Noncovalent interactions in maintaining the native structure of low density lipoprotein.

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) is a multifunctional growth factor that plays a role in cell proliferation, differentiation, extracellular matrix production, apoptosis, and cell motility. We show here that TGF-beta1 increased the invasiveness of MM1 cells, which are a highly invasive clone of rat ascites ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mukai M,Endo H,Iwasaki T,Tatsuta M,Togawa A,Nakamura H,Inoue M

更新日期：2006-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:miR-4458, a new tumor-suppressor, was reported to down-regulated in human hepatocellular carcinoma. The expression status, roles and inhibitory mechanisms of miR-4458 in other tumors still need to be clarified. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of miR-4458 and to elucidate the potential mechanism in ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Qin Y,Cheng C,Lu H,Wang Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total kininogen in plasma of Freund's adjuvant treated rats increased 20-fold 7 days following the injection. Analysis of the kininogens demonstrated that increases in T-kininogen was the major reason for the rise in kininogen. High molecular weight and low molecular weight kininogens showed little or no change. The i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Barlas A,Okamoto H,Greenbaum LM

更新日期：1985-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine stimulation of cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells induced dose- and time-dependent increases in glycerophosphoinositol (GroPIns), inositol-1-phosphate (InsP), inositolbisphosphate (InsP2) and inositoltrisphosphate (InsP3) in addition to release of thromboxane A2 and prostacyclin. Increases in In...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Resink TJ,Grigorian GYu,Moldabaeva AK,Danilov SM,Bühler FR

更新日期：1987-04-14 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：:Unveiling the mechanism of the relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the key to improve the prognosis of ALL and remains a huge challenge. Glycan-based interactions play a vital role in immune surveillance, cell-cell adhesion and cell-matrix interaction, contributing to treatment failure in tumor. However, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yi L,Hu Q,Zhou J,Liu Z,Li H

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelvic cartilage of chick embryo was used to demonstrate that presence of boron in culture medium decreases synthesis of proteoglycans, collagen and total proteins but on the other hand increases the release of these macromolecules. However, when glucose concentration in culture medium is brought to 22mM, the synthesi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Benderdour M,Hess K,Gadet MD,Dousset B,Nabet P,Belleville F

更新日期：1997-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The small heat shock proteins are the ubiquitous proteins found in a wide range of organisms and function as molecular chaperones by binding to the folding intermediates of their substrates. Although the crystal structure of HSP16.5, a small heat shock protein from Methanococcus jannaschii, revealed that it is a hollo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim DR,Lee I,Ha SC,Kim KK

更新日期：2003-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane receptors can undergo translocation in the plane of plasma membrane after binding of polyvalent ligands. Ligand/receptor clusters, named patches, can collect into a polar cap, presumably due to their association with the submembrane actin-based cytoskeleton. We found that the assembly of Fcgamma recept...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kwiatkowska K,Sobota A

更新日期：1999-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadherins are cell adhesion molecules that modulate the epithelial phenotype and regulate tumor invasion. To identify the role of promoter methylation in regulating E-cadherin expression and in the "switching" of cadherins in oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), we studied 14 cell lines for cadherin expression. Immunob...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen Q,Lipkina G,Song Q,Kramer RH

更新日期：2004-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine kidney betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.8) kinetic properties were determined at low substrate concentrations. The double-reciprocal plots of initial velocity versus substrate concentration are linear and intersect at the left of the 1/v axis and showed substrate inhibition with betaine aldehyde. Studi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Figueroa-Soto CG,Valenzuela-Soto EM

更新日期：2000-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses have two essential activities: reverse transcription and integration. The viral protein integrase (IN) covalently joins the viral cDNA genome to the host DNA. Prototype foamy virus (PFV) IN has become a model of retroviral intasome structure. However, this retroviral IN has not been well-characterized bio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mackler RM,Lopez MA,Osterhage MJ,Yoder KE

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprechaunism is an inherited disorder characterized by growth restriction and severe insulin resistance and caused by mutations in the insulin receptor gene. Cells from these patients have defective insulin binding. Fibroblasts from some patients have concomitant defects in other tyrosine kinase receptors, such as th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Longo N

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ-line alterations in BRCA1 are associated with an increased susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer. The BRCA1 protein has been implicated in multiple cellular functions. We have recently demonstrated that BRCA1 reduces acetyl-CoA-carboxylase alpha (ACCA) activity through its phospho-dependent binding to ACCA,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ray H,Suau F,Vincent A,Dalla Venezia N

更新日期：2009-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress plays an important role in the development of diabetic retinopathy. Here, we examined whether α-lipoic acid (α-LA), a natural antioxidant, attenuated retinal injury in diabetic mice. The α-LA was orally administered to control mice or mice with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. We found that α-LA reduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YS,Kim M,Choi MY,Lee DH,Roh GS,Kim HJ,Kang SS,Cho GJ,Hong EK,Choi WS

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a novel approach for analysis of TRPC channel activity, we report here that NSAIDs are involved into regulation of TRPC channels in the podocytes of the freshly isolated decapsulated glomeruli. Fluorescence and electron microscopy techniques confirmed the integrity of podocytes in the glomeruli. Western blotting...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ilatovskaya DV,Levchenko V,Ryan RP,Cowley AW Jr,Staruschenko A

更新日期：2011-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides of the protein transduction domain (PTD) mediate the introduction of passenger proteins into cells in vitro and in vivo, where the domains are positively charged. This unusual ability can be exploited for medical applications in protein therapeutics. Chondrocytes are embedded in a dense extracellular matrix, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ozaki D,Sudo K,Asoh S,Yamagata K,Ito H,Ohta S

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid biosynthesis is crucial for all living cells. In contrast to higher organisms, bacteria use a type II fatty acid synthase (FAS II) composed of a series of individual proteins, making FAS II enzymes excellent targets for antibiotics discovery. The beta-hydroxyacyl-ACP dehydratase (FabZ) catalyzes an essentia...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kirkpatrick AS,Yokoyama T,Choi KJ,Yeo HJ

更新日期：2009-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Lampreys are one of the most primitive vertebrates diverged some 500 million years ago. It has long been known that parasitic lampreys secrete anticoagulant from their buccal glands and prevent blood coagulation of host fishes. We found two major protein components of 160 and 26 kDa in the buccal gland secretion of pa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ito N,Mita M,Takahashi Y,Matsushima A,Watanabe YG,Hirano S,Odani S

更新日期：2007-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine age-related degradation of gammaD-crystallin and the cleavage sites in the connecting peptide regions of the two domains of gammaD- and gammas-crystallins. The water-soluble (WS) proteins from lenses of donors of different ages and a purified gamma-crystallin fraction were analyz...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Srivastava OP,Srivastava K

更新日期：1998-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Most fish protamines contain two phosphorylatable sites both of which incorporate phosphate in vivo. Here we show that in two protamines (salmine A1 and clupeine Y1) the site more distant from the N-terminus (residues 20-21) is unaffected by cAMP-dependent protein kinase while it represents the main target for protein...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ferrari S,Pinna LA

更新日期：1987-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis and in vitro biological activity of a hybrid protein composed of intact human chorionic gonadotropin and fragment A of diphtheria toxin in a disulfide conjugate is reported. This hybrid retained greater than 90% of the binding ability of uncoupled hCG and was shown to be specifically toxic to a mouse Ley...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oeltmann TN

更新日期：1985-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin protein ligase (BPL) is an enzyme mediating biotinylation of a specific lysine residue of the carboxyl carrier protein (BCCP) of biotin-dependent enzymes. We recently found that the substrate specificity of BPL from archaeon Sulfolobus tokodaii is totally different from those of many other organisms, in reflect...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sueda S,Li YQ,Kondo H,Kawarabayasi Y

更新日期：2006-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The soil fungus Mucor genevensis was shown to convert exogenous arachidonic acid to the oxylipin 3-hydroxy-5Z,8Z-tetradecadienoic acid (3-HTDE) as determined by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. This metabolite was only found in the aqueous supernatant together with free linoleic acid, but not in the final fungal ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pohl CH,Botha A,Kock JL,Coetzee DJ,Botes PJ,Schewe T,Nigam S

更新日期：1998-12-30 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：:We provide the first demonstration for a Na+/Ca2+ exchanger, NCX-1, in the osteoclast. We speculate that by using Na+ exchange, NCX-1 couples H+ extrusion with Ca2+ fluxes during bone resorption. Microspectrofluorimetry of fura-2-loaded osteoclasts revealed a rapid and sustained, but reversible, cytosolic Ca2+ elevati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moonga BS,Davidson R,Sun L,Adebanjo OA,Moser J,Abedin M,Zaidi N,Huang CL,Zaidi M

更新日期：2001-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural data are presented on time-course changes in isolated rat hepatocyte suspensions exposed either to 1.2 or 1.8 mM CCl4 for up to 1 h. The subcellular changes at the lower concentration, but not the higher, are shown to closely parallel those reported to occur in rat hepatocytes following ingestion of CC...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tyson CA,Story DL,Stephens RJ

更新日期：1983-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined expression of tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase (TPST) isoforms TPST1 and TPST2 in primary cultures of human umbilical vein endothelial cells. For the first time coexpression of both isoforms is shown in primary human cells. Application of physiological levels of shear stress regulates express...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Goettsch S,Goettsch W,Morawietz H,Bayer P

更新日期：2002-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Virosomes as membranous vesicles with viral fusion protein in their membrane are versatile vehicles for cargo delivery. The vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (VSV-G) is a common fusogenic protein used in virosome preparation. This glycoprotein has been used in liposomal systems so far, but in this study, we have...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Asadikaram G,Poustforoosh A,Pardakhty A,Torkzadeh-Mahani M,Nematollahi MH

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc ribbon domain-containing 1 (ZNRD1), a transcription-associated gene, was recently found to be downregulated in human gastric cancer tissues as compared to the matched adjacent nonneoplastic tissues. In this study, we constructed the siRNA eukaryotic expression vectors of ZNRD1 and transfected them into normal gas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hong L,Zhang Y,Liu N,Liu C,Zhi M,Pan Y,Lan M,Sun L,Fan D

更新日期：2004-08-27 00:00:00