Inhibition of periarterial nerve stimulation-induced vasodilation of the mesenteric arterial bed by CGRP (8-37) and CGRP receptor desensitization.

abstract：:Hyaluronan synthase 2 (HAS2) is an integral membrane protein composed of multi-membrane-spanning regions and a large intracellular loop (HAS2-loop). We previously examined the effect of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and/or 4-methylumbelliferone (4-MU) on the synthesis of hyaluronan (HA) in human skin fibroblas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kasai K,Kuroda Y,Takabuchi Y,Nitta A,Kobayashi T,Nozaka H,Miura T,Nakamura T

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) is a well-characterized ubiquitous enzyme involved in the glycolytic pathway. It catalyzes the reversible isomerization of D-glucopyranose-6-phosphate and D-fructofuranose-6-phosphate and is present in all living cells. However, there is interspecies variation at the level of the primary...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mathur D,Ahsan Z,Tiwari M,Garg LC

更新日期：2005-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue stem cells may serve as progenitors for malignant tumors derived from the same tissue. Here, we report the establishment of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells (ihMSC) and tested the feasibility of using ihMSC as presarcomatous cells. Immortalization was achieved by introducing the genes for human telomer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shima Y,Okamoto T,Aoyama T,Yasura K,Ishibe T,Nishijo K,Shibata KR,Kohno Y,Fukiage K,Otsuka S,Uejima D,Nakayama T,Nakamura T,Kiyono T,Toguchida J

更新日期：2007-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The organic anion and cation transporters (OATs and OCTs) are a large family (SLC22) of transmembrane proteins that are able to transport a variety of compounds including drugs, environmental toxins, and endogenous metabolites. OATs are expressed in various tissues, primarily kidney and liver, but also in placenta, sm...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Monte JC,Nagle MA,Eraly SA,Nigam SK

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) was reported to interact with PreIQ and IQ of CaV1.2 channels, but to date, no explicit binding sites of CaM were illustrated. Therefore, in the present study, we firstly used MOE (Molecular Operating Environment) for protein-protein docking and we found that the most likely residues of CaM that play ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu Y,Yan S,Chen S,Zhang J,Shen Y,Su J,He G,Feng R,Shao D,Hao L

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep thyroid cells cultured in serum-free medium were used to study the biologic activity, binding, and production of the insulin-like growth factors (IGFs). IGF-I, IGF-II, and insulin stimulated thyroid cell division. Abundant, specific IGF receptors on sheep thyroid cell membranes were identified by binding displac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bachrach LK,Eggo MC,Hintz RL,Burrow GN

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthurenic acid is an endogenous molecule leading to caspase-9 and -3 activation. Here we report that xanthurenic acid targets signalling proteins 14-3-3 into lysosomes leading to interruption protein/protein interaction. Xanthurenic acid changed the localisation of 14-3-3 in the cells. At a concentration of 10 and 2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Malina HZ,Frueh BE

更新日期：2003-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha 2-Antiplasmin (AP) inhibits plasmin in a two-step reaction in which AP reversibly binds to lysine-binding sites of plasmin and, then, more slowly complexes covalently with the enzyme's active site. Here, we show that the C-terminal lysine residue of AP has a key role in binding of the inhibitor to plasmin. A syn...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hortin GL,Gibson BL,Fok KF

更新日期：1988-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectra of hemoglobin and myoglobin have been measured at the wiggler beam line of the Frascati Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The energy shifts of the iron absorption jump edge and the chemical shifts of the bound excited state at threshold of 1s core excitations, goi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bianconi A,Congiu-Castellano A,Dell'Ariccia M,Giovannelli A,Burattini E,Durham PJ

更新日期：1985-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is triggered by damage to or as a result of the dysfunction of the somatosensory nervous system. Gene expression profiling using DNA microarray and real-time PCR have emerged as powerful tools for the elucidation of pain-specific pathways and identification of candidate biomarkers and therapeutic targ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wan G,Yang K,Lim Q',Zhou L,He BP,Wong HK,Too HP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular molecular motor kinesin-1 mediates the microtubule-dependent transport of a range of cargo. We have previously identified an interaction between the cargo-binding domain of kinesin-1 heavy chain KIF5B and the membrane-associated SNARE proteins SNAP-25 and SNAP-23. In this study we further defined the mini...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Morton AM,Cunningham AL,Diefenbach RJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-like coronavirus (SL-CoV) in bats have a similar genomic organization to the human SARS-CoV. Their cognate gene products are highly conserved with the exception of the N-terminal region of the S proteins, which have only 63-64% sequence identity. The N-terminal region of coronavirus S protein is responsible for v...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou P,Han Z,Wang LF,Shi Z

更新日期：2009-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) is an ADP- ribosylation enzyme and plays important roles in a variety of cellular processes, including DNA damage response and tumor development. However, the post-transcriptional regulation of PARP1 remains largely unknown. In this study, we identified that the mRNA of PARP1 is ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Song D,Huang H,Wang J,Zhao Y,Hu X,He F,Yu L,Wu J

更新日期：2017-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect on anti-HIV proteins MAP30 and GAP31, from Momordica charantia and Gelonium multiflorum, on the infection and replication of Herpes Simplex Viruses (HSV). Human lung WI-38 fibroblasts cultured in the presence of tenfold dilutions of MAP30 or GAP31 were exposed to HSV and viral yield was measured...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bourinbaiar AS,Lee-Huang S

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 85% of c-myc transcription is controlled by the nuclease hypersensitive element III(1) upstream of the P1 promoter of this oncogene. The purine-rich sequence in the anti-sense strand forms a G-quadruplex, which has been recently implicated in colorectal cancer, and is proposed as a silencer element [Proc. Na...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mathur V,Verma A,Maiti S,Chowdhury S

更新日期：2004-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyarchaeols are the typical core structures of archaeal membrane lipids uniquely produced by a limited number of methanogenic lineages, which are mainly classified in orders Methanosarcinales and Methanococcales. However, the biosynthetic machinery that is used for the biosynthesis of hydroxyarcheol core lipids h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mori T,Isobe K,Ogawa T,Yoshimura T,Hemmi H

更新日期：2015-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:CPI-17 is a protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) inhibitor that has been shown to act on the myosin light chain phosphatase. CPI-17 is phosphorylated on Thr-38 in vivo, thus enhancing its ability to inhibit PP1. Thr-38 has been shown to be the target of several protein kinases in vitro. Originally, the expression of CPI-17 was...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dubois T,Howell S,Zemlickova E,Learmonth M,Cronshaw A,Aitken A

更新日期：2003-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of serine/threonine protein phosphatases can inhibit apoptosis. We investigated which protein phosphatases are critical for this protection using calyculin A, okadaic acid, and tautomycin. All three phosphatase inhibitors prevented anisomycin-induced apoptosis in leukemia cell models. In vitro, calyculin A ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatfield K,Eastman A

更新日期：2004-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothetical lambda protein ORF314 shows significant homology with the carboxyl end of phage T4 tail-fiber protein gp37. Homology can also be demonstrated between hypothetical lambda protein ORF194 and a fragment of bacteriophage T4 protein gp38. This sequence homology is also reflected in the genomic sequences of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： George DG,Yeh LS,Barker WC

更新日期：1983-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation has been implicated in a variety of psychiatric disorders. We aimed to determine whether levels of complement C5 protein in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which may reflect activation of the complement system in the brain, are altered in patients with major psychiatric disorders. Additionally, we examined...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishii T,Hattori K,Miyakawa T,Watanabe K,Hidese S,Sasayama D,Ota M,Teraishi T,Hori H,Yoshida S,Nunomura A,Nakagome K,Kunugi H

更新日期：2018-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic properties of phosphorylated urokinase plasminogen activator (P-uPA) (1) extracted from human carcinomatous cell line Detroit 562 cells were compared with those of non-phosphorylated uPA of urinary origin (nP-uPA). Using plasminogen as a substrate, the Km and Kcat of P-uPA were higher than that of nP-uPA whi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi K,Kwaan HC,Koh E,Tanabe M

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of purified bovine photoreceptor rod outer segments with [gamma-32P]ATP resulted in the labeling of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PIP) and phosphatidic acid (PA) with little labeling of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2). Propranolol inhibited in a dose-dependent manner the labeling of PA and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Van Rooijen LA,Bazan NG

更新日期：1986-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of HMG 14 proteins from calf thymus and avian erythrocytes was studied using a cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase from bovine lung. HMG 14 from calf thymus was a good substrate for the enzyme, but HMG 14 from avian erythrocytes was not phosphorylated. Of the potential phosphorylation sites, the one in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Palvimo J,Linnala-Kankkunen A,Mäenpää PH

更新日期：1983-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis acquires heme through an outer-membrane heme transporter HmuR and heme-binding hemophore-like lipoprotein HmuY. Here, we compare binding of iron(III) mesoporphyrin IX (mesoheme) and iron(III) deuteroporphyrin IX (deuteroheme) to HmuY with that of iron(III) protoporphyrin IX (protoheme) and pro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wojaczyński J,Wójtowicz H,Bielecki M,Olczak M,Smalley JW,Latos-Grażyński L,Olczak T

更新日期：2011-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA encoding Mn peroxidase isozyme H4 from Phanerochaete chrysosporium was recombined into a baculovirus and heterologously expressed in Sf9 cells. The recombinant Mn peroxidase has the same molecular weight as the native enzyme as determined by SDS-PAGE and cross-reacts with a Mn peroxidase-specific antibody. Th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pease EA,Aust SD,Tien M

更新日期：1991-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium graminearum produces trichothecenes in aerial hyphae, a process which is markedly suppressed by NaCl without a significant effect on fungal growth. Here we report on the involvement of kinases of the two-component osmotic signal transduction pathway in the regulation of secondary metabolism in F. graminearum....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ochiai N,Tokai T,Nishiuchi T,Takahashi-Ando N,Fujimura M,Kimura M

更新日期：2007-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data has suggested a role for nitric oxide (NO) both in the induction of immunity and as an effector of tissue injury in experimental models of inflammation. In this study, we have tested the efficacy of two inhibitors of NO synthase, NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) and aminoguanidine (AG), to modify the auto...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Woolfson RG,Qasim FJ,Thiru S,Oliveira DB,Neild GH,Mathieson PW

更新日期：1995-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of mRNA for three isozymes of cytochrome P450, CYP1A1, 1A2 and 3A3, was examined in biopsied samples of colon and rectum from five healthy subjects. Using RT-PCR, it was possible to detect the three CYP mRNA species at both sites in all samples examined. The expression of each CYP mRNA was site-specific...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mercurio MG,Shiff SJ,Galbraith RA,Sassa S

更新日期：1995-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we reported that in various cell lines under conditions of deenergization of the mitochondrial membrane, the release of Ca(2+) from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) does not produce the expected activation of store-operated calcium channels (SOCs) in the plasma membrane. In the present work, we examined the ac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wasniewska M,Karczmarewicz E,Pronicki M,Piekutowska-Abramczuk D,Zablocki K,Popowska E,Pronicka E,Duszyński J

更新日期：2001-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygen reaction of Nitrosomonas europaea cytochrome c oxidase containing either 2Cu or 1Cu per two heme a molecules was investigated by the flow-flash technique at 20 degrees C. The reaction profiles of the bacterial enzyme were essentially the same as those of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase, although the rate ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Orii Y,Sakamoto T,Fukumori Y,Yamanaka T

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00