The preparation of an enzyme associated with aflatoxin biosynthesis by affinity chromatography.

abstract：:The number of electrons involved in the more positive of the two redox couples of the iron-molybdenum cofactor of Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase has been investigated by controlled potential coulometry in both the oxidizing and reducing directions. A n value of 1 was determined for interconversion of the oxidized ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schultz FA,Gheller SF,Newton WE

更新日期：1988-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is known to induce robust feeding through the action of NPY receptors in the hypothalamus. Among the subtypes of NPY receptors, Y(1) receptors may play a key role in feeding regulation. In the present study, we demonstrated that a novel Y(1) antagonist, J-104870, shows high selectivity and potency...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kanatani A,Kanno T,Ishihara A,Hata M,Sakuraba A,Tanaka T,Tsuchiya Y,Mase T,Fukuroda T,Fukami T,Ihara M

更新日期：1999-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the extravesicular p40 domain of the transmembrane protein, p65 synaptotagmin (Syt) 1, is essential for the non-classical export of the signal peptide-less structure, FGF1, it was not possible to identify a specific intracellular protease responsible for the processing of p65 Syt1. Surprisingly, analysis of t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bagalá C,Kolev V,Mandinova A,Soldi R,Mouta C,Graziani I,Prudovsky I,Maciag T

更新日期：2003-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of calcium channel blockers (CCBs) on type 2 diabetes is still unclear. The present study was undertaken to examine the efficacy of nifedipine, a dihydropyridine CCB, on obesity, glucose intolerance and vascular endothelial dysfunction in db/db mice (a mouse model of obesity and type 2 diabetes). db/db mice...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamamoto E,Nakamura T,Kataoka K,Tokutomi Y,Dong YF,Fukuda M,Nako H,Yasuda O,Ogawa H,Kim-Mitsuyama S

更新日期：2010-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Most in vivo studies on the conversion to insulin-producing cells with AAV carrying PDX1 gene are performed in rodents. However, there is little information regarding Adeno-associated virus (AAV) carrying PDX1 gene transduced to human liver in vivo because accidental death caused by unpredicted factors cannot be denie...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hashimoto H,Mizushima T,Ogura T,Kagawa T,Tomiyama K,Takahashi R,Yagoto M,Kawai K,Chijiwa T,Nakamura M,Suemizu H

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the classical complement pathway has been proposed as a mechanism of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease. This activation is a result of the binding of C1q to amyloid beta-peptide (A beta). Recent work has shown that A beta/C1q binding has an additional consequence: enhanced formation of the neuroto...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Webster S,Glabe C,Rogers J

更新日期：1995-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin is phosphorylated by casein kinase II on Thr-79, Ser-81, Ser-101 and Thr-117. To determine the consensus sequences for casein kinase II in intact calmodulin, we examined casein kinase II-mediated phosphorylation of engineered calmodulins with 1-4 deletions in the central helical region (positions 81-84). To...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sacks DB,Davis HW,Crimmins DL,Persechini A,McDonald JM

更新日期：1992-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The major active protein phosphatase present in a rabbit skeletal muscle extract is associated with the glycogen particle and migrates in sucrose density gradient centrifugation as a Mr = 70,000 protein and contains modulator activity. Addition of extra modulator protein causes a time- and concentration-dependent conv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vandenheede JR,Yang SD,Merlevede W

更新日期：1983-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have established that polypeptide growth factors cause an elevation of the cytoplasmic pH (pHi) in cultured mammalian cells by stimulating Na+/H+ exchange. We show that vanadate, previously found to act as a mitogen for a number of cells, reversibly activates Na+/H+ exchange at micromolar concentrations...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cassel D,Zhuang YX,Glaser L

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen depletion causes postmenopausal osteoporosis. Here we report that steady state mRNA levels of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) and osteocalcin in bone persistently decreased and increased, respectively, in vivo in estrogen-depleted rats after ovariectomy (OVX). 21 female Wistar rats (7-month-old...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ikeda T,Shigeno C,Kasai R,Kohno H,Ohta S,Okumura H,Konishi J,Yamamuro T

更新日期：1993-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:While veritable oceans of ink have been spilled over the base distributions within genes, the literature is virtually silent on large scale intra genomic base distribution. To address this issue, we have examined approximately 3400 chromosomal sequences from approximately 2000 entire genomes-including DNA and RNA, sin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mitchell D,Bridge R

更新日期：2006-06-02 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：:In this work, we show that glucose-induced activation of plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is strongly dependent on calcium metabolism and that the glucose sensor Snf3p works in a parallel way with the G protein Gpa2p in the control of the pathway. The role of Snf3p is played by the Snf3p C-ter...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Trópia MJ,Cardoso AS,Tisi R,Fietto LG,Fietto JL,Martegani E,Castro IM,Brandão RL

更新日期：2006-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:CHFR ubiquitin ligase acts as a checkpoint upon DNA damage and its functional inactivation is one of key characteristics of tumor development and metastasis. Despite the crucial role in maintaining genome integrity and cell cycle progression, little is known how CHFR stability is regulated. Here, we showed that CHFR i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kwon YE,Bae SJ,Kim M,Seol JH

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:N1999A2 (NA2) is a new non-protein antitumor antibiotic that contains a stable 9-membered ring enediyne chromophore similar to a neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS-chr). We have compared DNA cleavage reactions between NA2 and NCS-chr, and also clarified some characteristics of DNA strand scission by NA2. It was found t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miyagawa N,Sasaki D,Matsuoka M,Imanishi M,Ando T,Sugiura Y

更新日期：2003-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The muscarinic acetylcholine receptor was solubilized, in a sensitive form for GTP and Na+, from bovine cerebral cortex using a zwitterionic detergent 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1-propane sulfonate. The solubilized muscarinic receptor displayed characteristics as follows: (1) high affinity to nanomolar co...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuno T,Shirakawa O,Tanaka C

更新日期：1983-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cartilage-derived growth factors, enhance proteoglycan synthesis in cultured chick-embryo chondrocytes, and have almost no effect on cell proliferation. Addition of cartilage derived growth factors to cartilage cells loaded with the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator quin 2, caused a rapid, concentration dependent decrease in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eilam Y,Beit-Or A,Nevo Z

更新日期：1985-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors worldwide with rising incidence. MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNAs that implicate in multiple physiological or pathological processes. The aberrant expression of miRNA-215 (miR-215) has been illustrated in various types of cancers. However, the expression ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen Z,Han S,Huang W,Wu J,Liu Y,Cai S,He Y,Wu S,Song W

更新日期：2016-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncogenic osteomalacia (OOM), X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), and autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets (ADHR) are phenotypically similar disorders characterized by hypophosphatemia, decreased renal phosphate reabsorption, normal or low serum calcitriol concentrations, normal serum concentrations of calcium and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bowe AE,Finnegan R,Jan de Beur SM,Cho J,Levine MA,Kumar R,Schiavi SC

更新日期：2001-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human platelets have been shown to contain a Ca++- and CoA-independent transacylase enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of arachidonic acid from phosphatidylcholine (PC) to lysoplasmenylethanolamine. It has been suggested that this route may represent a major source for released arachidonic acid in stimulated platelets...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mahadevappa VG

更新日期：1987-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of the 27-kDa heat shock protein (HSP27) in cardiac protection using Langendorff-perfused rat hearts. After preconditioning (a single episode of 5 min global ischemia followed by 5 min of reperfusion), HSP27 redistributed from the cytosol to the sarcomere and recovery of the contractile functi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakamoto K,Urushidani T,Nagao T

更新日期：2000-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although "secretory" type II 14-kDa phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) activity has been described in neutrophils, direct evidence of enzyme secretion has been elusive. We have used immunogold electron microscopy with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies to sPLA2 to demonstrate localization of the enzyme to granules of resting ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rosenthal MD,Gordon MN,Buescher ES,Slusser JH,Harris LK,Franson RC

更新日期：1995-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNA molecules, which act as post-transcriptional regulators of a gene expression, with important functions within the cell physiology. Whilst many authors have focused on the study of miRNA expression in physiological and pathological processes, various technical variables related to miRNA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mraz M,Malinova K,Mayer J,Pospisilova S

更新日期：2009-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of how eukaryotic cells assemble their mitochondria was long considered to be inaccessible to biochemical investigation. This attitude changed about fifty years ago when the powerful tools of yeast genetics, electron microscopy and molecular biology were brought to bear on this problem. The rising interes...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schatz G

更新日期：2013-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:While recent evidence has uncovered that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are vital regulators of carcinogenesis, their role in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is not clearly understood. In this study, we reveal that lower levels of circRNA circ-ITCH are expressed in PTC tissues than in normal adjacent tissues. Gain-of-functio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang M,Chen B,Ru Z,Cong L

更新日期：2018-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) are pluripotent stem cells, and the osteogenic differentiation of BMMSCs has been drawing attention for a long time. Bone formation is regulated by numerous molecular and cellular signaling pathways, and the differentiation of BMMSCs is controlled by a well-defined genetic p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li X,Guo L,Liu Y,Su Y,Xie Y,Du J,Zhou J,Ding G,Wang H,Bai Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2017-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The xeroderma pigmentosum group A protein (XPA) binds to three nucleotide excision repair (NER) factors: RPA, ERCC1, and TFIIH. XPA also binds preferentially to UV- or chemical carcinogen-damaged DNA. In this study, we prepared anti-XPA monoclonal antibodies and examined their effects on NER. Two clones inhibited cell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saijo M,Matsuda T,Kuraoka I,Tanaka K

更新日期：2004-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylation mutants of chinese hamster ovary cells were used to analyse the role played by surface-exposed carbohydrates on the process of interaction of Trypanosoma cruzi with the host cell. Adhesion and invasion of the parasites were markedly reduced in cells which express very few sialic acid residues. Infection ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ciavaglia Mdo C,de Carvalho TU,de Souza W

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Various peptide growth factors have been found to regulate epithelial cell function within the mucosal epithelium of the gastrointestinal tract. In this study hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) was found to stimulate intestinal epithelial cell proliferation: 2.5-fold in the non-transformed rat small inte...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dignass AU,Lynch-Devaney K,Podolsky DK

更新日期：1994-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial ATP synthase is responsible for production of the majority of cellular ATP. Disorders of ATP synthase in humans can be caused by numerous mutations in both structural subunits and specific assembly factors. They are associated with variable pathogenicity and clinical phenotypes ranging from mild to the m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nuskova H,Mikesova J,Efimova I,Pecinova A,Pecina P,Drahota Z,Houstek J,Mracek T

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00