Plasmin converts pro-form of group I phospholipase A2 into receptor binding, active forms.

abstract：:To determine whether insulin resistance increases expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) in the heart, studies were performed in 22 mice with and 38 without myocardial infarction. Insulin resistance in transgenic animals genetically rendered insulin resistant was confirmed with the use of intrape...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sobel BE,Schneider DJ,Lee YH,Pratley RE

更新日期：2006-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The human 5-HT1A receptor was screened for naturally occurring mutations. The PCR product of the 5-HT1A receptor gene was digested with several restriction enzymes and evaluated by single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) analysis. Comparison of the SSCP electrophoretic pattern with a restriction map of the 5-...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakhai B,Nielsen DA,Linnoila M,Goldman D

更新日期：1995-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), a major mediator of innate immune responses, on cognitive performance in a type 1 diabetes model (T1D). After administration of streptozotocin, both TLR4 knockout (TLR4 KO) and wild type (WT) diabetic mice displayed metabolic alterations similar to those observe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawamoto EM,Cutler RG,Rothman SM,Mattson MP,Camandola S

更新日期：2014-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferating bovine aortic endothelial cells in culture do not express the insulin-like growth factor 1 binding protein 3 gene, in contrast to the genes encoding binding proteins 2, 4, 5, and 6. The binding protein 3 gene is activated only at cell confluency with continual transcription thereafter, for at least an ei...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Delafontaine P,Ku L,Anwar A,Hayzer DJ

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is a polypeptide protein hormone, similar in molecular structure to insulin, which plays an important role in cell migration, cell cycle progression, cell survival and proliferation. In this study, we investigated the possible mechanisms of IGF-1 mediated cell cycle redistribut...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ma QL,Yang TL,Yin JY,Peng ZY,Yu M,Liu ZQ,Chen FP

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

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：:Prior studies have identified molecules involved in IL-1 signaling that transmit the extracellular stimulus to downstream kinase molecules causing altered transcriptional activity. Many of these investigations have relied heavily on ligand induced protein-protein interactions detected by immuno-coprecipitation to map ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Boch JA,Yoshida Y,Koyama Y,Wara-Aswapati N,Peng H,Unlu S,Auron PE

更新日期：2003-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:VMA1 translational product undergoes excision of a 50-kDa intervening segment (VDE: VMA1-derived endonuclease) and religation of the flanking regions to create a 69-kDa catalytic subunit of vacuolar membrane H+-ATPase. VDEs conjugated with polypeptides at both N- and C-terminal ends were expressed in Escherichia coli ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawasaki M,Makino S,Matsuzawa H,Satow Y,Ohya Y,Anraku Y

更新日期：1996-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cellular stress factors, the hyperthermia and the acidification of culture medium, on mechano-growth factor (MGF) synthesis by murine myoblasts in culture was investigated. Hyperthermia was shown to stimulate MGF expression both in primary myoblasts and in differentiated multinuclear myotubes. The induct...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kravchenko IV,Furalyov VA,Popov VO

更新日期：2008-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The MYST acetyltransferase HBO1 is implicated in the regulation of DNA replication and activities of transcription factors such as the androgen receptor. Since the androgen receptor and NF-kappaB transcription factors crossmodulate their transcriptional activity, we investigated whether HBO1 regulates NF-kappaB signal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Contzler R,Regamey A,Favre B,Roger T,Hohl D,Huber M

更新日期：2006-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis and in vitro biological activity of a hybrid protein composed of intact human chorionic gonadotropin and fragment A of diphtheria toxin in a disulfide conjugate is reported. This hybrid retained greater than 90% of the binding ability of uncoupled hCG and was shown to be specifically toxic to a mouse Ley...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oeltmann TN

更新日期：1985-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unknown how very short introns (<65 nt; termed 'ultra-short' introns) could be spliced in a massive spliceosome (>2.7 MDa) without steric hindrance. By screening an annotated human transcriptome database (H-InvDB), we identified three model ultra-short introns: the 56-nt intron in the HNRNPH1 (hnRNP H1) gene, th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasaki-Haraguchi N,Shimada MK,Taniguchi I,Ohno M,Mayeda A

更新日期：2012-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Augmenter of liver regeneration (ALR) is known to support liver regeneration and to stimulate proliferation of hepatocytes. However, it is not known if ALR exerts anti-apoptotic effects in human hepatocytes and whether this protective effect is cell type specific. This is relevant, because compounds that protect the l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ilowski M,Kleespies A,de Toni EN,Donabauer B,Jauch KW,Hengstler JG,Thasler WE

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neuropeptides (DCCI and DCCII) in the adipokinetic/red pigment concentrating hormone-family have been isolated and purified from the corpora cardiaca of horseflies (Diptera : Tabanidae). Both peptides were purified by a sequence of three reversed phase-high performance liquid chromatographic steps. Amino acid anal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jaffe H,Raina AK,Fraser BA,Keim P,Rao KR,Zhang YS,Lancaster JL,Hayes DK

更新日期：1988-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and sequenced a cDNA encoding the human luteinizing hormone--choriogonadotropin (LH/hCG) receptor. The deduced amino acid sequence (699 residues) containing seven putative transmembrane segments displays sequence similarity to G protein-coupled receptors. The receptor consists of 335 residue extracell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Minegishi T,Nakamura K,Takakura Y,Miyamoto K,Hasegawa Y,Ibuki Y,Igarashi M,Minegish T corrected to Minegishi T

更新日期：1990-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine induced pancreatic beta-cell destruction seen in Type 1 diabetes and islet graft rejection involves multiple intracellular signaling pathways that directly or indirectly lead to inflammatory damage or programmed cell death. IL-1beta has been shown to stimulate the 12-lipoxygenase pathway product 12-HETE, in R...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bleich D,Chen S,Wen Y,Nadler JL

更新日期：1997-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of oxidized low density lipoprotein (LDL) is believed to play a significant role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Myoglobin in the presence of H(2)O(2) has been shown to catalyze LDL oxidation in vitro. It is established that an oxidatively altered form of myoglobin (Mb-H), which contains a prosth...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vuletich JL,Osawa Y,Aviram M

更新日期：2000-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Progesterone (Pg) is an essential steroid hormone during mammary gland development and tumorigenesis, including the maintenance of epithelial stem/progenitor cells. Pg functions through interaction with the progesterone receptors (PR) and Pg-PR signaling is thought to be mediated by key transcription factors, which ar...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li M,Zhao D,Ma G,Zhang B,Fu X,Zhu Z,Fu L,Sun X,Dong JT

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat serosal mast cells were tested for their ability to generate a nitric oxide-like factor by two bioassay systems: inhibition of platelet aggregation and stimulation of mast cell guanylate cyclase. Incubation of rat serosal mast cells with human washed platelets resulted in an inhibition of thrombin-induced platelet...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Salvemini D,Masini E,Anggard E,Mannaioni PF,Vane J

更新日期：1990-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD133 antigen, identified as a hematopoietic stem cell marker, appears in various human embryonic epithelia including the neural tube, gut, and kidney. We herein investigated whether CD133(+) cells isolated from human hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines possess cancer stem/progenitor cell-like properties. Among th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suetsugu A,Nagaki M,Aoki H,Motohashi T,Kunisada T,Moriwaki H

更新日期：2006-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactoferrin (LF) is a multifunctional, iron-binding glycoprotein in mammalian secretions, such as breast milk, and has several beneficial effects for human health. However, how these effects are exerted at the cellular level is still largely unknown. In this study, we investigated the effects of LF on autophagy activi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aizawa S,Hoki M,Yamamuro Y

更新日期：2017-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiologically active form of vitamin D, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3), plays an important role not only in the establishment and maintenance of calcium metabolism, but also in regulating cell growth and differentiation. Because the clinical usefulness of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) is limited by its tendency to caus...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gaschott T,Steinmeyer A,Steinhilber D,Stein J

更新日期：2002-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous experiments have demonstrated that the intermediary metabolite 6-hydroxymethylbenzo[a] pyrene (HMBP) can be activated to the electrophilic mutagen, 6-sulfooxymethylbenzo[a]pyrene (SMBP), by rat and mouse liver PAPS-dependent sulfotransferase activity or by chemical synthesis. This aralkylating metabolite and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Flesher JW,Horn J,Lehner AF

更新日期：1997-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone of an alpha subunit of the human GABA-A receptor has been isolated. The human clone (pCLL800) contains 1055 nucleotides in an open reading frame and 260 nucleotides in the 5' non-coding region. The 351 amino acid sequence of this human alpha subunit shows 97% homology with its bovine counterpart. Hybridiz...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Garrett KM,Duman RS,Saito N,Blume AJ,Vitek MP,Tallman JF

更新日期：1988-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive and directly attack surrounding biomolecules to deteriorate cellular and tissue functions. Meanwhile, ROS also serve as signaling mediators to upregulate pro-inflammatory cytokine expression via activation of the nuclear factor kappa B signaling pathway, and the increa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hu D,Li D,Shigeta M,Ochi Y,Okauchi T,Neyama H,Kabayama S,Watanabe Y,Cui Y

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) and denitrification are two different microbial reactions that form nitrogen gas. The initial step in the anammox reaction-reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide-is thought to be catalyzed by homologs of dissimilatory nitrite reductase, which is known to be involved in denitrificat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hira D,Matsumura M,Kitamura R,Furukawa K,Fujii T

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous structural and mutational studies of bovine pancreatic deoxyribonuclease I (bpDNase I) have demonstrated that the active site His134 and His252 played critical roles in catalysis. In our present study, mutations of these two His residues to Gln, Ala or Gly reduced the DNase activity by a factor of four to fiv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen WJ,Lai PJ,Lai YS,Huang PT,Lin CC,Liao TH

更新日期：2007-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione S-transferase Y-2 mRNA synthesis was induced in yeast Issatchenkia orientalis approximately 37-fold by cultivation with o-dinitrobenzene. A cDNA library complementary to poly (A)+RNA of I. orientalis grown with o-dinitrobenzene was screened by colony hybridization. Twenty positive clones were obtained from...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tamaki H,Kumagai H,Tochikura T

更新日期：1990-10-30 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：:Using a culture system that facilitates osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells, we analyzed gene-expression profiles during the mineralization process by means of a cDNA microarray system consisting of 23,040 genes. We compared expression profiles of the cells at days 3, 15, and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Doi M,Nagano A,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2002-01-11 00:00:00