ZNF552, a novel human KRAB/C2H2 zinc finger protein, inhibits AP-1- and SRE-mediated transcriptional activity.

abstract：:GROWTH-REGULATING FACTORs (GRFs) are sequencepecific DNA-binding transcription factors that regulate various aspects of plant growth and development. GRF proteins interact with a transcription cofactor, GRF-INTERACTING FACTOR (GIF), to form a functional transcriptional complex. For its activities, the GRF-GIF duo requ...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim JH

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphomannose isomerase (PMI) catalyzes the interconversion of fructose-6-phosphate and mannose-6-phosphate in the extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) synthesis pathway. The gene encoding PMI in Sphingomonas chungbukensis DJ77 was cloned and expressed in E. coli. The pmi gene is 1,410 nucleotides long and the deduced ...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Tran ST,Le DT,Kim YC,Shin M,Choi JD

更新日期：2009-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggest that EphA7 plays a critical role in neural tube closure or cortical progenitor apoptosis. In this report, enhancer trap assay was used to modify various EphA7 BAC clones and screen a large genomic region spanning 570 kb downstream of the EphA7 gene. We found that the dorsal midline-specific Ep...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim Y,Park S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the corneal regeneration induced by bevacizumab, we investigated the structure changes of stroma and basement membrane regeneration. A Stick soaked in 0.5 N NaOH onto the mouse cornea and 2.5 mg/ml of bevacizumab was delivered into an alkali-burned cornea (2 μl) by subconjunctival injections at 1 hour an...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee KJ,Lee JY,Lee SH,Choi TH

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose effects on the vegetative growth of Dictyostelium discoideum Ax2 were studied by examining oxidative stress and tetrahydropteridine synthesis in cells cultured with different concentrations (0.5X, 7.7 g L(-1); 1X, 15.4 g L(-1); 2X, 30.8 g L(-1)) of glucose. The growth rate was optimal in 1X cells (cells grown ...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park SO,Kim HL,Lee SW,Park YS

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Jun activation-domain binding protein 1 (Jab1) induces p53 nuclear export and cytoplasmic degradation, but the underlying mechanism is poorly understood. Here, we show that phosphorylation at the threonine 155 residue is essential for Jab1-mediated p53 nuclear export. Jab1 stimulated phosphorylation of p53 at T155...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee EW,Oh W,Song HP,Kim WK

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular senescence is a state of permanent cell cycle arrest which exhibits large and flattened morphological characteristics. Cellular senescence might evolve to a beneficial process to suppress the accumulation of severely damaged cells. However, senescent cells are considered as the cause of age-related pathologie...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee JS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is widely-considered to be a modulating factor of anoikis and cancer metastasis. We found that, in MDA-MB-231 cells, TP53I11 (tumor protein P53 inducible protein 11) suppressed EMT and migration in vitro, and inhibited metastasis in vivo. Our findings showed that hypoxic treatme...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Xiao T,Xu Z,Zhang H,Geng J,Qiao Y,Liang Y,Yu Y,Dong Q,Suo G

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-molecule inhibitors of protein kinases have contributed immensely to our understanding of biological signaling pathways and have been exploited therapeutically for the treatment of cancers and other disease states. The pyridinyl imidazole compounds SB 203580 and SB 202190 were identified as ATP competitive antag...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Shanware NP,Williams LM,Bowler MJ,Tibbetts RS

更新日期：2009-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become popular as an approach for the identification of large numbers of phenotype-associated variants. However, differences in genetic architecture and environmental factors mean that the effect of variants can vary across populations. Understanding population genetic diver...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim YU,Kim YJ,Lee JY,Park K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) production is considered to be a promising approach to the treatment of various diseases, including inflammation and cancer. In this study, we examined the effects of the Agrocybe chaxingu beta-glucan (polysaccharide) on lipopolysaccaride (LPS)-induced n...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee BR,Kim SY,Kim DW,An JJ,Song HY,Yoo KY,Kang TC,Won MH,Lee KJ,Kim KH,Joo JH,Ham HJ,Hur JH,Cho SW,Han KH,Lee KS,Park J,Choi SY,Eum WS

更新日期：2009-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the correlation between the glycosylation modified prion proteins and apoptosis. The wild-type PRNP gene and four PRNP gene glycosylated mutants were transiently expressed in HeLa cells. The effect of apoptosis induced by PrP mutants was confirmed by MTT assay, Hochest staining, Annexin-V staining and P...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Yang Y,Chen L,Pan HZ,Kou Y,Xu CM

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:LRRK2 (leucine-rich repeat kinase 2) has been identified as a gene corresponding to PARK8, an autosomal-dominant gene for familial Parkinson's disease (PD). LRRK2 pathogenic-specific mutants induce neurotoxicity and shorten neurites. To elucidate the mechanism underlying LRRK2 expression, we constructed the LRRK2-prom...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park JM,Ho DH,Yun HJ,Kim HJ,Lee CH,Park SW,Kim YH,Son I,Seol W

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there have been many studies of native Korean cattle, Hanwoo, there have been no selective sweep studies in these animals. This study was performed to characterize genetic variation and identify selective signatures. We sequenced the genomes of 12 cattle, and identified 15125420 SNPs, 1768114 INDELs, and 3445...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee T,Cho S,Seo KS,Chang J,Kim H,Yoon D

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine methylation plays crucial roles in many cellular functions including signal transduction, RNA transcription, and regulation of gene expression. Protein arginine methyltransferase 8 (PRMT8), a unique brain-specific protein, is localized to the plasma membrane. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms underly...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park SW,Jun YW,Choi HE,Lee JA,Jang DJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of an increase of osteoclasts has become the most important treatment for osteoporosis. The CXCR4 antagonist, AMD3100, plays an important role in the mobilization of osteoclast precursors within bone marrow (BM). However, the actual therapeutic impact of AMD3100 in osteoporosis has not yet been ascertained....

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Im JY,Min WK,Park MH,Kim N,Lee JK,Jin HK,Choi JY,Kim SY,Bae JS

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In multicellular organisms, including humans, understanding expression specificity at the tissue level is essential for interpreting protein function, such as tissue differentiation. We developed a prediction approach via generated sequence features from overrepresented patterns in housekeeping (HK) and tissue-specifi...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Paik H,Ryu T,Heo HS,Seo SW,Lee D,Hur CG

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degenerative retinal diseases affect millions of people worldwide, which can lead to the loss of vision. However, therapeutic approaches that can reverse this process are limited. Recent efforts have allowed the possibility of the stem cell-based regeneration of retinal cells and repair of injured retinal tissues. Alt...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Jeon S,Oh IH

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle contracts or relaxes to maintain the body position and locomotion. For the contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscle, Ca2＋ in the cytosol of skeletal muscle fibers acts as a switch to turn on and off a series of contractile proteins. The cytosolic Ca2＋ level in skeletal muscle fibers is governed ma...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Cho CH,Lee KJ,Lee EH

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphatase 4 (PP4), one of serine/threonine phosphatases, is involved in many critical cellular pathways, including DNA damage response (DNA repair, cell cycle regulation, and apoptosis), tumorigenesis, cell migration, immune response, stem cell development, glucose metabolism, and diabetes. PP4 has been stea...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park J,Lee DH

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In embryonic stem cells (ESCs), cell cycle regulation is deeply connected to pluripotency. Especially, core transcription factors (CTFs) which are essential to maintaining the pluripotency transcription programs should be reset during M/G1 transition. However, it remains unknown about how CTFs are governed during cell...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Shin J,Youn HD

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tunicamycin, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress inducer, specifically inhibits N-glycosylation. The cyclic AMP (cAMP) response element-binding protein H (CREBH) was previously shown to be regulated by UPR-dependent proteolytic cleavage in the liver. On the other hand, the role of CREBH in other tissues is unknown. I...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Jang WG,Kim EJ,Koh JT

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioma-Associated Oncogene Homolog1 (Gli1) is known to be activated in malignant glioma; however, its downstream pathway has not been fully explained. The aim of this study was to explore the role of Gli1-Aquaporin1 (AQP1) signal pathway in glioma cell survival. Our data suggests that both Gli1 and AQP1 are upregulate...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Liao ZQ,Ye M,Yu PG,Xiao C,Lin FY

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleolar and coiled-body phosphoprotein 1 (NOLC1) is a phosphoprotein that transiently associates with the mature nucleolar H/ACA and C/D box small nucleolar ribonucleoproteins (snoRNPs). Several lines of evidence indicate that NOLC1 plays an important role in the synthesis of rRNA and the biosynthesis of ribosomes. ...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Gao X,Wang Q,Li W,Yang B,Song H,Ju W,Liu S,Cheng J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-18 production may enhance immune system defense against KG-1 cells ; NB4 cells, which are associated with good prognosis, do not produce IL-18. In this study, we treated KG-1 cells with IL-18 and used microarray technology to assess subsequent effects on gene expression. In UniGene-array of 7488 human genes, expres...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Seo M,Park M,Yook Y,Kwon YS,Suh YJ,Kim MJ,Cho D,Park JH

更新日期：2008-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (MGAT) is a microsomal enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of diacylglycerol (DAG) and triacylglycerol (TAG). However, the subcellular localization and catalytic function domain of this enzyme is poorly understood. In this report, we identified that murine MGAT1 localizes to the endo...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee YJ,Kim JW

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an essential cytokine that has functions in the formation of new blood vessels and regression of cardiac hypertrophy. VEGF/VEGF-receptor-1 (VEGFR1) signaling plays a key role in the regression of cardiac hypertrophy, whereas VEGF/VEGFR2 signaling leads to cardiac hypertroph...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee JS,Song DW,Park JH,Kim JO,Cho C,Kim DH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-3 is a carbohydrate-binding protein and regulates diverse functions, including cell proliferation and differentiation, mRNA splicing, apoptosis induction, immune surveillance and inflammation, cell adhesion, angiogenesis, and cancer-cell metastasis. Galectin-3 is also recommended as a diagnostic or prognostic...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim SJ,Chun KH

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During development lymphoid tissue inducer (LTi) cells are the first hematopoietic cells to enter the secondary lymphoid anlagen and induce lymphoid tissue neogenesis. LTi cells induce lymphoid tissue neogensis by expressing a wide range of proteins that are associated with lymphoid organogenesis. Among these proteins...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Evans I,Kim MY

更新日期：2009-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin is an essential, highly-conserved small regulatory protein in eukaryotic cells. It covalently modifies a wide variety of targeted proteins in the forms of monomer and polymers, altering the conformation and binding properties of the proteins and thus regulating proteasomal delivery, protein activities and lo...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Peng J

更新日期：2008-03-31 00:00:00