Glycyrrhizic acid prevents astrocyte death by neuromyelitis optica-specific IgG via inhibition of C1q binding.

abstract：:Bovine brain smg p25A, a guanine nucleotide-binding protein with a Mr of about 25,000, bound specifically GTP, guanosine 5'-(3-O-thio)triphosphate (GTP gamma S) and GDP. The initial velocities of the binding of GTP gamma S to GDP-bound smg p25A and the dissociation of GDP from this protein increased by decreasing Mg2+...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shoji I,Kikuchi A,Kuroda S,Takai Y

更新日期：1989-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous studies, we have demonstrated that a stretch of amino-acid sequences identified from Arabidopsis ribosomal S6 kinase 1 (AtS6K1) provided a plant version of the TOS (TOR-signaling) motif, mediating the interaction with the Raptor protein in the TOR (Target of Rapamycin) kinase complex. Here we report th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Son O,Kim S,Kim D,Hur YS,Kim J,Cheon CI

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Using differential mRNA display (DD-PCR), a novel cDNA, FxC1 (Fracture Callus 1) was isolated from the early stages of a healing fractured femur. Utilizing 5' RACE PCR, a 598-bp full-length cDNA was obtained for FxC1 that contains an open reading frame (ORF) of 243 bp, encoding for an 80 amino acid protein. Within thi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hadjiargyrou M,Halsey MF,Ahrens W,Rightmire EP,McLeod KJ,Rubin CT

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study provides the first evidence that nitropolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as 1-nitropyrene and 2-nitrofluorene are metabolized to the corresponding formylamino compounds in animal bodies. The study shows that the formation of such novel metabolites, 1-formylaminopyrene and 2-formylaminofluorene, is...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tatsumi K,Amano H

更新日期：1987-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic hydrolysis of the synthetic substrate succinyl-Ala-Ala-Pro-Xxx-pNA (where Xxx=Leu, Asp or Lys) catalyzed by bovine chymotrypsin (CHYM) or Streptomyces griseus protease B (SGPB) has been studied at different pH values in the pH range 3-11. The pH optima for substrates having Leu, Asp, and Lys have been found ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Qasim MA,Song J,Markley JL,Laskowski M Jr

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA bending has been shown to play a critical role in conservative site-specific DNA recombination reactions such as lambda integration. V(D)J recombination, the only mammalian site directed recombination system, is directed by recombinational signal sequences composed of heptamer, nonamer and spacer elements. The non...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Andrews R,Halligan NL,Halligan BD

更新日期：1993-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The technology of real-time imaging in living cells is crucial for understanding of intracellular events. For this purpose, bioluminescent reporters have been introduced as sensitive and convenient tools. Metridia luciferase (MLuc) from the copepod Metridia longa is a coelenterazine-dependent luciferase containing a n...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Markova SV,Burakova LP,Vysotski ES

更新日期：2012-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although elevated oxygen fraction is used in intensive care units around the world, pathological changes in pulmonary tissue have been shown to occur with prolonged exposure to hyperoxia. In this work a bovine bronchus culture model has been successfully used to evaluate the effects of hyperoxia on ciliated epithelium...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Al-Shmgani HS,Moate RM,Sneyd JR,Macnaughton PD,Moody AJ

更新日期：2012-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar epithelial type I and type II cells (AEC I and II) are closely aligned in alveolar surface. There is much interest in the precise identification of AEC I and II in order to separate and evaluate functional and other properties of these two cells. This study aims to identify specific AEC I and AEC II cell mark...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen Z,Jin N,Narasaraju T,Chen J,McFarland LR,Scott M,Liu L

更新日期：2004-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrolysis of polyphosphoinositides by phospholipase C was examined in isolated membranes prepared from [32P]labelled platelets. In the presence of GTP gamma S, thrombin increased the release of inositol triphosphate and inositol biphosphate approximately 500%. GTP gamma S alone stimulated release 2 fold. Maximal acti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Baldassare JJ,Fisher GJ

更新日期：1986-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) of somatic (cs) and testicular (ct) cytochromes of rat, mouse, rabbit, and beef with rabbit anti-rat cyt ct antibody exhibited two different antigenic profiles, indicating the presence of two different antigenic structure between cyt ct and cs. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrop...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim IC,Sabourin CL

更新日期：1986-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:While recent insights indicate that the transcription factor Krüppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is indispensable for vascular homeostasis, its exact role in proliferation and angiogenesis and how it functions remain unresolved. Thus, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the role of KLF4 in the proliferations of endo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zheng X,Li A,Zhao L,Zhou T,Shen Q,Cui Q,Qin X

更新日期：2013-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunosuppressant FK506 inhibits thymocyte positive selection. Calcineurin, a FK506-sensitive Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase, is presumed to be involved in this event without direct evidence. We have previously shown that moderate stimulation of CD4(+)CD8(+) thymocytes with a combination of the calc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuwata T,Asada A,Ohoka Y,Mukai M,Miyaike M,Iwata M

更新日期：1998-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialoglycans on the cell surface of human colon cancer (HCC) cells have been implicated in cellular adhesion and metastasis. To clarify the role of N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) linked alpha2,3 to galactose (Gal) on the surface of HCC cells, we studied the intercellular adhesion of HCC cell lines expressing increasi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dimitroff CJ,Pera P,Dall'Olio F,Matta KL,Chandrasekaran EV,Lau JT,Bernacki RJ

更新日期：1999-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously characterized the effects of 2,6-diisopropylphenyl-docosahexaenoamide (DIP-DHA) conjugates and their analogs on the proliferation and progression of breast cancer cell lines. For this study, we investigated the effects of the DIP-DHA conjugate on 2 representative T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Altenburg JD,Harvey KA,McCray S,Xu Z,Siddiqui RA

更新日期：2011-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of angiotensin II (Ang II) on the proliferation of osteoblast-rich populations of cells obtained from calvariae of newborn rat. Addition of Ang II to the culture medium caused dose-dependent increases in the rate of DNA synthesis. Such increases were completely inhibited by the addition of DuP7...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hiruma Y,Inoue A,Hirose S,Hagiwara H

更新日期：1997-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-component regulatory system involving StyS and StyR is involved in the regulation of indigo synthesis in Pseudomonas sp. However, the function of the styR gene in indigo synthesis and the detailed mechanisms through which StyR enhances the expression of the styAB operon are unclear. Accordingly, in this study, w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng L,Yue J,Yin S,Ren M,Wang C

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediate-early genes (IEGs) are useful for mapping active brain regions in various vertebrates. Here we identified a c-fos homologue gene in medaka and demonstrated that the amounts of c-fos transcripts and proteins in the medaka brain increased in relation to an artificially evoked seizure, suggesting that the homol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okuyama T,Suehiro Y,Imada H,Shimada A,Naruse K,Takeda H,Kubo T,Takeuchi H

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Subpeptin JM4-A and subpeptin JM4-B are two novel antimicrobial peptides produced by Bacillus subtilis JM4. To identify putative genes involved in their production, degenerate PCR primers targeted to conserved motifs of nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) were used. A resulting 1.2 kb PCR product had high sequenc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu S,Zhong J,Huan L

更新日期：2006-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible mechanism of gene transcription changes induced by magnetic field (MF), we examined the DNA binding behavior of the transcription factor cyclic-AMP responsive element binding protein (CREB) in HL60 cells after exposure to a 0.1mT 50-Hz extremely low frequency (ELF) sinusoidal MF by a gel sh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou J,Yao G,Zhang J,Chang Z

更新日期：2002-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF) regulated pituitary GRF receptor gene expression in the conscious rat. GRF receptor mRNA levels were significantly increased by immunoneutralization of endogenous GRF with its specific antiserum. This effect was dose dependent and the maximum level was 3.8-fold hig...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miki N,Ono M,Murata Y,Ohsaki E,Tamitsu K,Yamada M,Demura H

更新日期：1996-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Various methods have been used to evaluate anti-fibrotic activity of drugs. However, most of them are complicated, labor-intensive and lack of efficiency. This study was intended to develop a rapid method for anti-fibrotic drugs screening based on biophysical properties. A549 cells in vitro were stimulated with transf...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu M,Zheng M,Xu H,Liu L,Li Y,Xiao W,Li J,Ma E

更新日期：2015-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of various compounds to stimulate cyclic GMP accumulation was studied in neuronal and astrocyte-enriched primary cultures from rat cerebrum. Glutamate was the only agonist eliciting a response in neurons whereas several agonists had an effect in astrocytes but only those due to norepinephrine and glutamate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Agulló L,García A

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphofructokinase of rabbit muscle, which is specific for nucleoside triphosphates such as ATP, dissociated and gained the capability to utilize pyrophosphate as phosphoryl donor following incubation with UDP-glucose. The pyrophosphate- and ATP-linked activities of UDP-glucose-treated muscle phosphofructokinase were...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wong JH,Balogh A,Buchanan BB

更新日期：1984-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) is a key enzyme implicated in the homeostasis of intracellular reduced glutathione (GSH) and hence in the regulation of the cellular redox state. Besides, the extracellular cleavage of GSH by GGT leads to reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, depending on the generation and enhan...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Accaoui MJ,Enoiu M,Mergny M,Masson C,Dominici S,Wellman M,Visvikis A

更新日期：2000-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is required for adaptive immunity through defined functions in T cell activation and antigen presenting cell (APC) maturation. The potential role of P-gp as an in vivo regulator of alloimmunity is currently unknown. Here we show that P-gp blockade prolongs graft survival in a murine heterotopic c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Izawa A,Schatton T,Frank NY,Ueno T,Yamaura K,Pendse SS,Margaryan A,Grimm M,Gasser M,Waaga-Gasser AM,Sayegh MH,Frank MH

更新日期：2010-04-09 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：:Burkitt lymphoma cells and their counterpart of normal origin contain proteins with associated tyrosine protein, kinase activity. These proteins were isolated by affinity chromatography and Fast Pressure Liquid Chromatography. Proteins with enzyme activity had an app. M. W. of 47 KDa. This protein in extracts of Burki...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Semmel M,Biquard JM,Pavloff N,Hanania N,Gay F

更新日期：1989-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases mediate the response of renal glomerular mesangial cells to a variety of physiologic and pathologic stimuli. This investigation examines the effect of the cyclopentenone prostaglandin 15-deoxy-delta(12,14)-prostaglandin J2 (15d-PGJ2) on MAP kinases in human mesangial cells. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wilmer WA,Dixon C,Lu L,Hilbelink T,Rovin BH

更新日期：2001-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Since we recently reported that high density lipoprotein, which contains the bioactive lipid sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) [Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol. 23 (2003) 802], induced human coronary artery endothelial cell (HCEC) tube formation mediated by a Ras/Raf/ERK (extracellular signal-activated kinase) pathway, w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miura S,Tanigawa H,Matsuo Y,Fujino M,Kawamura A,Saku K

更新日期：2003-07-11 00:00:00