MiR-181a contributes gefitinib resistance in non-small cell lung cancer cells by targeting GAS7.

abstract：:Polygonatum cyrtonema lectin (PCL), a mannose/sialic acid-binding plant lectin, has recently drawn a rising attention for cancer biologists because PCL bears remarkable anti-tumor activities and thus inducing programmed cell death (PCD) including apoptosis and autophagy in cancer cells. In this review, we focus on exp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang SY,Yu QJ,Bao JK,Liu B

更新日期：2011-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-induced hepatotoxicity causes significant morbidity and mortality and is a major concern in drug development. This is due, in large part, to insufficient knowledge of the mechanism(s) of drug-induced liver injury. In order to address this problem, we have evaluated the modulation of gene expression within the liv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Reilly TP,Bourdi M,Brady JN,Pise-Masison CA,Radonovich MF,George JW,Pohl LR

更新日期：2001-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies (pAbs) to riboflavin carrier protein (RCP) purified from human amniotic fluid were raised in two rabbits. These pAbs apart from recognizing the parent antigen, reacted significantly with chicken RCP as well. When all the 212 octapeptides overlapping by one amino acid residue and covering the enti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Subramanian S,Adiga PR

更新日期：1999-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidation of arachidonic acid in a superoxide-generating environment results in the formation of a potent chemoattractant that appears to be identical to a chemotactic material generated by hepatocytes when they metabolize alcohol. The product was extracted, chromatographed and characterized by physical methods in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Roll FJ,Perez HD,Serhan CN

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas arise through the accumulation of certain genetic alterations including ras, p16, p53, and DPC4. We found that activation of ras and inactivation of p53 could cooperatively induce in vitro tumorigenicity in conditionally immortalized pancreatic epithelial (IMPE) cells. IMPE cells were...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koizumi M,Ito D,Fujimoto K,Toyoda E,Kami K,Mori T,Doi R,Whitehead R,Imamura M

更新日期：2004-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), an extracellular lipid mediator, exerts various cellular effects through activation of LPA receptors, LPA1-LPA6, in many types of cells including cancer cells. We recently found several missense mutations of Lpar1 in rat cancer tissues. One of these mutations is located at the extracellula...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishii S,Tsujiuchi T,Fukushima N

更新日期：2017-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:C-type natriuretic (CNP) caused concentration-dependent relaxations in porcine coronary arteries with a maximal relaxation (10(-6)M) of 46%. Relaxations to CNP in isolated coronary arteries were significantly attenuated with potassium channel antagonists charybdotoxin (10(-7)M) and glibenclamide (10(-7)M). Membrane po...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wei CM,Hu S,Miller VM,Burnett JC Jr

更新日期：1994-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Most human cancers are of epithelial origin, but many cell culture models for the study of cancer-causing genes use fibroblasts. In addition, efficient delivery and stable expression of foreign genes into non-transformed cell lines are often difficult. To address both questions, we here established a non-transformed r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fu SL,Huang YJ,Liang FP,Huang YF,Chuang CF,Wang SW,Yao JW

更新日期：2005-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimerization-induced activation of LXR is a unique allosteric mechanism described only for LXR/RXR heterodimers. Previously, we demonstrated that RXR functions as an allosteric activator of LXR binding to ASC-2 coactivator rather than as a direct interaction partner. Here, we investigated the molecular basis of the in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Son YL,Lee YC

更新日期：2009-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein cages have recently emerged as an extraordinary drug-delivery system due to its biocompatibility, biodegradability, low toxicity, ease to manipulate and engineer. We have reported earlier the formation and architecture of a do-decameric cage-like architecture of Vibrio cholerae acylphosphatase (VcAcP) at 3.1 Å...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatterjee S,Nath S,Sen U

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor activator of nuclear factor (NF)-κB ligand (RANKL)-activated signaling is essential for osteoclast differentiation, activation, and survival. Salicortin is a phenolic glycoside that has been isolated from many plants such as Populus and Salix species, and has been shown to have anti-amnesic and anti-adipogeni...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nie S,Xu J,Zhang C,Xu C,Liu M,Yu D

更新日期：2016-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Daudi lymphoma cells, of a line sensitive to growth inhibition by alpha interferon, showed dose-dependent plasma membrane depolarization within 10 min after exposure to natural or recombinant alpha interferons (10 to 1000 IU/ml). This biophysical change was detected flow cytometrically by measuring the intensity of fl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Grimley PM,Aszalos A

更新日期：1987-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisplatin is one of the most widely used anticancer agents. Cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity results from its ability to form cisplatin-DNA adducts within the cellular genome which can inhibit the transcription of genes and the replication of DNA. Cisplatin-adducts are primarily removed by the nucleotide excision repair...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang WL,Cvijic ME,Ishii K,Chin KV

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine inhibited carbachol-induced amylase release in a dose-dependent fashion in rat pancreatic acini; cholecystokinin- and bombesin-induced secretory responses were almost unchanged by the antimalarial drug. The inhibition of carbachol-induced amylase release by chloroquine was competitive in nature with a Ki o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Habara Y,Williams JA,Hootman SR

更新日期：1986-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine stimulation of cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells induced dose- and time-dependent increases in glycerophosphoinositol (GroPIns), inositol-1-phosphate (InsP), inositolbisphosphate (InsP2) and inositoltrisphosphate (InsP3) in addition to release of thromboxane A2 and prostacyclin. Increases in In...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Resink TJ,Grigorian GYu,Moldabaeva AK,Danilov SM,Bühler FR

更新日期：1987-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:15(S)-15-methyl-prostaglandin E1 and prostaglandin I2 rapidly and reversibly inhibit formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine induced superoxide production by human neutrophils. In contrast, 15(S)-15-methyl-prostaglandin E1 and prostaglandin I2 did not alter the rate or the total amount of superoxide production by human ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fantone JC,Kinnes DA

更新日期：1983-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbate and several phenolic compounds readily oxidise in cell culture media to generate hydrogen peroxide. However, addition of α-ketoglutarate, which is known to be released by several cell types, decreased the levels of H(2)O(2), and the α-ketoglutarate was depleted and converted to succinate. These observations ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Long LH,Halliwell B

更新日期：2011-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-bound acid alpha-glucosidase was purified partially (400-fold) from human placenta by solubilization with trypsin, concanavalin A-Sepharose chromatography, Ultrogel AcA-34 gel filtration, and Sephadex G-100 affinity chromatography. Two molecular forms of the enzyme were found in the final preparation of t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsuji A,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1988-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylated lysyl and arginyl residues are present in the two major heat shock proteins, hsp70A and hsp70B, of chicken embryo fibroblasts. Here, we demonstrate that this methylation can be modulated by sodium arsenite, a chemical that increases the synthesis of hsp70. In particular, in hsp70A the amount of epsilon-N-tr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang C,Lazarides E

更新日期：1984-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cellular stress factors, the hyperthermia and the acidification of culture medium, on mechano-growth factor (MGF) synthesis by murine myoblasts in culture was investigated. Hyperthermia was shown to stimulate MGF expression both in primary myoblasts and in differentiated multinuclear myotubes. The induct...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kravchenko IV,Furalyov VA,Popov VO

更新日期：2008-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder, which is caused by a defective fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase enzyme, and consequently metabolites such as succinylacetone and p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate accumulate. We used a modified comet assay to determine the effect of these metabolites on ba...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： van Dyk E,Steenkamp A,Koekemoer G,Pretorius PJ

更新日期：2010-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated Kupffer cells and hepatic macrophages can produce massive liver necrosis through microcirculatory disturbance due to sinusoidal fibrin deposition. This mechanism is involved in the development of liver injury after endotoxin administration in rats pretreated with heat-killed Propionibacterium acnes (P.acnes)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Toshima K,Mochida S,Ishikawa K,Matsui A,Arai M,Ogata I,Fujiwara K

更新日期：1998-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelin basic proteins (MBPs) are a family of polypeptides that are predominantly expressed in the nervous system where they play a major role in myelination. We have generated four lines of transgenic mice carrying a transgene in which 1.34 kb of the 5'-flanking sequence of the mouse MBP gene was fused upstream of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Asipu A,Mellor AL,Blair GE

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:CRACR2A protein is described in T cells as an EF-hand-containing modulator of calcium-release-activated calcium (CRAC) channels. Here we sought relevance to calcium entry of endothelial cells. Unexpectedly, short interfering RNA designed to deplete CRACR2A had no effect on CRAC channels in endothelial cells but reduce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wilson LA,McKeown L,Tumova S,Li J,Beech DJ

更新日期：2015-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation and aggregation of the peptide hormone IAPP (islet amyloid polypeptide, a.k.a. amylin) into soluble oligomers that appear to be cell-toxic is a known aspect of diabetes mellitus (DM) Type 2 pathology. IAPP aggregation is influenced by several factors including interactions with metal ions such as Cu(II)....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dong X,Svantesson T,Sholts SB,Wallin C,Jarvet J,Gräslund A,Wärmländer SKTS

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple A syndrome is an autosomal recessive neurological disease, mimicking motor neuron disease, and is caused by mutant ALADIN, a nuclear-pore complex component. We recently discovered that the pathogenesis involved impaired nuclear import of DNA repair proteins, including DNA ligase I and the cerebellar ataxia caus...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kiriyama T,Hirano M,Asai H,Ikeda M,Furiya Y,Ueno S

更新日期：2008-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Six missense mutations in human cardiac troponin I (cTnI) were recently found to cause restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM). We have bacterially expressed and purified these human cTnI mutants and examined their functional and structural consequences. Inserting the human cTnI into skinned cardiac muscle fibers showed that...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yumoto F,Lu QW,Morimoto S,Tanaka H,Kono N,Nagata K,Ojima T,Takahashi-Yanaga F,Miwa Y,Sasaguri T,Nishita K,Tanokura M,Ohtsuki I

更新日期：2005-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that cor15, a cold-regulated gene from Arabidopsis thaliana, encodes a 15 kDa polypeptide designated COR15. Here we report that COR15 has potent cryoprotective activity in an in vitro cryoprotection assay. Specifically, COR15 was very effective in protecting the cold-labile enzyme lactate dehydrog...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lin C,Thomashow MF

更新日期：1992-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of accessible SH-groups was determined in membrane vesicles prepared from Escherichia coli growing in fermentation conditions at slightly alkaline pH on glucose with or without added formate. Addition of ATP or formate to the vesicles caused a approximately 1.4-fold increase in the number of accessible SH-g...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mnatsakanyan N,Poladian A,Bagramyan K,Trchounian A

更新日期：2003-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The xeroderma pigmentosum group A protein (XPA) binds to three nucleotide excision repair (NER) factors: RPA, ERCC1, and TFIIH. XPA also binds preferentially to UV- or chemical carcinogen-damaged DNA. In this study, we prepared anti-XPA monoclonal antibodies and examined their effects on NER. Two clones inhibited cell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saijo M,Matsuda T,Kuraoka I,Tanaka K

更新日期：2004-09-03 00:00:00