Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry of bovine proinsulin.

abstract：:Membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) localized on the plasma membrane plays a central role in various normal biological responses including tissue remodeling, wound heeling, and angiogenesis and in cancer cell invasion and metastasis, by functioning as a collagenase and activating other matrix metallopro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miyata T,Ohnishi H,Suzuki J,Yoshikumi Y,Ohno H,Mashima H,Yasuda H,Ishijima T,Osawa H,Satoh K,Sunada K,Kita H,Yamamoto H,Sugano K

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms underlying ultrasound-induced apoptosis remain poorly understood. We have demonstrated that in Jurkat cells, the over-expression of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 inhibited ultrasound-induced apoptosis, but not necrosis. Inhibition of caspase activity also protected the cells from apoptosis,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kinoshita M,Eguchi Y,Hynynen K

更新日期：2007-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In rice, Hd3a, GF14 and OsFD1 proteins, forming florigen activation complex, are key components in flowering time regulation. GF14 genes in rice response to biotic and abiotic stress has also been well addressed. The role of GF14e in rice defense has been well studied. However, whether Hd3a and OsFD1 play roles in def...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ke Y,Wu M,Zhang Q,Li X,Xiao J,Wang S

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy plays a crucial role in a wide array of physiological processes. To uncover the complex regulatory networks and mechanisms underlying basal autophagy, we performed a quantitative proteomics analysis of autophagy-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblast cells (MEFs) using iTRAQ labeling coupled with on-line 2D LC...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhuo C,Ji Y,Chen Z,Kitazato K,Xiang Y,Zhong M,Wang Q,Pei Y,Ju H,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin alpha2beta1, which is a membrane protein consisting of noncovalently bound alpha2 and beta1 chains, mediates cell binding to collagen and plays a role in platelet functions. DNAs encoding the chimeric proteins in which the extracellular domains of each alpha2 and beta1 chain was fused to hinge and Fc regions ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kainoh M,Tanaka T

更新日期：2002-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte recruitment to lymph nodes or inflammatory sites is regulated by adhesion and activation. L-selectin (CD62L) is expressed on leukocytes and mediates tethering and rolling of leukocytes on endothelial cells. Upon stimulation L-selectin is down-regulated by proteolytic cleavage but the molecular mechanisms reg...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Phong MC,Gutwein P,Kadel S,Hexel K,Altevogt P,Linderkamp O,Brenner B

更新日期：2003-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we sought to evaluate the effect of palmitate on cytokine and PPAR activity/expression. We investigated the effect of BSA conjugated palmitate and oleate on PPAR activity, PPAR-α and δ expression, as well as the expression of cytokines and key factors responsible for β-oxidation by qRT-PCR and western blotting in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Haffar T,Bérubé-Simard FA,Bousette N

更新日期：2015-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonreducible cyclic analog of somatostatin (SRIF) was prepared by a combination of solid phase and solution peptide synthesis. The compound, gamma-Abu-Lys-Asn-Phe-Phe-Trp-Lys-Thr-Phe-Thr-Ser-Asp-OH, was tested for its effect on the release of growth hormone, glucagon and insulin in rats. It significantly suppressed ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Garsky VM,Clark DE,Grant NH

更新日期：1976-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta A3/A1-crystallin is one of the major refractive proteins of the chicken eye lens. Previously we showed that a fragment from -382 to +22 bp of the beta A3/A1-crystallin gene functions as a promoter in transfected lens cells. Here we show by use of the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McDermott JB,Cvekl A,Piatigorsky J

更新日期：1996-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome of generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus type 1 (GEFS+) has been associated to the gene SCN1B coding for the sodium channel beta1 subunit (Wallace, R. H. et al. (1998) Nature Genetics 19, 366-370). In patients, a mutation of the cysteine 121 to trpyptophane (C121W) would cause a lack of modulato...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moran O,Conti F

更新日期：2001-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c554 from the denitrifying bacterium Achromobacter cycloclastes is a monoheme class II c-type cytochrome with a His-Met axial coordination at neutral pH. The amino acid composition and the N-terminal sequence of the cytochrome have been determined. Subsequent determination of the pH-dependence of the redox ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saraiva LM,Thomson AJ,Le Brun NE,Liu MY,Payne WJ,LeGall J,Moura I

更新日期：1994-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Using genomic restriction analysis of 14 unrelated patients with salt-losing congenital adrenal hyperplasia, we identified three different CA21HB mutation patterns: no detectable restriction fragment abnormalities (16/28 haplotypes), deletion of the active CA21HB gene (9/28), and apparent conversion of the active CA21...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jospe N,Donohoue PA,Van Dop C,McLean RH,Bias WB,Migeon CJ

更新日期：1987-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of oligodeoxynucleotides containing CpG motifs (CpG-ODNs) by toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) inhibits RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis from precursors. This inhibitory effect suggests the possibility of using this strategy to block pathological bone loss. However, the enhancing effect of CpG-ODNs on OC formati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chang JH,Chang EJ,Kim HH,Kim SK

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of the coenzyme specificity of N5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferases of diverse biological origin revealed previously unrecognized differences between Escherichia coli methyltransferase and the corresponding enzymes of other species. Cyanocobalamin (CNCbl) actively supports methyltra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Beck WS,Thorndike J

更新日期：1984-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the contributions of dietary fat and dietary carbohydrate to the development of fatty liver induced by western diet (WD). Compared with WD-fed wild type (WT) mice, livers of WD-fed ChREBP(-/-) mice showed lipid droplets of varying sizes around the hepatic lobules, while hepatic triglyceride and cholest...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu W,Tsuchida H,Kato T,Niwa H,Horikawa Y,Takeda J,Iizuka K

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research revealed that doxorubicin (DOX) decreased expression of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) in cancer cells. However, the detailed mechanisms underlying this effect are not well established. Here, we demonstrate that doxorubicin down-regulates PD-L1 expression through induction of AU-rich element (ARE) b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim DJ,Jang JH,Ham SY,Choi SH,Park SS,Jeong SY,Kim BC,Jeon DY,Lee BJ,Ko BK,Park JW,Cho WJ

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional mechanisms controlling human UCP3 gene expression in skeletal muscle remain poorly understood. Experiments based on plasmid electrotransfer into tibialis anterior muscle of C57/BL6 male mice were set up in order to functionally analyze the hUCP3 gene promoter. These transfection experiments showed that...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Riquet FB,Rodriguez M,Guigal N,Dromaint S,Naime I,Boutin JA,Galizzi JP

更新日期：2003-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of insulin on the steady-state level of human insulin receptor (hIR) mRNA were examined in the HepG2 human liver cell line using Northern blot analysis of either total cellular or poly(A)+ RNA. In control cells, up to six (4.5, 5.2, 7.4, 8.5, 9.4 and 10.8 kb) hybridizable species of hIR mRNA were identifie...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rohilla AM,Anderson C,Wood WM,Berhanu P

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoblasts/stromal cells support the formation of osteoclast-like cells (OCL) from osteoclast progenitor cells via expressing a membrane-associated protein, osteoclast differentiation factor (ODF), in the presence of osteotropic factors, whereas the cells secrete a substantial amount of osteoclastogenesis inhibitory ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagai M,Sato N

更新日期：1999-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex formation of two electron transfer proteins, cytochrome c3 and ferredoxin I from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans Norway, has been shown by 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Presence of ferredoxin I produces ferricytochrome c3 1H-NMR spectrum modifications. The chemical shift of perturbated heme methyl resonances has been u...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guerlesquin F,Noailly M,Bruschi M

更新日期：1985-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isoforms of the src-family tyrosine kinase p59fyn have been shown to arise through alternative splicing of exon 7 of the fyn gene. These isoforms have been designated fynT, expressed in hematopoietic cells, and fynB, expressed in the brain. Here, we describe a novel isoform, fynDelta7, in which exon 7 is absent. F...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Goldsmith JF,Hall CG,Atkinson TP

更新日期：2002-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:NRE1 is a DNA sequence element in the long terminal repeat of mouse mammary tumor virus that represses viral transcription in mature T cells. In addition to double-stranded binding activity, factors in Jurkat T cell nuclear extracts bind specifically to each of the two single-strands of NRE1. Here we show that binding...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rodda DJ,Giffin W,Haché RJ

更新日期：1995-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of p-coumaric acid on the longitudinal growth of the long bone in adolescent male rats. Teatment with p-coumaric acid significantly increased the tibial length and the height of each growth plate zone and the ratio of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine-positive cells relati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee JH,Chung YH,Kim HH,Bang JS,Jung TW,Park T,Park J,Kim U,Lee SH,Jeong JH

更新日期：2018-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported the identification of two closely related RNA binding proteins from Trypanosoma brucei which we have termed p34 and p37. The predicted primary structures of the two proteins are highly homologous with one major difference, an 18-amino-acid insert in the N-terminal region of p37. These two p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pitula J,Ruyechan WT,Williams N

更新日期：2002-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of the hepadnavirus polymerases are known to include those of DNA polymerase, reverse transcriptase and RNase H. To date, it has been difficult or impossible to clone and express the product as an active enzyme. In this study, full length capped RNA encoding Duck Hepatitis B Virus (DHBV) polymerase was prod...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Howe AY,Elliott JF,Tyrrell DL

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:TEC, a member of the TEC family of non-receptor type protein tyrosine kinases, has recently been suggested to play a role in hepatocyte proliferation and liver regeneration. This study aims to investigate the putative mechanisms of TEC kinase regulation of hepatocyte differentiation, i.e. to explore whi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li F,Jiang Y,Zheng Q,Yang X,Wang S

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:MDMX is a homolog of MDM2 and is critical for regulating p53 function during mouse development. MDMX level is regulated by MDM2-mediated poly-ubiquitination, which results in its accelerated degradation after DNA damage or expression of ARF. In this report, we demonstrate that MDMX can be modified by conjugation to SU...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pan Y,Chen J

更新日期：2005-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified human decapping enzyme 2 (hDCP2) as a binding protein with Ro52, being colocalized in processing bodies (p-bodies). We also showed that the N-terminus and C-terminus of Ro52 bound to hDCP2. Moreover, Ro52 enhanced decapping activity of hDCP2 in a dose-dependent manner. Our data support the novel notion o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamochi T,Ohnuma K,Hosono O,Tanaka H,Kanai Y,Morimoto C

更新日期：2008-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Didemnin B, a cyclic N-methylated peptolide induces apoptosis in human HL-60 cells. When incubated with 1 microM didemnin B, unsynchronized HL-60 cultures undergo apoptosis to 100% within 140 minutes. Apoptosis has been assessed by the typical apoptotic morphology, the presence of double-stranded DNA fragments within ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Grubb DR,Wolvetang EJ,Lawen A

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The human leukemia cell line KU812 had been described as an immature prebasophilic cell line and exhibits a potential to differentiate into mature basophils. We studied the effect of interleukin-4 (IL-4) on the basophilic differentiation of KU812 cells. When KU812 cells were cultured with 1 ng/ml IL-4, cellular histam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hara T,Yamada K,Tachibana H

更新日期：1998-06-29 00:00:00