Type I collagen induces expression of bone morphogenetic protein receptor type II.

abstract：:The thioredoxin system is a key cellular antioxidant system and is highly expressed in cancer cells, especially in more aggressive and therapeutic resistant tumors. We analysed the expression of the thioredoxin system in the MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line under conditions mimicking the tumor oxygen microenvironmen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Karlenius TC,Shah F,Di Trapani G,Clarke FM,Tonissen KF

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide the first functional evidence that calcitonin gene-related peptide (8-37) induces a direct vasoconstriction and reversibly antagonizes vasodilation of the mesenteric arterial bed induced by calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) suggesting that CGRP (8-37) is a competitive antagonist of vascular CGRP recept...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Han SP,Naes L,Westfall TC

更新日期：1990-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin (Hb) isolated from the backswimmer Buenoa margaritacea has been analyzed spectroscopically. The met form at pH less than 6 shows a 30nm red shift in the Qv and Qo bands and a 5nm red shift in the Soret band compared to mammalian Hb, while only minor differences are seen in the spectra of the CO and O2 adduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Osmulski PA,Vossbrinck CR,Sampath V,Caughey WS,Debrunner PG

更新日期：1992-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Pervious biochemical and hemodynamic studies have highlighted the important role of εPKC in cardioprotection during ischemic preconditioning. However, little is known about the electrophysiological consequences of εPKC modulation in ischemic hearts. Membrane permeable peptide εPKC selective activator and inh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Restivo M,Kozhevnikov DO,Qu YS,Yue Y,Mochly-Rosen D,El-Sherif N,Boutjdir M

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction of the four Fe centers is not required to initiate the reaction of the Halomonas halodenitrificans nitric oxide reductase (NOR) based on the facts that NOR in the form that ferric heme b(3) and non-heme iron (Fe(B)) are not bridged and/or the interaction between them is weakened and reversibly binds NO molec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakurai T,Nakashima S,Kataoka K,Seo D,Sakurai N

更新日期：2005-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies sought to determine the intracellular mechanisms underlying muscarinic receptor stimulated phasic contractions of myometrial smooth muscle. Utilizing cytosolic calcium imaging studies with Fura-2 loaded muscle strips, along with in vitro isometric contraction studies, we have demonstrated that phasic myo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Phillippe M,Basa A

更新日期：1997-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of guanine nucleotides on activation of the O2-. generating oxidase in a cell free system consisting of bovine neutrophils membranes, cytosol and arachidonic acid has been studied. In a complete system, GTP-gamma-S was stimulatory and GDP-beta-S inhibitory. When cytosol was omitted, both nucleotides acted a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Doussiere J,Pilloud MC,Vignais PV

更新日期：1988-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:MutT-related proteins degrade 8-oxo-7,8-dihydrodeoxyguanosine triphosphate (8-oxo-dGTP), a mutagenic substrate for DNA synthesis, in the nucleotide pool, thereby preventing DNA replication errors. During a search of GenBank EST database, we found a new member of MutT-related protein, MTH2, which possesses the 23-amino...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cai JP,Ishibashi T,Takagi Y,Hayakawa H,Sekiguchi M

更新日期：2003-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropilin-1 (NRP-1) is involved in angiogenesis, but the role of NRP-1 in megakaryocytopoiesis is not yet fully understood. In this study, we investigated whether thrombopoietin (TPO) regulates the expression of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and its receptors (PDGFRs) on TPO-dependent UT-7/TPO cells and wheth...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohsaka A,Hirota-Komatsu S,Araki M,Komatsu N

更新日期：2015-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:p47-phox is one of the cytosolic activation factors of NADPH oxidase in neutrophils and known to translocate to plasma membranes and function by protein kinase C-phosphorylation. In cytosol fraction, prepared from calyculin A-treated neutrophils, the activity of cytosolic factor to activate NADPH oxidase was more redu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamaguchi M,Saeki S,Yamane H,Okamura N,Ishibashi S

更新日期：1995-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the coupling of human alpha(1A)-, alpha(1B)-, and alpha(1D)-adrenoceptors (expressed at approximately 2000 fmol/mg protein in Chinese hamster ovary cells) to cellular growth promotion (as assessed by [(3)H]thymidine incorporation) and related signaling mechanisms. Maximum elevation of intracellular Ca...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keffel S,Alexandrov A,Goepel M,Michel MC

更新日期：2000-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho family proteins are constitutively activated in the highly invasive human fibrosarcoma HT1080 cells. We now investigated the specific roles of Rac1 and Rac2 in regulating morphology, F-actin organization, adhesion, migration, and chemotaxis of HT1080 cells. Downregulation of Rac1 using specific siRNA probes result...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Niggli V,Schlicht D,Affentranger S

更新日期：2009-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicastrin is a recently discovered protein interacting with presenilins and the beta-amyloid precursor protein, the proteins playing key roles in Alzheimer's disease and which, when mutated, appear responsible for early-onset familial forms of Alzheimer's disease. Nicastrin was reported to modulate beta-amyloid produc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fergani A,Yu G,St George-Hyslop P,Checler F

更新日期：2001-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of phospholipase C inhibitors to inhibit Ca2+ channel stimulation and Ca2+ release from intracellular stores evoked by norepinephrine in single rat portal vein myocytes was investigated in the aim of identifying the type of phospholipase C involved in the transduction pathways activated by alpha 1A- and al...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Macrez-Leprêtre N,Morel JL,Mironneau J

更新日期：1996-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the possible pathological relation between mechanical stress and hyperpigmentation. We did this by investigating the influence of cyclic stretch on the expression of keratinocyte- and fibroblast-derived melanogenetic paracrine cytokines in vitro. Using primary human keratinocyt...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurita M,Okazaki M,Fujino T,Takushima A,Harii K

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamin increases and tropomyosin decreases the susceptibility of F-actin to form bundles of filaments in the presence of polyethylene glycol 6000. The two proteins, which are located in the leading edge and in the internal part of the cell, respectively, are thus likely to display divergent effects on the microfilame...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Grazi E,Trombetta G,Guidoboni M

更新日期：1990-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of polyamine analogs has been examined for their ability to support protein synthesis in an in vitro rabbit reticulocyte translation system. Diamines were found to stimulate protein synthesis to the greatest extent (8-12 fold). Triamines, tetraamines and pentaamines only stimulated 2-4 fold under these condit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Snyder RD,Edwards ML

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A microbial secondary metabolite, arisostatins A (As-A), was originally discovered as a substance carrying the antibiotic activity against Gram-positive bacteria and shown to possess potent anti-tumor properties. The mechanism by which arisostatins A initiates apoptosis remains poorly understood. In the present report...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YH,Shin HC,Song DW,Lee SH,Furumai T,Park JW,Kwon TK

更新日期：2003-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its utility, dipeptides have not been widely used due to the absence of an efficient manufacturing method. Recently, a novel method for effective production of dipeptides using l-amino acid alpha-ligase (Lal) is presented. Lal, which is only identified in Bacillus subtilis, catalyzes dipeptide synthesis from u...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kino K,Nakazawa Y,Yagasaki M

更新日期：2008-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term glyburide therapy has been reported to improve glucose-induced insulin secretion in patients with NIDDM. We examined the effects of glyburide on the synthesis and release of insulin and insulin gene expression in isolated islets in vitro. Incubation with glyburide (500 ng/ml) significantly increased insulin ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamato E,Ikegami H,Tahara Y,Fukuda M,Cha T,Kawaguchi Y,Fujioka Y,Noma Y,Shima K,Ogihara T

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Myofibrillogenesis regulator-1(MR-1) can aggravate cardiac hypertrophy induced by angiotensin(Ang) II in mice through activation of NF-kappaB signaling pathway, and nuclear transcription factor (NF)-kappaB and activator protein-1(AP-1) regulate inflammatory and immune responses by increasing the expression of specific...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dai W,Chen H,Jiang J,Kong W,Wang Y

更新日期：2010-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) catalyzes the rate-limiting step in the generation of prostanoids, and is thus one of the key players in the inflammatory process. Contrary to the constitutively expressed isoform COX-1, the expression of COX-2 is rapidly and transiently upregulated following pathological stimuli but little is...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Brender S,Barki-Harrington L

更新日期：2014-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:CD40-stimulated human B lymphocytes are highly permissive to a productive infection by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1. In these cells, nuclear factors involved in activation of the HIV-1 LTR, which contains the transcriptional control elements of the virus, are unknown. Transient expression assays with plasmi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lapointe R,Lemieux R,Darveau A

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:T-type Ca(2+) channels have been implicated in tremorogenesis and motor coordination. The α1 subunit of the Ca(V)3.1 T-type Ca(2+) channel is highly expressed in motor pathways in the brain, but knockout of the Ca(V)3.1 gene (α(1G)(-/-)) per se causes no motor defects in mice. Thus, the role of Ca(V)3.1 channels in mo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chang KY,Park YG,Park HY,Homanics GE,Kim J,Kim D

更新日期：2011-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of smooth muscle contraction was approached by a novel method, covalent 14C-labeling. Intra- and intermolecular protein interactions during contractile activity are reflected by changed reactivity of protein side chains; these can be detected by reagents which readily permeate through the muscl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bárány K,Polyák E,Bárány M

更新日期：1992-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome b5 has been shown to stimulate, inhibit or have no effect on catalysis by P450 cytochromes. Its action is known to depend on the isozyme of cytochrome P450, the substrate, and experimental conditions. Cytochrome P450 2B4 (CYP 2B4) has been used in our laboratory as a model isozyme to study the role of cytoc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang H,Myshkin E,Waskell L

更新日期：2005-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Hedgehog (Hh) signaling plays key roles in animal development and tissue homeostasis. Binding of the secreted ligand to its Ptch1 receptor triggers Hh signaling through distinct canonical or noncanonical signaling pathways. Canonical Hh signaling leads to the activation of Gli transcription factors to induce Hh target...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee H,Ko HW

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin-associated high mobility group (HMG) proteins of the HMGB family are versatile architectural factors assisting various DNA-dependent processes such as transcription and recombination. Here, transgenic tobacco lines were generated that ectopically express the maize HMGB1 protein, as detected by immunoblot ana...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lichota J,Ritt C,Grasser KD

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of the cells of the 311 cell line, a pluripotent mouse teratocarcinoma cell line, with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) modulates c-mos expression. Transient suppression of 6.1 and 4.6 kilobases (kb) transcripts and activation of 1.8 transcript indicate that TPA mediates concurrently positive and n...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ogiso Y,Kitagawa K,Nishino H,Iwashima A

更新日期：1988-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and sequenced a cDNA encoding the human luteinizing hormone--choriogonadotropin (LH/hCG) receptor. The deduced amino acid sequence (699 residues) containing seven putative transmembrane segments displays sequence similarity to G protein-coupled receptors. The receptor consists of 335 residue extracell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Minegishi T,Nakamura K,Takakura Y,Miyamoto K,Hasegawa Y,Ibuki Y,Igarashi M,Minegish T corrected to Minegishi T

更新日期：1990-11-15 00:00:00