Action of Bauhinia bauhinioides synthetic peptides on serine proteinases.

abstract：:Parathymosin has been purified from calf liver and its primary sequence established, except for a segment containing approximately 11 amino acid residues in the central part of the polypeptide chain. Bovine parathymosin contains approximately 101 amino acid residues and shows 90% identity with rat parathymosin, with s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Panneerselvam C,Clinton M,Wellner D,Horecker BL

更新日期：1988-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Amyloid peptide (beta A) is a major fibrillar component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains and is related to the pathogenesis of the disease. In this study, using electron microscopy, we describe herein the results concerning the efficacy of compounds that can dissolve preformed beta A fibrils...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nguyen KV,Gendrault JL,Wolff CM

更新日期：2002-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a bulk degradation process for subcellular proteins and organelles to manage cell starvation. Autophagy is associated with the formation of autophagosomes and further functions as a defense mechanism against infection by various pathogens. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection induces an autophagy response...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishii Y

更新日期：2013-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary aldosteronism is an important, potentially curable, form of hypertension. We examined the possible association between restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) gene and responsiveness of aldosterone to angiotensin II in 59 patients with primary aldosteronism due to aldo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tunny TJ,Jonsson JR,Klemm SA,Ballantine DM,Stowasser M,Gordon RD

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) produced by macrophages plays an important role in host defense and inflammation. We found that two agrochemicals, alachlor and carbaryl, inhibit lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced NO production by macrophages. In the present study, we investigated this inhibitory mechanism in RAW 264 cells. Both chemi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimomura-Shimizu M,Sugiyama K,Muroi M,Tanamoto K

更新日期：2005-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of the carboxyl group in deltorphin molecules, we have synthesized three new analogues in which the acidic amino acid residues in position 4 of the deltorphins were replaced by non-acidic but hydrophilic amino acids residues. The three analogues, [Ser4]-, [Gln4]-, and [Cys4]-deltorphin, all are...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Misicka A,Lipkowski AW,Fang L,Knapp RJ,Davis P,Kramer T,Burks TF,Yamamura HI,Carr DB,Hruby VJ

更新日期：1991-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mono-oxygenase (cresolase) activity of mushroom tyrosinase (MT) in the presence of 4-[(4-hydroxyphenyl)azo]-benzenesulfonamide (HPABS) was successfully studied by resonance Raman (rR) spectroscopy. HPABS is a synthetic competitive inhibitor (K(i)=7.17 x 10(-6)M) for the cresolase activity with a large extinction coeff...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shareefi Borojerdi S,Haghbeen K,Asghar Karkhane A,Fazli M,Saboury AA

更新日期：2004-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple types of connexin (Cxs) products, including Cx26, Cx30, Cx31, and Cx43, are found by immunolabeling in the mature cochlea. The transcript of Cx29, a newly discovered member of Cx gene family, was also discovered in the cochlea by cDNA macroarray hybridization. However, the functional roles of Cx29 in the coch...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang JJ,Liao PJ,Su CC,Li SY

更新日期：2005-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present studies, cAMP, a secondary messenger historically viewed as a negative mediator of immune responses, was demonstrated to possess immunoenhancing activity at low concentrations. In parallel experiments the adenylate cyclase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxyadenosine, produced a marked inhibition of humoral and pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koh WS,Yang KH,Kaminski NE

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha 2-Antiplasmin (AP) inhibits plasmin in a two-step reaction in which AP reversibly binds to lysine-binding sites of plasmin and, then, more slowly complexes covalently with the enzyme's active site. Here, we show that the C-terminal lysine residue of AP has a key role in binding of the inhibitor to plasmin. A syn...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hortin GL,Gibson BL,Fok KF

更新日期：1988-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxynucleoside analogues (dNAs) are cytotoxic towards both replicating and indolent malignancies. The impact of fluctuations in the metabolism of dNAs in relation to cell cycle could have strong implications regarding the activity of dNAs. Deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) and deoxyguanosine kinase (dGK) are important enzym...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fyrberg A,Albertioni F,Lotfi K

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aralin from Aralia elata is a newly identified type II ribosome- inactivating protein, which preferentially induces apoptosis in cancer cells. In this study, we identified that the aralin receptor is a 110-kDa high-density lipoprotein-binding protein (HDLBP), which functions as a HDL receptor. The sensitivities of tum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Otsuka H,Gotoh Y,Komeno T,Ono T,Kawasaki Y,Iida N,Shibagaki Y,Hattori S,Tomatsu M,Akiyama H,Tashiro F

更新日期：2014-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies revealed dramatic changes in circadian clock genes' expression during the perinatal period. In this study, we characterized DNA methylation for three clock genes mPer1, mPer2, and mCry1 at their selected promoter regions during development. Results for the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and liver (at emb...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ji Y,Qin Y,Shu H,Li X

更新日期：2010-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of subchronic intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) recombinant protein gp120 (100 ng, given daily for up to 7 consecutive days) on cyclooxygenase type 2 (COX-2) expression was studied by immunohistochemistry in the brain of adult rats. In comparison t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bagetta G,Corasaniti MT,Paoletti AM,Berliocchi L,Nisticò R,Giammarioli AM,Malorni W,Finazzi-Agrò A

更新日期：1998-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase, FAK, is a unique protein tyrosine kinase found in cellular focal adhesions. It is widely expressed and highly phosphorylated during embryogenesis. To examine the function of FAK in cell differentiation, we made FAK-deficient embryonic stem (ES) cells by homologous recombination. However, FAK-def...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ilic D,Furuta Y,Suda T,Atsumi T,Fujimoto J,Ikawa Y,Yamamoto T,Aizawa S

更新日期：1995-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix regulates many fundamental cellular processes such as proliferation, migration, and differentiation. Among the ECM components, type I collagen induces endothelial tube formation in vitro. By analysing genes participating in this event, the bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II (BMPR-II) was d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Regazzoni C,Winterhalter KH,Rohrer L

更新日期：2001-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region is involved in the generation and maintenance of the first definitive hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). A mouse AGM-derived cell line, AGM-S3, was shown to support the development of HSCs. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms regulating early hematopoiesis, we obtained subclone...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagao K,Ohta T,Hinohara A,Tahara T,Hagiwara T,Maeda Y,Yoneya T,Sohma Y,Heike T,Nakahata T,Inagaki Y,Nishikawa M

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tat-interactive protein, 60kDa (Tip60) is a histone acetyltransferase with specificity toward lysine 5 of histone H2A (H2AK5) and plays multiple roles in chromatin remodeling processes. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments performed on Jurkat cells, showed that Tip60 is present in the same macro-molecular complex as UHR...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Achour M,Fuhrmann G,Alhosin M,Rondé P,Chataigneau T,Mousli M,Schini-Kerth VB,Bronner C

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear receptors CAR and PXR play a key role in cytochrome P450 gene induction by xenobiotics. Human cytochrome P450 3A7 (CYP3A7) is expressed from early in gestation until the perinatal period, when there is a switch in expression to CYP3A4. Here we demonstrate that a PXR and CAR responsive enhancer is located appro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bertilsson G,Berkenstam A,Blomquist P

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Small membrane-bound extracellular organelles known as articular cartilage matrix vesicles (ACVs) participate in pathologic mineralization in osteoarthritic articular cartilage. ACVs are also present in normal cartilage, although they have no known functions other than mineralization. Recently, RNA was identified in e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mitton E,Gohr CM,McNally MT,Rosenthal AK

更新日期：2009-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA cleavage by N-(O,O-diisopropyl)phosphoryl histidine(DIPP-His) is investigated by a submarine agarose electrophoresis technique. It was found that DIPP-His could cleave supercoiled DNAs and lambda DNA without the participation of divalent metal ions, while the histidine itself and N-(O,O-diisopropyl)phosphoryl alan...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li Y,Sha YW,Ma Y,Zhao Y

更新日期：1995-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new analogues of trypsin inhibitor CMTI-III were synthesized by the solid-phase method: [Lys5]-CMTI-III, [Orn5]CMTI-III and [Dab5]CMTI-III. Only one analogue with L-lysine residue in position P1 showed inhibitory activity of the same order of magnitude as did wild CMTI-III. Two remaining analogues were completel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jaśkiewicz A,Lesner A,Rózycki J,Rodziewicz S,Rolka K,Ragnarsson U,Kupryszewski G

更新日期：1997-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH; EC 1.1.1.1) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH; EC 1.2.1.3.) are important enzymes involved in the biotransformation of both alcohols and aldehydes. Today, six classes of ADH and twelve classes of ALDH have been defined in mammals. Here we report the detection and localisation of three classe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheung C,Smith CK,Hoog JO,Hotchkiss SA

更新日期：1999-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The phospholipid transfer properties of human and rat plasma have been studied using radiolabeled phosphatidylcholines (PCs) and diether PCs as well as a series of fluorescent PCs. The PC transfer activities of human and rat lipoprotein deficient sera are similar. Lipoprotein deficient rat serum transfers PC at a rate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pownall HJ,Hickson DL,Gotto AM Jr,Massey JB

更新日期：1984-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of cell-cell adhesion, which is essential for the maintenance of epithelial plasticity and is mediated by a class of proteins called cadherins, is an initial event in the progression of cancer. Cadherins are Ca(2+)-dependent transmembrane proteins that are associated with actin via other cytoplasmic protein...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Baranwal S,Alahari SK

更新日期：2009-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of [14C]serine into phosphatidylserine by the base exchange reaction in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells is inhibited by 30% by glucose and by 60% by 2-deoxyglucose (10 mM each). The inhibition by thapsigargin (0.2 microM) amounts to 80%. This inhibition is interpreted as being due to depletion of calcium sto...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rakowska M,Wojtczak L

更新日期：1995-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The current utility of bioluminescence imaging is constrained by a low photon yield that limits temporal sensitivity. Here, we describe an imaging method that uses a chemiluminescent/fluorescent protein, ffLuc-cp156, which consists of a yellow variant of Aequorea GFP and firefly luciferase. We report an improvement in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hara-Miyauchi C,Tsuji O,Hanyu A,Okada S,Yasuda A,Fukano T,Akazawa C,Nakamura M,Imamura T,Matsuzaki Y,Okano HJ,Miyawaki A,Okano H

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice expressing the rhodopsin mutant Pro347Ser (Serine 6) display retinal degeneration through apoptosis that is characteristic of the disease retinitis pigmentosa. By 5 weeks after birth, these mice have lost approximately 35% of their photoreceptor cells. Retinas from these mice showed higher levels of cA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Weiss ER,Hao Y,Dickerson CD,Osawa S,Shi W,Zhang L,Wong F

更新日期：1995-11-22 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：:The promoter of the GATA-4 gene was analyzed in P19CL6 cells. A 124bp segment containing conserved two GC-boxes and E-box was essential for the basal promoter activity, as determined with a transient luciferase reporter gene assay. However, an extended 1312 bp reporter construct but not the 124 bp segment, when ligate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishibashi T,Yokura Y,Ohashi K,Yamamoto H,Maeda M

更新日期：2011-09-23 00:00:00