A new feature of angiotensin-converting enzyme in the brain: hydrolysis of substance P.

abstract：:Nuclear envelope peptides of the rat ventral prostate in the molecular weight region 18,400 to 19,400 show marked androgen dependence. After castration these peptides disappear. Re-administration of testosterone restores them. They were not extracted by 0.1 M NaCl or 5% HClO4 but were partially extracted by 0.35 M NaC...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Venkatraman JT,Howell GM,Lefebvre YA

更新日期：1984-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), which was recently found to be a selective ligand for one of the two known natriuretic peptide receptor guanylyl cyclases (NPR-B), potently stimulates cGMP production in cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) and exerts potent antiproliferative effects on the cells. To inves...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Furuya M,Tawaragi Y,Minamitake Y,Kitajima Y,Fuchimura K,Tanaka S,Minamino N,Kangawa K,Matsuo H

更新日期：1992-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the large, unsolved problems in human genetics is the proportion of functional sequences in genomes. Recently, the encyclopedia of DNA elements consortium revealed that the majority of the genome is biochemically active, which were described as biochemical functions. This has been used as evidence to pronounce ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Niu DK,Jiang L

更新日期：2013-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial ATP synthase of Polytomella exhibits a peripheral stalk and a dimerization domain built by the Asa subunits, unique to chlorophycean algae. The topology of these subunits has been extensively studied. Here we explored the interactions of subunit Asa3 using Far Western blotting and subcomplex reconsti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Colina-Tenorio L,Miranda-Astudillo H,Dautant A,Vázquez-Acevedo M,Giraud MF,González-Halphen D

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis and cancer are the leading causes of mortality around the world that share common pathogenic pathways. The aim of this study is the investigation of the protein profile of atherosclerotic plaque in order to find similar biomarker between cancer and atherosclerosis. The small pieces of human coronary ar...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fasehee H,Fakhraee M,Davoudi S,Vali H,Faghihi S

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution of mRNA expression of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor (VDR) and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3-24-hydroxylase (24-OHase) along the microdissected rat nephron segments was examined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique. VDR mRNA was abundantly expressed in cortical segments (glomeru...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iida K,Taniguchi S,Kurokawa K

更新日期：1993-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:FOXK2, which belongs to the fork head DNA binding protein family, has been shown to play a critical role in tumorigenesis. Here, we detected FOXK2 expression and its clinical significance in colorectal cancer, which has not been fully investigated before. Results from public database and our cohort indicated that FOXK...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Qian Y,Xia S,Feng Z

更新日期：2017-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-ribosylation by cholera toxin of the guanine nucleotide binding regulatory protein (Gs) of rat liver membrane adenylate cyclase was inhibited by 0.1-1 mM MDL 12330A or 0.1-1 mM chlorpromazine. Basal as well as cholera toxin activated adenylate cyclase activity in liver membranes was also inhibited by the two drugs...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bitonti AJ

更新日期：1984-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of [125I] lactoferrin after binding on its specific receptor on HT29-D4 cells, a clone of HT29 cells, was studied and compared with that of [125I]transferrin. Time courses of protein binding in relation with temperature clearly show that different mechanisms of ligand-transportation for the two glycoproteins ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Roiron-Lagroux D,Figarella C

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) is the primary Ca2+ extrusion mechanism in cardiomyocytes. To further investigate the role of NCX in excitation-contraction coupling and Ca2+ homeostasis, we created murine models with altered expression levels of NCX. Homozygous overexpression of NCX resulted in mild cardiac hypertrophy. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pott C,Goldhaber JI,Philipson KD

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BHLHB2/DEC1 is a transcription factor implicated in cell proliferation, apoptosis, and metabolism, and is also known to play an important role in the regulation of the mammalian circadian rhythm. However, its precise role in metabolism remains unclear. We investigated the link between BHLHB2 and ChREBP, a glucose-acti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iizuka K,Horikawa Y

更新日期：2008-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The metallo-disintegrins (ADAMs) are a family of mammalian proteins with significant amino acid sequence identity and a domain organisation similar to the snake venom metalloproteinases (reprolysins). They have been implicated in a wide variety of processes such as cell-cell and cell matrix adhesion and proteolysis of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Millichip MI,Dallas DJ,Wu E,Dale S,McKie N

更新日期：1998-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi electrode arrays (MEAs) are increasingly used to detect external field potentials in electrically active cells. Recently, in combination with cardiomyocytes derived from human (induced) pluripotent stem cells they have started to become a preferred tool to examine newly developed drugs for potential cardiac toxi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tertoolen LGJ,Braam SR,van Meer BJ,Passier R,Mummery CL

更新日期：2018-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies comprise a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that are characterized by the conversion of the normal host cellular prion protein (PrPC) to the abnormal protease-resistant isoform PrPSC. Distinct alterations of transcriptional regulation during disease progression co...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schröder B,Groschup M,Hunsmann G,Bodemer W

更新日期：1998-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Having ascertained using JC-1 as a probe that, in distinction with the controls, during capacitation boar sperm maintains high mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨ), to gain some insight into the role of mitochondria in capacitation, we monitored ΔΨ generation due to externally added metabolites either in hypotonicall...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Paventi G,Lessard C,Bailey JL,Passarella S

更新日期：2015-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In pancreatic beta-cells, stimulation of insulin secretion by glucose and other nutrients requires metabolism of these nutrients to acetyl-CoA. Circumstantial evidence suggests that the conversion of acetyl-CoA to malonyl-CoA, which is a powerful inhibitor for carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 and fatty acid oxidation,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang S,Kim KH

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence indicates that presenilins could exist and be active as oligomeric complexes. Using yeast two-hybrid and cell culture analysis, we provide evidence that presenilin-1 (PS1) may self-oligomerize giving rise to specific full-length/full-length homodimers. When expressed in N2A and HEK239T cultu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hébert SS,Godin C,Tomiyama T,Mori H,Lévesque G

更新日期：2003-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that a specific inhibitor of insulin-like growth factor (IGF) action in vitro can be isolated from normal human serum and subsequently partially purified on an IGF-affinity column. The ability of the inhibitor to bind the IGFs has now been confirmed directly using covalent cross-linking tec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ooi GT,Herington AC

更新日期：1986-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine proteases and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are important factors in the degradation of organic matrix components of bone. Osteoprotegerin (OPG) is an osteoblast-secreted decoy receptor that inhibits osteoclast differentiation and activation. This study investigated the direct effects of human OPG on cathe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wittrant Y,Couillaud S,Theoleyre S,Dunstan C,Heymann D,Rédini F

更新日期：2002-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides evidence for the presence of large conductance Ca(2+)-dependent K-channels in guinea pig and human urinary bladder smooth muscle. A23187, a Ca(2+)-ionophore, increased charybdotoxin and iberiatoxin sensitive 42K efflux in human urinary bladder smooth muscle cells, suggesting that large conductance ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Trivedi S,Potter-Lee L,Li JH,Yasay GD,Russell K,Ohnmacht CJ,Empfield JR,Trainor DA,Kau ST

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Osterix (Osx) is a novel zinc finger-containing transcription factor that is essential for osteoblast differentiation and bone formation in bone homeostasis. The mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases are a group of evolutionarily conserved proline-directed protein serine/threonine kinases that are activated in respo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Choi YH,Gu YM,Oh JW,Lee KY

更新日期：2011-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the regeneration of the adult liver depends on hepatic progenitor cells (HPCs), many uncertainties regarding hepatic regeneration in the injured liver remain. Trefoil factor family 1 (TFF1), a secretory protein predominantly expressed in the gastrointestinal tract, is responsible for mucosal restitution. Here...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi Y,Yamaguchi J,Kokuryo T,Ebata T,Yokoyama Y,Nagino M

更新日期：2018-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin produced by the pineal gland suppresses inflammatory responses in innate immune cells. However, the mechanism of how melatonin affects inflammatory gene regulation remains unclear. Here we performed comprehensive microarray analysis combined with transcription factor binding site (TFBS) analysis using LPS-in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kadena M,Kumagai Y,Vandenbon A,Matsushima H,Fukamachi H,Maruta N,Kataoka H,Arimoto T,Morisaki H,Funatsu T,Kuwata H

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3q21q26 syndrome, an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) with chromosomal translocations or inversions between the bands 3q21 and 3q26, is frequently associated with dysmegakaryocytopoiesis and increased platelet counts at the initial diagnosis. Since the EVI1 gene at 3q26 is transcriptional...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimizu S,Nagasawa T,Katoh O,Komatsu N,Yokota J,Morishita K

更新日期：2002-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosinemia type 1 (HT1) is an autosomal recessive disorder of the tyrosine metabolism in which the fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase enzyme is defective. This disease is clinically heterogeneous and a chronic and acute form is discerned. Characteristic of the chronic form is the development of cellular hepatocarcinoma. A...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： van Dyk E,Pretorius PJ

更新日期：2005-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytolytic mechanism of cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (CDCs) requires the presence of cholesterol in the target cell membrane. Membrane cholesterol was thought to serve as the common receptor for these toxins, but not all CDCs require cholesterol for binding. One member of this toxin family, pneumolysin (PLY) is...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lim JE,Park SA,Bong SM,Chi YM,Lee KS

更新日期：2013-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoidal activity of retinoic acid isomers [all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA), 9-cis-retinoic acid (9CRA) and 13-cis-retinoic acid (13CRA)] and their oxidized derivatives [19-hydroxy and 19-oxo derivatives of ATRA (19-hydroxy-ATRA and 19-oxo-ATRA), 19-oxo derivative of 9CRA (19-oxo-9CRA), and 19-hydroxy derivative of 1...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsushima Y,Kawachi E,Tanaka H,Kagechika H,Hashimoto Y,Shudo K

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin degrading enzyme (IDE) is a thiol-dependent metalloendoprotease that is responsible for initiation of cellular insulin degradation. However, its exact mode of action and the factors controlling it are poorly understood. Since IDE is a metal requiring enzyme, we have examined which metal(s) is(are) endogenously...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ebrahim A,Hamel FG,Bennett RG,Duckworth WC

更新日期：1991-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the interaction of melittin with ganglioside GM1 by steady-state fluorescence, one-dimensional (1)H NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling. In the presence of GM1 the emission maximum of melittin is blue shifted and fluorescence quenching efficiencies of iodide and acrylamide are substantially reduced,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatterjee C,Mukhopadhyay C

更新日期：2002-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Bloom syndrome (BS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by small body size, sun sensitivity, immunodeficiency and a high predisposition to various types of cancer. BLM was identified as the causative gene for BS, and BLM protein is homologous to DNA helicase. There are two putative nuclear localization signals (N...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaneko H,Orii KO,Matsui E,Shimozawa N,Fukao T,Matsumoto T,Shimamoto A,Furuichi Y,Hayakawa S,Kasahara K,Kondo N

更新日期：1997-11-17 00:00:00