Synthesis and biological actions of melanin concentrating hormone.

abstract：:Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) are newly identified, potent producers of type 2 cytokines, such as IL-5 and IL-13, and contribute to the development of allergic lung inflammation induced by cysteine proteases. Although it has been shown that inducible costimulator (ICOS), a costimulatory molecule, is expressed ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kamachi F,Isshiki T,Harada N,Akiba H,Miyake S

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of human SCD1 heterologous expression on cellular fatty acid synthesis was investigated in the current study. The SCD1 gene expression cassette and PGK-neomycin-selectable marker cassette were co-introduced into HEK 293 cells by electroporation, and subsequently, SCD1 expression was evaluated by fatty acid ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu Z,Li D,Gou K

更新日期：2010-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells line the inside of all blood vessels forming a structurally and functionally highly heterogenous population of cells. Here we describe the application of the differential RNA display technique to the analysis of the heterogeneity of endothelial cells. Multiple fragment cDNAs from quiescent resting an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kozian DH,Augustin HG

更新日期：1995-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria has been identified as a promising target in several cancers. However, little is known on the effects of targeting mitochondria in retinoblastoma. In this work, we show that anti-malarial atovaquone, at clinically achievable concentration, demonstrates inhibitory effects to retinoblastoma cells, to a more...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ke F,Yu J,Chen W,Si X,Li X,Yang F,Liao Y,Zuo Z

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined voltage-dependent, TTX-resistant Na+ channels of newt retina (nRNaCh) electrophysiologically. IC50-TTX value of nRNaCh is more than 20 microM. We determined partial cDNA sequences of nRNaCh restricted to TTX binding sites (SS2 regions of all four repeats). While the amino acid sequences of SS2 regions of r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kaneko Y,Matsumoto G,Hanyu Y

更新日期：1997-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Concomitant with the depletion of glutathione content, phorone (250 mg/kg, ip.) produced a marked increase in heme oxygenase activity, biphasic effect on delta-aminolevulinic acid synthetase activity, and slight decreases in cytochrome P-450 content and aminopyrine demethylase activity in the liver of rats. The increa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshida T,Oguro T,Numazawa S,Kuroiwa Y

更新日期：1987-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The selectivity filter and adjacent regions in the bacterial KcsA and inwardly rectifying K(+) (Kir) channels reveal significant conformational changes that cause the channel pore to transition from an activated to inactive state (C-type inactivation) once the channel is open. The meshwork of residues stabilizing the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Raja M

更新日期：2011-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis, causative agent of whooping cough, produces an adenylate cyclase toxin (CyaA) that is an important virulence factor. In the host cell, the adenylate cyclase domain of CyaA (CyaA-ACD) is activated upon association with calmodulin (CaM), an EF-hand protein comprised of N- and C-lobes (N-CaM and C-C...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Springer TI,Goebel E,Hariraju D,Finley NL

更新日期：2014-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The α1,3/4-fucosyltransferases (FUT) subfamily are key enzymes in cell surface antigen synthesis during various biological processes. A novel role of FUTs in tumorigenesis has been discovered recently, however, the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we characterized FUT6, a member of α1,3/4-FUT subfam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guo Q,Guo B,Wang Y,Wu J,Jiang W,Zhao S,Qiao S,Wu Y

更新日期：2012-01-06 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：:Saposins (SAPs) are small glycoproteins required for activation of sphingolipid hydrolysis by lysosomal enzymes. Four SAPs, SAP-A, -B, -C, and -D, are proteolytically cleaved from a single gene product termed prosaposin. The mature coding sequence of human SAP-A tagged with 6-histidine was expressed in Pichia pastoris...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamada M,Inui K,Hamada D,Nakahira K,Yanagihara K,Sakai N,Nishigaki T,Ozono K,Yanagihara I

更新日期：2004-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuropeptide was isolated from the corpora cardiaca of the corn earworm moth Heliothis zea, and purified by sequential gradient elution in three reversed phase-high performance liquid chromatographic steps. The primary structure, pGlu-Leu-Thr-Phe-Ser-Ser-Gly-Trp-Gly-Asn-NH2 was determined by automated gas-phase Edma...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jaffe H,Raina AK,Riley CT,Fraser BA,Bird TG,Tseng CM,Zhang YS,Hayes DK

更新日期：1988-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Gangliosides are implicated in neuronal development processes. The regulation of ganglioside levels is closely related to the induction of neuronal cell differentiation. In this study, the relationship between ganglioside expression and neuronal cell development was investigated using an in vitro model of neural diffe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee DH,Koo DB,Ko K,Ko K,Kim SM,Jung JU,Ryu JS,Jin JW,Yang HJ,Do SI,Jung KY,Choo YK

更新日期：2007-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-established that non-random patterns in coding DNA sequence (CDS) features can be partially explained by translational selection. Recent extensions of microarray and proteomic expression data have stimulated many genome-wide investigations of the relationships between gene expression and various CDS feature...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu G,Nie L,Freeland SJ

更新日期：2007-07-13 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：:Bone homeostasis is maintained by bone remodeling, which involves continuous bone resorption by osteoclasts and bone formation by osteoblasts. Dysregulation of bone turnover, caused by osteoclast overactivation, causes destructive bone diseases. However, the mechanisms underlying the maintenance of osteoclast differen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aoki S,Shimizu K,Ito K

更新日期：2020-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a pleiotropic immunomodulatory cytokine produced mainly by T lymphocyte. It is known that many kinds of non-haematopoietic cells, as well as immune cells and haematopoietic cells, express IL-4 receptors. Recently, we found that IL-4 increased hydroxyproline and osteocalcin accumulation and caus...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishibashi H,Karube S,Yamakawa A,Koshihara Y

更新日期：1995-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and purified to apparent homogeneity a serum protein which appears to be a biological marker for active rheumatoid arthritis. The protein has been found in the sera in all 44 active rheumatoid arthritis patients thus far studied and is absent from, or present in undetected amounts, in sera from normal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rosano CL,Parhami N,Hurwitz C

更新日期：1985-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of calcium-dependent proteinase in plants was investigated using soluble proteins from Arabidopsis root cultures. Calcium increased the proteolytic activity by two to three fold. Calcium-stimulated proteolytic activity was inhibited by different protease inhibitors. The highest inhibition (79%) of calcium...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Reddy AS,Safadi F,Beyette JR,Mykles DL

更新日期：1994-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of tryptic and chymotryptic peptides from cytosolic and mitochondrial rabbit liver serine hydroxymethyltransferase are compared to the proposed sequence of a protein coded for by the glyA gene of Escherichia coli. The E. coli glyA gene is believed to code for serine hydroxymethyltransferase. Extensive seq...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Barra D,Martini F,Angelaccio S,Bossa F,Gavilanes F,Peterson D,Bullis B,Schirch L

更新日期：1983-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:GTP cyclohydrolase I is the rate-limiting enzyme in the de novo synthesis pathway of tetrahydrobiopterin which is an essential cofactor for all NO synthase isoforms. The expression of GTP cyclohydrolase I is regulated on a transcriptional level by a variety of cytokines like interleukin 1beta or tumor necrosis factor ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lapize C,Plüss C,Werner ER,Huwiler A,Pfeilschifter J

更新日期：1998-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human MCF7 breast tumor cells grew as estrogen-dependent tumors in nude mice. In contrast, they were not estrogen-dependent for proliferation in serumless culture media. Charcoal-dextran stripped female human serum supplemented media (5% to 40%) inhibited their proliferation in a dose dependent pattern. Estrogens reve...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Soto AM,Sonnenschein C

更新日期：1984-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the mechanism of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis, we investigated the effect of glucocorticoid on canonical Wnt signaling that emerged as a novel key pathway for promoting bone formation. Wnt3a increased the T-cell factor (Tcf)/lymphoid enhancer factor (Lef)-dependent transcriptional activity in primary...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohnaka K,Tanabe M,Kawate H,Nawata H,Takayanagi R

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A type II DNA topoisomerase has been partially purified from calf thymus mitochondria by a combination of differential centrifugation and column chromatography. The mitochondrial enzyme was inhibited by amsacrine (m-AMSA) slightly at 0.5 microM, significantly at 5.0 microM, and completely at 50 microM. A similar profi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lin JH,Castora FJ

更新日期：1991-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal brush border membranes prepared from pig jejunum were shown to transport intact reduced glutathione into an osmotically responsive intravesicular space. At early incubation time (under 1 min.) GSH was poorly hydrolysed in its free amino acids. Primarily glutathione uptake was obtained against a concentratio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Linder M,De Burlet G,Sudaka P

更新日期：1984-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer (PC) is an aggressive malady with proclivity for early metastasis. Overexpression of toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common type of pancreatic malignancy, correlates to tumor size, lymph node involvement, venous invasion and pathological stage. Lipopolysaccha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Binker-Cosen MJ,Richards D,Oliver B,Gaisano HY,Binker MG,Cosen-Binker LI

更新日期：2017-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The most widely used rate expression for single-substrate enzyme catalyzed reactions, namely the Michaelis-Menten kinetics is based upon the assumption that enzyme concentration is in excess of the substrate in the medium and the rate is mainly limited by the substrate concentration according to saturation kinetics. H...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kargi F

更新日期：2009-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetic disorder characterized by congenital malfunction, bone marrow failure and hypersensitivity to DNA damage. FANCD2 protein play the central role in FA pathway. To study the in vivo role of FANCD2, we generated and characterized a new Fancd2 knockout mouse strain with 7bp deletion in Fanc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang Q,Xie H,Zhong Y,Li D,Ke X,Ying H,Yu B,Zhang T

更新日期：2019-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal structure and the essential functional region of the cysB gene product of Escherichia coli K-12 were analyzed by the method of gene fusion. The translational start codon of the cysB gene was located by determining the amino-terminal sequence of a hybrid protein containing the first 31 amino acid res...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tei H,Watanabe K,Murata K,Kimura A

更新日期：1990-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of 32Pi into the 47 and 20 kDa polypeptides in platelets activated by wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) was studied. The pattern of enhanced phosphorylation produced by the lectin was comparable to that by thrombin. The 47 kDa polypeptide was phosphorylated at both serine and threonine while the 20 kDa pro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ganguly CL,Chelladurai M,Ganguly P

更新日期：1985-10-15 00:00:00