Ethanolamine plasmalogen and cholesterol reduce the total membrane oxidizability measured by the oxygen uptake method.

abstract：:Hemiacetylcarnitinium (2S,6R:2R,65)-6-carboxymethyl-2-hydroxy-2,4,4- trimethylmorpholinium) chloride is a relatively potent competitive inhibitor (Ki = 0.89 mM) of pigeon breast carnitine acetyltransferase (CAT) and of the crude rat liver CAT (Ki = 4.72 mM) but is neither an inhibitor nor an effective substrate for pu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gandour RD,Colucci WJ,Stelly TC,Brady PS,Brady LJ

更新日期：1986-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cep169 is a centrosomal protein conserved among vertebrates. In our previous reports, we showed that mammalian Cep169 interacts and collaborates with CDK5RAP2 to regulate microtubule (MT) dynamics and stabilization. Although Cep169 is required for MT regulation, its precise cellular function remains largely elusive. H...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mori Y,Inoue Y,Taniyama Y,Tanaka S,Terada Y

更新日期：2015-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful seed germination depends on the rapid repair of cell membrane damaged by dry storage. However, little is known about the reorganization of lipids during this process. In this study, the changes of intracellular redox environment, cell membrane integrity, lipid composition, and expression of genes related to...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lin YX,Xin X,Yin GK,He JJ,Zhou YC,Chen JY,Lu XX

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A mitochondrial DNA mutation at nucleotide position 14,484 was found in 14 independent probands with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy and in 0/250 controls. The 14,484 mutation, which changes methionine-64 to valine in a conserved domain of the ND-6 gene, occurred in association with a mitochondrial DNA haplotype tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Johns DR,Neufeld MJ,Park RD

更新日期：1992-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In general, translation efficiency of ferritin mRNAs is modulated by variations in iron supply. In primary avian erythroblasts undergoing short-term proliferation, however, ferritin heavy chain (ferH) mRNA is repressed at all iron levels. Yet, expression of v-ErbA oncoprotein is sufficient to reinduce ferH mRNA utiliz...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mikulits W,Schranzhofer M,Deiner EM,Beug H,Müllner EW

更新日期：2000-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The necessary amplification step in bacteria of any plasmid currently used in DNA immunization or gene therapy introduces modification in the nucleotide sequence of plasmid DNA used in gene transfer. These changes affect the adenine and the internal cytosine in respectively all of the GATC and CC(A/T)GG sequences. The...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Allamane S,Jourdes P,Ratel D,Vicat JM,Dupré I,Lainé M,Berger F,Benabid AL,Wion D

更新日期：2000-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Resolvin E1 (RvE1; 5S, 12R, 18R-trihydroxyeicosapentaenoic acid) is an anti-inflammatory lipid mediator derived from the omega-3 fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). It has been recently shown that RvE1 is involved in the resolution of inflammation. However, it is not known whether RvE1 is involved in the resolutio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aoki H,Hisada T,Ishizuka T,Utsugi M,Kawata T,Shimizu Y,Okajima F,Dobashi K,Mori M

更新日期：2008-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:CARMA3 was recently reported to be overexpressed in cancers and associated with the malignant behavior of cancer cells. However, the expression of CARMA3 and its biological roles in colon cancer have not been reported. In the present study, we analyzed the expression pattern of CARMA3 in colon cancer tissues and found...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miao Z,Zhao T,Wang Z,Xu Y,Song Y,Wu J,Xu H

更新日期：2012-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:CAD/DFF40, the nuclease responsible for DNA fragmentation during apoptosis, exists as a heterodimeric complex with DFF45/ICAD. This study determines the molecular mechanisms of regulation of DFF40 via the chaperone and inhibition activities of DFF45. We analyze proteins corresponding to the fragments (D1, D2, and D3) ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McCarty JS,Toh SY,Li P

更新日期：1999-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel aa3-type cytochrome oxidase from the extremely halophilic archaeon, Halobacterium halobium, differs significantly from those of other prokaryotic and eukaryotic cytochrome oxidases (Fujiwara, T., Fukumori, Y., and Yamanaka, T. (1989) J. Biochem. 105, 287-292). In the present study, we cloned and sequenced the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Denda K,Fujiwara T,Seki M,Yoshida M,Fukumori Y,Yamanaka T

更新日期：1991-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats, administration of a single dose of cysteamine (300 mg/kg, intragastrically) induces a depletion of pancreatic somatostatin content (approximately 60%) without modifying pancreatic insulin or glucagon content. In perfused pancreases from cysteamine-treated rats, there was a lack of somatostatin response to glu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Silvestre RA,Miralles P,Moreno P,Villanueva ML,Marco J

更新日期：1986-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatostatin analogue, TT-232 inhibits cell proliferation and induces apoptosis in a variety of tumor cells both in vivo and in vitro. While the early transient activation of Erk/MAPK was found to be important for the induction of cell cycle arrest, the signaling pathway leading to the activation of Erk/MAPK had n...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Steták A,Csermely P,Ullrich A,Kéri G

更新日期：2001-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular cloning of targeting vectors (TgVs) is a prerequisite procedure for gene disruption in embryonic stem cells. In cases where target genes display complex features (e.g., gene overlap, alternative exon usage), TgVs must mediate deletions with very high precision to prevent unwanted effects. This is often diffi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miazek A,Cebula A,Skwarek M,Cebrat M,Kisielow P

更新日期：2007-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine-specific phosphorylated proteins found exclusively on the cell surface of human astrocytomas were previously identified with murine monoclonal antibodies, designated as GA-17, GB-4 and GC-3. The purpose of this study was to further characterize the antigens and investigate the relationship between them and c-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kondo S,Miyatake S,Matsumoto M,Nakatsu S,Iwasaki K,Oda Y,Kikuchi H,Namba Y

更新日期：1992-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutathione S-transferases of human platelets have been compared with those of erythrocytes. Although wide variations in activity were found, in individual subjects, the activity in these cell types was significantly correlated. The enzymes demonstrated similar isoelectric points and electrophoretic mobilities and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rogerson KS,Mitchell D,Lawton A,Ibbotson R,Cotton W,Strange RC

更新日期：1984-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen receptor (AR) recognizes and binds to 15-bp palindromic androgen response element (ARE) sequences with high affinity in vitro, which consist of two hexameric half-sites arranged as inverted repeats with a 3-bp spacer. Although a few near-consensus ARE sequences have been actually identified in the transcripti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Horie-Inoue K,Bono H,Okazaki Y,Inoue S

更新日期：2004-12-24 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：:Ligand engagement by integrins induces receptor clustering and formation of complexes at the integrin cytoplasmic face that controls cell signaling and cytoskeletal dynamics critical for adhesion-dependent processes. This study searches for a subset of integrin effectors that coordinates both tumor cell invasion and r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sansing HA,Sarkeshik A,Yates JR,Patel V,Gutkind JS,Yamada KM,Berrier AL

更新日期：2011-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells have developed compensatory mechanisms to restore cell volume, and the ability to resist osmotic swelling or shrinkage parallels their resistance to necrosis or apoptosis. There are several mechanisms by which cells adapt to hyposmotic stress including that of regulatory volume decrease. In ischemia and reperfus...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Díaz-Elizondo J,Chiong M,Rojas-Rivera D,Olea-Azar C,Kwon HM,Lavandero S

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the contributions of dietary fat and dietary carbohydrate to the development of fatty liver induced by western diet (WD). Compared with WD-fed wild type (WT) mice, livers of WD-fed ChREBP(-/-) mice showed lipid droplets of varying sizes around the hepatic lobules, while hepatic triglyceride and cholest...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu W,Tsuchida H,Kato T,Niwa H,Horikawa Y,Takeda J,Iizuka K

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The calmodulin and C-kinase antagonists melittin, calmidazolium, N-(6-aminohexyl)-5-chloro-1-napthalenesulfonamide (W7), and trifluoperazine (TFP) also inhibit the activity of the human erythrocyte Ca2+-dependent protease, calpain I. W-5, the nonchlorinated derivative of W-7, was ineffective as an inhibitor of calpain...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Brumley LM,Wallace RW

更新日期：1989-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthurenic acid is an endogenous molecule leading to caspase-9 and -3 activation. Here we report that xanthurenic acid targets signalling proteins 14-3-3 into lysosomes leading to interruption protein/protein interaction. Xanthurenic acid changed the localisation of 14-3-3 in the cells. At a concentration of 10 and 2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Malina HZ,Frueh BE

更新日期：2003-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, mitochondrial (GPAM) is a rate-limiting enzyme catalyzing triglyceride synthesis. Recently, we demonstrated that the anti-viral drug ribavirin (RBV) reduces GPAM expression by downregulating CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein α (C/EBPα). However, the precise mechanisms of GPAM suppres...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Onomura D,Satoh S,Ueda Y,Dansako H,Kato N

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:High blood glucose levels of KK-A(y) mice with type 2 diabetes mellitus were normalized by daily intraperitoneal (ip) administration of a zinc(II) complex, bis(maltolato)zinc(II) (Zn(Mal)(2)) with a Zn(O(4)) coordination mode, following the finding of strong in vitro insulinomimetic activity in isolated rat adipocytes...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshikawa Y,Ueda E,Miyake H,Sakurai H,Kojima Y

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) is a potent mitogen for cells in culture. The H19 gene is a developmentally regulated gene with putative tumor suppressor activity, and loss of H19 expression may be involved in tumorigenesis. The H19 gene is closely linked to the human IGF-II gene (IGF2) on chromosome 11p15.5 an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kiess W,Paquette J,Koepf G,Wolf E,Deal C

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide in the brain, which is produced by the proteolysis of β-amyloid precursor protein (APP). Recently, the mitochondrial transcription factor 4 (MTERF4), a member of the MTERF family, was implicated in regulating mitochondrial DNA transc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang XL,Liu Q,Chen GJ,Li ML,Ding YH

更新日期：2017-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI; MIM 222700) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by defective transport of cationic amino acids lysine, arginine and ornithine. The defect is localized in the basolateral membrane of polar epithelial cells of the renal tubules and intestine. The SLC7A7 (solute carrier fa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Toivonen M,Mykkänen J,Aula P,Simell O,Savontaus ML,Huoponen K

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:p-Coumaric acid (3-[4-hydroxyphenyl]-2-propenoic acid) is a ubiquitous plant metabolite with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer properties. In this study, we examined whether p-coumaric acid modulates glucose and lipid metabolism via AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in L6 skeletal muscle cells. p-Coumar...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoon SA,Kang SI,Shin HS,Kang SW,Kim JH,Ko HC,Kim SJ

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Abscisic acid (ABA) is an important plant hormone that mediates abiotic stresses in plant growth and development. A number of E3 ligases have been reported to be involved in ABA signaling pathway. In this study, we identified a C3H2C3 RING-type E3 ligase, Arabidopsis thaliana Tόxicos en Levadura 61 (ATL61), which regu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang R,Wang T,Shi W,Li S,Liu Z,Wang J,Yang Y

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Blockage of either nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) or Akt sensitizes cancer cells to TNF-induced apoptosis. In this study, we investigated the undetermined effect of concurrent blockage of these two survival pathways on TNF-induced cytotoxicity in lung cancer cells. The results show that Akt contributes to TNF-induc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang X,Chen W,Lin Y

更新日期：2007-04-13 00:00:00