Molecular regulation of mechanotransduction.

abstract：:Binge drinking is the consumption of large volumes of alcohol in short periods and exerts its effects on the central nervous system, including the hippocampus. We have previously shown that binge drinking alters mitochondrial dynamics and induces neuroinflammation in the hippocampus of adolescent rats. Mild traumatic ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mira RG,Lira M,Quintanilla RA,Cerpa W

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural determinants of L-[(3)H]nicotine binding to synthetic peptides comprising residues 188-207 of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha subunits were invesitigated by equilibrium binding analysis. Two binding components were detected, one of low affinity (K(d) approximately 1.5 microM) that did not differ sign...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lentz TL

更新日期：2000-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-BB elicits a migratory response including reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton in different cell types. Here we have investigated the effects of PDGF-BB stimulation on beta(1) integrin containing focal adhesions in human diploid fibroblasts adhered to collagen type I. Stimulat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ahlén K,Ring P,Tomasini-Johansson B,Holmqvist K,Magnusson KE,Rubin K

更新日期：2004-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Hydroxyheptanal (2-HH) is one of the reactive aldehyde species generated during the peroxidation of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic and arachidonic acids. Analogous to the Maillard reaction of reducing sugars, 2-HH readily reacts with lysine epsilon-amino groups. In the present study, to define the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Itakura K,Furuhata A,Shibata N,Kobayashi M,Uchida K

更新日期：2003-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that 5-methoxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (MICA) could induce preconditioning effect in the ischemic brain of rat. In the present study, we addressed the question of whether MICA could also trigger a postconditioning effect in ischemic stroke. To this end, MICA (100 mg/kg body weight) was injected ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu J,Jin Z,Yang X,Yan LJ

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:CAP is a multifunctional protein; the N-terminal region binds adenylyl cyclase and controls its response to Ras while the C-terminal region is involved in cytoskeletal regulation. In between the two regions, CAP possesses two proline-rich segments, P1 and P2, resembling a consensus sequence for binding SH3 domains. We...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yanagihara C,Shinkai M,Kariya K,Yamawaki-Kataoka Y,Hu CD,Masuda T,Kataoka T

更新日期：1997-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken liver 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase was expressed in E. coli by using a pET3a T7 RNA polymerase-based expression system and was purified to homogeneity. The kinase and bisphosphatase of the expressed bifunctional enzyme had kinetic properties identical to those of the native chicken live...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li L,Yao WZ,Lange AJ,Pilkis SJ,Dong MQ,Yin Y,Xu GJ

更新日期：1995-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) is a cytokine, which inhibits angiogenesis and decreases endothelial cell proliferation and migration, suggesting that LIF may modulate vascular tone. In this study, we examined the effects of LIF on the tone of rat arteries. The isometric tension of ring preparations from rat superior...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kimura K,Tsuda K,Moriwaki C,Kawabe T,Hamada M,Obana M,Baba A,Hano T,Nishio I

更新日期：2002-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the nitric oxide (NO)-generating behavior of nitroglycerin (NTG), pentaerythritol trinitrate (PEtriN) and isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN), in the microsomal preparation of bovine coronary artery smooth muscle cells. The comparative NO generating activities among these nitrates were consistent with their relati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chung SJ,Fung HL

更新日期：1992-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitric oxide synthases (NOS) are a class of enzymes responsible for the generation of NO via an oxygen and NADPH dependent oxidation of the amino acid arginine. These enzymes are ironheme proteins which contain FAD and FMN and, enigmatically, require tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4). NOS has recently been shown to be sub...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hyun J,Komori Y,Chaudhuri G,Ignarro LJ,Fukuto JM

更新日期：1995-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of a 25 Kdalton nuclear stress protein from rat muscle was examined by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and one-dimensional peptide mapping. These studies show that three 25 Kdalton stress proteins found in stressed rat myoblasts are actually the same protein with charge variation brought about by m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YJ,Shuman J,Sette M,Przybyla A

更新日期：1983-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe cognitive and motor deficits, caused by the loss of function of maternally inherited Ube3a. Ube3a-maternal deficient mice (AS model mice) recapitulate many essential features of AS, but how the deficiency of Ube3a lead to such behavioural ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Godavarthi SK,Dey P,Sharma A,Jana NR

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The iron molybdenum cofactor of Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase has been solubilized for the first time in dimethylformamide and acetonitrile. These solutions have the ability to reconstitute the inactive nitrogenase of the UW 45 mutant of A. vinelandii and exhibit an S = 3/2 EPR signal similar to that for the cofa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lough SM,Jacobs DL,Lyons DM,Watt GD,McDonald JW

更新日期：1986-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrotransposons (RTs) account for ~45% of the mammalian genome. They are capable of inserting into new genomic locations, which can result in deleterious outcomes. We examined the response of nine RTs to global cerebral ischemia (GCI) and explored the DNA methylation status of the two significantly altered RTs. Seven...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang S,Kelly S

更新日期：2013-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes that hybridize to the cDNA for alcohol-inducible cytochrome P-450 form 3a (P-450ALC) have been isolated from a rabbit genomic library and characterized by restriction mapping, hybridization, and partial sequence analysis. The genes show extensive sequence similarity as judged by hybridization at high stringe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Khani SC,Porter TD,Coon MJ

更新日期：1988-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNA molecules, which act as post-transcriptional regulators of a gene expression, with important functions within the cell physiology. Whilst many authors have focused on the study of miRNA expression in physiological and pathological processes, various technical variables related to miRNA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mraz M,Malinova K,Mayer J,Pospisilova S

更新日期：2009-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained the optimized geometrical structure of 2-(1-carboxy-1-hydroxyethyl)-3,4-dimethylthiazolium dipolar ion and investigated its geometric and electric changes during decarboxylation process by the MNDO-PM3 method, a molecular orbital method. The salient features of the optimized structure are that the dih...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakajima Y,Sakagishi Y,Shiibashi M,Suzuki Y,Kato H

更新日期：1993-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoke (CS)-induced emphysema is attributable to matrix metalloproteinase-12 (MMP-12) in mice, however, a relationship between CS and MMP-12 is absent in human emphysema. Here, we show that cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) induces MMP-12 gene expression in airway-like epithelia through a hydrogen peroxide (H(...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lavigne MC,Eppihimer MJ

更新日期：2005-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:DENN domains are found in a variety of signaling proteins but their exact function remains undefined. Some of the DENN-containing proteins, such as rat Rab3GEP (Rab3 GDP/GTP exchange protein) or mouse Rab6IP1 (Rab6 interacting protein 1) interact with GTPases of the Rab family. Others, such as human MADD (MAP (Mitogen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Levivier E,Goud B,Souchet M,Calmels TP,Mornon JP,Callebaut I

更新日期：2001-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian Sprouty2 (Spry2) is a key regulator of the receptor tyrosine kinase/ERK signaling pathway and involved in many biological processes, including cell growth, migration, and tumor suppression. Here, we demonstrated that the intracellular protein level of Spry2 was significantly down-regulated by tumor necrosis ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ding W,Warburton D

更新日期：2008-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory signals associated with cardiac diseases trigger trans-differentiation of cardiac fibroblasts to cardiac myofibroblasts. Cardiac myofibroblasts are the main cell type involved in the development of cardiac fibrosis, a diffuse and disproportionate accumulation of collagen in the myocardium. Although the ro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Villa M,Cerda-Opazo P,Jimenez-Gallegos D,Garrido-Moreno V,Chiong M,Quest AF,Toledo J,Garcia L

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevations in intracellular Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](i)) initiate insulin secretion from pancreatic beta-cells, but the secretory responses become rapidly desensitised to maintained elevations in [Ca(2+)](i). We have investigated the mechanisms underlying the Ca(2+) desensitization of insulin secretion using electrically perm...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Harris TE,Persaud SJ,Squires PE,Jones PM

更新日期：2000-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic administration of 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NP) facilitates the development of select striatal lesions, and some reports provide clues about this pathology. In this study, we investigated the relationship between reduced levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in lesioned brain regions and caspase a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cho KJ,Kim GW

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The idiopathic short QT syndrome (SQTS) is characterised by an abnormally short QT interval on the electrocardiogram and by an increased risk of arrhythmia and sudden death. One variant of the syndrome is linked to missense mutations that lead to a single amino-acid change (N588K; asparagine to lysine) in the S5-Pore ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McPate MJ,Duncan RS,Milnes JT,Witchel HJ,Hancox JC

更新日期：2005-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is a cytokine with many regulatory functions. In particular, IL-10 exerts neutralizing effect on other cytokines, and therefore IL-10 is thought to have important therapeutic implications. Recent reports suggest that IL-10 regulates not only immunocytes but also collagen and collagenase gene exp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamamoto T,Eckes B,Krieg T

更新日期：2001-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) is a toxin secreted by activated human eosinophils. The properties of mature ECP have been well studied but those of the signal peptide of ECP (ECPsp) are not clear. In this study, several chimeric proteins containing N-terminal fusion of ECPsp were generated, and introduced into Esch...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu CM,Chang MD

更新日期：2004-09-17 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：:Bile acids of patients with renal failure and of healthy subjects were analyzed by capillary gas chromatography after group separation. The amount of bile acids in the total dialysate (150 L) of the patients was smaller than that in the 24-h urine of healthy subjects. Polar bile acid sulfates constituted 17.3% and 30....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamaga N,Adachi K,Kohara H,Shimizu K

更新日期：1988-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphorylation, governed by kinases and phosphatases, plays a pivotal role in enormous cellular signaling pathways. Although PPP family of serine/threonine phosphatases have been involved in multiplication and growth of trypanosomatid parasites, but comprehensive knowledge is still very limited. In the presen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Qureshi R,Jakkula P,Sagurthi SR,Qureshi IA

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protein S6 phosphorylation is stimulated by a variety of hormones and growth factors. In mammalian cells the predominant S6 kinase is a 70 kDa enzyme which exists in two forms differing only in their amino terminal region. To determine whether this difference is functionally significant we have examined the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Coffer PJ,Woodgett JR

更新日期：1994-01-28 00:00:00