Formation of N-pyroglutamyl peptides from N-Glu and N-Gln precursors in Aplysia neurons.

abstract：:Several derivatives of conantokin-T (con-T), a naturally occurring, gamma-carboxyglutamate (Gla)-containing peptide with NMDA receptor (NMDAR) antagonist properties, were synthesized and evaluated for their ability to displace [(3)H]MK-801 from adult rat forebrain membranes. Analyses of progressive C-terminal truncati...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Warder SE,Blandl T,Klein RC,Castellino FJ,Prorok M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Arrestin 1-GFP or beta-arrestin 2-GFP were coexpressed transiently with G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 within cells stably expressing the orexin-1, apelin or melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH), receptors. In response to agonist ligands both the orexin-1 and apelin receptors were able to rapidly translocate ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Evans NA,Groarke DA,Warrack J,Greenwood CJ,Dodgson K,Milligan G,Wilson S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sites of interaction of quinacrine with synaptic membranes were labeled with quinacrine mustard. Quinacrine mustard had an inhibitory effect on depolarization-induced calcium uptake by synaptosomes similar to that of quinacrine. The inhibition of depolarization-induced calcium uptake by quinacrine was reduced by 7...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ohta A,Baba A,Iwata H

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylphenidate (MPD) was found to inhibit competitively the striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) and bind at sites on the DAT in common with both cocaine (a non-substrate site ligand) and amphetamine (a substrate site ligand). Some methylphenidate analogues modified on the aromatic ring and/or at the nitrogen were tes...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wayment HK,Deutsch H,Schweri MM,Schenk JO

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term ethanol exposure is known to inhibit bradykinin-stimulated phosphoinositide hydrolysis in cultures of neuroblastoma x glioma 108-15 cells. In the present study, [3H]bradykinin binding, GTP-binding protein function, and phospholipase C activity were assayed in cells grown for 4 days in 100 mM ethanol with the...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Simonsson P,Rodriguez FD,Loman N,Alling C

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments show that N-[3H]-methylcarbamylcholine ([3H]MCC) binds specifically and with high affinity to rat hippocampus, frontal cortex, and striatum. The highest maximal density of binding sites was apparent in frontal cortex and the lowest in hippocampus. [3H]MCC binding was potently inhibited by nicot...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Araujo DM,Lapchak PA,Collier B,Quirion R

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Review "The malleable brain: plasticity of neural circuits and behavior - A review from students to students" has been written by a group of students following the International Society for Neurochemistry and Journal of Neurochemistry Flagship School. Comprehensively written by students for students, it provides b...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schulz JB,Hausmann L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons of the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) express a diversity of voltage-gated sodium channels. From rat DRG we have cloned and functionally expressed a tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium channel alpha subunit, NaCh6/Scn8a/rPN4, and a splice variant, rPN4a. Primary structure analysis shows NaCh6/Scn8a/rPN4 to be highly homo...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Dietrich PS,McGivern JG,Delgado SG,Koch BD,Eglen RM,Hunter JC,Sangameswaran L

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GN11 and GT1-7 are immortalized gonadotropin-releasing hormone-positive murine cell lines exhibiting the features of immature olfactory neurons and differentiated hypothalamic neurons, respectively. Using electron microscopy and biochemical assays (RT-PCR and immunoblotting) we determined the presence of numerous cave...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： D'Orlando C,Guzzi F,Gravati M,Biella G,Toselli M,Meneveri R,Barisani D,Parenti M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic stroke is a neurovascular disease treatable by thrombolytic therapy, but the therapy has to be initiated within 3 h of the incident. This therapeutic limitation stems from the secondary injury which results mainly from oxidative stress and inflammation. A potent antioxidant/anti-inflammatory agent, caffeic ac...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Khan M,Elango C,Ansari MA,Singh I,Singh AK

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Huntingtin is a large, multi-domain protein of unknown function in the brain. An abnormally elongated polyglutamine stretch in its N-terminus causes Huntington's disease (HD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Huntingtin has been proposed to play a functional role in membrane trafficking via proteins ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Suopanki J,Götz C,Lutsch G,Schiller J,Harjes P,Herrmann A,Wanker EE

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the free fatty acid pool size and fatty acyl chain composition of mitochondrial membrane phospholipids and their relation to disruption of mitochondrial function were examined in rat brains after 30 min of cerebral ischemia (Pulsinelli-Brierley model) and 60 min of normoxic reoxygenation. During ischemia, s...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sun D,Gilboe DD

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work from our laboratory points to plasma free tryptophan being a useful predictor of brain tryptophan concentration in many circumstances. Other work, in particular various studies on the acute effects of food intake, has emphasized the roles of plasma total tryptophan and of plasma large neutral amino acids...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sarna GS,Kantamaneni BD,Curzon G

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the common complications associated with diabetes mellitus and the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Recent research has demonstrated that DR is not only a microvascular disease but may be a result of neurodegenerative processes. Moreover, glucose-induced neuron and glial cell d...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zorrilla-Zubilete MA,Yeste A,Quintana FJ,Toiber D,Mostoslavsky R,Silberman DM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Declining levels of estrogen in women result in increases in gonadotropins such as luteinizing hormone (LH) through loss of feedback inhibition. LH, like estrogen, is modulated by hormone replacement therapy. However, the role of post-menopausal gonadotropin increases on cognition has not been evaluated. Here, we demo...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bryan KJ,Mudd JC,Richardson SL,Chang J,Lee HG,Zhu X,Smith MA,Casadesus G

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the apoptogenic sphingomyelin-dependent signaling pathway in neuronally differentiated PC12 cells with cell-permeant C2-ceramide resulted in a transient and short-lived emission of reactive oxygen species that was maximal 6 h after the beginning of treatment, followed immediately by nuclear translocation...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： France-Lanord V,Brugg B,Michel PP,Agid Y,Ruberg M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microtubule-based motor protein kinesin is thought to drive anterograde organelle transport in axons, but nothing is known about how its force-generating activity or organelle-binding properties are regulated. Studies in other motility systems suggest that protein phosphorylation is a reasonable candidate for this...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hollenbeck PJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While transplanted neural stem cells (NSCs) have been shown to hold promise for cell replacement in models of a number of neurological disorders, these examples have typically been under conditions where the host cells become dysfunctional due to a cell autonomous etiology, i.e. a 'sick' cell within a relatively suppo...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Taylor RM,Lee JP,Palacino JJ,Bower KA,Li J,Vanier MT,Wenger DA,Sidman RL,Snyder EY

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microelectrophoretic methods were used to study the effects on cat spinal neurones of a number of compounds structurally related to the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonists muscimol, THIP, and isoguvacine. While N-methylmuscimol was an agonist at bicuculline methochloride-sensitive GABA receptors, somewhat weaker t...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Krogsgaard-Larsen P,Hjeds H,Curtis DR,Leah JD,Peet MJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of a link between aluminium and Alzheimer's disease, parkinsonism-dementia of Guam, and dialysis encephalopathy raises questions regarding the role of this element in the pathogenesis of these conditions. Therefore, we have investigated the use of gallium-67 (67Ga) as a marker for brain uptake of aluminium. T...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pullen RG,Candy JM,Morris CM,Taylor G,Keith AB,Edwardson JA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local application of K+ via micropressure-ejection, coupled with in vivo electrochemical detection, was used to study stimulated release from monoaminergic nerve terminals in the striatum of anesthetized rats and mice. K+-evoked releases were reversible, reproducible, and dose-dependent. In contrast, releases of elect...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gerhardt GA,Rose GM,Hoffer BJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals treated with high doses of amphetamines have been used as a model of schizophrenia due to the similarities between the psychosis associated with this mental disorder and that induced by chronic amphetamine abuse. When administered to naive rats in high doses, the amphetamine-like CNS stimulant methamphetamine ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schmidt CJ,Sonsalla PK,Hanson GR,Peat MA,Gibb JW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the interaction of neurotensin with mouse neuroblastoma N1E115 cells. Neurotensin binding sites are undetectable in nondifferentiated neuroblastoma cells. They appear during cell differentiation in the presence of a low serum concentration and dimethyl sulfoxide, and reach a maximal level after 50...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Poustis C,Mazella J,Kitabgi P,Vincent JP

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the jimpy mutant mouse, as well as in many other animals with mutations in the myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) gene, oligodendrocytes degenerate before their maturation. To analyze whether this degeneration is caused by the loss of function of PLP gene products related to oligodendrocyte maturation/survival acting...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kagawa T,Nakao J,Yamada M,Shimizu K,Hayakawa T,Mikoshiba K,Ikenaka K

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PEA-15 has recently been identified as a major phosphoprotein in astrocytes and an endogenous substrate for protein kinase C. This 15-kDa protein exists under three molecular forms, an unphosphorylated form, N, and two phosphorylated forms, Pa and Pb. Antisera were raised against synthetic peptides corresponding to th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Danziger N,Yokoyama M,Jay T,Cordier J,Glowinski J,Chneiweiss H

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous norepinephrine (NE) release in cerebral cortex slices taken from normal and morphine-tolerant guinea pigs was measured by HPLC. In normal slices, a linear relationship was found between electrically evoked NE release and the log of the frequency of stimulation in the range of 1-20 Hz. The efficiency of the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tomasini C,Guidorzi R,Bianchi C,Beani L

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogenesis of alpha 2-adrenoceptors and GTP-binding proteins and their coupling activity were investigated in telencephalon membranes of developing rats. The manganese-induced elevation of [3H]clonidine binding was increased in an age-dependent manner but the guanosine 5'-O-(3-thio)triphosphate-induced decrease i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kitamura Y,Mochii M,Kodama R,Agata K,Watanabe K,Eguchi G,Nomura Y

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular sequestration is important in the regulation of cytoplasmic concentrations of monoamines such as dopamine. Moreover, recent evidence suggests that increases in cytoplasmic dopamine levels, perhaps attributable to changes in vesicular monoamine transporter function, contribute to methamphetamine-induced dopam...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Brown JM,Hanson GR,Fleckenstein AE

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular protein inclusions in Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy contain UBB+1, a variant ubiquitin. UBB+1 is able block the 26S proteasome in cell lines. Proteasome inhibition by drug action has previously been shown to induce a heat-shock response and render protection against stress. We in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hope AD,de Silva R,Fischer DF,Hol EM,van Leeuwen FW,Lees AJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromelanin is a dark brown pigment present at high concentrations in dopaminergic neurones of the human substantia nigra (SN). Early electron microscopic examinations of neuromelanin fine structure revealed a significant neutral lipid component; however, the identity of this lipid has remained unknown. Here we show ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fedorow H,Pickford R,Hook JM,Double KL,Halliday GM,Gerlach M,Riederer P,Garner B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00