Wild-type and mutated nicastrins do not display aminopeptidase M- and B-like activities.

abstract：:Streptokinase (SK), an extracellular protein of several haemolytic strains of Streptococcus, is utilized as a potent thrombolytic agent for the treatment of various myocardial disorders. Functional properties of SK remain unchanged when the first 13 N-terminal amino acid (aa) residues are removed. At present, role of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pratap J,Kaur J,RajaMohan G,Singh D,Dikshit KL

更新日期：1996-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton release from HeLa cells is stimulated by external oxidants for the transplasmalemma electron transport enzymes. These oxidants, such as ferricyanide and diferric transferrin, also stimulate cell growth. We now present evidence that proton release associated with the reduction of ferricyanide and diferric transf...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sun IL,Garcia-Cañero R,Liu W,Toole-Simms W,Crane FL,Morré DJ,Löw H

更新日期：1987-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipooligosaccharide (LOS) of Moraxella catarrhalis is unusual in that it lacks heptose. The sugar linking oligosaccharide to Lipid A is a trisubstituted glucose. A single enzyme, Lgt3, is suggested to trisubstitute this core sugar. The lgt3 gene encodes two distinct domains with high similarity to glucosyltransfer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Faglin I,Tiralongo J,Wilson JC,Collins PM,Peak IR

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fe-NTA is a known renal carcinogen. However, little is known about its carcinogenic potential in liver. In this study we for the first time show that Fe-NTA is a potent hepatic tumor promoter. Fe-NTA administration induced dose dependently the hepatic ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity several folds as compared to...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iqbal M,Giri U,Athar M

更新日期：1995-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings have shown that SLIT2 appears to function as a novel tumor suppressor gene. In addition, hypermethylation of its promoter region has been detected in various cancers, including breast and lung cancer, colorectal carcinoma, and gliomas. Here, we report for the first time that there is epigenetic silenci...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jin J,You H,Yu B,Deng Y,Tang N,Yao G,Shu H,Yang S,Qin W

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison between gel electrophoresis migrations of oligo-alpha-thymidylates and oligo-beta-thymidylates indicates that the migration of alpha-oligonucleotides under native conditions is different from the migration of beta-oligonucleotides when the number of thymines, part of the sequence, is higher than 5. Such dif...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bertrand JR,Bazile D,Malvy C,Paoletti J

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Jun N-terminal Kinases (JNKs) play important roles in cell responses to stress or growth factor stimulation. The JNK1α1 isoform shares >90% identity with a predominantly neuronal JNK3α1 isoform, but JNK3α1 also includes a distinctive 38 amino acid N-terminal sequence. To address the outstanding question of the p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen WK,Yeap YY,Bogoyevitch MA

更新日期：2014-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease B has become a paradigm as a simple example of an N-linked glycoprotein. We have found that certain affinity-purified preparations of this enzyme demonstrated a pronounced tendency to lose activity if stored as dilute aqueous solutions. Such inactivation is accelerated by the presence of NaCl, but can be ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Williams GA,MacEvilly U,Ryan R,Harrington MG

更新日期：1995-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Borate/boric acid solutions have distinctive effects on the absorption and fluorescence emission spectra of dityrosine. In the presence of excess borate/boric acid, the fluorescence emission maximum of the singly ionized dityrosine chromophore shifts from 407 nm (quantum yield = 0.80) to 374 nm (quantum yield = 0.14)....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Malencik DA,Anderson SR

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2) D(3)] exerts its biological effects by binding to the vitamin D receptor (VDR), which binds in turn to the vitamin D response elements located in the target gene's promoter. We have previously demonstrated that VDR binds in vitro with high affinity to the 5'-flanking sequence of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Seoane S,Alonso M,Segura C,Pérez-Fernández R

更新日期：2002-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Ca2+ plays an important role in a variety of second messenger cascades. The function of Ca2+ is mediated, in part, by Ca2+-binding proteins such as calmodulin, calretinin, calbindin, neurocalcin, recoverin, and visinin-like proteins (VILIPs). These proteins are highly expressed in rat olfactory receptor ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mammen A,Simpson PJ,Nighorn A,Imanishi Y,Palczewski K,Ronnett GV,Moon C

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skinned muscle fibers prepared from fetal rabbit heart (28 days of gestation) showed a marked resistance to acidic pH in the Ca(2+) regulation of force generation, compared to the fibers prepared from adult heart. SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analysis showed that the slow skeletal troponin I was predominantly expressed in ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Morimoto S,Goto T

更新日期：2000-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:While chemotherapy is an important and widely used therapeutic for cancer, it may facilitate cancer metastasis. Herein, we report that human lung cancer cells exert higher invasion and metastasis after chemotherapy. In a human lung cancer xenograft model, chemotherapy promotes the cancer invasion and metastasis in HMG...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang K,Shan S,Wang S,Gu X,Zhou X,Ren T

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate pathophysiological roles of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in collagen remodeling in pulmonary hypertension, we measured: (a) mRNA expression, concentration, localization of ET-1; (b) changes in types and content of collagen in the lung; (c) and confirmed direct effects of ET-1 on type V collagen metabolism in vas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mansoor AM,Honda M,Saida K,Ishinaga Y,Kuramochi T,Maeda A,Takabatake T,Mitsui Y

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The 15-kDa selenoprotein (Sep15) has been implicated in etiology of some types of cancer. Herein, inducible RNAi cell lines were established and cell morphology and motility were analyzed. The majority of Sep15-deficient cells (>95%) formed membrane blebs in a dynamic manner. Blebbing cells transformed cell morphology...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bang J,Jang M,Huh JH,Na JW,Shim M,Carlson BA,Tobe R,Tsuji PA,Gladyshev VN,Hatfield DL,Lee BJ

更新日期：2015-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effects of staurosporine (STP), an inhibitor of PKC, on the expression of the HSP70 gene in human colon carcinoma HT-29 cells. Cells were heated at 45 degrees C for 15 min and incubated at 37 degrees C for up to 6 hr with or without STP. When STP (5 micrograms/ml) was added during 37 degrees C...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Erdos G,Lee YJ

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The newly identified drug transporter MRP is functionally linked to a multiple drug resistance independent from P-glycoprotein. Resistance modifiers for this type of MDR are rare at present. We analyzed the modulating effect of the highly selective bisindolylmaleimide PKC inhibitor GF 109203X on the MRP overexpressing...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gekeler V,Boer R,Ise W,Sanders KH,Schächtele C,Beck J

更新日期：1995-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing antimicrobial drug resistance is a global threat especially with respect to Gram-negative bacteria. The low permeability of the bacterial outer cell wall has been identified as an important bottleneck that prevents a sufficient antibacterial effect to be achieved at low doses of the antibiotics. In particul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Citak F,Ghai I,Rosenkötter F,Benier L,Winterhalter M,Wagner R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic flagellated bacterium that infects the gastroduodenal mucosa and causes peptic ulcers in humans. FliD caps the distal end of the flagellar filament and is essential in filament growth. Moreover, FliD has been studied to diagnose and prevent H. pylori infection. Here, we report struc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cho SY,Song WS,Oh HB,Kim HU,Jung HS,Yoon SI

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac differentiation involves a cascade of coordinated gene expression that regulates cell proliferation and matrix protein formation in a defined temporal-spatial manner. The C(2)H(2) zinc finger-containing transcription factors have been implicated as critical regulators of multiple cardiac-expressed genes and ar...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li Y,Wang Y,Zhang C,Yuan W,Wang J,Zhu C,Chen L,Huang W,Zeng W,Wu X,Liu M

更新日期：2004-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that applying exogenous photosensitizers in living organism the photodynamic effect is mediated by singlet oxygen formed by energy transfer from excited sensitizer to oxygen present in the cells (Type II mechanism). Though in homogeneous solutions singlet oxygen was detected during sensitization,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gál D

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancers are resistant to TNF-alpha-mediated apoptosis. Silencer of death domains (SODD) binds to TNF-alpha receptor TNFR-1, and prevents spontaneous self-association of death domains and inappropriate receptor signaling. In addition, overexpression of SODD suppresses TNF-alpha-induced cell death. In this re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ozawa F,Friess H,Zimmermann A,Kleeff J,Büchler MW

更新日期：2000-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the intermediate filament composition of rat kidney proximal tubule cells in culture have been investigated. The data suggest that differentiated tubular epithelial cells do not express vimentin, but vimentin expression is induced when the cells begin to proliferate in culture. The cultured cells are positi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hatzinger PB,Chen Q,Dong LQ,Stevens JL

更新日期：1988-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:When treated with T3, P19 cells differentiate into ultrastructurally proven cardiac myocytes and express the cardiac ventricular specific marker ventricular myosin light chain 2V. This differentiation is irreversibly induced in culture during the first 48 hrs of exposure to T3. We studied the binding of P19-indigenous...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rodriguez ER,Tan CD,Onwuta US,Parrillo JE

更新日期：1994-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:ZinT (B1973), previously known as YodA, was originally characterised as a cadmium-induced periplasmic protein under the regulation of Fur and SoxS. Here we describe a decrease in zinT transcript in response to elevated copper concentrations and the zinc and copper dependent phenotype of a DeltazinT strain. Cadmium sen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kershaw CJ,Brown NL,Hobman JL

更新日期：2007-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The marked impairment of hepatic drug metabolism during inflammation and infections has been known for many years and shown to result from down-regulation of cytochrome P450s (CYP) by cytokines. However, the mechanism of this repression is unknown. Using primary cultures of human hepatocytes, we show here that interle...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pascussi JM,Gerbal-Chaloin S,Pichard-Garcia L,Daujat M,Fabre JM,Maurel P,Vilarem MJ

更新日期：2000-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (hUC-MSCs) in vitro expansion for long term may undergo epigenetic and genetic alterations that subsequently induce cellular senescence and associated growth inhibition. Increasing evidence implicated that aberrant histone acetylation modulates gene expression res...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li Y,Zhong H,Wu M,Tan B,Zhao L,Yi Q,Xu X,Pan H,Bi Y,Yang K

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed heteroplasmy of mitochondrial DNA in clonal cultures from two patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome, and have found that individual muscle or fibroblast clones contained either a mixed (i.e. heteroplasmic) population of normal and deleted mitochondrial DNAs, or only normal mitochondrial DNAs (i.e. homop...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moraes CT,Schon EA,DiMauro S,Miranda AF

更新日期：1989-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Th2 cell differentiation is critically influenced by transcription factor GATA-3 and by various cis-acting elements including enhancers, silencers and a locus control region (LCR) in the Th2 cytokine locus. Th2 LCR-deficient Th2 cells completely lost the expression of GATA-3 and the phosphorylation of STAT6. Histone 3...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hwang SS,Kim K,Lee GR

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hammerhead ribozymes may be of great therapeutic importance, since they can, in theory, be developed to cleave any undesired target RNA. In order to design ribozymes which are stable against endogenous RNases, we incorporated 2'-acetamido-2'-deoxynucleosides in the catalytic core of a hammerhead ribozyme. The 2'-aceta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hendrix C,Mahieu M,Anné J,Van Calenbergh S,Van Aerschot A,Content J,Herdewijn P

更新日期：1995-05-05 00:00:00