Glucose and insulin are needed for optimal defensin expression in human cell lines.

abstract：:Antigen-transporting cells take up pathogens, and then migrate from sites of inflammation to secondary lymphoid tissues to induce an immune response. Among antigen-transporting cells, dendritic cells (DCs) are believed to be the most potent and professional antigen-presenting cells that can stimulate naïve T cells. Ho...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Terasawa M,Nagata K,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：2008-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice expressing the rhodopsin mutant Pro347Ser (Serine 6) display retinal degeneration through apoptosis that is characteristic of the disease retinitis pigmentosa. By 5 weeks after birth, these mice have lost approximately 35% of their photoreceptor cells. Retinas from these mice showed higher levels of cA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Weiss ER,Hao Y,Dickerson CD,Osawa S,Shi W,Zhang L,Wong F

更新日期：1995-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sf-9 insect cells infected with a recombinant baculovirus integrated with a cDNA encoding human monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) produced three different MCP-1s, which were isolated by reverse-phase HPLC as 13kDa, 14kDa, and 15kDa bands on SDS-PAGE. The heterogeneity between these MCP-1s was ascribed to ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishii K,Yamagami S,Tanaka H,Motoki M,Suwa Y,Endo N

更新日期：1995-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid flowing through the bone porosity might be a primary stimulus for functional adaptation of bone. Osteoblasts, and osteocytes in particular, respond to fluid flow in vitro with enhanced nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) release; both of these signaling molecules mediate mechanically-induced bone f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McGarry JG,Klein-Nulend J,Prendergast PJ

更新日期：2005-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial glutamate transporter GLT-1 mRNA was selectively induced in C6 glioma cells exposed to hypertonic stress (HS), while the expression of two other subtypes, GLAST and EAAC1, was suppressed. HS increased phosphorylation of the MAPK family, ERK, p38 MAPK, and JNK. Treatment with a PKC inhibitor showed that phosphory...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Imura T,Shimohama S,Kageyama T,Kimura J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CAD/DFF40, the nuclease responsible for DNA fragmentation during apoptosis, exists as a heterodimeric complex with DFF45/ICAD. This study determines the molecular mechanisms of regulation of DFF40 via the chaperone and inhibition activities of DFF45. We analyze proteins corresponding to the fragments (D1, D2, and D3) ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McCarty JS,Toh SY,Li P

更新日期：1999-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study evidence for the presence of specific cytosolic platelet-activating factor (PAF) binding sites has been presented. The equilibrium dissociation constant (Kd) as determined by Scatchard analysis was 4.29 x 10(-9) M for the cytosolic and 3.71 x 10(-9) M for the membrane fraction. The maximal number of bind...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Svetlov S,Nigam S

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic properties of phosphorylated urokinase plasminogen activator (P-uPA) (1) extracted from human carcinomatous cell line Detroit 562 cells were compared with those of non-phosphorylated uPA of urinary origin (nP-uPA). Using plasminogen as a substrate, the Km and Kcat of P-uPA were higher than that of nP-uPA whi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi K,Kwaan HC,Koh E,Tanabe M

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 2J (Cyp2J) subfamilies are recognized as catalysts of arachidonic acid metabolism in extrahepatic tissues of many species. However, to date, no P450 2J have been identified in zebrafish. We describe here a zfCyp2J1 cDNA which encodes a putative protein of 496 amino acids and shares 51%, 51%, 50%, 51% a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang L,Yao J,Chen L,Chen J,Xue J,Jia W

更新日期：2007-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated that ubiquitin-conjugated proteins were accumulated by ectopically-expressed S5a as well as the ubiquitin-interacting motifs of S5a (S5a-UIMs). In this study, we further found that free S5a-UIMs stabilized only a subset of proteasomal substrates including p53, c-Fos, c-Jun, and p27 but not bet...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Elangovan M,Shin DY,Yoo YJ

更新日期：2009-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Casein kinase II (CKII) activity in colorectal tumours was compared before and after heterotransplantation onto nude mice. The test revealed that the enzyme activity was about two-fold enhanced in the tumours isolated from the nude mice when compared to the respective primary tumours from which they were derived. Immu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Seitz G,Münstermann U,Schneider HR,Issinger OG

更新日期：1989-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenesis is a long process that results in the accumulation of genetic alterations primarily in genes involved in the regulation of signalling pathways relevant for the regulation of cell growth and the cell cycle. Alteration of additional genes regulating cell adhesion and migration, angiogenesis, apoptosis, an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ramírez de Molina A,Rodríguez-González A,Gutiérrez R,Martínez-Piñeiro L,Sánchez J,Bonilla F,Rosell R,Lacal J

更新日期：2002-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Fes plays pivotal roles in angiogenic cellular responses of endothelial cells. Here we examined the role of c-Fes in vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A)-mediated signaling pathways in endothelial cells. We introduced either wild-type or kinase-inactive c-Fes in porcine aortic endothelial (PAE) cell lines, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kanda S,Mochizuki Y,Miyata Y,Kanetake H

更新日期：2003-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodanese domains are abundant structural modules that catalyze the transfer of a sulfur atom from thiolsulfates to cyanide via formation of a covalent persulfide intermediate that is bound to an essential conserved cysteine residue. In this study, the three-dimensional structure of the rhodanese domain of YgaP from E...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang W,Zhou P,He Y,Yu L,Xiong Y,Tian C,Wu F

更新日期：2014-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of lens crystallins in vivo or in a highly concentrated solution is not well established. Most studies were carried out in dilute solutions in which protein-protein interaction is minimal. In order to see whether there is conformational change (tertiary and secondary structures) when crystallin soluti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liang JJ,Chakrabarti B

更新日期：1998-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is inhibited by S-nitrosylation of Cys6 in cells. Herein, we show that polysulfidation of CaMKII at Cys6 limits its enzyme activity following reactive sulfur species (RSS) stimulus. In vitro incubation of CaMKII with the RSS donor, Na2S4,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Araki S,Takata T,Tsuchiya Y,Watanabe Y

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac ryanodine receptor gene (RyR2) mutations cause fatal arrhythmogenic diseases such as catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. The N-terminal region of RyR2 is one of the hot spots for mutations. In this study, we investigated cardiac phenotypes ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okudaira N,Kuwahara M,Hirata Y,Oku Y,Nishio H

更新日期：2014-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse gene encoding the mu opioid receptor, Oprm, undergoes extensive alternatively splicing, with 14 variants having been identified. However, only one variant of human mu opioid receptor gene (Oprm), MOR-1A, has been described. We now report two novel splice variants of the human Oprm gene, hMOR-1O and hMOR-1X. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pan YX,Xu J,Mahurter L,Xu M,Gilbert AK,Pasternak GW

更新日期：2003-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) that lacks expression of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is a breast cancer subtype with very aggressive metastasis and poor prognosis. Unique cartilage matrix-associated protein (UCMA) is a vitamin K-dependent...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee SH,Lee YJ,Park SI,Kim JE

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we devised a simple and rapid method to analyze fidelity of reverse transcriptase (RT) using next-generation sequencing (NGS). The method comprises a cDNA synthesis reaction from standard RNA with a primer containing a tag of 14 randomized bases and the RT to be tested, PCR using high-fidelity DNA polym...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yasukawa K,Iida K,Okano H,Hidese R,Baba M,Yanagihara I,Kojima K,Takita T,Fujiwara S

更新日期：2017-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein report two new genes, human neugrin and mouse homologue m-neugrin, found by screening the cDNA library for the human spinal cord. The neugrin mRNA encodes 219 amino acids and its deduced amino acid sequence contains an NLS-like domain. No previously known motif is found in it. m-neugrin mRNA encodes 233 amin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishigaki S,Niwa J,Yoshihara T,Mitsuma N,Doyu M,Sobue G

更新日期：2000-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition and removal of interstrand cross-links is perhaps the least understood of all repair pathways in eukaryotic cells. We have shown previously that uncoupling of cross-links occurs in mammalian cell extracts and have identified a number of factors that mediate this process. However, we have not observed c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu X,Zhang N,Vasquez K,Barton M,Legerski R

更新日期：2005-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine erythrocyte green heme binding protein and bovine erythrocyte flavin reductase have been isolated in highly purified forms and subjected to amino acid analysis and N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis. The two proteins possess similar amino acid compositions and identical N-terminal amino acid sequences. Mor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Quandt KS,Xu F,Chen P,Hultquist DE

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding proteins are believed to play important roles in regulation of neural functions. Recently, a mouse cDNA encoding the cold-inducible RNA-binding protein, Cirp, has been isolated, the amino acid sequence of which showed similarity to plant circadian rhythm proteins. In the present study, diurnal expression o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishiyama H,Xue JH,Sato T,Fukuyama H,Mizuno N,Houtani T,Sugimoto T,Fujita J

更新日期：1998-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effect of interleukin-6 (IL-6) on glucose transport, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DOG) uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes after incubation with IL-6 was measured. IL-6 increased 2-DOG uptake maximally after 5 hours by 30 +/- 12%, with a half-maximal effect at an IL-6 concentration of approximately 800 U/mL. 3-O-methylgl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stouthard JM,Oude Elferink RP,Sauerwein HP

更新日期：1996-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We used fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) to study the activation of fibrinogen by thrombin and the subsequent aggregation of fibrin monomers into fibrin polymers at a very low and at physiological fibrinogen concentrations. In the labeling procedure used the fibrinogen was randomly labeled and the label was...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bark N,Földes-Papp Z,Rigler R

更新日期：1999-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 plays a pivotal role in the control of cell death and is down-regulated in trichosanthin (TCS)-induced cell apoptosis. Because Bcl-2 expression is regulated by the transcription factor cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB), we investigated the role of CREB activation in TCS-induced Hela cells apopto...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang P,Yan H,Li JC

更新日期：2007-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantified the damage yields produced in plasmid DNA by γ-irradiation in the presence of low concentrations (10-100 μM) of ascorbic acid, which is a major antioxidant in living systems, to clarify whether it chemically repairs radiation damage in DNA. The yield of DNA single strand breaks induced by irradiation was...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hata K,Urushibara A,Yamashita S,Shikazono N,Yokoya A,Katsumura Y

更新日期：2013-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A suitable antibody for immunoaffinity chromatography is considered to efficiently bind the antigen in the adsorption step and to dissociate the bound antigen with mild changes in the environmental conditions. To develop an effective method for preparing such antibodies, murine antisera elicited by the primary and sec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Enomoto A,Kamata N,Nakamura K

更新日期：1994-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Blockage of either nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) or Akt sensitizes cancer cells to TNF-induced apoptosis. In this study, we investigated the undetermined effect of concurrent blockage of these two survival pathways on TNF-induced cytotoxicity in lung cancer cells. The results show that Akt contributes to TNF-induc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang X,Chen W,Lin Y

更新日期：2007-04-13 00:00:00