The novel aldehyde dehydrogenase gene, ALDH5, encodes an active aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme.

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been extensively investigated for their applications in regenerative medicine. Successful use of MSCs in cell-based therapies will rely on the ability to effectively identify their properties and functions with a relatively non-destructive methodology. In this study, we measured the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kihara T,Haghparast SM,Shimizu Y,Yuba S,Miyake J

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:C-terminal binding protein 2 (CtBP2) is a transcriptional co-repressor involved in cell migration, apoptosis, and tumorization. Up-regulation of CtBP2 is implicated in various human cancers including breast cancers. In our present study, we found that the C-terminus of Hsc70-interacting protein (CHIP) regulated the st...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee JS,Yoo SJ

更新日期：2013-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-23 was identified as a causative factor of tumor-induced osteomalacia and also as a responsible gene for autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets. To clarify the pathophysiological roles of FGF-23 in these diseases, we generated its transgenic mice. The transgenic mice expressing huma...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimada T,Urakawa I,Yamazaki Y,Hasegawa H,Hino R,Yoneya T,Takeuchi Y,Fujita T,Fukumoto S,Yamashita T

更新日期：2004-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretory proteins from adrenal chromaffin granules, chromogranins A, A1 and A2, were found to be excellent in vitro methyl acceptor proteins. The purified protein-carboxyl methylase (PCM) from bovine erythrocytes incorporated 660, 2540 and 7890 pmol of methyl group/10 min/mg protein in chromogranins A, A1 and A2,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Veeraragavan K,Coulombe R,Gagnon C

更新日期：1988-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A ribonuclease (RNase), with an N-terminal sequence different from those of ribonucleases from the mushrooms Irpex lacteus, Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus tuber-regium, and Volvariella volvacea, was purified from fruiting bodies of the edible mushroom Pleurotus pulmonarius. The N-terminal sequence of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ye XY,Ng TB

更新日期：2002-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-induced hepatotoxicity causes significant morbidity and mortality and is a major concern in drug development. This is due, in large part, to insufficient knowledge of the mechanism(s) of drug-induced liver injury. In order to address this problem, we have evaluated the modulation of gene expression within the liv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Reilly TP,Bourdi M,Brady JN,Pise-Masison CA,Radonovich MF,George JW,Pohl LR

更新日期：2001-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The compounds [Pt(IV)(dach)(9-methylguanine)2X2]2+ (X = Cl, OH) have been prepared and structurally characterized. Their existence shows that it is possible to accommodate two purine bases (in a cis configuration) and four other ligands around a Pt(IV) atom. The geometries of these complexes have very different orient...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Choi HK,Huang SK,Bau R

更新日期：1988-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexose transport in plasma membrane vesicles prepared from L6 rat myoblasts was shown to be stereospecific, activated by glucose starvation and occurred by both high and low affinity systems. Transport by the high affinity system was shown to occur by an active transport process. Furthermore, the high affinity system ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mesmer O,Cheung MO,D'Amore T,Lo TC

更新日期：1986-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The breakdown of blood clots requires the fibrinolytic action of the serine proteinase plasmin, a two-chain polypeptide derived posttranslationally from its precursor zymogen, plasminogen. While investigating plasminogen gene expression in human extrahepatic tissues, a cDNA sequence was obtained which closely resemble...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Weissbach L,Treadwell BV

更新日期：1992-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity of thalamic neurons has been shown to be modulated via type-1 metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR1) activation, which initiates an intracellular Ca signaling cascade involving phospholipase Cbeta4 (PLCbeta4) and leading to the activation of conventional protein kinase C (cPKC). In the present study, we inv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kameyama M,Yamaguchi I,Ichikawa K,Sugiyama T,Hirono M,Hori H,Ikeda M,Kuwahata Y,Eguchi N,Urade Y,Yoshioka T

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectodomain shedding of membrane receptors and ligands carried out by ADAMs (A disintegrin and metalloprotease) plays a major role in several signaling pathways, including Notch. The grounds of substrate recognition, however, are poorly understood. We demonstrate that a recombinant protein corresponding to the juxtamem...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Coglievina M,Guarnaccia C,Zlatev V,Pongor S,Pintar A

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel N-terminally substituted Pro(3) analogue of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) was synthesized and tested for plasma stability and biological activity both in vitro and in vivo. Native GIP was rapidly degraded by human plasma with only 39 +/- 6% remaining intact after 8 h, whereas (Pro(3))GIP w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gault VA,O'Harte FP,Harriott P,Flatt PR

更新日期：2002-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed cell migration in tissues mediates various physiological processes and is guided by complex cellular factors such as chemoattractant gradients and electric fields. Direct current (DC) electric fields can be generated in physiological settings and the electric field guided migration of various cell types (i.e....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu D,Lin F

更新日期：2011-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF) was originally identified as hepatotrophic factor for liver regeneration. More recently, HGF was revealed to stimulate proliferation of various epithelial cells. At present study, we have investigated the mitogenic effect of HGF on gastric epithelial cells in the primary culture system. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi M,Ota S,Terano A,Yoshiura K,Matsumura M,Niwa Y,Kawabe T,Nakamura T,Omata M

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is neurodegenerative disease, featured by a loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), characteristic motor symptoms and cognitive impairment. Development of effective therapeutic drugs for PD is necessary. In this study, we investigated the potential of Brucein...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang Y,Kong F,Ding Q,Cai Y,Hao Y,Tang B

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of regulation relationship of protein interactions is crucial for the mechanism research in signaling network. Bioinformatics methods can be used to accelerate the discovery of regulation relationship between protein interactions, to distinguish the activation relations from inhibition relations. In this...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu W,Xie H

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 28-year-old man with myopathy and phosphorylase kinase (PhK) deficiency, we found a G-to-C substitution at the 5' end of an intron in the muscle-specific alpha-subunit gene. The mutation destroys the high-consensus GT sequences at the 5' splice junction of the intron, which causes skipping of the preceding exon. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bruno C,Manfredi G,Andreu AL,Shanske S,Krishna S,Ilse WK,DiMauro S

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of silkworm hemolymph on baculovirus-induced insect cell apoptosis was investigated. The addition of silkworm hemolymph into the culture medium either before or during the baculovirus infection increased the host cell longevity; however, its addition after the infection was less effective. This can be expla...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rhee WJ,Park TH

更新日期：2000-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:When a plasmid encoding the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposase (pCMV-SB) was cointroduced with luciferase expression plasmid DNA into mouse skeletal muscle at a molar ratio of 4:1, luciferase gene expression was 5 times higher than the expression without pCMV-SB on day 28. This enhancement was not dependent on the prese...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Masuda K,Yamamoto S,Endoh M,Kaneda Y

更新日期：2004-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to investigate the mechanism underling cardiac dysfunction during sepsis, as well as the possible amelioration of this dysfunction by exogenous carbon monoxide (CO) administration. For this purpose, rats (six-week-old, male, Sprague-Dawley) were administered LPS (15 mg/kg body weight, i.p. 6 h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Unuma K,Aki T,Nagano S,Watanabe R,Uemura K

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells adapted to the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) exhibit a plasma membrane less susceptible to 2,4-D-induced disruption and are more tolerant than unadapted cells to lethal concentrations of the herbicide. These cells, adapted to grow in the presence of increasing concentrations of 2,4-D, we...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Viegas CA,Cabral MG,Teixeira MC,Neumann G,Heipieper HJ,Sá-Correia I

更新日期：2005-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:As an important factor leading to aging and chronic diseases, oxidative stress has become a hot research topic. Trehalose is a natural sugar widely found in many edible plants, animals and natural microorganisms, and recent studies have suggested that trehalose is an antioxidant, although its underlying molecular mech...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sun L,Zhao Q,Xiao Y,Liu X,Li Y,Zhang J,Pan J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel aptameric enzyme subunit (AES) which can detect target DNAs has been developed. AES is an enzyme-inhibiting aptamer bearing a target-molecule binding site which can allosterically control enzymatic activity. The thrombin-inhibiting aptamer bearing a G-quartet structure was chosen as the enzyme-inhibiting aptam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshida W,Sode K,Ikebukuro K

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of nicotinamide and flavin coenzymes on the 5-lipoxygenase activity has been determined in cell-free extracts from rat polymorphonuclear leukocytes. 5-lipoxygenase was assayed in the presence of 5-hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid (5-HPETE), which caused a 3 to 4-fold stimulation in the maximal conversion of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Riendeau D,Leblanc Y

更新日期：1986-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA for RII beta is transiently induced (greater than 50-fold) by cAMP analogs in primary cultures of rat Sertoli cells. The induction is dependent on protein synthesis. We have previously shown that mRNA for RII beta is stabilized by cAMP, as well as inhibitors of transcription and translation. This indicat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Knutsen HK,Taskén KA,Eskild W,Hansson V

更新日期：1992-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a type II transmembrane cytokine and a potent inducer of apoptosis. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) signaling is well known to involve in tumor survival and overexpression of EGF receptor (EGF-R) attributes to decreased responsiveness to many avail...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park SY,Seol DW

更新日期：2002-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage colony stimulating factor (CSF-1) is a member of a family of glycoproteins that are necessary for the normal proliferation and differentiation of myeloid progenitor cells. The human CSF-1 gene has previously been assigned to chromosome 5 using somatic cell hybrids, and further localized to 5q33 by in situ h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saltman DL,Dolganov GM,Hinton LM,Lovett M

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemiluminescence in visible region was detected, during peroxidase-catalyzed oxidation of chlorpromazine at pH7.5 (but not at pH4.25) or of propericiazine, both at pH7.5 and at pH4.25. Red colored intermediates, cation radicals, were produced and decayed in all enzymatic systems used. Chemiluminescence was also detec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakano M,Sugioka K,Nakano H,Takyu C,Inaba H

更新日期：1985-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has demonstrated that pre-treatment of platelets with phorbol esters that activate protein kinase C eg phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) results in an inhibition of inositol phospholipid breakdown and granule secretion induced by physiological agonists such as thrombin and collagen. In the present st...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Krishnamurthi S,Kakkar VV

更新日期：1988-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The 160 kDa alpha-mannosidase (E.C. 3.2.1.24) isolated from culture filtrate of Trichoderma reesei has wide aglycon specificity but cleaves the alpha1 --> 2 and alpha1 --> 3 mannosidic bonds with higher rate than alpha1 --> 6 bond and slowly hydrolyses yeast mannan and 1,6-alpha-mannan. The specific activity of the en...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eneyskaya EV,Kulminskaya AA,Savel'ev AN,Shabalin KA,Golubev AM,Neustroev KN

更新日期：1998-04-07 00:00:00