Mermaid, a family of short interspersed repetitive elements, is useful for zebrafish genome mapping.

abstract：:The bovine heart mitochondrial F1-ATPase complex exhibits an intrinsic tryptophan phosphorescence that can be used to monitor structural changes of the epsilon-subunit. The phosphorescence decay rate of F1 containing the tightly bound nucleotides increases upon addition of adenine nucleoside triphosphate in the presen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Baracca A,Barogi S,Gabellieri E,Lenaz G,Solaini G

更新日期：1995-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Dictyostelium discoideum possesses more EGF-like (EGFL) domains than any other sequenced eukaryote. Here we show that a synthetic EGFL peptide (DdEGFL1) based upon an amino acid sequence from a cysteine-rich Dictyostelium protein, functions extracellularly to enhance random cell motility and cAMP-mediated chemotaxis i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Huber R,O'Day DH

更新日期：2009-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The microvesicles (MVs) in bovine posterior pituitaries contain the reserpine-sensitive vesicular monoamine transporter (Moriyama et al. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 11424-11429). An antibody against the N-terminal region of the monoamine transporter from bovine chromaffin granules recognized a polypeptide in the MVs wi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moriyama Y,Yamada H

更新日期：1996-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A method to prepare amyloid-like fibrils functionalized with magnetic nanoparticles has been developed. The amyloid-like fibrils are prepared in a two step procedure, where insulin and magnetic nanoparticles are mixed simply by grinding in the solid state, resulting in a water soluble hybrid material. When the hybrid ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Andersson BV,Skoglund C,Uvdal K,Solin N

更新日期：2012-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:COOH-terminal cytoplasmic domains of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been shown to carry determinants that control their cell surface localization, internalization, and recycling. In attempts to seek cellular proteins that mediate these processes of PTH/PTH-related protein receptor (PTHR), one of the class B ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sugai M,Saito M,Sukegawa I,Katsushima Y,Kinouchi Y,Nakahata N,Shimosegawa T,Yanagisawa T,Sukegawa J

更新日期：2003-11-07 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：:AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is an energy sensor that regulates cellular metabolism. Changes in AMPK activity contribute to the regulation of insulin secretion. Epidemiological evidence links the ingestion of saturated fatty acid with hyperinsulinemia. The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang X,Zhou L,Li G,Luo T,Gu Y,Qian L,Fu X,Li F,Li J,Luo M

更新日期：2007-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The technology of real-time imaging in living cells is crucial for understanding of intracellular events. For this purpose, bioluminescent reporters have been introduced as sensitive and convenient tools. Metridia luciferase (MLuc) from the copepod Metridia longa is a coelenterazine-dependent luciferase containing a n...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Markova SV,Burakova LP,Vysotski ES

更新日期：2012-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin G of a polyclonal antiserum (pIgG) from a patient with insulin resistance and hypoglycemia was tested for its ability to inhibit insulin binding and to affect the autophosphorylation of partially-purified insulin receptors extracted from rat liver membranes. pIgG, when added 4 hr prior to insulin, i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cordera R,Gherzi R,De Pirro R,Rossetti L,Freidenberg GR,Andraghetti G,Lauro R,Adezati L

更新日期：1985-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies provide evidence that Sox4 is involved in regulating apoptosis as well as tumorigenesis of various human cancers; however, its role in the apoptotic machinery is not fully understood. Here we describe that the central domain containing glycine-rich region in Sox4, named CD, is a pivotal pro-apoptotic do...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hur EH,Hur W,Choi JY,Kim IK,Kim HY,Yoon SK,Rhim H

更新日期：2004-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression in Escherichia coli of the fdx4 gene from Aquifex aeolicus has allowed isolation and characterization of the first hyperthermophilic [2Fe-2S](Scys)(4) protein, a homodimer of M = 2 x 12.4 kDa with one [2Fe-2S] cluster per subunit. This protein is undamaged by heating to 100 degrees C for at least three ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatelet C,Gaillard J,Pétillot Y,Louwagie M,Meyer J

更新日期：1999-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work had suggested the presence of significant levels of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1) catalytic activity in human small intestinal microsomes, with undetectable to low UGT1A6 and 2B7 activities. To confirm the presence of UGT1A1 isoform in human small bowel, to explore the possible absence of UGT1...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Paine MF,Fisher MB

更新日期：2000-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In cultures of human foreskin fibroblasts most of the cell surface binding sites for 2-chain urokinase are masked and can be exposed by 10 min. incubation on ice at pH 2.5 (A. Bajpai and J.B. Baker (1985), Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.133, 475-482). Here we show that incubation on ice at pH 2.5 also releases from the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bajpai A,Baker JB

更新日期：1985-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence demonstrates that aldosterone can cause extra-cellular matrix (ECM) accumulation, in addition to regulating sodium and potassium homeostasis. Increased extra-cellular matrix production by renal glomerular mesangial cells has been suggested to be involved in pathogenesis of glomerular sclerosis. T...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lai L,Chen J,Hao CM,Lin S,Gu Y

更新日期：2006-09-15 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：:We established two monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) which specifically recognize human 'functionally inactive' recombinant IL-18, and IL-18 protein polymorphism was examined using human monocytes and macrophages (M phi). In 6 day GM-CSF-treated M phi, an 'inactive' IL-18-recognizing mAb 21 detected the IL-18 proform (24 k...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kikkawa S,Matsumoto M,Shida K,Fukumori Y,Toyoshima K,Seya T

更新日期：2001-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbore HPLC methodology permits rapid and sensitive mapping of human saliva proteins. Saliva is sampled and processed in less than one hour, greatly reducing the likelihood of artifactual protein degradation. As little as 50 microliters of saliva yields proteins in sufficient quantities and purity to obtain amino t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hawke DH,Yuan PM,Wilson KJ,Hunkapiller MW

更新日期：1987-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense activity in living cells has been thought to occur via a mechanism involving both DNA-mediated hybridization arrest of target mRNA and RNase H-mediated mRNA digestion. Therefore an ideal antisense agent should be permeable to the cell and possess capacities (1) to form a thermally stable duplex in vivo with ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Matsukura M,Okamoto T,Miike T,Sawai H,Shinozuka K

更新日期：2002-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used HL-60 leukemia cells to investigate phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-K) during granulocytic differentiation at the nuclear level. Nuclei of HL-60 cells showed a constitutive presence of PI 3-K that increased when cells were treated with differentiating doses of ATRA. PI 3-K was also detected tightly bo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Marchisio M,Bertagnolo V,Colamussi ML,Capitani S,Neri LM

更新日期：1998-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated rat cerebral cortex cells were able to accumulate L-carnitine and this process was competitively inhibited by 1 mM gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) with a shift of Km from 7.8 +/- 1.9 mM to 14.6 +/- 4.0 mM. Addition of GABA also affected distribution of carnitine derivatives. The decrease of acetylcarnitine lev...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wawrzeńczyk A,Nałecz KA,Nałecz MJ

更新日期：1995-08-15 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：:The first life forms evolved in a highly reducing environment. This reduced state is still carried by cells today, which makes the concept of "reductive stress" somewhat redundant. When oxygen became abundant on the Earth, due to the evolution of photosynthesis, life forms had to adapt or become extinct. Living organi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gutteridge JMC,Halliwell B

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb Group (PcG) genes encode proteins that form large multimeric and chromatin-associated complexes implicated in the stable repression of developmentally essential genes. HPH2, the Homo sapiens polyhomeotic homologue 2, functions as one of the subunits of PcG complex 1. In our study, SIAH-1, an E3 ligase, could ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu H,Lin Y,Shi Y,Qian W,Tian Z,Yu Y,Huo K

更新日期：2010-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two fragments of the E. coli rrnB ribosomal RNA P1 promoter Upstream Activation Region exhibit a constant gel retardation, over a polyacrylamide gel concentration range of 3% to 10%. Gel retardation is usually seen to increase with polyacrylamide gel concentration as in the case of the 219 base pair Crithidia fascicul...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wheeler D

更新日期：1993-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) has been recently identified as an endogenous hormone in humans, regulating different cell functions, including inflammatory processes, insulin release and glucose uptake. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic inflammatory disease resulting in fibrosis of skin and internal organs. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bruzzone S,Battaglia F,Mannino E,Parodi A,Fruscione F,Basile G,Salis A,Sturla L,Negrini S,Kalli F,Stringara S,Filaci G,Zocchi E,Fenoglio D

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP2A5 is a major enzyme responsible for nicotine and cotinine metabolism in mice. Nicotine and cotinine enhance alcoholic fatty liver in wild type (WT) mice but not in CYP2A5 knockout (KO) mice, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated during the CYP2A5-mediated metabolism contributes to the enhancing effect. In c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen X,Wang K,Cederbaum AI,Lu Y

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The patients suffering from acidosis usually sign psychological deficits. The cerebral dysfunction is reportedly caused by an acid-induced functional impairment of GABAergic neurons; however, the role of pyramidal neurons in this process remains unclear. By using electrophysiological method and changing extracellular ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhao H,Cai Y,Yang Z,He D,Shen B

更新日期：2011-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tankyrases (TNKS and TNKS2) are members of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) family proteins. Tankyrase has multiple ankyrin repeat cluster (ARC) domains, which recognize the tankyrase-binding motifs in proteins including the telomeric protein, TRF1 and Wnt signal regulators, AXINs. However, the functional significan...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mizutani A,Seimiya H

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Farnesylation of p21Ras is required for translocation to the plasma membrane and subsequent activation by growth factors. Previously we demonstrated that insulin stimulates the phosphorylation of farnesyltransferase (FTase) and its activity, whereby the amount of farnesylated p21Ras anchored at the plasma membrane is ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Solomon CS,Goalstone ML

更新日期：2001-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho-associated coiled-coil kinase (ROCK) family of proteins, including ROCK1 and ROCK2, are key regulators of actin and intermediate filament morphology. The newly discovered ROCK substrate Tubulin polymerization promoting protein 1 (TPPP1) promotes microtubule polymerization and inhibits the activity of Histone d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Schofield AV,Gamell C,Bernard O

更新日期：2013-07-12 00:00:00