Concomitant activation of Gi and Gq protein-coupled receptors does not require an increase in cytosolic calcium for platelet aggregation.

abstract：:The regulation by insulin and carbohydrates of the gene expression of three key enzymes involved in glucose metabolism was studied in the liver of the Wistar fatty rat, a model of obese non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A high glucose or fructose diet, or insulin administration caused a similar magnitude of inc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Noguchi T,Matsuda T,Tomari Y,Yamada K,Imai E,Wang Z,Ikeda H,Tanaka T

更新日期：1993-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that calpain subunits dissociate in the presence of Ca2+ has been tested by methods which avoid interference by Ca2+-induced aggregation and large subunit autolysis. Inactive Cys105Ser-m-calpain, bound either to Ni-NTA-agarose or to immobilized casein, after incubation with Ca2+, could be recovered in h...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dutt P,Arthur JS,Croall DE,Elce JS

更新日期：1998-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The contributions of membrane type-1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) and of the glucose-6-phosphate transporter (G6PT) in sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P)-mediated Ca(2+) mobilization were assessed in glioblastoma cells. We show that gene silencing of MT1-MMP or G6PT decreased the extent of S1P-induced Ca(2+) mobiliza...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fortier S,Labelle D,Sina A,Moreau R,Annabi B

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal beta-galactosidase precursor is processed to a mature form and associated with protective protein in lysosomes. In this study we used two cysteine protease proinhibitors, E64-d for cathepsins B, S, H, and L, and CA074Me for cathepsin B. They are converted intracellularly to active forms, E-64c and CA074, res...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Okamura-Oho Y,Zhang S,Callahan JW,Murata M,Oshima A,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological activities of five synthetic lipid A analogues (D-glucosamine derivatives) were examined to elucidate the structure required for expression of the biological activities of endotoxin. Proclotting enzyme of horseshoe crab activation, interferon-inducing and tumor necrosis factor-inducing activities were signi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Matsuura M,Kojima Y,Homma JY,Kubota Y,Yamamoto A,Kiso M,Hasegawa A

更新日期：1984-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The marked difference in auxin sensitivity between plant roots and shoots was studied in terms of auxin-induced stimulation of membrane P-type ATPase. The results suggest the existence in rice seedlings of, at least, two isoforms of soluble proteinous factors (SPF), SPF(I) and SPF(II), which are involved in the stimul...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kim D,Kim YS,Jung J

更新日期：1997-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the glucose transport system in the Kc cells of Drosophila melanogaster. The transporter is stereospecific and can be inhibited by both cytochalasin B and phloretin, with ki values of 4 microM and 30 microM for cytochalasin B and phloretin, respectively. Moreover, phlordzin does not affect uptake...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wang M,Wang C

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) family are found in most of the compartments of eukaryotic cells where they play essential roles in protein metabolism. In yeast mitochondria, two Hsp70 proteins are known: Ssc1 and Ssq1. We identified Ecm10 as a third Hsp70 protein in the mitochondrial matrix. Ecm10 shares...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Baumann F,Milisav I,Neupert W,Herrmann JM

更新日期：2000-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The two activators of protein kinase C, oleoylacetylglycerol (OAG) and dioctanoylglycerol (DOG), are able to induce a concentration-dependent rise in cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration in gel-filtered human platelets, detected as an increase in quin2 fluorescence. The phorbol ester phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PM...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bruns C,Schächtele C,Marmé D

更新日期：1987-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystrophin, a component of the muscle membrane cytoskeleton, is the protein altered in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD). Dystrophin shares significant homology with other cytoskeletal proteins, such as alpha-actinin and spectrin. On the basis of its sequence similarity with alpha-a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chan Y,Kunkel LM

更新日期：1997-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of the rate constants of the univalent redox steps YzoxSi----YzSi + 1 (i = 0,1,2) and YzoxS3----(YzS4)----YzSo + O2 in the water oxidase was investigated by measuring time resolved absorption changes at 355 nm induced by a laser flash train in dark adapted PS II membrane fragments from spina...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Renger G,Hanssum B

更新日期：1992-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The flash-induced voltage response of halorhodopsin at high NaCl concentration comprises two main kinetic components. The first component with tau approximately 1 micros does not exceed 4% of the overall response amplitude and is probably associated with the formation of the L (hR520) intermediate. The second main com...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kalaidzidis IV,Kalaidzidis YL,Kaulen AD

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats bearing the fast-growing AH-130 Yoshida ascites hepatoma showed a marked cachectic response which has been previously reported [Tessitore et al. (1987) Biochem. J. 241, 153-159]. Thus tumour-bearing animals showed significant decreases in body and muscle weight (soleus and gastrocnemius) as compared to both pair-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Llovera M,García-Martínez C,Agell N,Marzábal M,López-Soriano FJ,Argilés JM

更新日期：1994-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The reversible folding/unfolding of a short peptide in solution is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The effects of long-range electrostatic interactions are examined and found to be important both for the equilibrium between folded and unfolded states and the dynamics of the folding process. The neglect of l...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aqvist J

更新日期：1999-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a full-size cDNA coding for cardiac troponin T (cTnT) from a human adult heart library, using a slow skeletal TnT probe. This cDNA detected a 1.2 kb mRNA in fetal and post-natal human heart, the amount of which increased during ontogenic development. Interestingly, a similar transcript was coexpressed...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mesnard L,Samson F,Espinasse I,Durand J,Neveux JY,Mercadier JJ

更新日期：1993-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemocyanin is present as 2 subunits in the hemolymph of Penaeus vannamei. Isolated from a hepatopancreas cDNA library of this penaeid shrimp, the cDNA chain (2095 bp) corresponds to a full length hemocyanin messenger as determined by Northern hybridization, with a short 5' untranslated region (17 bp), an open reading ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sellos D,Lemoine S,Van Wormhoudt A

更新日期：1997-04-28 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：:Regulatory divergence is likely a major driving force in evolution. Comparative genomics is being increasingly used to infer the evolution of gene regulation. Ascomycota fungi are uniquely suited among eukaryotes for regulatory evolution studies, due to broad phylogenetic scope, many sequenced genomes, and tractabilit...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thompson DA,Regev A

更新日期：2009-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular distribution of DNA methyltransferase has been analyzed in synchronously proliferating human cells. The localization of DNA methyltransferase was determined immunocytochemically using monoclonal antibodies directed against this enzyme. DNA methyltransferase was found to accumulate predominantly in nu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Vogel MC,Papadopoulos T,Müller-Hermelink HK,Drahovsky D,Pfeifer GP

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and characterized four Itpk genes from soybean. All four recombinant Itpk proteins showed canonical Ins(1,3,4)P3 5/6-kinase activity, but a kinetic analysis raised questions about its biological significance. Instead, we provide evidence that one alternative biological role for soybean Itpks is to inter...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stiles AR,Qian X,Shears SB,Grabau EA

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we show for the first time that ceramide-1-phosphate (C1P) stimulates the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-K)/protein kinase B (PKB) pathway, which is a major mechanism whereby growth factors promote cell survival. Also, C1P induced IkappaB phosphorylation, and enhanced the DNA binding activity of th...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gómez-Muñoz A,Kong JY,Parhar K,Wang SW,Gangoiti P,González M,Eivemark S,Salh B,Duronio V,Steinbrecher UP

更新日期：2005-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Tudor staphylococcal nuclease (Tudor-SN) interacts with the G3BP protein and is recruited into stress granules (SGs), the main type of discrete RNA-containing cytoplasmic foci structure that is formed under stress conditions. Here, we further demonstrate that Tudor-SN binds and co-localizes with AGTR1-3'UTR (3'-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gao X,Shi X,Fu X,Ge L,Zhang Y,Su C,Yang X,Silvennoinen O,Yao Z,He J,Wei M,Yang J

更新日期：2014-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of human proliferative cells to subcytotoxic stress triggers stress-induced premature senescence (SIPS) which is characterized by many biomarkers of replicative senescence. Proteomic comparison of replicative senescence and stress-induced premature senescence indicates that, at the level of protein expression...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dierick JF,Kalume DE,Wenders F,Salmon M,Dieu M,Raes M,Roepstorff P,Toussaint O

更新日期：2002-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The WW domain is known as one of the smallest protein modules with a triple-stranded beta-sheet fold. Here, we present the solution structure of the second WW domain from the mouse salvador homolog 1 protein. This WW domain forms a homodimer with a beta-clam-like motif, as evidenced by size exclusion chromatography, a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohnishi S,Güntert P,Koshiba S,Tomizawa T,Akasaka R,Tochio N,Sato M,Inoue M,Harada T,Watanabe S,Tanaka A,Shirouzu M,Kigawa T,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2007-02-06 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：:In human colon carcinoma HT-29 Glc(-/+) cells, L-arginine is the common precursor of polyamines which are absolutely necessary for cellular proliferation and nitric oxide (NO) with reported anti-proliferative activity. The aim of the present work was to test the effect of the NO donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on pol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Blachier F,Robert V,Selamnia M,Mayeur C,Duee PH

更新日期：1996-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:MeCP2 is a chromatin-associated protein that is mutated in Rett syndrome. Its methyl-CpG-binding domain interacts with DNA containing methylated cytosine, but other modes of recruitment to the genome have also been proposed. Here, we use in vitro and in vivo assays to investigate the DNA binding specificity of two AT-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lyst MJ,Connelly J,Merusi C,Bird A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L- and D-specific nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent dehydrogenases map to the same structural protein superfamily as defined by the Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) and are based on the Rossmann fold type domains. A detailed classification of these domains is proposed using a novel diagnost...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kutzenko AS,Lamzin VS,Popov VO

更新日期：1998-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of dioleoyl N-(monomethoxy polyethyleneglycol succinyl)phosphatidylethanolamine (PEG-PE) into large unilamellar liposomes composed of egg phosphatidylcholine:cholesterol (1:1) does not significantly increase the content leakage when the liposomes are exposed to 90% human serum at 37 degrees C, yet the li...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Klibanov AL,Maruyama K,Torchilin VP,Huang L

更新日期：1990-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Latent transforming growth factor-beta 1 binding protein (LTBP) is a constituent of the latent high molecular weight complex of TGF-beta 1 in human platelets. In the present communication, we show that LTBP binds Ca2+ in its free form as well as in the latent TGF-beta 1 complex. The binding of Ca2+ induces a structura...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colosetti P,Hellman U,Heldin CH,Miyazono K

更新日期：1993-04-05 00:00:00