Aminopeptidase in human CSF which degrades delta-sleep inducing peptide (DSIP).

abstract：:The genetic regulation necessary for the formation of a four-chambered heart is tightly regulated by transcription factors such as TBX20, a member of the T-box (TBX) transcription factor family. TBX20 is critical for proper cardiogenesis and is expressed in the heart throughout development. Missense mutations in TBX20...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Debenedittis P,Harmelink C,Chen Y,Wang Q,Jiao K

更新日期：2011-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress plays an important role in the development of diabetic retinopathy. Here, we examined whether α-lipoic acid (α-LA), a natural antioxidant, attenuated retinal injury in diabetic mice. The α-LA was orally administered to control mice or mice with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. We found that α-LA reduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YS,Kim M,Choi MY,Lee DH,Roh GS,Kim HJ,Kang SS,Cho GJ,Hong EK,Choi WS

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase, depleted of polypeptide subunits by alkaline detergent treatment, was characterized with respect to metal content, optical spectral properties, and oxidase activity. Treatment with 1.0% Triton X-100 at pH 9.5 followed by anion-exchange chromatography caused removal of subunit III, su...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yewey GL,Caughey WS

更新日期：1987-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Rbx1 and Rbx2 are essential components of Cullin-RING E3 Ligases. Vif is generally believed to preferentially recruit the Cul5-Rbx2 module to induce proteasomal degradation of antiretroviral enzyme APOBEC3G, although some investigators have found that the Cul5-Rbx1 module is recruited. Here, to investigate the functio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang X,Wang X,Wang W,Zhang J,Wang J,Wang C,Lv M,Zuo T,Liu D,Zhang H,Wu J,Yu B,Kong W,Wu H,Yu X

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The target tissues of TCDD, the dysfunctions that result in death in experimental animals, and the ultimate biochemical lesion(s) caused by TCDD are not known despite numerous studies. We have shown by the thiobarbituric acid and conjugated diene methods that TCDD induces hepatic lipid peroxidation in rats. The lipid ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stohs SJ,Hassan MQ,Murray WJ

更新日期：1983-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)-induced immune responses in the gastric mucosa are skewed toward T helper (Th) 1 phenotype, which is characterized by predominant production of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and interferon (IFN)-γ by helper T cells. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play an essential role in mucosal defense ag...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Otani K,Tanigawa T,Watanabe T,Nadatani Y,Sogawa M,Yamagami H,Shiba M,Watanabe K,Tominaga K,Fujiwara Y,Arakawa T

更新日期：2012-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Leda-1/Pianp is a type I transmembrane protein expressed by CNS cells, murine melanoma cell line B16F10 and rat liver sinusoidal endothelial cells. The early steps of posttranslational modifications of Leda-1/Pianp have been described to include glycosylation and processing by proprotein convertases. Here, we comprehe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Biswas S,Adrian M,Weber J,Evdokimov K,Winkler M,Géraud C

更新日期：2016-09-02 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：:Natural Killer (NK) cells are highly mobile, specialized sub-populations of lymphocytic cells that survey their host to identify and eliminate infected or tumor cells. They are one of the key players in innate immunity and do not need prior activation through antigen recognition to deliver cytotoxic packages and relea...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tompkins N,MacKenzie B,Ward C,Salgado D,Leidal A,McCormick C,Pohajdak B

更新日期：2014-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast Ccc2 is a P-type ATPase responsible for transport of copper(I) from the cytosol to the trans-Golgi network. It possesses a soluble cytosolic N-terminal region containing two copper(I)-binding domains. Homologous eukaryotic copper-transporting ATPases have from one to six domains. We have expressed a fragment enc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Banci L,Bertini I,Chasapis CT,Rosato A,Tenori L

更新日期：2007-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Digestion of discoidin I with several proteolytic enzymes reveals the existence of structural domains in this lectin. Significative differences have been detected in the pattern of fragments generated by V8 protease on discoidin I of various developmental situations. The changes observed can be related to the presence...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Valencia A,Pestaña A,Cano A

更新日期：1988-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein insolubility is a major problem when producing recombinant proteins (e.g., to be used as antigens) from large cDNAs in Escherichia coli. Here, we describe a system using three convertible plasmid vectors to screen for soluble proteins produced in E. coli. This system experimentally identified any random cDNA f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakayama M,Ohara O

更新日期：2003-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances of serotonergic pathways have been implicated in a wide variety of neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, migraine, and substance abuse. Genetic variation in genes coding for serotonin receptor proteins might well be involved in the genetic predisposition to these diseases and/or of pharm...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nöthen MM,Erdmann J,Shimron-Abarbanell D,Propping P

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:betaC-S Lyase catalyzes the alpha,beta-elimination of L-cysteine to hydrogen sulfide, which is one of the main causes of oral malodor and is highly toxic to mammalian cells. We evaluated the capacity of six species of oral streptococci to produce hydrogen sulfide. The crude enzyme extract from Streptococcus anginosus ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshida Y,Negishi M,Amano A,Oho T,Nakano Y

更新日期：2003-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibian skin contains rich bradykinin-related peptides, but the mode of biosynthesis of these peptides is unknown. In the present study, a novel bradykinin-related peptide, termed bombinakinin M, was purified from skin secretions of the Chinese red belly toad Bombina maxima. Its primary sequence was established as D...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lai R,Liu H,Hui Lee W,Zhang Y

更新日期：2001-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The status of Ca(2+)-channels and adrenoceptors in the hind leg skeletal muscle was examined in rats 8 weeks after inducing diabetes by an intravenous injection of streptozotocin (65 mg/kg). Scatchard plot analysis of the data on specific binding of 3H-nitrendipine with crude membranes from diabetic muscle revealed an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee SL,Dhalla NS

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificities of the binding of lung surfactant protein SP-D to glycolipids were examined using 125I-labeled SP-D as a probe. When the binding study was performed on TLC plates, SP-D bound exclusively to GlcCer, whereas it failed to bind to GalCer, GM1, GM2, asialo-GM1, asialo-GM2, sulfatide, Forssman antigen, cer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuroki Y,Gasa S,Ogasawara Y,Shiratori M,Makita A,Akino T

更新日期：1992-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiac transcription factor GATA4 is essential for cardiac development, and mutations in this gene have been implicated in a wide variety of congenital heart diseases in both animal models and humans. However, whether mutated GATA4 predisposes to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) remains unknown. In this study, the wh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li RG,Li L,Qiu XB,Yuan F,Xu L,Li X,Xu YJ,Jiang WF,Jiang JQ,Liu X,Fang WY,Zhang M,Peng LY,Qu XK,Yang YQ

更新日期：2013-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour-secreted vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) exerts a number of effects which are important in tumour pathology, including stimulation of angiogenesis and permeabilisation of tumour-associated vasculature. In this study we have examined the possibility that VEGF may also play an autocrine role in tumour g...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu B,Earl HM,Baban D,Shoaibi M,Fabra A,Kerr DJ,Seymour LW

更新日期：1995-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported not only that chicken HIRA, a homolog of Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcriptional corepressors Hir1p and Hir2p, possesses seven WD dipeptide motifs and a LXXLL motif in its N-terminal half and C-terminal half, respectively, but also that the N-terminal and C-terminal halves, respectively, bind t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ahmad A,Takami Y,Nakayama T

更新日期：2003-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve Growth Factor is a 118 amino acid polypeptide that plays an important role in the differentiation and survival of neurons. The recent discovery that a mRNA that encodes beta Nerve Growth Factor is present in brain suggests that the Nerve Growth Factor gene may not only regulate gene expression of peripheral but ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rennert PD,Heinrich G

更新日期：1986-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel vector system for the efficient assembly of polydactyl zinc fingers. Next to proteins that possess short canonical TGEKP linkers between all constituting zinc fingers we constructed proteins with longer, 12 amino acid linkers between two three-finger (3F) units and between three two-finger (2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Neuteboom LW,Lindhout BI,Saman IL,Hooykaas PJ,van der Zaal BJ

更新日期：2006-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion protein (PrPc) is expressed in many tissues, both in human and animals. The scrapie isoform of PrPc has been shown to cause neurodegeneration. In other studies it has been demonstrated that overexpression of the PrP gene can result in nonneuronal tissue degradation. Little is known, however, about the normal fun...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kniazeva M,Orman R,Terranova VP

更新日期：1997-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rex-family repressors sense redox levels by alternative binding to NADH or NAD(+). RSP is the homologue of Rex in Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus JW200(T) and regulates ethanol fermentation in this obligate anaerobe. The dimeric repressor binds to DNA by an open conformation. The crystal structure of RSP/α-NAD(+) c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zheng Y,Ko TP,Yang Y,Shao W,Guo RT

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The COP9 signalosome (CSN) is a regulator of the ubiquitin (Ub) proteasome system (UPS). In the UPS, proteins are Ub-labeled for degradation by Ub ligases conferring substrate specificity. The CSN controls a large family of Ub ligases called cullin-RING ligases (CRLs), which ubiquitinate cell cycle regulators, transcr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rockel B,Schmaler T,Huang X,Dubiel W

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidosqualene:protostadienol cyclase (OSPC) from the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, catalyzes the cyclization of (3S)-2,3-oxidosqualene into protosta-17(20)Z,24-dien-3beta-ol which is the precursor of the steroidal antibiotic helvolic acid. To shed light on the structure-function relationship between OSPC and oxidosqua...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kimura M,Kushiro T,Shibuya M,Ebizuka Y,Abe I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the molecular mechanism underlying the neuroprotective effect of theanine, a green tea component, using primary cultured rat cortical neurons, focusing on group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs). Theanine and a group I mGluR agonist, DHPG, inhibited the delayed death of neurons caused by brie...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagasawa K,Aoki H,Yasuda E,Nagai K,Shimohama S,Fujimoto S

更新日期：2004-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelets are an important place for the storage of angiogenic factors, such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). The present study aims to investigate the interaction between BDNF-TrkB pathway and platelet activation during tumor development. In an orthotopic hepa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang ZF,Ho DW,Lau CK,Tam KH,Lam CT,Poon RT,Fan ST

更新日期：2006-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein report two new genes, human neugrin and mouse homologue m-neugrin, found by screening the cDNA library for the human spinal cord. The neugrin mRNA encodes 219 amino acids and its deduced amino acid sequence contains an NLS-like domain. No previously known motif is found in it. m-neugrin mRNA encodes 233 amin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishigaki S,Niwa J,Yoshihara T,Mitsuma N,Doyu M,Sobue G

更新日期：2000-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene ENOD40 is expressed at an early stage of root nodule organogenesis and has been postulated to play a central regulatory role in the Rhizobium-legume interaction. In vitro translation of soybean ENOD40 mRNA showed that the gene encodes two peptides of 12 and 24aa residues (peptides A and B) that bind to sucros...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Röhrig H,John M,Schmidt J

更新日期：2004-12-17 00:00:00