Investigation of polymorphic variants of PPARD and APOE genes in Turkish coronary heart disease patients.

abstract：:In this study, we mined out hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) driver genes from MEDLINE literatures by bioinformatics methods of pathway crosstalk and protein interaction network. Furthermore, the relationship between driver genes and their clinicopathological characteristics, as well as classification effectiveness was ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Chen W,Jiang J,Wang PP,Gong L,Chen J,Du W,Bi K,Diao H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation of CYP17 (steroid 17 alpha-hydroxylase) was studied in bovine adrenocortical cells, which lose the capacity to express this tissue-specific gene in culture by phenotypic switching. Restriction enzyme digestions, and sequencing of a lambda clone of a second CYP17 gene (CYP17A2), showed that there are at...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Hornsby PJ,Yang L,Raju SG,Maghsoudlou SS,Lala DS,Nallaseth FS

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy depends on safe and efficient gene delivery. The skin is an attractive target for gene delivery because of its accessibility. Recently, in vivo electroporation has been shown to enhance expression after injection of plasmid DNA. In this study, we examined the use of electroporation to deliver plasmid DNA ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Heller R,Schultz J,Lucas ML,Jaroszeski MJ,Heller LC,Gilbert RA,Moelling K,Nicolau C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence has suggested that microRNAs play important roles in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and are involved in drug resistance. miR-21-5p was overexpressed in a variety of cancers and promoted the tumorigenesis; however, the function of miR-21-5p in HCC still remains unknown. In this ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Chen S,Yang C,Sun C,Sun Y,Yang Z,Cheng S,Zhuge B

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) signaling may play a causal role in the development of coronary heart disease. However, the relationship between IL-6 genotypes and plasma levels of IL-6 appears to be complex. To help clarify the inconsistent findings, we conducted a meta-analysis of the published genetic association studies of t...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Huang M,Wang L,Ma H,Wang J,Xiang M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoter elements located up to 2 kb upstream of the apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) gene are necessary for apoA-I expression in liver and intestine cells in tissue culture. In transgenic mice, a distal enhancer located between the apoA-IV and apoC-III genes is additionally necessary for tissue-specific expression of apoA...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Jones DR,Leffak M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overexpression of prosurvival members of the Bcl-2 family is commonly associated with the enhanced malignancy of hematological tumors. There has been great interest in a novel set of agents that are able to mimic the function of the BH3 domain by binding to the groove of Bcl-2-like proteins and initiating the cell...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Turner BC,Eves T,Refaeli Y

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2 (erk2) from green mud crab, Scylla paramamosain, in this article. It was originally identified from an expressed sequence tag fragment from a normalized gonadal cDNA library. 5' Rapid amplification of cDNA end (RACE) technique was used to obtain the 5' untranslated...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Ma A,Wang Y,Zou Z,Fu M,Lin P,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss in Ménière's disease (MD) is associated with loss of spiral ganglion neurons and hair cells. In a guinea pig model of endolymphatic hydrops, nitric oxide synthases (NOS) and oxidative stress mediate loss of spiral ganglion neurons. To test the hypothesis that functional variants of NOS1 and NOS2A are asso...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Gazquez I,Lopez-Escamez JA,Moreno A,Campbell CA,Meyer NC,Carey JP,Minor LB,Gantz BJ,Hansen MR,Della Santina CC,Aran I,Soto-Varela A,Santos S,Batuecas A,Perez-Garrigues H,Lopez-Nevot A,Smith RJ,Lopez-Nevot MA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, efficient procedure for cross-linking two complementary oligonucleotides, which does not require chemical modification of either oligonucleotide, is described. One of the oligonucleotides is first converted to the 5'-phosphorothioate derivative with polynucleotide kinase. It is then incubated with its comple...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Chu BC,Orgel LE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal phospholipase A/lysophospholipase (IPAL) is an intestine-specific brush-border enzyme expressed during development and along the intestinal crypt-villus axis in a pattern similar to another well characterized brush-border enzyme, sucrase-isomaltase (SI). A tissue-specific DNase I hypersensitive site was ide...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Taylor JK,Boll W,Levy T,Suh E,Siang S,Mantei N,Traber PG

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of cell-matrix interactions can lead to anoikis-apoptosis due to loss of matrix contacts. We previously showed that Nerve/glial antigen 2 (NG2) is a novel anoikis receptor. Specifically, overexpression of NG2 leads to anoikis propagation, whereas its suppression leads to anoikis attenuation. Interestingly, ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Joo NE,Miao D,Bermúdez M,Stallcup WB,Kapila YL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a common type of cardiomyopathy. The pathogenesis of DCM remains unclear and involves varied genes. AXIN1 is a crucial gene in regulating various functions in cells, it encodes protein Axin1, which regulates the assembly and disassembly of β-catenin destruction complex. In addition, Wnt...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Li K,Zhong Y,Peng Y,Zhou B,Wang Y,Li Q,Zhang Y,Song H,Rao L

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apelin, an endogenous ligand for apelin receptor (APJ), is reported to be involved in cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. In this study, we explored the mechanism of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy induced by apelin-13/APJ system. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) rat model was established by constricting the abdominal aorta. Weste...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Wu D,Xie F,Xiao L,Feng F,Huang S,He L,Liu M,Zhou Q,Li L,Chen L

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the signal pathways involved in ultraviolet (UV)-induced skin carcinogenesis are thought to originate at plasma membrane receptors. However, UVA-induced signal transduction to downstream ribosomal protein S6 kinases, p70(S6K) and p90(RSK), is not well understood. In this report, we show that UVA stimulation of...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Zhang Y,Dong Z,Bode AM,Ma WY,Chen N,Dong Z

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several reports have suggested the importance of p73 polymorphisms in tumor behavior. We investigated the role of a p73 gene polymorphism in the susceptibility to cervical lesions in a southwestern European population. Peripheral blood samples were obtained from Radiotherapy and Gynaecology Departments of Portuguese I...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Craveiro R,Bravo I,Catarino R,Teixeira AL,Sousa H,Pereira D,Pereira H,Medeiros R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have further characterized the most distal of the three alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) enhancers required for expression of the AFP gene in fetal hepatocytes and yolk sac endodermal cells. Almost total rat AFP enhancer 3 (E3) activity is driven by a 160-bp fragment at -6 kb containing three target regions for nuclear prot...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Thomassin H,Bois-Joyeux B,Delille R,Ikonomova R,Danan JL

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an important class of small, noncoding, regulatory RNAs found to be involved in regulating a wide variety of important cellular processes by the sequence-specific inhibition of gene expression. Viruses have evolved a number of mechanisms to take advantage of the regulatory potential of this high...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Dykxhoorn DM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous study, a kind of novel hybrid immunoglobulin (Ig)-binding proteins (IBPs) was obtained with the characteristic structure of alternately arranged Finegoldia magna (formerly Peptostreptococcus magnus) protein L (P. magnus protein L, PpL) B3 domain (B3) and Staphylococcal protein A (SpA) D domain (D). In ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Jiang SH,Wang JF,Xu R,Liu YJ,Wang XN,Cao J,Zhao P,Shen YJ,Yang T,Yang H,Jia JA,Chen QL,Pan W

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes results in most cases from the destruction of insulin-secreting beta cells by the immune system. Several immunization methods based on administration of autoantigenic polypeptides such as insulin and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) have been used to prevent autoimmune diabetes in the non-obese diabet...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Filippova M,Liu J,Escher A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that the positively charged polyamines have a DNA-stabilizing function and that polyamine depletion alters chromatin function. We have previously shown that polyamine depletion causes an S phase prolongation, and others have shown that there is an accumulation of Okazaki-like fragments in polyamine-de...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Johansson VM,Oredsson SM,Alm K

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) is expressed predominantly in the corticotrophic cells of the pituitary. Regulatory sequences required for the expression of the human (h) POMC gene were investigated using transient expression of hPOMC-CAT fusion genes in pituitary and nonpituitary cells in combination with DNase I footprin...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Kraus J,Buchfelder M,Höllt V

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human spermidine synthase (EC 2.5.1.16) gene was isolated from a genomic library constructed with DNA obtained from a human immunoglobulin G (IgG) myeloma cell line. Subsequent sequence analyses revealed that the gene comprised of 5,818 nucleotides from the cap site to the last A of the putative polyadenylation si...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Myöhänen S,Kauppinen L,Wahlfors J,Alhonen L,Jänne J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha B-Crystallin, a member of the small heat shock family of proteins, is synthesized as a component of various developmental programs, in response to stress and in a number of pathological states. We have determined the complete structure of the alpha B-crystallin gene (6,806 bp encompassing 2,299 bp upstream from ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Srinivasan AN,Bhat SP

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porifera (sponges) constitute the lowest metazoan phylum. Experiments examined whether sponges can recognize self/nonself molecules. Cells from the marine sponge Suberites domuncula were incubated with membranes from either S. domuncula or another marine sponge, Geodia cydonium, as well as with recombinant alpha-integ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Müller WE,Perovic S,Wilkesman J,Kruse M,Müller IM,Batel R

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of a mouse kidney cDNA library with a HNF-3/fork head domain probe revealed cDNA Hfh-1L containing the highly conserved fork head DNA-binding domain. The Hfh1L cDNA shows 92.7% homology at the nucleic acid level with the fork head gene HFH-1 from rat. Southern blot analyses demonstrated that the Hfh-1L gene ...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Frank S,Zoll B

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the effect of miR-106a in breast cancer cell behavior and sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents. Tumor tissue and adjacent normal tissue were derived from 40 breast cancer patients, and miR-106a expression was measured by reverse transcription-qPCR. Breast cancer cells, MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7, were treated w...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： You F,Luan H,Sun D,Cui T,Ding P,Tang H,Sun D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is the enzyme responsible for the conversion of L-arginine to L-citrulline and nitric oxide. Dimerization of the enzyme is an absolute requirement for catalytic activity. Each NOS monomer contains an N-terminal heme-binding domain and a C-terminal reductase domain. It is unclear how the red...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Hallmark OG,Phung YT,Black SM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-converting enzyme-1 (ECE1) plays a key role in the development of a subset of neural crest lineages such as cardiogenesis. Genetic variants of ECE1 C338A (rs213045) and T839G (rs213046) have been shown to alter ECE1 expression. This observation led us to hypothesize that two polymorphisms might influence th...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Wang Y,Liu Y,Peng W,Wang M,Sun J,Zhang Z,Mo X

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer (OC) is the most lethal gynecological cancer. The molecular mechanism of it is complicated, and numerous researches suggest that microRNAs are key regulators for it. This study was to investigate the pivotal role of miR-629 in the progression of OC and to reveal the possible molecular mechanism of its a...

journal_title：DNA and cell biology

authors： Shao L,Shen Z,Qian H,Zhou S,Chen Y

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00