Induction of autophagy by anthrax lethal toxin.

abstract：:The anterior commissure (AC) is one of the important commissure projections in the brain that conveys information from one side of the nervous system to the other. During development, the axons from the anterior AC (aAC) and the posterior AC (pAC) course in the same dorsoventral plane and converge into a common fascic...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ito A,Shinmyo Y,Abe T,Oshima N,Tanaka H,Ohta K

更新日期：2010-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt/β-catenin and Wnt/Ca2+ pathways are involved in cellular processes during embryonic development and the interaction between them in the same cell decides the outcome of cellular functions. In this study, we showed that Wnt3a triggers the Wnt/Ca2+ signaling pathway, indicated by an increase of cytosolic free calciu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Narendra Talabattula VA,Morgan P,Frech MJ,Uhrmacher AM,Herchenröder O,Pützer BM,Rolfs A,Luo J

更新日期：2017-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic methylation of chemically alkylated DNA and of poly(dG-dC) X poly(dG-dC) by beef brain DNA(cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase have been tested. The alkylation by dimethylsulfate, which yields mostly 7 methylguanine (m7G) and 3 methyladenine (m3A) do not affect the enzymatic methylation. The dimethylsulfate a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pfohl-Leszkowicz A,Boiteux S,Laval J,Keith G,Dirheimer G

更新日期：1983-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs), small single-stranded regulatory RNAs capable of interfering with intracellular mRNAs that contain partial complementarity, are useful for the design of new therapies against cancer polymorphism and viral mutation. MiRNA was originally discovered in the intergenic regions of the Caenorhabditis eleg...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ying SY,Lin SL

更新日期：2005-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The exons of the lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) gene in DNA samples from two of the original Swedish Fish Eye Disease patients have been amplified by polymerase chain reactions and sequenced by the dideoxy method. The two patients apparently were unrelated. In both patients a mutation in codon 10 of the f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Skretting G,Prydz H

更新日期：1992-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA encoding the entire tau subunit of rabbit skeletal muscle phosphorylase kinase was reconstructed and inserted into a plasmid containing the Escherichia coli ptac promoter and a constructed plasmid containing the ptac promoter and bacterial chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT) gene, respectively. A significa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen LR,Yuan CJ,Somasekhar G,Wejksnora P,Peterson JE,Myers AM,Graves L,Cohen PT,da Cruz e Silva EF,Graves DJ

更新日期：1989-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeobox gene expression in osteoblast-like cells was investigated using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A total of 13 homeobox genes was detected in U-2 OS (human osteosarcoma) and MC3T3-E1 (mouse osteoblast) cells by sequencing cloned PCR products. Using specific primers, a different pattern of Hox gene express...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kloen P,Visker MH,Olijve W,van Zoelen EJ,Boersma CJ

更新日期：1997-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Triacsin C, a product of Streptmyces sp. SK-1894, was previously reported as an inhibitor of long chain acyl-CoA synthetase. Pretreatment with triacsin C (500 nM) for 1h enhanced production of platelet-activating factor in rat neutrophils, followed by stimulation with A23187 or fMLP. Amount of lyso-PAF was also augume...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi M,Imai Y,Naraba H,Tomoda H,Omura S,Oh-ishi S

更新日期：1992-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis, a genetically regulated form of cell death with distinct biochemical and morphological features, plays a relevant physiological and pathological role in the organism, being pivotal in the maintenance of tissue development and homeostasis in the adult as well as in the regulation of immune responses. Deregul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Agostini M,Tucci P,Melino G

更新日期：2011-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were undertaken to determine the immunochemical relationship between constitutive trout cytochrome P450s and mammalian cytochrome P450IIIA enzymes. Polyclonal antibodies (IgG) generated against trout P450 LMC5 reacted strongly with P450IIIA1 in dexamethasone-induced rat liver microsomes and with P450IIIA4 in h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miranda CL,Wang JL,Henderson MC,Zhao X,Guengerich FP,Buhler DR

更新日期：1991-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin, an adipose-derived hormone, exhibits various biological functions, such as increasing insulin sensitivity, protecting hypertension, and suppression of atherosclerosis, liver fibrosis, and tumor growth. Here, we report the role of adiponectin on bone metabolism. C57BL/6J mice were treated with adenovirus e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oshima K,Nampei A,Matsuda M,Iwaki M,Fukuhara A,Hashimoto J,Yoshikawa H,Shimomura I

更新日期：2005-06-03 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：:Neuroblastoma LAN-5 cells exposed to retinoic acid cease to multiply and extend neurite outgrowths acquiring a neuronal phenotype. We now report that protein kinase C-theta; (PKC-theta;) isozyme is involved in this differentiation process due to the following findings: (i) PKC-theta; is expressed by LAN-5 cells as a n...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sparatore B,Patrone M,Passalacqua M,Pedrazzi M,Pontremoli S,Melloni E

更新日期：2000-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the 5' upstream -1034 to +88 fragment of the human inducible nitric oxide synthase (hiNOS) gene and demonstrate its competence to promote luciferase gene transcription in vascular-smooth-muscle (VSM) cells and macrophages. Sequential 5' end-deletions localized positive regulatory elements of hiNOS trans...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kolyada AY,Savikovsky N,Madias NE

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetics of pinocytosis in Dictyostelium discoideum were investigated over an extended period of time (up to 6 hours) using fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-dextran as a fluid-phase marker. FITC-dextran added to the medium accumulated rapidly inside the cells with a rate of influx equivalent to 9 microns3 of fluid/ce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Klein G,Satre M

更新日期：1986-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the gene structure and mRNA expression of cholecystokinin type-A(CCKA) receptor in animals or in human. By screening an EMBL phage library containing partially digested Long-Evans rat DNA, we isolated 7 genomic clones covering a continuous 27 kb region over which a rat CCKA receptor gene spanned....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takata Y,Takiguchi S,Funakoshi A,Kono A

更新日期：1995-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease caused by destruction of insulin-producing β cells. The response of autoreactive T cells to β cell antigens plays a central role in the development of T1D. Recently, fusion peptides composed by insulin C-peptide fragments and other proteins were reported as β cell target ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsumoto Y,Kishida K,Matsumoto M,Matsuoka S,Kohyama M,Suenaga T,Arase H

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancers are essential for long range chromatin opening and the activation of V(D)J recombination at the antigen receptor loci. The murine immunoglobulin lambda light chain locus is a duplicated locus and, using a bacterial artificial chromosome spanning the 3' half of the locus to generate transgenic mice, we have i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Haque SF,Bevington SL,Boyes J

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:First messengers and viral transfection are the two most common ways to stimulate cells for signal output, although their applications are limited. We investigated mechanisms of inducing neural stem cell differentiation using recombinant ephrin-B2/Fc and found that it acted as a ligand and inhibited endogenous ephrin-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xiaodong H,Zhen H,Min S,Zhiming C,Hongyan J,Chong Z,Xuefeng T,Guohua J

更新日期：2013-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is one of a group of human inherited neurodegenerative diseases caused by polyglutamine expansion. There is increasing evidence that generation of truncated proteins containing an expanded polyglutamine tract may be an important step in the pathogenesis of these disorders. We ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kobayashi Y,Miwa S,Merry DE,Kume A,Mei L,Doyu M,Sobue G

更新日期：1998-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) regulation of cholinergic muscarinic receptor was investigated using synaptic membrane isolated from rat brains and [3H]-QNB as a binding ligand. CaM exerts a biphasic effect on receptor binding showing both a Ca2+-dependent receptor loss and an increase depending on the state of membrane phosphorylat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ho AK,Wang JH

更新日期：1985-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania promastigotes have the ability to synthesize essential polyunsaturated fatty acids de novo and can grow in lipid free media. Recently, we have shown that NAD(P)H cytochrome b5 oxidoreductase (Ncb5or) enzyme in Leishmania acts as the redox partner for Δ12 fatty acid desaturase, which catalyses the conversion...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mukherjee A,Adhikari A,Das P,Biswas S,Mukherjee S,Adak S

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest important roles for long noncoding RNAs as essential regulators of human cancer. GClnc1 was found to be upregulated in gastric cancer, playing oncogenic roles. However, the biological function and underlying mechanism of GClnc1 in osteosarcoma (OS) remain unclear. Here, we report that GClnc1 is ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sui Y,Han Y,Zhao X,Li D,Li G

更新日期：2018-12-09 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：:Certain physiological events in anterior pituitary tissue are regulated by protein kinase C that is relatively resistant to the inhibitor, H7. In the present studies we have shown that two H7-resistant protein kinase C activities may be isolated from (pituitary) gonadotroph-derived alpha T3-1 cells using hydroxyapatit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Simpson J,Johnson MS,Clegg RA,Mitchell R

更新日期：1996-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Tat-interactive protein, 60kDa (Tip60) is a histone acetyltransferase with specificity toward lysine 5 of histone H2A (H2AK5) and plays multiple roles in chromatin remodeling processes. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments performed on Jurkat cells, showed that Tip60 is present in the same macro-molecular complex as UHR...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Achour M,Fuhrmann G,Alhosin M,Rondé P,Chataigneau T,Mousli M,Schini-Kerth VB,Bronner C

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:By its antioxidant effect, molecular hydrogen gas (H2) was reported to protect organs from tissue damage induced by ischemia reperfusion. To evaluate its anti-inflammatory effects, we established a mouse model of human inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by supplying mice with water containing (1) dextran sodium sulfate ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kajiya M,Silva MJ,Sato K,Ouhara K,Kawai T

更新日期：2009-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The HSP30 gene of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a seven-transmembrane heat shock protein expressed in response to various types of stress including heat shock. Although Hsp30p contains a potential N-glycosylation consensus sequence (Asn(2)-Asp(3)-Thr(4)), whether it is actually N-glycosylated has ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kamo K,Takabatake A,Inoue Y,Izawa S

更新日期：2012-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione S-transferase Y-2 mRNA synthesis was induced in yeast Issatchenkia orientalis approximately 37-fold by cultivation with o-dinitrobenzene. A cDNA library complementary to poly (A)+RNA of I. orientalis grown with o-dinitrobenzene was screened by colony hybridization. Twenty positive clones were obtained from...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tamaki H,Kumagai H,Tochikura T

更新日期：1990-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxysterol-binding protein-related proteins are implicated in the sensing and transporting lipids at the membrane contact sites. One of the members of the mammalian ORP family, ORP8, is thought to transport lipids through directly tethering both ER and PM membranes. Targeting to PM is thought to be mediated by N-termin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee M,Fairn GD

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00