Evidence that mammalian lignans show endogenous digitalis-like activities.

abstract：:Effect of recombinant human interleukin-11 (rhIL-11) on the expression of transcripts encoding microsomal heme oxygenase (HO), the rate-limiting enzyme in heme catabolism, and haptoglobin (Hpt), a major acute-phase protein, were examined in human HepG2 hepatoma cells. Treatment of HepG2 cells with rhIL-11 elicited an ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fukuda Y,Sassa S

更新日期：1993-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:During our human heart cDNA sequencing project, we have obtained a novel cDNA clone which is very similar in DNA and amino acid sequences to a rat/mouse cysteine-rich intestinal protein (1). Sequence analysis has shown that this human cysteine-rich heart protein (hCRHP) is a protein of 77 amino acids and possesses a L...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsui SK,Yam NY,Lee CY,Waye MM

更新日期：1994-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:18β-Glycyrrhetinic acid (18β-GA) obtained from the herb liquorice has various pharmacological properties including anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial activities. However, potential biological anti-obesity activities are unclear. In this study, novel biological activities of 18β-GA in the adipogenesis of 3T3-L1 pread...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon MH,Jeong JK,Lee YJ,Seol JW,Ahn DC,Kim IS,Park SY

更新日期：2012-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcineurin (CN), a calcium-activated phosphatase, plays a critical role in various biological processes including T cell activation. Cabin1, a calcineurin binding protein 1, has been shown to bind directly to CN using its C-terminal region and inhibit CN activity. However, no increase in CN activity has been found in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jang H,Cho EJ,Youn HD

更新日期：2007-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA encoding Mn peroxidase isozyme H4 from Phanerochaete chrysosporium was recombined into a baculovirus and heterologously expressed in Sf9 cells. The recombinant Mn peroxidase has the same molecular weight as the native enzyme as determined by SDS-PAGE and cross-reacts with a Mn peroxidase-specific antibody. Th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pease EA,Aust SD,Tien M

更新日期：1991-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Several naphthoquinones, except 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, were found to inhibit microsomal cytochrome P-450-linked monooxygenase activities in rabbit liver and human placenta. In particular, 5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone inhibited placental estrogen biosynthesis more effectively than it did hepatic drug oxidation r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Muto N,Inouye K,Inada A,Nakanishi T,Tan L

更新日期：1987-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Two fractions with high potency for reversing the inhibitory effect of Met-enkephalin on the electrically induced contractility of guinea-pig ileum have been purified from bovine brain extract. Unexpectedly, one isolated peptide was identified as [Val5]-angiotensin I and the other fraction was [Val5]-angiotensin II, a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaneko S,Tamura S,Takagi H

更新日期：1985-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-17, which exerts strong pro-inflammatory effects, has emerged as an important mediator in inflammation-associated cancer. However, the characteristics of IL-17-producing cells, the relevance of IL-17 to clinical parameters and its function in the development and progression of colorectal carcinoma still remain to b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu J,Duan Y,Cheng X,Chen X,Xie W,Long H,Lin Z,Zhu B

更新日期：2011-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine-specific phosphorylated proteins found exclusively on the cell surface of human astrocytomas were previously identified with murine monoclonal antibodies, designated as GA-17, GB-4 and GC-3. The purpose of this study was to further characterize the antigens and investigate the relationship between them and c-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kondo S,Miyatake S,Matsumoto M,Nakatsu S,Iwasaki K,Oda Y,Kikuchi H,Namba Y

更新日期：1992-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The family C G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) T1R2 and T1R3 heterodimer functions as a broadly acting sweet taste receptor. Perception of sweet taste is a species-dependent physiological process. It has been widely reported that New World monkeys and rodents are not able to perceive some of the artificial sweeteners ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu B,Ha M,Meng XY,Khaleduzzaman M,Zhang Z,Li X,Cui M

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Four clonal cell lines subcloned from a clonal population of fetal rat calvaria cells show a loss of type I collagen synthesis. Northern blot analysis showed that the level of alpha 1(I) collagen mRNA expression in each of the clonal populations parallels the level of collagen protein expression in each of these cell ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Waye MM,Robinson R,Orfanides AG,Aubin JE

更新日期：1989-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oct4, a member of the POU-domain transcription factor family, has been implicated in the cancer stem cell (CSC)-like properties of various cancers. However, the precise role of Oct4 in colorectal CSC initiation remains uncertain. Numerous studies have demonstrated a strong link between inflammation and tumorigenesis i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chang CJ,Chien Y,Lu KH,Chang SC,Chou YC,Huang CS,Chang CH,Chen KH,Chang YL,Tseng LM,Song WS,Wang JJ,Lin JK,Huang PI,Lan YT

更新日期：2011-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the importance of charge and hydrogen-bonding potential of the phosphodiester backbone for binding and cleavage by EcoRI restriction endonuclease. We used 12-mer oligodeoxynucleotide substrates with single substitutions of phosphates by chiral methylphosphonates at each position of the recognition sequ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rosati O,Srivastava TK,Katti SB,Alves J

更新日期：2002-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane fractions from mouse livers were examined for the presence of growth regulatory peptides. Both growth inhibitory and growth stimulatory factors were found on these membranes. The growth inhibitory component could be enriched by extractions with both dimethylmaleic anhydride and octylglucoside. The grow...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lieberman MA

更新日期：1984-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a tightly regulated self-digestion system. As in other cell types, autophagy plays an essential role in the homeostasis of pancreatic beta cells. However, the mechanisms involved in the deterioration of beta cell function caused by autophagic failure have not yet been fully elucidated. To gain insight int...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamamoto E,Uchida T,Abe H,Taka H,Fujimura T,Komiya K,Hara A,Ogihara T,Fujitani Y,Ueno T,Takeda S,Watada H

更新日期：2014-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated by RNase protection the differential expression of CYP3A4 and CYP3A7 mRNAs in fetal and adult human livers and in adult hepatocytes in primary culture. Our results show that CYP3A7 is expressed in the liver of 8 of 9 adult Caucasians examined, at an average level of 1.7% of the level found in a fetal l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Greuet J,Pichard L,Bonfils C,Domergue J,Maurel P

更新日期：1996-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to find out whether C-terminally end-cleaved aquaporin 0 (AQP0), that is present predominantly in the lens mature fiber cells of the WT, functions as a water channel and a cell-to-cell adhesion (CTCA) protein in a knockin (KI) mouse model (AQP0ΔC/ΔC) that does not express intact A...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kumari SS,Varadaraj K

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Helical hairpins, two closely spaced helical membrane spanning segments separated by a short surface turn, are thought to be common in integral membrane proteins. Here, we study the membrane integration of a naturally occurring helical hairpin from the secretory Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl(-) cotransporter NKCC1. This sequence is ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagy A,Turner RJ

更新日期：2007-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides containing phosphonate based non-hydrolyzable phosphotyrosyl (pTyr) mimetics previously have been shown to be competitive inhibitors of protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs). These agents suffer from low cellular penetration which is partially attributable to ionization of the phosphonate group at physiologica...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kole HK,Akamatsu M,Ye B,Yan X,Barford D,Roller PP,Burke TR Jr

更新日期：1995-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that through binding a novel intracellular receptor of microM affinity (HIC), histamine mediates, and the HIC antagonist N,N-diethyl-2-[4-(phenylmethyl)phenoxy]ethanamine. HCl (DPPE) inhibits, platelet aggregation and serotonin granule secretion; the latter response is dependent upon the sa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Brandes LJ,Sukhu B,Bogdanovic RP

更新日期：1990-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the function of N-terminal and C-terminal domains of the human ETA receptor by expressing truncated mutants in COS-7 cells. Three kinds of ETA receptors truncated in the N-terminal extracellular or C-terminal intracellular domains were produced. Deletion of the entire extracellular N-terminal or i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hashido K,Gamou T,Adachi M,Tabuchi H,Watanabe T,Furuichi Y,Miyamoto C

更新日期：1992-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to establish a novel efficient nonviral strategy for suicide gene transfer in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in vivo. We employed branched polyethylenimine (PEI) and combined it with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-based plasmid vectors. The HCC cells transfected with an EBV-based plasmid carrying the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwai M,Harada Y,Tanaka S,Muramatsu A,Mori T,Kashima K,Imanishi J,Mazda O

更新日期：2002-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing number of studies have indicated that microRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators of carcinogenesis and cancer progression and may serve as potential therapeutic tools for cancer therapy. Frizzled7 (Fzd7), the most important receptor of the Wnt signaling pathway, is extensively involved in cancer development ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ren W,Li C,Duan W,Du S,Yang F,Zhou J,Xing J

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide, tert-butyl hydroperoxide, cumene hydroperoxide, and 3-chloroperoxybenzoic acid (CPB) and 15-HPETE relaxed, in a concentration dependent manner rat aortic rings contracted with PGF2 alpha (1 X 10(-5)). Relaxation is not inhibited by either indomethacin (2 X 10(-5) M), a cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor or e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thomas G,Ramwell P

更新日期：1986-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant human glioma D-298 MG amplifies a rearranged epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene (c-erbB proto-oncogene), resulting in an in-frame deletion of 83 amino acids in domain IV of the extracellular domain of the EGFR. EGF and transforming growth factor-a (TGF-a) bound to the mutant EGFR with high affinity...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Humphrey PA,Gangarosa LM,Wong AJ,Archer GE,Lund-Johansen M,Bjerkvig R,Laerum OD,Friedman HS,Bigner DD

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous previous studies have revealed that many long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are upregulated in gastric cancer (GC) and are associated with tumor onset and progression in GC. ADPGK-AS1, a novel lncRNA, has been discovered as an oncogenic lncRNA in pancreatic cancer while its function in GC remains unclea...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huang Z,Yang H

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

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：:The isolation and sequence analysis of the gene encoding the bovine atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) precursor is described. The bovine-ANP coding sequences are located on three exons which are interrupted by two intervening sequences. Comparison of the bovine, human, rat and mouse ANP gene sequences reveals a common ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vlasuk GP,Miller J,Bencen GH,Lewicki JA

更新日期：1986-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum raised against horseradish peroxidase (HRP) recognizes neural specific carbohydrate antigens in Drosophila and other insects. The occurrence of the antigens in mammalian cells was investigated. Proteins were extracted from rat pheochromocytoma cells, PC12, and various tissue of rat and bovine origin, and fur...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurosaka A,Tsuyuki Y,Tahara S

更新日期：1994-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloride intracellular channel protein CLIC4 is a putative organellar anion channel or channel regulator with an unusual dual cytoplasmic and integral membrane localisation. To investigate its contribution to cellular anion channel activity, the protein was overexpressed in stably transfected HEK-293 cells. Patch-clam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Proutski I,Karoulias N,Ashley RH

更新日期：2002-09-20 00:00:00