NMR determination of the secondary structure and the three-dimensional polypeptide backbone fold of the human sterol carrier protein 2.

abstract：:Calcium ionophore (A23187)-induced high molecular weight (HMW) and internucleosomal DNA fragmentation were investigated in human leukemia cell lines. An apoptosis-sensitive cell line, HL-60, showed HMW, internucleosomal DNA fragmentation and morphological changes of apoptosis by A23187. MOLT-4, which is resistant to a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kataoka A,Kubota M,Wakazono Y,Okuda A,Bessho R,Lin YW,Usami I,Akiyama Y,Furusho K

更新日期：1995-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Major myelin proteolipid (MMPL, also called PLP) and DM-20 are the two major intrinsic membrane proteins of CNS myelin. A specific immunological probe was obtained for MMPL by raising antibodies against the synthetic tridecapeptide 117-129 of MMPL. Antibodies against this peptide reacted with the MMPL but did not cros...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Trifilieff E,Luu B,Nussbaum JL,Roussel G,Espinosa de los Monteros A,Sabatier JM,Van Rietschoten J

更新日期：1986-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of myf-5, a key component of myogenic regulatory genes, declines progressively in mature somitic cells during vertebrate myogenesis. Little is known about how this down-regulation takes place. Here we provide evidence that an interferon regulatory factor binding element (IRF element) within the Xenopus ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mei W,Yang J,Tao Q,Geng X,Rupp RA,Ding X

更新日期：2001-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins containing the caspase recruiting domain (CARD) have emerged as critical regulators of different signal transduction pathways, including those controlling apoptosis and activation of necrosis factor (NF)-kappaB transcription factor. TUCAN/CARDINAL is a recently identified CARD-containing protein involved in r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stilo R,Leonardi A,Formisano L,Di Jeso B,Vito P,Liguoro D

更新日期：2002-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte tight junctional permeability has been shown to be regulated by hormones that exert their effects via phospholipase C activation. However, the precise transduction pathway involved in this effect is not known. The present study has employed the selective inhibitor of microsomal Ca2+ sequestration, 2,5-di(te...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Llopis J,Kass GE,Duddy SK,Farell GC,Gahm A,Orrenius S

更新日期：1991-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified a form of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) from HeLa cell nuclei, in which the phosphatase is complexed to a regulatory subunit termed p99. We report here the cloning and characterisation of the p99 component. p99 mRNA is widely expressed in human tissues and immunofluorescence analysis with anti-p99 antib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kreivi JP,Trinkle-Mulcahy L,Lyon CE,Morrice NA,Cohen P,Lamond AI

更新日期：1997-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions and their connexin components are indispensable in mediating the cellular coordination required for tissue and organ homeostasis. The critical nature of their existence mandates a connection to disease while at the same time offering therapeutic potential. Therapeutic intervention may be offered through ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Grek CL,Rhett JM,Ghatnekar GS

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The residues on MAP kinase kinase-1 (MAPKK1) phosphorylated by MAP kinase in vitro have been identified as Thr-291 and Thr-385. Both threonines are phosphorylated in PC12 cells and the 32P-labelling of each residue increases after stimulation with nerve growth factor (NGF). The results establish that MAPKK1 is a physi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Saito Y,Gomez N,Campbell DG,Ashworth A,Marshall CJ,Cohen P

更新日期：1994-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dark-adapted isolated spinach chloroplasts and leaves, unlike sub-chloroplast fractions, are capable of emitting ultraweak light spontaneously (50-125 counts/s per cm2). The emission of leaves is due to two processes with activation energies of 97 and 25 kJ/mol while in isolated chloroplasts, it is the result of a sin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hideg E,Kobayashi M,Inaba H

更新日期：1990-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular homeostasis in response to glucose availability is maintained through the tight coordination of various physiological processes, including cell proliferation, transcription, and metabolism. In this study, we use the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify proteins implicated in carbon source-depend...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Umekawa M,Shiraishi D,Fuwa M,Sawaguchi K,Mashima Y,Katayama T,Karita S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our data show that in hamster fibroblasts transformed by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV), the phosphoinositide 3'-kinase (PI-3K)/Akt/glycogen synthase kinase 3 antiapoptotic pathway is upregulated and involved in increased protein synthesis through activation of initiation factor eIF2B. Upon inhibition of PI-3K by wortmannin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vojtechová M,Sloncová E,Kucerová D,Jiricka J,Sovová V,Tuhácková Z

更新日期：2003-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:PGI is a housekeeping gene encoding phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) a glycolytic enzyme that also functions as a cytokine (autocrine motility factor (AMF)/neuroleukin/maturation factor) upon secretion from the cell and binding to its 78 kDa seven-transmembrane domain receptor (gp78/AMF-R). PGI contains a CXXC motif, ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsutsumi S,Gupta SK,Hogan V,Tanaka N,Nakamura KT,Nabi IR,Raz A

更新日期：2003-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used HPLC techniques to investigate the effects of gp120 upon inositol phosphate turnover in Jurkat E6-1 CD4+ T-cells, to pursue previous reports that this viral coat protein: (a) inhibits receptor-activated inositol phosphate release; (b) stimulates basal inositol phosphate release; (c) inhibits inositol poly...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sumner MT,Shears SB

更新日期：1997-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the tRNA cycle is in itself capable of keeping the translational error level almost unaffected by amino acid starvation. There is no need to assume any yet unknown mechanism or property. Kinetic analysis shows that the concentration of aminoacyl-tRNA can stay high even for large reductions in aminoacyl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liljenström H

更新日期：1987-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF), basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), dibutyryl cAMP and forskolin, known differentiating agents for pheochromocytoma PC12 cells, induced sustained activation of sphingosine kinase, the enzyme responsible for the formation of the sphingolipid second messenger, sphingosine-1-phosphate, which...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rius RA,Edsall LC,Spiegel S

更新日期：1997-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of HeLa and HL60 cells to sodium arsenite or cadmium chloride led to marked increases in cellular heme oxygenase activity. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of [35S]methionine-labeled cellular proteins indicated that these treatments also resulted in the induction of a 32-kDa protein. Immunoblot analysis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taketani S,Kohno H,Yoshinaga T,Tokunaga R

更新日期：1989-03-13 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：:In the past two decades, the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters' field has undergone a structural revolution. The importance of structural biology to the development of the field of ABC transporters cannot be overstated, as the ensemble of structures not only revealed the architecture of ABC transporters but also...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lewinson O,Orelle C,Seeger MA

更新日期：2020-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The widely studied macrophage scavenger receptor system is known to bind both acetylated low density lipoprotein and oxidized low density lipoprotein. Although only the latter ligand has been shown to occur in vivo, acetylated low density lipoprotein is often used to evaluate the contribution of scavenger receptors to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Volf I,Moeslinger T,Cooper J,Schmid W,Koller E

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory supercomplex factor (Rcf) 1 is a membrane-bound protein that modulates the activity of cytochrome c oxidase (CytcO) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria. To investigate this regulatory mechanism, we studied the interactions of CytcO with potassium cyanide (KCN) upon removal of Rcf1. While the addition ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rydström Lundin C,Brzezinski P

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pET(scF11) plasmid was constructed comprising the gene of a single-chain antibody against human ferritin. This plasmid encodes the leader peptide pelB followed by the heavy chain variable V(H) domain, (Gly4Ser)3 linker peptide, and light chain variable V(L) domain. The correctly processed scF11 antibody was expres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Martsev SP,Kravchuk ZI,Chumanevich AA,Vlasov AP,Dubnovitsky AP,Bespalov IA,Arosio P,Deyev SM

更新日期：1998-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The positive strand RNA coronavirus, infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), induces a G2/M phase arrest and reduction in the G1 and G1/S phase transition regulator cyclin D1. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR and Western blot analysis demonstrated that cyclin D1 was reduced post-transcriptionally within infected cells indepen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harrison SM,Dove BK,Rothwell L,Kaiser P,Tarpey I,Brooks G,Hiscox JA

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

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：:DNA polymerase (pol) λ, one of the 15 cellular pols, belongs to the X family. It is a small 575 amino-acid protein containing a polymerase, a dRP-lyase, a proline/serine rich and a BRCT domain. Pol λ shows various enzymatic activities including DNA polymerization, terminal transferase and dRP-lyase. It has been implic...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Markkanen E,van Loon B,Ferrari E,Hübscher U

更新日期：2011-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactase-phlorizin hydrolase gene was assigned to chromosome 2 by analysis of Southern blots of DNA from a panel of human-rodent cell hybrids containing characteristic sets of human chromosomes The hybridization probe used was a recently isolated cDNA clone of the human lactase-phlorizin hydrolase gene. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kruse TA,Bolund L,Grzeschik KH,Ropers HH,Sjöström H,Norén O,Mantei N,Semenza G

更新日期：1988-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-subunit of the TRAP complex (TRAP alpha) is a single-spanning membrane protein of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) which is found in proximity of nascent polypeptide chains translocating across the membrane. Here, we demonstrate the widespread occurrence of TRAP alpha in eukaryotes as indicated by its existenc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hartmann E,Prehn S

更新日期：1994-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the creation of cell adhesion mediated by cell surface engineering. The Flt3-ligand was fused to a membrane anchor made of the diphtheria toxin translocation domain. The fusion protein was attached to the surface of a cell by an acid pulse. Contact with another cell expressing the receptor Flt3 lead to its...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Perier A,Gourier C,Pichard S,Husson J,Lajeunesse E,Babon A,Menez A,Gillet D

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The folding of HIV gp41 into a 6-helix bundle drives virus-cell membrane fusion. To examine the structural relationship between the 6-helix bundle core domain and other regions of gp41, we expressed in Escherichia coli, the entire ectodomain of HIV-2(ST) gp41 as a soluble, trimeric maltose-binding protein (MBP)/gp41 c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lay CS,Wilson KA,Kobe B,Kemp BE,Drummer HE,Poumbourios P

更新日期：2004-06-04 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：:A single chain ribosome-inactivating protein with RNA N-glycosidase activity, here named Dianthin 29, was isolated from leaves of Dianthus barbatus L. Incubation of intact Escherichia coli ribosomes with Dianthin 29 and subsequent aniline treatment of the isolated rRNA releases a rRNA fragment of 243 nucleotides from ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Prestle J,Hornung E,Schönfelder M,Mundry KW

更新日期：1992-02-10 00:00:00