Snapshot of the interaction between HIV envelope glycoprotein 120 and protein disulfide isomerase.

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G-proteins localized in the plasma membrane convey the signals from G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) to different effectors. At least some types of G-protein α subunits have been shown to be partly released from plasma membranes and to move into the cytosol after receptor activation by the agonists. ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Drastichova Z,Novotny J

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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：:Kaempferol is a flavonoid that has been reported to exhibit antitumor activity in various malignant tumors. However, the role of kaempferol on cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is largely unknown. In this article, we found that kaempferol inhibited proliferation, reduced colony formation ability, and induced apoptosis in HCCC9...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Qin Y,Cui W,Yang X,Tong B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant peptide, DBAYL, a promising therapeutic peptide for type 2 diabetes, is a new, potent, and highly selective agonist for VPAC2 generated through site-directed mutagenesis based on sequence alignments of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), and rela...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Ma Y,Luo T,Xu W,Ye Z,Hong A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was undertaken to examine the effects of C-peptide on glomerular volume (V(GLOM)), mesangial matrix synthesis, and degradation in streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic rats with poor or moderate glycemic control. Series 1 (poor glycemic control) included groups of healthy rats, hyperglycemic rats, diabetic insulin-t...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Sun W,Gao X,Zhao X,Cui D,Xia Q

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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：:Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) (EC 1.2.1.12), a key enzyme of carbon metabolism, was purified and characterized to homogeneity from skeletal muscle of Camelus dromedarius. The protein was purified approximately 26.8 folds by conventional ammonium sulphate fractionation followed by Blue Sepharose CL-6...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Fourrat L,Iddar A,Soukri A

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Recent studies have suggested that antibodies can catalyze the generation of unknown oxidants including hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and ozone (O3) from singlet oxygen (1O2) and water. This study is aimed to detect the effect of antibody-catalyzed water oxidation on atherosclerosis. Our results showed that both H2O2 and O...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Peng KJ,Huang YS,An LN,Han XQ,Zhang JG,Wang QL,Sun J,Wang SR

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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 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 mechanisms of chronic neuropathic pain are not clear. Serum microRNAs (miRNAs) might show a special feature for chronic nervous lesions. However, little is known about the changes in circulating miRNAs for the neuropathic pain. Therefore, changes in the circulating miRNAs expression profile for the neuropathic pai...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Xu Y,Zhang X,Pu S,Wu J,Lv Y,Du D

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Glucosidases are important in the formation of floral tea aroma and the development of resistance to pathogens and herbivores in tea plants. A novel beta-glucosidase was purified 117-fold to homogeneity, with a yield of 1.26%, from tea leaves by chilled acetone and ammonium sulfate precipitation, ion exchange chr...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li YY,Jiang CJ,Wan XC,Zhang ZZ,Li DX

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that the expression of the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) AFAP1-AS1 in pancreatic cancer is negatively correlated with survival and prognosis. However, the effects of oridonin and lncRNA AFAP1-AS1 on the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and migration of pancreatic cancer cells ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Lou S,Xu J,Wang B,Li S,Ren J,Hu Z,Xu B,Luo F

更新日期：2019-08-05 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：:Several studies have shown that combination treatment with natural products and chemotherapy agents can improve the sensitivity and cytotoxicity of chemotherapy agents. Resveratrol, a natural product, has many biological effects including antitumor and antiviral activities, as well as vascular protective effect. The a...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Hu S,Li X,Xu R,Ye L,Kong H,Zeng X,Wang H,Xie W

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (TPP) is an essential enzyme for growth of mycobacteria, which has been identified to be a potential anti-tuberculosis drug target. However, the biochemical and ligand-binding properties and the 3D structure of TPP remain unclear so far. In the present study, we expressed the recombin...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Shi L,Zhang H,Qiu Y,Wang Q,Wu X,Wang H,Zhang X,Lin D

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Allelic loss of chromosome 3p, including the 3p21.3 region, is found in 95-100% of primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) biopsies, suggesting that this region should harbor some tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) closely related to NPC development. Several TSGs located at 3p21.3, such as RASSF1A, LTF and BLU, have been de...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhou W,Feng X,Li H,Wang L,Zhu B,Liu W,Zhao M,Yao K,Ren C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallothionein 2A (MT2A) is a small stress response protein that can be induced by exposure to toxic metals. It is highly expressed in breast cancer cells. In this study, the cDNA encoding the human MT2A protein was expressed as glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion protein in Escherichia coli. Recombinant MT2A prot...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Marikar FM,Sun QM,Hua ZC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutively activated signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) plays an important role in the formation of many tumors including ovarian cancer. In this study, RNA interference specific to STAT3 was employed to study its effects on the inhibition of STAT3 signaling and on the growth of ovarian can...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Huang F,Tong X,Fu L,Zhang R

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Gene therapy has emerged as a promising approach for the lethal disorder of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Using a novel non-viral delivery system, the human ribosomal DNA (hrDNA) targeting vector, we targeted a minidystrophin-GFP fusion gene into the hrDNA locus of HT1080 cells with a high site-specific integrate...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yang J,Liu X,Yu J,Sheng L,Shi Y,Li Z,Hu Y,Xue J,Wu L,Liang Y,Xia J,Liang D

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aims to characterize the effect of chronic intermittent hypoxia and HIF1α on the non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) process in mice, and to explore the role of the Treg/Th17 balance in the formation of NASH inflammation and fibrosis. To achieve this purpose, simple steatosis was induced in mice by ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu J,Li W,Zhu W,He W,Zhao H,Xiang Y,Liu C,Wu W

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) function as negative regulators of gene expression involved in cancer metastasis. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential roles of miR-218 in non-small cell lung cancer and validate its regulation mechanism. Functional studies showed that miR-218 overexpression inhibited cell migration...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang C,Ge S,Hu C,Yang N,Zhang J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00