Stimulation of protein phosphorylation by atrial natriuretic factor in plasma membranes of bovine adrenal cortical cells.

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) contracted the rabbit tracheal smooth muscle (RTSM), yielding a bell-shaped tension-concentration curve. Moreover, ET-1 induced concentration- and time-dependent increases in cAMP concentrations in RTSM (EC(50), 58 nM; t(1/2), 2.4 min). Pretreatment with the AC inhibitors, SQ-22536, or 2'-5'-dideox...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： El-Mowafy AM,Biggs DF

更新日期：2001-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione S-transferase P (GST-P) exists as a homodimeric form and has two tryptophan residues, Trp28 and Trp38, in each subunit. In order to elucidate the role of the two tryptophan residues in catalytic function, we examined intrinsic fluorescence of tryptophan residues and effect of chemical modification by N-bro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishihira J,Ishibashi T,Sakai M,Nishi S,Kumazaki T

更新日期：1992-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Calpain was generally believed to exist and function only in the cytoplasm. However, m-calpain has now been detected in the extracellular spaces of some kinds of tissue. In this study, we demonstrated the existence of m-calpain in the medium surrounding MC3T3-E1 cultures, and its activity by zymography. At the same ti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishihara H,Nakagawa Y,Ishikawa H,Ohba M,Shimizu K,Nakamura T

更新日期：2001-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor with pleiotropic effects in normal physiology or vascular development, xenobiotic metabolism, and cancer. A previous study has reported that BRG1, a component of the SWI/SNF complex, is a coactivator for AHR and is recruited to the promoter...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jin HL,Jeong KW

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Dystroglycan is an extracellular adhesion protein that is known to interact with different ligands. The interaction is thought to stabilize the integrity of the plasma membrane. The N-terminal part of α-dystroglycan may be proteolytically processed to generate a small 38 kDa protein (α-DG-N). The physiological signi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hesse C,Johansson I,Mattsson N,Bremell D,Andreasson U,Halim A,Anckarsäter R,Blennow K,Anckarsäter H,Zetterberg H,Larson G,Hagberg L,Grahn A

更新日期：2011-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine decarboxylase (ADC) catalyzes the first step of polyamine (PA) biosynthesis to produce putrescine (Put) from arginine (Arg). One of the 2 Arabidopsis ADC genes, AtADC2, is induced in response to salt stress causing the accumulation of free Put. To analyze the roles of stress-inducible AtADC2 gene and endogeno...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Urano K,Yoshiba Y,Nanjo T,Ito T,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Shinozaki K

更新日期：2004-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotrienes are a family of arachidonic acid metabolites with potent biological activities such as bronchoconstriction and leukocyte chemotaxis. Recent evidence has demonstrated that the 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) and 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein (FALP) products of arachidonic acid metabolism, leukotriene C4, D4 and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koshino T,Takano S,Houjo T,Sano Y,Kudo K,Kihara H,Kitani S,Takaishi T,Hirai K,Ito K,Morita Y

更新日期：1998-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalytic activities of cytochrome P450 2B4 lacking NH2-terminal amino acids 2-27 (wt Delta2B4) and that of truncated 2B4 containing a Pro to Ser mutation at position 221 were examined in a system supported by cumene hydroperoxide. Demethylation activities of either truncated 2B4 with N-methylaniline, N,N-dimethylanil...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang Y,Pernecky SJ

更新日期：1999-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an important pathophysiological process in the development of many diseases. However, the mechanism responsible for the development of PH remains unknown. The objective of the study was to explore the possible impact of sulfur dioxide (SO2) on the endogenous hydrogen sulfide (H2S) pathwa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Luo L,Liu D,Tang C,Du J,Liu AD,Holmberg L,Jin H

更新日期：2013-04-19 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：:miRNA is increasingly being recognized as a key regulator of metabolism in animals. A wealth of evidence has suggested that miRNA mainly binds 3' UTR of mRNA and modulates the cell activities via repressing the mRNA translation. However, as the translation initiates at 5' UTR, cis elements like upstream open reading f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hu W,Wang T,Yang Y,Zheng S

更新日期：2014-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase D has been implicated as an important enzyme in a range of cellular responses, including regulated secretion and the formation of secretory vesicles, cell proliferation and control of cell morphology. As insulin treatment of adipocytes has been shown to stimulate a phosphatidylcholine-specific phospholip...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Millar CA,Jess TJ,Saqib KM,Wakelam MJ,Gould GW

更新日期：1999-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-Alzheimer's disease of the frontal type, or frontotemporal dementia (FTD), is the second most common form of dementia. Yet, a detailed characterization of the disease has been especially limiting. To identify mechanisms possibly involved in disease pathology or progression, a proteomic analysis of proteins isolate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schweitzer K,Decker E,Zhu L,Miller RE,Mirra SS,Spina S,Ghetti B,Wang M,Murrell J

更新日期：2006-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous lymphoma was detected in mice, which was caused by a recessive autosomal mutation. The genetic basis was revealed to be a 5-bp deletion at the splicing donor site of the first intron of the FasL gene, resulting in aberrant transcripts coding for non-functional proteins. This mutation of the FasL gene cau...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang CC,Zeng Q,Hwang LA,Guo K,Li J,Liew HC,Hong W

更新日期：2006-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble endogenous inhibitory activities for glycoprotein: alpha (1-2) and alpha (1-3) fucosyltransferases are demonstrated in rat small intestinal cytosol. These inhibitors are retained on DEAE-cellulose and are eluted as two fractions A and B. Fraction B is non dialyzable, heat stable and pronase-resistant and consi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Martin A,Ruggiero-Lopez D,Biol MC,Louisot P

更新日期：1990-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A more precise description of the binding of N-(phosphonacetyl)-L- aspartate to the catalytic chains of aspartate carbamoyltransferase clarifies aspects of the specificity of this enzyme toward its substrates, carbamoylphosphate and L-aspartate, and suggests a catalytic role for His-134. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Volź KW,Krause KL,Lipscomb WN

更新日期：1986-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the interaction of melittin with ganglioside GM1 by steady-state fluorescence, one-dimensional (1)H NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling. In the presence of GM1 the emission maximum of melittin is blue shifted and fluorescence quenching efficiencies of iodide and acrylamide are substantially reduced,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatterjee C,Mukhopadhyay C

更新日期：2002-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin contains multiple redox sensitive methionines whose oxidation alters the regulation of numerous targets. Molecular dynamics simulations were used to define the molecular principles that govern how calmodulin is structurally poised to detect and respond to methionine oxidation. We found that calmodulin's ope...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Walgenbach DG,Gregory AJ,Klein JC

更新日期：2018-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Current therapeutic approaches for Parkinson's disease (PD) provide symptomatic relief but none of them change the course of disease. There is therefore a clear need for regenerative and cell replacement therapies (CRT). However, CRT faces several important challenges. First, the main symptoms of PD result from the lo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arenas E

更新日期：2010-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular defects which prevent apoptotic cell death can result in the generation of hyperproliferative disorders and can prevent the effective treatment of such diseases. The majority of cellular defects which result in apoptosis resistance lie upstream of caspase activation. We have described chimeric caspase molecul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shearwin-Whyatt L,Baliga B,Doumanis J,Kumar S

更新日期：2001-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with oestrogens and progestins in postmenopausal women has been associated with an increased risk for developing breast cancer. The reasons are not fully understood, but influence of HRT on endogenous conversion of female sex hormones may be involved. The expressio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sivik T,Jansson A

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of the endoglycanase associated with the bacteriophage phi SK1 particles was tested on the native capsular polysaccharide produced by Klebsiella pneumoniae serotype SK1 and on three chemically modified polymers derived from it. The primary structure of the SK1 capsular polysaccharide is: [formula: see ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cescutti P,Paoletti S

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is a potent mesenchymal cell mitogen and chemoattractant involved in the pathogenesis of fibroproliferative diseases. There are four known PDGF ligand isoforms designated A-D, two of which, C and D, were only recently discovered. We have identified a splicing variant in the PDGF-D...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhuo Y,Hoyle GW,Zhang J,Morris G,Lasky JA

更新日期：2003-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A functional in vitro integration system for an integral membrane protein, SecG, comprising an efficient translation system supplemented with inverted membrane vesicles (IMV) was developed. When SecG was synthesized in the presence of IMV prepared from a DeltasecG strain (DeltaSecG IMV), the synthesized SecG was recov...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishiyama K,Tokuda H

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:ERK8 is the most recent addition for the MAPK family, and its mechanism of activation and function are not yet known, mainly due to the lack of any known physiological stimulator. In this report, we describe the preparation of reagents for the use of a novel method, the ligand interaction scan (LIScan), to study the f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Erster O,Seger R,Liscovitch M

更新日期：2010-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of [3H]-uridine uptake by mouse peritoneal macrophages showed that this is an active, temperature- and protein synthesis-dependent phenomenon, which is early altered when are exposed to a variety of stimuli. Murine recombinant interferon-gamma, a stimulus able to activate macrophage and to induce the product...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Busolo F,Conventi L,Gatti C,Monti D,Troiano L,Franceschi C

更新日期：1989-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe cognitive and motor deficits, caused by the loss of function of maternally inherited Ube3a. Ube3a-maternal deficient mice (AS model mice) recapitulate many essential features of AS, but how the deficiency of Ube3a lead to such behavioural ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Godavarthi SK,Dey P,Sharma A,Jana NR

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of trace acetylation on the contact sites in peptide-antibody binding have been investigated by using a label selection method. A 13-residue synthetic peptide having three lysines (LKLVEQQNPKVKL) corresponding to sequence position 155-168 of beta 1,4-galactosyltransferase was used in this study. The four a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yadav SP,Rawitch AB

更新日期：1994-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of blue background light on behavioral response of Halobacterium halobium to step-like stimulation with green-orange attractant light was examined. The results strongly support the previously proposed hypothesis that a long-lifetime photointermediate of s-rhodopsin is the photoreceptor for repellent light: ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi T,Mochizuki Y,Kamo N,Kobatake Y

更新日期：1985-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNPs) of a small diameter were loaded with the anticancer drug temozolomide (TMZ), coated with polydopamine (PDA), and conjugated with Asn-Gly-Arg (NGR) for use in the treatment of glioma. The accumulation of NGR-MSNPs in C6 cells was shown to be higher than that of unmodified MSNPs. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang P,Tang M,Huang Q,Zhao G,Huang N,Zhang X,Tan Y,Cheng Y

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00