Vascular smooth muscle actions and receptor interactions of 8-iso-prostaglandin E2, an E2-isoprostane.

abstract：:To correlate structural data on substrates of human fibroblast collagenase with their interaction with the enzyme, we have studied: Ac-PLG-s-LLG-O-ethyl ester (I), Dnp-PLGLWA(d-Arg)-NH2 (II), AcGPEGLRVG-O-ethyl ester (III) and Succ-GPLGP-O-amidomethylcoumaryl ester (IV). Peptides I and II represent collagenase cleavag...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Upadhye S,Ananthanarayanan VS

更新日期：1995-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased ubiquitin-specific protease 5 (USP5) has been associated with tumorigenesis of malignancy including glioblastoma, melanoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the role of USP5 in tumorigenesis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has not been studied yet. In this study, we demonstrated that USP5 was...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li XY,Wu HY,Mao XF,Jiang LX,Wang YX

更新日期：2017-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The ΔpH-dependent/Tat pathway is unique for using only the proton motive force for driving proteins transport across the thylakoid membrane in chloroplasts. 9-aminoacridine fluorescence quenching is widely used to monitor the ΔpH developed across the thylakoid membrane in the light. However, this method suffers from l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang H,Pu X,Wang L,Liu L,Theg SM

更新日期：2017-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Pervious biochemical and hemodynamic studies have highlighted the important role of εPKC in cardioprotection during ischemic preconditioning. However, little is known about the electrophysiological consequences of εPKC modulation in ischemic hearts. Membrane permeable peptide εPKC selective activator and inh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Restivo M,Kozhevnikov DO,Qu YS,Yue Y,Mochly-Rosen D,El-Sherif N,Boutjdir M

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Start domain-containing protein 3 (Stard3) plays roles in intracellular cholesterol distribution, however, the role of Stard3 in the adipogenesis of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes remains unclear. We demonstrated that Stard3 expression was significantly increased during the adipogenesis of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes, accompanied by a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou X,Gao H,Guo Y,Chen Y,Ruan XZ

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:DJ-1, a product of the DJ-1/PARK7 gene, has been suggested to play various functions involved in transcriptional regulation, protease activity, anti-oxidative stress activity, and regulation of mitochondrial complex I. Such a variety of functions of DJ-1 are supposed to be realized through interactions with different ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yasuda T,Kaji Y,Agatsuma T,Niki T,Arisawa M,Shuto S,Ariga H,Iguchi-Ariga SM

更新日期：2013-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural crest is a transient population of multipotent progenitors contributing to a diverse array of tissues throughout the vertebrate embryo. Embryonic stem (ES) cells are able to form embryoid body and spontaneously differentiate to various lineages, following a reproducible temporal pattern of development that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou Y,Snead ML

更新日期：2008-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pioglitazone, a novel antidiabetic insulin-sensitizing agent, on insulin signaling in skeletal muscles from genetically obese Wistar fatty rats and their lean littermates were studied. Increased tyrosine phosphorylation levels of insulin receptors (IRs) and insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) in respon...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayakawa T,Shiraki T,Morimoto T,Shii K,Ikeda H

更新日期：1996-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The crypt-villi axis of intestinal mucosa maintains homeostasis by renewal of epithelia, and also exhibits different properties from undifferentiated to terminally differentiated cells. We investigated differential susceptibility to genotoxin-induced cell death, based on the degree of differentiation of epithelial cel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chae B,Yang KM,Kim TI,Kim WH

更新日期：2009-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational histone modifications play an important role in modulating gene expression and chromatin structure. Here we report the identification of histone H3K79 dimethylation in the simple eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum. We have deleted the D. discoideum Dot1/KMT4 homologue and demonstrate that it is the s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Müller-Taubenberger A,Bönisch C,Fürbringer M,Wittek F,Hake SB

更新日期：2011-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer (PC) is an aggressive malady with proclivity for early metastasis. Overexpression of toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common type of pancreatic malignancy, correlates to tumor size, lymph node involvement, venous invasion and pathological stage. Lipopolysaccha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Binker-Cosen MJ,Richards D,Oliver B,Gaisano HY,Binker MG,Cosen-Binker LI

更新日期：2017-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin spatial organization is essential for transcriptional modulation and stabilization. The pattern of DNA distal interplay form the multiple topological associating domains (TADs), and further assemble the functional compartmentalization with open and expression-active chromatin ("A" compartments) or closed and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gong W,Liu Y,Qu H,Liu A,Sun P,Wang X

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (MaB) against mouse sarcoma DNA polymerase alpha was isolated from the culture medium of an IgG-secreting hybridoma. The MaB demonstrated reactivity against two murine DNA polymerase alpha preparations and a calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha. Murine sarcoma polymerase was activated in vitro by pho...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sylvia VL,Norman JO,Curtin GM,Busbee DL

更新日期：1986-11-26 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

abstract：:Gene delivery has become an important tool for biological research and gene therapy trials. Lentiviral vector (LV) mediated gene transfer is a preferred approach for stable, sustained transgenic expression. We report here step-wise development of an Indian human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) isolate derived th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Santhosh CV,Tamhane MC,Kamat RH,Patel VV,Mukhopadhyaya R

更新日期：2008-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple system atrophy is a neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal α-synuclein (α-syn) accumulation in oligodendrocytes and neurons. We previously demonstrated that transgenic (Tg) mice that selectively overexpressed human α-syn in oligodendrocytes exhibited neuronal α-syn accumulation. Microtubule β-III tubuli...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ito H,Nakayama K,Jin C,Suzuki Y,Yazawa I

更新日期：2012-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Islet-1 positive (Islet-1(+)) cardiac progenitor cells give rise to the right ventricle, atria and outflow tract during murine cardiac development. In the adult heart Islet-1 expression is limited to parasympathetic neurons, few cardiomyocytes, smooth muscle cells, within the proximal aorta and pulmonary arte...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Weinberger F,Mehrkens D,Starbatty J,Nicol P,Eschenhagen T

更新日期：2015-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a widely distributed protein kinase that regulates numerous physiological functions. Inhibitors of CaMKII are useful tools for investigating the CaMKII functions. Here we identified a novel CaMKII inhibitor protein (CaM-KIIN) from the human dendritic cell cDNA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang J,Li N,Yu J,Zhang W,Cao X

更新日期：2001-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene that encodes a small conductance cAMP-activated chloride ion channel. In the CF pancreatic duct, mutations in CFTR cause a reduction in bicarbonate secretion. This is thought to result from CFTR operating...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hyde K,Harrison D,Hollingsworth MA,Harris A

更新日期：1999-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:RNAs isolated from normal and spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rat heart tissues were examined by direct hybridization assay using cloned DNA probes containing chicken cardiac myosin light chain and heavy chain specific cDNA sequences. In 7 weeks old SHR heart, the level of mRNA hybridizable to these probes is the sam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Delaney P,Vitek S,Cribbs L,Siddiqui MA

更新日期：1985-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A mitochondrial DNA mutation at nucleotide position 14,484 was found in 14 independent probands with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy and in 0/250 controls. The 14,484 mutation, which changes methionine-64 to valine in a conserved domain of the ND-6 gene, occurred in association with a mitochondrial DNA haplotype tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Johns DR,Neufeld MJ,Park RD

更新日期：1992-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The left-handed Z-DNA form of the short unmodified alternating guanine-cytosine oligonucleotides, 5'-(dGdC)(24) and 5'-(dGdC)(18), was selectively detected under physiological ionic strength and pH conditions using the anionic nickel(II) porphyrin, NiTPPS. No spectroscopic signal was observed for NiTPPS with any right...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： D'Urso A,Choi JK,Shabbir-Hussain M,Ngwa FN,Lambousis MI,Purrello R,Balaz M

更新日期：2010-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Corneal epithelial stem cells are believed to reside in the basal layer of the limbal epithelium, but no definitive cell surface markers have been identified. For keratinocytes, stem/progenitor cells are known to be enriched by cell surface markers, integrin alpha(6) and CD71, as a minor subpopulation which shows high...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi R,Yamato M,Saito T,Oshima T,Okano T,Tano Y,Nishida K

更新日期：2008-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular steps of the electron transfer in the endoplasmic reticulum from the secreted proteins during their oxidation are relatively unknown. We present here that flavine adenine dinucleotide (FAD) is a powerful oxidizer of the oxidoreductase system, Ero1 and PDI, besides the proteins of rat liver microsomes and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Papp E,Nardai G,Mandl J,Bánhegyi G,Csermely P

更新日期：2005-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The tenascin-R (TN-R) gene encodes a multidomain extracellular matrix glycoprotein belonging to the tenascin family. It is detectable mainly in oligodendrocytes and neuronal subpopulations of the central nervous system. In this report, we describe the structure of the 5'-region of the mouse TN-R gene and characterise ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Putthoff P,Akyüz N,Kutsche M,Zardi L,Borgmeyer U,Schachner M

更新日期：2003-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, tick-borne flaviviruses responsible for hemorrhagic fever in humans have been isolated in Siberia (Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus), India (Kyasanur Forest disease virus, KFDV), and in Saudi Arabia (Alkhurma virus, ALKV). Prior to this study, only partial coding sequences of these severe pathogens had been deter...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Charrel RN,Zaki AM,Attoui H,Fakeeh M,Billoir F,Yousef AI,de Chesse R,De Micco P,Gould EA,de Lamballerie X

更新日期：2001-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) are mitochondrial membrane proton transporters that uncouple oxidative phosphorylation by dissipating the proton gradient across the membrane. We have investigated regulation of the UCP3 gene in skeletal muscle and C2C12 muscle cells. UCP3 mRNA in mouse skeletal muscle is markedly increased ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hwang CS,Lane MD

更新日期：1999-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is the causal gene for autosomal dominant familial Parkinson's disease. We have previously reported a novel molecular feature characteristic to I2020T mutant LRRK2: higher susceptibility to post-translational degradation than the wild-type LRRK2. In the present study, we demonstrat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohta E,Kubo M,Obata F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NO-donating aspirin (NO-ASA) is a promising anticancer drug. We studied the contribution of NO-ASA's components (ASA, NO-releasing moiety, and spacer linking them) to its effect. The ASA and NO-releasing moieties play no biological role: ASA inhibits the growth of colon cancer cells >100-fold less potently that NO-ASA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kashfi K,Rigas B

更新日期：2007-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:2,3-Oxidosqualene-lanosterol cyclase is an intrinsic microsomal protein which can be solubilized by ionic (deoxycholate) and nonionic (emulphogene) detergents with good yields. The hog-liver microsomal cyclase was purified approximately 140-fold by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and hydroxylapatite. The partially pu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Duriatti A,Schuber F

更新日期：1988-03-30 00:00:00