Functional properties of a heterozygous mutation (Arg1174-->Gln) in the tyrosine kinase domain of the insulin receptor from a type A insulin resistant patient.

abstract：:Glycine amide (GlyAd), a typically amidated amino acid, is a versatile additive that suppresses protein aggregation during refolding, heat treatment, and crystallization. In spite of its effectiveness, the exact mechanism by which GlyAd suppresses protein aggregation remains to be elucidated. Here, we show the crystal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ito L,Shiraki K,Makino M,Hasegawa K,Kumasaka T

更新日期：2011-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a portion of the canine gene encoding the orphan receptor RDC1 [1]. The complete coding sequence is contained in a single exon, and an intron divides the 5' untranslated region of RDC1 mRNA. The RDC1 protein is 94% homologous to the gene product of GPRN1, which has been proposed to serve as a VIP rece...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cook JS,Wolsing DH,Lameh J,Olson CA,Correa PE,Sadee W,Blumenthal EM,Rosenbaum JS

更新日期：1992-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Various molecular mechanisms are involved in the efficacy of arsenic trioxide (ATO) against malignant hematologic and some solid tumors. FLICE-like inhibitory protein (FLIP) is an inhibitor of apoptosis mediated by death receptors. In this study, we identified a new link between the down-regulation of cellular FLIP(L)...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang G,Liu J,Zhang Y,Qu J,Xu L,Zheng H,Liu Y,Qu X

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits ingesting 4-fluorophenylalanine are known to incorporate small amounts of this fluorinated amino acid into their proteins. Carbonic anhydrase I isolated from the erythrocytes of animals so maintained exhibits a well-resolved fluorine NMR signal for each phenylalanine in the sequence. The chemical shifts of mos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gamcsik MP,Gerig JT

更新日期：1986-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In thrombin-stimulated platelets alpha IIb beta 3 integrin engagement triggers both phosphatidylinositol 3',4'-bisphosphate synthesis and calpain activation. We checked the possible involvement of calpains in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signalling pathway using a cell permeant specific inhibitor of calpains, calpept...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Montsarrat N,Racaud-Sultan C,Mauco G,Plantavid M,Payrastre B,Breton-Douillon M,Chap H

更新日期：1997-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:CXCR4 (fusin) is a chemokine receptor which is involved as a coreceptor in gp120 binding to the cell surface. In this study we provide evidence that binding of gp120 triggers CXCR4 recruitment to glycosphingolipid-enriched microdomains. Scanning confocal microscopy showed a nearly complete localization of CXCR4 within...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sorice M,Garofalo T,Misasi R,Longo A,Mattei V,Sale P,Dolo V,Gradini R,Pavan A

更新日期：2001-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that inverted membrane vesicles from Corynebacterium glutamicum, a Gram-positive bacterium, are able to generate and maintain an electrochemical gradient of protons in response to the addition of NADH. This result indicates that the respiratory chain is intact and that the vesicles are reasonably impermeable t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schrempp S,Bayan N,Shechter E

更新日期：1994-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion and deletion analyses of a protein have been less common than point mutation analyses, partly due to the lack in effective methods. This is the case with the green fluorescent protein (GFP), which is so widely applied in molecular biology and other fields. In this paper we first introduce a systematic approa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kitamura K,Yoshida C,Nishigaki K

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:pMNEI, a single chain sweet protein related to monellin, has been studied by means of 1H NMR at 500 MHz. A partial sequential assignment performed by means of the MCD method allowed the determination of the secondary structure of a large portion of the beta-sheet of pMNEI that contains a likely 'sweet finger': the loo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tancredi T,Iijima H,Saviano G,Amodeo P,Temussi PA

更新日期：1992-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermophilic cyanobacterial strain, PCC7518, originally identified as 'Mastigocladus laminosus HTF' does not show branchings or heterocysts. The absence of branchings supports the later assignment to the genus Chlorogloeopsis. The absence of heterocysts may be the result of a mutation because heterocysts were obse...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wilmotte A,Van der Auwera G,De Wachter R

更新日期：1993-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The myristoylated N-terminal latching to the C-terminal lobe of c-Abl was recently demonstrated to be an important regulatory element for the kinase, playing a role similar to that of the tyrosine-phosphorylated C-terminal tail of c-Src. A potential mechanism for activating c-Abl is the dissociation of the myristoylat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou HX

更新日期：2003-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane incorporation and aggregation of the peptide alamethicin have been investigated as a function of lipid type. Head group and acyl chain regions both contribute to modulate alamethicin incorporation. Specifically, the peptide prefers thin membranes and saturated chains; incorporation is reduced by the presence ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stankowski S,Schwarz G

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the roles and molecular mechanisms of miR-320a in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). miR-320a expression was strongly reduced in NPC tissues and cell lines. Overexpression of miR-320a significantly suppressed NPC cell growth, migration, invasion and tumor growth in a xenograft ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Qi X,Li J,Zhou C,Lv C,Tian M

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The D- and L-forms of an alpha-helical antifreeze polypeptide (AFP) have been chemically synthesized. Circular dichroism spectra of the molecules show equal and opposite ellipticites. The D- and the L-enantiomers alone, and a 50:50 mixture of the two, all show identical antifreeze activity, but the enantiomeric forms ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wen D,Laursen RA

更新日期：1993-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein MtsA is a critical component of MtsABC responsible for iron binding and transport in the Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes. The present collective experimental data establish that Fe(2+) is the primary binding ion for MtsA under optimal physiologically relevant conditions. The binding affiniti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sun X,Ge R,Chiu JF,Sun H,He QY

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study provides the first evidence that the abundance of catalytic alpha1-subunit of Na,K-ATPase increases in the course of T cell blast transformation. Immunodepressant cyclosporin A at anti-proliferative doses diminished the induction of alpha1 protein in activated lymphocytes. Furthermore, in competent T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marakhova I,Karitskaya I,Aksenov N,Zenin V,Vinogradova T

更新日期：2005-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronin proteins are widely expressed among eukaryotic organisms. Most coronins consist of a WD-repeat domain followed by a C-terminal coiled coil. Dictyostelium discoideum expresses a single short coronin coronin A, which has been implicated in both actin modulation and multicellular differentiation. Whether coronin ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fiedler T,Fabrice TN,Studer V,Vinet A,Faltova L,Kammerer RA,Steinmetz MO,Sharpe T,Pieters J

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of removal of Ca2+ bound to thrombospondin (TSP) on the protein structure in solution has been investigated using ESR spin-label techniques. A maleimide spin label was selectively attached to the free thiol group presumably near the carboxyl-terminal domain in which Ca2+-binding sites are situated. The ESR ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Slane JM,Mosher DF,Lai CS

更新日期：1988-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of anaphylatoxin C3a on human neutrophils were studied in comparison with C5a. Both peptides induced a transient shape change response and a respiratory burst. In both cases C3a was 50- to 100-times less potent than C5a. A marked chemotactic response with bimodal concentration dependence was obtained with ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ehrengruber MU,Geiser T,Deranleau DA

更新日期：1994-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:LEA (late embryogenesis abundant) proteins are intrinsically disordered proteins that contribute to stress tolerance in plants and invertebrates. Here we show that, when both plant and animal LEA proteins are co-expressed in mammalian cells with self-aggregating polyglutamine (polyQ) proteins, they reduce aggregation ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu Y,Chakrabortee S,Li R,Zheng Y,Tunnacliffe A

更新日期：2011-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T-cells (Tregs) are the guardians of peripheral tolerance acting to prevent autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythomatosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Defects in Tregs have been reported in these two diseases despite significant differences in their clinical phenotype and pathogenesis. In...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chavele KM,Ehrenstein MR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of glycosaminoglycans to a synthetic peptide (SKAQKAQAKQAKQAQKAQKAQAKQAKQW-CONH(2)), consisting of a hybrid consensus heparin binding sequence, is studied using circular dichroism, fluorescence anisotropy and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. The results unveil certain novel features, most importantly...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jayaraman G,Wu CW,Liu YJ,Chien KY,Fang JC,Lyu PC

更新日期：2000-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel GTP binding protein (G protein) alpha subunit cDNA was isolated from a T cell leukemia cell line, Jurkat, utilizing polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The predicted amino acid sequence of this G protein alpha subunit showed the highest identity (96.6%) to bovine cone cell-specific transducin (Tc alpha). The orga...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kubo M,Hirano T,Kakinuma M

更新日期：1991-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Vav functions as a specific GDP/GTP nucleotide exchange factor which is regulated by tyrosine phosphorylation in the hematopoietic system. Loss of the amino-terminus sequences of Vav was sufficient to control its transforming potential and its function in T cells. We report here the identification of the hematopoietic...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Groysman M,Russek CS,Katzav S

更新日期：2000-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Internal promoters of some genes transcribed by RNA polymerase III (e.g. tRNA genes, adenovirus VA1 RNA gene, human retroposons of the Alu family) contain a conserved sequence element, B-box, interacting with basal transcription factor TFIIIC2 which initiates assembly of the full transcription complex on the genes, an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kropotov AV,Tomilin NV

更新日期：1996-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is likely to have roles other than the hydrolysis of acetylcholine, e.g., related to developmental processes like neurite outgrowth, differentiation and adhesion. Here, we investigated whether AChE can function as a heterophilic cell adhesion molecule and searched for proteins interacting w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Paraoanu LE,Layer PG

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus X protein is a major factor in the HBV-induced disease developments. Stromal cell-derived factor-1 is a small cytokine that is strongly chemotactic for lymphocytes. We explored the role of HBx on recruitment of HBV-induced virus-nonspecific immune cells into liver. Immune cell recruitment and SDF-1 e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cho HK,Kim SY,Seong JK,Cheong J

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence intensity of the Ca2+,Mg2(+)-ATPase protein of rabbit skeletal sarcoplasmic reticulum that incorporated about 2 mol of 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (NBD-Cl) was enhanced at high MgATP concentrations with or without 50 microM calcium. The observed enhancement indicates that the fluorophore, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bailin G,Huang JR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase D (PLD) has been associated with necrosis. However, it is not clear whether PLD plays a causative role in this cellular process. We investigated the role of PLD in oxidative stress-induced necrosis of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). Pervanadate (hydrogen peroxide plus orthovanadate) but not hydroge...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shin EY,Min DS,Shin JC,Shin KS,Hyun MS,Ha KS,Kim HS,Ahn HY,Kim EG

更新日期：2001-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of the beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptide of Alzheimer's disease may relate to its polymerisation state (i.e. fibril content). We have shown previously that plasma lipoproteins, particularly when oxidised, greatly enhance Abeta polymerisation. In the present study the nature of the interactions between both nat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stanyer L,Betteridge DJ,Smith CC

更新日期：2002-05-08 00:00:00