Hyperbaric oxygen selectively induces angiopoietin-2 in human umbilical vein endothelial cells.

abstract：:Activities of the hepadnavirus polymerases are known to include those of DNA polymerase, reverse transcriptase and RNase H. To date, it has been difficult or impossible to clone and express the product as an active enzyme. In this study, full length capped RNA encoding Duck Hepatitis B Virus (DHBV) polymerase was prod...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Howe AY,Elliott JF,Tyrrell DL

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the initial results of our study into the use of a potential transition state (TS) of the reaction catalyzed by the enzyme estrone sulfatase (ES) in the design of a series of simple 4'-O-sulfamoyl-4-biphenyl-based compounds as novel inhibitors of ES. The results of the study show that these compounds are: po...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ahmed S,James K,Owen CP

更新日期：2002-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To maintain immune homeostasis in the intestine, the intestinal immune system has evolved several tolerogenic mechanisms toward intestinal microflora and food antigens. Although programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) protein has been implicated in immunological tolerance in the intestine and gut-associated lymphoid tissues (G...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Doi T,Kanai T,Mikami Y,Sujino T,Jun L,Ono Y,Hayashi A,Hibi T

更新日期：2012-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:(1S,5S,6R,7R)-7-Chloro-3-imino-5-methyl-2-azabicyclo[4.1.0]heptane hydrochloride (ONO-1714), a novel cyclic amidine analogue, inhibits human inducible nitric oxide (iNOS) with a K(i) of 1.88 nM and rodent iNOS with similar potency in vitro. ONO-1714 was found to be 10-fold selective for human iNOS over human endotheli...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Naka M,Nanbu T,Kobayashi K,Kamanaka Y,Komeno M,Yanase R,Fukutomi T,Fujimura S,Seo HG,Fujiwara N,Ohuchida S,Suzuki K,Kondo K,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2000-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:As in other vitamin D target cells, activation of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels (VDCC) mediates the fast, non-genomic, 1,25(OH)2D3 stimulation of Ca2+ influx in skeletal muscle cells (SMC). 1,25(OH)2D3 has also been shown to rapidly induce the release of Ins(1,4,5)P3 in SMC. Experiments were performed to investigate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vazquez G,de Boland AR,Boland R

更新日期：1997-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-10 producing B (B10) cells, a subset of regulatory B (Breg) cells, produce IL-10 and play immunosuppressive roles in antitumor immunity. B10 cells are associated with enhanced tumor-aggressiveness and a poorer prognosis. To specifically inhibit the IL-10 secreted by B cells, we constructed the recombinant plasmid p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao R,Liu M,Li X,Chen H,Deng J,Huang C,Zhang XL,Pan Q

更新日期：2018-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-structural protein NS2B/NS3 serine-protease complex of the dengue virus (DENV) is required for the maturation of the viral polyprotein. Dissociation of the NS2B cofactor from NS3 diminishes the enzymatic activity of the complex. In this study, we identified a small molecule inhibitor that interferes with the i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pambudi S,Kawashita N,Phanthanawiboon S,Omokoko MD,Masrinoul P,Yamashita A,Limkittikul K,Yasunaga T,Takagi T,Ikuta K,Kurosu T

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is critical to a wide range of physiological and pathological processes. Scutellarin, a major flavonoid of a Chinese herbal medicine Erigeron breviscapus (Vant.) Hand. Mazz. has been shown to offer beneficial effects on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular functions. However, scutellarin's effects on angiog...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gao ZX,Huang DY,Li HX,Zhang LN,Lv YH,Cui HD,Zheng JH

更新日期：2010-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Flo8 is a transcriptional activator essential for the inducible expression of a set of target genes such as STA1, FLO11, and FLO1 encoding an extracellular glucoamylase and two cell surface proteins, respectively. However, the molecular mechanism of Flo8-mediated transcriptional activation remains largely elusive. By ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim HY,Lee SB,Kang HS,Oh GT,Kim T

更新日期：2014-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitously expressed Calpains 1 and 2 belong to a family of calcium-dependent intracellular cysteine proteases. Both calpains are heterodimers consisting of a large subunit and a small regulatory subunit encoded by the gene Capns1. To investigate a role for the calpain small subunit in cells of the osteoblast li...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kashiwagi A,Fein MJ,Shimada M

更新日期：2011-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The repair-associated gene XRCC1 was previously cloned by complementing the hamster mutant EM9, which has a high rate of spontaneous SCE and hypersensitivity to DNA damaging agents. In analyzing XRCC1 gene expression, similar levels of steady-state mRNA were found in normal cells, Bloom's syndrome cells with altered S...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoo H,Li L,Sacks PG,Thompson LH,Becker FF,Chan JY

更新日期：1992-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact between an adherent cell and the extracellular matrix (ECM) promotes the recruitment of structural and signaling molecules to the cytoplasmic domain of integrins, which mediate cell adhesion, cell migration, and cell growth. It is unclear whether the intracellular recruitment of these cytoplasmic molecules enh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rahman A,Tseng Y,Wirtz D

更新日期：2002-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse thymocytes were separated into cortical and medullary subpopulations by differential agglutination with peanut agglutinin. A high-affinity receptor for 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 is present in medullary immunocompetent mouse thymocytes and is absent from cortical immature cells. 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, at physio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ravid A,Koren R,Novogrodsky A,Liberman UA

更新日期：1984-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelin basic proteins (MBPs) are a family of polypeptides that are predominantly expressed in the nervous system where they play a major role in myelination. We have generated four lines of transgenic mice carrying a transgene in which 1.34 kb of the 5'-flanking sequence of the mouse MBP gene was fused upstream of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Asipu A,Mellor AL,Blair GE

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerotic plaque rupture is the main cause of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Angiotensin II (Ang II) and macrophage apoptosis are involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We aimed to address the role of monocyte chemotactic protein-induced protein 1 (MCP...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shu S,Zhang Y,Li W,Wang L,Wu Y,Yuan Z,Zhou J

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) using a solenoid transmit/receiver coil has been used to monitor the kinetics of intragastric utilization of [1-13C] glucose in mice in vivo. Using a double-tuned solenoid coil, signal to noise response was excellent and the natural abundance in vivo 13C spectra ob...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Field J,Irving MG,Brooks WM,Doddrell DM

更新日期：1984-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a top instigator of cancer mortality. Previous clinical studies have revealed that low serum cholesterol predicts a poor outcome in HCC patients, but the potential role of cholesterol in the progression of HCC remains controversial. In the present study,we tested the i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao Z,Zhong L,He K,Qiu C,Li Z,Zhao L,Gong J

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulation of the expression of human papillomavirus (HPV) oncogenes E6 and E7 plays a pivotal role in cervical carcinogenesis because the E6 and E7 proteins neutralize p53 and Rb tumor suppressor pathways, respectively. In approximately 90% of all cervical carcinomas, HPVs are found to be integrated into the host g...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee K,Lee AY,Kwon YK,Kwon H

更新日期：2011-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic receptor extracted from porcine atria in digitonin-cholate copurified with Galpha(o), Galpha(i1-3), and caveolins. The presence of complexes was confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation of the receptor, alpha-subunits, and caveolins in various combinations. Homooligomers of alpha(i2) were detected on Western blot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ma AW,Pawagi AB,Wells JW

更新日期：2008-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the enzyme tyrosine aminotransferase and the synthesis of its specific mRNA were evaluated at different hours of the day in the liver of 3-, 12- and 24-month old BN rats. The enzyme activity has a circadian rhythm with a peak at midnight in 3- and 12-month old, which shifts to 03.00 hrs in 24-month old...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Servillo G,Della Fazia MA,Viola-Magni M

更新日期：1991-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is a calmodulin (CaM)-dependent enzyme, which generates the ubiquitous biological mediator nitric oxide. In this study, wild-type or mutant form of rat nNOS was overexpressed in a baculovirus/Sf9 insect cell system and examined for autophosphorylation. Incubation of purified wild-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Watanabe Y,Terashima K,Hidaka H

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of intensive research, our understanding of the regulation of expression of 5-LO (the key enzyme in the leukotriene metabolism) remains fragmentary. We investigated the effects of dexamethasone on the expression of this gene in a binary model consisting of two clones of the human mast cell line HMC-1, one wit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Colamorea T,Di Paola R,Macchia F,Guerrese MC,Tursi A,Butterfield JH,Caiaffa MF,Haeggström JZ,Macchia L

更新日期：1999-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal proteins must be imported into the nucleus after being synthesized in the cytoplasm. Since the rpS2 amino acid sequence does not contain a typical nuclear localization signal, we used deletion mutant analysis and rpS2-beta-galactosidase chimeric proteins to identify the nuclear targeting domains in rpS2. Nuc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Antoine M,Reimers K,Wirz W,Gressner AM,Müller R,Kiefer P

更新日期：2005-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural backbone of extracellular matrix in cartilage is the collagen fibril, which is mainly composed of type II collagen. A measurable increase in type II collagen denaturation and degradation has been found in early Osteoarthritis (OA). Pro-inflammatory cytokine such as TNF-α produced in OA cartilage induced...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hu W,Zhang W,Li F,Guo F,Chen A

更新日期：2014-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleophosmin (NPM) is a multifunctional nucleolar protein that has been linked with nucleolar stress. In non-neuronal cell lines, NPM may enhance or inhibit the activity of tumor suppressor p53, a major apoptotic protein. The relationship between NPM and p53 in the central nervous system (CNS) remains unknown. Here, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Marquez-Lona EM,Tan Z,Schreiber SS

更新日期：2012-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 Vpr is a protein with multiple functions. It has been suggested that such pleiotropic effects by a viral protein may be mediated by its association with viral and cellular proteins or through modulation of expression of specific cellular genes. To address this, we used cDNA microarray techniques to analyze the r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Janket ML,Manickam P,Majumder B,Thotala D,Wagner M,Schafer EA,Collman RG,Srinivasan A,Ayyavoo V

更新日期：2004-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological function of hnRNP family proteins is widely diverse and involved in pre-mRNA processing, transcriptional regulation, recombination, and telomere maintenance. In the course of our study on the elucidation of biological functions of minisatellite DNA, we isolated several nuclear proteins that bind to the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanaka E,Fukuda H,Nakashima K,Tsuchiya N,Seimiya H,Nakagama H

更新日期：2007-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus, a halophilic estuarine bacterium causing a rapidly progressing fatal septicemia, is highly cytotoxic to eukaryotic cells. To identify new virulence factors associated with cytotoxicity, we constructed a mariner-based transposon (Tn Himar1) library of the highly virulent clinical isolate MO6-24/O hav...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ran Kim Y,Haeng Rhee J

更新日期：2003-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterol 14-demethylase P450 (P45014DM)-dependent formation of 4,4-dimethylcholesta-8,14,24-trienol, that has been reported for a mammalian meiosis-activating sterol, in rat ovaries was confirmed. Transient elevation of ovarian P45014DM activity, that might be related to the female sexual cycle of rat, was observed. The...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshida Y,Yamashita C,Noshiro M,Fukuda M,Aoyama Y

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) depletes cells of polyamines, sensitizing cells against the action of antineoplastic drugs and altering ability to repair radiation-induced DNA strand breaks. Others have hypothesized that the mechanism by which polyamine depletion sensitizes cells is through inhibition of DNA strand bre...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Williams JR,Casero RA,Dillehay LE

更新日期：1994-05-30 00:00:00