Cytochalasin D acts as an inhibitor of the actin-cofilin interaction.

abstract：:Avian leukosis virus (ALV) is one of the main causative agent of tumor development, which brings enormous economic losses to the poultry industry worldwide. ALV can be transmitted horizontally and vertically, and the latter often give rise to more adverse pathogenicity. However, the propagation and evolution of ALV un...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gao X,Li Q,Fang L,Song H,Cui Z,Meng F,Zhang Z

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria belonging to the Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) are important opportunistic pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Since approximately 80% of the CF isolates examined produce exopolysaccharide (EPS), it was hypothesized that this EPS may play a role in the colonization and persistence of these b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moreira LM,Videira PA,Sousa SA,Leitão JH,Cunha MV,Sá-Correia I

更新日期：2003-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is detected in many aggressive tumors and involved in malignant conversion; however, the underlying mechanism remains obscure. Here, we identified PTHrP as a mediator of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling to promote the malignancies of oral cancers. PTHrP mRNA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamada T,Tsuda M,Ohba Y,Kawaguchi H,Totsuka Y,Shindoh M

更新日期：2008-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) is a critical mediator of atherogenesis. Macrophage uptake of ox-LDL and their subsequent development into foam cells is the principal event in atherosclerosis. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β), a prototypic multifunctional cytokine involved in inflammation, has an important effect on t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jiang Y,Wang M,Huang K,Zhang Z,Shao N,Zhang Y,Wang W,Wang S

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin G of a polyclonal antiserum (pIgG) from a patient with insulin resistance and hypoglycemia was tested for its ability to inhibit insulin binding and to affect the autophosphorylation of partially-purified insulin receptors extracted from rat liver membranes. pIgG, when added 4 hr prior to insulin, i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cordera R,Gherzi R,De Pirro R,Rossetti L,Freidenberg GR,Andraghetti G,Lauro R,Adezati L

更新日期：1985-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD) is a mitochondrial syndrome characterized by the onset of sensorineural hearing loss and diabetes in adults. Some patients may have other additional clinical features common in mitochondrial disorders such as pigmentary retinopathy, ptosis, cardiomyopathy, myopathy and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mezghani N,Mnif M,Mkaouar-Rebai E,Kallel N,Charfi N,Abid M,Fakhfakh F

更新日期：2013-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP1A1 is largely involved in carcinogenesis through the bioactivation of numerous procarcinogens. Exposure to environmental pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) leads to induction of CYP1A1 via AhR pathway. We have previously demonstrated that fetal bovine serum (FBS) induces CYP1A1 gene transcr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： N'Guyen QB,Fallone F,Seree E,Fina F,Villard PH,Guigal N,De Meo M,Lacarelle B,Martin PM,Barra Y

更新日期：2002-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Partially purified preparations of O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase from rat liver and E. coli were tested for their ability to repair O4-methylthymine in a methylated poly(dT) X poly(dA) substrate. The bacterial preparation readily carried out this reaction, but no loss of O4-methylthymine was obtained with the r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dolan ME,Scicchitano D,Singer B,Pegg AE

更新日期：1984-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic primase/polymerase complex synthesizes approximately 107 primers, one per Okazaki fragment, during the replication of mammalian chromosomes, which contain 109 base pairs. Primase catalyzes the synthesis of a short RNA segment to a single-stranded DNA template. Primase is important in DNA replication bec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee JG,Park KR,An JY,Kang JY,Shen H,Wang J,Eom SH

更新日期：2018-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that adipose tissue hyperplasia (increased adipocyte number or adipogenesis) has beneficial effects on metabolic health. The aim of the present study was to determine whether phytol could modulate hyperplasia/adipogenesis and glucose homeostasis, and to explore the underlying mechanisms in mice fed h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang J,Hu X,Ai W,Zhang F,Yang K,Wang L,Zhu X,Gao P,Shu G,Jiang Q,Wang S

更新日期：2017-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) functions in the deamination of monoamines, including dopamine and norepinephrine. The search for MAO-B inhibitors increased following the discovery that the enzyme may be responsible for generating neurotoxins from various endogenous or exogenous compounds. Computational screening methods ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Harkcom WT,Bevan DR

更新日期：2007-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is associated with high mortality and morbidity. Early diagnosis and risk stratification in patients with ARDS should improve prognosis. Unfortunately, no clinical biomarkers are available for use in early diagnosis. Quantitative proteomics is a powerful tool for biomarker di...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ren S,Chen X,Jiang L,Zhu B,Jiang Q,Xi X

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Tamoxifen (TAM), an anti-estrogen compound, is widely used for chemotherapy of breast cancer, although the molecular mechanisms underlying TAM cytotoxicity are obscure. Here, we show that TAM dramatically caused degradation of vimentin (VIM) in human skin fibroblasts, in a time and dose dependent manner. Addition of c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hashimoto M,Inoue S,Ogawa S,Conrad C,Muramatsu M,Shackelford D,Masliah E

更新日期：1998-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Replacement of leucine in the chemotactic peptide For-Met-Leu-Phe by the sterically constrained amino acids alpha-aminoisobutyric acid and aminocyclohexanecarboxylic acid affords compounds of equal or greater activity than the parent. NMR studies indicate that the parent compound is present as a beta-sheet in solution...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Semus SF,Becker EL,Toniolo C,Freer RJ

更新日期：1988-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Kainate receptors are a class of ionotropic glutamate receptors that are widely expressed in the mammalian brain, yet little is known about their physiological role or the mechanisms by which they are regulated. Kainate receptors are composed of multiple subunits (GluR5-7; KA1-2), which can combine to form homomeric o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayes DM,Braud S,Hurtado DE,McCallum J,Standley S,Isaac JT,Roche KW

更新日期：2003-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA-dependent DNA polymerase (DDDP) and RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (RDDP) activities of hepadnavirus polymerases are both essential for viral replication. Human hepatitis B virus (HBV) polymerase has been successfully expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein in frame with maltose-binding protein. The pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jeong JH,Kwak DS,Rho HM,Jung G

更新日期：1996-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat type 1 angiotensin II receptor has two subtypes, namely type 1a and type 1b. The regulation of the expressions of these two subtype receptor mRNAs was studied by using a competitive polymerase chain reaction method. The expression of the type 1a mRNA in the liver was negatively and that of the type 1b mRNA in the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwai N,Inagami T,Ohmichi N,Nakamura Y,Saeki Y,Kinoshita M

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is an inducible form of heme oxygenase that catabolizes heme to carbon monoxide, biliverdin, and ferrous iron. We have investigated whether HO-1 can induce angiogenic effects in vivo. Rats were subjected to a bolus injection of either wild type adenovirus (ad-wt) or adenovirus encoding HO-1 (ad...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suzuki M,Iso-o N,Takeshita S,Tsukamoto K,Mori I,Sato T,Ohno M,Nagai R,Ishizaka N

更新日期：2003-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of metoclopramide on proliferation of spleen lymphocytes in rats was examined. The rate of [3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA was used as an index of lymphocytes proliferation. It was shown that the incorporation of [3H]thymidine into DNA of spleen lymphocytes in the rats treated with metoclopramide was s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zerek-Melen G,Winczyk K,Kunert-Radek J,Pawlikowski M

更新日期：1990-09-28 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：:Galectin-9 (G9) is a tandem-repeat type β-galactoside-specific animal lectin having N-terminal and C-terminal carbohydrate recognition domains (N-CRD and C-CRD, respectively) joined by a linker peptide that is involved in the immune system. G9 is divalent in glycan binding, and structural information about the spatial...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshida H,Nishi N,Wada K,Nakamura T,Hirashima M,Kuwabara N,Kato R,Kamitori S

更新日期：2017-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It is found that secretion of pancreastatin and somatostatin from QGP-1N cells is regulated through muscarinic receptor-mediated activation of phosphatidylinositide hydrolysis system. In this report, whether the cAMP pathway interacts with the phosphoinositide turnover system for the secretion of pancreastatin and som...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tateishi K,Funakoshi A,Kitayama N,Matsuoka Y

更新日期：1992-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine nucleotides and monovalent cations decrease the affinity of cardiac muscarinic receptors for agonists and are required for muscarinic receptor mediated inhibition of adenylate cyclase. N-ethylmaleimide abolished the effects of Gpp(NH)p on the ability of the agonist oxotremorine to inhibit the binding of the an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McMahon KK,Hosey MM

更新日期：1983-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Androstenedione is reduced to form testosterone by 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17 beta HSD) and two different reductive isoforms of the enzyme have been identified (types 1 and 3). In this study, levels of mRNA encoding both reductive isoforms have been measured during fetal and post-natal development in the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sha J,Baker P,O'Shaughnessy PJ

更新日期：1996-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a physiologically regulated and evolutionary conserved process that plays a critical role in degradation of cytoplasmic proteins and other macromolecules within the lysosomes. Beclin-1, the mammalian orthologue of yeast Atg6, is an important mediator of autophagy that has been studied in many human cancer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kapoor V,Paliwal D,Baskar Singh S,Mohanti BK,Das SN

更新日期：2012-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The domain(s) responsible for the specific heterophilic adhesion between two members of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) family, CEACAM6 and CEACAM8, both of which with three extracellular domains, were investigated using Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) transfectants expressing chimeric antigens. Using a chimeric antige...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oikawa S,Sugiyama M,Kuroki M,Kuroki M,Nakazato H

更新日期：2000-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their advantages in analysis, 4D NMR experiments are still infrequently used as a routine tool in protein NMR projects due to the long duration of the measurement and limited digital resolution. Recently, new acquisition techniques for speeding up multidimensional NMR experiments, such as nonlinear sampling, i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shigemitsu Y,Ikeya T,Yamamoto A,Tsuchie Y,Mishima M,Smith BO,Güntert P,Ito Y

更新日期：2015-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide is known to participate in the immune and inflammatory processes. In this study, we investigated the production of nitric oxide (NO) in murine viral myocarditis induced by coxsackievirus B3. The expression of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) mRNA in the heart first appeared on day 4 after virus inoculation an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mikami S,Kawashima S,Kanazawa K,Hirata K,Katayama Y,Hotta H,Hayashi Y,Ito H,Yokoyama M

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary mouse embryo fibroblasts passed in culture go through a period of declining growth rate and then after a period of minimal proliferation begin to grow again, generating, under appropriate conditions, an immortal 3T3 line. The 3T3 cells, but not the primary mouse embryo fibroblasts, are able to synthesize and t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Edwards DR,Parfett CL,Smith JH,Denhardt DT

更新日期：1987-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases but its etiology is unclear. Alpha-synuclein (alpha-SN) is a major component of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, and its missense mutations, A30P and A53T, cause familial PD. In PD, alpha-SN-positive glial inclusions are distributed mainly ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kohno R,Sawada H,Kawamoto Y,Uemura K,Shibasaki H,Shimohama S

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00