The hepatitis C virus NS2 protein generated by NS2-3 autocleavage is required for NS5A phosphorylation.

abstract：:Rat molars and incisors have different root patterning mechanisms: the former form a multirooted pattern while the latter form a single-rooted analogue. But the genetic signals that control root patterning are poorly understood. In this study, to identify the special molecular signals which may lead to the molar root ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xing X,Deng Z,Yang F,Watanabe S,Wen L,Jin Y

更新日期：2007-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been reported to have crucial regulatory efficiency in human cancer biology. Long intergenic non-coding RNA 668 (LINC00668) was regarded as an oncogene in multiple cancers. However, the underlying molecular mechanism of LINC00668 in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) has n...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhang CZ

更新日期：2017-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein) coupled receptors (GPCRs) are frequently expressed by a baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS). We recently established a novel BEVS using the bacmid system of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV), which is directly applicable for protein expression in silkworms....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kajikawa M,Sasaki K,Wakimoto Y,Toyooka M,Motohashi T,Shimojima T,Takeda S,Park EY,Maenaka K

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors responsible for up-regulation of PTP1B, a negative regulator of insulin signaling, in insulin resistance state are not well understood. We performed a series of experiments in C2C12 muscle cells to determine the role of palmitate and an inflammatory state in regulation of PTP1B. Palmitate (0.75mM) induced ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Parvaneh L,Meshkani R,Bakhtiyari S,Mohammadtaghvaie N,Gorganifiruzjaee S,Taheripak G,Golestani A,Foruzandeh M,Larijani B,Taghikhani M

更新日期：2010-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) affects 2-3% of the global population. Approximately one-quarter of acute infections cause chronic hepatitis that leads to liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma. The major obstacle of current research is the extremely narrow host tropism of HCV. A single HCV strain can replicate in the Hu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee U,Nam YR,Ye JS,Lee KJ,Kim N,Joo CH

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of toxin protein from Ustilago maydis virus (UmV) strain P4 was studied in vitro and in vivo. The protein synthesized in vitro and in vivo has a molecular weight of approximately 30 kd whereas the native toxin has a molecular weight of about 12 kd. In the presence of protease inhibitors and glycosylation...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Podila GK,Bozarth RF,Flurkey WH

更新日期：1987-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In adipose tissue mTOR complex 2 (mTORC2) contributes to the regulation of glucose/lipid metabolism and inflammatory molecule expression. Both processes display diurnal variations during the course of the day. RICTOR and mSIN1 are unique and essential components of mTORC2, which is activated by growth factors includin...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Drägert K,Bhattacharya I,Hall MN,Humar R,Battegay E,Haas E

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete covalent structure of the gamma 2 subunit of bovine brain G proteins was determined by peptide mapping using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and by partial sequencing using tandem mass spectrometry. Fragments were identified in proteolytic digests ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wilcox MD,Schey KL,Busman M,Hildebrandt JD

更新日期：1995-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that astrocytes release gliotransmitters (i.e., ATP, L-glutamate, D-serine, and peptide hormones) and participate actively in synaptic functioning. Although ATP release from astrocytes modulates the activity of neurons, the mechanisms regulating the ATP release from astrocytes and the sou...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oya M,Kitaguchi T,Yanagihara Y,Numano R,Kakeyama M,Ikematsu K,Tsuboi T

更新日期：2013-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we used, for the first time, atomic force microscope (AFM) images to investigate the mode of action of DNA topoisomerase I (topo I) in the presence and absence of its inhibitors: camptothecin (CPT) and tyrphostin AG-1387. The results revealed that in the absence of the inhibitors, the enzyme relaxed sup...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Argaman M,Bendetz-Nezer S,Matlis S,Segal S,Priel E

更新日期：2003-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic properties of phosphorylated urokinase plasminogen activator (P-uPA) (1) extracted from human carcinomatous cell line Detroit 562 cells were compared with those of non-phosphorylated uPA of urinary origin (nP-uPA). Using plasminogen as a substrate, the Km and Kcat of P-uPA were higher than that of nP-uPA whi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takahashi K,Kwaan HC,Koh E,Tanabe M

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although neuraminidase (NA) is the second major viral glycoprotein of influenza virus, its immune mechanism as a vaccine target has been less considered. Here we compared the properties of antibodies and the efficacy of cross protection by N1 and N2 NA proteins, inactivated split influenza vaccines (split), and tandem...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim YJ,Ko EJ,Kim MC,Lee YN,Kim KH,Jung YJ,Kang SM

更新日期：2017-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy (autophagy) is an intracellular catalytic process. We examined the effect of running exercise, which stimulates cardiac work physiologically, on the expression of microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3)-II, an indicator of autophagy, as well as some autophagy-related proteins in rat cardiac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ogura Y,Iemitsu M,Naito H,Kakigi R,Kakehashi C,Maeda S,Akema T

更新日期：2011-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcellular distribution of a novel annexin, annexin XI, was examined in rat tissues. As we have previously reported, annexin XI mainly localizes in nuclei of 3Y1, the rat embryonic fibroblast cell line; however, immunoperoxidase staining was not particularly nuclear in most of the tissues examined in adult rats. Nucl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mamiya N,Iino S,Mizutani A,Kobayashi S,Hidaka H

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased ubiquitin-specific protease 5 (USP5) has been associated with tumorigenesis of malignancy including glioblastoma, melanoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the role of USP5 in tumorigenesis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has not been studied yet. In this study, we demonstrated that USP5 was...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li XY,Wu HY,Mao XF,Jiang LX,Wang YX

更新日期：2017-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by loss of function mutations in the VPS13A gene encoding chorein. Recently, using a gene-targeting technique to delete exons 60-61, we produced a ChAc-model mouse that corresponds to a human disease mutation. In this study, a comparative m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurano Y,Nakamura M,Ichiba M,Matsuda M,Mizuno E,Kato M,Izumo S,Sano A

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) is expressed not only in neuronal cells but also in non-neuronal cells such as astroglial cells. In the present study, the prion protein (PrP) gene (Prnp)-deficient astroglial cell line GpL1 from hippocampal cells of ZrchI Prnp(-/-) mice were established. Transfection of Prnp suppressed...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nishimura T,Sakudo A,Xue G,Ikuta K,Yukawa M,Sugiura K,Onodera T

更新日期：2008-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of [14C]serine into phosphatidylserine by the base exchange reaction in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells is inhibited by 30% by glucose and by 60% by 2-deoxyglucose (10 mM each). The inhibition by thapsigargin (0.2 microM) amounts to 80%. This inhibition is interpreted as being due to depletion of calcium sto...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rakowska M,Wojtczak L

更新日期：1995-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel protein kinase activity was characterized from the cytosolic fraction of isolated rabbit gastric glands. The kinase phosphorylated a major 33,000 Da endogenous protein (pp33) and was stimulated by Zn2+ and Mn2+ with Kact of 1.0 and 7.5 mM, respectively. Mg2+ and Ca2+ failed to stimulate any pp33 kinase activit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Goldenring JR,Oddsdottir M,Modlin IM

更新日期：1987-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:PU.1 is a transcription factor found in macrophages, B cells, neutrophils, and hemopoietic stem cells. In macrophages PU.1 regulates a number of genes, including c-fms, CD11b, CD18, and FcgammaR1b. Previously, in primary macrophages PU.1 binding to the sequence GAGGAA was found to be induced by treatment with bacteria...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xue Y,Alford P,Shackelford RE

更新日期：1999-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we investigated the subcellular distribution of p190rho guanosine triphosphatase-activating protein (p190 GAP) in human neutrophils stimulated with different agonists. The results show that in neutrophils treated with formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP) (1) p190 GAP was translocated from the cy...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dusi S,Donini M,Wientjes F,Rossi F

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Gomisin N (GN) is a lignan derived from Schisandra chinensis. AMP-activated kinase (AMPK) has gained attention as a therapeutic target for the treatment of metabolic syndrome. Previously, we reported that GN activated the AMPK pathway and ameliorated high-fat diet (HFD)-induced hepatic steatosis. In this study, we inv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jung DY,Kim JH,Lee H,Jung MH

更新日期：2017-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Oscillatory gene expression plays an important role in somite segmentation during the early developmental stages of vertebrates. Recent experimental studies have shown that microRNA can regulate gene expression by stimulating degradation of mRNA and/or repression of translation. In this communication, we incorporate m...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xie ZR,Yang HT,Liu WC,Hwang MJ

更新日期：2007-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Small heat-shock proteins (sHSPs) represent an abundant and ubiquitous family of molecular chaperones. The current model proposes that sHSPs function to prevent irreversible aggregation of non-native proteins by forming soluble complex. The chaperone activity of sHSPs is usually determined by the capacity to suppress ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jiao W,Li P,Zhang J,Zhang H,Chang Z

更新日期：2005-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that applying exogenous photosensitizers in living organism the photodynamic effect is mediated by singlet oxygen formed by energy transfer from excited sensitizer to oxygen present in the cells (Type II mechanism). Though in homogeneous solutions singlet oxygen was detected during sensitization,...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gál D

更新日期：1994-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell membranes are vitally important to living cells. Although the infrastructure of biological membrane is provided by the lipid bilayer, membrane proteins perform most of the specific functions. Knowledge of membrane protein types often provides crucial hints toward determining the function of an uncharacterized mem...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liu H,Wang M,Chou KC

更新日期：2005-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Endo-beta-1,4-xylanase X-I is a major hydrolase produced by the aleurone tissue of germinating barley grain. It was previously reported that this cytosolic enzyme is synthesized as an inactive precursor which is proteolytically processed to active forms upon its programmed cell death dependent release. We here demonst...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Van Campenhout S,Pollet A,Bourgois TM,Rombouts S,Beaugrand J,Gebruers K,De Backer E,Courtin CM,Delcour JA,Volckaert G

更新日期：2007-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the microtubule (MT)-associated protein Doublecortin X (DCX) gene disrupt cortical layering in brain development. Whilst many of these pathogenic DCX mutations are within the doublecortin domains (DC1 and DC2) that mediate direct DCX-MT association, a pathogenic mutation DCX E2K that causes cognitive impa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moslehi M,Ng DCH,Bogoyevitch MA

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal brush border membranes prepared from pig jejunum were shown to transport intact reduced glutathione into an osmotically responsive intravesicular space. At early incubation time (under 1 min.) GSH was poorly hydrolysed in its free amino acids. Primarily glutathione uptake was obtained against a concentratio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Linder M,De Burlet G,Sudaka P

更新日期：1984-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The lectin wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) elicited a prompt and sharp increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration in human platelets. The WGA-induced Ca2+ mobilization was markedly inhibited by a protein kinase inhibitor staurosporine, whereas Ca2+ mobilization by receptor-mediated agonists, including thrombin, platelet...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yatomi Y,Ozaki Y,Koike Y,Satoh K,Kume S

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00