Lens-specific expression of a chicken beta A3/A1-crystallin promoter fragment in transgenic mice.

abstract：:Laminins, the major basement membrane glycoproteins, are composed of three subunits. We identified a splice variant of the human laminin alpha4 subunit transcript containing 21 extra nucleotides. A heptapeptide sequence, MDCPTIS, was inserted close to the two cysteine residues possibly involved in the intersubunit dis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi Y,Kim KH,Fujiwara H,Shimono C,Yamashita M,Sanzen N,Futaki S,Sekiguchi K

更新日期：2002-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein cages have recently emerged as an extraordinary drug-delivery system due to its biocompatibility, biodegradability, low toxicity, ease to manipulate and engineer. We have reported earlier the formation and architecture of a do-decameric cage-like architecture of Vibrio cholerae acylphosphatase (VcAcP) at 3.1 Å...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chatterjee S,Nath S,Sen U

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A ketosugar-specific agglutinin has been identified and purified to apparent homogeneity by affinity chromatography from the three days post-coital rat uterus. This protein is not found in other stages of estrous cycle. The agglutinin is glycoprotein, moves as single band with molecular weight 37,000 in polyacrylamide...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chowdhury M

更新日期：1986-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium is a toxic metal present in the environment and its inhalation can lead to pulmonary disease such as lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These lung diseases are characterized by chronic inflammation. Here we show that exposure of human airway epithelial cells to cadmium promotes a polarized ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rennolds J,Malireddy S,Hassan F,Tridandapani S,Parinandi N,Boyaka PN,Cormet-Boyaka E

更新日期：2012-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the interactions of oxytocin with the transmembrane region of the oxytocin receptor were modelled in order to explain the selective binding of oxytocin and vasopressin. Three sites of interaction in the receptors were identified by sequence comparison and model building. Both receptors share one site, wh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hakala JM

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic hypoxia plays an important role in the initiation and progression of chronic renal disease. The pathogenic role of chronic hypoxia in tubulointerstitial injury has been investigated widely, but little is known about acute hypoxia implications in glomerular damage. In this study, we investigated the e...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hu G,He Y,Li Y,Hu X,Liu S,Liao C,Zhang R,Zhou X,Sun H

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Isovalerylcarnitine, a product of the catabolism of L-leucine, is a potent activator of rat calpains isolated from erythrocytes, kidney, liver, skeletal and heart muscle. Only calpains II, but not calpains I, are activated by IVC, with the only exception of rat erythrocyte calpain I, the only species present in these ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pontremoli S,Melloni E,Viotti PL,Michetti M,Di Lisa F,Siliprandi N

更新日期：1990-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fru-6-P/Fru-2,6-P2 exchange reaction of rat liver 6-phosphofructo 2-kinase/fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase was almost entirely dependent on the presence of Pi. This exchange was not due to a reversal of the bisphosphatase nor to trace amounts of adenine nucleotide in the enzyme. Exchange activity was maximal at pH 7, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： El-Maghrabi MR,Pate TM,Pilkis SJ

更新日期：1984-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin (TRX) is a ubiquitous dithiol-oxidoreduction enzyme broadly expressed in cells from prokaryote to eukaryote organisms. Human thioredoxin (human TRX) gene, previously cloned in our laboratory, codes for a 12-kDa protein found in the culture supernatant of several hemopoietic human cell lines. This protein i...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wollman EE,Kahan A,Fradelizi D

更新日期：1997-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy water (D2O) has been used as a putative inhibitor of the plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase and the plasma membrane redox system. Concentrations above 50% D2O inhibited H+ secretion and the plasma membrane redox system of Zea mays L. roots. Inhibition of H+ secretion by vanadate was reduced in presence of D2O. The plas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Döring O,Böttger M

更新日期：1992-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and localization of mitochondrial calmodulin was directly proved immuno-electron microscopically by the protein A-gold technique. In the ultra-pure mitochondria the complexes of anti-calmodulin antibody and protein A-gold clearly showed the localization of mitochondrial calmodulin on the inner membrane an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hatase O,Doi A,Itano T,Matsui H,Ohmura Y

更新日期：1985-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The sulfhydryl group reagent N-ethylmaleimide was found to inhibit in a dose dependent manner regulatory volume decrease of human peripheral lymphocytes swollen in buffered hyposmotic NaCl media. In hyposmotic KCl media NEM treated lymphocytes prevented an additional secondary swelling seen in control lymphocytes. The...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bauer J,Lauf PK

更新日期：1983-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the 5' upstream -1034 to +88 fragment of the human inducible nitric oxide synthase (hiNOS) gene and demonstrate its competence to promote luciferase gene transcription in vascular-smooth-muscle (VSM) cells and macrophages. Sequential 5' end-deletions localized positive regulatory elements of hiNOS trans...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kolyada AY,Savikovsky N,Madias NE

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem cells (NSCs) have the potential for differentiation into neurons known as a groundbreaking therapeutic solution for central nervous system (CNS) diseases. To resolve the therapeutic efficiency of NSCs, recent researchers have focused on the study on microRNA's role in CNS. Some micro RNAs have been reporte...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Song J,Cho KJ,Oh Y,Lee JE

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of rational methods to design 'continuous' sequence mimetics of discontinuous regions of protein sequence has, to now, been only marginally successful. This has been largely due to the difficulty of constraining the recognition elements of a mimetic structure to the relative conformational and spatial ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Casset F,Roux F,Mouchet P,Bes C,Chardes T,Granier C,Mani JC,Pugnière M,Laune D,Pau B,Kaczorek M,Lahana R,Rees A

更新日期：2003-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosteroids are endogenously derived compounds, mediating rapid effects in the central nervous system. They participate in vital processes, including memory and learning, neuroplasticity, and neuroprotection in Alzheimer's disease. However, the mechanisms behind those effects remain to be elucidated. The neurosteroi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Elfverson M,Linde AM,Le Grevès P,Zhou Q,Nyberg F,Johansson T

更新日期：2008-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Accepted as crucial participators in human malignancies, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been proven to exert significant function on the complicated processes of cancer progression. Although existing investigations have revealed the oncogenic role of lncRNA SOX2 overlapping transcript (SOX2-OT) in different kinds ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wo Q,Zhang D,Hu L,Lyu J,Xiang F,Zheng W,Shou J,Qi X

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many CARD-containing caspase mediators interact with CARD-containing caspases and participate in activation or suppression of caspases. We cloned a novel CARD-containing protein from our EST database, named CARP. Computational characterization revealed that CARP encoded 445 amino acids with predicted MW 49.7 kDa, loca...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu B,Liu Y,Chen J,Wei Z,Yu H,Zhen Y,Lu L,Hui R

更新日期：2002-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the nm23/NDP-K gene correlates with reduced metastasis in some tumors and with increased proliferation in both nontransformed and transformed cells in culture. Decreased nm23/NDP-K expression results in mitotic arrest in neuroblasts of developing Drosophila. In order to better understand the biological r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sorscher SM,Steeg P,Feramisco JR,Buckmaster C,Boss GR,Meinkoth J

更新日期：1993-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonenzymatic glycation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins is increased in diabetes mellitus and aging and triggers cellular events leading to an imbalance in ECM homeostasis. We studied the influence of collagen glycation on matrix metalloproteinase production by dermal fibroblasts using the model of lattice cultu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rittié L,Berton A,Monboisse JC,Hornebeck W,Gillery P

更新日期：1999-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-infected subjects are at high risk of developing atherosclerosis, in part due to virus-induced impairment of HDL metabolism. Here, using as a model of HIV infection the NOD.Cg-Prkdc(scid)IL2rg(tm1Wjl)/SzJ (NSG) mice humanized by human stem cell transplantation, we demonstrate that LXR agonist TO901317 potently red...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dubrovsky L,Van Duyne R,Senina S,Guendel I,Pushkarsky T,Sviridov D,Kashanchi F,Bukrinsky M

更新日期：2012-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In multiple myeloma (MM), bone marrow microenvironment has an important role for the survival and growth of plasma cells. We previously showed that a high bone turnover, induced by ovariectomy, increased MM cells growth in the 5T2MM model. The present study characterized a new plasma cell line (5THL) which was isolate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Libouban H,Moreau MF,Baslé MF,Bataille R,Chappard D

更新日期：2004-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports on the chaperone activity of alpha-crystallin to prevent protein denaturation and thermal aggregation have suggested that partially denatured proteins can bind alpha-crystallin in its central region. Likewise, beta- and gamma-crystallin can also be localized to the central cavity of alpha-crystallin p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee JS,Samejima T,Liao JH,Wu SH,Chiou SH

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a specific radioimmunoassay we have isolated and sequenced a new 45-amino acid peptide from rat atria which exhibits similar physiological and pharmacological properties to rat atrial natriuretic peptide (rANP). We have termed the new peptide iso-rANP, because of its functional and structural similarities to rAN...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Flynn TG,Brar A,Tremblay L,Sarda I,Lyons C,Jennings DB

更新日期：1989-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria has been identified as a promising target in several cancers. However, little is known on the effects of targeting mitochondria in retinoblastoma. In this work, we show that anti-malarial atovaquone, at clinically achievable concentration, demonstrates inhibitory effects to retinoblastoma cells, to a more...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ke F,Yu J,Chen W,Si X,Li X,Yang F,Liao Y,Zuo Z

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence has indicated that transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) induces the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in cancer cells, thus promoting their motility and invasiveness. Quercetin, a member of the polyphenolic flavonoid family, has been reported to display anticancer activity against a broad...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Feng J,Song D,Jiang S,Yang X,Ding T,Zhang H,Luo J,Liao J,Yin Q

更新日期：2018-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Native LDL would be a mitogenic and chemotactic stimulus of VSMC proliferation and differentiation in the atherosclerotic lesion where endothelial disruption occurred. In previous studies, our group investigated the molecular mechanisms by which LDL induces IL-8 production and by which PPARalpha activation abolishes L...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Heo KS,Kim DU,Ryoo S,Nam M,Baek ST,Kim L,Park SK,Myung CS,Hoe KL

更新日期：2007-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum prealbumin isolated from a Japanese patient with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) has been found to consist of a mixture of normal prealbumin and a prealbumin variant which contains a methionine for valine substitution at position 30. The prealbumin variant in the serum is identical to the prealbumin va...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakazato M,Kangawa K,Minamino N,Tawara S,Matsuo H,Araki S

更新日期：1984-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:SIRT1, human ortholog of yeast SIR2 protein, deacetylates histones and several other transcription factors. Recently, SIRT1 has emerged as a drug target for treating age related diseases, type II diabetes, neurodegeneration, inflammation and cancer. Here, we have optimized production of functionally active wild type f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Malik R,Kashyap A,Bansal K,Sharma P,Rayasam GV,Davis JA,Bora RS,Ray A,Saini KS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small population of cells with stem cell-like properties found in tumors. CSCs are closely associated with tumor heterogeneity, which influences tumor progress, metastasis, and drug resistance. Here, we propose a concept to enhance efficacy of cancer therapy through CSC reprogramming int...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee KS,Choi JS,Cho YW

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00