Exorbitantly enhanced protein gyration and erroneous membrane modification programs in spermatozoa after vasectomy: a biophysical basis for low infertility revival after vasectomy.

abstract：:Concanavalin A (ConA), a Ca(2+)/Mn(2+)-dependent and mannose/glucose-binding legume lectin, has drawn a rising attention for its remarkable anti-proliferative and anti-tumor activities to a variety of cancer cells. ConA induces programmed cell death via mitochondria-mediated, P73-Foxo1a-Bim apoptosis and BNIP3-mediate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li WW,Yu JY,Xu HL,Bao JK

更新日期：2011-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Acaridial [2(E)-(4-methyl-3-pentenyl)butenedial] is a novel monoterpene secreted from the house dust mites. Because of its molecular nature of a highly reactive, small lipidic compound, we addressed whether alpha-acaridial might function as a haptenic allergen that induced allergic contact dermatitis. Mice sensi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasai T,Hirano Y,Maeda S,Matsunaga I,Otsuka A,Morita D,Nishida R,Nakayama H,Kuwahara Y,Sugita M,Mori N

更新日期：2008-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven genes, including pax2a, were selected as candidate ovulation-inducing genes on the basis of microarray analysis and RNA sequencing in our previous study. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the pax2a gene in the ovulation-inducing process. F2 pax2a homozygous mutant zebrafish possessing a d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pachoensuk T,Fukuyo T,Wanlada K,Rezanujjaman M,Rahaman MM,Sasaoka K,Sarwar Jyoti MM,Rana MR,Ali MH,Tokumoto T

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters have a functional unit formed by two transmembrane domains and two nucleotide binding domains (NBDs). ATP-bound NBDs dimerize in a head-to-tail arrangement, with two nucleotides sandwiched at the dimer interface. Both NBDs contribute residues to each of the two nucleotide-bindin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zoghbi ME,Altenberg GA

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In a radioassay for Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP)-binding, eight out of 33 plasma samples from healthy human subjects exhibited specific binding ranging from 2.6% to 46.7% of total [125 I]VIP. This binding was competitively displaced by unlabeled VIP. The structurally homologous peptides, Peptide Histidine Isole...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Paul S,Heinz-Erian P,Said SI

更新日期：1985-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A mitosis inhibiting peptide pyroGlu-Glu-Asp-Ser-GlyOH has been isolated from mouse skin extracts. Both the biological and a synthetic peptide with the same structure reversibly inhibit epidermal mitoses in a curvilinear fashion after intraperitoneal injection. The two compounds are chromatographically identical. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Reichelt KL,Elgjo K,Edminson PD

更新日期：1987-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hartnup disorder is an autosomal recessive phenotype involving a transporter for monoamino-monocarboxylic acids. Genetic analysis of the mouse model mapped its locus to human chromosome 11q13 (8). We report here the results of linkage analysis in two Japanese first cousin-marriage families. In the first family, the pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nozaki J,Dakeishi M,Ohura T,Inoue K,Manabe M,Wada Y,Koizumi A

更新日期：2001-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydroflavin mononucleotide (FMNH2) and tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) serve as cofactors for indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase isolated from mouse epididymis. The optimal pH was between 7 and 8, and FMNH2-dependent activity was 4 to 5-fold higher than activity with methylene blue as the electron donor. Using FMNH2 with a FMN r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ozaki Y,Reinhard JF Jr,Nichol CA

更新日期：1986-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiherpetic agent 9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyladenine (araA) needs to be phosphorylated to its 5'-triphosphate to be effective as an inhibitor of herpes simplex virus replication. Adenosine kinase and deoxycytidine kinase are assumed to convert araA to its 5'-monophosphate. We now found that araAMP is converted to i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Balzarini J,De Clercq E

更新日期：1990-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Using both a 25 mM Lithium di-iodosalicylic acid (LIS) and a 2M NaCl extraction procedure to extract nuclear matrices from white cells we have identified a 0.9 kb nuclear matrix associated region (MAR) in the human pro alpha 2(I) collagen gene. The MAR is located towards the 3' coding end of the gene, it is completely...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ellis GC,Grobler-Rabie AF,Hough FS,Bester AJ

更新日期：1988-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The exons of the lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) gene in DNA samples from two of the original Swedish Fish Eye Disease patients have been amplified by polymerase chain reactions and sequenced by the dideoxy method. The two patients apparently were unrelated. In both patients a mutation in codon 10 of the f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Skretting G,Prydz H

更新日期：1992-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of N-formylated chemotactic peptides to specific cell surface receptors on polymorphonuclear leukocytes initiates a wide range of biological responses including migration of inflammatory cells, superoxide release, lysosomal enzyme secretion, calcium mobilization, and cellular activation. We previously establis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shawar SM,Rich RR,Becker EL

更新日期：1995-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the 5' upstream -1034 to +88 fragment of the human inducible nitric oxide synthase (hiNOS) gene and demonstrate its competence to promote luciferase gene transcription in vascular-smooth-muscle (VSM) cells and macrophages. Sequential 5' end-deletions localized positive regulatory elements of hiNOS trans...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kolyada AY,Savikovsky N,Madias NE

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavanol (-)-epicatechin has been found to protect against damage inflicted by peroxynitrite, an inflammatory intermediate. Here, epicatechin was tested in systems of increasing complexity. The compound efficiently protected against nitration of protein tyrosine residues by peroxynitrite (IC(50) approximately 0.02...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schroeder P,Klotz LO,Buchczyk DP,Sadik CD,Schewe T,Sies H

更新日期：2001-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Quercetin, a polyphenol, belongs to a class of flavonoids that exerts anti-inflammatory effects. Interleukin (IL)-18 is a member of the IL-1 family cytokine that regulates immune responses and is implicated in various inflammatory skin diseases. Absent in melanoma 2 (AIM2) is a cytosolic double-stranded (ds) DNA senso...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee KM,Kang JH,Yun M,Lee SB

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we reported that the activity of protein kinase FA/glycogen synthase kinase-3alpha (kinase FA/GSK-3alpha) can be detected in several brain membrane fractions. In this report, we examined whether kinase FA/GSK-3alpha can directly interact with membrane phospholipids by using anti-kinase FA/GSK-3alpha antibod...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yu JS,Chan WH,Yang SD

更新日期：1997-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Using small interfering RNA (siRNA) to induce sequence specific gene silencing is fast becoming a standard tool in functional genomics. As siRNAs in some cases tolerate mismatches with the mRNA target, knockdown of genes other than the intended target could make results difficult to interpret. In an investigation of 3...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Snøve O Jr,Holen T

更新日期：2004-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants use specialized root outgrowths, termed root hairs, to enhance acquisition of nutrients and water, help secure anchorage, and facilitate interactions with soil microbiome. One of the major regulators of this process is GLABRA2 (GL2), a transcriptional repressor of root hair differentiation. However, regulation ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu R,Citovsky V

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong temperature dependent low angle X-ray scattering by trifluoroethanol- and hexafluoro-2-propanol-water mixtures was observed in conditions commonly used in NMR work on peptides. At least two types of molecular effects may contribute to the observed scattering: formation of clathrate hydrate-like aggregates of al...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuprin S,Gräslund A,Ehrenberg A,Koch MH

更新日期：1995-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermo-alkalophilic bacterium, Geobacillus thermoleovorans secrets many enzymes including a 43 kDa extracellular lipase. Significant thermostability, organic solvent stability and wide substrate preferences for hydrolysis drew our attention to solve its structure by crystallography. The structure was solved by molecul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moharana TR,Pal B,Rao NM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have discovered two new exons in the mouse fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2 or bFGF) gene that can be alternatively spliced to the second coding exon of the gene. The newly identified exons 1b and 1c are located at, respectively, approximately 19 and 32 kb downstream of the canonical exon 1a. Using RT-PCR analysis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dirks RP,Potter SJ,Griep AE

更新日期：2001-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Using PAGE--Autoradioblotting technique we have characterized an E--FABP in human epidermal cells that is distinct from liver-, heart-, intestine- and adipose tissue-FABPs. FABP radiobinding analysis was performed directly on protein extracts without prior partial purification. E-FABP has a Mr of approximately 15 kDa ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Siegenthaler G,Hotz R,Chatellard-Gruaz D,Jaconi S,Saurat JH

更新日期：1993-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The patients suffering from acidosis usually sign psychological deficits. The cerebral dysfunction is reportedly caused by an acid-induced functional impairment of GABAergic neurons; however, the role of pyramidal neurons in this process remains unclear. By using electrophysiological method and changing extracellular ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao H,Cai Y,Yang Z,He D,Shen B

更新日期：2011-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative diseases associated with structural conversion of α-helical prion protein (PrP) into its β-sheet rich isoform (PrPSc). Previous genetic analyses have indicated that several amino acid residues involved in the hydrophobic core of PrP (such as V180, F198, and V210) play a criti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kakuda K,Yamaguchi KI,Kuwata K,Honda R

更新日期：2018-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine kinase catalyzes the reversible transfer of a phosphoryl group between ATP and l-arginine and is a monomeric homolog of the human enzyme creatine kinase. Arginine and creatine kinases belongs to the phosphagen kinase family of enzymes, which consists of eight known members, each of which is specific for its o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Clark SA,Davulcu O,Chapman MS

更新日期：2012-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) are pluripotent stem cells, and the osteogenic differentiation of BMMSCs has been drawing attention for a long time. Bone formation is regulated by numerous molecular and cellular signaling pathways, and the differentiation of BMMSCs is controlled by a well-defined genetic p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li X,Guo L,Liu Y,Su Y,Xie Y,Du J,Zhou J,Ding G,Wang H,Bai Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2017-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylated lysyl and arginyl residues are present in the two major heat shock proteins, hsp70A and hsp70B, of chicken embryo fibroblasts. Here, we demonstrate that this methylation can be modulated by sodium arsenite, a chemical that increases the synthesis of hsp70. In particular, in hsp70A the amount of epsilon-N-tr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang C,Lazarides E

更新日期：1984-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most vertebrates possess at least two gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neuron types. To understand the physiological significance of the multiple GnRH systems in the brain, we examined three GnRH neuron type-specific transcriptomes using single-cell microarray analyses in the medaka (Oryzias latipes). A microarra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moriya S,Ogawa S,Parhar IS

更新日期：2013-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasting triggers a complex array of adaptive metabolic and hormonal responses including an augmentation in the capacity for mitochondrial fatty acid (FA) oxidation in skeletal muscle. This study hypothesized that this adaptive response is mediated by increased mRNA of key genes central to the regulation of fat oxidati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tunstall RJ,Mehan KA,Hargreaves M,Spriet LL,Cameron-Smith D

更新日期：2002-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:2'-Deoxycoformycin (dCF), a specific and potent inhibitor of adenosine deaminase, has demonstrated significant antitumor effect on lymphoid malignancies. The drug induced functional and morphologic differentiation of myeloid leukemia cells in combination with 2'-deoxyadenosine (dAd), but not dCF alone. NB4, a cell lin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Niitsu N,Umeda M,Honma Y

更新日期：1997-09-08 00:00:00