Inverted meiosis: an alternative way of chromosome segregation for reproduction.

abstract：:Alteration in cellular energy metabolism plays a critical role in the development and progression of cancer. Leptin is a hormone secreted by adipose tissue. Recent reports have shown that leptin can induce cancer cell proliferation and regulate cell energy metabolism, but the regulatory mechanism is still unclear. Her...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu Q,Sun Y,Fei Z,Yang Z,Duan K,Zi J,Cui Q,Yu M,Xiong W

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we tested the effect of cold water stress (CWS) on dopaminergic neurons in 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced Parkinson's disease (PD) mouse model, and found that CWS pretreatment elicited less MPTP neurotoxicity. To understand the molecular mechanism underlying this phen...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Xia M,Bian M,Yu Q,Liu J,Huang Y,Jin X,Lu S,Yu M,Huang F

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure (HF) induced by ischemia myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality all around the world. Atorvastatin, a hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor, has been demonstrated to benefit patients with ischemic or non-ischemic-induced HF, but the mechanism is st...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Su J,Fang M,Tian B,Luo J,Jin C,Wang X,Ning Z,Li X

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuron restrictive silencer factor (NRSF), also known as repressor element-1 silencing transcription factor, has been reported to modulate neuronal excitability and acts as endogenous anticonvulsant in kainic acid-induced or kindling-evoked seizure activity. However, whether NRSF functions in pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-i...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu M,Sheng Z,Cai L,Zhao K,Tian Y,Fei J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that Fructus Ligustri Lucidi (FLL), a promising traditional Chinese medicine, can inhibit the growth of tumors. However, the effective component and molecular mechanism of FLL act to inhibit tumor proliferation are unclear. In this study, we demonstrated that oleanolic acid (OA), a principal chemical...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang P,Li H,Chen D,Ni J,Kang Y,Wang S

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:To investigate whether apelin-13 induced THP-1 monocytes (MCs) adhesion to ECV304 human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) via 14-3-3 signaling transduction pathway and the potential novel physiological function and signaling transduction pathway of apelin-APJ, HUVECs ECV304 were cultured in DMEM and MCs THP-1 ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li X,Zhang X,Li F,Chen L,Li L,Qin X,Gao J,Su T,Zeng Y,Liao D

更新日期：2010-06-15 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：:The aim of this study was to investigate the pro-apoptotic mechanism of C-phycocyanin (C-PC)-mediated photodynamic therapy (PDT) in a murine tumor model and cultured MCF-7 cells. The mice were divided into four groups: control, He-Ne laser radiation, C-PC treatment, and C-PC treatment + He-Ne laser radiation. The effe...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li B,Chu X,Gao M,Li W

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs have been reported to be closely related to the development of human lung cancers. However, the functions of microRNAs in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain largely undefined. Here, we investigated the role of microRNA-193b (miR-193b) in NSCLC. Our data showed that miR-193b was markedly down-regulated...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Hu H,Li S,Liu J,Ni B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin, a first line medication for type II diabetes, initially entered the spotlight as a promising anti-cancer agent due to epidemiologic reports that found reduced cancer risk and improved clinical outcomes in diabetic patients taking metformin. To uncover the anti-cancer mechanisms of metformin, preclinical stu...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Saini N,Yang X

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a special thermophilic multifunctional amylase OPMA-N was cloned from Bacillus sp. ZW2531-1. OPMA-N has an additional 124-residue N-terminal domain compared with typical amylases and forms a relatively independent domain with a β-pleated sheet and random coil structure. Here we reported an unusual subs...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li F,Zhu X,Li Y,Cao H,Zhang Y

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T helper cell type 1 (Th1) and 2 (Th2) play central roles in immune regulation. To identify the novel genes differentially expressed between Th1 and Th2 cells, CD4+ T cells were isolated from DO11.10 transgenic mice and induced under Th1 or Th2 conditions. Microarray showed differential expression of neutrophilic gran...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Xie D,Liu Z,Li Z,Ji Y,Chen J,Sun B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a matrix protein, MSI7, from pearl oyster Pinctada fucata. According to the structural analysis, the DGD site in the N-terminal of MSI7 is crucial for its role in the shell formation. In this study, we expressed a series of recombinant MSI7 proteins, including the wild-type and several mutants...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Feng Q,Fang Z,Yan Z,Xing R,Xie L,Zhang R

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：: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：:The effect of the guanosine triphosphatase activating proteins (GAPs) on spermatogenesis has been studied for years, though no GAPs have been explored in epididymis, an essential organ for sperm maturation. In this study, a new GAP member, designated as MacGAP, was cloned in human epididymis. The MacGAP gene encodes a...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li X,Liu Q,Liu S,Zhang J,Zhang Y

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LRRC4 is a novel relatively specific gene, which displays significant down-regulation in primary brain tumor biopsies and has the potential to suppress brain tumor growth. In this study, we investigated the growth inhibitory effect of LRRC4 on tumorigencity in vivo and on cell proliferation in vitro by a tetracycline-...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang QH,Wang LL,Cao L,Peng C,Li XL,Tang K,Li WF,Liao P,Wang JR,Li GY

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are highly conserved endogenous small noncoding RNAs and demonstrated to play important roles in the metastatic cascade of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), including the process of anoikis resistance. In this study, the correlation between miRNA-363-3p (miR-363-3p) expression and PTC metastasis was analyze...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Pan Y,Zhu X,Wang K,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-08-05 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：:Hypopharyngeal carcinoma (HC) is one of the most malignant tumors in the upper aerodigestive tract. Currently, there are no effective treatments for HC. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are a promising tool that can be used for plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT), which refers to the use of electromagnetic radiation, most...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang Y,Cong L,He J,Wang Y,Zou Y,Yang Z,Hu Y,Zhang S,He X

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necroptosis is a type of regulated cell death that has been implicated in various diseases. Receptor-interacting protein 3 (RIP3), a member of the RIP family, is an important mediator of the necroptotic pathway. Cleavage of RIP3 at Asp328 by caspase-8 abolishes the kinase activity of RIP3, which is critical for necrop...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Shang L,Ding W,Li N,Liao L,Chen D,Huang J,Xiong K

更新日期：2017-02-06 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：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is one of the deadliest malignant tumors, and many genes play important roles in its development. The hepatocyte nuclear factor-1a (HNF-1a) gene encodes HNF-1a, which is a transcriptional activator. HNF-1a regulates the tissue-specific expression of multiple genes, especially in pancre...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Fan Z,Fan K,Deng S,Gong Y,Qian Y,Huang Q,Yang C,Cheng H,Jin K,Luo G,Liu C,Yu X

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:hPFTAIRE1 is a Cdc2-related kinase family member. To search its substrates and regulatory proteins, hPFTAIRE1 was fused to LexA and used as a bait to screen a human brain LexA two-hybrid library. In this screening, seven hPFTAIRE1 interacting proteins, including promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger (PLZF), were obtained...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Gao YK,Jiang M,Yang T,Chen JY

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and isolated a cysteine-rich protein, designated Mr30, from Conus marmoreus. Mr30 belongs to the cysteine-rich secretory protein family that is highly homologous to Tex31 previously obtained from Conus textile and reported as a protease responsible for processing of pro-conotoxins. Mr30, purified by a proced...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Qian J,Guo ZY,Chi CW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperglycemia, a diagnostic characteristic of diabetes mellitus, is detrimental to pancreatic β cells. Delphinidin, a member of the anthocyanin family, inhibits glucose absorption, increases glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) secretion, and improves insulin secretion in diabetes. However, whether delphinidin plays a prot...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Lai D,Huang M,Zhao L,Tian Y,Li Y,Liu D,Wu Y,Deng F

更新日期：2019-12-13 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：:Emerging evidence suggests that specific spatio-temporal microRNA (miRNA) expression is required for heart development. In recent years, hundreds of miRNAs have been discovered. In contrast, functional annotations are available only for a very small fraction of these regulatory molecules. In order to provide a global ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu G,Ding M,Chen J,Huang J,Wang H,Jing Q,Shen B

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a ubiquitous endocrine neuropeptide found in vertebrate and invertebrate. In our present work, two NPY-like exocrine conopeptides (designated as cono-NPYs) were first identified in the venom of cone snails. Both cono-NPYs showed sequence characteristics of invertebrate NPYs, suggesting that som...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Wu X,Shao X,Guo ZY,Chi CW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00