Permeation and gating of alpha1 glycine-gated channels expressed at low and high density in Xenopus oocyte.

abstract：:Acute hyperammonemia, induced by two consecutive injections of ammonium acetate (550 and 450 mg per kg b.wt.), decreased the activity of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) in most brain regions of 18- and 30-day-old rats. This decrease in the brain GGT activity was more pronounced in younger than in older rats. After...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stastný F,Pitha J,Lisý V,Hilgier W,Kaucká I,Albrecht J

更新日期：1992-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:On incubation of 7-day-old wheat seedlings in the presence of [3H]thymidine, the radioactivity incorporated into coleoptile DNA is found to be localized mainly (greater than 95%) in the fraction of heavy mitochondrial DNA (H-mt DNA; rho = 1.716 gm/cm3). Upon long (48-72 h) incubation of cut-off seedlings in water, the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kirnos MD,Alexandrushkina NI,Zagorskaya GYa,Kireev II,Vanyushin BF

更新日期：1992-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the outcome of the interaction between TNF-related apoptosis-inducing factor (TRAIL) and tumor cells, we studied TRAIL-resistant melanoma cells resulting from prolonged exposure to TRAIL and found that they had higher proliferative activity than the parental cells both in vitro and in vivo. This w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wu JJ,Zhang XD,Gillespie S,Hersey P

更新日期：2005-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant-specific GAI-RGA-and-SCR (GRAS) family of proteins function as transcriptional regulators and play critical roles in development and signalling. Recent structural studies have shed light on the molecular functions at the structural level. The conserved GRAS domain comprises an α-helical cap and α/β core subd...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hakoshima T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cold exposure and T4 administration on fructose 2,6-bisphosphate levels, phosphofructokinase-2 and pyruvate kinase activities were examined in rat brown adipose tissue. Cold adaptation (14 days) gave rise to a 2-fold increase in the amount of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate and phosphofructokinase-2 activity,...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sobrino F,Gualberto A,Pintado E

更新日期：1988-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor VII contains ten gamma-carboxyglutamic acid residues in the N-terminal region (Gla-domain) which are essential for the hemostatic function of FVII. The present study shows that granulocyte cathepsin G degrades the Gla-domain of FVIIa in vitro. Characterization of the truncated FVIIa by SDS-PAGE and ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nicolaisen EM,Petersen LC,Thim L,Jacobsen JK,Christensen M,Hedner U

更新日期：1992-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous and immune systems have similar functional characteristics. Both have an intricate network of synaptic connections and an exquisite communication system that enable intercellular signal transduction. Although semaphorins were originally identified as guidance cues in neural development, accumulating eviden...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okuno T,Nakatsuji Y,Kumanogoh A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Biotinyl phosphatidylethanolamine spin labelled at the C-14 position of the sn-2 chain has been incorporated at a level of 1 mol% in bilayers of dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine, and the effects on the chain mobility of binding avidin to the biotin lipid headgroup have been studied by electron spin resonance spectros...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Swamy MJ,Marsh D

更新日期：1993-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in choline containing metabolites have been associated with a number of disorders, including malignant cell growth. In this study, high resolution magic angle spinning (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was employed to monitor metabolite changes during cell transfection, and an increase in phosphoc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Griffin JL,Mann CJ,Scott J,Shoulders CC,Nicholson JK

更新日期：2001-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan-rich antigens of malarial parasites interact with host molecules and play an important role in parasite survival. Merozoite expressed Plasmodium vivax tryptophan-rich antigen PvTRAg38 binds to human erythrocytes and facilitates parasite growth in a heterlologous Plasmodium falciparum culture system. Recentl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Alam MS,Rathore S,Tyagi RK,Sharma YD

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmids for the high-level overproduction of wild-type, and C- and N-terminal His-tagged MurG N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase from Escherichia coli were constructed. In complementation tests the three forms were active in vivo. After IPTG induction, growth, spheroplast formation and lysis, overproduced MurG proteins...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Crouvoisier M,Mengin-Lecreulx D,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1999-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described that NO. leads to destruction of ZnS clusters and release of Zn2+ from various proteins including zinc finger transcription factors. To assess the relevance in living cells, we investigated, whether exogenous NO. leads to an increase of cytoplasmic and nuclear free Zn2+. L929 cells, mouse splen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Berendji D,Kolb-Bachofen V,Meyer KL,Grapenthin O,Weber H,Wahn V,Kröncke KD

更新日期：1997-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Major myelin proteolipid (MMPL, also called PLP) and DM-20 are the two major intrinsic membrane proteins of CNS myelin. A specific immunological probe was obtained for MMPL by raising antibodies against the synthetic tridecapeptide 117-129 of MMPL. Antibodies against this peptide reacted with the MMPL but did not cros...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Trifilieff E,Luu B,Nussbaum JL,Roussel G,Espinosa de los Monteros A,Sabatier JM,Van Rietschoten J

更新日期：1986-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA coding for troponin-C isolated from an adult rabbit fast skeletal muscle library has been sequenced and expressed in an E. coli host. The amino acid sequence derived from the coding region agrees with the published protein sequence except that the first two residues are reversed. The expressed prote...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chen Q,Taljanidisz J,Sarkar S,Tao T,Gergely J

更新日期：1988-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:CCN2 plays a critical role in the development of mesenchymal tissues such as cartilage and bone, and the binding of CCN2 to various cytokines and receptors regulates their signaling.By screening a protein array, we found that CCN2 could bind to fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) 2 and 3, with a higher affinity...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aoyama E,Kubota S,Takigawa M

更新日期：2012-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the central nervous system, synaptic signal transduction depends on the regulation of neurotransmitter receptors by interacting proteins. Here, we searched for proteins interacting with two metabotropic glutamate receptor type 8 isoforms (mGlu8a and mGlu8b) and identified RanBPM. RanBPM is expressed in several brai...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seebahn A,Rose M,Enz R

更新日期：2008-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of necrotic and apoptotic pathways in cytolysis mediated by LAK cells was studied. The contribution of necrotic and apoptotic processes to cytolysis depends both on the LAK cells' phenotype and the type of target cells. CD16+/CD8+/CD3- LAK cells induced necrosis of K562 and L929 target cells. The cell death i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sashchenko LP,Kabanova OD,Blishchenko LYu,Lukjianova TI,Satpaev DK,Chertov OYu,Gnuchev NV

更新日期：1993-12-06 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：:The crawling locomotion and shape of eukaryotic cells have been associated with the stochastic molecular dynamics of actin and its protein regulators, chiefly Arp2/3 and Rho family GTPases, in making a cytoskeleton meshwork within cell extensions. However, the cell's actin-dependent oscillatory shape and extension dyn...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vicker MG

更新日期：2002-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence techniques were used to study conformational changes that occur in inactive E. coli 30 S ribosomal subunits during activation by heating in 12 mM Mg2+. Activation is associated with movement of a fluorophore on the 3'-end of 16 S RNA into a less polar environment and towards a probe on the cysteine thiol ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Odom OW,Stöffler G,Hardesty B

更新日期：1984-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of glycosaminoglycans to a synthetic peptide (SKAQKAQAKQAKQAQKAQKAQAKQAKQW-CONH(2)), consisting of a hybrid consensus heparin binding sequence, is studied using circular dichroism, fluorescence anisotropy and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. The results unveil certain novel features, most importantly...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jayaraman G,Wu CW,Liu YJ,Chien KY,Fang JC,Lyu PC

更新日期：2000-09-29 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：:The amino acid sequence of rat ribosomal protein L26 was deduced from the sequence of nucleotides in a recombinant cDNA and confirmed from the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of the protein. Rat L26 contains 145 amino acids and has a molecular mass of 17,266 Da. Hybridization of the cDNA to digests of nuclear DNA sug...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Paz V,Olvera J,Chan YL,Wool IG

更新日期：1989-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We established robust, reliable protocols for 'Differential Display (DD),' an RNA fingerprinting method originally developed by Liang and Pardee [(1992) Science 257, 967-971] using RT-PCR with arbitrary primers. Our protocols are optimized so that reliable DD analysis can be performed on a fluorescent DNA sequencer to...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ito T,Kito K,Adati N,Mitsui Y,Hagiwara H,Sakaki Y

更新日期：1994-09-05 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：: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：:Monomeric bovine pancreatic RNase A has been transformed into a dimeric ribonuclease with antitumor activity (Di Donato, A., Cafaro, V. and D'Alessio, G. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 17394-17396). This was accomplished by replacing the residues located in the RNase chain at positions 19, 28, 31, and 32, with proline, le...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cafaro V,Bracale A,Di Maro A,Sorrentino S,D'Alessio G,Di Donato A

更新日期：1998-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides corresponding to the known sequence of turkey erythrocyte beta 1-adrenergic receptor were synthesized and the effects on receptor-mediated cyclase activation were measured. Peptides corresponding to the first and second intracellular loops (T61-71 and T138-159) inhibited at micromolar concentrations the hormo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Palm D,Münch G,Dees C,Hekman M

更新日期：1989-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins were purified from bovine brain by immunoaffinity chromatography on immobilized anti G protein monoclonal antibody 3C2. Release of betagamma subunits was effectuated by exposure of immobilized trimeric G proteins to MgAlF4. The resultant betagamma subunits were pure and biologically active. F...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rehm A,Ploegh HL

更新日期：1997-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the Ca-pumping ATPase of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is controlled by the phosphorylation of the intrinsic regulatory protein phospholamban (PLB), which affects both the apparent Km(Ca) and the Vmax of the transport process. We have investigated the correlation between phosphorylation of PLB an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chiesi M,Schwaller R

更新日期：1989-02-13 00:00:00