Cell adhesion to ephrinb2 is induced by EphB4 independently of its kinase activity.

abstract：:Isoprenoids comprise a diverse group of natural products with a broad range of metabolic functions. Isoprenoids are synthesized from prenyl pyrophosphates by prenyltransferases that catalyze the isoprenoid chain-elongation process to different chain lengths. We hereby present the crystal structure of geranylgeranyl py...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim S,Kim EJ,Park JB,Kim SW,Kim KJ

更新日期：2019-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion protein (PrP) binds copper and exhibits superoxide dismutase-like activity, while the roles of PrP in copper homeostasis remain controversial. Using Zeeman graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy, we quantified copper levels in immortalized PrP gene (Prnp)-deficient neuronal cells transfected with Prnp a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakudo A,Lee DC,Yoshimura E,Nagasaka S,Nitta K,Saeki K,Matsumoto Y,Lehmann S,Itohara S,Sakaguchi S,Onodera T

更新日期：2004-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Rab proteins, members of the Ras superfamily of small GTPases, play regulatory roles in intercompartmental vesicular transport. Each step of traffic seems to require the participation of at least one distinct Rab, with the Rab3 subfamily involved in stimulated exocytosis. We report our studies on the murine rab3D gene...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Adachi R,Nigam R,Tuvim MJ,DeMayo F,Dickey BF

更新日期：2000-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of the hepadnavirus polymerases are known to include those of DNA polymerase, reverse transcriptase and RNase H. To date, it has been difficult or impossible to clone and express the product as an active enzyme. In this study, full length capped RNA encoding Duck Hepatitis B Virus (DHBV) polymerase was prod...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Howe AY,Elliott JF,Tyrrell DL

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bright bioluminescence of copepod Metridia longa is conditioned by a small secreted coelenterazine-dependent luciferase (MLuc). To date, three isoforms of MLuc differing in length, sequences, and some properties were cloned and successfully applied as high sensitive bioluminescent reporters. In this work, we repor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Larionova MD,Markova SV,Vysotski ES

更新日期：2017-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cilia/flagella are evolutionarily conserved cellular organelles. In this study, we demonstrated that Dunaliella salina Peroxiredoxin 1 (DsPrdx1) localized to the flagella and basal bodies, and was involved in flagellar disassembly. The link between DsPrdx1 and flagella of Dunaliella salina (D. salina) encouraged us to...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gong F,Liu H,Li J,Xue L,Zhang M

更新日期：2014-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine genomic clone of about 16 kilobases encompassing putatively entire bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-4 gene has been isolated. Comparison with the cDNA clones revealed the existence of at least five exons on the 3' side of the clone. There are two alternative transcriptional start sites, one is for the first e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurihara T,Kitamura K,Takaoka K,Nakazato H

更新日期：1993-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adiponectin (APN) is an adipocyte-derived bioactive molecule with anti-diabetic and anti-atherogenic properties. Although anti-diabetic effects are mostly mediated by the adiponectin receptors AdipoR1 and AdipoR2, the anti-atherogenic mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. METHODS AND RESULTS:In this st...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamamoto H,Kuroda N,Uekita H,Kochi I,Matsumoto A,Niinaga R,Funahashi T,Shimomura I,Kihara S

更新日期：2016-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The baculovirus has recently emerged as a promising vector for in vivo gene therapy. To investigate its potential as a delivery vector for an anti-virus ribozyme targeting HIV-1, we constructed recombinant baculovirus vectors bearing a ribozyme-synthesizing cassette driven by the tRNA(i)(Met) promoter with enhanced tr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaneko H,Suzuki H,Abe T,Miyano-Kurosaki N,Takaku H

更新日期：2006-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) is a heterogeneous disorder with a variety of molecular pathologies converging predominantly on abnormal amyloid deposition particularly in the brain. beta-Amyloid aggregation into senile plaques is one of the pathological hallmarks of AD. beta-Amyloid is generated by a proteolytic cleavage of a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Elbaum D,Brzyska M,Bacia A,Alkon DL

更新日期：2000-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-dependent secretion of immunoreactive-endothelin (IR-ET) from cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells was markedly suppressed by phosphoramidon is due to proteinase inhibitor. Analysis of the culture supernatant with or without phosphoramidon by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography confirmed tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ikegawa R,Matsumura Y,Tsukahara Y,Takaoka M,Morimoto S

更新日期：1990-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch signaling is essential for cell-fate specification in metazoans, and dysregulation of the pathway leads to a variety of human diseases including heart and vascular defects as well as cancer. Glycosylation of the Notch extracellular domain has emerged as an elegant means for regulating Notch activity, especially ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takeuchi H,Haltiwanger RS

更新日期：2014-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:From a lambda UNI-ZAP XR cDNA library derived from poly(A)+RNA of human ovarian granulosa cells a cDNA clone pHG51 was isolated. Sequence analysis showed significant homology to the C-terminal region of rat ribosomal protein L8 cDNA. The 5'-end of the cDNA was completed by PCR with cloned total cDNA. Aligning of DNA s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hanes J,Klaudiny J,von der Kammer H,Scheit KH

更新日期：1993-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of the tumor-promoting phorbol 12-myristate, 13-acetate to rabbit neutrophils greatly potentiates the effect of the calcium ionophore A23187 on [3H]-arachidonic acid release and [32P]-phosphatidic acid generation. At 5 X 10(-8) M A23187, the addition of 20 ng/ml PMA potentiates the action of the ionophore...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Volpi M,Molski TF,Naccache PH,Feinstein MB,Sha'afi RI

更新日期：1985-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptavidin, which is one of the most widely used proteins in biotechnological application field and is active only in tetrameric form, was surface expressed on the surface of Bacillus subtilis spore. Spore coat protein of B. subtilis, CotG, was used as an anchoring motif to display streptavidin. FACS using anti-stre...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim JH,Lee CS,Kim BG

更新日期：2005-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of epsilon subunit on the nucleotide binding to the catalytic sites of F(1)-ATPase from the thermophilic Bacillus PS3 (TF(1)) has been tested by using alpha(3)beta(3)gamma and alpha(3)beta(3)gammaepsilon complexes of TF(1) containing betaTyr341 to Trp substitution. The nucleotide binding was assessed with fluor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yasuno T,Muneyuki E,Yoshida M,Kato-Yamada Y

更新日期：2009-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA for a GnRH receptor (mtGnRH-R) was obtained from a mouse gonadotropic pituitary cell line (alpha T3-1) by expression cloning. This full-length cDNA was subsequently used as a probe to clone a rat pituitary GnRH receptor (rGnRH-R). The two receptors differ by 13 amino acids and are 100% identical to those recent...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Perrin MH,Bilezikjian LM,Hoeger C,Donaldson CJ,Rivier J,Haas Y,Vale WW

更新日期：1993-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids inhibit rodent alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) gene activity but stimulate expression of the human homologue. Like human, activity of the AFP promoter from other primates was stimulated by the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone (Dex) in various cell lines. A glucocorticoid responsive element (GRE) is locat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakabayashi H,Koyama Y,Sakai M,Li HM,Wong NC,Nishi S

更新日期：2001-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A fast and robust assay, based on the combination of the highly sensitive immuno-PCR (IPCR), employing standardized self-assembled DNA-protein conjugates as reagents, and the well-established, reliable, and fast real-time PCR detection by means of the TaqMan principle is introduced in this work. The use of anti-specie...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Adler M,Wacker R,Niemeyer CM

更新日期：2003-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA for subunit d of rat mitochondrial H(+)-ATP synthase was cloned from a brain cDNA library. The protein contains internally repeat structures that have sequences similar to those of other ATP-related proteins. The antibodies raised against the protein A-subunit d fusion protein expressed in E. coli specificall...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Motojima K,Imanaka T

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The helix-loop-helix protein Id-1 regulates growth and differentiation in many mammalian cells. In human fibroblasts, Id1 and Id1', a putative splicing variant, are cell cycle regulated, essential for proliferation, repressed by senescence, and overexpressed by some tumor cells. To better understand Id1, we determined...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nehlin JO,Hara E,Kuo WL,Collins C,Campisi J

更新日期：1997-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the retina-specific expression of the interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP) gene in transgenic mice requires sequences between nucleotide (nt) -156 and +19. DNAse I footprinting and electrophoretic mobility shift assays identified a region between nt -69 and -40 that interacts with some nucl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liou GI,Matragoon S,Overbeek PA,Fei Y

更新日期：1994-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced formation and accumulation of advanced glycation endproducts (AGE's) have been proposed to play a major role in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications, aging, atherosclerosis, and Alzheimer disease leading to progressive and irreversible intermolecular protein crosslinkings. This process is accelerated in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rahbar S,Kumar Yernini K,Scott S,Gonzales N,Lalezari I

更新日期：1999-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoclast activity is enhanced in acidic environments following systemic or local inflammation. However, the regulatory mechanism of receptor activator of NF-κB ligand (RANKL) expression in osteoblasts under acidic conditions is not fully understood. In the present paper, we detected the mRNA expression of the G-prot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okito A,Nakahama K,Akiyama M,Ono T,Morita I

更新日期：2015-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumors evade death in part by downregulating expression of the tumor suppressor gene Interferon regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1). However, the molecular mechanisms accounting for IRF-1 suppression in HCC have not been well described. In this study, we identified a novel microRNA-301a (miR-301...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dong K,Du Q,Cui X,Wan P,Kaltenmeier C,Luo J,Yan B,Yan Y,Geller DA

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence was obtained from a cDNA clone, designated ERD1, isolated from a cDNA library of 1-hour-dehydrated plants of Arabidopsis thaliana L. The clone (3150 bp) contains an open reading frame of 946 amino acid residues with greater than 34% sequence identity to the regulatory subunit of the Clp ATP-dependent protease...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kiyosue T,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Shinozaki K

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-gene is a potent inhibitor of transcriptional promoter activity and subsequent gene expression. This property has been exploited to suppress the expression of a variety of oncogenes for regulating tumor proliferation or viral activities. In this paper, we describe a novel retroviral vector designed to express hum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okada T,Amanuma H,Okada Y,Obata M,Hayashi Y,Yamaguchi K,Yamashita J

更新日期：1997-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous investigations in our laboratory demonstrated the existence of an intrinsic mechanism, termed membrane modulation, capable of restoring sensitivity to aspirin treated platelets, resulting in irreversible aggregation in response to arachidonic acid (AA). The mechanism underlying correction of aspirin induced i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rao GH,Radha E,White JG

更新日期：1985-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Most proteins synthesized in cytoplasm target to mitochondria through sequences at their amino termini. However, a previous study suggests that the native carboxyl terminus of ISP6 might be critical of its specific delivery. Here we investigated the sequence directing ISP6 to yeast mitochondrial outer membrane. Unlike...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cao W,Douglas MG

更新日期：1996-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel subtilisin-like serine proteases (AS-E1 and -E2) that activate prothrombin have been identified in a culture of the fungus Acremonium sp. The enzymes were purified through repeated hydrophobic interaction chromatography. The N-terminal sequences of AS-E1 (34.4 kDa) and AS-E2 (32 kDa) showed high similarity t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu C,Matsushita Y,Shimizu K,Makimura K,Hasumi K

更新日期：2007-06-22 00:00:00