Stoichiometric interactions between cyanobacterial clock proteins KaiA and KaiC.

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a bacterium that uses flagella for motility and causes worldwide acute gastroenteritis in humans. The C. jejuni N-acetyltransferase PseH (cjPseH) is responsible for the third step in flagellin O-linked glycosylation and plays a key role in flagellar formation and motility. cjPseH transfers an a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Song WS,Nam MS,Namgung B,Yoon SI

更新日期：2015-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin is a peptide found in the hypothalamus and stomach that stimulates food intake and whose circulating concentrations are affected by nutritional state. Very little is known about other central behavioral effects of ghrelin, and thus, we investigated the effects of ghrelin on anxiety and memory retention. The pe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Carlini VP,Monzón ME,Varas MM,Cragnolini AB,Schiöth HB,Scimonelli TN,de Barioglio SR

更新日期：2002-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid β (Aβ) peptide, a causative agent of Alzheimer's disease, forms two types of aggregates: oligomers and fibrils. These aggregates induce inflammatory responses, such as interleukin-1β (IL-1β) production by microglia, which are macrophage-like cells located in the brain. In this study, we examined the effect of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Taneo J,Adachi T,Yoshida A,Takayasu K,Takahara K,Inaba K

更新日期：2015-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) was recently shown to be an important extracellular mediator of severe vascular inflammatory disease, sepsis. Lysozyme (LYZ) has been shown to bind to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and have a potential for playing a role in the therapy of inflammatory diseases. However, the effec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee W,Park EJ,Kwak S,Kim Y,Na DH,Bae JS

更新日期：2015-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a specific receptor for 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)2D) was investigated in a cell line A7r5 derived from fetal aorta. 1,25(OH)2[3H]D3 binding to cytosol was saturated at 0.6-1 nM, and Scatchard analysis yielded dissociation constant and binding sites, (3.02 +/- 0.4) X 10(-11) M and 33.9 +/- 5.8 f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawashima H

更新日期：1987-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MH1C1 rat hepatoma cells express the alpha isoenzyme as the only phorbol-ester sensitive isoform of protein kinase C (PKC). In this cell line, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) induced a marked, dose-dependent growth inhibition. The administration of the PKC inhibitor staurosporine was able to mimic the effect of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Perletti GP,Smeraldi C,Porro D,Piccinini F

更新日期：1994-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycosides are important antibiotics used against a wide range of pathogens. As a mechanism of defense, bacteria have evolved enzymes able to inactivate these drugs by regio-selectively adding a variety of functionalities (acetyl, phospho, and nucelotidyl groups) to their scaffolds. The aminoglycoside nucleotidyl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Porter VR,Green KD,Zolova OE,Houghton JL,Garneau-Tsodikova S

更新日期：2010-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthyretin (TTR) is a human disease-associated amyloidogenic protein that has been implicated in senile systemic amyloidosis (SSA) and familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). FAP typically results in severe and early-onset disease, and the only therapy established so far is liver transplantation; thus, developin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee KW,Lee DH,Son H,Kim YS,Park JY,Roh GS,Kim HJ,Kang SS,Cho GJ,Choi WS

更新日期：2009-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A complementary DNA library prepared from the 12S polyadenylated RNAs extracted from interferon-induced KG-1 cells, a human myeloblast cell line, was screened for the presence of induction-specific sequences. Clones that exhibited strong positive signals were separated by hybridization criteria into nine classes. Clon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsuzuki T,Nomiyama H,Setoyama C,Maeda S,Shimada K,Pestka S

更新日期：1983-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Young lean (Fa/?) and obese (fa/fa) rats were treated with the thermogenic beta-adrenoceptor agonist, BRL 26830, for 3 weeks. In lean rats this treatment had no effect on body weight but there was a marked increase in the insulin sensitivity of soleus muscle strips with respect to glycolytic rate. Treatment of obese r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Challiss RA,Budohoski L,Newsholme EA,Sennitt MV,Cawthorne MA

更新日期：1985-04-30 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：:Although proteins are generally composed of l-alpha-amino acids, biologically uncommon D-beta-aspartic acid (Asp)-containing proteins have been reported in various tissues from elderly individuals. Our previous study indicated that the N/N1003A cell line, derived from rabbit lens, includes D-beta-Asp-containing protei...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takata T,Shimo-Oka T,Miki K,Fujii N

更新日期：2005-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation in mammalian females occurs early in embryonic development and renders most genes on the inactive X chromosome transcriptionally silenced. As a consequence, females will display an X chromosomal parent-of-origin mosaiscism with regard to which parental allele that is expressed. Some genes, ho...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nordquist N,Oreland L

更新日期：2006-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialoglycans on the cell surface of human colon cancer (HCC) cells have been implicated in cellular adhesion and metastasis. To clarify the role of N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) linked alpha2,3 to galactose (Gal) on the surface of HCC cells, we studied the intercellular adhesion of HCC cell lines expressing increasi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dimitroff CJ,Pera P,Dall'Olio F,Matta KL,Chandrasekaran EV,Lau JT,Bernacki RJ

更新日期：1999-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:T-type Ca(2+) channels have been implicated in tremorogenesis and motor coordination. The α1 subunit of the Ca(V)3.1 T-type Ca(2+) channel is highly expressed in motor pathways in the brain, but knockout of the Ca(V)3.1 gene (α(1G)(-/-)) per se causes no motor defects in mice. Thus, the role of Ca(V)3.1 channels in mo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chang KY,Park YG,Park HY,Homanics GE,Kim J,Kim D

更新日期：2011-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) functions as an important rate-limiting enzyme of aerobic glycolysis that is involved in tumor initiation and progression. However, there are few studies on effective PKM2 inhibitors. Gliotoxin is a marine-derived fungal secondary metabolite with multiple biological activities, including immu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tang W,Liu ZL,Mai XY,Qi X,Li DH,Gu QQ,Li J

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagens are the most abundant structural proteins found in the extracellular matrix of vertebrates. Knowledge of the mechanical behavior of collagen monomers is essential for understanding the mechanical properties of collagen fibrils that constitute the main architectural framework of skin, bone, cartilage, and oth...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sun YL,Luo ZP,Fertala A,An KN

更新日期：2002-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of the eukaryotic ribosomal biogenesis, both the nuclear import and export are involved. We have studied the nuclear and nucleolar localization of the human ribosomal protein S7. We examined the subcellular distribution of the S7:beta-galactosidase fusion protein in SAOS-2 cells. We have identified two e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Annilo T,Karis A,Hoth S,Rikk T,Kruppa J,Metspalu A

更新日期：1998-08-28 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：:A substantial body of data indicates that reactive oxygen intermediates (ROIs) are implicated in pathogenesis of diverse human diseases. Oxidative stress induced by ROIs often causes cell death via apoptosis that is regulated by a plenty of functional genes and their protein products. Bcl-2 is one such protein that bl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jang JH,Surh YJ

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin heavy chain (MHC) mRNA isoforms were quantified in soleus (SOL) and gastrocnemius (GAS) muscles from rats exposed to 14 days of either hindlimb unweighting (HU), clenbuterol treatment (CB), or HU combined with CB treatment (HU-CB). All conditions induced in SOL a shift from slow to faster MHC mRNA isoforms and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stevens L,Gohlsch B,Mounier Y,Pette D

更新日期：2000-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene coding for connexin26 (Cx26) is the most common cause of human nonsyndromic hereditary deafness. To investigate deafness mechanisms underlying Cx26 null mutations, we generated three independent lines of conditional Cx26 null mice. Cell differentiation and gross cochlear morphology at birth seeme...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Y,Chang Q,Tang W,Sun Y,Zhou B,Li H,Lin X

更新日期：2009-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspase-independent, non-apoptotic cell death is an important therapeutic target in myocardial ischemia. Leptin, an adipose-derived hormone, is known to exhibit cytoprotective effects on the ischemic heart, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. In this research, we found that pretreatment of leptin strongly suppre...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takatani-Nakase T,Takahashi K

更新日期：2015-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a unique phenomenon in cancer patients and is commonly associated with an overexpression of the human MDR gene mdr1, which encodes an energy-dependent Mr 180 kDa membrane bound protein, known as P-glycoprotein. P-glycoprotein serves as a membrane efflux to pump the drugs out of the cancer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chu TM,Lin TH,Kawinski E

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-33 is a novel member of the IL-1 family. IL-33 is primarily synthesized as a 30-kDa precursor (pro-IL-33). Pro-IL-33 is cleaved by caspase-1 into an 18-kDa mature form (mature IL-33) in vitro. Recombinant mature IL-33 has been known to induce T-helper type-2 (Th2)-associated cytokines and inflammatory...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayakawa M,Hayakawa H,Matsuyama Y,Tamemoto H,Okazaki H,Tominaga S

更新日期：2009-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Deformation of vacuolar membranes mediated by endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) is necessary for microautophagy. Target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1) protein kinase negatively regulates ESCRT-0 (Vps27-Hse1) recruitment onto vacuolar membranes and microautophagy induction. However, whether and h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sharmin T,Morshed S,Ushimaru T

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:G proteins play vital roles in cellular responses to external signals. The specificity of G protein-receptor interaction is mediated mostly by the gamma-subunit and the individual members of the gamma-subunit multigene family would hence be expected to each have a particular expression profile. In an experiment design...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Modarressi MH,Taylor KE,Wolfe J

更新日期：2000-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Whilst investigating whether GTP hydrolysis may be required for the import of preproteins into mitochondria we have found that a GTP-binding protein is located at the contact sites between mitochondrial inner and outer membranes. When mitochondrial outer membranes purified from rat liver were UV-irradiated in the pres...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lithgow T,Timms M,Høj PB,Hoogenraad NJ

更新日期：1991-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the early postnatal period, cerebellar granule cells exhibit an activity-dependent downregulation of a set of immaturation genes involved in cell growth and migration and are shifted to establishment of a mature network formation. Through the use of a granule cell culture and both pharmacological and RNA interferen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okazawa M,Abe H,Nakanishi S

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular parasitic protist Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease in Latin America. In general, pyrimidine nucleotides are supplied by both de novo biosynthesis and salvage pathways. While epimastigotes-an insect form-possess both activities, amastigotes-an intracellular replicating form o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hashimoto M,Morales J,Fukai Y,Suzuki S,Takamiya S,Tsubouchi A,Inoue S,Inoue M,Kita K,Harada S,Tanaka A,Aoki T,Nara T

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00