Myelin basic protein has multiple calmodulin-binding sites.

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus is thought to be partially associated with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress toxicity on pancreatic beta cells and the result of decreased insulin synthesis and secretion. In this study, we showed that a well-known insulin sensitizer, metformin, directly protects against dysfunction and death ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jung TW,Lee MW,Lee YJ,Kim SM

更新日期：2012-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) has been documented to have various clinical and pathological presentations. However the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Viral infections may play a certain role in the etiopathogenesis of MS. This study was designed to explore whether different phospholipid peptides and viral mimic pepti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zheng MM,Zhang XH

更新日期：2014-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Free fatty acids (FFAs) act as extracellular signaling molecules through binding to G-protein-coupled FFA receptors (FFARs). GPR120 and GPR40 are identified as FFARs for medium- and long-chain fatty acids. In the present study, we investigated roles of GPR120 and GPR40 in cellular functions of pancreatic cancer PANC-1...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fukushima K,Yamasaki E,Ishii S,Tomimatsu A,Takahashi K,Hirane M,Fukushima N,Honoki K,Tsujiuchi T

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous phytochemicals are believed to have beneficial effects on human health. N-Coumaroyltyramine accumulates in plants in response to wounding and pathogen attack. Due to the scarcity of N-coumaroyltyramine, its biological activities have not been studied in human cells. In this study, N-coumaroyltyramine was chem...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park JB,Schoene N

更新日期：2002-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen and androgen and their receptors play critical roles in physiological processes such as sexual differentiation and development. Using the available structural models for the human estrogen receptors alpha and beta and androgen receptor as templates, we designed in silico agonist and antagonist models of medak...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cui J,Shen X,Yan Z,Zhao H,Nagahama Y

更新日期：2009-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of mesangial cells to ionic Cd(2+) induces the proto-oncogene c-fos, while activating both Erk and stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK) MAP kinase pathways. While we have previously used a pharmacological inhibitor of Erk activation to implicate involvement of this pathway in the induction of c-fos by Cd(2+...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ding W,Templeton DM

更新日期：2000-07-05 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：:Heart fatty acid binding protein (H-FABP) is a 15kDa protein that mediates the passage of fatty acids from the plasma membrane to sites of lipid synthesis. We report here, for the first time, that H-FABP is a potent inducer of cardiac myocyte hypertrophy, stimulating an increase in cell surface area, protein synthesis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Burton PB,Hogben CE,Joannou CL,Clark AG,Hsuan JJ,Totty NF,Sorensen C,Evans RW,Tynan MJ

更新日期：1994-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether alcohol-induced heart failure is caused by a direct toxic effect of ethanol, metabolites, or whether it is a secondary result of neurohumoral, hormonal, or nutritional factors is not clear. To address this question a Langendorff retrograde coronary perfusion model of rat heart was used to study the effect of 0...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jänkälä H,Eklund KK,Kokkonen JO,Kovanen PT,Linstedt KA,Härkönen M,Mäki T

更新日期：2001-02-23 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：:Bone is one of the essential target tissues of growth hormone (GH). In bone remodeling, cell-matrix attachment is important where focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is involved. FAK plays a central role in determining the shape and motility of cells in response to the extracellular matrix stimuli. In the present study, we ha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi MO,Takahashi Y,Iida K,Okimura Y,Kaji H,Abe H,Chihara K

更新日期：1999-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The IGF-1 receptor (IGF-1R) and MT1-MMP are synthesized as larger precursor proproteins, which require endoproteolytic activation by the proprotein convertases (PCs) furin/PC5 to gain full biological activity. The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of PCs to IGF-1R and/or MT1-MMP activation in vascu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stawowy P,Kallisch H,Kilimnik A,Margeta C,Seidah NG,Chrétien M,Fleck E,Graf K

更新日期：2004-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) produced by hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells are responsible for the growth of HCC cells. Accumulating evidence shows that insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) suppresses HCC cell proliferation in both IGF-dependent a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ma Y,Han CC,Li Y,Wang Y,Wei W

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:An orphan G protein-coupled receptor, termed 6H1, with approximately 30% sequence identity to P2Y receptors has been proposed to be a P2Y receptor (p2y5) based solely on a radioligand binding assay with [35S]dATP alphaS [Webb et al. (1997) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 219:105-110]. Previous work in our laboratory ha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li Q,Schachter JB,Harden TK,Nicholas RA

更新日期：1997-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A single base change resulting in the substitution of Cys for Arg at position 519 of the type II collagen triple helix is a predisposing factor in the pathogenesis of a precocious-onset form of familial osteoarthritis associated with a mild chondrodysplasia. Cartilage obtained at the time of total knee replacement in ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Holderbaum D,Malemud CJ,Moskowitz RW,Haqqi TM

更新日期：1993-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the process of cardiac remodeling, connective tissue growth factor (CTGF/CCN2) is secreted from cardiac myocytes. Though CTGF is well known to promote fibroblast proliferation, its pathophysiological effects in cardiac myocytes remain to be elucidated. In this study, we examined the biological effects of CTGF in ra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayata N,Fujio Y,Yamamoto Y,Iwakura T,Obana M,Takai M,Mohri T,Nonen S,Maeda M,Azuma J

更新日期：2008-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of studies on possible roles for collagen hydrolysates in human health have focused on their effects on bone and skin. Hydroxyprolyl-glycine (Hyp-Gly) was recently identified as a novel collagen hydrolysate-derived dipeptide in human blood. However, any possible health benefits of Hyp-Gly remain unclear. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kitakaze T,Sakamoto T,Kitano T,Inoue N,Sugihara F,Harada N,Yamaji R

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural crest is a transient population of multipotent progenitors contributing to a diverse array of tissues throughout the vertebrate embryo. Embryonic stem (ES) cells are able to form embryoid body and spontaneously differentiate to various lineages, following a reproducible temporal pattern of development that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou Y,Snead ML

更新日期：2008-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The baculovirus expression system has been used to express large quantities of various proteins, including membrane receptors. Here, we reveal a novel property of this expression system to be that certain membrane proteins can be displayed on the budded virus itself. We introduced the genes encoding sterol regulatory ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Urano Y,Yamaguchi M,Fukuda R,Masuda K,Takahashi K,Uchiyama Y,Iwanari H,Jiang SY,Naito M,Kodama T,Hamakubo T

更新日期：2003-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual-excitation ratiometric dyes permit quantitative Ca2+ measurements by minimizing the effects of several artifacts that are unrelated to changes in the concentration of free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]). These dyes are excited alternately at two different wavelengths, and the pair of intensity measurements must be collected seque...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fukano T,Shimozono S,Miyawaki A

更新日期：2004-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The chaperonin from the acidothermophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. Strain 7, is composed of two kinds of subunits designated as Scp alpha and Scp beta. In this study, we characterized the recombinant Scp alpha and Scp beta, which were separately expressed in Escherichia coli. Both of them were able to assemble to homo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshida T,Yohda M,Suzuki M,Yazaki K,Miura K,Endo I

更新日期：1998-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro, survival and function of rat pancreatic β-cells are optimally preserved in the presence of 10 mmol/l glucose (G10) and markedly altered by prolonged culture at either 2 mmol/l glucose (G2) or 30 mmol/l glucose (G30). The increase in islet cell apoptosis in G2 and G30 vs. G10 is preceded by parallel increases...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Duprez J,Jonas JC

更新日期：2011-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a mostly incurable disease. The fact that the identity of the mechanisms that regulate metastasis in HCC is known hampers the development of anti-metastatic therapies. Currently, there is no effective treatment for HCC once it is progressed to metastatic stage. Therefo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu Y,Liu ZG,Shi MQ,Yu HZ,Jiang XY,Yang AH,Fu XS,Xu Y,Yang S,Ni H,Shen SJ,Li WD

更新日期：2017-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific radioimmunoassay was developed for metorphamide, an endogenous, amidated opioid octapeptide, originally isolated from bovine brain and human pheochromocytoma tissues. The radioimmunoassay was used to determine the concentration of immunoreactive metorphamide in extracts from dissected regions of rat and gui...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sonders M,Barchas JD,Weber E

更新日期：1984-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic predisposition is necessary for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) initiation, although there are other, incompletely identified downstream processes that are required for cyst growth. Their characterization may provide a unique opportunity for clinical interventions. One of the poorly studied phenomena in PKD is...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arkhipov SN,Pavlov TS

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously characterized the effects of 2,6-diisopropylphenyl-docosahexaenoamide (DIP-DHA) conjugates and their analogs on the proliferation and progression of breast cancer cell lines. For this study, we investigated the effects of the DIP-DHA conjugate on 2 representative T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Altenburg JD,Harvey KA,McCray S,Xu Z,Siddiqui RA

更新日期：2011-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatases play an important role in cellular signaling and are often found dysregulated in cancers including glioblastoma (GBM). A comprehensive bioinformatics analysis of phosphatases (n = 403) in multiple datasets revealed their deregulation in GBM. Among the differentially regulated phosphatases (n = 186; 46.1%)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tomar VS,Baral TK,Nagavelu K,Somasundaram K

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used human neuroblastoma NB-OK1 cells to investigate the regulation of neurite outgrowth. Carbachol suppressed forskolin-stimulated neurite outgrowth in NB-OK1 cells although forskolin-stimulated cAMP levels were enhanced. The dose-response curve for this suppression was very similar to that for stimulation of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakagawa-Yagi Y,Saito Y,Takada Y,Nakamura H

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:HCV and HBV are the major causes of chronic liver diseases worldwide. Patients with both viruse's co-infection tend to develop severer liver diseases and are at high risk of liver-related death. NS5A protein of HCV plays key roles in HCV replication and inhibition of host immune responses. In this study, we described ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pan Y,Wei W,Kang L,Wang Z,Fang J,Zhu Y,Wu J

更新日期：2007-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that one manifestation of altered sphingolipid metabolism within tumor cells may be a reduced sensitivity to anti-cancer therapies because of an inability to produce a sufficient apoptotic signal via sphingomyelin hydrolysis to ceramide. If so, then sphingomyelin administration could reverse this effect and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Modrak DE,Lew W,Goldenberg DM,Blumenthal R

更新日期：2000-02-16 00:00:00