The lysosomal/phagosomal membrane protein h-lamp-1 is a target of the IgA1 protease of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

abstract：:Lysophospholipids are liberated during venomous action. In this study we demonstrated that lysophosphatidyl choline (LPC) of various acyl chains enhances considerably the activity of snake venom phosphodiesterase (PDE). Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and its cyclic form (cLPA), on the other hand, were found to inhibit th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mamillapalli R,Haimovitz R,Ohad M,Shinitzky M

更新日期：1998-10-02 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：:A 32 kDa phospholipase A2 inhibitory protein was isolated from pig thyroid gland after calcium precipitation and fast protein liquid anion-exchange chromatography. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed the purity of the protein. The protein activity was assessed by the inhibition of pancreatic phospholipase ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Antonicelli F,Rothhut B,Martiny L,Aguie-Aguie G,Lambert B,Bellon G,Russo-Marie F,Jacquemin C,Haye B

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits ingesting 4-fluorophenylalanine are known to incorporate small amounts of this fluorinated amino acid into their proteins. Carbonic anhydrase I isolated from the erythrocytes of animals so maintained exhibits a well-resolved fluorine NMR signal for each phenylalanine in the sequence. The chemical shifts of mos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gamcsik MP,Gerig JT

更新日期：1986-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the transactivational property of the X gene in the methylotropic yeast Pichia pastoris, a Rous sarcoma virus-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (RSV-CAT) cassette was co-transformed and integrated into the host yeast strain as a reporter which showed an overwhelming CAT activity. Immunoprecipitation ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lal SK,Kumar V

更新日期：1999-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The positive strand RNA coronavirus, infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), induces a G2/M phase arrest and reduction in the G1 and G1/S phase transition regulator cyclin D1. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR and Western blot analysis demonstrated that cyclin D1 was reduced post-transcriptionally within infected cells indepen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harrison SM,Dove BK,Rothwell L,Kaiser P,Tarpey I,Brooks G,Hiscox JA

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic AA-amyloidosis is a complication of chronic inflammatory diseases and the fibril protein AA derives from the acute phase reactant serum AA. AA-amyloidosis can be induced in mice by an inflammatory challenge. The lag phase before amyloid develops can be dramatically shortened by administration of a small amoun...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Westermark GT,Westermark P

更新日期：2009-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane monooxygenase (MMO) catalyses the biological transformation of methane to methanol at a binuclear iron site. Guided by the three-dimensional structure of the R2 protein of E. coli ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), we have aligned the sequences of two different MMOs with the sequences of the iron coordinating fou...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nordlund P,Dalton H,Eklund H

更新日期：1992-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction of methyl-coenzyme M (CH3SCoM) to methane in methanogenic bacteria is dependent on component B (N-7-mercaptoheptanoyl-O-phospho-L-threonine, HSHTP). We report here that S-methyl-component B (N-7-(methylthio)heptanoyl-O-phospho-L-threonine, CH3SHTP) can substitute for neither CH3SCoM nor HSHTP in the meth...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ellermann J,Kobelt A,Pfaltz A,Thauer RK

更新日期：1987-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The freshwater ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis is an ubiquitous organism that is present in all aquatic ecosystems. This protozoan showed a clear resistance against some polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which can be attributed to an efflux pump probably of the multidrug resistance (MDR) type. Immunocytochemical detecti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bamdad M,Brousseau P,Denizeau F

更新日期：1999-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Photocholesterol, a new photoactivatable analog of cholesterol in which a diazirine functionality replaces the 5,6-double bond in the steroid nucleus, was used recently to identify cholesterol-binding proteins in neuroendocrine cells [Thiele, C., Hannah, M.J., Farenholz, F. and Huttner, W.B. (2000) Nat. Cell Biol. 2...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mintzer EA,Waarts BL,Wilschut J,Bittman R

更新日期：2002-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we demonstrated that Ent-11alpha-hydroxy-15-oxo-kaur-16-en-19-oic-acid (5F) had stronger cytotoxicity against MKN-45, a gastric cancer cell line bearing wild-type p53 than MKN-28, another gastric cancer cell line containing missense mutation in p53. The rapid increase of ROS level was involved in the me...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liu Z,Ng EK,Liang NC,Deng YF,Leung BC,Chen GG

更新日期：2005-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyoE gene of the Escherichia coli bo-type quinol oxidase operon (cyoABCDE) has been previously shown to encode heme O synthase. To demonstrate a catalytic role of a cyoE homologue (the caaE gene) in the gene cluster for caa3-type cytochrome c oxidase of thermophilic Bacillus PS3, we have carried out genetic comple...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Saiki K,Mogi T,Ishizuka M,Anraku Y

更新日期：1994-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomyoglobin was found to break down phosphatidylcholine vesicles to form a micellar complex at pH 4. Size reduction during this process was observed by measuring light scattering at 400 nm and by passing the complex through a gel-filtration column. Micellar complex formation was confirmed by electron microscopy. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee JW,Kim H

更新日期：1988-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis strain deficient in seven extracellular proteases was used to produce human mast cell chymase and is a viable expression system for serine proteases and other classes of proteins. Chymase is produced at 0.3-0.5 mg/l and is purified by three chromatography steps. Two crystal forms of PMSF-treated ch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McGrath ME,Osawa AE,Barnes MG,Clark JM,Mortara KD,Schmidt BF

更新日期：1997-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat soleus muscle strips cultured for 24 h in medium 199 were well preserved in terms of electron microscopy; ATP and creatine phosphate concentrations; rates of glucose utilization, glycogen and protein synthesis, and effects of insulin thereon. Culture led to modest changes in fluid spaces and intracellular (K+); in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stace PB,Marchington DR,Kerbey AL,Randle PJ

更新日期：1990-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite (ONOO-) has recently been implicated in connective tissue destruction in vivo. We have studied the effect of ONOO- on the activity of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) in vitro. The inactivation of TIMP-1 by ONOO- was dose dependent with 50 microM ONOO- reducing the inhibitory activity of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Frears ER,Zhang Z,Blake DR,O'Connell JP,Winyard PG

更新日期：1996-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line mutations in BRCA1 are associated with an increased lifetime risk of developing breast and/or ovarian tumors. The BRCA1 gene product is a 220-kDa protein that contains a tandem of two BRCA1 C-terminal (BRCT) domains required for transcription. In an attempt to understand how BRCA1 exerts its function through...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yan J,Zhu J,Zhong H,Lu Q,Huang C,Ye Q

更新日期：2003-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The major anthocyanin in A. thaliana is a cyanidin derivative modified by glycosylation as well as by the addition of three acyl moieties: malonyl, p-coumaroyl, and sinapoyl. We have isolated a member of the BAHD acyltransferase family which catalyzes this malonylation reaction by combining a reverse genetics approach...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： D'Auria JC,Reichelt M,Luck K,Svatos A,Gershenzon J

更新日期：2007-03-06 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

abstract：:We recently showed that some of the enzymes underpinning cellulose solubilization by Ruminococcus albus 8 lack the conventional type of dockerin module characteristic of cellulosomal proteins and instead, bear an "X" domain of unknown function at their C-termini. We have now subcloned and expressed six X domains and s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu Q,Morrison M,Nelson KE,Bayer EA,Atamna N,Lamed R

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The early embryonic development of Xenopus is mainly governed by post-transcriptional regulations until the mid-blastula transition. In this report, we present evidence demonstrating that fertilization of Xenopus eggs triggers a complete translational arrest of mRNAs containing UA-rich elements in their 3'-untranslate...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Marinx O,Bertrand S,Karsenti E,Huez G,Kruys V

更新日期：1994-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A trisialoganglioside not found before in human tissue was isolated from showed this to be II3(NeuAc)3-LacCer or GT3. The ganglioside constituted 40% of the trisialogangliosides of human lung or 0.2 nmol ganglioside per g tissue. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Månsson JE,Mo HQ,Egge H,Svennerholm L

更新日期：1986-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The CA microsatellite repeat marker, D7S522, is located at the center of a approximately 1000 kb smallest common deleted region that is lost in many forms of human cancer. It has been proposed that a putative tumor suppressor gene lies in close proximity to D7S522, within this smallest common deleted region. However, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Engelman JA,Zhang XL,Lisanti MP

更新日期：1999-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-xL, a close homolog of Bcl2, is an important regulator of apoptosis and is overexpressed in human cancer. Phosphorylation of Bcl-xL can be induced by microtubule-damaging drugs such as taxol or 2-methoxyestradiol (2-ME). By site-directed mutagenesis studies, we have identified that serine 62 is the necessary site ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Basu A,Haldar S

更新日期：2003-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The hirudin-like factor 1 (HLF1) of Hirudo medicinalis belongs to a new class of leech-derived factors. In previous investigations, HLF1 did not exhibit anticoagulatory activities. Here, we describe the analysis of natural and synthetic variants of HLF1 and HLF-Hyb, a yet uncharacterized member of the HLF family. Modi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Müller C,Lukas P,Böhmert M,Hildebrandt JP

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified mitochondria from potato (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Bintje) tubers were subfractionated into a matrix fraction, an inner membrane fraction and an outer membrane fraction with minimal cross-contamination. When the matrix and inner membrane fractions were incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP only one and three p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pical C,Fredlund KM,Petit PX,Sommarin M,Møller IM

更新日期：1993-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial toxin VacA produced by H. pylori induces large vacuoles in several types of cultured cells such as HeLa cells or gastric cells. To determine the mechanism of vacuolation induced by this toxin we employed several inhibitors of membrane trafficking and endocytosis. The development of vacuolation induced by...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seto K,Hayashi-Kuwabara Y,Yoneta T,Suda H,Tamaki H

更新日期：1998-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteolytic processing of rabbit intestinal lactase-phlorizin-hydrolase (LPH) was studied by pulse-chase and continuous labeling experiments in organ culture from 15-day-old rabbits in the presence of glycosylation and processing inhibitors. Monensin and brefeldin A inhibited the two proteolytic cleavages of the p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rossi M,Maiuri L,Salvati VM,Russomanno C,Auricchio S

更新日期：1993-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of incomplete segments of Escherichia coli lactose permease to form transport-competent complexes in vivo was further tested. Two series of mutant lacY genes were constructed. One encoded N-terminal lactose permease segments of different length. The proteins specified by the other group contained deletion...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wrubel W,Stochaj U,Ehring R

更新日期：1994-08-08 00:00:00