Preparation and partial characterization of polyclonal antibodies raised against a preselected sequence of calcium dependent lectins.

abstract：:Defects in neurogenesis and neuronal differentiation in the fetal brain of Down syndrome (DS) patients lead to the apparent neuropathological abnormalities and contribute to the phenotypic characters of mental retardation, and premature development of Alzheimer's disease, those being the most common phenotype in DS. I...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang CC,Kadota M,Nishigaki R,Kazuki Y,Shirayoshi Y,Rogers MS,Gojobori T,Ikeo K,Oshimura M

更新日期：2004-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus infection is primarily mediated by the interaction of the preS region of the viral envelope protein with its still unknown cellular receptor. Using recombinantly expressed preS proteins, the distribution of preS-binding receptors on cell lines from extrahepatic origins was determined by immunofluores...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park JH,Choi EA,Cho EW,Lee YJ,Park JM,Na SY,Kim KL

更新日期：2000-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency in the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is frequently involved in various cancers. The hMSH3 gene is one of the human MMR genes whose role in bladder cancer is not known. We hypothesized that down-regulation of the hMSH3 gene might be involved in bladder cancer. In this study we analyzed this gene with regard to f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawakami T,Shiina H,Igawa M,Deguchi M,Nakajima K,Ogishima T,Tokizane T,Urakami S,Enokida H,Miura K,Ishii N,Kane CJ,Carroll PR,Dahiya R

更新日期：2004-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhabdomyosarcomas (RMS) represent the most common childhood soft-tissue sarcoma. Over the past few decades outcomes for low and intermediate risk RMS patients have slowly improved while patients with metastatic or relapsed RMS still face a grim prognosis. New chemotherapeutic agents or combinations of chemotherapies h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaylani SZ,Xu J,Srivastava RK,Kopelovich L,Pressey JG,Athar M

更新日期：2013-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently discovered natural heptadecapeptide nociceptin (orphanin FQ) shares some homology with the opioid peptides but it binds to a distinct receptor type, termed nociceptin receptor. This study demonstrates the presence of specific nociceptin recognition sites in brain membrane fractions of an amphibian, Rana e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Benyhe S,Monory K,Farkas J,Tóth G,Guerrini R,Salvadori S,Orosz G,Wollemann M,Borsodi A

更新日期：1999-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse gene locus Lsh/Ity/Bcg regulates macrophage activation for antimicrobial activity against intracellular pathogens. A candidate gene, designated natural resistance-associated macrophage protein gene (Nramp), recently isolated from a mouse pre-B cell cDNA library, encodes an integral membrane protein that has ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kishi F

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cholecystokinin (CCK) to elevate intracellular Ca2+ levels in small cell lung cancer cells was investigated using the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator Fura 2. CCK-8 elevated the cytosolic Ca2+ levels in cell line NCI-H345 in a dose dependent manner. Nanomolar concentration of CCK-8 elevated cytosolic Ca2+ lev...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Staley J,Fiskum G,Moody TW

更新日期：1989-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that intraplatelet "cyclic AMP jumps" produced with newly synthesized photoactivatable cyclic AMP analogue, inhibited washed rat platelet aggregation and serotonin release as induced by thrombin. Using the same approach on human platelets, thrombin-induced platelet aggregation was dose-depe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Blache D,Ciavatti M,Ponsin G,Nargeot J

更新日期：1987-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesion of highly activated neutrophils to cerebral microvascular endothelial cells (MVECs) may contribute to disruption and hyperpermeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) after cardiac surgery with prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). A correlation between CPB duration and neutrophil-mediated BBB damage h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schuller AM,Windolf J,Blaheta R,Cinatl J,Kreuter J,Wimmer-Greinecker G,Moritz A,Scholz M

更新日期：2005-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperimmunized rabbit anti-rat apolipoprotein antibodies showed reactivity to proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Antiapolipoproteins A1, B and E reacted with proteins in both a crude extract and a lipid enriched fraction. Protein reactivity was dependent on antisera dilution. Furthermore, the different antiapolipop...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keesler GA,Moore S,Usher DC,Parks LW

更新日期：1991-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and distribution of the cytoskeletal protein centrin in the lower eukaryote Giardia were determined using a monoclonal antibody to algal centrin. Immunofluorescence shows that centrin is a major component of rodlike structures associated with the flagella and strongly attached to the ventral disc and the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Belhadri A

更新日期：1995-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic islets of Langerhans were perifused with Krebs-bicarbonate solution containing glucose (5 and 10 mM). The perifusate was spiked with tetradeuterated hepoxilin A3 and was extracted and analysed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry using NICI detection. Evidence is presented showing the presence of hepoxil...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pace-Asciak CR,Martin JM,Corey EJ,Su WG

更新日期：1985-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is rapidly becoming a powerful tool for gene silencing in mammalian cells. Introduction of siRNA into primary cells, however, remains one of the major difficulties of this novel technique. Using cationic lipid-based transfection reagents satisfactory transfection results are observed in cell lines, bu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lingor P,Michel U,Schöll U,Bähr M,Kügler S

更新日期：2004-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have a high incidence of bacterial and viral infections. Fifteen non-dialysed (ND), 15 haemodialysed (HD), 15 patients with peritoneal dialysis (PD), and 15 healthy controls were included. T cell proliferation was measured by [3H]thymidine uptake. Apoptosis and cell phenotype...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moser B,Roth G,Brunner M,Lilaj T,Deicher R,Wolner E,Kovarik J,Boltz-Nitulescu G,Vychytil A,Ankersmit HJ

更新日期：2003-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta subunit of the epithelial sodium channel (δENaC) is a member of the ENaC/degenerin family of ion channels. δENaC is distinct from the related α-, β- and γENaC subunits, known for their role in sodium homeostasis and blood pressure control, as δENaC is expressed in brain neurons and activated by external prot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chang T,Ke Y,Ly K,McDonald FJ

更新日期：2011-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DMSO is routinely infused together with hematopoietic cells in patients undergoing myeloablative therapy and was recently found to inhibit smooth muscle cells proliferation and arterial thrombus formation in the mouse by preventing tissue factor (TF), a key activator of the coagulation cascade. This study wa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Asmis L,Tanner FC,Sudano I,Lüscher TF,Camici GG

更新日期：2010-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sf9 cells infected with the recombinant mouse CaMKII-alpha (Ca2+/calmodulin dependent kinase II) baculovirus expressed 12-15 mg of MCaMKII-alpha per liter of cells. Approximately 50% of the MCaMKII-alpha activity could be purified using a CaM-Sepharose affinity column. The purified MCaMKII-alpha had a M(rapp) of 50 kD...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Brickey DA,Colbran RJ,Fong YL,Soderling TR

更新日期：1990-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bone marrow cells express both a truncated and full-length form of the erythropoietin receptor (EpoR-T and EpoR-F, respectively). Transfection experiments using the murine interleukin (IL)-3-dependent cell line, Ba/F3, revealed that the cells coexpressing EpoR-F and EpoR-T (Ba/F3-FT) were more likely to undergo ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimizu R,Komatsu N,Nakamura Y,Nakauchi H,Nakabeppu Y,Miura Y

更新日期：1996-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of guanine nucleotides on activation of the O2-. generating oxidase in a cell free system consisting of bovine neutrophils membranes, cytosol and arachidonic acid has been studied. In a complete system, GTP-gamma-S was stimulatory and GDP-beta-S inhibitory. When cytosol was omitted, both nucleotides acted a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Doussiere J,Pilloud MC,Vignais PV

更新日期：1988-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Din7 is a DNA damage-inducible mitochondrial nuclease that modulates the stability of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. How DIN7 gene expression is regulated, however, has remained largely unclear. Using promoter sequence alignment, we found a highly conserved 19-bp sequence in the promoter region...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshitani A,Yoshida M,Ling F

更新日期：2008-01-04 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：:To study its biological functions, tumor necrosis factor precursor (proTNF) with a molecular size of 26-KDa was obtained as a recombinant protein from Escherichia coli. The recombinant proTNF was successfully accumulated in the insoluble form, corresponding to about 10-15% of total E. coli proteins. Solubilization, ge...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanabe Y,Noguchi K,Morikawa A,Mizuno D,Soma G

更新日期：1991-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop antibodies against the plasma membrane 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) binding protein (M.W. 55,000), rabbits were immunized with formalin-fixed GH3 cells or highly purified plasma membranes from these cells. Antibodies were screened by immunoprecipitation using detergent solubilized N-bromoacetyl-[125I]T3-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hasumura S,Rossi B,Alderson R,Pastan I,Cheng S

更新日期：1984-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator (RPGR) gene, are the major cause of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (RP), in which exon open reading frame 15 (ORF15) of RPGR has been implicated to play a substantial role. We identified a novel hemizygous missense mutation E585K of RPGR from whole-exome sequencing...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu YS,Pan JQ,Wan JF,Ren CY,Xu ZH,Pan XB,Gao RN,Liu SQ,Zhang JL,Yao QH,Wang JH,Li EM,Rao JH,Hou P,Chen JH

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylethanolamine-binding proteins (PEBPs) are found in various species and have multiple functions. In this study, we purified the swine homolog of human PEBP4 (sPEBP4) from swine seminal plasma, cloned the sPEBP4 cDNA and functionally characterized this protein. The molecular mass of the purified protein was ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： An LP,Maeda T,Sakaue T,Takeuchi K,Yamane T,Du PG,Ohkubo I,Ogita H

更新日期：2012-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Contraction of rat uterine smooth muscle related to phosphorylation state of myosin light chain under various conditions was investigated. In the Ca2(+)-containing medium, both high K+ and oxytocin induced marked contraction of the muscle accompanied by pronounced phosphorylation of myosin light chain. In the Ca2(+)-f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oishi K,Takano-Ohmuro H,Minakawa-Matsuo N,Suga O,Karibe H,Kohama K,Uchida MK

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of Saccharomyces cerevisia encodes four mismatch repair MutL proteins and these proteins form three heterocomplexes: Mlh1-Mlh2, Mlh1-Mlh3, and Mlh1-Pms1. Only, the Mlh1-Mlh3 heterocomplex has been implicated specifically in promotion of meiotic crossing-over. In this report, we show that yeast Mlh3 co-immun...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang TF,Kung WM

更新日期：2002-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hop/STI1 is a co-chaperone adaptor protein for Hsp70/Hsp90 complexes. Hop/STI1 is found extracellularly and modulates cell death and differentiation through interaction with the prion protein (PrP(C)). Here, we investigated the expression of hop/STI1 and its role upon cell proliferation and cell death in the developin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arruda-Carvalho M,Njaine B,Silveira MS,Linden R,Chiarini LB

更新日期：2007-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative damage to DNA has been reported to occur in a wide variety of disease states. The most widely used "marker" for oxidative DNA damage is 8-hydroxyguanine. However, the use of only one marker has limitations. Exposure of calf thymus DNA to an .OH-generating system (CuCl(2), ascorbate, H(2)O(2)) or to hypochlor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Whiteman M,Hong HS,Jenner A,Halliwell B

更新日期：2002-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:miR-199b-5p is up-regulated significantly during the osteogenesis process in human bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs). Inhibiting miR-199b-5p notably reduces while over-expressing miR-199b-5p promotes the BMSCs osteoblast differentiation, suggested by the alternations of osteogenic genes expression, ALP activity and th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao R,Li Y,Lin Z,Wan J,Xu C,Zeng Y,Zhu Y

更新日期：2016-09-02 00:00:00