The role of the C-terminal lysine in the hinge bending mechanism of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase.

abstract：:DU-PAN-2 reactive gangliosides were isolated from the tumor of a patient with pancreatic cancer (duct cell carcinoma, moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma), having a negative Lewis blood phenotype, and were analyzed by means of TLC-immunostaining, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), permethylation study, 1H...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hamanaka Y,Hamanaka S,Shinagawa Y,Suzuki T,Inagaki F,Suzuki M,Suzuki A

更新日期：1994-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca4.calmodulin (Ca4.CaM) inhibits the glycolytic enzyme phosphofructokinase, by preventing formation of its active tetramer. Fluorescence titrations show that the affinity of complex formation of Ca4.CaM with the key 21-residue target peptide increases 1000-fold from pH 9.0 to 4.8, suggesting the involvement of histid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Martin SR,Biekofsky RR,Skinner MA,Guerrini R,Salvadori S,Feeney J,Bayley PM

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction of ubiquinone in the high-affinity quinone-binding site (QH) in bo-type ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli was revealed by EPR and optical studies. In the QH site, ubiquinol was shown to be oxidized to ubisemiquinone and to ubiquinone, while no semiquinone signal was detected in the oxidase isolated from...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sato-Watanabe M,Itoh S,Mogi T,Matsuura K,Miyoshi H,Anraku Y

更新日期：1995-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the purification and the analysis of the structural and functional properties of distinctin, a 5.4 kDa heterodimeric peptide with antimicrobial activity from the tree-frog Phyllomedusa distincta. This peptide was isolated from the crude extract of skin granular glands by different chromatographic steps...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Batista CV,Scaloni A,Rigden DJ,Silva LR,Rodrigues Romero A,Dukor R,Sebben A,Talamo F,Bloch C

更新日期：2001-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Trace amounts of gangliosides were found in rabbit skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum and their main part was shown, by high performance thin layer chromatography. to be GM3. Addition of GM3 to the soybean phospholipids used for reconstitution of proteoliposomes markedly increased ATP hydrolysis as well as Ca2+ up...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang LH,Tu YP,Yang XY,Tsui ZC,Yang FY

更新日期：1996-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of the weight of desmosterol produced during its biosynthesis in the presence of tritiated water and triparanol has permitted a direct determination of the relative flux of carbon and tritium (the H/C ratio) into sterol in hepatocytes. The H/C ratio increased with time of incubation irrespective of the nut...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Björnsson OG,Pullinger CR,Gibbons GF

更新日期：1985-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrolysis of GTP, bound to members of the G-protein superfamily, terminates their downstream signaling activity. A conserved glutamine serves a critical role in this pivotal guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) reaction. However, the role of the catalytic glutamine in GTP hydrolysis is still not well understood. We have...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zor T,Andorn R,Sofer I,Chorev M,Selinger Z

更新日期：1998-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The black-eyed pea trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitor (BTCI) is a member of the Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor (BBI) family. The three-dimensional model of the BTCI-chymotrypsin complex was built based on the homology to Bowman-Birk inhibitors with known structures. An extensive theoretical and experimental study of t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： de Freitas SM,de Mello LV,da Silva MC,Vriend G,Neshich G,Ventura MM

更新日期：1997-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It is increasingly clear that microRNAs play a crucial role in tumorigenesis. Recently, emerging evidence suggested that miR-26a is aberrantly expressed in tumor tissues. In our study, frequent down-regulation of miR-26a was observed in 10 human bladder cancer tissues. Forced expression of miR-26a in the bladder cance...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lin Y,Chen H,Hu Z,Mao Y,Xu X,Zhu Y,Xu X,Wu J,Li S,Mao Q,Zheng X,Xie L

更新日期：2013-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant expression system was developed to analyse sequence determinants involved in O-glycosylation of proteins in mycobacteria. By expressing peptide sequences corresponding to known glycosylation sites within a chimeric lipoprotein construct, amino acids flanking modified threonine residues were found to have...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Herrmann JL,Delahay R,Gallagher A,Robertson B,Young D

更新日期：2000-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic cross-reactivity between purified chick, eel and mouse electrolectins (endogenous beta-D-galactoside specific lectins) have been studied using a solid phase radioimmunoassay. The immune serum raised against the eel electrolectin crossreacts both with the chick and the mouse electrolectins, while the anti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Levi G,Teichberg VI

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiration in all cells depends upon synthesis of ATP by the ATP synthase complex, a rotary motor enzyme. The structure of the catalytic moiety of ATP synthase, the so-called F(1) headpiece, is well established. F(1) is connected to the membrane-bound and ion translocating F(0) subcomplex by a central stalk. A periph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dudkina NV,Heinemeyer J,Keegstra W,Boekema EJ,Braun HP

更新日期：2005-10-24 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：: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：: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：:Na+ transport through the F0 domain of Na(+)-F1F0-ATPases involves the combined action of subunits c and a but the residues involved in Na+ liganding in subunit a are unknown. As a first step towards the identification of these residues, we have cloned and sequenced the gene encoding subunit a of the Na(+)-F1F0-ATPase...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rahlfs S,Müller V

更新日期：1999-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Phosphofructo-2-kinase catalyzes the synthesis and degradation of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, activator of phosphofructokinase-1 and inhibitor of fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase. These properties confer to this bifunctional enzyme a key role in the control of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis. Several mammalian isozymes gen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Riera L,Obach M,Navarro-Sabaté A,Duran J,Perales JC,Viñals F,Rosa JL,Ventura F,Bartrons R

更新日期：2003-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:LipL and Cpr19 are nonheme, mononuclear Fe(II)-dependent, α-ketoglutarate (αKG):UMP oxygenases that catalyze the formation of CO2 , succinate, phosphate, and uridine-5'-aldehyde, the last of which is a biosynthetic precursor for several nucleoside antibiotics that inhibit bacterial translocase I (MraY). To better unde...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Goswami A,Liu X,Cai W,Wyche TP,Bugni TS,Meurillon M,Peyrottes S,Perigaud C,Nonaka K,Rohr J,Van Lanen SG

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of cell reprogramming has been characterized considerably since the successful generation of induced pluripotent stem cells. However, the importance of cell-cell communications for cellular reprogramming remains largely unknown. Secreted factors, which are expressed and secreted during reprogramming, may i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bansho Y,Lee J,Nishida E,Nakajima-Koyama M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several deletion mutants of Raf-1 were expressed with v-ras p21 or 14-3-3 protein in COS-7 cells and Sf9 cells and the interaction of Raf-1 with ras p21 or with 14-3-3 protein in intact cells was examined. Raf(1-135) (residues 1-135) and Raf(1-322) interacted with v-ras p21, but other deletion mutants such as Raf(136-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koyama S,Williams LT,Kikuchi A

更新日期：1995-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Furin, a member of the subtilisin-like pro-protein convertase family, is a type I membrane protein that undergoes ectodomain shedding. Metabolic labeling of cells stably expressing furin demonstrated that the shed form of furin is detected after 30 min. Moreover, sequence analysis revealed that specific residues of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Denault J,Bissonnette L,Longpré J,Charest G,Lavigne P,Leduc R

更新日期：2002-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A collagenase cleaving native type I [14C]collagen but inactive against the synthetic substrate Pz-Pro-Leu-Gly-Pro-D-Arg was extracted from mineralized human dental tissue. The enzyme specifically degrades native collagen into characteristic products (3/4) and (1/4). Its apparent molecular mass of 68 kDa is relatively...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dumas J,Hurion N,Weill R,Keil B

更新日期：1985-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In human pancreatic islets an increase in the glucose concentration from 3 to 20 mM raised the free cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration [( Ca2+]i), an effect being reversible upon withdrawal of the sugar. Depolarization with a high concentration of K+ or the sulphonylurea tolbutamide also raised [Ca2+]i. Addition of extrac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kindmark H,Köhler M,Nilsson T,Arkhammar P,Wiechel KL,Rorsman P,Efendić S,Berggren PO

更新日期：1991-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed that the extracellular domain of T beta RI and protectin (CD59), an inhibitor of the membrane attack complex of complement, share structural features, a distinct spacing of ten cysteines and a C-terminal 'Cys-box'. Based on these common features and the recently determined NMR-structure of protectin, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jokiranta TS,Tissari J,Teleman O,Meri S

更新日期：1995-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:N-glycosidically-linked glycans released by hydrazinolysis of human factor VIII/von Willebrand factor (FVIII/vWf) were separated by high-voltage electrophoresis. Five fractions were obtained, one of them representing 60% of the total amount of the N-glycosidically-linked glycans of FVIII/vWf. On the basis of the carbo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Debeire P,Montreuil J,Samor B,Mazurier C,Goudemand M,van Halbeek H,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：1983-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common tumors worldwide, in which the genetic mechanisms of oncogenesis are still unclear. To investigate whether the genomic DNA copy number alterations may contribute to primary HCC, the cDNA microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) analysis was...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang J,Sheng HH,Shen T,Hu YJ,Xiao HS,Zhang Q,Zhang QH,Han ZG

更新日期：2006-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium azide inhibited multi-site (steady-state) ATPase activity of E. coli F1 more than 90%, but did not affect uni-site (single-site) ATPase activity. Thus azide inhibited multi-site ATPase activity by lowering catalytic cooperativity. Consistent with this observation, azide changed the ligand-induced fluorescence r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Noumi T,Maeda M,Futai M

更新日期：1987-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat peritoneal mast cells, labelled with [14C]arachidonic acid, released histamine and [14C]arachidonic acid upon the addition of A23187. The release induced by low concentrations of A23187 was suppressed by removal of extracellular Na+ and by addition of the Na+/H+ exchange inhibitor, amiloride. Addition of protein k...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Linnebjerg H,Hansen HS,Jensen B

更新日期：1988-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Bfl-1 is an anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family member. Here, we found that Bfl-1 was converted into a potent death-promoting protein by green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion with its N-terminus. The transient expression of GFP-Bfl-1 induced cytochrome c release and triggered apoptosis in 293T cells, which depended on ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ko JK,Choi KH,Kim HJ,Choi HY,Yeo DJ,Park SO,Yang WS,Kim YN,Kim CW

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental procedure is described for the reproducible production of hybridoma cells using the electrofusion technique. High yields can be obtained when fusion is performed in isotonic inositol solutions containing Ca2+ and Mg2+ in a ratio of 1:5 in the millimolar range. The hybridoma cells are transferred 10 min...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vienken J,Zimmermann U

更新日期：1985-03-25 00:00:00