DC-SIGN mediates avian H5N1 influenza virus infection in cis and in trans.

abstract：:Human Gb3/CD77 synthase (α1,4-galactosyltransferase, P(k) synthase), encoded by A4GALT gene, is known for synthesis of Gal(α1-4)Gal moiety in globotriaosylceramide (Gb3Cer, CD77, P(k) blood group antigen), a glycosphingolipid of the globo series. Recently, it was shown that c.631C > G mutation in A4GALT, which causes ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaczmarek R,Duk M,Szymczak K,Korchagina E,Tyborowska J,Mikolajczyk K,Bovin N,Szewczyk B,Jaskiewicz E,Czerwinski M

更新日期：2016-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Although compelling data have demonstrated the effectiveness of estrogen replacement therapy for the treatment of accelerated bone loss in postmenopausal osteoporosis and ovariectomized animals, the mechanisms by which estrogens reduce bone resorption remain to be elucidated. To address this issue, in the present stud...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zecchi-Orlandini S,Formigli L,Tani A,Benvenuti S,Fiorelli G,Papucci L,Capaccioli S,Orlandini GE,Brandi ML

更新日期：1999-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The process in which nucleotide is buried into the active site of heavy meromyosin was studied with stopped-flow apparatus by monitoring the time-course of the large fluorescence increase of 1,N6-ethenoadenosine triphosphate (epsilon-ATP) when it binds from acrylamide-containing solutions. We have recently reported th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ando T,Duke JA

更新日期：1983-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been reported that expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) plays a protective role against many diseases. Furthermore, n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) were shown to induce HO-1 expression in several cells in vitro, and in a few cases also in vivo. However, very few reports have demonstrated that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakagawa F,Morino K,Ugi S,Ishikado A,Kondo K,Sato D,Konno S,Nemoto K,Kusunoki C,Sekine O,Sunagawa A,Kawamura M,Inoue N,Nishio Y,Maegawa H

更新日期：2014-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-23 plays a predominant role in the development of autoimmune diseases by inducing IL-17-producing helper T (Th17) cells. The receptor for IL-23 consists of a heterodimer composed of the IL-12 receptor beta1 (IL-12Rbeta1) and the IL-23 receptor (IL-23R), which is mainly expressed on Th17 cells. A recen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sonobe Y,Liang J,Jin S,Zhang G,Takeuchi H,Mizuno T,Suzumura A

更新日期：2008-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The products of the human hepatitis B virus (HBV) and woodchuck hepatitis B virus X genes (pXs) transactivate homologous and heterologous genes including the HBV-X and core promoters, the human immunodeficiency viruses 1 (HIV-1) and 2 (HIV-2) long terminal repeats and the beta interferon regulatory sequences. We repor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Balsano C,Avantaggiati ML,Natoli G,De Marzio E,Will H,Perricaudet M,Levrero M

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex determining region Y-box 2 (SOX2) is well known as one of the "stemness" factors and is often expressed in cancers including breast cancer. In this study, we developed a reporter system using fluorescent protein driven by the promoter for SOX2 gene to detect and isolate living SOX2-positive cells. Using this syste...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liang S,Furuhashi M,Nakane R,Nakazawa S,Goudarzi H,Hamada J,Iizasa H

更新日期：2013-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides containing phosphonate based non-hydrolyzable phosphotyrosyl (pTyr) mimetics previously have been shown to be competitive inhibitors of protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs). These agents suffer from low cellular penetration which is partially attributable to ionization of the phosphonate group at physiologica...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kole HK,Akamatsu M,Ye B,Yan X,Barford D,Roller PP,Burke TR Jr

更新日期：1995-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Western immunoblots of whole cell lysate and crude membrane extract of an in vitro selected sodium m-arsenite-resistant L. donovani strain revealed a 230-kDa protein identified by an anti-P-glycoprotein (Pgp) antibody. Immunofluorescence microscopy, using the same antibody, detected putative Pgp on resistant parasites...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaur J,Dey CS

更新日期：2000-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of different forms of cellular stress can cause protein misfolding and aggregation and proteotoxicity. The cytoprotective response to proteotoxicity is termed the integrated stress response and involves 4 distinct serine/threonine protein kinases that converge on the translation initiation factor eIF2α, resu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McConkey DJ

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is required for adaptive immunity through defined functions in T cell activation and antigen presenting cell (APC) maturation. The potential role of P-gp as an in vivo regulator of alloimmunity is currently unknown. Here we show that P-gp blockade prolongs graft survival in a murine heterotopic c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Izawa A,Schatton T,Frank NY,Ueno T,Yamaura K,Pendse SS,Margaryan A,Grimm M,Gasser M,Waaga-Gasser AM,Sayegh MH,Frank MH

更新日期：2010-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that a specific inhibitor of insulin-like growth factor (IGF) action in vitro can be isolated from normal human serum and subsequently partially purified on an IGF-affinity column. The ability of the inhibitor to bind the IGFs has now been confirmed directly using covalent cross-linking tec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ooi GT,Herington AC

更新日期：1986-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ influx from the extracellular space in nonexcitable cells occurs via receptor-operated and refilling processes. However, they showed different characteristics with respect to the Mn2+ permeability, depletion of intracellular Ca2+ stores, and sensitivity to the K+ ionophore valinomycin in rat pancreatic acinar cel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsunoda Y,Tashiro Y

更新日期：1999-03-24 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：:α-Isopropylmalate synthase (α-IPMS) is a multi-domain protein catalysing the condensation of α-ketoisovalerate (α-KIV) and acetyl coenzyme A (AcCoA) to form α-isopropylmalate. This reaction is the first committed step in the leucine biosynthetic pathway in bacteria and plants, and α-IPMS is allosterically regulated by...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huisman FH,Squire CJ,Parker EJ

更新日期：2013-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although transformed androgen receptor (AR) complexes derived from cytosol and nuclear AR complexes have been shown to bind with high affinity to nuclei and DNA, we have shown that the binding characteristics of the two receptor populations to rat ventral prostate nuclei are different. To account for these differences...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Golsteyn EJ,Goren HJ,Lehoux JG,Lefebvre YA

更新日期：1990-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous report we described Ser(1275) and Ser(1309) as autophosphorylation sites of the human insulin receptor (IR) tyrosine kinase (TK) in vitro. The question remained whether the observed phosphorylation was exclusive for the in vitro activated receptor or a more general, mechanism of the activated receptor in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tennagels N,Telting D,Parvaresch S,Maassen JA,Klein HW

更新日期：2001-03-30 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

abstract：AIMS:Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is a polypeptide protein hormone, similar in molecular structure to insulin, which plays an important role in cell migration, cell cycle progression, cell survival and proliferation. In this study, we investigated the possible mechanisms of IGF-1 mediated cell cycle redistribut...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ma QL,Yang TL,Yin JY,Peng ZY,Yu M,Liu ZQ,Chen FP

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of six steroidal saponins isolated from Anemarrhenae rhizoma on superoxide generation in human neutrophils was investigated. The steroidal saponins examined were anemarrhenasaponin-I (An-I), anemarrhenasaponin-Ia (An-Ia), timosaponin B-I (TB-I), timosaponin B-II (TB-II), timosaponin B-III (TB-III) and timosapon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang J,Zhang M,Sugahara K,Sagara Y,Meng Z,Xu S,Kodama H

更新日期：1999-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern proteomics approaches include techniques to examine the expression, localization, modifications, and complex formation of proteins in cells. In order to address issues of protein function in vitro using classical biochemical and biophysical approaches, high-throughput methods of cloning the appropriate reading ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huang RY,Boulton SJ,Vidal M,Almo SC,Bresnick AR,Chance MR

更新日期：2003-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to inhibiting matrix metalloproteinases, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) is involved in the regulation of cell growth and survival. To determine its mechanism of action, we investigated effects of TIMP-1 on cell proliferation and survival and signaling pathways induced by TIMP-1 in the hum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee SJ,Yoo HJ,Bae YS,Kim HJ,Lee ST

更新日期：2003-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray microanalysis has been used to determine elemental content in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes of hyperthyroid rats in comparison with euthyroid controls. No significant differences were found for any examined element (sodium, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, potassium, magnesium and calcium). In contrast to earlier re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Smith NK,Lewiński A,Stabler-Morris S

更新日期：1983-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic cells of Coprinus contain a protein that can be identified by its ability to enhance activity of the meiotic DNA polymerase reported previously (8). Its activity is found only during the prophase stages in meiotic cells, and is accompanied by the meiotic polymerase. The protein, which was purified to near homo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gomi K,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The gel retardation assay with a single-stranded oligo-DNA of cAMP-response element (CRE) in a somatostatin promoter region was selected to examine the possibility of transcriptional regulation of cAMP-inducible genes by chronic morphine or ethanol treatment of NG108-15 cells. When the nuclear extracts from the cells ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Osugi T,Taniura H,Ikemoto M,Miki N

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies examining the relationship between cellular sortilin and VLDL-B100 secretion demonstrate inconsistent results. Current studies explore the possibility that discrepancies may be related to insulin sensitivity. McArdle RH7777 cells (McA cells) cultured under serum enriched conditions lose sensitivity to insulin....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sparks RP,Guida WC,Sowden MP,Jenkins JL,Starr ML,Fratti RA,Sparks CE,Sparks JD

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) small heat shock protein Hsp16.3 was found to be a major membrane protein that is most predominantly expressed under oxidative stress and is localized to the thickened cell envelope. Gene knock-out studies indicate that the Hsp16.3 protein is required for TB to grow in its host macropha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Abulimiti A,Qiu X,Chen J,Liu Y,Chang Z

更新日期：2003-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene coding for rat group II phospholipase A2 was isolated from a rat genomic library by using the cDNA for rat platelet phospholipase A2 as a hybridization probe. The rat group II phospholipase A2 gene spanned about 3.5 kilobase pairs and consisted of five exons. Southern blot analysis revealed that a single copy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Komada M,Kudo I,Inoue K

更新日期：1990-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent dyes that are environmentally sensitive or solvatochromic are useful tools for protein labelling in in vivo biosensor applications such as glucose monitoring in diabetes since their spectral properties are mostly independent of tissue autofluorescence and light scattering, and they offe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Khan F,Pickup JC

更新日期：2013-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed PeptiSite, a comprehensive and reliable database of biologically and structurally characterized peptide-binding sites, in which each site is represented by an ensemble of its complexes with protein, peptide and small molecule partners. The unique features of the database include: (1) the ensemble site rep...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Acharya C,Kufareva I,Ilatovskiy AV,Abagyan R

更新日期：2014-03-21 00:00:00