HIRIP3 is a nuclear phosphoprotein interacting with and phosphorylated by the serine-threonine kinase CK2.

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-dependent signaling contributes to liver cell proliferation, as well as to apoptotic liver cell death, and represents an important regulator of hepatic regeneration. This article summarizes recent findings on the molecular mechanisms involved in EGF...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Reinehr R,Häussinger D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review deals with current concepts on the regulation and function of phospholipid asymmetry in biological membranes. This ubiquitous phenomenon is characterized by a distinctly different lipid composition between the inner and outer leaflet of the membrane bilayer. Transbilayer asymmetry is controlled by differen...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Bevers EM,Comfurius P,Dekkers DW,Harmsma M,Zwaal RF

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of a highly developed nervous system is mirrored by the ability of individual neurons to develop increased morphological complexity. As microtubules (MTs) are crucially involved in neuronal development, we tested the hypothesis that the evolution of complexity is driven by an increasing capacity of the M...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Trushina NI,Mulkidjanian AY,Brandt R

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional enhancers are short (200-1500 base pairs) DNA segments that are able to dramatically boost transcription from the promoter of a target gene. Originally discovered in simian virus 40 (SV40), a small DNA virus, transcription enhancers were soon also found in immunoglobulin genes and other cellular genes ...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Schaffner W

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial proteases secreted into an infected host may exhibit a wide range of pathogenic potentials. Staphylococci, in particular Staphylococcus aureus, are known to produce several extracellular proteases, including serine-, cysteine- and metalloenzymes. Their insensitivity to most human plasma protease inhibitors a...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Dubin G

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial zinc dyshomeostasis is associated with caspase-3 activation, ErbB2 degradation and apoptosis during hypoxia/reoxygenation. Zinc pyrithione replenishes intracellular zinc, suppresses caspase-3, augments ErbB2 levels and improves cell survival. We hypothesize that zinc is capable of modulating redox and endop...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Bodiga VL,Vemuri PK,Nimmagadda G,Bodiga S

更新日期：2020-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural and functional characterization of integral membrane proteins in a bilayer environment is strongly hampered by the requirement of detergents for solubilization and subsequent purification, as detergents commonly affect their structure and/or activity. Here, we describe a rapid procedure with minimal exposur...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Shirzad-Wasei N,van Oostrum J,Bovee-Geurts PH,Kusters LJ,Bosman GJ,DeGrip WJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of interaction of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-binding protein, LBP, with differently composed symmetric and asymmetric planar lipid bilayers was investigated in electrical measurements (membrane current, potential, capacitance). From a change of the inner membrane potential difference, binding of LBP to...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Gutsmann T,Haberer N,Carroll SF,Seydel U,Wiese A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription of the fatty acid synthase (FAS) gene is regulated by the sterol status of the cell via cleavage of the sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP). When human HepG2 hepatoma cells were cotransfected with an expression plasmid for mature SREBP-1a together with FAS promoter/reporter constructs s...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Wolf SS,Roder K,Sickinger S,Schweizer M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteases from the cell surface cleave an 80 kDa E-cadherin fragment (sE-CAD) that induces invasion of cancer cells into collagen type I and inhibits cellular aggregation. Conditioned media from MDCKts.srcCl2 cells at 40 degrees C and 35 degrees C, PCm.src5 and COLO-16 cells at 37 degrees C contained spo...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Ryniers F,Stove C,Goethals M,Brackenier L,Noë V,Bracke M,Vandekerckhove J,Mareel M,Bruyneel E

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thyroglobulin type-1 (Tg-1) domain is a protein module that occurs in a variety of secreted and membrane proteins and is recognised as a potent inhibitor of cysteine peptidases. We present here some properties of the Tg-1 domain of human testican, a modularly organised proteoglycan secreted mainly by brain cells, ...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Meh P,Pavsic M,Turk V,Baici A,Lenarcic B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the role of C2-ceramide in the induction of programmed cell death (PCD) in animal systems has been well documented, little is known of its role in plant cells. Here we show that C2-ceramide induces PCD in Arabidopsis suspension cultures, which is preceded by the generation of a calcium transient and an increase ...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Townley HE,McDonald K,Jenkins GI,Knight MR,Leaver CJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A FAD and [4Fe-4S]cluster-containing enzyme from Clostridium aminobutyricum catalyses the reversible dehydration of 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA to crotonyl-CoA which involves the cleavage of an unactivated C-H bond at the beta-carbon. Transient oxidation of the substrate to an enoxy radical by FAD might facilitate the remova...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Cinkaya I,Buckel W,Medina M,Gomez-Moreno C,Cammack R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the Ras family, Ran is a unique small G protein. It does not have a lipid modification motif at the C-terminus to bind to the membrane, which is often observed within the Ras family. Ran may therefore interact with a wide range of proteins in various intracellular locations. This means that Ran could play many d...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Nishimoto T

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we discuss how time-resolved Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is used to understand how GTP hydrolysis is catalyzed by small GTPases and their cognate GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs). By interaction with small GTPases, GAPs regulate important signal transduction pathways and transport m...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Kötting C,Gerwert K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report a detailed analysis of magnesium (Mg²+) ion effects on furin hydrolysis of fluorescent resonance energy transfer decapeptide substrates derived from canonical R-X-K/R-R furin cleavage motifs within certain viral envelope glycoproteins and eukaryotic proproteins. Using virus-derived sequences a selective...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Izidoro MA,Assis DM,Oliveira V,Santos JA,Juliano MA,Lindberg I,Juliano L

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The saline extract of Bauhinia bauhinioides dry seeds was shown to inhibit cruzipain, a cysteine proteinase from Trypanosoma cruzi. The inhibitory activity was assigned to a protein with 164 amino acid residues and molecular mass of 18 034 Da that was purified by chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex, trypsin-Sepharose (rem...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： de Oliveira C,Santana LA,Carmona AK,Cezari MH,Sampaio MU,Sampaio CA,Oliva ML

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hair follicle consists of a complex system of multiple tissue compartments that are clearly distinguishable by their morphology and type of differentiation. We have synthesized hair follicle-specific keratins from the companion layer (K6hf, K17) and the hair cortex (Ha1, Hb3, Hb6) in Escherichia coli. The assembly...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Hofmann I,Winter H,Mücke N,Langowski J,Schweizer J

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of extracellular matrix (ECM) biology in the nervous system have mainly focused on laminin, fibronectin and tenascin-R, proteins that are present during nervous system development and normal function. However, during disease, fibrin, which physiologically is not present in the nervous tissue, is detected at ne...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Akassoglou K,Strickland S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kallikrein-related peptidase (KLK) gene family of 15 serine proteases encodes many proteins, including prostate specific antigen (PSA or KLK3), that are well described and/or are potential biomarkers for hormone-related cancers. Variant mRNA transcripts produced by alternative splicing, polyadenylation or AUG site...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Tan OL,Whitbread AK,Clements JA,Dong Y

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MHC (major histocompatibility complex) class I molecules bind intracellular virus-derived peptides in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and present them at the cell surface to cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Peptide-free class I molecules at the cell surface, however, could lead to aberrant T cell killing. Therefore, cells ensu...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Wright CA,Kozik P,Zacharias M,Springer S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF-alpha is a major pro-inflammatory cytokine that regulates further cytokine induction, especially of IL-1 and IL-6, in many human diseases including cancer, inflammation and immune disorders. In a search for new inhibitors of inducible TNF-alpha promoter activity and expression, cultures of the imperfect fungus Tri...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Rether J,Serwe A,Anke T,Erkel G

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fanconi anemia is a fatal, hereditary chromosome instability syndrome of early childhood with progressive pancytopenia and cancer-proneness. Hypersensitivity to alkylating agents points to DNA repair inefficiency. Excess reactive oxygen intermediates and hypersensitivity to oxygen, all features of Fanconi anemia cells...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Kontou M,Hirsch-Kauffmann M,Schweiger M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter genes represent the largest family of transporters and these genes are abundant in the genome of all vertebrates. Through analysis of the genome sequence databases we have characterized the full complement of ABC genes from several mammals and other vertebrates. Multiple gene...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Moitra K,Dean M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central point of regulation in the Wnt/beta-catenin signalling pathway is the formation of the beta-catenin destruction complex. Axin1, an essential negative regulator of Wnt signalling, serves as a scaffold within this complex and is critical for rapid turnover of beta-catenin. To examine the mechanism by which Wnt...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Sue Ng S,Mahmoudi T,Li VS,Hatzis P,Boersema PJ,Mohammed S,Heck AJ,Clevers H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the hyaluronan-binding protease (PHBSP), a plasma enzyme with FVII- and pro-urokinase-activating potency, on components of the contact phase (kallikrein/kinin) system was investigated. No activation or cleavage of the proenzymes involved in the contact phase system was observed. The pro-cofactor high ...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Etscheid M,Beer N,Fink E,Seitz R,Johannes D

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian apolipoproteinB (apoB) RNA editing is a site-specific deamination reaction that mediates the C to U conversion responsible for apoB48 production in the mammalian small intestine. This process is not detected in chicken apoB RNA. Mammalian apoB RNA editing is mediated by a multicomponent enzyme complex that i...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Anant S,Yu H,Davidson NO

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNAs are key players in life as they connect the genetic code (DNA) with all cellular processes dominated by proteins. They contain a variety of chemical modifications and many RNAs fold into complex structures. Here, we review recent progress in the analysis of RNA modification and structure on the basis of stable is...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Asadi-Atoi P,Barraud P,Tisne C,Kellner S

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Kallikrein 6 (KLK6) is a trypsin-like serine peptidase whose relevance in various types of cancers is currently being explored. Previous studies have shown that KLK6 mRNA is upregulated in colon and gastric cancers; however, the regulatory mechanisms and phenotypic consequences of this upregulation are largely unknown...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Henkhaus RS,Gerner EW,Ignatenko NA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular chaperones of the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) family play a crucial role in the presentation of exogenous antigenic peptides by antigen-presenting cells (APCs). In a combined biochemical and immunological approach, we characterize the biochemical interaction of tumor-associated peptides with human Hsp70 an...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Pandya MJ,Bendz H,Manzenrieder F,Noessner E,Kessler H,Buchner J,Issels RD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00