Selective deimination of vimentin in calcium ionophore-induced apoptosis of mouse peritoneal macrophages.

abstract：:We have constructed an expression plasmid for regulated expression of the hepatitis B surface antigen gene in yeast using promoter of the yeast Pho5 gene. In the yeast transformants, the monomeric HBsAg (22K dalton) was estimated to constitute approximately 3% of the total proteins. On extraction, the HBsAg was found ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Choo KB,Wu SM,Lee HH,Lo SC

更新日期：1985-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribozymes or DNAzyme are identified as catalytic DNA sequences which catalyze different chemical reactions. Ligating deoxyribozymes catalyze the formation of branched and linear products. Due to the lack of efficient read-out systems, there is no report on in vivo application of ligating deoxyribozymes. To expand...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dehghanian F,Najafi ZB,Hojati Z,Javadi-Zarnaghi F

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Vomeronasal organs of female Wistar rats were exposed with sprayed urine preparations of male Wistar rats prior to sacrifice. Exposure to crude urine and ultrafiltrated urine preparation (<5000 Da) induced significant Fos expression, which is correlated with cellular activity, in the mitral/tufted cell layer of the ac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tsujikawa K,Kashiwayanagi M

更新日期：1999-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannoproteins (MPs) are a major component of yeast cell walls and consist of high levels of mannose in covalent complexes with proteins. MPs complexly enhance the immune system. We previously isolated a mutant yeast, K48L3, with a higher yield of MP from its cell wall than wild-type Saccharomyces cerevisiae, YPH499. W...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yoon BH,Lee SM,Chang HI,Ha CH

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) catalyzes the hydrolysis of the triacylglycerol component of triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins. There are 4 cysteine pairs that are completely conserved among LPLs of all species known. We examined the functional importance of each of the cysteine pairs in enzyme catalysis by examining LPLs pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lo JY,Smith LC,Chan L

更新日期：1995-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous study, the novel GRN-41 peptide generated from alternative splicing of the Mozambique tilapia PGRN1 gene was identified to be a potent peptide that protected against V. vulnificus in the transgenic zebrafish model by modulating innate immune-related genes. In this study, the anti-bacterial activities o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu SH,Chou HY,Liu PC,Wu JL,Gong HY

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Adsorption of phage T4 to its outer membrane receptor (the lipopolysaccharide) triggers a transient depolarization of the cytoplasmic membrane which is prevented upon addition of EGTA, suggesting that calcium is necessary for the transmission of the signal between the two membranes. Using the fluorescent indicator QUI...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Boulanger P,Labedan B,Letellier L

更新日期：1985-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Aegyptin is a mosquito salivary gland protein and potent inhibitor of platelet aggregation. Aegyptin binds to the von Willebrand factor-binding site on collagen and prevents its interaction with platelets. Because collagen also induces plasma clotting by activation of factor XII, we evaluated the effects of aegyptin o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mizurini DM,Francischetti IM,Monteiro RQ

更新日期：2013-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a group of enzymes which have the ability to degrade extracellular matrix. They also cleave non-matrix proteins such as myelin basic protein and alpha 1-antitrypsin and they are able to process tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) to its mature form. We have cloned, expressed and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chandler S,Cossins J,Lury J,Wells G

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the isolation of a synthetic agonist of IFN-gamma (L-mIFN-gamma-CT) active on mouse and human cells. Its biological activity is the result of the ability of the C-terminal extremity of murine IFN-gamma to interact with the intracellular part of IFNgamma-R and the observation that the modification of peptid...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Thiam K,Loing E,Delanoye A,Diesis E,Gras-Masse H,Auriault C,Verwaerde C

更新日期：1998-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that NDP52 (also known as calcoco2) plays a role as an autophagic receptor for phosphorylated tau facilitating its clearance via autophagy. Here, we examined the expression and association of NDP52 with autophagy-regulated gene (ATG) proteins including LC3, as well as phosphorylated tau and amyloi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim S,Lee D,Song JC,Cho SJ,Yun SM,Koh YH,Song J,Johnson GV,Jo C

更新日期：2014-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder of the axial skeleton and shows significant inherited susceptibility. Auto-immune responses have been traditionally considered as a putative pathogenetic event in AS. However, no consistent self-antigen has been identified to responsible for the d...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu J,Zhu P,Peng J,Li K,Du J,Gu J,Ou Y

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that the product of the yeast open reading frame YML005w is required for wybutosine (yW) formation in the phenylalanine-accepting tRNA of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. tRNA isolated from a deletion mutant of the YML005w gene accumulates 4-demethylwyosine (ImG-14), a precursor lacking three of the ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kalhor HR,Penjwini M,Clarke S

更新日期：2005-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A fast and robust assay, based on the combination of the highly sensitive immuno-PCR (IPCR), employing standardized self-assembled DNA-protein conjugates as reagents, and the well-established, reliable, and fast real-time PCR detection by means of the TaqMan principle is introduced in this work. The use of anti-specie...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Adler M,Wacker R,Niemeyer CM

更新日期：2003-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Locally applied radiation to the tumor is reported to stimulate systemic immune response. During radiotherapy to the abdominal cancer, spleen often receives certain dose, though as an important immune organ, little is known about the impact of splenic irradiation (SI) on systemic immune and local tumor control. Throug...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen HY,Xie HY,Liu XX,Li LF,Bai YR,Gao JX

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine thyroid 100,000 X g supernatant contained calcium-activated, calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (PK-CaM) activity. The PK-CaM was partially purified using ion-exchange chromatography and characterized. PK-CaM, using casein as exogenous substrate, was not stimulated by Ca2+(0-500 microM) or calmodulin (1-10 mic...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Friedman Y,Henricks L,Poleck T,Levasseur S,Burke G

更新日期：1986-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The long noncoding RNA Malat1 has been reported to be an oncogene that promotes tumor progress and correlates with prognosis in glioma. Growing evidence shows that autophagy plays a very important role in tumorigenesis and tumor cell survival, but whether Malat1 regulates autophagy in glioma is still unclear. In this ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fu Z,Luo W,Wang J,Peng T,Sun G,Shi J,Li Z,Zhang B

更新日期：2017-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Breath isoprene accounts for most of the hydrocarbon removal via exhalation and is thought to serve as a non-invasive indicator for assaying several metabolic effects in the human body. The primary objective of this paper is to introduce a novel working hypothesis with respect to the endogenous source of this compound...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： King J,Mochalski P,Unterkofler K,Teschl G,Klieber M,Stein M,Amann A,Baumann M

更新日期：2012-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Entry of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) virion into host cells involves three major steps, each being a potential target for the development of entry inhibitors: gp120 binding to CD4, gp120-CD4 complex interacting with a coreceptor, and gp41 refolding to form a six-helix bundle. Using a D-amino acid decap...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Boggiano C,Jiang S,Lu H,Zhao Q,Liu S,Binley J,Blondelle SE

更新日期：2006-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:ABCG2 (also called MXR (3), BCRP (4), or ABCP (5) is a recently-identified ABC half-transporter, which causes multidrug resistance in cancer. Here we report that the expression of the ABCG2 protein in Sf9 insect cells resulted in a high-capacity, vanadate-sensitive ATPase activity in isolated membrane preparations. AB...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ozvegy C,Litman T,Szakács G,Nagy Z,Bates S,Váradi A,Sarkadi B

更新日期：2001-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Sirtuin1 (SIRT1), which is regulated by microRNA-34a (miR-34a), can modulate pathophysiology processes, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury. We previously reported that SIRT1, an NAD+-dependent deacetylase, plays a vital role in the development of neuropathic pain. How...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen S,Gu Y,Dai Q,He Y,Wang J

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-binding DNA-regions inside and in the vicinity of the phenobarbital-inducible P450bm-3 gene from Bacillus megaterium were characterized by gel-retardation technique and foot-printing analysis. Regions with induction-dependent protein binding capacity were shown to be situated in -279bp/-215bp, -215bp/+83bp and...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gaidamakova EK,Karginov VA,Kovalenko SP

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Partially purified preparations of O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase from rat liver and E. coli were tested for their ability to repair O4-methylthymine in a methylated poly(dT) X poly(dA) substrate. The bacterial preparation readily carried out this reaction, but no loss of O4-methylthymine was obtained with the r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dolan ME,Scicchitano D,Singer B,Pegg AE

更新日期：1984-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that lipid metabolism is controlled, in part, by circadian clocks. However, circadian clocks lose temporal precision with age and correlates with elevated incidence in dyslipidemia and metabolic syndrome in older adults. Because our lab has shown that lipoic acid (LA) improves lipid homeostasis ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keith D,Finlay L,Butler J,Gómez L,Smith E,Moreau R,Hagen T

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Thick filaments from some striated muscles are regulated by phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chains (RLCs). A tarantula thick filament quasi-atomic model achieved by cryo-electron microscopy has advanced our understanding on how this regulation occurs. In native thick filaments, an asymmetric intramolecular ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sulbarán G,Biasutto A,Méndez F,Pinto A,Alamo L,Padrón R

更新日期：2020-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that N-oleoylethanolamine (NOE), widely employed as a ceramidase inhibitor, also inhibits glucosylation of naturally occurring ceramides. When CHP-100 neuroepithelioma cells were exposed for 18h to non-toxic NOE concentrations (i.e. up to 70 microM), basal incorporation of labelled hexose into glucosylcerami...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Spinedi A,Di Bartolomeo S,Piacentini M

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The high affinity laminin receptor is differentially expressed in metastasis. We now report that there are multiple copies (6 +/- 1) of the laminin receptor gene in the murine genome of normal diploid cells as well as in cell lines derived from cancer cells. We have analyzed three distinct cDNA clones isolated from an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fernández MT,Castronovo V,Rao CN,Sobel ME

更新日期：1991-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte growth factor, which is now known to be the same protein as scatter factor, induced oligonucleosomal fragmentation of nuclear DNA of Sarcoma 180 cells and increased the activity of caspase-3, a key component in control of the apoptotic cell death pathway to about 2.6 times that in control cells on 48 hr inc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Arakaki N,Kazi JA,Kazihara T,Ohnishi T,Daikuhara Y

更新日期：1998-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-gene is a potent inhibitor of transcriptional promoter activity and subsequent gene expression. This property has been exploited to suppress the expression of a variety of oncogenes for regulating tumor proliferation or viral activities. In this paper, we describe a novel retroviral vector designed to express hum...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okada T,Amanuma H,Okada Y,Obata M,Hayashi Y,Yamaguchi K,Yamashita J

更新日期：1997-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine is a widely used triazine herbicide. Although controversy still exists, a number of recent studies have described its adverse effects on various animals including humans. Of particular interest is its effects on reproductive capacity. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms underlying the adverse effect...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hase Y,Tatsuno M,Nishi T,Kataoka K,Kabe Y,Yamaguchi Y,Ozawa N,Natori M,Handa H,Watanabe H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00