Platelet activation during tumor development, the potential role of BDNF-TrkB autocrine loop.

abstract：:The screening of small synthetic compound libraries is a useful means of identifying molecules that modulate various cellular responses. We screened more than 10,000 different small compounds and identified three synthetic compounds that stimulate arachidonic acid (AA) release in a combinational manner in neutrophil-l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bae YS,Park EY,Lee HY,Kang HK,Suh PG,Kwak JY,Ryu SH,Lee T

更新日期：2004-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for the degradation of xylose and ethanol production by Klebsiella planticola is proposed and compared with the exponential and Michaelis-Menten approaches. This model is based on the energy system diagrams and it is a simplified version of a previous model developed for the glucose and ethanol kinetics of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bastianoni S,Gastaldelli A,Bonechi C,Mocenni C,Rossi C

更新日期：1996-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Young lean (Fa/?) and obese (fa/fa) rats were treated with the thermogenic beta-adrenoceptor agonist, BRL 26830, for 3 weeks. In lean rats this treatment had no effect on body weight but there was a marked increase in the insulin sensitivity of soleus muscle strips with respect to glycolytic rate. Treatment of obese r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Challiss RA,Budohoski L,Newsholme EA,Sennitt MV,Cawthorne MA

更新日期：1985-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cycloheximide (CYH) resistance in Candida maltosa is dependent on the induction of a ribosomal protein, Q-type L41, the 56th residue of which is glutamine, not proline as in ordinary P-type L41. We found that a 38-kDa protein in a wild-type C. maltosa ribosomal fraction became undetectable upon CYH treatment but detec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takaku H,Mutoh E,Horiuchi H,Ohta A,Takagi M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocarboxylate transporters (hMCTs) mediate the transport of monocarboxylates across plasma membranes. One such transporter, hMCT9, has been shown to be related to serum uric acid levels and the risk of renal overload gout. However, the functional characteristics of hMCT9 remain unknown. The aim of this study w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Futagi Y,Narumi K,Furugen A,Kobayashi M,Iseki K

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xenopus homologue of sonic hedgehog (Xhh) was detected in Xenopus embryos at stages 13 and 31 by RT-PCR, but it was not expressed in explants isolated from the animal hemisphere of Xenopus embryos at stage 8-9. Treatment of the animal cap with activin (1-100 ng/ml) induced the expression of Xhh. However, it was no...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yokotal C,Mukasa T,Higashi M,Odaka A,Muroya K,Uchiyama H,Eto Y,Asashima M,Momoi T

更新日期：1995-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The 21-amino acid-length endothelin-1 (ET-1)(1-21) and its novel derivative, 31 amino acid-length ET-1(1-31), have proinflammatory properties and induce significant eosinophil migration mediated by an increase in the local levels of eotaxin and IL-5. We have analyzed by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cui P,Sharmin S,Okumura Y,Yamada H,Yano M,Mizuno D,Kido H

更新日期：2004-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, increasing evidences demonstrate that circular RNAs (circRNAs) exert very important functions in the progression of human cancers. However, the functions and molecular mechanism of circ_0067934 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are largely unknown. In the present study, we found that the expression of circ_0...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhu Q,Lu G,Luo Z,Gui F,Wu J,Zhang D,Ni Y

更新日期：2018-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The human 5-HT1A receptor was screened for naturally occurring mutations. The PCR product of the 5-HT1A receptor gene was digested with several restriction enzymes and evaluated by single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) analysis. Comparison of the SSCP electrophoretic pattern with a restriction map of the 5-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakhai B,Nielsen DA,Linnoila M,Goldman D

更新日期：1995-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the interaction of melittin with ganglioside GM1 by steady-state fluorescence, one-dimensional (1)H NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling. In the presence of GM1 the emission maximum of melittin is blue shifted and fluorescence quenching efficiencies of iodide and acrylamide are substantially reduced,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatterjee C,Mukhopadhyay C

更新日期：2002-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI; MIM 222700) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by defective transport of cationic amino acids lysine, arginine and ornithine. The defect is localized in the basolateral membrane of polar epithelial cells of the renal tubules and intestine. The SLC7A7 (solute carrier fa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Toivonen M,Mykkänen J,Aula P,Simell O,Savontaus ML,Huoponen K

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the possible role of lipids as adhesion receptors for infection, Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia pneumoniae were labeled with 125I and layered on thin-layer chromatograms (tlc) of separated lipids isolated from target cells, and bound bacteria were detected by autoradiography. Elementary bodies from bot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Krivan HC,Nilsson B,Lingwood CA,Ryu H

更新日期：1991-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:MDP, a synthetic muramyl dipeptide, is capable of increasing the primary in vitro antibody response, to sheep erythrocytes, of purified B cells restored with a monokine and helper T cell factors, including Interleukin 2 and the late-acting T cell replacing factor (TRF). First, the possibility that the adjuvanticity of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Souvannavong V,Adam A

更新日期：1984-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:RING finger (C3HC4-type zinc finger) is a variant zinc finger motif present in a large family of functionally distinct proteins. We describe the cloning and characterization of a novel human transcript RNF38 encoding a new member of the RING finger protein family. The complete mRNA consists of about 6.8 kb widely expr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eisenberg I,Hochner H,Levi T,Yelin R,Kahan T,Mitrani-Rosenbaum S

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a PCR-based cloning strategy we have isolated a cDNA from mouse brain and named it fex, because it codes for a novel putative G protein-coupled receptor expressed in follicles. The deduced amino acid sequence shows a higher degree of homology to the family of glycoprotein receptors, namely those for FSH, LH, and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hermey G,Methner A,Schaller HC,Hermans-Borgmeyer I

更新日期：1999-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling via the type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF1R) confers resistance to EGF receptor (EGFR) inhibitors. It is plausible that reciprocal EGFR compensation could mediate resistance to IGF1R inhibition, prompting us to investigate effects of IGF1R depletion on EGFR signaling in breast cancer cells expr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Riedemann J,Sohail M,Macaulay VM

更新日期：2007-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenic protein-1 (OP-1) is a member of the bone morphogenetic protein subfamily of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily. Since members of the TGF-beta superfamily have a role in tissue development the distribution of OP-1 in developing human embryos (gestational age 5-14 weeks) was examined b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vukicevic S,Latin V,Chen P,Batorsky R,Reddi AH,Sampath TK

更新日期：1994-01-28 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：:AmB is an antifungal drug of polyene. Although it is prone to nephrotoxicity, it is still the gold standard in the clinical treatment of fungal infection. Sterol plays a decisive role in the drug activity of AmB. The antifungal activity of AmB depends on ergosterol in fungal membranes, and its toxicity is related to c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang J,Ma Y,Hou S

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the GJB2 gene, encoding connexin 26, are the most common cause of hereditary congenital hearing loss in many countries and account for up to 50% of cases of autosomal-recessive non-syndromic deafness. By contrast, only a few GJB2 mutations have been reported to cause an autosomal-dominant form of non-synd...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Melchionda S,Bicego M,Marciano E,Franzè A,Morgutti M,Bortone G,Zelante L,Carella M,D'Andrea P

更新日期：2005-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx protein), which seems to be involved in hepatocarcinogenesis, was studied for its effect on cell growth regulation. We examined the response to growth inhibition of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) in HBx gene-introduced cells. HBx gene in pRc/CMV was transfected to mink ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oshikawa O,Tamura S,Kawata S,Ito N,Tsushima H,Kiso S,Matsuda Y,Yamada A,Tamai S,Matsuzawa Y

更新日期：1996-05-24 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：:Chikungunya is a severe disease that results from infection with the chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus. Thus, we (1) explored a new approach to combining previously researched drugs that have shown the potential to inhibit CHIKV infection; and (2) demonstrated the antiviral effects of (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gall...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu JW,Hsieh PS,Lin CC,Hu MK,Huang SM,Wang YM,Liang CY,Gong Z,Ho YJ

更新日期：2017-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:While chemotherapy is an important and widely used therapeutic for cancer, it may facilitate cancer metastasis. Herein, we report that human lung cancer cells exert higher invasion and metastasis after chemotherapy. In a human lung cancer xenograft model, chemotherapy promotes the cancer invasion and metastasis in HMG...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang K,Shan S,Wang S,Gu X,Zhou X,Ren T

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite decades of intensive studies, the failure to identify plasmodesmata (PD) localization sequences has constrained our understanding of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) movement. Recently, we identified the first PD localization signal (major PLS) in the TMV movement protein (MP), which encompasses the first 50 amino a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu Y,Huang C,Zeng J,Yu H,Li Y,Yuan C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methylcoenzyme M methylreductase reaction has an absolute requirement for 7-mercaptoheptanoylthreonine phosphate or component B, which is the active component of the intact molecule previously referred to as cytoplasmic cofactor. A hydrolytic fragment of cytoplasmic cofactor has been purified and identified as uri...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Marsden BJ,Sauer FD,Blackwell BA,Kramer JK

更新日期：1989-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated brush-border membrane vesicles prepared from human placenta are known to transport amino acids via a Na+-dependent mechanism akin to that found in gut and kidney vesicle preparations. We studied sulfate transport in placental vesicles and failed to identify any Na+-dependent uptake mechanism. Rather, uptake i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cole DE

更新日期：1984-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugal transfer of hydrogen-oxidizing ability (Hox) of the hydrogen bacterium Alcaligenes hydrogenophilus was examined. Intraspecific cross of plasmid pHG21-a that encodes hydrogenases that mediate hydrogen oxidation was most frequent at 25 C; the optimal temperature for growth was 30 C. The plasmid could be transfe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Umeda F,Min H,Urushihara M,Okazaki M,Miura Y

更新日期：1986-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMOs) are proteins homologous to ubiquitin that possibly regulate intranuclear protein localization, nuclear transport, and ubiquitination. We examined patients of DRPLA, SCA1, MJD, and Huntington's disease and found that neurons in affected regions of the brain react strongly to SUMO-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ueda H,Goto J,Hashida H,Lin X,Oyanagi K,Kawano H,Zoghbi HY,Kanazawa I,Okazawa H

更新日期：2002-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Topoisomerase 1 (TOP1) poisons like camptothecin (CPT) are currently used in cancer chemotherapy but these compounds can have damaging, off-target effects on neurons leading to cognitive, sensory and motor deficits. To understand the molecular basis for the enhanced sensitivity of neurons to CPT, we examined the effec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rossi SL,Lumpkin CJ,Harris AW,Holbrook J,Gentillon C,McCahan SM,Wang W,Butchbach MER

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00