Immunoreactivity and proliferative actions of beta 2 microglobulin on human bone-derived cells in vitro.

abstract：:In order to characterize the direct involvement of cAMP in the change of osteoblast proliferation by parathyroid hormone (PTH), we employed the diastereoisomers of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic phosphorothioate, Sp-cAMPS and Rp-cAMPS, which have been recently shown to act directly as agonist and antagonist, respectively in t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kano J,Sugimoto T,Fukase M,Fujita T

更新日期：1991-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive oxidative stress induces significant injury and cytotoxicity to neuronal cells. The current study tested expression and the potential function of the circular RNA PRKCI (circPRKCI) in oxidative stress-injured neuronal cells. In cultured SH-SY5Y neuronal cells, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) downregulated circPRKCI...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng Q,Cao X,Xue L,Xia L,Xu Y

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation of Ca2+ requirements for the mitogenic activation of lymphocytes by periodic acid has shown that oxidation by periodate causes an immediate and transient increase of Ca2+ influx and efflux in oxidized cells. Oxidized lymphocytes maintained in the medium containing 0.2 mM Ca2+ failed to proliferate o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hornicek FJ,Malinin GI,Malinin TI

更新日期：1992-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary in vitro immunization of peripheral blood lymphocytes has been studied for the production of human monoclonal antibodies. Depletion of a lysosome-rich cell population, containing large granular lymphocytes, monocytes, and a subset of T suppressor cells, was shown to be crucial before the cells could be immuniz...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Borrebaeck CA,Danielsson L,Möller SA

更新日期：1987-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pterin-4 alpha-carbinolamine dehydratase (PCD)/dimerization cofactor for the transcription factor HNF-1 alpha is a bifunctional protein proposed to be involved in entirely different biochemical functions. We previously established the complete amino acid sequence for the human liver PCD and subsequently isol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thöny B,Neuheiser F,Blau N,Heizmann CW

更新日期：1995-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of human SCD1 heterologous expression on cellular fatty acid synthesis was investigated in the current study. The SCD1 gene expression cassette and PGK-neomycin-selectable marker cassette were co-introduced into HEK 293 cells by electroporation, and subsequently, SCD1 expression was evaluated by fatty acid ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu Z,Li D,Gou K

更新日期：2010-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations in the DJ-1/PARK7 gene are responsible for early-onset autosomal-recessive Parkinson's disease. DJ-1 is implicated in the protection of neurons from oxidative stress by scavenging hydrogen peroxide and regulating the transcriptional activity of multiple pathways. Here, we attempted to identi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim SJ,Park YJ,Oh YJ

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon centrifugation of gently lysed T. cruzi cells through a sucrose gradient, a free DNA fraction was shown to contain catenated dimers and knotted DNA structures. Southern hybridization and electron microscopic studies indicated that both of these structures derived from minicircle DNA, the major component of T. cru...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Valenzuela MS,Bardhan S,Krishnamani MR,Siddiqui KA

更新日期：1991-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the transcription factor NF-kappaB results in protection against apoptosis, and the chemotherapeutic agent 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) exerts its cytotoxic effect through the induction of apoptosis. Thus, we examined whether 5-FU could induce apoptosis through the suppression of NF-kappaB activity. We found th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aota K,Azuma M,Yamashita T,Tamatani T,Motegi K,Ishimaru N,Hayashi Y,Sato M

更新日期：2000-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Processing of Bacillus thuringiensis protoxins to toxins by midgut proteinases from a strain of the Indianmeal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hubner), resistant to B. thuringiensis subspecies entomocidus (HD-198) was slower than that by midgut proteinases from the susceptible parent strain or a strain resistant to B. th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oppert B,Kramer KJ,Johnson DE,MacIntosh SC,McGaughey WH

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To repress gene transcription, the unliganded nuclear receptor (NR) recruits the N-CoR and SMRT corepressors via its direct association with the conserved motif within bipartite NR-interaction domains (IDs) of corepressors. We recently reported that SMRT is directly involved in the VDR-mediated repression via an ID1-s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim JY,Son YL,Lee YC

更新日期：2009-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Laminins, the major basement membrane glycoproteins, are composed of three subunits. We identified a splice variant of the human laminin alpha4 subunit transcript containing 21 extra nucleotides. A heptapeptide sequence, MDCPTIS, was inserted close to the two cysteine residues possibly involved in the intersubunit dis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi Y,Kim KH,Fujiwara H,Shimono C,Yamashita M,Sanzen N,Futaki S,Sekiguchi K

更新日期：2002-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation and histone H3 lysine 27 methylation (H3K27me) are repressive marks that silence gene expression. The M phase phosphoprotein (MPP8) associates with proteins involved in both DNA methylation and histone modifications, and therefore, is a potential candidate to mediate cr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Murata K,Sato S,Haruta M,Goshima T,Chiba Y,Takahashi S,Sharif J,Koseki H,Nakanishi M,Shimada M

更新日期：2015-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon CNS damage, astrocytes undergo a series of biological changes including increased proliferation, production of inflammatory mediators and morphological changes, in a response collectively called reactive gliosis. This process is an essential part of the brains response to injury, yet much is unknown about the mol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim KC,Hyun Joo S,Shin CY

更新日期：2011-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) catalyzes the intracellular synthesis of cholesteryl esters (CE). Both ACAT isoforms, ACAT1 and ACAT2, play key roles in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and ACAT inhibition retards atherosclerosis in animal models. Rimonabant, a type 1 cannabinoid receptor (CB1...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Netherland C,Thewke DP

更新日期：2010-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A substantial body of data indicates that reactive oxygen intermediates (ROIs) are implicated in pathogenesis of diverse human diseases. Oxidative stress induced by ROIs often causes cell death via apoptosis that is regulated by a plenty of functional genes and their protein products. Bcl-2 is one such protein that bl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jang JH,Surh YJ

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Reelin is a secreted glycoprotein essential for normal brain development and function. In the extracellular milieu, Reelin is subject to specific cleavage at two (N-t and C-t) sites. The N-t cleavage of Reelin is implicated in psychiatric and Alzheimer's diseases, but the molecular mechanism and physiological signific...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kohno S,Kohno T,Nakano Y,Suzuki K,Ishii M,Tagami H,Baba A,Hattori M

更新日期：2009-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A trisaccharide (Glcalpha1-4Glcalpha1-6Glc) and a tetrasaccharide (Glcalpha1-4Glcalpha1-4Glcalpha1-6Glc) the structures of which are related to that of repeating unit of pullulan have been obtained, exploiting the transglycolytic activity of Aspergillus niger cyclodextrin glucanotransferase. Both products were obtaine...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Campa C,Vetere A,Gamini A,Donati I,Paoletti S

更新日期：2002-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I diabetes is a complex disease in which multiple susceptibility loci have been implicated by whole genome scans. IDDM8, a susceptibility locus, is located on chromosome 6q27, however the specific susceptibility gene has yet to be identified. We have examined five potential candidate genes using 36 genetic marker...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Owerbach D,Piña L,Gabbay KH

更新日期：2004-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The high affinity laminin receptor is differentially expressed in metastasis. We now report that there are multiple copies (6 +/- 1) of the laminin receptor gene in the murine genome of normal diploid cells as well as in cell lines derived from cancer cells. We have analyzed three distinct cDNA clones isolated from an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fernández MT,Castronovo V,Rao CN,Sobel ME

更新日期：1991-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:UCP-2 is a member of the emerging family of UCP homologues. Upon high-fat feeding, UCP-2 mRNA levels are increased in epididymal fat pads of A/J mice, suggesting that the flux of fatty acids entering adipose tissue may regulate UCP-2 gene expression. Since fatty acids act as positive transcriptional regulators of lipi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aubert J,Champigny O,Saint-Marc P,Negrel R,Collins S,Ricquier D,Ailhaud G

更新日期：1997-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are important enzymes for the transcriptional regulation of gene expression in eukaryotic cells. Deacetylation of epsilon-acetyl-lysine residues within the N-terminal tail of core histones mediates changes in both histone-DNA and histone-non-histone protein interactions. However, surprisin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Riester D,Wegener D,Hildmann C,Schwienhorst A

更新日期：2004-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that ferroxidase I (ceruloplasmin) activity is essential for iron mobilization, adult rats were fed a copper sufficient diet with or without the chelating drugs D-penicillamine and triethylenetetramine for 120 days. By day 6 of treatment and for the remainder of the experiment the drug-fed rats ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cohen NL,Keen CL,Lönnerdal B,Hurley LS

更新日期：1983-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:O2-dependent reactions of the ferric and ferrous forms of alpha-hydroxyheme complexed with water-soluble rat heme oxygenase-1 were examined by rapid-scan stopped-flow measurements. Ferric alpha-hydroxyheme reacted with O2 to form ferric verdoheme with an O2-dependent rate constant of 4x10(5) M(-1) s(-1) at pH 7.4 and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakamoto H,Takahashi K,Higashimoto Y,Harada S,Palmer G,Noguchi M

更新日期：2005-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, two reports [R. E. Davis et al. (1997) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 4564-4569 and E. Fahy et al. (1997) Nucleic Acids Res. 25, 3102-3109] described a series of heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in the genes encoding two cytochrome c oxidase subunits (CO1 and CO2) which segregated in higher ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Davis JN 2nd,Parker WD Jr

更新日期：1998-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An important mechanism of regulation of the expression of the AT(1) receptors is the modulation of the mRNA stability. AUF1, a human RNA-binding protein, may play an important role. Since AUF1 seems to bind to AU-rich regions of the 3'-untranslated region of the mRNAs, we verified the nucleotide sequence of human AT(1...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pende A,Giacchè M,Castigliola L,Contini L,Passerone G,Patrone M,Port JD,Lotti G

更新日期：1999-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has been shown that calpains may play a positive role in causing apoptosis of T cells, we report here that, on the contrary, the inhibition of calpain-like activities can induce apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells. Two calpain inhibitors were used to test growth response on prostate cancer cells and s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhu W,Murtha PE,Young CY

更新日期：1995-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the T cell Ig and mucin (TIM) family have recently been implicated in the control of T cell-mediated immune responses. In this study, we found TIM-1 expression on anti-IgM- or anti-CD40-stimulated splenic B cells, which was further up-regulated by the combination of anti-IgM and anti-CD40 Abs. On the other ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ma J,Usui Y,Takeda K,Harada N,Yagita H,Okumura K,Akiba H

更新日期：2011-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), a representative anionic surfactant, is a commonly used reagent in studies of the cell membrane and cell wall. However, the mechanisms through which SDS affects cellular functions have not yet been fully examined. Thus, to gain further insights into the cellular functions and responses to...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao F,Yang J,Li J,Li Z,Lin Y,Zheng S,Liang S,Han S

更新日期：2020-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) can be used as a general platform for loading and delivering DNA oligonucleotides and short hairpin RNA to living systems. Here, we report the ability of functionalized AuNP to deliver RNA aptamers into the nuclei of human cells. An in vitro-sy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ryou SM,Kim JM,Yeom JH,Hyun S,Kim S,Han MS,Kim SW,Bae J,Rhee S,Lee K

更新日期：2011-12-09 00:00:00