Complete amino acid sequence of biliverdin-IX beta reductase from human liver.

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR gamma) belongs to a nuclear receptor super family that functions as a master regulator of adipocyte differentiation. PPAR gamma binds its DNA response element together with a partner, retinoid X receptor (RXR), in fat cells. Five RXR ligands (HX600, HX630, DA022, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sato M,Yajima Y,Kawashima S,Tanaka K,Kagechika H

更新日期：2001-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces toyocaensis NRRL 15009 produces A47934, a glycopeptide antibiotic. This compound is composed of several unusual amino acids, some of which have chlorinated aromatic rings. We have isolated two distinct halogenating enzymes, a chloroperoxidase (42,882 Da) and a catalase/bromoperoxidase (53,890 Da), from la...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Marshall GC,Wright GD

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The omega-3 fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) reduces oxidation of ApoB-containing particles in vitro and in patients with hypertriglyceridemia. EPA may produce these effects through a potent antioxidant mechanism, which may facilitate LDL clearance and slow plaque progression. We hypothesize that EPA antioxidant...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sherratt SCR,Mason RP

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that exposure of human thyroid slices to thyrotropin causes an increase in phospholipid metabolism as measured by an increased incorporation of myo-2-[3H]-inositol into phosphatidylinositol, the generation of InsP3 and formation of GInsP as well as metabolism of phosphatidylcholine and p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mosko P,Zarzycki W,Jaroszewicz L,Kinalska I

更新日期：1994-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular acidic pH-activated chloride channel I(Cl, acid), has been characterized in HEK 293 cells and mammalian cardiac myocytes. This study was designed to characterize I(Cl,acid) in human umbilical vein endothelial cells(HUVECs). The activation and deactivation of the current rapidly and repeatedly follows the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ma ZY,Zhang W,Chen L,Wang R,Kan XH,Sun GZ,Liu CX,Li L,Zhang Y

更新日期：2008-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene-recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) elicited a dose-dependent stimulation of the proliferation of osteoblast-like cells (OB), when grown in strictly serum-free longterm cultures. A half-maximal effect was observed at concentrations of 15-20 ng/ml and the maximal stimulation was 160% of hormone-free controls. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ernst M,Froesch ER

更新日期：1988-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Opening of high conductance permeability transition pores in mitochondria initiates onset of the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT). The MPT is a causative event, leading to necrosis and apoptosis in hepatocytes after oxidative stress, Ca(2+) toxicity, and ischemia/reperfusion. CsA blocks opening of permeabil...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim JS,He L,Lemasters JJ

更新日期：2003-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes play key roles in the central nervous system and regulate local blood flow and synaptic transmission via intracellular calcium (Ca2+) signaling. Astrocytic Ca2+ signals are generated by multiple pathways: Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via the inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R)...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakuragi S,Niwa F,Oda Y,Mikoshiba K,Bannai H

更新日期：2017-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Agmatine, a putative endogenous ligand of imidazoline receptors, suppresses cardiovascular function by inhibiting peripheral sympathetic tone. However, the molecular identity of imidazoline receptor subtypes and its cellular mechanism underlying the agmatine-induced sympathetic suppression remains unknown. Meanwhile, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YH,Jeong JH,Ahn DS,Chung S

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycan chain, biotinylated at its reducing-end, was bound to a streptavidin-coated biochip. Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy showed a low affinity interaction with antithrombin III (ATIII) when it was flowed over a surface containing heparan sulfate. ATIII bound tightly with high aff...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hernaiz M,Liu J,Rosenberg RD,Linhardt RJ

更新日期：2000-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In our study, we investigated the expression and function of microRNA-29 in myocardial microvascular endothelial cells (MMEVC) in type 2 diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats. METHODS:MiR-29 gene expression was compared, by qRT-PCR between diabetic GK rat MMEVC and non-diabetic Wistar rat MMEVC. MiR-29 was downr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li Z,Jiang R,Yue Q,Peng H

更新日期：2017-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent publication [Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 317 (2004) 957] it was proposed that the 'effective number of codons' (Nc) in a gene should be calculated by summing the individual amino acid Nc's using rounding whenever the codon homozygosities are lower than the reciprocal value of the number of members of th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fuglsang A

更新日期：2005-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of phenoloxidase were identified in pupae of the housefly, Musca domestica L. The phenoloxidase inhibitors were purified from final instar pupae of the housefly by a combination of ammonium sulfate fractionation, ion-exchange chromatography, gel filtration and reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatog...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsukamoto T,Ichimaru Y,Kanegae N,Watanabe K,Yamaura I,Katsura Y,Funatsu M

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In a number of cell lines responsive to basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), two major tyrosine phosphorylated proteins, of molecular weights around 120kDa and 90kDa, are precipitated along with the tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 from the lysates of stimulated cells. The docker protein Gab-1 represents at least part of t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ong SH,Lim YP,Low BC,Guy GR

更新日期：1997-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported that metabolism of arachidonic acid through the 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) pathway plays an important role in the survival and growth of human prostate cancer cells. Inhibition of 5-LOX by pharmacological inhibitors triggers apoptosis in prostate cancer cells within hours of treatment, which is pre...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sundaram S,Ghosh J

更新日期：2006-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Model-free approaches (error-prone PCR to introduce random mutations, DNA shuffling to combine positive mutations, and screening of the resultant mutant libraries) have been used to enhance the catalytic activity and thermostability of alpha-aspartyl dipeptidase from Salmonella typhimurium, which is uniquely able to h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kong X,Liu Y,Gou X,Zhu S,Zhang H,Wang X,Zhang J

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 mutations are mostly single amino acid changes resulting in expression of a stable mutant protein with "gain of function" (GOF) activity having a dominant oncogenic role rather than simple loss of function of wild-type p53. Knock-down of mutant p53 in human lung cancer cell lines with different endogenous p53 muta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vaughan CA,Frum R,Pearsall I,Singh S,Windle B,Yeudall A,Deb SP,Deb S

更新日期：2012-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates whether angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors can block high glucose-induced increase of angiotensin II (Ang II) levels in cultured rat mesangial cells. Incubation of cells with high glucose for 5 days increased Ang II in the cell media (extracellular) and cell lysates (intracellular) ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Singh R,Leehey DJ

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of two 15-ketosubstituted sterols, 5alpha-cholest-8(14)-en-3beta-ol-15-one and 3beta-(2-hydroxyethoxy)-5alpha-cholest-8(14)-en-15-one, to alter the mRNA levels of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase, low density lipoprotein receptor, and oxysterol binding protein was studied and compared with the effe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kisseleva AF,Goryunova LE,Planells R,Lafont H,Alquier C

更新日期：1999-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize genes involved in megakaryocytic commitment, we compared expression profiles of bipotent cells (UT-7/c-mpl) with those of the same cells induced to differentiate towards megakaryopoiesis in the presence of TPO. Using cDNA arrays, we showed that 12 out of 2260 genes changed their expression level after ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Decraene C,Garçon L,Lacout C,Sabri S,Auffray C,Vainchenker W,Duménil D,Piétu G,Svinartchuk F

更新日期：2004-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of Na+ in insulin-secretory responses to metabolizable and nonmetabolizable amino acids known to be cotransported with Na+, were examined using islet-derived BRIN-BD11 cells. At stimulatory (16.7 mM) glucose, 10 mM of l-alanine, alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB) or l-proline stimulated 1.3- to 10. 4-fol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McClenaghan NH,Barnett CR,Flatt PR

更新日期：1998-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum raised against horseradish peroxidase (HRP) recognizes neural specific carbohydrate antigens in Drosophila and other insects. The occurrence of the antigens in mammalian cells was investigated. Proteins were extracted from rat pheochromocytoma cells, PC12, and various tissue of rat and bovine origin, and fur...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurosaka A,Tsuyuki Y,Tahara S

更新日期：1994-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different clones, named rEP3A (approximately 2.2 kb) and rEP3B (approximately 5.2 kb), were isolated from a rat kidney cDNA library by a homology screening approach. rEP3A was shown to encode the rat kidney prostaglandin E receptor EP3 subtype (rEP3A receptor) (Takeuchi, K. et al. B.B.R.C. (1993) 194: 885). rEP3B ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takeuchi K,Takahashi N,Abe T,Abe K

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A pair of functional moieties, the carboxyl of an aspartic acid (Asp, D) residue and an N-methyl nicotinamide (NMeN) formed on amide linkage to the epsilon-amino group of the lysine (Lys, K) residue, are coupled to perform energy conversion by means of controlling the transition temperature, Tt, of a common hydrophobi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Urry DW,Hayes LC,Gowda DC,Peng SQ,Jing N

更新日期：1995-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that the ETV6/FLT3 fusion protein conferred interleukin-3-independent growth on Ba/F3 cells. The present study has been conducted to assess role of the juxtamembrane domain of FLT3 for signal transduction and cell transformation. The wild-type ETV6/FLT3 fusion protein in transfected cells was a co...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vu HA,Xinh PT,Kano Y,Tokunaga K,Sato Y

更新日期：2009-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of secondary structure in the substrate specificity of human 72 kDa type IV collagenase, we synthesised linear and cyclic collagen sequence analogs. As Ca2+ plays a crucial role in the enzyme activity, the CD and FTIR spectra of the peptides were also measured in the presence of Ca2+. Most of t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Likó Z,Botyánszki J,Bódi J,Vass E,Majer Z,Hollósi M,Süli-Vargha H

更新日期：1996-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) bound to vascular endothelial cells hydrolyses triglycerides in plasma lipoproteins. To explore the role of LPL in atherogenesis, the effect of LPL-mediated lipolysis of very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) on monocyte adhesion to endothelial cells was examined. Adhesion of U937 monocytes to p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saxena U,Kulkarni NM,Ferguson E,Newton RS

更新日期：1992-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports have shown that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is relevant to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. Following the amyloid cascade hypothesis, we therefore attempted to investigate the effects of ER stress on amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) generation. In this study, we found that ER stress altered ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kudo T,Okumura M,Imaizumi K,Araki W,Morihara T,Tanimukai H,Kamagata E,Tabuchi N,Kimura R,Kanayama D,Fukumori A,Tagami S,Okochi M,Kubo M,Tanii H,Tohyama M,Tabira T,Takeda M

更新日期：2006-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:B7-H3, an immunoregulatory protein, has been found highly expressed in several cancer types, and involved in cancer cell migration and invasion. Here, we investigated the role of B7-H3 in oxaliplatin resistance in colorectal cancer (CRC) cells. Transient silencing of B7-H3 enhanced oxaliplatin sensitivity by increasin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang P,Chen Z,Ning K,Jin J,Han X

更新日期：2017-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal adhesion kinase, FAK, is a unique protein tyrosine kinase found in cellular focal adhesions. It is widely expressed and highly phosphorylated during embryogenesis. To examine the function of FAK in cell differentiation, we made FAK-deficient embryonic stem (ES) cells by homologous recombination. However, FAK-def...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ilic D,Furuta Y,Suda T,Atsumi T,Fujimoto J,Ikawa Y,Yamamoto T,Aizawa S

更新日期：1995-04-06 00:00:00