Dynamic expression of novel and conserved microRNAs and their targets in diploid and tetraploid of Paulownia tomentosa.

abstract：:Inducing brown adipocytes in white adipose tissues is a promising target to combat obesity and its related disorders in human beings. This goal has been especially encouraged by new important discoveries of human brown adipose tissues. The accumulating evidence confirms the presence of active brown adipocytes, not onl...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Chu DT,Gawronska-Kozak B

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insomniac protein of Drosophila melanogaster (INC) has a crucial role in sleep homeostasis as flies lacking the inc gene exhibit strikingly reduced and poorly consolidated sleep. Nevertheless, in vitro characterizations of INC biophysical properties and partnerships have not been yet reported. Here we report the h...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Pirone L,Smaldone G,Esposito C,Balasco N,Petoukhov MV,Spilotros A,Svergun DI,Di Gaetano S,Vitagliano L,Pedone EM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen was described as a temporal storage molecule in rhodococci, interconnecting lipids and carbon availability. The Rhodococcus jostii ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (ADP-GlcPPase) kinetic and regulatory properties support this role. Curiously, the enzyme uses glucosamine-1P as alternative substrate. Herein, we re...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cereijo AE,Alvarez HM,Iglesias AA,Asencion Diez MD

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) are positional and geometric dienoic isomers of linoleic acid. Dietary CLA supplementation leads to a drop in fat mass in various species, including in humans. The t10,c12-CLA isomer is responsible for this anti-obesity effect. The reduction of fat mass is especially dramatic in the mou...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Poirier H,Niot I,Clément L,Guerre-Millo M,Besnard P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobials targeting the fatty acid synthesis (FASII) pathway are being developed as alternative treatments for bacterial infections. Emergence of resistance to FASII inhibitors was mainly considered as a consequence of mutations in the FASII target genes. However, an alternative and efficient anti-FASII resistanc...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Morvan C,Halpern D,Kénanian G,Pathania A,Anba-Mondoloni J,Lamberet G,Gruss A,Gloux K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the sex-determining gene SRY is a member of the HMG box containing protein superfamily. The HMG box is a DNA-binding domain of about 80 amino acids shared by many proteins with diverse functions. It seems that the functions of the full length protein are restricted to the HMG box but their molecular bas...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Soullier S,Poulat F,Boizet-Bonhoure B,Calas B,Bennes R,Heitz F,Berta P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary kinetic isotope effect of the reaction catalyzed by NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.2.) from the methylotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. 101 has been studied. Analysis of the ratios HVm/DVm and H(Vm/KM)/D(Vm/KM) in the pH range 6.1-7.9 showed that the transfer of hydride ion in ternary enzy...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tishkov VI,Galkin AG,Egorov AM

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of 6-8 ring hairpin polyamides (PAs) with the minor groove of DNA have been investigated extensively. More recent studies of large antiviral PAs (14-20 rings) active against small DNA tumor viruses lead to questions regarding the extent to which the DNA binding behaviors of the well studied, smaller P...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Song Y,Niederschulte J,Bales KN,Park AH,Bashkin JK,Dupureur CM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidatively modified proteins are continuously produced in cells by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species generated as a consequence of aerobic metabolism. During periods of oxidative stress, protein oxidation is significantly increased and may become a threat to cell survival. In eucaryotic cells the proteasome has be...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Davies KJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The open reading frame PA3859 of Pseudomonas aeruginosa encodes an intracellular carboxylesterase belonging to a group of microbial enzymes (EC 3.1.1.1) that catalyze the hydrolysis of aliphatic and aromatic esters with a broad substrate specificity. With few exceptions, for this class of enzymes, belonging to the α/β...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Pesaresi A,Lamba D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized and examined a number of fully and partly self-complementary palindromic oligodeoxynucleotides for their ability to assume in solution a unimolecular hairpin structure. The main results obtained by a combined optical and electrophoresis investigation show that: (i) DNA folding needs not be driven b...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Xodo LE,Manzini G,Quadrifoglio F,van der Marel G,van Boom JH

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the native glycogen phosphorylase b from rabbit skeletal muscle and of the enzyme specifically deiminated by peptidylarginine deiminase have been studied. One arginine residue per phosphorylase b monomer is transformed into citrulline after 3 h of incubation with peptidylarginine deiminase. The maximal...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Eronina TB,Livanova NB,Chebotareva NA,Kurganov BI,Luo S,Graves DJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incubation of polyphosphates with the ribosomal fraction of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius leads to the covalent attachment of phosphate to threonine residue(s) of a single 40,000 Mr protein. The hydrolysis kinetics of this protein showed that polyphosphate might be the modifying group. The reaction requires 2 mM Mn2+ ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Skorko R

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus-associated RNA polymerase is composed of one molecule each of three viral P proteins and carries the complete activity of capped RNA-primed vRNA-directed transcription. The RNA polymerase holoenzyme also carries capped RNA endonuclease to generate capped oligonucleotide primers for transcription and 3'...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ishihama A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18.2 kDa protein from the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica has been identified and characterised. The protein shows strongest sequence similarity to egg antigen proteins from Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum and Clonorchis sinensis. The protein is predicted to adopt a calmodulin-like fold; it thus represent...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Russell SL,McFerran NV,Moore CM,Tsang Y,Glass P,Hoey EM,Trudgett A,Timson DJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nicotiana tabacum Nt-4/1 protein is a plant-specific protein of unknown function. Analysis of bacterially expressed Nt-4/1 protein in vitro revealed that the protein secondary structure is mostly alpha-helical and suggested that it could consist of three structural domains. Earlier studies of At-4/1, the Arabidops...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Solovyev AG,Minina EA,Makarova SS,Erokhina TN,Makarov VV,Kaplan IB,Kopertekh L,Schiemann J,Richert-Pöggeler KR,Morozov SY

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Bacterial superantigens (SAg) are the most potent activators of human T lymphocytes and recombinant immunotoxin using bacterial SAg shows promising clinical values. To engineer superantigen for immunotherapy of hepatocellular carcinoma, we genetically fused the superantigen staphylococcus enterotoxin A (SEA(D(227)A)) ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Hao HJ,Jiang YQ,Zheng YL,Ma R,Yu DW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzofurazan on yeast 3-phosphoglycerate kinase causes a modification of one tyrosyl residue concomitantly with a total loss of activity of the enzyme. The modification is not accompanied by any significant conformational change. A total protection against inactivation is observed with th...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Roustan C,Fattoum A,Pradel LA

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactants carrying either a hydrocarbon or a fluorocarbon alkyl chain have been synthesized. The polar head was either tris(hydroxymethyl)acrylamidomethane (THAM), telomerized THAM, or a glycosylated THAM moiety. The aqueous solubility of some of these molecules was increased by oxidizing to a sulfoxide the thioethe...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Chabaud E,Barthélémy P,Mora N,Popot JL,Pucci B

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike most tonoplast ATPases, the vacuolar ATPase of Acer pseudoplatanus cells (Km = 0.4 mM) was strongly inhibited by vanadate (I50 = 10 microM). The inhibition was non-competitive. Chemicals usually added in the reaction mixture either increase (NH+4, K+) or decrease (Na+, EDTA) the ATPase inhibition. However, thes...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Montrichard F,Pugin A,Gaudemer Y

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:Adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase activity (LPL) falls dramatically during experimental infection of mice by Plasmodium chabaudi. The decrease in this activity accounts for the seric accumulation of triacyl-glyceride-rich lipoproteins (chylomicrons mainly and Very Low Density Lipoproteins (VLDL) partly). This loss of ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Al Rifai W,Maurois P,Fruchart JC,Charet P

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The iron absorption by duodenal enterocytes is a key step of its homeostasis. But the control of this absorption is complex and cannot be fully explicated with present knowledge. In a global transcriptome approach, we identified 60 genes over-expressed in hemin (iron) overload in Caco-2 cells, an in vitro model of duo...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Aubry M,Monnier A,Chicault C,Galibert MD,Burgun A,Mosser J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray structure of the monotopic membrane protein (S)-mandelate dehydrogenase (MDH) from Pseudomonas putida reveals an inherent flexibility of its membrane binding segment that might be important for its biological activity. The surface of MDH exhibits a concentration of the positive charges on one side and the ne...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Sukumar N,Liu S,Li W,Mathews FS,Mitra B,Kandavelu P

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid, a nine-carbon sugar acid usually is present in the non-reducing terminal position of free oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates. Sialylated conjugates in mammals perform important roles in cellular recognition, signaling, host-pathogen interaction and neuronal development. Metabolism of sialylated conjugat...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Wickramasinghe S,Medrano JF

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramidase plays an important role in regulating the metabolism of sphingolipids, such as ceramide, sphingosine (SPH), and sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), by controlling the hydrolysis of ceramide. Here we report the cloning and biochemical characterization of a neutral ceramidase from the red flour beetle Tribolium ca...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Zhou Y,Lin XW,Yang Q,Zhang YR,Yuan JQ,Lin XD,Xu R,Cheng J,Mao C,Zhu ZR

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Sialidase catalyzes the removal of sialic acids from glycoconjugates. Recently, medaka sialidase Neu1 has been cloned and its enzymatic properties were investigated. Although enzymatic properties of this sialidase, such as optimal pH and substrate specificity, exhibits high similarity with human NEU1, Neu1 physiologic...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ryuzono S,Takase R,Kamada Y,Ikenaga T,Chigwechokha PK,Komatsu M,Shiozaki K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classic studies suggested that the common mammalian sialic acid N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) is an oncofetal antigen in humans, being immunogenic in adult humans and yet apparently expressed in human fetuses and tumors. We and others have recently found that the human deficiency of Neu5Gc can be explained by an ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Varki A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00