Abstract:
:The three genes that form the UGA regulon in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are responsible for the transport and degradation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in this organism. Despite the differences in the sequence of their promoters, these genes similarly respond to GABA stimuli. The expression of UGA1, UGA2 and UGA4 depends on GABA induction and nitrogen catabolite repression (NCR). The induction of these genes requires the action of at least two positive proteins, the specific Uga3 and the pleiotropic Uga35/Dal81 transcription factors. Here we show that all the members of the UGA regulon, as was already demonstrated for UGA4, are negatively regulated by extracellular amino acids through the SPS amino acid sensor. We also show that this negative effect is caused by a low availability of Uga35/Dal81 transcription factor and that Leu3 transcription factor negatively regulates UGA4 and UGA1 expression but it does not affect UGA2 expression.
journal_name
Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Cardillo SB,Correa García S,Bermúdez Moretti Mdoi
10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.06.086subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-07-15 00:00:00pages
885-9issue
4eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(11)01066-7journal_volume
410pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Glucose can acutely reduce mitochondrial glutathione redox state in rat islets. However, whether glucose-stimulated mitochondrial glutathione redox state relates to glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) remains unknown. We used genetically encoded redox-sensitive GFPs to target the mitochondria to monitor glutat...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.07.016
更新日期:2015-08-28 00:00:00
abstract::Previous results from our laboratory showed that an increase in the nonpolar alkyl chain length in tetraalkylammonium cations is accompanied by greater efficiency in driving the B-to-Z transition. Analogous effects are observed when the hydrocarbon portion of carboxylate anions and alcohols is increased in size. The m...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0006-291x(89)91737-3
更新日期:1989-10-16 00:00:00
abstract::Newly translated proteins must undergo proper folding to ensure their function. To enter a low energy state, misfolded proteins form aggregates, which are associated with many degenerative diseases, such as Huntington's disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Recent studies have shown the use of low molecular weight...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.03.019
更新日期:2017-04-22 00:00:00
abstract::One hypothesis for the etiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is that the formation of proteinaceous inclusion, which is mainly composed of alpha-synuclein, may contribute to the selective loss of dopaminergic neurons. To further explore the role of alpha-synuclein in neurodegeneration of PD, we examined the possible ef...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.03.148
更新日期:2005-05-27 00:00:00
abstract::Horny Goat Weed is a commonly used in Chinese herbal medicine. And it is used in multiple kinds of diseases including cardiovascular diseases. Icariin is the major component isolated from Horny Goat Weed. It is reported to have lipid-lowering effect. In atherosclerosis, icariin attenuate the enhanced prothrombotic sta...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.01.118
更新日期:2016-02-19 00:00:00
abstract::We have investigated the involvement of P-glycoprotein (P-gp)/caveolin-1 interaction in the regulation of brain endothelial cells (EC) migration and tubulogenesis. P-gp overexpression in MDCK-MDR cells was correlated with enhanced cell migration whereas treatment with P-gp inhibitors CsA or PSC833 reduced it. Transfec...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.05.012
更新日期:2008-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Parathyroid hormone secretion is negatively regulated by calcium. We utilized calcium channel agents: +202-791, a calcium channel agonist and -202-791, a calcium channel antagonist, to evaluate the role of calcium channels in PTH secretion. +202-791 inhibited PTH release from bovine parathyroid cells and the antagonis...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0006-291x(86)80589-7
更新日期:1986-07-31 00:00:00
abstract::The properties of the Ca stores in the skinned fiber bundles of the guinea-pig taenia caeci were studied by a novel method to measure Ca released from the stores using a fluorescent Ca indicator, fura-2. It is found that the capacity of the Ca stores amounts some 170 mumoles/liter cell water. There are at least two Ca...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0006-291x(87)90449-9
更新日期:1987-01-15 00:00:00
abstract::We previously showed that increased intracellular calcium can modulate Importin (Imp)β1-dependent nuclear import of SRY-related chromatin remodeling proteins. Here we extend this work to show for the first time that high intracellular calcium inhibits Impα/β1- or Impβ1-dependent nuclear protein import generally. The b...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.06.047
更新日期:2014-07-18 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0006-291x(91)92021-b
更新日期:1991-05-31 00:00:00
abstract::Membrane rafts are small and dynamic regions enriched in sphingolipids, cholesterol, ganglioside GM1 and protein markers like flotillins, forming the flatter domains or caveolins, which are characterized as stable flask-shape invaginations. We explored whether membrane rafts participate in the entry of Trypanosoma cru...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.09.068
更新日期:2007-11-23 00:00:00
abstract::Ovarian cancer is a gynecological cancer that has the highest mortality rate and is often resistant to conventional treatments. Therefore, development of new therapies is essential. Metformin (MET), which is the priority drug for treatment of type 2 diabetes, has received increasing attention because of its anti-tumor...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.09.135
更新日期:2020-12-17 00:00:00
abstract::Pathways formed of delocalized π-electron systems and polar groups of polypeptide chains bridged by hydrogen bonds are referred as π-H pathways. Suitable for electron transfer, these pathways in cytochrome c oxidase connect CuA, the source of electrons distributed in cytochrome c oxidase, with the metal centers, heme ...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.01.083
更新日期:2019-03-05 00:00:00
abstract::Proteins with expanded polyglutamine domains cause eight inherited neurodegenerative diseases including Huntington's disease. In a previous paper, we identified peptides that inhibit polyglutamine protein aggregation and cell death and now describe the amino acid sequence requirements necessary for these activities. T...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/bbrc.2001.5783
更新日期:2001-11-02 00:00:00
abstract::In higher plants, a cis-acting element, DRE/CRT, is involved in gene expression responsive to drought and low-temperature stress. To understand signal transduction pathways from the cold stress signal to gene expression, we characterized a gene family for DRE/CRT-binding proteins DREB1A and CBF1 in Arabidopsis thalian...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/bbrc.1998.9267
更新日期:1998-09-08 00:00:00
abstract::Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease, is strongly associated with metabolic syndrome. Nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) has been reported to inhibit lipoprotein lipase; however, the effect of NDGA on hepatic lipid metabolism remains unclear. We evaluated body weight, ...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.09.016
更新日期:2010-10-08 00:00:00
abstract::Bacterial strains were isolated from the pig colon to screen for phytase and acid phosphatase activities. Among 93 colonies, Colony 88 had the highest activities for both enzymes and was identified as an Escherichia coli strain. Using primers derived from the E. coli pH 2.5 acid phosphatase appA sequence (Dassa et al....
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/bbrc.1999.0361
更新日期:1999-04-02 00:00:00
abstract::We have examined the steady-state levels of intermediate filament mRNA in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using the RNAse protection assay (NFL, NFM, NFH; corrected against GAPDH) or by PCR (peripherin, alpha-internexin, nestin, and vimentin; corrected against beta-actin). Significant elevations of NFL and peripherin mR...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.02.051
更新日期:2004-04-02 00:00:00
abstract::The metalated forms of metallothionein are well studied (particularly Zn-MT, Cu-MT and Cd-MT), but almost nothing is known about the chemical and structural properties of apometallothioneins despite their importance in initial metalation and subsequent demetalation. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry was used t...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.07.141
更新日期:2012-08-24 00:00:00
abstract::The entire coding region of chlL, an essential chloroplast gene required for chlorophyll biosynthesis in the dark in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, was precisely replaced by either the Klebsiella pneumoniae nifH (encoding the structural component of nitrogenase Fe protein) or the Escherichia coli uidA reporter gene encodi...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.02.064
更新日期:2005-04-15 00:00:00
abstract::The membrane-bound acid alpha-glucosidase was purified partially (400-fold) from human placenta by solubilization with trypsin, concanavalin A-Sepharose chromatography, Ultrogel AcA-34 gel filtration, and Sephadex G-100 affinity chromatography. Two molecular forms of the enzyme were found in the final preparation of t...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0006-291x(88)80512-6
更新日期:1988-03-30 00:00:00
abstract::Peptide B represents one of the most highly conserved sequences in proenkephalin. To investigate the potential presence of this peptide in the mammalian nervous system, an antiserum raised to this peptide was used to measure the distribution and molecular weight forms of immunoreactive Peptide B in the rat brain. Pept...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0006-291x(86)80280-7
更新日期:1986-09-30 00:00:00
abstract::A high incidence of oncogenic K-ras mutations is observed in lung adenocarcinoma of human cases and carcinogen-induced animal models. The process of oncogenic K-ras-mediated lung adenocarcinogenesis can be dissected into two parts: pre- and post-K-ras mutation. Adoption of transgenic lines containing a flox-K-rasG12V ...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.09.052
更新日期:2014-10-03 00:00:00
abstract::Although caffeine alters sleep in many animals, whether or not it affects mammalian circadian clocks remains unknown. Here, we found that incubating cultured mammalian cell lines, human osteosarcoma U2OS cells and mouse fibroblast NIH3T3 cells, with caffeine lengthened the period of circadian rhythms. Adding caffeine ...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.06.049
更新日期:2011-07-08 00:00:00
abstract::SMRT acts as a corepressor for a range of transcription factors. The amino-terminal part of the protein includes domains that mainly mediate transcriptional repression whilst the carboxy-terminal part includes domains that interact with nuclear receptors using up to three motifs called CoRNR boxes. The region of the S...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.06.175
更新日期:2005-09-02 00:00:00
abstract::By alignment to the carboxy-terminal-deduced aa sequence of human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B (gB), conserved hexameric aa motifs with putative function for localization in the inner nuclear membrane (INM) were identified in the nucleoplasmic tails of herpes simplex virus type 1 gB and of the cellular lamin B recep...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/bbrc.2002.6563
更新日期:2002-03-08 00:00:00
abstract::Leishmania promastigotes have the ability to synthesize essential polyunsaturated fatty acids de novo and can grow in lipid free media. Recently, we have shown that NAD(P)H cytochrome b5 oxidoreductase (Ncb5or) enzyme in Leishmania acts as the redox partner for Δ12 fatty acid desaturase, which catalyses the conversion...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.06.037
更新日期:2018-09-03 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND/AIMS:We have previously reported that the application of sphingomyelin-based liposomes (SM-L) to a three-dimensional cultured skin model increase the content of ceramides NS, NP, AS and AP. However, the mechanism responsible for these increased ceramide levels was not identified. METHODS:SM-L and sphingomye...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.03.061
更新日期:2016-04-22 00:00:00
abstract::During the search for ANP receptor ligands of microbial origin, we isolated a novel polysaccharide, HS-142-1, from culture broth of Aureobasidium sp. HS-142-1 inhibited [125I]-rANP binding to ANP receptor in rabbit kidney cortex membranes with an IC50 of 0.3 mu g/ml, but gave no effects on specific binding of [125I]-E...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0006-291x(91)90374-g
更新日期:1991-05-15 00:00:00
abstract::We have observed the conformation switching of Abeta(11-25) in the course of amyloid aggregation by employing time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). The amyloid peptides undergo multi-step conformational changes during self-assembling such as random coil (monomers), collapsed coil (multimers), mi...
journal_title:Biochemical and biophysical research communications
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.02.059
更新日期:2004-04-02 00:00:00