Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 76(4), 762-766 (2012-04-10)
Aggregations of proteins are in many cases associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's (AD). Small compounds capable of inhibiting protein aggregation are expected to be useful for not only in the treatment of disease but also in probing the
The Journal of investigative dermatology, 118(6), 923-932 (2002-06-13)
Anticancer drugs kill susceptible cells through induction of apoptosis. Alterations of apoptotic pathways in drug-resistant tumor cells leading to apoptosis deficiency might represent a potent mechanism conferring drug resistance. We have assessed the effect of etoposide and cisplatin on the
Archives of oral biology, 32(9), 599-605 (1987-01-01)
The cysteine proteinases cathepsins B and L have collagenolytic potential and so have been implicated in connective-tissue breakdown in chronic periodontitis. Synthetic peptide substrates are often used to detect proteolytic enzymes. The action of homogenates of inflamed gingiva tissue against
Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1076(1), 149-151 (1991-01-08)
N-trifluoromethylcoumarinylamide derivatives of benzyloxycarbonyl-Arg-Arg, benzyloxycarbonyl-Phe-Arg and Arg are convenient chromogenic and fluorogenic substrates of cathepsin B, L and H, respectively. Benzyloxycarbonyl-Phe-Arg-N-trifluoromethylcoumarinylamide is also a highly sensitive substrate for papain.
This study measures the time-dependence of cellular caspase activation by anticancer drugs and compares it with that of cellular respiration. Intracellular caspase activation and cellular respiration were measured during continuous exposure of Jurkat, HL-60, and HL-60/MX2 (deficient in topoisomerase-II) cells
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