Role of chitinase-like proteins in cancer.

abstract：:A controlled interaction of materials with their surrounding biological environment is of great interest in many fields. Multifunctional coatings aim to provide simultaneous modulation of several biological signals. They can consist of various combinations of bioactive, and bioinert components as well as of reporter m...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Pagel M,Beck-Sickinger AG

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last years, the use of therapeutic glycoproteins has increased strikingly. Glycosylation of recombinant glycoproteins is of major importance in biotechnology, as the glycan composition of recombinant glycoproteins impacts their pharmacological properties. The terminal position of N-linked complex glycans in...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Werner A,Horstkorte R,Glanz D,Biskup K,Blanchard V,Berger M,Bork K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinin B2 receptor, which is constitutively expressed in a large number of tissues, mediates most of the known effects of bradykinin (BK). Normally undetectable in healthy tissues, the B1 receptor is strongly over-expressed under pathological conditions. BK is an important mediator in renal homeostasis and is mainl...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Bachvarov D,Bachvarova M,Koumangaye R,Klein J,Pesquero JB,Neau E,Bader M,Schanstra JP,Bascands JL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In pancreatic acinar cells stimulation of different intracellular pathways leads to different patterns of Ca2+ signaling. Bombesin induces activation of both phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2)-specific phospholipase C (PLC) and phospholipase D (PLD). The latter leads to generation of diacylglycerol (DAG) in ...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Schulz I,Krause E,González A,Göbel A,Sternfeld L,Schmid A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination with either exogenous hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) lipoprotein particles without adjuvants, or plasmid DNA encoding secreted small HBsAg stimulate long-lasting, potent antibody responses in H-2d (BALB/c) and C57Bl/6 (H-2b) mice. Vaccination with exogenous HBsAg primes MHC-I restricted cytotoxic T ly...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Schirmbeck R,Reimann J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles (NPs) are recognized as an attractive vehicles for cancer treatment due to their targeted drug release. Gastric cancer is an important killer disease, and its therapy methods still need improvement. The NPs were prepared using a precipitation method, and were evaluated using transmission electron microsc...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Yang W,Zhang H,Xin L

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the mode of regulation of the activity of mature cathepsin B (CB) by L-cysteine and some related thiols. The activity of CB with Z-Arg-Arg-NHMec as substrate was gradually inhibited over a range of increasing concentration of Cys, Cys methyl ester (CysOMe), Cys ethyl ester (CysOEt), N-acetyl-Cys (N-AcCys) a...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Krepela E,Procházka J,Kárová B

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc (Zn2+) is the most abundant trace element in cells and is essential for a vast number of catalytic, structural, and regulatory processes. Mounting evidence indicates that like calcium (Ca2+), intracellular Zn2+ pools are redistributed for specific cellular functions. This occurs through the regulation of 24 Zn2+ ...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Hennigar SR,Kelleher SL

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway smooth muscle (ASM) controls airway narrowing and plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of asthma. MicroRNAs are small yet powerful gene tuners that regulate diverse cellular processes. Recent studies have demonstrated the versatile role of microRNAs in regulating multiple ASM phenotypes that are critically ...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Sun M,Lu Q

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infectivity and pathogenicity of influenza virus are primarily determined by host cellular trypsin-type processing proteases which cleave the viral membrane fusion glycoprotein hemagglutinin (HA). Therefore the distribution of the processing protease is a major determinant of the infectious organ tropism. The comm...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Yao D,Chen Y,Kuwajima M,Shiota M,Kido H

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:Metachromatic leukodystrophy is a lysosomal disorder caused by the deficiency of arylsulfatase A (ASA). This leads to the storage of the sphingolipid 3-O-sulfogalactosylceramide (sulfatide) in various cell types, such as renal tubular cells. Examination of mannose 6-phosphate receptor (MPR300)-dependent endocytosis re...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Klein D,Yaghootfam A,Matzner U,Koch B,Braulke T,Gieselmann V

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormones stimulate gap junctional communication in rat liver WB-F344 epithelial cells, elevating connexin43 mRNA and protein levels. In the present work we analysed connexin43 expression in liver and heart samples from thyroid hormone-treated Wistar rats. Connexin43 mRNA was elevated 2.1-fold in rat liver samp...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Stock A,Sies H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bifunctional protein DCoH (dimerization cofactor of HNF-1) is a transcriptional coactivator of homeodomain proteins and a cytoplasmic enzyme. Here we report on the isolation, nucleotide sequence and genomic structure of the chicken and rat DCoH genes. They have an unusual first exon coding for a single amino acid....

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Bossow S,Riepl S,Igo-Kemenes T

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of pterin-4a-carbinolamine dehydratase (PCD) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been solved. Based on this we have investigated the roles of putative active center residues through functional replacement by site-directed mutagenesis. Three histidines, His73, His74 and His91, appear to be i...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Köster S,Stier G,Kubasch N,Curtius HC,Ghisla S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) are quorum sensing (QS) signal molecules used by most Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria. In this article the lactonase activity of the preparations based on hexahistidine-tagged organophosphorus hydrolase (His6-OPH) towards AHLs was studied. Initially, three of the most interesting β-...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Aslanli A,Lyagin I,Efremenko E

更新日期：2018-07-26 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：:We present a rapid and simple method for the sexing of human and other primate DNA. Homologous introns from the X- and Y-linked zinc finger protein genes (ZFX and ZFY) are PCR amplified with one primer pair. An Alu element insertion in the ZFX intron results in a size difference in the amplicons which is resolved by a...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Wilson JF,Erlandsson R

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of cholesterol is a general feature of cancer tissue, and recent evidence suggests that cholesterol plays critical roles in the progression of cancers, including breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers. The dysregulation of metabolic pathways, including those involved in cholesterol biosynthesis, is ...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Murai T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoconjugates have a whole spectrum of biological roles, from those that appear trivial to those that are crucial. Results accumulated in the past years indicate they might also play an important role in the response to stress, a complex physiological response of the human organism to various threats. We have recent...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Lauc G,Peter-Katalinić J,Dabelić S,Flögel M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of the cellular isoform of the prion protein (PrP(C)) into the pathologic isoform (PrP(Sc)) is the key event in prion diseases. To study the conversion process, an in vitro system based on varying the concentration of low amounts of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) has been employed. In the present study, t...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Stöhr J,Elfrink K,Weinmann N,Wille H,Willbold D,Birkmann E,Riesner D

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:The enzymatic properties of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase D (EC 3.1.4.50) were characterized using a 6,000-fold purified enzyme. This was obtained in 100 microg amounts from human serum with a recovery of 35%. Pure alkaline phosphatase containing one anchor moiety per molecule was used as substra...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Rhode H,Schulze M,Cumme GA,Göhlert A,Blume E,Bublitz R,Schilling K,Horn A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase catalyses the irreversible reaction of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to 3-phosphoglycerate by the reduction of NADP to NADPH. This is in contrast to the extensively analysed phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases which catalyse the revers...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Habenicht A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastids originated from an endosymbiotic event between an early eukaryotic host cell and an ancestor of today's cyanobacteria. During the events by which the engulfed endosymbiont was transformed into a permanent organelle, many genes were transferred from the plastidal genome to the nucleus of the host cell. Protein...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Vothknecht UC,Soll J

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) encompasses two classes of functionally important sequence variants: recent pathogenic mutations and ancient adaptive polymorphisms. To rapidly and cheaply evaluate both classes of single nucleotide variants (SNVs), we have developed an integrated system in which mtDNA SNVs are analyzed b...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Poole JC,Procaccio V,Brandon MC,Merrick G,Wallace DC

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloning of a Ca2+(0)-sensing receptor (CaR) from parathyroid and kidney, coupled with the identification of inherited disorders in Ca2+(0)-sensing resulting from inactivating or activating mutations of this CaR, has provided substantial insights into how Ca2+(0) is regulated at a systemic level. The CaR plays a ce...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Chattopadhyay N,Vassilev PM,Brown EM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract The homeostasis and atheroprotective function of bilirubin could be an appealing model to investigate one of the many physiologic functions of the human aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR). Several clinical and epidemiological studies have been carried out on key enzymes generating and eliminating bilirubin (heme...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Bock KW,Köhle C

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few therapeutic options are offered to treat inflammation and alveolar wall destruction in emphysema. The effect of recombinant human pre-elafin, an elastase inhibitor, was evaluated in porcine pancreatic elastase (PPE)-induced emphysema in C57BL/6 mice. In a first protocol, mice received a single instillation of pre-...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Janelle MF,Doucet A,Bouchard D,Bourbonnais Y,Tremblay GM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 tumour suppressor gene is frequently mutated in human tumours and different tumour-derived mutations have varying effects on cells. The effect of a novel tumour-derived p53 mutation and two recently described mutations from South African breast cancer patients on the growth rate, colony formation, cell cycle a...

journal_title：Biological chemistry

authors： Donninger H,Binder A,Bohm L,Parker MI

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00