A beta-amyloid peptide variant related with familial Alzheimer's disease and hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis is poorly eliminated by cathepsin D.

abstract：:The inhibitory glycine receptor (GlyR) is a ligand-gated chloride channel protein which displays developmental heterogeneity in the mammalian central nervous system. Here we describe 2 novel cDNA variants of the rat GlyR alpha 2 subunit and demonstrate that alternative splicing generates these 2 isoforms. The deduced ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kuhse J,Kuryatov A,Maulet Y,Malosio ML,Schmieden V,Betz H

更新日期：1991-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human CBS1 is a methionine sulfoxide reductase of type B (MSRB) as it specifically reduced Met-R-SO in peptides with dithiothreitol or the thioredoxin system as reductants. Mutation C169S in the active site completely abolished enzymatic activity, while mutation W110A only reduced activity and C105S had no effect. Lik...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jung S,Hansel A,Kasperczyk H,Hoshi T,Heinemann SH

更新日期：2002-09-11 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：:A covalent complex formed by bacterial tRNAs and prothymosin alpha, an abundant acidic nuclear protein involved in proliferation of mammalian cells, upon production of the recombinant rat protein in Escherichia coli cells was studied. Several tRNA attachment sites were identified in the prothymosin alpha molecule usin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lukashev DE,Chichkova NV,Vartapetian AB

更新日期：1999-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) from human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells can be resolved into three fractions (peak, a, b and c) by hydroxyapatite column chromatography. Peak a and c enzymes are indistinguishable from the brain type II PKC having beta (beta I and beta II)-sequence and type III having alpha-sequence, respe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hashimoto K,Kishimoto A,Aihara H,Yasuda I,Mikawa K,Nishizuka Y

更新日期：1990-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+ receptor mechanism of the parathyroid cell was studied using La3+ as a probe. La3+ was found to bind to the cell surface without further penetration. Measurements of 45Ca fluxes and the cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration (Ca2+i) revealed a stimulatory component in the action of La3+ on Ca2+ permeability resulting...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gylfe E,Larsson R,Johansson H,Nygren P,Rastad J,Wallfelt C,Akerström G

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is characterized by massive inflammation in areas surrounding the injury that magnifies damage to the brain. The liver X receptors (LXRs) are nuclear receptors that regulate cholesterol, lipid, and glucose metabolism. Synthetic LXR agonists have potent anti-inflammatory properties in a variety of settings, incl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sironi L,Mitro N,Cimino M,Gelosa P,Guerrini U,Tremoli E,Saez E

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Those aerobic archaea whose genomes have been sequenced possess a single 4-gene operon that, by sequence comparisons with Bacteria and Eukarya, appears to encode the three component enzymes of a 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase multienzyme complex. However, no catalytic activity of any such complex has ever been detected in th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Heath C,Jeffries AC,Hough DW,Danson MJ

更新日期：2004-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A new type of mitogenic factor (protein) was purified from the culture supernatant of a strain of Streptococcus pyogenes by SP-Sephadex C-25 column chromatography, preparative isoelectric focusing and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The purified factor, showing marked mitogenic activity in rabbi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yutsudo T,Murai H,Gonzalez J,Takao T,Shimonishi Y,Takeda Y,Igarashi H,Hinuma Y

更新日期：1992-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the human mtDNA gene encoding subunit III of cytochrome c oxidase (CO) have been reported to cause MELAS and LHON. Poracoccus denitrificans cells expressing substitutions homologous to these MELAS- and LHON-causing mutations had lower growth yield than wild type cells and lower efficiency of proton pumpin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mather MW,Rottenberg H

更新日期：1998-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Three of four natural compounds, which are caffeic acid, eupatilin and 4'-demethyleupatilin, isolated from Chinese plant, Artemisia rubripes Nakai selectively inhibited 5-lipoxygenase of cultured mastocytoma cells. Half-inhibition doses (ID50) for caffeic acid, eupatilin and 4'-demethyleupatilin were 3.7, 14 and 18 X ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koshihara Y,Neichi T,Murota S,Lao A,Fujimoto Y,Tatsuno T

更新日期：1983-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A bark lectin, RBL, from Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust), binds galactose-related sugars specifically. Recombinant RBL (rRBL) with a histidine tag was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified and characterized. rRBL agglutinated rabbit erythrocytes and the hemagglutination was inhibited by galactose and related sug...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nishiguchi M,Yoshida K,Sumizono T,Tazaki K

更新日期：1997-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:L- and D-specific nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent dehydrogenases map to the same structural protein superfamily as defined by the Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) and are based on the Rossmann fold type domains. A detailed classification of these domains is proposed using a novel diagnost...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kutzenko AS,Lamzin VS,Popov VO

更新日期：1998-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Under hypobaric hypoxia, antioxidant defenses of the heart are stressed by the enhanced production of ROS. Mammalian heart acclimatizes to hypoxia through altered gene expression, which we studied in murine heart exposed to 10h of acute hypobaric hypoxia (AHH), equivalent to 15000ft, using cDNA arrays. Functional clas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Karar J,Dolt KS,Mishra MK,Arif E,Javed S,Pasha MA

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, it has been shown that really interesting new gene (RING)-in between ring finger (IBR)-RING domain-containing proteins, such as Parkin and Parc, are E3 ubiquitin ligases and are involved in regulation of apoptosis. In this report, we show that p53-inducible RING-finger protein (p53RFP), a p53-inducible E3 ub...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang J,Xu LG,Liu T,Zhai Z,Shu HB

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced depression of phosphoinositide (PI) hydrolysis was investigated using rat aortas. In LPS-pretreated aortas, the 5-hydroxytryptamine-stimulated accumulation of inositol monophosphate and incorporation of exogenous myo-inositol into PIs were significantly less th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sotoda Y,Negoro M,Wakabayashi I

更新日期：2002-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Jasmonic acid (JA) has been shown to be a signaling compound which elicits the production of secondary metabolites including phytoalexins in plants. It has been shown that the phytoalexin production is elicited by exogenously applied JA in rice leaves. We now show that this phytoalexin production by exogenously applie...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tamogami S,Rakwal R,Kodama O

更新日期：1997-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymyxin B (PXB), a cyclic peptide antibiotic, in concentrations 0.1-3.0 mg/ml (0.08-4.0 mmol/l), inhibited the K+ efflux induced by opening of the Ca2+-activated K+ channel (the Gárdos effect) in intact human red blood cells. The inhibition was observed when the Gárdos effect was elicited by Ca2+ in the presence of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Varecka L,Peterajová E,Pogády J

更新日期：1987-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews our present knowledge of sphingomyelinases as enzymes, and as enzymes acting on a membrane constituent lipid, sphingomyelin. Six types of sphingomyelinases are considered, namely acidic, secretory, Mg(2+)-dependent neutral, Mg(2+)-independent neutral, alkaline, and bacterial enzymes with both phosph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Goñi FM,Alonso A

更新日期：2002-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies were raised, in rabbits, against an arachidonate- and U46619-binding protein purified from calf platelets. Spectral measurements and immunodiffusion experiments were employed to follow conformational responses of the protein in relation to platelet activation. Upon treatment with the platelet agonists, arac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krishnan LK,Jamaluddin MP

更新日期：1987-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary trees based on partial small ribosomal subunit RNA sequences of 22 metazoa species have been published [(1988) Science 239, 748-753]. In these trees, cnidarians (Radiata) seemed to have evolved independently from the Bilateria, which is in contradiction with the general evolutionary view. In order to furt...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hendriks L,Van de Peer Y,Van Herck M,Neefs JM,De Wachter R

更新日期：1990-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) belongs to the family of mitochondrial carriers. Here, we highlight recent findings regarding UCP2 function in the immune system. UCP2 controls immune cell activation by modulating MAPK pathways and the production of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species. In several models of infection, inf...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Emre Y,Nübel T

更新日期：2010-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:HERC proteins are characterized by having one or more RCC1-like domains as well as a C-terminal HECT domain in their amino acid sequences. This has led researchers to suggest that they may act as both guanine nucleotide exchange factors and E3 ubiquitin ligases. Here we describe a physical interaction between the HECT...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Garcia-Gonzalo FR,Cruz C,Muñoz P,Mazurek S,Eigenbrodt E,Ventura F,Bartrons R,Rosa JL

更新日期：2003-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We show here that the genome of F9 teratocarcinoma cells growing in culture is heavily methylated but undergoes massive demethylation in tumors derived by subcutaneous injection of the cells. This demethylation occurs primarily in single copy gene sequences. As a result imprinted genes acquire their characteristic mon...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yeivin A,Levine A,Razin A

更新日期：1996-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine insulin can be split into several fractions by gel filtration on Sephadex G50. These are, in order of decreasing molecular weight, a new unidentified substance, proinsulin, and a large fraction containing several substances. Ultracentrifugal examination of the proinsulin in acetic acid solution (pH 2.3) gave a ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zühlke H,Behlke J

更新日期：1968-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,2-sn-Dihexanoylglycerol (HHG) reduced the ATP content of HL-60 cells. This concentration-related (10-100 microM) effect reached a maximum of over 90%, was enantiomerically specific and not accompanied by release of lactate dehydrogenase. Oleoylacetylglycerols (3-100 microM) had no effect on ATP levels while phorbol ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dawson J,Thompson NT,Bonser RW,Hodson HF,Garland LG

更新日期：1987-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Crigler-Najjar (CN) disease is caused by a deficiency of the hepatic enzyme, bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (B-UGT). We have found two CN type II patients, who were homozygous for a leucine to arginine transition at position 15 of B-UGT1. This mutation is expected to disrupt the hydrophobic core of the signal p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seppen J,Steenken E,Lindhout D,Bosma PJ,Elferink RP

更新日期：1996-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The D- and L-forms of an alpha-helical antifreeze polypeptide (AFP) have been chemically synthesized. Circular dichroism spectra of the molecules show equal and opposite ellipticites. The D- and the L-enantiomers alone, and a 50:50 mixture of the two, all show identical antifreeze activity, but the enantiomeric forms ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wen D,Laursen RA

更新日期：1993-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Lys601 in NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase is modified by reductive alkylation with pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (pyridoxylation). Lys601 is protected against modification by the cosubstrate NADP(H). ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Müller K,Linder D,Lumper L

更新日期：1990-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a CpG island at the 5' end of murine leukemia inhibitory factor gene (LIF). The CpG island is 0.6 kb long and covers most of the first exon and first intron. The region is non-methylated, its G+C content is 65% and relative frequency of CpG dinucleotide is 0.7. The block of 150 nucleotides, which is 72% ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kaspar P,Dvorák M,Bartůnĕk P

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00