Modulation of functional activities of the neurotoxin from black widow spider venom.

abstract：:Thioredoxins are a class of small proteins that play a key role in regulating many cellular redox processes. We report here the characterization of the first member of the thioredoxin family in metazoans that is mainly associated with neurons. The Caenorhabditis elegans gene B0228.5 encodes a thioredoxin (TRX-1) that ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miranda-Vizuete A,Fierro González JC,Gahmon G,Burghoorn J,Navas P,Swoboda P

更新日期：2006-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that daily intraperitoneal injections of oleamide weakly inhibits the spontaneous metastasis of BL6 cells by blocking the gap junction-mediated intercellular communications (GJIC) of connexin 26 (Cx26). In the present study, we tested camellia oil, olive oil and cottonseed oil which are rich in ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miura D,Kida Y,Nojima H

更新日期：2007-05-29 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：:Hordeum vulgare L. yellow stripe 1 (HvYS1) is a selective transporter for Fe(III)-phytosiderophores, involved in primary iron acquisition from soils in barley roots. In contrast, Zea mays yellow stripe 1 (ZmYS1) in maize possesses broad substrate specificity, despite a high homology with HvYS1. Here we revealed, by as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harada E,Sugase K,Namba K,Iwashita T,Murata Y

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) has two RNA transcripts that arise from the differential processing of the same gene product. One encodes the full length protein (UCP3L) while the other encodes a truncated version (UCP3S) lacking the sixth membrane spanning domain. The roles of the two isoforms are not known, but a ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Renold A,Koehler CM,Murphy MP

更新日期：2000-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alanine Serine Cysteine Transporter 2 (ASCT2) is involved in balancing the intracellular amino acid pool. This function is allowed by the antiport mechanism and the asymmetric specificity towards different neutral amino acids, distinctive of this transporter. In the present work, the interaction of the putative su...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Scalise M,Pochini L,Pingitore P,Hedfalk K,Indiveri C

更新日期：2015-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids are essential eukaryotic cellular constituents. Lipid metabolism has a strong impact on cell physiology, and despite good progress in this area, many important basic questions remain unanswered concerning the functional diversity of lipid species and on the mechanisms that cells employ to sense and adjust their...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Santos AX,Riezman H

更新日期：2012-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently developed an in vitro differentiation model of immortalized non-transformed human hepatocytes using butyrate, and observed the induction of inducible NO synthase (iNOS). In this study, we analyzed the effect of NO on the urea-synthetic capacity of these cells. The inhibition of iNOS during butyrate tr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yoon JH,Lee HS,Kim TH,Woo GH,Kim CY

更新日期：2000-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tert-butyl hydroperoxide (BHP), hydrogen peroxide and diamide caused a rapid and simultaneous release of glutathione disulfide (GSSG) and K+ in the isolated perfused rat liver. Both BHP-induced effluxes were suppressed by prior depletion of hepatic glutathione, but not by co-infusion of desferrioxamine which prevented...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Masuda Y,Ozaki M,Aoki S

更新日期：1993-11-08 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：:Tea-catechin derivatives are shown to inhibit activities of caspases-3, 2 and 7 in vitro, and prevented experimental apoptosis at the cell and animal levels. Epigallo-catechin-gallate showed the strongest inhibition at 1 x 10(-7)M to these caspases, but cysteine cathepsins and caspase-8 were not inhibited. Caspase-3 i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Katunuma N,Ohashi A,Sano E,Ishimaru N,Hayashi Y,Murata E

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Type V adenylyl cyclase (AC) was stably over-expressed in HEK293 cells (293AC-V). Forskolin-stimulated cAMP accumulation in 293AC-V was 5 times as great as that in control cells. PMA, a protein kinase C (PKC) activator, enhanced cAMP accumulation in 293AC-V cells dose-and time-dependently and this enhancement...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kawabe Ji,Ebina T,Toya Y,Oka N,Schwencke C,Duzic E,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：1996-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologues of the catalase-peroxidase gene katG and the gene for the non-specific DNA binding protein dpsA were identified downstream of oxyR in Burkholderia pseudomallei. Northern experiments revealed that both katG and dpsA are co-transcribed during oxidative stress. Under conditions where the katG promoter is not h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Loprasert S,Whangsuk W,Sallabhan R,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2003-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (Z1H01) for an oligopeptide carrying an azobenzene group, was prepared under conditions where the azobenzene group is in the trans form. The antibody bound the hapten peptide effectively when the hapten peptide is in the trans form (K = 5 x 10(7) M-1), but the antibody released the hapten under i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harada M,Sisido M,Hirose J,Nakanishi M

更新日期：1991-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:CHO SSF3 cells grow as a suspension culture in unmodified commercial medium with only low-molecular weight ingredients. Continuous serum-free culture unexpectedly induced expression of a low dihydrofolate reductase activity in the originally dhfr- CHO cells. Nevertheless, it was possible with methotrexate to induce am...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gandor C,Leist C,Fiechter A,Asselbergs FA

更新日期：1995-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoprecipitated p100Gag-Mil protein kinase from MH2-transformed quail embryo fibroblasts is associated with an 89 kDa protein. The molar ratio between p89 and Gag-Mil in the immunocomplex is 0.72, indicating that the majority of Gag-Mil is complexed with p89. During mitosis part of Gag-Mil is shifted to a form with...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lovrić J,Bischof O,Moelling K

更新日期：1994-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In brain tissue a spectrin-like calmodulin-binding protein calspectin, or fodrin, is concentrated in a synaptosome fraction, where most of the calspectin is associated with the synaptic membranes. This endogenous calspectin was phosphorylated by protein kinase system(s) associated with the membranes. Here, we report t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sobue K,Kanda K,Kakiuchi S

更新日期：1982-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified three overlapping 5'-truncated mouse opsin cDNA clones by immunologically screening a lambda gt11 retina expression library. Using one of the cDNA clones as a probe, we isolated a 5 kb genomic fragment that encompassed the complete coding sequence for mouse opsin. The coding region for opsin was int...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baehr W,Falk JD,Bugra K,Triantafyllos JT,McGinnis JF

更新日期：1988-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich ataxia is a recessively inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by deficiency of a highly conserved mitochondrial protein, frataxin. Frataxin deficiency results in mitochondrial iron accumulation and oxidative stress. Frataxin shows homology with the CyaY proteins of gamma-purple bacteria, whose function...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li DS,Ohshima K,Jiralerspong S,Bojanowski MW,Pandolfo M

更新日期：1999-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the interactive effects of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) genotypes and cigarette smoking on protein levels and enzyme activity in 33 postpartum placentas. Whilst the eNOS protein levels were lower in the rare allele (0.48+/-0.11, n=9 vs. 1. 05+/-0.10, n=24, P<0.01), the eNOS enzyme activity was ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang XL,Sim AS,Wang MX,Murrell GA,Trudinger B,Wang J

更新日期：2000-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis, undergoes catabolite inactivation when glucose is added to gluconeogenetically active cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Phosphorylation of the enzyme is followed by rapid degradation. To elucidate the cellular proteolytic system involved in catab...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schork SM,Bee G,Thumm M,Wolf DH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mouse mammary epithelial cells in primary culture, mechanical stimulation of a cell induced in other cells within the same colony a short depolarization of less than 15 mV with a duration of 1-8 s and a subsequent, prominent hyperpolarization of 6 mV lasting 10-40 s. Epidermal growth factor induces a spontaneous hy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Enomoto K,Furuya K,Maeno T,Edwards C,Oka T

更新日期：1987-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have identified 876 polymorphism sites in 145 complete or partial genomes of SARS-CoV available in the NCBI GenBank. One hundred and seventy-four of these sites existed in two or more SARS-CoV genome sequences. According to the sequence polymorphism, all SARS-CoVs can be divided into three groups: (I...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang ZG,Zheng ZH,Shang L,Li LJ,Cong LM,Feng MG,Luo Y,Cheng SY,Zhang YJ,Ru MG,Wang ZX,Bao QY

更新日期：2005-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pb, Eu and Mg-induced cleavages in E. coli and lupine tRNAPhe have been characterized and compared with those found in yeast tRNAPhe. The pattern of lupine tRNAPhe hydrolysis closely resembles that of yeast tRNAPhe, while several major differences occur in the specificity and efficiency of the E. coli tRNAPhe hydr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marciniec T,Ciesiołka J,Wrzesinski J,Krzyzosiak WJ

更新日期：1989-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus nidulans catalase B (CatB) was purified to homogeneity and characterized as a hydroperoxidase which resembles typical catalases in some physicochemical characteristics: (1) it has an apparent molecular weight of 360000 and is composed of four glycosylated subunits, (2) it has hydrophobic properties as reve...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Calera JA,Sánchez-Weatherby J,López-Medrano R,Leal F

更新日期：2000-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Placentas of mice lacking p57(Kip2) expression have trophoblastic hyperplasia. To elucidate the mechanism underlying this phenomenon, we studied expression of two angiogenic factors, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and placenta growth factor (PlGF). Immunohistochemical analysis with anti-VEGF antibodies indi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsuura T,Takahashi K,Nakayama K,Kobayashi T,Choi-Miura NH,Tomita M,Kanayama N

更新日期：2002-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the effects of anticancer drugs, inhibitors of microtubule organisation, on the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (PTP) in Ehrlich ascites tumour cells. Taxol (5-20 microM) and colchicine (100-500 microM) prevented closing of the cyclosporin A-sensitive PTP. No taxol or colchicine effects on oxidati...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Evtodienko YV,Teplova VV,Sidash SS,Ichas F,Mazat JP

更新日期：1996-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The metallochromic indicator murexide has been used to monitor calcium concentration changes during the dextran-induced, phosphatidylserine-dependent degranulation of rat peritoneal mast cells. The dextran-induced Ca2+-uptake showed an absolute dependence on the presence of phosphatidylserine. The extent of Ca2+-uptak...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sagi-Eisenberg R,Geller-Bernstein C,Ben-Neriah Z,Pecht I

更新日期：1983-09-05 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：:Within 6 h, shear stress upregulated intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) (two- to four-fold, P<0.001) and induced matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) in cultured human saphenous vein endothelial cells. By 8 h endothelial ICAM-1 levels returned to baseline, with concomitant increase in soluble ICAM-1 (sICAM-1) (P...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sultan S,Gosling M,Nagase H,Powell JT

更新日期：2004-04-23 00:00:00