UDP-GalNAc:NeuAc alpha 2,3Gal beta-R (GalNAc to Gal) beta 1,4-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase responsible for the Sda specificity in human colon carcinoma CaCo-2 cell line.

abstract：:Polygonatum cyrtonema lectin (PCL), a mannose/sialic acid-binding plant lectin, has recently drawn a rising attention for cancer biologists because PCL bears remarkable anti-tumor activities and thus inducing programmed cell death (PCD) including apoptosis and autophagy in cancer cells. In this review, we focus on exp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang SY,Yu QJ,Bao JK,Liu B

更新日期：2011-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipases A2 (PLA2) catalyze the hydrolytic cleavage of free fatty acids from the sn-2 OH-moiety of glycerophospholipids. These enzymes have a number of functions, from digestion to signaling and toxicity of several venoms. They have also been implicated in inflammation and are connected to diverse diseases, such...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mahalka AK,Kinnunen PK

更新日期：2013-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein acetylation is an important and reversible post-translational modification (PTM), and it governs a variety of cellular dynamics and plasticity. Experimental identification of acetylation sites is labor-intensive and often limited by the availability of reagents such as acetyl-specific antibodies and optimizati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li A,Xue Y,Jin C,Wang M,Yao X

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-mediated regulation of guanylate cyclase is well-studied in intact Dictyostelium discoideum cells, but study of the enzyme in cell-free preparations has hampered. A major obstacle has been that in vitro guanylate cyclase activity could be detected only in the presence of unphysiological concentrations of Mn2+...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Janssens PM,de Jong CC

更新日期：1988-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine retinal rod outer segment membranes are enriched in a phosphoinositide-specific phosphodiesterase (phospholipase C) activity strictly modulated by free calcium ion concentration. The enzyme(s) was highly active on phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate: maximal hydrolysis rate was attained at 10(-5)M Ca2+ and ac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Panfoli I,Morelli A,Pepe I

更新日期：1990-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver enriched transcription factors HNF-3 and HNF-4 are known to play major roles in development and differentiation of hepatocytes. STAT-3 and STAT-5 are signaling peptides activated by a variety of cytokines and growth factors including HGF and EGF. Their role in hepatocyte growth and differentiation is yet to ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Runge D,Runge DM,Drenning SD,Bowen WC Jr,Grandis JR,Michalopoulos GK

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-L-fucosidase was purified from the bull seminal plasma by chromatography on DEAE-disk, octyl sepharose hydrophobic column and HPLC. The enzyme appeared to be pure as judged by the polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis both under the nondenaturing and denaturing conditions. The pure enzyme promoted the acrosome reac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Srivastava PN,Arbtan K,Takei GH,Huang TT,Yanagimachi R

更新日期：1986-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported that ganglioside GD3 enhances cell proliferation and invasion of melanomas causing stronger tyrosine-phosphorylation of p130Cas and paxillin after stimulation with fetal calf serum. Besides signals via growth factor/receptor, adhesion signals via integrin might be also enhanced by GD3. Here, roles of integ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohkawa Y,Miyazaki S,Miyata M,Hamamura K,Furukawa K,Furukawa K

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most proteins synthesized in cytoplasm target to mitochondria through sequences at their amino termini. However, a previous study suggests that the native carboxyl terminus of ISP6 might be critical of its specific delivery. Here we investigated the sequence directing ISP6 to yeast mitochondrial outer membrane. Unlike...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cao W,Douglas MG

更新日期：1996-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A bovine brain calmodulin-dependent protein kinase undergoes autophosphorylation with a maximal incorporation of 10 mol phosphate per mol enzyme. The autophosphorylated enzyme is fully active, independent of Ca2+ and calmodulin. Although the autophosphorylation reaction depends on Ca2+ and calmodulin, it can be render...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang GY,Wang JH,Sharma RK

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Hydroxy-5-nitrobenzyl bromide, a highly reactive reagent towards tryptophan residues in proteins, is shown to activate the passive proton flux through the inner mitochondrial membrane of bovine heart submitochondrial particles (ETPH). When added at low concentrations, the reagent increased both the ATPase activity o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Solaini G,Baracca A,Parenti Castelli G,Rossi CA

更新日期：1988-08-30 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：:Growth hormone (GH) regulates many of the factors responsible for controlling the development of bone marrow progenitor cells (BMPCs). The aim of this study was to elucidate the role of GH in osteogenic differentiation of BMPCs using GH receptor null mice (GHRKO). BMPCs from GHRKO and their wild-type (WT) littermates ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cool SM,Grünert M,Jackson R,Li H,Nurcombe V,Waters MJ

更新日期：2005-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The proliferation promoting activity of various proteolytic fragments of human plasma fibronectin was assayed. Study of this activity in fragments, purified by affinity chromatography, has shown that only heparin-binding fragments were capable of promoting fibroblast proliferation while gelatin- and fibrin-binding fra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zlatopolsky AD,Chubukina AN,Berman AE

更新日期：1992-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:GTP cyclohydrolase I is the rate-limiting enzyme in the de novo synthesis pathway of tetrahydrobiopterin which is an essential cofactor for all NO synthase isoforms. The expression of GTP cyclohydrolase I is regulated on a transcriptional level by a variety of cytokines like interleukin 1beta or tumor necrosis factor ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lapize C,Plüss C,Werner ER,Huwiler A,Pfeilschifter J

更新日期：1998-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:BAG-1 is a multi-functional protein that exists in three major isoforms, BAG-1 p50, p46, and p36. A fourth isoform of 29 kDa also exists but its function remains mostly unknown. To further understand the role of this smaller isoform in ovarian cancer cells, the SKOV3 cell line was transfected with a doxycycline-induci...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pagé V,Côté M,Rancourt C,Sullivan M,Piché A

更新日期：2005-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclo-oxygenase (COX) exists as two isoforms. In endothelial cells, the induction of COX (COX-2) elicited by endotoxin or inflammatory cytokines is mediated by tyrosine kinase. Here we have investigated whether the induction of COX-2 elicited by IL-1beta in human pulmonary epithelial cells (A549) is mediated by tyrosi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Akarasereenont P,Thiemermann C

更新日期：1996-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of Bruton's agammaglobulinemia tyrosine kinase (Btk) SH2 domain was modeled based on v-Src. Btk SH2 is presumably very related to the other SH2 structures consisting of two beta-sheets surrounded by two alpha-helices, with a well conserved hydrophobic core and phoshotyrosyl peptide bind...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vihinen M,Nilsson L,Smith CI

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that murine solid tumor cells express high affinity IL-4 receptors (IL-4R) which are internalized after binding to ligand. In the present study, we have examined the regulation of IL-4R by TNF. We demonstrate that TNF upregulated the expression of IL-4R on murine MCA-106 sarcoma cells. Maximum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Puri RK,Leland P

更新日期：1993-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-bulnesene is a sesquiterpenoid isolated from the water extract of Pogostemon cablin. It showed a potent and concentration-dependent inhibitory effect on platelet-activating factor (PAF) and arachidonic acid (AA) induced rabbit platelet aggregation. In a radioligand binding assay for the PAF receptor, alpha-bulne...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hsu HC,Yang WC,Tsai WJ,Chen CC,Huang HY,Tsai YC

更新日期：2006-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Hydroxyphenylacetic acid 3-hydroxylase is a key enzyme in the pathway for the microbial degradation of phenylalanine, tyrosine and many aromatic amines. This enzyme was purified to homogeneity from Pseudomonas putida by affinity chromatography. The protein had a molecular weight of 91,000 and was a dimer of identica...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Raju SG,Kamath AV,Vaidyanathan CS

更新日期：1988-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and characterization of cofactor-independent phosphoglycerate mutase gene from maize (Zea mays) is here reported. This gene sequence constitutes the first described from this enzyme. The gene spans 5.4 kilo base pairs and has nine exons in the translated region. Canonical TATA and CCAAT and Sp1-like boxe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pérez de la Ossa P,Graña X,Ruiz-Lozano P,Climent F

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Atriopeptin (AP) is synthesized and stored in the mammalian atria as a 126 amino acid prohormone (AP126). Upon secretion, the prohormone undergoes site specific proteolysis within the atria to yield the carboxyl terminal 28 amino acid hormone (AP28). The atrial cell responsible for AP126 bioactivation has not yet been...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Greenwald JE,Needleman P,Siegel N,Tetens E,Biel B,Ritter D

更新日期：1992-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to prevent methylene blue (MB), a photosensitizer, from being reduced by plasma reductases will greatly improve its efficacy in photodynamic therapy (PDT) applications. We have developed a delivery approach for PDT by encapsulating MB using nanoparticle platforms (NPs). The 30-nm polyacrylamide-based NPs p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tang W,Xu H,Park EJ,Philbert MA,Kopelman R

更新日期：2008-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of adipose tissue is a precisely coordinated cellular process, in which both protein-coding and non-coding genes are involved. To characterize the in vivo function of a novel long non-coding RNA (lncRNAs), loss-of-function assays were performed with slincRAD knockdown mice. Down-regulation of slincRAD ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang P,Bai H,Li J,Liu J,Ma W,Xu B,Xia Q,Wang J,Fan Yi,Du Q

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-association of amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) is considered to be an initial step in the development of Alzheimer's disease and is known to be promoted by negatively charged lipid membranes. We have examined the possibility of non-electrostatic Abeta-membrane interaction by using neutral phosphatidylcholine lipids....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoda M,Miura T,Takeuchi H

更新日期：2008-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregated β-amyloid peptides (Aβ) are neurotoxic and responsible for neuronal death both in vitro and in vivo. From the structural point of view, Aβ self-aggregation involves a conformational change in the peptide. Here, we investigated the relationship between conformational changes and amino acid residues of Aβ(40)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen YR,Huang HB,Lo CJ,Wang CC,Su CL,Liu HT,Shiao MS,Lin TH,Chen YC

更新日期：2011-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The degrading activity for human parathyroid hormone [hPTH-(1-84)] was studied in a rat osteoblast-like osteosarcoma cell line UMR106. At 37 C,UMR106 cells degraded hPTH-(1-84) into fragments in a time-dependent manner, which was shown by a radioimmunoassay with the use of antibody recognizing the C-terminal and middl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamaguchi T,Baba H,Fukase M,Kinoshita Y,Fujimi T,Fujita T

更新日期：1986-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microinjection of inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate or inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate induced distinct chloride membrane currents in defolliculated Xenopus laevis oocytes. To decide whether these Cl(-)-currents were due to the injected compounds or their metabolic products, [3H]Ins(1,3,4,5)P4 or [3H]Ins(1,4,5)P3 were i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guse AH,Gercken G,Boysen H,Schwarz JR,Meyerhof W

更新日期：1991-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure-function relationships in the 6 epidermal growth factor-like domains of human thrombomodulin (TME, residues 227-462) were studied by deletion mutagenesis. Purified and characterised proteins were used for kinetic studies. Deletion of EGF1, EGF2 and residues 310-332 in EGF3 had no effect on thrombin binding (...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Parkinson JF,Nagashima M,Kuhn I,Leonard J,Morser J

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00