The role of DNA hypomethylation in the control of stromelysin gene expression.

abstract：:We have constructed an expression plasmid for regulated expression of the hepatitis B surface antigen gene in yeast using promoter of the yeast Pho5 gene. In the yeast transformants, the monomeric HBsAg (22K dalton) was estimated to constitute approximately 3% of the total proteins. On extraction, the HBsAg was found ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Choo KB,Wu SM,Lee HH,Lo SC

更新日期：1985-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mammary epithelial cells are known to synthesize and accumulate triacylglycerol (TAG) in order to produce milk lipid in the cytosol, lipid and energy metabolism is still not fully understood. In this study, we assessed the effects of long-chain fatty acid (LCFA) on the accumulation of cytosolic TAG and uncoup...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yonezawa T,Sanosaka M,Haga S,Kobayashi Y,Katoh K,Obara Y

更新日期：2008-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a large collection of cancer cell lines are useful surrogates for patient samples, the physiological relevance of observed molecular phenotypes in cell lines remains controversial. Because transcriptome data are a representative set of molecular phenotypes in cancers, we systematically analyzed the discrepanc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hong Y,Kim N,Li C,Jeong E,Yoon S

更新日期：2017-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine brain smg p25A, a guanine nucleotide-binding protein with a Mr of about 25,000, bound specifically GTP, guanosine 5'-(3-O-thio)triphosphate (GTP gamma S) and GDP. The initial velocities of the binding of GTP gamma S to GDP-bound smg p25A and the dissociation of GDP from this protein increased by decreasing Mg2+...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shoji I,Kikuchi A,Kuroda S,Takai Y

更新日期：1989-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) play important roles in osteoblast differentiation and maturation. In mammals, the BMP-induced receptor-regulated Smads form complexes with Smad4. These complexes translocate and accumulate in the nucleus, where they regulate the transcription of various target genes. However, the fu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimada K,Ikeda K,Ito K

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Although caffeine alters sleep in many animals, whether or not it affects mammalian circadian clocks remains unknown. Here, we found that incubating cultured mammalian cell lines, human osteosarcoma U2OS cells and mouse fibroblast NIH3T3 cells, with caffeine lengthened the period of circadian rhythms. Adding caffeine ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oike H,Kobori M,Suzuki T,Ishida N

更新日期：2011-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxocobalamin is present in fairly large proportions both in foods and in the human body and apparently plays an important biological role. Since cyanocobalamin seems to play hardly any significant biochemical role in healthy humans, several physicians prefer to administer hydroxocobalamin to vitamin B12 deficient ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kohli RK,Nath A

更新日期：1984-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of rat atrial slices to 10(-5) M norepinephrine (NE) for 10 minutes increases 45Ca++ accumulation from 1.64 +/- 0.10 to 2.23 +/- 0.06 nmol/mg tissue. In the presence of leucine enkephalin (10(-8) M), NE-stimulated 45Ca++ uptake is reduced to 1.44 +/- 0.10 nmol/mg tissue. The effect of leu-enkephalin is revers...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ruth JA,Cuizon JV,Eiden LE

更新日期：1983-12-16 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：:Although Pol III promoters synthesize shRNA and elicit RNAi efficiently, however, a major limitation is that they are constitutively expressed in all cell types. To circumvent this problem, in the present study, we described a novel shRNA vector based on Pol II/T7 dual-promoter couple system: the transcription of shRN...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Peng Y,Lu JX,Shen XF

更新日期：2007-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, requires shifts in gene expression to undergo its natural enzootic cycle between tick and vertebrate hosts. mRNA decay mechanisms play significant roles in governing gene expression in other bacteria, but are not yet characterized in B. burgdorferi. RNase III ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Snow S,Bacon E,Bergeron J,Katzman D,Wilhelm A,Lewis O,Syangtan D,Calkins A,Archambault L,Anacker ML,Schlax PJ

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:C-C chemokine receptor 7 (CCR7) and its ligands CCL19 contributes to the directional migration of certain cancer cell lines, but its role in the migration of BMSCs remains vague. The aim of this study was to determine the possible interaction between CCL19-induced conditions and matrix metalloproteinases-9 (MMP9) expr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang W,Tu G,Lv C,Long J,Cong L,Han Y

更新日期：2014-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady state kinetic study and some enzymic characterization of a selenium-containing scFv catalytic antibody (Se-scFv2F3) was carried out. A novel reaction formula of this abzyme-catalyzed reaction was proposed and a rate equation was gotten according to the formula. The constants in the equation were compared wi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Su D,You D,Ren X,Luo G,Mu Y,Yan G,Xue Y,Shen J

更新日期：2001-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins are detectable in human atherosclerotic plaques, especially in endothelial cells. In this report we show by immunofluorescence that incubation "in vitro" with OxLDL is a stress capable of inducing the expression of heat shock protein 70 in both the EAhy-926 cell line and human umbilical vein endoth...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhu W,Roma P,Pellegatta F,Catapano AL

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Small heat-shock proteins (sHSPs) represent an abundant and ubiquitous family of molecular chaperones. The current model proposes that sHSPs function to prevent irreversible aggregation of non-native proteins by forming soluble complex. The chaperone activity of sHSPs is usually determined by the capacity to suppress ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jiao W,Li P,Zhang J,Zhang H,Chang Z

更新日期：2005-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that SNM1A colocalizes with 53BP1 at sites of double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by IR, and that these proteins interact with or without DNA damage. However, the role of SNM1A in the DNA damage response has not been elucidated. Here, we show that SNM1A is required for an efficient G1 checkpoi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Akhter S,Legerski RJ

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances of serotonergic pathways have been implicated in a wide variety of neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, migraine, and substance abuse. Genetic variation in genes coding for serotonin receptor proteins might well be involved in the genetic predisposition to these diseases and/or of pharm...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nöthen MM,Erdmann J,Shimron-Abarbanell D,Propping P

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) signal is transduced through a membrane glycoprotein gp130, which associates with the IL-6 receptor alpha chain (IL-6R alpha) in the presence of IL-6. We prepared monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific to murine gp130 by immunizing rats and hamsters with a chimeric molecule consisting of the extrac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsuda T,Hirano T

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer anti-estrogen resistance 3 (BCAR3) is an SH2-containing signal transducer and is implicated in tumorigenesis of breast cancer cells. In this study, we found that BCAR3 mediates the induction of ERK activation and DNA synthesis by insulin, but not by IGF-1. Specifically, the SH2 domain of BCAR3 is involve...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oh MJ,Yi SJ,Kim HS,Kim JH,Jeong YH,van Agthoven T,Jhun BH

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin (Ub) carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) has dual functions, such as hydrolase activity on the chemical bonds formed by the C-terminal Gly of Ub and dimerization-dependent ubiquitin ligase activity. Accumulating evidence suggests that dual activities of UCH-L1 were intimately associated with Parkinson's ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park DW,Nam MK,Rhim H

更新日期：2011-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:C3 is common to all pathways of complement activation augmenting ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced myocardial injury and cardiac dysfunction. Complement inhibition with the complement regulatory protein, C1 inhibitor (C1INH), obviously exerts cardioprotective effects. Here, we examine whether C1INH regulates C3 activ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fu J,Lin G,Zeng B,Wu Z,Wu Y,Chu H,Qin G,Liang G,Li J,Gan X,Yu X,Li C,Liu D

更新日期：2006-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of biliverdin-IX beta reductase (EC1.3.1.24) from human liver was determined by automated Edman degradation of peptides generated by enzymatic and chemical cleavages. The enzyme was a single polypeptide chain of 204 amino acid residues, and its amino acid sequence had no significant homology to...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamaguchi T,Komuro A,Nakano Y,Tomita M,Nakajima H

更新日期：1993-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokinesis in animal cells relies on a centralspindlin complex consisting of male germ cell RacGap (MgcRacGAP) and mitotic kinesin-like protein 1 (MKLP1). Rho GTPases act as molecular switches to regulate the actin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis, of which Rac1 is regulated by MgcRacGAP. In this study, we determined the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsuura A,Lee HH

更新日期：2013-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between vascular tone and the induction by endotoxin of a nitric oxide (NO) synthase was studied in vitro in rings of rat thoracic aorta. In rings with and without endothelium there was a time-dependent induction of NO synthase accompanied by both spontaneous and L-arginine-induced relaxation and by r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rees DD,Cellek S,Palmer RM,Moncada S

更新日期：1990-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin activation of target enzymes depends on the interaction between calmodulin hydrophobic regions and some enzyme areas. The Ca2+ induced exposure of calmodulin hydrophobic sites was studied by means of 2-p-toluidinylnaphthalene-6-sulfonate, a fluorescent probe. Scatchard and Job plots showed that the calmodul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Follenius A,Gerard D

更新日期：1984-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) activity was elevated greater than 100-fold within 4 to 7 h of topical treatment of SENCAR mice with 100 nmol dibenz[a,c]anthracene (DB[a,c]A). Treatment of skin with 2 micrograms of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) 2 to 8 h prior to DB[a,c]A application suppre...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Reiners JJ Jr,Cantu AR,Schöller A

更新日期：1992-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway controls cell proliferation and differentiation, and therefore, when this pathway is excessively activated, it causes tumorigenesis. Our chemical suppressor screening in zebrafish embryos identified antifungal azoles including clotrimazole, miconazole, and itraconazole, as Wnt/β-cat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yonezawa H,Ogawa M,Katayama S,Shimizu Y,Omori N,Oku Y,Sakyo T,Uehara Y,Nishiya N

更新日期：2018-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:De novo prediction of protein structures, the prediction of structures from amino acid sequences which are not similar to those of hitherto resolved structures, has been one of the major challenges in molecular biophysics. In this paper, we develop a new method of de novo prediction, which combines the fragment assemb...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasaki TN,Cetin H,Sasai M

更新日期：2008-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrin 3, a nuclear matrix protein has potential (1) to withhold promiscuously edited RNAs within the nucleus in cooperation with p54(nrb) and PSF, (2) to mediate NMDA-induced neuronal death, and (3) to modulate promoter activity of genes proximal to matrix/scaffold attachment region (MAR/SAR). We identified a biparti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hisada-Ishii S,Ebihara M,Kobayashi N,Kitagawa Y

更新日期：2007-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress induced by arsenite [As(III)] affects protein folding and results in increased levels of misfolded proteins or protein aggregates. Accumulation of misfolded protein aggregates may act as a cue signal for the oligomerization of the autophagic adaptor protein p62, which facilitates recognition of misfol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee H,Kim MN,Ryu KY

更新日期：2017-05-06 00:00:00