Quantitative trait loci for body weight, blood pressure, blood glucose, and serum lipids: linkage analysis with wild rats (Rattus norvegicus).

abstract：:CMP-Kdn synthetase catalyses the reaction of sialic acids (Sia) and cytidine-5'-triphosphate (CTP) to the corresponding activated sugar nucleotide CMP-Sia and pyrophosphate PP(i). STD NMR experiments of a recombinant nucleotide cytidine-5'-monophosphate-3-deoxy-d-glycero-d-galacto-nonulosonic acid synthetase (CMP-Kdn ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Haselhorst T,Münster-Kühnel AK,Stolz A,Oschlies M,Tiralongo J,Kitajima K,Gerardy-Schahn R,von Itzstein M

更新日期：2005-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A great challenge for gene therapy is to develop a high efficient gene delivery system with low toxicity. Nonviral vectors are still attractive although the current agents displayed some disadvantages (i.e., low transfection efficiency, high toxicity). To overcome the high toxicity of poly(ethylene imine) (PEI) and lo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liang B,He ML,Xiao ZP,Li Y,Chan CY,Kung HF,Shuai XT,Peng Y

更新日期：2008-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified bovine adrenal P-45011 beta has been shown to catalyze conversions of cortisol to cortisone (11-oxidase activity), and 19-hydroxyandrostenedione to 19-oxoandrostenedione (19-oxidase activity), in the reconstituted system consisting of NADPH, NADPH:adrenodoxin reductase, and adrenodoxin. The turnover numbers (...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suhara K,Takeda K,Katagiri M

更新日期：1986-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A complementary DNA library prepared from the 12S polyadenylated RNAs extracted from interferon-induced KG-1 cells, a human myeloblast cell line, was screened for the presence of induction-specific sequences. Clones that exhibited strong positive signals were separated by hybridization criteria into nine classes. Clon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsuzuki T,Nomiyama H,Setoyama C,Maeda S,Shimada K,Pestka S

更新日期：1983-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-binding DNA-regions inside and in the vicinity of the phenobarbital-inducible P450bm-3 gene from Bacillus megaterium were characterized by gel-retardation technique and foot-printing analysis. Regions with induction-dependent protein binding capacity were shown to be situated in -279bp/-215bp, -215bp/+83bp and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gaidamakova EK,Karginov VA,Kovalenko SP

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of ovine prolactin resulted in a rapid and significant induction of plasminogen activator activity within two hours in the rat adrenal gland, heart, aorta and liver. Prolactin exposure reduced baseline proteolytic activity in lung and skeletal muscle at 6-8 hours following hormonal challenge. This was c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Buckley AR,Putnam CW,Russell DH

更新日期：1984-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years a variety of recombinant methods have been developed for efficient production of bispecific antibodies (BsAb) in various formats. Bispecific diabody (bDAb), a 55-60 kDa molecule comprising two non-covalently associated cross-over single chain Fv (scFv) polypeptides, represents one of the most promising...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu D,Jimenez X,Witte L,Zhu Z

更新日期：2004-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Profilin is a small actin-binding protein and is expressed at high levels in mature pollen where it is thought to regulate actin filament dynamics upon pollen germination and tube growth. The majority of identified plant profilins contain a MAP kinase phosphorylation motif, P-X-T-P, and a MAP kinase interaction motif ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Limmongkon A,Giuliani C,Valenta R,Mittermann I,Heberle-Bors E,Wilson C

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the functional and structural characterization of trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (TPP), from the Gram-negative bacterium B. pseudomallei that causes melioidosis, a severe infectious disease endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. TPP is a key enzyme in the trehalose biosynthesis pathway, which p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suthisawat S,Gourlay LJ,Bolognesi M,Boonyuen U,Vanaporn M

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic glucokinase is induced by insulin and repressed by glucagon. The effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on glucokinase expression were investigated in rat hepatocytes. EGF does not affect the decline in glucokinase activity in hepatocytes cultured for 48h in the absence of insulin, but it counteracts the inc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Beresford GW,Agius L

更新日期：1994-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaspin, an adipocytokine recently identified in a rat model of type 2 diabetes, has been suggested to have an insulin-sensitizing effect. However, the exact mechanism underlying this action has not been fully elucidated. Furthermore, the specific function of vaspin is largely unknown, especially in vascular cells. We ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jung CH,Lee WJ,Hwang JY,Seol SM,Kim YM,Lee YL,Park JY

更新日期：2011-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine receptor CCR5 is constitutively associated with the T cell co-receptor CD4 in plasma cell membranes. The CD4-CCR5 complex exhibits distinct binding properties for macrophage inflammatory protein 1beta (MIP-1beta) and enhanced G-protein signaling as compared with those of CCR5 alone. Here we report that r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang X,Staudinger R

更新日期：2003-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Although brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a novel natriuretic peptide originally identified in porcine brain, recent investigation has verified the presence of BNP in porcine heart. In order to identify BNP as a circulating hormone, we analyzed the regional distribution and molecular form of immunoreactive (ir-) BNP...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aburaya M,Minamino N,Kangawa K,Tanaka K,Matsuo H

更新日期：1989-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:REG (Regenerating gene) Ialpha protein functions as a growth factor for gastrointestinal cancer cells, and its mRNA expression is strongly associated with a poor prognosis in gastrointestinal cancer patients. We here demonstrated that PPARgamma-agonist thiazolidinediones (TZDs) inhibited cell proliferation and REG Ial...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamauchi A,Takahashi I,Takasawa S,Nata K,Noguchi N,Ikeda T,Yoshikawa T,Shervani NJ,Suzuki I,Uruno A,Unno M,Okamoto H,Sugawara A

更新日期：2009-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-like coronavirus (SL-CoV) in bats have a similar genomic organization to the human SARS-CoV. Their cognate gene products are highly conserved with the exception of the N-terminal region of the S proteins, which have only 63-64% sequence identity. The N-terminal region of coronavirus S protein is responsible for v...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou P,Han Z,Wang LF,Shi Z

更新日期：2009-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Aplastic anemia (AA) is a serious blood system disease that threatens human health. At present, the main cause of this disease is believed to be immune hyperfunction. However, the specific metabolic mode involved in the occurrence of lymphocytes in AA is still unknown. In addition, whether rapamycin, a specific blocke...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu SL,Zhou YM,Tang DB,Zhou N,Zheng WW,Tang ZH,Duan CW,Chen J

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Micromolar concentrations of glucocorticoids rendered L-M cells (a murine tumorigenic fibroblast line) less sensitive to the cytotoxic activity of murine TNF. The potency of different steroids paralleled their known anti-inflammatory potency, and pretreatment was more effective than post treatment. Sex steroids and mi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kull FC Jr

更新日期：1988-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly reactive electrophile, methylglyoxal (MG), a break down product of carbohydrates, is a major environmental mutagen having potential genotoxic effects. Previous studies have suggested the reaction of MG with free amino groups of proteins forming advanced glycation end products (AGEs). This results in the gen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ahmad S,Moinuddin,Dixit K,Shahab U,Alam K,Ali A

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide biosynthesis within a neuron involves several steps occurring at the soma and during its travel to the nerve terminal, where it accumulates to be released under stimulatory conditions. We have measured hypothalamic TRH and TRH mRNA during ontogeny and circadian cycle and observed that TRH mRNA variations are m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Covarrubias L,Uribe RM,Méndez M,Charli JL,Joseph-Bravo P

更新日期：1988-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that MDM2 inhibits the transcriptional and pro-apoptotic activities of p73 but does not promote its proteasomal degradation. In this study, we found that MDM2 indirectly induces the degradation of p73 through the interaction with Itch in HeLa cells. During adriamycin (ADR)-mediated apoptosis, p53 and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kubo N,Okoshi R,Nakashima K,Shimozato O,Nakagawara A,Ozaki T

更新日期：2010-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sir proteins, namely Sir2, 3 and 4, have roles related to heterochromatin, but genome-wide studies have revealed their presence at many euchromatic loci, although the functional meaning of this is still not clear. Nhp6a is an abundant HMG-like protein in yeast, which has a role in transcription by modulating chrom...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ciuffetta A,Salerno D,Camilloni G,Venditti S

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA of a cystein peptidase inhibitor was isolated from sugarcane and expressed in Escherichia coli. The protein, named canecystatin, has previously been shown to exert antifungal activity on the filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei. Herein, the inhibitory specificity of canecystatin was further characterized. It...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oliva ML,Carmona AK,Andrade SS,Cotrin SS,Soares-Costa A,Henrique-Silva F

更新日期：2004-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate the target gene expression. A change in miR profile in the pancreatic islets during diabetes is known, and multiple studies have demonstrated that miRs influence the pancreatic β-cell function. The miR-204 is highly expressed in the β-cells and reported to regul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gaddam RR,Kim YR,Li Q,Jacobs JS,Gabani M,Mishra A,Promes JA,Imai Y,Irani K,Vikram A

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of human peripheral blood monocytes with oxidized (oxLDL), minimally modified low-density lipoprotein (mmLDL) or lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) for 24h was associated with macrophage-like differentiation, as assessed by morphology/CD14 expression. Suppression of these effects by staurosporin (STS) indicated t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Weber C,Erl W,Weber PC

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein130 (gp130) is an important signal transducer in the interleukin-6 (IL-6) trans-signaling pathway, which plays a crucial role in chronic inflammation in atherosclerosis. Studies suggest that estrogen can inhibit IL-6/gp130 signaling and reduce the risk of coronary artery disease, but the precise mechanism ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou M,Dai W,Cui Y,Li Y

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured human endothelial cells produce increased levels of PA-I when stimulated with IL-1. The stimulatory effect was elicited by both alpha (pI 5) and beta (pI 7) IL-1 molecules. The effect was both dose and time-dependent, plateau reached after 8 h. The PA-I measured in cell extracts was SDS-resistant with an appa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Grames M,Breviario F,Pintucci G,Millet I,Dejana E,van Damme J,Donati MB,Mussoni L

更新日期：1986-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytosis of secretory granules, including histamine, in rat basophilic leukemia (RBL-2H3) cells, which exhibit Ca(2+)-dependent secretion of granules when stimulated with antigen or Ca(2+)-ionophore (A23187), was observed under a video-enhanced light microscope. Exocytotic events of individual granules including fus...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ozawa K,Masujima T,Ikeda K,Kodama Y,Nonomura Y

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to find out whether C-terminally end-cleaved aquaporin 0 (AQP0), that is present predominantly in the lens mature fiber cells of the WT, functions as a water channel and a cell-to-cell adhesion (CTCA) protein in a knockin (KI) mouse model (AQP0ΔC/ΔC) that does not express intact A...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kumari SS,Varadaraj K

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a DNA polymerase species in Drosophila melanogaster embryos, and purified it. This polymerase shared some common properties with DNA polymerase epsilon from mammals and yeast as follows; it has a preference for poly(dA)/oligo(dT) as a template/primer, it is highly processive in DNA synthesis, it co-fract...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aoyagi N,Oshige M,Hirose F,Kuroda K,Matsukage A,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1997-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronan synthase 2 (HAS2) is an integral membrane protein composed of multi-membrane-spanning regions and a large intracellular loop (HAS2-loop). We previously examined the effect of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and/or 4-methylumbelliferone (4-MU) on the synthesis of hyaluronan (HA) in human skin fibroblas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kasai K,Kuroda Y,Takabuchi Y,Nitta A,Kobayashi T,Nozaka H,Miura T,Nakamura T

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00