Autocatalytic activation of human legumain at aspartic acid residues.

abstract：:Here we show that increased amount of secondary structure is acquired in the folded states of two structurally-different proteins (alpha-helical VlsE and alpha/beta flavodoxin) in the presence of macromolecular crowding agents. The structural content of flavodoxin and VlsE is enhanced by 33% and 70%, respectively, in ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Perham M,Stagg L,Wittung-Stafshede P

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The acronym CK2 denotes a highly pleiotropic Ser/Thr protein kinase whose over-expression correlates with neoplastic growth. A vexed question about the enigmatic regulation of CK2 concerns the actual existence in living cells of the catalytic (alpha and/or alpha') and regulatory beta-subunits of CK2 not assembled into...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Salvi M,Sarno S,Marin O,Meggio F,Itarte E,Pinna LA

更新日期：2006-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulated production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by plasma membrane-associated nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidases (Nox) in non-phagocytic cells regulates a number of biological processes including growth, vessel tone, and oxygen sensing. The purpose of this study was to investigate H(2)O(2)-sti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Colston JT,de la Rosa SD,Strader JR,Anderson MA,Freeman GL

更新日期：2005-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular homeostasis is linked tightly to mitochondrial functions. Some damage to mitochondrial proteins and nucleic acids can lead to the depolarization of the inner mitochondrial membrane, thereby sensitizing impaired mitochondria for selective elimination by autophagy. Mitochondrial dysfunction is one of the key as...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tanaka A

更新日期：2010-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The D- and L-forms of an alpha-helical antifreeze polypeptide (AFP) have been chemically synthesized. Circular dichroism spectra of the molecules show equal and opposite ellipticites. The D- and the L-enantiomers alone, and a 50:50 mixture of the two, all show identical antifreeze activity, but the enantiomeric forms ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Wen D,Laursen RA

更新日期：1993-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis depends on protein machineries, such as the ISC and SUF systems. The reaction is proposed to imply binding of sulfur and iron atoms and assembly of the cluster within a scaffold protein followed by transfer of the cluster to recipient apoproteins. The SufA protein from Escherichia coli...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sendra M,Ollagnier de Choudens S,Lascoux D,Sanakis Y,Fontecave M

更新日期：2007-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(+)/H(+) antiporters are ubiquitous membrane proteins and play an important role in cell homeostasis. We amplified a gene encoding a member of the monovalent cation:proton antiporter-2 (CPA2) family (TC 2.A.37) from the Thermus thermophilus genome and expressed it in Escherichia coli. The gene product was identified...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Furrer EM,Ronchetti MF,Verrey F,Pos KM

更新日期：2007-02-06 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：:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) exerts multiple biological functions through G protein-coupled receptors (EDG2/LPA(1), EDG4/LPA(2), and EDG7/LPA(3)) and is present in serum where it is associated with albumin. In this study we examined LPA activity in various biological fluids by measuring the LPA-induced increase in the ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hama K,Bandoh K,Kakehi Y,Aoki J,Arai H

更新日期：2002-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption frequencies of the C = O and C = C (neutral state) and of the C...O (semiquinone state) stretching vibrations of QB have been assigned by FTIR spectroscopy, using native and site-specifically 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-13C-labelled ubiquinone-10 (UQ10) reconstituted at the QB binding site of Rhodobacter sphaeroid...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brudler R,de Groot HJ,van Liemt WB,Gast P,Hoff AJ,Lugtenburg J,Gerwert K

更新日期：1995-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the C-terminal domain of Bcl-2 family members may contain a signal anchor sequence that targets these proteins to the mitochondrial outer membrane. We have investigated the consequence of deleting this domain upon cytochrome c release in yeast strains that coexpress truncated forms of Bax (i...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Priault M,Camougrand N,Chaudhuri B,Manon S

更新日期：1999-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoid 3'-hydroxylase (F3'H) and flavonoid 3',5'-hydroxylase (F3'5'H) are cytochrome P450 enzymes and determine the B-ring hydroxylation pattern of flavonoids by introducing hydroxyl groups at the 3'- or the 3'- and 5'-position, respectively. Sequence identity between F3'H and F3'5'H is generally low since their di...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Seitz C,Ameres S,Forkmann G

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:It had been shown previously by heterologous expression in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, that the two monosaccharide/H+ symporters HUP1 and HUP2 of Chlorella kessleri differ significantly concerning their substrate specificity: HUP1 transports predominantly D-glucose while HUP2 prefers D-galactose. Several chimeric trans...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Will A,Tanner W

更新日期：1996-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:pMNEI, a single chain sweet protein related to monellin, has been studied by means of 1H NMR at 500 MHz. A partial sequential assignment performed by means of the MCD method allowed the determination of the secondary structure of a large portion of the beta-sheet of pMNEI that contains a likely 'sweet finger': the loo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tancredi T,Iijima H,Saviano G,Amodeo P,Temussi PA

更新日期：1992-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells play a pivotal role in the development of atherosclerosis. An 'activated' phenotype of these cells is manifested by signal transduction-dependent expression of genes encoding cytokines, pro- and anticoagulant factors, and cell adhesion molecules. In the current study we examined the effect of ouabain...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bereta J,Cohen MC,Bereta M

更新日期：1995-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase from human and bovine polymorphonuclear leukocytes was purified to homogeneity. Rabbit antisera were raised against the two glycogen synthases and used for immunochemical analysis. Western blotting analysis showed that the subunit of glycogen synthase in crude homogenates of human and bovine leukocyt...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rasmussen LH,Juhl H,Esmann V,Petersen HU

更新日期：1988-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of formation of diferric-transferrin has been studied using various combinations of Fe(II), Tf, Cp and h serum. When the reactants were added in a correct physiological sequence, ceruloplasmin and diluted human serum showed the fastest rate of saturation of transferrin. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chidambaram MV,Barnes G,Frieden E

更新日期：1983-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In Alzheimer's disease, beta-amyloid peptides (betaA(1-40) and betaA(1-42)) are deposited on the brain cell surfaces as neurotoxic plaques. Some reports indicate that small heat shock proteins, Hsp27 and alphaB-crystallin, colocalize in the plaques, but their functions are not known. Interaction between betaA and alph...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Liang JJ

更新日期：2000-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented, by means of both fluorescence and action spectroscopy, that a small, spectroscopically heterogeneous population of both Chl a and Chl b molecules is present in isolated spinach thylakoids and is active in photoinhibition. The broadness of the action spectrum suggests that degraded or incompletel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Santabarbara S,Neverov KV,Garlaschi FM,Zucchelli G,Jennings RC

更新日期：2001-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence comparison based on Hydrophobic Cluster Analysis procedures shows that the extracellular approximately 200 amino acids domains of cytokines receptors belonging to the Cytokine/Growth hormone/Prolactin receptor family and to the Interferon one are organized in two homologous subdomains. Further, comparison of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Thoreau E,Petridou B,Kelly PA,Djiane J,Mornon JP

更新日期：1991-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the linear epitope for Fc-binding on the bovine IgG2 Fc receptor (boFcgamma2R), peptides derived from the membrane-distal extracellular domain (EC1) of boFcgamma2R corresponding to the homologous region of human FcalphaRI were synthesized. Binding of bovine IgG2 to the different peptides was tested by Dot-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang G,Guo J,Zhou J,Wang X,Li Q,Yang Y,Shen H,Zhao D,Zhang H,Xi J,Wang L,Qiao S,Jin X

更新日期：2006-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone cytokinin plays a major role in regulating plant growth and development. Here we generated cytokinin-reduction Arabidopsis plants by overexpressing a heterologous cytokinin oxidase gene DSCKX1 from Dendrobium orchid. These transgenic plants exhibited reduced biomass, rapid root growth, decreased abil...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yang S,Yu H,Xu Y,Goh CJ

更新日期：2003-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a gene replacement strategy to delete the previously isolated gene [(1987) EMBO J. 6, 2825-2833] for the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from Paracoccus denitrificans. The resulting mutant was still able to synthesize active cytochrome c oxidase. This led us to look for another locus which could completely...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Raitio M,Pispa JM,Metso T,Saraste M

更新日期：1990-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal disorder caused by absence of functional dystrophin protein. Compensation in dystrophin-deficient (mdx) mice may be achieved by overexpression of its fetal paralogue, utrophin. Strategies to increase utrophin levels by stimulating promoter activity using small compounds are...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Perkins KJ,Davies KE

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We employed cDNA representational difference analysis to identify new genes that are upregulated by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in a human hepatoblastoma cell line HepG2. We isolated several TCDD-responsive cDNAs. Sequence analysis revealed that one of them encodes E16/CD98LC/hLAT1, an integral membrane...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sarkar D,Kambe F,Hirata A,Iseki A,Ohmori S,Seo H

更新日期：1999-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Maurotoxin (MTX) is a 34-residue toxin that has been isolated from the venom of the chactidae scorpion Scorpio maurus palmatus, and characterized. Together with Pi1 and HsTx1, MTX belongs to a family of short-chain four-disulfide-bridged scorpion toxins acting on potassium channels. However, contrary to other members ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Carlier E,Fajloun Z,Mansuelle P,Fathallah M,Mosbah A,Oughideni R,Sandoz G,Di Luccio E,Geib S,Regaya I,Brocard J,Rochat H,Darbon H,Devaux C,Sabatier JM,de Waard M

更新日期：2001-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma currently infect millions of people in tropical and subtropical countries. An enzyme playing a major role in hemoglobin (Hb) degradation by Schistosoma mansoni has been cloned and shown to be highly similar to the human cathepsin D aspartyl proteinase, although presenting a distin...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Silva FP Jr,Ribeiro F,Katz N,Giovanni-De-Simone S

更新日期：2002-03-13 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 host-controlled EcoK restriction of unmodified phage lambda was five-fold alleviated in the wild-type Escherichia coli strain K12 carrying the R64 plasmid of the incompatibility group I1. The relevant gene was mapped between the origin of vegetative replication (rep, oriV) and the tet(r) gene about 60 kbp downstre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rastorguev SM,Zavilgelsky GB,Tchurikov NA

更新日期：1998-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor Va is an essential cofactor which combines with the serine protease factor Xa on a phospholipid surface to form the prothrombinase complex. In the present study, the structure of factor Va interacting with lipid surfaces containing phosphatidylserine was studied by electron microscopy. Two-dimension...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Stoylova S,Mann KG,Brisson A

更新日期：1994-09-12 00:00:00