P-45011 beta-dependent conversion of cortisol to cortisone, and 19-hydroxyandrostenedione to 19-oxoandrostenedione.

abstract：:The product of the spontaneous dimerization and decarboxylation of aminoethylcysteine ketimine (simply named the dimer in this note) has been investigated for a possible biochemical activity. It has been found that the dimer inhibits the ADP-dependent oxidation of NAD(+)-linked substrates in rat liver mitochondria and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pecci L,Montefoschi G,Fontana M,Cavallini D

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:GMP-140 (CD62; PADGEM) is a member of the selectin family expressed highly at the surface of platelets and endothelial cells by agonists such as thrombin or phorbol esters. Previous studies indicate that the lectin domain of GMP-140 recognizes sialosyl-Le(x) (SLex) and to a lesser extent Le(x) (Polley MJ, et al., Proc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Handa K,Nudelman ED,Stroud MR,Shiozawa T,Hakomori S

更新日期：1991-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autophagy and apoptosis are two important regulators of cell survival, and are often observed simultaneously in response to noxious stimuli. Anoxia is a known stimulus for autophagy and apoptosis, and angiotensin (Ang) II is a major mediator of anoxic injury. However, specific responses to anoxia and Ang II ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang X,Dai Y,Ding Z,Khaidakov M,Mercanti F,Mehta JL

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Ap4A hydrolase (asymmetrical diadenosine tetraphosphate hydrolase, EC 3.6.1.17), an enzyme involved in a number of biological processes, is characterized as cleaving the polyphosphate chain at the fourth phosphate from the bound adenosine moiety. This paper presents the crystal structure of wild-type and E58A mutant h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ge H,Chen X,Yang W,Niu L,Teng M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bombesin receptor subtype-3 (BRS-3) is an orphan G protein-coupled receptor in the bombesin receptor family that still awaits identification of its natural ligand. BRS-3 deficient mice develop a mild late-onset obesity with metabolic defects, implicating BRS-3 plays a role in feeding and metabolism. We describe here t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang L,Nothacker HP,Wang Z,Bohn LM,Civelli O

更新日期：2009-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nrf2 is a key regulator of many detoxifying enzyme genes, and cytoplasmic protein Keap1 represses the Nrf2 activity under quiescent conditions. Germ line deletion of the keap1 gene results in constitutive activation of Nrf2, but the pups unexpectedly died before weaning. To investigate how constitutive activation of N...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okawa H,Motohashi H,Kobayashi A,Aburatani H,Kensler TW,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2006-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Large tonsillar lymphocytes labeled with [3H]thymidine reverted to small lymphocytes with concomitant loss of [3H]DNA upon culturing. The decrease of labeled DNA content and size of large lymphocytes was demonstrated by flow cytometry and cell sorting. These observations suggest that stimulated lymphocytes may revert ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasvari-Szekely M,Staub M,Taljanidisz J,Szabo G Jr,Takacs J,Antoni F

更新日期：1984-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Glycosylation has been shown to affect the rate of glycoprotein transport through the secretory pathway. In order to identify the critical components in the N-glycosylation pathway that directly influence protein secretion, we have studied the effects of downregulation of the first gene in the dolichol pathway, ALG7...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kukuruzinska MA,Apekin V,Lamkin MS,Hiltz A,Rodriguez A,Lin CC,Paz MA,Oppenheim FG

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidosqualene:protostadienol cyclase (OSPC) from the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, catalyzes the cyclization of (3S)-2,3-oxidosqualene into protosta-17(20)Z,24-dien-3beta-ol which is the precursor of the steroidal antibiotic helvolic acid. To shed light on the structure-function relationship between OSPC and oxidosqua...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kimura M,Kushiro T,Shibuya M,Ebizuka Y,Abe I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-electron reduction product of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-2,3-dihydropyridinium ion has been generated by pulse radiolysis and its absorption spectrum recorded. This radical was found to decay by second-order kinetics (2k = 9.5 x 10(8) M-1 s-1) to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine and 1-methyl-4-phenyl-2,3-di...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chacón JN,Chedekel MR,Land EJ,Truscott TG

更新日期：1989-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteinyl leukotrienes (cysLTs), which include leukotriene C4 (LTC4), are the predominant class of LTs synthesized by mast cells. CysLTs can induce many of the abnormalities seen in asthma. LTC4 is generated by the conjugation of LTA4 with reduced glutathione (GSH) by LTC4 synthase. During screening of the effects of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Seki K,Hisada T,Kawata T,Kamide Y,Dobashi K,Yamada M,Mori M,Okajima F,Ishizuka T

更新日期：2013-09-27 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：:Potassium homeostasis plays an essential role in the control of blood pressure. It is unknown, however, whether potassium balance is involved in the gender-associated blood pressure differences. We therefore investigated the possible mechanism of sexual dimorphism in blood pressure regulation by measuring the blood pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu G,Cheng M,Wang W,Zhao R,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is critical to a wide range of physiological and pathological processes. Scutellarin, a major flavonoid of a Chinese herbal medicine Erigeron breviscapus (Vant.) Hand. Mazz. has been shown to offer beneficial effects on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular functions. However, scutellarin's effects on angiog...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gao ZX,Huang DY,Li HX,Zhang LN,Lv YH,Cui HD,Zheng JH

更新日期：2010-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of parathyroid hormone (PTH) to enhance bone formation has recently been exploited in the treatment of osteoporosis. Several studies have suggested that the activation of bone marrow stromal cells could be preceded to show the anabolic effect of PTH on bone formation, but little is known of PTH-regulated p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim SH,Jun S,Jang HS,Lim SK

更新日期：2005-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:SAP90/PSD95-associated proteins (SAPAPs) are one type of scaffold protein in the postsynaptic density (PSD). Scaffold proteins play an important role in synaptic function. Recently, many studies have shown that mutations associated with scaffold proteins cause dysfunction in neuronal circuitry and in behavior. SAPAP4,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu B,Li C,Lei H

更新日期：2018-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Just before I became an editor of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications in 1977 we published our first paper in this same journal on the study of tiny perfused rat hearts by (31)P NMR. In this article I trace the development of this in vivo NMR approach from the study of small rat and mouse hearts to hum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Radda GK

更新日期：1999-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is a common cancer with metachronous distant metastases still threatening overall survival. Tumor oxygen level influences tumor radiosensitivity in relation to autophagy and apoptosis. The objective of this study is to evaluate the expression and interaction between multiple key regulators in differe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tam SY,Wu VWC,Law HKW

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial dichloromethane dehalogenases catalyze the glutathione-dependent hydrolysis of dichloromethane to formaldehyde and are members of the enzyme superfamily of glutathione S-transferases involved in the detoxification of electrophilic compounds. Numerous protein engineering studies have addressed questions perta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vuilleumier S,Sorribas H,Leisinger T

更新日期：1997-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation-specific PCR (MSP) is frequently used to distinguish methylated alleles in the genome. Sequences that have been incompletely converted during bisulfite treatment are frequently co-amplified during MSP. For accurate MSP, it is important to detect methylated sequences in a background of unconverted DNA with ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasaki M,Anast J,Bassett W,Kawakami T,Sakuragi N,Dahiya R

更新日期：2003-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of caspase-3 is a key surrogate marker for detecting apoptosis. To quantitate caspase-3 activity, we constructed a biosensor comprising a recombinant firefly luciferase containing a caspase-3 cleavage site. When apoptosis was induced, caspase-3 cleavage of the biosensor activated firefly luciferase by a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shi J,Zhang H,Fang L,Xi Y,Zhou Y,Luo R,Wang D,Xiao S,Chen H

更新日期：2014-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Transformation of fluorene by washed cells of fluorene-grown Pseudomonas sp. F274 yielded 1,la-dihydroxy-1-hydrofluoren-9-one (up to 100 mg/l) as the stable product of angular dioxygenation of 9-fluorenone. Structural identity of the angular keto-diol was established by 13C- and 1H-NMR, gas chromatography- and direct ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Selifonov SA,Grifoll M,Gurst JE,Chapman PJ

更新日期：1993-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Atriopeptin (AP) is expressed in several tissues with each tissue capable of specific differences in processing of the prohormone (pro-AP) to mature low molecular forms of the peptide. Since pro-AP has low biological activity, processing into mature AP is a critical activation event. This observation prompted us to st...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shiono S,Suganuma N,Bo M,Boime I,Seibert K,Nakao K,Mukoyama M,Imura H,Needleman P

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An organic extract of Nitzschia alba cells possesses ionophoretic activity towards silicate, as it induces silicate transport across an organic phase or across synthetic lipid membranes. The activity is dependent upon Na+ and prefers silicon to germanium, a congener. The activity can be resolved into two apparently pu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bhattacharyya P,Volcani BE

更新日期：1983-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Assay systems for the evaluation of carcinogen interaction with human tissues are essential for assessing cancer risk. Human hair roots (HHR) are a readily obtainable epithelial tissue source that have been employed for investigating inherited enzyme activities. In this study HHR were found to possess cytochrome P-450...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Merk HF,Mukhtar H,Schutte B,Kaufmann I,Das M,Bickers DR

更新日期：1987-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:One hypothesis for the etiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is that the formation of proteinaceous inclusion, which is mainly composed of alpha-synuclein, may contribute to the selective loss of dopaminergic neurons. To further explore the role of alpha-synuclein in neurodegeneration of PD, we examined the possible ef...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu F,Xu H,Zhuo M,Sun L,Dong A,Liu X

更新日期：2005-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene coding for connexin26 (Cx26) is the most common cause of human nonsyndromic hereditary deafness. To investigate deafness mechanisms underlying Cx26 null mutations, we generated three independent lines of conditional Cx26 null mice. Cell differentiation and gross cochlear morphology at birth seeme...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Y,Chang Q,Tang W,Sun Y,Zhou B,Li H,Lin X

更新日期：2009-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversal of the plasma membrane Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX) has been shown to mediate Ca(2+) influx in response to activation of G-protein linked receptors. Functional coupling of reverse-mode NCX with canonical transient receptor potential channels (TRPC), specifically TRPC6, has recently been demonstrated by our la...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Syyong HT,Poburko D,Fameli N,van Breemen C

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant cytochrome P450 11 beta-hydroxylase/aldosterone synthase cDNA (CYP11B2) clone, pALDO-4, was isolated and sequenced from a rat zona glomerulosa cDNA library. This clone contains a 1521 bp open reading frame coding for a 506 amino acid residue protein which has a 30 amino acid extension peptide which is 6 resi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou M,Gomez-Sanchez CE

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00