Affinity of 22-oxa-1,25(OH)2D3 for 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D receptor and its effects on the synthesis of osteocalcin in human osteosarcoma cells.

abstract：:The effect of opioids on NO production by LPS-stimulated murine macrophages J774 has been investigated. Morphine (mu and k opioid receptor agonist), DAGO (selective mu receptor agonist) and U50-488H (selective k receptor agonist), added (10(-10)-10(-6) M) to the cells 0.5 h before activation with LPS, significantly in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iuvone T,Capasso A,D'Acquisto F,Carnuccio R

更新日期：1995-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Just before I became an editor of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications in 1977 we published our first paper in this same journal on the study of tiny perfused rat hearts by (31)P NMR. In this article I trace the development of this in vivo NMR approach from the study of small rat and mouse hearts to hum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Radda GK

更新日期：1999-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Diocleinae lectins are highly homologous in their primary structure which features metal binding sites and a carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD). Differences in the biological activity of legume lectins have been widely investigated using hemagglutination inhibition assays, isothermal titration microcalorimetry and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bezerra EH,Rocha BA,Nagano CS,Bezerra Gde A,Moura TR,Bezerra MJ,Benevides RG,Sampaio AH,Assreuy AM,Delatorre P,Cavada BS

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyamines associated to human erythrocytes from healthy donors are mainly localized intracellularly. In fact chromatography of the erythrocytes on a resin which has a high affinity and capacity for polyamines does not affect the amount of polyamines associated to the erythrocytes. The low ability of spermine to a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tadolini B,Hakim G,Orlandini G,Casti A

更新日期：1986-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid 11 beta-hydroxylase deficiency (11 beta OHD) is derived from mutations in the P45011 beta gene (CYP11B1) and inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. In the present study, we have performed a molecular genetic analysis of CYP11B1 in a Japanese patient clinically diagnosed as classic 11 beta OHD. Nucleotide ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang LX,Toda K,Miyahara K,Nomoto S,Kinoshita E,Baba T,Yoshimoto M,Araki K,Kurashige T,Hashimoto K

更新日期：1995-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The human poly(rC)-binding protein (PCBP) 2 is known to interact with enteroviral RNA. Here, the interaction of PCBP2 with RNA target sequences at the 5' end of the coxsackievirus B3 genome was investigated. Using the electrophoretic mobility shift assay and the yeast three-hybrid system, a short oligo(rC) tract conne...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zell R,Ihle Y,Seitz S,Gündel U,Wutzler P,Görlach M

更新日期：2008-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of neuropeptide Y on the prostacyclin production of cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells by measuring the stable metabolite of prostacyclin, 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha, by radioimmunoassay. Neuropeptide Y induced dose- and time-dependent stimulation of prostacyclin production by cul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawamura K,Smith TL,Zhou Q,Kummerow FA

更新日期：1991-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tankyrases (TNKS and TNKS2) are enzymes that catalyze poly-ADP-ribosylation (PARsylation) of their target proteins. Tankyrase-mediated PARsylation plays critical regulatory roles in cell signaling, particularly in the Wnt/β-catenin pathway. The sterile alpha motif (SAM) domain in tankyrases mediates their oligomerizat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fan C,Yarravarapu N,Chen H,Kulak O,Dasari P,Herbert J,Yamaguchi K,Lum L,Zhang X

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly reliable biomarkers for the diagnosis of neurological diseases are not widely available. Here we evaluated a luciferase immunoprecipitation technology (LIPS) for the diagnosis of a CNS autoimmune disorder, stiff-person syndrome (SPS). Analysis by LIPS of 40 sera samples from SPS and control subjects for anti-GA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Burbelo PD,Groot S,Dalakas MC,Iadarola MJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription of a mouse genomic segment containing four tRNA genes, coding for a tRNA(Ala), a tRNA(Ile), a tRNA(Pro) and a tRNA(Lys), has been studied in a HeLa cell extract, demonstrating that differences among their transcriptional efficiencies are evident using as templates either the natural cluster or an equ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Russo T,Oliva A,Duilio A,Ammendola R,Costanzo F,Zannini M,Cimino F

更新日期：1987-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are aberrantly expressed in a wide variety of human cancers. The present study aims to elucidate the effects and molecular mechanisms of miR-144-3p that underlie gastric cancer (GC) development. It was observed that miR-144-3p expression was significantly decreased in GC tissues compared to that in paired no...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li B,Zhang S,Shen H,Li C

更新日期：2017-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylene blue (MB) is a blue cationic thiazine dye and currently used in different medical settings. Notably, there have been several attempts to introduce MB for attenuating pain in the last decade. Some clinical studies reported remarkable results, which, however, have been much debated. In addition, accumulating e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee SW,Moon SW,Park JS,Suh HR,Han HC

更新日期：2021-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The extended exposure of proteins to reducing sugars leads to nonenzymatic glycation with the accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). Long-lived proteins, such as collagen and crystallins, are subjected to this modification, and are implicated as causal factors in several diseases including diabetic co...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hong SB,Lee KW,Handa JT,Joo CK

更新日期：2000-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we have reported three monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against purified human placental insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I receptors. These antibodies, in contrast to the well-studied mAb alpha IR-3, stimulate binding of IGF-I and IGF-II to the receptor and DNA synthesis as well [Xiong, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li SL,Kato J,Paz IB,Kasuya J,Fujita-Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep deprivation (SD) has detrimental effects on the physiological function of the brain. However, the underlying mechanism remains elusive. In the present study, we investigated the expression of candidate plasticity-related gene 15 (cpg15), a neurotrophic gene, and its potential role in SD using a REM-SD mouse mode...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li CJ,Li JJ,Jiang Y,Mu YW,Lu DX,Xiao ZY,Jiang HY,Zhao JJ,Chen XH

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A low molecular weight protein (approximately 25,000 D) exhibiting a yellow fluorescence emission peaking at approximately 540 nm was isolated from Vibrio fischeri (strain Y-1) and purified to apparent homogeneity. FMN is the chromophore, but it exhibits marked red shifts in both the absorption (lambda max = 380, 460 ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Macheroux P,Schmidt KU,Steinerstauch P,Ghisla S,Colepicolo P,Buntic R,Hastings JW

更新日期：1987-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) localized on the plasma membrane plays a central role in various normal biological responses including tissue remodeling, wound heeling, and angiogenesis and in cancer cell invasion and metastasis, by functioning as a collagenase and activating other matrix metallopro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miyata T,Ohnishi H,Suzuki J,Yoshikumi Y,Ohno H,Mashima H,Yasuda H,Ishijima T,Osawa H,Satoh K,Sunada K,Kita H,Yamamoto H,Sugano K

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloride intracellular channel protein CLIC4 is a putative organellar anion channel or channel regulator with an unusual dual cytoplasmic and integral membrane localisation. To investigate its contribution to cellular anion channel activity, the protein was overexpressed in stably transfected HEK-293 cells. Patch-clam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Proutski I,Karoulias N,Ashley RH

更新日期：2002-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine brain-derived growth factor (BDGF) is a approximately 16-17 kD polypeptide mitogen with a broad spectrum of cell specificity. Using a highly specific mouse polyclonal anti-BDGF antiserum for indirect immunoperoxidase and immunofluorescent stainings, BDGF was found to be specifically localized in the neurons of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huang SS,Tsai CC,Adams SP,Huang JS

更新日期：1987-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the interactions of oxytocin with the transmembrane region of the oxytocin receptor were modelled in order to explain the selective binding of oxytocin and vasopressin. Three sites of interaction in the receptors were identified by sequence comparison and model building. Both receptors share one site, wh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hakala JM

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Npr1 gene (coding for NPR-A) and Npr2 gene (coding for NPR-B) are identified as intrinsic anti-hypertrophic genes that opposes abnormal cardiac remodeling. However, the functional role of Npr1 and Npr2 genes during cardiac hypertrophic growth is not well understood. Hence, the present investigation was aimed to study ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Manivasagam S,Vellaichamy E

更新日期：2017-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-kDa lectin, with an N-terminal sequence displaying slight similarity to some lectins and fungal immunomodulatory proteins, was isolated from the mushroom Ganoderma capense (Lloyd) Teng. It exhibited more potent mitogenic activity than that of concanavalin A toward mouse splenocytes, and antiproliferative activit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ngai PH,Ng TB

更新日期：2004-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of the hepadnavirus polymerases are known to include those of DNA polymerase, reverse transcriptase and RNase H. To date, it has been difficult or impossible to clone and express the product as an active enzyme. In this study, full length capped RNA encoding Duck Hepatitis B Virus (DHBV) polymerase was prod...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Howe AY,Elliott JF,Tyrrell DL

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac fibrosis is an important cardiac remodeling event in the development of inflammation dilated cardiomyopathy （iDCM）. We have previously observed that degradation enhancer of androgen receptor (ASC-J9®) could improve cardiac inflammation and fibrosis. Using Primary CFs, we demonstrated that ASC-J9® attenuates th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Y,Ma W,Lu S,Yan L,Hu F,Wang Z,Cheng B

更新日期：2018-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Brefeldin A (BFA), an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-Golgi transport inhibitor, has been shown to cause accumulation of proteins in the ER, ER stress, and ultimately apoptosis. In this paper, we demonstrate that the knockdown of mitochondrial NADP(+)-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDPm), a mitochondrial NADPH-generat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon JL,Kim SY,Shin SW,Park JW

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of Trp 800 in the calmodulin-binding site of myosin light chain kinase was investigated. Truncation mutants from Leu 447 to the C-terminus were expressed in E. coli and these were modified by point mutations of Trp 800 to Gly, Cys, Leu and Tyr. Trp at this position was more effective than any of the oth...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsushima S,Huang YP,Dudas CV,Guerriero V Jr,Hartshorne DJ

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cecropin A-melittin (CAM), a chimeric antimicrobial peptide with potent antimicrobial activity, is threatened by some special extracellular proteases when used to deal with certain drug-resistant pathogenic microbes in the gastrointestinal tract. Thus, a four-tryptophan-substitution mutant (CAM-W) from CAM was develop...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ji S,Li W,Zhang L,Zhang Y,Cao B

更新日期：2014-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:T box (Tbx) genes are a large family of transcription regulators that play critical roles in invertebrate and vertebrate development. Mutations in Tbx5 gene have been found to cause Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS) in humans. Partial dysfunction of TBX5 in mouse also causes HOS phenotype. Little is known about its molecular a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： He ML,Chen Y,Peng Y,Jin D,Du D,Wu J,Lu P,Lin MC,Kung HF

更新日期：2002-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the nucleotide sequence of a bovine lens alpha A2-crystallin cDNA clone, designated pBL alpha A2-1. The 793 bp cDNA insert contains coding information for the entire 173 amino acid alpha A2-crystallin polypeptide, as well as non-translated sequences located both upstream and downstream from the codi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hay RE,Petrash JM

更新日期：1987-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its interaction at hypothalamic sites to affect feeding and energy expenditure, leptin has been shown to exhibit a proliferative response in erythropoietic cells. The functional leptin receptor is also present in pancreatic islets and we now demonstrate that a commonly used clonal insulin secreting beta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Islam MS,Morton NM,Hansson A,Emilsson V

更新日期：1997-09-29 00:00:00