Isolation and characterization of iso-rANP, a new natriuretic peptide from rat atria.

abstract：:Xanthurenic acid is an endogenous molecule leading to caspase-9 and -3 activation. Here we report that xanthurenic acid targets signalling proteins 14-3-3 into lysosomes leading to interruption protein/protein interaction. Xanthurenic acid changed the localisation of 14-3-3 in the cells. At a concentration of 10 and 2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Malina HZ,Frueh BE

更新日期：2003-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-mediated responses to prostaglandins E1 and E2 are shown by electrophysiological methods in follicle-enclosed oocytes of Xenopus laevis. In voltage-clamped oocytes, prostaglandins E1 and E2 elicited an outward hyperpolarizing current. This outward membrane current was caused by an increase in K+ conductance. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mori K,Oka S,Tani A,Ito S,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1989-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:O-GlcNAcylation is a kind of post-translational modification and many nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins are O-GlcNAcylated. In this study, we demonstrated that thiazolidinediones (TZDs), which are used as insulin sensitizer, specifically inhibited the O-GlcNAcylation of Sp1 but did not affect the O-GlcNAcylation of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chung SS,Kim JH,Park HS,Choi HH,Lee KW,Cho YM,Lee HK,Park KS

更新日期：2008-08-08 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：:We explored the effect of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta), a cytokine that appears to play a central role in inflammatory events, on albumin expression by normal adult human hepatocytes and hepatoma cells. Addition of TGF-beta to primary human hepatocyte cultures resulted in a dramatic decrease in albumin a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Busso N,Chesne C,Delers F,Morel F,Guillouzo A

更新日期：1990-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Contractile properties differ between skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles as well as between various skeletal muscle fiber types. This functional diversity is thought to be mainly related to different speeds of myosin head pulling cycles, with the molecular mechanism of force generation being essentially the same. In...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Galler S,Andruchov O,Stephenson GM,Stephenson DG

更新日期：2009-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel subtilisin-like serine proteases (AS-E1 and -E2) that activate prothrombin have been identified in a culture of the fungus Acremonium sp. The enzymes were purified through repeated hydrophobic interaction chromatography. The N-terminal sequences of AS-E1 (34.4 kDa) and AS-E2 (32 kDa) showed high similarity t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu C,Matsushita Y,Shimizu K,Makimura K,Hasumi K

更新日期：2007-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in proteasome activities were observed during starfish oocyte maturation induced by a maturation-inducing hormone, 1-methyladenine. Succinyl-Leu-Leu-Val-Tyr-MCA-hydrolyzing proteasome activity in immature oocytes showed a main peak of a 1500-kDa fraction and a shoulder centered at a 650-kDa fraction on Superos...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sawada MT,Morinaga C,Izumi K,Sawada H

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrene, a structural analog of benzo[a]pyrene, is an effective competing ligand for high affinity carcinogen binding proteins in mouse liver. A pyrene-derivatized Sepharose gel was prepared for affinity chromatography purification of these proteins, and adsorbs all detectable [3H]B[a]P-binding activity from hepatic cy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Collins S,Altman JD,Marletta MA

更新日期：1985-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Kruppel-like factor 2 (KLF2) is a crucial anti-angiogenic factor. However, its precise role in hepatic angiogenesis induced by liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) remain unclear. This study was aimed to evaluate the effect of KLF2 on angiogenesis of LSECs and to explore the corresponding mechanism. Cultured hum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zeng XQ,Li N,Pan DY,Miao Q,Ma GF,Liu YM,Tseng YJ,Li F,Xu LL,Chen SY

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A microbial secondary metabolite, arisostatins A (As-A), was originally discovered as a substance carrying the antibiotic activity against Gram-positive bacteria and shown to possess potent anti-tumor properties. The mechanism by which arisostatins A initiates apoptosis remains poorly understood. In the present report...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YH,Shin HC,Song DW,Lee SH,Furumai T,Park JW,Kwon TK

更新日期：2003-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies of green fluorescence protein (GFP) or other proteins with the use of GFP as a marker, the fluorescence of GFP is for the most part related directly to the nativity of its structure. Naturally, such a relation does exist since the chromophore of this protein is formed autocatalytically only just after GFP a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Melnik BS,Povarnitsyna TV,Melnik TN

更新日期：2009-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus-1 reverse transcriptase is a heterodimer of related 51 and 66 kDa subunits. The smaller subunit arises by viral protease-catalyzed cleavage of the carboxy-terminal domain of the 66 kDa species. Comparison of the amino acid composition analyses of the isolated 51 kDa and 66 kDa subunits...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Graves MC,Meidel MC,Pan YC,Manneberg M,Lahm HW,Grüninger-Leitch F

更新日期：1990-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The ouabain-resistant and ouabain-sensitive alpha-subunit cRNAs in various molar ratios were injected into Xenopus oocytes together with cRNA for the beta-subunit. The ouabain-resistant ATPase activity, as well as ouabain-resistant Rb+ uptake, of the injected oocytes increased linearly with increasing the amount of cR...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takeda K,Kawamura M

更新日期：2001-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell motility and cell stiffness are closely related to metastatic activity of cancer cells. (-)-Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) has been shown to inhibit spontaneous metastasis of melanoma cell line into the lungs of mice, so we studied the effects of EGCG on cell motility, cell stiffness, and expression of vimentin ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi A,Watanabe T,Mondal A,Suzuki K,Kurusu-Kanno M,Li Z,Yamazaki T,Fujiki H,Suganuma M

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA for subunit d of rat mitochondrial H(+)-ATP synthase was cloned from a brain cDNA library. The protein contains internally repeat structures that have sequences similar to those of other ATP-related proteins. The antibodies raised against the protein A-subunit d fusion protein expressed in E. coli specificall...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Motojima K,Imanaka T

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferases (MTases) methylate diverse biological molecules using a SAM cofactor. The ytqB gene of Bacillus subtilis encodes a putative MTase and its biological function has never been characterized. To reveal the structural features and the cofactor binding mode of YtqB,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park SC,Song WS,Yoon SI

更新日期：2014-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of ziprasidone, a widely used treatment for schizophrenia, on voltage-dependent K+ (Kv) channels of coronary arterial smooth muscle cells using the patch-clamp technique. Ziprasidone dose-dependently inhibited Kv channels with an IC50 value of 0.39 ± 0.06 μM and a Hill coefficient of 0.62 ± ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： An JR,Seo MS,Jung HS,Heo R,Kang M,Ha KS,Park H,Park WS

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that epigenetic aberrations have a role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, reports on histone modifications are as yet quite limited in RA. Interleukin (IL)-6 is an inflammatory cytokine which is known to be involved in the pathogenesis of RA. Here we report the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wada TT,Araki Y,Sato K,Aizaki Y,Yokota K,Kim YT,Oda H,Kurokawa R,Mimura T

更新日期：2014-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of different lysophospholipids on endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization by acetylcholine were examined in rat mesenteric arteries. Lysophosphatidylcholine with 14 or longer carbon acyl chain significantly inhibited the hyperpolarization, while that with 12 or lesser carbon acyl chain was without effect. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fukao M,Hattori Y,Kanno M,Sakuma I,Kitabatake A

更新日期：1996-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A baculovirus expression system has been used to express large quantities of full-length, biologically active Xenopus fibroblast growth factor receptor-1. Recombinant XFGFR-1 was purified to near homogeneity by a single step immunoaffinity purification procedure. The recombinant XFGFR-1 binds both FGF-1 and FGF-2 with...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Brown SA,Friesel R

更新日期：1993-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We find that the low frequency Raman spectrum of Zn(II) metallothionein has a single prominent band at 138 cm-1 which is absent from the Raman spectrum of the metal-free protein. This feature is also found for Cd(II) binding to both of the independent metallothionein domains and the metallothionein from Neurospora cra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Elgren TE,Wilcox DE

更新日期：1989-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogaligin, a protein encoded by galig, an internal cytotoxic gene of the galectin-3 locus, is mostly a mitochondrial protein. Mitochondrial targeting is due to an already identified mitochondrial localization signal. Interaction of mitogaligin with mitochondria leads to cytochrome c cytosolic leakage and ultimately ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Robinet P,Mollet L,Gonzalez P,Normand T,Charpentier S,Brulé F,Dubois M,Legrand A

更新日期：2010-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies provide evidence that Sox4 is involved in regulating apoptosis as well as tumorigenesis of various human cancers; however, its role in the apoptotic machinery is not fully understood. Here we describe that the central domain containing glycine-rich region in Sox4, named CD, is a pivotal pro-apoptotic do...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hur EH,Hur W,Choi JY,Kim IK,Kim HY,Yoon SK,Rhim H

更新日期：2004-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A new protein observed in two-dimensional electrophoresis patterns of proteins from the human skin fibroblast line GM1386 has been identified as a charge and molecular-weight variant of the type of tropomyosin found in smooth muscle (Tm:3). This is the second variant of Tm:3 found in GM1386 and represents a second sit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Giometti CS,Gemmell MA,Anderson NL

更新日期：1985-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual analysis of biomolecules is an integral avenue of basic and applied biological research. It has been widely carried out by tagging of nucleotides and proteins with traditional fluorophores that are limited in their application by features such as photobleaching, spectral overlaps, and operational difficulties. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arya H,Kaul Z,Wadhwa R,Taira K,Hirano T,Kaul SC

更新日期：2005-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effects of ethanolamine plasmalogen, phosphatidylethanolamine, cholesterol, and alpha-tocopherol on the oxidizability of membranes, various large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) including these lipids and antioxidant were examined for their total membrane oxidizabilities, evaluated as R(p)/R(i)(1/2) val...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Maeba R,Ueta N

更新日期：2003-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the earliest events following stimulation of human platelets with thrombin is a rise in the cytosolic pH, pHi, mediated by Na+/H+ exchange, and an increase in the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration, [Ca2+]i. In the present study we investigated whether an increase in pHi alone, induced by the Na+/H+ ionophore mo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Siffert W,Akkerman JW

更新日期：1989-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate hormonal factors responsible for the huge increase in PRL receptors on the day of estrus in the rat mammary gland. For this purpose, ovariectomized rats were primed with E2 so as to reach a physiological serum concentration of E2 (21.5 +/- 1.2 pg/ml) and high PRL serum values (...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guillaumot P,Sabbagh I,Bertrand J,Cohen H

更新日期：1986-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic encoding of synthetic or "non-natural" amino acids promises to diversify the functions and structures of proteins. We applied rapid codon-reassignment for creating Escherichia coli strains unable to terminate translation at the UAG "stop" triplet, but efficiently decoding it as various tyrosine and lysine ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mukai T,Yanagisawa T,Ohtake K,Wakamori M,Adachi J,Hino N,Sato A,Kobayashi T,Hayashi A,Shirouzu M,Umehara T,Yokoyama S,Sakamoto K

更新日期：2011-08-12 00:00:00