The relation between two molecular species of P-450 in adult testis and 17 alpha-hydroxylase and 17,20-lyase activities.

abstract：:We aimed to assess the combined effect of trifluridine (FTD) and ionizing radiation (IR) on colorectal cancer cells in vitro. Colorectal cancer cells, HT-29, HCT-15, and HCT 116, showing low, medium, and high sensitivity to IR, respectively, were treated with the combinations of FTD and IR, and evaluated by the clonog...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsuoka K,Kobunai T,Nukatsuka M,Takechi T

更新日期：2017-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:G proteins play vital roles in cellular responses to external signals. The specificity of G protein-receptor interaction is mediated mostly by the gamma-subunit and the individual members of the gamma-subunit multigene family would hence be expected to each have a particular expression profile. In an experiment design...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Modarressi MH,Taylor KE,Wolfe J

更新日期：2000-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue factor (TF) is an initiation factor for blood coagulation and its expression is induced on endothelial cells during inflammatory or immune responses. We designed an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (AS-1/TF) for rat TF and studied its effect on hepatic ischemic reperfusion injury. AS-1/TF was delivered intravenou...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakamura K,Kadotani Y,Ushigome H,Akioka K,Okamoto M,Ohmori Y,Yaoi T,Fushiki S,Yoshimura R,Yoshimura N

更新日期：2002-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In chaperoning dithiothreitol-denatured alpha-lactabumin, alpha-crystallin forms a chaperoning complex. In order to study the kinetics of such chaperoning it needs to be established whether the formation of the chaperoning complex is a reversible or irreversible process. The chaperoning reaction was studied by dynamic...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Neal R,Zigler JS Jr,Bettelheim FA

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The bright bioluminescence of copepod Metridia longa is conditioned by a small secreted coelenterazine-dependent luciferase (MLuc). To date, three isoforms of MLuc differing in length, sequences, and some properties were cloned and successfully applied as high sensitive bioluminescent reporters. In this work, we repor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Larionova MD,Markova SV,Vysotski ES

更新日期：2017-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible protein tyrosine phosphorylation is an essential signal transduction mechanism that regulates cell growth, differentiation, mobility, metabolism, and survival. Two genes coding for protein tyrosine phophatases, designed EhPTPA and EhPTPB, were cloned from Entamoeba histolytica. EhPTPA and EhPTPB proteins sh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Herrera-Rodríguez SE,Baylón-Pacheco L,Talamás-Rohana P,Rosales-Encina JL

更新日期：2006-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the glycogen branching enzyme gene, GBE1, result in glycogen storage disease (GSD) type IV, an autosomal recessive disorder having multiple clinical forms. One mutant allele of this gene, GBE1 c.1076A>C, has been reported in Ashkenazi Jewish cases of an adult-onset form of GSD type IV, adult polyglucosan ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hussain A,Armistead J,Gushulak L,Kruck C,Pind S,Triggs-Raine B,Natowicz MR

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus infection triggers innate responses to host cells including production of type I interferon (IFN). Since IFN production is also induced by treatment with poly(I:C), viral double-stranded (ds) RNA has been postulated to play a direct role in the process. In the present study, we investigated the effect of dsRNA b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwamura T,Yoneyama M,Koizumi N,Okabe Y,Namiki H,Samuel CE,Fujita T

更新日期：2001-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The thioredoxin system is a key cellular antioxidant system and is highly expressed in cancer cells, especially in more aggressive and therapeutic resistant tumors. We analysed the expression of the thioredoxin system in the MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line under conditions mimicking the tumor oxygen microenvironmen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Karlenius TC,Shah F,Di Trapani G,Clarke FM,Tonissen KF

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Intricate cross-talks exist among multiple post-translational modifications that play critical roles in various cellular events, such as the control of gene expression and regulation of protein function. Here, the cross-talk between O-GlcNAcylation and ubiquitination was investigated in HEK293T cells. By PCR array, 84...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Feng Z,Hui Y,Ling L,Xiaoyan L,Yuqiu W,Peng W,Lianwen Z

更新日期：2013-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial evidence suggests that peroxynitrite generated from the bi-radical reaction of nitric oxide and superoxide is critically involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. Reaction with sulfhydryl (SH)-containing molecules has been proposed to be a major detoxificatio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cao Z,Hallur S,Qiu HZ,Peng X,Li Y

更新日期：2004-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Hyperneuroinflammation significantly contributes to ischemic stroke. Bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4) is a member of the Bromo and Extra-Terminal (BET) family, and promotes inflammatory response in various types of tissue and cells. Thereby, we...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou Y,Gu Y,Liu J

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, based on the approach by combining the "functional domain composition" [K.C. Chou, Y. D. Cai, J. Biol. Chem. 277 (2002) 45765] and the pseudo-amino acid composition [K.C. Chou, Proteins Struct. Funct. Genet. 43 (2001) 246; Correction Proteins Struct. Funct. Genet. 2044 (2001) 2060], the Nearest Neighbou...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cai YD,Chou KC

更新日期：2003-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Taxol (paclitaxel), a microtubule stabilizer with antitumor activity, mimics the actions of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on murine macrophages (M phi). In the present study, a variety of synthetic analogs of paclitaxel were examined for their potencies to induce nitric oxide (NO) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kirikae T,Ojima I,Kirikae F,Ma Z,Kuduk SD,Slater JC,Takeuchi CS,Bounaud PY,Nakano M

更新日期：1996-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 951 backcross progeny have been obtained from a backcross segregating for the mouse deafness mutation, shaker-2(sh-2). Linkage analysis provides a detailed genetic map in the vicinity of sh-2 which comprises 40 backcross mice identified as recombinant within a 4 cM region. This allows construction of a cont...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wakabayashi Y,Kikkawa Y,Matsumoto Y,Shinbo T,Kosugi S,Chou D,Furuya M,Jishage K,Noda T,Yonekawa H,Kominami R

更新日期：1997-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sendai virus envelope contains two glycoproteins: the fusion (F) protein and the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN). Inactivation of F causes the loss of fusogenic activity and an increase of the neuraminidase activity of HN. After inactivation of F, HN can be inhibited by fetuin or asialofetuin, as already observed...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dallocchio F,Tomasi M,Bellini T

更新日期：1994-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:O2-dependent reactions of the ferric and ferrous forms of alpha-hydroxyheme complexed with water-soluble rat heme oxygenase-1 were examined by rapid-scan stopped-flow measurements. Ferric alpha-hydroxyheme reacted with O2 to form ferric verdoheme with an O2-dependent rate constant of 4x10(5) M(-1) s(-1) at pH 7.4 and ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sakamoto H,Takahashi K,Higashimoto Y,Harada S,Palmer G,Noguchi M

更新日期：2005-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B, a major public health concern worldwide, is caused by hepatitis type B virus, a hepdnavirus that infects only human and certain nonhuman primates, and replicates strictly in hepatocytes. By using the techniques of slot and Southern blot DNA hybridization, and electron microscopy, the presence of HBV was i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pao CC,Wu SY,Hung IJ,Ng KT,Liaw YF,Lo SJ

更新日期：1987-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein extract prepared from the egg shell fiber-secreting region of the oviduct of Alligator mississippiensis was assayed for the presence of receptors for estrogen and progesterone. In the presence of [3H]-estradiol-17 beta, the extract contained an estrogen-binding activity which reached equilibrium at 25 degree...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vonier PM,Guillette LJ Jr,McLachlan JA,Arnold SF

更新日期：1997-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that high galectin-1 (Gal-1) mRNA levels were associated with invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cells that expressed Snail, an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) regulator. Both Gal-1 overexpression and soluble Gal-1 treatment accelerated invasion and collective cell migration, along with activat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rizqiawan A,Tobiume K,Okui G,Yamamoto K,Shigeishi H,Ono S,Shimasue H,Takechi M,Higashikawa K,Kamata N

更新日期：2013-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 5 alpha-cholest-8(14)-en-3 beta-ol-15-one, a potent inhibitor of cholesterol synthesis with marked hypocholesterolemic activity, on the intestinal absorption of exogenous cholesterol has been studied in lymph-cannulated rats. Administration of the 15-ketosterol at a level of 0.05% in a rat chow diet for ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schroepfer GJ Jr,Christophe A,Needleman DH,Kisic A,Sherrill BC

更新日期：1987-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells (BPAEC) were prelabeled with [3H]choline or [3H]myristic acid to selectively label endogenous phosphatidylcholine. BPAEC were stimulated with ATP and bradykinin (BK), and phospholipase D (PLD) activation was detected as a 4-fold increase in [3H]choline in cells prelabeled with...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Martin TW,Feldman DR,Goldstein KE,Wagner JR

更新日期：1989-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that both RNA and cDNA preparations derived from melanocytes contain a RT-PCR inhibitor that copurified with nucleic acids. Investigation of the candidate inhibitor melanin revealed that it potently blocks PCR at concentrations below 200 ng/ml, whereas 100 microg/ml melanin was required to inhibit reverse tra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Eckhart L,Bach J,Ban J,Tschachler E

更新日期：2000-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in neurogenesis and neuronal differentiation in the fetal brain of Down syndrome (DS) patients lead to the apparent neuropathological abnormalities and contribute to the phenotypic characters of mental retardation, and premature development of Alzheimer's disease, those being the most common phenotype in DS. I...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang CC,Kadota M,Nishigaki R,Kazuki Y,Shirayoshi Y,Rogers MS,Gojobori T,Ikeo K,Oshimura M

更新日期：2004-02-06 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：:We have isolated and characterized the 5'-flanking region of the mouse RECK gene aiming to understand the mechanism of oncogene-mediated suppression of RECK gene expression. The upstream 52-base region was found to contain a promoter activity which is, to some extent, suppressed by the ras oncogene. This region contai...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasahara RM,Takahashi C,Noda M

更新日期：1999-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The multidrug resistance proteins P-glycoprotein (Pgp) and MRP1 are drug-efflux pumps. In this study, we compared the nucleotide triphosphatase activities of the isolated N-terminal nucleotide binding domains (NBD1) of Pgp and MRP1, and explored the potential role of the phosphorylation target domain of Pgp on the reg...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wilkes DM,Wang C,Aristimuño PC,Castro AF,Altenberg GA

更新日期：2002-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is known to play an essential role in vascular development. We have overexpressed VEGF122 or VEGF170, which are equivalent to mouse VEGF120 and VEGF164, in developing Xenopus embryos. Overexpression of VEGF170 but not VEGF122 demonstrated an absence of expression of hematopoie...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Koibuchi N,Taniyama Y,Nagao K,Ogihara T,Kaneda Y,Morishita R

更新日期：2006-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor with pleiotropic effects in normal physiology or vascular development, xenobiotic metabolism, and cancer. A previous study has reported that BRG1, a component of the SWI/SNF complex, is a coactivator for AHR and is recruited to the promoter...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jin HL,Jeong KW

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-1 alpha cDNA clone was isolated from a T cell line infected by the human T lymphotropic retrovirus type-I (HTLV-I/ATLV). We found significant amounts of mRNA hybridizing to IL-1 alpha cDNA not only in HTLV-I-transformed T cells but also in Epstein-Barr Virus-transformed B cells. A part of IL-2 receptor inducing act...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Noma T,Nakamura T,Maeda M,Okada M,Taniguchi Y,Tagaya Y,Yaoita Y,Yodoi J,Honjo T

更新日期：1986-08-29 00:00:00