Downregulation of collagen synthesis in fibroblasts within three-dimensional collagen lattices involves transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms.

abstract：:The bacteriophytochrome Agp1 was reconstituted with a locked 5Zs-biliverdin in which the C(4)=C(5) and C(5)-C(6) bonds of the methine bridge between rings A and B are fixed in the Z and syn configuration/conformation, respectively. In Agp1-5Zs the photoconversion proceeds via the Lumi-R intermediate to Meta-R(A), but ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seibeck S,Borucki B,Otto H,Inomata K,Khawn H,Kinoshita H,Michael N,Lamparter T,Heyn MP

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrated that unmodified and modified (phosphorothioate) oligonucleotides prevent cDNA synthesis by AMV or HIV reverse transcriptases. Antisense oligonucleotide/RNA hybrids specifically arrest primer extension. The blockage involves the degradation of the RNA fragment bound to the antisense oligonucleotide by t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hatta T,Kim SG,Nakashima H,Yamamoto N,Sakamoto K,Yokoyama S,Takaku H

更新日期：1993-09-13 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：:Insulin resistant states are associated with an increase in the beta cell mass and also high levels of circulating insulin. Ultimately the beta cells undergo a failure that leads to diabetes. At this stage, a question arises if those persistent high levels of circulating insulin may contribute to beta cell damage. To ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guillen C,Bartolomé A,Nevado C,Benito M

更新日期：2008-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) is the 37-amino acid peptide subunit of amyloid found in pancreatic islets of type 2 diabetic patients and in insulinomas. Recently, we isolated the human gene encoding IAPP [(1988) FEBS Lett. 239, 227-232]. We now report the nucleotide sequences of a human insulinoma cDNA encoding a c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mosselman S,Höppener JW,Lips CJ,Jansz HS

更新日期：1989-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of reactive oxygen species in Ca(2+)-induced mitochondrial membrane permeabilization and cell viability was studied using yeast cells in which the thioredoxin peroxidase (TPx) gene was disrupted and/or catalase was inhibited by 3-amino-1,2, 4-triazole (ATZ) treatment. Wild-type Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kowaltowski AJ,Vercesi AE,Rhee SG,Netto LE

更新日期：2000-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of pyrithione, which was used as a Zn2+ ionophore, Zn2+ (10-100 microM) increased phorbol ester binding by intact B-CLL cells in a dose-dependent fashion. Zn pyrithione increased 2-fold the number of phorbol ester receptors in B-cells (0.74 to 1.4 pmol/10(6) cells), neutrophil polymorphs (0.2 to 0.51 p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Forbes IJ,Zalewski PD,Hurst NP,Giannakis C,Whitehouse MW

更新日期：1989-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin L is a ubiquitously expressed papain-like cysteine protease involved in the endosomal degradation of proteins and has numerous roles in physiological and pathological processes, such as arthritis, osteoporosis, and cancer. Insight into the specificity of cathepsin L is important for elucidating its physiolog...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sosnowski P,Turk D

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protection proteins (RPPs) confer bacterial resistance to tetracycline by releasing this antibiotic from ribosomes stalled in protein synthesis. RPPs share structural similarity to elongation factor G (EF-G), which promotes ribosomal translocation during normal protein synthesis. We constructed and functiona...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thakor NS,Nechifor R,Scott PG,Keelan M,Taylor DE,Wilson KS

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunometabolism focuses on the mechanisms regulating the impact of metabolism on lymphocyte activity and autoimmunity outbreak. The adipose tissue is long known to release adipokines, either pro- or anti-inflammatory factors bridging nutrition and immune function. More recently, adipocytes were discovered to also rel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： de Candia P,De Rosa V,Gigantino V,Botti G,Ceriello A,Matarese G

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes between the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and its type-2 inhibitor (PAI-2) are bound by a cell-surface receptor for uPA and rapidly cleaved into two fragments of 70 and 22 kDa. The 70-kDa fragment contains the active site of uPA and PAI-2, while the 22-kDa species was identified as the amino ter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ragno P,Montuori N,Vassalli JD,Rossi G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Trp-free alphaA-crystallin mutant (W9F) was prepared by site-directed mutation. This mutant appears to be identical to the wild-type in terms of conformation (secondary and tertiary structures). W9F was labeled with a sulfhydryl-specific fluorescent probe, 2-(4'-maleimidylanilino) naphthalene-6-sulfonate (MIANS), an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sun TX,Akhtar NJ,Liang JJ

更新日期：1998-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug carriers such as liposomes are not readily transported across cellular barriers that constitute epithelia. However, certain epithelia (rabbit yolk sac endoderm and enterocytes of suckling rat gut proximal small intestine) are well known to transcytose maternal IgG by Fc receptor-mediated endocytic events. We have...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Patel HM,Wild AE

更新日期：1988-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and primary structure of intestinal neuropeptide Y (NPY) is described. The peptide was purified from porcine intestinal extracts using a chemical assay and radioimmunoassay for NPY. The amino acid sequence of this peptide is: Tyr-Pro-Ser-Lys-Pro-Asp-Asn-Pro-Gly-Glu-Asp-Ala-Pro-Ala-Glu-Asp-Leu-Ala- Arg-Ty...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tatemoto K,Siimesmaa S,Jörnvall H,Allen JM,Polak JM,Bloom SR,Mutt V

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of amino acid substitutions in the first extracellular loop region of the delta- and mu-opioid receptors were examined. Substitution of lysine-108 of the delta-receptor (delta K108) with asparagine improved affinity to [D-Ala2,MePhe4,Gly-ol5]enk ephalin (DAGO), a mu-selective peptide agonist, to be comparable ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fukuda K,Terasako K,Kato S,Mori K

更新日期：1995-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II collagen is the major protein of cartilage and is synthesized as a procollagen in two forms (IIA and IIB), generated by differential splicing of the gene primary transcript. Previous studies have indicated that only type IIB is expressed in differentiated chondrocytes. Here, we examined the effects of bone mor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Valcourt U,Gouttenoire J,Aubert-Foucher E,Herbage D,Mallein-Gerin F

更新日期：2003-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the expression of aquaporins (AQPs) in the small intestine to elucidate their functions, and found that AQP9, which had not previously been detected there, is present in duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. AQP9 is expressed in colon as well, but not in stomach. Also, its expression in these intestinal sections i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okada S,Misaka T,Matsumoto I,Watanabe H,Abe K

更新日期：2003-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to analyze the interaction of GTP-tubulin with rhodamine-labeled RB3, a neural protein of the stathmin family, and to determine the kinetic pathway of the association process. RB3 displayed slow association-dissociation kinetics with tubulin depending on the square of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krouglova T,Amayed P,Engelborghs Y,Carlier MF

更新日期：2003-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wnt/beta-catenin signalling pathway is evolutionarily conserved across many species and plays important roles during embryogenesis. The Lee-Heinrich model (to recognize the contributions of R. Heinrich we will refer to the work proposed by Lee et al. [Lee, E., Salic, A., Krüger, R., Heinrich, R., Kirschner, M.W. (...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wawra C,Kühl M,Kestler HA

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The known functions of type II thioesterases (TEIIs) in type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) include selecting of starter acyl units, removal of aberrant extender acyl units, releasing of final products, and dehydration of polyketide intermediates. In this study, we characterized two TEIIs (ScnI and PKSIaTEII) from Stre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang YY,Ran XX,Chen WB,Liu SP,Zhang XS,Guo YY,Jiang XH,Jiang H,Li YQ

更新日期：2014-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A drastic inhibition of protein synthesis occurs in HeLa cells treated with human lymphoblastoid interferon and infected with poliovirus. At the time when this inhibition has been established no degradation of 32P-labelled ribosomal RNA can be detected. Isolation of the mRNAs from poliovirus-infected cells plus or min...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Muñoz A,Harvey R,Carrasco L

更新日期：1983-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat brain astroglia-enriched cultures long-term treatment with interleukin-1beta induces NO release and stimulation of soluble guanylyl cyclase. The cGMP formed is recovered in the extracellular medium but not in the cell monolayer. The interleukin-1beta effect is mediated by type I receptor and potentiated by inte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pedraza CE,Baltrons MA,García A

更新日期：2001-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mRNA expression was analysed in rabbit vascular smooth muscle cells following exposure to hypoxia and platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB). Hypoxia potently upregulated VEGF mRNA steady-state levels in a time- and concentration-dependent manner reaching a maximum level ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stavri GT,Hong Y,Zachary IC,Breier G,Baskerville PA,Ylä-Herttuala S,Risau W,Martin JF,Erusalimsky JD

更新日期：1995-01-30 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：:Here we show that increased amount of secondary structure is acquired in the folded states of two structurally-different proteins (alpha-helical VlsE and alpha/beta flavodoxin) in the presence of macromolecular crowding agents. The structural content of flavodoxin and VlsE is enhanced by 33% and 70%, respectively, in ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Perham M,Stagg L,Wittung-Stafshede P

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase C activator, phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), augments the cyclic AMP accumulation induced by forskolin in pheochromocytoma (PC 12) cells with an EC50 value of 14 nM, while having no effect on basal values. At a concentration of 100 nM PMA markedly augmented the magnitude of the forskolin resp...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hollingsworth EB,Ukena D,Daly JW

更新日期：1986-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable CHO cell clones which selectively express all three rat tachykinin receptors were established by transfection. The binding of radiolabled substance P and neurokinin A (substance K) to CHO clones expressing the NK1 and NK2 receptors, respectively, were saturatable and of high affinity (Kd = 0.17 nM (NK1); 3.4 nM...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gether U,Marray T,Schwartz TW,Johansen TE

更新日期：1992-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-membrane fusion during fertilization of oocyte by spermatozoa is believed to be mainly mediated by so called "fusion proteins". In the present study we have tried to demonstrate that beside the proteins, lipid components of membrane may play an important role in fusion of oocyte with spermatozoa. Conventi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Atif SM,Hasan I,Ahmad N,Khan U,Owais M

更新日期：2006-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A bovine anterior pituitary polypeptide that stimulates the replication of rat and human adipocyte precursors has been purified. Its Mr is 44 000-53 000 and its isoelectric point is 9.8-10.3. While pituitary basic fibroblast growth factor is equally mitogenic on adipocyte precursors and skin fibroblasts, the polypepti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lau DC,Roncari DA,Yip DK,Kindler S,Nilsen SG

更新日期：1983-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin-binding proteins are necessary for pathogens to obtain iron from Hb. Entamoeba histolytica can grow using Hb as source of iron, but the underlying mechanism has not previously been established. In this work, we identified a 45 kDa Hb-binding protein of E. histolytica, which we named Ehhmbp45. In silico anal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cruz-Castañeda A,Olivares-Trejo JJ

更新日期：2008-08-06 00:00:00