Calcineurin: not just a simple protein phosphatase.

abstract：:In rodents, the transcription factors early growth response 2 (EGR2) and sterol regulatory element binding protein 1a (SREBP1a) regulate transcription of the stearoyl-CoA desaturase 2 (SCD2) gene during peripheral nerve myelination, which may be important for synthesis of the lipid component of myelin. Most non-rodent...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lengi AJ,Corl BA

更新日期：2012-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of cytochrome b5 to rat cytochrome P450 2B1 was inhibited (by 75%) by a synthetic peptide corresponding to P450 residues 116-134. The role of Lys-122 and Arg-125 were evaluated using peptides in which one or both of these basic residues were replaced with Glu. The Lys-122 substitution nearly abolished while th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Omata Y,Sakamoto H,Robinson RC,Pincus MR,Friedman FK

更新日期：1994-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:TANC1 and its close relative TANC2 are two important synaptic scaffold proteins which play critical roles in regulating densities of synaptic spines and excitatory synapse strength. Recent studies indicated TANC1 and TANC2 are candidate genes of several neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). So far, the biochemical prope...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang Q,Liu H,Li Z,Wang Y,Liu W

更新日期：2019-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (ADPRP) is a nuclear enzyme that transfers ADP-ribose from NAD+ to diverse nuclear proteins. Previously, the function of ADPRP was considered to relate exclusively to its catalytic activity. However, recent experiments have shown that ADPRP is actually an abundant DNA-binding protein, and t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nobori T,Yamanaka H,Carson DA

更新日期：1989-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases leading to dementia. Although cytotoxicity of amyloid β peptides has been intensively studied within pathophysiology of AD, the physiological function of amyloid precursor protein (APP) still remains unclarified. We have shown previously tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kwak YD,Hendrix BJ,Sugaya K

更新日期：2014-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear enzyme poly(ADP-ribosyl) transferase (pADPRT) catalyzes the formation of poly(ADP-ribose) from NAD+. Several nuclear proteins and pADPRT itself are targets for the modification by poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation. It is demonstrated here that poly(ADP-ribose) or pADPRT automodified with poly(ADP-ribose) interacts no...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mayer-Kuckuk P,Ullrich O,Ziegler M,Grune T,Schweiger M

更新日期：1999-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Native microorganisms in their original form cannot be patented. However, microbes like yeasts, bacteria, protozoa, unicellular algae, fungi, actinomycetes and viruses can be patented if they have been genetically modified. The process and the product obtained can also be patented. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cameotra SS

更新日期：2013-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleolar protein p40/EBP2 is a proliferation-associated antigen that interacts with Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1) to maintain the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) episomes. The yeast p40/EBP2 functions in the processing of 27S-A into 27S-B ribosomal RNA. The present study reports high evolutionary conservation...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Henning D,Valdez BC

更新日期：2001-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoke (CS) is the principal cause of pulmonary inflammatory response. IL-28 (IFN-λ) is a novel group of class II cytokines targeting the epithelial cells and IL-28 responses prominent in lungs can exert important immunomodulatory effects. We tested the hypothesis that IL-28B may modulate the lung inflammatio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Qiu C,Li Y,Zhou M,Liu J,Li M,Wu Y,Xu D,Li M

更新日期：2014-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Total RNA isolated from a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) liver was subjected to RT/PCR using degenerate primers designed from homologous regions amongst cytochrome P450 CYP4 proteins. PCR amplification resulted in a single electrophoretic band which was excised, purified and sequenced directly, using cycle sequen...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Falckh PH,Wu QK,Ahokas JP

更新日期：1997-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mast cells are traditionally thought to function as effector cells in allergic responses, they have increasingly been recognized as important regulators of various immune responses. Mast cells mature locally; thus, tissue-specific influences are important for promoting mast cell accumulation and survival in t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cho KA,Park M,Kim YH,Woo SY

更新日期：2017-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD133 antigen, identified as a hematopoietic stem cell marker, appears in various human embryonic epithelia including the neural tube, gut, and kidney. We herein investigated whether CD133(+) cells isolated from human hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines possess cancer stem/progenitor cell-like properties. Among th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suetsugu A,Nagaki M,Aoki H,Motohashi T,Kunisada T,Moriwaki H

更新日期：2006-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:18,54-SF cells, which secrete rat insulin-like growth factor II (rIGF-II), have abundant type 2 IGF receptors. We have purified the type 2 receptor from these cells by solubilization of crude membranes in Triton X-100, followed by chromatography on agarose-immobilized rIGF-II. A partially purified receptor preparation...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rosenfeld RG,Hodges D,Pham H,Lee PD,Powell DR

更新日期：1986-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have shown that phospholipase D (PLD) is activated by protein kinase C (PKC) in vivo and in vitro. In this study, a PLD isoform (rPLD1) was shown to bind to PKC-alpha in Rat1 fibroblasts treated with phorbol ester. The PKC-alpha binding domain of rPLD1 was localized to its N-terminus. The phospholipase wa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Min DS,Exton JH

更新日期：1998-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained the optimized geometrical structure of 2-(1-carboxy-1-hydroxyethyl)-3,4-dimethylthiazolium dipolar ion and investigated its geometric and electric changes during decarboxylation process by the MNDO-PM3 method, a molecular orbital method. The salient features of the optimized structure are that the dih...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nakajima Y,Sakagishi Y,Shiibashi M,Suzuki Y,Kato H

更新日期：1993-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The major bovine seminal plasma protein, PDC-109, binds to choline phospholipids of the sperm plasma membrane and induces an efflux of cholesterol and choline phospholipids (cholesterol efflux), which is crucial for sperm capacitation. PDC-109 also exhibits chaperone-like activity and protects target proteins against ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Singh BP,Saha I,Nandi I,Swamy MJ

更新日期：2017-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen depletion causes postmenopausal osteoporosis. Here we report that steady state mRNA levels of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) and osteocalcin in bone persistently decreased and increased, respectively, in vivo in estrogen-depleted rats after ovariectomy (OVX). 21 female Wistar rats (7-month-old...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ikeda T,Shigeno C,Kasai R,Kohno H,Ohta S,Okumura H,Konishi J,Yamamuro T

更新日期：1993-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation in DJ-1 gene is the cause of autosomal recessive Parkinson's disease, however, its physiological function remains unclear. The isoelectric point of DJ-1 shows an acidic shift after cells are treated with hydrogen peroxide. This suggests that DJ-1 is modified in response to oxidative stress. Here we report the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kinumi T,Kimata J,Taira T,Ariga H,Niki E

更新日期：2004-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The major form of cytochrome P-450, P-450K-5, was purified from kidney microsomes of untreated male rats with high-performance liquid chromatography with anion-exchange and hydroxylapatite columns. The monomeric molecular weight of P-450K-5 was 52000 on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and the CO-reduced absorpt...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Imaoka S,Funae Y

更新日期：1986-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of cyclohexenyl chalcone Diels-Alder natural products possess promising biological properties including strong cytotoxicity in various human cancer cells. Herein, we show that natural products in this class including panduratin A and nicolaioidesin C inhibit cysteine cathepsins as indicated by protease profil...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Deb Majumdar I,Devanabanda A,Fox B,Schwartzman J,Cong H,Porco JA Jr,Weber HC

更新日期：2011-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Profilin is a small actin-binding protein and is expressed at high levels in mature pollen where it is thought to regulate actin filament dynamics upon pollen germination and tube growth. The majority of identified plant profilins contain a MAP kinase phosphorylation motif, P-X-T-P, and a MAP kinase interaction motif ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Limmongkon A,Giuliani C,Valenta R,Mittermann I,Heberle-Bors E,Wilson C

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is featured by hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance, lipid deposition and inflammation. However, the pathogenic mechanism of NAFLD is still poorly understood. Dual-specificity phosphatase 16 (DUSP16), a c-Jun N-terminal kinase-specific phosphatase, has been reported to negativ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu YK,Hu LF,Lou DS,Wang BC,Tan J

更新日期：2020-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:When cultures of Gibberella fujikuroi are incubated with 24-epiiminolanosterol the introduction of a methyl group into sterol side chains at C-24 is blocked inducing a mycelial accumulation of lanosterol and 24-desalkylsterols, i.e., having the cholestane side chain. The altered sterol composition lead to aberrant myc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nes WD,Hanners PK,Parish EJ

更新日期：1986-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:VMA1 translational product undergoes excision of a 50-kDa intervening segment (VDE: VMA1-derived endonuclease) and religation of the flanking regions to create a 69-kDa catalytic subunit of vacuolar membrane H+-ATPase. VDEs conjugated with polypeptides at both N- and C-terminal ends were expressed in Escherichia coli ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kawasaki M,Makino S,Matsuzawa H,Satow Y,Ohya Y,Anraku Y

更新日期：1996-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Using isolated cartilage cells from the epiphyseal growth plate of rachitic chicks and utilizing the fluorescence indicator quin2 for measurements of cytosolic free calcium, it has been possible to demonstrate that 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 regulates the concentrations of cytosolic free calcium. The reduction in cytoso...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bar S,Lidor C,Harell A,Edelstein S

更新日期：1986-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine cell surface antigen ADAM 15 is a transmembrane glycoprotein that is expressed in a variety of cells including monocytic and T cell lines and consists of a metalloprotease domain, a disintegrin domain, a cysteine-rich domain, and an epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domain in the extracellular region. The ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimizu E,Yasui A,Matsuura K,Hijiya N,Higuchi Y,Yamamoto S

更新日期：2003-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Y-box or inverted CCAAT box-binding proteins are multifunctional regulators of transcription and translation of several genes. Although YB-1 has been shown to play a key role in cell cycle, to date, there is no direct evidence. We disrupted one allele of Chk-YB-1b in a chicken pre-B lymphocyte cell line, DT40. Compare...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Swamynathan SK,Varma BR,Weber KT,Guntaka RV

更新日期：2002-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A L-delta 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase activity has been detected in crude extracts of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans Norway. This P5C reductase activity is also found when a 2.5 kb D. desulfuricans DNA fragment is introduced into an Escherichia coli proC mutant. Although it restores growth of the proC mutant, the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fons M,Cami B,Chippaux M

更新日期：1991-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotic cells are known to develop characteristic membrane blebs. We measured protein concentration within necrotic blebs and found that it can be reduced by as much as twenty-fold compared to the main cell body (CB). These results raise two questions: 1. Why do proteins vacate the bleb? 2. How can osmotic equilibriu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rana PS,Mudrak NJ,Lopez R,Lynn M,Kershner L,Model MA

更新日期：2017-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca(2+)-binding S100A1 protein displays a specific and high expression level in the human myocardium and is considered to be an important regulator of heart contractility. Diminished protein levels detected in dilated cardiomyopathy possibly contribute to impaired Ca(2+) handling and contractility in heart failure....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kiewitz R,Acklin C,Schäfer BW,Maco B,Uhrík B,Wuytack F,Erne P,Heizmann CW

更新日期：2003-06-27 00:00:00