A novel glucosyltransferase from Streptococcus mutans produces oligo-isomaltosaccharides.

abstract：:Protein kinase C appears to play an important, yet complex role in the supramaximal inhibition of pancreatic acinar cell secretion observed in response to cholecystokinin (CCK). The addition of protein kinase C activation to the concentration-response curve of a partial agonist acting at the CCK receptor (a phenethyl ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gaisano HY,Miller LJ

更新日期：1992-08-31 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：:Prp19p is a protein found in the nucleus, cytosol or lipid droplets depending on the cell type. Prp19p participates in pre-mRNA splicing, in neuronal/astroglial cell fate decisions or in adipocyte lipid droplet biogenesis. In this study, the motifs of Prp19p that are necessary for its localization to lipid droplets or...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cho SY,Park PJ,Lee JH,Kim JJ,Lee TR

更新日期：2007-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:When cultures of Gibberella fujikuroi are incubated with 24-epiiminolanosterol the introduction of a methyl group into sterol side chains at C-24 is blocked inducing a mycelial accumulation of lanosterol and 24-desalkylsterols, i.e., having the cholestane side chain. The altered sterol composition lead to aberrant myc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nes WD,Hanners PK,Parish EJ

更新日期：1986-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of a novel foot-and-mouth disease virus, HKN/2002, was 8104 nucleotides (nt) in length (excluding the poly(C) tract and poly(A) tail) and was composed of a 1042-nt 5'-untranslated region (UTR), a 6966-nt open reading frame, and a 93-nt 3'-UTR. Genome sequences of HKN/2002 and other known FMDV strains were c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Feng Q,Yu H,Liu Y,He C,Hu J,Sang H,Ding N,Ding M,Fung YW,Lau LT,Yu AC,Chen J

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been known that Porphyromonas gingivalis has an obligate requirement for hemin or selected heme- or Fe-containing compounds for its growth. In addition, the influence of hemin on the expression of several putative virulence factors produced by this bacterium has also been recently documented; however, the mecha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shibata Y,Hiratsuka K,Hayakawa M,Shiroza T,Takiguchi H,Nagatsuka Y,Abiko Y

更新日期：2003-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:An aminopeptidase secreted from Streptomyces septatus TH-2 (SSAP) was identified as a heat stable enzyme, and the Ssap gene was cloned and sequenced. The primary structure of SSAP showed 71% identity with that of a Streptomyces griseus aminopeptidase (SGAP), however, it lacked a unique calcium binding site. The recomb...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arima J,Iwabuchi M,Hatanaka T

更新日期：2004-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:HMGB1 is a conserved chromosomal protein composed of two DNA-binding domains and an acidic C-terminal tail. There were evidences suggesting that the C-terminal tail contributed to the DNA binding specificity of the N-terminal DNA-binding domains. However, the mechanism underlining this observation is largely unknown. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Q,Zeng M,Wang W,Tang J

更新日期：2007-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:As a model host, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been used for studying unknown pathogen-host interactions and identifying novel virulence factors in bacterial pathogens. Among the bacterial pathogens that can induce death of C. elegans is enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7, a major serotype of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Youn M,Lee KM,Kim SH,Lim J,Yoon JW,Park S

更新日期：2013-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous mutant, Wriggle Mouse Sagami (wri), is thought to be a model of hereditary hearing losses in humans. Here we report that the plasma membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase type 2 (PMCA2) gene is mutated in the wri mouse. A G-to-A transition was detected in wri, changing Glu-to-Lys within a conserved transmembrane domai...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi K,Kitamura K

更新日期：1999-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Lampreys are one of the most primitive vertebrates diverged some 500 million years ago. It has long been known that parasitic lampreys secrete anticoagulant from their buccal glands and prevent blood coagulation of host fishes. We found two major protein components of 160 and 26 kDa in the buccal gland secretion of pa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ito N,Mita M,Takahashi Y,Matsushima A,Watanabe YG,Hirano S,Odani S

更新日期：2007-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelin/granulin growth factor is synthesized as a 593 amino acid precursor protein that contains 7.5 imperfectly conserved repeats of approximately 57 amino acids. Processed epithelin/granulin peptides have been isolated from vertebrate/invertebrate species and are growth factors implicated in epithelial and haemic...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Trinh DP,Brown KM,Jeang KT

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase (HDAC) 10 is a member of class IIb HDACs, but its deacetylation targets and functions are poorly characterized. Recent investigation has proposed that HDAC10 deacetylates heat shock cognate protein 70 kDa (HSC70) after interaction. HSC70 plays an important role in chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Obayashi H,Nagano Y,Takahashi T,Seki T,Tanaka S,Sakai N,Matsumoto M,Maruyama H

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrity and the surface charge distribution of native low density lipoprotein (LDL) are prerequisites of its binding to the LDL receptor. Oxidation is one of the most important physiological effects resulting in an altered structure and metabolism of LDL. To reveal forces responsible for maintaining the intact s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lakatos S,Fürész J,Pállinger E,Rischák K,Schweitzer K,Szollár L

更新日期：1995-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat pancreatic acinar cell line AR 4-2J is endowed with numerous PACAP type I receptors (PACAPR1). The cDNA of this receptor was PCR amplified at low stringency using two degenerate primers based on conserved sequences in the TM2 and TM6 segments of secretin, parathormone and calcitonin receptors. One additional a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Svoboda M,Tastenoy M,Ciccarelli E,Stiévenart M,Christophe J

更新日期：1993-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We found by computer analysis that a putative yeast proteasome subunit gene named PRS3 that encodes a protein very similar to subunit C5 of rat and human proteasomes is located immediately 3' to the ERD2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The similarity of the primary structures of the two suggests that this subunit ma...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee DH,Tanaka K,Tamura T,Chung CH,Ichihara A

更新日期：1992-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress plays an important role in the development of diabetic retinopathy. Here, we examined whether α-lipoic acid (α-LA), a natural antioxidant, attenuated retinal injury in diabetic mice. The α-LA was orally administered to control mice or mice with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. We found that α-LA reduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YS,Kim M,Choi MY,Lee DH,Roh GS,Kim HJ,Kang SS,Cho GJ,Hong EK,Choi WS

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Picrotoxin is a CYP2B inducer in mammals (1). However, in primary cultures of rainbow trout hepatocytes we showed CYP1A1 gene expression to be strongly induced as characterized by 7-ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase activity, immunoblots of CYP1A1 protein, and Northern blots of CYP1A1 mRNA. Induction of CYP1A1 in these cel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sadar MD,Ash R,Andersson TB

更新日期：1995-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fru-6-P/Fru-2,6-P2 exchange reaction of rat liver 6-phosphofructo 2-kinase/fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase was almost entirely dependent on the presence of Pi. This exchange was not due to a reversal of the bisphosphatase nor to trace amounts of adenine nucleotide in the enzyme. Exchange activity was maximal at pH 7, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： El-Maghrabi MR,Pate TM,Pilkis SJ

更新日期：1984-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The major bovine seminal plasma protein, PDC-109, binds to choline phospholipids of the sperm plasma membrane and induces an efflux of cholesterol and choline phospholipids (cholesterol efflux), which is crucial for sperm capacitation. PDC-109 also exhibits chaperone-like activity and protects target proteins against ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Singh BP,Saha I,Nandi I,Swamy MJ

更新日期：2017-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes of the IL-1 family encode three different peptides, IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, and IL-1Ra, respectively. IL-1 operates through IL-1RI, and is involved in airway inflammation in asthmatic subjects, whereas IL-1Ra appears to be a specific competitive inhibitor of IL-1. All genes are on chromosome 2q12-21 where genomewid...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mao XQ,Kawai M,Yamashita T,Enomoto T,Dake Y,Sasaki S,Kataoka Y,Fukuzumi T,Endo K,Sano H,Aoki T,Kurimoto F,Adra CN,Shirakawa T,Hopkin JM

更新日期：2000-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nef protein of human immunodeficiency type 1 (HIV-1) has been implicated in diverse intracellular functions; however, extracellular functions have been less studied. Nef and the N-terminus of Nef possess membrane-perturbing and fusogenic activities in artificial membranes that also cause cytotoxicity to human cell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Macreadie IG,Lowe MG,Curtain CC,Hewish D,Azad AA

更新日期：1997-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Using isolated rat hepatocytes we have shown that glutathione (GSH) depletion by glutathione-S-transferase (GST)-catalyzed conjugation with 1-bromoheptane or phorone was accompanied by a significant elevation in ascorbate synthesis. Glycogenolysis was also stimulated without a significant rise in glucose synthesis. Fu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chan TS,Wilson JX,O'Brien PJ

更新日期：2004-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The ras family of oncogenes, as well as the transplasma membrane electron transport system, have been implicated in cellular growth control. Here we present evidence that the Ha-ras oncoprotein increases the activity of the transplasma membrane electron transport system in the mouse embryonic fibroblast cell line C3H1...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Crowe RA,Taparowsky EJ,Crane FL

更新日期：1993-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:OX40 receptor (tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 4; CD134) is a T-cell co-stimulatory molecule that plays an important role in T-cell activation and survival. OX40 receptor is activated by its ligand, OX40L; and modulation of the OX40-OX40L interaction is a promising target for the treatment of autoim...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tanabe A,Nakano K,Nakakido M,Nagatoishi S,Tanaka Y,Tsumoto K,Uchimaru K,Watanabe T

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2) D(3)] exerts its biological effects by binding to the vitamin D receptor (VDR), which binds in turn to the vitamin D response elements located in the target gene's promoter. We have previously demonstrated that VDR binds in vitro with high affinity to the 5'-flanking sequence of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Seoane S,Alonso M,Segura C,Pérez-Fernández R

更新日期：2002-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron administration to HeLa cells stimulates the accumulation of H-subunit and L-subunit rich isoferritins at similar extent. The increase in both types of isoferritins is accompanied by an increase in the amount of messenger RNAs specific for H and L subunits. The increase in the amount of these messenger RNAs, which...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cairo G,Bardella L,Schiaffonati L,Arosio P,Levi S,Bernelli-Zazzera A

更新日期：1985-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wnt signaling pathway is crucial for development and disease. The regulation of Wnt protein trafficking is one of the pivotal issues in the Wnt research field. Here we performed a genetic screen in Drosophila melanogaster for genes involved in Wingless/Wnt secretion, and identified the p24 protein family members B...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li X,Wu Y,Shen C,Belenkaya TY,Ray L,Lin X

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a common genetic disease that causes nervous system tumors, and cognitive deficits. It is due to mutations within the NF1 gene, which encodes the Nf1 protein. Nf1 has been shown to be involved in the regulation of Ras, cAMP and actin cytoskeleton dynamics. In this study, using immunofluores...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Godin F,Villette S,Vallée B,Doudeau M,Morisset-Lopez S,Ardourel M,Hevor T,Pichon C,Bénédetti H

更新日期：2012-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus; 45 animals per group) were either sham-exposed or exposed to a sinusoidal magnetic field for 56 days (Experiment 1: 50 Hz, 450 microTesla peak; max. dB/dt = 140 mTesla s(-1); 24 hrs day(-1)). Except for day 7, no effects were observed with respect to body weights during exp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Niehaus M,Brüggemeyer H,Behre HM,Lerchl A

更新日期：1997-05-29 00:00:00