Evidence for an antagonist specific receptor that does not bind mineralocorticoid agonists.

abstract：:Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) play a critical role in host antimicrobial response whereas they are also implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and autoimmunediseases. Generation of reactiveoxygen species (ROS) is key to NETs formation. A variety of stimulatory ligands have been found to enhance ROS pro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhu Y,Yang Y,Li F,Fan S,Chen X,Lu Y,Wei Y,Chen Q,Xia L,Tang J,Huang Q,Zhu Q,Zheng J,Liu X

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroglobulin of very low iodine content has been prepared from a single non-toxic human goitre. The initial iodine content of the protein (0.038%) has been increased to levels of 0.16% and 0.85% by in vitro treatment with thyroid peroxidase and the resulting proteins studied with respect to their intrinsic fluorescen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zabel KM,Rawitch AB

更新日期：1984-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy probe was designed and constructed for the study of transient metabolic changes in cellular systems during exposure to ionizing radiation. The probe incorporated a bioreactor, a radiation source, and a radiofrequency detection circuit tunable between 100 and 300 MH...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Magness JE,McFarland EW

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol is a critical component of lipid rafts implicated in regulating multiple signal transduction. The anthrax toxin receptor 2 (ANTXR2) is a type I membrane protein acting as the second receptor for the anthrax toxin. In this study, we first investigated the association between cholesterol and ANTXR2. We provi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zou J,Xu L,Ju Y,Zhang P,Wang Y,Zhang B

更新日期：2014-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:High circulating levels of anti-endothelial antibodies have been reported in patients with accelerated transplant coronary artery disease (TxCAD); however, the nature or characteristics of the antigen to which these antibodies bind in vivo remain unclear. To identify the antigen, a human endothelial cell cDNA expressi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ationu A,Collins A

更新日期：1997-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor-mediated responses to prostaglandins E1 and E2 are shown by electrophysiological methods in follicle-enclosed oocytes of Xenopus laevis. In voltage-clamped oocytes, prostaglandins E1 and E2 elicited an outward hyperpolarizing current. This outward membrane current was caused by an increase in K+ conductance. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mori K,Oka S,Tani A,Ito S,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1989-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-translational modification of histones has been implicated in the regulation of cellular lifespan. Previously, we reported that cellular aging is associated with increased ubiquitylation of histone H2B and methylation of histone H3 at lysines 4 and 79 in yeast telomeric heterochromatin. Here, we show the anta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ryu HY,Rhie BH,Ahn SH

更新日期：2014-03-28 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：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) promotes vasculogenesis, arteriogenesis, and angiogenesis by stimulating proliferation, migration, and cell survival of endothelial cells. VEGF mediates its actions through activation of two receptor tyrosine kinases, VEGFR-1 and VEGFR-2. Serum starvation led to apoptosis of h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yilmaz A,Kliche S,Mayr-Beyrle U,Fellbrich G,Waltenberger J

更新日期：2003-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat hearts were perfused for 15min with buffer equilibrated with 0.01% or 0.05% CO. The buffer was equilibrated with 21% O(2) throughout. The ventricular glutathione content decreased by 76% and 84%, 90min post-exposure to 0.01% and 0.05% CO, respectively, compared with 0% CO controls (0.45+/-0.01 micromol/g wet tissu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Patel AP,John Moody A,Handy RD,Robert Sneyd J

更新日期：2003-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitronectin immobilized onto polystyrene microtiter wells was demonstrated to specifically bind plasminogen in a concentration-dependent manner, yielding an estimated KD = 0.4 microM. Heparin only moderately interfered with the vitronectin-plasminogen interaction, whereas high concentrations of 6-amino-hexanoic acid i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Preissner KT

更新日期：1990-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocytosis is regulated by exocytotic proteins, which are present in insulin-secreting beta-cells and play regulatory roles in insulin secretion. Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes) is a disease characterized by impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. Exocytotic protein immunoreactivit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang W,Khan A,Ostenson CG,Berggren PO,Efendic S,Meister B

更新日期：2002-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptor (ER) is regarded as a major causal factor in breast cancer and FoxA1, a winged-helix transcription factor belonging to the forkhead family, has been found to function as a pioneer factor in the recruitment of ER to several cis-regulatory elements in the genome. High throughput chromatin immunoprecipi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu Z,Chen S

更新日期：2010-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast Ccc2 is a P-type ATPase responsible for transport of copper(I) from the cytosol to the trans-Golgi network. It possesses a soluble cytosolic N-terminal region containing two copper(I)-binding domains. Homologous eukaryotic copper-transporting ATPases have from one to six domains. We have expressed a fragment enc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Banci L,Bertini I,Chasapis CT,Rosato A,Tenori L

更新日期：2007-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sf-9 insect cells infected with a recombinant baculovirus integrated with a cDNA encoding human monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) produced three different MCP-1s, which were isolated by reverse-phase HPLC as 13kDa, 14kDa, and 15kDa bands on SDS-PAGE. The heterogeneity between these MCP-1s was ascribed to ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishii K,Yamagami S,Tanaka H,Motoki M,Suwa Y,Endo N

更新日期：1995-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria belonging to the Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) are important opportunistic pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Since approximately 80% of the CF isolates examined produce exopolysaccharide (EPS), it was hypothesized that this EPS may play a role in the colonization and persistence of these b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moreira LM,Videira PA,Sousa SA,Leitão JH,Cunha MV,Sá-Correia I

更新日期：2003-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A common cause for pharmacogenetic alteration in drug response is genetic variation in encoded amino acid sequence. We have used the catecholamine and drug-metabolizing enzyme sulfotransferase (SULT)1A3 to create an artificial model system to study mechanisms-especially possible aggresome formation-by which genetic al...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang L,Yee VC,Weinshilboum RM

更新日期：2004-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome inactivation in mammalian females occurs early in embryonic development and renders most genes on the inactive X chromosome transcriptionally silenced. As a consequence, females will display an X chromosomal parent-of-origin mosaiscism with regard to which parental allele that is expressed. Some genes, ho...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nordquist N,Oreland L

更新日期：2006-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural determinants of L-[(3)H]nicotine binding to synthetic peptides comprising residues 188-207 of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha subunits were invesitigated by equilibrium binding analysis. Two binding components were detected, one of low affinity (K(d) approximately 1.5 microM) that did not differ sign...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lentz TL

更新日期：2000-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To search for the signaling critical for the production of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2), we investigated the role of SHP-2 in TIMP-2 production with Concanavalin A (Con A)-treated cells. In wild-type fibroblasts, Con A-treatment dramatically activated TIMP-2 production. In contrast, production of T...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Biswas MH,Hasegawa HH,Rahman MA,Huang P,Mon NN,Ruhul Amin AR,Senga T,Kannagi R,Hamaguchi M

更新日期：2006-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:NRE1 is a DNA sequence element in the long terminal repeat of mouse mammary tumor virus that represses viral transcription in mature T cells. In addition to double-stranded binding activity, factors in Jurkat T cell nuclear extracts bind specifically to each of the two single-strands of NRE1. Here we show that binding...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rodda DJ,Giffin W,Haché RJ

更新日期：1995-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional ESR spectra of 16-doxyl-stearic acid bound to bovine and human serum albumin were recorded at different temperatures in order to investigate the status of spin-labeled fatty acid in the interior of the protein globule. A computer spectrum simulation of measured spectra, performed by non-linear least-squar...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gurachevsky A,Shimanovitch E,Gurachevskaya T,Muravsky V

更新日期：2007-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin receptor gene is induced 8 to 10-fold during adipocyte differentiation. Plasmids containing the promoter, exon 1 and a portion of the first intron from either the mouse or human gene are able to modulate the expression of an insulin receptor/CAT gene 3 to 7-fold during differentiation. We have shown that s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McKeon C,Accili D,Chen H,Pham T,Walker GE

更新日期：1997-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Rap1GAP (for Rap1 GTPase Activating Protein) is an 89 kD protein that highly stimulates the intrinsic GTPase activity of the small GTP binding protein Rap1. It has been shown that Rap1GAP is phosphorylated in vitro by purified p34cdc2 kinase, which regulates the G2/M transition of the cell cycle. In this work, we have...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Janoueix-Lerosey I,Fontenay M,Tobelem G,Tavitian A,Polakis P,de Gunzburg J

更新日期：1994-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal hypoxia can induce the persisting brain dysfunctions and subsequently result in the behavioral abnormalities in adulthood. Improving mitochondrial functions were suggested as the effective strategy for brain functional recovery. In this study, we tested the effects of physical exercise, a well-established way...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sun L,Ye R,Liang R,Xing F

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione S-transferase Y-2 mRNA synthesis was induced in yeast Issatchenkia orientalis approximately 37-fold by cultivation with o-dinitrobenzene. A cDNA library complementary to poly (A)+RNA of I. orientalis grown with o-dinitrobenzene was screened by colony hybridization. Twenty positive clones were obtained from...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tamaki H,Kumagai H,Tochikura T

更新日期：1990-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Total kininogen in plasma of Freund's adjuvant treated rats increased 20-fold 7 days following the injection. Analysis of the kininogens demonstrated that increases in T-kininogen was the major reason for the rise in kininogen. High molecular weight and low molecular weight kininogens showed little or no change. The i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Barlas A,Okamoto H,Greenbaum LM

更新日期：1985-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory adaptation requires the change of intracellular calcium concentration during stimuli. To contribute in the study of the molecular mechanism of calcium-dependent regulations in olfactory receptor cells, we isolated a novel 26-kDa Ca2+-binding protein named p26olf from the frog olfactory epithelium after four ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miwa N,Kobayashi M,Takamatsu K,Kawamura S

更新日期：1998-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The EC(50) values for concentration-dependent stimulation of cAMP accumulation by CRF (1.3nM) and urocortin (1.0nM) were equivalent in human retinoblastoma Y79 cells. The time course and magnitude of CRF- and urocortin-induced CRF(1) receptor desensitization were similar. A significant 3-fold increase in GRK3, but not...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dautzenberg FM,Wille S,Braun S,Hauger RL

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognosis of patients after acute kidney injury (AKI) is poor and treatment is limited. AKI is mainly caused by renal ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). During the extension phase of IRI, endothelial damage may participate in ischemia and inflammation. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) which is mostly secreted by endo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arfian N,Emoto N,Vignon-Zellweger N,Nakayama K,Yagi K,Hirata K

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00