Evidence for catalytic cysteine-histidine dyad in chalcone synthase.

abstract：:Phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (PHGPx) is the only known intracellular antioxidant enzyme that can directly reduce lipid hydroperoxide in membrane. Mitochondrial and non-mitochondrial PHGPx and sperm nuclei GPx are transcribed from one gene by alternative transcription using different first exons Ia...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Imai H,Hirao F,Sakamoto T,Sekine K,Mizukura Y,Saito M,Kitamoto T,Hayasaka M,Hanaoka K,Nakagawa Y

更新日期：2003-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The methionine sulfoxide reductase (Msr) family of enzymes has been shown to protect cells against oxidative damage. The two major Msr enzymes, MsrA and MsrB, can repair oxidative damage to proteins due to reactive oxygen species, by reducing the methionine sulfoxide in proteins back to methionine. A role of MsrA in a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cudic P,Joshi N,Sagher D,Williams BT,Stawikowski MJ,Weissbach H

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Parenteral immunization of transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer disease (AD) with synthetic amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) prevented or reduced Abeta deposits and attenuated their memory and learning deficits. A clinical trial of immunization with synthetic Abeta, however, was halted due to brain inflammation, presumabl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fukuchi K,Accavitti-Loper MA,Kim HD,Tahara K,Cao Y,Lewis TL,Caughey RC,Kim H,Lalonde R

更新日期：2006-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:After a peripheral nerve injury, the remaining Schwann cells undergo proliferation and adopt a migratory phenotype to prepare for the regeneration of nerves. Celsr2 has been reported to play an important role in the development and maintenance of the function of the nervous system. However, the role and mechanism of C...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou X,Zhan Z,Tang C,Li J,Zheng X,Zhu S,Qi J

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial ATP synthase is responsible for production of the majority of cellular ATP. Disorders of ATP synthase in humans can be caused by numerous mutations in both structural subunits and specific assembly factors. They are associated with variable pathogenicity and clinical phenotypes ranging from mild to the m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nuskova H,Mikesova J,Efimova I,Pecinova A,Pecina P,Drahota Z,Houstek J,Mracek T

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-soluble polyacrylamide having 3'-sialyl N-acetyl-lactosamine [Neu5Ac alpha (2-->3)Gal beta (1-->4)GlcNAc] was enzymatically prepared by stepwise sugar-elongation on a water-soluble GlcNAc-bearing polyacrylamide. It was demonstrated that the flexible GlcNAc branches of the polymer chains allow quantitative galact...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishimura S,Lee KB,Matsuoka K,Lee YC

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is the causal gene for autosomal dominant familial Parkinson's disease. We have previously reported a novel molecular feature characteristic to I2020T mutant LRRK2: higher susceptibility to post-translational degradation than the wild-type LRRK2. In the present study, we demonstrat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohta E,Kubo M,Obata F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GlcNAc-TI) catalyzes the first reaction in the conversion of ASN-linked cell surface oligosaccharides from a mannose-terminating structure to more complex carbohydrate structures. The mutant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line, Lec1, is deficient in this enzyme and, therefore, show...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ripka J,Pierce M,Fregien N

更新日期：1989-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here that at least seven low Mr GTP-binding proteins (range 21.5 to 29 kDa) are associated with the membranes of zymogen granules from rat pancreas. GTP binding proteins of similar Mr but in different relative proportions were found in the cytosolic fraction. Treatment of intact granules with either trypsin ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Padfield PJ,Jamieson JD

更新日期：1991-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:When TT virus (TTV) DNA was quantitated in whole blood and plasma aliquots from 27 viremic individuals by real-time detection PCR that can detect essentially all TTV genotypes, the TTV load was 6.9 +/- 3.5 (mean +/- standard deviation)-fold higher in the whole blood than in the plasma samples [P < 0.002 (paired t test...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi M,Asabe S,Gotanda Y,Kishimoto J,Tsuda F,Okamoto H

更新日期：2002-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD+ is a co-enzyme in redox reactions and a substrate required for activity of various enzyme families, including sirtuins and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases. Dietary supplementation of NAD+ precursors nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) or nicotinamide riboside (NR) protects against metabolic disease, neurodegenerative ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fan R,Cui J,Ren F,Wang Q,Huang Y,Zhao B,Wei L,Qian X,Xiong X

更新日期：2018-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of gamma-interferon (gamma-IFN) on the interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha) induced stimulation of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA) expression in human foreskin microvascular endothelial cells (HFMEC) and in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) was investigated. When gamma-IFN and IL-1 alph...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wojta J,Zoellner H,Gallicchio M,Hamilton JA,McGrath K

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The 65 kDa C8-binding protein or homologous restriction factor (C8bp/HRF) protects cells from complement (C)-mediated lysis by binding to C8 and abrogating lytic channel formation. Human C8bp/HRF is shown here to be immunologically related to human C8 and C9 and to murine lymphocyte poreforming protein (PFP, perforin)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Young JD,Rosse WF,Hasselkus-Light CS

更新日期：1990-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified 13 transcript isoforms of a trinucleotide-repeat-containing gene, cag-8, that is expressed almost exclusively in the mouse brain. The polypeptide deduced from the cDNA consists of 137 AAs, of which 74 are glutamines. The 130-kb gene is composed of 16 exons, from which at least 13 isoforms with variable U...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ji JW,Yang HL,Kim SJ

更新日期：2006-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence for mouse calcitonin was determined from a cDNA obtained using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based method, the rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE)-PCR. Primers designed from highly conserved regions in the coding sequences of known rat and human calcitonin cDNAs were used to amplify cal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rehli M,Luger K,Beier W,Falk W

更新日期：1996-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase C from rat brain phosphorylates rabbit muscle phosphofructokinase at the same trypsin-labile site as cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. However, protein kinase C also effectively phosphorylates one or more separate sites. Incubation of phosphofructokinase in the pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hofer HW,Schlatter S,Graefe M

更新日期：1985-06-28 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：:It has been proposed that the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (InsP(3)R) type III acts as a trigger for InsP(3)-mediated calcium (Ca(2+)) signaling, because this InsP(3) isoform lacks feedback inhibition by cytosolic Ca(2+). We tested this hypothesis in RIN-m5F cells, which express predominantly the type III rec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： O'Neill AF,Hagar RE,Zipfel WR,Nathanson MH,Ehrlich BE

更新日期：2002-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon binding of a Wnt to its receptor, GSK3beta is inhibited through an unknown mechanism involving Dishevelled (Dsh), resulting in the dephosphorylation and stabilization of beta-catenin, which translocates to the nucleus and interacts with Lef/Tcf transcription factors to activate target gene expression. Axin is a s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jho Eh,Lomvardas S,Costantini F

更新日期：1999-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, transcription of ARO9 and ARO10 genes, involved in the catabolism of aromatic amino acids, is activated by Aro80 transcription factor in response to aromatic amino acids. Here we show that the transcription of ARO9 and ARO10 is also induced by heat shock in an Aro80-dependent manner. Howev...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee K,Sung C,Kim BG,Hahn JS

更新日期：2013-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described which employs pepstatin-agarose for the affinity purification of either HIV-1 or HIV-2 protease from two similar recombinant E. coli constructs that were developed for the expression of these enzymes. HIV-2 protease was routinely expressed at much higher levels than the HIV-1 enzyme and pepsta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rittenhouse J,Turon MC,Helfrich RJ,Albrecht KS,Weigl D,Simmer RL,Mordini F,Erickson J,Kohlbrenner WE

更新日期：1990-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have established that polypeptide growth factors cause an elevation of the cytoplasmic pH (pHi) in cultured mammalian cells by stimulating Na+/H+ exchange. We show that vanadate, previously found to act as a mitogen for a number of cells, reversibly activates Na+/H+ exchange at micromolar concentrations...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cassel D,Zhuang YX,Glaser L

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of endothelin-1 in the cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes was investigated. Studies on the cultured cardiac myocytes with reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction followed by Southern hybridization indicated that mRNA of ET-1(preproET-1 mRNA) was expressed by cardiac myocytes. ET-1 polypeptide wa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suzuki T,Kumazaki T,Mitsui Y

更新日期：1993-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The efp, a member of the RING finger family, was previously identified as an estrogen responsive gene. Here, we characterized basal promoter of the human efp gene. Transcription initiation site was found at position -60 G relative to the site for translation initiation, and TATA motif was absent. Deletion and mutation...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ikeda K,Inoue S,Orimo A,Sano M,Watanabe T,Tsutsumi K,Muramatsu M

更新日期：1997-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a system to improve expression of mature c-type cytochromes in Escherichia coli. It is based on the use of plasmid pEC86 that expresses the E. coli cytochrome c maturation genes ccmABCDEFGH constitutively, whereby the production of both endogenous and foreign c-type cytochromes was increased substantially...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arslan E,Schulz H,Zufferey R,Künzler P,Thöny-Meyer L

更新日期：1998-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified four surface 83 kDa proteins of pI values 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6 in T. cruzi trypomastigotes which specifically bind to rat heart myoblasts. These proteins were purified by isoelectric focusing and anion-exchange chromatography in an FPLC system. These 83 kDa proteins inhibit the attachment of trypom...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Villalta F,Lima MF,Zhou L

更新日期：1990-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cripto-1 (CR-1) is a transforming growth factor which has been associated with breast, colon, and pancreatic cancer. Overexpression of CR-1 in non-tumorigenic mouse mammary epithelial cells and fibroblasts results in an increase in anchorage-dependent and -independent growth in vitro. Reduction of CR-1 expression in h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kintner RL,Hosick HL

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The large protein L of negative-sense RNA viruses is a multifunctional protein involved in transcription and replication of genomic RNA. It also possesses enzymatic activities involved in capping and methylation of viral mRNAs. The pathway for mRNA capping followed by the L protein of the viruses in the Morbillivirus ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Singh PK,Ratnam N,Narayanarao KB,Bugatha H,Karande AA,Melkote Subbarao S

更新日期：2015-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A new protein observed in two-dimensional electrophoresis patterns of proteins from the human skin fibroblast line GM1386 has been identified as a charge and molecular-weight variant of the type of tropomyosin found in smooth muscle (Tm:3). This is the second variant of Tm:3 found in GM1386 and represents a second sit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Giometti CS,Gemmell MA,Anderson NL

更新日期：1985-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Halysase, a hemorrhagic metalloprotease, has an apparent molecular weight of 66kDa and belongs to the class P-III snake venom metalloprotease. Class P-III snake venom metalloproteases have multifunctional domains including a protease domain and a disintegrin-like domain. Halysase was able to preferentially hydrolyze t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： You WK,Jang YJ,Chung KH,Jeon OH,Kim DS

更新日期：2006-01-20 00:00:00