[Fatty acid distribution of the normal sciatic nerve lipids in the rat].

abstract：:Synthesis of the tripeptide Z-Phe-Arg-SerNH2 has been accomplished by a recombinant cysteine protease, cathepsin L1 from liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica), using Z-Phe-Arg-OMe as acyl acceptor and SerNH2 as nucleophile in 0.1 M ammonium acetate pH 9.0-12.5% v/v acetonitrile at 37 degrees C. LC-MS detection indicated tri...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ruth DM,McMahon G,O'Fágáin C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholesterol lowering drug lovastatin, a competitive inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, blocks DNA synthesis and proliferation of thyrotropin (TSH) primed FRTL-5 rat thyroid cells. The blockade can be completely prevented and/or reversed by mevalonate and largely prevented and/o...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bifulco M,Laezza C,Aloj SM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria provide a model system for the in vivo study of mechanisms pertaining to the regulation of sugar transport and metabolism by microorganisms. Recent studies with resting and growing cells of the homofermentative Streptococci and Lactobacilli have yielded evidence for hitherto unsuspected regulatory...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Thompson J

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Escherichia, Salmonella, Shigella and Yersinia actively enter eukaryotic cells. Several techniques were used to compare and contrast the invasion mechanisms of Salmonella cholerae-suis, Yersinia enterocolitica and Shigella flexneri. Three animal cell lines (CHO, HEp-2 and MDCK) were examined for susceptibil...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Finlay BB,Falkow S

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preadipocyte cell lines 3T3-L1 and 3T3-F442A are widely used to study the cellular mechanisms of preadipocyte differentiation and mature adipocyte functions. However, transfection with naked DNA is inefficient in these cell lines. Adenoviral gene transfer is a powerful technique to induce high levels of transgene ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Béréziat V,Moritz S,Klonjkowski B,Decaudain A,Auclair M,Eloit M,Capeau J,Vigouroux C

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alkaline aminopeptidase was isolated from the culture medium of Penicillium roqueforti. The enzyme was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, filtration on Bio-Gel P-100, chromatography on D.E.A.E.-cellulose and hydroxylapatite, filtration on Bio-Gel P-150 and electrofusing. The purified preparation was homoge...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Gripon JC

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretome produced by cells within the bone marrow is significant to homeostasis. The bone marrow, a well-studied organ, has multiple niches with distinct roles for supporting stem cell functions. Thus, an understanding of mediators involved in the regulation of stem cells could serve as a model for clinical probl...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Eltoukhy HS,Sinha G,Moore CA,Gergues M,Rameshwar P

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human liver fatty acid binding protein (hFABP1) participates in cellular long-chain fatty acid trafficking and regulation of lipid metabolism and changes in hFABP1 are associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and metabolic syndromes. Gene regulation of hFABP1 is not full...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Wu YL,Peng XE,Wang D,Chen WN,Lin X

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaredoxins (Grxs), redox-active proteins with a typical -CPYC motif at their active sites, are involved in redox-regulatory processes and antioxidant defenses. The human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum possess a classical glutaredoxin (PfGrx) as well as a number of Grx-like proteins. In the present study, w...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tripathi T,Röseler A,Rahlfs S,Becker K,Bhakuni V

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most cases, anti-protein aptamers are selected by systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) using purified recombinant protein targets. Cell surface proteins, however, are not easy targets for SELEX due to the difficulties associated with their purification. Here, we developed a novel SELEX ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ohuchi SP,Ohtsu T,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Snake venom phospholipases A2 (PLA2) share high sequence identities and a conserved structural scaffold, but show important functional differences. Only a few PLA2s have been purified and characterized from coral snake (Micrurus spp.) venoms, and their role in envenomation remains largely unknown. In this report, we d...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Rey-Suárez P,Núñez V,Saldarriaga-Córdoba M,Lomonte B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic elements coding for proteins that present amino acid identity with the conserved motifs of retroviral reverse transcriptases constitute the retroid family. With the exception of reverse transcriptases encoded by mitochondrial plasmids of Neurospora, all reverse transcriptases have an absolute requirement for a...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Marquet R,Isel C,Ehresmann C,Ehresmann B

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:The effect of cycloheximide on rRNA and poly (A) (+) RNA synthesis is studied in radish seedlings. When used at a concentration of 50 microng/ml cycloheximide selectively blocks rRNA synthesis without altering poly (A) (+) RNA synthesis. Processing of the 2.3 X 10(6) dalton pre-rRNA is severely impaired. This observat...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Delseny M,Aspart L,Guitton Y

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor 1 alpha (EF-1 alpha) was purified to homogeneity from full-grown oocytes of Xenopus laevis. This protein is encoded by a gene previously shown to be expressed in male and female germ cells, and repressed in somatic cells. The purified protein was identified with EF-1 alpha on criteria of molecular ma...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Morales J,Mulner-Lorillon O,Denis H,Bellé R

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons (IFNs) were considered for the treatment of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) after the demonstration, based on small studies, of the efficacy of type IFN beta in decreasing the frequency of exacerbations in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis when administered intrathecally, subcutaneously, or intr...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tourbah A,Lyon-Caen O

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-aromatic aminoacid decarboxylase has been purified more than thousand times from homogenates of rat brain, in several steps : centrifugation, DEAE-cellulose, CM cellulose, hydroxylapatite, DEAE sephadex. Its properties have been studied, most of them on an intermediate fraction of the purification, because of the in...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Corgier M,Pacheco H

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is the physiological process by which unwanted cells in an organism are killed. Bcl-2, a membrane-bound cytoplasmic protein, and its close relative Bcl-xL, are both effective inhibitors of apoptosis induced by a wide variety of stimuli in many different cell types. In a previous study, we reported that suppr...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cherbonnel-Lasserre C,Dosanjh MK

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidic acid phosphohydrolase-1 (PAP-1) activity is reversibly inhibited by fatty acids and their acyl-CoA esters and it appears paradoxical that these effectors have been reported to increase the liver's esterification capacity by translocating the rate-limiting enzyme PAP-1 from cytosol to the endoplasmic retic...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Elabbadi N,Day CP,Gamouh A,Zyad A,Yeaman SJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thorium-232 ((232)Th), a natural radionuclide from the actinide family, is abundantly present in monazite and other ores. It is used as one of the prime fuel materials in nuclear industry and may pose an exposure risk to nuclear workers and members of the public. Human erythrocytes, as a classical cellular membrane mo...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Kumar A,Ali M,Pandey BN,Hassan PA,Mishra KP

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RecA protein of E coli promotes a strand exchange reaction in vitro which appears to be similar to homologous genetic recombination in vivo. A model for the mechanism of strand transfer reaction by RecA protein has been proposed by Howard-Flanders et al based on the assumption that the RecA monomer has two distinc...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Horii T

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition rates and spectral characteristics of 2 probes specific for the active-site serine residue of proteases were examined for evidence of conformational change of the proteases upon their binding to alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M). Elastase, chymotrypsin, trypsin, and plasmin were reacted with (7-nitrobenz...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Martini JL,Pochon F

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural studies on various electron transfer complexes involving the tetrahemic cytochrome c3 provided evidence that one of the hemes (heme 4) is the interacting site on the molecule. The reactivity of this particular heme is allocated to the positive charges found around the heme group which are strongly involved ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Guerlesquin F,Dolla A,Bruschi M

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:During the suckling period, the rats are fed continuously with milk, which is a high-fat low-carbohydrate diet (HF). At weaning, milk is progressively replaced by the rat's laboratory chow which is a high-carbohydrate low-fat diet (HCHO), and this is accompanied by large hormonal modifications: an increase in plasma i...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Girard J,Perdereau D,Narkewicz M,Coupé C,Ferré P,Decaux JF,Bossard P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of serotonin (5-HT) in the retina was first reported in the sixties. The detection of vesicular monoamine transporter and serotonin receptors in several retinal cells confirm that 5-HT is playing a neuromodulatory role in this structure. Whereas signaling pathways activated by 5-HT receptor binding has ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Masson J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids are unevenly distributed within eukaryotic cells, allowing various processes to work in an optimized membrane environment. Rather than following vesicular trafficking pathways, certain lipids are transported by lipid transfer proteins (LTPs), some at sites of close apposition of two organelles called membrane c...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Moser von Filseck J,Drin G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptogein, a 98 amino acid protein secreted by the fungus Phytophthora cryptogea, induces a hypersensitive response and systemic acquired resistance in tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum var Xanthi). The mode of action of cryptogein has been studied using tobacco cell suspensions. The recognition of this elicitor by a...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lebrun-Garcia A,Bourque S,Binet MN,Ouaked F,Wendehenne D,Chiltz A,Schäffner A,Pugin A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides with hormonal or neuronal activity are derived by enzymatic processing from pro-hormones, which by themselves are biologically inert. Processing and other enzymatic conversions may occur step-wise, leading to the formation of a cascade of biologically active (or inactive) peptides. The neurokin in substance P...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Nyberg F,Le Grevés P,Terenius L

更新日期：1988-01-01 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