On the physiological role of neurocuprein: aponeurocuprein is an inhibitor of dopamine beta-monooxygenase.

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a small virus that infects the liver. The major obstacle in applying the RNA interference method as an anti-HBV weapon is the challenge to deliver the small interfering RNA molecules to the liver efficiently and specifically. Here we show that HBV-specific short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) are eff...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shlomai A,Lubelsky Y,Har-Noy O,Shaul Y

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Small GTPase Rap1 has been implicated in the proper differentiation of testicular germ cells. In the present study, we investigated the functional significance of RA-GEF-2/Rapgef6, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rap1, in testicular differentiation using mice lacking RA-GEF-2. RA-GEF-2 was expressed predomina...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okada K,Miyake H,Yamaguchi K,Chiba K,Maeta K,Bilasy SE,Edamatsu H,Kataoka T,Fujisawa M

更新日期：2014-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it's well known that protein carbonyl (PCO) and advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) levels are elevated in plasma from patients with renal dysfunction, we recently identified patients who had no renal dysfunction but possessed high levels of plasma pentosidine (PEN), which is an AGEs, and low vitamin B6 le...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koike S,Kayama T,Arai M,Horiuchi Y,Kobori A,Miyashita M,Itokawa M,Ogasawara Y

更新日期：2015-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although elevated oxygen fraction is used in intensive care units around the world, pathological changes in pulmonary tissue have been shown to occur with prolonged exposure to hyperoxia. In this work a bovine bronchus culture model has been successfully used to evaluate the effects of hyperoxia on ciliated epithelium...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Al-Shmgani HS,Moate RM,Sneyd JR,Macnaughton PD,Moody AJ

更新日期：2012-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Since our experimental results suggest that UT-B1 functions as active water transporter against osmotic gradient in C6 glial cells, we report here for the first time the evidence for the active water transport. Exposure of C6 cells to a hyperosmotic solution containing glycerol or sucrose produced cell shrinkage due t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ogami A,Miyazaki H,Niisato N,Sugimoto T,Marunaka Y

更新日期：2006-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of oxidative hemolytic anemia is closely associated with hemoglobin (Hb) stability; however, the mechanism of how Hb maintains its stability under oxidative stress conditions of red blood cells (RBCs) carrying high levels of oxygen is unknown. Here, we investigated the potential role of peroxiredox...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Han YH,Kim SU,Kwon TH,Lee DS,Ha HL,Park DS,Woo EJ,Lee SH,Kim JM,Chae HB,Lee SY,Kim BY,Yoon DY,Rhee SG,Fibach E,Yu DY

更新日期：2012-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In a span of approximately 13 kb, two genomic fragments showing an obvious overlap encoded the 1,192 base pair (bp) cDNA sequence for human H-protein. Because of the close similarity in the genomic organization comprised of five exons to that for the chicken H-protein gene, this region was assigned to the true H-prote...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koyata H,Hiraga K

更新日期：1991-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Centaurin-alpha(1) was originally described as a binding partner for phosphoinositides. In spite of the presence of a putative ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) GTPase-activating protein (GAP) domain, no ARF-GAP activity has been attributed to centaurin-alpha(1) so far. Thus the function of this protein remains to be dete...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dubois T,Zemlickova E,Howell S,Aitken A

更新日期：2003-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonamer 5'd(CTCAGCCTC) 3' 1 has been reacted with cis-diamminediaquaplatinum(II) in water at pH 4.2. The major reaction product was shown by enzymatic digestion and 1H NMR to be the d(ApG)cis-Pt(NH3)2 chelate [cis-Pt(NH3)2[d(CTCAGCCTC)-N7(4),N7(5)]] 1-Pt. When mixed with its complementary strand 2, 1-Pt forms a B ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fouchet MH,Gauthier C,Guittet E,Girault JP,Igolen J,Chottard JC

更新日期：1992-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Full activation of different T cell populations via the TcR/CD3 complex leads to transient expression of lymphokine mRNA and to transient and specific down-modulation of TcR, CD4, CD8 and p56lck mRNA (Multi-Receptor Complex or MRC mRNA). This transient down-modulation is due to both a decrease in transcription and sta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Paillard F,Sterkers G,Vaquero C

更新日期：1992-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL)-related cells have the ability to produce a newly-isolated calcium-regulating protein, parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP). The present study revealed that lectin-stimulated normal lymphocytes produce immunoreactive (IR)-PTHrP. When the T-cell-enriched fraction was purified from nor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Adachi N,Yamaguchi K,Miyake Y,Honda S,Nagasaki K,Akiyama Y,Adachi I,Abe K

更新日期：1990-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast transcriptional regulator Hap1 promotes both transcriptional activation and repression. Previous studies have shown that Hap1 binds to the promoter of its own gene and represses its transcription. In this report, we identified the DNA site that allows Hap1-binding with high affinity. This Hap1-binding site c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xin X,Lan C,Lee HC,Zhang L

更新日期：2007-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a DNA polymerase species in Drosophila melanogaster embryos, and purified it. This polymerase shared some common properties with DNA polymerase epsilon from mammals and yeast as follows; it has a preference for poly(dA)/oligo(dT) as a template/primer, it is highly processive in DNA synthesis, it co-fract...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aoyagi N,Oshige M,Hirose F,Kuroda K,Matsukage A,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1997-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemiluminescence in visible region was detected, during peroxidase-catalyzed oxidation of chlorpromazine at pH7.5 (but not at pH4.25) or of propericiazine, both at pH7.5 and at pH4.25. Red colored intermediates, cation radicals, were produced and decayed in all enzymatic systems used. Chemiluminescence was also detec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakano M,Sugioka K,Nakano H,Takyu C,Inaba H

更新日期：1985-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS coronavirus, SCV, has been recently responsible of a sudden and widespread infection which caused almost 800 victims. The limited amount of SCV protein structural information is partially responsible of the lack of specific drugs against the virus. Coronavirus helicases are very conserved and peculiar proteins wh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bernini A,Spiga O,Venditti V,Prischi F,Bracci L,Huang J,Tanner JA,Niccolai N

更新日期：2006-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of CCl 39 cells with the impermeable iron II chelator bathophenanthroline disulfonate (BPS) inhibits both DNA synthesis and transplasma membrane electron transport. The inhibition persists when the BPS is removed, and the extract from 10(6) cells contains up to 1.28 nmoles iron II chelated to BPS. The BPS ir...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Alcain FJ,Löw H,Crane FL

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of omeprazole on developing rat stomach mucosa were investigated. Infant rats were given subcutaneous injections of either omeprazole (25 mg/kg body weight/day) or vehicle once a day from the day after birth. As a result, omeprazole caused an elevation of mucosal pH and suppressed an increase in mucosal pe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kakei N,Ichinose M,Tsukada S,Tatematsu M,Tezuka N,Furihata C,Yahagi N,Matsushima M,Miki K,Kurokawa K

更新日期：1993-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin gene was induced into differentiated hepatic cell line. These cells released immunoreactive insulin (IRI) of which molecular weight was greater than mature insulin. The secretion of IRI was responsive to glucose concentration and inhibited by glucose metabolism antagonist, 2-deoxy glucose (2-DOG). The mRNA of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi M,Taguchi M,Fujita T

更新日期：1997-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplex is one of the best-studied non-B type DNA that is now known to be prevalently present in the genomes of almost all the biological species. Recent studies reveal roles of G-quadruplex (G4) structures in various nucleic acids and chromosome transactions. In this short article, we will first describe recent ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Masai H,Tanaka T

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine cytochrome c oxidase in 0.1% dodecylmaltoside, 50 mM KCl and 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4 is monodisperse with an apparent Mr 360,000 (dimer) as estimated by filtration on Ultrogel AcA 34. In the absence of added KCl the apparent Mr is 160,000 (monomer). The dimeric enzyme has a high and a low affinity site for cytoc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nałecz KA,Bolli R,Azzi A

更新日期：1983-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An alternative molecular biology strategy is needed to characterize cholinephosphotransferase (CPT) gene because of the complexity of the problem associated with the solubilization of the membrane-bound enzyme without denaturation. We have synthesized five heterologous oligonucleotide probes based on the published yea...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Das SK,Beg O,Mukherjee S

更新日期：1997-12-18 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：:Etoposide-induced 2.4 kb transcript (EI24, also known as PIG8) is a p53 target gene involved in cell growth suppression and apoptosis and known to be frequently altered in human cancers. Although EI24 expression is decreased in various cancers and is associated with colorectal cancer progression and metastasis, the ph...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nam TW,Park SY,Lee JH,Roh JI,Lee HW

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular cholesterol transfer to mitochondria, a bottleneck of adrenal and gonadal steroidogenesis, relies on the functioning of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR, STARD1), for which many disease-associated mutations have been described. Despite significant progress in the field, the exact mechanis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sluchanko NN,Tugaeva KV,Maksimov EG

更新日期：2017-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphorylation, governed by kinases and phosphatases, plays a pivotal role in enormous cellular signaling pathways. Although PPP family of serine/threonine phosphatases have been involved in multiplication and growth of trypanosomatid parasites, but comprehensive knowledge is still very limited. In the presen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Qureshi R,Jakkula P,Sagurthi SR,Qureshi IA

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH-lipoamide dehydrogenase mobilized iron from ferritin under aerobic conditions. Superoxide dismutase strongly inhibited this mobilization, indicating that the superoxide radical is generated by the enzymatic reaction and release iron from ferritin. Addition of lipoamide as an electron acceptor to NADH-lipoamide de...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bando Y,Aki K

更新日期：1990-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In cultured rabbit vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), a potent mitogen for VSMC, induced the dose- and time-dependent formation of inositol mono-, bis- and trisphosphates (IP1, IP2 and IP3, respectively). The doses of PDGF necessary for these reactions were similar to those for...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawahara Y,Kariya K,Araki S,Fukuzaki H,Takai Y

更新日期：1988-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have partially characterized the properties of a specific acetylhydrolase in plasma from spontaneous hypertensive rats. This enzyme inactivates 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (a lipid involved in platelet aggregating, hypotensive, and allergic responses) by removal of the acetate group. The extent of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Blank ML,Hall MN,Cress EA,Snyder F

更新日期：1983-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation has been postulated as a risk factor for several cancers. 3-Nitrotyrosine is a biochemical marker for inflammation. We investigated the ability of nitrotyrosine and nitrotyrosine-containing peptides (nitroY-peptide) to induce DNA damage by the experiments using 32P-labeled DNA fragments obtained from the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Murata M,Kawanishi S

更新日期：2004-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the involvement of thyroid hormone on the release of atrial natriuretic polypeptide (ANP), we have measured immunoreactive ANP in the atria and plasma of experimental hyperthyroid and hypothyroid rats. Plasma ANP was higher (p less than 0.05) in hyperthyroid rats and was lower (p less than 0.05) in hypo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kohno M,Takaori K,Matsuura T,Murakawa K,Kanayama Y,Takeda T

更新日期：1986-01-14 00:00:00