Involvement of lymphoid inducer cells in the development of secondary and tertiary lymphoid structure.

abstract：:Inter-cellular communication via diffusible small molecules is a defining character not only of multicellular forms of life but also of single-celled organisms. A large number of bacterial genes are regulated by the change of chemical milieu mediated by the local population density of its own species or others. The ce...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Mitchell RJ,Lee SK,Kim T,Ghim CM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that a water extract of laurel or turmeric, 1,8-cineole enriched fractions, showed hypolipidemic activity in the zebrafish model. Therefore, the present study investigated the cineole's anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory activities in lipoprotein metabolism in vitro and in vivo. Cineole had inhibi...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Cho KH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoclasts are multinucleated giant cells derived from myeloid progenitors. Excessive bone resorption by osteoclasts can result in serious clinical outcomes for which better treatment options are needed. Here, we identified fibronectin leucine-rich transmembrane protein 2 (Flrt2), a ligand of the Unc5 receptor family...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Shirakawa J,Takegahara N,Kim H,Lee SH,Sato K,Yamagishi S,Choi Y

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanin synthesis is regulated by melanocyte specific enzymes and related transcription factors. β-carboline alkaloids including harmaline and harmalol are widely distributed in the environment including several plant families and alcoholic beverages. Presently, melanin content and tyrosinase activity were increased i...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park SY,Kim YH,Kim YH,Park G,Lee SJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hairless (HR), a transcriptional cofactor, is highly expressed in the skin and brain. To characterize the effects of HR expression in the skin, we examined its capacity for transcriptional regulation of its target genes in mouse skin and keratinocytes. We found that Foxe1 mRNA expression was suppressed in HR-overexpre...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Choi JH,Kim BK,Kim JK,Lee HY,Park JK,Yoon SK

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination therapy using chloroquine (CQ) and azithromycin (AZM) has drawn great attention due to its potential anti-viral activity against SARS-CoV-2. However, clinical trials have revealed that the co-administration of CQ and AZM resulted in severe side effects, including cardiac arrhythmia, in patients with COVID-...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim YS,Lee SY,Yoon JW,Kim D,Yu S,Kim JS,Kim JH

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have reported that delayed-rectifier Kv channels regulate apoptosis in the nervous system. Herein, we investigated changes in the expression of the delayed-rectifier Kv channels Kv1.2, Kv2.1, and Kv3.1 after acute spinal cord injury (SCI) in rats. We performed RT-PCR analysis and found an increase in th...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Song MY,Moon YJ,Shin SK,Kim TY,Yune TY,Park KS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor metastasis involves circulating and tumor-initiating capacities of metastatic cancer cells. Hepatic TM4SF5 promotes EMT for malignant growth and migration. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) biomarkers remain unexplored for metastatic potential throughout metastasis. Here, novel TM4SF5/CD44 interaction-mediated self...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee D,Lee JW

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions and their structural proteins, connexins (Cxs), have been implicated in carcinogenesis. To explore the involvement of Cx32 in gastric carcinogenesis, immunochemical analysis of Cx32 and proliferation marker Ki67 using tissue-microarrayed human gastric cancer and normal tissues was performed. In addition,...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Jee H,Lee SH,Park JW,Lee BR,Nam KT,Kim DY

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:We investigated the mechanisms involved in KHG26377 regulation of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) activity, focusing on the roles of SIRT4 and SIRT3. Intraperitoneal injection of mice with KHG26377 reduced GDH activity with concomitant repression of glucose-induced insulin secretion. Consistent with their known function...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim EA,Yang SJ,Choi SY,Lee WJ,Cho SW

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is involved in the pathogenesis of vascular diseases. Unlike activated protein C (APC), the activation of PAR-1 by thrombin is known to elicit proinflammatory responses. To determine whether the occupancy of EPCR by the Gla-domain of APC is responsible for the PAR-1-dependent antiinfl...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Bae JS,Rezaie AR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMPs; TIMP-1, -2, -3 and -4) are endogenous inhibitor for matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) that are responsible for remodeling the extracellular matrix (ECM) and involved in migration, invasion and metastasis of tumor cells. Unlike under normal conditions, the imbalance between...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim YS,Kim SH,Kang JG,Ko JH

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Insulin has antiapoptotic activity in various cell types. However, the signaling pathways underlying the antiapoptotic activity of insulin is not yet known. This study was conducted to determine if cAMP affects the antiapoptotic activity of insulin and the activity of PI3K and ERK in CHO cells expressing human insulin...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Cui ZG,Hong NY,Guan J,Kang HK,Lee DH,Lee YK,Park DB

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant GAPDH expression following S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) treatment was compared in HepG2 cells, which express functional p53, and Hep3B cells, which lack functional p53. The results of Western blotting and fluorescent immunocytochemistry revealed that nuclear translocation and accumulation of GAPDH occur in bot...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim JJ,Lee MY

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify the impact of Ca-binding sites (Ca1 and 2) on the conformational stability of neutral proteases (NPs), we have analyzed the thermal, pH and organic solvent stability of a NP variant, V189P/A195E/G203D/A268E (Q-mutant), from Salinovibrio proteolyticus. This mutant has shown to bind calcium more tigh...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Asghari SM,Khajeh K,Dalfard AB,Pazhang M,Karbalaei-Heidari HR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we characterized the function of HS1-binding protein 3 (HS1BP3), which is mutated in essential tremor and may be involved in lymphocyte activation. We found that HS1BP3 localized to the mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum partially. Overexpression of HS1BP3 induced apoptosis in HEK293T and HeL...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Shi T,Xie J,Xiong Y,Deng W,Guo J,Wang F,Ma D

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin/insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 signaling (IIS) pathway regulates aging in many organisms, ranging from simple invertebrates to mammals, including humans. Many seminal discoveries regarding the roles of IIS in aging and longevity have been made by using the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans and the fruit fly...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Altintas O,Park S,Lee SJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the prevalence of obesity has increased explosively over the last several decades, associated metabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases, have been also increased. Thus, new strategies for preventing and treating them are needed. The nuclear peroxisome pr...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Choi SS,Park J,Choi JH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential anti-metastasis and anti-invasion activities of early growth response gene-1 (Egr-1) and claudin-3, a tight junction (TJ)-related protein, were evaluated using histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors in human hepatocarcinoma cells. The results of wound healing and Transwell assays showed that HDAC inhibito...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim SO,Choi BT,Choi IW,Cheong J,Kim GY,Kwon TK,Kim ND,Choi YH

更新日期：2009-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins regulate many aspects of neuronal function through activation of the high affinity Trk receptors. Shc family proteins are implicated in the coupling of RTK to the Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling cascade. Here we report that the fourth Shc family member, ShcD, associates with TrkB receptor ...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： You Y,Li W,Gong Y,Yin B,Qiang B,Yuan J,Peng X

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, memory storage was localized to engram cells distributed across the brain. While these studies have provided an individual cellular profile of engram cells, their synaptic connectivity, or whether they follow Hebbian mechanisms, remains uncertain. Therefore, our recent study investigated whether s...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim JI,Choi DI,Kaang BK

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation is a delicately regulated process that couples growth signals and metabolic demands to produce daughter cells. Interestingly, the proliferation of tumor cells immensely depends on glycolysis, the Warburg effect, to ensure a sufficient amount of metabolic flux and bioenergetics for macromolecule synt...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kee HJ,Cheong JH

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basically, cancer is a disease initiated by mutations in the genome. However, cancer is regarded not only as a genetical disease but also an immunological disease because cancer cells can be targeted by the immune system. The immune system recognizes mutated proteins as non-self, foreign antigens, so-called neoantigen...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Shin EC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Integrated Stress Response (ISR) refers to a signaling pathway initiated by stress-activated eIF2α kinases. Once activated, the pathway causes attenuation of global mRNA translation while also paradoxically inducing stress response gene expression. A detailed analysis of this pathway has helped us better understan...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Ryoo HD,Vasudevan D

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12 kDa FK506-binding protein (FK506BP12), an immunosuppressor, modulates T cell activation via calcineurin inhibition. In this study, we investigated the ability of PEP-1-FK506BP12, consisting of FK506BP12 fused to the protein transduction domain PEP-1 peptide, to suppress catabolic responses in primary human chon...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Hwang HS,Park IY,Kim DW,Choi SY,Jung YO,Kim HA

更新日期：2015-07-01 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 (CS) is one of hallmarks of aging and accumulation of senescent cells (SCs) with age contributes to tissue or organismal aging, as well as the pathophysiologies of diverse age-related diseases (ARDs). Genetic ablation of SCs in tissues lengthened health span and reduced the risk of age-related path...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim EC,Kim JR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientists planning research that involves the use of animals are required to examine the possibilities for replacement, reduction, or refinement (the Three Rs), and their protocol must be reviewed by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Good scientific practice involving appropriate search techniques on t...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Choe BI,Lee GH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00