Microbial polysaccharide, HS-142-1, competitively and selectively inhibits ANP binding to its guanylyl cyclase-containing receptor.

abstract：:The bacterial superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) is a potent inducer of CTL activity and cytokine production in vivo. Protein A (PA) of Staphylococcal aureus has been found to have diverse biological response modifying properties and to possess antitumor, antitoxic and antiparasitic effects. In this study...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mondal TK,Bhatta D,Biswas S,Pal P

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MutT-related proteins degrade 8-oxo-7,8-dihydrodeoxyguanosine triphosphate (8-oxo-dGTP), a mutagenic substrate for DNA synthesis, in the nucleotide pool, thereby preventing DNA replication errors. During a search of GenBank EST database, we found a new member of MutT-related protein, MTH2, which possesses the 23-amino...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cai JP,Ishibashi T,Takagi Y,Hayakawa H,Sekiguchi M

更新日期：2003-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The various manipulations involved in the isolation of membrane fragments from culture fluids of murine melanoma cells were examined to discern their effect on membrane fragment structure. Ultracentrifugation and gel chromatography were compared using the presence of marker enzymes and the sensitivity to a non-ionic d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Taylor DD,Chou IN,Black PH

更新日期：1983-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of chronic alcohol ingestion on buccal mucosal ulcer healing by analyzing the interplay between mucosal expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), endothelin-1 (ET-1), and interleukin-4 (IL-4). Chronic ulceration was induced in rats maintained for 5 weeks on alcohol-containing or...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Slomiany BL,Piotrowski J,Slomiany A

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:CHFR ubiquitin ligase acts as a checkpoint upon DNA damage and its functional inactivation is one of key characteristics of tumor development and metastasis. Despite the crucial role in maintaining genome integrity and cell cycle progression, little is known how CHFR stability is regulated. Here, we showed that CHFR i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kwon YE,Bae SJ,Kim M,Seol JH

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondrocyte mechanotransduction in response to mechanical loading is essential for the health and homeostasis of articular cartilage. The actin cytoskeleton has been implicated in cell mechanics and mechanotransduction. This study tests the hypothesis that loading modulates actin dynamics and organisation with subsequ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Campbell JJ,Blain EJ,Chowdhury TT,Knight MM

更新日期：2007-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the possible presence of endothelin-metabolizing neutral endopeptidase (NEP, EC 3.4.24.11) on A10 cell membranes using [125I]-ET-1 binding and direct measurements of NEP. NEP activity of A10 cell membranes has been compared to that of solubilized rat kidney brush border membranes (KNEP). Specific ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dickinson KE,Tymiak AA,Cohen RB,Liu EC,Webb ML,Hedberg A

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Integral membrane lysophospholipid acyltransferases (AT) are involved in many reactions that produce phospholipids and triglycerides. Enzymes that utilize lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) as an acceptor substrate have been termed LPAATs, and several are members of the 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase (AGPAT) ge...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schmidt JA,Yvone GM,Brown WJ

更新日期：2010-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the molecular mechanisms involved in preleukemia, the suppression subtractive hybridization method was used in a murine radiation-induced thymic lymphoma model. Seventeen mRNAs overexpressed in preleukemic thymuses were identified: mouse laminin binding protein (p40/37LBP), E25 protein, Rattus norvegicus...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Verlaet M,Deregowski V,Denis G,Humblet C,Stalmans MT,Bours V,Castronovo V,Boniver J,Defresne MP

更新日期：2001-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the role of cysteine (SH) residues in the folding of hen ovalbumin (OVA), SH-mutated OVAs, in which each SH residue was replaced by alanine (C11A, C30A, C367A, and C382A), were prepared. SDS-PAGE analysis under non-reducing conditions showed that the C11A and C30A mutants produced a disulfide (SS) isomer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishimaru T,Ito K,Tanaka M,Matsudomi N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven tumors independently derived from a v-Ha-ras-expressing pre-B cell line were examined to determine the oncogene activations cooperating with v-Ha-ras in in vivo tumor progression. The pre-B cell line was generated by infection with Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMuLV) and a MoMuLV-derived recombinant expressin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen SC,Redenius D,Schwartz RC

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism and target genes of regulation by Forkhead (FHA) domain-containing transcription factors have not yet been documented in Archaea. In this study, using a bacterial one-hybrid technique, we successfully screened and identified for the first time a target gene regulated by ST0829, an FHA domain-containing p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Duan X,He ZG

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-ribose is cytotoxic for quiescent human lymphocytes and severely inhibits their PHA-induced proliferation at concentrations (25-50 mM) at which other simple sugars are ineffective. In order to explain these effects, DNA repair synthesis was evaluated in PHA-stimulated human lymphocytes treated with hydroxyurea and i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zunica G,Marini M,Brunelli MA,Chiricolo M,Franceschi C

更新日期：1986-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of autophagy is a new paradigm in cancer therapeutics. Recently a novel function of chloroquine (CLQ) in inhibiting degradation of autophagic vesicles has been revealed, which raises the question whether CLQ can be used as an adjuvant in targeting autophagic pro-survival mechanism in prostate cancer (PCa). ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaini RR,Hu CA

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this investigation, the activities of five enzymes (catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, glucose-6-dehydrogenase) involved in oxygen radical (OR)-detoxification and antioxidative defense were measured in conjunction with an index of lipid peroxidation in major prostatic lob...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ghatak S,Ho SM

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we found a depression in the activity of hepatic xanthine dehydrogenase in rats fed clofibrate or di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate. The present study further demonstrated that dietary addition of other peroxisome proliferators, including bezafibrate, dehydroepiandrosterone and perfluoro-n-octanoic acid also depres...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Satoh A,Sasago S,Takahashi S,Kato N

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tankyrases (TNKS and TNKS2) are enzymes that catalyze poly-ADP-ribosylation (PARsylation) of their target proteins. Tankyrase-mediated PARsylation plays critical regulatory roles in cell signaling, particularly in the Wnt/β-catenin pathway. The sterile alpha motif (SAM) domain in tankyrases mediates their oligomerizat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fan C,Yarravarapu N,Chen H,Kulak O,Dasari P,Herbert J,Yamaguchi K,Lum L,Zhang X

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)], a risk factor for coronary artery disease, is a LDL-like particle with apolipoprotein (a) [apo(a)] covalently linked to apolipoprotein B (apoB). Apo(a) has many repeats of kringle 4-like domain, classified as type 1 through type 10 (T1-T10). Deletion analysis was performed to define the functi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Trieu VN,McConathy WJ

更新日期：1998-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of pancreatic islet B-cells to D-glucose and many other insulinotropic agents results in an increase of cytoplasmic calcium concentration, which triggers the exocytosis of secretroy granules. Previous studies have demonstrated that calcium itself, at concentrations ranging from 2 to 18 mM, is able to induce a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rasschaert J,Malaisse WJ

更新日期：1999-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinyl ester concentration is regulated by retinoic acid (RA) through an autoregulatory loop, which acts on lecithin:retinol acyltransferase (LRAT). We tested whether retinol esterification activity is downregulated in human mammary carcinoma cells and whether LRAT expression is RAR-regulated. Normal human mammary ep...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Andreola F,Giandomenico V,Spero R,De Luca LM

更新日期：2000-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannose toxicity in honeybees is due to a marked shortage of mannosephosphate isomerase that leads to a large accumulation of mannose-6-P and a marked depletion of ATP. Drosophila melanogaster and Ceratitis capitata are insensitive to mannose and have excess of mannosephosphate isomerase over hexokinase. 2-Deoxyglucos...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： de la Fuente M,Peñas PF,Sols A

更新日期：1986-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity of thalamic neurons has been shown to be modulated via type-1 metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR1) activation, which initiates an intracellular Ca signaling cascade involving phospholipase Cbeta4 (PLCbeta4) and leading to the activation of conventional protein kinase C (cPKC). In the present study, we inv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kameyama M,Yamaguchi I,Ichikawa K,Sugiyama T,Hirono M,Hori H,Ikeda M,Kuwahata Y,Eguchi N,Urade Y,Yoshioka T

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet transplantation corrects chronic hyperglycemia by augmentation of insulin supply from the graft tissue, but the role of endogenous beta-cells after transplantation is not clear. In the present study, we examined endogenous beta-cell function after glucose homeostasis had been reestablished by islet graft in stre...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hamamoto Y,Tsuura Y,Fujimoto S,Nagata M,Takeda T,Mukai E,Fujita J,Yamada Y,Seino Y

更新日期：2001-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized a novel surface protein from urea extract of whole cells of group A Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS). A major protein band (35kD) was found to hybridize with human IgG by Western blotting. A search of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of this protein by using the GAS genome sequence database reveale...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawabata S,Tamura Y,Murakami J,Terao Y,Nakagawa I,Hamada S

更新日期：2002-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Eph receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and their ephrin ligands play multiple roles in the developing nervous system, including cell segregation, axon guidance and synaptic plasticity. Here we report the expression and function of EphA7 in Xenopus hindbrain development. EphA7 is specifically expressed in the hindbrain t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang X,Sun J,Li C,Mao B

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The human leukemia cell line KU812 had been described as an immature prebasophilic cell line and exhibits a potential to differentiate into mature basophils. We studied the effect of interleukin-4 (IL-4) on the basophilic differentiation of KU812 cells. When KU812 cells were cultured with 1 ng/ml IL-4, cellular histam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hara T,Yamada K,Tachibana H

更新日期：1998-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of adrenodoxin (Adx) and NADPH cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR) with human microsomal steroidogenic cytochrome P450s was studied. It is found that Adx, mitochondrial electron transfer protein, is able to support reactions catalyzed by human microsomal P450s: full length CYP17, truncated CYP17, and trunc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pechurskaya TA,Harnastai IN,Grabovec IP,Gilep AA,Usanov SA

更新日期：2007-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A failure of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) to adhere to hematopoietic cells is an essential cause of the progression of chronic myelogenous leukemia and is also a cause of failure of bone marrow (BM) transplantation, but the exact mechanisms of this have not been fully elucidated. Recent studies have in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jiang YH,Liu J,Lin J,Li SQ,Xu YM,Min QH,Zhong QH,Sun F,Li J,You XH,Liao KL,Qin TY,Zhao C,Huang B,Wang XZ

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hsp90 and its co-chaperone Cdc37 are required for the activity of numerous eukaryotic protein kinases. c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs) appear to be Hsp90-independent kinases, as their activity is unaffected by Hsp90 inhibition. It is currently unknown why some protein kinases are Hsp90- and Cdc37-dependent for their f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Prince T,Matts RL

更新日期：2005-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen heterocycle small molecules display various pharmaceutically important bioactivities and have great potential in drug development and application. Microbes are an important source for discovering nitrogen heterocycle natural products, and the elucidation of their biosynthetic pathways in microbes facilitates ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chai S,Cao M,Feng Z

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00