Upregulation of BAD, a pro-apoptotic protein of the BCL2 family, in vascular smooth muscle cells exposed to uremic conditions.

abstract：:Although it is recognized that 4,5-diaminovaleric acid, formed from glutamate 1-semialdehyde, functions as the intermediate in the last step of delta-aminolevulinic acid formation from glutamate, the enantioselectivity of the participating glutamate 1-semialdehyde aminotransferase for 4,5-diaminovaleric acid has remai...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Friedmann HC,Duban ME,Valasinas A,Frydman B

更新日期：1992-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy is thought to have derived from conformational variation in an abnormal isoform of the prion protein (PrPSc). To characterize PrPSc in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie, we analyzed the newly generated N-terminus of PrPSc isoforms by digestion w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi HK,Yokoyama T,Takata M,Iwamaru Y,Imamura M,Ushiki YK,Shinagawa M

更新日期：2005-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:SIRT2 is a member of the sirtuin family of NAD(+)-dependent protein deacetylases. It is involved in metabolic homeostasis and has been linked to the progression of age-related diseases. Casitas B-lineage lymphoma (Cbl) proteins regulate signal transduction through many pathways and, consequently, regulate cell functio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Choi YH,Kim H,Han Y,Jin YH,Lee KY

更新日期：2014-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:SPAK and OSR1 are two protein kinases that play important roles in regulating the function of numerous ion co-transporters. They are activated by two distinct mechanisms that involve initial phosphorylation at their T-loops by WNK kinases and subsequent binding to a scaffolding protein termed MO25. To understand this ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mehellou Y,Alamri MA,Dhiani BA,Kadri H

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the brain angiotensin converting enzyme is highly localized to a striatonigral pathway, which contains no endogenous angiotensin. Substance P, also localized to a striatonigral pathway, is degraded by ACE via two different pathways. The lung and striatal isozymes of angiotensin converting enzyme exhibit differentia...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thiele EA,Strittmatter SM,Snyder SH

更新日期：1985-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the human puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase (PSA) has been cloned and characterized. The human PSA gene is composed of 23 exons and 22 introns and spans approximately 40 kb of chromosome 17 at the interval 17q12-21. An analysis of the 5' end of the human PSA transcript reveals that the translational...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thompson MW,Tobler A,Fontana A,Hersh LB

更新日期：1999-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein acetylation is an important and reversible post-translational modification (PTM), and it governs a variety of cellular dynamics and plasticity. Experimental identification of acetylation sites is labor-intensive and often limited by the availability of reagents such as acetyl-specific antibodies and optimizati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li A,Xue Y,Jin C,Wang M,Yao X

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of the tumor-promoting phorbol 12-myristate, 13-acetate to rabbit neutrophils greatly potentiates the effect of the calcium ionophore A23187 on [3H]-arachidonic acid release and [32P]-phosphatidic acid generation. At 5 X 10(-8) M A23187, the addition of 20 ng/ml PMA potentiates the action of the ionophore...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Volpi M,Molski TF,Naccache PH,Feinstein MB,Sha'afi RI

更新日期：1985-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized a novel surface protein from urea extract of whole cells of group A Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS). A major protein band (35kD) was found to hybridize with human IgG by Western blotting. A search of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of this protein by using the GAS genome sequence database reveale...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawabata S,Tamura Y,Murakami J,Terao Y,Nakagawa I,Hamada S

更新日期：2002-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia-forming cytochrome c nitrite reductase from Sulfurospirillum deleyianum contains four covalently bound heme c groups/55 kDa subunit as determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy and the pyridine Fe(II)-hemochrome technique. Nitrite reductase was isolated from the membrane fraction as a monomer (M(r) 55 +/- 2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schumacher W,Hole U,Kroneck PM

更新日期：1994-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous epidemiological data indicate that vitamin D receptor (VDR) signaling induced by its ligand or active metabolite 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) (1α,25(OH)(2)D(3)) has anti-cancer activity in several colon cancers. 1α,25(OH)(2)D(3) induces the epithelial differentiation of SW480 colon cancer cells expressing VDR ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kouchi Z,Fujiwara Y,Yamaguchi H,Nakamura Y,Fukami K

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Apigenin, a plant flavonoid, induced the reversion of transformed phenotypes of v-H-ras-transformed NIH 3T3 cells at a quite low concentration of 12.5 microM. In the present study, we have examined the components of this Ras-mediated signaling transduction to determine whether they were involved in the apigenin-induce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuo ML,Yang NC

更新日期：1995-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium tellurite (K(2)TeO(3)) is harmful to most organisms and specific mechanisms explaining its toxicity are not well known to date. We previously reported that the lpdA gene product of the tellurite-resistant environmental isolate Aeromonas caviae ST is involved in the reduction of tellurite to elemental telluri...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Castro ME,Molina RC,Díaz WA,Pradenas GA,Vásquez CC

更新日期：2009-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Partially purified trehalose phosphorylase (EC 2.4.1.64) from Euglena gracilis SM-ZK was inhibited by fructose 2,6-bisphosphate in both synthetic and degradative directions. Ki value for trehalose phosphorolysis was 1.2 microM and that for trehalose synthesis was 0.5 microM. Functions of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate in E...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miyatake K,Kuramoto Y,Kitaoka S

更新日期：1984-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax malaria is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in Asia and Latin-America. The difficulty of maintaining this parasite culture in vitro has hampered identifying and characterising proteins implied in merozoite invasion of red blood cells. We have been able to identify an open reading frame in ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Perez-Leal O,Sierra AY,Barrero CA,Moncada C,Martinez P,Cortes J,Lopez Y,Salazar LM,Hoebeke J,Patarroyo MA

更新日期：2005-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Regarding the T cell function in HIV-1 infection, activation of T cells is enhanced in acutely HIV-1-infected T cells upon stimuli. However, T cell immune responses underlying the activation of T cell receptor (TCR) signaling molecules and interleukin (IL)-2 production in latently HIV-1-infected cells are poorly under...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shin Y,Yoon CH,Lim H,Park J,Roh TY,Kang C,Choi BS

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the transcription factor C/EBP delta is involved in the intestinal inflammatory response. C/EBP delta regulates several inflammatory response genes, such as haptoglobin, in the rat intestinal epithelial cell line IEC-6 in response to IL-1. However, the different C/EBP delta domains involv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Svotelis A,Doyon G,Bernatchez G,Désilets A,Rivard N,Asselin C

更新日期：2005-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) plays an important role in immune response, apoptosis, and anti-tumor activity. Its biological activity depends on expression of IFN-gamma receptor (IFN-gammaR). To address whether increased expression of IFN-gammaR is associated in vivo with a higher biological response by IFN-gamma, we c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishida Y,Maeda Y,Hara A,Arima T,Kimura E,Yamashita S,Uyama E,Mita S,Uchino M

更新日期：2002-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer causes high mortality without a declining trend and non small cell lung cancer represents 85% of all pulmonary carcinomas. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) serve as fine regulators of proliferation, migration, invasion/metastasis and angiogenesis of normal and cancer cells. Using TargetScan6.2, we predicted that the ubi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Savita U,Karunagaran D

更新日期：2013-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined age-associated changes of respiratory enzyme activities and protein synthesis in mitochondria isolated from mouse brain with high oxidative activities. Cytochrome c oxidase activity increased unexpectedly with aging, while the mitochondrial translational activities showed two phases of alterations: they in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takai D,Inoue K,Shisa H,Kagawa Y,Hayashi J

更新日期：1995-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that lipid metabolism is controlled, in part, by circadian clocks. However, circadian clocks lose temporal precision with age and correlates with elevated incidence in dyslipidemia and metabolic syndrome in older adults. Because our lab has shown that lipoic acid (LA) improves lipid homeostasis ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keith D,Finlay L,Butler J,Gómez L,Smith E,Moreau R,Hagen T

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the endothelin (ET) receptor subtype involved in mitogenic signaling in human primary and metastatic melanoma cell lines. In a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) study, ET(B) mRNA expression in metastatic melanoma cells was decreased from that of primary melanoma. Only ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kikuchi K,Nakagawa H,Kadono T,Etoh T,Byers HR,Mihm MC,Tamaki K

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:MUC1 is abundantly expressed at the surface of epithelial cells in many tissues and their carcinomas. In humans, genetic polymorphism and differential splicing produce isoforms that may contribute to MUC1 participation in protection of the cell surface, modulation of cell-cell interactions, signaling, and metastasis. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Julian J,Carson DD

更新日期：2002-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic (1-->6)-alpha-D-glucopyranan with branching and without branching were tested as a new hypoglycaemic drug. (1-->6)-alpha-D-glucopyranan having an alpha-D-glucopyranosyl branch at the C-3 position (1) showed a remarkable hypoglycaemic activity on i.p. injection to mice. The polysaccharide having both alph...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hatanaka K,Song SC,Maruyama A,Kobayashi A,Kuzuhara H,Akaike T

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the importance of charge and hydrogen-bonding potential of the phosphodiester backbone for binding and cleavage by EcoRI restriction endonuclease. We used 12-mer oligodeoxynucleotide substrates with single substitutions of phosphates by chiral methylphosphonates at each position of the recognition sequ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rosati O,Srivastava TK,Katti SB,Alves J

更新日期：2002-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG) is a major enzyme that plays a role in the degradation of poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR). PARG deficiency reportedly sensitizes cells to the effects of radiation. In lung cancer, however, it has not been fully elucidated. Here, we investigated whether PARG siRNA contributes to an increas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakadate Y,Kodera Y,Kitamura Y,Tachibana T,Tamura T,Koizumi F

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney anion exchanger 1 (kAE1) mediates chloride (Cl⁻) and bicarbonate (HCO₃⁻) exchange at the basolateral membrane of kidney α-intercalated cells. Impaired trafficking of kAE1 leads to defect of the Cl⁻/HCO₃⁻ exchange at the basolateral membrane and failure of proton (H+) secretion at the apical membrane, causing a ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sawasdee N,Junking M,Ngaojanlar P,Sukomon N,Ungsupravate D,Limjindaporn T,Akkarapatumwong V,Noisakran S,Yenchitsomanus PT

更新日期：2010-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The MUC1 transmembrane glycoprotein is aberrantly overexpressed in diverse human carcinomas and has been shown to inhibit apoptosis induced by genotoxic agents. In the present work, we report that MUC1 binds to and activates JNK1, an important member of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) superfamily. The phy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen Q,Li D,Ren J,Li C,Xiao ZX

更新日期：2013-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidences suggest that, after neuregulin (NRG) stimulation, ErbB4 undergoes a series of proteolysis, including gamma-secretase cleavage. The released ErbB4 intracellular domain (EICD) is translocated into nucleus and has a transcriptional function. Although NRG-ErbB4 signaling mediates maturation of oligode...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lai C,Feng L

更新日期：2004-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of inositol phospholipid turnover in the atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) secretion, the secretory responses from isolated perfused rat hearts to the ionophore, A23187, and the phorbol ester, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), alone or in combination, were studied. A23187 induced a sha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ruskoaho H,Toth M,Lang RE

更新日期：1985-12-17 00:00:00