Nestin-expressing cells in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans.

abstract：:Several populations of stem cells, including those from the dental pulp and periodontal ligament, have been isolated from different parts of the tooth and periodontium. The characteristics of such stem cells have been reported as well. However, as a common progenitor of these cells, ectomesenchymal stem cells (EMSCs),...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wen X,Liu L,Deng M,Zhang L,Liu R,Xing Y,Zhou X,Nie X

更新日期：2012-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:New antibodies reactive with a 20 KDal ribosomal protein of the large subunit were found in sera from two of eighty patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. This antigenic protein was identified as L12 by the mobility in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Both sera also contained anti-P activity against three aci...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sato T,Uchiumi T,Kominami R,Arakawa M

更新日期：1990-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Designed peptides that would selectively interact with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or endotoxin and fold into specific conformations could serve as important scaffolds toward the development of antisepsis compounds. Here, we describe solution structure of a designed amphipathic peptide, H(2)N-YVKLWRMIKFIR-CONH(2) (YW12D)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bhunia A,Chua GL,Domadia PN,Warshakoon H,Cromer JR,David SA,Bhattacharjya S

更新日期：2008-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis occurs as a physiologic process in the ovarian life cycle. Staurosporine, a protein kinase inhibitor, is reported to induce apoptosis. Here, we hypothesize that staurosporine will induce apoptosis in human luteinized granulosa cells and that mitochondria and the caspase cascade participate in this process. L...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Khan SM,Dauffenbach LM,Yeh J

更新日期：2000-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The proto-oncogene Akt is a potent inhibitor of apoptosis, and it is activated in many human cancers. A number of recent studies have highlighted the importance of the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) receptor(IP3R) in mediating calcium (Ca2+) transfer from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the mitochondriain severa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Marchi S,Rimessi A,Giorgi C,Baldini C,Ferroni L,Rizzuto R,Pinton P

更新日期：2008-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A common cause for pharmacogenetic alteration in drug response is genetic variation in encoded amino acid sequence. We have used the catecholamine and drug-metabolizing enzyme sulfotransferase (SULT)1A3 to create an artificial model system to study mechanisms-especially possible aggresome formation-by which genetic al...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang L,Yee VC,Weinshilboum RM

更新日期：2004-12-10 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：: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：:Platelet aggregation plays a major role in thrombogenesis. This study was undertaken to examine the inhibition of platelet aggregation induced by adenosine diphosphate. It is known that cyclic AMP (adenosine monophosphate) and its dibutyryl derivative inhibit platelet aggregation. This study showed that prostagland...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Marquis NR,Vigdahl RL,Tavormina PA

更新日期：1969-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that both oligomeric metalloendopeptidase meprin A purified from kidney cortex and recombinant meprin alpha are capable of generating biologically active IL-1beta from its precursor pro-IL-1beta. Amino-acid sequencing analysis reveals that meprin A and meprin alpha cleave pro-IL-1beta at...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Herzog C,Haun RS,Kaushal V,Mayeux PR,Shah SV,Kaushal GP

更新日期：2009-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Three mRNA species for human muscle phophofructokinase containing heterogeneous 5' untranslated sequences were identified through cDNA cloning. Type A mRNA was essentially the same as that reported previously (Nakajima, H., et al. (1987) FEBS Lett. 223, 113). Type B mRNA was considered to be the major gene product, wh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakajima H,Yamasaki T,Noguchi T,Tanaka T,Kono N,Tarui S

更新日期：1990-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Rap1GAP (for Rap1 GTPase Activating Protein) is an 89 kD protein that highly stimulates the intrinsic GTPase activity of the small GTP binding protein Rap1. It has been shown that Rap1GAP is phosphorylated in vitro by purified p34cdc2 kinase, which regulates the G2/M transition of the cell cycle. In this work, we have...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Janoueix-Lerosey I,Fontenay M,Tobelem G,Tavitian A,Polakis P,de Gunzburg J

更新日期：1994-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotaxis of rabbit peritoneal leucocytes stimulated by fMet-Leu-Phe, a synthetic chemoattractant, was inhibited by Glu-Glu-Glu-Glu-Tyr-Pro-Met-Glu (MT peptide) and Leu-Ile-Glu-Asp-Asn-Glu-Tyr-Thr-Ala-Arg-Glu-Gly (Src peptide). Both peptides did not inhibit the binding of [3H] formyl-NLe-Leu-Phe, a chemoattractant, t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hirata F,Notsu Y,Matsuda K,Vasanthakumar G,Schiffmann E,Wong TW,Goldberg AR

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Thick filaments from some striated muscles are regulated by phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chains (RLCs). A tarantula thick filament quasi-atomic model achieved by cryo-electron microscopy has advanced our understanding on how this regulation occurs. In native thick filaments, an asymmetric intramolecular ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sulbarán G,Biasutto A,Méndez F,Pinto A,Alamo L,Padrón R

更新日期：2020-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small population of cells with stem cell-like properties found in tumors. CSCs are closely associated with tumor heterogeneity, which influences tumor progress, metastasis, and drug resistance. Here, we propose a concept to enhance efficacy of cancer therapy through CSC reprogramming int...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee KS,Choi JS,Cho YW

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding site(s) in rabbit liver fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase for the active site binding ligand, fructose 6-phosphate, and the inhibitor, fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, have been investigated by using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The distance from a nitroxide spin label to the bound ligands and the distance...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu F,Roy M,Fromm HJ

更新日期：1989-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagen synthesis in human fibroblasts was increased by the presence of 0.1M excess NaCl in the culture medium. Type analysis of the collagen produced by the cells showed the increase in the ratio of type III collagen to the total collagen. Similar NaCl effects were observed in several cell lines derived from differe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hata R,Sunada H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1983-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic gene silencing by aberrant DNA methylation leads to loss of key cellular pathways in tumorigenesis. DNA methylation-mediated silenced genes in pancreatic cancer were searched for using the methyl-CpG targeted transcriptional activation (MeTA) method, and LHX6 (LIM homeobox 6), a transcription factor involve...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Abudurexiti Y,Gu Z,Chakma K,Hata T,Motoi F,Unno M,Horii A,Fukushige S

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the structural and functional importance of tight turns, some methods have been proposed to predict gamma-turns, beta-turns, and alpha-turns in proteins. In the past, studies of pi-turns were made, but not a single prediction approach has been developed so far. It will be useful to develop a method for identify...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Y,Xue ZD,Shi XH,Xu J

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin reductase 1 (TrxR1) is a selenocysteine-containing redox-active enzyme that is thought to be important during carcinogenesis. We have recently shown that treatment with statins, HMGCoA reductase inhibitors, reduces the levels of TrxR1 in liver of both rat and human. The reduced TrxR1 levels were correlated...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ekström L,Johansson M,Monostory K,Rundlöf AK,Arnér ES,Björkhem-Bergman L

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Borate/boric acid solutions have distinctive effects on the absorption and fluorescence emission spectra of dityrosine. In the presence of excess borate/boric acid, the fluorescence emission maximum of the singly ionized dityrosine chromophore shifts from 407 nm (quantum yield = 0.80) to 374 nm (quantum yield = 0.14)....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Malencik DA,Anderson SR

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Since estrogens strongly suppress the expression of alpha 2u-globulin genes in the rat liver, we studied the binding of estrogen-receptor complexes to fragments derived from alpha 2u-globulin gene RAO 01 using a DNA-cellulose competition assay. Rat uterus cytosol labelled with [3H]estradiol was used as a source of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Van Dijck P,Verhoeven G

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is dependent on NS2-3 autocleavage and NS5A phosphorylation for its life cycle. We demonstrate that NS5A, when released from the NS2-5 polyprotein of the BK virus strain, is phosphorylated as two distinct forms, pp56 and pp58. Deletion analysis indicates that the appearance of pp58 requires NS2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu Q,Bhat RA,Prince AM,Zhang P

更新日期：1999-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas arise through the accumulation of certain genetic alterations including ras, p16, p53, and DPC4. We found that activation of ras and inactivation of p53 could cooperatively induce in vitro tumorigenicity in conditionally immortalized pancreatic epithelial (IMPE) cells. IMPE cells were...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koizumi M,Ito D,Fujimoto K,Toyoda E,Kami K,Mori T,Doi R,Whitehead R,Imamura M

更新日期：2004-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:CD40-mediated signals can induce cell aggregation, proliferation and rescue from apoptosis in WEHI231. To define which segment of cytoplasmic domain of CD40 and how signals are involved in those events, we generated mutant CD40 transfectants. We demonstrated the same 10 amino acid segment that could bind to tumor necr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hara T,Murakami M,Maeda H,Hibi M,Uede T

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of type I transglutaminase was determined in the neoplastic human keratinocyte line SqCC/Y1 and in normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK) by an in situ radioimmunoassay which corresponded directly with the measurement of type I transglutaminase enzymatic activity. Dexamethasone induced differentiatio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moore KG,Donadio AC,Sartorelli AC

更新日期：1993-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical studies revealed that the novel rice plant-specific kinesin K16 has several unique enzymatic characteristics as compared to conventional kinesins. The ADP-free form of K16 is very stable, whereas the ADP-free form of conventional kinesins is labile. In the present study, the crystal structure of the novel ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanaka K,Umeki N,Mitsui T,Fujimoto Z,Maruta S

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:SEZ-12 is one of the seizure-related cDNAs which was isolated by differential hybridization from primary cultured neurons from the mouse cerebral cortex with or without pentylenetetrazol (PTZ). SEZ-12 expression is transiently down-regulated in the mouse brain by injection of PTZ. To characterize SEZ-12, isolation of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kajiwara K,Nagasawa H,Shimizu-Nishikawa K,Ookura T,Kimura M,Sugaya E

更新日期：1996-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known as to the structural requirements of the acyl side chain for interaction of acylglycerols with monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL), the enzyme chiefly responsible for the metabolism of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) in the brain. In the present study, a series of twelve analogues of 1-AG ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vandevoorde S,Saha B,Mahadevan A,Razdan RK,Pertwee RG,Martin BR,Fowler CJ

更新日期：2005-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is required in all organisms for crucial functions, as a number of proteins need iron for activity. Mutations of the genes encoding proteins involved in iron uptake, transport, and utilization result in various human disorders or animal models with very different clinical presentations and organ involvement. Howe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rötig A,Chantrel-Groussard K,Munnich A,Rustin P

更新日期：2001-03-02 00:00:00