Prostate-specific antigen enhances bioavailability of insulin-like growth factor by degrading insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5.

abstract：:The target tissues of TCDD, the dysfunctions that result in death in experimental animals, and the ultimate biochemical lesion(s) caused by TCDD are not known despite numerous studies. We have shown by the thiobarbituric acid and conjugated diene methods that TCDD induces hepatic lipid peroxidation in rats. The lipid ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stohs SJ,Hassan MQ,Murray WJ

更新日期：1983-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The major biological effects of glucocorticoids are thought to be initiated through changes in the expression of cellular genes. However, the mechanisms involved in the suppression of some gene products by glucocorticoids are not well defined. ID13 mouse fibroblast cells were treated with the synthetic glucocorticoid ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wallace AD,Wheeler TT,Young DA

更新日期：1997-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a multiple alignment of the sequence of formate dehydrogenase with the D-specific 2-hydroxy acid dehydrogenases family. Structurally conserved regions are predicted for those sequences corresponding to important regions of the catalytic and the coenzyme binding domains defined from the known three-dimension...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vinals C,Depiereux E,Feytmans E

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial cells respond to changes in the mechanical forces imposed on them with changes in myocardial tension in the short term and with structural remodeling in the long term. Since these responses involve intercellular communication, we have investigated regulation of the gap junction proteins, connexin 43 (Cx43),...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang TL,Tseng YZ,Chang H

更新日期：2000-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucokinase plays a key role in glucose sensing in pancreatic beta cells and in liver metabolism. Heterozygous inactivating glucokinase mutations cause the autosomal dominantly inherited MODY2 subtype of maturity-onset diabetes of the young. The goal of this study was to elucidate the pathogenicity of the recently des...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Langer S,Platz C,Waterstradt R,Baltrusch S

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified and characterized recombinant Xenopus bone morphogenetic proteins (xBMPs): homodimers of xBMP-4, 7 and heterodimers (xBMP-4/7) produced by a baculovirus expression system. Highly purified xBMPs had homogeneous NH2-termini predicted from a consensus motif, Arg-X-X-Arg, while they possessed diverse suga...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aono A,Hazama M,Notoya K,Taketomi S,Yamasaki H,Tsukuda R,Sasaki S,Fujisawa Y

更新日期：1995-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine conglutinin is a Ca(2+)-dependent serum lectin specific for N-acetylglucosamine. In the present study, we report the exon-intron organization and the sequence of 5'-regulatory region of the conglutinin gene. The coding region of conglutinin mRNA, which encoded the signal peptide and the sequence of the mature p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawasaki N,Itoh N,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1994-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that C-CAM1 cell adhesion molecule can suppress the growth of prostate cancer cells in vivo. In this study, we determined the minimal domain of C-CAM1 that is required for its tumor-suppressive activity. DU145 prostate cancer cells were infected with recombinant adenoviruses containing various...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Estrera VT,Luo W,Phan D,Earley K,Hixson DC,Lin SH

更新日期：1999-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha (HIF-1alpha) is regulated by oxygen availability as well as various inflammatory mediators, including tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha). Early work suggested that the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuo HP,Lee DF,Xia W,Wei Y,Hung MC

更新日期：2009-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNAs (miRNAs) are frequently dysregulated in human malignancies. It was recently shown that miR-204-5p is downregulated in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC); however, the functional significance of this observation is not known. This study investigated the role of miR-204-5p in PTC. Overexpressing miR-204-5p supp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu L,Wang J,Li X,Ma J,Shi C,Zhu H,Xi Q,Zhang J,Zhao X,Gu M

更新日期：2015-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of ruthenium red and caffeine (a Ca2+ release blocker and an inducer, respectively) on Ca2+ uptake by sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) vesicles and formation of the phosphorylated intermediate (EP) of the Ca2+-ATPase were studied using fast-kinetic techniques. Ruthenium red increased the rate and the maximum level ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mészáros LG,Ikemoto N

更新日期：1985-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The posttranscriptional RNA editing by the type 1 adenosine deaminase acting on RNAs (ADAR1), expressed as p110 and p150 isoforms, is important for both physiological and pathological processes. Their expression and significance in leukemias remain unknown. Here, we investigated the expression of ADAR1 in Chinese pedi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ma CH,Chong JH,Guo Y,Zeng HM,Liu SY,Xu LL,Wei J,Lin YM,Zhu XF,Zheng GG

更新日期：2011-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent report has shown that in vitro the RAMP2/CRLR complex is a functional adrenomedullin receptor in human endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells. However, in vivo, it is well known that CGRP receptors are expressed in human coronary arteries and that a beneficial effect is observed in patients after CGRP i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Frayon S,Cueille C,Gnidéhou S,de Vernejoul MC,Garel JM

更新日期：2000-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation has been postulated as a risk factor for several cancers. 3-Nitrotyrosine is a biochemical marker for inflammation. We investigated the ability of nitrotyrosine and nitrotyrosine-containing peptides (nitroY-peptide) to induce DNA damage by the experiments using 32P-labeled DNA fragments obtained from the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Murata M,Kawanishi S

更新日期：2004-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the effect of angiotensin II on ion transport in rat isolated proximal tubules and establish the arachidonic acid cytochrome P450 metabolites' role mediating angiotensin II effect and to analyze whether corticosteroids play a role modulating this effect, we studied the effect of low (10 and 100 pM) and high ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sánchez-Mendoza A,López-Sánchez P,Vázquez-Cruz B,Rios A,Martínez-Ayala S,Escalante B

更新日期：2000-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:E-selectin is a membrane protein expressed by endothelial cells activated by cytokines released during the inflammatory process; it plays an important role in neutrophil emigration into inflamed tissues. To further explore in vivo the function of E-selectin, we have generated transgenic mouse line expressing E-selecti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Araki M,Araki K,Miyazaki Y,Iwamoto M,Izui S,Yamamura K,Vassalli P

更新日期：1996-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystal structure of the complex between porcine beta-trypsin and the second domain of the Kazal-type ovomucoid turkey egg white trypsin inhibitor (OMTKY2) has been determined at 1.9A resolution. A peptide fragment from the first domain has been crystallized with the complex. Restrained-refinement of the structure led...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ibrahim BS,Pattabhi V

更新日期：2004-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:When linoleic acid was incubated with the purified potato lipoxygenase under O2 atmosphere, a mixture of 9 and 13-hydroperoxyoctadecadienoic acids was formed. Stereochemical analysis of the respective methyl-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acids revealed that the 9-isomer was in S-configuration whereas 13-hydroxyoctadecadienoi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nikolaev V,Reddanna P,Whelan J,Hildenbrandt G,Reddy CC

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine416 of human tau protein is believed to be phosphorylated in Alzheimer neurofibrillary tangles. We synthesized a fragment of tau, consisting of amino acids 408-421 in both non-phosphorylated and serine416-phosphorylated forms. Circular dichroism in a trifluoroethanol-water mixture indicated a beta-turn----beta-p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lang E,Szendrei GI,Elekes I,Lee VM,Otvos L Jr

更新日期：1992-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human natural killer enhancing factor genes (NKEF-A and B) share extensive homology with several genes from other organisms known to be induced by oxidative stress and to protect organisms and proteins from oxidative destruction. In this study, we have identified natural killer enhancing factor as an abundant protein ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shau H,Kim A

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Blockage of either nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) or Akt sensitizes cancer cells to TNF-induced apoptosis. In this study, we investigated the undetermined effect of concurrent blockage of these two survival pathways on TNF-induced cytotoxicity in lung cancer cells. The results show that Akt contributes to TNF-induc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang X,Chen W,Lin Y

更新日期：2007-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Telmisartan, an angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker (ARB), attenuates hyperglycemia-aggravated vascular inflammation by decreasing IκB kinase β (IKKβ) expression in endothelial cells. Because glycogen synthase 3β (GSK3β) is involved in inflammatory process by regulating nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activity, we invest...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Song KH,Bae SJ,Chang J,Park JH,Jo I,Cho KW,Cho DH

更新日期：2017-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:C1 inhibitor (C1IN) is a multi-facet serine protease inhibitor in the plasma cascades, inhibiting several proteases, notably, regulates both complement and contact system activation. Despite huge advancements in the understanding of C1IN based on biochemical properties and its roles in the plasma cascades, the phyloge...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kumar A,Bhandari A,Sarde SJ,Goswami C

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cilia are microtubule-based organelles that are present on the surfaces of almost all vertebrate cells. Most cilia function as sensory or molecular transport structures. Malfunctions of cilia have been implicated in several diseases of human development. The assembly of cilia is initiated by the centriole (or basal bo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagai Y,Asaoka Y,Namae M,Saito K,Momose H,Mitani H,Furutani-Seiki M,Katada T,Nishina H

更新日期：2010-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical studies revealed that the novel rice plant-specific kinesin K16 has several unique enzymatic characteristics as compared to conventional kinesins. The ADP-free form of K16 is very stable, whereas the ADP-free form of conventional kinesins is labile. In the present study, the crystal structure of the novel ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanaka K,Umeki N,Mitsui T,Fujimoto Z,Maruta S

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetin (Kn) is a synthetic cytokinin plant growth hormone having some senescence-retarding effects in plants. Its effects on animal cells have been, until now, best considered as growth inhibitory and anti-tumorigenic. However, we have observed that an addition of 40-200 microM Kn in the culture medium of human diplo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rattan SI,Clark BF

更新日期：1994-06-15 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：:Using fluorescence and UV-vis spectroscopies and mass spectrometry, we demonstrated that the presence of physiological levels of reduced glutathione enhances the binding of Zn(II) to XPAzf, a Cys4 zinc finger peptide derived from the XPA protein, by means of formation of a ternary complex of a general formula ZnXPAzf[...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Piatek K,Hartwig A,Bal W

更新日期：2009-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of the amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide yields both fibrillar precipitates and soluble oligomers, and is associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). In vitro, Cu(2+) and Zn(2+) strongly bind Abeta and promote its precipitation. However, less is known about their interactions with the soluble oligomers, which are...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Garai K,Sengupta P,Sahoo B,Maiti S

更新日期：2006-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Andean potato weevil, Premnotrypes vorax, an insect of the order Coleoptera, is a major cause of damage to potato crops in the Andean regions of South America. The insecticidal Cry proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis are useful biological pesticides, and some are toxic to Coleopteran insects. We overexpressed rec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gomez S,Mateus AC,Hernandez J,Zimmermann BH

更新日期：2000-12-20 00:00:00