Functional characterization of T7 and T8 of human apolipoprotein (a).

abstract：:3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (EC 1.1.1.3.4.) activity and cell membrane fluidity measured by fluorescence polarization using 1,6 diphenyl, 1,3,5-hexatriene as fluorescent probe have been concomitantly examined in HTC hepatoma cells, both in relation to growth rate and in response to treatment with h...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Richert L,Castagna M,Beck JP,Rong S,Luu B,Ourisson G

更新日期：1984-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a physiologically regulated and evolutionary conserved process that plays a critical role in degradation of cytoplasmic proteins and other macromolecules within the lysosomes. Beclin-1, the mammalian orthologue of yeast Atg6, is an important mediator of autophagy that has been studied in many human cancer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kapoor V,Paliwal D,Baskar Singh S,Mohanti BK,Das SN

更新日期：2012-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endochondral ossification is a crucial process for longitudinal growth of bones. Differentiating chondrocytes in growth cartilage form four sequential zones of proliferation, alignment into column, hypertrophy, and substitution of chondrocytes with osteoblasts. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is essential for differentiation ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Takegami Y,Ohkawara B,Ito M,Masuda A,Nakashima H,Ishiguro N,Ohno K

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The inactivation of human factor X by incubation with a reagent known to chemically modify gamma-carboxyglutamic acid to gamma-methylene glutamic acid was studied. Incubation of factor X at pH 5.0 with a preincubated formaldehyde/morpholine mixture (0.9 M/1.0 M) resulted in a progressive decrease in factor X coagulant...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sherrill GB,Straight DL,Hiskey RG,Roberts HR,Griffith MJ

更新日期：1984-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial fibrosis and loss of parenchymal tubular cells are the common outcomes of progressive renal diseases. Pro-inflammatory cytokines have been known contributing to the damage of tubular cells and fibrosis responses after renal injury. Interleukin (IL)-33 is a tissue-derived nucleus alarmin that drives inflam...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chen WY,Chang YJ,Su CH,Tsai TH,Chen SD,Hsing CH,Yang JL

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Two peptide analogs of the 37-62 sequence region of the HIV TAT protein bind tightly to the surface of A431 breast carcinoma cells. After conjugation to either of two poorly internalized anti-tumor antibody Fab fragments, the analogs enhanced the in vitro cell surface retention and internalization of the Fab fragments...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Anderson DC,Nichols E,Manger R,Woodle D,Barry M,Fritzberg AR

更新日期：1993-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriophage T7 binary expression system is widely used in vitro for high level selective expression of cloned genes but its application to in vivo models has not yet been investigated. In the present work, we show that coinjection into fertilized zebrafish eggs of pE1T7R, an expression plasmid bearing the T7 RNA...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Verri T,Argenton F,Tomanin R,Scarpa M,Storelli C,Costa R,Colombo L,Bortolussi M

更新日期：1997-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang-II) has been shown to possess several atherogenic properties including its ability to induce macrophage-mediated oxidation of LDL and to form Ang-II-modified LDL which is taken up by macrophages at enhanced rate. Oxidized-LDL (Ox-LDL) is also taken up by macrophages at enhanced rate via several sca...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Keidar S,Attias J

更新日期：1997-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteinyl leukotrienes (cysLTs), which include leukotriene C4 (LTC4), are the predominant class of LTs synthesized by mast cells. CysLTs can induce many of the abnormalities seen in asthma. LTC4 is generated by the conjugation of LTA4 with reduced glutathione (GSH) by LTC4 synthase. During screening of the effects of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Seki K,Hisada T,Kawata T,Kamide Y,Dobashi K,Yamada M,Mori M,Okajima F,Ishizuka T

更新日期：2013-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human glia maturation factor beta (r-hGMF-beta) is a single-chain polypeptide (141 amino acid residues) containing three cysteines, at positions 7, 86 and 95. Nascent r-hGMF-beta exists in the reduced state and has no biological activity. The protein can be activated through oxidative refolding by incubati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zaheer A,Lim R

更新日期：1990-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:NGA is a human melanoma-associated antigen recognized by a panel of murine monoclonal antibodies developed in this laboratory. NGA consists of a 23.5 kDa core protein which is glycosylated in vivo to give a family of glycoproteins (30-60 kDa). Treatment of human melanoma G361 cells with the phorbol ester PMA resulted ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Feyles V,Dixon WT,Sikora LK,Jerry LM

更新日期：1989-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to find out whether C-terminally end-cleaved aquaporin 0 (AQP0), that is present predominantly in the lens mature fiber cells of the WT, functions as a water channel and a cell-to-cell adhesion (CTCA) protein in a knockin (KI) mouse model (AQP0ΔC/ΔC) that does not express intact A...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kumari SS,Varadaraj K

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A key feature of O2 sensing by chemoreceptor tissues is the hypoxic inhibition of K+ channels. However, mechanisms coupling a fall of pO2 to channel closure differ between tissues: O2 regulation of K+ channels in chemoreceptive neuroepithelial bodies and their immortal counterparts, H146 cells, involves altered reacti...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： O'Kelly I,Peers C,Kemp PJ

更新日期：2001-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The coat proteins of the leafhopper transmitted gemini viruses, viz., maize streak virus and wheat dwarf virus that contain a single circle of DNA in their genomes are shown to bear good amino acid sequence homology with the coat protein of an RNA plant virus, the satellite tobacco necrosis virus. It is suggested that...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mohana Rao JK

更新日期：1986-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The main protein of enriched and purified amyloid from Octodon degus pancreatic islets was identified as insulin. The material was reduced and alkylated and the A- and the B-chain were separated by reversed phase chromatography and subjected to Edman degradation and amino acid analysis. It was shown that the A-chain c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hellman U,Wernstedt C,Westermark P,O'Brien TD,Rathbun WB,Johnson KH

更新日期：1990-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutual interactions between adipocytes and immune cells in white adipose tissue (WAT) are involved in modulation of lipid metabolism in the tissue and also in response to omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), which counteract adverse effects of obesity. This complex interplay depends in part on in situ formed an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kuda O,Rombaldova M,Janovska P,Flachs P,Kopecky J

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF) is a multifunctional growth factor that is linked to the initiation and/or progression of numerous malignancies. HGF also alters cancer cell responses to DNA damaging cytotoxic agents. Many cell responses to Met activation require alterations in metabolic activity but how ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xia S,Laterra J

更新日期：2006-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:High homocysteine (Hcy) levels are a well-known independent risk factor for endothelial damage in atherosclerosis. We examined whether a rat intestinal model of ischemia-reperfusion was associated with high Hcy and with the modification of plasma albumin into cysteinylated species (CysAlb). The three treatment groups ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bar-Or D,Curtis CG,Sullivan A,Rael LT,Thomas GW,Craun M,Bar-Or R,Maclean KN,Kraus JP

更新日期：2004-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of the hepadnavirus polymerases are known to include those of DNA polymerase, reverse transcriptase and RNase H. To date, it has been difficult or impossible to clone and express the product as an active enzyme. In this study, full length capped RNA encoding Duck Hepatitis B Virus (DHBV) polymerase was prod...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Howe AY,Elliott JF,Tyrrell DL

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that endothelin-1 (ET-1) stimulates interleukin-6 (IL-6), a potent bone resorptive agent, through p44/p42 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase and p38 MAP kinase in osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 cells. In the present study, we investigated the involvement of Rho-kinase in the ET-1-stimulated I...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tokuda H,Hanai Y,Matsushima-Nishiwaki R,Yamauchi J,Doi T,Harada A,Takai S,Kozawa O

更新日期：2007-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES AND BACKGROUND:Myocarditis is caused by various agents and autoimmune processes. It is unknown whether viral genome persistence represents inactive remnants of previous infections or whether it is attributed to ongoing adverse processes. The latter also applies to the course of autoimmune myocarditis. One pr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Alter P,Rupp H,Maisch B

更新日期：2006-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) by cultured vascular smooth muscle cells was analyzed. Serum and hypoxia had nearly additive actions on VEGF mRNA expression. The function of the VEGF promoter in smooth muscle cells was analyzed using transient luciferase reporter assays. Serum and hypoxia stimu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： D'Angelo G,Ladoux A,Frelin C

更新日期：2000-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin produced by the pineal gland suppresses inflammatory responses in innate immune cells. However, the mechanism of how melatonin affects inflammatory gene regulation remains unclear. Here we performed comprehensive microarray analysis combined with transcription factor binding site (TFBS) analysis using LPS-in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kadena M,Kumagai Y,Vandenbon A,Matsushima H,Fukamachi H,Maruta N,Kataoka H,Arimoto T,Morisaki H,Funatsu T,Kuwata H

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Cl- channel protein of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) was purified by assaying the channel activity in a planar lipid bilayer system. The light fraction of SR vesicles was solubilized in CHAPS and fractioned by anion exchange, gel filtration, and affinity chromatography with concanavalin A. All fractions in each step w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ide T,Sakamoto H,Morita T,Taguchi T,Kasai M

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The onset of labour is associated with an increase in prostaglandin synthesis in amnion which appears to be mediated at least in part by an increase in cyclo-oxygenase (COX) expression. We have tested the hypothesis that COX expression is controlled in amnion by the binding of a protein to the COX mRNA which may inhib...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Slater D,Berger L,Moore G,Bennett P

更新日期：1994-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A truncated form of 24kDa FGF-2 consisting of 86 NH(2)-terminal amino acids (ATE+31) inhibits cell migration in vitro and tumor development and angiogenesis in vivo. Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is phosphorylated on tyrosine and serine sites after cell stimulation by growth factors. This study examined the effect of AT...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lin AH,Eliceiri BP,Levin EG

更新日期：2009-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA coding for rat IL-5 was obtained by RT-PCR from total spleen RNA. With the exception of a single a.a. replacement at position 85 (L-P), it is identical to the published sequence obtained by retroviral gene transfer. This cDNA was used to express biologically active recombinant IL-5 in E. coli and in insect cell...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pierrot C,Cocude C,Cêtre C,Godin C,Lafitte S,Capron M,Khalife J

更新日期：1998-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of this study was to investigate the biological function of beta amyloid precursor protein (APP), in particular its nerve growth factor-like activity. We hypothesize that the extracellular domain containing the sequence RERMS, amino acids 328-332 of APP(695), represents the active site for this func...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pawlik M,Otero DA,Park M,Fischer WH,Levy E,Saitoh T

更新日期：2007-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:HERC2 is a giant protein with E3 ubiquitin ligase activity and other known and suspected functions. Mutations of HERC2 are implicated in the pathogenesis of various cancers and result in severe neurological conditions in Herc2-mutant mice. Recently, a pleotropic autosomal recessive HERC2-associated syndrome of intelle...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Abraham JR,Barnard J,Wang H,Noritz GH,Yeganeh M,Buhas D,Natowicz MR

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyl-CoA carboxylases (ACCs) have been highlighted as therapeutic targets for obesity and diabetes, as they play crucial roles in fatty acid metabolism. ACC activity is regulated through the short-term mechanism of inactivation by reversible phosphorylation. Here, we report the crystal structures of the biotin carbo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cho YS,Lee JI,Shin D,Kim HT,Jung HY,Lee TG,Kang LW,Ahn YJ,Cho HS,Heo YS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00