N-linked glycosylation of Drosophila rhodopsin occurs exclusively in the amino-terminal domain and functions in rhodopsin maturation.

abstract：:We identified a CpG island at the 5' end of murine leukemia inhibitory factor gene (LIF). The CpG island is 0.6 kb long and covers most of the first exon and first intron. The region is non-methylated, its G+C content is 65% and relative frequency of CpG dinucleotide is 0.7. The block of 150 nucleotides, which is 72% ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kaspar P,Dvorák M,Bartůnĕk P

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Residues 370-383 (helix C) of the human nerve growth factor receptor (NGF-R) are highly similar to the sequence of the 14 residue wasp toxin, mastoparan. Both regions are predicted to form amphiphilic alpha-helices, as is the amino-terminal region of the third intracytoplasmic loop (i3) of the beta 2-adrenergic recept...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Feinstein DL,Larhammar D

更新日期：1990-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been known from fluorescence recovery after photobleaching experiments that the mobility of most cell surface receptors is much smaller than expected for free diffusion of proteins in a fluid lipid bilayer. Single-particle tracking experiments are currently revealing the complexity of the constraints to fr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cherry RJ,Smith PR,Morrison IE,Fernandez N

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational modifications of circadian oscillator components are crucial for the generation of circadian rhythms. Among those phosphorylation plays key roles ranging from regulating degradation, complex formation, subcellular localization and activity. Although most of the known clock proteins are phosphoprotein...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Reischl S,Kramer A

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystatins A and C were both shown to inhibit cathepsin B by a two-step mechanism, involving an initial weak interaction followed by a conformational change. Disruption of the major salt bridge anchoring the occluding loop of cathepsin B to the main body of the enzyme by mutation of His110 to Ala converted the binding ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Pavlova A,Krupa JC,Mort JS,Abrahamson M,Björk I

更新日期：2000-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mohr-Tranebjaerg syndrome (MTS), a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by progressive sensorineural hearing loss, dystonia, mental retardation and blindness, is a mitochondrial disease caused by mutations in the deafness/dystonia peptide 1 (DDP1) gene. DDP1 shows similarity to the yeast proteins Tim9, Tim10 a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bauer MF,Rothbauer U,Mühlenbein N,Smith RJ,Gerbitz K,Neupert W,Brunner M,Hofmann S

更新日期：1999-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion of platelets to the exposed extracellular matrix proteins at sites of vascular injury is partly regulated by the local fluid shear stress. Because the Leu33Pro (Pl(A)) polymorphism of integrin beta(3) confers only a modest increase in adhesion under static conditions, we used CHO and 293 cells expressing the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vijayan KV,Huang TC,Liu Y,Bernardo A,Dong JF,Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ,Alevriadou BR,Bray PF

更新日期：2003-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between two codon-anticodon duplexes of the ribosomal A- and P-site-bound tRNAs is the key feature of the proposed model. This interaction prohibits non-canonical base pairing at the first and second positions of the codon and controls base pairing at the third position (wobbling rules ensuing from the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lim VI,Venclovas C

更新日期：1992-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of the precursor for carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase I into mitochondria in Reuber hepatoma H-35 cells was inhibited by adding monensin or nigericin to the culture medium at a concentration of 0.5 microM, and the enzyme precursor accumulated, mainly in the cytosolic fraction. Accumulated precursor was degrade...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kitagawa Y,Murakami A,Sugimoto E

更新日期：1984-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau proteins are abnormally phosphorylated in Alzheimer's disease. Pathological Tau proteins named PHF-Tau 55, PHF-Tau 64, and PHF-Tau 69, are the main constituents of the paired helical filaments (PHF). When treating SKNSH-SY 5Y cells with okadaic acid (OA), Tau 55 protein was clearly induced whereas Tau 64 protein w...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dupont-Wallois L,Sautière PE,Cocquerelle C,Bailleul B,Delacourte A,Caillet-Boudin ML

更新日期：1995-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The residues on MAP kinase kinase-1 (MAPKK1) phosphorylated by MAP kinase in vitro have been identified as Thr-291 and Thr-385. Both threonines are phosphorylated in PC12 cells and the 32P-labelling of each residue increases after stimulation with nerve growth factor (NGF). The results establish that MAPKK1 is a physi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Saito Y,Gomez N,Campbell DG,Ashworth A,Marshall CJ,Cohen P

更新日期：1994-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The exposure of cells for 60 min to a serum free medium at ice temperature followed by a return to normal culture conditions (30 min at 37 degrees C) caused a dramatic decrease in NAD+ levels. This decrease in NAD+ was prevented by 3-aminobenzamide. Alkaline elution analysis of DNA from cultures that were sisters to t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cantoni O,Sestili P,Cattabeni F,Stocchi V

更新日期：1986-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Oscillations of free intracellular calcium [Ca2+]i were seen in individual Jurkat cells as response to a 50 Hz, 0.15 mT magnetic field (MF). In contrast, a CD45-deficient Jurkat cell line was unable to respond to MF stimulation. The phosphatase activity of CD45 has been implicated to regulate p56lck tyrosine kinase ac...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lindström E,Berglund A,Mild KH,Lindström P,Lundgren E

更新日期：1995-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A bovine anterior pituitary polypeptide that stimulates the replication of rat and human adipocyte precursors has been purified. Its Mr is 44 000-53 000 and its isoelectric point is 9.8-10.3. While pituitary basic fibroblast growth factor is equally mitogenic on adipocyte precursors and skin fibroblasts, the polypepti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lau DC,Roncari DA,Yip DK,Kindler S,Nilsen SG

更新日期：1983-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit red blood cells of various ages were separated on Percoll gradients and the activities of two large cytosolic proteases were measured. Both the multicatalytic protease (MCP), assayed by hydrolysis of fluorigenic peptides, and the 26 S ubiquitin/ATP-stimulated protease, assayed by degradation of ubiquitin-lysozy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Di Cola D,Pratt G,Rechsteiner M

更新日期：1991-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogenic mutations disrupt the regulatory circuits that govern cell function, enabling tumor cells to undergo de-regulated mitogenesis, to resist to pro-apoptotic insults, and to invade through tissue boundaries. Cancer cell biology has played a crucial role in elucidating the signaling mechanisms by which oncogenic ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giancotti FG

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, reports have appeared which show structural variations in B-DNA and indicate deviations from a uniform helical structure. We report for the first time that these indications are also present in the B-form fibre diffraction patterns for the lithium salt of natural DNA. We have used an improved method of contr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dutta S,Parrack PK,Sasisekharan V

更新日期：1984-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that some of the enzymes underpinning cellulose solubilization by Ruminococcus albus 8 lack the conventional type of dockerin module characteristic of cellulosomal proteins and instead, bear an "X" domain of unknown function at their C-termini. We have now subcloned and expressed six X domains and s...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu Q,Morrison M,Nelson KE,Bayer EA,Atamna N,Lamed R

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue transglutaminase is a multifunctional enzyme which has been involved in the regulation of cell growth, differentiation, and apoptosis. Recently, nuclear localization of tTG has been reported indicating the potential of active nuclear transport. In this study we use the yeast two-hybrid assay and co-immunoprecip...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Peng X,Zhang Y,Zhang H,Graner S,Williams JF,Levitt ML,Lokshin A

更新日期：1999-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-toxins from scorpion venoms prolong the action potential of excitable cells by blocking sodium channel inactivation. We have purified bukatoxin, an alpha-toxin from scorpion (Buthus martensi Karsch) venom, to homogeneity. Bukatoxin produced marked relaxant responses in the carbachol-precontracted rat anococcygeu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Srinivasan KN,Nirthanan S,Sasaki T,Sato K,Cheng B,Gwee MC,Kini RM,Gopalakrishnakone P

更新日期：2001-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in our understanding of the structure of highly amplified DNA sequences in Streptomyces fradiae and lividans have enabled us to formulate a possible mechanism by which amplification may occur. An essential feature of the model is the generation of an amplification precursor, which comprises a circulari...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Young M,Cullum J

更新日期：1987-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously isolated, by differential display and 5' RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends), cDNAs corresponding to genes activated following cryptogein treatment of tobacco cell suspensions, among them tcI 7 (tcI for tobacco cryptogein Induced), a gene encoding a beta-subunit of proteasome. Here, we report that tc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Etienne P,Petitot AS,Houot V,Blein JP,Suty L

更新日期：2000-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:For studying the role of Ser132 in the putative catalytic site of human lipoprotein lipase (LPL), mutant LPL cDNAs expressing LPLs with amino acid substitutions of Gly or Asn for Ser132 were obtained by site-directed mutagenesis, and were expressed in COS-1 cells. Considerable amounts of LPL enzyme protein mass were d...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tashiro J,Kobayashi J,Shirai K,Saito Y,Fukamachi I,Hashimoto H,Nishida T,Shibui T,Morimoto Y,Yoshida S

更新日期：1992-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cav3.2 T-type Ca(2+) channel is required for the activation of calcineurin/NFAT signaling in cardiac hypertrophy. We aimed to investigate how Cav3.2 and calcineurin interact. We found that Ca(2+) and calmodulin modulate the Cav3.2/calcineurin interaction. Calcineurin binding to Cav3.2 decreases the enzyme's phosphatas...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Huang CH,Chen YC,Chen CC

更新日期：2013-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteasomes were purified from human hepatoma tissues, and their sensitivities to Na+ and K+ were examined. At concentrations of 10 mM or more, these cations were found to inhibit completely polylysine-activated casein degradation by the purified proteasomes. They also strongly inhibited the hydrolyses of peptides, al...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seol JH,Park SC,Ha DB,Chung CH,Tanaka K,Ichihara A

更新日期：1989-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid (FA) uniport via mitochondrial uncoupling protein (UcP) was detected fluorometrically with PBFI, potassium-binding benzofuran phthalate and SPQ, 6-methoxy-N-(3-sulfopropyl)-quinolinium, indicating K+ and H+, respectively. The FA structural patterns required for FA flip-flop, UcP-mediated FA uniport, activat...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jezek P,Modrianský M,Garlid KD

更新日期：1997-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) has evolved sophisticated strategies to survive in several niches within the human body either as a harmless commensal or as a serious pathogen causing a variety of diseases. The dynamic interaction between pneumococci and resident host cells during colonization of the upper res...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kohler S,Voß F,Gómez Mejia A,Brown JS,Hammerschmidt S

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake of taurine in human placental brush-border membrane vesicles was greatly stimulated in the presence of an inwardly-directed Na+ + Cl- -gradient and uphill transport of taurine could be demonstrated under these conditions. Na+ as well as Cl- were obligatory for this uptake and both ion gradients could energize t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Miyamoto Y,Balkovetz DF,Leibach FH,Mahesh VB,Ganapathy V

更新日期：1988-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An alpha beta heterodimer of the F1-ATPase of Rhodospirillum rubrum was isolated by extraction of chromatophores with LiCl. Each alpha beta heterodimer contains one tightly bound ADP, which is released upon removal of medium Mg2+. The dimer can be reversibly dissociated by removal of Mg(2+)-ions. The alpha beta hetero...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Andralojc PJ,Harris DA

更新日期：1992-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotide-peptide conjugates have several applications, including their potential use as improved antisense agents for interfering with the RNA function within cells. In order to provide robust and generally applicable conjugation chemistry, we developed a novel approach of fragment coupling of pre-synthesized p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zubin EM,Romanova EA,Volkov EM,Tashlitsky VN,Korshunova GA,Shabarova ZA,Oretskaya TS

更新日期：1999-07-30 00:00:00