Extended binding sites of cyclophilin as revealed by the interaction with HIV-1 Gag polyprotein derived oligopeptides.

abstract：:A set of inhibitors that are useful for distinction of three types of human cytosolic glutathione transferase is presented. The near-neutral transferase is inhibited most effectively by Cibacron blue (I50 = 0.05 microM), the acidic transferase by Cibacron blue (I50 = 0.5 microM), and the basic transferase by tributylt...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tahir MK,Guthenberg C,Mannervik B

更新日期：1985-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous electrophysiological experiments characterized the Sec61 complex, which provides the aqueous path for entry of newly-synthesized polypeptides into the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum, as a highly dynamic channel that, once activated by precursor proteins, fluctuates between main open states with mean conducta...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Erdmann F,Jung M,Eyrisch S,Lang S,Helms V,Wagner R,Zimmermann R

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:CXCR2 plays a key role in protecting the integrity of the endothelium. Emerging evidence has demonstrated that the long ncRNAs (lncRNA) Human metastasis associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) participates in the regulation of the pathophysiological processes. However, whether there is crosstalk between C...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tang Y,Jin X,Xiang Y,Chen Y,Shen CX,Zhang YC,Li YG

更新日期：2015-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described a partial cDNA sequence encoding a RhoGAP protein, GAP25 that is homologous to the recently reported ArhGAP9 and ArhGAP12. We now describe a related new member ArhGAP15 that shares a number of domain similarities, including a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain, a RhoGAP domain and a novel mot...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seoh ML,Ng CH,Yong J,Lim L,Leung T

更新日期：2003-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In tritium-hydrogen exchange experiments, the large GroEL substrate Rubisco was unfolded and exchanged in urea/acid/tritiated water, then diluted into either protic buffer or protic buffer containing GroEL. The respective Rubisco metastable folding intermediate or Rubisco-GroEL binary complex was then separated from r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park ES,Fenton WA,Horwich AL

更新日期：2005-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalously high values of photoinduced absorption changes were revealed in the antenna of photosynthetic purple bacteria. They were found to be 4-16 times greater at the bleaching peak of the antenna than at the bleaching peak of the BChl dimer of the reaction center. This is direct proof of excitation delocalization...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Novoderezhkin VI,Razjivin AP

更新日期：1995-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:An up to 14-fold increase in total hexokinase activity induced by low-frequency stimulation in rat fast-twitch muscle was followed by a rapid decay in enzyme activity after cessation of stimulation. In vivo labeling revealed that these alterations were related to rapid changes in [35S]methionine incorporation into hex...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Weber FE,Pette D

更新日期：1990-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone encoding cholesterol side-chain cleavage cytochrome P450 (P450scc) was isolated from a rainbow trout ovarian follicle cDNA library. The cDNA contains an open reading frame of 1,542 nucleotides encoding a protein of 514 amino acids. The predicted amino acid sequence of trout P450scc shows 48% homology with...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takahashi M,Tanaka M,Sakai N,Adachi S,Miller WL,Nagahama Y

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel type IV collagen-degrading metalloproteinase was purified from the conditioned media of a murine metastatic sarcoma cell line. The molecular weight of the purified enzyme was determined to be 100 kDa by SDS-PAGE, while 700 kDa by gel filtration suggesting that the enzyme has a multimer structure. This enzyme d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kato Y,Ogawa K,Yamamoto S,Abe S,Kishi J,Hayakawa T

更新日期：1990-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of the hydroxy-aluminium polymer (Al13-(OH)24O4(H2O)12(7+)) was noticed inside synaptosomes when synaptosomes were incubated with Al(NO3)3 at neutral pH values. Dysprosium nitrate (Dy(NO3)3)--a shift reagent--facilities the identification of the Al13 species distinctly inside the synaptosomes. 27Al NMR wa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rao GV,Rao KS

更新日期：1992-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of (S)-alpha-methylproline (alpha-MePro) to stabilise reverse-turn conformations in the peptide hormone bradykinin (BK = Arg1-Pro2-Pro3-Gly4-Phe5-Ser6-Pro7-Phe8-Arg9) has been investigated. Two BK analogues containing alpha-MePro at position 3 or position 7 were synthesised and their conformations in aqueo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Welsh JH,Zerbe O,von Philipsborn W,Robinson JA

更新日期：1992-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The modifying effects of the products of the equimolar addition Of DL-alanine and DL-alanyl-DL-alanine to fullerene C60 on the structure and permeability of the lipid bilayer of phosphatidylcholine liposomes has been studied using the luminescence probe technique. It is shown that these water soluble amino acid and di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kotelnikova RA,Kotelnikov AI,Bogdanov GN,Romanova VS,Kuleshova EF,Parnes ZN,Vol'pin ME

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) have a variety of physiological functions and are related to numerous disorders. The key step of VLCFA elongation is catalyzed by members of the elongase family, ELOVLs. Mammals have seven ELOVLs (ELOVL1-7), yet none of them has been purified and analyzed. In the presented study we...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Naganuma T,Sato Y,Sassa T,Ohno Y,Kihara A

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA synthesis at primers d(pT)n, d(pA)n, d(pC)n, and d(pG)n in the presence of corresponding complementary templates and at hetero-oligoprimers complementary to M13 phage DNA was investigated. The values of both -log Km and log Vmax increased linearly if homo-oligoprimers contained less than 10 nucleotides. The length...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nevinsky GA,Nemudraya AV,Levina AS,Khomov VV

更新日期：1989-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosyl radicals can catalyze LDL oxidation. In addition to their LDL oxidizing ability, superoxide (O2.-)/nitric oxide (NO.) generate phenoxyl radicals when reacting with tyrosine. Therefore we tested if tyrosine can act as a pro-oxidant in O2.-/NO.-initiated LDL oxidation. When LDL was exposed to O2.-/NO., tyrosine ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kapiotis S,Hermann M,Held I,Mühl A,Gmeiner B

更新日期：1997-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a lysosomal pathway that participates in the degradation of cytosolic proteins. CMA is activated by starvation and in response to stressors that result in protein damage. The selectivity intrinsic to CMA allows for removal of damaged proteins without disturbing nearby functional o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kon M,Cuervo AM

更新日期：2010-04-02 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：:Selenium-dependent glutathione peroxidase activity is documented for the first time in insects. Reduction in glutathione peroxidase activity in the cytosol of adult house flies by lowering selenium in the diet results in significant increases in peroxidative injury. Catalase activity, while higher in low-selenium flie...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Simmons TW,Jamall IS,Lockshin RA

更新日期：1987-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:SB203580 (4-(4-fluorophenyl)-2-(4-methylsulfinylphenyl)-5-(4-pyridyl)1H-imi dazole) is widely used as a specific inhibitor of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK). Here, we report that SB203580 activates the serine/threonine kinase Raf-1 in quiescent smooth muscle cells in a dose-dependent fashion. The concentr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kalmes A,Deou J,Clowes AW,Daum G

更新日期：1999-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of adipose conversion in 3T3-L1 cells by bezafibrate has been shown to be enhanced by dibutyryl-cAMP. We here report that the induction of adipose conversion in 3T3-L1 cells, by either bezafibrate and dibutyryl cAMP, or isobutylmethyxanthine alone, is associated with a very early phosphorylation of a 60-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brandes R,Arad R,Bar-Tana J

更新日期：1991-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It had been shown previously by heterologous expression in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, that the two monosaccharide/H+ symporters HUP1 and HUP2 of Chlorella kessleri differ significantly concerning their substrate specificity: HUP1 transports predominantly D-glucose while HUP2 prefers D-galactose. Several chimeric trans...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Will A,Tanner W

更新日期：1996-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the complex of Ras with the Ras-binding domain of its effector RalGDS (RGS-RBD), the first genuine Ras-effector complex, has been solved by X-ray crystallography. As with the Rap-RafRBD complex (Nasser et al., 1995), the interaction is via an inter-protein beta-sheet between the switch I region of Ras...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vetter IR,Linnemann T,Wohlgemuth S,Geyer M,Kalbitzer HR,Herrmann C,Wittinghofer A

更新日期：1999-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:H/D isotope exchange effects on P680+. reduction by Yz and electron abstraction from the water oxidizing complex (WOC) in redox state S3 by YZOX were analyzed in PS II core complexes from spinach by measurements of laser flash induced absorption changes at 820 nm and 355 nm. The results obtained reveal: (1) the rate o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karge M,Irrgang KD,Sellin S,Feinäugle R,Liu B,Eckert HJ,Eichler HJ,Renger G

更新日期：1996-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-3, with a wide tissue distribution and marked developmental regulation, provides significant insights into the progression of various disease and developmental stages. Recognized by its specificity for galactose, a detailed characterization of its sugar binding ability has been investigated by isothermal titr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bachhawat-Sikder K,Thomas CJ,Surolia A

更新日期：2001-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha 1 Antitrypsin (alpha 1AT) is the main physiological inhibitor of neutrophil elastase, a serine protease which has been implicated in tissue degradation at inflammatory sites. We report here that the connective tissue metalloproteinase, stromelysin, cleaved alpha 1AT (54 kDa), producing fragments of approximately...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Winyard PG,Zhang Z,Chidwick K,Blake DR,Carrell RW,Murphy G

更新日期：1991-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP) is a multifunctional cell surface receptor highly expressed in human aortic smooth muscle cells. In the present study, we used the short interfering RNA (siRNA) technique to explore the role of LRP in smooth muscle cell migration. We identified an LRP-specific...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li Y,Lu W,Bu G

更新日期：2003-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic processing is an important post-translational modification affecting protein activity and stability. In the current study, we investigate the N-terminal cleavage of Trop2, a protein which is overexpressed in many cancers. We demonstrate that Trop2 is cleaved at Arg87 by a transmembrane serine protease, mat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kamble PR,Rane S,Breed AA,Joseph S,Mahale SD,Pathak BR

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal beta-galactosidase precursor is processed to a mature form and associated with protective protein in lysosomes. In this study we used two cysteine protease proinhibitors, E64-d for cathepsins B, S, H, and L, and CA074Me for cathepsin B. They are converted intracellularly to active forms, E-64c and CA074, res...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okamura-Oho Y,Zhang S,Callahan JW,Murata M,Oshima A,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous and immune systems have similar functional characteristics. Both have an intricate network of synaptic connections and an exquisite communication system that enable intercellular signal transduction. Although semaphorins were originally identified as guidance cues in neural development, accumulating eviden...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okuno T,Nakatsuji Y,Kumanogoh A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat liver, transcription of the serine:pyruvate/alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (SPT/AGT) gene occurs from two sites, +1 and +66, in exon 1, resulting in the formation of two mRNAs, one for a precursor of mitochondrial SPT/AGT and the other for peroxisomal SPT/AGT, respectively. In this study, we attempted ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugiyama T,Uchida C,Oda T,Kitagawa M,Hayashi H,Ichiyama A

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00