Control of PTH secretion is mediated through calcium channels and is blocked by pertussis toxin treatment of parathyroid cells.

abstract：:The estrogen synthetase (aromatase, cytochrome P-450AROM) gene has been isolated from human genomic libraries and characterized. The restriction map of 43 positive clones obtained indicated that this enzyme is present as a single copy gene. The aromatase gene is unexpectedly large compared with other forms of the cyto...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Harada N,Yamada K,Saito K,Kibe N,Dohmae S,Takagi Y

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the vasodilator nitric oxide (NO) can be inhibited by the endogenous methylarginines L-NMMA and ADMA. ADMA is elevated in a number of cardiovascular disorders in which NO availability is reduced. Elimination of ADMA from the body occurs primarily by enzymatic breakdown through the action of DDAH, of which...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jones LC,Tran CT,Leiper JM,Hingorani AD,Vallance P

更新日期：2003-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In many apoptotic cells, phosphatidylserine (PS), that is normally restricted to the inner membrane layer, is externalized and subsequently recognized by phagocytes. However, it has been unclear whether PS externalization is sufficient for phagocytosis induction. In a cultured cell line undergoing Fas-mediated apoptos...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shiratsuchi A,Osada S,Kanazawa S,Nakanishi Y

更新日期：1998-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant attention has been given to the role played by non-hematopoietic cells in the immune organs, including the lymph nodes, in hopes of understanding the development, maintenance, and regulation of the immune system. However, the molecular and cellular characterization of non-hematopoietic cells is still in it...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Togoo K,Takahama Y,Takada K

更新日期：2014-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Organoids mimicking the formation of the brain cortex have been demonstrated to be powerful tools for developmental studies as well as pathological investigations of brain malformations. Here, we report an integrated approach for the quantification of temporal neural production (neurogenic rate) in organoids derived f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kosodo Y,Suetsugu T,Kobayashi TJ,Matsuzaki F

更新日期：2017-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that the members of the hsp70 major heat shock protein family in non-stressed cells participate in the intracellular transport of newly synthesized proteins and in maintaining such proteins in an unfolded state. Specific binding of other cellular proteins to hsp70 may play a role in hsp70 function...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Margulis BA,Welsh M

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon binding of a Wnt to its receptor, GSK3beta is inhibited through an unknown mechanism involving Dishevelled (Dsh), resulting in the dephosphorylation and stabilization of beta-catenin, which translocates to the nucleus and interacts with Lef/Tcf transcription factors to activate target gene expression. Axin is a s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jho Eh,Lomvardas S,Costantini F

更新日期：1999-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha(1c) subunit of the cardiac L-type Ca(2+) channel, which contains the channel pore, voltage- and Ca(2+)-dependent gating structures, and drug binding sites, has been well studied in heterologous expression systems, but many aspects of L-type Ca(2+) channel behavior in intact cardiomyocytes remain poorly chara...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ganesan AN,O'Rourke B,Maack C,Colecraft H,Sidor A,Johns DC

更新日期：2005-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of smooth muscle contraction was approached by a novel method, covalent 14C-labeling. Intra- and intermolecular protein interactions during contractile activity are reflected by changed reactivity of protein side chains; these can be detected by reagents which readily permeate through the muscl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bárány K,Polyák E,Bárány M

更新日期：1992-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-full length complementary DNA (cDNA) clones encoding turkey growth hormone (GH) have been isolated from a pituitary library. The longer of the two turkey GH cDNA clones that were sequenced is 803 base pairs (bp) in length and contains 41 nucleotides of the 5'-untranslated region (UTR), an open reading frame of 64...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Foster DN,Kim SU,Enyeart JJ,Foster LK

更新日期：1990-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The EPR spectra of the spin labels attached to loops L11 and L12 of kinesin were resolved into slow (rotational correlation time, tau=10-45 ns) and fast (tau=2 ns) components. The fraction of the slow component increased considerably when kinesin was complexed with a microtubule (MT). On MT binding and in the presence...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamada MD,Maruta S,Yasuda S,Kondo K,Maeda H,Arata T

更新日期：2007-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Paclitaxel (PTX) is a cytotoxic chemotherapy drug with encouraging activity in human malignancies. However, free PTX has a very low oral bioavailability due to its low aqueous solubility and the gastrointestinal drug barrier. In order to overcome this obstacle, we have designed erythrocyte membrane nanoparticles (EMNP...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jiang X,Wang K,Zhou Z,Zhang Y,Sha H,Xu Q,Wu J,Wang J,Wu J,Hu Y,Liu B

更新日期：2017-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed PeptiSite, a comprehensive and reliable database of biologically and structurally characterized peptide-binding sites, in which each site is represented by an ensemble of its complexes with protein, peptide and small molecule partners. The unique features of the database include: (1) the ensemble site rep...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Acharya C,Kufareva I,Ilatovskiy AV,Abagyan R

更新日期：2014-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the neuron-restrictive silencer element (NRSE/Regard) has been shown to function as a negative-acting DNA regulatory element to prevent the expression of neuron-specific genes in non-neuronal cells, little is known about its silencing effect on transcription in primary glial cells nor its effect on transcript...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tabuchi A,Nakatani C,Nakaoka R,Naruse Y,Kojima T,Mori N,Tsuda M

更新日期：1999-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An amino acid substitution of Met for Val at position 30 of plasma prealbumin is known to be closely related to heredo-familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy(FAP). As a first step in development of a direct method for diagnosis of the disease, cDNA for normal human prealbumin was cloned and its nucleotide sequence was de...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasaki H,Sakaki Y,Matsuo H,Goto I,Kuroiwa Y,Sahashi I,Takahashi A,Shinoda T,Isobe T,Takagi Y

更新日期：1984-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharides used in clinical nutrients and the hyperglycemia status may facilitate tumor growth and aggravate cancer patients' outcome. As glucose, fructose and maltodextrin are widely used in clinical practice, various effects on tumor progress among them remain unknown. Six kinds of tumor cell lines were included in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu C,Lv B,Min S,Ren L,Yu J

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rv2477c protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) belongs to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) subfamily F that contains proteins with tandem nucleotide-binding domains but lacking transmembrane domains. ABC-F subfamily proteins have been implicated in diverse cellular processes such as translation, antibiotic resi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Daniel J,Abraham L,Martin A,Pablo X,Reyes S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarization of epithelial cells requires vectorial sorting and transport of polarity proteins to apical or basolateral domains. Kif5b is the mouse homologue of the human ubiquitous Kinesin Heavy Chain (uKHC). To investigate the function of Kif5b in epithelial cells, we examined the phenotypes of Kif5b-deficient MDCK ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cui J,Jin G,Yu B,Wang Z,Lin R,Huang JD

更新日期：2015-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Sofalcone, 2'-carboxymethoxy-4,4-bis(3-methyl-2-butenyloxy)chalcone, is an anti-ulcer agent that is classified as a gastric mucosa protective agent. Recent studies indicate heat shock proteins such as HSP32, also known as heme-oxygenase-1(HO-1), play important roles in protecting gastrointestinal tissues from several ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shibuya A,Onda K,Kawahara H,Uchiyama Y,Nakayama H,Omi T,Nagaoka M,Matsui H,Hirano T

更新日期：2010-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The S. cerevisiae a-factor, YIIKGVFWDPAC(s-farnesyl)-OCH3, is one of two peptide mating pheromones which mediate cell-cell communication in S. cerevisiae. We previously reported that replacing Gly5 with D-Ala led to a 4-6 fold increase in activity while the L-Ala5 homolog was 4 to 16-fold less active than the wildtype...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang YL,Dawe AL,Jiang Y,Becker JM,Naider F

更新日期：1996-07-16 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：:Alpha-synuclein (a-syn) aggregation in brain is implicated in several synucleinopathies, including Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and multiple system atrophy (MSA). Until date, at least six disease-associated mutations in a-syn (namely A30P, E46K, H50Q, G51D, A53T, and A53E) are known to ca...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanaka G,Yamanaka T,Furukawa Y,Kajimura N,Mitsuoka K,Nukina N

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:maf is a family of oncogenes, originally identified from the avian oncogenic retrovirus AS42, which encodes a nuclear bZip transcription factor protein. It has been reported that maf family genes have critical roles in embryological development and cellular differentiation. In this study, the distribution of maf-1 gen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Imaki J,Onodera H,Tsuchiya K,Imaki T,Mochizuki T,Mishima T,Yamashita K,Yoshida K,Sakai M

更新日期：2000-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthracycline derivatives such as doxorubicin are part of many chemotherapeutic regimens and reach peak plasma concentrations of 5 microM. We investigated the cytotoxic mechanisms of various doxorubicin concentrations in MOLT-4 ALL-cells. Concentrations of up to 100 microM doxorubicin achieved similar cytotoxic effect...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Müller I,Jenner A,Bruchelt G,Niethammer D,Halliwell B

更新日期：1997-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:CDX2 is an intestine-specific tumor suppressor gene encoding homeodomain-containing transcription factor, which is involved in a variety of developmental, proliferating, and differentiating processes. Moreover, the expression of CDX2 is reduced in a subset of primary colorectal cancers. In contrast, cyclooxygenase-2 (...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim SP,Park JW,Lee SH,Lim JH,Jang BC,Lee SH,Jang IH,Freund JN,Suh SI,Mun KC,Song DK,Ha EM,Lee WJ,Kwon TK

更新日期：2004-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors which control the formation of lactiferous ducts during mammary gland development are not yet fully understood. To address this issue, we assessed the effect of the multifunctional cytokine transforming growth factor-beta-1 (TGF-beta1) on the morphogenetic properties of TAC-2.1 mammary epithelial cells gro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Soriano JV,Orci L,Montesano R

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:SND p102 is a rat liver endoplasmic reticulum cholesterol ester hydrolase recently described as a member of a conserved family of transcriptional coactivators that promotes phospholipid secretion into lipoproteins when overexpressed in hepatocytes. In this work, we report first evidence for a mechanism of transcriptio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rodríguez L,Ochoa B,Martínez MJ

更新日期：2007-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide, selected in the predicted N-terminal amino-acid sequence of the purine cytosine permease (gene FCY2), linked to albumins proved a remarkably good immunogen in rabbits. In ELISA, sera reacted with the synthetic peptide and with specific proteins of plasma-membrane-enriched fractions of mutant Sacch...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Grandier-Vazeille X,Neaud V,Geoffre S

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemin (iron protoporphyrin IX) is a necessary component of many proteins, functioning either as a cofactor or an intracellular messenger. Hemoproteins have diverse functions, such as transportation of gases, gas detection, chemical catalysis and electron transfer. Stanniocalcin 1 (STC1) is a protein involved in respir...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Westberg JA,Jiang J,Andersson LC

更新日期：2011-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in mitochondrial DNA is one of the important causes of hearing loss. Here, we performed a mutational screening of tRNA(Ser(UCN)) gene in 1542 Chinese subjects with hearing loss. One subject and five subjects carried tRNA(Ser(UCN)) A7445C and G7444A mutations, respectively, while two subjects harbored both G7...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jin L,Yang A,Zhu Y,Zhao J,Wang X,Yang L,Sun D,Tao Z,Tsushima A,Wu G,Xu L,Chen C,Yi B,Cai J,Tang X,Wang J,Li D,Yuan Q,Liao Z,Chen J,Li Z,Lu J,Guan MX

更新日期：2007-09-14 00:00:00