A stepwise approach to the understanding of extracellular enzyme activity in soil. II. Competitive effects on the adsorption of a beta-D-glucosidase in mixed mineral or organo-mineral systems.

abstract：:Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a progressive lethal disorder. In this study, the effect of daidzein, a soyisoflavone against Bleomycin (BLM) induced PF in rats was elucidated. A single intratracheal instillation of BLM (3 U/kg.bw) was administered in rats to induce PF. Daidzein (0.2 mg/kg) was administered subcutaneously,...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Soumyakrishnan S,Divya T,Kalayarasan S,Sriram N,Sudhandiran G

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2.1.1) are metalloenzymes found throughout the phylogenetic tree. The β-class carbonic anhydrases (β-CAs) are the predominating class of CAs in plants. Growing evidence underscores the importance of β-CAs in plant immunity and environmental adaptation in addition to their roles in photos...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Wang M,Zhang Q,Liu FC,Xie WF,Wang GD,Wang J,Gao QH,Duan K

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxazole-containing macrocycles, which include the natural product telomestatin, represent a promising class of anticancer agents that target G-quadruplex DNA. Two synthetic hexaoxazole-containing macrocyclic compounds (HXDV and HXLV-AC) have been characterized with regard to their cytotoxic activities versus human can...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Pilch DS,Barbieri CM,Rzuczek SG,Lavoie EJ,Rice JE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three mutanase (alpha-1,3-glucanase)-producing microorganisms isolated from soil samples were identified as a relatives of Paenibacillus. A mutanase was purified to homogeneity from cultures of each, and the molecular masses of the purified enzymes were approximately 132, 141, and 141kDa, respectively. The correspondi...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Hakamada Y,Sumitomo N,Ogawa A,Kawano T,Saeki K,Ozaki K,Ito S,Kobayashi T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagasin-type inhibitors comprise natural inhibitors of papain-like cysteine proteases that are distributed among Protist, Bacteria and Archaea. Chagasin was identified in the pathogenic protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi as an approximately 11 kDa protein that is a tight-binding and highly thermostable inhibitor of papain, c...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Costa TF,Lima AP

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of S100 protein increases toward the end of the exponential phase of growth of clonal rat glial cells C6 in monolayer culture. Moreover the synthesis of this protein can be increased by treatment of C6 cells with the lectin succinylated concanavalin A (succinyl ConA). In order to study the relationship b...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Marks A,Law J,Mahony J

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA sequence encoding a protein with predicted EF-hand and dynein light chain binding domains was identified in a Fasciola hepatica EST library. Sequence analysis of the encoded protein revealed that the most similar known protein was the Fasciola gigantica protein FgCaBP3 and so this newly identified protein was na...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Banford S,Drysdale O,Hoey EM,Trudgett A,Timson DJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we report the purification and biochemical characterization of a novel bi-functional protein proteinase/amylase inhibitor from the dietary leguminous pulse Phaseolus aureus Roxb. (Vigna radiata L.) by means of acetic acid precipitation, salt fractionation, ion-exchange chromatography (DEAE-cellulose) and affin...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Haq SK,Atif SM,Khan RH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of halomethylated derivatives of dihydrocoumarins has been found to inhibit irreversibly proteases and esterases. alpha-Chymotrypsin, subtilish, elastase are rapidly inactivated in the presence of these compounds, while trypsin, kallicrein, papain are inhibited more slowly. Esterases like acetylcholinesterase...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Béchet JJ,Dupaix A,Roucous C,Bonamy AM

更新日期：1977-01-01 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

abstract：:The emergence of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) stains has escalated the need for developing more efficient drugs and therapeutic strategies against tuberculosis. Here we functionally annotate a secretory mycobacterial asparaginase Rv1538c (MtA) and describe its biochemical properties. MtA primarily e...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Kataria A,Patel AK,Kundu B

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report two novel 17-mer amidated linear peptides (TsAP-1 and TsAP-2) whose structures were deduced from cDNAs cloned from a venom-derived cDNA library of the Brazilian yellow scorpion, Tityus serrulatus. Both mature peptides were structurally-characterised following their location in chromatographic fractions ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Guo X,Ma C,Du Q,Wei R,Wang L,Zhou M,Chen T,Shaw C

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LamB, an integral outer membrane protein of E coli K12, is highly resistant to protease digestion. We had previously genetically inserted a foreign sequence corresponding to an epitope from the poliovirus next to amino acids 146, 153, 189, and 374 of LamB. In 3 cases (sites 146, 153, 374), insertion of the foreign pep...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ronco J,Charbit A,Hofnung M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) is a lipid-metabolizing enzyme that phosphorylates diacylglycerol (DG) to produce phosphatidic acid (PA). DGKδ is highly expressed in the skeletal muscle, and a decrease in DGKδ expression increases the severity of type 2 diabetes. However, the role of DGKδ in myogenic differentiation is st...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Sakai H,Murakami C,Matsumoto KI,Urano T,Sakane F

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:The analysis of RNA from L5178 Y cells, by electrophoreis in 1.7% polyacrylamide gel, after short time labelling with [methyl-3H] methionine, shows that the three molecular species 47S, 46S and 45S RNA from the ribosomal RNA "45S fraction" are methylated. Comparative studies of the kinetics obtained after labelling fo...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tiollais P,Auger MA,Galibert F

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteasome activators known as 11S REG or PA28 were discovered about 10 years ago. They are homo- or heteroheptameric rings that bind to the ends of 20S proteasomes and activate cleavage of peptides but not folded proteins. In this article, we focus on structural features of three homologous REG subunits (termed a...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Li J,Rechsteiner M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The redox homeostasis of cytoplasm is maintained by a series of disulfide exchange reactions mediated by proteins belonging to the thioredoxin superfamily. Thioredoxin and thioredoxin reductase, being the major members of the family, play a key role in oxidative stress response of Staphylococcus aureus. In this report...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bose M,Bhattacharyya S,Biswas R,Roychowdhury A,Bhattacharjee A,Ghosh AK,Das AK

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides an overview of the usefulness of the resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy in the determination of the structural and electronic properties of heme(s) included in c-type cytochromes. It reviews the mode assignments presently available for heme c and includes recent RR data on the most important subclas...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Desbois A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its biological importance, iron is a pro-oxidant element and its accumulation results in tissue injury. Iron overload diseases such as thalassemia and hereditary hemochromatosis are commonly associated with liver tissue injury. Glutamyl cysteine (GC) is a dipeptide with antioxidant properties owing to its cyst...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Salama SA,Al-Harbi MS,Abdel-Bakky MS,Omar HA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis uses a type IX secretion system (T9SS) to deliver more than 30 proteins to the bacterial surface using a conserved C-terminal domain (CTD) as an outer membrane translocation signal. On the surface, the CTD is cleaved and an anionic lipopolysaccharide (A-PLS) is attached by PorU sortase. Among ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Veillard F,Sztukowska M,Nowakowska Z,Mizgalska D,Thøgersen IB,Enghild JJ,Bogyo M,Potempa B,Nguyen KA,Potempa J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat germ lysate was used as a model system for in vitro translation. We show that an increase of the exchange surface between the reaction mixture and the atmosphere enhanced the amount of incorporated cysteine, indicating that early arrest of protein synthesis previously observed in such a system was due to oxygen ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Luciani N,Hess K,Belleville F,Nabet P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactivity of sonicated phosphatidylcholine-cholesterol liposomes with cholesterol : oxygene oxydoreductase, an enzyme which catalyses the oxidation of the 3 beta hydroxyl group of cholesterol to a ketone group, is compared with that of ternary system phosphatidylcholine-cholesterol-Thesit. Regardless to the phosp...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Peynet J,Delattre J,Canal J,Rousselet F,Girard ML

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT, serotypes A-G) and tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT) are bacterial proteins that comprise a light chain (M(r) approximately 50) disulfide linked to a heavy chain (M(r) approximately 100). By inhibiting neurotransmitter release at distinct synapses, these toxins cause two severe neuroparalytic dise...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Humeau Y,Doussau F,Grant NJ,Poulain B

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a new extended set of 13 amber suppressors in E coli, systematic amino-acid replacements were performed at positions 104(E) and 238(G) of TEM-1 beta-lactamase from PUC19. The enzyme is tolerant to most substitutions tested at position 104. Missense revertants E104K, E104S or E104Y exhibited only minor changes in...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lenfant F,Labia R,Masson JM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramide synthases (CerSs) are key enzymes in the biosynthesis of ceramides and display a group of at least six different isoenzymes (CerS1-6). Ceramides itself are bioactive molecules. Ceramides with different N-acyl side chains (C(14:0)-Cer - C(26:0)-Cer) possess distinct roles in cell signaling. Therefore, the sele...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Schiffmann S,Hartmann D,Fuchs S,Birod K,Ferreiròs N,Schreiber Y,Zivkovic A,Geisslinger G,Grösch S,Stark H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of in vitro repair assays with human cell-free extracts led to new insights on the mechanism of excision of DNA damage which consists of incision/excision and repair synthesis/ligation. We have adapted the repair synthesis reaction with cells extracts incubated with damaged plasmid DNA performed in liq...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Salles B,Rodrigo G,Li RY,Calsou P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine-rich secretory proteins (CRISPs), characterized by 16 conserved cysteines, are distributed in a wide range of organisms, such as secernenteas, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. In the previous studies, a novel CRISP family member (cysteine-rich buccal gland protein, CRBGP) was separated from the buccal gland ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Jiang Q,Liu Y,Duan D,Gou M,Wang H,Wang J,Li Q,Xiao R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current research in biology heavily depends on the availability and efficient use of information. In order to build new knowledge, various sources of biological data must often be combined. Semantic Web technologies, which provide a common framework allowing data to be shared and reused between applications, can be ap...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Pasquier C

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action on rabbit red cells of Treponema hyodysenteriae hemolysin was studied using volume analysis and release of hemoglobin. While fixation of the hemolysin on the erythrocytes is temperature independent, it appears that hemolysis is temperature dependent. The kinetics of hemolysis proceed according ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Saheb SA,Lafleur L

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00