The use of the novel substrate-heme complex approach in the derivation of a representation of the active site of the enzyme cholesterol side chain cleavage.

abstract：:The major bovine seminal plasma protein, PDC-109 exhibits chaperone-like activity (CLA) against a variety of target proteins. The present studies show that the homologous protein from equine seminal plasma, HSP-1/2 also exhibits CLA and inhibits the thermal aggregation of target proteins such as lactate dehydrogenase,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sankhala RS,Kumar CS,Singh BP,Arangasamy A,Swamy MJ

更新日期：2012-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that murine solid tumor cells express high affinity IL-4 receptors (IL-4R) which are internalized after binding to ligand. In the present study, we have examined the regulation of IL-4R by TNF. We demonstrate that TNF upregulated the expression of IL-4R on murine MCA-106 sarcoma cells. Maximum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Puri RK,Leland P

更新日期：1993-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypeptide elongation factor 2 (EF-2) plays an essential role in protein synthesis and is believed to be indispensable for cell proliferation. Recently, it has been demonstrated that there are two kinds of EF-2 (EF-2A and EF-2B with 76.6% of sequence identity at the amino acid level) in Dictyostelium discoideum. Alth...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshino T,Maeda Y,Amagai A

更新日期：2007-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The envelope glycoprotein E2 is the major immunodominant protein of the classical swine fever virus and can induce neutralizing antibodies and protective host-immune responses in infected swine. We designed, expressed, and purified multi-epitope protein (GST-BT22) that contains a tandem repeat of the E2 antigenic-dete...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tian H,Hou X,Liu X

更新日期：2013-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Large tonsillar lymphocytes labeled with [3H]thymidine reverted to small lymphocytes with concomitant loss of [3H]DNA upon culturing. The decrease of labeled DNA content and size of large lymphocytes was demonstrated by flow cytometry and cell sorting. These observations suggest that stimulated lymphocytes may revert ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasvari-Szekely M,Staub M,Taljanidisz J,Szabo G Jr,Takacs J,Antoni F

更新日期：1984-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial strains were isolated from the pig colon to screen for phytase and acid phosphatase activities. Among 93 colonies, Colony 88 had the highest activities for both enzymes and was identified as an Escherichia coli strain. Using primers derived from the E. coli pH 2.5 acid phosphatase appA sequence (Dassa et al....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rodriguez E,Han Y,Lei XG

更新日期：1999-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The initiating factors in primary, idiopathic osteoarthritis are unknown, the characteristic bone and cartilage changes being late features of the disease. We have proposed that biochemical cruciate ligament alteration may be important in early osteoarthritis by mediating loading consequences on the bone and cartilage...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Anderson-MacKenzie JM,Billingham ME,Bailey AJ

更新日期：1999-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Temozolomide (TMZ) is a methylating agent used in chemotherapy against glioblastoma. This work was designed to clarify details in repair pathways acting to remove DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by TMZ. Cultured mouse embryonic fibroblasts were used which were deficient in DSB repair genes such as homologous r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kondo N,Takahashi A,Mori E,Ohnishi K,McKinnon PJ,Sakaki T,Nakase H,Ohnishi T

更新日期：2009-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNAs containing premature stop codons are generally targeted for degradation through the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway. The subcellular localization of the NMD process in higher eukaryotes remains controversial. While many mRNAs are subjected to NMD prior to their release from the nucleus, a few...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dreumont N,Maresca A,Khandjian EW,Baklouti F,Tanguay RM

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the genomic structure of the mouse Zfp148 gene encoding Beta-Enolase Repressor Factor-1 (BERF-1), a Kruppel-like zinc finger protein involved in the transcriptional regulation of several genes, which is also termed ZBP-89, BFCOL1. The cloned Zfp148 gene spans 110 kb of genomic DNA encompassing th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Feo S,Antona V,Cammarata G,Cavaleri F,Passantino R,Rubino P,Giallongo A

更新日期：2001-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific radioimmunoassay was developed for metorphamide, an endogenous, amidated opioid octapeptide, originally isolated from bovine brain and human pheochromocytoma tissues. The radioimmunoassay was used to determine the concentration of immunoreactive metorphamide in extracts from dissected regions of rat and gui...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sonders M,Barchas JD,Weber E

更新日期：1984-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously it was known that cytosolic Ca(2+) elevation was involved in regulating UV- or TNFalpha-induced apoptosis. Here, we reported new evidence that mitochondrial Ca(2+) signal is also involved in the apoptotic process. First, using living cell imaging techniques, we observed multiple mitochondrial Ca(2+) spikes ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lao Y,Chang DC

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Palmitoyl-(S)-seryl-(S)-seryl-(S)-asparaginyl-(S)-alanine (Palmitoyl-tetrapeptide) is an analogue of the N-terminal part of the lipoprotein from the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. It was prepared by chemical synthesis and tested for biological activity in in vitro lymphocyte culture systems. In spleen cells of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bessler WG,Cox M,Wiesmüller KH,Jung G

更新日期：1984-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop an animal model for the therapy of AIDS with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors, we recently constructed a hybrid simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)/HIV-1 in which the RT gene of SIV was replaced by the RT gene of HIV-1. This chimaeric virus, designat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Balzarini J,Weeger M,Camarasa MJ,De Clercq E,Uberla K

更新日期：1995-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble protein that binds malonyl-CoA without requiring cofactors has been purified from rat liver. Until saturated, it competes with fatty acid synthetase for free malonyl-CoA, temporarily reducing the rate of fatty acid synthesis at low levels of malonyl-CoA, as in fatty acid synthetase--coupled assays for acetyl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dugan RE,Osterlund BR,Drong RF,Swenson TL

更新日期：1987-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:8-iso-PGE2, an E2-isoprostane, decreased GFR and RPF dose-dependently in rats, but with lesser potency than 8-epi-PGF2 alpha, an F2-isoprostane. This effect was abolished by SQ29,548. 8-iso-PGE2 displaced [3H]SQ29,548 or [125I]BOP binding in aortic smooth muscle cells with the affinity rank order of SQ29,548 > = I-BOP...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fukunaga M,Takahashi K,Badr KF

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual effect of dibromothymoquinone ( DBMIB ), inhibitor and reducing agent at the donor side of Photosystem I, was investigated in isolated intact chloroplasts by flash-induced absorbance changes at 820 and 515 nm. We show that in the absence of other electron donors, rereduction of P700+ by DBMIB proceeds at a very l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Farineau J,Bottin H,Garab G

更新日期：1984-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement sensitization of red blood cells (RBCs) can cause life-threatening hemolytic anemias. We have previously shown that complement receptor 1 (CR1) derivatives specifically the N-terminal region with decay accelerating activity (DAA) for inactivation of a key enzyme in the complement cascade can reduce compleme...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu J,Heck S,Debnath A,Yazdanbakhsh K

更新日期：2007-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of musk xylene on contents of both cytochrome P-450IA1 and cytochrome P-450IA2 in rat liver was investigated using Western blotting analysis. Rats were treated i.p. for five consecutive days with either 50, 100 or 200 mg musk xylene/kg body weight. Musk xylene increased both total cytochrome P-450 and cytoc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwata N,Minegishi K,Suzuki K,Ohno Y,Kawanishi T,Takahashi A

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Resveratrol (trans-3,5,4'-trihydroxystilbene), a polyphenolic compound found largely in the skins of red grapes, has been used as a nutritional supplement or an investigational new drug for prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Previous reports showed that resveratrol had a protective effect against oxidative agent-i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Leong CW,Wong CH,Lao SC,Leong EC,Lao IF,Law PT,Fung KP,Tsang KS,Waye MM,Tsui SK,Wang YT,Lee SM

更新日期：2007-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Current therapeutic approaches for Parkinson's disease (PD) provide symptomatic relief but none of them change the course of disease. There is therefore a clear need for regenerative and cell replacement therapies (CRT). However, CRT faces several important challenges. First, the main symptoms of PD result from the lo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arenas E

更新日期：2010-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Andean potato weevil, Premnotrypes vorax, an insect of the order Coleoptera, is a major cause of damage to potato crops in the Andean regions of South America. The insecticidal Cry proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis are useful biological pesticides, and some are toxic to Coleopteran insects. We overexpressed rec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gomez S,Mateus AC,Hernandez J,Zimmermann BH

更新日期：2000-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence has shown that miRNAs are implicated in carcinogenesis and can function as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes in human cancers. In this study, we confirmed that miR-214 is frequently down-regulated in cervical cancer compared with normal cervical tissues. Ectopic expression of miR-214 suppressed p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Peng R,Men J,Ma R,Wang Q,Wang Y,Sun Y,Ren J

更新日期：2017-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Schisanhenol (Sal) did not diminish the antitumor activity of adriamycin in mice bearing P388 ascites tumor. Sal did not antagonize the suppressive effect of adriamycin on DNA synthesis and cell proliferation in an L1210 ascitic tumor cell culture. Furthermore, Sal at the concentration of 0.1, 0.25, or 1 mM accelerate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lin TJ,Liu GT

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although leukotriene B4 (LTB4) has been reported to stimulate monocytes and neutrophils, its role on dendritic cell (DC) activity has not been examined. Here, we investigated the expression of LTB4 receptor and the effect of LTB4 on human DC chemotaxis. We analyzed LTB4 receptors, BLT1 and BLT2, by using RT-PCR. DCs e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shin EH,Lee HY,Bae YS

更新日期：2006-09-22 00:00:00

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：:TRPV5 is a Ca2+-selective channel that plays a key role in the reabsorption of Ca2+ ions in the kidney. Recently, a rare L530R variation (rs757494578) of TRPV5 was found to be associated with recurrent kidney stones in a founder population. However, it was unclear to what extent this variation alters the structure and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang L,Holmes RP,Peng JB

更新日期：2017-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:During the search for ANP receptor ligands of microbial origin, we isolated a novel polysaccharide, HS-142-1, from culture broth of Aureobasidium sp. HS-142-1 inhibited [125I]-rANP binding to ANP receptor in rabbit kidney cortex membranes with an IC50 of 0.3 mu g/ml, but gave no effects on specific binding of [125I]-E...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Morishita Y,Sano T,Ando K,Saitoh Y,Kase H,Yamada K,Matsuda Y

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To repress gene transcription, the unliganded nuclear receptor (NR) recruits the N-CoR and SMRT corepressors via its direct association with the conserved motif within bipartite NR-interaction domains (IDs) of corepressors. We recently reported that SMRT is directly involved in the VDR-mediated repression via an ID1-s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim JY,Son YL,Lee YC

更新日期：2009-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:When rat hepatoma cells (R-Y121B) were incubated with insulin at 37 degrees C, concanavalin A increased insulin internalization into cells. When R-Y121B cells were first incubated with labeled insulin at 4 degrees C then with concanavalin A at various concentrations at 37 degrees C, the total cellular radioactivity wa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sorimachi K,Yasumura Y

更新日期：1984-07-18 00:00:00