Proteolytic cleavage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A in the presence of lipid bilayers of different composition.

abstract：:Expression plasmids encoding native human preporenin and a mutant deleted in its entire prosegment were transfected into Chinese hamster ovary cells. The cells transfected with the expression plasmid of native preporenin secreted exclusively inactive prorenin, while the cells transfected with the mutant secreted the a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nagahama M,Nakayama K,Hori H,Murakami K

更新日期：1989-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here a combined GC-MS and LC-MS metabolic profiling approach to unraveling the pathological outcomes of aristolochic acid (AA)-induced nephrotoxicity. Urine samples were analyzed by GC-MS and LC-MS in combination with pattern recognition techniques, e.g. principal component analysis (PCA), orthogonal projec...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ni Y,Su M,Qiu Y,Chen M,Liu Y,Zhao A,Jia W

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the fluctuations of cGMP in living cells through changes of energy transfer of dissociable fluorescence labeled subunits, we constructed a cGMP-sensitive probe by combining the N-terminus of the type I regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) with the cGMP binding sites of cGMP-dependent prot...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wild N,Herberg FW,Hofmann F,Dostmann WR

更新日期：1995-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression by RNA-binding proteins and by small non-coding RNAs plays an important role in cell biology. Our previous results show that in murine skeletal myoblasts, the expression of Pinch-2, a focal adhesion remodeling factor that regulates cell motility, is repressed by an RN...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Boudoukha S,Rivera Vargas T,Dang I,Kropp J,Cuvellier S,Gautreau A,Polesskaya A

更新日期：2014-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The CLN3 gene encodes an integral membrane protein of unknown function. Mutations in CLN3 can cause juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, or Batten disease, an inherited neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disease affecting children. Here, we report a topological study of the CLN3 protein using bioinformatic approa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nugent T,Mole SE,Jones DT

更新日期：2008-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In fibrous connective tissues, fibroblasts are organized into syncytia, cellular networks that enable matrix remodeling and that are interconnected by intercellular adherens junctions (AJs). The AJs of fibroblasts are mediated by N-cadherin, a broadly expressed classical cadherin that is critically involved in develop...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： El Sayegh TY,Kapus A,McCulloch CA

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory supercomplex factor (Rcf) 1 is a membrane-bound protein that modulates the activity of cytochrome c oxidase (CytcO) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria. To investigate this regulatory mechanism, we studied the interactions of CytcO with potassium cyanide (KCN) upon removal of Rcf1. While the addition ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rydström Lundin C,Brzezinski P

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first X-ray study of a member of the arrestin family, the bovine retinal arrestin. Arrestin is essential for the fine regulation and termination of the light-induced enzyme cascade in vertebrate rod outer segments. It plays an important role in quenching phototransduction by its ability to preferentiall...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wilden U,Choe HW,Krafft B,Granzin J

更新日期：1997-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The phorbol esters are among the most potent tumor promoters. On addition of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) to isolated human platelets prelabelled with [32P]orthophosphate we found a rapid increase in 32P incorporation into phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate. In vie...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： de Chaffoy de Courcelles D,Roevens P,van Belle H

更新日期：1984-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The type 1 ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) saporin 5 isolated from seeds of Saponaria officinalis L. strongly inhibited translation carried out by Vicia sativa L. purified ribosomes. The toxin multidepurinated V. sativa rRNA, which upon treatment with acid aniline releases several RNA fragments including an RNA fr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Iglesias R,Arias FJ,Rojo MA,Escarmis C,Ferreras JM,Girbés T

更新日期：1993-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of insulin and IGF-I on the cell surface quantities of GLUT1, GLUT3 and GLUT4 glucose transporters in L6 myotubes were determined with the exofacial bis-mannose phololabel (ATB-BMPA). In basal cells, an equal molar quantity of each transporter isoform was found at the cell surface. Insulin stimulated the t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wilson CM,Mitsumoto Y,Maher F,Klip A

更新日期：1995-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:As a member of the dynamin superfamily human guanylate-binding protein 1 (hGBP1) binds and hydrolyses GTP thereby undergoing structural changes which lead to self-assembly of the protein. Here, we employ the reactivity of hGBP1 with a cysteine reactive compound in order to monitor structural changes imposed by GTP bin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vöpel T,Kunzelmann S,Herrmann C

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel method to quantitatively measure GTP gamma S binding to specific G proteins in crude membranes using G-protein antibodies. The basic strategy was that the materials were initially incubated with [35S]GTP gamma S at 37 degrees C. After 4 degrees C incubation in the wells of an ELISA plate precoated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okamoto T,Ikezu T,Murayama Y,Ogata E,Nishimoto I

更新日期：1992-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 tumour suppressor protein is tightly controlled by the E3 ubiquitin ligase, mouse double minute 2 (MDM2), but maintains MDM2 expression as part of a negative feedback loop. We have identified the immunophilin, 25kDa FK506-binding protein (FKBP25), previously shown to be regulated by p53-mediated repression, as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ochocka AM,Kampanis P,Nicol S,Allende-Vega N,Cox M,Marcar L,Milne D,Fuller-Pace F,Meek D

更新日期：2009-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we report that dihydrolipoic acid and lipoic acid (LA) plus lipoamide dehydrogenase and NADH denitrosate S-nitrosocaspase 3 (CASP-SNO). In HepG2 cells, S-nitroso-L-cysteine ethyl ester (SNCEE) impeded the activity of caspase 3 (CASP-SH), while a subsequent incubation of the cells in SNCEE-free medium resulted ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sengupta R,Billiar TR,Atkins JL,Kagan VE,Stoyanovsky DA

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:ApoB-crescent, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-lipid droplet amalgamation structure, is a useful marker to indicate aberrant lipidated apolipoprotein B accumulation in the hepatocyte ER. Blockade of the ER-to-Golgi transport by either vesicle transport inhibitors or dominant-negative Arf1 caused a significant increase i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohsaki Y,Cheng J,Yamairi K,Pan X,Hussain MM,Fujimoto T

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA (miRNA) play a pivotal role in the development of liver fibrosis. However, the functions of miRNA in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver fibrosis remain unclear. In this study, we systematically analyzed the microarray data of the serum miRNA in patients with HCV-induced hepatic fibrosis. Among 41 dysregula...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Niu X,Fu N,Du J,Wang R,Wang Y,Zhao S,Du H,Wang B,Zhang Y,Sun D,Nan Y

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Recent studies indicate that junctophilin (JP) subtypes contribute to the formation of the junctional membrane complexes between the plasma membrane and the endoplasmic/sarcoplasmic reticulum (ER/SR) in excitable cells. Cardiac muscle contains the diad, in which the transverse (T) tubule of the invaginated cell membra...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Komazaki S,Nishi M,Takeshima H

更新日期：2003-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ycf1p function is regulated by casein kinase 2α, Cka1p, via phosphorylation of Ser251. Cka1p-mediated phosphorylation of Ycf1p is attenuated in response to high salt stress. Previous results from our lab suggest a role for Ycf1p in cellular resistance to salt stress. Here, we show that Ycf1p plays an important role in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Paumi CM,Pickin KA,Jarrar R,Herren CK,Cowley ST

更新日期：2012-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac toxicity is an uncommon but potentially serious complication of cancer therapy, especially with anthracyclines. One of the most effective anticancer drugs is doxorubicin, but its value is limited by the risk of developing cardiomyopathy and ventricular arrhythmia. When applied to a network of periodically cont...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gorelik J,Vodyanoy I,Shevchuk AI,Diakonov IA,Lab MJ,Korchev YE

更新日期：2003-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete cDNA clone encoding human cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase has been isolated using a rat P-450ch7 alpha cDNA insert [(1989) FEBS Lett. 257, 97-100] as a probe and totally sequenced. The cDNA contained 1512-base pair open reading frame encoding 504 amino acid residues (Mr 57,630), 39-base pair 5'-untranslated...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Noshiro M,Okuda K

更新日期：1990-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is associated with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Although most clinical isolates of STEC produce hemolysin (called enterohemolysin), the precise role of enterohemolysin in the pathogenesis of STEC infections is unknown. Here we demonstrated that E. coli carrying the clo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Taneike I,Zhang HM,Wakisaka-Saito N,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2002-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence has previously suggested that cellobiose:quinone oxidoreductase (CBQ) in cellulolytic cultures of Phanerochaete chrysosporium might be produced from cellobiose oxidase (CBO) by proteolytic cleavage. This study demonstrates that the ratio of CBO activity to (CBO + CBQ) activity declines with decreasing culture...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Habu N,Samejima M,Dean JF,Eriksson KE

更新日期：1993-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast genes involved in thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) synthesis are transcriptionally induced in response to thiamin starvation. In this system, three proteins (Thi2p, Thi3p, and Pdc2p) act as positive regulatory factors. Thi3p is a TPP-binding protein and upregulates THI genes expression when TPP is not bound. We found...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nosaka K,Onozuka M,Konno H,Akaji K

更新日期：2008-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroids are of universal occurrence, present variously as cell wall constituents and bioregulators. A number of bacteria, fungi, and photosynthetic vascular plants synthesize steroids that are hormonally active in the animal world. The cellular effect of such steroids in microbes and plants appears by and large to be...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Agarwal MK

更新日期：1993-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyoverdine I (PVDI) is the major siderophore produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa to import iron. Biosynthesis of this chelator involves non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and other enzymes. PvdQ is a periplasmic enzyme from the NTN hydrolase family and is involved in the final steps of PVDI biosynthesis. A pvdQ mutant p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hannauer M,Schäfer M,Hoegy F,Gizzi P,Wehrung P,Mislin GL,Budzikiewicz H,Schalk IJ

更新日期：2012-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:RT-PCR was undertaken on total RNA extracts from bone and scales of the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. The rainbow trout estrogen receptor (ER)-specific primers used amplified a single product of expected size from each tissue which, using Southern blotting, strongly hybridized with a 32P-labelled rtER probe unde...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Armour KJ,Lehane DB,Pakdel F,Valotaire Y,Graham R,Russell RG,Henderson IW

更新日期：1997-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of protein kinase C to low concentrations of either N-chlorosuccinimide or H2O2 resulted in rapid and parallel loss of phosphotransferase activity and phorbol ester binding. This oxidative inactivation of protein kinase C also occurred in intact cells exposed to a low concentration of H2O2. With H2O2 treatmen...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gopalakrishna R,Anderson WB

更新日期：1987-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet aggregation is accompanied by the tyrosine phosphorylation of several proteins including syk. However, some of these proteins are not identified. Recent studies showed that LAT is a syk substrate and is tyrosine phosphorylated during T cell stimulation. In this study, we demonstrated that LAT is present in pl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sarkar S

更新日期：1998-12-28 00:00:00