Inhibition by vanadyl of adenylate cyclase activation reactions in rat adrenal membranes.

abstract：:The mechanism of transcriptional repression by nuclear hormone receptors, especially in the presence of the ligands, is largely unknown. We previously reported that 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) (1,25 vitamin D3) inhibited expression of the parathyroid hormone-related polypeptide (PTHrP) gene through the interaction betw...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okazaki T,Nishimori S,Ogata E,Fujita T

更新日期：2003-05-16 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：:The mouse gene encoding the mu opioid receptor, Oprm, undergoes extensive alternatively splicing, with 14 variants having been identified. However, only one variant of human mu opioid receptor gene (Oprm), MOR-1A, has been described. We now report two novel splice variants of the human Oprm gene, hMOR-1O and hMOR-1X. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pan YX,Xu J,Mahurter L,Xu M,Gilbert AK,Pasternak GW

更新日期：2003-02-21 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：:Isoprenoids comprise a diverse group of natural products with a broad range of metabolic functions. Isoprenoids are synthesized from prenyl pyrophosphates by prenyltransferases that catalyze the isoprenoid chain-elongation process to different chain lengths. We hereby present the crystal structure of geranylgeranyl py...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim S,Kim EJ,Park JB,Kim SW,Kim KJ

更新日期：2019-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMOs) are proteins homologous to ubiquitin that possibly regulate intranuclear protein localization, nuclear transport, and ubiquitination. We examined patients of DRPLA, SCA1, MJD, and Huntington's disease and found that neurons in affected regions of the brain react strongly to SUMO-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ueda H,Goto J,Hashida H,Lin X,Oyanagi K,Kawano H,Zoghbi HY,Kanazawa I,Okazawa H

更新日期：2002-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating bovine aortic endothelial cells in culture do not express the insulin-like growth factor 1 binding protein 3 gene, in contrast to the genes encoding binding proteins 2, 4, 5, and 6. The binding protein 3 gene is activated only at cell confluency with continual transcription thereafter, for at least an ei...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Delafontaine P,Ku L,Anwar A,Hayzer DJ

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbance of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) homeostasis causes ER stress (ERS), and triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR) that consequently reduces accumulation of unfolded proteins by increasing the quantity of ER chaperones. Calumenin, a Ca(2+)-binding protein with multiple EF hand motifs, which is located in t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee JH,Kwon EJ,Kim DH

更新日期：2013-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidylcholine (lyso-PC), a biologically active phospholipid, appears to modulate various endothelial cell functions through tyrosine kinase-dependent signaling pathways. In cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAEC), we have found that a 130 kDa protein (p130) was rapidly tyrosine phosphorylated within ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ochi H,Kume N,Nishi E,Moriwaki H,Masuda M,Fujiwara K,Kita T

更新日期：1998-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Hydroxydopamine(6-OHDA), a specific neurotoxin against sympathetic nerve cells, is a drug already used for purging of bone marrow from neuroblastoma cells before autologous bone marrow transplantation. However, we could not detect significant differences in the toxicity of 6-OHDA against neuroblastoma and other tumo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bruchelt G,Buck J,Girgert R,Treuner J,Niethammer D

更新日期：1985-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient receptor potential (TRP) proteins are cation channels that comprise a superfamily of molecular sensors that enable animals to detect a wide variety of environmental stimuli. This versatility enables vertebrate and invertebrate TRP channels to function in a diversity of senses, ranging from vision to taste, s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu C,Montell C

更新日期：2015-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a top instigator of cancer mortality. Previous clinical studies have revealed that low serum cholesterol predicts a poor outcome in HCC patients, but the potential role of cholesterol in the progression of HCC remains controversial. In the present study,we tested the i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao Z,Zhong L,He K,Qiu C,Li Z,Zhao L,Gong J

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil discharge of calcium into the ambient medium was measured, using an ion-sensitive electrode, after cells were stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate. Dose-dependent calcium efflux was observed over the same range of stimulus concentrations associated with specific granule marker release. Calcium efflux w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Styrt B,Schwartz MA,Klempner MS

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete nucleotide sequence of the genes for subunits of the H+ ATPase of E.coli has been determined and several hybrid plasmids carrying various portions of these genes have been constructed. Genetic complementation and recombination tests of about forty mutants of E.coli defective in the ATPase were performed using...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Noumi T,Kanazawa H

更新日期：1983-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple system atrophy is a neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal α-synuclein (α-syn) accumulation in oligodendrocytes and neurons. We previously demonstrated that transgenic (Tg) mice that selectively overexpressed human α-syn in oligodendrocytes exhibited neuronal α-syn accumulation. Microtubule β-III tubuli...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ito H,Nakayama K,Jin C,Suzuki Y,Yazawa I

更新日期：2012-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroperoxidase was present as Compound II during the peroxidatic oxidation of ascorbic acid. Compound III (oxy-form) was formed when excess hydrogen peroxide was added to Compound II. By decreasing the temperature it was possible to measure the spectra of Compounds II and III in the Soret and visible regions. Each s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakajima R,Yamazaki I,Griffin BW

更新日期：1985-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine transporter (DAT) plays a key role in terminating synaptic dopaminergic transmission. DAT acts exclusively on the plasma membrane of presynaptic dopaminergic neurons and DAT gene is an appropriate model for the study of dopaminergic neuron-specific regulation of gene activity. DAT represents an important targ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kouzmenko AP,Pereira AM,Singh BS

更新日期：1997-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya is a severe disease that results from infection with the chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus. Thus, we (1) explored a new approach to combining previously researched drugs that have shown the potential to inhibit CHIKV infection; and (2) demonstrated the antiviral effects of (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gall...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu JW,Hsieh PS,Lin CC,Hu MK,Huang SM,Wang YM,Liang CY,Gong Z,Ho YJ

更新日期：2017-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work identified an RNA binding protein whose presence in brain tumors correlated with translational repression of Glut1 expression. RNase T1 mapping demonstrated that this protein bound an AU-rich response element (AURE) in the Glut1 3'UTR. Facilitated by its differential expression in brain tumor cytosols, we ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hamilton BJ,Nichols RC,Tsukamoto H,Boado RJ,Pardridge WM,Rigby WF

更新日期：1999-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous report we described Ser(1275) and Ser(1309) as autophosphorylation sites of the human insulin receptor (IR) tyrosine kinase (TK) in vitro. The question remained whether the observed phosphorylation was exclusive for the in vitro activated receptor or a more general, mechanism of the activated receptor in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tennagels N,Telting D,Parvaresch S,Maassen JA,Klein HW

更新日期：2001-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis membrane proteins involved in binding to and invasion of host cells is important in designing subunit-based anti-tuberculosis vaccines. The Rv2969c gene sequence was identified by PCR in M. tuberculosis complex strains, being transcribed in M. tuberculosis H37Rv, M. tuberculosis ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Patarroyo MA,Plaza DF,Ocampo M,Curtidor H,Forero M,Rodriguez LE,Patarroyo ME

更新日期：2008-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep deprivation (SD) has detrimental effects on the physiological function of the brain. However, the underlying mechanism remains elusive. In the present study, we investigated the expression of candidate plasticity-related gene 15 (cpg15), a neurotrophic gene, and its potential role in SD using a REM-SD mouse mode...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li CJ,Li JJ,Jiang Y,Mu YW,Lu DX,Xiao ZY,Jiang HY,Zhao JJ,Chen XH

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I protein arginine N-methyltransferases catalyze the formation of omega-NG-monomethylarginine and asymmetric omega-NG, NG-dimethylarginine residues using S-adenosyl-l-methionine as the methyl donor. In vitro these enzymes can modify a number of soluble methyl-accepting substrates in yeast and mammalian cell extra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Frankel A,Clarke S

更新日期：1999-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocytin, a C-type lectin from Sarcophaga peregrina (flesh fly), stimulated glucose consumption and cytokine production by the mouse macrophage-like cell line J774.1. When J774.1 cells were pretreated with tunicamycin, their granulocytin-dependent TNF-alpha production was greatly reduced. These results suggest tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fujita Y,Homma KJ,Natori S

更新日期：2000-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:PI3K activation is commonly observed in many human cancer cells. Survivin expression is elevated in cancer cells, and induced by some growth factors through PI3K activation. However, it is not clear whether PI3K activation is sufficient to induce survivin expression. To investigate the role of PI3K pathway in the regu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao P,Meng Q,Liu LZ,You YP,Liu N,Jiang BH

更新日期：2010-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock induces a variety of biological events including gene activation, cell cycle arrest, and apoptosis. Heat shock has recently been shown to be potentially useful when combined with radiation in cancer therapy, probably because, in mammalian cells, heat inhibits the repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) induce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaneko H,Igarashi K,Kataoka K,Miura M

更新日期：2005-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a DNA vaccine encoding a fusion protein of ubiquitin (Ub) and target proteins at the N-terminus for effective induction of antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells. A series of expression plasmids encoding a model antigen, ovalbumin (OVA), fused with mutated Ub, was constructed. Western blotting analyses usin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Imai T,Duan X,Hisaeda H,Himeno K

更新日期：2008-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaiso was previously described as a methylated DNA-binding protein and a transcription repressor interacting with the corepressor protein complex NCoR. In the current study, we show that generation-3 Kaiso knockout mice show a phenotype of splenomegaly and large diffused germinal centers (GC). In the spleens of Kaiso ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koh DI,Yoon JH,Kim MK,An H,Kim MY,Hur MW

更新日期：2013-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured chinese hamster lung fibroblasts, and a variant clone selected for resistance to 8-azaguanine, that lacks hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (EC 2.4.2.8), have been tested for the ability to convert 8-azaguanine into 8-azaguanosine-5'-monophosphate via purine nucleoside phosphorylase and nucleosi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tozzi MG,Camici M,Falcone V,Turriani M,Turchi G,Ipata PL

更新日期：1989-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthritis is a common autoimmune disease that is associated with progressive disability, systemic complications and early death. However, the underling mechanisms of arthritis are still unclear. Sirtuins are a NAD(+)-dependent class III deacetylase family, and regulate cellular stress, inflammation, genomic stability,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lin J,Sun B,Jiang C,Hong H,Zheng Y

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00