The p18 component of the multisynthetase complex shares a protein motif with the beta and gamma subunits of eukaryotic elongation factor 1.

abstract：:We used site-directed mutagenesis to modify the Bacillus thuringiensis cry3A gene in amino acid residues 350-354. Two mutant toxins, A1 (R(345)A,Y(350)F,Y(351)F) and A2 (R(345)A,DeltaY(350), DeltaY(351)), showed significantly improved toxicity against Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm). The mutant toxin A1 was also mo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wu SJ,Koller CN,Miller DL,Bauer LS,Dean DH

更新日期：2000-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA sequence putatively encoding a Delta(6)-fatty acid desaturase was isolated from Rhizopus arrhizus using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and rapid amplification of cDNA ends methods. Sequence analysis indicated that this cDNA sequence had an open reading frame of 1377 bp encoding 458 amino acids ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang Q,Li M,Ma H,Sun Y,Xing L

更新日期：2004-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiloride, a specific inhibitor for the Na(+)-driven flagellar motors of alkalophilic Bacillus, is known to inhibit secondarily the growth of alkalophiles. The motility of a marine Vibrio, V. alginolyticus, was almost completely inhibited by 2 mM amiloride either at pH 7.0 or 8.5. We found that this concentration of a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Atsumi T,Maekawa Y,Tokuda H,Imae Y

更新日期：1992-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of rhodopsin from the octopus Paroctopus defleini has been determined by parallel analysis of the protein and corresponding cDNA. The amino acid sequence is most similar to the recently cloned Drosophila opsins. Similarities to bovine and human opsins are also evident. The transmembrane topology ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ovchinnikov YuA,Abdulaev NG,Zolotarev AS,Artamonov ID,Bespalov IA,Dergachev AE,Tsuda M

更新日期：1988-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of membrane lipid composition within strict limits is critical to maintain optimum cellular function. The biophysical properties of the membrane can be influenced among other factors by the saturation/unsaturation of the phospholipid fatty acyl chain. The rate-limiting enzyme in unsaturated fatty acid ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hagen RM,Rodriguez-Cuenca S,Vidal-Puig A

更新日期：2010-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) in Crithidia fasciculata was shown to be correlated to the growth of the parasite. An increase in activity was observed during exponential growth. Inhibition of protein synthesis induced an extremely rapid decay of AdoMetDC activity. The half-life of the en...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nasizadeh S,Persson L

更新日期：2003-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor mRNA of approximately 16,000 nucleotides codes 5,037 amino acid residues constituting the calcium release channel in skeletal muscle. In this study, RNA blot hybridization analysis shows that the brain contains an RNA species with an estimated size o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Takeshima H,Nishimura S,Nishi M,Ikeda M,Sugimoto T

更新日期：1993-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbohydrate chains of the pathological human immunoglobulins M from two patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia were released by hydrazinolysis. The N-acetyllactosamine-type glycans were obtained by affinity chromatography on concanavalin A and fractionated by high-voltage paper electrophoresis. The primary...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cahour A,Debeire P,Hartmann L,Montreuil J,van Halbeek H,Vliegenthart JF

更新日期：1984-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:[3H]inositol-labelled products are released from adrenal medullary cells during exocytotic secretion. In 'leaky' cells in which small molecules readily enter and leave the cytoplasm, addition of micromolar calcium ions in the presence of ATP stimulates exocytosis and causes the release of inositol polyphosphates. Thes...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Whitaker M

更新日期：1985-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes of intact nuclear DNA with proteins undissociable by 2.0 M NaCl and nonionic detergents were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis following physical or enzymatic fragmentation. Sulfhydryl molecules converted these DNAs (but not the bacteriophage lambda DNA) into smaller-Mr forms. Following limited restric...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taş S,De Larco J,Altiok E

更新日期：1985-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase has been isolated from beef heart mitochondria and labeled with the fluorochrome eosin-5-maleimide (EMA) after pretreatment with mersalyl. On SDS-polyacrylamide gels, EMA fluorescence and absorption occurred at a single band corresponding to subunit III. Since only Cys 115 of the two cysteinyl res...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Müller M,Azzi A

更新日期：1985-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A new GTP-binding protein serving as the specific substrate of islet-activating protein (IAP), pertussis toxin, was purified from porcine brain membranes as an alpha beta gamma-heterotrimeric structure. The alpha-subunit of the purified protein (alpha 40 beta gamma) had a molecular mass of 40 kDa and differed from tha...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Katada T,Oinuma M,Kusakabe K,Ui M

更新日期：1987-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The main immunogenic region (MIR) of the acetylcholine receptor (AChR) is the target for the majority of high-affinity autoantibodies produced in myasthenia gravis patients. Some monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to the MIR bind specifically, but with low affinity, to synthetic AChR alpha subunit peptides with the sequence...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Saedi MS,Anand R,Conroy WG,Lindstrom J

更新日期：1990-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomodulin, the P-end (slow-growing end)-capping protein of the actin-tropomyosin filament, and its fragment (C20) of the C-terminal half were studied by synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering, restoring low-resolution shapes using an ab initio shape-determining procedure. Tropomodulin is elongated (115 A long) an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fujisawa T,Kostyukova A,Maéda Y

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BIR domain and its containing proteins play critical roles in cell apoptosis and cell division. Here several lines of novelty were revealed based on a comprehensive evolutionary analysis of BIR domains in 11 representative organisms. First, the type II BIR domains in Survivin and Bruce showed more conservation compare...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cao L,Wang Z,Yang X,Xie L,Yu L

更新日期：2008-11-12 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

abstract：:Islet-activating protein (IAP) suppressed Ca2+-induced histamine release and phospholipase A2 activation in Gpp(NH)p-loaded mast cells. Since the guanine nucleotide-binding protein involved in adenylate cyclase inhibition is known to lose its function upon being ADP-ribosylated by IAP, the nucleotide-binding protein i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakamura T,Ui M

更新日期：1984-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of the individual amino acid residues of AIP (KKALRRQEAVDAL), a highly specific inhibitor of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII), was studied. Replacement of Arg6, Gln7, or Ala9 by other amino acid residues produced a marked increase in the IC50 value. Leu4 and Val10 were also sensitive to r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ishida A,Shigeri Y,Tatsu Y,Uegaki K,Kameshita I,Okuno S,Kitani T,Yumoto N,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three proteins of the mitochondrial inner membrane are known that are essential for the viability of yeast and seem to be involved in import of preproteins; the integral membrane proteins MIM17 and MIM23 and the peripheral membrane protein MIM44, MIM17 and MIM23 are homologous to each other in their hydrophobic domain...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kübrich M,Keil P,Rassow J,Dekker PJ,Blom J,Meijer M,Pfanner N

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diapause is an important overwintering strategy enabling Locusta migratoria to survive under stressed conditions. We identified a novel dual-specificity kinase gene that is differentially expressed between long and short day-treated L. migratoria. To determine its function on photoperiodic diapause induction, we clone...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hao K,Ullah H,Jarwar AR,Nong X,Tu X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein import into isolated tobacco mitochondria was investigated using mitochondria from leaves harvested at different times of the day and night. Efficient import was only detected with mitochondria isolated from leaves harvested during the dark period of the growth cycle, only low levels of import were detected fr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dessi P,Whelan J

更新日期：1997-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether activation of integrin receptors could modulate the expression of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) in human hepatic stellate cells (HSC), mesenchymal cells responsible for extracellular matrix synthesis within the liver. When compared to non-adherent cells, HSC plated on collagen types I ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marra F,Pastacaldi S,Romanelli RG,Pinzani M,Ticali P,Carloni V,Laffi G,Gentilini P

更新日期：1997-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all eukaryotic mRNAs acquire a poly(A) tail at the 3'-end by a concerted RNA processing event: cleavage and polyadenylation. The canonical PAP, PAPα, was considered the only nuclear PAP involved in general polyadenylation of mRNAs. A phosphoinositide-modulated nuclear PAP, Star-PAP, was then reported to regulat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Laishram RS

更新日期：2014-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of the myeloid cell lines, U-937 or HL-60, with 10 nM of the phorbol ester, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), for 24 h increased the rate of incorporation of [3H]glycerol into total chloroform extracts. A proportionally greater labeling of the non-polar lipid (NL) fraction compared to the polar, ph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ponzoni M,DeBell KE,Hoffman T,Bonvini E

更新日期：1990-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin filaments copolymerized with both intact and chemically modified actin monomers restored their sliding activity when they were supplemented with tropomyosin extracted from skeletal muscle. In contrast, the ATPase activation of the copolymers was decreased when supplemented with tropomyosin. The results indicate ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Honda H,Kitano Y,Hatori K,Matsuno K

更新日期：1996-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We used cDNA microarray to identify transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) responsive target genes during osteoblast development and found that nephronectin (Npnt) is one such gene that is significantly down-regulated. Here we report the role of TGF-beta in regulating Npnt-mediated osteoblast differentiation. We f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fang L,Kahai S,Yang W,He C,Seth A,Peng C,Yang BB

更新日期：2010-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:SufC is an ATPase component of the SUF machinery, which is involved in the biosynthesis of Fe-S clusters. To gain insight into the function of this protein, we have determined the crystal structure of Escherichia coli SufC at 2.5A resolution. Despite the similarity of the overall structure with ABC-ATPases (nucleotide...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kitaoka S,Wada K,Hasegawa Y,Minami Y,Fukuyama K,Takahashi Y

更新日期：2006-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of TlyA, TlyB and TlyC proteins in the biology of Leptospira is still uncertain. Although these proteins have been considered as putative hemolysins, we demonstrate that leptospiral recombinant TlyB and TlyC do not possess hemolytic activity. However, further experiments showed that TlyC is a surface-exposed ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carvalho E,Barbosa AS,Gómez RM,Cianciarullo AM,Hauk P,Abreu PA,Fiorini LC,Oliveira ML,Romero EC,Gonçales AP,Morais ZM,Vasconcellos SA,Ho PL

更新日期：2009-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylate cyclase activity was measured in disrupted rod outer segments of the toad retina. The experiments showed that cGMP is synthesized from GTP at a rate of 3 +/- 1 nmol/min per mg protein. In darkness this value is largely independent of the Ca2+ concentration, while it is enhanced by flashes of light of increas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pepe IM,Panfoli I,Cugnoli C

更新日期：1986-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in bidirectional transport along microtubules remain largely unknown. We explored the collective action of kinesin-2 and dynein motors during transport of melanosomes in Xenopus laevis melanophores. These motors are attached to organelles through accessory proteins establishing a complex molecu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： De Rossi MC,De Rossi ME,Sued M,Rodríguez D,Bruno L,Levi V

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00