Partial structure of the human H-protein gene.

abstract：:To investigate the identity determinants of E. coli threonine tRNA, various transcripts were prepared by in vitro transcription system with T7 RNA polymerase. Substitutions of the anticodon second letter G35 and the third letter U36 to other nucleotides led to a remarkable decrease of threonine charging activity. Char...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hasegawa T,Miyano M,Himeno H,Sano Y,Kimura K,Shimizu M

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we showed that several minor macromolecular glycolipids accounting for less than 5% of the lipoteichoic acid (LTA) fraction from Enterococcus hirae ATCC 9790 possess cytokine-inducing activity, whereas the purified LTA does not. In other words, the immunobiological activity of the LTA fraction reported in ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hashimoto M,Imamura Y,Morichika T,Arimoto K,Takeuchi O,Takeda K,Akira S,Aoyama K,Tamura T,Kotani S,Suda Y,Kusumoto S

更新日期：2000-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfation is an important pathway in the metabolism of thyroid hormones. Sulfated iodothyronines are elevated in nonthyroidal illnesses and in the normal human fetal circulation. We assayed and characterized COS-1 cell expressed recombinant human liver dehydroepiandrosterone sulfotransferase (DHEA ST or SULT2A1) and e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li X,Anderson RJ

更新日期：1999-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A common cause for pharmacogenetic alteration in drug response is genetic variation in encoded amino acid sequence. We have used the catecholamine and drug-metabolizing enzyme sulfotransferase (SULT)1A3 to create an artificial model system to study mechanisms-especially possible aggresome formation-by which genetic al...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang L,Yee VC,Weinshilboum RM

更新日期：2004-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential antiatherogenic actions of the angiotensin II receptor antagonist, losartan were investigated in apolipoprotein (apo) E deficient mice, an animal model with severe hypercholesterolemia and extensive atherosclerosis. In these animals accelerated atherosclerosis is associated with increased lipid peroxidat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keidar S,Attias J,Smith J,Breslow JL,Hayek T

更新日期：1997-07-30 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：:The synthesis of toxin protein from Ustilago maydis virus (UmV) strain P4 was studied in vitro and in vivo. The protein synthesized in vitro and in vivo has a molecular weight of approximately 30 kd whereas the native toxin has a molecular weight of about 12 kd. In the presence of protease inhibitors and glycosylation...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Podila GK,Bozarth RF,Flurkey WH

更新日期：1987-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular (circ)RNAs have been implicated in cancer development. However, few studies have examined the role of circRNAs in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). In this study we found that circNUP214 was upregulated in clinical PTC specimens relative to adjacent normal tissue. In vitro analyses showed that circNUP214 knockd...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li X,Tian Y,Hu Y,Yang Z,Zhang L,Luo J

更新日期：2018-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian epidermis, alpha6beta4 integrin is expressed exclusively on the basal layer localized to the hemidesmosomes, where it interacts extracellularly with the laminin-5 ligand. During differentiation, loss of alpha6beta4 is associated with keratinocyte detachment from the basement membrane and upward migration....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Alt A,Gartsbein M,Ohba M,Kuroki T,Tennenbaum T

更新日期：2004-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported that mutant but not wild-type (wt) p53 protein was ADP-ribosylated in primary rat cells overexpressing the temperature-sensitive murine p53val135 gene. To examine whether the lack of susceptibility to modification is a specific feature of p53val135 adopting wt conformation or rather a general...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wesierska-Gadek J,Schmid G,Cerni C

更新日期：1996-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we examined the effects and action mechanisms of cGMP-elevating agents on platelet adhesion to collagen fiber. YC-1, a nitric oxide (NO)-independent activator of soluble guanylate cyclase, inhibited both initial and long-term platelet adhesion to collagen, and the inhibitory effect was potentiate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu CC,Ko FN,Teng CM

更新日期：1997-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on stem-cell transplantation has indicated that the success of transplantation largely depends on synchronizing donor cells into the G0/G1 phase. In this study, we investigated the profile of embryonic stem (ES) cell synchronization and its effect on the formation of embryonic bodies (EBs) using cell culture ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang E,Li X,Zhang S,Chen L,Zheng X

更新日期：2005-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4 (CSPG4), a transmembrane proteoglycan originally identified in melanoma cells, has been reported to be expressed in breast cancer cells. This study was performed to examine the expression and significance of CSPG4 in a cohort of breast cancer patients. Immunohistochemical analysis of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hsu NC,Nien PY,Yokoyama KK,Chu PY,Hou MF

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have established that polypeptide growth factors cause an elevation of the cytoplasmic pH (pHi) in cultured mammalian cells by stimulating Na+/H+ exchange. We show that vanadate, previously found to act as a mitogen for a number of cells, reversibly activates Na+/H+ exchange at micromolar concentrations...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cassel D,Zhuang YX,Glaser L

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The main protein of enriched and purified amyloid from Octodon degus pancreatic islets was identified as insulin. The material was reduced and alkylated and the A- and the B-chain were separated by reversed phase chromatography and subjected to Edman degradation and amino acid analysis. It was shown that the A-chain c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hellman U,Wernstedt C,Westermark P,O'Brien TD,Rathbun WB,Johnson KH

更新日期：1990-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial degradative characteristics of butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) were investigated by the Gordonia sp. strain MTCC 4818 isolated from creosote-contaminated soil. The test organism can utilize a number of phthalate esters as sole sources of carbon and energy, where BBP was totally degraded within 4 days under ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatterjee S,Dutta TK

更新日期：2003-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we describe the expression and function of human Sp5, a member of the Sp family of zinc finger transcription factors. Like other family members, the Sp5 protein contains a Cys2His2 zinc finger DNA binding domain at the C-terminus. Our experiments employing Gal4-Sp5 fusion proteins reveal multiple trans...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen Y,Guo Y,Ge X,Itoh H,Watanabe A,Fujiwara T,Kodama T,Aburatani H

更新日期：2006-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A new point mutation was found in the coding sequence of the secretor FUT2 gene. This missense mutation with an A-->T substitution at nucleotide 385 resulted in an amino acid change of Ile129 to Phe129. This mutation showed a clear genetic trait in an Indonesian pedigree and, when appearing in a homozygous form, it wa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Henry S,Mollicone R,Fernandez P,Samuelsson B,Oriol R,Larson G

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-synuclein (a-syn) aggregation in brain is implicated in several synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and multiple system atrophy (MSA). Until date, at least six disease-associated mutations in a-syn (namely A30P, E46K, H50Q, G51D, A53T, and A53E) are known to ca...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanaka G,Yamanaka T,Furukawa Y,Kajimura N,Mitsuoka K,Nukina N

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CHFR has been implicated as a tumor suppressor in a multitude of cancers. It was originally identified as a major component of the antephase checkpoint. Recently, CHFR was reported to interact with MAD2, an important component of the spindle assembly checkpoint, where CHFR knockdown resulted in mislocalization of MAD2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keller JA,Petty EM

更新日期：2011-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) was induced in the liver, lung and brain of the mouse injected intraperitoneally with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA), showing maximal enzyme activity four hours after the injection. The increase of ODC activity was due to the enhanced syntheses of mRNA and protein. The inducti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hibasami H,Tsukada T,Maekawa S,Sakurai M,Nakashima K

更新日期：1987-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2) D(3)] exerts its biological effects by binding to the vitamin D receptor (VDR), which binds in turn to the vitamin D response elements located in the target gene's promoter. We have previously demonstrated that VDR binds in vitro with high affinity to the 5'-flanking sequence of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Seoane S,Alonso M,Segura C,Pérez-Fernández R

更新日期：2002-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We proposed to use a novel stepwise sequence-constructive SELEX method to develop DNA aptamers that can recognize Globo H which is a tumor-associated carbohydrate antigen. A combinatorial synthetic library that consisted of DNA molecules with randomized regions of 15-bases was used as the starting library for the firs...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang CY,Wu CY,Hung TC,Wong CH,Chen CH

更新日期：2014-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum leptin levels are elevated in subjects with exogenous obesity, indicating that obesity is associated with leptin resistance. Since in man no abnormalities have yet been found in either the genes for leptin or its receptor, the mechanism of leptin resistance in obesity remains unknown. To determine if resistance ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Diamond FB Jr,Eichler DC,Duckett G,Jorgensen EV,Shulman D,Root AW

更新日期：1997-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase (HDAC) 10 is a member of class IIb HDACs, but its deacetylation targets and functions are poorly characterized. Recent investigation has proposed that HDAC10 deacetylates heat shock cognate protein 70 kDa (HSC70) after interaction. HSC70 plays an important role in chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Obayashi H,Nagano Y,Takahashi T,Seki T,Tanaka S,Sakai N,Matsumoto M,Maruyama H

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:125I-labeled insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) was infused directly into the pudic artery supplying one gland of lactating goats (n = 4). Maximum specific activity for [125I]IGF-II transferred into milk from the infused gland was reached 60 min after that in plasma and was 2.5 fold greater than in milk from the n...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Prosser CG,Fleet IR

更新日期：1992-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit antibodies have been raised against rat liver nuclear envelopes. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) demonstrated high titer antiserum specific for the nuclear envelope preparation. Immunocytochemical studies showed that the antiserum stained the nuclear envelopes, but not intra-nuclear components of H...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Venkatraman JT,Gohill J,Fritzler MJ,Lefebvre YA

更新日期：1988-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction of partially purified human O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase with 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea-treated DNA resulted in formation of a DNA-protein covalent complex. Complex formation required active alkyltransferase and brief treatment of DNA with the drug. DNA lost its capacity to form the com...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Brent TP,Smith DG,Remack JS

更新日期：1987-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a mechanism to digest cells' own components, and its importance in many physiological and pathological processes is being recognized. But the molecular mechanism that regulates autophagy is not understood in detail. In the present study, we found that cholesterol depletion induces macroautophagy. The cell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng J,Ohsaki Y,Tauchi-Sato K,Fujita A,Fujimoto T

更新日期：2006-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Assay systems for the evaluation of carcinogen interaction with human tissues are essential for assessing cancer risk. Human hair roots (HHR) are a readily obtainable epithelial tissue source that have been employed for investigating inherited enzyme activities. In this study HHR were found to possess cytochrome P-450...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Merk HF,Mukhtar H,Schutte B,Kaufmann I,Das M,Bickers DR

更新日期：1987-10-29 00:00:00