Characteristics of hepatitis B surface antigen produced in yeast.

abstract：:Alpha-synuclein is a major component of several pathological lesions diagnostic of specific neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson's disease. This study focuses on the non-amyloid beta component of Alzheimer's disease amyloid, a key region for the aggregation and fibril formation of alpha-synuclein. Several mutat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sode K,Usuzaka E,Kobayashi N,Ochiai S

更新日期：2005-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine kinase inhibitors targeting the BCR-ABL oncoprotein in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) are remarkably effective inducing deep molecular remission in most patients. However, they are less effective to eradicate the leukemic stem cells (LSC), resulting in disease persistence. Therefore, there is great need to de...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dolinska M,Piccini A,Wong WM,Gelali E,Johansson AS,Klang J,Xiao P,Yektaei-Karin E,Strömberg UO,Mustjoki S,Stenke L,Ekblom M,Qian H

更新日期：2017-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolysis, the catabolism of glucose to pyruvate, is an iconic central metabolic pathway and often used as a paradigm for explaining the general principles of the regulation/control of cellular metabolism. The ubiquitous mammalian ATP-dependent hexokinases I-III and hexokinase IV, also termed glucokinase, initiate th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ronimus RS,Morgan HW

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Four analogues of parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP), PTHrP(7-34)NH2, (10-34)NH2, (15-34)NH2 and (20-34)NH2, were synthesized and their antagonistic activity against PTHrP(1-34) was examined in vitro and in vivo. In vitro studies revealed that all four analogues antagonized PTHrP-stimulated cyclic AMP product...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagasaki K,Yamaguchi K,Miyake Y,Hayashi C,Honda S,Urakami K,Miki K,Kimura S,Watanabe T,Abe K

更新日期：1989-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome (cyt) c can uncouple from the respiratory chain following mitochondrial stress and catalyze lipid peroxidation. Accumulating evidence shows that this phenomenon impairs mitochondrial respiratory function and also initiates the apoptotic cascade. Therefore, under certain conditions a pharmacological approach...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yin H,Vergeade A,Shi Q,Zackert WE,Gruenberg KC,Bokiej M,Amin T,Ying W,Masterson TS,Zinkel SS,Oates JA,Boutaud O,Roberts LJ 2nd

更新日期：2012-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation end products (AGE) are involved in tissue damage and remodeling. This study investigated whether AGE could elicit inflammatory and fibrogenic reactions in fibroblast cell line MRC-5 cells via autocrine production of aldosterone and if nifedipine could block the AGE actions through mineralocorticoid ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsui T,Takeuchi M,Yamagishi S

更新日期：2010-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Topoisomerase 1 (TOP1) poisons like camptothecin (CPT) are currently used in cancer chemotherapy but these compounds can have damaging, off-target effects on neurons leading to cognitive, sensory and motor deficits. To understand the molecular basis for the enhanced sensitivity of neurons to CPT, we examined the effec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rossi SL,Lumpkin CJ,Harris AW,Holbrook J,Gentillon C,McCahan SM,Wang W,Butchbach MER

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of genes have been identified in the fully sequenced genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that appear to be conserved throughout evolution and the function of which remains poorly understood. In this manuscript we describe the initial characterization of yeast BUD31 gene. cDNA sequences highly related to BUD31 ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Masciadri B,Areces LB,Carpinelli P,Foiani M,Draetta G,Fiore F

更新日期：2004-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate limiting step in 5-fluorouracil catabolism is catalyzed by the enzyme dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase. Since degradation of 5-fluorouracil decreases its efficacy in chemotherapy, the inhibition of its catabolism is a promising tool. We investigated the formation of micronuclei in vitro in mouse L5178Y cells. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stopper H,Kühnel A,Podschun B

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During heart development, various signaling cascades are tightly regulated in a stage- and region-dependent manner. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is one of the important molecules required for both vascular development and cardiac morphogenesis. VEGF receptors are present in the embryonic heart, so we focu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagao K,Taniyama Y,Koibuchi N,Morishita R

更新日期：2007-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factors, Runx2 and Osterix (Osx), act downstream in the BMP2 pathway, and they are essential for osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. While Runx2 expression is normal in Osx-null mice, Osx is not expressed in Runx2-null mice, indicating that Osx acts downstream of Runx2 during bone formatio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Baek JE,Choi JY,Kim JE

更新日期：2014-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The degrading activity for human parathyroid hormone [hPTH-(1-84)] was studied in a rat osteoblast-like osteosarcoma cell line UMR106. At 37 C,UMR106 cells degraded hPTH-(1-84) into fragments in a time-dependent manner, which was shown by a radioimmunoassay with the use of antibody recognizing the C-terminal and middl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamaguchi T,Baba H,Fukase M,Kinoshita Y,Fujimi T,Fujita T

更新日期：1986-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a key process in the tumor metastatic cascade, is characterized by the loss of cell-cell junctions and cell polarity, as well as the acquisition of migratory and invasive properties. Snail is an EMT-inducer whose expression in several different epithelial cells, e.g., Madin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ozawa M,Kobayashi W

更新日期：2015-03-13 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：:The activation of chloroplast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase by fructose-1,6-bisphosphate, Ca2+, DTT and chloroplast thioredoxin-f is prevented by either spermidine or spermine; on the contrary, other amino compounds do not replace polyamines in this reversible effect. On the other hand, neither spermidine nor spermine m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Corley E,Wolosiuk RA,Hertig CM

更新日期：1983-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major roles of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is to promote the differentiation and support the survival of neurons in the central nervous system. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of BDNF on the fate of adult rat hippocampus-derived neural stem cells (AHPCs) transplant...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suzuki T,Ooto S,Akagi T,Amemiya K,Igarashi R,Mizushima Y,Takahashi M

更新日期：2003-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel conformation-specific antibodies were raised against a cyclic chimeric dodecapeptidyl multiple antigen peptide (cCD-MAP) constructed with a spacer-armed Gly-Asp dipeptide and two pentapeptides (S(169)-Q(170)-K(171)-E(172)-G(173) of CCR5 and E(179)-A(180)-D(181)-D(182)-R(183) of CXCR4) which are components of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Misumi S,Takamune N,Ido Y,Hayashi S,Endo M,Mukai R,Tachibana K,Umeda M,Shoji S

更新日期：2001-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A rabbit liver P-450-like pseudogene has been isolated from a lambda phage genomic library. Sequence analysis revealed structural homology with respect to the rat P-450b and P-450e genes as well as a similar intron-exon organization. A 5'-proximal TATA box-like sequence and two 3'-distal putative polyadenylation signa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zaphiropoulos PG,Folk WR,Coon MJ

更新日期：1986-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Low voltage-activated, rapidly inactivating T-type Ca(2+) channels are found in a variety of cells where they regulate electrical activity and Ca(2+) entry. In whole-cell patch clamp recordings from bovine adrenal zona fasciculata cells, cis-polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids including docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), eic...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Danthi SJ,Enyeart JA,Enyeart JJ

更新日期：2005-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified bovine heart protein phosphatase 2A catalytic subunit lost virtually all of its activity during storage at -70 degrees. When the enzyme was preincubated with Co2+, over 35% of the original activity was restored. Freshly prepared protein phosphatase 2A purified from bovine heart was stimulated at least ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cai L,Chu Y,Wilson SE,Schlender KK

更新日期：1995-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A mitochondrial DNA mutation at nucleotide position 14,484 was found in 14 independent probands with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy and in 0/250 controls. The 14,484 mutation, which changes methionine-64 to valine in a conserved domain of the ND-6 gene, occurred in association with a mitochondrial DNA haplotype tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Johns DR,Neufeld MJ,Park RD

更新日期：1992-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosinase catalyzes in mammals the first and rate-limiting step in the biosynthesis of the melanin, the main pigment of the skin. Pterins, heterocyclic compounds able to photoinduce oxidation of DNA and its components, accumulate in the skin of patients suffering from vitiligo, a chronic depigmentation disorder in wh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Laura Dántola M,Gojanovich AD,Thomas AH

更新日期：2012-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, a broad diversity of fluorescent proteins among marine organisms range from cyano-red emissions. Fluorescent proteins differ in their DNA sequences from green fluorescent protein (GFP). We identified cDNA encoding the gene of a new protein from the reef coral Hydnophora rigida of the Merulinidae family. Bot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bokhari H,Smith C,Veerendra K,Sivaraman J,Sikaroodi M,Gillevet P

更新日期：2010-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress plays a key role in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy (DN). The anti-aging protein Klotho has been demonstrated to have antioxidant capacity. Nuclear factor-erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a central transcription factor regulating antioxidant responses. The present study aimed to explore...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xing L,Guo H,Meng S,Zhu B,Fang J,Huang J,Chen J,Wang Y,Wang L,Yao X,Wang H

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Cancer chemotherapy with taxol often fails due to acquired resistance of cancer cells, which is frequently associated with an overexpression of P-gp and alterations of beta-tubulin. A taxol-resistant cell line, QGY-TR50, derived from a human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) QGY-7703 cell line was used to investigate the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou J,Cheng SC,Luo D,Xie Y

更新日期：2001-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of in vivo hypothyroidism on the sialylation and sulfation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) secreted by mouse pituitary explants. Oligosaccharides from secreted thyroid-stimulating hormone from hypothyroid animals contained greater sialic acid relative to sulfate in both alpha and beta s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： DeCherney GS,Gesundheit N,Gyves PW,Showalter CR,Weintraub BD

更新日期：1989-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP is the universal energy currency but mysteriously its cellular concentration is much higher than that needed for providing energy. Recently ATP was decoded to act as a hydrotrope to dissolve liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of FUS whose aggregation leads to ALS/FTD. By DIC microscopy and NMR, here we characte...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kang J,Lim L,Song J

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is triggered by damage to or as a result of the dysfunction of the somatosensory nervous system. Gene expression profiling using DNA microarray and real-time PCR have emerged as powerful tools for the elucidation of pain-specific pathways and identification of candidate biomarkers and therapeutic targ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wan G,Yang K,Lim Q',Zhou L,He BP,Wong HK,Too HP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that activation of protein kinase C (PKC) increases ecto-5'-nucleotidase activity, which may contribute to the infarct size-limiting effect of ischemic preconditioning. Since we have reported that Ca(2+)- and phospholipid-sensitive PKC is activated due to ischemic preconditioning, we further tested 1)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kitakaze M,Funaya H,Minamino T,Node K,Sato H,Ueda Y,Okuyama Y,Kuzuya T,Hori M,Yoshida K

更新日期：1997-10-09 00:00:00