Identification of mNET1 as a candidate ligand for the first PDZ domain of MAGI-1.

abstract：:Human skin fibroblasts incubated in lipoprotein-deficient medium in the presence of 50-100 microM of the calcium channel blockers verapamil or diltiazem incorporated up to 2.5 times more [35S]methionine into immunoprecipitable LDL receptor protein than did control cells. Verapamil was found to be more potent in this r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Filipovic I,Buddecke E

更新日期：1986-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lymphocyte growth response to mitogen was examined in vitro under different conditions to monitor aspects of carbohydrate utilization in three groups: obese nondiabetic, obese/NIDDM, and normal-weight individuals. Although lymphocyte growth capacity in minimal medium for these three groups was found to be simila...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tu KY,Matthews R,Topek NH,Matthews KS

更新日期：1994-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorogenic substrates for endopeptidases are often prepared by attaching fluorophores and quenchers to opposite ends of the peptide substrates. Here, we describe a new approach by incorporating tryptophan and p-nitrophenylalanine into peptides to give fluorogenic substrates composed entirely of alpha-amino acids. Two...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang W,Liang TC

更新日期：1994-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycated insulin was evaluated in plasma and biological tissues of diabetic animal models by immunocytochemistry (ICC) and a novel radioimmunoassay. Glycated insulin circulated at 0.10 +/- 0.04 ng/ml and 2.20 +/- 0.14 ng/ml in lean and diabetic obese (ob/ob) mice, corresponding to 12.5 and 9.8% total plasma insulin, r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McKillop AM,Mooney MH,Harriott P,Flatt PR,O'Harte FP

更新日期：2001-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin (TRX) is one of major components of thiol reducing systems. To investigate the molecular mechanism of TRX function in the lung tissue, we screened a human lung epithelial cell cDNA library for TRX-binding protein by yeast two-hybrid systems. We isolated a plasmid containing C-propeptide region of human pro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsumoto K,Masutani H,Nishiyama A,Hashimoto S,Gon Y,Horie T,Yodoi J

更新日期：2002-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin is phosphorylated by casein kinase II on Thr-79, Ser-81, Ser-101 and Thr-117. To determine the consensus sequences for casein kinase II in intact calmodulin, we examined casein kinase II-mediated phosphorylation of engineered calmodulins with 1-4 deletions in the central helical region (positions 81-84). To...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sacks DB,Davis HW,Crimmins DL,Persechini A,McDonald JM

更新日期：1992-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient receptor potential canonical (TRPC) family contains a non-selective cation channel, and four TRPC subunits form a functional tetrameric channel. TRPC4/5 channels form not only the homotetrameric channel but also a heterotetrameric channel with TRPC1. We investigated the interaction domain required for TRPC1/...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Myeong J,Ko J,Hong C,Yang D,Lee KP,Jeon JH,So I

更新日期：2016-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Transforming Growth Factor-beta (TGF beta) family of polypeptides elicits diverse biological actions on a wide range of cell types. There are known to be several isoforms of TGF beta coded for by different genes, with possibly differential expression and potencies. We have demonstrated that there is constitutive e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Frazer A,Seid JM,Hart KA,Bentley H,Bunning RA,Russell RG

更新日期：1991-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of platelet rich plasma (PRP) at pH 5 results in the precipitation of a protein kinase system. The protein kinase is associated with the platelet fraction and is capable of phosphorylation of several plasma proteins. Analysis of the 32P-labeled phosphoproteins by two dimensional gel electrophoresis showed th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Galabru J,Krust B,Hovanessian AG

更新日期：1983-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Restenosis after angioplasty is thought to be caused by proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), and it is a most serious problem in medical treatment. A low dose (50 ng/ml) of manumycin A, an inhibitor of p21(ras) (ras) farnesylation, significantly inhibited proliferation of rat VSMCs stim...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kouchi H,Nakamura K,Fushimi K,Sakaguchi M,Miyazaki M,Ohe T,Namba M

更新日期：1999-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue is an endocrine organ that produces and secretes adipokines. The aim of this study was to identify genes predominantly expressed in human subcutaneous adipocytes. For this purpose, an algorithm was developed and DNA microarray expression profiles from 33 human tissues and cell types were used to select ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sjöholm K,Palming J,Lystig TC,Jennische E,Woodruff TK,Carlsson B,Carlsson LM

更新日期：2006-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Many amplified-chromosome regions in human cancers have been identified, while there are only a limited number of reports for amplified genes in a single amplicon. We recently isolated four cDNA clones, A39, B47, C51, and CAB1, from 500 kilobases of yeast artificial chromosome DNA containing the c-ERBB-2 gene. B47 con...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kishi T,Sasaki H,Akiyama N,Ishizuka T,Sakamoto H,Aizawa S,Sugimura T,Terada M

更新日期：1997-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbachol stimulated inositol trisphosphate (IP3) production and subsequent calcium mobilization in parotid cells are almost completely inhibited by neomycin. In contrast epinephrine stimulated IP3 production and calcium mobilization are much less sensitive to such inhibition. Since neomycin exerts its effects primari...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kowatch MA,Roth GS

更新日期：1989-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly translated proteins must undergo proper folding to ensure their function. To enter a low energy state, misfolded proteins form aggregates, which are associated with many degenerative diseases, such as Huntington's disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Recent studies have shown the use of low molecular weight...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Upagupta C,Carlisle RE,Dickhout JG

更新日期：2017-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenovirus DNA synthesis carried out in vitro was inhibited by the aphidicolin. However, 30% of the DNA synthesis was resistant to aphidicolin even at a concentration of 200 micrograms/ml. When the distribution patterns of the radioactivity of the products synthesized in the presence of 50 micrograms/ml of the drug wa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ariga H

更新日期：1983-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we examined the functions of the female hormone "estrogen" on spermatogenesis of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica). Estradiol-17beta (E(2)), a natural estrogen in vertebrates, was present in the serum and its receptor was expressed in the testis during the whole process of spermatogenesis. Spermatogon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miura T,Miura C,Ohta T,Nader MR,Todo T,Yamauchi K

更新日期：1999-10-14 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：:It is controversial whether osteopontin (OP) is expressed in glomeruli and involved in glomerular diseases. We examined whether the OP expression is present at gene and protein levels in cultured rat mesangial cells (MCs). Northern blotting revealed a 1.7 kb OP-mRNA expression in MCs. Fetal calf serum (FCS) and TNF-al...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagasaki T,Ishimura E,Shioi A,Jono S,Inaba M,Nishizawa Y,Morii H,Otani S

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified from beef liver an enzyme which decarbamoylates carbamoyl-hemoglobin and to a much lesser extent carbamoyl histones. Carbamoyl casein was a poor substrate while carbamoyl trypsin, fibrinogen and ovoalbumin were not affected. The optimal pH is 7.4. Addition of Mg++, Mn++ or Ca++ was without effect. On ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Costell M,Grisolía S

更新日期：1985-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH-rubredoxin oxidoreductase (NROR), a flavoprotein from the obligately anaerobe Clostridium acetobutylicum is encoded by an ORF (nror) of 1140 nucleotides. Whereas primary structure analysis reveals that NROR has amino acid sequence patterns homologous with those involved in FAD and NAD-binding, the enzyme is dista...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guedon E,Petitdemange H

更新日期：2001-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Augmenter of liver regeneration (ALR) is known to support liver regeneration and to stimulate proliferation of hepatocytes. However, it is not known if ALR exerts anti-apoptotic effects in human hepatocytes and whether this protective effect is cell type specific. This is relevant, because compounds that protect the l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ilowski M,Kleespies A,de Toni EN,Donabauer B,Jauch KW,Hengstler JG,Thasler WE

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:An endopeptidase capable of metabolizing a number of neuropeptides and generating [Met5] and [Leu5] enkephalin from enkephalin-containing peptides is secreted by glioma C6 cells. This neutral endopeptidase that is likely to be a thiol protease, has a Mr of 71KDa and is effective only towards oligopeptides. Its specifi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ferro ES,Tambourgi DV,Gobersztejn F,Gomes MD,Sucupira M,Armelin MC,Kipnis TL,Camargo AC

更新日期：1993-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The death of cardiomyocytes after myocardial infarction (MI) often leads to ventricular remodeling as well as heart failure (HF). The cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) have the ability to regenerate functional heart muscle in patients after MI, which provides a promising method for MI-induced HF therapy. However, to dat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li L,Wang Q,Yuan Z,Chen A,Liu Z,Wang Z,Li H

更新日期：2018-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effect of PARP gene inactivation on the expression of wild-type (wt) p53 protein. Using immortalized fibroblasts from control and PARP knock-out mice we have found by immunoblotting with the PAb421 antibody a profound decrease of the p53 expression to a barely detectable level in PARP knock-ou...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schmid G,Wang ZQ,Wesierska-Gadek J

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepiapterin reductase (SPR) is an enzyme that acts in the third and final step of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) biosynthesis. The human Spr gene locates within the region of 2.5MB mapped to PARK3, an autosomal dominant form of familial Parkinson's diseases. In order to explore the role of SPR in the metabolism of BH4, we ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takazawa C,Fujimoto K,Homma D,Sumi-Ichinose C,Nomura T,Ichinose H,Katoh S

更新日期：2008-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Most studies characterizing H-ras have been conducted in constitutively expressing cell lines. To explore the early interaction between H-ras p21 and signal transduction systems we have utilized an NIH3T3 fibroblast line transfected with a steroid inducible MMTV H-ras vector. Exposure to dexamethasone resulted in tran...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Murphy SK,Lindberg JB,Prussack DA

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The acyclic nucleotide analogue (S)-9-(3-hydroxy-2-phosphonylmethoxypropyl)adenine [(S)-HPMPA] is a potent and selective inhibitor of African swine fever virus (ASFV) replication. Using the DNA-DNA hybridization technique with plasmid pRPEL-2 as probe, we have shown that (S)-HPMPA exerts a specific, dose-dependent, in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arzuza O,García-Villalón D,Tabarés E,Gil-Fernández C,De Clercq E

更新日期：1988-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterolactone, a lignan that has been identified in biological samples from man and several mammals, shares with ascorbic acid and cardiac glycosides a gamma-butyrolactone. It displaces 3H-ouabain from its binding sites on cardiac digitalis receptor and inhibits, dose dependently, the Na+, K+-ATPase activity of human ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fagoo M,Braquet P,Robin JP,Esanu A,Godfraind T

更新日期：1986-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:DJ-1, a product of the DJ-1/PARK7 gene, has been suggested to play various functions involved in transcriptional regulation, protease activity, anti-oxidative stress activity, and regulation of mitochondrial complex I. Such a variety of functions of DJ-1 are supposed to be realized through interactions with different ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yasuda T,Kaji Y,Agatsuma T,Niki T,Arisawa M,Shuto S,Ariga H,Iguchi-Ariga SM

更新日期：2013-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioactive photoaffinity probe for the insulin receptor was prepared by derivatizing insulin at its B29 lysine with a novel crosslinking reagent having a cleavable azo linkage. Insulin receptors purified from human placental membranes were photoaffinity labeled with this probe. The photolabeled receptor was treated...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ng DS,Yip CC

更新日期：1985-11-27 00:00:00