Distinct characteristics of receptor-operated Ca2+ influx and refilling in pancreatic acinar cells.

abstract：:We previously reported transplantation of brain microvascular endothelial cells (MVECs) into cerebral white matter infarction model improved the animal's behavioral outcome by increasing the number of oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs). We also revealed extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from MVECs promoted surv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Osawa S,Kurachi M,Yamamoto H,Yoshimoto Y,Ishizaki Y

更新日期：2017-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokine interleukin (IL)-17C is highly expressed in epithelial tissues and involved in innate immune responses; however, the regulation of IL-17C expression in the airways remains poorly understood. Here, we show that IL-1β strongly induces both IL-17C mRNA and protein expression in primary normal human bronchial...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamanaka K,Fujisawa T,Kusagaya H,Mori K,Niwa M,Furuhashi K,Kono M,Hamada E,Suda T,Maekawa M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity increases the acetoacetyl-CoA synthetase (AACS) gene expression in lipogenic tissue. To investigate the effect of obesity on the AACS gene in other tissues, we examined the alteration of AACS mRNA levels in HFD-fed mice. In situ hybridization reveale...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamasaki M,Hasegawa S,Imai M,Takahashi N,Fukui T

更新日期：2016-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In Chinese hamster ovary cells, [3H]formycin B is metabolized into formycin B-5'-monophosphate, formycin A-5'-monophosphate and higher phosphorylated derivatives of formycin A which are incorporated into RNA. Mutants of CHO cells independently selected for resistance to various adenosine analogs viz. toyocamycin, tube...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mehta KD,Gupta RS

更新日期：1985-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:CAP is a multifunctional protein; the N-terminal region binds adenylyl cyclase and controls its response to Ras while the C-terminal region is involved in cytoskeletal regulation. In between the two regions, CAP possesses two proline-rich segments, P1 and P2, resembling a consensus sequence for binding SH3 domains. We...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yanagihara C,Shinkai M,Kariya K,Yamawaki-Kataoka Y,Hu CD,Masuda T,Kataoka T

更新日期：1997-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) strongly induce the recruitment and differentiation of mesenchymal progenitor cells into mature osteoblasts, but also directly and indirectly stimulate differentiation of osteoclast progenitor cells and acceleration of mature osteoclasts function leading excessive bone resorption. Bi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ichikawa K,Ohta Y,Mamoto K,Mizokawa S,Minoda Y,Imai Y,Takaoka K,Nakamura H

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported the identification and characterization of a novel cancer/testis antigen gene, CAGE(4), that was expressed in various histological types of tumors, but not in normal tissues, with the exception of the testis. To date, molecular mechanisms for the expression of CAGE have never been studied. In o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cho B,Lee H,Jeong S,Bang YJ,Lee HJ,Hwang KS,Kim HY,Lee YS,Kang GH,Jeoung DI

更新日期：2003-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of serine/threonine protein phosphatases can inhibit apoptosis. We investigated which protein phosphatases are critical for this protection using calyculin A, okadaic acid, and tautomycin. All three phosphatase inhibitors prevented anisomycin-induced apoptosis in leukemia cell models. In vitro, calyculin A ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatfield K,Eastman A

更新日期：2004-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) are promising anti-tumor agents that selectively induce cell cycle arrest, differentiation and/or apoptosis of tumor cells. Fundamentally, HDACIs are proposed to function by activating the transcription of genes, including the potent cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p21(WAF1). ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hirsch CL,Ellis DJ,Bonham K

更新日期：2010-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Immortal hepatocytes were established from a CYP3A7-transgenic/p53-knockout mouse. The cells could be maintained with shorter doubling time after culture for 1 month. Detectable amounts of CYP3A7 mRNA and the activity of 7-propoxycoumarin O-depropylase, one of the representative CYP3A activities, were present in the i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimoji M,Hattori K,Itoh S,Nakayama K,Katsuki M,Aizawa S,Yokoi T,Kamataki T

更新日期：1995-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between gene expression and the patterns of histone methylation in Drosophila cells has been investigated using inhibitors of transcription acting at various levels. Inhibition of ribosomal RNA synthesis and processing by 5-fluorouridine or of general RNA synthesis by camptothecin, an inhibitor of top...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Desrosiers R,Tanguay RM

更新日期：1989-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gout patients receiving a combination of allopurinol and furosemide require higher allopurinol doses to achieve the target serum urate (SU) of <6 mg/dl (Stamp et al., 2012) [1]. Our study aimed to identify the molecular basis for this observation. We used a fluorimetric assay to determine the impact of furosemide and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Knake C,Stamp L,Bahn A

更新日期：2014-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced multiple organ injury was mediated in part by a transcription factor, nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB). Mice were pretreated with dexamethasone (DEX), an inhibitor of NF-kappaB activation, to elucidate its effects on LPS-induced early responses in vivo. Early responses measured 1 h af...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aoki K,Ishida Y,Kikuta N,Kawai H,Kuroiwa M,Sato H

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is common in human cervical cancers and has great potential therapeutic value. We show that tigecycline, a FDA-approved antibiotic drug, targets cervical squamous cell carcinoma through inhibiting Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Tigecycline is effective in in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li H,Jiao S,Li X,Banu H,Hamal S,Wang X

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) inhibition increases insulin sensitivity and normalizes blood glucose levels in animals. The molecular events associated with PTP1B inhibition that increase insulin sensitivity remain controversial. Insulin resistant, diabetic ob/ob mice, dosed with PTP1B antisense for 3 weeks e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rondinone CM,Clampit J,Gum RJ,Zinker BA,Jirousek MR,Trevillyan JM

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous report we described Ser(1275) and Ser(1309) as autophosphorylation sites of the human insulin receptor (IR) tyrosine kinase (TK) in vitro. The question remained whether the observed phosphorylation was exclusive for the in vitro activated receptor or a more general, mechanism of the activated receptor in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tennagels N,Telting D,Parvaresch S,Maassen JA,Klein HW

更新日期：2001-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Two P-450s from adult pig testis were purified to specific contents of 11.2 and 12.0 nmol P-450/mg protein and shown to have minimum molecular weights of 45,000 and 46,000, respectively. The absorption spectra were typical of P-450s. The P-450s were separated from the two fractions by CM-C50 Sephadex column chromatogr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuwada M,Takizawa N,Sone Y

更新日期：1996-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of AtNTRC (AtNTRC(OE)) in Arabidopsis thaliana led to a freezing and cold stress tolerance, whereas a knockout mutant (atntrc) showed a stress-sensitive phenotype. Biochemical analyses showed that the recombinant AtNTRC proteins exhibited a cryoprotective activity for malate dehydrogenase and lactic deh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon JC,Lee S,Shin SY,Chae HB,Jung YJ,Jung HS,Lee KO,Lee JR,Lee SY

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxysterols are 27-carbon oxidation products of cholesterol metabolism. Oxysterols possess several biological actions, including the promotion of cell death. Here, we examined the ability of several oxysterols to induce short-term death in cancerous (human breast cancer and mouse skin melanoma cells) and non-cancerous ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Levy D,Correa de Melo T,Ohira BY,Fidelis ML,Ruiz JLM,Rodrigues A,Bydlowski SP

更新日期：2018-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) pepsinogen C gene was isolated. The nucleotide sequences of all exons are presented. The organization of the gene is compatible with that of other aspartic proteinases. The predicted 388-residue amino acid (aa) sequence of sea bass pepsinogen C consists of a signal seq...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Terova G,Rimoldi S,Larghi S,Bernardini G,Gornati R,Saroglia M

更新日期：2007-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The two zinc fingers of the DNA binding domain of the human retinoic acid receptor-beta were labelled with 113Cd. Two- and three-dimensional heteronuclear nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments show that the first eight conserved cysteine residues coordinate the two zinc ions tetrahedrally. The ninth conserved c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Knegtel RM,Boelens R,Ganadu ML,George AV,van der Saag PT,Kaptein R

更新日期：1993-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of rabbit aortic rings with interleukin-1 (100 U/ml) in vitro led to a depressed contractile response to norepinephrine, whether the endothelium was present or not. In both cases norepinephrine-induced contraction was restored in the presence of NG-methyl-L-arginine (300 microM), an inhibitor of nitric oxid...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Robert R,Chapelain B,Jean T,Néliat G

更新日期：1992-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramide kinase (CERK) converts ceramide to ceramide-1-phosphate (C1P), which has recently emerged as a new bioactive molecule capable of regulating diverse cellular functions. The N-terminus of the CERK protein encompasses a sequence motif known as a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain. Although the PH domain was previou...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim TJ,Mitsutake S,Igarashi Y

更新日期：2006-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) is a pleiotropic cytokine involved in apoptotic cell death, cellular proliferation, differentiation, inflammation, and tumorigenesis. In tumors it is secreted by tumor associated macrophages and can have both pro- and anti-tumorigenic effects. To identify genes regulated by TNFal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guardiola-Serrano F,Haendeler J,Lukosz M,Sturm K,Melchner Hv,Altschmied J

更新日期：2008-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To repress gene transcription, the unliganded nuclear receptor (NR) recruits the N-CoR and SMRT corepressors via its direct association with the conserved motif within bipartite NR-interaction domains (IDs) of corepressors. We recently reported that SMRT is directly involved in the VDR-mediated repression via an ID1-s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim JY,Son YL,Lee YC

更新日期：2009-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of sufficient amounts of oligosaccharides is the bottleneck for the study of their biological function and their possible use as drug. As an alternative for chemical synthesis, we propose to use Escherichia coli as a "living factory." We have addressed the production of the Galp alpha(1-3)Galp beta(1-4)G...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bettler E,Imberty A,Priem B,Chazalet V,Heyraud A,Joziasse DH,Geremia RA

更新日期：2003-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a mode of cell death characterized by chromatin condensation and disassembly of the nuclear lamina, processes that are also characteristic of mitosis. The apparent similarity between the two events, together with observations that apoptosis can occur following G2 arrest, has led to the suggestion that apo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Norbury C,MacFarlane M,Fearnhead H,Cohen GM

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The uncharacterized Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteins Fcf1 and Fcf2, encoded by the ORFs YDR339c and YLR051c, respectively, were identified in a tandem affinity purification experiment of the known 40S factor Faf1p. Most of the proteins associated with TAP-Faf1p are trans-acting factors involved in pre-rRNA processing...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rempola B,Karkusiewicz I,Piekarska I,Rytka J

更新日期：2006-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The entire coding region of chlL, an essential chloroplast gene required for chlorophyll biosynthesis in the dark in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, was precisely replaced by either the Klebsiella pneumoniae nifH (encoding the structural component of nitrogenase Fe protein) or the Escherichia coli uidA reporter gene encodi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng Q,Day A,Dowson-Day M,Shen GF,Dixon R

更新日期：2005-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus-1 reverse transcriptase is a heterodimer of related 51 and 66 kDa subunits. The smaller subunit arises by viral protease-catalyzed cleavage of the carboxy-terminal domain of the 66 kDa species. Comparison of the amino acid composition analyses of the isolated 51 kDa and 66 kDa subunits...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Graves MC,Meidel MC,Pan YC,Manneberg M,Lahm HW,Grüninger-Leitch F

更新日期：1990-04-16 00:00:00