Inhibition of the formation of the neurotoxin 5-S-cysteinyl-dopamine by polyphenols.

abstract：:The isolation and characterization of cofactor-independent phosphoglycerate mutase gene from maize (Zea mays) is here reported. This gene sequence constitutes the first described from this enzyme. The gene spans 5.4 kilo base pairs and has nine exons in the translated region. Canonical TATA and CCAAT and Sp1-like boxe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pérez de la Ossa P,Graña X,Ruiz-Lozano P,Climent F

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A biological synthesis of phosphocitrate is described from precursors, citrate and adenosinetriphosphate reacting in the presence of rat liver homogenate. Identity of the newly formed product was examined by enzymatic digestion of reactions mixtures, HPLC chromatography and 1H-NMR spectra. Authenticity of product was ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moro L,Stagni N,Luxich E,Sallis JD,de Bernard B

更新日期：1990-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentoxyresorufin O-depentylase activity, mainly associated with phenobarbital-inducible cytochrome P450IIB1 (designated CYP2B1), was increased after a single treatment of pyridine (250 mg/kg, i.p.), and further increased by repeated treatments for 5 days. The catalytic activity and immunoreactive protein of CYP2B reco...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park KS,Sohn DH,Veech RL,Song BJ

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13 kb rat Cu/ZnSOD genomic clone has been purified from a rat liver genomic library and completely characterized by restriction mapping, detailed sequencing and Southern blot analysis. This gene spans approximately 6 kb and contains five exons and four introns. Comparison of rat, mouse, and human Cu/ZnSOD genes reve...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hsu JL,Visner GA,Burr IA,Nick HS

更新日期：1992-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic fluorescence properties of human alpha apohemoglobin at protein concentrations from 1 to 5 microM in 0.1 M potassium phosphate buffer, pH 7 or 8 at 5 degrees C were monitored in the absence and presence of a fixed concentration (5 microM) of a fluorescence quenching heme-containing native or Des (146-His...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chiu F,Vasudevan G,Morris A,McDonald MJ

更新日期：1998-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Several chemokines, belonging to both the CXC and CC classes, act as positive or negative regulators of angiogenesis. We sought to investigate the role of CXCL13, B cell-attracting chemokine 1 (BCA-1), also known as B-lymphocyte chemoattractant (BLC), on endothelial cell functions. We tested the effect of CXCL13 on HU...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Spinetti G,Camarda G,Bernardini G,Romano Di Peppe S,Capogrossi MC,Napolitano M

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylene blue (MB) is a blue cationic thiazine dye and currently used in different medical settings. Notably, there have been several attempts to introduce MB for attenuating pain in the last decade. Some clinical studies reported remarkable results, which, however, have been much debated. In addition, accumulating e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee SW,Moon SW,Park JS,Suh HR,Han HC

更新日期：2021-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) was reconstituted into artificial lipid membrane containing various charged lipid compositions. The proton pumping activity of BR under flash and continuous illumination, proton permeability across membrane, as well as the decay kinetics of the photocycle intermediate M(412) were studied. The re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Z,Bai J,Xu Y

更新日期：2008-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate involvement of miRNAs in radiation responses we used microRNAome profiling to analyze the sex-specific response of radiation sensitive hematopoietic lymphoid tissues. We show that radiation exposure resulted in a significant and sex-specific deregulation of microRNA expression in murine spleen and thymu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ilnytskyy Y,Zemp FJ,Koturbash I,Kovalchuk O

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human apoprotein(apo) CI and apo AII cDNA probes have been used to analyze the segregation of the human genes in panels of human-mouse hybrids. The apo CI (APOCI) gene segregates with chromosome 19 and the apo AII (APOA2) gene with chromosome 1. Somatic cell hybrids containing chromosome translocations were used to ma...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Knott TJ,Eddy RL,Robertson ME,Priestley LM,Scott J,Shows TB

更新日期：1984-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This study characterized the magnetic materials found within Daphnia resting eggs by measuring static magnetization with a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer, after forming two types of conditions, each of which consists of zero-field cooling (ZFC) and field cooling (FC). Magnetic ions, s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakata M,Kawasaki T,Shibue T,Takada A,Yoshimura H,Namiki H

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin (TRX) is a ubiquitous dithiol-oxidoreduction enzyme broadly expressed in cells from prokaryote to eukaryote organisms. Human thioredoxin (human TRX) gene, previously cloned in our laboratory, codes for a 12-kDa protein found in the culture supernatant of several hemopoietic human cell lines. This protein i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wollman EE,Kahan A,Fradelizi D

更新日期：1997-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic glucokinase is induced by insulin and repressed by glucagon. The effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on glucokinase expression were investigated in rat hepatocytes. EGF does not affect the decline in glucokinase activity in hepatocytes cultured for 48h in the absence of insulin, but it counteracts the inc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Beresford GW,Agius L

更新日期：1994-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A melanin (melanosome) concentrating hormone, MCH, was synthesized and the methodology for its synthesis is detailed. This heptadecapeptide, H-Asp-Thr-Met-Arg-Cys-Met-Val-Gly-Arg-Val-Tyr-Arg-Pro-Cys-Trp-Glu-Val-OH , stimulated melanosome concentration (centripetal aggregation) within melanophores of all species of tel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wilkes BC,Hruby VJ,Sherbrooke WC,Castrucci AM,Hadley ME

更新日期：1984-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Until today, 14 isoforms of mammalian calpains have been identified, including calpain-5. The C. elegans calpain-5 homologue tra-3 is reported to be essential for necrotic neuronal cell death. In this study, we cloned and characterized rat calpain-5, which is highly homologous to human and mouse sequences. The nucleot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Waghray A,Wang DS,McKinsey D,Hayes RL,Wang KK

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:miRNAs are recently found playing important roles in osteogenesis. In this study, we identified that miR-222-3p decreased during osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs) using Quantitative Real-Time Reverse Transcription PCR (qRT-PCR). Furthermore, we investigated the effect of miR-222-3p on...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yan J,Guo D,Yang S,Sun H,Wu B,Zhou D

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian and photic regulation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) has been shown to associate closely with the function of the circadian clock in vertebrate clock tissues such as the mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Here we show that, in the central region of the mouse SCN, MAPK exhibited circadian and da...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakaya M,Sanada K,Fukada Y

更新日期：2003-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Release by phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C is frequently provided as evidence for membrane anchorage of a protein through phosphatidylinositol. Demonstration that the enzyme removes a lipophilic moiety from the protein is stronger evidence, and is presented here for members of the Ly-6 family of lymphocy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hammelburger JW,Palfree RG,Sirlin S,Hämmerling U

更新日期：1987-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are a group of naturally occurring compounds used, e.g., in the treatment of vascular endothelial damage. They are known to be excellent scavengers of oxygen free radicals. Since the nitric oxide radical (.NO) probably plays a role in this pathology, the .NO scavenging capacity of the flavonoids was determi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： van Acker SA,Tromp MN,Haenen GR,van der Vijgh WJ,Bast A

更新日期：1995-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes for the human vacuolar type H(+)-ATPase proteolipid (16-kDa) subunit were cloned and their nucleotide sequences were determined. Comparison of the deduced sequences indicated that at least four genes including pseudogenes are present in the human genome. One of them corresponded to that for the 16-kDa subunit ex...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hasebe M,Hanada H,Moriyama Y,Maeda M,Futai M

更新日期：1992-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin, a widely used anti-diabetic drug, is emerging as a potential anticancer agent but the mechanisms involved remain incompletely understood. Here, we demonstrate that the potency of metformin induced AMPK activation, as shown by the phosphorylation of its substrates acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) at Ser(79) and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sinnett-Smith J,Kisfalvi K,Kui R,Rozengurt E

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteasome is a recently identified intracellular protease whose catalytic active site is a threonine residue and has been shown to play key roles in a variety of important intracellular events, including cell cycle progression, the antigen-presenting pathway, and apoptosis. However, its biological significance in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oikawa T,Sasaki T,Nakamura M,Shimamura M,Tanahashi N,Omura S,Tanaka K

更新日期：1998-05-08 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：:Deficient apoptosis of activated T cells can result in immunological disorders. Molecules associated with energy and metabolisms are suggested to be involved in pathogenesis of immune diseases, but remain uninvestigated. In the present study we reported that glibenclamide exerted a new pharmacological effect on inflam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ouyang Z,Wang X,Meng Q,Feng L,Sun Y,Wu X,Xu Q

更新日期：2017-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is the bulk degradation of cytosolic materials in lysosomes/vacuoles of eukaryotic cells. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 17 Atg proteins are known to be involved in autophagosome formation. Genome wide analyses have shown that Atg17 interacts with numerous proteins. Further studies on these interacti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kabeya Y,Kawamata T,Suzuki K,Ohsumi Y

更新日期：2007-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoaldosteronism type II (PHAII), an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by hypertension, hyperkalemia, and hyperchloremic acidosis, is reportedly due to mutations in WNK1 and WNK4 kinase genes. However, the pathogenesis of the disease remains unknown. Mutations in the WNK1 gene are the deletions in the f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohta A,Yang SS,Rai T,Chiga M,Sasaki S,Uchida S

更新日期：2006-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Helodermin belongs to the VIP family of polypeptides. Recent in vivo data suggest that helodermin-like peptides might be involved in the regulation of calcium metabolism. We show that helodermin specifically binds to a secretin-type receptor in osteoblast-like cells from fetal rat calvaria and increases the basal and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pfeilschifter J,Naumann A,Oechsner M,Ziegler R

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Free radicals attack lipid molecules and initiate a chain of reactions that may trigger several diseases such as atherosclerosis and cancer. Several markers of oxidative stress have been proposed, including measurements of lipid peroxides and short-chain aldehydes levels and evaluation of conjugated diene formation. A...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Visioli F,Colombo C,Galli C

更新日期：1998-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanococcus voltae produces two flagellins of molecular weight 31,000 and 33,000. Amino acid analysis as well as peptide mapping with cyanogen bromide, chymotrypsin and Staphylococcus aureus V-8 protease indicates that the two flagellins are distinct. N-terminal sequencing of the 31,000 Mc. voltae flagellin as well ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kalmokoff ML,Karnauchow TM,Jarrell KF

更新日期：1990-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of SQSC1 mRNA in tissues of squid Loligo bleekeri was studied by the blot hybridization method. The complete cDNA for the coding region of SQSC1, the invertebrate putative sodium channel, was prepared from squid optic lobe (Sato and Matsumoto, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 186, 61-68, 1992). Transcript...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sato C,Hirota K,Matsumoto G

更新日期：1995-01-26 00:00:00