Retinoic acid treatment of human neuroblastoma cells is associated with decreased N-myc expression.

abstract：:A representative phenotype of patients with tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome (TRPS) is sparse hair. To understand the developmental defects of these patient's hair follicles, we analyzed the development of hair follicles histologically and biochemically using Trps1 deficient (KO) mice. First, we compared the numbers o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sun Y,Nakanishi M,Sato F,Oikawa K,Muragaki Y,Zhou G

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) was the first soluble factor identified as having potential to maintain the pluripotency of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Recently, a second factor, Wnt, with similar activity was found. However, the relationship between these completely different signals mediating the overlapping ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ogawa K,Nishinakamura R,Iwamatsu Y,Shimosato D,Niwa H

更新日期：2006-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Promyelocytic leukaemia (PML) is a tumor suppressor protein covalently conjugated with SUMO family proteins, leading to the formation of PML nuclear bodies (NBs). PML-NBs provide a platform for efficient posttranslational modification of targets and protein-protein interaction, contributing to the adjustment of gene e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fukuda T,Kigoshi-Tansho Y,Naganuma T,Kazaana A,Okajima T,Tsuruta F,Chiba T

更新日期：2017-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) has been recently identified as an endogenous hormone in humans, regulating different cell functions, including inflammatory processes, insulin release and glucose uptake. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic inflammatory disease resulting in fibrosis of skin and internal organs. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bruzzone S,Battaglia F,Mannino E,Parodi A,Fruscione F,Basile G,Salis A,Sturla L,Negrini S,Kalli F,Stringara S,Filaci G,Zocchi E,Fenoglio D

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive impairment, acute or long-term, is a common complication in patients with severe bacterial infection. However, the underlying mechanisms are not fully verified and effective medicine is not available in clinics. Interferon gamma (IFNγ) is a pivotal cytokine against infection and is believed to be a tune in h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu Y,Yang Y,Peng Z,Xie L,Zhong X,Liang F,Yuan C,Lu B

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although "secretory" type II 14-kDa phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) activity has been described in neutrophils, direct evidence of enzyme secretion has been elusive. We have used immunogold electron microscopy with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies to sPLA2 to demonstrate localization of the enzyme to granules of resting ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rosenthal MD,Gordon MN,Buescher ES,Slusser JH,Harris LK,Franson RC

更新日期：1995-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nectins are Ca2+ independent cell adhesion molecules localizing at the cadherin based adherens junctions. In this study, we have used atomic force microscopy to study interaction of a chimera of extra cellular fragment of nectin-1 and Fc of human IgG (nef-1) with wild type L-fibroblasts that express endogenous nectin-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vedula SR,Lim TS,Hui S,Kausalya PJ,Lane EB,Rajagopal G,Hunziker W,Lim CT

更新日期：2007-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The mRNA for the novel aldehyde dehydrogenase 5 (ALDH5) gene was detected in HuH7 hepatoma cells. The cells also expressed cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH1) mRNA, but no mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) mRNA. Extracts of the hepatoma cells contained an enzymatic activity with an isoelectric point si...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stewart MJ,Malek K,Xiao Q,Dipple KM,Crabb DW

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus infection triggers innate responses to host cells including production of type I interferon (IFN). Since IFN production is also induced by treatment with poly(I:C), viral double-stranded (ds) RNA has been postulated to play a direct role in the process. In the present study, we investigated the effect of dsRNA b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwamura T,Yoneyama M,Koizumi N,Okabe Y,Namiki H,Samuel CE,Fujita T

更新日期：2001-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Protein tyrosine kinase 6 (PTK6)(EC:2.7.10.2), also known as the breast tumor kinase (BRK), is an intracellular non-receptor Src-related tyrosine kinase expressed five-fold or more in human breast tumors and breast cancer cell lines but its expression being low or completely absent from normal mammary gland. The...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thakur MK,Birudukota S,Swaminathan S,Battula SK,Vadivelu S,Tyagi R,Gosu R

更新日期：2017-01-22 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：:Growth and differentiation factors (GDF)-5, -6, and -7 are members of the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) family. Previous studies suggest their importance in bone development and in tendon/ligament morphogenesis. The cells of the dental attachment apparatus, cementum, periodontal ligament, and alveolar bone proper a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Morotome Y,Goseki-Sone M,Ishikawa I,Oida S

更新日期：1998-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of oxidized low density lipoprotein (LDL) is believed to play a significant role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Myoglobin in the presence of H(2)O(2) has been shown to catalyze LDL oxidation in vitro. It is established that an oxidatively altered form of myoglobin (Mb-H), which contains a prosth...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vuletich JL,Osawa Y,Aviram M

更新日期：2000-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies (pAbs) to riboflavin carrier protein (RCP) purified from human amniotic fluid were raised in two rabbits. These pAbs apart from recognizing the parent antigen, reacted significantly with chicken RCP as well. When all the 212 octapeptides overlapping by one amino acid residue and covering the enti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Subramanian S,Adiga PR

更新日期：1999-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib mesylate, commercially known as Gleevec/Glivec, is the first targeted anticancer drug that inhibits activity of the tyrosine kinases, c-ABL, c-KIT, and PDGFR. A number of studies have shown that treatment with imatinib mesylate elicits extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK) activation, which, in turn, has ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee J,Ko J,Kim HJ,Im H,Kim EJ,Yi JY

更新日期：2018-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Unc104/KIF1A, a kinesin family member, is reported to be monomeric in solution, though its polypeptide has regions that potentially form coiled coils. For a better understanding of the mechanism underlying Unc104/KIF1A's motility, it is important to evaluate the dimerization ability of this protein. The CD measurement...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimizu Y,Morii H,Arisaka F,Tanokura M

更新日期：2005-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), poses an unprecedented global health crisis. It is particularly urgent to develop clinically effective therapies to contain the pandemic. The main protease (Mpro) and the RNA-dependent RNA poly...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jin Z,Wang H,Duan Y,Yang H

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA encoding human ferrochelatase [EC 4.99.1.1] was isolated from a human placenta cDNA library in bacteriophage lambda gt11 by screening with a radiolabeled fragment of mouse ferrochelatase cDNA. The cDNA had an open reading frame of 1269 base pairs (bp) encoding a protein of 423 amino acid residues (Mr. 47,833)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakahashi Y,Taketani S,Okuda M,Inoue K,Tokunaga R

更新日期：1990-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Oct4-Sox2-Nanog transcriptional networks are critical for the maintenance of embryonic stem (ES) cell self-renewal and induction of pluripotency. However, in transcription factor-induced reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), Nanog is initially dispensable and Oct4 remains the sole...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon JH,Yun W,Kim J,Hyeon S,Kang PJ,Park G,Kim A,Oh S,Whang KY,Kim DW,Yoon BS,You S

更新日期：2013-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell immunotherapies are promising options in leukemia, among which the CD19/CD3-bispecific T cell engager antibody blinatumomab (MT103) has shown high response rates at very low doses in patients with lymphoma. However, the high CD47 expression in human lymphoma cells has limited the curative effects of blinatumoma...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xu L,Wang S,Li J,Li B

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the interactions of calmodulin with neuronal gap junction proteins connexin35 (Cx35) from perch, its mouse homologue Cx36, and the related perch Cx34.7 using surface plasmon resonance. Calmodulin bound to the C-terminal domains of all three connexins with rapid kinetics in a concentration- and Ca2+-depende...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Burr GS,Mitchell CK,Keflemariam YJ,Heidelberger R,O'Brien J

更新日期：2005-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang-II) has been shown to possess several atherogenic properties including its ability to induce macrophage-mediated oxidation of LDL and to form Ang-II-modified LDL which is taken up by macrophages at enhanced rate. Oxidized-LDL (Ox-LDL) is also taken up by macrophages at enhanced rate via several sca...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keidar S,Attias J

更新日期：1997-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin is an adipocyte-derived hormone and known to form several species of multimer, however, the precise components of each multimer have not been fully determined. We purified each multimer adiponectin selectively from human plasma and characterized them by affinity columns using anti-adiponectin, gelatin, or ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hada Y,Yamauchi T,Waki H,Tsuchida A,Hara K,Yago H,Miyazaki O,Ebinuma H,Kadowaki T

更新日期：2007-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel 6-substituted acyclouridine derivative, 1-[(2-hydroxy-ethoxy) methyl]-6-phenylthiothymine (HEPT), has proved to be a potent and selective inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in vitro. HEPT inhibits HIV-1 replication in various T4 cell cultures as well as peripheral blood lymphocytes and ma...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Baba M,Tanaka H,De Clercq E,Pauwels R,Balzarini J,Schols D,Nakashima H,Perno CF,Walker RT,Miyasaka T

更新日期：1989-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the human ACT genomic and cDNA sequence which like its murine counterpart contains the defining secondary structure of the FHL (Four-and-a-Half LIM-domain) LIM-protein family. The coding region of the human ACT gene spans five exons. This distribution is very similar to the FHL1 gene and includes the arran...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Morgan MJ,Whawell SA

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase (SSAO) activity in plasma is increased in diabetes, and in particular, in diabetic patients with vascular complications. It has been speculated that SSAO is involved in the development of such complications due to the production of cytotoxic compounds. In this work, we have induce...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gokturk C,Nordquist J,Sugimoto H,Forsberg-Nilsson K,Nilsson J,Oreland L

更新日期：2004-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribose methylation of eukaryotic rRNA is directed by box C/D small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs), which pinpoint the nucleotide to be methylated in specific position within the rRNA sequence. Here, we report the identification of a novel double-guide C/D box snoRNA termed snR88 that directs methylation of two previously un...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bi YZ,Qu LH,Zhou H

更新日期：2007-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed two phagemid vectors containing the gene coding for human Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) translationally fused to a pelB signal sequence and minor coat protein III of phage fd leading to phage particles that carry PSA on their tips. Phages were characterized by Western blotting and by panning, usi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eerola R,Saviranta P,Lilja H,Pettersson K,Lövgren T,Karp M

更新日期：1994-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To further define the molecular interaction between decorin and type I collagen we generated a 20 kD fragment containing the N-terminal half of the core protein by Endoproteinase Arg C digestion and a 40 kD fragment including all leucine-rich repeats in the central part of decorin core by cleavage with 2-nitro-5-thioc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pogány G,Vogel KG

更新日期：1992-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:CD36 expressed on adipocytes is thought to function as a fatty acid transporter (FAT). Here we report that adipocytes can endocytose and lysosomally degrade OxLDL, mainly mediated by CD36. Mouse 3T3-L1 preadipocytes showed marked increase in uptake and degradation of (125)I-OxLDL during their differentiation to adipoc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuniyasu A,Hayashi S,Nakayama H

更新日期：2002-07-12 00:00:00