Induction of histidine decarboxylase in rat basophilic leukemia cells by interferon and prevention of its effect in coincubation with ADP-ribosyltransferase inhibitors.

abstract：:Hepatocyte growth factor, which is now known to be the same protein as scatter factor, induced oligonucleosomal fragmentation of nuclear DNA of Sarcoma 180 cells and increased the activity of caspase-3, a key component in control of the apoptotic cell death pathway to about 2.6 times that in control cells on 48 hr inc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arakaki N,Kazi JA,Kazihara T,Ohnishi T,Daikuhara Y

更新日期：1998-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:pp120, a plasma membrane glycoprotein, is phosphorylated on Tyr488 by the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase. This requires basal phosphorylation on Ser503 by cAMP-dependent serine kinase. Phe513, the other tyrosine residue in the intracellular domain, does not undergo insulin-stimulated phosphorylation. Phe488 mutation...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Najjar SM

更新日期：1998-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The new potent tumor promoters teleocidin and debromoaplysiatoxin , which are structurally unrelated to phorbol esters, activate Ca2+-activated, phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C). The concentrations of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate, teleocidin and debromoaplysiatoxin for half-maximum acti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fujiki H,Tanaka Y,Miyake R,Kikkawa U,Nishizuka Y,Sugimura T

更新日期：1984-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosiglitazone is a ligand of peroxisome proliferation-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ). However, it exerts biological activities and therapeutic effects through both PPARγ-dependent and independent mechanisms. In this study, we defined that rosiglitazone was also a ligand of retinoid X receptor alpha (RXRα) and displa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huang F,Li Y,Chen J,Zhang XK,Zhou H

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine cytochrome c oxidase in 0.1% dodecylmaltoside, 50 mM KCl and 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4 is monodisperse with an apparent Mr 360,000 (dimer) as estimated by filtration on Ultrogel AcA 34. In the absence of added KCl the apparent Mr is 160,000 (monomer). The dimeric enzyme has a high and a low affinity site for cytoc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nałecz KA,Bolli R,Azzi A

更新日期：1983-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-9 (G9) is a tandem-repeat type β-galactoside-specific animal lectin having N-terminal and C-terminal carbohydrate recognition domains (N-CRD and C-CRD, respectively) joined by a linker peptide that is involved in the immune system. G9 is divalent in glycan binding, and structural information about the spatial...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshida H,Nishi N,Wada K,Nakamura T,Hirashima M,Kuwabara N,Kato R,Kamitori S

更新日期：2017-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:GPI-anchored proteins are localized on the outer layer of plasma membranes and clustered in microdomains generally called lipid rafts. To study the interactions between the lipidic GPI-anchor of the protein and phospholipids, we used phosphatidylcholine monolayers at the air-water interface as a biomimetic membrane sy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kouzayha A,Besson F

更新日期：2005-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The rSK3 gene encodes a small conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channel that is transcriptionally regulated by estrogen. To examine determinants of rSK3 gene expression, the CAP site was defined and the promoter was identified. A 33 bp sequence adjacent to the promoter was shown to act as an enhancer in L6 cells that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jacobson D,Pribnow D,Herson PS,Maylie J,Adelman JP

更新日期：2003-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylglyoxal (MG) (pyruvaldehyde) is an endogenous metabolite which is present in increased concentrations in diabetics and implicated in formation of advanced glycosylation end-products (AGEs) and secondary diabetic complications. Carnosine (beta-alanyl-L-histidine) is normally present in long-lived tissues at conce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hipkiss AR,Chana H

更新日期：1998-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of cellular adhesion to extracellular matrix proteins is poorly understood. In the present analyses, we set out to test the hypothesis that high galectin-3 concentration on the cell surface downregulates cellular adhesion to the extracellular matrix proteins. Various tumor cell lines were briefly incubated...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ochieng J,Leite-Browning ML,Warfield P

更新日期：1998-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral mucosa is susceptible to tissue injury from many causes, including infection, autoimmune disorders, surgical and accidental trauma, and gingival and periodontal inflammation; however, little is known about the events that influence wound healing in the mouth. Recent studies in non-oral tissues have implicated...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McGrory K,Flaitz CM,Klein JR

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of inactive complexes in excess molar amounts of human cathepsins H and L with their protein inhibitors human stefin A, human stefin B and chicken cystatin at pH 5.6 has been shown by measurement of enzyme activity coupled with reverse-phase HPLC not to involve covalent cleavage of the inhibitors. Inhibi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lenarcic B,Kos J,Dolenc I,Lucovnik P,Krizaj I,Turk V

更新日期：1988-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:High sensitivity detection of DNA is essential for genomics. The intrinsic fluorescence from DNA is very weak and almost all methods for detecting DNA rely on the use of extrinsic fluorescent probes. We show that the intrinsic emission from DNA can be enhanced many-fold by spatial proximity to silver island films. Sil...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lakowicz JR,Shen B,Gryczynski Z,D'Auria S,Gryczynski I

更新日期：2001-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are endogenously expressed regulatory noncoding RNAs. Altered expression levels of several microRNAs have been observed in glioblastomas. Functions and direct mRNA targets for these microRNAs have been relatively well studied over the last years. According to these data, it is now evident, that impairment of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Novakova J,Slaby O,Vyzula R,Michalek J

更新日期：2009-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & AIMS:Concentrations of the branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) in the serum of patients with liver cirrhosis correlate with their liver function. Oral administration of BCAA can ameliorate hypoalbuminemia and hepatic encephalopathy. In this study, we aim to clarify the role of BCAA in regulating the replicati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishida H,Kato T,Takehana K,Tatsumi T,Hosui A,Nawa T,Kodama T,Shimizu S,Hikita H,Hiramatsu N,Kanto T,Hayashi N,Takehara T

更新日期：2013-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged phospholipase C (PLC)-delta1 and its mutants were expressed in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. GFP-PLC-delta1 or the GFP-tagged pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of PLC-delta1 itself was found to be predominantly localized at the plasma membrane. The DeltaPH mutant or a sit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fujii M,Ohtsubo M,Ogawa T,Kamata H,Hirata H,Yagisawa H

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaiso was previously described as a methylated DNA-binding protein and a transcription repressor interacting with the corepressor protein complex NCoR. In the current study, we show that generation-3 Kaiso knockout mice show a phenotype of splenomegaly and large diffused germinal centers (GC). In the spleens of Kaiso ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koh DI,Yoon JH,Kim MK,An H,Kim MY,Hur MW

更新日期：2013-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of substance P on cultured rabbit osteoclasts were investigated. The intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) which was monitored by the microfluorometric technique using fura-2, in osteoclasts elevated by the addition of substance P (0.3-5 microM). The EC(50) value of substance P was about 200 nM....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mori T,Ogata T,Okumura H,Shibata T,Nakamura Y,Kataoka K

更新日期：1999-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Endemic Alkanna cappadocica was used to isolate novel antitumor molecules from Turkish landscapes in our previous studies. In this study, deoxyalkannin (ALCAP1), β,β-dimethylacrylalkannin (ALCAP2), acetylalkannin (ALCAP3), and alkannin (ALCAP4) as well as the novel isolated compounds 5-methoxydeoxyalkannin (ALCAP5), 8...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bogurcu N,Sevimli-Gur C,Ozmen B,Bedir E,Korkmaz KS

更新日期：2011-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble protein that binds malonyl-CoA without requiring cofactors has been purified from rat liver. Until saturated, it competes with fatty acid synthetase for free malonyl-CoA, temporarily reducing the rate of fatty acid synthesis at low levels of malonyl-CoA, as in fatty acid synthetase--coupled assays for acetyl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dugan RE,Osterlund BR,Drong RF,Swenson TL

更新日期：1987-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe differences in the formation of the epinephrine-induced Ca2+ transients between parent and Ki-ras-transformed NIH3T3 fibroblasts. These transients proved to be the results of an efflux from both the thapsigargin-sensitive and -insensitive intracellular pools. While the epinephrine-induced detachment o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tóth S,Fu T,Nozawa Y,Csaba G

更新日期：1993-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide causes apoptotic cell death in RAW 264.7 macrophages. The cellular response to the NO donor S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) comprises an apoptotic morphology and DNA fragmentation, which largely depends on the accumulation of the tumor suppressor gene product p53. Pre-treatment of macrophages with LPS, IFN-ga...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Brüne B,Gölkel C,von Knethen A

更新日期：1996-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve Growth Factor is a 118 amino acid polypeptide that plays an important role in the differentiation and survival of neurons. The recent discovery that a mRNA that encodes beta Nerve Growth Factor is present in brain suggests that the Nerve Growth Factor gene may not only regulate gene expression of peripheral but ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rennert PD,Heinrich G

更新日期：1986-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroporation is the most widely employed method of gene transfer into macrophages which are hard to transfect. RAW 264.7 is a widely used cell line for studying macrophage responses. Electroporation of RAW 264.7 cells with commercial reagents although very efficient is expensive necessitating the development of cos...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Alamuru-Yellapragada NP,Kapadia B,Parsa KVL

更新日期：2017-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional mechanisms controlling human UCP3 gene expression in skeletal muscle remain poorly understood. Experiments based on plasmid electrotransfer into tibialis anterior muscle of C57/BL6 male mice were set up in order to functionally analyze the hUCP3 gene promoter. These transfection experiments showed that...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Riquet FB,Rodriguez M,Guigal N,Dromaint S,Naime I,Boutin JA,Galizzi JP

更新日期：2003-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is an autosomal dominant human disorder, caused by the abnormal expansion of a CTG trinucleotide repeat in the 3' untranslated region of a protein kinase gene (DMPK). Muscle symptoms are a common feature of the disorder and in the adult onset cases there are increased patterns of muscle fibre d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okoli G,Carey N,Johnson KJ,Watt DJ

更新日期：1998-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Triticone A is one member of a family of novel compounds which are spirocyclic lactams produced by several plant pathogenic fungi including Drechslera tritici repentis on wheat. It undergoes racemization to form triticone B and when tested, the enantiomeric mixture causes chlorosis and necrosis on a wide range of plan...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kenfield D,Strobel S,Sugawara F,Berglund D,Strobel G

更新日期：1988-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology and function of Leydig cells are changed during the development, mature and senility of Leydig cells along the life span of males. This study was to observe the growth morphology of adult mouse Leydig cells in culture, aiming to provide a reference for furthermore understanding of the biological functio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang JQ,Cao WG

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of isolated rat dispersed pancreatic acini to increasing concentrations (10 to 1000 ng/ml) of purified exotoxin-A from Pseudomonas aeruginosa resulted in a progressive inhibition of 3H-leucine incorporation into "cellular" (those remaining in the cells) and "secretory" (those released into the medium) protein...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Geokas MC,Vesenka GD,Dubick MA,Majumdar AP

更新日期：1985-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation-specific PCR (MSP) is frequently used to distinguish methylated alleles in the genome. Sequences that have been incompletely converted during bisulfite treatment are frequently co-amplified during MSP. For accurate MSP, it is important to detect methylated sequences in a background of unconverted DNA with ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasaki M,Anast J,Bassett W,Kawakami T,Sakuragi N,Dahiya R

更新日期：2003-09-19 00:00:00