Depolarizing stimuli reduce Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II activity in islets of Langerhans.

abstract：:Lipoproteins are important biological components. However, they have few convenient fluorescent labelling probes currently reported, and their physiological reliability can be questioned. We compared the association of two fluorescent cholesterol derivatives, 22-nitrobenzoxadiazole-cholesterol (NBD-Chol) and 21-methyl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gaibelet G,Tercé F,Bertrand-Michel J,Allart S,Azalbert V,Lecompte MF,Collet X,Orlowski S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Midkine (MK) is a novel growth factor and is the product of a retinoic acid responsive gene. When P19 murine embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells were exposed to MK, they differentiated into neurons, and the neuronal differentiation was accompanied by expression of choline acetyltransferase activity. Synthesis and release o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Michikawa M,Xu RY,Muramatsu H,Muramatsu T,Kim SU

更新日期：1993-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that oviduct epithelial cells in culture produce endothelin (ET) and postulated that ET could play an important role in the contraction of the oviduct. In the present study using an organ chamber myograph system, we evaluated the contractile effects of ET-1 on bovine oviduct ampullary-isthmus segm...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rosselli M,Imthurn B,Macas E,Keller PJ,Dubey RK

更新日期：1994-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Norepinephrine (NE) modulates brain functions depending on both the internal and external environment. While the neuromodulatory actions of NE have been well characterized, the response and involvement of cortical astrocytes to physiological noradrenergic systems remain largely unknown, especially at the molecular lev...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nuriya M,Morita A,Shinotsuka T,Yamada T,Yasui M

更新日期：2018-10-12 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：:Difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) depletes cells of polyamines, sensitizing cells against the action of antineoplastic drugs and altering ability to repair radiation-induced DNA strand breaks. Others have hypothesized that the mechanism by which polyamine depletion sensitizes cells is through inhibition of DNA strand bre...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Williams JR,Casero RA,Dillehay LE

更新日期：1994-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrene, a structural analog of benzo[a]pyrene, is an effective competing ligand for high affinity carcinogen binding proteins in mouse liver. A pyrene-derivatized Sepharose gel was prepared for affinity chromatography purification of these proteins, and adsorbs all detectable [3H]B[a]P-binding activity from hepatic cy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Collins S,Altman JD,Marletta MA

更新日期：1985-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNAs (miRNAs) play significant roles in diverse biological processes and their deregulation is implicated in carcinogenesis. miR-146a executes tumour suppressive or oncogenic functions depending on the cancer type, but its effect on human cervical (CaCx) and colorectal (CRC) cancers have not been examined thus fa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sathyanarayanan A,Chandrasekaran KS,Karunagaran D

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant cells are characterized by the presence of P-glycoprotein on the plasma membrane, which binds and probably transports antitumor agents outside the cells. P-glycoprotein is also present in various normal tissues such as the adrenal gland. To investigate the physiological function of P-glycoprotein, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Naito M,Yusa K,Tsuruo T

更新日期：1989-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), originally identified as a potent mitogen for mature parenchymal hepatocytes, is a hepatotrophic factor involved in liver regeneration and is even essential for development of the liver. We report here that human recombinant HGF at a very low concentration and given intraportaly stimula...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kobayashi Y,Hamanoue M,Ueno S,Aikou T,Tanabe G,Mitsue S,Matsumoto K,Nakamura T

更新日期：1996-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres, specialized domains assembled at the ends of linear chromosomes, are essential for genomic stability in eukaryotes. The formation and maintenance of telomeres are governed by numerous factors such as telomeric repeats, telomere-binding proteins, heterochromatin proteins, and telomerase. Here, we report Sde2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sugioka-Sugiyama R,Sugiyama T

更新日期：2011-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs play important roles in the carcinogenesis of many types of cancers by inhibiting gene expression at posttranscriptional level. However, the roles of microRNAs in hepatocellular carcinoma, are still unclear. Here, we identified that miR-367 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell proliferation by negati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Meng X,Lu P,Fan Q

更新日期：2016-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras proteins can be modified at their COOH-terminal cysteine in the motif Cys-Ali-Ali-Xaa by a farnesyl isoprenoid. This modification is essential for membrane association and biological activity of ras proteins. A similar COOH-terminal amino acid sequence, Cys-Xaa-Ali-Xaa, exists in the ras-related GTP-binding protei...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Didsbury JR,Uhing RJ,Snyderman R

更新日期：1990-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt/beta-catenin signaling plays an important role not only in cancer, but also in cancer stem cells. In this study, we found that beta-catenin and OCT-4 was highly expressed in cisplatin (DDP) selected A549 cells. Stimulating A549 cells with lithium chloride (LiCl) resulted in accumulation of beta-catenin and up-regu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Teng Y,Wang X,Wang Y,Ma D

更新日期：2010-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein acetylation modification has been implicated in many cellular processes but the direct evidence for the involvement of protein acetylation in signal transduction is very limited. In the present study, we found that an alkylating agent methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) induces a robust and reversible hyperacetylati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee MY,Kim MA,Kim HJ,Bae YS,Park JI,Kwak JY,Chung JH,Yun J

更新日期：2007-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Calyculin A (CL-A), a toxin isolated from the marine sponge Discodermia calyx, is a strong inhibitor of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) and 2A (PP2A). Although CL-A is known to induce rapid neurite retraction in developing neurons, the cytoskeletal dynamics of this retraction have remained unclear. Here, we investigated t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Inutsuka A,Goda M,Fujiyoshi Y

更新日期：2009-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding properties of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins to brush border membrane vesicles of Dipel-resistant and -susceptible Ostrinia nubilalis larvae were compared using ligand-toxin immunoblot analysis, surface plasmon resonance (SPR), and radiolabeled toxin binding assays. In ligand-toxin immunoblot analysis, the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li H,González-Cabrera J,Oppert B,Ferré J,Higgins RA,Buschman LL,Radke GA,Zhu KY,Huang F

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor with pleiotropic effects in normal physiology or vascular development, xenobiotic metabolism, and cancer. A previous study has reported that BRG1, a component of the SWI/SNF complex, is a coactivator for AHR and is recruited to the promoter...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jin HL,Jeong KW

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase D (PKD) has been established as a negative modulator of the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling pathway. We previously demonstrated that induced expression of constitutively active PKD (PKD-S744/748E) that mimics phosphorylation by PKC is sufficient to attenuate epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimula...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hurd C,Rozengurt E

更新日期：2003-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:KCNQ1 plays important roles in the cardiac action potential and consists of an N-terminal domain, a voltage-sensor domain, a pore domain and a C-terminal domain. KCNQ1 is a voltage-gated potassium channel and its channel activity is regulated by membrane potentials. The linker between transmembrane helices 4 and 5 (S4...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gayen S,Li Q,Kang C

更新日期：2015-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein transduction domains (PTDs) are short amino acid sequences that promote their own translocation across the cell plasma membrane and have been studied for possible use in drug delivery and gene therapy. However, no direct method to quantify transduction is available. Here, using a new luciferase-tagged human PT...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee MS,Kwon EH,Choi HS,Kwon SH,Lee CH,Shim IS,Lee SK,Her S

更新日期：2010-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rv2477c protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) belongs to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) subfamily F that contains proteins with tandem nucleotide-binding domains but lacking transmembrane domains. ABC-F subfamily proteins have been implicated in diverse cellular processes such as translation, antibiotic resi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Daniel J,Abraham L,Martin A,Pablo X,Reyes S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two ornithine transcarbamylase-deficient mice are available, the spf with a variant enzyme and spf-ash with a markedly decreased enzyme protein. Genomic DNA, mRNA and the nuclear precursors for the enzyme in these mutants were analyzed. Southern blot analysis of genomic DNA showed no abnormality in the mutant mice. Bl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohtake A,Takayanagi M,Yamamoto S,Nakajima H,Mori M

更新日期：1987-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Using SDS-PAGE and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, we investigated the difference in the molecular structure between human and bovine ceruloplasmin. In both cases, we found that the protein is present in two majors forms of different molecular mass. The difference between human and bovine ceruloplasmin was more obvious w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Boivin S,Aouffen M,Fournier A,Mateescu MA

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier, we showed that antibodies specific for human serum albumin are able to bind to erythrocyte-associated albumin and inhibit complement mediated hemolysis. In the present study we determine if inhibition is occurring at the membrane attack phase of complement activation or at an earlier step. We show that althou...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Houle JJ,Hoffmann EM

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bone marrow cells express both a truncated and full-length form of the erythropoietin receptor (EpoR-T and EpoR-F, respectively). Transfection experiments using the murine interleukin (IL)-3-dependent cell line, Ba/F3, revealed that the cells coexpressing EpoR-F and EpoR-T (Ba/F3-FT) were more likely to undergo ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimizu R,Komatsu N,Nakamura Y,Nakauchi H,Nakabeppu Y,Miura Y

更新日期：1996-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The pancreatic islets of Langerhans produce several peptide hormones, predominantly the metabolically active hormones insulin and glucagon, which are critical for maintaining normal fuel homeostasis. Some evidence exists that pancreatic endocrine cells turn over at a slow rate and can regenerate in certain conditions....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hunziker E,Stein M

更新日期：2000-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophobic modifications of transducin (T) gamma, such as farnesyl-and carboxyl-methylation, are essential for the association of T beta gamma with the photoreceptor disc membrane, and MEKA/phosducin is known to inhibit the association. In this study, we examined the effect of MEKA on the hydrophobicity of T beta gam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanaka H,Kuo CH,Matsuda T,Fukada Y,Hayashi F,Ding Y,Irie Y,Miki N

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid produced in the colon, as well as its prodrug tributyrin, reduce proliferation and increase differentiation of colon cancer cells. p21(Waf1/Cip1) and p27(Kip1) are negative regulators of cell cycle and are thought to have a key function in the differentiation of various cell lines. W...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gaschott T,Wächtershäuser A,Steinhilber D,Stein J

更新日期：2001-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) belongs to the ligand-activated nuclear receptor superfamily, and functions as a transcription factor regulating the transcription of numerous genes involved in bile acid homeostasis, lipoprotein and glucose metabolism. In the present study, we identified RECK, a membrane-anchored inhibitor ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Peng X,Wu W,Zhu B,Sun Z,Ji L,Ruan Y,Zhou M,Zhou L,Gu J

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00