The macrophage migration inhibitory factor MIF is a phenylpyruvate tautomerase.

abstract：:The inositol (1,4,5)-trisphosphate receptor (InsP3R) is an intracellular calcium release channel that plays a crucial role in cell signaling. In Drosophila melanogaster, a single InsP3R gene (itpr) encodes a protein (DmInsP3R) that is approximately 60% conserved with mammalian InsP3Rs. The functional properties of wil...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Srikanth S,Wang Z,Hasan G,Bezprozvanny I

更新日期：2004-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To address biophysical principles and lipid interactions that underlie the properties of membrane proteins, modifications that vary the neighbors of tryptophan residues in the highly dynamic transmembrane helix of GW4,20 ALP23 (acetyl-GGAW4 A(LA)6 LAW20 AGA-amide) were examined using deuterium NMR spectroscopy. It was...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： McKay MJ,Greathouse DV,Koeppe RE 2nd

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-thiouracil (TU), an established antithyroid drug and melanoma-seeker, was found to selectively inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in a competitive manner (K(i)=20 microM), being inactive on the other NOS isoforms. The drug apparently interfered with the substrate- and tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4))-binding t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Palumbo A,d'Ischia M,Cioffi FA

更新日期：2000-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin stimulated protein kinase B alpha (PKB alpha) more than 10-fold and decreased glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) activity by 50 +/- 10% in skeletal muscle and adipocytes. Rapamycin did not prevent the activation of PKB, inhibition of GSK3 or stimulation of glycogen synthase up to 5 min. Thus rapamycin-insensiti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cross DA,Watt PW,Shaw M,van der Kaay J,Downes CP,Holder JC,Cohen P

更新日期：1997-04-07 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：:The aim of this study was to evaluate, using a rat model of balloon angioplasty, whether prostaglandin (PG) J(2) and 2-cyclopenten-1-one are able to reduce restenosis. We found that both PGJ(2) and 2-cyclopenten-1-one, administered by local application on carotid arteries, caused a dose-dependent inhibition of neointi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ianaro A,Maffia P,Cuzzocrea S,Mazzon E,Santoro MG,Di Rosa M,Ialenti A

更新日期：2003-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rad51 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for genetic recombination and recombinational repair of DNA strand breaks. In higher eukaryotes Rad51 is essential for embryonic development, and is involved in cell proliferation and DNA repair. Here we show that human Rad51 (HsRad51) is proteolytically cleaved d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Flygare J,Armstrong RC,Wennborg A,Orsan S,Hellgren D

更新日期：1998-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of synthetic UTP analogues containing methyl groups in different positions of the ribose moiety were tested as substrates for T7 RNA polymerase (T7 RNAP). Two of these compounds (containing substituents in the 5' position) were shown to be weak substrates of T7 RNAP. 3'Me-UTP was neither substrate nor inhib...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tunitskaya VL,Rusakova EE,Padyukova NSh,Ermolinsky BS,Chernyi AA,Kochetkov SN,Lysov YuP,Mikhailov SN

更新日期：1997-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenically introduced laminin (LN) alpha1 chain prevents muscular dystrophy in LNalpha2 chain deficient mice. We now report increased integrin alpha7Bbeta1D synthesis in dystrophic LNalpha2 chain deficient muscle. Yet, immunofluorescence demonstrated a reduced expression of integrin alpha7B subunit at the sarcolem...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gawlik KI,Mayer U,Blomberg K,Sonnenberg A,Ekblom P,Durbeej M

更新日期：2006-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently proposed mechanistic concept of a receptor-regulated entrance compartment for hexose transport formed by microvilli on 3T3-L1 adipocytes predicted a preferential localization of glucose transporters in these structures. The cytochalasin B-binding technique was used to determine in basal and insulin-stimul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lange K,Brandt U

更新日期：1990-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliably pinpointing which specific amino acid residues form the interface(s) between a protein and its binding partner(s) is critical for understanding the structural and physicochemical determinants of protein recognition and binding affinity, and has wide applications in modeling and validating protein interactions...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xue LC,Dobbs D,Bonvin AM,Honavar V

更新日期：2015-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel protein that binds specifically to the intracellular domain of the p55 tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor was cloned by two-hybrid screening of a HeLa cell cDNA library. Data bank searches revealed high sequence similarity of the protein (55.11) to yeast, nematode and plant proteins, whose functions are yet ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boldin MP,Mett IL,Wallach D

更新日期：1995-06-19 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：:Undifferentiated rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells were voltage clamped using the whole cell technique. After blockade of outward currents, calcium currents were elicited from -40 and -100 mV. A subpopulation of cells displayed only one current component activated at -10 mV and slowly decaying. In other cells this curre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Janigro D,Maccaferri G,Meldolesi J

更新日期：1989-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In freshly prepared low density lipoprotein (LDL), ascorbate inhibited LDL oxidation by macrophages at the higher concentrations tested (60-100 microM). In contrast, with LDL that had been allowed to autoxidise in the refrigerator (3 degrees C) for at least 10 weeks after isolation (mildly oxidised or minimally-modifi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stait SE,Leake DS

更新日期：1994-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) and bovine tryptase, which are co-localized in the same granules of bovine mast cells, has been analyzed at 30 degrees C in 0.1 M Tris-HCl, pH 8.0. The analysis has unravelled that the functional unit of bovine tryptase is formed of (at least) four binding ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fiorucci L,Erba F,Coletta M,Ascoli F

更新日期：1995-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically obese (ob/ob) mice develop a marked insulin resistance in brown adipose tissue soon after weaning, and this is paralleled by a fall in the acute activation of the mitochondrial proton conductance pathway in the tissue on cold exposure. Treatment of ob/ob mice with ciglitazone, a new oral hypoglycaemic, led...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mercer SW,Trayhurn P

更新日期：1986-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory complexes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes contain multiple co-factors, which are coordinated in defined positions so that they can function as electron wires. Intriguingly, co-factors are usually buried deep within hetero-oligomeric protein complexes and it is not clear when or how they are incorporated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Palombo I,Daley DO

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the creation of cell adhesion mediated by cell surface engineering. The Flt3-ligand was fused to a membrane anchor made of the diphtheria toxin translocation domain. The fusion protein was attached to the surface of a cell by an acid pulse. Contact with another cell expressing the receptor Flt3 lead to its...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Perier A,Gourier C,Pichard S,Husson J,Lajeunesse E,Babon A,Menez A,Gillet D

更新日期：2007-11-27 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：:A number of human diseases can be linked to aberrations in protein folding which cause an imbalance in protein homeostasis. Molecular chaperones, including heat shock proteins, act to assist protein folding, stability and activity in the cell. Attention has begun to focus on modulating the expression and/or activity o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Powers MV,Workman P

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The dinuclear paramagnetic center of the soluble CuA domain of the cytochrome c oxidase from Bacillus subtilis has been studied using 1H NMR. The spectrum possesses remarkably sharp shifted resonances. Comparison with the spectrum of the CuA amicyanin variant provides the spin density distribution in the CuA site of c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dennison C,Berg A,de Vries S,Canters GW

更新日期：1996-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyketide synthase associated with the biosynthesis of enediyne-containing calicheamicin contains a putative phosphopantetheinyl transferase (PPTase) domain. By cloning and expressing the C-terminal region of the polyketide synthase and in vitro phosphopantetheinylation assay, we found that the PPTase domain exhi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murugan E,Liang ZX

更新日期：2008-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:WT1 was isolated as a tumor suppressor gene of Wilms tumor. However, high expression of WT1 correlates with poor prognosis in acute leukemia. In addition suppression of WT1 expression by WT1 anti-sense oligonucleotide inhibits proliferation of leukemia cells, suggesting that WT1 is important for their proliferation. T...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murata Y,Kudoh T,Sugiyama H,Toyoshima K,Akiyama T

更新日期：1997-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the perfusion of the jejunum and ileum in an isolated rat intestine model with flavonoids and hydroxycinnamates and the influence of glycosylation on the subsequent metabolism. Flavone and flavonol glucosides and their corresponding aglycones are glucuronidated during transfer across the rat jejunum an...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spencer JP,Chowrimootoo G,Choudhury R,Debnam ES,Srai SK,Rice-Evans C

更新日期：1999-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:USP4, 11 and 15 are three closely related paralogues of the ubiquitin specific protease (USP) family of deubiquitinating enzymes. The DUSP domain and the UBL domain in these proteins are juxtaposed which may provide a functional unit conferring specificity. We determined the structures of the USP15 DUSP-UBL double dom...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Elliott PR,Liu H,Pastok MW,Grossmann GJ,Rigden DJ,Clague MJ,Urbé S,Barsukov IL

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of retinoic acids (RA) on liver fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP) expression was investigated in the well differentiated FAO rat hepatoma cell line. 9-cis-Retinoic acid (9-cis-RA) specifically enhanced L-FABP mRNA levels in a time- and dose-dependent manner. The higher induction was found 6 h after addition...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Poirier H,Braissant O,Niot I,Wahli W,Besnard P

更新日期：1997-08-04 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 large rep gene products, Rep78 and Rep68, of adeno-associated virus (AAV) are pleiotropic effector proteins which are required for AAV DNA replication and the trans-regulation of AAV gene expression. Apart from these essential functions prerequisite for the life cycle of AAV, these rep products are able to inhibit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Batchu RB,Hermonat PL

更新日期：1995-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A is linked to a skeletal muscle-specific calpain isoform known as p94. Isolation of the intact 94-kDa enzyme has been difficult to achieve due to its rapid autolysis, and uncertainty has arisen over its Ca2+-dependence for activity. We have expressed a C-terminally truncated form ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rey MA,Davies PL

更新日期：2002-12-18 00:00:00