Sesamin induces melanogenesis by microphthalmia-associated transcription factor and tyrosinase up-regulation via cAMP signaling pathway.

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：:The natural alkaloid berberine has been recently described as a promising anticancer drug. In order to improve its efficacy and bioavailability, several derivatives have been designed and synthesized and found to be even more potent than the lead compound. Among the series of berberine derivatives we have produced, fi...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Guamán Ortiz LM,Croce AL,Aredia F,Sapienza S,Fiorillo G,Syeda TM,Buzzetti F,Lombardi P,Scovassi AI

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS), including H(2)O(2), play a critical role in the pathophysiology of osteoporosis. Therefore, agents or antioxidants that can inhibit ROS production have a high clinical value in the treatment of osteoporosis. Curculigoside (CUR), one of the main bioactive phenolic compounds isolated from ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Wang Y,Zhao L,Wang Y,Xu J,Nie Y,Guo Y,Tong Y,Qin L,Zhang Q

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant microRNA (miRNA) expression plays a critical role in osteosarcoma (OS) pathogenesis. In this study, we elucidated the involvement of miR-487a in OS and the underlying molecular mechanisms. We found that miR-487a was upregulated in OS clinical samples and cell lines. Knockdown of miR-487a suppressed OS cell gr...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Gu Z,Wu S,Xu G,Wu W,Mao B,Zhao S

更新日期：2020-06-20 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：: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：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the key devastating bacterial pathogen responsible for tuberculosis. Increasing emergence of multi-drug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and rifampicin/isoniazid-resistant strains of Mtb makes the discovery of validated drug targets an urgent priority. As a vital translational...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yang J,Hong J,Luo L,Liu K,Meng C,Ji ZL,Lin D

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Anoikis resistance is a critical process for cancer cell metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and microRNA-1827 (miR-1827) is closely correlated with NSCLC metastasis. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the role of miR-1827 in regulating the anoikis resistance of NSCLC. The results showed that miR-1827 l...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Guo X,Wang Z,Sun Q,Sun C,Hua H,Huang Q

更新日期：2020-10-19 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：:Metastasis is the main reason for high recurrence and poor survival of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The molecular mechanism underlying HCC metastasis remains unclear. In this study, we found that argininosuccinate synthase 1 (ASS1) expression was significantly decreased and down-regulation of ASS1 was closely corre...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Tao X,Zuo Q,Ruan H,Wang H,Jin H,Cheng Z,Lv Y,Qin W,Wang C

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most deadly human malignant diseases and the sixth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in China. Gemcitabine is the only first-line chemotherapeutic agent used for the palliative treatment of patients with PDAC, but chemo-resistance limits their efficacy. Here, ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yao J,Li Z,Wang X,Xu P,Zhao L,Qian J

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Thyroid cancer is one of the common malignancies of the endocrine system and the number of thyroid cancer cases is increasing constantly. Significant work has focused on the molecular mechanisms of thyroid cancer, but many mechanisms remain undiscovered. In this study, we employed a comprehensive analysis of whole-tra...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Guan Y,Bhandari A,Xia E,Kong L,Zhang X,Wang O

更新日期：2020-02-03 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：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) is expressed in pancreatic β cells and is involved in insulin secretion. However, the precise mechanisms remain unclear. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase (CASK), which plays a vital role in the anchoring of insulin granules on pancreatic β cell me...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang K,Yuan Q,Xie J,Yuan L,Wang Y

更新日期：2019-07-10 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 (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：:Acyl-coenzymeA:cholesterol acyltransferase 2 (ACAT2) is abundantly expressed in intestine and fetal liver of healthy human. Our previous studies have shown that in monocytic cells the low-level expression of human ACAT2 gene with specific CpG-hypomethylated promoter is regulated by the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Guo D,Zhang X,Li Q,Qian L,Xu J,Lu M,Hu X,Zhu M,Chang CC,Song B,Chang T,Xiong Y,Li B

更新日期：2016-11-01 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 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：: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 critical molecular mechanism in the development of the pulmonary fibrosis remains unknown, leaving diagnosed patients with a poor prognosis. To isolate the genes specifically up-regulated in pulmonary fibrosis, we established a rat silicosis model 360 d after treatment with crystalline silica suspension. Radiograp...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Jin Z,Liu B,Feng D,Chen C,Li X,Hu Y,Peng J,Liu Y,Du J,Fu C,Wen J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein 120 (gp120) binds to cell surface receptors and mediates HIV entry. Previous studies suggest the cell surface protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) might interact with disulfide bond(s) of gp120 and thus facilitate HIV-1 entry. In the present study, a kineti...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Wang Z,Zhou Z,Guo ZY,Chi CW

更新日期：2010-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a mistletoe lectin (ML) was purified from Chinese mistletoe and the effect of this 60 kDa Chinese ML on human gammadelta T cell cytotoxicity, apoptosis and modulation of the cytokine network was studied. The cytotoxic properties of delta T cells was evaluated by using a (51)Cr release test and employed ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Gong F,Ma Y,Ma A,Yu Q,Zhang J,Nie H,Chen X,Shen B,Li N,Zhang D

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Gastric ulcers (GUs) are common pathologies that affect many people around the world. Excessive alcohol consumption is one of the main causes of GUs; however, there are still lack of effective drugs for the prevention or therapy of GUs. In this study, we evaluated the protective effects and possible mechanisms of kaem...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li Q,Hu X,Xuan Y,Ying J,Fei Y,Rong J,Zhang Y,Zhang J,Liu C,Liu Z

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wogonoside, a bioactive flavonoid component derived from Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, has been reported to inhibit tumor growth in mice bearing various types of cancer cells such as breast cancer, lung cancer, and leukemia cells. However, whether wogonoside could inhibit tumor growth of endometrial cancer has not b...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Chen S,Wu Z,Ke Y,Shu P,Chen C,Lin R,Shi Q

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00