Molecular mechanisms for survival regulation of chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells.

abstract：:S-Nitros(yl)ation is a ubiquitous redox-based post-translational modification of protein cysteine thiols by nitric oxide or its derivatives, which transduces the bioactivity of nitric oxide (NO) by regulation of protein conformation, activity, stability, localization and protein-protein interactions. These years, more...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang X,Huang B,Zhang L,Zhang Y,Zhao Y,Guo X,Qiao X,Chen C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are an important system to study early human development, model human diseases, and develop cell replacement therapies. However, genetic manipulation of hPSCs is challenging and a method to simultaneously activate multiple genomic sites in a controllable manner is sorely needed. He...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Guo J,Ma D,Huang R,Ming J,Ye M,Kee K,Xie Z,Na J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal recessive inherited disorder characterized by a variety of clinical features, including increased sensitivity to sunlight, progressive neurological abnormalities, and the appearance of premature aging. However, the pathogenesis of CS remains unclear due to the limitations of ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang S,Min Z,Ji Q,Geng L,Su Y,Liu Z,Hu H,Wang L,Zhang W,Suzuiki K,Huang Y,Zhang P,Tang TS,Qu J,Yu Y,Liu GH,Qiao J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is able to discriminate visual landmarks and form visual long-term memory in a flight simulator. Studies focused on the molecular mechanism of long-term memory have shown that memory formation requires mRNA transcription and protein synthesis. However, little is known about the ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Jiang H,Hou Q,Gong Z,Liu L

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host takes use of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) to defend against pathogen invasion or cellular damage. Among microorganism-associated molecular patterns detected by host PRRs, nucleic acids derived from bacteria or viruses are tightly supervised, providing a fundamental mechanism of host defense. Pathogeni...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xia P,Wang S,Gao P,Gao G,Fan Z

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) is an important pattern recognition receptor that detects viral RNA and triggers the production of type-I interferons through the downstream adaptor MAVS (also called IPS-1, CARDIF, or VISA). A series of structural studies have elaborated some of the mechanisms of dsRNA recogniti...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Feng M,Ding Z,Xu L,Kong L,Wang W,Jiao S,Shi Z,Greene MI,Cong Y,Zhou Z

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the fused in sarcoma/translocated in liposarcoma (FUS/TLS) gene have been associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). FUS-positive neuropathology is reported in a range of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS and fronto-temporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive pathology (FTLDU). T...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Fushimi K,Long C,Jayaram N,Chen X,Li L,Wu JY

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in a highly conserved ribosome assembly factor SBDS. The functional role of SBDS is to cooperate with another assembly factor, elongation factor 1-like (Efl1), to promote the release of eukaryotic initiation factor 6 (eIF6...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ma C,Yan K,Tan D,Li N,Zhang Y,Yuan Y,Li Z,Dong MQ,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli fadR protein product, a paradigm/prototypical FadR regulator, positively regulates fabA and fabB, the two critical genes for unsaturated fatty acid (UFA) biosynthesis. However the scenario in the other Ɣ-proteobacteria, such as Shewanella with the marine origin, is unusual in that Rodionov and cow...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang H,Zheng B,Gao R,Feng Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) is a relatively minor component of sunlight, but can induce stress-related physiological processes or UV-B-specific photomorphogenic responses in plants. In the last decade, significant progress has been made in understanding the UV-B photomorphogenic pathway, including identification of the key c...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Li J,Yang L,Jin D,Nezames CD,Terzaghi W,Deng XW

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sometimes crystals cannot diffract X-rays beyond 3.0 Å resolution due to the intrinsic flexibility associated with the protein. Low resolution diffraction data not only pose a challenge to structure determination, but also hamper interpretation of mechanistic details. Crystals of a 25.6 kDa non-Pfam, hypothetical prot...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Su J,Li Y,Shaw N,Zhou W,Zhang M,Xu H,Wang BC,Liu ZJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydration is one of the key steps in the biosynthesis of mycolic acids and is vital to the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Consequently, stalling dehydration cures tuberculosis (TB). Clinically used anti-TB drugs like thiacetazone (TAC) and isoxyl (ISO) as well as flavonoids inhibit the enzyme activity o...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Dong Y,Qiu X,Shaw N,Xu Y,Sun Y,Li X,Li J,Rao Z

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the majority of all human cancers counteract telomere shortening by expressing telomerase, ~15% of all cancers maintain telomere length by a telomerase-independent mechanism known as alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT). Here, we show that high load of intrinsic DNA damage is present in ALT cancer cells, l...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ge Y,Wu S,Zhang Z,Li X,Li F,Yan S,Liu H,Huang J,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is the largest internal organ in mammals, and is important for the maintenance of normal physiological functions of other tissues and organs. Hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer and other chronic liver diseases are serious threats to human health, and these problems are compounded by a scarcity of liver donor...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Chen X,Zeng F

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocyst complementation by pluripotent stem cell (PSC) injection is believed to be the most promising method to generate xenogeneic organs. However, ethical issues prevent the study of human chimeras in the late embryonic stage of development. Primate embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which have similar pluripotency to ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Fu R,Yu D,Ren J,Li C,Wang J,Feng G,Wang X,Wan H,Li T,Wang L,Zhang Y,Hai T,Li W,Zhou Q

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to evaluate ERK5 expression in lung cancer and malignant melanoma progression and to ascertain the involvement of ERK5 signaling in lung cancer and melanoma. We show that ERK5 expression is abundant in human lung cancer samples, and elevated ERK5 expression in lung cancer was linked to the acqu...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Jiang W,Cai F,Xu H,Lu Y,Chen J,Liu J,Cao N,Zhang X,Chen X,Huang Q,Zhuang H,Hua ZC

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral mucositis, a severe oral ulceration, is a common toxic effect of radio- or chemoradio-therapy and a limiting factor to using the maximum dose of radiation for effective cancer treatment. Among cancer patients, at least 40% and up to 70%, of individuals treated with standard chemotherapy regimens or upper-body rad...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Bian L,Han G,Zhao CW,Garl PJ,Wang XJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocyte is an important cell type which is involved in various complex human diseases. To better understand the biology of human monocytes and facilitate further studies, we developed the first comprehensive proteome knowledge base specifically for human monocytes by integrating both in vivo and in vitro datase...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zeng Y,Deng FY,Zhu W,Zhang L,He H,Xu C,Tian Q,Zhang JG,Zhang LS,Hu HG,Deng HW

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siva-1, as a p53-inducible gene, has been shown to induce extensive apoptosis in a number of different cell lines. Recent evidence suggests that Siva-1 functions as a part of the auto-regulatory feedback loop that restrains p53 through facilitating Mdm2-mediated p53 degradation. Also, Siva-1 plays an important role in...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Mei Y,Wu M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) depend on glycolysis for energy and substrates for biosynthesis. To understand the mechanisms governing the metabolism of hESCs, we investigated the transcriptional regulation of glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1, SLC2A1), a key glycolytic gene to maintain pluripotency. By combining the g...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Yu L,Ji KY,Zhang J,Xu Y,Ying Y,Mai T,Xu S,Zhang QB,Yao KT,Xu Y

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have promising applications in regenerative medicine, most of the hiPSC lines available today are not suitable for clinical applications due to contamination with nonhuman materials, such as sialic acid, and potential pathogens from animal-product-containing cell cul...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang Q,Mou X,Cao H,Meng Q,Ma Y,Han P,Jiang J,Zhang H,Ma Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous clonal disorder of myeloid precursors arrested in their maturation, creating a diverse disease entity with a wide range of responses to historically standard treatment approaches. While significant progress has been made in characterizing and individualizing the disease ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Peloquin GL,Chen YB,Fathi AT

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vision formation is classically based on projections from retinal ganglion cells (RGC) to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and the primary visual cortex (V1). Neurons in the mouse V1 are tuned to light stimuli. Although the cellular information of the retina and the LGN has been widely studied, the transcriptome p...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Liu J,Wang M,Sun L,Pan NC,Zhang C,Zhang J,Zuo Z,He S,Wu Q,Wang X

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most frequent human malignancies worldwide with very poor prognosis. It is generally accepted that the progression of HCC is a long-term process with accumulation of multiple genetic and epigenetic alterations, which further lead to the activation of critical oncogenes or i...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Liu M,Jiang L,Guan XY

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies are among the most effective biotherapeutics to date. An important aspect of antibodies is their ability to bind antigen while at the same time recruit immune effector functions. The majority of approved recombinant monoclonal antibody therapies are of the human IgG1 subclass, which c...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang X,Mathieu M,Brezski RJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently found that growth factor receptor-bound (Grb) protein 14 is a novel physiological modulator of photoreceptor specific cyclic nucleotide-gated channel alpha subunit (CNGA1). Grb14 promotes the CNG channel closure through its Ras-associating (RA) domain. In the current study we show that this RA domain-media...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Gupta VK,Rajala A,Rodgers KK,Rajala RV

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New anti-tubercular drugs and drug targets are urgently needed to reduce the time for treatment and also to identify agents that will be effective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis persisting intracellularly. Mycobacteria have a unique cell wall. Deletion of the gene for arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT) decreases ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Westwood IM,Bhakta S,Russell AJ,Fullam E,Anderton MC,Kawamura A,Mulvaney AW,Vickers RJ,Bhowruth V,Besra GS,Lalvani A,Davies SG,Sim E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial lipopeptides play an important role in apoptosis induction of tumor cells. However, there is little knowledge about the relationship between apoptosis induction and membrane fatty acids. The present study focused on the effects of lipopeptides produced by Bacillus subtilis HSO121 on Bcap-37 cell lines. 3-(4,...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Liu X,Tao X,Zou A,Yang S,Zhang L,Mu B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cells are a novel option for adoptive cell therapy used for the treatment of several advanced forms of cancer. Work using TCR-engineered T cells began more than two decades ago, with numerous preclinical studies showing that such cells could mediate tumor lysis and eradication. The s...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ping Y,Liu C,Zhang Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) comprise two functionally distinct subsets: plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) and myeloid DCs (mDCs). pDCs are specialized in rapid and massive secretion of type I interferon (IFN-I) in response to nucleic acids through Toll like receptor (TLR)-7 or TLR-9. In this report, we characterized a CD56(+) DC popu...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Yu H,Zhang P,Yin X,Yin Z,Shi Q,Cui Y,Liu G,Wang S,Piccaluga PP,Jiang T,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00