Increasing cAMP antagonizes hypertrophic response to angiotensin II without affecting Ras and MAP kinase activation in vascular smooth muscle cells.

abstract：:Prohormone convertases (PCs) 1 and 2 are thought to mediate the proteolytic cleavage of many peptide precursors. Endogenous inhibitors of both PC1 and PC2 have now been identified; the 7B2 protein is a nanomolar inhibitor of PC2, while the novel protein proSAAS was recently reported to be a micromolar inhibitor of PC1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cameron A,Fortenberry Y,Lindberg I

更新日期：2000-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied whether the cooperative insecticidal effect of certain scorpion toxin pairs, namely either a combination of excitatory and depressant, or alpha and depressant scorpion toxins, would improve the efficacy of Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) over a virus expressing only a single toxin,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Regev A,Rivkin H,Inceoglu B,Gershburg E,Hammock BD,Gurevitz M,Chejanovsky N

更新日期：2003-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung surfactant secretion is a highly regulated process. Our previous studies have shown that VAMP-2 is essential for surfactant secretion. In the present study we investigated the role of miR-206 in surfactant secretion through VAMP-2. VAMP-2 was confirmed to be a target of miR-206 by 3'-untranslational region (3'-UT...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang H,Guo Y,Mishra A,Gou D,Chintagari NR,Liu L

更新日期：2015-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:F0F1 ATP synthases are the smallest rotary motors in nature and work as ATP factories in bacteria, plants and animals. Here we report on the first observation of intersubunit rotation in fully coupled single F0F1 molecules during ATP synthesis or hydrolysis. We investigate the Na+-translocating ATP synthase of Propion...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kaim G,Prummer M,Sick B,Zumofen G,Renn A,Wild UP,Dimroth P

更新日期：2002-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cDNA encoding a precursor of dermorphin from the skin of Pachymedusa dacnicolor. Besides four copies of this opioid peptide, the deduced sequence also contains the genetic information for a novel peptide Tyr-Ile-Phe-His-Leu-Met-Asp-NH2. This differs from Met-deltorphin by the presence of Ile at posi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wechselberger C,Severini C,Kreil G,Negri L

更新日期：1998-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we demonstrated that laminin-1 (LM-1) induces neurite outgrowth and enhances the expression of neurofilament-L and MAP2 in human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). The c-Jun transcription factor was strongly activated by LM-1 during neurite induction. Suppression of c-Jun inhibited the expressio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mruthyunjaya S,Rumma M,Ravibhushan G,Anjali S,Padma S

更新日期：2011-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of histone variant H2AX at serine 139, named gammaH2AX, has been widely used as a sensitive marker for DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). gammaH2AX is required for the accumulation of many DNA damage response (DDR) proteins at DSBs. Thus it is believed to be the principal signaling protein involved in DD...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yuan J,Adamski R,Chen J

更新日期：2010-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:C26, the C-terminal 26 residue peptide of serpin A1, significantly increased cell proliferation in cultures of hepatoma cells, but not in porcine kidney epithelial cells, human skin fibroblasts or keratinocytes. The mitogenic activity of C26 was preferentially inhibited with a protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor, an anti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Congote LF,Temmel N

更新日期：2004-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II (EMAP II) is a proinflammatory cytokine and a chemoattractant for leukocytes. The mature cytokine is formed in apoptotic cells by cleavage of the precursor proEMAP II. Here we show that caspase-7 is capable of cleaving proEMAP II in vitro. A proEMAP II mutant, in which th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Behrensdorf HA,van de Craen M,Knies UE,Vandenabeele P,Clauss M

更新日期：2000-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis in cell-free systems of rat liver and kidney decreases markedly with age. Examination of activity changes of the different steps revealed for both types of organs that reduced binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to ribosomes and reduced peptidyl transfer might be of major importance for the decrease in overall...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gabius HJ,Engelhardt R,Deerberg F,Cramer F

更新日期：1983-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Some pathogenic mutations associated with Alzheimer's disease are thought to affect structural-dynamic properties and the lateral dimerization of amyloid precursor protein (APP) in neuron membrane. Dimeric structure of APP transmembrane fragment Gln(686)-Lys(726) was determined in membrane-mimicking dodecylphosphochol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nadezhdin KD,Bocharova OV,Bocharov EV,Arseniev AS

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A change in the conformational plasticity of α-Synuclein (α-Syn) is hypothesised to be a key step in the pathogenic mechanism of Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we report the study of extracellular α-Syn interaction with whole cells and membranes isolated from the neuronal SH-SY5Y cells, exploiting NMR and CD spectros...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Smaldone G,Diana D,Pollegioni L,Di Gaetano S,Fattorusso R,Pedone E

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The unassigned open reading frame YDL142c was identified to code for cardiolipin synthase, Cls1p. A cls1 deletion strain is viable on glucose, galactose, ethanol, glycerol and lactate containing media, although the growth rate on non-fermentable carbon sources is decreased. Mitochondria of the cls1 mutant are devoid o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tuller G,Hrastnik C,Achleitner G,Schiefthaler U,Klein F,Daum G

更新日期：1998-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The A-rich bulge in paired region P5a of the Tetrahymena intron is a structural feature that is conserved in the sub-group Ib self-splicing introns. We have constructed a series of substitution and deletion mutations in this region of the intron. Kinetic analysis has shown that some of the mutants have a reduced maxim...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pace U,Szostak JW

更新日期：1991-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for titin, a 4MDa myofibrillar protein, was analysed in golden hamster DNAs from different sources, using human cDNA probes and PCR. In the DNA from the BHK-21-Bi subline of baby hamster kidney cells, extended sequences coding for Z-line associated domains were missing, indicating a deletion that renders titi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jäckel M,Witt C,Antonova O,Curdt I,Labeit S,Jockusch H

更新日期：1997-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin fragment A is able to inhibit protein synthesis in the eukaryotic cell by ADP-ribosylating the diphthamide residue of elongation factor-2 (EF-2) [(1980) J. Biol. Chem. 255, 10710-10720]. The reaction requires NAD as ADP-ribose donor. This work reports on the capacity of an NAD analog, the nicotinamide...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giovane A,Balestrieri C,Quagliuolo L,Servillo L

更新日期：1985-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixture of 55 and 53 kDa boar proacrosins was autoactivated at pH 8.5 to produce a 43 kDa intermediate form and a 35 kDa mature acrosin, and each of four forms of (pro)acrosins was isolated. Analysis of the N-terminal sequences of the two proacrosins indicated the existence of a segment corresponding to the acrosin ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baba T,Michikawa Y,Kawakura K,Arai Y

更新日期：1989-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral proteinases (PRs) are essential for retrovirus infectivity but the mechanism of their activity regulation is poorly understood. We investigated possible involvement in this process of the C-terminal domain (CTD) of betaretroviral PRs. We found that the presence of CTD attenuates proteolytic activity of Maso...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Svec M,Bauerová H,Pichová I,Konvalinka J,Strísovský K

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear ionic channels (NICs) represent ubiquitous structures of living cells, although little is known about their functional properties and encoding genes. To characterize NICs, liver nuclear membrane vesicles were reconstituted into either planar lipid bilayers or proteoliposomes. Reconstitution of nuclear envelope...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Guihard G,Proteau S,Payet MD,Escande D,Rousseau E

更新日期：2000-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Designed mutations within the Streptomyces lividans kcsA gene resulted in a set of mutant proteins, which were characterized in respect to their assembly and channel activities. (i) The amino acid residue leucine 81 located at the external side of KcsA was found to be exchangeable by a cysteine residue without affecti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Splitt H,Meuser D,Borovok I,Betzler M,Schrempf H

更新日期：2000-04-21 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 formation of fibrils by amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) is considered as a key step in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Inhibiting the aggregation of Abeta is a promising approach for AD therapy. In this study, we used biocompatible nanogels composed of a polysaccharide pullulan backbone with hydrophobic ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ikeda K,Okada T,Sawada S,Akiyoshi K,Matsuzaki K

更新日期：2006-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The 77 kDa subunit of the polyadenylation cleavage stimulation factor (CstF77) is important in messenger RNA 3' end processing. Previously, we demonstrated that AtCstF77 interacts with AtCPSF30, the Arabidopsis ortholog of the 30 kDa subunit of the Cleavage and Polyadenylation Specificity Factor. In further dissecting...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bell SA,Hunt AG

更新日期：2010-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial relationship of polypeptides comprising the light-harvesting B800-850 complex of Chromatium minutissimum has been studied by means of chemical crosslinking of the isolated complex with cleavable, 1.2 nm-long dithiobis(succinimidyl propionate). The samples were analyzed by different types of electrophoresis...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Moskalenko AA,Toropygina OA

更新日期：1993-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we report that the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD9, RAD24, RAD17, MEC1, MEC3 and RAD53 checkpoint genes are required for efficient non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). RAD9 and RAD24 function additionally in this process. Defective NHEJ in rad9Delta-rad24Delta, but not yku80Delta cells, is only partially resc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： de la Torre-Ruiz M,Lowndes NF

更新日期：2000-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-photon scanning laser and confocal microscopies were used to image metabolic dynamics of single or cell populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain 28033. Autofluorescence of reduced nicotinamide nucleotides, and mitochondrial membrane potential (DeltaPsim), were simultaneously monitored. Spontaneous, large-sca...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aon MA,Cortassa S,Lemar KM,Hayes AJ,Lloyd D

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of superoxide and nitric oxide induced in U87 glioma treated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) was examined by electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy using a newly designed flow-type quartz cuvette without detaching cells from the culture plate. ESR spectra of 2,2,6, 6-t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nakagawa H,Moritake T,Tsuboi K,Ikota N,Ozawa T

更新日期：2000-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative amounts of mRNA for cathepsin B were measured in normal murine liver and three murine tumors, an invasive liver tumor (hepatoma, Hepa cl 9) and two melanoma variants (B16-F1 and B16 amelanotic melanoma, B16a). Using a human cDNA to the cathepsin B coding region as a hybridization probe, we detected two specie...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Moin K,Rozhin J,McKernan TB,Sanders VJ,Fong D,Honn KV,Sloane BF

更新日期：1989-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of acrolein, an alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehyde that causes adduct-modification of lysine, cysteine, and histidine residues, on antithrombin, a key anticoagulant serpin. Intrinsic fluorescence, functionality (anti-FXa and anti-IIa activity), heparin affinity and conformational features of plasma ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Martínez-Martínez I,Ordóñez A,Guerrero JA,Pedersen S,Miñano A,Teruel R,Velázquez L,Kristensen SR,Vicente V,Corral J

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin receptors (IRs) that are truncated at the end of the ectodomain form dimers that bind insulin with different characteristics to wild type receptors. These soluble IRs have lowered affinity for insulin compared with full-length IR, and exhibit linear Scatchard plots in contrast to the curvilinear plots obtained...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoyne PA,Cosgrove LJ,McKern NM,Bentley JD,Ivancic N,Elleman TC,Ward CW

更新日期：2000-08-11 00:00:00