Cardiotoxicity induced by the combination therapy of chloroquine and azithromycin in human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.

abstract：:Stresses and nutritional starvation are two main external signals for the induction of sex pheromones in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. In an attempt to identify the components involved in transduction of starvation signals, we screened 135 temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants and isolated 6 mutants that i...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Jun J,Kim D

更新日期：2008-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipocyte differentiation is a complex developmental process forming adipocytes from various precursor cells. The murine 3T3-L1 preadipocyte cell line has been most frequently used in the studies of adipocyte differentiation. Differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes includes a medium containing fetal bovine serum (FBS)...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park J,Park J,Nahm SS,Choi I,Kim J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AML1 gene is an essential transcription factor regulating the differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells into mature blood cells. Though at least 12 different alternatively spliced AML1 mRNAs are generated, three splice variants (AML1a, AML1b and AML1c) have been characterized. Here, using the reverse transcripti...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Xu AN,Chen XH,Tan YH,Qi XL,Xu ZF,Zhang LL,Ren FG,Bian SC,Chen Y,Wang HW

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kv4.2, a pore-forming α-subunit of voltage-gated A-type potassium channels, is expressed abundantly in the soma and dendrites of hippocampal neurons, and is responsible for somatodendritic I(A) current. Recent studies have suggested that changes in the surface levels of Kv4.2 potassium channels might be relevant to sy...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Jo A,Nam YJ,Oh JY,Cheon HS,Jeromin A,Lee JA,Kim HK

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orthodontic tooth movement results from the combinational process of both bone resorption and formation in the compressive and tension sides, respectively. However, the genes responsible for new bone formation in tension sides have not been determined. In this study, we used DNA microarray and real-time RT-PCR to iden...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Ku SJ,Chang YI,Chae CH,Kim SG,Park YW,Jung YK,Choi JY

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become popular as an approach for the identification of large numbers of phenotype-associated variants. However, differences in genetic architecture and environmental factors mean that the effect of variants can vary across populations. Understanding population genetic diver...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim YU,Kim YJ,Lee JY,Park K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transient interactions between cellular components, particularly on membrane surfaces, are critical in the proper function of many biochemical reactions. For example, many signaling pathways involve dimerization, oligomerization, or other types of clustering of signaling proteins as a key step in the signaling cas...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Jepson TA,Chung JK

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells undergo uncontrolled proliferation, and aberrant mitochondrial alterations. Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated protein 1 (TRAP1) is a mitochondrial heat shock protein. TRAP1 mRNA is highly expressed in some cancer cell lines and tumor tissues. However, the effects of its overexpression on mitochond...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Im CN,Seo JS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing generates several interleukin-6 (IL-6) isoforms; for them an antagonistic activity to the wild-type IL-6 has been proposed. In this study we quantified the relative abundance of IL-6 mRNA isoforms in a panel of mouse tissues and in C2C12 cells during myoblast differentiation or after treatment wit...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Annibalini G,Guescini M,Agostini D,Matteis RD,Sestili P,Tibollo P,Mantuano M,Martinelli C,Stocchi V

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have reported that delayed-rectifier Kv channels regulate apoptosis in the nervous system. Herein, we investigated changes in the expression of the delayed-rectifier Kv channels Kv1.2, Kv2.1, and Kv3.1 after acute spinal cord injury (SCI) in rats. We performed RT-PCR analysis and found an increase in th...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Song MY,Moon YJ,Shin SK,Kim TY,Yune TY,Park KS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wnt signaling pathway is well known to play major roles in skeletal development and homeostasis. In certain aspects, fracture repair mimics the process of bone embryonic development. Thus, the importance of Wnt signaling in fracture healing has become more apparent in recent years. Here, we summarize recent resear...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Xu H,Duan J,Ning D,Li J,Liu R,Yang R,Jiang JX,Shang P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle contracts or relaxes to maintain the body position and locomotion. For the contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscle, Ca2＋ in the cytosol of skeletal muscle fibers acts as a switch to turn on and off a series of contractile proteins. The cytosolic Ca2＋ level in skeletal muscle fibers is governed ma...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Cho CH,Lee KJ,Lee EH

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we characterized the function of HS1-binding protein 3 (HS1BP3), which is mutated in essential tremor and may be involved in lymphocyte activation. We found that HS1BP3 localized to the mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum partially. Overexpression of HS1BP3 induced apoptosis in HEK293T and HeL...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Shi T,Xie J,Xiong Y,Deng W,Guo J,Wang F,Ma D

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-2-Oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (OTC) is a cysteine prodrug that maintains glutathione in tissues. The present study was designed to investigate anti-fibrotic and anti-oxidative effects of OTC via modulation of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) in an in vivo thioacetamide (TAA)-induced hepatic f...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim IH,Kim DG,Hao P,Wang Y,Kim SH,Kim SW,Lee SO,Lee ST

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sterile alpha motif (SAM) is a putative protein interaction domain involved in a wide variety of biological processes. Here we report the identification and characterization of a novel gene, SAMD4B, which encodes a putative protein of 694 amino acids with a SAM domain. Northern blot and RT-PCR analysis showed that...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Luo N,Li G,Li Y,Fan X,Wang Y,Ye X,Mo X,Zhou J,Yuan W,Tan M,Xie H,Ocorr K,Bodmer R,Deng Y,Wu X

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-molecule inhibitors of protein kinases have contributed immensely to our understanding of biological signaling pathways and have been exploited therapeutically for the treatment of cancers and other disease states. The pyridinyl imidazole compounds SB 203580 and SB 202190 were identified as ATP competitive antag...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Shanware NP,Williams LM,Bowler MJ,Tibbetts RS

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that a water extract of laurel or turmeric, 1,8-cineole enriched fractions, showed hypolipidemic activity in the zebrafish model. Therefore, the present study investigated the cineole's anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory activities in lipoprotein metabolism in vitro and in vivo. Cineole had inhibi...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Cho KH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions and their structural proteins, connexins (Cxs), have been implicated in carcinogenesis. To explore the involvement of Cx32 in gastric carcinogenesis, immunochemical analysis of Cx32 and proliferation marker Ki67 using tissue-microarrayed human gastric cancer and normal tissues was performed. In addition,...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Jee H,Lee SH,Park JW,Lee BR,Nam KT,Kim DY

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously considered as a component of transcriptional noise, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) were neglected as a therapeutic target, however, recently increasing evidence has shown that lncRNAs can participate in numerous biological processes involved in genetic regulation including epigenetic, transcriptional, and po...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Chen X,Sun Y,Cai R,Wang G,Shu X,Pang W

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Jun activation-domain binding protein 1 (Jab1) induces p53 nuclear export and cytoplasmic degradation, but the underlying mechanism is poorly understood. Here, we show that phosphorylation at the threonine 155 residue is essential for Jab1-mediated p53 nuclear export. Jab1 stimulated phosphorylation of p53 at T155...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee EW,Oh W,Song HP,Kim WK

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine methylation plays crucial roles in many cellular functions including signal transduction, RNA transcription, and regulation of gene expression. Protein arginine methyltransferase 8 (PRMT8), a unique brain-specific protein, is localized to the plasma membrane. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms underly...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park SW,Jun YW,Choi HE,Lee JA,Jang DJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we report the identification and characterization of a novel C2H2 zinc finger protein, ZNF552, from a human embryonic heart cDNA library. ZNF552 is composed of three exons and two introns and maps to chromosome 19q13.43. The cDNA of ZNF552 is 2.3 kb, encoding 407 amino acids with an amino-terminal KRAB ...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Deng Y,Liu B,Fan X,Wang Y,Tang M,Mo X,Li Y,Ying Z,Wan Y,Luo N,Zhou J,Wu X,Yuan W

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac regeneration with adult stem-cell (ASC) therapy is a promising field to address advanced cardiovascular diseases. In addition, extracellular vesicles (EVs) from ASCs have been implicated in acting as paracrine factors to improve cardiac functions in ASC therapy. In our work, we isolated human cardiac mesenchym...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kang IS,Suh J,Lee MN,Lee C,Jin J,Lee C,Yang YI,Jang Y,Oh GT

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All living cells release extracellular vesicles having pleiotropic functions in intercellular communication. Mammalian extracellular vesicles, also known as exosomes and microvesicles, are spherical bilayered proteolipids composed of various bioactive molecules, including RNAs, DNAs, proteins, and lipids. Extracellula...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Yoon YJ,Kim OY,Gho YS

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrin is a natural provisional matrix found in wound healing, while type I collagen is a major organic component of bone matrix. Despite the frequent use of fibrin and type I collagen in bone regenerative approaches, their comparative efficacies have not yet been evaluated. In the present study, we compared the effec...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Oh JH,Kim HJ,Kim TI,Woo KM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a group of inherited disorders characterized by compromised T lymphocyte differentiation related to abnormal development of other lymphocytes [i.e., B and/or natural killer (NK) cells], leading to death early in life unless treated immediately with hematopoietic stem cell tra...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Iqbal MA,Hong K,Kim JH,Choi Y

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is associated with many pathological conditions as well as the normal physiology of metazoans. We identified a lactate-dependent signaling pathway in hypoxia, mediated by the oxygen- and lactate-regulated protein NDRG family member 3 (NDRG3). Oxygen negatively regulates NDRG3 expression at the protein level vi...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park KC,Lee DC,Yeom YI

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress and inflammation are common to many pathological conditions. Defense mechanisms protect cells from oxidative stress, but can become over-activated following injury and inflammation. NF-κB and Nrf2 transcription factors regulate proinflammatory and antioxidant gene expression, respectively. Studies hav...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Hwang YJ,Song J,Kim HR,Hwang KA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation is a delicately regulated process that couples growth signals and metabolic demands to produce daughter cells. Interestingly, the proliferation of tumor cells immensely depends on glycolysis, the Warburg effect, to ensure a sufficient amount of metabolic flux and bioenergetics for macromolecule synt...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kee HJ,Cheong JH

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular senescence (CS) is one of hallmarks of aging and accumulation of senescent cells (SCs) with age contributes to tissue or organismal aging, as well as the pathophysiologies of diverse age-related diseases (ARDs). Genetic ablation of SCs in tissues lengthened health span and reduced the risk of age-related path...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim EC,Kim JR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00