A new function of Ito cells in liver morphogenesis: evidence using a novel morphogenic protein, epimorphin, in vitro.

abstract：:Activated botulinum D toxin ADP-ribosylates a 22 kDa molecular weight protein in homogenates obtained by sonication of a suspension of rabbit peritoneal neutrophils. The ADP-ribosylation catalyzed by activated botulinum D toxin is inhibited in homogenates obtained from cells pretreated with the toxin, suggesting that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mege JL,Volpi M,Becker EL,Sha'afi RI

更新日期：1988-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Casper/c-FLIP is a caspase-8-related molecule critically involved in regulation of death receptor-induced apoptosis. It has been shown that Casper can either promote or antagonize apoptosis and can activate the transcription factor NF-kappaB. The exact functions of Casper are controversial. To further understand how C...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li Z,Zhang J,Chen D,Shu HB

更新日期：2003-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the extraction and purification of PrP(C), in its native monomeric form, from outdated human platelet concentrates is described. Both calcium ionophore platelet activation and lysis in Triton X-100 were evaluated as methods for the extraction of soluble platelet PrP(C) in its monomeric form. Following pla...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jones M,Head MW,Connolly JG,Farquhar CF,Hornsey VS,Pepper DS,MacGregor IR

更新日期：2005-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Several fusion proteins of mouse Interleukins (mILs) and the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) were expressed in fibroblast and epithelial cells. Among these proteins, the mIL-31 derivative was the most efficiently secreted into the medium in a N-glycosylation-dependent manner. From the analysis of deletion mu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Akiyama N,Ohno Y,Fukuda T,Manome Y,Saito S

更新日期：2009-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) allows to study the molecular structure of biological macromolecules with nm to A resolutions without crystallization. We show here the applicability of AFM in the quantitative analysis of the molecular mechanisms of DNA/protein interaction: (i) Protein-binding sites can be mapped over a ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nettikadan S,Tokumasu F,Takeyasu K

更新日期：1996-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This purpose of this review is to look at the experimental evidence, both kinetic and electrophysiological, that led to the hypothesis of a fast electrical block to polyspermy in sea urchin eggs. The idea of a fast partial block, forwarded in the 1950's, that would reduce the receptivity of the egg surface by 1/20th f...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dale B

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication between receptor tyrosine kinase and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-mediated signaling is recognized as a common integrator linking diverse aspects of intracellular signaling systems. Here, we report that G protein-coupled beta-adrenergic receptor activation leading to stimulation of salivary phosphol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Slomiany BL,Slomiany A

更新日期：2004-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To further define the molecular interaction between decorin and type I collagen we generated a 20 kD fragment containing the N-terminal half of the core protein by Endoproteinase Arg C digestion and a 40 kD fragment including all leucine-rich repeats in the central part of decorin core by cleavage with 2-nitro-5-thioc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pogány G,Vogel KG

更新日期：1992-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of a 67 kDa lipid-dependent Ca(2+)-binding protein from avian matrix vesicles revealed amino acid sequences homologous to mammalian annexin VI. PCR methods were used to identify a clone from an avian cDNA library that contained a full length copy of the 67-kDa annexin cDNA. This was restriction mapped, subclo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cao X,Genge BR,Wu LN,Buzzi WR,Showman RM,Wuthier RE

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:By its antioxidant effect, molecular hydrogen gas (H2) was reported to protect organs from tissue damage induced by ischemia reperfusion. To evaluate its anti-inflammatory effects, we established a mouse model of human inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by supplying mice with water containing (1) dextran sodium sulfate ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kajiya M,Silva MJ,Sato K,Ouhara K,Kawai T

更新日期：2009-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Wet elastoidin spicules (fish fin rays) yield low-angle meridional X-ray diffraction patterns which resemble those from tendons. However, when the spicule dries the meridian splits into the arms of a diagonal cross (sometimes only one arm appears). Of the possible explanations we reject shearing of the axial arrangeme...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hukins DW,Woodhead-Galloway J,Knight DP

更新日期：1976-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:GGAs (Golgi-localizing, gamma-adaptin ear domain homology, ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF)-binding proteins), constitute a family of monomeric adaptor proteins and are associated with protein trafficking from the trans-Golgi network to endosomes. Here, we show that GGA3 is monoubiquitylated by a RING-H2 type-ubiquitin l...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yogosawa S,Kawasaki M,Wakatsuki S,Kominami E,Shiba Y,Nakayama K,Kohsaka S,Akazawa C

更新日期：2006-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of guanine nucleotides on activation of the O2-. generating oxidase in a cell free system consisting of bovine neutrophils membranes, cytosol and arachidonic acid has been studied. In a complete system, GTP-gamma-S was stimulatory and GDP-beta-S inhibitory. When cytosol was omitted, both nucleotides acted a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Doussiere J,Pilloud MC,Vignais PV

更新日期：1988-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogenovibrio marinus strain MH-110, an obligately lithoautotrophic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium, possesses three sets of the genes for ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO): namely, two form I type (cbbLS-1 and cbbLS-2) and one form II type (cbbM) enzymes. The cbbQ-m gene was located downstream ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi NR,Arai H,Kodama T,Igarashi Y

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA for subunit d of rat mitochondrial H(+)-ATP synthase was cloned from a brain cDNA library. The protein contains internally repeat structures that have sequences similar to those of other ATP-related proteins. The antibodies raised against the protein A-subunit d fusion protein expressed in E. coli specificall...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Motojima K,Imanaka T

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA), an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthesis, markedly enhanced tonic ("hump") responses to transmural stimulation in guinea pig ileum longitudinal muscle. The enhancement of the hump responses was probably due to a prejunctional effect on substance P-like neurotransmission, since the acti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gustafsson LE,Wiklund CU,Wiklund NP,Persson MG,Moncada S

更新日期：1990-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes catalyze a number of essential metabolic functions especially related to lipid metabolism. There is increasing evidence suggesting that peroxisomes are also involved in the synthesis of isoprenoids via the mevalonate pathway at least in rat liver. In order to obtain independent evidence for a role of perox...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wanders RJ,Romeijn GJ

更新日期：1998-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:PhyA gene products of Aspergillus ficuum (AF) and Peniophora lycii (PL) as expressed in industrial strains of Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus oryzae, respectively, were purified to homogeneity and then characterized for both physical and biochemical properties. The PL phytase is 26 amino acid residues shorter than t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ullah AH,Sethumadhavan K

更新日期：2003-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CCaMK) has been shown to play important roles in brassinosteroid (BR)-induced antioxidant defense and enhancing the tolerance of plants to drought stress. The autophosphorylation of CCaMK is a key step for the activation of CCaMK, thus promoting substrate phosphorylation. H...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu L,Han T,Liu W,Han G,Di P,Yu X,Yan J,Zhang A

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:betaC-S Lyase catalyzes the alpha,beta-elimination of L-cysteine to hydrogen sulfide, which is one of the main causes of oral malodor and is highly toxic to mammalian cells. We evaluated the capacity of six species of oral streptococci to produce hydrogen sulfide. The crude enzyme extract from Streptococcus anginosus ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoshida Y,Negishi M,Amano A,Oho T,Nakano Y

更新日期：2003-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of low concentrations of the chemotactic factor fMet-Leu-Phe to rabbit neutrophils in the absence of cytochalasin B produces very little superoxide. This level of superoxide can be greatly increased in neutrophils pretreated for 30 min with 10 microM of the diacyl-glycerol kinase inhibitor R59022. This po...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gomez-Cambronero J,Molski TF,Becker EL,Sha'afi RI

更新日期：1987-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells perform multiple biological functions including tumor cell lysis and eradicating virally infected cells. Here, we report for the first time that D-galactosyl-beta1-1' sphingosine and D-glucosyl-beta1- 1' sphingosine damage human NK cells. We show that these cells express T-cell-associated gen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Maghazachi AA,Knudsen E,Jin Y,Jenstad M,Chaudhry FA

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Anions of cytosine and thymine predominate in radiation-damaged DNA. This is in contrast to the experimental order of adiabatic electron affinities: A, 0.95; G, 1.51; >T, 0.79, U, 0.80; C, 0.56 (+/-0.05 eV). Excited negative-ion states of adenine (A) and guanine (G) are identified using semiempirical AM1-MCCI quantum ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen ES,Chen EC

更新日期：2001-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In a primary cell culture system of fetal rat brain, the calmodulin-dependent protein-kinase IV (CaMKIV) could be induced by the thyroid hormone T3 in a time- and concentration-dependent manner, provided the tissue was excised not later than day 15 of gestation (E15) (Krebs et al., J. Biol. Chem. 271, 11055, 1996). We...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Krebs J,Wilson A,Kisielow P

更新日期：1997-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have established that polypeptide growth factors cause an elevation of the cytoplasmic pH (pHi) in cultured mammalian cells by stimulating Na+/H+ exchange. We show that vanadate, previously found to act as a mitogen for a number of cells, reversibly activates Na+/H+ exchange at micromolar concentrations...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cassel D,Zhuang YX,Glaser L

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of AtNTRC (AtNTRC(OE)) in Arabidopsis thaliana led to a freezing and cold stress tolerance, whereas a knockout mutant (atntrc) showed a stress-sensitive phenotype. Biochemical analyses showed that the recombinant AtNTRC proteins exhibited a cryoprotective activity for malate dehydrogenase and lactic deh...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon JC,Lee S,Shin SY,Chae HB,Jung YJ,Jung HS,Lee KO,Lee JR,Lee SY

更新日期：2015-08-07 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：:It has been proposed that the members of the hsp70 major heat shock protein family in non-stressed cells participate in the intracellular transport of newly synthesized proteins and in maintaining such proteins in an unfolded state. Specific binding of other cellular proteins to hsp70 may play a role in hsp70 function...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Margulis BA,Welsh M

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggested that the hydrophobic protein chargerin II, which is encoded in the A6L of mitochondrial DNA, may have a key role in the energy transduction by mitochondrial H(+)-ATP synthase because an antibody against chargerin II inhibited ATP synthesis and ATP-Pi exchange, in an energy-dependent fashion....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Muraguchi M,Yoshihara Y,Tunemitu T,Tani I,Higuti T

更新日期：1990-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:ZinT (B1973), previously known as YodA, was originally characterised as a cadmium-induced periplasmic protein under the regulation of Fur and SoxS. Here we describe a decrease in zinT transcript in response to elevated copper concentrations and the zinc and copper dependent phenotype of a DeltazinT strain. Cadmium sen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kershaw CJ,Brown NL,Hobman JL

更新日期：2007-12-07 00:00:00