Mitochondrial respiratory chain Complex I defects in Fanconi anemia complementation group A.

abstract：:The specific binding of the amyloid protein precursor (APP) to glycosaminoglycans (GAG) suggests that APP is a cell adhesion molecule (CAM) and/or substrate adhesion molecule (SAM). In order to characterize this activity of APP in the brain at the molecular level, we have purified and characterized the major APP speci...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Multhaup G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immunity factor lactoferrin harbours two antimicrobial moieties, lactoferricin and lactoferrampin, situated in close proximity in the N1 domain of the molecule. Most likely they cooperate in many of the beneficial activities of lactoferrin. To investigate whether chimerization of both peptides forms a funct...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bolscher JG,Adão R,Nazmi K,van den Keybus PA,van 't Hof W,Nieuw Amerongen AV,Bastos M,Veerman EC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative formalism called Metabolic Control Theory makes it possible to be precise in discussions of metabolic control. To illustrate this, I will mention 2 experimental systems where free energy is converted from one form to another, i.e., bacteriorhodopsin liposomes and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylatio...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Westerhoff HV

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligation of CD47 by its natural ligand thrombospondin (TSP), or cross-linking by CD47 antibodies, triggers caspase-independent cell death in normal and leukemic cells. This kind of cell death is characterised by the cytoplasmic events of apoptosis including externalisation of phosphatidylserines and mitochondria swell...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Roué G,Bitton N,Yuste VJ,Montange T,Rubio M,Dessauge F,Delettre C,Merle-Béral H,Sarfati M,Susin SA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs constitute the most abundant part of the transcribed mammalian genome. lncRNAs affect all essential processes in the living cell including transcription, splicing, translation, replication, shaping of chromatin and post translational modification of proteins. Alterations in lncRNA expression have ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Smekalova EM,Kotelevtsev YV,Leboeuf D,Shcherbinina EY,Fefilova AS,Zatsepin TS,Koteliansky V

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of hydrolysis of long chain triglycerides by pure bovine pancreatic lipase has been determined in the presence of variable amounts of bile salts and colipase. Cofactor-free lipase is strongly inhibited by sodium taurodesoxycholate and by mixed bovine bile salts at concentrations higher than the critical micel...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Rathelot J,Julien R,Canioni P,Coeroli C,Sarda L

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyper- (450 mOsm/l) and hypoosmotic exposure (150 mOsm/l) of Caco-2 cells, a human intestinal epithelial cell line, induced a twofold- and a fivefold increase in the production of IL-8, a constitutively expressed cytokine, respectively. This was observed both in the presence or in the absence of added proinflammatory ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Hubert A,Cauliez B,Chedeville A,Husson A,Lavoinne A

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel approach to genetic sequence analysis is presented. This approach, based on compression of algorithms, has been launched simultaneously by Grumbach and Tahi, Milosavljevic and Rivals. To reduce the description of an object, a compression algorithm replaces some regularities in the description by special codes....

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Rivals E,Dauchet M,Delahaye JP,Delgrange O

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcineurin (CN) is a unique calcium/calmodulin (CaM)-activated serine/threonine phosphatase. To perform its diverse biological functions, CN communicates with many substrates and other proteins. In the physiological activation of T cells, CN acts through transcriptional factors belonging to the NFAT family and other ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Zhao Y,Zhang J,Shi X,Li J,Wang R,Song R,Wei Q,Cai H,Luo J

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparison of the amino acid sequences of 5 cysteine proteinases: papain, actinidin, rat cathepsins B and H and chicken cathepsin L, demonstrates a striking homology among their sequences. The N-terminal region (residues 1-70 in papain) and C-terminal region (residues 118-212 in papain) display the highest sequenc...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Dufour E

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of ATP synthase subunit 4 was determined by using the oligonucleotide probe procedure. This subunit is the fourth polypeptide of the complex when classifying subunits in order of decreasing molecular mass. Its relative molecular mass is 25 kDa. The ATP4 gene was isolated and sequenced. The nucleotide seq...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Velours J,Arselin G,Paul MF,Galante M,Durrens P,Aigle M,Guerin B

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halophilic proteins have evolved to be soluble, stable and active in high salt concentration. Crystallographic studies have shown that surface enrichment by acidic amino acids is a common structural feature of halophilic proteins. In addition, ion-binding sites have also been observed in most of the cases. The role of...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Madern D,Ebel C

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding chicken ribosomal protein L7a was determined. The gene contains eight exons and seven introns, which spread over 3613 nucleotides. The transcription initiation sites were located on four consecutive nucleotides GCCC, which are at the 5' terminus of a short polypyrimidine tr...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Maeda N,Kenmochi N,Tanaka T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suhB gene of Escherichia coli has been defined by its mutant allele that suppresses other mutants in secY, rpoH, dnaB, and era. The suhB mutant by itself is cold sensitive, and is shown to have defects in protein synthesis. Starting with the suhB cold-sensitive mutant, cold-resistant suppressors were isolated. The...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Inada T,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From investigation of 2000 soil isolates, we identified two serine-type amidohydrolases that can hydrolyze d-aminoacyl derivatives from the culture supernatant of Streptomyces species 82F2 and 83D12. The enzymes, redesignated as 82F2-DAP and 83D12-DAP, were purified for homogeneity and characterized. Each enzyme had m...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Arima J,Ito H,Hatanaka T,Mori N

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic cardiomyopathy is related to oxidative stress and correlated with the presence of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). In a clinical setting, AGEs can be detected in patients presenting diabetic cardiomyopathy; however, the underlying mechanism has yet to be elucidated. In our previous study, AGEs increase...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ko SY,Chang SS,Lin IH,Chen HI

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wheat germ translation initiation factor 2 (WGeIF-2) was isolated in a homogeneous state by an efficient procedure and characterized. Its molecular mass, as determined by a gel-filtration method is approximately 150,000 Da. According to SDS-PAGE WGeIF-2 consists of four subunits with M(r) 37,000 (alpha), 40,000 (b...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Shaikhin SM,Smailov SK,Lee AV,Kozhanov EV,Iskakov BK

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroglobulin is a large-size iodoglycoprotein specific to thyroid tissue and is the substrate for the synthesis of thyroid hormones, thyroxine and 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine. Recent studies, which greatly benefited from recombinant DNA methodologies, improved the knowledge of several structural features of this dimeric ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Malthièry Y,Marriq C,Bergé-Lefranc JL,Franc JL,Henry M,Lejeune PJ,Ruf J,Lissitzky S

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell sterol supply is subjected to tight negative feedback regulation through the SREBP pathway. Upon cholesterol depletion, SREBP transcription factors become activated by cleavage of a membrane bound precursor form, which stimulates the expression of the genes encoding proteins of the cholesterol synthesis pathway. ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Robichon C,Dugail I

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major incentive in inhibitor research is that control of limited proteolysis constitutes a valuable pharmacological tool. Protease inhibitors have proved to be successful in influencing pathogenesis in many experimental models but a breakthrough to use in human therapy has mainly been restricted to aprotinin and ang...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Scharpe S,De Meester I,Hendriks D,Vanhoof G,van Sande M,Vriend G

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:rBmTI-A is a recombinant serine protease inhibitor that belongs to the Kunitz-BPTI family and that was cloned from Rhipicephalus microplus tick. rBmTI-A has inhibitory activities on bovine trypsin, human plasma kallikrein, human neutrophil elastase and plasmin with dissociation constants in nM range. It is characteriz...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bomediano Camillo LM,Ferreira GC,Duran AFA,da Silva FRS,Garcia W,Scott AL,Sasaki SD

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtually all brain circuits are physically embedded in a three-dimensional matrix of fibers that release 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT, serotonin). The density of this matrix varies across brain regions and cortical laminae, and it is altered in some mental disorders, including Major Depressive Disorder and Autism Spectr...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Janušonis S,Detering N

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase (E.C 1.11.1.6) was purified from leaves of Zandedeschia aethiopica to apparent homogeneity by a one-step hydrophobic interaction chromatography on a phenyl Sepharose CL-4B column. The purified enzyme preparation was obtained with a final recovery of enzyme activity of about 61% and a specific activity of 146 ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Trindade H,Karmali A,Pais MS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin E synthase (PGES), which converts cyclooxygenase (COX)-derived prostaglandin H(2) (PGH(2)) to PGE(2), is known to comprise a group of at least three structurally and biologically distinct enzymes. Two of them are membrane-bound and have been designated as mPGES-1 and mPGES-2. mPGES-1 is a perinuclear pro...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Hara S,Kamei D,Sasaki Y,Tanemoto A,Nakatani Y,Murakami M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most diagnosed cancer in the western world, affecting 1 out of approximately 22 people in their lifetime. Several epidemiological studies suggest a positive association between high plasma cholesterol levels and colorectal cancer. However, the molecular mechanisms by which choleste...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Warns J,Marwarha G,Freking N,Ghribi O

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the suckling period, the rats are fed continuously with milk, which is a high-fat low-carbohydrate diet (HF). At weaning, milk is progressively replaced by the rat's laboratory chow which is a high-carbohydrate low-fat diet (HCHO), and this is accompanied by large hormonal modifications: an increase in plasma i...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Girard J,Perdereau D,Narkewicz M,Coupé C,Ferré P,Decaux JF,Bossard P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle-related and expression elevated protein in tumor (CREPT) is emerging as a novel cancer-related gene that is dysregulated in many kinds of malignancies. However, the expression and biological role of CREPT in glioma remains unclear. In the present study, we aimed to explore the potential function and regulat...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Wei M,Cao Y,Jia D,Zhao H,Zhang L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical and experimental investigations on the conformations of synthetic polytripeptides, with Gly-R2-R3 general repetitive sequence, are of great interest for the comprehension of the factors which contribute to the triple helix stabilization. Using appropriate molecules as models, we have investigated by the PC...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cabrol D,Broch H,Vasilescu D

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The termination of protein synthesis in bacteria requires codon-specific polypeptide release factors RF-1 (UAG/UAA specific) and RF-2 (UGA/UAA specific). We have proposed that release factors mimic tRNA and recognize the stop codon for polypeptide release (Nakamura et al (1996) Cell 87, 147-150). In contrast to the te...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Uno M,Ito K,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two subunits of the nickel-iron hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas have been purified by preparative sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and their amino acid compositions have been determined. The N-terminal sequences for 15 residues of the large subunit (Mr 62,000) and 25 residues of the s...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Nivière V,Forget N,Bovier-Lapierre G,Bonicel J,Hatchikian C

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00