Peptides from the amino-terminus of RANTES cause chemotaxis of human T-lymphocytes.

abstract：:The composition of intestinal glycosphingolipids during normal and hormone-perturbed development was investigated. The concentrations of glycosphingolipids of mouse small intestine were affected by the injection of thyroxine or cortisone during suckling and weaning periods. GDla was reduced by the hormonal treatment a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sato E,Fujie M,Uezato T,Fujita M,Nishimura K

更新日期：1984-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulse labeling studies with Bacillus subtilis showed that DuP 721 inhibited protein synthesis. The IC50 of DuP 721 for protein synthesis was 0.25 micrograms/ml but it was greater than 32 micrograms/ml for RNA and DNA synthesis. In cell-free systems, DuP 721 concentrations up to 100 microM did not inhibit peptide chain...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eustice DC,Feldman PA,Slee AM

更新日期：1988-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of a glycolytic cancer cell was introduced by Warburg over 70 years ago. This perception has since become the rationale that drives a considerable proportion of basic research on cancer, and it influences the current strategies for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of cancer. Here we review the data...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zu XL,Guppy M

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex of Escherichia coli can bind up to 12 dimers of dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase (E3) besides those already present. Maximal activity does not increase, however, when surplus E3 is present. This observation was previously interpreted to mean that the excess enzyme is inactive. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wagenknecht T,Francis N,DeRosier D

更新日期：1986-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular actions of isoflavones may mediate the beneficial health effects associated with high soy consumption. We have investigated protection by genistein and daidzein against oxidative stress-induced endothelial injury. Genistein but not daidzein protected endothelial cells from damage induced by oxidative stress. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hernandez-Montes E,Pollard SE,Vauzour D,Jofre-Montseny L,Rota C,Rimbach G,Weinberg PD,Spencer JP

更新日期：2006-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effect of sodium selenite on biliary secretion of methyl mercury was examined in rats. The biliary secretion of methyl mercury in rat treated with 1 mumol/kg of methyl mercury was significantly decreased by administration of selenite at doses of 0.05 mumol/kg or higher. In rats given 10 mumol/kg of meth...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Urano T,Imura N,Naganuma A

更新日期：1997-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 induces heat shock protein (HSP) 72 gene expression in skeletal muscle, 18 healthy, young men had either a high dose of IL-6 (HiIL-6; n=6), low dose IL-6 (LoIL-6; n=6), or saline (CON; n=6) infused into one femoral artery for 3h. Muscle biopsies were obtained from t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Febbraio MA,Steensberg A,Fischer CP,Keller C,Hiscock N,Pedersen BK

更新日期：2002-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of highly oriented Na-hyaluronate was prepared with a wet--spinning method and equilibrated to 75% relative humidity. Its proton NMR spectrum was recorded as a function of the angle theta between the hyaluronate helix axis and the external magnetic field. It appeared as a singlet with an angle-dependent line ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lahajnar G,Rupprecht A

更新日期：1986-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:TEC, a member of the TEC family of non-receptor type protein tyrosine kinases, has recently been suggested to play a role in hepatocyte proliferation and liver regeneration. This study aims to investigate the putative mechanisms of TEC kinase regulation of hepatocyte differentiation, i.e. to explore whi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li F,Jiang Y,Zheng Q,Yang X,Wang S

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Linoleic acid, an omega-6 unsaturated fatty acid, stimulated growth of the MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 human breast cancer cell lines in culture. Responses of the estrogen-independent MDA-MB-231 cells both in serum-free medium and with 1% fetal bovine serum added were positively correlated with linoleic acid concentration ov...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rose DP,Connolly JM

更新日期：1989-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-renewal, differentiation, and tumorigenicity characterize cancer stem cells (CSCs), which are rare and maintained by specific cell fate regulators. CSCs are isolated from glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and may be responsible for the lethality of incurable brain tumors. Brain CSCs may arise from the transformation ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon JH,Kwon S,Jun EK,Kim A,Whang KY,Kim H,Oh S,Yoon BS,You S

更新日期：2011-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine inhibited carbachol-induced amylase release in a dose-dependent fashion in rat pancreatic acini; cholecystokinin- and bombesin-induced secretory responses were almost unchanged by the antimalarial drug. The inhibition of carbachol-induced amylase release by chloroquine was competitive in nature with a Ki o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Habara Y,Williams JA,Hootman SR

更新日期：1986-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant cells are characterized by the presence of P-glycoprotein on the plasma membrane, which binds and probably transports antitumor agents outside the cells. P-glycoprotein is also present in various normal tissues such as the adrenal gland. To investigate the physiological function of P-glycoprotein, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Naito M,Yusa K,Tsuruo T

更新日期：1989-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang-II) has been shown to possess several atherogenic properties including its ability to induce macrophage-mediated oxidation of LDL and to form Ang-II-modified LDL which is taken up by macrophages at enhanced rate. Oxidized-LDL (Ox-LDL) is also taken up by macrophages at enhanced rate via several sca...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keidar S,Attias J

更新日期：1997-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkin mutations are responsible for the pathogenesis of autosomal-recessive juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP). On initial screening of Japanese patients with AR-JP, we had found that approximately half of the parkin mutations are deletions occurring between exons 2 and 5, forming a deletion hot spot. In this study, we in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Asakawa S,Hattori N,Shimizu A,Shimizu Y,Minoshima S,Mizuno Y,Shimizu N

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that cor15, a cold-regulated gene from Arabidopsis thaliana, encodes a 15 kDa polypeptide designated COR15. Here we report that COR15 has potent cryoprotective activity in an in vitro cryoprotection assay. Specifically, COR15 was very effective in protecting the cold-labile enzyme lactate dehydrog...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lin C,Thomashow MF

更新日期：1992-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the role of active site residues in the peroxidase activity of Orp1 (GPx3) using three different peroxide substrates. Using a structural homology model of the reduced form of Orp1, we identified Asn126 and Phe127 as evolutionarily conserved residues that line the back of the Orp1 active s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takanishi CL,Ma LH,Wood MJ

更新日期：2010-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranes of HL-60 cells were shown to possess saturable binding sites for [3H]inositol(1,3,4,5)tetrakisphosphate, with nanomolar affinity (KD = 90 nM) and a density of 250 fmol/mg protein. The specificity of the binding sites for Ins(1,3,4,5)P4 was assessed by competition studies utilising a variety of inositol polyp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bradford PG,Irvine RF

更新日期：1987-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the transcriptional role of the human mitochondrial carnitine/acylcarnitine carrier (CAC) proximal promoter. Through deletion analysis, an activation domain (-334/-80 bp) was identified which contains FOXA and Sp1 active sites. The wild-type (but not mutated) -334/-80 bp region of the CAC gene ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Convertini P,Infantino V,Bisaccia F,Palmieri F,Iacobazzi V

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcineurin Inhibitors (CNIs) are routinely used for immunosuppression following solid organ transplantation. However, the prolonged use of these agents lead to organ fibrosis which limits their efficacy. CNIs induce TGFβ expression, which is reported to augment endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT), but their...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Woda CB,Bruneau S,Mak AL,Haskova Z,Liu K,Ghosh CC,Briscoe DM

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer (CaP) bone metastasis is an early event that remains inactive until later-stage progression. Reduced levels of circulating androgens, due to andropause or androgen deprivation therapies, alter androgen receptor (AR) coactivator expression. Coactivators shift the balance towards enhanced AR-mediated gen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Villagran MA,Gutierrez-Castro FA,Pantoja DF,Alarcon JC,Fariña MA,Amigo RF,Muñoz-Godoy NA,Pinilla MG,Peña EA,Gonzalez-Chavarria I,Toledo JR,Rivas CI,Vera JC,McNerney EM,Onate SA

更新日期：2015-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus-1 reverse transcriptase is a heterodimer of related 51 and 66 kDa subunits. The smaller subunit arises by viral protease-catalyzed cleavage of the carboxy-terminal domain of the 66 kDa species. Comparison of the amino acid composition analyses of the isolated 51 kDa and 66 kDa subunits...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Graves MC,Meidel MC,Pan YC,Manneberg M,Lahm HW,Grüninger-Leitch F

更新日期：1990-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to simultaneously isolate intact DNA-free RNA, genomic DNA, and proteins from a biological specimen can be useful in cloning genes and analyzing gene expression. Equilibrium density gradient centrifugation with CsCl is a useful tool for fractionating, quantitatively separating, and characterizing RNA, DNA,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang H,Chen HT,Glisin V

更新日期：2003-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This study has evaluated an in vitro model of the follicle-associated epithelia that overlie Peyer's patches of the small intestine. The model shares many phenotypic characteristics of M cells in vivo. Co-cultures of the human adenocarcinoma cell line Caco-2 and freshly isolated Peyer's patch cells were established. F...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tyrer P,Ruth Foxwell A,Kyd J,Harvey M,Sizer P,Cripps A

更新日期：2002-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and angiopoietin-like protein 4 (Angptl4) were studied in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Transfections of the adipocytes with Angptl4 esiRNA caused reduction of the expression of Angptl4 to about one fourth of that in cells treated with vehicle only. This resulted in higher levels of LPL activity both on ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Makoveichuk E,Vorrsjö E,Olivecrona T,Olivecrona G

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel photoaffinity label, 8-N(3)-3'-biotinyl-ATP, has been synthesized. The introduction of an additional biotin residue is advantageous for easy detection of labeled proteins. This could be first tested by reaction with the F(1)-ATPase from the thermophilic bacterium PS3 (TF(1)). UV irradiation of TF(1) in the pre...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schäfer HJ,Coskun U,Eger O,Godovac-Zimmermann J,Wieczorek H,Kagawa Y,Grüber G

更新日期：2001-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor statins are used to treat patients with hypercholesterolemia. The pleiotropic effects of statins have been recently extended to the regulation of angiogenesis. However, the observations on the effects of statins on endothelial cells seem to be contradictory. In this work, we systematically ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hu K,Wan Q

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic primase/polymerase complex synthesizes approximately 107 primers, one per Okazaki fragment, during the replication of mammalian chromosomes, which contain 109 base pairs. Primase catalyzes the synthesis of a short RNA segment to a single-stranded DNA template. Primase is important in DNA replication bec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee JG,Park KR,An JY,Kang JY,Shen H,Wang J,Eom SH

更新日期：2018-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat stable enterotoxins (STs) are low molecular-weight peptides secreted by enterotoxigenic bacteria. One type of these enterotoxins (STa) induces intestinal secretion leading to acute diarrhea by binding to a membrane form of guanylate cyclase. We have isolated a cDNA from a human colonic cell line, T84, encoding fo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Singh S,Singh G,Heim JM,Gerzer R

更新日期：1991-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone of an alpha subunit of the human GABA-A receptor has been isolated. The human clone (pCLL800) contains 1055 nucleotides in an open reading frame and 260 nucleotides in the 5' non-coding region. The 351 amino acid sequence of this human alpha subunit shows 97% homology with its bovine counterpart. Hybridiz...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Garrett KM,Duman RS,Saito N,Blume AJ,Vitek MP,Tallman JF

更新日期：1988-10-31 00:00:00