Long-lasting vasoconstriction and efficient regional extraction of endothelin-1 in human splanchnic and renal tissues.

abstract：:Vinculin and meta-vinculin are related proteins that localize to adherens junctions. To facilitate studies on the biology of these proteins cDNA clones were isolated from a chick embryonic library made in lambda gt 11. Three clones, accounting for 1/2 of the vinculin message, were identified by immunological analyses ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Coutu MD,Simon DJ,Brown AE,Craig SW

更新日期：1987-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibian skin contains rich bradykinin-related peptides, but the mode of biosynthesis of these peptides is unknown. In the present study, a novel bradykinin-related peptide, termed bombinakinin M, was purified from skin secretions of the Chinese red belly toad Bombina maxima. Its primary sequence was established as D...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lai R,Liu H,Hui Lee W,Zhang Y

更新日期：2001-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Betulinic acid (BA) exhibits various biological activities such as anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-human papilloma virus (HPV), and anti-cancer activities. HPV infection is associated with a high risk of cervical cancer, which is the leading cause of deaths among women worldwide. Therefore, BA is an attractive...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim HJ,Cho HS,Ban HS,Nakamura H

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is a chronic disease that disrupts the balance between bone formation and bone desorption, which can lead to osteoporosis, increasing the risk of fracture. However, compared with osteoblasts, the biological effects of hyperglycemia on osteoclastogenesis remain to be elucidated. Therefore, we investigated the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cai ZY,Yang B,Shi YX,Zhang WL,Liu F,Zhao W,Yang MW

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of hydroxyl radicals by tetrachlorohydroquinone (TCHQ, a major metabolite of the widely used biocide pentachlorophenol) in the presence of H(2)O(2) was studied by salicylate hydroxylation method. HPLC with electrochemical detection was used to measure the levels of 2,3- and 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DH...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhu BZ,Kitrossky N,Chevion M

更新日期：2000-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthyretin (TTR) is a human disease-associated amyloidogenic protein that has been implicated in senile systemic amyloidosis (SSA) and familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). FAP typically results in severe and early-onset disease, and the only therapy established so far is liver transplantation; thus, developin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee KW,Lee DH,Son H,Kim YS,Park JY,Roh GS,Kim HJ,Kang SS,Cho GJ,Choi WS

更新日期：2009-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania donovani is an obligate intracellular parasite that infects macrophages of the vertebrate host resulting in visceral leishmaniasis in humans, a major public health problem worldwide. The molecular mechanisms involved in internalization of Leishmania are still poorly characterized. We report here that choles...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tewary P,Veena K,Pucadyil TJ,Chattopadhyay A,Madhubala R

更新日期：2006-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified two types of homologous DNA pairing activity in mouse cell extracts by a strand-transfer assay. Both activities are separated from each other by anion-exchange chromatography; neither of them needs ATP. One requires magnesium ion and is stimulated by Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA binding prot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mishina Y,Shimokawa T,Kawasaki K,Arai N,Shibata T,Koyama H

更新日期：1992-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a novel method consisting of chromatin fractionation and allele-specific detection, chromatin packaging is compared between active X (Xa) and inactive X (Xi) chromosomes for five tumor cell clones that were derived from inter-subspecific F1 female mice. Separation of heterochromatic (H) and euchromatic (E) fract...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Endo Y,Watanabe T,Kuwabara K,Tsunashima K,Mishima Y,Arakawa M,Takagi N,Kominami R

更新日期：1998-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenobarbital (PB) increases metabolic capability of hepatocytes by its ability to activate numerous genes encoding various xenochemical-metabolizing enzymes such as cytochrome P450s and specific transferases. More than 35 years since PB induction was first reported, the key nuclear receptor CAR that mediates the indu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zelko I,Negishi M

更新日期：2000-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Human endothelial cell thrombin receptors were functionally expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes by injection of RNA extracted from human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Oocytes injected with endothelial cell RNA responded to thrombin with a Ca2(+)-dependent depolarizing current whose size depended on the amount of R...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pipili-Synetos E,Gershengorn MC,Jaffe EA

更新日期：1990-09-28 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：:Mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), composed of MPC1 and MPC2, can modulate pyruvate oxidation in mitochondrial and MPC1 expression correlates with poor prognosis of multiple cancers. Here, we reported that MPC1 is acetylated and its main acetylation sites are: K45 and K46. Sirt3 binds to and deacetylates MPC1. High...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liang L,Li Q,Huang L,Li D,Li X

更新日期：2015-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), the most common form of inherited rickets, is a dominant disorder that is characterized by renal phosphate wasting with hypophosphatemia, abnormal bone mineralization, short stature, and rachitic manifestations. The related gene with inactivating mutations associated with XLH...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kang QL,Xu J,Zhang Z,He JW,Lu LS,Fu WZ,Zhang ZL

更新日期：2012-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine is a widely used triazine herbicide. Although controversy still exists, a number of recent studies have described its adverse effects on various animals including humans. Of particular interest is its effects on reproductive capacity. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms underlying the adverse effect...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hase Y,Tatsuno M,Nishi T,Kataoka K,Kabe Y,Yamaguchi Y,Ozawa N,Natori M,Handa H,Watanabe H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramide, the backbone of sphingolipids, has been reported to be involved in various cellular responses including apoptosis. We recently established and characterized a C2-ceramide-resistant HL-60 subline designated HL-CR. HL-CR cells were resistant to not only ceramide but also anti-cancer drugs including daunorubici...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sawai H,Kawai S,Domae N

更新日期：2004-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung fibrosis is a common and serious complication of radiation therapy for lung cancer, for which there are no efficient treatments. Emerging evidence indicates that lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and its receptors (LPARs) are involved in the pathogenesis of fibrosis. Here, we reported that thoracic radiation with 16Gy ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gan L,Xue JX,Li X,Liu DS,Ge Y,Ni PY,Deng L,Lu Y,Jiang W

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glomerulosclerosis, a common hallmark of chronic renal diseases (CRD) is believed to be irreversible, and it is thought that glomerular hyperfiltration and hypertrophy may participate in its pathogenesis. We demonstrate here that glomerulosclerosis is "reversible" in an animal model. We used nephrotic ICGN (n...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mizuno-Horikawa Y,Mizuno S,Tamura S,Kurosawa T

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus alcalophilus, an obligately alkalophilic bacterium that grows at pH 11.0, has an intracellular pH of 9.5 or less. Unlike all other living organisms, polyamines (putrescine, spermidine and spermine) in B. alcalophilus, if present, will be largely unprotonated. HPLC analysis indicated that spermidine is the maj...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen KY,Cheng S

更新日期：1988-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the retina-specific expression of the interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP) gene in transgenic mice requires sequences between nucleotide (nt) -156 and +19. DNAse I footprinting and electrophoretic mobility shift assays identified a region between nt -69 and -40 that interacts with some nucl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liou GI,Matragoon S,Overbeek PA,Fei Y

更新日期：1994-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the biosynthesis of a plant phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP), poly (A)+RNAs have been prepared from maize seedlings and translated in vitro with a rabbit reticulocyte lysate. The newly synthesized proteins were then separated by fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) followed by SDS-PAGE or by...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tchang F,Laroche-Raynal M,Vergnolle C,Demandre C,Douady D,Grosbois M,Guerbette F,Delseny M,Kader JC

更新日期：1985-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of isolated rat dispersed pancreatic acini to increasing concentrations (10 to 1000 ng/ml) of purified exotoxin-A from Pseudomonas aeruginosa resulted in a progressive inhibition of 3H-leucine incorporation into "cellular" (those remaining in the cells) and "secretory" (those released into the medium) protein...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Geokas MC,Vesenka GD,Dubick MA,Majumdar AP

更新日期：1985-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The tenascin-R (TN-R) gene encodes a multidomain extracellular matrix glycoprotein belonging to the tenascin family. It is detectable mainly in oligodendrocytes and neuronal subpopulations of the central nervous system. In this report, we describe the structure of the 5'-region of the mouse TN-R gene and characterise ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Putthoff P,Akyüz N,Kutsche M,Zardi L,Borgmeyer U,Schachner M

更新日期：2003-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu), a tumor promoter, to quiescent Swiss 3T3 cells increased the number of hexose carriers, resulting in stimulation of membrane transport of 3-O-methylglucose (3MeGlu) in a Ca2+-dependent fashion. Extracellular Ca2+ was necessary to initiate the binding of PDBu to its receptor,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kitagawa K,Nishino H,Iwashima A

更新日期：1985-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are produced as progenitor toxin complexes (PTCs) by Clostridium botulinum. The PTCs are composed of BoNT and non-toxic neurotoxin-associated proteins (NAPs), which serve to protect and deliver BoNT through the gastrointestinal tract in food borne botulism. HA33 is a key NAP component tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee K,Lam KH,Kruel AM,Perry K,Rummel A,Jin R

更新日期：2014-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct interaction of protein kinase C with the nucleus was examined utilizing endogenous protein phosphorylation and [3H]PDBu binding to detect the enzyme. Rat brain nuclei were relatively rich in phorbol ester receptors whereas liver nuclei contained less than 10% of their brain counterpart. Purified protein kin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Misra UK,Sahyoun N

更新日期：1987-06-15 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：:VHL tumor suppressor protein contains two domains, alpha and beta. The alpha-domain is involved in the formation of a large protein complex suggested to be involved in ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. However, the role of the beta-domain, which may recognize the target proteins for protein degradation, remains ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okuda H,Hirai S,Takaki Y,Kamada M,Baba M,Sakai N,Kishida T,Kaneko S,Yao M,Ohno S,Shuin T

更新日期：1999-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sirtuin1 (SIRT1), which is regulated by microRNA-34a (miR-34a), can modulate pathophysiology processes, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury. We previously reported that SIRT1, an NAD+-dependent deacetylase, plays a vital role in the development of neuropathic pain. How...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen S,Gu Y,Dai Q,He Y,Wang J

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) had been proved to be pivotal regulators in carcinogenesis. On the basis of competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) system, lncRNAs significantly expanded their regulating networks. In our research, we aimed to figure out the exact role of lncRNA HNF1A-AS1 in the pathogenesis of hepatocellu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu Z,Wei X,Zhang A,Li C,Bai J,Dong J

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00