Hemoglobin M: effect of the proximal or distal histidine replacement on circular dichroism in the visible region.

abstract：:The active centre of NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase contains the lysine residue essential for catalytic activity. Chemical modification of epsilon-amino group of this lysine residue is the subject of the present study. To modify the epsilon-amino group, we have employed the periodate-oxidized NADP+ and NAD+ (o-NAD(P...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Slepneva IA,Weiner LM

更新日期：1988-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of thin aggregative fimbriae (Agf) in Salmonella, which is responsible for bacterial cell adhesion to surfaces, aggregation, and formation of biofilms, is regulated by a complex mechanism. In order to identify gene(s) involved in the expression of Agf, the TnphoA transposon was introduced into Salmonella ty...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoo AY,Yu JE,Yoo H,Lee TH,Lee WH,Oh JI,Kang HY

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of the 27-kDa heat shock protein (HSP27) in cardiac protection using Langendorff-perfused rat hearts. After preconditioning (a single episode of 5 min global ischemia followed by 5 min of reperfusion), HSP27 redistributed from the cytosol to the sarcomere and recovery of the contractile functi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakamoto K,Urushidani T,Nagao T

更新日期：2000-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:53BP1 plays important roles in checkpoint signaling and repair for DNA double-strand breaks. We found that a colon cancer cell line, SW48, expressed a splicing variant form of 53BP1, which lacks the residues corresponding to exons 10 and 11. Activation of ATM and phosphorylation of ATM and ATR targets occurred in SW48...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwabuchi K,Matsui T,Hashimoto M,Matsumoto Y,Kurihara T,Date T

更新日期：2008-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B (RANK) is a tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) family protein that plays an important role in the regulation of bone and immune systems. Cellular responses to RANK ligand (RANKL) and the signal transduction pathways of RANK have been well characterized in osteoclasts and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee ZH,Kim HH

更新日期：2003-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypoxia-inducible transcription factor HIF is induced early in acute myocardial ischemia in humans, but it is unknown whether this activation of HIF persists during chronic heart failure. The HIF system was characterized in left ventricular myocardia from 18 explanted failing hearts and 11 non-failing donor hearts...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zolk O,Solbach TF,Eschenhagen T,Weidemann A,Fromm MF

更新日期：2008-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a synthetic protein kinase C (PKC) activator, (-)-indolactam V (ILV), were studied in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells. (-)-ILV induced a translocation of PKC from cytosol to plasma membrane and displaced 3H-phorbol dibutyrate binding in the micromolar range. In addition, (-)-ILV caused a decreased sen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Heikkilä J,Akerman KE

更新日期：1989-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The thrombopoietin receptor, also known as c-Mpl, is a member of the cytokine superfamily, which regulates the differentiation of megakaryocytes and formation of platelets by binding to its ligand, thrombopoietin (TPO), through Janus kinase (JAK)-signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) signaling. The l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasazawa Y,Sato N,Suzuki T,Dohmae N,Simizu S

更新日期：2015-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of HMG 14 proteins from calf thymus and avian erythrocytes was studied using a cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase from bovine lung. HMG 14 from calf thymus was a good substrate for the enzyme, but HMG 14 from avian erythrocytes was not phosphorylated. Of the potential phosphorylation sites, the one in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Palvimo J,Linnala-Kankkunen A,Mäenpää PH

更新日期：1983-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated potassium (K+) channel sub-family B member 1 (KCNB1, Kv2.1) is known to undergo oxidation-induced oligomerization during aging but whether this process affects brain's physiology was not known. Here, we used 10, 16 and 22 month-old transgenic mice overexpressing a KCNB1 variant that does not oligomerize ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu W,Zhang H,Shin MR,Sesti F

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During biosynthetic studies on bialaphos to reveal the formation mechanisms of carbon-phosphorous bonds in detail, three new metabolites containing a H-P-C bond structure were isolated from the fermentation broth of a mutant of Streptomyces hygroscopicus SF-1293. Based on the spectroscopic analysis, the structures of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Seto H,Imai S,Tsuruoka T,Ogawa H,Satoh A,Sasaki T,Otake N

更新日期：1983-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitofusin1 (Mfn1) mediates outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM) fusion in Opisthokonts. The uncharacterized TM comprises to two helices (namely, the TM1 and TM2) connected by an intermembrane loop. Consistent with previous studies, our results from in silico analyses show that all mitofusins lack N terminal-MTS and the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sinha S,Aradhyam GK

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces toyocaensis NRRL 15009 produces A47934, a glycopeptide antibiotic. This compound is composed of several unusual amino acids, some of which have chlorinated aromatic rings. We have isolated two distinct halogenating enzymes, a chloroperoxidase (42,882 Da) and a catalase/bromoperoxidase (53,890 Da), from la...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Marshall GC,Wright GD

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The vibrational frequency of CO bound to myoglobin can be varied by up to 60 cm-1 by making site-specific mutations in the distal pocket. These changes may result from specific chemical interactions between distal amino acids and the CO or from changes in the electrostatic field of the distal pocket. In this paper, we...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Decatur SM,Boxer SG

更新日期：1995-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-2 and -9) play an important role in the tumor metastasis through cleavage of proinflammatory cytokines. Violacein a small molecule produced by Chromobacterium violaceum and has been implicated with anti-cancer effects. In this study we investigated the molecular basis of violacein mediat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Platt D,Amara S,Mehta T,Vercuyssee K,Myles EL,Johnson T,Tiriveedhi V

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:L1210/VCR cell line (R) was obtained by adaptation of the L1210 mouse leukaemia cells (S) to vincristine and showed P-glycoprotein (P-gp) mediated multidrug resistance (MDR). R cells were observed to be more sensitive to high external calcium as parental S. More pronounced calcium uptake was observed for R cells. More...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sulová Z,Orlický J,Fiala R,Dovinová I,Uhrík B,Seres M,Gibalová L,Breier A

更新日期：2005-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a monospecific antibody to the major cytosolic glutathione-S-transferase of human liver, we have isolated a cDNA clone from a human liver cDNA expression vector library in lambda gt11. The clone cross-hybridizes with a rat liver ligandin (glutathione-S-transferase 1-2) cDNA probe. The clone has an insert of 1.25...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Butera L,Monnier JR,Campbell E,Bhargava MM

更新日期：1987-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The 160 kDa alpha-mannosidase (E.C. 3.2.1.24) isolated from culture filtrate of Trichoderma reesei has wide aglycon specificity but cleaves the alpha1 --> 2 and alpha1 --> 3 mannosidic bonds with higher rate than alpha1 --> 6 bond and slowly hydrolyses yeast mannan and 1,6-alpha-mannan. The specific activity of the en...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eneyskaya EV,Kulminskaya AA,Savel'ev AN,Shabalin KA,Golubev AM,Neustroev KN

更新日期：1998-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle checkpoint is a surveillance mechanism that ensures the fidelity of chromosome segregation in mitosis. Here we show that fission yeast casein kinase II (CK2) is required for this checkpoint function. In the CK2 mutants mitosis occurs in the presence of a spindle defect, and the spindle checkpoint protein M...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimada M,Yamamoto A,Murakami-Tonami Y,Nakanishi M,Yoshida T,Aiba H,Murakami H

更新日期：2009-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of leptin to hypothalamic neurons elicits inhibition of orexigenic NPY/AgRP neurons and stimulation of anorexigenic POMC/CART neurons. Projections of serotonergic neurons onto POMC neurons suggest that leptin and serotonin converge onto POMC neurons to regulate body weight. We probed the interaction of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang B,Chehab FF

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:RING finger (C3HC4-type zinc finger) is a variant zinc finger motif present in a large family of functionally distinct proteins. We describe the cloning and characterization of a novel human transcript RNF38 encoding a new member of the RING finger protein family. The complete mRNA consists of about 6.8 kb widely expr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eisenberg I,Hochner H,Levi T,Yelin R,Kahan T,Mitrani-Rosenbaum S

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides of the protein transduction domain (PTD) mediate the introduction of passenger proteins into cells in vitro and in vivo, where the domains are positively charged. This unusual ability can be exploited for medical applications in protein therapeutics. Chondrocytes are embedded in a dense extracellular matrix, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ozaki D,Sudo K,Asoh S,Yamagata K,Ito H,Ohta S

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The exocytosis of catecholamines by chromaffin cells following stimulation (e.g. by acetylcholine) is accompanied by a rise in the level of intracellular free Ca2+. Actually, secretion can be induced merely by making the cells leaky to Ca2+ from the external medium. We have recently demonstrated that secretion can be ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Harish OE,Levy R,Rosenheck K,Oplatka A

更新日期：1984-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cepharanthine is a medicinal plant-derived natural compound which possesses potent anti-cancer properties. However, there is little report about its effects on lung cancer cells. In this study, we investigated the effects of cepharanthine on the cell viability and apoptosis in human non-small-cell lung cancer H1299 an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hua P,Sun M,Zhang G,Zhang Y,Tian X,Li X,Cui R,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human leukocyte interferon (IFN-alpha A) inhibits growth of the human promyelocytic leukemic cell line HL-60 without inducing these cells to differentiate terminally. When IFN-alpha A is combined with agents capable of inducing differentiation in HL-60 cells, such as 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Grant S,Bhalla K,Weinstein B,Pestka S,Mileno MD,Fisher PB

更新日期：1985-07-16 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：:Free fatty acid (FFA)-bound albumin, which is filtrated through the glomeruli and reabsorbed into proximal tubular cells, is one of the crucial mediators of tubular damage in proteinuric kidney disease. In this study, we examined the role of each kind of FFA on renal tubular damage in vitro and tried to identify its m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Soumura M,Kume S,Isshiki K,Takeda N,Araki S,Tanaka Y,Sugimoto T,Chin-Kanasaki M,Nishio Y,Haneda M,Koya D,Kashiwagi A,Maegawa H,Uzu T

更新日期：2010-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) is an important gasotransmitter that generated in mammalian cells from l-cysteine metabolism. Little is known about its protective role in oxidative stress. In the present study, we investigated whether H(2)S could affect homocysteine (HCY)-induced cytotoxicity and oxidative stress in vascular...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yan SK,Chang T,Wang H,Wu L,Wang R,Meng QH

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of angiotensin II (Ang II) on the proliferation of osteoblast-rich populations of cells obtained from calvariae of newborn rat. Addition of Ang II to the culture medium caused dose-dependent increases in the rate of DNA synthesis. Such increases were completely inhibited by the addition of DuP7...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hiruma Y,Inoue A,Hirose S,Hagiwara H

更新日期：1997-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The solubilized [3H]ryanodine receptor from cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum was centrifuged through linear sucrose gradients. A single peak of radioactivity with apparent sedimentation coefficient of approximately 30S specifically comigrated with a high molecular weight protein of apparent relative molecular mass appro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lai FA,Anderson K,Rousseau E,Liu QY,Meissner G

更新日期：1988-02-29 00:00:00