N6-methyladenosine methyltransferase plays a role in hypoxic preconditioning partially through the interaction with lncRNA H19.

abstract：:The recombinant peptide, DBAYL, a promising therapeutic peptide for type 2 diabetes, is a new, potent, and highly selective agonist for VPAC2 generated through site-directed mutagenesis based on sequence alignments of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), and rela...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Ma Y,Luo T,Xu W,Ye Z,Hong A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a fascinating target for cancer therapy due to its significant role in the crossroad of multiple signaling pathways associated with cell proliferation and regulation. Hsp90 inhibitors have the potential to be developed into anti-cancer drugs. Here, we identified nicotinic-mycoepoxydien...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Sun Y,Xiao S,Chen J,Wang M,Zheng Z,Song S,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth arrest specific 2 (GAS2) modulates cell cycle, apoptosis, and Calpain activity. GAS2-Calpain2 axis is required for the growth of BCR-ABL(+) hematopoietic cells and chronic myeloid leukemia cells. However, the expression of GAS2 in acute leukemia patients remains unclear and what role GAS2-Calpain2 axis plays in...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Sun L,Zhou H,Liu H,Ge Y,Zhang X,Ma W,Wu D,Zhao Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LT(K63), a non-toxic mutant and LT(R72), a low toxic mutant of E. coli heat-labile enterotoxin are frequently used mucosal adjuvants. In many cases, the adjuvanticity of LT(K63) is lower than that of LT(R72), but LT(K63), which induces a mixed Th1/Th2 response, exhibits a higher level of protection than LT(R72) which ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Feng Q,Yang J,Luo P,Zhang WJ,Zou QM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortactin, an actin-binding protein and a substrate of Src, is encoded by the EMS1 oncogene. Cortactin is known to activate Arp2/3 complex-mediated actin polymerization and interact with dynamin, a large GTPase and proline rich domain-containing protein. Transferrin endocytosis was significantly reduced in cells by kn...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Chen L,Wang ZW,Zhu JW,Zhan X

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is one of the most lethal cancers in China because of high incidence and high mortality. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and vessel endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) were found to play an important role in lymphangiogenesis of malignant tumors. In this study, we investigated whether lymphatic microvessel densi...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Guo X,Chen Y,Xu Z,Xu Z,Qian Y,Yu X

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that oncostatin M (OSM) could initiate cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation both in vivo and in vitro. OSM-induced cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation might be a new target for the treatment of diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM). This study was designed to determine the role of OSM in cardiomyocyte dedifferenti...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang X,Ma S,Zhang R,Li S,Zhu D,Han D,Li X,Li C,Yan W,Sun D,Xu B,Wang Y,Cao F

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lectin with a novel N-terminal amino acid sequence was purified from the rhizomes of Aspidistra elatior Blume by ammonium sulphate precipitation, ion exchange chromatography on diethylaminoethyl-Sepharose and carboxymethyl-Sepharose and gel filtration chromatography on Sephacryl S-100. The A. elatior Blume lectin (A...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Xu X,Wu C,Liu C,Luo Y,Li J,Zhao X,Damme EV,Bao J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a mistletoe lectin (ML) was purified from Chinese mistletoe and the effect of this 60 kDa Chinese ML on human gammadelta T cell cytotoxicity, apoptosis and modulation of the cytokine network was studied. The cytotoxic properties of delta T cells was evaluated by using a (51)Cr release test and employed ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Gong F,Ma Y,Ma A,Yu Q,Zhang J,Nie H,Chen X,Shen B,Li N,Zhang D

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic walking is one of the most useful approaches in genome-related research. Three kinds of PCR-based methods are available for this purpose. However, none of them has been generally applied because they are either insensitive or inefficient. Here we present an efficient PCR protocol, an optimized adaptor PCR meth...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Xu P,Hu RY,Ding XY

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutathione S-transferase mu 2 gene (GSTM2) encodes a GST functioning in the elimination of electrophilic compounds and the regulation of cell growth. In this study, the sequence of porcine GSTM2 gene that contains the complete sequence encoding a protein of 218 amino acids was cloned. The deduced amino acid seque...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Huang J,Xiong Y,Deng C,Zuo B,Xu D,Lei M,Jiang S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasminogen activator inhibitor type-2 (PAI-2) dependent apoptosis protection is due to the 33 amino acids fragment located between helix C and D of PAI-2, this fragment may interact with some unknown intracellular proteins. In this study we used the fragment between helix C and D of PAI-2 as a bait to perform a y...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Fan J,Zhang YQ,Li P,Tong C,Tan L,Zhu YS

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some barley mutants can synthesize neither anthocyanins nor proanthocyanidins in the seed coat, which is related to several genes in locus Ant13, but the exact model of action remains unknown. We used the cDNA microarray technology with barley transcription-deficient mutant (ant13-152) that does not synthesize proanth...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Pang JS,He MY,Liu B

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP6F1 (GenBank/EMBL accession No. AY662654), a novel gene with a complete encoding sequence in the cytochrome P450 family 6, was cloned and sequenced from deltamethrin-resistant 4th instar larvae of Culex pipiens pallens. The cDNA sequence of CYP6F1 has an open reading frame of 1527 bp, which encodes a putative prote...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Gong MQ,Gu Y,Hu XB,Sun Y,Ma L,Li XL,Sun LX,Sun J,Qian J,Zhu CL

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allelic loss of chromosome 3p, including the 3p21.3 region, is found in 95-100% of primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) biopsies, suggesting that this region should harbor some tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) closely related to NPC development. Several TSGs located at 3p21.3, such as RASSF1A, LTF and BLU, have been de...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhou W,Feng X,Li H,Wang L,Zhu B,Liu W,Zhao M,Yao K,Ren C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aims to characterize the effect of chronic intermittent hypoxia and HIF1α on the non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) process in mice, and to explore the role of the Treg/Th17 balance in the formation of NASH inflammation and fibrosis. To achieve this purpose, simple steatosis was induced in mice by ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu J,Li W,Zhu W,He W,Zhao H,Xiang Y,Liu C,Wu W

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy), which is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis, might cause dysregulation of gene expression, but the characteristics and key links involved in its pathogenic mechanisms are still poorly understood. The objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of HHcy on DNA me...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Jiang Y,Sun T,Xiong J,Cao J,Li G,Wang S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to obtain the recombinant human PACAP efficiently by intein-mediated single column purification, a gene encoding human PACAP was synthesized and cloned into Escherichia coli expression vector pKYB. The recombinant vector pKY-PAC was transferred into E. coli ER2566 cells and the target protein was over-express...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yu RJ,Hong A,Dai Y,Gao Y

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV), which belongs to the prolyl oligopeptidase family of serine proteases, is known to have a variety of regulatory biological functions and has been shown to be implicated in type 2 diabetes. It is therefore important to develop selective human DPPIV (hDPPIV) inhibitors. In this study, we...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Hiramatsu H,Kyono K,Yamamoto A,Saeki K,Shima H,Sugiyama S,Inaka K,Shimizu R

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The t(8;21) translocation is one of the most frequent chromosome abnormalities in acute myeloid leukemia. This translocation creates a fusion between the acute myelogenous leukemia 1 (AML1, a transcription factor) gene on chromosome 21 and the eight-twenty-one (ETO, a zinc finger nuclear protein) gene on chromosome 8,...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yang HT,Wu DH,Xue XY,Liang WX,Miao XY,Pang H,Chen SJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) (EC 1.2.1.12), a key enzyme of carbon metabolism, was purified and characterized to homogeneity from skeletal muscle of Camelus dromedarius. The protein was purified approximately 26.8 folds by conventional ammonium sulphate fractionation followed by Blue Sepharose CL-6...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Fourrat L,Iddar A,Soukri A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta is a pleiotropic cytokine regulating a variety of cellular processes such as cell growth, differentiation, apoptosis, migration, cell adhesion, and immune response. In the well-understood classical TGF-beta signaling pathway, TGF-beta activates Smad signalling via its two cell sur...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yan X,Liu Z,Chen Y

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural alkaloid berberine has been recently described as a promising anticancer drug. In order to improve its efficacy and bioavailability, several derivatives have been designed and synthesized and found to be even more potent than the lead compound. Among the series of berberine derivatives we have produced, fi...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Guamán Ortiz LM,Croce AL,Aredia F,Sapienza S,Fiorillo G,Syeda TM,Buzzetti F,Lombardi P,Scovassi AI

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major goal of researchers and oncologists is to develop promising ground for novel therapeutic strategies to prevent recurrence or relapse of cancer. Recent evidences suggest that a subset of cells called cancer stem cells (CSCs) are present within the tumor mass which possess tumorigenic capacity and may be respo...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Bhattacharyya S,Khanduja KL

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Edaravone is a novel free radical scavenger that exerts neuroprotective effects by inhibiting endothelial injury and by ameliorating neuronal damage in brain ischemia. Recently, it was reported that edaravone could alleviate the pathology and cognitive deficits of Alzheimer's disease patients. However, its relevance t...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li X,Lu F,Li W,Qin L,Yao Y,Ge X,Yu Q,Liang X,Zhao D,Li X,Zhang J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cordycepin (3'-deoxyadenosine) is a naturally occurring adenosine analog and one of the bioactive constituents isolated from Cordyceps sinensis, species of the fungal genus Cordyceps. It has traditionally been a prized Chinese folk medicine for the human well-being. However, the actions of cordycepin against renal isc...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Han F,Dou M,Wang Y,Xu C,Li Y,Ding X,Xue W,Zheng J,Tian P,Ding C

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of significant studies in the field of cell biology have revealed another pattern of intracellular signal transduction in which cells transmit information through the dynamics of key signaling molecules. Dynamical properties of p53 have been demonstrated to be the key factor in dictating cell fate, including ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Shi G,Wang Q,Zhou X,Li J,Liu H,Gu J,Wang H,Wu Y,Ding L,Ni S,Tang Z

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is the most common and aggressive malignancy of the biliary tract. Betulinic acid (BetA) has been reported to have anti-inflammatory and antitumor effects; however, the effect of BetA on GBC is still unknown. In this study, we investigated the effect of BetA on five GBC cell lines and found th...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Wang H,Dong F,Wang Y,Wang X,Hong D,Liu Y,Zhou J

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplexes are higher-order nucleic acid structures formed in G-rich sequences in DNA or RNA. G-quadruplexes are distributed in many locations in the human genome, including promoter regions, and are viewed as promising therapeutic targets. Uncoupling protein-1 (UCP1) is a mitochondrial thermogenic gene critical f...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhao Y,Uhler JP

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an important mechanism of cardiac fibrosis after myocardial infarction (MI). However, it remains unclear whether Snail1, an important regulator of EMT, is involved in cardiac fibrosis. In this study, we explored the expression patterns of Snail1 and a cardiac fibrosis marker-...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu Y,Du J,Zhang J,Weng M,Li X,Pu D,Gao L,Deng S,Xia S,She Q

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00