Chemical synthesis and biological activity of a novel antibacterial peptide deduced from a pig myeloid cDNA.

abstract：:A strain of yeast, Hansenula mrakii, secretes a toxin that kills sensitive yeasts, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae Monoclonal antibodies raised against the toxin had both binding and neutralizing activities. The toxin in culture media was isolated by an affinity column of monoclonal antibody. The toxin is a basic pol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yamamoto T,Imai M,Tachibana K,Mayumi M

更新日期：1986-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo responses of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex to starvation and insulin was assessed in heart, diaphragm and red quadriceps muscle. PDH complex activity was decreased by starvation (3.4-10.2-fold), the magnitude of change depending on muscle type. Insulin increased PDH activity in all muscle types. In ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denyer GS,Lam D,Cooney GJ,Caterson ID

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect on cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) of cAMP analogues and the adenylate cyclase-stimulating agents forskolin, isoproterenol and glucagon has been examined in an insulin-secreting beta-cell line (HIT T-15) using fura 2. All these manipulations of the cAMP messenger system promoted a rise in [Ca2+]i whi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Prentki M,Glennon MC,Geschwind JF,Matschinsky FM,Corkey BE

更新日期：1987-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibody 791T /36, prepared against a human osteogenic sarcoma cell line, 791T , reacts with a variety of human tumours and also mitogen-stimulated PBMN cells. The target antigen as expressed upon 791T cells is a monomeric plasma membrane-associated glycoprotein with an apparent Mr of 72000. By quantita...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Price MR,Campbell DG,Robins RA,Blecher TE,Baldwin RW

更新日期：1984-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin whose systemic levels are reduced in obesity-related diseases ameliorates insulin sensitivity and regulates biological processes like apoptosis, proliferation, migration and inflammation. Adiponectin binds to adiponectin receptors, AdipoR1 and AdipoR2, which are ubiquitously expressed. Clathrin-dependent e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Buechler C,Wanninger J,Neumeier M

更新日期：2010-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) serves as a primase during replication of single-stranded plasmids and filamentous phages. Primer RNA (prRNA) synthesis from the origin regions of these replicons depends on the σ factor that normally participates in promoter recognition. However, it was proposed that σ may not be requi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Esyunina D,Pupov D,Kulbachinskiy A

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Treatment of U937 cells with dolichyl phosphate led to an increase in the activity of the ICE family protease CPP32, accompanied with cleavage of pre-CPP32 to generate p17. Peptide inhibitors YVAD-cmk and Z-Asp-CH2-DCB (specific to ICE) and DEVD-CHO (specific to CPP32) blocked the dolichyl phosphate-induced apoptosis....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yokoyama Y,Okubo T,Ozawa S,Nagai F,Ushiyama K,Kano I,Shioda M,Kubo H,Takemura M,Namiki H,Yasugi E,Oshima M,Seyama Y,Kano K

更新日期：1997-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An abundant matrix protein was purified under native conditions from adult bovine tendon and identified as cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) by immunochemical crossreaction, amino acid sequence identity of tryptic peptides derived from both N- and C-terminal regions, and structure revealed by electron microsc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： DiCesare P,Hauser N,Lehman D,Pasumarti S,Paulsson M

更新日期：1994-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:HERC proteins are characterized by having one or more RCC1-like domains as well as a C-terminal HECT domain in their amino acid sequences. This has led researchers to suggest that they may act as both guanine nucleotide exchange factors and E3 ubiquitin ligases. Here we describe a physical interaction between the HECT...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garcia-Gonzalo FR,Cruz C,Muñoz P,Mazurek S,Eigenbrodt E,Ventura F,Bartrons R,Rosa JL

更新日期：2003-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The long form of human uncoupling protein-3 (hUCP3L) is highly homologous to thermogenin (UCPI), the uncoupling protein of brown fat mitochondria, but is expressed predominantly in skeletal muscle. Its putative role is to regulate the coupling efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation and thus thermogenesis in skeletal ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hinz W,Faller B,Grüninger S,Gazzotti P,Chiesi M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomyoglobin is a widely used model for studying the molecular mechanisms of globular protein folding. This work aimed to analyze the effects of rigidity and length of loops linking protein secondary structure elements on the stability of the molten globule intermediate state. For this purpose, we studied folding/unfo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Majorina MA,Balobanov VA,Uversky VN,Melnik BS

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HslVU is an ATP-dependent protease consisting of two multimeric components, the HslU ATPase and the HslV peptidase. To gain an insight into the role of HslVU in regulation of cell division, the reconstituted enzyme was incubated with SulA, an inhibitor of cell division in Escherichia coli, or its fusion protein with m...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seong IS,Oh JY,Yoo SJ,Seol JH,Chung CH

更新日期：1999-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:G2/M checkpoints ensure the proper timing of cell mitosis. We previously reported that p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation is essential for stress-induced G2 arrest in the U-2OS osteosarcoma cell line, but the molecular mechanism was obscure. Here, using the T7 phage display system, we find p38 dire...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wu W,Zhou H,He F,Xiao Z,Jiang Y,Zhao M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mohr-Tranebjaerg syndrome (MTS), a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by progressive sensorineural hearing loss, dystonia, mental retardation and blindness, is a mitochondrial disease caused by mutations in the deafness/dystonia peptide 1 (DDP1) gene. DDP1 shows similarity to the yeast proteins Tim9, Tim10 a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bauer MF,Rothbauer U,Mühlenbein N,Smith RJ,Gerbitz K,Neupert W,Brunner M,Hofmann S

更新日期：1999-12-24 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

abstract：:The present study reported the isolation and characterization of a novel human secreted protein, named as hPAP21 (human protease-associated domain-containing protein, 21 kDa), encoded by the hypothetical gene chromosome 2 open reading frame 7 (C2orf7) that contains signal peptide in its N-terminus, without transmembra...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhou YB,Liu F,Zhu ZD,Zhu H,Zhang X,Wang ZQ,Liu JH,Han ZG

更新日期：2004-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase D (PKD)/protein kinase Cmicro (PKCmicro, a serine/threonine protein kinase with distinct structural and enzymological properties, is rapidly activated in intact cells via PKC. The amino-terminal region of PKD contains a cysteine-rich domain (CRD) that directly binds phorbol esters with a high affinity. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matthews S,Iglesias T,Cantrell D,Rozengurt E

更新日期：1999-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-substratum adhesion of rat hepatocytes was inhibited by antisera raised against plasma membranes of liver (anti-liver antiserum) and Morris hepatoma 7777 (anti-hepatoma antiserum). Similar concentrations of both antisera inhibited adhesion on collagen. Anti-liver antiserum also inhibited the adhesion of hepatocyt...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Neumeier R,Dethlefs U,Reutter W

更新日期：1984-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+ receptor mechanism of the parathyroid cell was studied using La3+ as a probe. La3+ was found to bind to the cell surface without further penetration. Measurements of 45Ca fluxes and the cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration (Ca2+i) revealed a stimulatory component in the action of La3+ on Ca2+ permeability resulting...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gylfe E,Larsson R,Johansson H,Nygren P,Rastad J,Wallfelt C,Akerström G

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-9 (IL-9) stimulation results in JAK, STAT and IRS1/2 phosphorylation. The role of IRS adaptor proteins in IL-9 signaling is not clear. We show that IL-9 induces IRS2 phosphorylation and association with phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI 3-K) p85 subunit in TS1 cells and BaF/9R cells, which proliferate upon...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Demoulin JB,Grasso L,Atkins JM,Stevens M,Louahed J,Levitt RC,Nicolaides NC,Renauld JC

更新日期：2000-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A pulsed field gradient three-dimensional isotope-filtered 13C HMQC-NOESY experiment has been developed to characterize intermolecular contacts in a 37 kDa macromolecular ternary complex consisting of uniformly 13C labeled trp-repressor, its natural abundance co-repressor, L-tryptophan, and natural abundance operator ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee W,Revington MJ,Arrowsmith C,Kay LE

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The neopterin derivatives, neopterin and 7,8-dihydroneopterin, modulate the cellular oxidant-antioxidant balance as well as the expression of the inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) gene. Since apoptosis can be induced by reactive oxygen intermediates and nitric oxide (NO) we investigated whether these neopterin de...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schobersberger W,Hoffmann G,Hobisch-Hagen P,Bock G,Volkl H,Baier-Bitterlich G,Wirleitner B,Wachter H,Fuchs D

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we identify the molecules involved in the MAPK signal transduction pathway (Ras, Raf-1, Mek, Mek-P and MAPK) in highly purified endosomal fractions isolated from rat liver. Biochemical analysis shows that only the early-sorting endocytic compartment contains activated Raf-1 and Mek. Finally, the exogenou...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pol A,Calvo M,Enrich C

更新日期：1998-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteases not only play a fundamental role in numerous physiological processes, but are also involved in several human diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). A key protease implicated in AD is the so far unidentified gamma-secretase, which cleaves the membrane-bound beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) at th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Steiner H,Pesold B,Haass C

更新日期：1999-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Partially purified 2-methyleneglutarate mutase from Clostridium barkeri was separated from 3-methylitaconate delta-isomerase by treatment with 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS) followed by FPLC on the anion exchange column Mono Q in the presence of the detergent. When purified in the da...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Michel C,Buckel W

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric restriction (CR) is known to promote longevity in various species. Sirtuin-mediated deacetylation has been shown to be related to the promotion of longevity in some species. Here, we show that CR of rats led to an increase in the level of Werner syndrome protein (WRN), a recognized DNA repair protein. In addit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kahyo T,Mostoslavsky R,Goto M,Setou M

更新日期：2008-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:trans-3-Chloroacrylic acid dehalogenase (CaaD) catalyzes the hydrolytic dehalogenation of trans-3-haloacrylates to yield malonate semialdehyde by a mechanism utilizing βPro-1, αArg-8, αArg-11, and αGlu-52. These residues are implicated in a promiscuous hydratase activity where 2-oxo-3-pentynoate is processed to acetop...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Poelarends GJ,Serrano H,Huddleston JP,Johnson WH Jr,Whitman CP

更新日期：2013-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholesterol content of rat liver plasma membranes was manipulated using either cholesterol-free or cholesterol-enriched liposomes. Removal of cholesterol from the membranes led to a marked increase in 5'-nucleotidase activity. However, increase in cholesterol content failed to exert any significant effect on 5'-nu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Whetton AD,Houslay MD

更新日期：1983-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Vacuolar H(+)-PPase, a membrane bound proton-translocating pyrophosphatase found in various species including plants, some protozoan and prokaryotes, has been demonstrated to be localized to the vacuolar membrane in plants. Using a GUS reporter system and a green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion protein, we investigat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mitsuda N,Enami K,Nakata M,Takeyasu K,Sato MH

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00