An upstream positive regulatory element in human GM-CSF promoter is recognized by NF-kappa B/Rel family members.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a major complication after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, which often targets gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Osteopontin (OPN) plays an important physiological role in the efficient development of Th1 immune responses and cell survival by ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawakami K,Minami N,Matsuura M,Iida T,Toyonaga T,Nagaishi K,Arimura Y,Fujimiya M,Uede T,Nakase H

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfur(S)-starvation was previously shown to induce the degradation of an acidic lipid in chloroplasts, sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol (SQDG), to yield a major internal S-source in a green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We here found that the synthesis of phosphatidylglycerol (PG), the other acidic lipid in chloropl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sugimoto K,Midorikawa T,Tsuzuki M,Sato N

更新日期：2008-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic methylation of chemically alkylated DNA and of poly(dG-dC) X poly(dG-dC) by beef brain DNA(cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase have been tested. The alkylation by dimethylsulfate, which yields mostly 7 methylguanine (m7G) and 3 methyladenine (m3A) do not affect the enzymatic methylation. The dimethylsulfate a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pfohl-Leszkowicz A,Boiteux S,Laval J,Keith G,Dirheimer G

更新日期：1983-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystroglycan has recently been characterized in blood tissue cells, as part of the dystrophin glycoprotein complex but to date nothing is known of its role in the differentiation process of neutrophils. We have investigated the role of dystroglycan in the human promyelocytic leukemic cell line HL-60 differentiated to ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Martínez-Zárate AD,Martínez-Vieyra I,Alonso-Rangel L,Cisneros B,Winder SJ,Cerecedo D

更新日期：2014-06-06 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：:Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is a glycolytic enzyme that catalyzes the final step of glycolysis and produces NAD+. In somatic cells, LDH forms homotetramers and heterotetramers that are encoded by two different genes: LDHA (skeletal muscle type, M) and LDHB (heart type, H). Analysis of LDH isozymes is important for und...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Goto T,Sugawara K,Nakamura S,Kidokoro SI,Wakui H,Nunomura W

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of endothelin, there was a rapid increase in the 45Ca++ efflux from primary cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells, both in physiological salt solution and in calcium free medium containing 2 mM EGTA. The 45Ca++ influx was not affected. The endothelin-induced, transient increase in cytosolic calcium...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Miasiro N,Yamamoto H,Kanaide H,Nakamura M

更新日期：1988-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3(')-->5(')-exonucleolytic activity of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) on mispaired DNA at the 3(')-termini of recessed, nicked or gapped DNA molecules was analyzed and compared with the primary endonucleolytic activity. We found that under reaction conditions optimal for AP endonuclease activity...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lebedeva NA,Khodyreva SN,Favre A,Lavrik OI

更新日期：2003-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:High ethanol intake is considered to impair insulin sensitivity. In the present study, we investigated the acute and chronic effects of ethanol intake on glucose metabolism and insulin signal transduction. Hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp studies revealed 70% and 51% decreases in the glucose infusion rate, 52% and 31...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Onishi Y,Honda M,Ogihara T,Sakoda H,Anai M,Fujishiro M,Ono H,Shojima N,Fukushima Y,Inukai K,Katagiri H,Kikuchi M,Oka Y,Asano T

更新日期：2003-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) has been attributed a pro-inflammatory role in atherosclerosis. Cell culture studies have identified stimulation of cytokine expression and chemotaxis by micromolar (muM) concentrations of LPC. In the present study we have investigated if LPC, in similarity with many other lipid mediators...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Olofsson KE,Andersson L,Nilsson J,Björkbacka H

更新日期：2008-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Using differential mRNA display (DD-PCR), a novel cDNA, FxC1 (Fracture Callus 1) was isolated from the early stages of a healing fractured femur. Utilizing 5' RACE PCR, a 598-bp full-length cDNA was obtained for FxC1 that contains an open reading frame (ORF) of 243 bp, encoding for an 80 amino acid protein. Within thi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hadjiargyrou M,Halsey MF,Ahrens W,Rightmire EP,McLeod KJ,Rubin CT

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3.6 kb HindIII DNA fragment of B. sphaericus 1593M chromosomal DNA bears two genes encoding two polypeptides of 41.9 kDa (protein "42") and 51.4 kDa (protein "51"). DNA fragments carrying only one of these two genes when expressed in E. coli yield products that are inactive towards Culex larvae. The larvicidal act...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： de la Torre F,Bennardo T,Sebo P,Szulmajster J

更新日期：1989-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cluster 2b streptokinase (SK2b), secreted by invasive skin-trophic strains of Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS), is a human plasminogen (hPg) activator that optimally functions when human plasma hPg is bound, via its kringle-2 domain, to cognizant bacterial cells through the a1a2 domain of the major cellular hPg receptor, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang Y,Mayfield JA,Ploplis VA,Castellino FJ

更新日期：2014-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:SEZ-12 is one of the seizure-related cDNAs which was isolated by differential hybridization from primary cultured neurons from the mouse cerebral cortex with or without pentylenetetrazol (PTZ). SEZ-12 expression is transiently down-regulated in the mouse brain by injection of PTZ. To characterize SEZ-12, isolation of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kajiwara K,Nagasawa H,Shimizu-Nishikawa K,Ookura T,Kimura M,Sugaya E

更新日期：1996-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In neuroblastoma N1E 115 cells, carbachol, histamine and PGE1 elevated cyclic GMP content and, induced the efflux of preloaded 45Ca2+, the release of membrane-bound Ca2+ measured by fluorescent CTC, and the increase in [Ca2+]i as measured by Quin 2 fluorescence. The time course of the responses, the absolute requireme...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ohsako S,Deguchi T

更新日期：1984-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term glyburide therapy has been reported to improve glucose-induced insulin secretion in patients with NIDDM. We examined the effects of glyburide on the synthesis and release of insulin and insulin gene expression in isolated islets in vitro. Incubation with glyburide (500 ng/ml) significantly increased insulin ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamato E,Ikegami H,Tahara Y,Fukuda M,Cha T,Kawaguchi Y,Fujioka Y,Noma Y,Shima K,Ogihara T

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Activins, TGF-beta superfamily members, have multiple functions in a variety of cells and tissues. Recently, additional activin beta subunit genes, betaC and betaE, have been identified. To explore the role of activin E, we created transgenic mice overexpressing human activin betaE subunit. There were pronounced diffe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hashimoto O,Ushiro Y,Sekiyama K,Yamaguchi O,Yoshioka K,Mutoh K,Hasegawa Y

更新日期：2006-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Some mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) causing a number of neuromuscular diseases are suggested to arise spontaneously during the life of an individual. To substantiate the extent and the rate of these somatic mutations, mtDNA specimens from post-mortem human heart muscles of subjects in differing age groups were...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayakawa M,Hattori K,Sugiyama S,Ozawa T

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-molecule imaging by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) yields the atomic-resolution (0.6A) structure of individual B-type DNA molecules. The strong correlation between these STM structures and those predicted from the known base sequence indicates that sequencing of single DNA molecules using STM may be feasi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zareie MH,Lukins PB

更新日期：2003-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) are promising anti-tumor agents that selectively induce cell cycle arrest, differentiation and/or apoptosis of tumor cells. Fundamentally, HDACIs are proposed to function by activating the transcription of genes, including the potent cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p21(WAF1). ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hirsch CL,Ellis DJ,Bonham K

更新日期：2010-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The pregnant hog ovary is a rich source of a novel exopeptidase that catalyzes the release, at pH 5.0, of collagen-related (P3-P2-P1) "triplets" such as Gly-Pro-Met, Gly-Pro-Arg, and Gly-Pro-Ala from arylamide derivatives, provided the N termini are unsubstituted. Corresponding derivatives of related (P2-P1) dipeptide...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McDonald JK,Hoisington AR,Eisenhauer DA

更新日期：1985-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate whether p21waf-1/cip-1/sdi-1 expression is associated with loss of growth potential of hepatocytes of old rats, we determined p21waf-1/cip-1/sdi-1 expression of hepatocytes from old (30 months) rats during the cell cycle in primary culture. A high level of expression of p21waf-1/cip-1/sdi-1 was detected a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sawada N,Kojima T,Obata H,Saitoh M,Isomura H,Kokai Y,Satoh M,Mori M

更新日期：1996-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel application of atomic force microscopy (AFM) in the rapid, label-free detection and identification of viruses is described. Multiplexed, miniaturized antibody domains were constructed using "ink-jet" protein arraying technology. The solid-phase affinity substrate termed the "ViriChip" was used in the immunocap...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nettikadan SR,Johnson JC,Mosher C,Henderson E

更新日期：2003-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion molecules act as tumor suppressors primarily by cell attachment activity, but additional mechanisms modifying signal transduction are suggested in some cases. Cell adhesion molecule 1 (CADM1), a membrane-spanning immunoglobulin superfamily, mediates intercellular adhesion by trans-homophilic interaction ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsuboi Y,Oyama M,Kozuka-Hata H,Ito A,Matsubara D,Murakami Y

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In Dictyostelium discoideum, a novel type of RNA (dutA RNA), which is untranslatable, cytosolic and 1.3 kb in size, appears specifically after the aggregation stage [Yoshida, H. et al. (1994) Nucleic Acids Res. 22, 41-46]. We here show that the dutA gene is transcribed by RNA polymerase II, based on its alpha-amanitin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kumimoto H,Yoshida H,Okamoto K

更新日期：1995-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that curcumin and other sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-pump inhibitors could correct the defect in the most common mutation (DeltaF508) in cystic fibrosis (CF), and restore normal chloride transport. In the present study, the effect of curcumin was tested on baby hamster kidney (BHK) c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dragomir A,Björstad J,Hjelte L,Roomans GM

更新日期：2004-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:An amino acid substitution of Met for Val at position 30 of plasma prealbumin is known to be closely related to heredo-familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy(FAP). As a first step in development of a direct method for diagnosis of the disease, cDNA for normal human prealbumin was cloned and its nucleotide sequence was de...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasaki H,Sakaki Y,Matsuo H,Goto I,Kuroiwa Y,Sahashi I,Takahashi A,Shinoda T,Isobe T,Takagi Y

更新日期：1984-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been well documented that tumor suppressor p53 is mutated in about 50% of all human tumors. p53 status might be one of the critical determinants for the chemo-sensitivity of human tumors. In the present study, we have found that p53 family member p73 as well as 14-3-3sigma is down-regulated in response to adria...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sang M,Li Y,Ozaki T,Ono S,Ando K,Yamamoto H,Koda T,Geng C,Nakagawara A

更新日期：2006-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological data have shown that stress and other psychological factors might influence cancer onset and progression. However, to date, the mechanisms are not well understood. In the present study, we used chronic exposure to a scream as a novel form of sound stress to explore the influence of the chronic stress b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hou N,Zhang X,Zhao L,Zhao X,Li Z,Song T,Huang C

更新日期：2013-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling by stem cell factor and Kit, its receptor, play important roles in gametogenesis, hematopoiesis, mast cell development and function, and melanogenesis. Moreover, human and mouse embryonic stem cells express Kit transcripts. Stem cell factor exists as both a soluble and a membrane-bound glycoprotein while Kit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Roskoski R Jr

更新日期：2005-12-23 00:00:00