Protein kinase C phosphorylates and activates GTP cyclohydrolase I in rat renal mesangial cells.

abstract：:1,2-Naphthoquinone (1,2-NQ) is an atmospheric contaminant with electrophilic properties that allow it to react readily with protein thiol groups such as those found on the cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB), a transcription factor with conserved cysteine residues that regulate DNA binding. In the present stu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Endo A,Sumi D,Kumagai Y

更新日期：2007-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that antibodies to the growth-associated protein, GAP-43, introduced intracellularly using a lipid carrier inhibited neurite outgrowth in NB2a/d1 neuroblastoma cells, and that culturing of these cells on adhesive substrates such as laminin or poly-L-lysine overcame this restriction. The...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shea TB

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose transporter-1 (GLUT1) is important in placental glucose transport. However, the mechanism of regulation of placental GLUT1 expression remains to be elucidated. We show here that the level of GLUT1 protein in rat choriocarcinoma cells (Rcho-1) decreased during differentiation. To analyze the regulatory mechanis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okamoto Y,Sakata M,Yamamoto T,Nishio Y,Adachi K,Ogura K,Yamaguchi M,Takeda T,Tasaka K,Murata Y

更新日期：2001-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human endothelial cell thrombin receptors were functionally expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes by injection of RNA extracted from human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Oocytes injected with endothelial cell RNA responded to thrombin with a Ca2(+)-dependent depolarizing current whose size depended on the amount of R...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pipili-Synetos E,Gershengorn MC,Jaffe EA

更新日期：1990-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction of metmyoglobin with peroxides is known to involve the formation, possibly via a porphyrin radical-cation, of a ferryl (iron(IV)-oxo) species and a protein radical; there is a little information available as to which of these species initiates the damage which is observed on incubating membrane fractions with...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Newman ES,Rice-Evans CA,Davies MJ

更新日期：1991-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the effects of 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25-(OH)2D3), 2 beta-(3-hydroxypropoxy)-1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (ED-71) and dexamethasone on osteocalcin mRNA levels in rat tibiae in vivo. Northern blot analysis showed that both 1,25-(OH)2D3 and ED-71 caused an increase in osteocalcin mRNA levels in bo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

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

更新日期：1992-12-15 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：:YKL-40 (cartilage gp-39), is a mammalian glycoprotein related in sequence to chitinases. Its function is unknown, but it is thought to be involved in tissue remodeling. Immunocytochemical staining of YKL-40 in guinea pig chondrocytes (GPC), rabbit chondrocytes (RC), and rabbit synoviocytes (RS) was higher in dividing ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： De Ceuninck F,Gaufillier S,Bonnaud A,Sabatini M,Lesur C,Pastoureau P

更新日期：2001-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon by which a subset of genes is asymmetrically expressed in a parent-of-origin manner. However, little is known regarding the epigenetic behaviors of imprinted genes during human development. Here, we show dynamic epigenetic changes in imprinted genes in hESCs during in vit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park SW,Kim J,Park JL,Ko JY,Im I,Do HS,Kim H,Tran NT,Lee SH,Kim YS,Cho YS,Lee DR,Han YM

更新日期：2014-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton-translocating pyridine nucleotide transhydrogenase of Escherichia coli is composed of two types of subunits, alpha and beta, organized as an alpha(2)beta(2) tetramer. The protein contains three recognizable domains, of which domain II is the transmembrane region of the molecule containing the pathway for pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hou C,Bragg PD

更新日期：2001-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is known to be a mitogen for human diploid FS-4 fibroblasts. We have shown in an earlier study (Hori et al. (1989) J. Cell. Physiol. 141, 275-280) that indomethacin further enhances the cell proliferation stimulated by TNF. Since indomethacin inhibits the activity of cyclooxygenase, the rol...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hori T,Yamanaka Y,Hayakawa M,Shibamoto S,Tsujimoto M,Oku N,Ito F

更新日期：1991-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycoprotein processing inhibitors bromoconduritol and N-methyl-1-deoxynojirimycin inhibit myoblast fusion and differentiation, suggesting the critical involvement of one or more glycoproteins in the control of skeletal myogenesis. In the present study we have examined the effect of inhibitors of glycoprotein proc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Trudel GC,Holland PC

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The important role of pyruvate kinase during malarial infection has prompted the cloning of a cDNA encoding Plasmodium falciparum pyruvate kinase (pfPyrK), using mRNA from intraerythrocytic-stage malaria parasites. The full-length cDNA encodes a protein with a computed molecular weight of 55.6 kDa and an isoelectric p...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chan M,Sim TS

更新日期：2005-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatocarcinoma Hep G2 cells were grown in culture medium containing [45Ca2+]. The secreted lipoproteins of d less than 1.063 g/ml and d 1.063-1.21 g/ml were isolated from the culture media and analyzed by 3.3% and 7% SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Radioactivity profiles of [45Ca] from the gels showed t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dashti N,Lee DM,Mok T

更新日期：1986-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified 13 transcript isoforms of a trinucleotide-repeat-containing gene, cag-8, that is expressed almost exclusively in the mouse brain. The polypeptide deduced from the cDNA consists of 137 AAs, of which 74 are glutamines. The 130-kb gene is composed of 16 exons, from which at least 13 isoforms with variable U...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ji JW,Yang HL,Kim SJ

更新日期：2006-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A rat transplantable pituitary tumor, MtT/F84, grows much faster in E2 treated rats than in normal females, but is much retarded in thyroidectomized rats. Triiodothyronine (T3) administration in a drinking water increased the tumor growth by the dose dependent manner. The tumor contained both estrogen receptor (ER) an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fujimoto N,Roy B,Watanabe H,Ito A

更新日期：1988-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:MelC1 regulates the copper incorporation and secretion of Streptomyces apotyrosinase (MelC2) via a transient, competent complex formation. His-102 and His-117 of the chaperone-like MelC1 are known to play important roles in this trans-activation activity of MelC1. In this study, we studied the side chain requirement a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Liaw LL,Lee YH

更新日期：1995-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:An amino acid substitution of Met for Val at position 30 of plasma prealbumin is known to be closely related to heredo-familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy(FAP). As a first step in development of a direct method for diagnosis of the disease, cDNA for normal human prealbumin was cloned and its nucleotide sequence was de...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sasaki H,Sakaki Y,Matsuo H,Goto I,Kuroiwa Y,Sahashi I,Takahashi A,Shinoda T,Isobe T,Takagi Y

更新日期：1984-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) receptors belong to G protein-coupled transmembrane receptors (LPA receptors; LPA(1) to LPA(6)). They indicate a variety of cellular response by the interaction with LPA, including cell proliferation, migration and differentiation. Recently, we have reported that constitutive active mutated...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kitayoshi M,Kato K,Tanabe E,Yoshikawa K,Fukui R,Fukushima N,Tsujiuchi T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation and aggregation of the peptide hormone IAPP (islet amyloid polypeptide, a.k.a. amylin) into soluble oligomers that appear to be cell-toxic is a known aspect of diabetes mellitus (DM) Type 2 pathology. IAPP aggregation is influenced by several factors including interactions with metal ions such as Cu(II)....

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dong X,Svantesson T,Sholts SB,Wallin C,Jarvet J,Gräslund A,Wärmländer SKTS

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel erythrocyte pyruvate kinase gene defects were found in a patient without a family history of consanguinity. The polymerase chain reaction products of the R-type pyruvate kinase cDNA from the propositus contained two point mutations of Ser80 (TCC)-->Pro (CCC) and Arg490 (CGG)-->Trp (TGG). Allele-specific polymera...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Uenaka R,Nakajima H,Noguchi T,Imamura K,Hamaguchi T,Tomita K,Yamada K,Kuwajima M,Kono N,Tanaka T

更新日期：1995-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-aminopeptidase processing protease (PA protease) is an extracellular zinc metalloprotease produced by Aeromonas caviae T-64 and it is classified as M04.016 according to the MEROPS database. The precursor of PA protease consists of four regions; a signal peptide, an N-terminal propeptide, a C-terminal propeptide, a...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tang B,Nirasawa S,Kitaoka M,Hayashi K

更新日期：2002-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) has been considered to be a marker for cancer stem cells. However, the role of ALDH1 in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) has yet to be determined. In this study, we isolated ALDH1-positive cells from HNSCC patients and showed that these HNSCC-ALDH1+ cells displayed radiore...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen YC,Chen YW,Hsu HS,Tseng LM,Huang PI,Lu KH,Chen DT,Tai LK,Yung MC,Chang SC,Ku HH,Chiou SH,Lo WL

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the functional properties of an alternately spliced form of sheep testicular FSH receptor cDNA that codes for a protein similar to a previously described active receptor but differs in the carboxy terminus in sequence and is also shorter by 25 residues. The receptor expressed in HEK 293 cells fails to ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sairam MR,Jiang LG,Yarney TA,Khan H

更新日期：1996-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Palmar fibromatosis is a benign fibroproliferative tumor of unknown etiology, with a high rate of recurrence after excision. The offending cells of palmar fibromatosis are myofibroblasts and the cellular origin of other myofibroblasts has previously been reported to be the bone marrow. However, further clarification o...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang JP,Hui YJ,Wang ST,Huang YC,Chiang ER,Liu CL,Chen TH,Hung SC

更新日期：2011-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase (Dm-dNK) can additionally sensitize human cancer cell lines towards the anti-cancer drug gemcitabine. We show that this property is based on the Dm-dNK ability to efficiently phosphorylate gemcitabine. The 2.2A resolution structure of Dm-dNK in complex ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Knecht W,Mikkelsen NE,Clausen AR,Willer M,Eklund H,Gojković Z,Piskur J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disordered circadian rhythms are associated with various psychiatric conditions and metabolic diseases. We recently established a mouse model of a psychophysiological stress-induced chronic sleep disorder (CSD) characterized by reduced amplitude of circadian wheel-running activity and sleep-wake cycles, sleep fragment...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oishi K,Yamamoto S,Itoh N,Miyazaki K,Nemoto T,Nakakita Y,Kaneda H

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenous angiogenin undergoes rapid nuclear translocation in cultured human umbilical artery endothelial cells at 37 degrees C but not at 4 degrees C. Treatment of cells with colchicine, nocodazole and taxol, which disrupt the microtubule system, does not affect the nuclear translocation process of angiogenin, sugges...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Li R,Riordan JF,Hu G

更新日期：1997-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent brown adipocytes express peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-alpha (PPARalpha) and PPARgamma and while the rodent uncoupling protein-1 (UCP-1) gene contains a putative peroxisome proliferator response element (PPRE), only PPARgamma activation by thiazolidinediones increase UCP-1 mRNA levels. We have inve...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Teruel T,Clapham JC,Smith SA

更新日期：1999-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic significance of phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM) B-type isozyme activity capable of being inducible under hypoxia at the gene level as a serum marker for cerebral stroke was investigated. The normal level (mean +/- 2 SD) in human serum was determined to be 38 +/- 18 units/L. Within 2 h after the onset of c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hayashi T,Matuo Y

更新日期：2001-10-05 00:00:00