3D model of human arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2: structural basis of the slow acetylator phenotype of the R64Q variant and analysis of the active-site loop.

abstract：:Because of the growing importance of the Retinoid X Receptors (RXR alpha, beta and gamma) in the retinoid acid signalling pathway, we have prepared polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies directed against these proteins. For this purpose, either the whole mouse RXR alpha protein expressed in E.Coli, or synthetic peptides...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rochette-Egly C,Lutz Y,Pfister V,Heyberger S,Scheuer I,Chambon P,Gaub MP

更新日期：1994-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) and genome editing technologies has opened up new avenues for the investigation of human biology in health and disease as well as the development of therapeutic applications. Gene editing approaches with programmable nucleases have been successfully established in ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Deleidi M,Yu C

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:BIK, a member of the Bcl-2 family, has been reported to induce cell apoptosis but the underlying mechanisms are not well delineated. We used siRNA targeting caspase-12 to examine the effect of caspase-12 on apoptosis induced by BIK. In this study, we show that caspase-12 was activated by BIK. With caspase-12 knocked d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao X,Sun Y,Yu H,Ye L,Zhang L,Lu J,Yuan Y,Qian G,Ge S

更新日期：2007-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium-sensing receptor (CaR) is a G protein-coupled receptor that plays key roles in extracellular calcium ion (Ca(2+)(o)) homeostasis by enabling parathyroid, kidney, and other cells to directly "sense" changes in Ca(2+)(o). In multiple myeloma-associated bone disease, myeloma cells could raise the level of Ca(...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamaguchi T,Yamauchi M,Sugimoto T,Chauhan D,Anderson KC,Brown EM,Chihara K

更新日期：2002-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of human adrenal capillary endothelial (HACE) cells without resort to fluorescence activated cell sorting is described, together with their properties in culture. HACE cells were isolated by plating collagenase digests at high dilution in the presence of endothelial cell growth supplement, followed by cl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fawcett J,Harris AL,Bicknell R

更新日期：1991-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This article has been withdrawn at the request of the editor. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gou X,Yang HA,He WY,Xiao MC,Wang M

更新日期：2010-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Septic shock induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is characterized by serious systemic inflammatory response and robust production of pro-inflammatory cytokines from activated macrophages. Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) secreted by activated macrophages are key contributors to septic shock. However, the c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： He Y,Peng Y,Tao L,Peng Z,Yang H

更新日期：2020-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-8 is a multi-functional pro-inflammatory chemokine, which is highly expressed in cancers, such as ER-negative breast cancer. The present study demonstrates the pervasive role of IL-8 in the malignant progression of ER-negative breast cancer. IL-8 siRNA inhibited proliferation and delayed the G1 to S cell cycle prog...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shao N,Chen LH,Ye RY,Lin Y,Wang SM

更新日期：2013-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae cytolysin (VCC) is a membrane-damaging beta-barrel pore-forming toxin (beta-PFT). VCC causes permeabilization of the target membranes by forming transmembrane oligomeric beta-barrel pores. Oligomerization is a key step in the mode of action of any beta-PFT, including that of VCC. Earlier studies have i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rai AK,Chattopadhyay K

更新日期：2016-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-molecular-weight metabolites in human milk are gaining increasing interest in studies of infant nutrition. In the present study, the milk metabolome from a single mother was explored at different stages of lactation. Metabolites were extracted from sample aliquots using either methanol/water (MeOH/H2O) extraction ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu J,Domellöf M,Zivkovic AM,Larsson G,Öhman A,Nording ML

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been reported to have crucial regulatory efficiency in human cancer biology. Long intergenic non-coding RNA 668 (LINC00668) was regarded as an oncogene in multiple cancers. However, the underlying molecular mechanism of LINC00668 in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) has n...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang CZ

更新日期：2017-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological and experimental data suggest a role for polyunsaturated fatty acids in the etiology of breast cancer. In this report we have studied arachidonic acid and linoleic acid metabolism in the human breast carcinoma cell line BT-20 which overexpresses both EGF receptor and the homologous erbB-2 oncogene prod...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Reddy N,Everhart A,Eling T,Glasgow W

更新日期：1997-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sec23p-Sec24p complex is a component of coat protein II-coated vesicles involved in protein export from the endoplasmic reticulum. We previously identified a novel Sec23p-interacting protein, p125, which consists of 1000 amino acids and comprises a proline-rich region and a phospholipase A(1) homology region. p125...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mizoguchi T,Nakajima K,Hatsuzawa K,Nagahama M,Hauri HP,Tagaya M,Tani K

更新日期：2000-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P)-induced migration and proliferation of endothelial cells are critical for angiogenesis. C2H2-zinc finger (ZNF) proteins usually play an essential role in altering gene expression and regulating the angiogenesis. The aim of this study is to investigate whether a novel human C2H2-zinc finge...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sun HY,Wei SP,Xu RC,Xu PX,Zhang WC

更新日期：2010-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:hPepT1 is a proton-coupled peptide transporter that mediates the absorption of di- and tripeptides. Here we show that tyrosine 167 (Y167) in transmembrane domain 5 (TMD5) of this 12-transmembrane spanning protein contributes to its transport function. We identified this particular amino acid by a computer model of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yeung AK,Basu SK,Wu SK,Chu C,Okamoto CT,Hamm-Alvarez SF,von Grafenstein H,Shen WC,Kim KJ,Bolger MB,Haworth IS,Ann DK,Lee VH

更新日期：1998-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene coding for connexin26 (Cx26) is the most common cause of human nonsyndromic hereditary deafness. To investigate deafness mechanisms underlying Cx26 null mutations, we generated three independent lines of conditional Cx26 null mice. Cell differentiation and gross cochlear morphology at birth seeme...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Y,Chang Q,Tang W,Sun Y,Zhou B,Li H,Lin X

更新日期：2009-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistin, an adipocyte secreted cysteine rich hormone has been implicated as molecular link between obesity and type 2 diabetes in a murine model. Although, at the protein level mouse and human resistin show remarkable similarities with respect to conserved cysteine residues, the physiological role of human resistin i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Raghu P,Ghosh S,Soundarya K,Haseeb A,Aruna B,Ehtesham NZ

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:N-myc downstream regulated gene 1 (NDRG1) is an important gene regulating tumor invasion. In this study, shRNA technology was used to suppress NDRG1 expression in CaSki (a cervical cancer cell line) and HO-8910PM (an ovarian cancer cell line). In vitro assays showed that NDRG1 knockdown enhanced tumor cell adhesion, m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao G,Chen J,Deng Y,Gao F,Zhu J,Feng Z,Lv X,Zhao Z

更新日期：2011-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene-recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) elicited a dose-dependent stimulation of the proliferation of osteoblast-like cells (OB), when grown in strictly serum-free longterm cultures. A half-maximal effect was observed at concentrations of 15-20 ng/ml and the maximal stimulation was 160% of hormone-free controls. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ernst M,Froesch ER

更新日期：1988-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant sterols are supplemented in foods to reduce cardiovascular risk. Randomized controlled trials show 2 g of plant sterols a day reduce serum cholesterol by about 10%. This reduction in serum cholesterol levels is achieved at the expense of increased serum plant sterol levels. Findings in patients with phytosterole...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Weingärtner O,Baber R,Teupser D

更新日期：2014-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a physiologically regulated and evolutionary conserved process that plays a critical role in degradation of cytoplasmic proteins and other macromolecules within the lysosomes. Beclin-1, the mammalian orthologue of yeast Atg6, is an important mediator of autophagy that has been studied in many human cancer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kapoor V,Paliwal D,Baskar Singh S,Mohanti BK,Das SN

更新日期：2012-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors affecting Ins(1,3,4,5)P4-mediated nuclear Ca2+ uptake are investigated, which include Ins(1,3,4,5)P4 receptor ligand specificity and free external Ca2+ concentrations. Among various inositol phosphates examined, Ins(1,3,4,5)P4, Ins(3,4,5,6)P4, and Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5 can also stimulate 45Ca2+ influx into isolated...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hsu AL,Lu PJ,Chen CS

更新日期：1998-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins with expanded polyglutamine domains cause eight inherited neurodegenerative diseases including Huntington's disease. In a previous paper, we identified peptides that inhibit polyglutamine protein aggregation and cell death and now describe the amino acid sequence requirements necessary for these activities. T...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ren H,Nagai Y,Tucker T,Strittmatter WJ,Burke JR

更新日期：2001-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Norepinephrine (NE) modulates brain functions depending on both the internal and external environment. While the neuromodulatory actions of NE have been well characterized, the response and involvement of cortical astrocytes to physiological noradrenergic systems remain largely unknown, especially at the molecular lev...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nuriya M,Morita A,Shinotsuka T,Yamada T,Yasui M

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregated β-amyloid peptides (Aβ) are neurotoxic and responsible for neuronal death both in vitro and in vivo. From the structural point of view, Aβ self-aggregation involves a conformational change in the peptide. Here, we investigated the relationship between conformational changes and amino acid residues of Aβ(40)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen YR,Huang HB,Lo CJ,Wang CC,Su CL,Liu HT,Shiao MS,Lin TH,Chen YC

更新日期：2011-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and characterized the cDNA encoding a novel protein designated DJ-1. DJ-1, sharing no significant homology with the sequences so far reported, did not show transactivation activity in the Gal4 recombinant system, but transformed mouse NIH3T3 cells by itself. Furthermore, DJ-1 showed a cooperative tran...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagakubo D,Taira T,Kitaura H,Ikeda M,Tamai K,Iguchi-Ariga SM,Ariga H

更新日期：1997-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbate peroxidase (APX) is a hydrogen peroxide-scavenging peroxidase which uses ascorbate (AsA) as the specific electron donor. APX has not been isolated in mammals. Ocular tissue contains AsA at high concentrations, and we detected APX activity in bovine retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and choroid. We purified AP...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wada N,Kinoshita S,Matsuo M,Amako K,Miyake C,Asada K

更新日期：1998-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is able to sense the availability and quality of nitrogen sources and the intrinsic variation of amino acid disponibility for protein synthesis. When this yeast is provided with secondary nitrogen sources, transcription of genes encoding enzymes involved in their catabolism is elicit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hernández H,Aranda C,Riego L,González A

更新日期：2011-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-pressure stopped-flow apparatus developed in our laboratories provides the capability to use dissolved gaseous reactants at elevated concentrations in solution (in equilibrium with gas pressures up to ca. 30 atm) for measurement of reaction kinetics. We have used this apparatus to follow the reaction of dioxyge...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bailey JA,James CA,Woodruff WH

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous lymphoma was detected in mice, which was caused by a recessive autosomal mutation. The genetic basis was revealed to be a 5-bp deletion at the splicing donor site of the first intron of the FasL gene, resulting in aberrant transcripts coding for non-functional proteins. This mutation of the FasL gene cau...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang CC,Zeng Q,Hwang LA,Guo K,Li J,Liew HC,Hong W

更新日期：2006-10-13 00:00:00