Purification and characterization of extracellular superoxide dismutase in mouse lung.

abstract：:DNA fragmentation factors (DFF) form protein complexes consisting of nuclease DFF40/CAD and inhibitory chaperon DFF45/ICAD. Although activated caspase-3 has been shown to cleave DFF complexes with the release of active DFF40 and DNA fragmentation, the organ-specific mechanisms of DFF turnover during liver injury accom...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xiang Y,Johnson EA,Zhang C,Huang G,Hayes RL,Wang KK,Svetlov SI

更新日期：2006-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine catabolism is considered to be an important metabolic pathway for cancer cells. Glutaminase (GLS) is the important rate-limiting enzyme of glutamine catabolism. miR-137 functions as a tumor suppressor in many human malignant tumors. However, the role and molecular mechanism of miR-137 and GLS in malignant me...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Luan W,Zhou Z,Zhu Y,Xia Y,Wang J,Xu B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we calculate the unpredictable portion of amino-acid pairs, which has been developed by us over the last several years, of 1201 hemagglutinins from influenza A viruses dated from 1918 to 2004 in order to compare them with respect to subtypes, species, and years. After noticing the fluctuations of unpred...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu G,Yan S

更新日期：2005-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Using isolated rat hepatocytes we have shown that glutathione (GSH) depletion by glutathione-S-transferase (GST)-catalyzed conjugation with 1-bromoheptane or phorone was accompanied by a significant elevation in ascorbate synthesis. Glycogenolysis was also stimulated without a significant rise in glucose synthesis. Fu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chan TS,Wilson JX,O'Brien PJ

更新日期：2004-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The olfactomedin-domain has been first identified in olfactomedin, an extracellular matrix protein of the olfactory neuroepithelium. Members of this extracellular domain-family have since been shown to be present in several metazoan proteins, such as latrophilins, myocilins, and noelins, but their biological function ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagy I,Trexler M,Patthy L

更新日期：2003-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor statins are used to treat patients with hypercholesterolemia. The pleiotropic effects of statins have been recently extended to the regulation of angiogenesis. However, the observations on the effects of statins on endothelial cells seem to be contradictory. In this work, we systematically ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hu K,Wan Q

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin activation of target enzymes depends on the interaction between calmodulin hydrophobic regions and some enzyme areas. The Ca2+ induced exposure of calmodulin hydrophobic sites was studied by means of 2-p-toluidinylnaphthalene-6-sulfonate, a fluorescent probe. Scatchard and Job plots showed that the calmodul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Follenius A,Gerard D

更新日期：1984-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors play a crucial role in the development of various tissues. In particular, the transcription factors of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) family are crucial regulators of neurodifferentiation. Previous studies suggested that the bHLH transcription factor Hand2 is essential for sympathetic nervous ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hashimoto Y,Tsutsumi M,Myojin R,Maruta K,Onoda F,Tashiro F,Ohtsu M,Murakami Y

更新日期：2011-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mr approximately equal to 90,000 heat shock protein, hsp90, readily interacts with the glucocorticoid receptor to form the 9 S, non-DNA-binding receptor complex. This receptor is stabilized in cytosolic preparations by sodium molybdate. In analogy, sodium molybdate stabilizes a 9 S form of the dioxin receptor. Pol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Denis M,Cuthill S,Wikström AC,Poellinger L,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：1988-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CRAMP-18 (GEKLKKIGQKIKNFFQKL) is the antibacterial sequence derived from CRMAP, a member of cathelicidin-derived antimicrobial peptides. To develop the novel antibiotic peptides useful as therapeutic drugs requires strong antibiotic activity against bacterial and fungal cells without hemolytic effect. To this goal, th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shin SY,Kang SW,Lee DG,Eom SH,Song WK,Kim JI

更新日期：2000-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense oligonucleotides were modified by their ends with hydrophobic substituents which permitted enhancing their activity. The effect of hydrophobized oligonucleotides on reproduction of Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 in Vero cells was studied. Two types of oligonucleotides were used: a 12-mer complementary to the sp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vinogradov SV,Suzdaltseva Y,Alakhov VYu,Kabanov AV

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of endothelin, there was a rapid increase in the 45Ca++ efflux from primary cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells, both in physiological salt solution and in calcium free medium containing 2 mM EGTA. The 45Ca++ influx was not affected. The endothelin-induced, transient increase in cytosolic calcium...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miasiro N,Yamamoto H,Kanaide H,Nakamura M

更新日期：1988-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat germ phosphoglycerate mutase, exposed to 3.4 M guanidinium chloride at 22 degrees C and pH 7.8, slowly undergoes time-dependent inactivation which can be fully reversed by adding excess Co2+ or Mn2+ to a 50-fold dilution of the denaturing medium. Titration of the denatured enzyme with either Co2+ or Mn2+ shows t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Smith GC,McWilliams AD,Hass LF

更新日期：1986-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated cDNA encoding a novel FGF (212 amino acids) from rat brain. Because this is the 20th documented member of the FGF family, we tentatively term it FGF-20. Among FGF family members, FGF-20 is most similar to FGF-9 and FGF-16 (70 and 62% amino acid identity, respectively). Human FGF-20 gene was found in t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohmachi S,Watanabe Y,Mikami T,Kusu N,Ibi T,Akaike A,Itoh N

更新日期：2000-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:GPI-anchored proteins are localized on the outer layer of plasma membranes and clustered in microdomains generally called lipid rafts. To study the interactions between the lipidic GPI-anchor of the protein and phospholipids, we used phosphatidylcholine monolayers at the air-water interface as a biomimetic membrane sy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kouzayha A,Besson F

更新日期：2005-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid β (Aβ) oligomers may be a real culprit in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD); therefore, the elimination of these toxic oligomers may be of great significance for AD therapy. Autophagy is the catabolic process by which lysosomes degrade cytosolic components, and heat shock cognate 70 kDa protein (Hsc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dou J,Su P,Xu C,Wen Z,Mao Z,Li W

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetracycline-regulated gene expression system has been widely used in mice to turn a transgene on and off in a target organ, but with only limited success. We developed an advanced system in which a Tet-off regulation unit was integrated into the ROSA26 locus and became active after Cre-mediated excision of the ne...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miyazaki S,Miyazaki T,Tashiro F,Yamato E,Miyazaki J

更新日期：2005-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (ADPRP) is a nuclear enzyme that transfers ADP-ribose from NAD+ to diverse nuclear proteins. Previously, the function of ADPRP was considered to relate exclusively to its catalytic activity. However, recent experiments have shown that ADPRP is actually an abundant DNA-binding protein, and t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nobori T,Yamanaka H,Carson DA

更新日期：1989-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the effect of hypoxia and nutrient depletion on the growth of human neuroblastoma cells with normal or enhanced expression of the N-myc oncogene. The combination of both conditions reduced the growth of neuroblastoma cells with normal N-myc expression. However, this effect was much more pronounced in ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rössler J,Schwab M,Havers W,Schweigerer L

更新日期：2001-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Senescence marker protein 30 (SMP30) is assumed to behave as an anti-aging factor. Recently, we have demonstrated that deficiency of SMP30 exacerbates angiotensin II-induced cardiac hypertrophy, dysfunction and remodeling, suggesting that SMP30 may have a protective role in the heart. Thus, thi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Misaka T,Suzuki S,Miyata M,Kobayashi A,Ishigami A,Shishido T,Saitoh S,Kubota I,Takeishi Y

更新日期：2013-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An E. coli mutant deficient in organophosphonate biodegradation has been complemented with a cosmid library prepared from a BamHI partial digest of wild-type E. coli W3110. Mutant E. coli SL724, when transformed with cosmid pSL163 and plasmid pSL263, regained the ability to exploit ethylphosphonate as a sole source of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Loo SH,Peters NK,Frost JW

更新日期：1987-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17 plays an important role in gut homeostasis. However, the role of IL-17F in intestinal tumorigenesis has not been addressed. Here we demonstrate that ablation of IL-17F significantly inhibits spontaneous intestinal tumorigenesis in the small intestine of Apc(Min/+) mice. IL-17F ablation decreased IL-1β and Cox-2 ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chae WJ,Bothwell AL

更新日期：2011-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cAMP on the expression of ETA (ET-1 selective type) receptor mRNA and on the response to endothelin-1 (ET-1) were investigated in rat aortic smooth muscle cells in primary culture, using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and fura-2 microfluorometry of cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishimura J,Chen X,Jahan H,Shikasho T,Kobayashi S,Kanaide H

更新日期：1992-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic/ischemic trauma is a primary factor in the pathology of various disease states. Yet, very little is known about the molecular mechanisms involved in cellular responses and adaptations to hypoxia. As a means of identifying intracellular signaling systems that are regulated in response to hypoxia, the effects of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Beitner-Johnson D,Leibold J,Millhorn DE

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine proteases have been identified in parasitic protozoa including the causative agent of Chagas' disease Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi lysates subjected to substrate-containing SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis exhibit major bands of proteolytic activity in the 45-55 kDa molecular mass range (cruzipain activi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wiser MF,Lonsdale-Eccles JD,D'Alessandro A,Grab DJ

更新日期：1997-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulse labeling studies with Bacillus subtilis showed that DuP 721 inhibited protein synthesis. The IC50 of DuP 721 for protein synthesis was 0.25 micrograms/ml but it was greater than 32 micrograms/ml for RNA and DNA synthesis. In cell-free systems, DuP 721 concentrations up to 100 microM did not inhibit peptide chain...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eustice DC,Feldman PA,Slee AM

更新日期：1988-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier investigations have shown that (a) antibodies against a carrier-coupled 20-residue synthetic peptide (C-20), (200)HACQKKLLKFEALQQEEGEE(219), corresponding to the C-terminal partially helical sequence of chicken riboflavin carrier protein (RCP; 219 AA) curtail pregnancy in mammals and (b) helix stabilization by...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Subramanian S,Karande AA,Adiga PR

更新日期：2001-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Many proteins in bacterial cells fold in the chaperonin cage made of the central cavity of GroEL capped by GroES. Recent studies indicate that the polypeptide in the cage spends the most time as a state tethered dynamically to the GroEL/GroES interface region, in which folding occurs in the polypeptide segments away f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Motojima F,Yoshida M

更新日期：2015-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice were produced by the microinjection of the cDNA of human alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) under control of the enhancer/promoter of the human beta-actin gene. Among the 4 mouse lines where the transgene were stable transmitted to the progeny, 3 produced human AFP. The expression was not developmental stage-spec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamashita T,Kasai N,Miyoshi I,Sasaki N,Maki K,Sakai M,Nishi S,Namioka S

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, a disease accounting for more than one million deaths per year, is caused by intraerythrocytic growth of Plasmodia. Parasitemia may be blunted by suicidal erythrocyte death or eryptosis, which is characterized by cell shrinkage and phosphatidylserine exposure. Triggers of eryptosis include lead nitrate (Pb(NO...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koka S,Huber SM,Boini KM,Lang C,Föller M,Lang F

更新日期：2007-11-23 00:00:00