Functional analysis of the cDNA encoding human tyrosinase precursor.

abstract：:A calmodulin antagonist, N-(6-aminohexyl)-5-chloro-1-naphthalene-sulfonamide (W-7), reduced the number of phorbol ester receptors in mouse skin in a dose- and time-dependent manner. The reduction occurred immediately after topical application of 30 mumoles of W-7, reaching a maximum of 86% after 5 min. Reduction in sp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishino H,Fujiki H,Suganuma M,Horiuchi T,Iwashima A,Sugimura T

更新日期：1984-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sirt1 appear to be NAD(+)-dependent deacetylase that deacetylates histones and several non-histone proteins. In this study, we identified Sirt1 as a physical interaction partner of Tip60, which is a mammalian MYST-type histone acetyl-transferase that specifically acetylates histones H2A and H4. Although Tip60 also ace...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamagata K,Kitabayashi I

更新日期：2009-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin, an adipocyte-derived hormone, reportedly suppresses the production of TNF-alpha and IL-6 by LPS-stimulated human or porcine macrophages, and the phagocytosis of microbeads by human macrophages. In this study, we used a high molecular weight form of adiponectin purified from human plasma to examine its eff...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saijo S,Nagata K,Nakano Y,Tobe T,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：2005-09-09 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：:Secretion of growth hormone (GH) exhibits marked sexual dimorphism in the rat. To examine the underlying mechanism that involves hypothalamic GH-releasing factor (GRF), we determined pituitary GRF receptor mRNA levels in male and female rats and compared their in vitro abilities to release GRF, an endogenous ligand fo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ono M,Miki N,Murata Y,Osaki E,Tamitsu K,Ri T,Yamada M,Demura H

更新日期：1995-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoclast activity is enhanced in acidic environments following systemic or local inflammation. However, the regulatory mechanism of receptor activator of NF-κB ligand (RANKL) expression in osteoblasts under acidic conditions is not fully understood. In the present paper, we detected the mRNA expression of the G-prot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okito A,Nakahama K,Akiyama M,Ono T,Morita I

更新日期：2015-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The postnatal development and molecular properties of somatostatin receptor were studied in rat cerebral cortex. With [125I-Tyr11]SRIF as a radiolabeled ligand, the specific ligand binding to crude membrane increased transiently in the early phase of postnatal development and then decreased. This increase of somatosta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kimura N

更新日期：1989-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic inhibitor of calpain protects rat erythrocyte membrane-associated cytoskeletal proteins from proteolytic degradation (IC50 = 1 microM) which occurs when the cells are rendered permeable to Ca++. Leupeptin, a naturally occurring inhibitor of the enzyme, does not afford any protection at concentrations up to...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mehdi S,Angelastro MR,Wiseman JS,Bey P

更新日期：1988-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that untimely retinoblastoma protein (RB) dephosphorylation and/or proteolytic degradation might provide key events down-stream cysteine protease (caspase) activation in apoptosis induction. We have dealt with this issue by studying apoptosis induced by N-hexanoylsphingosine (C6-Cer) in CHP-10...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Spinedi A,Amendola A,Di Bartolomeo S,Piacentini M

更新日期：1998-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Picrotoxin is a CYP2B inducer in mammals (1). However, in primary cultures of rainbow trout hepatocytes we showed CYP1A1 gene expression to be strongly induced as characterized by 7-ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase activity, immunoblots of CYP1A1 protein, and Northern blots of CYP1A1 mRNA. Induction of CYP1A1 in these cel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sadar MD,Ash R,Andersson TB

更新日期：1995-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are associated with diverse pathological states in humans, notably sensorineural deafness. In humans, mtDNA4977 deletion, known as common deletion, is thought to play a critical role in presbyacusis. A similar mtDNA deletion occurs in the naturally aging rats is mtDNA4834 deletio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kong WJ,Hu YJ,Wang Q,Wang Y,Han YC,Cheng HM,Kong W,Guan MX

更新日期：2006-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of rational methods to design 'continuous' sequence mimetics of discontinuous regions of protein sequence has, to now, been only marginally successful. This has been largely due to the difficulty of constraining the recognition elements of a mimetic structure to the relative conformational and spatial ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Casset F,Roux F,Mouchet P,Bes C,Chardes T,Granier C,Mani JC,Pugnière M,Laune D,Pau B,Kaczorek M,Lahana R,Rees A

更新日期：2003-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the in vivo phosphorylation of isocitrate lyase and examines the possible consequences to the control of the Kreb's cycle and glyoxylate bypass. NADP-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase from E. coli was the first bacterial protein whose enzymic activity was shown to be modulated by reversible phosp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hoyt JC,Reeves HC

更新日期：1988-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovalbumin (OA) is the most abundant ingredient of chicken egg-white allergenic proteins. In the present study we investigated the possibility of reducing OA allergenicity by treatment with a natural protein exhibiting N-acetylglucosaminidase (NA) activity. Ascidian is cultivated as a food resource in northeast Asia. T...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hwang HS,Park H,Kim J,Choi JY,Lee YK,Park HY,Choi HD,Kim HH

更新日期：2016-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor (Cki) Sic1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is phosphorylated in vitro by the CK2 kinase on Ser(201) residue. Moreover, we have collected evidence showing that Sic1 is functionally and structurally related to mammalian Cki p27(Kip1) and binds to the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Barberis M,Pagano MA,Gioia LD,Marin O,Vanoni M,Pinna LA,Alberghina L

更新日期：2005-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of analogs of the blocked insect myotropic neuropeptide leucopyrokinin (LPK) has demonstrated its relative insensitivity to amino acid substitution in the N-terminal in contrast to the C-terminal region. Truncated analogs of LPK without the first, second, and third N-terminal amino acids retain a significan...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nachman RJ,Holman GM,Cook BJ

更新日期：1986-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A prolyl isomerase Pin1 deficient (Pin1-/-) male mice had severe testicular atrophy. We investigated the function of Pin1 in spermatogenesis by analyzing the Pin1-/- mice at reproductive age. Pin1-/- mice had lessαPLZF positive spermatogonia (undifferentiated spermatogonia) than wild type (WT). Nevertheless, the Pin1-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurita-Suzuki A,Kamo Y,Uchida C,Tanemura K,Hara K,Uchida T

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific ligands of the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) have been shown to induce both apoptosis and G1/G0 cell cycle arrest in colorectal cancers. The signaling pathways leading to cell cycle arrest are still unknown. Using cDNA array technology, we identified signaling molecules involved in cell cycle arres...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Maaser K,Sutter AP,Krahn A,Höpfner M,Grabowski P,Scherübl H

更新日期：2004-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mouse which produces human alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) ubiquitously was used to study carbohydrate structures of AFP produced by various tissues as well as that in the serum. A series of tissues from the transgenic mouse were cultured in vitro and the AFP produced was analyzed by affinity electrophoreses with 4...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koyama Y,Sakai M,Kitagawa T,Taketa K,Nishi S

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phosphorylation by cyclic AMP dependent protein kinase on the assembly of the core-forming 68 KDa neurofilament subunit protein (NF-L) was studied in vitro by fluorescence energy transfer and electron microscopy. Phosphorylation of unassembled NF-L in a low ionic strength buffer by cyclic AMP dependent p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakamura Y,Takeda M,Angelides KJ,Tanaka T,Tada K,Nishimura T

更新日期：1990-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is still unclear whether an active state of transcription once established in chromatin persists in neurons. Here, we focused on BDNF exon I-IX mRNA expression because of its marked induction upon the treatment of rat cortical neurons with trichostatin A, suggesting strong repression of the expression through histo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hara D,Miyashita T,Fukuchi M,Suzuki H,Azuma Y,Tabuchi A,Tsuda M

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological function of hnRNP family proteins is widely diverse and involved in pre-mRNA processing, transcriptional regulation, recombination, and telomere maintenance. In the course of our study on the elucidation of biological functions of minisatellite DNA, we isolated several nuclear proteins that bind to the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanaka E,Fukuda H,Nakashima K,Tsuchiya N,Seimiya H,Nakagama H

更新日期：2007-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5-HT2A receptor is a target for hallucinogenic and non-hallucinogenic ligands that evoke unique behavioral, electrophysiological and molecular consequences. Here, we explored the differential effects of distinct 5-HT2A receptor ligands on signaling pathways downstream to the 5-HT2A receptor. The hallucinogenic 5-H...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Banerjee AA,Vaidya VA

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The first peptidergic neurohormone from the ticks Ixodes ricinus and Boophilus microplus has been identified by using a combination of immunocytochemistry and mass spectrometric analysis of single cells. The novel peptide (Ixori-PVK, PALIPFPRV-NH2) shows a high sequence homology with members of the insect periviscerok...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Neupert S,Predel R,Russell WK,Davies R,Pietrantonio PV,Nachman RJ

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The abilities of FK506 and rapamycin to block distinct signal transduction pathways are mediated by soluble binding proteins. Previously, a family of these receptors has been recognized that includes a 25 kDa protein, FKBP25. We now report the isolation of a cDNA for FKBP25 from a human hippocampal cDNA library by oli...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hung DT,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1992-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A fully effective antimalarial vaccine must contain multiple proteins from the different development stages of Plasmodium falciparum parasites involved in host-cell invasion or their biologically active fragments. It must therefore include sporozoite molecules able to induce protective immunity by blocking the parasit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cifuentes G,Vanegas M,Martinez NL,Pirajan C,Patarroyo ME

更新日期：2009-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method for the removal of endogenous troponin (Tn) complex from bundles of detergent-treated cardiac fibers. After 70 min treatment with cTnT-cTnI most of the endogenous Tn complex was removed from fiber bundles. Complete reconstitution of the Tn complex was achieved by reconstituting with cardiac tropon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chandra M,Kim JJ,Solaro RJ

更新日期：1999-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dinoflagellates are protists with permanently condensed chromosomes that lack histones and whose nuclear membrane remains intact during mitosis. These unusual nuclear characters have suggested that the typical cell cycle regulators might be slightly different than those in more typical eukaryotes. To test this, a cycl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bertomeu T,Morse D

更新日期：2004-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) fulfills a central role in the decision of cell fate in keratinocytes. Both PKC delta and PKC eta induce growth inhibition and differentiation of normal human keratinocytes (NHK). Here we show that PKC delta and PKC eta play opposite roles in UVB-induced apoptosis in NHK. PKC delta enhanced UVB-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsumura M,Tanaka N,Kuroki T,Ichihashi M,Ohba M

更新日期：2003-03-28 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