Molecular cloning of the canine angiotensin II receptor. An AT1-like receptor with reduced affinity for DuP753.

abstract：:The nef gene of human and simian immunodeficiency virus is a key factor in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome pathogenesis and virus replication. Several Nef-induced phenomena, including the down-regulation of CD4 molecule, have been previously reported. In this study, we have identified and cloned a novel cellular pr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fukushi M,Dixon J,Kimura T,Tsurutani N,Dixon MJ,Yamamoto N

更新日期：1999-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine erythropoietin-responsive Rauscher Red 5-1.5 cells were used to determine the contribution of glycosylation to the size and function of the erythropoietin receptor. The half life of the receptors was determined to be 4 h. The number of receptors was not significantly decreased in cells treated for 48 h with inh...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mayeux P,Casadevall N,Muller O,Lacombe C

更新日期：1990-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the bovine ovary there is a delay of 4-6 days between the observed maximum of oxytocin mRNA and the peak in the luteal levels of oxytocin nonapeptide. This implies a maturation process involving components of the post-translational processing pathway. In situ hybridization shows the oxytocin gene to be transcribed ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fehr S,Ivell R,Koll R,Schams D,Fields M,Richter D

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Calcium release from internal stores of Entamoeba histolytica, a parasitic protozoan, was observed by measuring fluorescence of Fura-2. Emptying of inositol(1,4,5)trisphosphate (Ins(1,4,5)P3)-sensitive calcium pools in permeabilized E. histolytica did not significantly affect subsequent calcium release by inositol(1,3...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Raha S,Giri B,Bhattacharyya B,Biswas BB

更新日期：1995-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide, the invariant structural component of Gram-negative bacteria, when present in minute amounts in the circulation in humans elicits 'endotoxic shock' syndrome, which is fatal in 60% of the cases. Polymyxin B (PMB), a cyclic cationic peptide, neutralizes the endotoxin, but also induces many harmful si...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thomas CJ,Surolia A

更新日期：1999-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effect of temperature on the contribution of Hsp104 and trehalose to barotolerance using mutants deficient in Hsp104 and trehalose synthesis. When compared with a corresponding wild type strain, mutants of Hsp104 did not show temperature dependent barotolerance when the incubation temperature durin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iwahashi H,Obuchi K,Fujii S,Komatsu Y

更新日期：1997-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Following exposure to 9-(2-phosphonylmethoxyethyl)adenine (an inhibitor of the cellular DNA polymerases alpha, delta and epsilon), human erythroleukemia K562, human T-lymphoid CEM and murine leukemia L1210 cells markedly accumulated in the S phase of the cell cycle. In contrast to DNA replication, RNA synthesis (trans...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hatse S,De Clercq E,Balzarini J

更新日期：1999-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen dioxide (NO2.) is often present in inhaled air and may be generated in vivo from nitric oxide. Exposure of human blood plasma to NO2. caused rapid losses of ascorbic acid, uric acid and protein thiol groups, as well as lipid peroxidation and depletions of alpha-tocopherol, bilirubin and ubiquinol-10. No incre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Halliwell B,Hu ML,Louie S,Duvall TR,Tarkington BK,Motchnik P,Cross CE

更新日期：1992-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The GAL11 gene encodes an auxiliary transcription factor required for full expression of many, if not all, genes of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have recently shown that GAL11-encoded protein (Gal11p) enhances basal transcription from the CYC1 promoter in a cell-free transcription system [(1993) Proc. Natl. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakurai H,Ohishi T,Amakasu H,Fukasawa T

更新日期：1994-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) dose-dependently increased HIF1α expression in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs). Inhibition of protein synthesis did not affect ET-1-induced HIF1α expression. The maximum effect of ET-1 was similar to that caused by proteasome inhibitor MG132. Further study indicates that ET-1 also dos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li M,Liu Y,Jin F,Sun X,Li Z,Liu Y,Fang P,Shi H,Jiang X

更新日期：2012-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have implicated that a GTP-binding protein (G-protein) is involved in the coupling of both CCK-8 and muscarinic cholinergic receptors to phosphoinositidase C (PIC) in the human embryonic pituitary cell line, Flow 9000. Pretreatment of these cells with cholera toxin, but not pertussis toxin, inhibited th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lo WW,Hughes J

更新日期：1987-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis represents a fundamental process during fetal/post-natal testis development. Therefore pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins are essential to regulate testis physiology. c-Flip(L) is a known inhibitor of caspase 8/10 activity; in this study its perinatal expression in mouse male germ cells was investigated. In te...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giampietri C,Petrungaro S,Coluccia P,Antonangeli F,Paone A,Padula F,De Cesaris P,Ziparo E,Filippini A

更新日期：2006-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The bchH gene of Rhodobacter capsulatus has been cloned into an expression strain of Escherichia coli. Following induction of expression of the BchH protein, it was found that the E. coli strain also accumulated porphyrins with the fluorescence properties of protoporphyrin and zinc protoporphyrin. It was also found th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hinchigeri SB,Hundle B,Richards WR

更新日期：1997-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:hsp25 is a small, growth-related, mammalian stress protein which is highly accumulated in the stationary phase of Ehrlich ascites tumor in vivo. Ehrlich ascites cells cultivated in vitro under conditions of continuous exponential growth express hsp25 only at a low level. These cells were stably transfected with an euk...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Knauf U,Bielka H,Gaestel M

更新日期：1992-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the amino acid sequence of bovine brain myelin proteolipid reveals not only extensive internal homology, but also homology with portions of the myelin basic protein, the peripheral nerve myelin protein, Po, and with the small proteolipid subunit of mitochondrial ATP synthase. These results suggest that the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Laursen RA,Samiullah M,Lees MB

更新日期：1983-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modification of lysine residues in glucose oxidase was carried out using citraconic anhydride. Modification brought about changes in the kinetic properties of the enzyme as evident by substantial lowering of V(max) and K(m). Enhancement of tryptophan fluorescence was observed with a dramatic change in its pH ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hosseinkhani S,Ranjbar B,Naderi-Manesh H,Nemat-Gorgani M

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes from extremely halophilic archaea are readily denatured in the absence of a high salt concentration. However, we have observed here that a nucleoside diphosphate kinase prepared from Halobacterium salinarum was active and stable in the absence of salt, though it has the amino acid composition characteristic of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ishibashi M,Tokunaga H,Hiratsuka K,Yonezawa Y,Tsurumaru H,Arakawa T,Tokunaga M

更新日期：2001-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit red blood cells of various ages were separated on Percoll gradients and the activities of two large cytosolic proteases were measured. Both the multicatalytic protease (MCP), assayed by hydrolysis of fluorigenic peptides, and the 26 S ubiquitin/ATP-stimulated protease, assayed by degradation of ubiquitin-lysozy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Di Cola D,Pratt G,Rechsteiner M

更新日期：1991-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine leukaemia virus (BLV) is the aetiological agent of Leukosis enzootica bovis [Viral Oncology (1980), G. Klein (Ed.) Raven Press, New York, pp. 231-238], a widely spread disease in cattle. BLV is reported as the animal model of human T-cell leukaemia virus (HLTV) which is the causative agent of adult T-cell leuka...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Précigoux G,Geoffre S,Léonard R,Llido S,Dautant A,d'Estaintot BL,Picard P,Ménard A,Guillemain B,Hospital M

更新日期：1993-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In several reactions catalyzed by highly purified peptide elongation factor 1 from rabbit reticulocytes, GTP may be fully replaced by CTP but not by ATP or UTP. This holds true for the factor-dependent binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to ribosomes, GTPase activity, GTP-dependent autophosphorylation of the factor protein and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tuhácková Z,Havránek M,Hradec J

更新日期：1984-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemocyanin is present as 2 subunits in the hemolymph of Penaeus vannamei. Isolated from a hepatopancreas cDNA library of this penaeid shrimp, the cDNA chain (2095 bp) corresponds to a full length hemocyanin messenger as determined by Northern hybridization, with a short 5' untranslated region (17 bp), an open reading ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sellos D,Lemoine S,Van Wormhoudt A

更新日期：1997-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that p21-activated kinase 1 (Pak1) phosphorylates estrogen receptor-alpha (ER alpha) at Ser 305 and also promotes its transactivation function. Here, we sought to investigate whether substitution of serine 305 in ER with glutamic acid (ER alpha-S305E), which mimics the phosphorylation state, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Balasenthil S,Barnes CJ,Rayala SK,Kumar R

更新日期：2004-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The pre-steady state process in the thermolysin-catalyzed hydrolysis of Cbz-Gly-Phe-Ala was observed at pH 4.5 by fluorescence stopped-flow method using Dns-Phe as a displacement probe. After the confirmation of the pre-equilibrium hypothesis for the binary interaction, the nonlinear substrate concentration dependence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kunugi S,Yokoyama M,Sakamoto A

更新日期：1995-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA bending is due to two main factors: the inherent curvature of the sequence and its flexibility. Most methods of analysis do not allow a differentiation between these two factors. In this paper I show that the flexibility of DNA sequences can be estimated from the standard deviation of roll values determined by X-r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Subirana JA

更新日期：1997-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the endosymbiont hypothesis, mitochondria are descended from ancient aerobic bacteria that were engulfed by protoeukaryotic cells. Experiments described here show that a synthetic peptide corresponding to a yeast mitochondrial targeting sequence can be imported into Paracoccus denitrificans, a soil bacter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roise D,Maduke M

更新日期：1994-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholecystokinin (CCK) receptor in purified plasma membranes prepared from mouse pancreatic acini had a binding affinity of 1.8 nM, an acid pH optimum between 6.0 and 6.5, and an analog specificity of CCK8 greater than CCK33 greater than desulphated CCK8 greater than CCK4. Binding of CCK to its receptor was abolish...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sakamoto C,Williams JA,Wong KY,Goldfine ID

更新日期：1983-01-10 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：:Dendritic cells (DC) were enriched from murine spleen by exploring their intermediate density and transient weak adherence. The isolated population contained excellent antigen presenting cells with high surface expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II determinants thus exhibiting crucial immunofun...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fischer HG,Eder C

更新日期：1995-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of gangliosides GM3 and GD3 is carried out by the successive addition of sialic acid residues on lactosylceramide (LacCer) by the Golgi located sialyltransferases Sial-T1 and Sial-T2, respectively. CHO-K1 cells lack Sial-T2 and only express GM3. Here we show that the activity of Sial-T1 was near 2.5-fold...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spessott W,Crespo PM,Daniotti JL,Maccioni HJ

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00