Melanoma cell lines express VEGF receptor KDR and respond to exogenously added VEGF.

abstract：:Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) is a nuclear DNA binding protein that participates in processes involving nicking and resealing DNA strands. A genomically unstable subpopulation of PARP-1(-/-) cells has recently been described, which disappears after stable transfection of the cells with complete PARP-1 cDNA. H...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cayuela ML,Carrillo A,Ramirez P,Parrilla P,Yélamos J

更新日期：2001-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:S-100 protein and annexin II2-p11(2) were reported to inhibit and to stimulate the assembly of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), respectively, in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. Here we show by a number of experimental approaches that S-100 protein contrasts all the effects of annexin II2-p11(2) on GFAP assembly and,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bianchi R,Garbuglia M,Verzini M,Giambanco I,Spreca A,Donato R

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A suitable antibody for immunoaffinity chromatography is considered to efficiently bind the antigen in the adsorption step and to dissociate the bound antigen with mild changes in the environmental conditions. To develop an effective method for preparing such antibodies, murine antisera elicited by the primary and sec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Enomoto A,Kamata N,Nakamura K

更新日期：1994-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of mesangial cells to ionic Cd(2+) induces the proto-oncogene c-fos, while activating both Erk and stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK) MAP kinase pathways. While we have previously used a pharmacological inhibitor of Erk activation to implicate involvement of this pathway in the induction of c-fos by Cd(2+...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ding W,Templeton DM

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsaicin, reported to elevate hormone sensitive lipase (HSL), is also found to inhibit the Ca++ and calmodulin-dependent cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) activity in adipose tissue of rats, fed high fat diet. The dependence of the enzyme activity on Ca++ and calmodulin in vitro, in control rats, is shown by its substanti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Salimath BP,Satyanarayana MN

更新日期：1987-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different types of fumarase were found in sonic extracts of Escherichia coli; one required Fe-S for the enzyme activity, and the other did not. When the cells were grown without aeration, the Fe-S-independent enzyme occupied over 80% of the overall fumarase activity. Highly purified Fe-S-independent enzyme was sug...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yumoto N,Tokushige M

更新日期：1988-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Human CCL23 (also known as CKbeta8, MPIF-1, or MIP-3) has been recently reported to induce endothelial cell migration and tube formation via CCR1. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are involved in the degradation of the extracellular matrix and also appear to play critical roles in angiogenesis. In the present study, w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Son KN,Hwang J,Kwon BS,Kim J

更新日期：2006-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a challenge because of the lack of effective early treatment strategies and high incidence of relapse. 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is a typical CRC treatment. Bromosporine is an innovative bromodomain and extraterminal domain (BET) inhibitor. We investigated if CRC could be targe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cheng X,Huang Z,Long D,Jin W

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple fluorescence-based assay was developed for the rapid screening of potential cytotoxic compounds generated by combinatorial chemistry. The assay is based on detection of nuclear green fluorescent protein (GFP) staining of a human cervical cancer cell line (HeLa) carrying an integrated histone H2B-GFP fusion ge...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Montoya J,Varela-Ramirez A,Estrada A,Martinez LE,Garza K,Aguilera RJ

更新日期：2004-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the amounts of total A beta, A beta 1-40 and A beta 1-42/43 in brain tissues using a newly developed ELISA assay and found that the amounts of insoluble A beta 1-42/43 and insoluble A beta 1-40 were linearly related to the amount of A beta deposits or total insoluble A beta at their lower and higher concen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tamaoka A,Kondo T,Odaka A,Sahara N,Sawamura N,Ozawa K,Suzuki N,Shoji S,Mori H

更新日期：1994-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Two polypeptides are involved in interleukin 2 binding: a low-affinity receptor of 55 kD (IL2-R alpha) and an intermediate affinity component of 75 kD (IL2-R beta). We describe the cloning by the Polymerase Chain Reaction of the coding region of IL2-R alpha from a human T-cell lymphoma cell line. One clone presented a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mercken L,Moras V,Hemon L,Lionne B,Bousseau A,Dautry-Varsat A,Collins M,Mayaux JF

更新日期：1991-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified by protein sequencing the precursor of beta protein in newborn rat brain. A rabbit antibody was raised against a synthetic peptide corresponding to the carboxyl-terminal 30 residues (666-695) of the putative beta-amyloid protein precursor (Kang et al. 1987). The antiserum recognized multiple bands a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takio K,Hasegawa M,Titani K,Ihara Y

更新日期：1989-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present paper, we report a strong intracellular antioxidant activity of the sesquiterpene lactone parthenolide in the hippocampal HT22 cells. This effect is mediated by an increase of total glutathione at both, low (5 microM) and high (10 microM), concentrations. Parthenolide also increases the activation of th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Herrera F,Martin V,Rodriguez-Blanco J,García-Santos G,Antolín I,Rodriguez C

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that rat bone marrow-derived macrophages responded to opsonized zymosan by releasing superoxide anion. However, these cells were defective in the response to the potent oxidative burst activator phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). This result was observed whatever the concentration of agonist used and with diffe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Andre P,Capo C,Mege JL,Benoliel AM,Bongrand P

更新日期：1988-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human platelets contained proteins which cross-reacted with antisera specific for brain protein kinase C-alpha and -beta. When platelets were incubated with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate there was a rapid accumulation of protein kinase C-alpha in the particulate fraction associated with a loss of this subspecie...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fournier A,Hardy SJ,Clark KJ,Murray AW

更新日期：1989-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprechaunism is an inherited disorder characterized by growth restriction and severe insulin resistance and caused by mutations in the insulin receptor gene. Cells from these patients have defective insulin binding. Fibroblasts from some patients have concomitant defects in other tyrosine kinase receptors, such as th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Longo N

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fut8 (α1,6-Fucosyltransferase) heterozygous knock-out (Fut8(+/-)) mice had an increased influx of inflammatory cells into the lungs, and this was associated with an up-regulation of matrix metalloproteinases, MMP-2 and MMP-9, after treatment with porcine pancreatic elastase (PPE), exhibiting an emphysema-prone phenoty...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kamio K,Yoshida T,Gao C,Ishii T,Ota F,Motegi T,Kobayashi S,Fujinawa R,Ohtsubo K,Kitazume S,Angata T,Azuma A,Gemma A,Nishimura M,Betsuyaku T,Kida K,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2012-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism(s) by which HIV-1 infection contributes to depletion of CD4(+) T cell is not well understood. In this report, we investigated whether a recently identified isoform of growth factor receptor bound protein (Grb2), named Grb3-3, a signaling molecule that is associated with the MAP kinase pathway and with ap...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li X,Multon MC,Henin Y,Schweighoffer F,Venot C,LaVecchio J,Josef J,Stuckert P,Mhashilkar A,Tocqué B,Marasco WA

更新日期：2000-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Using fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-conjugated H-2K(b) CTL epitope (SIINFEKL) as a model system, we investigated the antigen delivery route by pH-sensitive liposomes in vivo. Fluorescence was initially detected in lymph nodes at 3 h after immunization, and its intensity reached a peak value in superticial inguinal...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee KY,Chun E,Seong BL

更新日期：2002-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nrf2 is a key regulator of many detoxifying enzyme genes, and cytoplasmic protein Keap1 represses the Nrf2 activity under quiescent conditions. Germ line deletion of the keap1 gene results in constitutive activation of Nrf2, but the pups unexpectedly died before weaning. To investigate how constitutive activation of N...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okawa H,Motohashi H,Kobayashi A,Aburatani H,Kensler TW,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2006-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a major causative agent for hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), and fatal neurological and systemic complications in children. However, there is currently no clinical approved antiviral drug available for the prevention and treatment of the viral infection. Here, we evaluated the antiviral ac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang W,Tao J,Yang X,Yang Z,Zhang L,Liu H,Wu K,Wu J

更新日期：2014-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:People who regularly drink tea have been found to have a higher bone mineral density (BMD) and to be at less risk of hip fractures than those who do not drink it. Green tea catechins such as (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) have been reported to increase osteogenic functioning in mesenchymal stem cells. However, it...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lin RW,Chen CH,Wang YH,Ho ML,Hung SH,Chen IS,Wang GJ

更新日期：2009-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We found citrulline-containing proteins in mouse peritoneal macrophages undergoing calcium ionophore-induced apoptosis. Such proteins were products of deimination of arginine residues catalyzed by endogenous peptidylarginine deiminase (EC 3.5.3.15) activated by calcium influx. Western blotting analyses of the extract ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Asaga H,Yamada M,Senshu T

更新日期：1998-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In some v-Ha-ras-transfected cell lines, serum deprivation results in apoptosis. Clarification of the molecular mechanisms by which oncogenic Ras controls susceptibility to apoptosis may assist in the development of effective therapies against human cancer with oncogenic ras gene. In this report, we established a v-Ha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arase Y,Hiwasa T,Hasegawa R,Nomura J,Ito H,Suzuki N

更新日期：2000-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the physiological role of motilin, and more recently, on the relationship between motilin and erythromycin A, have been hampered by the lack of antagonists. We now have discovered such a compound. ANQ-11125 displaces motilin bound to an homogenate of rabbit antral smooth muscle tissue. The dissociation cons...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Peeters TL,Depoortere I,Macielag MJ,Dharanipragada R,Marvin MS,Florance JR,Galdes A

更新日期：1994-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinyl ester concentration is regulated by retinoic acid (RA) through an autoregulatory loop, which acts on lecithin:retinol acyltransferase (LRAT). We tested whether retinol esterification activity is downregulated in human mammary carcinoma cells and whether LRAT expression is RAR-regulated. Normal human mammary ep...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Andreola F,Giandomenico V,Spero R,De Luca LM

更新日期：2000-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The ferromagnetic transduction model proposed by J.L. Kirschvink (Phys. Rev. A (1992) 46, 2178-2184) suggests that the coupling of biogenic magnetic particles in the human brain to mechanosensitive membrane ion gates may provide a mechanism for interactions of environmental magnetic fields with humans. Extremely low f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dobson J,St Pierre T

更新日期：1996-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel conformation-specific antibodies were raised against a cyclic chimeric dodecapeptidyl multiple antigen peptide (cCD-MAP) constructed with a spacer-armed Gly-Asp dipeptide and two pentapeptides (S(169)-Q(170)-K(171)-E(172)-G(173) of CCR5 and E(179)-A(180)-D(181)-D(182)-R(183) of CXCR4) which are components of the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Misumi S,Takamune N,Ido Y,Hayashi S,Endo M,Mukai R,Tachibana K,Umeda M,Shoji S

更新日期：2001-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggested that human cardiac stem cells (hCSCs) may have the clinical application for cardiac repair; however, their characteristics and the regulatory mechanisms of their growth have not been fully investigated. Here, we show the novel property of hCSCs with respect to their origin and tissue distribu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tateishi K,Ashihara E,Honsho S,Takehara N,Nomura T,Takahashi T,Ueyama T,Yamagishi M,Yaku H,Matsubara H,Oh H

更新日期：2007-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that pleiotrophin (PTN the protein, Ptn the gene) highly regulates the levels of expression of the genes encoding the proteins of the renin-angiotensin pathway in mouse aorta. We now demonstrate that the levels of expression of these same genes are significantly regulated in mouse aorta by t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ezquerra L,Herradon G,Nguyen T,Silos-Santiago I,Deuel TF

更新日期：2005-07-29 00:00:00