Suppression of antioxidant Nrf-2 and downstream pathway in H9c2 cells by advanced glycation end products (AGEs) via ERK phosphorylation.

abstract：:The complete nucleotide sequence of a nerve growth factor precursor from Bothrops jararacussu snake (Bj-NGF) was determined by DNA sequencing of a clone from cDNA library prepared from the poly(A) + RNA of the venom gland of B. jararacussu. cDNA encoding Bj-NGF precursor contained 723 bp in length, which encoded a pre...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Kashima S,Soares AM,Roberto PG,Pereira JO,Astolfi-Filho S,Cintra AO,Fontes MR,Giglio JR,de Castro França S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA editing alters genomically encoded cytidines to uridines posttranscriptionally in higher plant mitochondria. Most of these editing events occur in translated regions and consequently alter the amino acid sequence. In Oenothera berteriana more than 500 editing sites have been detected and the total number of editin...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Yu W,Fester T,Bock H,Schuster W

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When liver cells from either normal or hereditarily diabetic rats are exposed to (13)C-enriched D-fructose (10 mM) and unlabelled D-glucose (also 10 mM) in the presence of D(2)O, the output of (13)C-enriched D-glucose generated from D-[1-(13)C]fructose is significantly lower than that from D-[2-(13)C]fructose. This co...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Malaisse WJ,Willem R

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single cell oils (SCOs) are now produced by various microorganisms as commercial sources of arachidonic acid (ARA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). These oils are now used extensively as dietary supplements in infant formulas. An understanding of the underlying biochemistry and genetics of oil accumulation in such micr...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ratledge C

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various phosphonic and sulfonic glutamate analogues as well as phosphonopeptides related to glutathione were studied for their interaction with rat kidney gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase activity. We found, in all cases, that the presence of a phosphonic group increases the affinity for the enzyme. Among the tripept...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Marche M,Basurko MJ,Cassaigne A

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of perch parvalbumin in the Ca-, Mg- and metal-free state was studied by intrinsic fluorescence, trypsin susceptibility, thiol titration and circular dichroism. The data reveal that Ca-parvalbumin has a more compact structure than the metal-free protein, with a high alpha-helical content and a buried ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cox JA,Winge DR,Stein EA

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nuclear poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is activated by gamma-irradiation and consequently synthesizes poly(ADP-ribose) by binding to DNA strand-breaks. This property suggests that PARP is a DNA strand-break-signal generator. Meanwhile, the cell-cycle arrest occurs in G1 and G2 phases following gamma-irradiation....

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Masutani M,Nozaki T,Wakabayashi K,Sugimura T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polysaccharide from Aloe vahombe (lilaceae) was submitted to partial hydrolyses by sulfuric, oxalic and phosphoric acid. Some oligosaccharides were isolated and investigated by chemical and 13C NMR spectroscopic methods. Their structure was determined. The results prove unambiguously that in the analyzed material ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Radjabi-Nassab F,Ramiliarison C,Monneret C,Vilkas E

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New strains of basidiomycetes producing extracellular laccases (Trametes ochracea 92-78, and Trametes hirsuta 56) have been found by screening of isolates of Trametes fungi. The laccases from T. hirsuta 56 and T. ochracea 92-78 as well as two laccases from previously found and described strains of basidiomycetes, name...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Shleev SV,Morozova OV,Nikitina OV,Gorshina ES,Rusinova TV,Serezhenkov VA,Burbaev DS,Gazaryan IG,Yaropolov AI

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Well-defined quantities of *OH, O2*-,HO2* or RO2*)radicals (reactive oxygen species) can be specifically produced by radiolysis of water or ethanol. Such radical species can initiate one-electron oxidation or one-electron reduction reactions on numerous biological systems. The oxidative hypothesis of atherosclerosis c...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bonnefont-Rousselot D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have been involved in research on oxysterols since 1963 and this review is intended to cover some of the most important aspects of this work. The first project dealed with 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one. My successful synthesis of this steroid with high specific radioactivity allowed a demonstration that it is a bile ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Björkhem I

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied through the late foetal period of the rat, the evolution of two enzymes involved in glycogen metabolism of the liver : UDPG glycogen synthetase (a and b forms) and branching enzyme. The activities were measured during the development of normal foetuses and of foetuses experimentally deprived of cortico...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Gilbert M,Vaillant R

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing prevalence of obesity and metabolic diseases is a worldwide public health concern, and the advent of new analytical technologies has made it possible to highlight the involvement of some molecules, such as sphingolipids (SL), in their pathophysiology. SL are constituents of cell membranes, lipoproteins ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Le Barz M,Boulet MM,Calzada C,Cheillan D,Michalski MC

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In parallel with crystallographic studies of ribosomes from Thermus thermophilus, a long-term program on the crystallization and structural investigations of ribosomal proteins from the same microorganism has been started at the Institute of Protein Research (Pushchino, Russia). At present, more than half of the indiv...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Garber MB,Agalarov SC,Eliseikina IA,Fomenkova NP,Nikonov SV,Sedelnikova SE,Shikaeva OS,Vasiliev D,Zhdanov AS,Liljas A

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elucidation of the multiple signaling cascades coupled to the TSH receptor has offered new approaches in the understanding of the pathogenesis of Graves' disease. Here we review findings showing that immunoglobulins from Graves' patients are heterogeneous, bind to different epitopes and, similarly to TSH, activate...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Di Cerbo A,Corda D

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic genome is compacted in the cell nucleus, in a way that allows its faithful and ordered replication each cell cycle. Chromatin is organized into topologically constrained loops that are anchored to the nuclear matrix by specific attachment regions (SARs). Chromatin loops were proposed to correspond to re...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Hyrien O,Maric C,Lucas I

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactose plasmid pUCL22 of the single plasmid strain Streptococcus lactis ssp. lactis Z270 was demonstrated to fuse with the heterologous conjugative plasmid pVA797. The fusion of pUCL22 with pVA797 occurred by recombination between a specific sequence of pUCL22 and different sites of pVA797. The cointegrates of pU...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Novel M,Huang DC,Novel G

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：:Polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) was immunoaffinity-purified from the brains of newborn calves. A degree of polymerization of up to 40 was chromatographically determined for released polysialic acid (PSA) chains. For characterization of N-glycan structures and attachment sites, PSA-NCAM was digested...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Wuhrer M,Geyer H,von der Ohe M,Gerardy-Schahn R,Schachner M,Geyer R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavodoxins are one domain alpha/beta electron transfer proteins that participate in photosynthetic reactions. All flavodoxins carry a molecule of flavin mononucleotide (FMN), non-covalently bound, that confers redox properties to the protein. There are two structurally distinct flavodoxins, short ones and long flavod...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Maldonado S,Lostao A,Irún MP,Férnandez-Recio J,Gustavo Genzor C,Begoña González E,Rubio JA,Luquita A,Daoudi F,Sancho J

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NikR proteins are bacterial metallo-regulatory transcription factors that control the expression of the nickel uptake system and/or nickel containing enzymes such as urease, and are involved in the acid stress response. Here, a comparative study is reported on NikR from Helicobacter pylori (HpNikR) and Escherichia col...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Fauquant C,Diederix RE,Rodrigue A,Dian C,Kapp U,Terradot L,Mandrand-Berthelot MA,Michaud-Soret I

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isopentenyl adenosine derivatives can be found next to the anticodon (position 37) in tRNA from both the Bacteria and Eucarya domains. These modified nucleosides improve the efficiency of tRNA in translation, can increase and decrease translational fidelity, and make the tRNA less codon context sensitive. In bacteria ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Persson BC,Esberg B,Olafsson O,Björk GR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A discriminating system capable of recognizing the oxygenated sterols was investigated in human lymphocytes. After labelling entire cells with 25-hydroxy [3H] cholesterol (10 nM) the cytosol was ultracentrifuged on a linear sucrose density gradient. Bound 25-hydroxy [3H] cholesterol was located in a single peak with a...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Defay RE,Astruc ME,Roussillon S,Descomps B,Crastes De Paulet A

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Plasmodium falciparum serine repeat antigen (SERA) protein peptides were studied by NMR and structure calculations being done in 70:30 water:trifluoroethanol solution. Peptide 22834 was shown to be immunogenic and protective against malaria in Aotus monkeys, whilst native peptide 6737 and its analogue 14096 did ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cubillos M,Alba MP,Bermúdez A,Trujillo M,Patarroyo ME

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of adenosine was tested on the energetic metabolism of fed rat liver cells after isolation. The cells were incubated in a buffered saline medium with glucose (5 mM) and adenosine (1 mM) for 30 minutes at 37 degrees C. This increased the concentration of the adenylic nucleotides ATP (+57 per cent, ADP (+39 p...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Marchand JC,Lavoinne A,Giroz M,Matray F

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:We identified a T-to-C mutation 2 nucleotides (nt) upstream from the AG in a GT-AG intron between exons 2 and 3 in the human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) tax mRNA. This mutation resulted in the preferential usage of an alternative splice site, causing a 75-nt elongation of tax mRNA and reduced production of v...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ohsugi T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant plasmids containing head-to-tail copies of different coat-protein replacement genomes of wheat dwarf virus (WDV) were used to study the mechanism leading to the release of replicating unit-length molecules in suspension culture cells of Triticum monococcum. For plasmids bearing two complete genomes, the vi...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Heyraud F,Matzeit V,Schaefer S,Schell J,Gronenborn B

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high level of subcellular compartmentalization is a hallmark of eukaryotic cells. This intricate internal organization was present already in the common ancestor of all extant eukaryotes, and the determination of the origins and early evolution of the different organelles remains largely elusive. Organellar proteome...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Gabaldón T,Pittis AA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gag-encoded nucleocapsid protein NCp7 (72 amino acids) from HIV-1, the regulatory protein, Vpr (96 amino acids) and numerous derivatives have been synthesized by solid phase method and their structures determined by 2D NMR. In NCp7, the two highly folded zinc fingers of the Cx2Cx4Hx4C type are in close spacial pro...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Roques BP,Morellet N,de Rocquigny H,Déméné H,Schueler W,Jullian N

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00