Identification of the up- and down-regulated genes in vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains Mu3 and Mu50 by cDNA differential hybridization method.

abstract：:The proteasome is a recently identified intracellular protease whose catalytic active site is a threonine residue and has been shown to play key roles in a variety of important intracellular events, including cell cycle progression, the antigen-presenting pathway, and apoptosis. However, its biological significance in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oikawa T,Sasaki T,Nakamura M,Shimamura M,Tanahashi N,Omura S,Tanaka K

更新日期：1998-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Akt signaling plays a pivotal role in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) development and progression. In the present study, we evaluated the potential anti-AML activity by a novel Akt kinase inhibitor A-674563. Our results showed that A-674563 dose-dependently inhibited survival and proliferation of U937 AML cells and six l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xu L,Zhang Y,Gao M,Wang G,Fu Y

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorogenic substrates for endopeptidases are often prepared by attaching fluorophores and quenchers to opposite ends of the peptide substrates. Here, we describe a new approach by incorporating tryptophan and p-nitrophenylalanine into peptides to give fluorogenic substrates composed entirely of alpha-amino acids. Two...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang W,Liang TC

更新日期：1994-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In AL-amyloidosis the cause of amyloid fibril formation in beta-pleated sheets from the precursor protein immunoglobulin light chain is not established, but studies of AL-proteins indicate that amino acid substitutions are important in the pathogenesis. Amyloid material was extracted from a subcutaneous fat tissue bio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Olsen KE,Sletten K,Westermark P

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an important pathophysiological process in the development of many diseases. However, the mechanism responsible for the development of PH remains unknown. The objective of the study was to explore the possible impact of sulfur dioxide (SO2) on the endogenous hydrogen sulfide (H2S) pathwa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Luo L,Liu D,Tang C,Du J,Liu AD,Holmberg L,Jin H

更新日期：2013-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeodomain transcription factor Pdx1 is essential for pancreas formation and functions in pancreatic islets cells to regulate genes involved in maintenance of glucose homeostasis. In order to investigate a role for Pdx1 in intestinal cells, we analyzed the functions and networks associated with genes differential...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen C,Leavitt T,Sibley E

更新日期：2012-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction of the four Fe centers is not required to initiate the reaction of the Halomonas halodenitrificans nitric oxide reductase (NOR) based on the facts that NOR in the form that ferric heme b(3) and non-heme iron (Fe(B)) are not bridged and/or the interaction between them is weakened and reversibly binds NO molec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakurai T,Nakashima S,Kataoka K,Seo D,Sakurai N

更新日期：2005-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), an n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), has been shown to decrease the risk of atherosclerosis by attenuating endothelial activation. In this study, we used mass spectrometry-based label-free quantitative proteomics to study the protective mechanisms of EPA and to identify key proteins t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang L,Xiao K,Zhao X,Sun X,Zhang J,Wang X,Zhu Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2017-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe the molecular cloning of human cyclin B3, its localization, and its structure. It is localized in the subcentromeric region of the X chromosome, still not completely sequenced by the Human Genome Project. This cyclin B3 is unusually large for a mitotic cyclin. Its mRNAs were found in all tissues and w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lozano JC,Perret E,Schatt P,Arnould C,Peaucellier G,Picard A

更新日期：2002-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of vitamin D in prostate carcinogenesis was investigated using the human prostatic LNCaP cells. Incubation of the LNCaP with 100 nM 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 for 2 days resulted in a 30-40% suppression of cell growth, which was accompanied by a greater than 70% down-regulated expression of the pro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hsieh TY,Ng CY,Mallouh C,Tazaki H,Wu JM

更新日期：1996-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Western immunoblots of whole cell lysate and crude membrane extract of an in vitro selected sodium m-arsenite-resistant L. donovani strain revealed a 230-kDa protein identified by an anti-P-glycoprotein (Pgp) antibody. Immunofluorescence microscopy, using the same antibody, detected putative Pgp on resistant parasites...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaur J,Dey CS

更新日期：2000-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 homologue p73 is expressed in at least six different isoforms (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, and zeta), but unlike p53 it has rarely been found mutated in human cancers. However, altered expression of this gene has been reported in cancer cells. In order to understand if p73 is involved in normal and mal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tschan MP,Grob TJ,Peters UR,Laurenzi VD,Huegli B,Kreuzer KA,Schmidt CA,Melino G,Fey MF,Tobler A,Cajot JF

更新日期：2000-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The organic anion and cation transporters (OATs and OCTs) are a large family (SLC22) of transmembrane proteins that are able to transport a variety of compounds including drugs, environmental toxins, and endogenous metabolites. OATs are expressed in various tissues, primarily kidney and liver, but also in placenta, sm...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Monte JC,Nagle MA,Eraly SA,Nigam SK

更新日期：2004-10-15 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：:The involvement of Na+ in insulin-secretory responses to metabolizable and nonmetabolizable amino acids known to be cotransported with Na+, were examined using islet-derived BRIN-BD11 cells. At stimulatory (16.7 mM) glucose, 10 mM of l-alanine, alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB) or l-proline stimulated 1.3- to 10. 4-fol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McClenaghan NH,Barnett CR,Flatt PR

更新日期：1998-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been well established that estrogen is involved in the pathophysiology of breast cancer. Estrogen receptor (ER) alpha appears to promote the proliferation of cancer tissues, while ERbeta can protect against the mitogenic effect of estrogen in breast tissue. The expression status of ERalpha and ERbeta may greatl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koyama S,Wada-Hiraike O,Nakagawa S,Tanikawa M,Hiraike H,Miyamoto Y,Sone K,Oda K,Fukuhara H,Nakagawa K,Kato S,Yano T,Taketani Y

更新日期：2010-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of three kinases, phosphatidylinositol (PI), phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PIP), and diacylglycerol (DG) kinases, and phospholipase C were measured in erythrocyte ghosts from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY). PI kinase activity was significantly higher in SH...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kato H,Takenawa T

更新日期：1987-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary in vitro immunization of peripheral blood lymphocytes has been studied for the production of human monoclonal antibodies. Depletion of a lysosome-rich cell population, containing large granular lymphocytes, monocytes, and a subset of T suppressor cells, was shown to be crucial before the cells could be immuniz...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Borrebaeck CA,Danielsson L,Möller SA

更新日期：1987-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The most recently described region of alternate splicing of fibronectin mRNA results in expression of an isoform which includes the type III repeat termed ED B (EIII B). To date this isoform has been detected in transformed cells in culture, in the synovial membrane and ovary but in no other adult tissue, and in embry...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Burton-Wurster N,Lust G,Wert R

更新日期：1989-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine bone marrow-derived macrophages (BBMM) were infected in vitro with a cytopathic (cp) and a noncytopathic (ncp) biotype of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV). The virus strains used, TGAN (ncp) and TGAC (cp), originate from one animal and are antigenically closely related. Both TGAC and TGAN infected a subset of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Adler H,Frech B,Meier P,Jungi TW,Peterhans E

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin binding protein from human blood platelets is shown to exist in the resting platelet as a phosphorylated protein and contains two residues of phosphate per 260,000 kd. Removal of one-half of these residues with E. coli alkaline phosphatase results in the loss of its ability to crosslink F-actin into a low speed ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhuang QQ,Rosenberg S,Lawrence J,Stracher A

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A fusion protein (bFGF-rMLA), containing the mitogen basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and the cytotoxic component of rViscumin (recombinant mistletoe lectin), the enzymatic A-chain (rMLA), was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified, and functionally characterized. bFGF-rMLA is cytotoxic for mouse B16 melanoma ce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schmidt A,Möckel B,Eck J,Langer M,Gauert M,Zinke H

更新日期：2000-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl-coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) catalyzes the synthesis of cholesteryl esters from cholesterol and long-chain fatty acids. The two ACAT enzymes, ACAT1 and ACAT2, lack sterol regulatory elements in their promoters and have not been thought to be transcriptionally regulated by cellular cholesterol. Ho...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pramfalk C,Angelin B,Eriksson M,Parini P

更新日期：2007-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal medullary chromaffin cells maintained in vitro were prelabeled with [3H]inositol and the accumulation of [3H]inositol-1-phosphate, was determined following stimulation with a variety of pharmacological agents. Carbachol, bradykinin, and histamine produced significantly greater accumulation of [3H] inositol-1-p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Noble EP,Bommer M,Sincini E,Costa T,Herz A

更新日期：1986-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium tellurite (K(2)TeO(3)) is harmful to most organisms and specific mechanisms explaining its toxicity are not well known to date. We previously reported that the lpdA gene product of the tellurite-resistant environmental isolate Aeromonas caviae ST is involved in the reduction of tellurite to elemental telluri...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Castro ME,Molina RC,Díaz WA,Pradenas GA,Vásquez CC

更新日期：2009-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPARs) alpha, beta/delta, and gamma are novel nuclear hormone receptors activated by long chain fatty acids and synthetic ligands and which regulate lipid metabolism. Recent studies have detected PPARgamma mRNA in human mammary tumor cell lines. The current study examin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gimble JM,Pighetti GM,Lerner MR,Wu X,Lightfoot SA,Brackett DJ,Darcy K,Hollingsworth AB

更新日期：1998-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:DC-SIGN, a C-type lectin receptor expressed in dendritic cells (DCs), has been identified as a receptor for human immunodeficiency virus type 1, hepatitis C virus, Ebola virus, cytomegalovirus, dengue virus, and the SARS coronavirus. We used H5N1 pseudotyped and reverse-genetics (RG) virus particles to study their abi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang SF,Huang JC,Lee YM,Liu SJ,Chan YJ,Chau YP,Chong P,Chen YM

更新日期：2008-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Connexin 43 (Cx43)-hemichannel activity is controlled by intramolecular interactions between cytoplasmic loop and C-terminal tail. We previously identified the last 10 amino acids of the C-terminal tail of Cx43 as essential for Cx43-hemichannel activity. We developed a cell-permeable peptide covering this sequence (TA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： D'hondt C,Iyyathurai J,Wang N,Gourdie RG,Himpens B,Leybaert L,Bultynck G

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a highly useful phage-displayed human antibody repertoire with limited cloning efforts. Our strategy was to maximize diversity during the first steps of library construction through the use of various lymphoid sources from several donors, inclusion of different immunoglobulin isotypes, and performa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rojas G,Lamdan H,Padron S,Munoz Y,Ayala M,Gavilondo JV

更新日期：2005-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Oriented fibers of DNA, prepared by the wet spin method, were imaged by atomic force microscopy. It was found that an oriented fiber's substructure is an array of assemblages of DNA. For native DNA, the assemblages exhibit a characteristic width of 76 nm, a thickness of 20 nm, and appear to carry a right handed twist....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rampino NJ

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00