Phenobarbital-elicited activation of nuclear receptor CAR in induction of cytochrome P450 genes.

abstract：:Runt-related transcription factor-2 (RUNX2)/core binding factor a1 (Cbfa1) is implicated in the regulation of osteoblast differentiation and osteoblast-specific gene expression. Mutations in RUNX2 cause the bone disease cleidocranial dysplasia, which is characterized by multiple skeletal defects. RUNX2 is expressed as...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sudhakar S,Li Y,Katz MS,Elango N

更新日期：2001-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The smallest protein of hepatitis B virus, HBX, has been implicated in the development of liver diseases by interfering with normal cellular processes. Its role in cell proliferation has been unclear as both pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic activities have been reported. We showed molecular evidence that HBX induced a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu YW,Chen WN

更新日期：2005-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge at present on the structure of acrosome-reaction inducing substance (ARIS) in the jelly coat of starfish eggs is summarized. ARIS ia a proteoglycan-like molecule consisting of very long, linear, and highly sulfated glycans and three ARIS proteins, ARIS1-3. Detailed structures of the major glycan of ARIS ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hoshi M,Moriyama H,Matsumoto M

更新日期：2012-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of activation of c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase 1 (JNK1) in mediating cisplatin-induced apoptosis and the possibility of induction of JNK activity in triggering relation to DNA damage and drug resistance. We investigated the difference of cisplatin-induced activation of JNK pathway and H2O2 alterati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li F,Meng L,Zhou J,Xing H,Wang S,Xu G,Zhu H,Wang B,Chen G,Lu YP,Ma D

更新日期：2005-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta precursor protein (APP) is normally cleaved by α-secretase, but can also be cleaved by β-secretase (BACE1) to produce C99 fragments in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane. C99 is subsequently cleaved to amyloid β (Aβ), the aggregation of which is known to cause Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, C99 remo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jang JK,Park KJ,Lee JH,Ko KY,Kang S,Kim IY

更新日期：2017-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin (DT) binds to a specific heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF) precursor that is expressed in DT-sensitive cells. DT binds to the cell-surface HB-EGF precursor with an apparent dissociation constant (KD) of approximately 1 x 10(-8) - 10(-9) M at 4 degreesC, a temperature ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Brooke JS,Cha JH,Eidels L

更新日期：1998-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Plicatamide is a modified octapeptide from the ascidian Styela plicata having the structure Phe-Phe-His-Leu-His-Phe-His-decarboxyDeltaDOPA (where decarboxyDeltaDOPA = decarboxy-(E)-alpha,beta-dehydro-3, 4-dihydroxyphenylalanine). Edman sequencing, tandem mass spectrometry, and proton NMR have been used to characterize...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tincu JA,Craig AG,Taylor SW

更新日期：2000-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression in cells is mediated by protein-protein, DNA-protein and receptor-ligand interactions. PDZ (PSD-95/Discs-large/ZO-1) domains are protein-protein interaction modules. PDZ-containing proteins function in the organization of multi-protein complexes controlling spatial and temporal fidelity o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zencir S,Banerjee M,Dobson MJ,Ayaydin F,Fodor EA,Topcu Z,Mohanty S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against chick embryonic beta-galactoside-binding lectin were obtained. One of the monoclonal antibodies was ineffective in Western blotting and seemed to be unable to bind the SDS-denatured lectin. When the native lectin was dotted on a nitrocellulose filter and subjected to denaturation by treat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oda Y,Kasai K

更新日期：1984-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Follistatin, activin and inhibin proteins are produced by granulosa cells, but the mechanisms controlling their production remain unclear. Here, we examined how the protein kinase A (PKA) and protein kinase C (PKC) pathways act and interact to regulate production of these proteins. Granulosa cells from immature rats w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miyanaga K,Erickson GF,DePaolo LV,Ling N,Shimasaki S

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:G proteins play vital roles in cellular responses to external signals. The specificity of G protein-receptor interaction is mediated mostly by the gamma-subunit and the individual members of the gamma-subunit multigene family would hence be expected to each have a particular expression profile. In an experiment design...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Modarressi MH,Taylor KE,Wolfe J

更新日期：2000-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased microvessel density in atherosclerotic plaques plays a major role in promoting plaque destabilization resulting in increased risk of stroke and myocardial infarction. Previously we have shown that expression of the inflammatory cytokine, Oncostatin-M (OSM), in human atherosclerotic plaques correlated with in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Albasanz-Puig A,Murray J,Namekata M,Wijelath ES

更新日期：2012-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered brain cholesterol homeostasis plays a key role in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). For a long time, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) was basically considered as a barrier isolating the brain from circulating cholesterol, however, several lines of evidence now suggest that the BBB stric...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gosselet F,Saint-Pol J,Fenart L

更新日期：2014-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Accompanying the decrease in serum cholesterol and increase in concentration of ubiquinone in liver and its microsomes, the activity, but not the protein, of HMG-CoA reductase decreased in ubiquinone-supplemented rats. A soluble 58-kDa preparation of HMG-CoA reductase was partially inhibited on addition of ubiquinone ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Omkumar RV,Gaikwad AS,Ramasarma T

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:GTP cyclohydrolase I (GTPCH) is the first and rate-limiting enzyme for the synthesis of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), a cofactor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). As the induction of NO synthesis by immunostimulants in vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells requires de novo synthesis of BH4, we investigated whether immunostimu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hattori Y,Gross SS

更新日期：1993-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax-protective antigen is the central moiety of the anthrax toxin complex that mediates the entry of the other two toxin components, lethal factor and edema factor into the cells. It is also the main immunogen of the cell-free vaccine against anthrax. However, in addition to PA, the vaccine contains trace amounts ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ahuja N,Kumar P,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：2001-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The vacuolar proton ATPase (V-ATPase) translocates protons into intracellular organelles or across the plasma membrane of specialised cells such as osteoclast and renal intercalated cells. The catalytic site of the V-ATPase consists of a hexamer of three A subunits and three B subunits which bind and hydrolyse ATP and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： van Hille B,Vanek M,Richener H,Green JR,Bilbe G

更新日期：1993-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified fractions of glycosylated (pGPrl) and unglycosylated (pUGPrl) porcine prolactin were prepared by affinity chromatography on Concanavalin A-Sepharose. The relative binding activities of these two forms of prolactin for receptors from porcine mammary, adrenal cortex and rabbit mammary, as well as their Nb2 cell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Atkinson PR,Seely JE,Klemcke HG,Hughes JP

更新日期：1988-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Actions of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) on all-trans-retinoic acid (trans-RA) binding to retinoic acid receptors (RARs) in cultured human keratinocytes (SCC-12F) was investigated. TCDD and trans-RA elicited opposing actions on the production of biologically active TGF-beta. TCDD exposure caused concentra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lorick KL,Toscano DL,Toscano WA Jr

更新日期：1998-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Although oxygen levels in the extracellular space of most mammalian tissues are just a few percent, under standard cell culture conditions they are not regulated and are often substantially higher. Some cellular sources of reactive oxygen species, like NADPH oxidase 4, are sensitive to oxygen levels in the range betwe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Maddalena LA,Selim SM,Fonseca J,Messner H,McGowan S,Stuart JA

更新日期：2017-11-04 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：:beta-Amyloid peptide (beta A) is a major fibrillar component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains and is related to the pathogenesis of the disease. In this study, using electron microscopy, we describe herein the results concerning the efficacy of compounds that can dissolve preformed beta A fibrils...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nguyen KV,Gendrault JL,Wolff CM

更新日期：2002-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study are to identify the sex steroid-metabolizing cytochrome P450 enzymes of the vomeronasal organ (VNO) and to determine the activities of VNO microsomes to metabolize estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone. Several P450 isoforms, including CYP1A2, CYP2A, CYP2B, CYP2C, CYP2G1, and CYP3A, NADPH P4...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gu J,Dudley C,Su T,Spink DC,Zhang QY,Moss RL,Ding X

更新日期：1999-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) was reconstituted into artificial lipid membrane containing various charged lipid compositions. The proton pumping activity of BR under flash and continuous illumination, proton permeability across membrane, as well as the decay kinetics of the photocycle intermediate M(412) were studied. The re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Z,Bai J,Xu Y

更新日期：2008-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Lanosterol synthase [(S)-2,3-epoxysqualene mutase (cyclizing, lanosterol forming), EC 5.4.99.7] catalyzes the cyclization of (S)-2,3-oxidosqualene to lanosterol in the reaction that forms the sterol nucleus. We report herein the cloning and characterization of the human gene (OSC) encoding lanosterol synthase, a predi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Baker CH,Matsuda SP,Liu DR,Corey EJ

更新日期：1995-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Six peaks of small GTP-binding proteins (G proteins) were separated by column chromatographies from the cytosol fraction of the differentiated HL-60 cells: two peaks of rho p21, one peak of smg/rap1 p21, two peaks of rac1 p21, and one peak of an unidentified small G protein with a Mr of about 20,000 (20 KG). smg GDS, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hiraoka K,Kaibuchi K,Ando S,Musha T,Takaishi K,Mizuno T,Asada M,Ménard L,Tomhave E,Didsbury J

更新日期：1992-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular motors move many intracellular cargos along microtubules. Recently, it has been hypothesized that in vivo cargo velocity can be used to determine the number of engaged motors. We use theoretical and experimental approaches to investigate these assertions, and find that this hypothesis is inconsistent with pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Martinez JE,Vershinin MD,Shubeita GT,Gross SP

更新日期：2007-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) small heat shock protein Hsp16.3 was found to be a major membrane protein that is most predominantly expressed under oxidative stress and is localized to the thickened cell envelope. Gene knock-out studies indicate that the Hsp16.3 protein is required for TB to grow in its host macropha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Abulimiti A,Qiu X,Chen J,Liu Y,Chang Z

更新日期：2003-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The fusion of myoblasts to myotubes requires an endogenous soluble metalloendoprotease. To determine whether this protease is released by fusing myoblasts, or stays within the cell, we examined the effects of membrane-impermeant and a membrane-permeant metalloendoprotease inhibitors. Membrane-permeant 1,10-phenanthrol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Farach HA Jr,Strittmatter WJ

更新日期：1987-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:By constructing a new type of thermal detector, rapid production of heat was demonstrated during the rising phase of the action potential of the eel electric organs evoked by direct electric stimulation. Following the indirect (synapse-mediated) action potential of the organs, the existence of very large and variable ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tasaki I,Byrne PM

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00