Purification and characterization of acetylcholinesterase from desert cobra (Walterinnesia aegyptia) venom.

abstract：:The Escherichia coli Fis protein is a dimeric DNA-binding protein whose specific binding sites share a weak consensus sequence. Use of the gel retardation technique indicates that binding of Fis on a linear DNA fragment leads to the formation of a ladder of defined retarded complexes, independently of the presence of ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bétermier M,Galas DJ,Chandler M

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:We present an approach for designing a knowledge-based system, called Sequence Acquisition In Context (SAIC), that will be able to cooperate with a biologist in the analysis of DNA sequences. The main task of the system is the acquisition of the expert knowledge that the biologist uses for solving ambiguities from gel...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Brézillon PJ,Zaraté P,Saci F

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:1. Ghe kinetic and binding parameters of adenine-nucleotide transport have been studied in mitochondria isolated from yeast cells in which the mitochondrial protein-synthetizing system had been inhibited by growth in the presence of erythromycin. These parameters have also been studied in promitochondria isolated from...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lauquin G,Lunardi J,Vignais PV

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-toxic, direct-acting fibrinolytic serine protease (Bafibrinase) demonstrating thrombolytic and anticoagulant properties was purified from Bacillus sp. strain AS-S20-I. Bafibrinase was monomeric, with a molecular mass of 32.3 kDa. The peptide mass fingerprinting of Bafibrinase revealed only 8.3% sequence coverage...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Mukherjee AK,Rai SK,Thakur R,Chattopadhyay P,Kar SK

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) show great promise in a wide array of therapeutic applications due mainly to their capacity to suppress immune and inflammatory reactions and instigate normal tissue repair processes. The secretion of bioactive factors is thought to play a predominant role in the mechanisms of action for t...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lavoie JR,Rosu-Myles M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent increase in the intake of folic acid by the general public through fortified foods and supplements, has raised safety concern based on early reports of adverse health outcome in elderly with low B12 status who took high doses of folic acid. These safety concerns are contrary to the 2015 WHO statement that "...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Selhub J,Rosenberg IH

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike most tonoplast ATPases, the vacuolar ATPase of Acer pseudoplatanus cells (Km = 0.4 mM) was strongly inhibited by vanadate (I50 = 10 microM). The inhibition was non-competitive. Chemicals usually added in the reaction mixture either increase (NH+4, K+) or decrease (Na+, EDTA) the ATPase inhibition. However, thes...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Montrichard F,Pugin A,Gaudemer Y

更新日期：1989-07-01 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 oncogenic potential of the high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) relies on the expression of genes specifying the E7 and E6 proteins. To investigate further the variation in oligomeric structure that has been reported for different E7 proteins, an HPV-18 E7 cloned from a Hispanic woman with cervical intraepithelial...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Liu S,Tian Y,Greenaway FT,Sun MZ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TP53 is mutated in most types of human cancers and is one of the most popular genes in cancer research. The p53 protein is a sensor of multiple forms of genotoxic, oncogenic and non-genotoxic stress. It suppresses growth and controls survival of stressed cells, and as such, is the focal point of selection pressures in...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Guimaraes DP,Hainaut P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hypobaric hypoxia induced muscle atrophy results in decreased physical performance at high altitude. Curcumin has been shown to have muscle sparing effects under cachectic conditions. However, the protective effects of curcumin under chronic hypobaric hypoxia have not been studied till now. Therefore, the pres...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Chaudhary P,Sharma YK,Sharma S,Singh SN,Suryakumar G

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:The inhibitory action on rat liver phosphoglycerate kinase of structural analogs of the two substrates of this enzyme (beta,gamma- methyleneadenosine 5'-triphosphate for ATP and 2-phosphoglycerate for 3-phosphoglycerate) was studied. In the direction of ADP utilization, the inhibition patterns obtained with beta,gamma...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lavoinne A

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, were studied the conditions of erucic acid (cis-docosenoic, n-9) shortening by using Rat liver mitochondrial preparations which were incubated in vitro with [14-14C] erucic acid (22:1), with inhibitors of the respiratory chain (rotenone, cyanide) or not, with activators of either the shortening reaction ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Clouet P,Henninger C,Bezard J

更新日期：1982-10-01 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：:In around 10% of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients, coronavirus disease-2019 (Covid-19) symptoms are complicated with a severe lung damage called Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which is often lethal. ARDS is mainly associated with an uncontrolled overproduction of immune cells and cytokines, called "cytokine s...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Weill P,Plissonneau C,Legrand P,Rioux V,Thibault R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipoprotein complex from human gallbladder bile was challenged with anti-IgA and anti-IgG antisera in order to determine whether the apolipoprotein complex isolated from the detergent-free form of bile lipoprotein contains IgA and IgG. The apolipoprotein complex indeed crossreacts with anti-IgA and anti-IgG. In ad...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Vigne JL,Nalbone G,Lafont H,Lairon D,Chabert C,Domingo N,Hauton JC

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactants carrying either a hydrocarbon or a fluorocarbon alkyl chain have been synthesized. The polar head was either tris(hydroxymethyl)acrylamidomethane (THAM), telomerized THAM, or a glycosylated THAM moiety. The aqueous solubility of some of these molecules was increased by oxidizing to a sulfoxide the thioethe...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Chabaud E,Barthélémy P,Mora N,Popot JL,Pucci B

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed an allosteric ATP inhibition mechanism of Pfk-2 determining the structure of different forms of the enzyme together with a kinetic enzyme analysis. Here we complement the mechanism by using hybrid oligomers of the homodimeric enzyme to get insights about the allosteric communication pathways between t...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Villalobos P,Soto F,Baez M,Babul J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Well-defined quantities of *OH, O2*-,HO2* or RO2*)radicals (reactive oxygen species) can be specifically produced by radiolysis of water or ethanol. Such radical species can initiate one-electron oxidation or one-electron reduction reactions on numerous biological systems. The oxidative hypothesis of atherosclerosis c...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bonnefont-Rousselot D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rap family of small GTP-binding proteins is composed by four different members: Rap1A, Rap1B, Rap2A and Rap2B. In this work we report the identification and characterization of a fifth member of this family of small GTPases. This new protein is highly homologous to Rap2A and Rap2B, binds labeled GTP on nitrocellul...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Paganini S,Guidetti GF,Catricalà S,Trionfini P,Panelli S,Balduini C,Torti M

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Cytochromes P450 constitute a superfamily of hemoproteins which have evolved from a common ancestor. Recent advances in molecular biology have offered a powerful approach to the research on the multiplicity of P450. Now, every mammalian P450 species can be characterized by heterologous expression of its cDNA. In addit...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Yabusaki Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isopentenyl adenosine derivatives can be found next to the anticodon (position 37) in tRNA from both the Bacteria and Eucarya domains. These modified nucleosides improve the efficiency of tRNA in translation, can increase and decrease translational fidelity, and make the tRNA less codon context sensitive. In bacteria ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Persson BC,Esberg B,Olafsson O,Björk GR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major tolerance mechanism that functions to replicate damaged genomic DNA across lesions that have escaped elimination by repair mechanism is translesion DNA synthesis (TLS). DNA polymerase kappa (Pol kappa), a specialised low-fidelity DNA polymerase which is able to perform DNA synthesis across several damaged base...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bavoux C,Hoffmann JS,Cazaux C

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian aminoacylase-1 (Acy1) participates in the breakdown of N-acetylated amino acids during intracellular protein catabolism. Acy1 is most abundantly expressed in the kidney tubular epithelium. Lately, Acy1 deficiency was identified in children with increased urinary excretion of several N-acetylamino acids. Here...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lindner HA,Täfler-Naumann M,Röhm KH

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The termination of protein synthesis in bacteria requires codon-specific polypeptide release factors RF-1 (UAG/UAA specific) and RF-2 (UGA/UAA specific). We have proposed that release factors mimic tRNA and recognize the stop codon for polypeptide release (Nakamura et al (1996) Cell 87, 147-150). In contrast to the te...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Uno M,Ito K,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00