1-0-Hexadecyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerol stimulates differentiation of HL-60 human promyelocytic leukemia cells to macrophage-like cells.

abstract：:In this study, we established an in vitro hypoxic system driven by a self-regulated chemical reaction that proved effective for cell culture. The hypoxic device was modified from a 1.5 L polypropylene preservation box normally employed for food storage. Pyrogallic acid, sodium hydroxide, and sodium carbonate were diss...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Han N,Wang Z,Wang G,Yu J,Chen C,Huang H,Xu R

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight junctions (TJs) restrict paracellular flux of water and solutes in epithelia and endothelia. In epidermis, the physiological role of TJs is not fully understood. In this study, sodium caprate (C10), which dilates intestinal TJs, was applied to cultured human epidermal keratinocytes and reconstructed human epider...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurasawa M,Kuroda S,Kida N,Murata M,Oba A,Yamamoto T,Sasaki H

更新日期：2009-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The exposure of hydrophobic sites on calmodulin, skeletal muscle troponin C and their tryptic fragments was investigated using Phenyl-Sepharose chromatography. A strong binding of both proteins and their fragments corresponding to the NH2-terminal halves of polypeptide chain of respective proteins in the presence of c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Brzeska H,Szynkiewicz J,Drabikowski W

更新日期：1983-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An infection of any part of female reproductive tract can severely interfere with fertility and reproduction. The fluids and epithelium from the lumen of the female reproductive tract (uterus, oviduct and ovarian follicle) are a known source of antimicrobial action in several species. In this study, we compared the an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dráb T,Kračmerová J,Hanzlíková E,Černá T,Litváková R,Pohlová A,Tichá M,Přikryl P,Liberda J

更新日期：2014-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons extend neurites with an increased synthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PC) that is not only a membrane component but also a functional regulator with specific fatty acid composition. To analyze the local synthesis of the PC molecular species within neurons, we combined a compartmentalized culture system with matr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sugiyama E,Yao I,Setou M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) is an intracellular stress protein that confers cytoprotection to a variety of cellular stressors. Several lines of evidence have suggested that augmentation of the heat shock response by increasing the expression of HSP70 represents a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wheeler DS,Dunsmore KE,Wong HR

更新日期：2003-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously by selection and inbreeding of Wistar rats susceptible or resistant to the cataractogenic effect of galactose the S and R rat strains were developed as a model of oxidative stress. It was earlier found S rats have elevated level of OH-radical generation and enhanced lipid peroxidation compared with that for...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yelinova V,Glazachev Y,Khramtsov V,Kudryashova L,Rykova V,Salganik R

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine proteases have been identified in parasitic protozoa including the causative agent of Chagas' disease Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi lysates subjected to substrate-containing SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis exhibit major bands of proteolytic activity in the 45-55 kDa molecular mass range (cruzipain activi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wiser MF,Lonsdale-Eccles JD,D'Alessandro A,Grab DJ

更新日期：1997-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:SHPS-1 is a receptor-type transmembrane glycoprotein, which contains four tyrosine residues in its cytoplasmic region, and the phosphorylation of these tyrosine residues serves the binding sites for SHP-2 protein-tyrosine phosphatase. Its extracellular region interacts with another membrane protein, CD47, thereby cons...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sato R,Ohnishi H,Kobayashi H,Kiuchi D,Hayashi A,Kaneko Y,Honma N,Okazawa H,Hirata Y,Matozaki T

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Simvastatin is a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibitor widely used for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. Recent data indicates that simvastatin increases the risk of new-onset diabetes by impairing both insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity. However, systematic evaluation of mechanistic pathways ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yaluri N,Modi S,Kokkola T

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA topoisomerase type I and II activities were determined by serial dilution in nuclear extracts from control and ataxia-telangiectasia lymphoblastoid cells. Topoisomerase I activity, assayed by relaxation of supercoiled plasmid DNA, was found to be approximately the same in both cell types. In order to remove interf...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mohamed R,Pal Singh S,Kumar S,Lavin MF

更新日期：1987-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of telomere length is crucial for survival of cells. Telomerase is an RNA-containing reverse transcriptase, which is responsible for elongation of shortened telomeres. Telomerase reactivation has been suggested to be involved in malignant progressions. To study on the involvement of telomerase activati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miura M,Karasaki Y,Abe T,Higashi K,Ikemura K,Gotoh S

更新日期：1998-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) to examine the structural impact of oxidizing specific methionine (M) side chains in calmodulin (CaM). It has been shown that oxidation of either M109 or M124 in CaM diminishes CaM regulation of the muscle calcium release channel, the ryanodine receptor (RyR), and tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McCarthy MR,Thompson AR,Nitu F,Moen RJ,Olenek MJ,Klein JC,Thomas DD

更新日期：2015-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian blastocysts are composed of two distinct cell lineages, namely the inner cell mass (ICM) and trophectoderm (TE). TE cells that give rise to the embryonic placenta are marked by an exclusive expression of the key determinant transcription factor, CDX2. Although Hippo signaling pathway is known to be responsib...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kohri N,Akizawa H,Iisaka S,Bai H,Takahashi M,Kawahara M

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simvastatin is widely used to lower cholesterol levels in patients with cardiovascular diseases, although accumulating evidence suggests that statins, such as simvastatin, also exert numerous anti-tumoral effects. AIM:The aim of this study was to examine the effect of simvastatin on colon cancer cell migrat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Al-Haidari AA,Syk I,Thorlacius H

更新日期：2014-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dishevelled (Dvl) is the essential signal transduction component of both canonical and non-canonical Wnt signaling pathways. The cysteine-rich protein Idax acts as a negative regulator of Wnt signaling in mammals by interaction with Dvl in the region of the PDZ domain. In an effort to clarify the structural basis of t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： London TB,Lee HJ,Shao Y,Zheng J

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed an experimental approach to differentiate the kinetics of protein binding to a lipid membrane from the kinetics of the associated conformational change in the protein. We measured the fluorescence intensity of the single Trp6 in chicken liver bile acid-binding protein (L-BABP) as a function of time after m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Galassi V,Nolan V,Villarreal MA,Perduca M,Monaco HL,Montich GG

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the knowledge about the cell biology of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) in vitro has been gained from adipose tissue model systems. However, the importance of skeletal muscle lipoprotein lipase (SMLPL) to both lipoprotein and muscle metabolism remains unclear. Although the production of LPL in cultured myocytes has b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Poirier P,Marcell T,Huey PU,Schlaepfer IR,Owens GC,Jensen DR,Eckel RH

更新日期：2000-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-protein-coding RNAs that function as post-transcriptional gene regulators. Recent evidence has shown that miRNA plays a pivotal role in the development of many cancers including glioma, a lethal brain cancer. We have recently compared the miRNA expression profiles between normal brain and gl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xia H,Qi Y,Ng SS,Chen X,Chen S,Fang M,Li D,Zhao Y,Ge R,Li G,Chen Y,He ML,Kung HF,Lai L,Lin MC

更新日期：2009-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A wealth of evidence has shown that microglia-associated neuro-inflammation is involved in the secondary brain injury contributed to the poor outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI). In vitro studies were reported that activation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) could inhibit the microglia-associated i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang JW,Wang HD,Cong ZX,Zhang XS,Zhou XM,Zhang DD

更新日期：2013-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Max binding protein (MNT) is a member of the Myc/Max/Mad network that plays a role in cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. We previously observed that MNT was differentially expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and interacted with Nck1 by 2-DE. Nck family adaptor proteins function to couple tyrosi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu J,Zhou Q,Wang Y,Zhou X,Li J

更新日期：2012-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous cysteine proteases were given much attention lately, as their role in a variety of pathophysiological disorders became evident. Amongst them cathepsins, which are thought to be implicated in mediation of osteoporosis, cancer progression, atherosclerosis, and many other conditions, are of considerable intere...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bratkovic T,Lunder M,Popovic T,Kreft S,Turk B,Strukelj B,Urleb U

更新日期：2005-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumption of a single serving of tomatoes by healthy human volunteers was sufficient to alter levels of oxidative DNA base damage in white cell DNA within 24 h. Levels of the mutagenic oxidized purine base 8-hydroxyguanine decreased, especially in those subjects whose initial levels of this base were higher than the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rehman A,Bourne LC,Halliwell B,Rice-Evans CA

更新日期：1999-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinin (Pnn) is a nuclear speckle-associated SR-like protein. The N-terminal region of the Pnn protein sequence is highly conserved from mammals to insects, but the C-terminal RS domain-containing region is absent in lower species. The N-terminal coiled-coil domain (CCD) is, therefore, of interest not only from a funct...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu HP,Hsu SY,Wu WA,Hu JW,Ouyang P

更新日期：2014-01-03 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：:The synthetic-peptide strategy was used to generate antibodies raised against calcium-dependent lectins of vertebrates. We demonstrate that a synthetic peptide predicted from the amino acid sequence of the carbohydrate recognition domain can induce blocking antibodies which would react with, or in close vicinity of, t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Blanck O,Thibault V,Granier C,Van Rietschoten J,Courageot J,Miquelis R

更新日期：1990-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperglycemia-induced podocyte injury plays a vital role in the development of diabetic nephropathy. Sulfiredoxin-1 (Srxn1) is emerging as a cytoprotective protein that protects from various insults in a wide range of cell types. However, whether Srxn1 is involved in regulating hyperglycemia-induced podocyte injury an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shen Y,Chen S,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Several chemokines, belonging to both the CXC and CC classes, act as positive or negative regulators of angiogenesis. We sought to investigate the role of CXCL13, B cell-attracting chemokine 1 (BCA-1), also known as B-lymphocyte chemoattractant (BLC), on endothelial cell functions. We tested the effect of CXCL13 on HU...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Spinetti G,Camarda G,Bernardini G,Romano Di Peppe S,Capogrossi MC,Napolitano M

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The eleven-nineteen lysine-rich leukemia protein (ELL) is a key regulator of RNA polymerase II mediated transcription. ELL facilitates RNA polymerase II transcription pause site entry and release by dynamically interacting with p300 and the positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb). In this study, we investi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fufa TD,Byun JS,Wakano C,Fernandez AG,Pise-Masison CA,Gardner K

更新日期：2015-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice expressing nuclear sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1a under the control of the insulin promoter were generated to determine the role of SREBP-1a in pancreatic beta-cells. Only low expressors could be established, which exhibited mild hyperglycemia, impaired glucose tolerance, and reduced plas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwasaki Y,Iwasaki H,Yatoh S,Ishikawa M,Kato T,Matsuzaka T,Nakagawa Y,Yahagi N,Kobayashi K,Takahashi A,Suzuki H,Yamada N,Shimano H

更新日期：2009-01-16 00:00:00