Signaling through the p38 and p42/44 mitogen-activated families of protein kinases in pancreatic beta-cell proliferation.

abstract：:Cancer chemotherapy with taxol often fails due to acquired resistance of cancer cells, which is frequently associated with an overexpression of P-gp and alterations of beta-tubulin. A taxol-resistant cell line, QGY-TR50, derived from a human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) QGY-7703 cell line was used to investigate the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou J,Cheng SC,Luo D,Xie Y

更新日期：2001-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent structural investigations on the beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase-1 (Gal-T1) and lactose synthase (LS) have revealed that they are akin to an exquisite mechanical device with two well-coordinated flexible loops that are contained within the Gal-T1 catalytic domain. The smaller one has a Trp residue (Trp314) flank...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ramakrishnan B,Boeggeman E,Qasba PK

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We established cell lines that stably express orphan GPCR GPR174 using CHO cells, and studied physiological and pharmacological features of the receptor. GPR174-expressing cells showed cell-cell adhesion with localization of actin filaments to cell membrane, and revealed significant delay of cell proliferation. Since ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sugita K,Yamamura C,Tabata K,Fujita N

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a bacterium that causes chronic active gastritis and peptic ulcers. Drugs targeting H. pylori phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase (HpPPAT), which is involved in CoA biosynthesis, may be useful. Herein, we report the expression in Escherichia coli and purification of recombinant HpPPAT and des...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng CS,Chen CH,Luo YC,Chen WT,Chang SY,Lyu PC,Kao MC,Yin HS

更新日期：2011-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylin and uroguanylin are structurally related intestinal peptide hormones which were purified from a limited number of mammals and are capable of activating the particulate guanylate cyclase-C. Although the biological functions of guanylin and uroguanylin are not yet clarified in detail, they are involved in the r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mägert HJ,Hill O,Zucht HD,Martin S,Meyer M,Forssmann WG,Adermann K

更新日期：1999-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Several chemokines, belonging to both the CXC and CC classes, act as positive or negative regulators of angiogenesis. We sought to investigate the role of CXCL13, B cell-attracting chemokine 1 (BCA-1), also known as B-lymphocyte chemoattractant (BLC), on endothelial cell functions. We tested the effect of CXCL13 on HU...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Spinetti G,Camarda G,Bernardini G,Romano Di Peppe S,Capogrossi MC,Napolitano M

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells are the most versatile cells, with the potential to differentiate into all types of cell lineages including neural precursor cells (NPCs), which can be expanded in large numbers for significant periods of time to provide a reliable cell source for transplantation in neurodegenerat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xu H,Fan X,Wu X,Tang J,Yang H

更新日期：2005-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells from human neuroectodermal tumors (retinoblastoma and neuroblastoma) and from neuroblastoma cell lines express a gene, N-myc, which is frequently amplified in these tumors. We report here that N-myc mRNA content is markedly decreased in cells of a neuroblastoma cell line (LA-N-5) following differentiation induce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Amatruda TT 3rd,Sidell N,Ranyard J,Koeffler HP

更新日期：1985-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational histone modifications play an important role in modulating gene expression and chromatin structure. Here we report the identification of histone H3K79 dimethylation in the simple eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum. We have deleted the D. discoideum Dot1/KMT4 homologue and demonstrate that it is the s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Müller-Taubenberger A,Bönisch C,Fürbringer M,Wittek F,Hake SB

更新日期：2011-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine embryonic stem cell (mESC)-derived cardiomyocytes represent a promising source of cells for use in the development of models for studying early cardiac development as well as cell-based therapies in postnatal pathologies. Here, we report a highly efficient cardiac differentiation system in which high density em...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee MY,Cagavi Bozkulak E,Schliffke S,Amos PJ,Ren Y,Ge X,Ehrlich BE,Qyang Y

更新日期：2011-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine kidney betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.8) kinetic properties were determined at low substrate concentrations. The double-reciprocal plots of initial velocity versus substrate concentration are linear and intersect at the left of the 1/v axis and showed substrate inhibition with betaine aldehyde. Studi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Figueroa-Soto CG,Valenzuela-Soto EM

更新日期：2000-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The proper development of the cerebral cortex is essential for brain formation and functioning. O-GlcNAcylation, an important posttranslational modification, regulates the pathways critical for neuronal health and the survival of the cerebral cortex in neurodegenerative diseases. However, the role of O-GlcNAcylation i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng J,Wu Y,Chen L,Li Y,Liu F,Shao J,Huang M,Fan M,Wu H

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have created genital skin fibroblast cell lines directly from three patients in a Chinese family affected by androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS). All patients in the family share an identical AR Arg840Cys mutant but show different disease phenotypes. By using the cell lines, we find that the mutation has not infl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang M,Wang J,Zhang Z,Zhao Z,Zhang R,Hu X,Tan T,Luo S,Luo Z

更新日期：2005-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell fusion is a phenomenon that is observed in various tissues in vivo, resulting in acquisition of physiological functions such as liver regeneration. Fused cells such as hybridomas have also been produced artificially in vitro. Furthermore, it has been reported that cellular reprogramming can be induced b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Imai H,Kusakabe KT,Kiso Y,Hattori S,Kai C,Ono E,Kano K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) has been documented to have various clinical and pathological presentations. However the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Viral infections may play a certain role in the etiopathogenesis of MS. This study was designed to explore whether different phospholipid peptides and viral mimic pepti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zheng MM,Zhang XH

更新日期：2014-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:KK mice are genetically diabetic animals, showing glucose intolerance and insulin resistance. We examined the effects of 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) on the blood glucose level and on mRNA levels of muscle cell differentiation markers in hyperglycemic KK mice. T3 treatment (T1, 1 mg; T3, 3 mg; T10, 10 mg/kg/day) of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimokawa T,Kato M,Shioduka K,Irie J,Ezaki O

更新日期：1997-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor-1alpha plays an essential role in eukaryotic protein biosynthesis. Recently, we have shown by protein structure modeling the presence of a hairpin-loop of 12 amino acids in mammalian EF-1alpha that is absent in the leishmania homologue [D. Nandan, A. Cherkasov, R. Sabouti, T. Yi, N.E. Reiner, Molecul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lopez M,Cherkasov A,Nandan D

更新日期：2007-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize the direct involvement of cAMP in the change of osteoblast proliferation by parathyroid hormone (PTH), we employed the diastereoisomers of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic phosphorothioate, Sp-cAMPS and Rp-cAMPS, which have been recently shown to act directly as agonist and antagonist, respectively in t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kano J,Sugimoto T,Fukase M,Fujita T

更新日期：1991-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic analyses were performed to understand the mechanism of hyperoxic induced inhibition of prostacyclin synthesis by human umbilical arteries. Brief exposure of arterial segments to oxygen resulted in over 30% decrease in Vmax of cyclooxygenase in treated vessels. In contrast, cyclooxygenase from hypoxic arterial ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamaja Setty BN,Walenga RW,Stuart MJ

更新日期：1984-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the interactions of oxytocin with the transmembrane region of the oxytocin receptor were modelled in order to explain the selective binding of oxytocin and vasopressin. Three sites of interaction in the receptors were identified by sequence comparison and model building. Both receptors share one site, wh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hakala JM

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystin-1 (PC1) is a membrane protein expressed in tubular epithelia of developing kidneys and in other ductal structures. Recent studies indicate this protein to be putatively important in regulating intracellular Ca(2+) levels in various cell types, but little evidence exists for kidney epithelial cells. Here we ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aguiari G,Campanella M,Manzati E,Pinton P,Banzi M,Moretti S,Piva R,Rizzuto R,del Senno L

更新日期：2003-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the case of a new viral disease outbreak, an immediate development of virus detection kits and vaccines is required. For COVID-19, we established a rapid production procedure for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (S protein) by using the baculovirus-silkworm expression system. The baculovirus vector-derived S proteins were ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fujita R,Hino M,Ebihara T,Nagasato T,Masuda A,Lee JM,Fujii T,Mon H,Kakino K,Nagai R,Tanaka M,Tonooka Y,Moriyama T,Kusakabe T

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is neurodegenerative diseases caused by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta. Stem cell therapy is one of the promising strategies in helping to cure PD. In the present study, human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from eye conjunctiva stromal cells were differen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nadri S,Soleimani M,Mobarra Z,Amini S

更新日期：2008-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:ALIS are large, transient, cytosolic aggregates that serve as storage compartments for ubiquitin-tagged defective ribosomal products. We determined the importance of the protein p62 in the formation of ALIS and demonstrated that two domains of p62-PB1 and UBA-are essential for ALIS assembly. Those two major binding do...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cabe M,Rademacher DJ,Karlsson AB,Cherukuri S,Bakowska JC

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfur(S)-starvation was previously shown to induce the degradation of an acidic lipid in chloroplasts, sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol (SQDG), to yield a major internal S-source in a green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We here found that the synthesis of phosphatidylglycerol (PG), the other acidic lipid in chloropl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sugimoto K,Midorikawa T,Tsuzuki M,Sato N

更新日期：2008-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is a glycolytic enzyme that catalyzes the final step of glycolysis and produces NAD+. In somatic cells, LDH forms homotetramers and heterotetramers that are encoded by two different genes: LDHA (skeletal muscle type, M) and LDHB (heart type, H). Analysis of LDH isozymes is important for und...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Goto T,Sugawara K,Nakamura S,Kidokoro SI,Wakui H,Nunomura W

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid binding properties of Tyr-D-Ser-Gly-Phe-Leu-Thr-NH-NH-Gly-Mal (DSLET-Mal), a novel enkephalin-framed affinity label, was determined in rat brain membranes. In competition studies the ligand showed high affinity for the delta opioid sites, labelled by [(3)H][Ile(5,6)]deltorphin II (K(i) = 8 nM), whereas its bind...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Szatmári I,Orosz G,Medzihradszky K,Borsodi A

更新日期：1999-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have examined the synthesis of heat shock protein (HSP70) in leukemia cells from acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) patients and in mononuclear cells from normal individuals, before and after growth factor stimulation. We have shown that the HSP70 protein was expressed in these cells in the absence of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang W,Drach J,Andreeff M,Deisseroth A

更新日期：1992-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:At 10 microM, 1-0-oleoyl-, 1-0-palmitoyl-, and 1-0-myristoyl-2-0-acetyl-glycerol weakly stimulated neutrophils to release lysozyme, an enzyme in secondary granules, but had no such effect on the release of a primary granule enzyme, beta-glucuronidase. The glycerides (1-10 microM) had a second effect on both granule po...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： O'Flaherty JT,Schmitt JD,McCall CE,Wykle RL

更新日期：1984-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:GPR109A (PUMA-G, NIACR1, HCA(2)) and GPR81 (HCA(1)) are G protein-coupled receptors located predominantly on adipocytes that mediate anti-lipolytic effects. These cell surface receptors give the adipocyte the ability to "sense" metabolic changes in the environment and respond through lipolytic regulation and release o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wanders D,Graff EC,Judd RL

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00