Variable amounts of translatable ferritin mRNA in bean leaves with various iron contents.

abstract：:The C-terminal alpha-amide formation of the peptides is one of the most important events of prohormone processing. We have recently isolated an alpha-amidating enzyme, AE-I, from Xenopus laevis skin, which is the only enzyme ever purified to homogeneity. In this study, we report cloning and sequence of cDNA encoding A...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mizuno K,Ohsuye K,Wada Y,Fuchimura K,Tanaka S,Matsuo H

更新日期：1987-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined folding and secretion of human lysozyme using four mutants each lacking two cysteines expressed in a yeast secretion system. Our results have revealed that the formation of the disulfide bond Cys6/Cys128 in human lysozyme is a prerequisite for correct folding in vivo in yeast. Substitution of Ala for Cys77...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Taniyama Y,Yamamoto Y,Nakao M,Kikuchi M,Ikehara M

更新日期：1988-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The amyloid-beta precursor protein (AbetaPP) is a ubiquitously expressed adhesion and neuritogenic protein whose processing has previously been shown to be regulated by reproductive hormones including the gonadotropin luteinizing hormone (LH) in human neuroblastoma cells. We report for the first time the expression of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Porayette P,Gallego MJ,Kaltcheva MM,Meethal SV,Atwood CS

更新日期：2007-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolysis, the catabolism of glucose to pyruvate, is an iconic central metabolic pathway and often used as a paradigm for explaining the general principles of the regulation/control of cellular metabolism. The ubiquitous mammalian ATP-dependent hexokinases I-III and hexokinase IV, also termed glucokinase, initiate th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ronimus RS,Morgan HW

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) and denitrification are two different microbial reactions that form nitrogen gas. The initial step in the anammox reaction-reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide-is thought to be catalyzed by homologs of dissimilatory nitrite reductase, which is known to be involved in denitrificat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hira D,Matsumura M,Kitamura R,Furukawa K,Fujii T

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression and processing of the Hepatitis C virus core protein (HCcAg) were analyzed in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. Two proteins with 21 (p21) and 23 kDa (p23) were detected in immunoblot with a serum from a chronic carrier patient, as the major products for HCcAg. Both proteins, p21 and p23, produc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Acosta-Rivero N,Musacchio A,Lorenzo L,Alvarez C,Morales J

更新日期：2002-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Daudi lymphoma cells, of a line sensitive to growth inhibition by alpha interferon, showed dose-dependent plasma membrane depolarization within 10 min after exposure to natural or recombinant alpha interferons (10 to 1000 IU/ml). This biophysical change was detected flow cytometrically by measuring the intensity of fl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Grimley PM,Aszalos A

更新日期：1987-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:4alpha-Carbinolamine dehydratase is a bifunctional protein involved in the regeneration of tetrahydrobiopterin during the hydroxylation of the aromatic amino acids. It is also a dimerization cofactor of HNF1 and therefore is believed to function as part of the hepatic gene transcription system. In view of the recent d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lei XD,Woodworth CD,Johnen G,Kaufman S

更新日期：1997-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH-rubredoxin oxidoreductase (NROR), a flavoprotein from the obligately anaerobe Clostridium acetobutylicum is encoded by an ORF (nror) of 1140 nucleotides. Whereas primary structure analysis reveals that NROR has amino acid sequence patterns homologous with those involved in FAD and NAD-binding, the enzyme is dista...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Guedon E,Petitdemange H

更新日期：2001-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Kupffer cells, prepared 18 h after pretreatment of rats with a single dose of halothane, did carry TFA-adducts which were recognized on Western blots by a anti-TFA-antibody. Based on apparent molecular weight, the pattern of the major TFA-adducts within Kupffer cells was similar to that observed in hepatocytes. When k...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Christen U,Bürgin M,Gut J

更新日期：1991-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In isolated rat pancreatic acini, protein expression of RhoA and Rho-associated kinase, ROCK-II, and the formation of immunocomplex of RhoA with ROCK-II were enhanced by CCK-8, carbachol, and the phorbol ester TPA. The ROCK-specific inhibitor, Y-27632, did not alter basal amylase secretion, whereas it potentiated CCK-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kusama K,Nozu F,Awai T,Tanaka S,Honma I,Tsunoda Y,Mitamura K

更新日期：2003-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous incubation of bovine adrenal medullary plasma membranes (PM) with chromaffin granules (CG) resulted in the release of the soluble granular content. The molecular mechanism of this process was studied with several monoclonal antibodies (mAb) raised against different plasma membrane components. Specific inh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bohner K,Boons J,Gheuens J,Konings F,De Potter WP

更新日期：1985-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a comprehensive comparison of the anatomical distributions of the cloned mu, delta and kappa opioid receptor mRNA in rat brain. Northern blot analysis revealed that mRNA species encoding the three receptors differed in size and were differentially localized in brain regions. In peripheral tissues analyzed, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： George SR,Zastawny RL,Briones-Urbina R,Cheng R,Nguyen T,Heiber M,Kouvelas A,Chan AS,O'Dowd BF

更新日期：1994-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that X-irradiated MOLT-4 cells during their rapid cell death exhibited dose and time dependently a new protein named p41 detected by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2-D PAGE). An antibody, AM-1, raised against partial peptide of p41 stained two spots, p41 and p42, unexpe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Morita A,Suzuki N,Matsumoto Y,Hirano K,Enomoto A,Zhu J,Sakai K

更新日期：2000-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease-19), represents a far more serious threat to public health than SARS and MERS coronaviruses, due to its ability to spread more efficiently than its predecessors. Currently, there is no worldwide-approved ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Santopolo S,Riccio A,Santoro MG

更新日期：2020-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Kainate receptors are a class of ionotropic glutamate receptors that are widely expressed in the mammalian brain, yet little is known about their physiological role or the mechanisms by which they are regulated. Kainate receptors are composed of multiple subunits (GluR5-7; KA1-2), which can combine to form homomeric o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayes DM,Braud S,Hurtado DE,McCallum J,Standley S,Isaac JT,Roche KW

更新日期：2003-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 mutations are mostly single amino acid changes resulting in expression of a stable mutant protein with "gain of function" (GOF) activity having a dominant oncogenic role rather than simple loss of function of wild-type p53. Knock-down of mutant p53 in human lung cancer cell lines with different endogenous p53 muta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vaughan CA,Frum R,Pearsall I,Singh S,Windle B,Yeudall A,Deb SP,Deb S

更新日期：2012-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-sensor domains (VSDs) in voltage-gated ion channels are thought to regulate the probability that a channel adopts an open conformation by moving vertically in the lipid bilayer. Here we characterized the movement of the VSDs of the prokaryotic voltage-gated sodium channel, NaChBac. Substitution of residue T110...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagura H,Irie K,Imai T,Shimomura T,Hige T,Fujiyoshi Y

更新日期：2010-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are a promising source for clinical stem cell transplantation. However, telomere regulation mechanisms, as one of the possible major mechanisms by which hMSCs sustain their stem cell characteristics, remain unknown. We isolated hMSCs by plastic adhesion and characterize...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao YM,Li JY,Lan JP,Lai XY,Luo Y,Sun J,Yu J,Zhu YY,Zeng FF,Zhou Q,Huang H

更新日期：2008-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome of generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus type 1 (GEFS+) has been associated to the gene SCN1B coding for the sodium channel beta1 subunit (Wallace, R. H. et al. (1998) Nature Genetics 19, 366-370). In patients, a mutation of the cysteine 121 to trpyptophane (C121W) would cause a lack of modulato...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moran O,Conti F

更新日期：2001-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein of Mr 16,000 (protein 16 K) which tightly binds to DNA has been isolated from E. coli. The amino acid composition and amino-terminal amino acid sequence of this protein have been determined. On the basis of its physico-chemical characteristics the protein 16 K was shown to be identical to the protein H1 [Cuk...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Laine B,Sautiere P,Spassky A,Rimsky S

更新日期：1984-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the hierarchical levels of stem cell targets for ABL-kinase domain mutations in CML, highly purified CD34+CD38- and CD34+CD38+ cell populations and their LTC-IC-derived progeny were analyzed in four patients at diagnosis (n=1) or in advanced phases (n=3) of their disease. In the single patient with early phas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sorel N,Bonnet ML,Guillier M,Guilhot F,Brizard A,Turhan AG

更新日期：2004-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) contracted the rabbit tracheal smooth muscle (RTSM), yielding a bell-shaped tension-concentration curve. Moreover, ET-1 induced concentration- and time-dependent increases in cAMP concentrations in RTSM (EC(50), 58 nM; t(1/2), 2.4 min). Pretreatment with the AC inhibitors, SQ-22536, or 2'-5'-dideox...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： El-Mowafy AM,Biggs DF

更新日期：2001-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The short-term incubation of HeLa cells in the presence of diferric transferrin or ferricyanide, which are reduced externally by the transplasma membrane reductase, produces a stoichiometric decrease in NADH and increase in NAD+, which is stimulated by insulin. The NADP/NADPH ratio does not change during 15 min incuba...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Navas P,Sun IL,Morré DJ,Crane FL

更新日期：1986-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the classical IκB kinases (IKKα and IKKβ) was previously shown to contribute to obesity-induced inflammation and insulin resistance. Using knockout mice, we investigated whether the related isoform IKKε plays a similar metabolic role. IKKε(-/-) mice had reduced body weight, leptin levels, as well as high...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Scheja L,Heese B,Seedorf K

更新日期：2011-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-electron reduction product of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-2,3-dihydropyridinium ion has been generated by pulse radiolysis and its absorption spectrum recorded. This radical was found to decay by second-order kinetics (2k = 9.5 x 10(8) M-1 s-1) to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine and 1-methyl-4-phenyl-2,3-di...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chacón JN,Chedekel MR,Land EJ,Truscott TG

更新日期：1989-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli sensitive to chloramphenicol incubated with this antibiotic suffered oxidative stress with increase of anion superoxide (O2-). This reactive species of oxygen was detected by chemiluminescence with lucigenin. S. aureus, E. coli, and Enterococcus faecalis sensitive to ciproflo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Albesa I,Becerra MC,Battán PC,Páez PL

更新日期：2004-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of different forms of cellular stress can cause protein misfolding and aggregation and proteotoxicity. The cytoprotective response to proteotoxicity is termed the integrated stress response and involves 4 distinct serine/threonine protein kinases that converge on the translation initiation factor eIF2α, resu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McConkey DJ

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mizoribine (MIZ) is a novel imidazole nucleoside with immunosuppressive activity. MIZ has been approved in Japan and combination therapy with MIZ and glucocorticoids has been used after renal transplantation and for lupus nephritis and rheumatoid arthritis. In this study, we identify 14-3-3 proteins as MIZ-binding pro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi S,Wakui H,Gustafsson JA,Zilliacus J,Itoh H

更新日期：2000-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:WNK kinases are novel serine/threonine protein kinases. Mutations in two members of the WNK family, WNK1 and WNK4, cause familial hyperkalemic hypertension. These kinases regulate ion transport across diverse epithelia; WNK4 reduces activity of the Na-Cl cotransporter activity and the potassium channel, ROMK, by reduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Z,Yang CL,Ellison DH

更新日期：2004-05-07 00:00:00