Proteolytic release of human angiotensin-converting enzyme expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells is enhanced by phorbol ester.

abstract：:Myozyme is a recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase (rhGAA) that is currently the only drug approved for treating Pompe disease, and its low efficacy means that a high dose is required. Mannose-6-phosphate (M6P) glycosylation on rhGAA is a key factor influencing lysosomal enzyme targeting and the efficacy of enzyme ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park H,Kim J,Lee YK,Kim W,You SK,Do J,Jang Y,Oh DB,Il Kim J,Kim HH

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a continuous fluorescence assay based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) for the monitoring of RNA helicase activity in vitro. The assay is tested using the hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 helicase as a model. We prepared a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) substrate with a 5' fluorophore-labeled...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tani H,Fujita O,Furuta A,Matsuda Y,Miyata R,Akimitsu N,Tanaka J,Tsuneda S,Sekiguchi Y,Noda N

更新日期：2010-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteogenic protein-1 (OP-1) is a member of the bone morphogenetic protein subfamily of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) superfamily. Since members of the TGF-beta superfamily have a role in tissue development the distribution of OP-1 in developing human embryos (gestational age 5-14 weeks) was examined b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vukicevic S,Latin V,Chen P,Batorsky R,Reddi AH,Sampath TK

更新日期：1994-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:SK24 and PT54 mutant cells, which are peroxisome-deficient Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells isolated using peroxisomal forms of green fluorescent protein (GFP), were found to be defective in the PEX2 gene. The nucleotide sequences of PEX2 cDNA from the mutant cells were determined to identify mutation sites in the mu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huang Y,Ito R,Miura S,Hashimoto T,Ito M

更新日期：2000-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that DNA topoisomerase Iα (AtTOP1α) has specific developmental functions during growth and development in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, little is known about the roles of DNA topoisomerases in the closely related and commercially important plant, rapeseed (Brassica napus). Here, the full-l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gao C,Qi S,Liu K,Li D,Jin C,Duan S,Zhang M,Chen M

更新日期：2017-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer metastasis involves tumor cells invading the surrounding tissue. Remodeling of tissue barriers depends on the ability of tumor cells to degrade the surrounding collagen matrix and then migrate through the matrix defects. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) has been shown to regulate tumor cell invasion through activa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Binker MG,Binker-Cosen AA,Richards D,Oliver B,Cosen-Binker LI

更新日期：2009-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a widely distributed protein kinase that regulates numerous physiological functions. Inhibitors of CaMKII are useful tools for investigating the CaMKII functions. Here we identified a novel CaMKII inhibitor protein (CaM-KIIN) from the human dendritic cell cDNA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang J,Li N,Yu J,Zhang W,Cao X

更新日期：2001-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum albumin (HSA) serves as a natural depot of amyloid β peptide (Aβ). Improvement of Aβ binding to HSA should impede Alzheimer's disease (AD). We developed a method for quantitation of the interaction between monomeric Aβ40/42 and HSA using surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. The dissociation constant of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Litus EA,Kazakov AS,Sokolov AS,Nemashkalova EL,Galushko EI,Dzhus UF,Marchenkov VV,Galzitskaya OV,Permyakov EA,Permyakov SE

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:After allylisopropylacetamide-mediated "suicide" destruction of their prosthetic heme moieties, certain rat liver cytochrome P-450 isozymes can be effectively reconstituted by addition of exogenous hemin in vitro. We now report that two of these isozymes will equally accept mesohemin , a 2,4-diethyl heme-analog and re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bornheim LM,Correia MA,Smith KM

更新日期：1984-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:HSV-2 induces the transcription of c-fos gene in both human (diploid) cell strains and mouse (heteroploid) cell lines. HSV-1 is incapable of such induction. The induction of transcription is rapid and transient in both cell types. The product of transcriptional induction of c-fos in mouse cells is mainly a 4.5 kb fos ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Goswami BB

更新日期：1987-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphatase was partially purified from myofibrils of bovine heart by sequential column chromatographies. The purified protein phosphatase was immunologically identified as a delta isoform of PP1 (PP1delta). The myosin-binding subunit (MBS) of myosin-binding phosphatase (MBP) in smooth muscle was co-purified w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishio H,Ichikawa K,Hartshorne DJ

更新日期：1997-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The high affinity laminin receptor is differentially expressed in metastasis. We now report that there are multiple copies (6 +/- 1) of the laminin receptor gene in the murine genome of normal diploid cells as well as in cell lines derived from cancer cells. We have analyzed three distinct cDNA clones isolated from an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fernández MT,Castronovo V,Rao CN,Sobel ME

更新日期：1991-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Several fusion proteins of mouse Interleukins (mILs) and the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) were expressed in fibroblast and epithelial cells. Among these proteins, the mIL-31 derivative was the most efficiently secreted into the medium in a N-glycosylation-dependent manner. From the analysis of deletion mu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Akiyama N,Ohno Y,Fukuda T,Manome Y,Saito S

更新日期：2009-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of transformed human embryonic kidney 293 cells were transiently transfected with minigene constructs coding for the Abeta peptide (1-43). The Abeta minigene used in this study consisted of exons 16 and 17 of the amyloid precursor protein gene, including the 6000+ bp intronic region. Two of the constructs use...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Johnstone EM,Babbey LE,Stephenson D,Paul DC,Santerre RF,Clemens JA,Williams DC,Little SP

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular dichroism (CD) spectra of class II MHC peptides revealed the alpha-helical conformation of superantigen-binding peptides I-A beta b(60-90), I-A beta b(65-85), and I-A alpha b(51-80), but not the nonbinding peptide I-A beta b(80-100). These CD spectra provide biophysical evidence for the alpha-helicity of clas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Russell JK,Jarpe MA,Johnson HM

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nef protein of human immunodeficiency type 1 (HIV-1) has been implicated in diverse intracellular functions; however, extracellular functions have been less studied. Nef and the N-terminus of Nef possess membrane-perturbing and fusogenic activities in artificial membranes that also cause cytotoxicity to human cell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Macreadie IG,Lowe MG,Curtain CC,Hewish D,Azad AA

更新日期：1997-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a human pathogen rapidly becoming a serious health problem due to ease of acquiring antibiotic resistance. To help identify potential new drug candidates effective against the pathogen, a small focused library was screened for inhibition of bacterial growth against several pathogens, including...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Swietnicki W,Czarny A,Urbanska N,Drab M

更新日期：2018-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The interest in adiponutrin stems from adiponutrin variant I148M, which is strongly associated to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Adiponutrin has to date been considered to be solely an intracellular protein, with a role in lipid metabolism in liver and adipose tissue. However, a physiologically relevant role for a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Winberg ME,Motlagh MK,Stenkula KG,Holm C,Jones HA

更新日期：2014-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a novel and useful principle that can be applied to enzyme reactions with dilute substrates and enables to obtain the desired time-course curve from the reverse reaction when the latter can be measured more easily. Let us imagine an enzyme mixture that can catalyze the interconversion between substances A, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kijima S,Kijima H

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most human cancers are of epithelial origin, but many cell culture models for the study of cancer-causing genes use fibroblasts. In addition, efficient delivery and stable expression of foreign genes into non-transformed cell lines are often difficult. To address both questions, we here established a non-transformed r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fu SL,Huang YJ,Liang FP,Huang YF,Chuang CF,Wang SW,Yao JW

更新日期：2005-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal development, the rate of cell differentiation is tightly controlled and critical for normal development and stem cell differentiation. However, the underlying mechanisms regulating the rate of the differentiation are unknown, and manipulation of the rate of the stem cell differentiation is currently difficul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Minakawa T,Kanki Y,Nakamura K,Yamashita JK

更新日期：2020-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemorrhagic snake venom induces apoptosis of vascular endothelial cells [S. Araki, T. Ishida, T. Yamamoto, K. Kaji, and H. Hayashi (1993) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 190 , 148-153]. We have identified that a cytotoxic substance of Korean snake venom which is responsible for the apoptosis is L-amino acid oxidase (LAO)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suhr SM,Kim DS

更新日期：1996-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter 2 (ABCG2) is expressed by stem cells in many organs and in stem cells of solid tumors. These cells are isolated based on the side population (SP) phenotype, a Hoechst 3342 dye efflux property believed to be conferred by ABCG2. Because of the limitations of this approach we ge...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Orford M,Mean R,Lapathitis G,Genethliou N,Panayiotou E,Panayi H,Malas S

更新日期：2009-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Chemical intervention of autophagy has been investigated in clinical trials for various age-related conditions such as sarcopenia and neurodegeneration. However, at present, no autophagy inducer has been established as a disease-modifying agent against neurodegenerative diseases. METHODS:We screened a lib...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hirano K,Fujimaki M,Sasazawa Y,Yamaguchi A,Ishikawa KI,Miyamoto K,Souma S,Furuya N,Imamichi Y,Yamada D,Saya H,Akamatsu W,Saiki S,Hattori N

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic dyneins are multisubunit minus-end-directed microtubule motors. Different isoforms of dynein are thought to provide a means for independent movement of different organelles. We investigated the differential regulation of dynein-driven transport of pigment organelles (melanosomes) in Xenopus melanophores. A...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Reilein AR,Serpinskaya AS,Karcher RL,Dujardin DL,Vallee RB,Gelfand VI

更新日期：2003-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-sensitive potassium channel of insulin-secreting pancreatic beta-cells is a complex of Kir6.2, a member of the inwardly rectifying potassium channel superfamily, and the sulfonylurea receptor. We have isolated cDNA clones encoding rat Kir6.2. Co-expression of rat Kir6.2 and sulfonylurea receptor in human embry...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tokuyama Y,Fan Z,Furuta H,Makielski JC,Polonsky KS,Bell GI,Yano H

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases but its etiology is unclear. Alpha-synuclein (alpha-SN) is a major component of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, and its missense mutations, A30P and A53T, cause familial PD. In PD, alpha-SN-positive glial inclusions are distributed mainly ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kohno R,Sawada H,Kawamoto Y,Uemura K,Shibasaki H,Shimohama S

更新日期：2004-05-21 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 relationship between vascular tone and the induction by endotoxin of a nitric oxide (NO) synthase was studied in vitro in rings of rat thoracic aorta. In rings with and without endothelium there was a time-dependent induction of NO synthase accompanied by both spontaneous and L-arginine-induced relaxation and by r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rees DD,Cellek S,Palmer RM,Moncada S

更新日期：1990-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative regulator of differentiation 1 (Nrd1) is known as a negative regulator of sexual differentiation in fission yeast. Recently, it has been revealed that Nrd1 also regulates cytokinesis, in which physical separation of the cell is achieved by a contractile ring comprising many proteins including actin and myosin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kobayashi A,Kanaba T,Satoh R,Fujiwara T,Ito Y,Sugiura R,Mishima M

更新日期：2013-07-19 00:00:00