Novel motifs in amino acid permease genes from Leishmania.

abstract：:15(S)-15-methyl-prostaglandin E1 and prostaglandin I2 rapidly and reversibly inhibit formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine induced superoxide production by human neutrophils. In contrast, 15(S)-15-methyl-prostaglandin E1 and prostaglandin I2 did not alter the rate or the total amount of superoxide production by human ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fantone JC,Kinnes DA

更新日期：1983-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GlcNAcT-I, EC 2.4.1.101) is the enzyme which initiates the formation of complex N-linked glycans in eukaryotes by transforming GlcNAc to the oligo-mannosyl acceptor Man(5)GlcNAc(2)-Asn. The enzymatic activity and the structure that is synthesised by this enzyme are found in animals a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bakker H,Lommen A,Jordi W,Stiekema W,Bosch D

更新日期：1999-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO*) is produced endogenously from NOS isoforms bound to sarcolemmal (SL) and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes. To investigate whether locally generated NO* directly affects the activity of enzymes mediating ion active transport, we studied whether knockout of selected NOS isoforms would affect the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou L,Burnett AL,Huang PL,Becker LC,Kuppusamy P,Kass DA,Kevin Donahue J,Proud D,Sham JS,Dawson TM,Xu KY

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane receptors can undergo translocation in the plane of plasma membrane after binding of polyvalent ligands. Ligand/receptor clusters, named patches, can collect into a polar cap, presumably due to their association with the submembrane actin-based cytoskeleton. We found that the assembly of Fcgamma recept...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kwiatkowska K,Sobota A

更新日期：1999-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To unravel the roles of sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) in muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.), we reduced its activity in transgenic muskmelon plants by an antisense approach. For this purpose, an 830 bp cDNA fragment of muskmelon sucrose phosphate synthase was expressed in antisense orientation behind the 35S promoter of t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tian H,Ma L,Zhao C,Hao H,Gong B,Yu X,Wang X

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term neuropathic pain can lead to anxiety, depression, and other issues, which seriously affect patients' quality of life. For this reason, it is important to find effective treatments. Studies have shown that glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) can relieve neuropathic pain. However, its mechanism of ac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pan Y,Jiang L,Wang C

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Laminins, the major basement membrane glycoproteins, are composed of three subunits. We identified a splice variant of the human laminin alpha4 subunit transcript containing 21 extra nucleotides. A heptapeptide sequence, MDCPTIS, was inserted close to the two cysteine residues possibly involved in the intersubunit dis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi Y,Kim KH,Fujiwara H,Shimono C,Yamashita M,Sanzen N,Futaki S,Sekiguchi K

更新日期：2002-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of muscarinic cholinergic receptors on 1321N1 human astrocytoma cells leads to Ca2+ mobilization as measured by quin 2 fluorescence. Acetylcholine and methacholine were full and potent agonists, while carbachol and muscarine, were fully efficacious but 6- and 10-fold less potent than acetylcholine. The carb...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Noronha-Blob L,Richard C,U'Prichard DC

更新日期：1987-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithrombin inhibits chemokine-induced migration of neutrophils by activating heparan sulfate proteoglycan-dependent signaling. Mechanisms of antithrombin's effects on neutrophils were, therefore, studied by testing function and expression of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in RT-PCR or flow cytometry and cell migratio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaneider NC,Egger P,Dunzendorfer S,Wiedermann CJ

更新日期：2001-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement sensitization of red blood cells (RBCs) can cause life-threatening hemolytic anemias. We have previously shown that complement receptor 1 (CR1) derivatives specifically the N-terminal region with decay accelerating activity (DAA) for inactivation of a key enzyme in the complement cascade can reduce compleme...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu J,Heck S,Debnath A,Yazdanbakhsh K

更新日期：2007-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:BMP-3b (also called GDF-10) is a novel BMP-3-related protein recently discovered in rat femur tissue. Gene expression of BMP-3b in osteoblastic cells and its regulation by prolonged culture, BMP-2 and transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-beta1) were examined. The BMP-3b gene was highly expressed in rat osteoblasts ob...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hino J,Matsuo H,Kangawa K

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocr protein of bacteriophage T7 is a structural and electrostatic mimic of approximately 24 base pairs of double-stranded B-form DNA. As such, it inhibits all Type I restriction and modification (R/M) enzymes by blocking their DNA binding grooves and inactivates them. This allows the infection of the bacterial cel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stephanou AS,Roberts GA,Tock MR,Pritchard EH,Turkington R,Nutley M,Cooper A,Dryden DT

更新日期：2009-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a 21-amino acid vasoactive peptide produced from a 39-amino acid biologically inactive peptide, big ET-1, by the action of endothelin-converting enzyme-1 (ECE-1). We investigated gastric mucosal expression of ECE-1 during a 16 h course of inflammatory responses associated with gastric mucosal in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Slomiany BL,Slomiany A

更新日期：2000-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To study polygenetically inherited human diseases like hypertension, inbred rat strains are usually the preferred models. Because many inbred generations under optimized environmental conditions may have led to the survival of "silent" disease genes, we used a cross between one wild rat and genetically hypertensive SH...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Klöting I,Kovács P,van den Brandt J

更新日期：2001-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Plexin-B1 regulates various cellular processes interacting directly with several Rho proteins. Molecular details of these interactions are, however, not well understood. In this study, we examined in vitro and in silico the interaction of the Rho binding domain (B1RBD) of human Plexin-B1 with 11 different Rho proteins...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fansa EK,Dvorsky R,Zhang SC,Fiegen D,Ahmadian MR

更新日期：2013-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversal of the plasma membrane Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX) has been shown to mediate Ca(2+) influx in response to activation of G-protein linked receptors. Functional coupling of reverse-mode NCX with canonical transient receptor potential channels (TRPC), specifically TRPC6, has recently been demonstrated by our la...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Syyong HT,Poburko D,Fameli N,van Breemen C

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Runt-related transcription factor-2 (RUNX2)/core binding factor a1 (Cbfa1) is implicated in the regulation of osteoblast differentiation and osteoblast-specific gene expression. Mutations in RUNX2 cause the bone disease cleidocranial dysplasia, which is characterized by multiple skeletal defects. RUNX2 is expressed as...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sudhakar S,Li Y,Katz MS,Elango N

更新日期：2001-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence indicates that dysregulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) contributes to tumorigenesis. MicroRNA-340 (miR-340) is downregulated in several types of cancer. However, the functional mechanism of miR-340 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains unclear. Here, we showed that miR-340 was significantly downreg...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yuan J,Ji H,Xiao F,Lin Z,Zhao X,Wang Z,Zhao J,Lu J

更新日期：2017-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The 160 kDa alpha-mannosidase (E.C. 3.2.1.24) isolated from culture filtrate of Trichoderma reesei has wide aglycon specificity but cleaves the alpha1 --> 2 and alpha1 --> 3 mannosidic bonds with higher rate than alpha1 --> 6 bond and slowly hydrolyses yeast mannan and 1,6-alpha-mannan. The specific activity of the en...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eneyskaya EV,Kulminskaya AA,Savel'ev AN,Shabalin KA,Golubev AM,Neustroev KN

更新日期：1998-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial stunning (temporary post-ischaemic contractile dysfunction) may be caused by oxidative stress and/or impaired myocyte calcium homeostasis. Regional myocardial stunning was induced in open-chest pigs (segment shortening reduced to 68.3+/-4.7% of baseline) by repetitive brief circumflex coronary occlusion (I/...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kumar S,Hall RJ,Mani AR,Moore KP,Camici PG,Rimoldi OE,Williams AJ,Macleod KT

更新日期：2009-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We earlier reported the mitogenic and immunostimulatory activities of Rhizoctonia bataticola lectin (RBL), purified from phytopathogenic fungus R. bataticola in human PBMC. The lectin demonstrates specificity towards glycoproteins containing complex N-glycans. Since CD45-protein tyrosine phosphatase that abundantly ex...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pujari R,Eligar SM,Kumar N,Nagre NN,Inamdar SR,Swamy BM,Shastry P

更新日期：2012-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone for human transferrin was identified from a human liver cDNA library by pre-screening with different ss-cDNA probes against length-fractionated liver mRNAs, positive hybridization-selection and nucleotide sequence analysis. The insert was of 1 kb, encoding human transferrin from aminoacid 403 through the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Uzan G,Frain M,Park I,Besmond C,Maessen G,Trépat JS,Zakin MM,Kahn A

更新日期：1984-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A 135kDa DNA polymerase alpha lacking primase activity has been purified to near homogeneity from Coprinus meiotic tissues. The activity of the DNA polymerase was sensitive to aphidicolin and N-ethylmaleimide, but was insensitive to dideoxythymidine triphosphate. DNA synthesis was proceeded with a low processivity. Ne...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sawado T,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1997-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat adult liver and hepatocyte lines express an 1.7-kb variant alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) mRNA which differs from the 2.2-kb fetal AFP transcript in sequence in the 5' region. Here we report the characterization of a variant AFP cDNA, ARFP9, which is 1349 bp in length and encodes a 325 amino acid polypeptide. Nucleot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Watanabe T,Jimenez-Molina JL,Chou JY

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Processing of Bacillus thuringiensis protoxins to toxins by midgut proteinases from a strain of the Indianmeal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hubner), resistant to B. thuringiensis subspecies entomocidus (HD-198) was slower than that by midgut proteinases from the susceptible parent strain or a strain resistant to B. th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oppert B,Kramer KJ,Johnson DE,MacIntosh SC,McGaughey WH

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate genetic determinants of insulin resistance, we investigated insulin receptor (IR) and insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) genes, in vitro IR function and in vivo insulin sensitivity in a family with Type A syndrome. Two missense IR mutations (Asp59Gly and Leu62Pro) found in the proband, resulted in reduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rouard M,Macari F,Bouix O,Lautier C,Brun JF,Lefebvre P,Renard E,Bringer J,Jaffiol C,Grigorescu F

更新日期：1997-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:As studied by intravital microscopy, local challenge with the mast cell secretagogue compound 48/80 was found to increase the leukocyte rolling fraction, decrease rolling velocity and induce firm leukocyte adhesion in postcapillary venules of the rat mesentery. These effects of compound 48/80 were inhibited by a monoc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thorlacius H,Raud J,Rosengren-Beezley S,Forrest MJ,Hedqvist P,Lindbom L

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) is a chronic progressive disease of the respiratory bronchioles, and has been improved by low-dose, long-term erythromycin (EMC) treatment. The therapeutic benefits may be derived from its anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties rather than antimicrobial effect. However, there ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park SJ,Lee YC,Rhee YK,Lee HB

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In probing the possible non-genotoxic molecular mechanism(s) of nickel(II)-induced carcinogenesis, we performed a non-radioactive mRNA differential display analysis for nickel(II) acetate-treated Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO-K1-BH4). Three out of thirty differentially expressed cDNAs had sequences highly similar t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee SH,Shiao YH,Plisov SY,Kasprzak KS

更新日期：1999-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock cognate protein 70 (HSC70) has been shown to bind to the peptide corresponding to amino acids 197 to 216 of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) envelope protein, gp46, and an anti-HSC70 monoclonal antibody (mAb) inhibits HTLV-I-induced syncytium formation. These findings suggest that HSC70 is ne...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fang D,Haraguchi Y,Jinno A,Soda Y,Shimizu N,Hoshino H

更新日期：1999-08-02 00:00:00