Isolation and characterization of a cDNA that codes for a LIM-containing protein which is developmentally regulated in heart.

abstract：:A murine IgG mAb, WR321, selected for the ability to bind to phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate, but an inability to bind to any of 17 other lipids, including phosphatidylinositol, was examined as a probe for studying interactions of HIV-1 with primary human peripheral blood mon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matyas GR,Wieczorek L,Bansal D,Chenine AL,Sanders-Buell E,Tovanabutra S,Kim JH,Polonis V,Alving CR

更新日期：2010-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggested that the hydrophobic protein chargerin II, which is encoded in the A6L of mitochondrial DNA, may have a key role in the energy transduction by mitochondrial H(+)-ATP synthase because an antibody against chargerin II inhibited ATP synthesis and ATP-Pi exchange, in an energy-dependent fashion....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Muraguchi M,Yoshihara Y,Tunemitu T,Tani I,Higuti T

更新日期：1990-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) is one of the key protein kinases that regulate the growth and proliferation in cardiac fibroblasts (CFs). As an energy sensor of cellular metabolism, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is found recently to be involved in myocardial remodeling. In this study, we investigate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Du J,Guan T,Zhang H,Xia Y,Liu F,Zhang Y

更新日期：2008-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Many plasma membrane proteins, including the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor, possess basic regions on the cytoplasmic surface of the membrane. To examine the function of these positively charged regions, we constructed mutated EGF receptor genes lacking this region by substitution of the basic amino acid resid...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamane K,Toyoshima C,Nishimura S

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new method for monitoring the interactions between nonlabeled RNAs that involves detection of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between two DNA probes with different fluorescent label. The sequences of the probes are complementary to those of the RNAs. In this study, we examined the int...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ota N,Sato T,Taira K,Ohkawa J

更新日期：2001-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study showed that small G protein signaling modulator 3 (SGSM3) was highly correlated with Cx43 in heart functions and that high levels of SGSM3 may induce Cx43 turnover through lysosomal degradation in infarcted rat hearts. Here, we investigated the protective effects of kenpaullone on cardiomyocytes follo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Joo HC,Choi JW,Moon H,Lee CY,Yoo KJ,Kim SW,Hwang KC

更新日期：2018-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Blebbistatin was recently identified as a selective, cell-permeant inhibitor of myosin II. Because blebbistatin is likely to be used extensively with fluorescence imaging in studies of cytoskeletal dynamics, its compatibility with common excitation wavelengths was examined. Illumination of blebbistatin-treated bovine ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kolega J

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A human isoform of the vesicle-associated membrane protein-associated proteins (VAPs), VAPB, causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis eight due to the missense mutation of Pro-56, whereas human VAPA and the yeast VAP Scs2p proteins are not significantly affected by similar mutations. We have found that VAPA and Scs2p have...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakamichi S,Yamanaka K,Suzuki M,Watanabe T,Kagiwada S

更新日期：2011-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrene, a structural analog of benzo[a]pyrene, is an effective competing ligand for high affinity carcinogen binding proteins in mouse liver. A pyrene-derivatized Sepharose gel was prepared for affinity chromatography purification of these proteins, and adsorbs all detectable [3H]B[a]P-binding activity from hepatic cy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Collins S,Altman JD,Marletta MA

更新日期：1985-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological data have shown that stress and other psychological factors might influence cancer onset and progression. However, to date, the mechanisms are not well understood. In the present study, we used chronic exposure to a scream as a novel form of sound stress to explore the influence of the chronic stress b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hou N,Zhang X,Zhao L,Zhao X,Li Z,Song T,Huang C

更新日期：2013-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) assay allows for detection of prion protein misfolding activity in tissues and fluids from sheep with scrapie where it was previously undetected by conventional western blot and immunohistochemistry assays. Studies of goats with scrapie have yet to take advantage of P...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Madsen-Bouterse SA,Zhuang D,O'Rourke KI,Schneider DA

更新日期：2012-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 12 has demonstrated a wide spectrum of bioactivity on T and NK cells both in vitro and in vivo. Therapeutic potential of these activities has been suggested by studies in murine tumor, viral and microbial models of disease. We have investigated the in vivo effect of rhlL-12 in cynomolgus monkeys treated wi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bree AG,Schlerman FJ,Kaviani MD,Hastings RC,Hitz SL,Goldman SJ

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothermia followed by slow rewarming is neuroprotective for ischemic stroke. However, slow rewarming causes patients' longer stay in intensive care unit and increases the risk of hypothermic complications. Hypothermia followed by rapid rewarming (HTRR) is more convenient; but it exacerbates intracranial hypertension...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhu SZ,Gu Y,Wu Z,Hu YF,Pan SY

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression is the typical biological end point of interest following transfection. However, transcription may not accurately assess DNA uptake, or the ability of transfected DNA to be acted on by other enzymatic pathways. We have compared DNA uptake to gene expression and the unrelated enzymatic process of DNA do...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pastwa E,Lubner EM,Mezhevaya K,Neumann RD,Winters TA

更新日期：2003-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of isolated rat dispersed pancreatic acini to increasing concentrations (10 to 1000 ng/ml) of purified exotoxin-A from Pseudomonas aeruginosa resulted in a progressive inhibition of 3H-leucine incorporation into "cellular" (those remaining in the cells) and "secretory" (those released into the medium) protein...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Geokas MC,Vesenka GD,Dubick MA,Majumdar AP

更新日期：1985-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor p53, a 393-amino acid transcription factor with four domains, induces cell cycle arrest, senescence, and apoptosis in response to diverse stress. Tetramer formation is critical for the function of p53. The tetramerization domain permits the tetramerization of p53, where bundled four DNA-binding do...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Inobe T,Nozaki M,Nukina N

更新日期：2015-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factor-D (PDGF-D) is a more recent recognized growth factor involved in the regulation of several cellular processes, including cell proliferation, transformation, invasion, and angiogenesis by binding to and activating its cognate receptor PDGFR-β. After bile duct ligation or in the carbon tet...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Borkham-Kamphorst E,Alexi P,Tihaa L,Haas U,Weiskirchen R

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat mast cell protease of type 1 (RMCP1) is a specific marker of connective tissue mast cells selectively occurring in some tissues, e.g., the tongue. Its amino acid sequence is known (Le Trong et al., Biochem. 1987, 26, 6988-6994) but not the corresponding nucleotide sequence. Amplification of mRNAs from rat tongue w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rouleau A,Garbarg M,Schwartz JC,Ruat M

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) was induced in the liver, lung and brain of the mouse injected intraperitoneally with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA), showing maximal enzyme activity four hours after the injection. The increase of ODC activity was due to the enhanced syntheses of mRNA and protein. The inducti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hibasami H,Tsukada T,Maekawa S,Sakurai M,Nakashima K

更新日期：1987-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:VEGF-induced vascular barrier disruptions, formation of fenestrae and vesiculo-vacuolar organelles (VVOs), are involved in enhancing vascular permeability in metastatic and edematous diseases. Here, we analyzed vascular permeability enhanced by VEGFs with different receptor selectivity using biological and ultrastruct...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsunaga Y,Yamazaki Y,Suzuki H,Morita T

更新日期：2009-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The codon-reading properties of wobble-position variants of the unmodified form of Escherichia coli tRNASer1 (the UGA anticodon) were measured in a cell-free translation system. Two variants, with the AGA and CGA anticodons, each exclusively read a single codon, UCU and UCG, respectively. The only case of efficient wo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takai K,Takaku H,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1999-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have examined the synthesis of heat shock protein (HSP70) in leukemia cells from acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) patients and in mononuclear cells from normal individuals, before and after growth factor stimulation. We have shown that the HSP70 protein was expressed in these cells in the absence of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang W,Drach J,Andreeff M,Deisseroth A

更新日期：1992-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, based on the approach by combining the "functional domain composition" [K.C. Chou, Y. D. Cai, J. Biol. Chem. 277 (2002) 45765] and the pseudo-amino acid composition [K.C. Chou, Proteins Struct. Funct. Genet. 43 (2001) 246; Correction Proteins Struct. Funct. Genet. 2044 (2001) 2060], the Nearest Neighbou...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cai YD,Chou KC

更新日期：2003-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel single-chained antifungal protein with a molecular weight of 13 kDa displaying an N-terminal sequence with marked similarity to embryo-abundant protein from the white spruce was isolated from the seeds of Ginkgo biloba using ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, affinity chromatography on Affi-gel blu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang H,Ng TB

更新日期：2000-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:E-selectin is a membrane protein expressed by endothelial cells activated by cytokines released during the inflammatory process; it plays an important role in neutrophil emigration into inflamed tissues. To further explore in vivo the function of E-selectin, we have generated transgenic mouse line expressing E-selecti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Araki M,Araki K,Miyazaki Y,Iwamoto M,Izui S,Yamamura K,Vassalli P

更新日期：1996-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major pathogen of community-acquired pneumonia and one of its major virulence factors is pneumolysin, which functions as a cholesterol-dependent cytolytic pore-forming toxin. In this study, we identified the ply-like gene spd0729 in a BLAST search. Unexpectedly, hemolytic and cytotoxic as...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamaguchi M,Minamide Y,Terao Y,Isoda R,Ogawa T,Yokota S,Hamada S,Kawabata S

更新日期：2009-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Ca(2+) signaling mediated by the Ca(2+)/calmodulin dependent phosphatase, calcineurin, is required for survival during environmental stress. One role of the phosphatase under these conditions is to activate gene expression through its regulation of the Crz1p ("crazy") transcripti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cyert MS

更新日期：2003-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the isolation and characterization of a novel class of leukocyte peptides with possible cytokine-like activities which we call granulins. They are cystine-rich with molecular weights of approximately 6 Kda, except for granulin D, which appears to be a dimer. We present the sequence of one member of this fami...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bateman A,Belcourt D,Bennett H,Lazure C,Solomon S

更新日期：1990-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the interactions of calmodulin with neuronal gap junction proteins connexin35 (Cx35) from perch, its mouse homologue Cx36, and the related perch Cx34.7 using surface plasmon resonance. Calmodulin bound to the C-terminal domains of all three connexins with rapid kinetics in a concentration- and Ca2+-depende...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Burr GS,Mitchell CK,Keflemariam YJ,Heidelberger R,O'Brien J

更新日期：2005-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The telomere-associated protein tankyrase 1 is a poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase and is considered to be a promising target for cancer therapy, especially for BRCA-associated cancers. However, an efficient assay system for inhibitor screening has not been established, mainly due to the difficulty of efficient preparation ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yashiroda Y,Okamoto R,Hatsugai K,Takemoto Y,Goshima N,Saito T,Hamamoto M,Sugimoto Y,Osada H,Seimiya H,Yoshida M

更新日期：2010-04-09 00:00:00