Structure of acrosome reaction-inducing substance in the jelly coat of starfish eggs: a mini review.

abstract：:Free fatty acid (FFA)-bound albumin, which is filtrated through the glomeruli and reabsorbed into proximal tubular cells, is one of the crucial mediators of tubular damage in proteinuric kidney disease. In this study, we examined the role of each kind of FFA on renal tubular damage in vitro and tried to identify its m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Soumura M,Kume S,Isshiki K,Takeda N,Araki S,Tanaka Y,Sugimoto T,Chin-Kanasaki M,Nishio Y,Haneda M,Koya D,Kashiwagi A,Maegawa H,Uzu T

更新日期：2010-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins (C/EBPs) are generally known as regulators in adipocyte differentiation. However, more understanding of the role of C/EBPs in lipid and glucose metabolism remains to be discovered. In this study, we verified the effect of CEBP-2, the homolog of CEBPs, on fat storage in Caenorh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xu XY,Hu JP,Wu MM,Wang LS,Fang NY

更新日期：2015-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of facilitative glucose transporters (Glut 1, 2 and 3) was examined by Western blot analyses 10, 20 and 30 days following surgically induced unilateral abdominal cryptorchidism. The cryptorchid testes exhibited marked degenerative changes in the seminiferous tubules and spermatogonia, impaired and incomplet...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Farooqui SM,Al-Bagdadi F,O'Donnell JM,Stout R

更新日期：1997-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of novel, azacyclic ureas which are highly potent inhibitors of the HIV-1 protease (IC50 = 4.1 to < 0.5 nM) were synthesized. Aqueous solubilities of this series of compounds were improved by incorporating polar functional groups at the P1' P2 and P2' positions. These compounds also possess good anti-viral ac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sham HL,Zhao C,Marsh KC,Betebenner DA,Lin S,Rosenbrook W Jr,Herrin T,Li L,Madigan D,Vasavanonda S,Molla A,Saldivar A,McDonald E,Wideburg NE,Kempf D,Norbeck DW,Plattner JJ

更新日期：1996-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C appears to play an important, yet complex role in the supramaximal inhibition of pancreatic acinar cell secretion observed in response to cholecystokinin (CCK). The addition of protein kinase C activation to the concentration-response curve of a partial agonist acting at the CCK receptor (a phenethyl ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gaisano HY,Miller LJ

更新日期：1992-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformations of the neuropeptide galanin in water and trifluoroethanol solutions have been examined by 1H NMR spectroscopy. Analysis of two-dimensional NMR experiments enabled the assignment of virtually all the 1H resonances of galanin in trifluoroethanol solution and many of the 1H resonances in aqueous solutio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wennerberg AB,Cooke RM,Carlquist M,Rigler R,Campbell ID

更新日期：1990-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous study demonstrated that angiotensin II (Ang II) upregulates the expression of Kv1.5, a promising target for atrial fibrillation (AF) therapy, by activating ROS-dependent P-Smad2/3 and P-ERK 1/2. A recent study showed that hydrogen sulfide (H2S) may modulate the effects of angiotensin II (Ang II) by inhibi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu G,Xu C,Tang K,Zhang J,Li Q,Peng L,Wang Y,Huang Z,Gao X

更新日期：2017-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide receptor (GIP-R) is a member of the secretin and parathyroid hormone (PTH) family of seven transmembrane-spanning receptors. Point mutations of a histidine at the junction between the first intracellular loop and the second membrane-spanning domain and a threonine in the si...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tseng CC,Lin L

更新日期：1997-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) plays an important role in destabilizing vessels for angiogenesis, however its transcriptional regulation has not been determined. Here we isolated about 3.2kb of the 5' upstream of the human Ang-2 gene and further characterized the transcriptional regulation of Ang-2. We found 10 Ets binding si...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hasegawa Y,Abe M,Yamazaki T,Niizeki O,Shiiba K,Sasaki I,Sato Y

更新日期：2004-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium is a key signaling molecule and ion involved in a variety of diverse processes in our central nervous system (CNS) which include gene expression, synaptic transmission and plasticity, neuronal excitability and cell maintenance. Proper control of calcium signaling is not only vital for neuronal physiology but a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mark MD,Schwitalla JC,Groemmke M,Herlitze S

更新日期：2017-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolysis, the catabolism of glucose to pyruvate, is an iconic central metabolic pathway and often used as a paradigm for explaining the general principles of the regulation/control of cellular metabolism. The ubiquitous mammalian ATP-dependent hexokinases I-III and hexokinase IV, also termed glucokinase, initiate th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ronimus RS,Morgan HW

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is noteworthy that the formation of the DNA G-quadruplex is induced by factors other than stabilizing cations because this event probably occurs in living cells. Previous studies have shown that thrombin-binding DNA aptamer (TBA) forms a chair-type intramolecular G-quadruplex structure that binds with thrombin prot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagatoishi S,Tanaka Y,Tsumoto K

更新日期：2007-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation in mammalian females occurs early in embryonic development and renders most genes on the inactive X chromosome transcriptionally silenced. As a consequence, females will display an X chromosomal parent-of-origin mosaiscism with regard to which parental allele that is expressed. Some genes, ho...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nordquist N,Oreland L

更新日期：2006-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Formate dehydrogenase ( FDH ) from Clostridium thermoaceticum is a known tungsten enzyme. FDH was tested for the presence of nitrogenase-type cofactor and nitrate reductase-type cofactor by the Azotobacter vinelandii UW-45 and Neurospora crassa nit-1 reconstitution assays, respectively. Tungsten formate dehydrogenase ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Deaton JC,Solomon EI,Durfor CN,Wetherbee PJ,Burgess BK,Jacobs DB

更新日期：1984-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The mRNA for the novel aldehyde dehydrogenase 5 (ALDH5) gene was detected in HuH7 hepatoma cells. The cells also expressed cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH1) mRNA, but no mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) mRNA. Extracts of the hepatoma cells contained an enzymatic activity with an isoelectric point si...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stewart MJ,Malek K,Xiao Q,Dipple KM,Crabb DW

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Islet transplantation corrects chronic hyperglycemia by augmentation of insulin supply from the graft tissue, but the role of endogenous beta-cells after transplantation is not clear. In the present study, we examined endogenous beta-cell function after glucose homeostasis had been reestablished by islet graft in stre...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hamamoto Y,Tsuura Y,Fujimoto S,Nagata M,Takeda T,Mukai E,Fujita J,Yamada Y,Seino Y

更新日期：2001-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-length human p53 protein was examined using tryptophan fluorescence and circular dichroism spectroscopy (CD) to monitor unfolding. No significant alteration in tryptophan fluorescence for the tetrameric protein was detectable over a wide range of either urea or guanidine hydrochloride concentrations, in contrast ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nichols NM,Matthews KS

更新日期：2001-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasectomy induces an immediate biophysical incompetence in epididymal spermatozoa in terms of the erroneous execution of membrane configuration processes, premature membrane melting and untimely protein gyration. Disturbances in the planned expression 'foreign proteins' and the possible 'swinging off' of these molecul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatterjee S,Laloraya M,Kumar GP

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and localization of mitochondrial calmodulin was directly proved immuno-electron microscopically by the protein A-gold technique. In the ultra-pure mitochondria the complexes of anti-calmodulin antibody and protein A-gold clearly showed the localization of mitochondrial calmodulin on the inner membrane an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hatase O,Doi A,Itano T,Matsui H,Ohmura Y

更新日期：1985-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work identified an RNA binding protein whose presence in brain tumors correlated with translational repression of Glut1 expression. RNase T1 mapping demonstrated that this protein bound an AU-rich response element (AURE) in the Glut1 3'UTR. Facilitated by its differential expression in brain tumor cytosols, we ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hamilton BJ,Nichols RC,Tsukamoto H,Boado RJ,Pardridge WM,Rigby WF

更新日期：1999-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferrous oxygenated (Fe(II)O2) hemoglobins (Hb's) and myoglobins (Mb's) have been shown to react very rapidly with NO, yielding NO3(-) and the ferric heme-protein derivative (Fe(III)), by means of the ferric heme-bound peroxynitrite intermediate (Fe(III)OONO), according to the minimum reaction scheme: Fe(II)O2 + NO (k(...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ascenzi P,Bocedi A,Bolognesi M,Fabozzi G,Milani M,Visca P

更新日期：2006-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The vibrational frequency of CO bound to myoglobin can be varied by up to 60 cm-1 by making site-specific mutations in the distal pocket. These changes may result from specific chemical interactions between distal amino acids and the CO or from changes in the electrostatic field of the distal pocket. In this paper, we...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Decatur SM,Boxer SG

更新日期：1995-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in proteasome activities were observed during starfish oocyte maturation induced by a maturation-inducing hormone, 1-methyladenine. Succinyl-Leu-Leu-Val-Tyr-MCA-hydrolyzing proteasome activity in immature oocytes showed a main peak of a 1500-kDa fraction and a shoulder centered at a 650-kDa fraction on Superos...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sawada MT,Morinaga C,Izumi K,Sawada H

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species of scarab beetles, the Osaka beetle (Anomala osakana) and the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), utilize the opposite enantiomers of japonilure, (Z)-5-(1-decenyl)oxacyclopentan-2-one, as their sex pheromones. Each species produces only one of the enantiomers that functions as its own sex pheromone and as...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wojtasek H,Hansson BS,Leal WS

更新日期：1998-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect that several substances may have on ANF release by atrial slices and on its tissular content was investigated. alpha- and beta-adrenergic and cholinergic agonists, vasopressin, met-enkephaline, dexamethasone and DOC, in concentration ranging from 10(-4) to 10(-8) M, were added into the incubation media and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lachance D,Garcia R,Gutkowska J,Cantin M,Thibault G

更新日期：1986-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanosecond and steady fluorescence techniques have been employed to study the interaction of retinol with protein disulfide isomerase (PDI). Retinol binds tightly to PDI; and the rotational correlation time (θ = 36 ns) corresponds to a monomeric subunit of 55 kDa. The enzyme does not undergo aggregation in the p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Churchich JE

更新日期：1999-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that mammalian brain crude extracts contained two classes of stable microtubules: "cold stable" and "super-stable" microtubules. We now find that both species are generated by a single protein factor (STOP protein) in a dose dependent manner. These results show that STOP protein action can be ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Job D,Rauch CT,Margolis RL

更新日期：1987-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:E Prostanoid (EP) receptors play an important role in urinary Na(+) excretion. In the kidney, the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) is the rate-limiting-step for Na(+) reabsorption. We hypothesized that activation of EP1/EP3 regulates the expression of ENaC in the face of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system (RAAS) act...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： González AA,Céspedes C,Villanueva S,Michea L,Vio CP

更新日期：2009-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it's well known that protein carbonyl (PCO) and advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) levels are elevated in plasma from patients with renal dysfunction, we recently identified patients who had no renal dysfunction but possessed high levels of plasma pentosidine (PEN), which is an AGEs, and low vitamin B6 le...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koike S,Kayama T,Arai M,Horiuchi Y,Kobori A,Miyashita M,Itokawa M,Ogasawara Y

更新日期：2015-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Human carcinoma cells cultured in serum free medium produced an enzyme present as two different isoforms of 62 and 59 kDa which was found to degrade hyaluronan and chondroitin sulfate, with optimum activity at pH 4.0 and 0.03 M NaCl. The activity was suppressed by treatment with 250 mM apigenin and 1 mM DTT. The one-d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Podyma KA,Yamagata S,Sakata K,Yamagata T

更新日期：1997-12-18 00:00:00