3-Hydroxy-3',4'-dimethoxyflavone suppresses Bcl-w-induced invasive potentials and stemness in glioblastoma multiforme.

abstract：:The hyperpolarization-activated cation current I(h) is an important regulator of neuronal excitability and may contribute to the properties of the dentate gyrus granule (DGG) cells, which constitute the input site of the canonical hippocampal circuit. Here, we investigated changes in I(h) in DGG cells in human tempora...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Surges R,Kukley M,Brewster A,Rüschenschmidt C,Schramm J,Baram TZ,Beck H,Dietrich D

更新日期：2012-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (N. lugens, Hemiptera: Delphacidae), and the green rice leafhopper, Nephotettix cincticeps (N. cincticeps, Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), two sap-sucking feeders, have caused many destructive agricultural disasters in East Asia, as they can bring diseases like 'hopper burn' and tra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Qian N,Zheng P,Wang Y,Pan S,Li Y,Zhang C,Chen J,Teng J

更新日期：2016-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term glucocorticoid (GC) usage may cause non-traumatic femoral head osteonecrosis. Dexamethasone (Dex) is shown to exert potent cytotoxic effect to osteoblasts. Here, we investigated the potential activity of α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH) against the process. Our data revealed that pretreatment of α-MS...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guo S,Xie Y,Fan JB,Ji F,Wang S,Fei H

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Six missense mutations in human cardiac troponin I (cTnI) were recently found to cause restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM). We have bacterially expressed and purified these human cTnI mutants and examined their functional and structural consequences. Inserting the human cTnI into skinned cardiac muscle fibers showed that...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yumoto F,Lu QW,Morimoto S,Tanaka H,Kono N,Nagata K,Ojima T,Takahashi-Yanaga F,Miwa Y,Sasaguri T,Nishita K,Tanokura M,Ohtsuki I

更新日期：2005-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA; 20:5 n-3; ethyl ester) in combination with atherogenic or non-atherogenic high fat diets was fed to young adult male marmoset monkeys for a period of 30 weeks. EPA markedly reduced the raised plasma cholesterol level evident when feeding an atherogenic diet but did not influence the cardiac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Patten GS,Rinaldi JA,McMurchie EJ

更新日期：1989-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophoretic analysis of murine anterior pituitary extract revealed five major proteins of Mr 13,000-18,000 (designated P13, P14, P16, P17, and P18 according to Mr), three of which, P16, P17, and P18, were markedly influenced by estradiol benzoate and perphenazine in a manner similar to that of growth hormone, and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sinha YN,Jacobsen BP

更新日期：1988-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated botulinum D toxin ADP-ribosylates a 22 kDa molecular weight protein in homogenates obtained by sonication of a suspension of rabbit peritoneal neutrophils. The ADP-ribosylation catalyzed by activated botulinum D toxin is inhibited in homogenates obtained from cells pretreated with the toxin, suggesting that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mege JL,Volpi M,Becker EL,Sha'afi RI

更新日期：1988-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Translational control by specific eIF2alpha phosphorylation on serine 51 has been characterized in all eukaryotes with the significant exception of plants. In order to evaluate the capability of plant eIF2alpha to functionally control translation, the wild type (51S) and a nonphosphorylatable mutant (51A) of wheat eIF...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chang LY,Yang WY,Roth D

更新日期：2000-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the heart, insulin controls key functions such as metabolism, muscle contraction and cell death. However, all studies have been focused on insulin action during reperfusion. Here we explore the cardioprotective action of this hormone during ischemia. Rat hearts were perfused ex vivo with an ischemia/reperfusion Lan...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Díaz A,Humeres C,González V,Gómez MT,Montt N,Sanchez G,Chiong M,García L

更新日期：2015-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Kirsten rat sarcoma (KRAS) gene mutations occur early in the progression of colorectal adenoma to carcinoma. The mutation status of the KRAS gene determines the benefits of molecular targeting drugs in patients with advanced colorectal cancer, although many methods are available to detect such mutations. The pu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kobunai T,Watanabe T,Yamamoto Y,Eshima K

更新日期：2010-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA-ELISA) was developed for molecular detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The primers targeting 16S rRNA were used for the amplification of bacterial RNA by the isothermal digoxigenin (DIG)-labeling NASBA process, resulting in t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gill P,Ramezani R,Amiri MV,Ghaemi A,Hashempour T,Eshraghi N,Ghalami M,Tehrani HA

更新日期：2006-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Brefeldin A (BFA), an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-Golgi transport inhibitor, has been shown to cause accumulation of proteins in the ER, ER stress, and ultimately apoptosis. In this paper, we demonstrate that the knockdown of mitochondrial NADP(+)-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDPm), a mitochondrial NADPH-generat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon JL,Kim SY,Shin SW,Park JW

更新日期：2012-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial fibrosis and loss of parenchymal tubular cells are the common outcomes of progressive renal diseases. Pro-inflammatory cytokines have been known contributing to the damage of tubular cells and fibrosis responses after renal injury. Interleukin (IL)-33 is a tissue-derived nucleus alarmin that drives inflam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen WY,Chang YJ,Su CH,Tsai TH,Chen SD,Hsing CH,Yang JL

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus; 45 animals per group) were either sham-exposed or exposed to a sinusoidal magnetic field for 56 days (Experiment 1: 50 Hz, 450 microTesla peak; max. dB/dt = 140 mTesla s(-1); 24 hrs day(-1)). Except for day 7, no effects were observed with respect to body weights during exp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Niehaus M,Brüggemeyer H,Behre HM,Lerchl A

更新日期：1997-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of cytochrome b5 to rat cytochrome P450 2B1 was inhibited (by 75%) by a synthetic peptide corresponding to P450 residues 116-134. The role of Lys-122 and Arg-125 were evaluated using peptides in which one or both of these basic residues were replaced with Glu. The Lys-122 substitution nearly abolished while th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Omata Y,Sakamoto H,Robinson RC,Pincus MR,Friedman FK

更新日期：1994-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A porphyrinic sensor was used to monitor nitric oxide release from vascular smooth muscle in response to exposure to ultraviolet light. Aortic rings exposed to UV light relaxed with a time course that parallels this observed NO release. With repeated UV light treatments, the magnitude of the relaxations diminished, su...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kubaszewski E,Peters A,McClain S,Bohr D,Malinski T

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine proteinase catalyzed hydrolysis of N-ethoxycarbonyl-D-phenylalanyl-L-prolyl-alpha-azalysine p- nitrophenyl ester (Eoc-D-Phe-Pro-azaLys-ONp) was investigated at pH 6.2 and 21.0 degrees C. The results are consistent with the minimum three-step catalytic mechanism. The acylation step is rate limiting for human...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Balliano G,Milla P,Giordano C,Gallina C,Coletta M,Menegatti E,Rizzi M,Bolognesi M,Ascenzi P

更新日期：1996-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkin mutations are responsible for the pathogenesis of autosomal-recessive juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP). On initial screening of Japanese patients with AR-JP, we had found that approximately half of the parkin mutations are deletions occurring between exons 2 and 5, forming a deletion hot spot. In this study, we in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Asakawa S,Hattori N,Shimizu A,Shimizu Y,Minoshima S,Mizuno Y,Shimizu N

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Rap1 and Rap2 are similar Ras-like G proteins but perform distinct functions. By the affinity chromatography/mass-spectrometry approach and the yeast two-hybrid screening, we identified Misshapen/NIKs-related kinase (MINK) as a novel Rap2-interacting protein that does not interact with Rap1 or Ras. MINK is a member of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nonaka H,Takei K,Umikawa M,Oshiro M,Kuninaka K,Bayarjargal M,Asato T,Yamashiro Y,Uechi Y,Endo S,Suzuki T,Kariya KI

更新日期：2008-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugarcane (Saccharum sp. hybrid) provides the main source of sugar for humans. Sugarcane mosaic disease (SMD) is a major threat to sugarcane production. Currently, control of SMD is mainly dependent on breeding resistant cultivars through hybridization, which is time-consuming. Understanding the mechanism of viral inf...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhai Y,Deng Y,Cheng G,Peng L,Zheng Y,Yang Y,Xu J

更新日期：2015-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most malignant tumors with high incidence and mortality worldwide, and the multidrug resistance (MDR) often results in chemotherapy failure in GC. DJ-1 has been well indicated to be associated with drug resistance in multiple cancers. However, the role of DJ-1 in the MDR of gastric ca...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu HY,Duan GL,Xu RY,Li XR,Xiao L,Zhao L,Ma ZX,Xu XW,Qiu LJ,Zhu ZM,Chen HP

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described which employs pepstatin-agarose for the affinity purification of either HIV-1 or HIV-2 protease from two similar recombinant E. coli constructs that were developed for the expression of these enzymes. HIV-2 protease was routinely expressed at much higher levels than the HIV-1 enzyme and pepsta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rittenhouse J,Turon MC,Helfrich RJ,Albrecht KS,Weigl D,Simmer RL,Mordini F,Erickson J,Kohlbrenner WE

更新日期：1990-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of p-coumaric acid on the longitudinal growth of the long bone in adolescent male rats. Teatment with p-coumaric acid significantly increased the tibial length and the height of each growth plate zone and the ratio of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine-positive cells relati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee JH,Chung YH,Kim HH,Bang JS,Jung TW,Park T,Park J,Kim U,Lee SH,Jeong JH

更新日期：2018-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolysis, the catabolism of glucose to pyruvate, is an iconic central metabolic pathway and often used as a paradigm for explaining the general principles of the regulation/control of cellular metabolism. The ubiquitous mammalian ATP-dependent hexokinases I-III and hexokinase IV, also termed glucokinase, initiate th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ronimus RS,Morgan HW

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a master metabolic regulator, and is an important target for drug development against diabetes, obesity, and other diseases. AMPK is a hetero-trimeric enzyme, with a catalytic (alpha) subunit, and two regulatory (beta and gamma) subunits. Here we report the crystal structure at 2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rudolph MJ,Amodeo GA,Bai Y,Tong L

更新日期：2005-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) was the first disease to be linked to the presence of a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutation. Nowadays over 95% of LHON cases are known to be caused by one of three primary mutations (m.11778G>A, m.14484T>C, and m.3460G>A). Reports for other (rare) primary mutations in LHON patie...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang AM,Zou Y,Guo X,Jia X,Zhang Q,Yao YG

更新日期：2009-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) immobilization on a culture substrate may dramatically reduce the amount of NGF required for pheochromocytoma (PC12) cell culture. Coverslips on which NGF had been immobilized, or with NGF added to the culture medium daily, were used to culture PC12 cells. We examined the effects of adding 5,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bhang SH,Lee TJ,Yang HS,La WG,Han AM,Kwon YH,Kim BS

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior analyses of recombinant CD44 fusion proteins have indicated that combinatorial splicing of variant exons exerts distal effects on chondroitin sulfate content and structure, which may regulate the biological properties of the respective CD44 isoforms. The consequences of splicing of variant exons V4-7 on the hepa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Piepkorn M,Hovingh P,Bennett KL,Linker A

更新日期：1999-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-penetrating peptides are a group of peptides which can transport different types of cargo molecules such as drugs across plasma membrane and have been applied in the treatment of various diseases. Thus, the accurate prediction of cell-penetrating peptides with bioinformatics methods will accelerate the developmen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tang H,Su ZD,Wei HH,Chen W,Lin H

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) enhances the mitogenic response to epidermal growth factor (EGF) in hepatocytes, but the underlying mechanisms are not clear. We previously observed that PGE(2) upregulates EGF-induced signalling in the MEK/ERK and PI3K/Akt pathways in hepatocytes. Other investigations have indicated that E...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ødegård J,Aasrum M,Tveteraas IH,Bharath SP,Sandnes D,Christoffersen T

更新日期：2012-05-04 00:00:00