Comparison of solution structure of free and complexed lac operator by molecular modelling with NMR constraints.

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected cells actively release the transcriptional activator (Tat) viral protein that is required for efficient HIV gene transcription. Extracellular Tat is able to enter uninfected cells. We recently reported that internalized Tat escapes endosomes to reach the cytosol and is then ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Beaumelle B,Tóth P,Malak OA,Chopard C,Loussouarn G,Vitale N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence suggests that microRNA-590 (miR-590) has protective effects on cardiovascular diseases, but the mechanism is unknown. Interestingly, previous studies from our laboratory and others have shown that macrophage-derived lipoprotein lipase (LPL) might accelerate atherosclerosis by promoting ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： He PP,Ouyang XP,Tang YY,Liao L,Wang ZB,Lv YC,Tian GP,Zhao GJ,Huang L,Yao F,Xie W,Tang YL,Chen WJ,Zhang M,Li Y,Wu JF,Peng J,Liu XY,Zheng XL,Yin WD,Tang CK

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thyroid hormones L-thyroxine and triiodo-L-thyronine have profound effects on postembryonic development of most vertebrates. Analysis of their action in mammals is vitiated by the exposure of the developing foetus to a number of maternal factors which do not allow one to specifically define the role of thyroid hor...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tata JR

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are subcellular organelles which are present in virtually every eukaryotic cell and catalyze a large number of metabolic functions. The importance of peroxisomes for humans is stressed by the existence of a large group of genetic diseases in which either the biogenesis of peroxisomes is impaired or one of ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Wanders RJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranscriptional gene regulation by small RNAs and its crucial impact on development, apoptosis, stem cell self-renewal and differentiation gained tremendous scientific attention since the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) and microRNAs (miRNAs). However, in the last few years, many more examples for regulatory ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Röther S,Meister G

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the Lactococcus (formerly lactic Streptococcus) genus are described to emphasize certain less well-known facts of importance in their successful use as dairy starters. Other streptococci (non-rod forms) are briefly characterized to emphasize their usefulness in industrial milk fermentations. ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Sandine WE

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle-related and expression elevated protein in tumor (CREPT) is emerging as a novel cancer-related gene that is dysregulated in many kinds of malignancies. However, the expression and biological role of CREPT in glioma remains unclear. In the present study, we aimed to explore the potential function and regulat...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Wei M,Cao Y,Jia D,Zhao H,Zhang L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blue-green bile pigments of Actias selene (Attacidae) have been investigated at different stages of its development. Coproporphyrinogen-14-C, protoporphyrin-IX3-H, and pterobilin-14-C, injected to larvae are metabolised into phorcabilin I, the main neopterobilin in this animal. It is concluded that phorcabilin I i...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Choussy M,Barbier M,Vuillaume M

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the spoIIM gene of Bacillus subtilis is required for complete septum migration and forespore engulfment during sporulation. To investigate whether expression of spoIIM is required in the forespore compartment of the sporangium, we have constructed a new integrational vector, pKSV7, which contains temper...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Smith K,Youngman P

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin aging is characterized by different features including wrinkling, atrophy of the dermis and loss of elasticity associated with damage to the extracellular matrix protein elastin. The aim of this study was to investigate the aging process of skin elastin at the molecular level by evaluating the influence of intrin...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Mora Huertas AC,Schmelzer CE,Hoehenwarter W,Heyroth F,Heinz A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Split luciferase complementary assay has been used to investigate the effect of WD domain deletion on Apaf-1 oligomerization. Apaf-1 is an adaptor molecule in formation of apoptosome that activates caspase-9, an activation that is a key event in the mitochondrial cell death pathway. Structural studies suggest that nor...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Noori AR,Tashakor A,Nikkhah M,Eriksson LA,Hosseinkhani S,Fearnhead HO

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Versican and decorin, two proteoglycans (PGs) with contradictory roles in the pathophysiology of cancer, comprise important stromal components in many tumor types and play a crucial role in the progression of cancer. In this study, we provide direct evidence for a significant and stage-related accumulation of versican...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Skandalis SS,Theocharis AD,Papageorgakopoulou N,Vynios DH,Theocharis DA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of amyloids is a subject under intense scrutiny. Many studies link this toxicity to the existence of various intermediate structures prior to the fiber formation and/or their specific interaction with membranes. Membranes can also be a catalyst of amyloidogenesis and the composition or the charge of membr...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Berthelot K,Cullin C,Lecomte S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-editing technologies, in particular, CRISPR systems, are widely used for targeted regulation of gene expression and obtaining modified human and animal cell lines, plants, fungi, and animals with preassigned features. Despite being well described and easy to perform, the most common methods for construction and...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Filippova J,Matveeva A,Zhuravlev E,Stepanov G

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified chromatin from pig lymph nodes has been prepared and used for the isolation of chromatin proteins and non-histine proteins. Saccharose nuclei from this tissue have been used for the preparation of nuclear phenol-soluble phosphoproteins. The isolated proteins have been compared by analytical electrophoresis in...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Kilianska Z,Klyszejko-Stefanowicz L

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the bacterium Escherichia coli, H-NS-(H1, H1a) is a heat-stable protein with a molecular mass of 15.5 kDa involved in nucleoid organisation and gene regulation linked to certain signal transduction pathways. We have shown that, following addition of preparations of everted inner membrane vesicles, heat-stable cleav...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Goldberg MD,Canvin JR,Freestone P,Andersen C,Laoudj D,Williams PH,Holland IB,Norris V

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase (IVD) catalyzes the conversion of isovaleryl-CoA to 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA and the transfer of electrons to the electron transfer flavoprotein (ETF). Recombinant human IVD purifies with bound CoA-persulfide. A modified purification protocol was developed to isolate IVD without bound CoA-pers...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Mohsen AW,Vockley J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Datura stramonium contains a compound that impairs learning retention in mice. It has been purified to homogeneity and its structure has been established as that of a gamma-L-glutamyl-L-aspartate. The biological activity of this pseudodipeptide has been found to be identical with that of the corresponding synthetic on...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Schmitz-Bourgeois M,Amiri I,Reinbolt J,Boulanger Y,Ungerer A

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducing brown adipocytes in white adipose tissues is a promising target to combat obesity and its related disorders in human beings. This goal has been especially encouraged by new important discoveries of human brown adipose tissues. The accumulating evidence confirms the presence of active brown adipocytes, not onl...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Chu DT,Gawronska-Kozak B

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vegetable oils, consisting principally of triacylglycerols (TAG), are major sources of calories and essential fatty acids in the human diet. The fatty acid composition of TAG is a primary determinant of the nutritional quality and health-promoting properties of vegetable oils. TAG fatty acid composition also affects t...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Msanne J,Kim H,Cahoon EB

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immune system is the first line of host defense against invading microorganisms. It relies on a limited number of germline-encoded pattern recognition receptors that recognize conserved molecular structures of microbes, referred to as pathogen-/microbe-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs/MAMPs). Bacterial cell...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ray A,Cot M,Puzo G,Gilleron M,Nigou J

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Clustered apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites are more cytotoxic than isolated AP lesions because double strand breaks (DSB) can be formed during repair of closely positioned bistranded AP sites. Formation of DSB due to simultaneous cleavage of bistranded AP sites may be regulated by proteins specifically interacting wit...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ilina ES,Khodyreva SN,Lavrik OI

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The targets of in vivo studies of the ribosomal assembly process are mainly the events of rRNA processing, whereas in vitro studies (total reconstitution) focus on principles of the assembly process such as assembly-initiation proteins, rate-limiting steps and a detailed sequence of assembly reactions (assembly map). ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Nierhaus KH

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated and purified the main lipids of the rat sciatic nerve. After methanolysis, fatty acids were isolated and purified by thin layer chromatography, and studied by gas chromatography. C 16 and C 18 fatty acids are the most abundant. Among the long-chain fatty acids, arachidonic acid (20:4) is present in some li...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Klein F,Mandel P

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bovine oxytocin precursor was expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein by cloning the hormone encoding cDNA in frame behind the replicase gene of the RNA phage MS2. By step-wise extraction with different urea concentrations, the fusion protein was enriched in the 7 M urea fraction and further purified by ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Nörenberg U,Brunath A,Richter D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We screened a cDNA library of the primitive eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum constructed in the expression vector lambda gt11 with a specific antiserum directed against S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase (AdoHcy hydrolase) and isolated cDNA clones coding for fusion proteins with beta-galactosidase. The identity of ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Guitton MC,Part D,Veron M

更新日期：1988-06-01 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