BAG3 affects the nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of HSF1 upon heat stress.

abstract：:We show here that the susceptibility of endothelial cells to Shiga toxin (Stx)s differs remarkably depending on their cellular origins. The concentration of Stx-1 required to reduce cell viability by 50% as measured by MTT assay was 30 and 300 fM for neonatal and adult human microvascular endothelial cells (HMVEC), re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohmi K,Kiyokawa N,Takeda T,Fujimoto J

更新日期：1998-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein of Mr 16,000 (protein 16 K) which tightly binds to DNA has been isolated from E. coli. The amino acid composition and amino-terminal amino acid sequence of this protein have been determined. On the basis of its physico-chemical characteristics the protein 16 K was shown to be identical to the protein H1 [Cuk...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Laine B,Sautiere P,Spassky A,Rimsky S

更新日期：1984-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3(')-->5(')-exonucleolytic activity of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) on mispaired DNA at the 3(')-termini of recessed, nicked or gapped DNA molecules was analyzed and compared with the primary endonucleolytic activity. We found that under reaction conditions optimal for AP endonuclease activity...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lebedeva NA,Khodyreva SN,Favre A,Lavrik OI

更新日期：2003-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNAs (miRNAs) are short noncoding RNAs that function in RNA silencing and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. They play critical regulatory roles in many cardiovascular diseases, including ischemia-induced cardiac injury. Here, we report microRNA-22, highly expressed in the heart, can protect card...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li G,Wang G,Ma L,Guo J,Song J,Ma L,Zhao X

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gir2 is an uncharacterized protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, containing a RWD/GI domain. In this work, we report the biophysical characterization of Gir2. His-tagged Gir2, expressed and purified from Escherichia coli, showed an abnormally slow migration on SDS-PAGE. The yeast expressed protein behaves similarly. Us...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Alves VS,Pimenta DC,Sattlegger E,Castilho BA

更新日期：2004-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The ZntR protein from Escherichia coli is a member of the MerR-family of transcriptional regulatory proteins and acts as a hyper-sensitive transcriptional switch primarily in response to Zn(II) and Cd(II). The binding of metal-ions to ZntR initiates a mechanism that remodels the cognate promoter, increasing its affini...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Khan S,Brocklehurst KR,Jones GW,Morby AP

更新日期：2002-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Most proteins synthesized in cytoplasm target to mitochondria through sequences at their amino termini. However, a previous study suggests that the native carboxyl terminus of ISP6 might be critical of its specific delivery. Here we investigated the sequence directing ISP6 to yeast mitochondrial outer membrane. Unlike...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cao W,Douglas MG

更新日期：1996-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the previous study (Sato K.-I. et al. (1997) FEBS Lett. 410, 136-140), we showed that the phosphorylation of Shc protein by c-Src is dependent on the binding of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(4,5)P2) to the PTB domain of Shc. In this study, we demonstrate that, in contrast to c-Src, v-Src and epiderm...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sato K,Gotoh N,Otsuki T,Kakumoto M,Aoto M,Tokmakov AA,Shibuya M,Fukami Y

更新日期：1997-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tat protein from HIV-1 fused with heterologous proteins traverses biological membranes in a transcellular process called: protein transduction. This has already been successfully exploited in various biological models, but never in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. TAT-eGFP or GST-eGFP proteins were fed to...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Delom F,Fessart D,Caruso ME,Chevet E

更新日期：2007-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin (Ub) carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) has dual functions, such as hydrolase activity on the chemical bonds formed by the C-terminal Gly of Ub and dimerization-dependent ubiquitin ligase activity. Accumulating evidence suggests that dual activities of UCH-L1 were intimately associated with Parkinson's ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park DW,Nam MK,Rhim H

更新日期：2011-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic geranylgeranoic acid (GGA) induced apoptotic cell death in a human hepatoma cell line, HuH-7, but not in mouse primary cultured hepatocytes. Prior to chromatin condensation, GGA induced a dramatic loss of the mitochondrial membrane potential in 1 hour and in a dose dependent manner in HuH-7 cells, but not ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shidoji Y,Nakamura N,Moriwaki H,Muto Y

更新日期：1997-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray technology provides a powerful approach to understand complex biological systems. The most common application of microarray technology is to document gene expression profiles of all genes within a genome in response to specific conditions such as disease, drug application, or genotype. One result of this te...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Díaz E

更新日期：2009-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the discovery, semi-purification and characterization of a novel Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (peak I kinase) using syntide 2 as a substrate from the rabbit heart. In the study of dependence of peak I kinase on the concentration of calmodulin, half-maximal activation was obtained at approx. 2.0 x...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Uemura A,Okazaki K,Takesue H,Matsubara T,Hidaka H

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:S-nitrosothiols (SNOs) are endogenous signaling molecules with a broad spectrum of beneficial airway effects. SNOs are normally present in the airway, but levels tend to be low in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. We and others have demonstrated that S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) increases the expression, maturation, and f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zaman K,Bennett D,Fraser-Butler M,Greenberg Z,Getsy P,Sattar A,Smith L,Corey D,Sun F,Hunt J,Lewis SJ,Gaston B

更新日期：2014-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating microparticles (MPs) are involved in many physiological processes and numbers are increased in a variety of cardiovascular disorders. The present aims were to characterize levels of MPs in a rodent model of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) and to determine their signaling properties. MPs were isolated ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schock SC,Edrissi H,Burger D,Cadonic R,Hakim A,Thompson C

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression in trypanosomatids is not yet well understood. Genes are organized in long polycistronic transcriptional units separated by intergenic regions that may contain the signaling information for nucleic acid processing. Poly-dinucleotides are frequent in these regions and have been proposed to...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Duhagon MA,Dallagiovanna B,Ciganda M,Ruyechan W,Williams N,Garat B

更新日期：2003-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium is found a strong stimulator of sulfite reduction from hydrogen. A coupling protein of molecular weight 65,000 can be isolated from Desulfovibrio gigas. It functions in a reconstituted electron transfer chain between hydrogenase and sulfite reductase. Its N-terminal sequence shows high homologies with calcium ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen L,Liu MY,Le Gall J

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The rfp/ret transforming gene was generated by DNA rearrangement which occurred during transfection of NIH 3T3 cells. The amino-terminal half of Rfp with a RING finger motif was fused to the truncated Ret receptor tyrosine kinase, leading to a transforming sequence, Rfp/Ret. In the present study, to elucidate the impo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hasegawa N,Iwashita T,Asai N,Murakami H,Iwata Y,Isomura T,Goto H,Hayakawa T,Takahashi M

更新日期：1996-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Various myosin-actin systems do not always show the same sliding behaviors. To make the situation clear, discussions are concentrated on the unit event of sliding of the chemo-mechanical enzyme composed of a single myosin head and a single actin filament with regulatory proteins. The popular idea of the one-to-one cor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oosawa F

更新日期：2008-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase was observed in a thymic lymphoma cell line, WEH17.1 (11.5 +/- 0.8 munits/mg cytosol protein). Only a trace amount of the enzyme activity was observed in normal thymus tissue. The WEH17.1 enzyme had a pH optimum at around 7.5. The AMP-concentration giving 50% inhibition of the activity was ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mizunuma H,Tashima Y

更新日期：1989-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres, specialized domains assembled at the ends of linear chromosomes, are essential for genomic stability in eukaryotes. The formation and maintenance of telomeres are governed by numerous factors such as telomeric repeats, telomere-binding proteins, heterochromatin proteins, and telomerase. Here, we report Sde2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sugioka-Sugiyama R,Sugiyama T

更新日期：2011-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Myostatin, a member of the Transforming Growth Factor beta (TGF-β) superfamily, plays an important role as a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth and differentiation. We have previously reported that IGF-1 induces a transient myostatin mRNA expression, through the activation of the Nuclear Factor of Activated ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zuloaga R,Fuentes EN,Molina A,Valdés JA

更新日期：2013-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Glypican 3 (GPC3), a GPI-anchored heparan sulfate proteoglycan, is expressed in the majority of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues. Using MRL/lpr mice, we successfully generated a series of anti-GPC3 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). GPC3 was partially cleaved between Arg358 and Ser359, generating a C-terminal 30-kDa ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakano K,Orita T,Nezu J,Yoshino T,Ohizumi I,Sugimoto M,Furugaki K,Kinoshita Y,Ishiguro T,Hamakubo T,Kodama T,Aburatani H,Yamada-Okabe H,Tsuchiya M

更新日期：2009-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane of mouse neuroblastoma N-18 cells degraded dynorphin-(1-13), dynorphin-(1-17), and Leu-enkephalin. The degradation of the former two peptides was inhibited strongly by N-ethylmaleimide, moderately by diisopropylphosphorofluoridate and phosphoramidon, and slightly by bestatin. When Leu-enkephalin was the s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Satoh M,Yokosawa H,Ishii S

更新日期：1986-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:With age human collagen demonstrates, amongst other changes, reductions in solubility, elasticity and permeability. Many of these changes have been attributed to non-enzymic glycosylation (glycation)-a spontaneous addition of sugar molecules to any protein with free amino groups. The resulting formation and accumulati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Malik NS,Meek KM

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Until now, voltage-gated Ca(2+) channel proteins have been found only in eukaryotes. Here we report that a gene recently discovered in the eubacterium Bacillus halodurans codes for a protein closely related to eukaryotic Ca(2+) channels, but that has only one 6-transmembrane-segement (6TM) motif, instead of four, in i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Durell SR,Guy HR

更新日期：2001-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin-associated high mobility group (HMG) proteins of the HMGB family are versatile architectural factors assisting various DNA-dependent processes such as transcription and recombination. Here, transgenic tobacco lines were generated that ectopically express the maize HMGB1 protein, as detected by immunoblot ana...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lichota J,Ritt C,Grasser KD

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Apomorphine (APO) is an anti-parkinsonian drug currently in use, which provides relief of Parkinson's symptoms. However, the utility of APO is greatly hampered by its poor bioavailability and rapid metabolism. In the present study, O,O'-diacetyl-apomorphine, a prodrug of apomorphine, was synthesized and its biological...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： He X,Wang D,Zhang X,Li A,Gu X,Ding F,Zhou J

更新日期：2008-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The carnitine/acylcarnitine carrier from rat liver mitochondria was overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The expressed protein, recovered as inclusion bodies, was solubilized with sarkosyl and purified by Sephadex G-200 and celite chromatography. A yield of 15 mg of purified transport protein per liter of cell culture w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Indiveri C,Iacobazzi V,Giangregorio N,Palmieri F

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A polyamine derivative, carboxyethyl - Aminobutyric Acid (CEGABA), induces the formation of a large number of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) transformed lymphocytes, when added to the culture medium immediately after EBV infection. However, CEGABA shows only a moderate effect on the stability of EBV-transformed cell lines o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cerino A,Bestagno M,Colonna M,Fussi F,Astaldi Ricotti GC

更新日期：1988-02-15 00:00:00