abstract：:Hepatitis B virus X protein is a major factor in the HBV-induced disease developments. Stromal cell-derived factor-1 is a small cytokine that is strongly chemotactic for lymphocytes. We explored the role of HBx on recruitment of HBV-induced virus-nonspecific immune cells into liver. Immune cell recruitment and SDF-1 e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Cho HK,Kim SY,Seong JK,Cheong J

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To demonstrate the interaction of calpastatin (CS) domain L (CSL) with Cav1.2 channel, we investigated the binding of CSL with various C-terminus-derived peptides at≈free, 100 nM, 10 μM, and 1mM Ca(2+) by using the GST pull-down assay method. Besides binding with the IQ motif, CSL was also found to bind with the PreIQ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sun W,Feng R,Hu H,Guo F,Gao Q,Shao D,Yin D,Wang H,Sun X,Zhao M,Minobe E,Sun Y,Jiao G,Kameyama M,Hao L

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA-107 (miR-107) has been demonstrated to regulate proliferation and apoptosis in many types of cancers. Nevertheless, its biological function in gastric cancer remains largely unexplored. Here, we found that the expression level of miR-107 was increased in gastric cancer in comparison with the adjacent normal t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Li F,Liu B,Gao Y,Liu Y,Xu Y,Tong W,Zhang A

更新日期：2014-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monoclonal antibodies often display limited thermodynamic and colloidal stabilities. This behavior hinders their production, and places limitations on the development of novel formulation conditions and therapeutic applications. Antibodies are highly diverse molecules, with much of the sequence variation observe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rouet R,Lowe D,Christ D

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kv3.1 channel plays a crucial role in regulating the high-frequency firing properties of neurons. Here, we determined whether Src regulates the subcellular distributions of the Kv3.1b channel. Co-expression of active Src induced a dramatic redistribution of Kv3.1b to the endoplasmic reticulum. Furthermore, co-expr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Bae SH,Kim DH,Shin SK,Choi JS,Park KS

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we make a brief survey of the present state of antibiotic research and use. We also describe a novel antibiotic that contains a basic peptide covalently bound to a morpholino oligonucleotide. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Altman S

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle plays key roles in metabolic homeostasis. Loss of muscle mass, called muscle atrophy exacerbates disease-associated metabolic perturbations. In this study, we characterized the molecular functions and mechanisms underlying regulation of skeletal muscle atrophy induced by denervation. Denervation signif...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kang J,Jeong MG,Oh S,Jang EJ,Kim HK,Hwang ES

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:PPP2R2C encodes a gamma isoform of the subunit B55 subfamily, which is a regulatory subunit of Protein phosphatase type 2A (PP2A). Our study shows that PPP2R2C is downregulated in glioma cells and human brain cancer patient samples. Overexpression of PPP2R2C inhibited cancer cell proliferation both in vitro and in viv...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fan YL,Chen L,Wang J,Yao Q,Wan JQ

更新日期：2013-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs mainly inhibit coding genes and long non-coding RNA expression. Here, we report that hsa-miR-125b and oncogene SIRT7/oncogenic long non-coding RNA MALAT1 were inversely expressed in bladder cancer. Hsa-miR-125b mimic down-regulated, whereas hsa-miR-125b inhibitor up-regulated the expression of SIRT7 and MALA...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Han Y,Liu Y,Zhang H,Wang T,Diao R,Jiang Z,Gui Y,Cai Z

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 4 (Lrp4) is essential for pre- and post-synaptic specialization at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ), an indispensable synapse between a motor nerve and skeletal muscle. Muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase MuSK must form a complex with Lrp4 to organize postsynaptic ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hoshi T,Tezuka T,Yokoyama K,Iemura S,Natsume T,Yamanashi Y

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial ATP synthase, a major ATP supplier in respiring cells, should be regulated in amount and in activity to respond to the varying demands of cells for ATP. We screened 80 protein kinase inhibitors and found that HeLa cells treated with four inhibitors exhibited reduced mitochondrial ATP synthesis activity. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugawara K,Fujikawa M,Yoshida M

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding specific cargo distribution in differentiated cells is a major challenge. Trafficking kinesin proteins (TRAKs) are kinesin adaptors. They bind the cargo binding domain of kinesin-1 motor proteins forming a link between the motor and their cargoes. To refine the TRAK1/2 binding sites within the kinesin-1 ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Randall TS,Moores C,Stephenson FA

更新日期：2013-11-29 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：:In Gram-positive bacteria the tRNA-dependent T box riboswitch regulates the expression of many amino acid biosynthetic and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase genes through a transcription attenuation mechanism. The Specifier domain of the T box riboswitch contains the Specifier sequence that is complementary to the tRNA antico...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Chang AT,Nikonowicz EP

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysulfide is a bound sulfur species derived from endogenous H2S. When mouse neuroblastoma, Neuro2A cells were exposed to tert-butyl hydroperoxide after treatment with polysulfide, a significant decline in cell toxicity was observed. Rapid uptake of polysulfides induced translocation of Nrf2 into the nucleus, resulti...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Koike S,Ogasawara Y,Shibuya N,Kimura H,Ishii K

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptidic siderophore pyoverdine is the primary iron uptake system of fluorescent pseudomonads, and a virulence factor in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pyoverdine biogenesis is a co-ordinate process requiring several precursor-generating enzymes and large nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Imperi F,Visca P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli evolves H2 via multiple [Ni-Fe]-hydrogenases (Hyd). This activity under hyper- and hypo-osmotic stress was investigated with mutants lacking different Hyd enzymes during glycerol fermentation. Inhibitory effects of hypo-stress on H2 production was stronger at pH 6.5 in wild type and mutants except fhl...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Trchounian K,Trchounian A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we provide evidence that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress suppresses DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair and increases radiosensitivity of tumor cells by altering Rad51 levels. We show that the ER stress inducer tunicamycin stimulates selective degradation of Rad51 via the 26S proteasome, impairing DS...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yamamori T,Meike S,Nagane M,Yasui H,Inanami O

更新日期：2013-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The α-subunit of the cardiac voltage-gated sodium channel (NaV1.5) plays a central role in cardiomyocyte excitability. We have recently reported that NaV1.5 is post-translationally modified by arginine methylation. Here, we aimed to identify the enzymes that methylate NaV1.5, and to describe the role of arginine methy...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Beltran-Alvarez P,Espejo A,Schmauder R,Beltran C,Mrowka R,Linke T,Batlle M,Pérez-Villa F,Pérez GJ,Scornik FS,Benndorf K,Pagans S,Zimmer T,Brugada R

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) and their receptors are expressed in a variety of mammalian tissues, playing a role in development and cell proliferation. While analyzing human sperm motility, we found that sperm treated with endo-β-galactosidase (EBG), which specifically hydrolyzes poly-N-acetyllactosamine type glyc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sugihara K,Shibata TK,Takata K,Kimura T,Kanayama N,Williams R,Hatakeyama S,Akama TO,Kuo CW,Khoo KH,Fukuda MN

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a conserved non-coding RNA gene, transcripts of MALAT-1 localize predominately in the nucleus. However in G2/M cell cycle phase, MALAT-1 transcripts were surprisingly found to translocate from the nucleus into the cytoplasm. Investigation also found that in this process MALAT-1 interacts with an abundant nuclear fa...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yang F,Yi F,Han X,Du Q,Liang Z

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PsbV2 is a c-type cytochrome present in a very low abundance in the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus. We purified this cytochrome and solved its crystal structure at a resolution of 1.5Å. The protein existed as a dimer in the crystal, and has an overall structure similar to other c-type cytoch...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Suga M,Lai TL,Sugiura M,Shen JR,Boussac A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial spider silk proteins may form fibers with exceptional strength and elasticity. Wrapping silk, or aciniform silk, is the toughest of the spider silks, and has a very different protein composition than other spider silks. Here, we present the characterization of an aciniform protein (AcSp1) subunit named W1, ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Xu L,Tremblay ML,Orrell KE,Leclerc J,Meng Q,Liu XQ,Rainey JK

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of breast milk BSDL was assayed with or without phospholipids as extra-intestinal effector candidates. Phosphatidic acid, lysophosphatidic acid and platelet activating factor but not phosphatidylcholine and lysophosphatidylcholine stimulated BSDL activity at least as efficiently as taurocholate. The appar...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Fontbonne H,Puigserver A,Bouza B,Lombardo D,Ajandouz el H

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant receptor-like kinases (RLKs) share their evolutionary origin with animal interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK)/Pelle family of soluble kinases and are distinguished by having tyrosine as 'gatekeeper'. This position is adjacent to the hinge region and is hidden in a hydrophobic pocket of the catalytic c...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Samaddar S,Dutta A,Sinharoy S,Paul A,Bhattacharya A,Saha S,Chien KY,Goshe MB,DasGupta M

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate (EGCG), a polyphenol in green tea, induces apoptosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells without affecting normal cells. In this study, we observed that cGMP acts as a cell death mediator of the EGCG-induced anti-AML effect through acid sphingomyelinase activation. EGCG activated the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kumazoe M,Kim Y,Bae J,Takai M,Murata M,Suemasu Y,Sugihara K,Yamashita S,Tsukamoto S,Huang Y,Nakahara K,Yamada K,Tachibana H

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of Brucella inside eukaryotic cells is essential for pathogenesis, and successful infection requires rapid adaptation to the intracellular milieu. Close relatives of Brucella use the two-component system FixLJ to survive inside the host. We aimed to identify a homologous sensor in Brucella abortus. A predi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Roset MS,Almirón MA

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Periplasmic adaptor proteins are essential components of bacterial tripartite multidrug efflux pumps. Here we report the 2.35 Å resolution crystal structure of the BesA adaptor from the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi solved using selenomethionine derivatized protein. BesA shows the archetypal linear, flexible, multi-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Greene NP,Hinchliffe P,Crow A,Ababou A,Hughes C,Koronakis V

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenesis depends on a coordinated network of transcription factors including Sp7. Emerging evidence indicates that microRNAs (miRNAs) act as pivotal regulators in various biological processes including osteoblast proliferation and differentiation. Here, we investigated the effect of miR-145 on osteogenic different...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Jia J,Tian Q,Ling S,Liu Y,Yang S,Shao Z

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotic aminoacylated-transfer RNAs often need to be efficiently segregated between translation and other cellular biosynthetic pathways. Many clinically relevant bacteria, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa direct some aminoacylated-tRNA spe...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Shepherd J,Ibba M

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Many biochemical reactions are confined to interfaces, such as membranes or cell walls. Despite their importance, no canonical rate laws describing the kinetics of surface-active enzymes exist. Combining the approach chosen by Michaelis and Menten 100 years ago with concepts from surface chemical physics, we here pres...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kartal O,Ebenhöh O

更新日期：2013-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Leonor Michaelis spent the years of 1922-1926 as Professor of Biochemistry of the Aichi Medical College (now Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University) in Nagoya, Japan. Michaelis succeeded in gathering many bright young biochemists from all over Japan into his laboratory, and made tremendous contributions to the...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nagatsu TT

更新日期：2013-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Single enzyme molecules display inevitable, stochastic fluctuations in their catalytic activity. In metabolism, for instance, the stochastic activity of individual enzymes is averaged out due to their high copy numbers per single cell. However, many processes inside cells rely on single enzyme activity, such as transc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Schwabe A,Maarleveld TR,Bruggeman FJ

更新日期：2013-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:trans-3-Chloroacrylic acid dehalogenase (CaaD) catalyzes the hydrolytic dehalogenation of trans-3-haloacrylates to yield malonate semialdehyde by a mechanism utilizing βPro-1, αArg-8, αArg-11, and αGlu-52. These residues are implicated in a promiscuous hydratase activity where 2-oxo-3-pentynoate is processed to acetop...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Poelarends GJ,Serrano H,Huddleston JP,Johnson WH Jr,Whitman CP

更新日期：2013-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Various structural models for amyloid β fibrils have been derived from a variety of experimental techniques. However, these models cannot differentiate between the relative position of the two arms of the β hairpin called the stagger. Amyloid fibrils of various hierarchical levels form left-handed helices composed of ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： GhattyVenkataKrishna PK,Uberbacher EC,Cheng X

更新日期：2013-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic silencing mechanisms play an important role in chemoresistance of human cancer. Here we report the upregulated expression of metastasis-associated protein 1 (MTA1), a component of the nucleosome remodeling deacetylation (NuRD) complex, in chemoresistant prostate cancer (PCa). MTA1 knockdown in PC-3 cells in...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Yu L,Su YS,Zhao J,Wang H,Li W

更新日期：2013-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic Ssu72 factor is involved in several RNA biogenesis processes. It has phosphatase activity on the carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) of the major subunit of RNA polymerase II. The Kluyveromyces lactis Ssu72 (KlSsu72) shows in vitro phosphatase activity for the pNPP substrate, and this activity is inhibited by...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rodríguez-Torres AM,Lamas-Maceiras M,García-Díaz R,Freire-Picos MA

更新日期：2013-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an open-access web platform isomiRex, to identify isomiRs and on the fly graphical visualization of the differentially expressed miRNAs in control as well as treated library. The open-access web-platform is not restricted only to NGS sequence dataset from animals and potentially analyzes a wider dataset for...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Sablok G,Milev I,Minkov G,Minkov I,Varotto C,Yahubyan G,Baev V

更新日期：2013-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystallographic analysis of a mutated form of "loopful" GH19 chitinase from rye seeds a double mutant RSC-c, in which Glu67 and Trp72 are mutated to glutamine and alanine, respectively, (RSC-c-E67Q/W72A) in complex with chitin tetrasaccharide (GlcNAc)₄ revealed that the entire substrate-binding cleft was completely o...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ohnuma T,Umemoto N,Kondo K,Numata T,Fukamizo T

更新日期：2013-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It is increasingly clear that microRNAs play a crucial role in tumorigenesis. Recently, emerging evidence suggested that miR-26a is aberrantly expressed in tumor tissues. In our study, frequent down-regulation of miR-26a was observed in 10 human bladder cancer tissues. Forced expression of miR-26a in the bladder cance...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lin Y,Chen H,Hu Z,Mao Y,Xu X,Zhu Y,Xu X,Wu J,Li S,Mao Q,Zheng X,Xie L

更新日期：2013-08-02 00:00:00