HMG CoA reductase and LDL receptor genes are regulated differently by 15-ketosterols in Hep G2 cells.

abstract：:Thymosin beta15 (Tbeta15) is a pleiotropic factor which exerts multiple roles in the development of nervous system and brain diseases. In this study, we found that the expressions of Tbeta15 mRNA and protein were substantially increased in several brain regions including hippocampal formation and cerebral cortex, foll...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YW,Kim Y,Kim EH,Koh D,Sun W,Kim H

更新日期：2008-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression and processing of the Hepatitis C virus core protein (HCcAg) were analyzed in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. Two proteins with 21 (p21) and 23 kDa (p23) were detected in immunoblot with a serum from a chronic carrier patient, as the major products for HCcAg. Both proteins, p21 and p23, produc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Acosta-Rivero N,Musacchio A,Lorenzo L,Alvarez C,Morales J

更新日期：2002-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (N. lugens, Hemiptera: Delphacidae), and the green rice leafhopper, Nephotettix cincticeps (N. cincticeps, Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), two sap-sucking feeders, have caused many destructive agricultural disasters in East Asia, as they can bring diseases like 'hopper burn' and tra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Qian N,Zheng P,Wang Y,Pan S,Li Y,Zhang C,Chen J,Teng J

更新日期：2016-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) tyrosine kinase was investigated in membrane preparations as well as intact A431 cells, using anti-EGF-R antibodies directed against extra- and intracellular receptor domains. In vitro assay conditions were mimicked on whole cells by a mild detergent treatment...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Spaargaren M,Defize LH,de Laat SW,Boonstra J

更新日期：1990-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid membrane can enhance prion protein (PrP) pathological fibrillogenesis. A neuronal paralog of PrP, named Shadoo (Sho), is localized to similar membrane environment as PrP and can also convert to amyloid-like fibrilles. To gain insight into the role of Sho in prion diseases, we studied Sho interactions with cellul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li Q,Chevalier C,Henry C,Richard CA,Moudjou M,Vidic J

更新日期：2013-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) has led to recent outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in China, resulting in high mortality. In this study, several monoclonal antibodies were generated by immunizing mice with two synthetic peptides, SP55 and SP70, containing amino acids 163-177 and 208-222 of VP1. The specificities...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li X,Mao C,Ma S,Wang X,Sun Z,Yi Y,Guo M,Shen X,Sun L,Bi S

更新日期：2009-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The human promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60 can be differentiated to cells resembling either neutrophils or mononuclear phagocytes by a diverse group of stimuli. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. We report that 1-0-hexadecyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerol inhibits the growth of HL-60 cells and induces diff...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McNamara MJ,Schmitt JD,Wykle RL,Daniel LW

更新日期：1984-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:As we reported before, exoglycosidase treatment of human serum IgA1 changed it to a sticky molecule. In order to examine the presence of the specific binding protein to the sticky IgA1 in human serum, IgA1, asialo-IgA1 (IgA1-S) and asialo-, agalacto-IgA1 (IgA1-SG)/Sepharose column chromatography of normal human serum ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwase H,Yokozeki Y,Hiki Y,Tanaka A,Kokubo T,Sano T,Ishii-Karakasa I,Hisatani K,Kobayashi Y,Hotta K

更新日期：1999-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Akt is one of the critical mediators in cellular signaling, and overactivation of Akt related pathway frequently occurs in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In this study, we presented that Akt was upregulated in HCC cell lines, and its active phosphorylated form was mainly located in the nucleus. Employing the laser co...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhu L,Hu C,Li J,Xue P,He X,Ge C,Qin W,Yao G,Gu J

更新日期：2007-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:SAMHD1 (Sterile alpha motif and histidine-aspartic acid (HD) domain containing protein 1) is a deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) triphosphohydrolase (dNTPase) that restricts viral replication in infected cells. This protein is also involved in DNA repair by assisting in DNA end resection by homologous recombinat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Medeiros AC,Soares CS,Coelho PO,Vieira NA,Baqui MMA,Teixeira FR,Gomes MD

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in cancer biology reveal the importance of metabolic changes in cancer; however, less is known about how metabolic pathways in tumors are regulated in vivo. Here, we report analysis of the lung cancer metabolism based on different surgical procedures, namely lobectomy and partial resection. In lobectom...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kikuchi N,Soga T,Nomura M,Sato T,Sakamoto Y,Tanaka R,Abe J,Morita M,Shima H,Okada Y,Tanuma N

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic COX-2 overexpression is sufficient to induce hepatitis, but its role on liver fibrosis remains unknown. We aim to elucidate possible biological effects of COX-2 in liver fibrosis using both gain-of-function and loss-of-function mouse models. COX-2 transgenic (TG) mice that specifically overexpress the human CO...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu J,Wu CW,Chu ES,Hui AY,Cheng AS,Go MY,Ching AK,Chui YL,Chan HL,Sung JJ

更新日期：2008-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretory proteins from adrenal chromaffin granules, chromogranins A, A1 and A2, were found to be excellent in vitro methyl acceptor proteins. The purified protein-carboxyl methylase (PCM) from bovine erythrocytes incorporated 660, 2540 and 7890 pmol of methyl group/10 min/mg protein in chromogranins A, A1 and A2,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Veeraragavan K,Coulombe R,Gagnon C

更新日期：1988-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that astrocytes release gliotransmitters (i.e., ATP, L-glutamate, D-serine, and peptide hormones) and participate actively in synaptic functioning. Although ATP release from astrocytes modulates the activity of neurons, the mechanisms regulating the ATP release from astrocytes and the sou...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oya M,Kitaguchi T,Yanagihara Y,Numano R,Kakeyama M,Ikematsu K,Tsuboi T

更新日期：2013-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate for the first time that major structural changes are imposed on various phospholipid bilayers by diacylglycerol, a product of phosphatidylinositol metabolism. By 5 mole percent in phosphatidylethanolamine a lamellar to hexagonal transition starts that is complete at 10 mole percent. At 30 mole percent i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Das S,Rand RP

更新日期：1984-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the isolation of a synthetic agonist of IFN-gamma (L-mIFN-gamma-CT) active on mouse and human cells. Its biological activity is the result of the ability of the C-terminal extremity of murine IFN-gamma to interact with the intracellular part of IFNgamma-R and the observation that the modification of peptid...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thiam K,Loing E,Delanoye A,Diesis E,Gras-Masse H,Auriault C,Verwaerde C

更新日期：1998-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin is a member of inhibitors of apoptosis proteins (IAPs), and also belongs to be a member of the chromosomal passenger complex (CPC) which has multiple functions including inhibition of apoptosis and regulation of cell division and SAC activity. Plk1 (polo-like kinase 1) associates with the spindle poles and al...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sun SC,Liu HL,Sun QY

更新日期：2012-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of cellular adhesion to extracellular matrix proteins is poorly understood. In the present analyses, we set out to test the hypothesis that high galectin-3 concentration on the cell surface downregulates cellular adhesion to the extracellular matrix proteins. Various tumor cell lines were briefly incubated...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ochieng J,Leite-Browning ML,Warfield P

更新日期：1998-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch signaling is essential for cell-fate specification in metazoans, and dysregulation of the pathway leads to a variety of human diseases including heart and vascular defects as well as cancer. Glycosylation of the Notch extracellular domain has emerged as an elegant means for regulating Notch activity, especially ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takeuchi H,Haltiwanger RS

更新日期：2014-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Chemical intervention of autophagy has been investigated in clinical trials for various age-related conditions such as sarcopenia and neurodegeneration. However, at present, no autophagy inducer has been established as a disease-modifying agent against neurodegenerative diseases. METHODS:We screened a lib...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hirano K,Fujimaki M,Sasazawa Y,Yamaguchi A,Ishikawa KI,Miyamoto K,Souma S,Furuya N,Imamichi Y,Yamada D,Saya H,Akamatsu W,Saiki S,Hattori N

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose transporter-1 (GLUT1) is important in placental glucose transport. However, the mechanism of regulation of placental GLUT1 expression remains to be elucidated. We show here that the level of GLUT1 protein in rat choriocarcinoma cells (Rcho-1) decreased during differentiation. To analyze the regulatory mechanis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okamoto Y,Sakata M,Yamamoto T,Nishio Y,Adachi K,Ogura K,Yamaguchi M,Takeda T,Tasaka K,Murata Y

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial glutamate transporter GLT-1 mRNA was selectively induced in C6 glioma cells exposed to hypertonic stress (HS), while the expression of two other subtypes, GLAST and EAAC1, was suppressed. HS increased phosphorylation of the MAPK family, ERK, p38 MAPK, and JNK. Treatment with a PKC inhibitor showed that phosphory...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Imura T,Shimohama S,Kageyama T,Kimura J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously found a new endogenous factor in rat liver cytosol, named ATP-stimulated glucocorticoid-receptor translocation promoter (ASTP), that increased the binding of activated glucocorticoid-receptor to nuclei in the presence of ATP. We have cloned and sequenced a cDNA (2989 bp) encoding the ASTP protein. An ope...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okamoto K,Hirano H,Isohashi F

更新日期：1993-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease inhibitors were purified from the latent ribonuclease fractions of porcine thyroid and liver and used to test the hypothesis that their inhibition of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A is correctly described by tight-binding rather than Michaelis-Menton kinetics. Both proteins were found to act as slow, tig...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Turner PM,Lerea KM,Kull FJ

更新日期：1983-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphate is essential for cell metabolism in all organisms. As it is often limiting in the soil, plants have evolved various mechanisms to cope with low-phosphate conditions. Here, we report that Aluminum Sensitive 3 and NAP3, two genes previously identified to function in aluminum tolerance, play a critical role in ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Belal R,Tang R,Li Y,Mabrouk Y,Badr E,Luan S

更新日期：2015-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Special AT-rich sequence-binding protein (SATB) plays a critical role in bone generation and osteoblast differentiation. In the present study, the differentially expressed genes by SATB2 overexpression were analyzed in MC3T3-E1 osteoblast-like cells using Alizarin red S staining, wound healing assay and Agilent's Huma...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim IS,Jeong SJ,Kim SH,Jung JH,Park YG,Kim SH

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we devised a simple and rapid method to analyze fidelity of reverse transcriptase (RT) using next-generation sequencing (NGS). The method comprises a cDNA synthesis reaction from standard RNA with a primer containing a tag of 14 randomized bases and the RT to be tested, PCR using high-fidelity DNA polym...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yasukawa K,Iida K,Okano H,Hidese R,Baba M,Yanagihara I,Kojima K,Takita T,Fujiwara S

更新日期：2017-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine, a metabolite of ATP, ubiquitously exists in a wide range of organs and tissues. We previously reported that adenosine was implicated in apoptosis in many cancer cells by extrinsic and/or intrinsic pathways. Here, we found that adenosine suppresses the cell growth by induction of apoptosis of human colonic c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu S,Hou D,Chen P,Zhang Q,Lv B,Ma Y,Liu F,Liu H,Song EJ,Yang D,Liu J

更新日期：2015-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on the immune response against H5N1 within the lung is lacking. Here we describe the sustained antiviral immune responses, as indicated by the expression of MxA protein and IFN-alpha mRNA, in autopsy lung tissue from an H5N1-infected patient. H5N1 infection of primary bronchial/tracheal epithelial cells an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thitithanyanont A,Engering A,Uiprasertkul M,Ekchariyawat P,Wiboon-Ut S,Kraivong R,Limsalakpetch A,Kum-Arb U,Yongvanitchit K,Sa-Ard-Iam N,Rukyen P,Mahanonda R,Kawkitinarong K,Auewarakul P,Utaisincharoen P,Sirisinha S,Mason

更新日期：2010-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of DN-BR mRNA encoding a dominant negative type I receptor for bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) converted prospective ectoderm into neural tissue in Xenopus animal cap explants, in the absence of expression of mesodermal marker genes. The injected caps expressed a general neural marker NCAM and the forebr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xu RH,Kim J,Taira M,Zhan S,Sredni D,Kung HF

更新日期：1995-07-06 00:00:00