Specific binding sites for 3,3'-diiodo-L-thyronine (3,3'-T2) in rat liver mitochondria.

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：:The proteolytic processing of rabbit intestinal lactase-phlorizin-hydrolase (LPH) was studied by pulse-chase and continuous labeling experiments in organ culture from 15-day-old rabbits in the presence of glycosylation and processing inhibitors. Monensin and brefeldin A inhibited the two proteolytic cleavages of the p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rossi M,Maiuri L,Salvati VM,Russomanno C,Auricchio S

更新日期：1993-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The colony-forming ability of catalase-deficient Escherichia coli mutant genetically modified to produce eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) showed less decrease than in a control strain producing no EPA, when treated with 0.3mM hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) under non-growth conditions. H(2)O(2)-induced protein carbonylation w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nishida T,Orikasa Y,Watanabe K,Okuyama H

更新日期：2006-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Latent transforming growth factor-beta 1 binding protein (LTBP) is a constituent of the latent high molecular weight complex of TGF-beta 1 in human platelets. In the present communication, we show that LTBP binds Ca2+ in its free form as well as in the latent TGF-beta 1 complex. The binding of Ca2+ induces a structura...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colosetti P,Hellman U,Heldin CH,Miyazono K

更新日期：1993-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins and peptides are readily and specifically modified at their sulfhydryl groups by the vapors of a mixture of 4-vinylpyridine and tributylphosphine. The phenylthiohydantoin derivative of S-beta-(4-pyridylethyl)cysteine formed during sequence analysis is easily detectable in current identification systems. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Amons R

更新日期：1987-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete cDNA clone encoding human cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase has been isolated using a rat P-450ch7 alpha cDNA insert [(1989) FEBS Lett. 257, 97-100] as a probe and totally sequenced. The cDNA contained 1512-base pair open reading frame encoding 504 amino acid residues (Mr 57,630), 39-base pair 5'-untranslated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Noshiro M,Okuda K

更新日期：1990-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an in vitro co-culture approach comprising cultured murine superior cervical ganglia and MC3T3-E1 osteoblast-like cells, we found that the addition of scorpion venom (SV) elicited neurite activation via intracellular Ca2+ mobilization and, after a lag period, osteoblastic Ca2+ mobilization. SV did not have any d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Obata K,Furuno T,Nakanishi M,Togari A

更新日期：2007-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity labeling studies have identified several conserved tyrosine residues in the alpha subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (alpha Y93, alpha Y190, and alpha Y198) as being in or near the ligand binding site. Mutagenesis studies from several laboratories have shown that substitution of phenylalanine for...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aylwin ML,White MM

更新日期：1994-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Irreversible conversion of the purified zinc-containing 7Fe ferredoxin from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus sp. strain 7 was found to occur under aerobic conditions at pH 5.0 and at 4 degrees C. This process accompanied a substantial increase of the electron paramagnetic resonance signal attributed to a [3Fe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iwasaki T,Oshima T

更新日期：1997-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acids induce apoptosis in primary astrocytes by enhancing ceramide synthesis de novo. The possible role of the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in the control of apoptosis was studied in this model. Long-term stimulation of AMPK with 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleoside (AICAR) prevented apoptosis. A...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Blázquez C,Geelen MJ,Velasco G,Guzmán M

更新日期：2001-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the quaternary agent meproadifen on ACh-activated channel currents were studied on myoballs cultured from hind limb muscles of neonatal rats. Meproadifen (0.02-0.1 microM) combined with ACh (0.1-0.3 microM) in the patch pipette caused an increase, followed by a decrease, in the frequency of channel open...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aracava Y,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：1984-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Acceptor stem variants of tRNA(fMet) (Escherichia coli) have been characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance. The wild type contains a C1-A72 mismatch pair which is crucial for its biological function. For comparison, the mismatch was replaced by regular pairs U1-A72 and C1-G72. Further variants contain an altered di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zuleeg T,Vogtherr M,Schübel H,Limmer S

更新日期：2000-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins with a CyaB, thiamine triphosphatase domain (CYTH domain) may play a central role at the interface between nucleotide and polyphosphate metabolism. One of the plant CYTH domain-containing proteins from Brachypodium distachyon, BdTTM3, is annotated in NCBI databases as an 'adenylyl cyclase (AC)' or a 'triphosp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Świeżawska B,Duszyn M,Kwiatkowski M,Jaworski K,Pawełek A,Szmidt-Jaworska A

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome assembly factor-1 (PAF-1) is reported here to contain the signature subsequence for a ring finger motif in its carboxyl-terminus. This conserved subsequence in PAF-1 may be the key to a gene expression regulatory pathway important in peroxisome biogenesis. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Patarca R,Fletcher MA

更新日期：1992-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-box protein Skp2 is important for S phase entry and binds to Skp1 and the cyclin A-Cdk2 complex. Here we report the cloning, analysis of genomic organization and characterization of a novel gene product related to Skp2 named FBL2. The human FBL2 gene was found to be a highly interrupted gene of at least 126.6 kb...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ilyin GP,Rialland M,Glaise D,Guguen-Guillouzo C

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+)-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) play an essential role in plant Ca(2+)-mediated signal transduction. Twenty-nine CDPK genes have been identified in the rice genome through a complete search of genome and full-length cDNA databases. Eight of them were reported previously to be inducible by different stress sti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wan B,Lin Y,Mou T

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ileal bile acid-binding protein (I-BABP) is a 14 kDa cytosolic protein which binds bile acids with a high affinity. It is thought to be implicated in the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids and, hence, in cholesterol homeostasis. Using a combination of in vivo and in vitro experiments, we have recently shown that ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Landrier JF,Grober J,Demydchuk J,Besnard P

更新日期：2003-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT, serotonin) affects migration of vascular endothelial cells. 5-HT significantly enhanced migration of human aortic endothelial cells (HAECs), and this enhancement was completely inhibited by GR 55562, a 5-HT1 receptor antagonist, and...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsusaka S,Wakabayashi I

更新日期：2005-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The red fluorescent protein, DsRed, recently cloned from coral Discosoma sp. has one of the longest fluorescence waves and one of the most complex absorbance spectra among the family of fluorescent proteins. In this work we found that with time DsRed fluorescence decreases under mildly acidic conditions (pH 4.0-4.8) i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vrzheshch PV,Akovbian NA,Varfolomeyev SD,Verkhusha VV

更新日期：2000-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylin, a 37 amino acid C-terminal amidated peptide is an integral part of secretory granules of pancreatic beta-cells. Utilizing a specific radioimmunoassay system we demonstrate in the present study a cosecretion of amylin and insulin from the isolated rat pancreas. The secretion pattern of both peptides during gluc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fehmann HC,Weber V,Göke R,Göke B,Arnold R

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ncx gene encodes a homeobox containing transcription factor that belongs to the Hox11 gene family. We determined specific Ncx protein binding consensus DNA sequences. Optimal Ncx binding sequences were 5'-CGGTAATTGG-3' (TAAT core) and 5'-CGGTAAGTGG-3' (TAAG core), which coincided with the Hox11 binding sequence. B...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shimizu H,Kang M,Iitsuka Y,Ichinose M,Tokuhisa T,Hatano M

更新日期：2000-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloride intracellular channel proteins (CLICs) are distinct from most ion channels in that they have both soluble and integral membrane forms. CLICs are highly conserved in chordates, with six vertebrate paralogues. CLIC-like proteins are found in other metazoans. CLICs form channels in artificial bilayers in a proce...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Littler DR,Harrop SJ,Goodchild SC,Phang JM,Mynott AV,Jiang L,Valenzuela SM,Mazzanti M,Brown LJ,Breit SN,Curmi PM

更新日期：2010-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike mammalian lysosomal cysteine proteases, the trypanosomal cysteine protease cruzipain contains a 130-amino acid residue C-terminal domain, in addition to the catalytic domain, and it is stable at neutral pH. The endogenous (with C-terminal domain) and recombinant (without C-terminal domain) cruzipains exhibit si...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stoka V,Turk B,McKerrow JH,Björk I,Cazzulo JJ,Turk V

更新日期：2000-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene conservation, duplication and constitutive expression are intricately linked and strong predictors of essentiality. Here, we introduce metrics based on diversity indices to measure gene conservation, duplication and constitutive expression and validate them by measuring their performance in prediction of essentia...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Arun PV,Miryala SK,Chattopadhyay S,Thiyyagura K,Bawa P,Bhattacharjee M,Yellaboina S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a viral center molecule for HBV infection and persistence. However, the cellular restriction factors of HBV cccDNA are not well understood. Here, we show that TGF-β can induce nuclear viral cccDNA degradation and hypermutation via activation-ind...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Qiao Y,Han X,Guan G,Wu N,Sun J,Pak V,Liang G

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The OxyR protein is a transcriptional activator for a subset of peroxide stress-inducible genes, most of which are involved in defense systems against oxidative stress. Recently, it was demonstrated that purified OxyR has one intramolecular disulfide bond, which led to the proposal that the reversible disulfide bond f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tao K

更新日期：1999-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic effects were observed following 4 h incubation of human leukaemic cells with the iron chelator 1-hydroxypyridine-2-thione (omadine). Its cytotoxic activity was comparable to that of the cytotoxic drug doxorubicin. At the same concentration two other effective iron chelators, desferrioxamine and 1,2-dimethyl-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kontoghiorghes GJ,Piga A,Hoffbrand AV

更新日期：1986-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:ATM (ataxia telangiectasia mutated), the gene mutated in ataxia telangiectasia, is related to a family of large phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase domain-containing proteins involved in cell cycle control and DNA repair. We found that ATM(-/-) DT40 cells were more susceptible than wild-type cells to apoptosis induced not o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takao N,Li Y,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2000-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli 50 S ribosomal subunits were reconstituted with and without protein L16 present. The latter particles, although active in puromycin reaction, were unable to use CACCA-Phe as an acceptor substrate. We also found that L16 interacts directly with this oligonucleotide and, in the complex with tRNA, protec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Maimets T,Remme J,Villems R

更新日期：1984-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies using retinal analogs (Wada, A., Sakai, M., Kinumi, T., Tsujimoto, K., Yamauchi, M. and Ito, M. (1994) J. Org. Chem. 59, 6992-6997; Wada, A., Sakai, M., Imamoto, Y., Shichida., Y., Yoshizawa, T. and Ito, M. (1993) Chem. Pharm. Bull. 41, 793-795) revealed that both retinochrome and visual pigments shar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakamoto M,Wada A,Akai A,Ito M,Goshima T,Takahashi T

更新日期：1998-09-04 00:00:00