaling. We demonstrate that reduction in Ca(2+) by chelating compound BAPTA-AM or by IP(3)-endoplasmic reticulum blocker 2-APB selectively inhibited VEGF-induced activation of c-Src-PI3K-Akt but not ERK1/2 in human coronary artery...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee M,Spokes KC,Aird WC,Abid MR

更新日期：2010-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the ability of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) to cause contractions of mechanically skinned muscle fibres of frog and barnacle. InsP3 (10-500 microM) did not cause any tension development in 25 frog skinned fibres and 26 barnacle myofibrillar bundles, although contractions could be readily evoke...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lea TJ,Griffiths PJ,Tregear RT,Ashley CC

更新日期：1986-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously have shown that the overexpression of phospholipase C-gamma1 (PLC-gamma1) in rat 3Y1 fibroblasts results in malignant transformation (Chang, J.-S., Noh, D.Y., Park, I.A., Kim, M;.J., Song, H., Ryu, S.H. and Suh, P.-G. (1997) Cancer Res. 57, 5465-5468). The transformed cells, which initially are in an elo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chang JS,Iwashita S,Lee YH,Kim MJ,Ryu SH,Suh PG

更新日期：1999-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystallographic analysis of a mutated form of "loopful" GH19 chitinase from rye seeds a double mutant RSC-c, in which Glu67 and Trp72 are mutated to glutamine and alanine, respectively, (RSC-c-E67Q/W72A) in complex with chitin tetrasaccharide (GlcNAc)₄ revealed that the entire substrate-binding cleft was completely o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohnuma T,Umemoto N,Kondo K,Numata T,Fukamizo T

更新日期：2013-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloalkane dehalogenase hydrolyses various 1-halo-n-alkanes to the corresponding alcohols by covalent catalysis with formation of an alkyl-enzyme intermediate. The carboxylate function of the nucleophilic aspartate (Asp-124) that displaces the halogen during formation of the intermediate was changed to an amide by sit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pries F,Kingma J,Janssen DB

更新日期：1995-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrin 2 (vasotocinyl-Gly), a hydroosmotic peptide resulting from differential processing of provasotocin and recently identified in frog neurohypophysis, has been looked for in the pituitary gland of an exotic toad (Bufo marinus) and of a reptile (Vipera aspis). Hydrin 2 has been found in the amphibian but not in the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Michel G,Rouillé Y,Chauvet MT,Chauvet J,Acher R

更新日期：1990-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants exposed to high irradiances of visible light, the D1 protein in the reaction center of photosystem II is oxidatively damaged and rapidly degraded. Earlier work in our laboratory showed that the serine protease Deg2 performs the primary cleavage of photodamaged D1 protein in vitro. Here, we demonstrate that t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huesgen PF,Schuhmann H,Adamska I

更新日期：2006-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for the extracellular ribonuclease of B. pumilus KMM62 (RNase Bp) has been cloned and sequenced. The structural gene for this enzyme is similar to those of the extracellular ribonucleases of B. intermedius 7P (binase) and B. amyloliquefaciens H2 (barnase), as are the regulatory regions of binase and RNase Bp....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Znamenskaya LV,Gabdrakhmanova LA,Chernokalskaya EB,Leshchinskaya IB,Hartley RW

更新日期：1995-01-02 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：:We have used fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to analyze the interaction of GTP-tubulin with rhodamine-labeled RB3, a neural protein of the stathmin family, and to determine the kinetic pathway of the association process. RB3 displayed slow association-dissociation kinetics with tubulin depending on the square of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krouglova T,Amayed P,Engelborghs Y,Carlier MF

更新日期：2003-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that anthocyanins can function as potent inhibitors of the formation of nitrated tyrosine in vitro, and clarified how pelargonidin (Pel), which has a mono-hydroxyl group on the B-ring, can scavenge peroxynitrite (ONOO(-)) by detection of the reaction products. Pel was reacted with ONOO(-), then the reaction mi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsuda T,Kato Y,Osawa T

更新日期：2000-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adipogenesis inhibitory factor (AGIF) was purified to homogeneity from the conditioned medium of COS-1 cells transfected with human AGIF cDNA. The amino-terminal sequence analysis of the mature AGIF revealed that AGIF was produced as a precursor consisting of 199 amino acids and processed into a mature for...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohsumi J,Miyadai K,Kawashima I,Ishikawa-Ohsumi H,Sakakibara S,Mita-Honjo K,Takiguchi Y

更新日期：1991-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Using oligonucleotide primers derived from the vesicular monoamine transporters sequences, a cDNA predicted to encode the bovine chromaffin granule amine transporter has been cloned (b-VMAT2). Surprisingly, its structure is more similar to the rat brain transporter (VMAT2), than to the rat adrenal counterpart (VMAT1)....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Howell M,Shirvan A,Stern-Bach Y,Steiner-Mordoch S,Strasser JE,Dean GE,Schuldiner S

更新日期：1994-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a unified framework for the identification of functional interaction structures of biomolecular networks in a way that leads to a new experimental design procedure. In developing our approach, we have built upon previous work. Thus we begin by pointing out some of the restrictions associated with existing s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cho KH,Choo SM,Wellstead P,Wolkenhauer O

更新日期：2005-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three inositol-containing sialyloligosaccharides were isolated from normal human urine. Structural studies including gas-liquid chromatography of mono- and disaccharide derivatives, methylation analysis, mass spectrometry and glycosidase treatments indicated the structure NeuAc (alpha 2-3)Gal(beta 1-0)scyllo-inositol ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Parkkinen J

更新日期：1983-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-forming acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACD) catalyzes the interconversion of acetyl-CoA and acetate. The related succinyl-CoA synthetase follows a three-step mechanism involving a single phosphoenzyme, but a novel four-step mechanism with two phosphoenzyme intermediates was proposed for Pyrococcus ACD. Characterization of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jones CP,Khan K,Ingram-Smith C

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00