Aberrant histone acetylation contributes to elevated interleukin-6 production in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts.

abstract：:Cysteine proteases have been identified in parasitic protozoa including the causative agent of Chagas' disease Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi lysates subjected to substrate-containing SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis exhibit major bands of proteolytic activity in the 45-55 kDa molecular mass range (cruzipain activi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wiser MF,Lonsdale-Eccles JD,D'Alessandro A,Grab DJ

更新日期：1997-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic phospholipase A2α (cPLA2α) mediates agonist-induced release of arachidonic acid from membrane phospholipid for production of eicosanoids. The activation of cPLA2α involves increases in intracellular calcium, which binds to the C2 domain and promotes cPLA2α translocation from the cytosol to membrane to access...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yun B,Lee H,Ewing H,Gelb MH,Leslie CC

更新日期：2016-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat (TNR) sequence has been linked to several neurological disorders, for example, Huntington's disease (HD). In HD, healthy individuals have 5-35 CAG repeats. Those with 36-39 repeats have the premutation allele, which is known to be prone to expansion. In the disease state, gr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jarem DA,Delaney S

更新日期：2011-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferroptosis is a novel form of cell death, which is characterized by accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Sigma 1 receptor (S1R) has been suggested to function in oxidative stress metabolism. Both erastin and sorafenib significantly induced S1R protein expression. Haloperidol strongly promoted erastin- and s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bai T,Wang S,Zhao Y,Zhu R,Wang W,Sun Y

更新日期：2017-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:GLUT4, the insulin-responsive glucose transporter expressed primarily in muscle and adipose tissue, contains a single N-glycosylation site. We characterized a mutant GLUT4 lacking the N-glycosylation site (Asn57-->Gln) in primary cultures of rat adipose cells. We transiently transfected cells with expression vectors f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ing BL,Chen H,Robinson KA,Buse MG,Quon MJ

更新日期：1996-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:For influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin, a switch from SA-alpha-2, 3-Gal to SA-alpha-2, 6-Gal receptor specificity is a critical step leading to the conversion from avian-to-human to human-to-human infection. Therefore, the understanding of the binding modes of SA-alpha-2, 3-Gal and SA-alpha-2, 6-Gal to H5N1 hemagglutinin wi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li M,Wang B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the structural and functional importance of tight turns, some methods have been proposed to predict gamma-turns, beta-turns, and alpha-turns in proteins. In the past, studies of pi-turns were made, but not a single prediction approach has been developed so far. It will be useful to develop a method for identify...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Y,Xue ZD,Shi XH,Xu J

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermo-alkalophilic bacterium, Geobacillus thermoleovorans secrets many enzymes including a 43 kDa extracellular lipase. Significant thermostability, organic solvent stability and wide substrate preferences for hydrolysis drew our attention to solve its structure by crystallography. The structure was solved by molecul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moharana TR,Pal B,Rao NM

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Using affinity chromatography on immobilized transcortin of 125I-labeled, cholate-solubilized plasma membranes of human syncytiotrophoblast, a transcortin-binding protein with a minimal Mr of about 20 kDa has been isolated. It was found to be a sialoglycoprotein with an isoelectric point at pH 4.4 (about 5.0 after the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Krupenko SA,Avvakumov GV,Strel'chyonok OA

更新日期：1991-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric epithelial cells (GES-1) stimulated by Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) would affect the expression of related genes and induce the immune response of the cells. Abnormal methylation of DNA was one of the main causes. The aim of this study was to investigate phosphoinositol-3-kinase adaptor protein 1(PIK3AP1), ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang A,Yan S,Cao M,Wu D,Zhou J,Yu Z,Wu M,Liu Y,Lu S,Hu G,Zhao J

更新日期：2020-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), an enteropathogenic coronavirus, causes severe lethal watery diarrhea and dehydration in piglets. Previous studies indicate that TGEV infection induces cell apoptosis in host cells. In this study, we investigated the roles and regulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in T...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ding L,Zhao X,Huang Y,Du Q,Dong F,Zhang H,Song X,Zhang W,Tong D

更新日期：2013-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To repress gene transcription, the unliganded nuclear receptor (NR) recruits the N-CoR and SMRT corepressors via its direct association with the conserved motif within bipartite NR-interaction domains (IDs) of corepressors. We recently reported that SMRT is directly involved in the VDR-mediated repression via an ID1-s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim JY,Son YL,Lee YC

更新日期：2009-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of Cav1.2 Ca(2+) channels is maintained in the presence of calmodulin and ATP, even in cell-free patches, and thus a channel ATP-binding site has been suggested. In this study, we examined whether other nucleotides, such as GTP, UTP, CTP, ADP and AMP, could be substituted for ATP in guinea-pig ventricular...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu SY,Xu JJ,Minobe E,Gao QH,Feng R,Zhao MM,Guo F,Yang L,Hao LY,Kameyama M

更新日期：2015-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Since our experimental results suggest that UT-B1 functions as active water transporter against osmotic gradient in C6 glial cells, we report here for the first time the evidence for the active water transport. Exposure of C6 cells to a hyperosmotic solution containing glycerol or sucrose produced cell shrinkage due t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ogami A,Miyazaki H,Niisato N,Sugimoto T,Marunaka Y

更新日期：2006-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin (Ang) II, via type 1 receptor activation, exerts a significant role in atherogenesis and collagen synthesis. To test the hypothesis that Ang II type 2 receptor (AT2R) upregulation delivered with adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV/AT2R) would inhibit collagen synthesis in atherosclerotic arteries, LDLR knoc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dandapat A,Hu CP,Chen J,Liu Y,Khan JA,Remeo F,Carey RM,Hermonat PL,Mehta JL

更新日期：2008-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A tryptic peptide of bovine beta-casein (amino acid residues 184-202) was used as a model antigen to investigate how the relative position of the (helper) T cell and B cell determinants on a protein antigen influences the antibody response. Immunization with the peptide elicited a considerably higher anti-peptide resp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hachimura S,Enomoto A,Kaminogawa S

更新日期：1990-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex formation of two electron transfer proteins, cytochrome c3 and ferredoxin I from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans Norway, has been shown by 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Presence of ferredoxin I produces ferricytochrome c3 1H-NMR spectrum modifications. The chemical shift of perturbated heme methyl resonances has been u...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guerlesquin F,Noailly M,Bruschi M

更新日期：1985-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Entry of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) virion into host cells involves three major steps, each being a potential target for the development of entry inhibitors: gp120 binding to CD4, gp120-CD4 complex interacting with a coreceptor, and gp41 refolding to form a six-helix bundle. Using a D-amino acid decap...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Boggiano C,Jiang S,Lu H,Zhao Q,Liu S,Binley J,Blondelle SE

更新日期：2006-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotaxis of rabbit peritoneal leucocytes stimulated by fMet-Leu-Phe, a synthetic chemoattractant, was inhibited by Glu-Glu-Glu-Glu-Tyr-Pro-Met-Glu (MT peptide) and Leu-Ile-Glu-Asp-Asn-Glu-Tyr-Thr-Ala-Arg-Glu-Gly (Src peptide). Both peptides did not inhibit the binding of [3H] formyl-NLe-Leu-Phe, a chemoattractant, t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hirata F,Notsu Y,Matsuda K,Vasanthakumar G,Schiffmann E,Wong TW,Goldberg AR

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of in vivo hypothyroidism on the sialylation and sulfation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) secreted by mouse pituitary explants. Oligosaccharides from secreted thyroid-stimulating hormone from hypothyroid animals contained greater sialic acid relative to sulfate in both alpha and beta s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： DeCherney GS,Gesundheit N,Gyves PW,Showalter CR,Weintraub BD

更新日期：1989-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the effect of TNFα on whole bovine intervertebral discs in organ culture and its association with changes characteristic of intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) in order to inform future treatments to mitigate the chronic inflammatory state commonly found with painful IDD. Pro-inflammatory cytoki...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Purmessur D,Walter BA,Roughley PJ,Laudier DM,Hecht AC,Iatridis J

更新日期：2013-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA bending has been shown to play a critical role in conservative site-specific DNA recombination reactions such as lambda integration. V(D)J recombination, the only mammalian site directed recombination system, is directed by recombinational signal sequences composed of heptamer, nonamer and spacer elements. The non...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Andrews R,Halligan NL,Halligan BD

更新日期：1993-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports have suggested that tumors are organized in heterogeneous populations. Within these populations, a small subpopulation of cells is more capable of initiating malignancy; these are called cancer stem cells. In this study, HT-29 cells were sorted according to the presence or absence of the cancer stem cel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee HN,Park SH,Lee EK,Bernardo R,Kim CW

更新日期：2012-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that ras proteins are involved in the transmembrane signaling mechanism and they share structural features with GTP-binding proteins. To identify the role of ras oncogene and it's products in the coupling mechanisms of GTP-binding proteins to adenylate cyclase, we examined effect of NaF, cholera ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Konishi-Imamura L,Noda M,Nomura Y

更新日期：1987-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:ARD1 protein is a mammalian gene product homologous to a yeast Ard1p (Arrest defective 1 protein) acetyltransferase. Although two alternative splicing products of ARD1, ARD1(235) and ARD1(225), were reported in mouse, only ARD1(235) orthologue was reported in humans. Here we show that ARD1(225) is not expressed in hum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chun KH,Cho SJ,Choi JS,Kim SH,Kim KW,Lee SK

更新日期：2007-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by loss of function mutations in the VPS13A gene encoding chorein. Recently, using a gene-targeting technique to delete exons 60-61, we produced a ChAc-model mouse that corresponds to a human disease mutation. In this study, a comparative m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurano Y,Nakamura M,Ichiba M,Matsuda M,Mizuno E,Kato M,Izumo S,Sano A

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study revealed that low density lipoprotein (LDL) obtained from rabbits fed highly purified eicosapentaenoic acid-ethyl ester (EPA-E) (EPA-LDL) was significantly less susceptible to oxidative modification catalyzed by Cu2+ as compared to LDL from rabbits fed a normal diet (control LDL). In a comparison of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saito H,Chang KJ,Tamura Y,Yoshida S

更新日期：1991-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the concern that toluene might have carcinogenic and reproductive toxic potential has been raised. We investigated the ability of DNA damage by minor metabolites of toluene, methylhydroquinone, and methylbenzoquinone, using (32)P-5'-end-labeled DNA fragments obtained from the human genes. Methylhydroquinone ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Murata M,Tsujikawa M,Kawanishi S

更新日期：1999-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-17 is a T-cell-derived pro-inflammatory cytokine, exhibiting multiple biological activities in a variety of cells and believed to fine tune all general phases of hematopoietic response. However, the signaling mechanism of this novel cytokine remains unknown. Here, we report for the first time that the earl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Subramaniam SV,Cooper RS,Adunyah SE

更新日期：1999-08-19 00:00:00