Antiviral potency of a siRNA targeting a conserved region of coxsackievirus A24.

abstract：:The effect of calcitonin gene-related peptide(CGRP) on the release of atrial natriuretic peptide(ANP) was studied in spontaneously beating, isolated rat atria. CGRP stimulated the ANP release in a dose-dependent manner. When the atria were incubated with a combination of phentolamine, propranolol, and atropine, these ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamamoto A,Kimura S,Hasui K,Fujisawa Y,Tamaki T,Fukui K,Iwao H,Abe Y

更新日期：1988-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel vector system for the efficient assembly of polydactyl zinc fingers. Next to proteins that possess short canonical TGEKP linkers between all constituting zinc fingers we constructed proteins with longer, 12 amino acid linkers between two three-finger (3F) units and between three two-finger (2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Neuteboom LW,Lindhout BI,Saman IL,Hooykaas PJ,van der Zaal BJ

更新日期：2006-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification and mapping of genes within the Down syndrome region is an important step toward a complete understanding of the pathogenesis of this disorder. The objective of the present work is to identify and map genes within the Down syndrome region-2. Chromosome 21 cosmid clones corresponding to "cosmid pocke...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vidal-Taboada JM,Bergoñón S,Sánchez M,López-Acedo C,Groet J,Nizetic D,Egeo A,Scartezzini P,Katsanis N,Fisher EM,Delabar JM,Oliva R

更新日期：1998-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A porphyrinic sensor was used to monitor nitric oxide release from vascular smooth muscle in response to exposure to ultraviolet light. Aortic rings exposed to UV light relaxed with a time course that parallels this observed NO release. With repeated UV light treatments, the magnitude of the relaxations diminished, su...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kubaszewski E,Peters A,McClain S,Bohr D,Malinski T

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecdysone 20-monooxygenase activity and the factors which may regulate this steroid hydroxylase were examined in the midgut of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, during the last larval stadium. Radioassay experiments revealed that midgut ecdysone 20-monooxygenase undergoes a single 50-fold increase in activity tempor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keogh DP,Johnson RF,Smith SL

更新日期：1989-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase has been shown to contain two enzyme-bound zinc atoms per polypeptide chain. To investigate the structural and functional significance of the C-terminal enzyme-bound zinc, mutagenesis was used to alter Cys 922 to Ser [IleRS(C922S)] and to replace Cys 922 through Ala 939 with ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou L,Rosevear PR

更新日期：1995-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The bovine tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus is a blood-sucking animal, which is responsible for Babesia spp and Anaplasma marginale transmission for cattle. From a B. microplus fat body cDNA library, 465 selected clones were sequenced randomly and resulted in 60 Contigs. An open reading frame (ORF) contains 98...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lima CA,Sasaki SD,Tanaka AS

更新日期：2006-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicastrin is a recently discovered protein interacting with presenilins and the beta-amyloid precursor protein, the proteins playing key roles in Alzheimer's disease and which, when mutated, appear responsible for early-onset familial forms of Alzheimer's disease. Nicastrin was reported to modulate beta-amyloid produc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fergani A,Yu G,St George-Hyslop P,Checler F

更新日期：2001-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer accounts for the highest death rate among cancers worldwide, with most patients being diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), urging more effective therapies. We report that JK273, a pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine analog, which inhibits α4 integrin signaling, showed a selective cytotoxic effect agains...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu TN,Ganganna B,Pham TT,Vo AV,Lu TP,Nguyen HT,Nguyen MT,Huynh PN,Truong NT,Lee J

更新日期：2017-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:TESK1 (testis-specific protein kinase 1) is a serine/threonine kinase, with a unique structure composed of an N-terminal protein kinase domain and a C-terminal proline-rich domain. Northern blot analysis revealed that TESK1 mRNA is predominantly expressed in testicular germ cells. We present here evidence that express...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Toshima J,Koji T,Mizuno K

更新日期：1998-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, decreases paracellular endothelial permeability in a process that requires rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton. To define the proximal mechanism of this effect, we tested whether it might involve enhanced generation and/or sparing of nitric oxide (NO) by the vitamin. EA.hy926 endotheli...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： May JM,Qu ZC

更新日期：2011-01-14 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 bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are a promising source for clinical stem cell transplantation. However, telomere regulation mechanisms, as one of the possible major mechanisms by which hMSCs sustain their stem cell characteristics, remain unknown. We isolated hMSCs by plastic adhesion and characterize...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao YM,Li JY,Lan JP,Lai XY,Luo Y,Sun J,Yu J,Zhu YY,Zeng FF,Zhou Q,Huang H

更新日期：2008-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of the rates of saccharide diffusions by the proteoliposomes showed that the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa only possesses small diffusion pores and that protein F might have not been involved in the pore formation. Proteoliposomes containing stachyose or Dextan T-10 showed the same relative di...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshihara E,Gotoh N,Nakae T

更新日期：1988-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP27A1 catalyses hydroxylations in the biosynthesis of bile acids and the bioactivation of vitamin D3. We investigated the expression of CYP27A1 in human monocytes, monocyte-derived macrophages, and dendritic cells on mRNA and protein levels as well as its enzymatic activity in comparison with the expression of CYP27...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gottfried E,Rehli M,Hahn J,Holler E,Andreesen R,Kreutz M

更新日期：2006-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal structure and the essential functional region of the cysB gene product of Escherichia coli K-12 were analyzed by the method of gene fusion. The translational start codon of the cysB gene was located by determining the amino-terminal sequence of a hybrid protein containing the first 31 amino acid res...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tei H,Watanabe K,Murata K,Kimura A

更新日期：1990-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Many methods have been developed for chemical labeling and enhancement of the properties of antibodies and their common fragments, including the Fab and F(ab')2 fragments. Somewhat selective reduction of some antibody disulfide bonds has been previously achieved, yielding antibodies and antibody fragments that can be ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kirley TL,Greis KD,Norman AB

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The decomposition of peroxynitrite in the presence of 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO) generated 5,5-dimethylpyrrolidone-(2)-oxy-(1) (DMPOX) without formation of DMPO/OH. Formate enhanced the peroxynitrite decomposition but did not generate any detectable amount of formate-derived free radicals. Glutathione, cy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shi X,Lenhart A,Mao Y

更新日期：1994-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that changes in deoxynucleotide pool levels following exposure to UV might lead to an overestimation of the UV-induced depression in DNA synthesis as analyzed by incorporation of 3H-thymidine (1). We attempted to determine the importance of such pool effects in two ways. First, we examined the gra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Griffiths TD,Ling SY

更新日期：1984-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcoplasmic potassium concentration of a suspension of rat ventricular myocytes, prepared by collagenase-induced disruption of the myocardial mass, was determined by a null-point technique. Addition of digitonin resulted in a release of potassium from the cells which was interpreted as a flux from the sarcoplasm....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fry CH,Ward JP,Twist VW,Powell T

更新日期：1986-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In epithelial cells progression through the G1 phase of the cell cycle and preparing the cell for the S phase is regulated by cyclin D1-cdk4. Cells that express the retinoblastoma protein (pRb) are dependent on cyclin D1-cdk4 activity for their proliferation while cells that do not express pRb are not. Overexpression ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kent LL,Hull-Campbell NE,Lau T,Wu JC,Thompson SA,Nori M

更新日期：1999-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:By analyzing The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) datasets, we discovered that the zinc finger protein 692 (ZNF692) were over-expressed in Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) tissues compared to adjacent non-tumor tissues (P < 0.0001). In this study, we investigated the function of ZNF692 in the progression of LUAD. We found that ZN...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang Q,Zheng X,Sun Q,Shi R,Wang J,Zhu B,Xu L,Zhang G,Ren B

更新日期：2017-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Partially purified preparations of O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase from rat liver and E. coli were tested for their ability to repair O4-methylthymine in a methylated poly(dT) X poly(dA) substrate. The bacterial preparation readily carried out this reaction, but no loss of O4-methylthymine was obtained with the r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dolan ME,Scicchitano D,Singer B,Pegg AE

更新日期：1984-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of NH4+ to STreptomyces griseus 2682 cells grown in NO3- containing medium resulted in a rapid decline in glutamine synthetase activity due to covalent modification of the enzyme. The NH4+ promoted inactivation of the enzyme was inhibited by the ADP-ribosyltransferase inhibitor 3-methoxybenzamide. In the pres...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Penyige A,Kálmánczhelyi A,Sipos A,Ensign JC,Barabás G

更新日期：1994-10-28 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：:Down syndrome (DS) leads to cardiac defects which are common and significant in babies with DS. We recently generated chimeric mice carrying a human chromosome (hChr) 21. The contribution ratio of embryonic stem (ES) cells containing a hChr 21 was specifically low in the heart, compared to other organs, and cardiovasc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Inoue T,Shinohara T,Takehara S,Inoue J,Kamino H,Kugoh H,Oshimura M

更新日期：2000-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA (miRNA)-mediated gene silencing has recently emerged as a major mechanism of gene expression regulation during development in a variety of species. Little is known, however, about the presence of components of miRNA machinery in mammalian organogenesis. In this study, we report that members of the Argonaute (...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lü J,Qian J,Chen F,Tang X,Li C,Cardoso WV

更新日期：2005-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A great challenge for gene therapy is to develop a high efficient gene delivery system with low toxicity. Nonviral vectors are still attractive although the current agents displayed some disadvantages (i.e., low transfection efficiency, high toxicity). To overcome the high toxicity of poly(ethylene imine) (PEI) and lo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liang B,He ML,Xiao ZP,Li Y,Chan CY,Kung HF,Shuai XT,Peng Y

更新日期：2008-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained two new mAbs to the carboxy-terminal region of fibronectin, namely P3D4 and P1F11, and have studied their binding sites and their ability to block lymphocyte adhesion to fibronectin. ELISA and Western blot analyses showed that P3D4 reacts with both fibronectin chains and both Hep II-containing fragmen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Garcia-Pardo A,Sánchez-Aparicio P,Wayner EA

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium, Hydrogenobacter thermophilus TK-6, assimilates carbon dioxide via the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle. A gene cluster, porEDABG, encoding pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (POR), which plays a key role in this cycle, was cloned and se...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ikeda T,Ochiai T,Morita S,Nishiyama A,Yamada E,Arai H,Ishii M,Igarashi Y

更新日期：2006-02-03 00:00:00