Preparation of peptides which mimic glycosphingolipids by using phage peptide library and their modulation on beta-galactosidase activity.

abstract：:Endothelin (ET-1) has been shown to exert vasoconstrictor activity in vivo and mobilize Ca2+ in vascular smooth muscle cells in culture. In this paper we show that the human skin fibroblast exhibits specific receptors to ET-1 and that activation of these receptors results in increased intracellular Ca2+ (Ca2+i) and ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gardner JP,Maher E,Aviv A

更新日期：1989-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Most geckos are nocturnal forms and possess rod retinas, but some diurnal genera have pure-cone retinas. We isolated cDNAs encoding the diurnal gecko opsins, dg1 and dg2, similar to nocturnal gecko P521 and P467, respectively. Despite the large morphological differences between the diurnal and nocturnal gecko photorec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taniguchi Y,Hisatomi O,Yoshida M,Tokunaga F

更新日期：1999-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and analyzed a 27-nucleotide sequence (U5 repressive element, designated as U5RE) at the U5 region of the human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) long terminal repeat (LTR) which is required for HTLV-I basal transcriptional repression. The basal promoter strength of constructs that contained del...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okumura K,Takagi S,Sakaguchi G,Naito K,Minoura-Tada N,Kobayashi H,Mimori T,Hinuma Y,Igarashi H

更新日期：1994-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Small interfering (si)RNAs isolated from Brassica juncea leaves infected by Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) were characterized by cloning and sequencing. The TuMV siRNA population was dominated by 21 and 22-nt long species originated mainly from the same siRNA hotspots, indicating operational similarity between the plant D...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ho T,Wang H,Pallett D,Dalmay T

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of whole cell H2O2 metabolism in several salivarian and stercorarian trypanosomes and Leishmania species was measured. These cells metabolized H2O2 at rates between 2.3 and 48.2 nmol/10(8) cells per min depending upon the species employed. H2O2 metabolism was largely insensitive to NaN3, implying that typical...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Penketh PG,Kennedy WP,Patton CL,Sartorelli AC

更新日期：1987-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we assessed the contribution of acidic sphingomyelinase (ASMase), a ceramide generating enzyme, in tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-mediated apoptosis in human colon HT-29 cells. TNF induced apoptosis in HT-29 cells in a time- and dose-dependent fashion. Downregulation of the active endogenous ASMase f...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colell A,Morales A,Fernández-Checa JC,García-Ruiz C

更新日期：2002-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin receptors (IRs) that are truncated at the end of the ectodomain form dimers that bind insulin with different characteristics to wild type receptors. These soluble IRs have lowered affinity for insulin compared with full-length IR, and exhibit linear Scatchard plots in contrast to the curvilinear plots obtained...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoyne PA,Cosgrove LJ,McKern NM,Bentley JD,Ivancic N,Elleman TC,Ward CW

更新日期：2000-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:LLC-PK1L cells, a kidney-derived cell line grown in defined medium, possess a vasopressin-sensitive adenylate cyclase. Somatostatin was able to inhibit the vasopressin-induced increase in adenylate cyclase activity, without affecting the basal enzyme activity. This inhibition was competitive. No effect of somatostatin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roy C

更新日期：1984-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori secretes a unique virulence factor, Tipalpha, that enters gastric cells and both stimulates the production of the TNF-alpha and activates the NF-kappaB pathway. The structures of a truncated version of Tipalpha (TipalphaN34) in two crystal forms are presented here. Tipalpha adopts a novel beta(1)al...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tosi T,Cioci G,Jouravleva K,Dian C,Terradot L

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Reticulocyte-type 15-lipoxygenase is known to dioxygenate phospholipids without preceding action of phospholipases A2 (PLA2). Therefore we studied the reaction of the secretory PLA2s (sPLA2) from pancreas and snake venom, and of the human cytosolic PLA2 (cPLA2) with 1-palmitoyl-2-arachidonoyl phosphatidylcholine (PAPC...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chaitidis P,Schewe T,Sutherland M,Kühn H,Nigam S

更新日期：1998-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of protoporphyrin IX (Proto IX) in light-sensitive mutants of Escherichia coli was detected by spectrofluorimetry. Fluorescence emission and excitation spectra were recorded from extracts of bacterial cells. Proto IX clearly accumulated in cells with mutations in the visA (hemH) gene but not in the wi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miyamoto K,Nishimura K,Masuda T,Tsuji H,Inokuchi H

更新日期：1992-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxysterols, 7beta-hydroxycholesterol and 7-ketocholesterol, are involved in the cytotoxicity of oxidized LDL. To elucidate their molecular mechanisms, the human promonocytic leukemia cells U937 and U4 were used. U4 cells overexpressing Bcl-2 were obtained by transfection of U937 cells. 7Beta-hydroxycholesterol and...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lizard G,Lemaire S,Monier S,Gueldry S,Néel D,Gambert P

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion mechanisms of cathepsin L from osteoclasts in the process of bone resorption were investigated. The increases in bone pit numbers formed take place by PTH addition in parallel with the increases of cathepsin L and/or L-like proteinase activities in the culture medium of bone cells, and these were suppres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tagami K,Kakegawa H,Kamioka H,Sumitani K,Kawata T,Lenarcic B,Turk V,Katunuma N

更新日期：1994-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the three-dimensional organization of chromatin has recently gained much focus in the context of novel techniques for detecting genome-wide contacts using next-generation sequencing. These chromosome conformation capture-based methods give a deep topological insight into the architecture of the genome ins...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hofmann A,Heermann DW

更新日期：2015-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of electron transport by unnatural (-)-antimycin A3 was examined with rat liver mitochondria and compared with that of natural (+)-antimycin A3. (-)-Antimycin A3 inhibited respiration about 1/100th as strongly as natural (+)-antimycin A3. (-)-Antimycin A3 binding to the cytochrome bc1 complex did not se...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miyoshi H,Kondo H,Oritani T,Saitoh I,Iwamura H

更新日期：1991-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that CCK-8 may interact with opioids and that both systems are probably implicated in pain modulation. In order to elucidate this relationship we sought to examine factors governing the movement of CCK-8 from the spinal cord into the extracellular space. We report that CCK-8 like immunoreactivity, as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodríguez RE,Sacristán MP

更新日期：1989-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamin plays an important role in actin cytoskeleton organization, membrane stabilization, and anchoring of transmembrane proteins. Using short interfering RNA (siRNA) to selectively target the filamin A gene and silence its expression, we studied the role of filamin A in G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang C,Wu Z,Hujer KM,Miller RT

更新日期：2006-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The human H19 gene is a paternally imprinted oncofetal gene, highly expressed in several fetal tissues, down-regulated in nearly all adult tissues but re-expressed in carcinomas of tissues which express the gene in fetal life. It has no known protein product and till today, no function could be designated to H19 RNA. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohana P,Kopf E,Bibi O,Ayesh S,Schneider T,Laster M,Tykocinski M,de Groot N,Hochberg A

更新日期：1999-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we summarize evidence for non-equivalence of two structurally similar active sites in transketolase and other thiamine-dependent enzymes. This non-equivalence takes place when the enzymes interact with various ligands (inhibitors, cations, coenzyme and substrates). Data on different strains in the structure of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kovina MV,Kochetov GA

更新日期：1998-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify physiological activators of proteinase-activated receptor-2 (PAR-2), a peptide chloromethane inhibitor (biotinyl-Ser-Lys-Gly-Arg-CH2Cl) based on the cleavage site for activation of PAR-2 was synthesised and tested with 12 trypsin-like serine proteinases. The second-order rate constant (ki/Ki) for ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fox MT,Harriott P,Walker B,Stone SR

更新日期：1997-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1000-bp fragment of Enterococcus hirae genomic DNA was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction method, using the oligonucleotide primers designed from amino acid sequences of both amino-terminal and a tryptic fragment of the Na(+)-ATPase alpha-subunit in this organism. DNA sequencing of this product revealed that...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kakinuma Y,Igarashi K,Konishi K,Yamato I

更新日期：1991-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The amounts of RNA polymerase I (Pol I) and basal rDNA transcription factors were determined in yeast whole cell extracts. A 17-fold excess of Pol I was found compared to the Pol I-specific initiation factors upstream activating factor (UAF) and core factor (CF) which underlines that both initiation factors interact w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bier M,Fath S,Tschochner H

更新日期：2004-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is a member of the beta chemokine family which acts through specific seven transmembrane receptors to recruit monocytes, basophils, and T lymphocytes to sites of inflammation. To identify regions of the human MCP-1 protein which are important for its biological activity, we h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Steitz SA,Hasegawa K,Chiang SL,Cobb RR,Castro MA,Lobl TJ,Yamada M,Lazarides E,Cardarelli PM

更新日期：1998-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The prohormone convertase PC2 is one of the major subtilisin/kexin-like enzymes responsible for the formation of small bioactive peptides in neural and endocrine cells. This convertase is unique among the members of the subtilisin/kexin-like mammalian serine proteinase family in that it undergoes zymogen processing of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Benjannet S,Mamarbachi AM,Hamelin J,Savaria D,Munzer JS,Chrétien M,Seidah NG

更新日期：1998-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:It is increasingly clear that microRNAs play a crucial role in tumorigenesis. Recently, emerging evidence suggested that miR-26a is aberrantly expressed in tumor tissues. In our study, frequent down-regulation of miR-26a was observed in 10 human bladder cancer tissues. Forced expression of miR-26a in the bladder cance...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lin Y,Chen H,Hu Z,Mao Y,Xu X,Zhu Y,Xu X,Wu J,Li S,Mao Q,Zheng X,Xie L

更新日期：2013-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The stoichiometric complex formed between human leukocyte elastase and a synthetic MeO-Suc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Val chloromethyl ketone inhibitor was co-crystallized and its X-ray structure determined, using Patterson search methods. Its structure has been crystallographically refined to a final R value of 0.145 (8.0 and 2.3 A...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wei AZ,Mayr I,Bode W

更新日期：1988-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of rat adipocytes with the phorbol ester TPA caused a dose-dependent, persistent increase in phosphatidate phosphohydrolase activity and decrease in fatty acyl-CoA synthetase activity. Half-maximal effects were obtained with 1-2 X 10(-10) M TPA. TPA did not alter basal or noradrenaline-stimulated lipolysis....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hall M,Taylor SJ,Saggerson ED

更新日期：1985-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic design is based on computational modeling and optimization methods to provide prototype designs to targeted problems in an unsupervised manner. For biological circuits, we need to produce quantitative predictions of cell behavior for a given genotype as consequence of the different molecular interactions. Au...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodrigo G,Carrera J,Landrain TE,Jaramillo A

更新日期：2012-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It is clear that G1-S phase control is exerted after the mouse embryo implants into the uterus 4.5 days after fertilization (E4.5); null mutants of genes that control cell cycle commitment such as max, rb (retinoblastoma), and dp1 are embryonic lethal after implantation with proliferation phenotypes. But, a number of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xie Y,Sun T,Wang QT,Wang Y,Wang F,Puscheck E,Rappolee DA

更新日期：2005-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin is increasingly recognized as a potential therapeutic agent for the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases. It circulates in plasma as homotrimers and higher-order oliogomers of homotrimers. To facilitate the production of active recombinant adiponectin as a therapeutic tool, we designed a sing...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Min X,Lemon B,Tang J,Liu Q,Zhang R,Walker N,Li Y,Wang Z

更新日期：2012-03-23 00:00:00