A novel system that reports the G-proteins linked to a given receptor: a study of type 3 somatostatin receptor.

abstract：:The action of high-intensity ultraviolet pulse laser radiation on a 161 bp fragment of pBR 322 DNA (EcoRI-MspI fragment) was studied. At doses up to 5 X 10(18) photons/cm2 the N-glycosidic bond splitting is negligible. The action of hot piperidine on irradiated DNA leads to chain splitting at the residues, modified vi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Budowsky EI,Kovalsky OI,Yakovlev DYu,Simukova NA,Rubin LB

更新日期：1985-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the mechanisms involved in the developmental expression of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens we examined the gene structure and transcription properties of the major shed trypomastigote antigen (SAPA). We report in this paper that SAPA is encoded by a small family of at lest 6 genes which differ mainly i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Affranchino JL,Pollevick GD,Frasch AC

更新日期：1991-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA from intact rat pancreatic islets, or from transformed hamster beta (HIT) cells, hybridized with the cDNA probe for type I (but not type II) phospholipase A2. The levels of phospholipase A2 mRNA increased in islets from fasted rats; they decreased in islets cultured in a high glucose concentration (contr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Metz S,Holmes D,Robertson RP,Leitner W,Draznin B

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzimidazoles are widely used as anthelmintic agents and systemic fungicides. In susceptible organisms, benzimidazoles bind to beta-tubulin and block microtubule polymerization. To further characterize this interaction, site-directed mutagenesis followed by gene replacement was used to change Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li J,Katiyar SK,Edlind TD

更新日期：1996-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:MRL mice bearing the lpr (Fas) or gld (Fas ligand) mutation, MRL-Fas(lpr) or MRL-FasL(gld), respectively, develop arthritis similar to rheumatoid arthritis, but C3H and C57BL/6 mice bearing such mutations do not. In MRL-Fas(lpr) mice, agalactosylated oligosaccharides in serum IgG increase significantly in comparison t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kuroda Y,Nakata M,Nose M,Kojima N,Mizuochi T

更新日期：2001-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy has been used to study the solution structure and thermal stability of the extracellular fragment of human transferrin receptor (tfRt) at extracellular and endosomal pH. At extracellular pH tfRt is composed of 56% alpha-helix, 19% beta-sheet and 14% turns. Upon acidification to ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hadden JM,Bloemendal M,Haris PI,van Stokkum IH,Chapman D,Srai SK

更新日期：1994-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether all inflammatory agents activate nuclear transcription factors NF-kappaB and activated protein-1 (AP-1) through the same mechanism is not known. We examined the effect of the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI-3K) inhibitor wortmannin on the activation of NF-kappaB and AP-1 by different inflammatory agents. Wor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Manna SK,Aggarwal BB

更新日期：2000-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid hydroperoxide lyase (HPL) is a novel P-450 enzyme that cleaves fatty acid hydroperoxides to form short-chain aldehydes and oxo-acids. In cucumber seedlings, the activities of both fatty acid 9HPL and 13HPL could be detected. High 9HPL activity was especially evident in hypocotyls. Using a polymerase chain r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsui K,Ujita C,Fujimoto S,Wilkinson J,Hiatt B,Knauf V,Kajiwara T,Feussner I

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inborn errors of the urea cycle, liver malfunction and drug-induced hepatotoxicity are causes of life-threatening encephalopathies arising from hyperammonemia. L-Carnitine prevented entirely ammonia toxicity in mice when injected intraperitoneally 30 min before a lethal dose of ammonium acetate. Survival depends on th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： O'Connor JE,Costell M,Grisolía S

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of protein inclusions or aggregates within brain tissues of patients with neurodegenerative disorders has been widely reported. These inclusions are commonly characterised both by the presence of ubiquitylated proteins and the sequestration of components of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). Such obser...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ardley HC,Hung CC,Robinson PA

更新日期：2005-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The chaotropic character of several ions determines their partition on membrane interfaces with aqueous media as predicted by the Hofmeister series. However, specific characteristics of each individual ion determine its ability to cross the membrane and to influence Ca2+, H+ and electrical gradients produced by the sa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yu X,Inesi G

更新日期：1993-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In fission yeast, the only known essential function of Ned8p is the modification of the cullin, Pcu1p, and subsequent Cullin-RING-Ligase (CRL) activation and substrate ubiquitination. We show here that a functional Pcu1p mutant, deleted for its C-terminal autoinhibitory domain, which negates the requirement of neddyla...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Girdwood D,Robertson M,Gordon C

更新日期：2012-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral deposition of 40-42 residue amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) is a characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. Cathepsin D is possibly involved in the intracellular clearance of Abeta (Hamazaki, H. (1996) FEBS Lett., in press). The present work shows that cathepsin D hydrolyzes wild-type Abeta 20 times faster than ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hamazaki H

更新日期：1996-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired functioning of the proteasome pathway is one of the molecular mechanism underlying neurodegenerative changes in Alzheimer's disease. In this study, we report that dysfunction of the proteasome pathway in astroglial cells leads to decreased survival and dysregulation of chemokines by differential regulation of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Choi K,Lee J,Choi C

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In a wild-type strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cadmium induces the activities of both gamma-glutamyl transferase (gamma-GT) and glutathione transferase 2 (Gtt2). However, Gtt2 activity did not increase under gamma-GT or Ycf1 deficiencies, suggesting that the accumulation of glutathione-cadmium in the cytosol inhib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adamis PD,Mannarino SC,Eleutherio EC

更新日期：2009-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a diethylpyrocarbonate (DEPC) modification [(1976) Prog. Nucl. Acids Res. 16, 189-262] to probe the accessibility of adenines essential for coat protein binding in the MS2 translational operator [(1983) Biochemistry 22, 2601-2610, 2610-2615, 4723-4730; (1987) Biochemistry 26, 1563-1568]. The essential ade...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Talbot SJ,Medina G,Fishwick CW,Haneef I,Stockley PG

更新日期：1991-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Dun1p and Rad53p of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are members of a conserved family of cell cycle checkpoint protein kinases that contain forkhead-associated (FHA) domains. Here, we demonstrate that these FHA domains contain 130-140 residues, and are thus considerably larger than previously predicted by s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hammet A,Pike BL,Mitchelhill KI,Teh T,Kobe B,House CM,Kemp BE,Heierhorst J

更新日期：2000-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear magnetic resonance solution structure of alpha-conotoxin SI has been determined at pH 4.2. The 36 lowest energy structures show that alpha-conotoxin SI exists in a single major solution conformation and is stabilized by six hydrogen bonds. Comparisons are made between the SI solution structure and the solu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benie AJ,Whitford D,Hargittai B,Barany G,Janes RW

更新日期：2000-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of the relative proportions of ribosomes and polysomes released by a standardized lysing procedure from isogenic RC(str) and RC(rel) strains of Escherichia coli shows that a 20-min period of amino acid starvation of RC(str) bacteria reduces the fraction of ribosomes recovered in polysomes to about 60% of its val...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matzura H

更新日期：1970-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified barley leaf ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, a key enzyme of the starch synthesis in the chloroplast stroma, was analysed with respect to its possible regulation by factors defining the metabolic/effector status of the chloroplast during light and dark conditions. The enzyme required 3-phosphoglyceric acid for ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kleczkowski LA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation change of Thermus thermophilus tRNA(1Ile) upon complex formation with T. thermophilus elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) was studied by analysis of the circular dichroism (CD) bands at 315 nm (due to the 2-thioribothymidine residue in the T-loop) and at 295 nm (due to the core structure of tRNA). Formation ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Haruki M,Matsumoto R,Hara-Yokoyama M,Miyazawa T,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1990-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a viral center molecule for HBV infection and persistence. However, the cellular restriction factors of HBV cccDNA are not well understood. Here, we show that TGF-β can induce nuclear viral cccDNA degradation and hypermutation via activation-ind...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Qiao Y,Han X,Guan G,Wu N,Sun J,Pak V,Liang G

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure-based drug design requires the development of efficient computer programs for exploring the structural compatibility of various flexible ligands with a given receptor. While various algorithms are available for finding docked conformations, selecting a target function that can reliably score the conformation...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： King BL,Vajda S,DeLisi C

更新日期：1996-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Molybdenum is an essential micronutrient required by plants. The mechanism of molybdenum uptake in plants is poorly understood, however, evidence has suggested that sulfate transporters may be involved. The sulfate transporter from Stylosanthes hamata, SHST1, restored growth of the sulfate transport yeast mutant, YSD1...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fitzpatrick KL,Tyerman SD,Kaiser BN

更新日期：2008-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have raised monoclonal antibodies (Mab) to the Mr 55,000 desmin polypeptide, electrophoretically purified from cytoskeletal preparations of isolated bovine heart Purkinje fibers. One of the Mabs, 39AB6, revealed desmin only in cow Purkinje fibers and did not react with desmins from other muscle cells, including ven...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Virtanen I,Närvänen O,Thornell LE

更新日期：1990-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II collagen is the major protein of cartilage and is synthesized as a procollagen in two forms (IIA and IIB), generated by differential splicing of the gene primary transcript. Previous studies have indicated that only type IIB is expressed in differentiated chondrocytes. Here, we examined the effects of bone mor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Valcourt U,Gouttenoire J,Aubert-Foucher E,Herbage D,Mallein-Gerin F

更新日期：2003-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effect of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) C1 light chain (LC) on insulin exocytosis from the clonal beta-cell line HIT-T15. In streptolysin-O permeabilized cells, the beta-cell impermeant BoNT C1 cleaved mainly syntaxin 1 and inhibited Ca2+ as well as GTPgammaS induced exocytosis. To study the eff...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Land J,Zhang H,Vaidyanathan VV,Sadoul K,Niemann H,Wollheim CB

更新日期：1997-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Protease involvement has been implicated in the signalling process of activation-induced apoptosis. Here we report the isolation of a protease from Jurkat T cells undergoing Fas-induced apoptosis. Although the protease probably is a serine protease, it seems to be distantly related to members of the ICE/ced-3/Ich-1(ne...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schlegel J,Peters I,Orrenius S

更新日期：1995-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We show here that phosphorylation of the insulin receptor and insulin receptor substrate-1 is increased when suspended cells are replated on fibronectin. This is not due to decreased numbers of cell surface receptors, alteration of insulin binding, or stimulation of a phosphatase activity in non-adherent cells. Expres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： El Annabi S,Gautier N,Baron V

更新日期：2001-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Under destabilising conditions both heat and cold denaturation of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) can be observed. According to previous interpretation of experimental data and theoretical calculations, the C-terminal domain should be more stable than the N-terminal domain at all temperatures. We report on thermal...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gast K,Damaschun G,Desmadril M,Minard P,Müller-Frohne M,Pfeil W,Zirwer D

更新日期：1995-01-30 00:00:00