Multiple regulatory elements and binding proteins of the 5'-flanking region of the human estrogen-responsive finger protein (efp) gene.

abstract：:Highly reliable biomarkers for the diagnosis of neurological diseases are not widely available. Here we evaluated a luciferase immunoprecipitation technology (LIPS) for the diagnosis of a CNS autoimmune disorder, stiff-person syndrome (SPS). Analysis by LIPS of 40 sera samples from SPS and control subjects for anti-GA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Burbelo PD,Groot S,Dalakas MC,Iadarola MJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya is a severe disease that results from infection with the chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus. Thus, we (1) explored a new approach to combining previously researched drugs that have shown the potential to inhibit CHIKV infection; and (2) demonstrated the antiviral effects of (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gall...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu JW,Hsieh PS,Lin CC,Hu MK,Huang SM,Wang YM,Liang CY,Gong Z,Ho YJ

更新日期：2017-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A mitochondrial DNA mutation at nucleotide position 14,484 was found in 14 independent probands with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy and in 0/250 controls. The 14,484 mutation, which changes methionine-64 to valine in a conserved domain of the ND-6 gene, occurred in association with a mitochondrial DNA haplotype tha...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Johns DR,Neufeld MJ,Park RD

更新日期：1992-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Using red cells as an experimental model, we previously showed that a limited degradation of certain membrane proteins by calpain (Ca2+-activated thiol protease) was a necessary prerequisite for cell fusion and that fusibility depended on the ratio of calpain to its endogenous inhibitor calpastatin. Here we show that ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Barnoy S,Glasner T,Kosower NS

更新日期：1996-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) is initiated by the presence of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin-1beta (IL-1). In the presence of oxidative stress, IL-1beta mediated hepatocyte iNOS expression and NO synthesis are significantly increased. To determine the underlying molec...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuo PC,Abe KY,Schroeder RA

更新日期：1997-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in the field of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) biology has enabled their clinical application. In the autologous cell transplantation therapy, the source of MSCs are quite important to reduce patients' physical burden. In this study, we isolated MSCs from the synovial fluid (SF) and synovial membrane (Syn...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Amemiya M,Tsuji K,Katagiri H,Miyatake K,Nakagawa Y,Sekiya I,Muneta T,Koga H

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The (45)Ca(2+) influx into right-side-out resealed ghosts (RG) prepared from human red blood cells (RBC) was measured. The (45)Ca(2+) equilibration occurred with t(1/2)=2.5 min and the steady-state was reached after 17 min with the level of 22+/-2 micromol/L(packed cells) at 37 degrees C. The rate of the influx was 97...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hudec R,Lakatos B,Orlický J,Varecka L

更新日期：2004-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell motility and cell stiffness are closely related to metastatic activity of cancer cells. (-)-Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) has been shown to inhibit spontaneous metastasis of melanoma cell line into the lungs of mice, so we studied the effects of EGCG on cell motility, cell stiffness, and expression of vimentin ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi A,Watanabe T,Mondal A,Suzuki K,Kurusu-Kanno M,Li Z,Yamazaki T,Fujiki H,Suganuma M

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:(1S,5S,6R,7R)-7-Chloro-3-imino-5-methyl-2-azabicyclo[4.1.0]heptane hydrochloride (ONO-1714), a novel cyclic amidine analogue, inhibits human inducible nitric oxide (iNOS) with a K(i) of 1.88 nM and rodent iNOS with similar potency in vitro. ONO-1714 was found to be 10-fold selective for human iNOS over human endotheli...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Naka M,Nanbu T,Kobayashi K,Kamanaka Y,Komeno M,Yanase R,Fukutomi T,Fujimura S,Seo HG,Fujiwara N,Ohuchida S,Suzuki K,Kondo K,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2000-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A common cause for pharmacogenetic alteration in drug response is genetic variation in encoded amino acid sequence. We have used the catecholamine and drug-metabolizing enzyme sulfotransferase (SULT)1A3 to create an artificial model system to study mechanisms-especially possible aggresome formation-by which genetic al...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang L,Yee VC,Weinshilboum RM

更新日期：2004-12-10 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：:The primary structure of human selenium-dependent phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (GPX4) was determined by genomic cloning. The gene structure of GPX4 spans only 2.8 kb and consists of 7 exons. The coding sequence resides on all 7 exons, and the mitochondrial leader sequence is contained entirely wit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kelner MJ,Montoya MA

更新日期：1998-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha) and interleukin-6 (IL-6), both known to be able to open the blood-brain barrier (BBB), downregulated plasma membrane-associated tyrosine phosphatase activity in primary porcine brain endothelial cells (PBEC). In contrast, transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) upregulated PTP activ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gloor SM,Weber A,Adachi N,Frei K

更新日期：1997-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Endostatin, a natural angiogenesis inhibitor, had been identified for years. It opened a new approach for cancer therapy. Sequence analysis revealed that endostatin is the NC1 domain (non-triple-helical domain) of collagen XVIII. In this report, the cDNA of NC1 domain of type VIII collagen (alpha 1) was cloned and exp...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xu R,Yao ZY,Xin L,Zhang Q,Li TP,Gan RB

更新日期：2001-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Low density lipoprotein (LDL) is readily oxidized under certain conditions, resulting in the formation of oxidized LDL (oxLDL). Despite numerous in vitro reports that reveal the pathogenic role of oxidative stress, anti-oxidative strategies have underperformed in the clinic. In this study, we examine the role of oxLDL...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim OS,Lee CS,Joe EH,Jou I

更新日期：2006-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The bright bioluminescence of copepod Metridia longa is conditioned by a small secreted coelenterazine-dependent luciferase (MLuc). To date, three isoforms of MLuc differing in length, sequences, and some properties were cloned and successfully applied as high sensitive bioluminescent reporters. In this work, we repor...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Larionova MD,Markova SV,Vysotski ES

更新日期：2017-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingolipids are essential components of eukaryotic cell membranes. We recently showed that the function of the serotonin(1A) receptor is impaired upon metabolic depletion of sphingolipids using fumonisin B(1) (FB(1)), a specific inhibitor of ceramide synthase. Serotonin(1A) receptors belong to the family of G-protei...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ganguly S,Paila YD,Chattopadhyay A

更新日期：2011-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described the patterns of stress kinase activation in rat kidney and heart in response to ischemia/reperfusion (Yin et al., 1997, J. Biol. Chem. 272, 19943-19950). During the course of these studies, we observed the activation of a novel kinase capable of phosphorylating c-Jun on serines 63 and 73. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： De Silva H,Cioffi C,Yin T,Sandhu G,Webb RL,Whelan J

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator (RPGR) gene, are the major cause of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (RP), in which exon open reading frame 15 (ORF15) of RPGR has been implicated to play a substantial role. We identified a novel hemizygous missense mutation E585K of RPGR from whole-exome sequencing...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu YS,Pan JQ,Wan JF,Ren CY,Xu ZH,Pan XB,Gao RN,Liu SQ,Zhang JL,Yao QH,Wang JH,Li EM,Rao JH,Hou P,Chen JH

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and sequence analysis of the gene encoding the bovine atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) precursor is described. The bovine-ANP coding sequences are located on three exons which are interrupted by two intervening sequences. Comparison of the bovine, human, rat and mouse ANP gene sequences reveals a common ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vlasuk GP,Miller J,Bencen GH,Lewicki JA

更新日期：1986-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of a complex formation is a crucial step in the structural studies of ligand-receptor interactions. Here we presented a simple and fast approach for qualitative screening of the complex formation between the chimeric extracellular domain of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7-ECD) and three-finger protei...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kulbatskii DS,Shulepko MA,Sluchanko NN,Yablokov EO,Kamyshinsky RA,Chesnokov YM,Kirpichnikov MP,Lyukmanova EN

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An essential pre-requisite to perform sound quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays is to design outstanding primer pairs. This means they must have a good efficiency and be not prone to produce multiple amplicons or primer dimer products. To circumvent these issues, several softwares are availa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nonis A,Scortegagna M,Nonis A,Ruperti B

更新日期：2011-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:BST2 is an antiviral factor that inhibits the release of enveloped virus at the plasma membrane via an unusual topology in which its N-terminal is in the cytosol while its C-terminal is anchored by glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI). BST2-deficient cells showed substantially higher release of virions than wild type cells...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yi E,Oh J,Kang HR,Song MJ,Park SH

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of troglitazone on expression of E-cadherin and claudin 4 in human pancreatic cancer cells. Troglitazone dose-dependently increased expression of E-cadherin and claudin 4 mRNA and protein in PK-1 cells. Snail, Slug and ZEB1, mRNAs were not changed by troglitazone, indicating that these three tr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kumei S,Motomura W,Yoshizaki T,Takakusaki K,Okumura T

更新日期：2009-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorpromazine is a potent inhibitor of calmodulin and can alter the accumulation, metabolism, and incorporation into RNA of several fluoropyrimidine drugs. Using S-180 murine sarcoma cells, the accumulation of the base Fluorouracil and its metabolism to ribonucleotides is enhanced by chlorpromazine treatment, as meas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tseng A Jr,Brooks M,Cadman E

更新日期：1986-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:ICSAT (Interferon Consensus Sequence binding protein for Activated T cells) is a lymphocyte-specific member of the interferon regulatory factor (IRF) family of transcription factors, originally identified through Southwestern screening of the ATL(Adult T-cell leukemia)-16T expression library. In this study, we created...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saito T,Yamagata T,Takahashi T,Honda H,Hirai H

更新日期：1999-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of [3H]-staurosporine to different protein kinases was time-dependent, reversible and saturable. Scatchard analysis of saturation isotherms indicated one class of binding sites for [3H]-staurosporine with dissociation constants (KD) of 9.6, 2.0, 3.0 and 7.4 nM for protein kinase C, cAMP-dependent protein kinas...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Herbert JM,Seban E,Maffrand JP

更新日期：1990-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In the clinical field, cell-based therapies are used to treat bone defects. Adipose tissues contain many osteoblast progenitors, among other cell types. We separated mouse adipose tissue-derived stromal cells (ATSCs) according to their cell adhesive properties. Cells in a fraction adherent to the culture dishes 0.5h a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hattori H,Ishihara M,Fukuda T,Suda T,Katagiri T

更新日期：2006-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin (Hb) isolated from the backswimmer Buenoa margaritacea has been analyzed spectroscopically. The met form at pH less than 6 shows a 30nm red shift in the Qv and Qo bands and a 5nm red shift in the Soret band compared to mammalian Hb, while only minor differences are seen in the spectra of the CO and O2 adduc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Osmulski PA,Vossbrinck CR,Sampath V,Caughey WS,Debrunner PG

更新日期：1992-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid accumulation in pancreatic beta-cells during high-fat (HF) feeding may be involved in inducing a defective insulin secretion due to lipotoxicity. Hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is expressed and active in beta-cells, but its importance for islet dysfunction during the development of type 2 diabetes is not known. ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Winzell MS,Holm C,Ahrén B

更新日期：2003-05-02 00:00:00