Human health benefits of very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids from microalgae.

abstract：:This review article outlines some potentials and limits of the recent application of high resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance technique--coupled to the Fourier transformation methods--to the study of biological membranes. Molecular arrangement and dynamical structure characters can be assessed at the level of indivi...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Podo F

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：:EPR spectroscopy in conjunction with oxidation-reduction potentiometry has been used to determine the half-reduction potentials of the four hemes of cytochrome c3. As predicted, the four hemes of cytochrome c3 have different mid-point potentials. The Em values are: Heme I,--284 mV; Heme II,--310 mV; Heme III,--324 mV ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Dervartanian DV,Xavier AV,Gall JL

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exosome is a complex of eleven subunits in yeast, involved in RNA processing and degradation. Despite the extensive in vivo functional studies of the exosome, little information is yet available on the structure of the complex and on the RNase and RNA binding activities of the individual subunits. The current mode...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Luz JS,Tavares JR,Gonzales FA,Santos MC,Oliveira CC

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bikunin (Bk) is a Künitz-type serine proteinase inhibitor, which occurs in human plasma, mainly as covalent complexes with one or two of the three peptide heavy chains. The leading member of this glycoprotein family is inter-alpha-inhibitor (I alpha I), which consists of two heavy chains (H1 and H2) linked to Bk. Bk c...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Capon C,Mizon C,Lemoine J,Rodié-Talbère P,Mizon J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most common cause of acute hepatitis worldwide. Although HEV is a small, naked RNA virus, HEV particles become associated with lipids in the blood of infected patients and in the supernatant of culture systems. The egress of these particles from cells implies the exocytosis pathway b...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Chapuy-Regaud S,Dubois M,Plisson-Chastang C,Bonnefois T,Lhomme S,Bertrand-Michel J,You B,Simoneau S,Gleizes PE,Flan B,Abravanel F,Izopet J

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein "BCL-2-associated athanogene-1" (BAG-1), which exists in multiple isoforms, promotes cancer cell survival and is overexpressed in many different cancers. As a result, BAG-1-targeted therapy appears to be a promising strategy with which to treat cancer. It has previously been shown that the 5'UTR of the BAG...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bolduc F,Turcotte MA,Perreault JP

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Pleurocidin (GWGSFFKKAAHVGKHVGKAALTHYL-NH(2)), found in skin mucous secretions of the winter flounder Pleuronectes americanus, is known to possess a high potency and broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptide without cytotoxicity. In this study, to investigate the impact of pleurocidin on apoptotic progress, we observed mor...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cho J,Lee DG

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thrombin-like enzyme, named BjussuSP-I, isolated from Bothrops jararacussu snake venom, is an acidic single-chain glycoprotein with M(r)=61,000, pI approximately 3.8 and 6% sugar. BjussuSP-I shows high proteolytic activity upon synthetic substrates, such as S-2238 and S-2288. It also shows procoagulant and kallikrei...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Sant'Ana CD,Bernardes CP,Izidoro LF,Mazzi MV,Soares SG,Fuly AL,Zingali RB,Magro AJ,Braz AS,Fontes MR,Stábeli RG,Sampaio SV,Soares AM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personalized and regenerative medicine is an emerging therapeutic strategy that is based on cell biology and biomedical engineering used to develop biological substitutes to maintain normal function or restore damaged tissues and organs. The secretory capacities of different cell types are now explored as such possibl...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Gaceb A,Barbariga M,Özen I,Paul G

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：: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：:After the assessment of the antitumor activity of the anthracycline pigments, the S peucetius group of metabolites was discovered and eventually doxorubicin, a major anticancer agent of established clinical usefulness was developed in the early seventies. A second generation of compounds followed, represented mainly b...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Arcamone FM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low bone formation in osteoporosis is associated with a shift from osteoblastic to adipogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) inducing a concomitant lipotoxic milieu within the bone marrow. Strontium ranelate (SrRN), a treatment for osteoporosis, has both anti-resorptive and anabolic effects on bone. T...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Vidal C,Gunaratnam K,Tong J,Duque G

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kex2 is a Ca2+-dependent serine protease from S. cerevisiae. Characterization of the substrate specificity of Kex2 is of particular interest because this protease serves as the prototype of a large family of eukaryotic subtilisin-related proprotein-processing proteases that cleave sites consisting of pairs or clusters...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Manfredi MA,Antunes AA,Jesus LO,Juliano MA,Juliano L,Judice WA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 200 years emissions of toxic heavy metals have risen tremendously and significantly exceed those from natural sources for practically all metals. Uptake and accumulation by crop plants represents the main entry pathway for potentially health-threatening toxic metals into human and animal food. Of major c...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Clemens S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of immunometabolism has come a long way in the past decade, leading to the emergence of a new role for white adipose tissue (WAT) that is now recognized to stand at the junction of immune and metabolic regulations. Interestingly, a crucial role of the abundant and heterogeneous immune population present in W...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cousin B,Casteilla L,Laharrague P,Luche E,Lorsignol A,Cuminetti V,Paupert J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokinin-requiring tobacco cells were incubated for 10 h in the presence of a labeled cytokinin. N6-benzyl-[2-3H]Ade, and of [8-14C]Ado. After alkaline hydrolysis of total RNA and fractionation of the resulting nucleotides, 80 per cent of the 3H radioactivity of RNA were recovered as the N6-benzyl-Ado nucleotide, cov...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Teyssendier de la Serve B,Jouanneau JP

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A higher level of N-acetylglucosamine incorporation by proteinic and polyprenic endogenous acceptors is observed after infection by Myxovirus. This phenomenon occurs in whole mitochondria as in outer mitochondrial membranes, where it is particularly obvious with proteinic endogenous acceptors. Under viral infection, n...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Gateau O,Morelis R,Louisot P

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect prophenoloxidase (PPO) is an essential innate immunity protein to induce pathogen into melanization. In Bombyx mori, pro-phenoloxidase-activating enzyme (PPAE) can directly cleave and activate PPO. However, PPO in Manduca sexta cannot be cleaved into active phenoloxidase (PO) by serine proteases unless cofactor...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lu A,Li X,Hillyer JF,Beerntsen BT,Söderhäll K,Ling E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of cDNA and RNA sequencing techniques has enabled determination of the complete sequence of one of the mRNAs coding for the precursor of the small subunit of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase of Nicotiana sylvestris. In this 898-nucleotide-long mRNA, 540 nucleotides code for the entire 180-amino-acid-l...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Pinck M,Guilley E,Durr A,Hoff M,Pinck L,Fleck J

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some physico-chemical properties of R140G and K141Q mutants of human small heat shock protein HspB1 associated with hereditary peripheral neuropathy were analyzed. Mutation K141Q did not affect intrinsic Trp fluorescence and interaction with hydrophobic probe bis-ANS, whereas mutation R140G decreased both intrinsic fl...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Nefedova VV,Datskevich PN,Sudnitsyna MV,Strelkov SV,Gusev NB

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The periplasmic histidine permease of Salmonella typhimurium is composed of a soluble histidine-binding protein and three membrane-bound components. These latter are produced in very small amounts and only two, the Q and the P protein, have been previously identified. This paper describes the construction of a plasmid...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ames GF,Nikaido K,Hobson A,Malcolm B

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By use of procollagen proline hydroxylas which catalyses the substitution of the hydrogen in the trans position on carbon 4 with an hydroxyl on L-proline residues of procollagen, we have shown that the L-[3H-4] proline product of C.E.N. Saclay contained 29 per cent of the trans and 71 per cent of the cis form. It was ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Farjanel J,Pichat L,Audinot M,Perier C,Frey J

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：: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：:Living organisms are constantly exposed to oxidative stress from environmental agents and from endogenous metabolic processes. The resulting oxidative modifications occur in proteins, lipids and DNA. Since proteins and lipids are readily degraded and resynthesized, the most significant consequence of the oxidative str...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bohr VA,Dianov GL

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PA1b (Pea Albumin 1b) is a peptide toxin lethal for certain insects. This paper shows that the cultured insect cells Sf9 are sensitive to the toxin and display a high-affinity binding site for PA1b. Mammalian cells are not sensitive and no binding activity was detected. Signs of apoptosis of the Sf9 cells were observe...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Rahioui I,Laugier C,Balmand S,Da Silva P,Rahbe Y,Gressent F

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thraustochytrium is a marine protist producing a specific profile of nutritionally important fatty acids, including very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (VLCPUFAs) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n-3), even chain saturated fatty acids (SFAs) palmitic acid (16:0), and odd chain SFAs pentadecanoic acid (15:0). To ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Zhao X,Qiu X

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00