Cell adhesion activity of a 30-kDa major secreted protein from human bladder carcinoma cells.

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is the main component of Gram-negative bacteria that - upon infection - activates the host immune system and is crucial in fighting pathogens as well as in the induction of sepsis. In the present study we addressed the question whether the key structural components of LPS equally take part in ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eder K,Vizler C,Kusz E,Karcagi I,Glavinas H,Balogh GE,Vigh L,Duda E,Gyorfy Z

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The 15-kDa selenoprotein (Sep15) has been implicated in etiology of some types of cancer. Herein, inducible RNAi cell lines were established and cell morphology and motility were analyzed. The majority of Sep15-deficient cells (>95%) formed membrane blebs in a dynamic manner. Blebbing cells transformed cell morphology...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bang J,Jang M,Huh JH,Na JW,Shim M,Carlson BA,Tobe R,Tsuji PA,Gladyshev VN,Hatfield DL,Lee BJ

更新日期：2015-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that optimal growth temperature (T(opt)) is one of the factors that influence genomic GC in prokaryotes. Our results have been disputed by Marashi and Ghalanbor, who claim that the correlations we show are not "robust" because the elimination of some points (arbitrarily chosen) leads, in some fa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Musto H,Naya H,Zavala A,Romero H,Alvarez-Valin F,Bernardi G

更新日期：2005-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypoxia-inducible transcription factor HIF is induced early in acute myocardial ischemia in humans, but it is unknown whether this activation of HIF persists during chronic heart failure. The HIF system was characterized in left ventricular myocardia from 18 explanted failing hearts and 11 non-failing donor hearts...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zolk O,Solbach TF,Eschenhagen T,Weidemann A,Fromm MF

更新日期：2008-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem cells (NSCs) have the potential for differentiation into neurons known as a groundbreaking therapeutic solution for central nervous system (CNS) diseases. To resolve the therapeutic efficiency of NSCs, recent researchers have focused on the study on microRNA's role in CNS. Some micro RNAs have been reporte...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Song J,Cho KJ,Oh Y,Lee JE

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin and its receptors are overexpressed in breast cancer tissues and correlate with poor prognosis. Survivin, a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) gene family, is generally upregulated in tumor tissues and prevents tumor cells from apoptosis. Here we showed that leptin upregulated survivin mRNA and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jiang H,Yu J,Guo H,Song H,Chen S

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:When cultures of Gibberella fujikuroi are incubated with 24-epiiminolanosterol the introduction of a methyl group into sterol side chains at C-24 is blocked inducing a mycelial accumulation of lanosterol and 24-desalkylsterols, i.e., having the cholestane side chain. The altered sterol composition lead to aberrant myc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nes WD,Hanners PK,Parish EJ

更新日期：1986-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to clarify the cellular localization and expression of leptin receptor(s) [OB-R(s)] mRNA including its splice variants and their correlation with the cells which secrete placental hormone, placental lactogen-II (PL-II), in rat placentae. By in situ hybridization analysis, hybridization s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawai M,Murakami T,Otani S,Shima K,Yamaguchi M,Kishi K

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of musk xylene on contents of both cytochrome P-450IA1 and cytochrome P-450IA2 in rat liver was investigated using Western blotting analysis. Rats were treated i.p. for five consecutive days with either 50, 100 or 200 mg musk xylene/kg body weight. Musk xylene increased both total cytochrome P-450 and cytoc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwata N,Minegishi K,Suzuki K,Ohno Y,Kawanishi T,Takahashi A

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol is a critical component of lipid rafts implicated in regulating multiple signal transduction. The anthrax toxin receptor 2 (ANTXR2) is a type I membrane protein acting as the second receptor for the anthrax toxin. In this study, we first investigated the association between cholesterol and ANTXR2. We provi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zou J,Xu L,Ju Y,Zhang P,Wang Y,Zhang B

更新日期：2014-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Recently, the newly identified embryonic stem cell marker, Zinc finger and SCAN domain containing 4 gene (ZSCAN4), which plays a key role in genomic stability by regulating telomere elongation, was shown to co-localize with TRF1 foci. This suggests that the interaction of ZSCAN4 with TRF1 functions in regulatio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee K,Gollahon LS

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for acetyl-CoA carboxylase, the rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of long-chain fatty acids, contains two promoters; promoter I (PI) and promoter II (PII) which are responsible for generation of class I and class II ACC mRNAs, respectively. Class I ACC mRNAs are present in adipose tissue, but only a tr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ekhterae D,Tae HJ,Daniel S,Moller DE,Kim KH

更新日期：1996-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) was recently shown to be an important extracellular mediator of severe vascular inflammatory disease, sepsis. Lysozyme (LYZ) has been shown to bind to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and have a potential for playing a role in the therapy of inflammatory diseases. However, the effec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee W,Park EJ,Kwak S,Kim Y,Na DH,Bae JS

更新日期：2015-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:CDX2 is an intestine-specific tumor suppressor gene encoding homeodomain-containing transcription factor, which is involved in a variety of developmental, proliferating, and differentiating processes. Moreover, the expression of CDX2 is reduced in a subset of primary colorectal cancers. In contrast, cyclooxygenase-2 (...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim SP,Park JW,Lee SH,Lim JH,Jang BC,Lee SH,Jang IH,Freund JN,Suh SI,Mun KC,Song DK,Ha EM,Lee WJ,Kwon TK

更新日期：2004-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the cDNA sequence for neurocalcin, a novel calcium-binding protein in bovine brain. This clone (pCalN) has 582 nucleotides in the open reading frame including the termination codon TGA, 11 nucleotides of the 5' leader and 1251 nucleotides of the 3' noncoding region. The deduced amino acid sequence reveal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okazaki K,Watanabe M,Ando Y,Hagiwara M,Terasawa M,Hidaka H

更新日期：1992-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclei of the dorsolateral prostate of rats contain a large amount of androgen-dependent non-histone protein (20K-NHP) (mol. wt. not equal to 20,000; pI not equal to 11.5) (Matuo et al. (1]. Its content in the nuclei increased most markedly during 4-8 weeks of age, when functional differentiation of the prostate was m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matuo Y,Nishi N,Tanaka Y,Muguruma Y,Tanaka K,Akatsuka Y,Matsui SI,Sandberg AA,Wada F

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes that hybridize to the cDNA for alcohol-inducible cytochrome P-450 form 3a (P-450ALC) have been isolated from a rabbit genomic library and characterized by restriction mapping, hybridization, and partial sequence analysis. The genes show extensive sequence similarity as judged by hybridization at high stringe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Khani SC,Porter TD,Coon MJ

更新日期：1988-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is associated with the majority of cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in China. Despite this, there is no effective method for the early detection of HBV-induced liver cancer. Aberrant fucosylation is known to occur during the development of HCC. We, therefore, devel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liao J,Zhang R,Qian H,Cao L,Zhang Y,Xu W,Li J,Wu M,Yin Z

更新日期：2012-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:TGFbeta is of crucial importance during transdifferentiation of resting retinoid-storing hepatic stellate cells (HSC) to extracellular matrix producing myofibroblasts (MFB) and consequently, inhibition of TGFbeta signal transduction is an effective means for preventing experimental fibrosis. We have shown that isolate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dooley S,Streckert M,Delvoux B,Gressner AM

更新日期：2001-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the role of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) in embryonic lung development, organoids from fetal rat lung were cultured in collagen gels with or without HGF antisense oligonucleotides. Cyst-like structures formed within 24 h in organoids isolated from fetuses after 14 days' gestation, but this was abolished b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Itakura A,Kurauchi O,Morikawa S,Okamura M,Furugori K,Mizutani S

更新日期：1997-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that N-oleoylethanolamine (NOE), widely employed as a ceramidase inhibitor, also inhibits glucosylation of naturally occurring ceramides. When CHP-100 neuroepithelioma cells were exposed for 18h to non-toxic NOE concentrations (i.e. up to 70 microM), basal incorporation of labelled hexose into glucosylcerami...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Spinedi A,Di Bartolomeo S,Piacentini M

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel vector system for the efficient assembly of polydactyl zinc fingers. Next to proteins that possess short canonical TGEKP linkers between all constituting zinc fingers we constructed proteins with longer, 12 amino acid linkers between two three-finger (3F) units and between three two-finger (2...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Neuteboom LW,Lindhout BI,Saman IL,Hooykaas PJ,van der Zaal BJ

更新日期：2006-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:CAD/DFF40, the nuclease responsible for DNA fragmentation during apoptosis, exists as a heterodimeric complex with DFF45/ICAD. This study determines the molecular mechanisms of regulation of DFF40 via the chaperone and inhibition activities of DFF45. We analyze proteins corresponding to the fragments (D1, D2, and D3) ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McCarty JS,Toh SY,Li P

更新日期：1999-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin degrading enzyme (IDE) is a thiol-dependent metalloendoprotease that is responsible for initiation of cellular insulin degradation. However, its exact mode of action and the factors controlling it are poorly understood. Since IDE is a metal requiring enzyme, we have examined which metal(s) is(are) endogenously...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ebrahim A,Hamel FG,Bennett RG,Duckworth WC

更新日期：1991-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression in cells is mediated by protein-protein, DNA-protein and receptor-ligand interactions. PDZ (PSD-95/Discs-large/ZO-1) domains are protein-protein interaction modules. PDZ-containing proteins function in the organization of multi-protein complexes controlling spatial and temporal fidelity o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zencir S,Banerjee M,Dobson MJ,Ayaydin F,Fodor EA,Topcu Z,Mohanty S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1) regulates neovascularization, which is coordinately controlled by endothelial cells (EC) and their surrounding cells, pericytes or smooth muscle cells. In the basal state, SDF-1 expression is much lower in EC than in their surrounding cells. In this study, we evaluated epigenetic ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Seo J,Kim YO,Jo I

更新日期：2009-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine is a potent bronchoconstricting agent that is released by activated mast cells and hypoxic lung tissue. However, both inhibition and stimulation of mediator release from human lung mast cells by adenosine have been described, and this discrepancy seems to be due to contaminating cells or the effects of enzym...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suzuki H,Takei M,Nakahata T,Fukamachi H

更新日期：1998-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal human fibroblasts stop dividing after a limited number of cell divisions termed cellular senescence. Telomere shortening has been shown to be the main factor that causes cellular senescence, however, the molecular mechanism of how telomere shortening causes cellular senescence is unclear. Here we analyze the re...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen HL,Lu CY,Hsu YH,Lin JJ

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of shear stress on gene expression of prostacyclin synthesis-related enzymes cyclooxygenases (COX-1 and COX-2), prostacyclin synthase (PGS), and thromboxane synthase (TXS) and their metabolites prostaglandin (PGI(2)) and thromboxane A(2) (TXA(2)) in endothelium of intact conduit ves...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Doroudi R,Gan LM,Selin Sjögren L,Jern S

更新日期：2000-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomes of several vertebrates contain two genes encoding proteins highly similar to threonine synthase (TS), even though the biosynthesis of l-threonine (l-Thr) is not known to occur in these animals. We report a bioinformatic analysis of the two TS-like genes, the recombinant expression of one murine TS homolog ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Donini S,Percudani R,Credali A,Montanini B,Sartori A,Peracchi A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00