Carbon monoxide augments electrical signaling in cultured neural networks of hippocampal neurons partly through activation of BKCa channels.

abstract：:Sequence analysis of oxazolomycin (OZM) biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces albus JA3453 revealed a gene, ozmH, encoding a hybrid polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide enzyme. Tandem ketosynthase (KS) domains (KS 10-1 and KS 10-2) were characterized and they show significant homology with known KSs. Using an al...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Song D,Coughlin J,Ju J,Zhou X,Shen B,Zhao C,Deng Z

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs), which are a newly identified class of small single-stranded non-coding RNAs, regulate their target genes via post-transcriptional pathway. It has been proved that miRNAs play important roles in many biological processes. To better understand miRNA function on type 2 diabetes, we used an oligonucleo...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Huang B,Qin W,Zhao B,Shi Y,Yao C,Li J,Xiao H,Jin Y

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:Bcl-2, a prominent member of the Bcl-2 family proteins, is responsible for the dysregulation of apoptosis and resistance to chemotherapy. In this study, we investigated whether small hairpin RNA (shRNA) targeting at Bcl-2 mRNA could enhance cytarabine (Ara-C)-induced apoptosis in Raji cells. Bcl-2 shRNA was transfecte...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： He D,Fang B

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Prion diseases are a group of transmissible fatal neurodegenerative disorders of humans and animals, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Microglia, the resident macrophages of the central nervous system, are exquisitely sensitive to pathological tissue alterations, alter...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang S,Yang L,Kouadir M,Tan R,Lu Y,Chang J,Xu B,Yin X,Zhou X,Zhao D

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) plays a prominent role in the pathogenesis of infectious diseases. Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), which can attach to and invade human osteoblasts, is the most common causative agent of osteomyelitis. To determine whether S. aureus can activate NF-κB in human osteoblasts and explore ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Ning R,Zhang X,Guo X,Li Q

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flacherie disease in the silkworm is caused by the infectious flacherie virus (IFV). IFV relies on its 5' region of genomic RNA to recruit host-related factors to implement viral translation and replication. To identify host proteins bound to the 5'-region of IFV RNA and identify proteins important for its functio...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li M,He X,Liu H,Fu Z,He X,Lu X

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence has been accumulated indicating the important role of epigenetic regulation in tumor genesis. Previously, we observed that the transfection of hepatitis C virus core (HCVc) protein led to malignant transformation in normal biliary cells, and that tumor suppressor gene RASSF1A was downregulated in m...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Guo N,Chen R,Li Z,Liu Y,Cheng D,Zhou Q,Zhou J,Lin Q

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：: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：:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury-induced cardiomyocytes death is the main obstacle that limits the heart function recovery of the AMI patients. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by mitochondria is the main path...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li L,Zhang M,Chen W,Wang R,Ye Z,Wang Y,Li X,Cai C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in post-transcriptional gene silencing of target messenger RNAs, which are involved in virtually all biological processes. Previously, we have demonstrated that spheroid body-forming cells from the MKN-45 cancer cell line possessed gastric cancer stem cell (CSC) properties. In t...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu J,Ma L,Wang Z,Wang L,Liu C,Chen R,Zhang J

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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

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：:Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is fatal and there is currently no effective clinical treatment. The antibiotic doxycycline has shown anti-cancer effect in several kinds of solid tumors including prostate cancer. In this study, a combination of doxycycline and doxorubicin was used to investigate the synerg...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhu C,Yan X,Yu A,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercaptopropionic acid (MPA) and cysteamine (Cys) capped CdTe quantum dots (QDs) were successfully prepared and used to investigate the combined influence of surface modification, size distribution, and interaction time on their cytotoxicity in human pancreatic carcinoma (PANC-1) cells. Results indicated that the smal...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Chang S,Kang B,Liu X,Dai Y,Chen D

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) of histone proteins, such as acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, and ubiquitylation, play essential roles in regulating chromatin dynamics. Combinations of different modifications on the histone proteins, termed 'histone code' in many cases, extend the information potentia...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang X,Wen H,Shi X

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-3 (Gal-3) which shows affinity of β-galactosides is a cancer-related protein. Thus, it is important to understand its ligand binding mechanism and then design its specific inhibitor. It was suggested that the positions of water molecules in Gal-3 ligand-binding site could be replaced by appropriate chemical g...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Su J,Zhang T,Wang P,Liu F,Tai G,Zhou Y

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An L-amino acid oxidase (LAAO), NA-LAAO, was purified from the venom of Naja atra. Its N-terminal sequence shows great similarity with LAAOs from other snake venoms. NA-LAAO dose-dependently induced aggregation of washed human platelets. However, it had no activity on platelets in platelet-rich plasma. A low concentra...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li R,Zhu S,Wu J,Wang W,Lu Q,Clemetson KJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major cause of acute kidney damage, which often occurs in deceased donor kidney transplants. Cathelicidin PR-39 peptide possesses anti-inflammatory and wound repair effects through tissue angiogenesis and anti-apoptosis. This study assessed the role of PR-39 in anti-apoptosis in ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu J,Xue W,Xiang H,Zheng J,Zhao Y,Jiao L,Jiao Z

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Luffin-a, a single-chain Type I ribosome-inactivating protein, which is known to be the most toxic of the luffin family and apparently possesses antitumor activity, was isolated from Luffa cylindrica seeds. In the present study, mature alpha-luffin was cloned from L. cylindrica and it was found that mature alpha-luffi...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu L,Wang R,He W,He F,Huang G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia, a devastating neurological disorder commonly found in the elderly, is characterized by severe cognitive and memory impairment. Ample clinical and epidemiological evidence has depicted a close association between dementia and heart failure. While cerebral blood under perfusion and neurohormonal activation due...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yang M,Li C,Zhang Y,Ren J

更新日期：2020-01-02 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：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) play a vital role in viral control and clearance. Recent studies have elucidated that Tapasin, an endoplasmic reticulum chaperone, is a well-known molecule that appears to be essential in peptide-loading process. The Janus kinase/signal transducers and ac...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Wu S,Chen X,Tang Y,Zhang Y,Li D,Chen J,Wang J,Tang Z,Zang G,Yu Y

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00