Histone H1-stimulated phosphorylase phosphatase from rabbit skeletal muscle.

abstract：:A newly identified human peptide, adrenomedullin (AM) increased cAMP levels with dose and time dependencies in a manner similar to that of human calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). The EC50 value of human AM is 2 x 10(-8) M which is slightly higher than that of CGRP (8.5 ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishizaka Y,Ishizaka Y,Tanaka M,Kitamura K,Kangawa K,Minamino N,Matsuo H,Eto T

更新日期：1994-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of low concentrations of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate to rabbit neutrophils induces cell aggregation, degranulation, increased oxygen consumption and an increase in the amount of actin associated with the cytoskeleton without a rise in the level of intracellular free calcium as measured using the fluor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sha'afi RI,White JR,Molski TF,Shefcyk J,Volpi M,Naccache PH,Feinstein MB

更新日期：1983-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Impermeable ferricyanide stimulates the growth of HeLa cells in absence of fetal bovine serum or other growth factors. A series of impermeable oxidants with redox potentials down to -125 mV stimulate equivalent growth. All of these oxidants are reduced by the transplasma membrane electron transport system. Oxidants wi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sun IL,Crane FL,Löw H,Grebing C

更新日期：1984-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to establish a novel efficient nonviral strategy for suicide gene transfer in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in vivo. We employed branched polyethylenimine (PEI) and combined it with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-based plasmid vectors. The HCC cells transfected with an EBV-based plasmid carrying the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwai M,Harada Y,Tanaka S,Muramatsu A,Mori T,Kashima K,Imanishi J,Mazda O

更新日期：2002-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we examined the functions of the female hormone "estrogen" on spermatogenesis of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica). Estradiol-17beta (E(2)), a natural estrogen in vertebrates, was present in the serum and its receptor was expressed in the testis during the whole process of spermatogenesis. Spermatogon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miura T,Miura C,Ohta T,Nader MR,Todo T,Yamauchi K

更新日期：1999-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for complementing existing protein chemical techniques for the assignment of S-S bridge positions in amino-acid sequences is described. The principle of the method is the direct examination of the masses of protein fragments, obtained by chemical or enzymatic degradation. Proteins are digested under condi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Morris HR,Pucci P

更新日期：1985-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a lactose-substituted polystyrene, poly-N-p-vinylbenzyl-D-lactonamide (PVLA), as a substratum for adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture. Spherical-shaped hepatocytes attached on PVLA substratum formed stable multilayer aggregates anchored on substratum through the stimulation of epidermal growth factor (EGF...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tobe S,Takei Y,Kobayashi K,Akaike T

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with an aged population. ARHL is influenced by biological factors such as aging, sex difference, and atherosclerosis. The mechanisms of ARHL caused by atherosclerosis have not been previously determined in apolipoprotein E knockout (ApoE KO) mal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YY,Chao JR,Kim C,Kim B,Thi-Thanh Nguyen P,Jung H,Chang J,Lee JH,Suh JG

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterodimeric F-actin capping protein cap32/34 from Dictyostelium discoideum is a typical member of a widely distributed family of cytoskeletal proteins. To analyze its regulation and structure/function relationships we cloned and expressed the subunits separately in Escherichia coli using the ATG-expression vecto...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Haus U,Hartmann H,Trommler P,Noegel AA,Schleicher M

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Gemin4 is a ubiquitously expressed multifunctional protein that is involved in U snRNP assembly, apoptosis, nuclear/cytoplasmic transportation, transcription, and RNAi pathways. Gemin4 is one of the core components of the Gemin-complex, which also contains survival motor neuron (SMN), the seven Gemin proteins (Gemin2-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lorson MA,Dickson AM,Shaw DJ,Todd AG,Young EC,Morse R,Wolstencroft C,Lorson CL,Young PJ

更新日期：2008-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Calreticulin isolated from spinach leaves has been specifically phosphorylated in vitro by protein kinase CK2 while animal calreticulin from rabbit liver is not a substrate of this kinase under the same conditions. Phosphoserine is the only phosphoamino acid detected. High affinity binding (Km = 4.4 microM) and a near...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Baldan B,Navazio L,Friso A,Mariani P,Meggio F

更新日期：1996-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lactate dehydrogenase-A mutant gene was isolated from the genomic DNA library of a patient deficient in LDH-A (Muscle) subunit. The nucleotide sequences of seven protein-coding exons were determined and a deletion of 20 base-pairs in exon 6 was found. This mutation results in a frame-shift translation and premat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Maekawa M,Sudo K,Kanno T,Li SS

更新日期：1990-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies that antagonize growth factor signaling are attractive candidates for the biological therapy of brain tumors. HGF/NK2 is a secreted truncated splicing variant and potential antagonist of scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor (SF/HGF), a multifunctional cytokine involved in the malignant progression of sol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guerin C,Luddy C,Abounader R,Lal B,Laterra J

更新日期：2000-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported a novel finding that a candidate tumor suppressor gene prox1 suffered adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA mutation without genomic mutation in a subset of human cancer cells and lost its function. Hence, screening of mutations in both cDNA and genomic DNA could be important in the analysis of c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshimoto T,Takahashi M,Nagayama S,Watanabe G,Shimada Y,Sakasi Y,Kubo H

更新日期：2007-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm (EHS) gel has been reported to maintain the mature hepatocyte phenotypes in primary cultured hepatocytes. We investigated the effect of EHS gel on the differentiation of fetal liver cells, which contain stem/progenitor cells. The isolated fetal liver cells cultured on EHS gel formed a spherical s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsukada Y,Nagaki M,Suetsugu A,Osawa Y,Moriwaki H

更新日期：2009-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the status of the MTS2 gene, encoding the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor p15, in 32 glioblastomas. Semi-quantitative PCR identified 7 tumors in which the amplified material was 18.6% of controls and 7 in which was 48.0%, suggesting the occurrence of homozygous and hemizygous deletions, re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tenan M,Benedetti S,Finocchiaro G

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:TRAIP/RNF206 plays diverse roles in cell cycle progression, DNA damage response, and DNA repair pathways. Physiological importance of TRAIP is highlighted by the identification of pathogenic mutations of TRAIP gene in patients diagnosed with primordial dwarfism. Although the diverse functions of TRAIP in the nucleus h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park IS,Han Yg,Chung HJ,Jung YW,Kim Y,Kim H

更新日期：2016-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite-mediated oxidation of ferrous nitrosylated myoglobin (Mb(II)-NO) involves the transient ferric nitrosylated species (Mb(III)-NO), followed by ()NO dissociation and formation of ferric myoglobin (Mb(III)). In contrast, peroxynitrite-mediated oxidation of ferrous oxygenated myoglobin (Mb(II)-O2) involves t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ascenzi P,Ciaccio C,Coletta M

更新日期：2007-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis is a common bone disorder with adverse effects on oral osseointegration, and the effects of metformin on bone metabolism have received increasing attention. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that metformin promoted osteogenesis of bone mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) and osseointegrat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lin J,Xu R,Shen X,Jiang H,Du S

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel subtilisin-like serine proteases (AS-E1 and -E2) that activate prothrombin have been identified in a culture of the fungus Acremonium sp. The enzymes were purified through repeated hydrophobic interaction chromatography. The N-terminal sequences of AS-E1 (34.4 kDa) and AS-E2 (32 kDa) showed high similarity t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu C,Matsushita Y,Shimizu K,Makimura K,Hasumi K

更新日期：2007-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:LeftyA, a powerful regulator of stemness, embryonic differentiation, and reprogramming of cancer cells, counteracts cell proliferation and tumor growth. Key properties of tumor cells include enhanced glycolytic flux, which is highly sensitive to cytosolic pH and thus requires export of H(+) and lactate. H(+) ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Salker MS,Zhou Y,Singh Y,Brosens J,Lang F

更新日期：2015-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified two types of homologous DNA pairing activity in mouse cell extracts by a strand-transfer assay. Both activities are separated from each other by anion-exchange chromatography; neither of them needs ATP. One requires magnesium ion and is stimulated by Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA binding prot...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mishina Y,Shimokawa T,Kawasaki K,Arai N,Shibata T,Koyama H

更新日期：1992-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hsp16.3, a small heat shock protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), was originally identified as an immuno-dominant antigen and later found to be a major membrane protein. In vitro studies show that Hsp16.3 exists as nonamers and undergoes dynamic dissociation/re-association equilibrium in solutions. Neverthele...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang H,Fu X,Jiao W,Zhang X,Liu C,Chang Z

更新日期：2005-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the ability of two well-characterized eukaryotic homing endonucleases, I-PpoI from the myxomycete Physarum polycephalum and I-CreI from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, to generate site-specific DNA double-strand breaks in human cells. These 18-kDa proteins cleave highly conserved 15- or 24...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Monnat RJ Jr,Hackmann AF,Cantrell MA

更新日期：1999-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulse labeling followed by SDS-PAGE electrophoresis of immunoprecipitated [35S]methionine-labeled steroid sulfatase (STS) gave a single band of molecular weight 65,000 daltons. After a chase period of 18 hours the material appeared as molecular weight approximately 64,000. No labeled STS could be detected in fibroblas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Horwitz AL,Warshawsky L,King J,Burns G

更新日期：1986-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) is a key enzyme implicated in the homeostasis of intracellular reduced glutathione (GSH) and hence in the regulation of the cellular redox state. Besides, the extracellular cleavage of GSH by GGT leads to reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, depending on the generation and enhan...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Accaoui MJ,Enoiu M,Mergny M,Masson C,Dominici S,Wellman M,Visvikis A

更新日期：2000-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of neutrophils with LTB(4) or PAF results in the production of a rapidly oscillating actin polymerization/depolymerization response. Treatment of neutrophils with inhibitors of PKC prior to stimulation with ligand resulted in a masking of the F-actin oscillations. Because myosin has been shown to be a subs...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rengan R,Omann GM

更新日期：1999-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual effect of dibromothymoquinone ( DBMIB ), inhibitor and reducing agent at the donor side of Photosystem I, was investigated in isolated intact chloroplasts by flash-induced absorbance changes at 820 and 515 nm. We show that in the absence of other electron donors, rereduction of P700+ by DBMIB proceeds at a very l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Farineau J,Bottin H,Garab G

更新日期：1984-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligo/poly alpha2,8 deaminoneuraminic acid (KDN), a unique posttranslational protein modification, was found on megalin and a not yet characterized 150 kDa glycoprotein. We purified this glycoprotein from rat testis and identified it as ceruloplasmin. Furthermore, immunoprecipitated ceruloplasmin from rat thymus, ovar...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ziak M,Meier M,Novak-Hofer I,Roth J

更新日期：2002-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The baculovirus expression system has been used to express large quantities of various proteins, including membrane receptors. Here, we reveal a novel property of this expression system to be that certain membrane proteins can be displayed on the budded virus itself. We introduced the genes encoding sterol regulatory ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Urano Y,Yamaguchi M,Fukuda R,Masuda K,Takahashi K,Uchiyama Y,Iwanari H,Jiang SY,Naito M,Kodama T,Hamakubo T

更新日期：2003-08-15 00:00:00