Absence of inactivation or phosphorylation of ornithine decarboxylase by nuclear protein kinase NII and of immunological cross-reactivity between RNA polymerase I and ornithine decarboxylase.

abstract：:Deregulated activation of protein tyrosine kinases, such as the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and Abl, is associated with human cancers including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Although inhibitors of such activated kinases have proved to be of therapeutic benefit in in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ozaki K,Kosugi M,Baba N,Fujio K,Sakamoto T,Kimura S,Tanimura S,Kohno M

更新日期：2010-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bryostatin-1 is a natural activator of protein kinase C and currently examined in phase I trials as anticancer agent. We found that Bryostatin-1 induced tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) expression in the human cell line MONO-MAC-6. Using Northern blot analysis and a bioassay for the detection of the cytokine we...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Steube KG,Drexler HG

更新日期：1995-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydropteridine reductase from human brain has been purified to homogeneity using a naphthaquinone affinity column followed by chromatography on a 5'-AMP-Sepharose column. Contrary to earlier findings, dopamine (I), noradrenaline (II), and adrenaline (III) do not inhibit this enzyme at concentrations below 200 microM...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Armarego WL,Waring P

更新日期：1983-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins modified by oxidants are rapidly degraded by intracellular proteases. Oxidatively modified superoxide dismutase (Ox-SOD) was degraded 2-8 times faster at both acidic and alkaline pH than the native protein in bovine cardiac tissue extracts. At acidic pH, Ox-SOD hydrolysis was stimulated by ATP and by non-hydr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Strack PR,Waxman L,Fagan JM

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and characterized the 5'-flanking region of the mouse RECK gene aiming to understand the mechanism of oncogene-mediated suppression of RECK gene expression. The upstream 52-base region was found to contain a promoter activity which is, to some extent, suppressed by the ras oncogene. This region contai...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasahara RM,Takahashi C,Noda M

更新日期：1999-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A common peptide motif has been discovered among a series of Golgi-localized glycosyltransferases. The peptide stretch, (Ser/Thr)-X-(Glu/Gln)-(Arg/Lys), always occurs near a hydrophobic domain close to the N-terminus of these enzymes which is believed to anchor them to the membrane lipid bilayer (Paulson and Colley, J...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bendiak B

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-33, an IL-1 family member, acts as an extracellular cytokine by binding its cognate receptor, ST2. IL-33 is also a chromatin-binding transcriptional regulator highly expressed in the nuclei of endothelial cells. However, the function of IL-33 as a nuclear factor is poorly defined. Here, we show that I...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Choi YS,Park JA,Kim J,Rho SS,Park H,Kim YM,Kwon YG

更新日期：2012-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) plays an important role in destabilizing vessels for angiogenesis, however its transcriptional regulation has not been determined. Here we isolated about 3.2kb of the 5' upstream of the human Ang-2 gene and further characterized the transcriptional regulation of Ang-2. We found 10 Ets binding si...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hasegawa Y,Abe M,Yamazaki T,Niizeki O,Shiiba K,Sasaki I,Sato Y

更新日期：2004-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat mesenteric vessels changes in external pH (pHo) alter tension. Changes in intracellular pH (pHi) and calcium ([Ca2+]i) have both been suggested to underlie the tension changes. As no simultaneous measurements of pHi and [Ca2+]i had been made, however, the relative importance and temporal relationship between pH...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Austin C,Dilly K,Eisner D,Wray S

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Chinese hamster ovary cells, [3H]formycin B is metabolized into formycin B-5'-monophosphate, formycin A-5'-monophosphate and higher phosphorylated derivatives of formycin A which are incorporated into RNA. Mutants of CHO cells independently selected for resistance to various adenosine analogs viz. toyocamycin, tube...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mehta KD,Gupta RS

更新日期：1985-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated two transgenic mice carrying the adenovirus type 12 E1 region genes under control of the human renin promoter, in which the E1A and E1B genes were expressed predominantly in the kidney. Interestingly, renal transcription of the gene for mouse renin was shown to be elevated at 28 and 40 folds as compared i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fukamizu A,Sagara M,Sugiyama F,Yagami K,Murakami K

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of at least two distinct Mg2+- or Mn2+-dependent, Ca2+-independent endonuclease activities was shown in the myeloid leukemia cell line P39. One of them was recovered from nuclear extracts and the other from a cytoplasmic fraction. The molecular size of the former was 30 kDa in both gel filtration and acti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawabata H,Anzai N,Masutani H,Hirama T,Hishita T,Dodo M,Masuda T,Yoshida Y,Okuma M

更新日期：1997-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro regulation of cytosolic protein-tyrosine kinase from porcine spleen (CPTK-40) by various positive or negative charged compounds was studied. Spermine and spermidine stimulated the activity of CPTK-40 about two-fold using (Val5)angiotensin II as a substrate. This stimulation was not specific for the peptide bu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakai K,Sada K,Tanaka Y,Kobayashi T,Nakamura S,Yamamura H

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevations in intracellular Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](i)) initiate insulin secretion from pancreatic beta-cells, but the secretory responses become rapidly desensitised to maintained elevations in [Ca(2+)](i). We have investigated the mechanisms underlying the Ca(2+) desensitization of insulin secretion using electrically perm...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Harris TE,Persaud SJ,Squires PE,Jones PM

更新日期：2000-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione S-transferase P (GST-P) exists as a homodimeric form and has two tryptophan residues, Trp28 and Trp38, in each subunit. In order to elucidate the role of the two tryptophan residues in catalytic function, we examined intrinsic fluorescence of tryptophan residues and effect of chemical modification by N-bro...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishihira J,Ishibashi T,Sakai M,Nishi S,Kumazaki T

更新日期：1992-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA-dependent DNA polymerase (DDDP) and RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (RDDP) activities of hepadnavirus polymerases are both essential for viral replication. Human hepatitis B virus (HBV) polymerase has been successfully expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein in frame with maltose-binding protein. The pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jeong JH,Kwak DS,Rho HM,Jung G

更新日期：1996-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play crucial roles in the pancreatic carcinogenesis and progression. In the present study, we found that miR-9-5p was significantly downregulated in pancreatic cancer tissues and cell lines. The expression levels of miR-9-5p were negatively correlated with tumor stage and vessel invasion. Log-rank t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang J,Wang B,Ren H,Chen W

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of AtNTRC (AtNTRC(OE)) in Arabidopsis thaliana led to a freezing and cold stress tolerance, whereas a knockout mutant (atntrc) showed a stress-sensitive phenotype. Biochemical analyses showed that the recombinant AtNTRC proteins exhibited a cryoprotective activity for malate dehydrogenase and lactic deh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon JC,Lee S,Shin SY,Chae HB,Jung YJ,Jung HS,Lee KO,Lee JR,Lee SY

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Using red cells as an experimental model, we previously showed that a limited degradation of certain membrane proteins by calpain (Ca2+-activated thiol protease) was a necessary prerequisite for cell fusion and that fusibility depended on the ratio of calpain to its endogenous inhibitor calpastatin. Here we show that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Barnoy S,Glasner T,Kosower NS

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In our study, we investigated the expression and function of microRNA-29 in myocardial microvascular endothelial cells (MMEVC) in type 2 diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats. METHODS:MiR-29 gene expression was compared, by qRT-PCR between diabetic GK rat MMEVC and non-diabetic Wistar rat MMEVC. MiR-29 was downr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li Z,Jiang R,Yue Q,Peng H

更新日期：2017-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin B is a ubiquitous regulatory molecule and has been implicated in mitosis and meiosis in oocytes. Phenomenon that differ in the length of cyclin B 3'UTR in crustacean has attracted much attention, although molecular details are poorly understood. The study of 3'UTR-interacting proteins could yield much informati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shui Y,Liu GF,Xu ZH,Zhu GY

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion protein (PrP) binds copper and exhibits superoxide dismutase-like activity, while the roles of PrP in copper homeostasis remain controversial. Using Zeeman graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy, we quantified copper levels in immortalized PrP gene (Prnp)-deficient neuronal cells transfected with Prnp a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakudo A,Lee DC,Yoshimura E,Nagasaka S,Nitta K,Saeki K,Matsumoto Y,Lehmann S,Itohara S,Sakaguchi S,Onodera T

更新日期：2004-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Smad2 is a crucial component of intracellular signaling by transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ). Here we describe that Smad2 is glycosylated, which is a novel for Smad2 post-translational modification. We showed that the Smad2 glycosylation was inhibited upon treatment of cells with 17β-estradiol, and was enhanced in c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gotoh T,Iwahana H,Kannan S,Marei RG,Mousa H,Elgamal M,Souchelnytskyi S

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:There are tremendous drug candidates that suffer from insolubility in water. In the present study, it is shown that Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a model water-insoluble compound, can be nanoparticulated into a water-soluble form using apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I). Similar to the way that apoA-I forms nascent discoidal high de...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shin JY,Shin JI,Kim JS,Yang YS,Hwang Y,Yang JS,Shin D,Seo JH,Jin YS,Park YC,Hwang JS,Kweon DH

更新日期：2009-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is recognized that 4,5-diaminovaleric acid, formed from glutamate 1-semialdehyde, functions as the intermediate in the last step of delta-aminolevulinic acid formation from glutamate, the enantioselectivity of the participating glutamate 1-semialdehyde aminotransferase for 4,5-diaminovaleric acid has remai...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Friedmann HC,Duban ME,Valasinas A,Frydman B

更新日期：1992-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroglobulin of very low iodine content has been prepared from a single non-toxic human goitre. The initial iodine content of the protein (0.038%) has been increased to levels of 0.16% and 0.85% by in vitro treatment with thyroid peroxidase and the resulting proteins studied with respect to their intrinsic fluorescen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zabel KM,Rawitch AB

更新日期：1984-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of human APOA5 in mice results in dramatically decreased plasma triglyceride levels. In this study we explored the mechanism underlying this hypotriglyceridemic effect. Initially we found that triglyceride turnover was faster in hAPOA5 transgenic mice compared to controls, and this strongly correlated w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fruchart-Najib J,Baugé E,Niculescu LS,Pham T,Thomas B,Rommens C,Majd Z,Brewer B,Pennacchio LA,Fruchart JC

更新日期：2004-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Dystroglycan is an extracellular adhesion protein that is known to interact with different ligands. The interaction is thought to stabilize the integrity of the plasma membrane. The N-terminal part of α-dystroglycan may be proteolytically processed to generate a small 38 kDa protein (α-DG-N). The physiological signi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hesse C,Johansson I,Mattsson N,Bremell D,Andreasson U,Halim A,Anckarsäter R,Blennow K,Anckarsäter H,Zetterberg H,Larson G,Hagberg L,Grahn A

更新日期：2011-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that optimal growth temperature (T(opt)) is one of the factors that influence genomic GC in prokaryotes. Our results have been disputed by Marashi and Ghalanbor, who claim that the correlations we show are not "robust" because the elimination of some points (arbitrarily chosen) leads, in some fa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Musto H,Naya H,Zavala A,Romero H,Alvarez-Valin F,Bernardi G

更新日期：2005-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular mechanisms relating interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) to brain damage have recently been identified in a microarray analysis of cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytes from patients with Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome (AGS). These findings demonstrate that the inhibition of angiogenesis and the activation of neurotoxic lymph...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pulliero A,Marengo B,Longobardi M,Fazzi E,Orcesi S,Olivieri I,Cereda C,Domenicotti C,Balottin U,Izzotti A

更新日期：2013-01-18 00:00:00