Cloning and nucleotide sequence of human liver cDNA encoding for cystathionine gamma-lyase.

abstract：:Human lymphoblastoid cell line (LCL) has been used as an in vitro cell model in genetic and pharmacogenomic studies, as well as a good model for studying gene expression regulatory machinery using integrated genomic analyses. In this study, we aimed to identify biological networks of LCL immortalization from transcrip...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shim SM,Jung SY,Nam HY,Kim HR,Lee MH,Kim JW,Han BG,Jeon JP

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid phosphatase Api m 3 is the major allergen of the honeybee venom. Except for the amino acid sequence, no other structural information for the enzyme is available. We applied homology modeling to assign the three-dimensional structure of Api m 3. The structure of the homodimeric human prostatic acid phosphatase...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Georgieva D,Greunke K,Genov N,Betzel C

更新日期：2009-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformations of the neuropeptide galanin in water and trifluoroethanol solutions have been examined by 1H NMR spectroscopy. Analysis of two-dimensional NMR experiments enabled the assignment of virtually all the 1H resonances of galanin in trifluoroethanol solution and many of the 1H resonances in aqueous solutio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wennerberg AB,Cooke RM,Carlquist M,Rigler R,Campbell ID

更新日期：1990-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the concern that toluene might have carcinogenic and reproductive toxic potential has been raised. We investigated the ability of DNA damage by minor metabolites of toluene, methylhydroquinone, and methylbenzoquinone, using (32)P-5'-end-labeled DNA fragments obtained from the human genes. Methylhydroquinone ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Murata M,Tsujikawa M,Kawanishi S

更新日期：1999-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the isolation of a synthetic agonist of IFN-gamma (L-mIFN-gamma-CT) active on mouse and human cells. Its biological activity is the result of the ability of the C-terminal extremity of murine IFN-gamma to interact with the intracellular part of IFNgamma-R and the observation that the modification of peptid...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thiam K,Loing E,Delanoye A,Diesis E,Gras-Masse H,Auriault C,Verwaerde C

更新日期：1998-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmenopausal women treated with estrogen hormone replacement therapy and female patients with hypoplasminogenemia receiving oral contraceptives show increasing plasminogen (PLG) concentrations. The elevated PLG levels are in contrast to the estrogen dependent decline of lipoptrotein(a) [Lp(a)], whose main protein co...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kobelt L,Klammt J,Tefs K,Schuster V

更新日期：2013-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been isolated from various tissues and used for elucidating the pathogenesis of numerous diseases. In our previous in vitro study, we showed the existence of MSCs in human spinal ligaments and hypothesized that these MSCs contributed to the pathogenesis of ossification of spinal liga...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chin S,Furukawa K,Ono A,Asari T,Harada Y,Wada K,Tanaka T,Inaba W,Mizukami H,Motomura S,Yagihashi S,Ishibashi Y

更新日期：2013-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates intracellular cAMP concentrations, in interleukin-1 (IL-1) mediated cytostasis of K562 cells. Dibutyryl-cAMP, forskolin, staurosporine and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate were all found to mimic the cytostatic action of IL-1 on K562 cells. IL-1 was found to elicit a dose-dependent rise in adenyl c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Weitzmann MN,Savage N

更新日期：1993-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The cooperation of phosphofructokinase-2 and fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase is investigated. Experimentally derived rate laws of the kinase and bisphosphatase activities introduced into the respective differential equations permitted to describe the time evolution of fructose-2,6-bisphosphate to quasi-stationary levels. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kretschmer M,Schellenberger W,Hofmann E

更新日期：1985-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In Caenorhabditis elegans, the vulval induction is mediated by tyrosine kinase receptor/Ras signal transduction pathway composed of the lin-3, let-23, and let-60 products. In addition to these gene products, the lin-2, lin-7, and lin-10 products are also implicated in this pathway. Lin-2 encodes a MAGUK and lin-7 enco...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ide N,Hirao K,Hata Y,Takeuchi M,Irie M,Yao I,Deguchi M,Toyoda A,Nishioka H,Mizoguchi A,Takai Y

更新日期：1998-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) is conserved from insects to mammals. Recently, Drosophila PGRP-SC1B was demonstrated to be an N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase (NAMLAA), an enzyme that cleaves the lactylamide bond between muramic acid and the peptide chain in peptidoglycan (PGN). We now show...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gelius E,Persson C,Karlsson J,Steiner H

更新日期：2003-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective modification of one (of three) tyrosine residue per enzyme monomer leads to inactivation of dUTPase of the retrovirus equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV). The substrate dUMP and the cofactor Mg2+ protect against inactivation and modification, in agreement with the study on E. coli dUTPase (Vertessy et al. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vertessy BG,Persson R,Rosengren AM,Zeppezauer M,Nyman PO

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of accessible SH-groups was determined in membrane vesicles prepared from Escherichia coli growing in fermentation conditions at slightly alkaline pH on glucose with or without added formate. Addition of ATP or formate to the vesicles caused a approximately 1.4-fold increase in the number of accessible SH-g...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mnatsakanyan N,Poladian A,Bagramyan K,Trchounian A

更新日期：2003-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species are known to induce strand breaks and/or base modifications in DNA. DNA strand breaks are associated with many pathologies and programmed cell death. We have examined the ability of the polyamines and their analogues to protect phi X-174 plasmid DNA from strand breakage induced by a oxygen-radi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ha HC,Yager JD,Woster PA,Casero RA Jr

更新日期：1998-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) have been considered to be desirable targets for metabolic syndrome, even though their specific agonists have several side effects including body weight gain, edema and tissue failure. Previously, we have reported in vitro effects of Sargassum yezoense (SY) and its i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim SN,Lee W,Bae GU,Kim YK

更新日期：2012-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of Smad3, an intracellular mediator of TGF-β, was shown to significantly accelerate re-epithelialization of the colonic mucosa. This study was performed to investigate the molecular mechanisms by which Smad3 controls colonic epithelial cell proliferation and crypt formation. Smad3(ex8/ex8) C57BL/6 mice were...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Furukawa K,Sato T,Katsuno T,Nakagawa T,Noguchi Y,Tokumasa A,Yokote K,Yokosuka O,Saito Y

更新日期：2011-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrous oxide affects dioxygen utilization by both bean seed and bovine heart submitochondrial particles when either succinate or reduced cytochrome c are used as substrates. Bovine heart particles exhibit reversible, dose-dependent partial inhibition of respiratory activity when exposed to N2O. Bean seed particle res...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sowa S,Dong A,Roos EE,Caughey WS

更新日期：1987-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside phosphotransferases represent a broad class of enzymes that promote bacterial resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics via the phosphorylation of hydroxyl groups in the latter. Here we report the spatial structure of the 3'-aminoglycoside phosphotransferase of novel VIII class (AphVIII) solved by X-ray ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Boyko KM,Gorbacheva MA,Korzhenevskiy DA,Alekseeva MG,Mavletova DA,Zakharevich NV,Elizarov SM,Rudakova NN,Danilenko VN,Popov VO

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 1-bromlalkanes on intracellular glutathione (GSH) was studied in freshly isolated rat hepatocytes. Treatment of cells with bromoalkanes depleted cellular GSH levels without causing cytotoxicity. The extent of GSH depletion was directly proportional to the concentration and increasing chain length of 1-br...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Khan S,O'Brien PJ

更新日期：1991-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Folate deficiency produces a marked decrease in the ratio of S-adenosylmethionine to S-adenosylhomocysteine. This ratio regulates the activity of many cellular methylation reactions including that of DNA. We used bacterial CpG methylase to evaluate the effect of folate deficiency on methylation of DNA from livers of w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Balaghi M,Wagner C

更新日期：1993-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete nucleotide sequence of the genes for subunits of the H+ ATPase of E.coli has been determined and several hybrid plasmids carrying various portions of these genes have been constructed. Genetic complementation and recombination tests of about forty mutants of E.coli defective in the ATPase were performed using...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Noumi T,Kanazawa H

更新日期：1983-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose tolerance factor partially purified from yeast extract powder stimulated [U-14C]-D-glucose uptake to a level 5.6 times greater than the basal level in the absence of insulin in isolated adipocytes prepared from rats fed with normal laboratory chow. The factor also stimulated 3-O-methylglucose transport 2.2-fol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tokuda M,Kashiwagi A,Wakamiya E,Oguni T,Mino M,Kagamiyama H

更新日期：1987-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work had suggested the presence of significant levels of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1) catalytic activity in human small intestinal microsomes, with undetectable to low UGT1A6 and 2B7 activities. To confirm the presence of UGT1A1 isoform in human small bowel, to explore the possible absence of UGT1...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Paine MF,Fisher MB

更新日期：2000-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion molecules act as tumor suppressors primarily by cell attachment activity, but additional mechanisms modifying signal transduction are suggested in some cases. Cell adhesion molecule 1 (CADM1), a membrane-spanning immunoglobulin superfamily, mediates intercellular adhesion by trans-homophilic interaction ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsuboi Y,Oyama M,Kozuka-Hata H,Ito A,Matsubara D,Murakami Y

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic DNA analysis revealed that the coding region of the rat histamine H3 receptor comprises three exons interrupted by two introns of approximately 1 kb each. Several H3 receptor mRNA variants were identified by PCR and cDNA cloning and sequencing. Four variants generated by pseudo-intron retention/deletion at the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Morisset S,Sasse A,Gbahou F,Héron A,Ligneau X,Tardivel-Lacombe J,Schwartz JC,Arrang JM

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway viral infection disturbs the health-related quality of life. B7-H1 (also known as PD-L1) is a coinhibitory molecule associated with the escape of viruses from the mucosal immunity, leading to persistent infection. Most respiratory viruses generate double-stranded (ds) RNA during replication. The stimulation of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kan-o K,Matsumoto K,Asai-Tajiri Y,Fukuyama S,Hamano S,Seki N,Nakanishi Y,Inoue H

更新日期：2013-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate for the first time that major structural changes are imposed on various phospholipid bilayers by diacylglycerol, a product of phosphatidylinositol metabolism. By 5 mole percent in phosphatidylethanolamine a lamellar to hexagonal transition starts that is complete at 10 mole percent. At 30 mole percent i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Das S,Rand RP

更新日期：1984-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrin is a peptide hormone important in acid regulation, growth of enterochromaffin cells of the oxyntic mucosa, and smooth muscle contractility. We isolated a genomic clone of gastrin from a SV-129 murine genomic library. The murine gastrin gene contains an open reading frame of 101 amino acids. The deduced amino a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koh TJ,Wang TC

更新日期：1995-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Oleoyl coenzyme A and other acyl-CoA derivatives inhibited ADP or thrombin-induced aggregation of platelets. Arachidonic acid-induced aggregation was also inhibited, but not the slower aggregation caused by 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol or tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate. Coenzyme A and free fatty acids had little or no ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lascu I,Edwards B,Cucuianu MP,Deamer DW

更新日期：1988-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of 1-[3H]-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine ([3H] PAF-acether) into rabbit platelet phosphatidylcholine (PC) was inhibited by a specific antagonist, BN 52021 (IC50 5.6 X 10(-6) M, maximal effect, i.e 70% inhibition, at 10(-4) M). Under the same conditions, [3H] lyso-PAF-acether incorporation r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lachachi H,Plantavid M,Simon MF,Chap H,Braquet P,Douste-Blazy L

更新日期：1985-10-30 00:00:00