abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) dose-dependently increased HIF1α expression in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs). Inhibition of protein synthesis did not affect ET-1-induced HIF1α expression. The maximum effect of ET-1 was similar to that caused by proteasome inhibitor MG132. Further study indicates that ET-1 also dos...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li M,Liu Y,Jin F,Sun X,Li Z,Liu Y,Fang P,Shi H,Jiang X

更新日期：2012-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Different bioinformatics methods illuminate different aspects of protein function, from specific catalytic activities to broad functional categories. Here, a triple-pronged approach to predict function for a domain of unknown function, DUF2086, is applied. Distant homology to characterised enzymes and conservation of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Mello LV,Rigden DJ

更新日期：2012-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The WWE domain is often identified in proteins associated with ubiquitination or poly-ADP-ribosylation. Structural information about WWE domains has been obtained for the ubiquitination-related proteins, such as Deltex and RNF146, but not yet for the poly-ADP-ribose polymerases (PARPs). Here we determined the solution...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： He F,Tsuda K,Takahashi M,Kuwasako K,Terada T,Shirouzu M,Watanabe S,Kigawa T,Kobayashi N,Güntert P,Yokoyama S,Muto Y

更新日期：2012-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic progenitors have been shown to retain plasticity and switch lineages by appropriate stimuli. However, mature blood cells hardly showed such differentiation plasticity. In this paper, we tried to reprogram mature B cells into erythroid lineage by expressing various hematopoietic transcription factors. Amo...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sadahira K,Fukuchi Y,Kunimono H,Sakurai M,Ikeda Y,Okamoto S,Nakajima H

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:ASP is a serine protease secreted by Aeromonas sobria, a sepsis-causing bacterium, and induces sepsis-mimicking disorders through plasma protein cleavage. The pathogen also secretes nASP that has a nick in the carboxy-terminal region. Compared with single-chain ASP (sASP), nASP had near-equivalent activity for small p...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Murakami Y,Wada Y,Kobayashi H,Hasegawa M,Okamoto K,Eto M,Imamura T

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Low plasma homoarginine has emerged as a risk marker for cardiovascular disease. We exploited cells of a patient with a rare inborn error of metabolism to explore potential pathways of homoarginine synthesis, using stable isotopes and mass spectrometry. Control lymphoblasts, as opposed to lymphoblasts from an arginine...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Davids M,Ndika JD,Salomons GS,Blom HJ,Teerlink T

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Syntabulin is a microtubule-associated protein that mediates anterograde transport of vesicles to neuronal processes. Here, we found that syntabulin was expressed in mouse pancreas and insulin-secreting β-cells, and that it partially co-localized with microtubule and insulin-containing granules. The association of syn...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ying Y,Li L,Cao W,Yan D,Zeng Q,Kong X,Lu L,Yan M,Xu X,Qu J,Su Q,Ma X

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of 2'-OH groups in the binding of mRNA to human ribosomes were studied using site-directed cross-linking. We found that both mRNA and mDNA analogues bearing a cross-linker can modify ribosomal proteins (rps) S3e and S2e at the mRNA entry site independently on tRNA presence, but only mRNA analogues were capab...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Graifer D,Zhigailov A,Ven'yaminova A,Malygin A,Iskakov B,Karpova G

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated transactivation by NANOG in regulating growth and differentiation factor 3 (GDF3) expression in NCCIT cells. GDF3 expression was affected by shRNA-mediated downregulation and by exogenous overexpression of NANOG specifically, as well as by retinoic acid-mediated differentiation. GDF3 transcription was ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Park SW,Lim HY,Do HJ,Sung B,Huh SH,Uhm SJ,Song H,Chung HJ,Kim JH,Kim NH,Kim JH

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C Virus core protein (HCVc) plays important roles in the development of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) contribute to tumor progression by interacting with downstream target genes. However, the regulation and role of miRNAs in HCV-related intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (HCV-ICC) is...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zeng B,Li Z,Chen R,Guo N,Zhou J,Zhou Q,Lin Q,Cheng D,Liao Q,Zheng L,Gong Y

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Clusters of codons pairing to low-abundance tRNAs synchronize the translation with co-translational folding of single domains in multidomain proteins. Although proven with some examples, the impact of the ribosomal speed on the folding and solubility on a global, cell-wide level remains elusive. Here we show that upre...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fedyunin I,Lehnhardt L,Böhmer N,Kaufmann P,Zhang G,Ignatova Z

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of GE82832, a translocation inhibitor produced by a soil microorganism, is shown to be highly related to that of dityromycin, a bicyclodecadepsipeptide antibiotic discovered long ago whose characterization had never been pursued beyond its structural elucidation. GE82832 and dityromycin were shown to int...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Brandi L,Maffioli S,Donadio S,Quaglia F,Sette M,Milón P,Gualerzi CO,Fabbretti A

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that growth hormone (GH)-induced IGF-1 signaling plays a dominant role in postnatal muscle growth. Our previous studies have identified a growth factor, progranulin (PGRN), that is co-induced with IGF-1 upon GH administration. This result prompted us to explore the function of PGRN and its association...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hu SY,Tai CC,Li YH,Wu JL

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:miR398 links expression of the three major chloroplast copper proteins, plastocyanin, CCS1 and Csd2, to copper availability. miR398 abundance was stronger plastocyanin-controlled in accessions from cold and continental habitats (Kas-1, Ms-0, WS) than in Cvi-0 and Col-0. Target gene regulation was broken for Csd2 in Cv...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Juszczak I,Baier M

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (EGCG) exhibits anti-tumor activity mediated via the 67-kDa laminin receptor (67LR). In this study, we found that 67LR protein levels are reduced by exposure to low O(2) levels (5%), without affecting the expression of HIF-1α. We also found that EGCG-induced anti-cancer activity is abr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tsukamoto S,Yamashita S,Kim YH,Kumazoe M,Huang Y,Yamada K,Tachibana H

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Various molecular mechanisms are involved in the efficacy of arsenic trioxide (ATO) against malignant hematologic and some solid tumors. FLICE-like inhibitory protein (FLIP) is an inhibitor of apoptosis mediated by death receptors. In this study, we identified a new link between the down-regulation of cellular FLIP(L)...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhang G,Liu J,Zhang Y,Qu J,Xu L,Zheng H,Liu Y,Qu X

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II restriction endonucleases (REases) exist in multiple oligomeric forms. The tetrameric REases have two DNA binding interfaces and must synapse two recognition sites to achieve cleavage. It was hypothesised that binding of two recognition sites by tetrameric enzymes contributes to their fidelity. Here, we experi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zaremba M,Sasnauskas G,Siksnys V

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic machinery requires balanced distribution of excitation energy from the light-harvesting complexes to photosystems. The efficiency of light-harvesting is regulated by thermal dissipation of excess energy, while the distribution of energy between photosystems is dependent on STN7 kinase and phosphorylatio...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Tikkanen M,Suorsa M,Gollan PJ,Aro EM

更新日期：2012-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids are essential eukaryotic cellular constituents. Lipid metabolism has a strong impact on cell physiology, and despite good progress in this area, many important basic questions remain unanswered concerning the functional diversity of lipid species and on the mechanisms that cells employ to sense and adjust their...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Santos AX,Riezman H

更新日期：2012-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing of tau exon 10 generates tau isoforms with three or four microtubule-binding repeats, named 3R- or 4R-tau. Normal adult human brain expresses equal levels of them. Imbalance of 3R-tau and 4R-tau associates with several tauopathies. Splicing factor 9G8 suppresses tau exon 10 inclusion and its funct...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gu J,Shi J,Wu S,Jin N,Qian W,Zhou J,Iqbal IG,Iqbal K,Gong CX,Liu F

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin, a known neurotransmitter, also functions as an angiokine to promote angiogenesis. The majority of serotonin in the human body is stored in platelets, and platelet aggregation leads to significant release of serotonin in thrombotic tumor environment. We have investigated serotonin signaling in human endothel...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zamani A,Qu Z

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In nucleus, eIF4E regulates the nucleus export of specific mRNA. In this study, altered 4E-BP3 (eIF4E-binding protein 3) expression resulted in profoundly affected cyclin D1 protein levels, partially due to changes in the cytoplasmic cyclin D1 mRNA levels in both U2OS and MCF7 cells, whereas altered 4E-BP1 expression ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chen CC,Lee JC,Chang MC

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The alphavirus-like mRNA capping enzyme of Bamboo mosaic virus (BaMV) exhibits an AdoMet-dependent guanylyltransferase activity by which the methyl group of AdoMet is transferred to GTP, leading to the formation of m(7)GTP, and the m(7)GMP moiety is next transferred to the 5' end of ppRNA via a covalent enzyme-m(7)GMP...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lin HY,Yu CY,Hsu YH,Meng M

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of gangliosides GM3 and GD3 is carried out by the successive addition of sialic acid residues on lactosylceramide (LacCer) by the Golgi located sialyltransferases Sial-T1 and Sial-T2, respectively. CHO-K1 cells lack Sial-T2 and only express GM3. Here we show that the activity of Sial-T1 was near 2.5-fold...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Spessott W,Crespo PM,Daniotti JL,Maccioni HJ

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotic and abiotic stress induces the formation of galactolipids esterified with the phytohormones 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA) and dinor-oxo-phytodienoic acid (dnOPDA) in Arabidopsis thaliana. The biosynthetic pathways of free (dn)OPDA is well described, but it is unclear how they are incorporated into galactolipi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nilsson AK,Fahlberg P,Ellerström M,Andersson MX

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, four proteins, Shu1, Shu2, Psy3 and Csm2, form a stable SHU-complex both in vivo and in vitro. These proteins are involved in the early stages of the homologous recombination DNA damage repair process. In this paper, the crystal structure of the Psy3-Csm2 sub-complex is presented at 1.8Å r...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： She Z,Gao ZQ,Liu Y,Wang WJ,Liu GF,Shtykova EV,Xu JH,Dong YH

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Epichloë festucae Fl1 in association with Lolium perenne synthesizes a diverse range of indole-diterpene bioprotective metabolites, including lolitrem B, a potent tremorgen. The ltm genes responsible for the synthesis of these metabolites are organized in three clusters at a single sub-telomeric locus in the genome of...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Saikia S,Takemoto D,Tapper BA,Lane GA,Fraser K,Scott B

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The topic synthetic biology appears still as an 'empty basket to be filled'. However, there is already plenty of claims and visions, as well as convincing research strategies about the theme of synthetic biology. First of all, synthetic biology seems to be about the engineering of biology - about bottom-up and top-dow...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Malinova V,Nallani M,Meier WP,Sinner EK

更新日期：2012-07-16 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：:TGF-β family signaling through Smads is conceptually a simple and linear signaling pathway, driven by sequential phosphorylation, with type II receptors activating type I receptors, which in turn activate R-Smads. Nevertheless, TGF-β family proteins induce highly complex programs of gene expression responses that are ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu P,Liu J,Derynck R

更新日期：2012-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are members of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family that signal via type I and type II serine/threonine kinase receptors and intracellular Smad transcription factors. BMPs are multifunctional regulators of development and tissue homeostasis and they were initially characte...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cai J,Pardali E,Sánchez-Duffhues G,ten Dijke P

更新日期：2012-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyubiquitylation leading to proteasomal degradation is a well-established mechanism for regulating TGF-β signal transduction components such as receptors and Smads. Recently, an equally important role was suggested for monoubiquitylation of both Smad4 and receptor-associated Smads that regulates their function witho...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Dupont S,Inui M,Newfeld SJ

更新日期：2012-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiovascular system consists of many cell types with distinct embryonic origins. Cells from an Islet1 (Isl1)-expressing progenitor population make a substantial contribution to the developing heart. We reasoned that cells derived from Isl1-expressing progenitors might contribute more widely to the cardiovascular...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Keenan ID,Rhee HJ,Chaudhry B,Henderson DJ

更新日期：2012-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Some pathogenic mutations associated with Alzheimer's disease are thought to affect structural-dynamic properties and the lateral dimerization of amyloid precursor protein (APP) in neuron membrane. Dimeric structure of APP transmembrane fragment Gln(686)-Lys(726) was determined in membrane-mimicking dodecylphosphochol...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nadezhdin KD,Bocharova OV,Bocharov EV,Arseniev AS

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-translational modification of histone proteins plays an important role in controlling cell fate by directing essentially all DNA-associated nuclear processes. Misregulation and mutation of histone modifying enzymes is a hallmark of tumorigenesis. However, how these different epigenetic modifications lead to t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Johnsen SA

更新日期：2012-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) is a potent antagonist of caspases, and functions as a ubiquitin-E3 ligase by itself and for caspases. Recently, NEDD8, a ubiquitin-like modifier, has been suggested to be used for modification of caspase-7 mediated by XIAP. However, it is not clear whether caspase-7 is a...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nagano T,Hashimoto T,Nakashima A,Kikkawa U,Kamada S

更新日期：2012-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost 30 years, Wnt proteins have been known as key regulators of many developmental decisions, including the formation of the embryonic axes, patterning of the CNS, limb bud outgrowth and segment polarity. However, live cell imaging of active Wnt proteins was rarely reported. Here, we have generated a Wnt2b-EGFP...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Holzer T,Liffers K,Rahm K,Trageser B,Ozbek S,Gradl D

更新日期：2012-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The class III phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K-III) complex and its phosphorylated lipid product phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PtdIns3P) control the three topologically related membrane-involution processes autophagy, endocytosis, and cytokinesis. The activity of the catalytic unit of PI3K-III complex, the Vacu...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Abrahamsen H,Stenmark H,Platta HW

更新日期：2012-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-induced B cell activation requires mobilization of the Ca(2+) second messenger. This process is associated with the subcellular relocalization of signal effector proteins of the B cell antigen receptor such as the adaptor protein SLP65. Here we describe a broadly applicable live cell imaging method to simultan...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Junek S,Engelke M,Schild D,Wienands J

更新日期：2012-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In fission yeast, the only known essential function of Ned8p is the modification of the cullin, Pcu1p, and subsequent Cullin-RING-Ligase (CRL) activation and substrate ubiquitination. We show here that a functional Pcu1p mutant, deleted for its C-terminal autoinhibitory domain, which negates the requirement of neddyla...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Girdwood D,Robertson M,Gordon C

更新日期：2012-05-21 00:00:00