Retinoic acid-induced differentiation-specific, C-kinase-dependent phosphorylation of cytosolic 44 and 32 kDa proteins in HL-60 cells.

abstract：:Mutations in the preproinsulin protein that affect processing of preproinsulin to proinsulin or lead to misfolding of proinsulin are associated with diabetes. We examined the subcellular localization and secretion of 13 neonatal diabetes-associated human proinsulin proteins (A24D, G32R, G32S, L35P, C43G, G47V, F48C, G...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park SY,Ye H,Steiner DF,Bell GI

更新日期：2010-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The 15-kDa selenoprotein (Sep15) has been implicated in etiology of some types of cancer. Herein, inducible RNAi cell lines were established and cell morphology and motility were analyzed. The majority of Sep15-deficient cells (>95%) formed membrane blebs in a dynamic manner. Blebbing cells transformed cell morphology...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bang J,Jang M,Huh JH,Na JW,Shim M,Carlson BA,Tobe R,Tsuji PA,Gladyshev VN,Hatfield DL,Lee BJ

更新日期：2015-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:LFA-1 (αLβ2) and Mac-1 (αMβ2) integrins regulate leukocyte trafficking in health and disease by binding primarily to IgSF ligand ICAM-1 and ICAM-2 on endothelial cells. Here we have shown that the anti-coagulant molecule thrombomodulin (TM), found on the surface of endothelial cells, functions as a potentially new lig...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawamoto E,Okamoto T,Takagi Y,Honda G,Suzuki K,Imai H,Shimaoka M

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of smooth muscle contraction was approached by a novel method, covalent 14C-labeling. Intra- and intermolecular protein interactions during contractile activity are reflected by changed reactivity of protein side chains; these can be detected by reagents which readily permeate through the muscl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bárány K,Polyák E,Bárány M

更新日期：1992-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingolipids have been reported to regulate the growth and death of mammalian and yeast cells, but their precise mechanisms are unknown. In this paper, it was shown that the deletion of the oxysterol binding protein homologue 3 (OSH3) gene confers hyper resistance against ISP-1, an inhibitor of sphingolipid biosynthe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yano T,Inukai M,Isono F

更新日期：2004-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II causes an increase of inositol phosphate production in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells from rat aorta. Pretreatment of the cells with pertussis toxin attenuates this effect. Pertussis toxin ADP-ribosylates a protein of about 40 kD in a crude membrane fraction. These data demonstrate the possible i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gaul G,Gierschik P,Marmé D

更新日期：1988-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Malondialdehyde measurements have been the major tool for studying relationships between lipid peroxidation and tissue pathology. Recently, we presented a novel gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method for direct detection of phospholipid peroxides with picogram sensitivity based on transesterification of phospholi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： van Kuijk FJ,Thomas DW,Stephens RJ,Dratz EA

更新日期：1986-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination evoking immunity in susceptible individuals has become the most effective solution to combat infectious diseases. The surface antigen of hepatitis B virus (HBsAg) is a mandatory vaccine for children in China. Herein, we designed an antimicrobial protein consisting of an antimicrobial peptide Thanatin at th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fan X,Xu W,Gao W,Xiao H,Wu G

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription regulator SNAI1 triggers a transcriptional program leading to epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), providing epithelial cells with mesenchymal features and invasive properties during embryonic development and tumor progression. To identify early transcriptional changes occurring during SNAI1-i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vetter G,Le Béchec A,Muller J,Muller A,Moes M,Yatskou M,Al Tanoury Z,Poch O,Vallar L,Friederich E

更新日期：2009-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine molecular mechanism(s) responsible for the reduced thymidine kinase activity (TK) observed earlier in an arabinosylcytosine (araC) resistant lymphoid cell line (H9-araC cells), which was obtained following continuous cultivation of H9 cells in the presence of 0.5 microM araC. Com...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Han T,Fernandez M,Sarkar M,Agarwal RP

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mechanosensitive channel of Large conductance (MscL) allows bacteria to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions such as osmolarity. The MscL channel opens in response to increases in membrane tension, which allows for the efflux of cytoplasmic constituents. Here we describe the cloning and expression of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jones SE,Naik RR,Stone MO

更新日期：2000-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoglycerate mutase is inactivated by butanedione in borate buffer. Inactivation by 0.13 mM reagent correlates with the modification of one arginyl residue per subunit, and is prevented by either 2, 3-diphosphoglycerate or 3-phosphoglycerate. With 0.50 mM butanedione, inactivation is accompanied by the modificatio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Borders CL Jr,Wilson BA

更新日期：1976-12-20 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：:The diastereomeric GSH derivatives gamma-L-Glu-L-allo-thioThr-Gly (6) and gamma-L-Glu-L-thioThr-Gly (6a) have been synthesized as specific probes of the steric environment near the cysteinyl residue of enzyme bound glutathionyl substrates. Experiments with glyoxalase I indicate that while 6a-methylglyoxal thiohemiacet...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xie XF,Creighton DJ

更新日期：1991-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The human elafin gene was cloned and its entire nucleotide sequence was determined to deduce the amino acid sequence for the precursor of elafin, an elastase-specific inhibitor. The gene spans approximately 1.7 kb and is divided into 3 exons. The gene product preproelafin consists of 117 amino acids: the initiator Met...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saheki T,Ito F,Hagiwara H,Saito Y,Kuroki J,Tachibana S,Hirose S

更新日期：1992-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:CRTH2, the second receptor for prostaglandin D(2) (PGD(2)), is thought to play a role in allergic inflammations through the induction of chemotactic migration and/or the activation of Th2, eosinophils, and basophils, in humans. We previously identified the mouse CRTH2 homolog of human CRTH2 and suggest that animal mod...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hirai H,Abe H,Tanaka K,Takatsu K,Sugamura K,Nakamura M,Nagata K

更新日期：2003-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:MelC1 regulates the copper incorporation and secretion of Streptomyces apotyrosinase (MelC2) via a transient, competent complex formation. His-102 and His-117 of the chaperone-like MelC1 are known to play important roles in this trans-activation activity of MelC1. In this study, we studied the side chain requirement a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liaw LL,Lee YH

更新日期：1995-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the pathophysiologic roles of the obese (ob) gene product, leptin, in the development of obesity and hypertension, we examined ob gene expression and leptin secretion in obese spontaneously hypertensive rats (obese SHR or Koletsky rats) at the stage of established obesity and hypertension. Expression of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hiraoka J,Hosoda K,Ogawa Y,Ikeda K,Nara Y,Masuzaki H,Takaya K,Nakagawa K,Mashimo T,Sawamura M,Koletsky RJ,Yamori Y,Nakao K

更新日期：1997-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified and isolated a novel, hypotensive peptide from avian ventricular tissue. Ventricular homogenates have been shown to exhibit potent hypotensive activity in the avian and mammalian species, with little natriuresis or diuresis. Using avian mean arterial pressure (MAP) as a bioassay, we were able to purif...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Barbato GF,Wideman RF

更新日期：1990-06-29 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：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been isolated from various tissues and used for elucidating the pathogenesis of numerous diseases. In our previous in vitro study, we showed the existence of MSCs in human spinal ligaments and hypothesized that these MSCs contributed to the pathogenesis of ossification of spinal liga...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chin S,Furukawa K,Ono A,Asari T,Harada Y,Wada K,Tanaka T,Inaba W,Mizukami H,Motomura S,Yagihashi S,Ishibashi Y

更新日期：2013-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to their immune stimulating and apoptosis inducing properties, ligands of the TNF family attract increasing interest as therapeutic proteins. A general limitation of in vivo applications of recombinant soluble TNF ligands is their notoriously rapid clearance from circulation. To improve the serum half life of the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Müller N,Schneider B,Pfizenmaier K,Wajant H

更新日期：2010-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Most G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are N-glycosylated proteins but the role of this post-translational modification in GPCR biosynthesis has not been extensively studied. We previously showed that the non-glycosylated AT(1) receptor is inefficiently expressed at the cell surface. In this study, we addressed whet...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lanctôt PM,Leclerc PC,Escher E,Guillemette G,Leduc R

更新日期：2006-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is an inhibitor of the proliferation of bovine aortic endothelial cells in culture. Basal cell growth in serum-containing medium and cell proliferation stimulated by fibroblast growth factor (FGF) are inhibited by TGF-beta in a dose-dependent manner. Half-maximal inhibition o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fràter-Schröder M,Müller G,Birchmeier W,Böhlen P

更新日期：1986-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids inhibit rodent alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) gene activity but stimulate expression of the human homologue. Like human, activity of the AFP promoter from other primates was stimulated by the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone (Dex) in various cell lines. A glucocorticoid responsive element (GRE) is locat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakabayashi H,Koyama Y,Sakai M,Li HM,Wong NC,Nishi S

更新日期：2001-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrin is an important constituent of the glomerular filtration barrier and alteration of its expression is associated with severe proteinuria. In this study we show that injection of an anti-Thy1.1 antibody in rats not only induces a mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis associated with increased proteinuria, but...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schaefer L,Ren S,Schaefer RM,Mihalik D,Babelova A,Huwiler A,Pfeilschifter J

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug transporters are of considerable importance because they present problems in the treatment of infectious disease and cancer. A central issue is the ability of efflux pumps to recognize an astounding array of structurally diverse compounds. The yeast Pdr5p efflux pump, which is a member of the ATP-binding cas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Golin J,Ambudkar SV,May L

更新日期：2007-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Profilin is a small actin-binding protein and is expressed at high levels in mature pollen where it is thought to regulate actin filament dynamics upon pollen germination and tube growth. The majority of identified plant profilins contain a MAP kinase phosphorylation motif, P-X-T-P, and a MAP kinase interaction motif ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Limmongkon A,Giuliani C,Valenta R,Mittermann I,Heberle-Bors E,Wilson C

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new and rapid immunofluorescent method for visualisation of replicated regions on fixed DNA fibers. Using this method we have found in 5-fluorodeoxyuridine (FrdU)-blocked human cells distinct replication units covering about 60 kb of DNA and corresponding in size to single replicons or chromatin lo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tomilin N,Rosanov Yu,Zenin V,Bozhkov V,Vig B

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The secondary structure of human pancreatic thread protein (HPTP) in solution at acid pH was derived using Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and laser Raman spectroscopic studies. The experimentally derived secondary structure of HPTP was compared with the secondary structure obtained by the Chou-Fasman algorithm. Pa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Renugopalakrishnan V,Dobbs JC,Collette TW,Carreira LA,Hutson TB,Garduño-Juarez R

更新日期：1999-05-19 00:00:00