An six-amino acid motif in the alpha3 domain of MICA is the cancer therapeutic target to inhibit shedding.

abstract：:The effect of steroid chemical structure on steroid-lipid interaction is studied in sonicated dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles by steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy techniques using diphenylhexatriene as probe. A large number of cholesterol derivatives and steroids, some of them being precu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vincent M,Gallay J

更新日期：1983-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Long repeated stretches of d(CCG) and tri-nucleotide are crucial mutations that cause hereditary forms of mental retardation (fragile X-syndrome). Moreover, the alternating (CG) di-nucleotide is one of the candidates for Z-DNA conformation. Solution NMR structure of d(CCGCGG)(2) has been solved and is discussed. The d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Monleón D,Esteve V,Celda B

更新日期：2003-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Thaumatin, an intensely sweet-tasting protein, elicits a sweet taste sensation at 50 nM. Here the X-ray crystallographic structure of one of its variants, thaumatin II, was determined at a resolution of 1.27 Å. Overall structure of thaumatin II is similar to thaumatin I, but a slight shift of the Cα atom of G96 in tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Masuda T,Ohta K,Tani F,Mikami B,Kitabatake N

更新日期：2011-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspase-8 is a critical upstream mediator of apoptosis in the death receptor pathway. However, the relationship between caspase-8 mutation and chemosensitivity remain unclear in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) carrying p53 mutation. In this study, we identified a caspase-8 nonsense mutation, accompanied ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu J,Uematsu H,Tsuchida N,Ikeda MA

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas sitosterol and 24(28)-methylene cycloartanol were competitive inhibitors (with Ki = 26 microM and 14 microM, respectively), 24(R,S)-25-epiminolanosterol was found to be a potent non-competitive inhibitor (Ki = 3.0 nM) of the S-adenosyl-L-methionine-C-24 methyl transferase from sunflower embryos. Because the gr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nes WD,Janssen GG,Norton RA,Kalinowska M,Crumley FG,Tal B,Bergenstrahle A,Jonsson L

更新日期：1991-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:GTP cyclohydrolase I (GTPCH) is the first and rate-limiting enzyme for the synthesis of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), a cofactor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). As the induction of NO synthesis by immunostimulants in vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells requires de novo synthesis of BH4, we investigated whether immunostimu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hattori Y,Gross SS

更新日期：1993-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:With aging and stress, the myocardium undergoes structural remodeling, often leading to fibrosis. The purpose of this study is to examine whether lumican, one of the class II small leucine-rich proteoglycans, has a protective role in cardiac remodeling and fibrosis. In attempts to elucidate the hypothesis that lumican...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen SW,Tung YC,Jung SM,Chu Y,Lin PJ,Kao WW,Chu PH

更新日期：2017-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A clone of vincristine resistant murine erythroleukemia cells V3.17[44], characterized by high sensitivity to terminal erythroid differentiation induced by hexamethylene bisacetamide, secretes into the extracellular medium a protein factor which partially reduces the latent period before commitment and accelerates the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

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

更新日期：1990-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In a number of cell lines responsive to basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), two major tyrosine phosphorylated proteins, of molecular weights around 120kDa and 90kDa, are precipitated along with the tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 from the lysates of stimulated cells. The docker protein Gab-1 represents at least part of t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ong SH,Lim YP,Low BC,Guy GR

更新日期：1997-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We established a simple and highly efficient method for in vivo gene transfer using HVJ (Sendai virus) and liposomes. Plasmid DNA and high mobility group 1 (HMG1) protein were co-encapsulated in liposomes by agitation and sonication and were co-introduced into cells by HVJ-mediated membrane fusion. pACT SVT DNA, as a ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tomita N,Higaki J,Morishita R,Kato K,Mikami H,Kaneda Y,Ogihara T

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:T Kininogen and High Molecular Weight Kininogen were characterized in the cell culture medium of Fao cells, a highly differentiated cell line derived from the Reuber H35 rat hepatoma. Immunoreactive T Kininogen and High Molecular Weight Kininogen identified by direct and specific RIAs were indistinguishable from stand...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Baussant T,Michaud A,Bouhnik J,Savoie F,Alhenc-Gelas F,Corvol P

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the discovery, semi-purification and characterization of a novel Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (peak I kinase) using syntide 2 as a substrate from the rabbit heart. In the study of dependence of peak I kinase on the concentration of calmodulin, half-maximal activation was obtained at approx. 2.0 x...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Uemura A,Okazaki K,Takesue H,Matsubara T,Hidaka H

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Leda-1/Pianp is a type I transmembrane protein expressed by CNS cells, murine melanoma cell line B16F10 and rat liver sinusoidal endothelial cells. The early steps of posttranslational modifications of Leda-1/Pianp have been described to include glycosylation and processing by proprotein convertases. Here, we comprehe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Biswas S,Adrian M,Weber J,Evdokimov K,Winkler M,Géraud C

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The small heat shock proteins are the ubiquitous proteins found in a wide range of organisms and function as molecular chaperones by binding to the folding intermediates of their substrates. Although the crystal structure of HSP16.5, a small heat shock protein from Methanococcus jannaschii, revealed that it is a hollo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim DR,Lee I,Ha SC,Kim KK

更新日期：2003-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is a common symptom of injuries and inflammatory-related conditions. The perception of pain, commonly known as nociception, depends on integrated receptors and molecular pathways. Inflammatory mediators are involved in the genesis, persistence, and severity of pain. Noxious stimuli can trigger a cascade of inflam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Haddad JJ

更新日期：2007-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the fusion of enhanced green fluorescent protein to the C-terminus of the HsdS DNA sequence-specificity subunit of the Type I DNA modification methyltransferase M.EcoKI. The fusion expresses well in vivo and assembles with the two HsdM modification subunits. The fusion protein functions as a sequence-speci...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen K,Roberts GA,Stephanou AS,Cooper LP,White JH,Dryden DT

更新日期：2010-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis plays a pivotal role in gastric ulcer repair. Several growth factors are involved in angiogenesis, and of these, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has received considerable attention, since it is the only factor that specifically acts on endothelial cells. However, the role of VEGF in gastric ulce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi M,Kawabe T,Ogura K,Maeda S,Mikami Y,Kaneko N,Terano A,Omata M

更新日期：1997-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac ventricular myocytes exhibit a protein kinase A-dependent Cl(-) current (ICl.PKA) mediated by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). There is conflicting evidence regarding the ability of the divalent cation nickel (Ni(2+)), which has been used widely in vitro in the study of other car...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Barman PP,Cheng H,Hancox JC,James AF

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an effort to identify genes potentially involved in the Down Syndrome pathogenesis, in this paper we report the identification and characterization of a new human gene (named SH3BGRL), which shows a high homology to the SH3BGR gene, previously mapped to the Down Syndrome region of chromosome 21. The SH3BGRL...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Egeo A,Mazzocco M,Arrigo P,Vidal-Taboada JM,Oliva R,Pirola B,Giglio S,Rasore-Quartino A,Scartezzini P

更新日期：1998-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A new enzyme, tetrahydromethanopterin methyltransferase, which catalyzes the transfer of methyl groups from methyl-tetrahydromethanopterin to 2-mercaptoethane-sulfonate, has been found in the methane synthesizing complex of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. The enzyme is oxygen sensitive and has a well defined pH ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sauer FD

更新日期：1986-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Rab5 is a GTP-binding protein that is crucial for endocytic machinery functions. We previously identified L-plastin as a binding protein for Rab5, using an affinity column with constitutively active Rab5. L- and T-plastin are isoforms of a plastin protein family belonging to actin-bundling proteins that are implicated...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hagiwara M,Shinomiya H,Kashihara M,Kobayashi K,Tadokoro T,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to their spontaneous accumulation in inflamed or infected areas, blood phagocytes are potent drug vectors with specific targeting. Drug like molecule loading was obtained by use of cell electropermeabilization in which the impermeability of their plasma membrane is transiently impaired. Electrical conditions were ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sixou S,Teissié J

更新日期：1992-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomorphine (APO) is an anti-parkinsonian drug currently in use, which provides relief of Parkinson's symptoms. However, the utility of APO is greatly hampered by its poor bioavailability and rapid metabolism. In the present study, O,O'-diacetyl-apomorphine, a prodrug of apomorphine, was synthesized and its biological...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： He X,Wang D,Zhang X,Li A,Gu X,Ding F,Zhou J

更新日期：2008-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) has been recently shown to have a horizontally transmitted, prion-like pathology. Thus, the migration of polyglutamine-containing aggregates to acceptor cells is important for the progression of HD. These aggregates contain glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), which increases the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lazarev VF,Mikhaylova ER,Dutysheva EA,Suezov RV,Guzhova IV,Margulis BA

更新日期：2017-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of cell sonicates from monoclonal B cells with arachidonic acid led to the formation of leukotriene (LT) B4 and 5-hydroxy-eicosatetraenoic acid (5-HETE). In contrast, stimulation of intact B cells with the calcium ionophore A23187 +/- arachidonic acid did not, under similar conditions, lead to formation of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jakobsson PJ,Odlander B,Steinhilber D,Rosén A,Claesson HE

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta A3/A1-crystallin is one of the major refractive proteins of the chicken eye lens. Previously we showed that a fragment from -382 to +22 bp of the beta A3/A1-crystallin gene functions as a promoter in transfected lens cells. Here we show by use of the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McDermott JB,Cvekl A,Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1996-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramide acts as a second messenger and modulates many cellular functions. This molecule can be produced by enzymatic digestion of sphingomyelin, a phospholipid which has been shown to be in high concentration in a chromatin phospholipidic fraction. In order to clarify whether chromatin sphingomyelin has a role in thi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Albi E,Magni MP

更新日期：1997-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin is phosphorylated by casein kinase II on Thr-79, Ser-81, Ser-101 and Thr-117. To determine the consensus sequences for casein kinase II in intact calmodulin, we examined casein kinase II-mediated phosphorylation of engineered calmodulins with 1-4 deletions in the central helical region (positions 81-84). To...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sacks DB,Davis HW,Crimmins DL,Persechini A,McDonald JM

更新日期：1992-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptors for insulin and insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I carry intrinsic tyrosine-specific protein kinases (TPK) in their cytoplasmic domains that show 84% homology. Our previous studies using tyrosine-containing synthetic polymers (Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 260, 416, 1988) revealed subtle differences between th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fujita-Yamaguchi Y,Kathuria S

更新日期：1988-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tamoxifen (TAM), an anti-estrogen compound, is widely used for chemotherapy of breast cancer, although the molecular mechanisms underlying TAM cytotoxicity are obscure. Here, we show that TAM dramatically caused degradation of vimentin (VIM) in human skin fibroblasts, in a time and dose dependent manner. Addition of c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hashimoto M,Inoue S,Ogawa S,Conrad C,Muramatsu M,Shackelford D,Masliah E

更新日期：1998-06-18 00:00:00