Cathelicidin PR-39 peptide inhibits hypoxia/reperfusion-induced kidney cell apoptosis by suppression of the endoplasmic reticulum-stress pathway.

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common malignant cancer with high incidence. And long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play pivotal roles in the development of different types of cancers. In this study, we aimed to investigate the role of lncRNA maternally expressed gene 3 (MEG3) in the development and progression of hepatocel...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Dong H,Zhang Y,Xu Y,Ma R,Liu L,Luo C,Jiang W

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic protein TBb, a major allergen in tartary buckwheat, was divided into four epitope-containing fragments and was named F1, F2, F3, and F4, respectively. Results of immunological assays revealed that F2 had the strongest IgE-binding activity to patient's sera, which indicated that it might contain the linear IgE...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li P,Cui X,Li Y,Wang Z

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolin-1 is regulated by estrogen in vascular smooth muscle cells. Raloxifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator that possibly has cardioprotective properties without an increased risk of cancer or other side effects of estrogen, may be used in women with risk of coronary artery disease. However, the relations...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yang FL,He H,Liu XX,Tu B,Zeng XW,Su JX,Wang X,Hu Q

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo pathway plays important roles in organ development, tissue regeneration, and human diseases, such as cancer. In the canonical Hippo pathway, the MST1/2-LATS1/2 kinase cascade phosphorylates and inhibits transcription coactivators Yes-associated protein and transcription coactivator with PDZ-binding motif and...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Cao X,Wang C,Liu J,Zhao B

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many harpins have been found in plant pathogen bacteria that can elicit disease and insect resistance in plants, and promote plant growth. In this work, we overexpressed and purified Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae harpin, harpin(Xoo), in Escherichia coli BL21/pGEX-hpa1. Harpin(Xoo) was fused to the C-terminus of glutat...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li M,Shao M,Lu XZ,Wang JS

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:The development and strategic application of effective anticancer therapies have turned out to be one of the most critical approaches of managing human cancers. Nevertheless, drug resistance is the major obstacle for clinical management of these diseases especially ovarian cancer. In the past years, substantial studie...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yung MM,Ngan HY,Chan DW

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1alpha) up-regulated the expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) gene in pulmonary arteries of rats with hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension, 8 male Wistar rats in each of 5 groups were exposed to hypoxia for 0, 3, 7, 14 or 21 d, respectively. Mean pul...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li QF,Dai AG

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ cell nuclear factor (GCNF) is a transcription factor that can repress gene transcription and plays an important role during spermatogenesis. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARdelta) is a nuclear hormone receptor belonging to the steroid receptor superfamily. It can activate the expression of m...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： He C,Ding N,Kang J

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Gliomas are the most common brain tumors of the central nervous system. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanisms and biological function of SIRT6 in human gliomas. The expression levels of SIRT6 in glioma tissues and cells were analyzed by qRT-PCR and western blot analysis. CCK8 and clonogenicity assays...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Chen X,Li D,Gao Y,Cao Y,Hao B

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quality control (QC) system of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an important monitoring mechanism in the protein maturation process, which ensures export of properly folded proteins from the ER. Incorrectly or incompletely folded proteins are retained in the ER for refolding or degradation by the ER-residing prot...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Wu JC,Liang ZQ,Qin ZH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and has a strong correlation with heart failure. However, the effects of HHcy on cardiac tissue remain less well understood. To elucidate the role of p53-dependent apoptosis in HHcy-induced cardiac injury, we fed ApoE(-/-) mice with high methionin...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Ma S,Zhang H,Sun W,Gong H,Wang Y,Ma C,Wang J,Cao C,Yang X,Tian J,Jiang Y

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical meiosis is characterized by two sequential rounds of nuclear divisions following one round of DNA replication-reductional segregation of homologous chromosomes during the first division and equational segregation of sister chromatids during the second division. Meiosis in an inverted order of two nuclear div...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li W,He X

更新日期：2020-07-10 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：: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：:Both inhibitor of growth 4 (ING4) and phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) are well known as tumor suppressors that are closely related to tumor occurrence and progression. It was reported that ING4 and PTEN showed synergistic antitumor activities in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells. The two tu...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Rakshit N,Yang S,Zhou W,Xu Y,Deng C,Yang J,Yu H,Wei W

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The destruction of proteins via the ubiquitin-proteasome system is a multi-step, complex process involving polyubiquitination of substrate proteins, followed by proteolytic degradation by the macromolecular 26S proteasome complex. Inhibitors of the proteasome promote the accumulation of proteins that are deleterious t...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhu H,Wang T,Xin Z,Zhan Y,Gu G,Li X,Wang X,Yang S,Liu C

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, paclitaxel (PTX) were encapsulated with polyethylene glycol (PEG)-polylactide (PLA)/D-α tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (TPGS) (PEG-PLA/TPGS) and the enhanced anti-tumor activity of this PTX mixed micelles (PTX-MM) was evaluated in lung cancer cells. The PTX-MM prepared by a solvent...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Huang G,Zang B,Wang X,Liu G,Zhao J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is the most malignant and aggressive form of skin carcinoma originating in the pigment-producing melanocytes. In this study, to further investigate the molecular mechanisms of the development and progression of melanoma, we explored the impacts of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) CASC2 on melanoma cell functions....

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Wang Z,Wang X,Zhou H,Dan X,Jiang L,Wu Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are some short RNAs that regulate multiple biological functions at post-transcriptional levels, such as tumorigenic processes, inflammatory lesions and cell apoptosis. Zinc finger E-box binding homeobox factor 1 (ZEB1) is a crucial mediator of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). It induces mali...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhao L,Li R,Xu S,Li Y,Zhao P,Dong W,Liu Z,Zhao Q,Tan B

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor of human interleukin 4 (hIL4R) has been found to be present on many types of cancer, so it may be a good target for cancer therapy. Here, fusion toxin gene DT4H has been constructed by fusing DNA sequence encoding the first 389 amino acids of diphtherial toxin (DT), which can not bind its own receptor, to hum...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang YJ,Hu XB,Li SX,Tian LP,Yang SL,Gong Y

更新日期：2004-06-01 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 Hippo pathway was initially identified in Drosophila by genetic mosaic screens for tumor suppressor genes. Researches indicated that the Hippo pathway is a key regulator of organ size and is conserved during evolution. Furthermore, studies of mouse models and clinical samples demonstrated the importance of Hippo p...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhu C,Li L,Zhao B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diamagnetic levitation as a novel ground-based model for simulating a reduced gravity environment has been widely applied in many fields. In this study, a special designed superconducting magnet, which can produce three apparent gravity levels (0, 1, and 2 g), namely high magneto-gravitational environment (HMGE), ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Qian A,Di S,Gao X,Zhang W,Tian Z,Li J,Hu L,Yang P,Yin D,Shang P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is an age-related joint disease that is characterized by the degeneration of articular chondrocytes. Nuclear enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP-1) is associated with inflammation response. We investigated the role of PARP-1 in interleukin-1β (IL-1β)-stimulated human articular chondrocytes a...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Sun Y,Zhou L,Lv D,Liu H,He T,Wang X

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At initial stages in the Rhizobium legume symbiosis, most nodulation genes are controlled by NodD protein and plant inducers. Some genetic studies and other reports have suggested that NodD may be activated by its direct interaction with plant inducers. However, there has been no molecular evidence of such an inducing...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li F,Hou B,Chen L,Yao Z,Hong G

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：: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：: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