A heat shock cognate 70 gene in the endoparasitoid, Pteromalus puparum, and its expression in relation to thermal stress.

abstract：:All living cells release extracellular vesicles having pleiotropic functions in intercellular communication. Mammalian extracellular vesicles, also known as exosomes and microvesicles, are spherical bilayered proteolipids composed of various bioactive molecules, including RNAs, DNAs, proteins, and lipids. Extracellula...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Yoon YJ,Kim OY,Gho YS

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：: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：:Colon cancer is one of the most lethal and common malignancies worldwide. STK899704, a novel synthetic agent, has been reported to exhibit anticancer effects towards numerous cancer cells. However, the effect of STK899704 on the biological properties of colon cancer, including cancer cell migration and cancer stem cel...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Jang HJ,Bak Y,Pham TH,Kwon SB,Kim BY,Hong J,Yoon DY

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:Viruses have evolved to manipulate the host cell machinery for virus propagation, in part by interfering with the host cellular signaling network. Molecular studies of individual pathways have uncovered many viral host-protein targets; however, it is difficult to predict how viral perturbations will affect the signali...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Xue Q,Miller-Jensen K

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MED19 is a member of the Mediator that plays a key role in the activation and repression of signal transduction or the regulation of transcription in carcinomas. To tested the functional role of MED19 in human prostate cancer, we downregulated MED19 expression in prostate cancer cells (PC-3 and DU145) by lentivirus-me...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Cui X,Xu D,Lv C,Qu F,He J,Chen M,Liu Y,Gao Y,Che J,Yao Y,Yu H

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a group of inherited disorders characterized by compromised T lymphocyte differentiation related to abnormal development of other lymphocytes [i.e., B and/or natural killer (NK) cells], leading to death early in life unless treated immediately with hematopoietic stem cell tra...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Iqbal MA,Hong K,Kim JH,Choi Y

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is a natural and gradual process in human life. It is influenced by heredity, environment, lifestyle, and disease. DNA methylation varies with age, and the ability to predict the age of donor using DNA from evidence materials at a crime scene is of considerable value in forensic investigations. Recently, many st...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Jung SE,Shin KJ,Lee HY

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Dorsoventral patterning of body axis in vertebrate embryo is tightly controlled by a complex regulatory network of transcription factors. Ventx1.1 is known as a transcriptional repressor to inhibit dorsal mesoderm formation and neural differentiation in Xenopus. In an attempt to identify, using chromatin immunoprecipi...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kumar S,Umair Z,Kumar V,Lee U,Choi SC,Kim J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of lipids in cell signaling and tissue physiology is demonstrated by the many CNS pathologies involving deregulated lipid metabolism. One such critical metabolic event is the activation of phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)), which results in the hydrolysis of membrane phospholipids and the release of free fatt...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Adibhatla RM,Hatcher JF

更新日期：2008-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to investigate the protective role of taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonic acid) against cadmium (Cd) induced oxidative stress in murine erythrocytes. Cadmium chloride (CdCl(2)) was chosen as the source of Cd. Experimental animals were treated with either CdCl(2) alone or taurine, followed b...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Sinha M,Manna P,Sil PC

更新日期：2008-09-30 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：:The Ras/Raf/MEK/Erk signaling pathway is important for regulation of cell growth, proliferation, differentiation, survival, and apoptosis in response to a variety of extracellular stimuli. Lack of Erk MAPK activation is observed in several cancer cells despite active activation of Ras. However, little is known about t...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park YJ,Lee JM,Shin SY,Kim YH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphatase 1 consists of a secondary structure arrangement, conserved in the serine/threonine protein phosphatase gene family, flanked by nonconserved N-terminal and C-terminal domains. The deletion mutant of PP1 with the 8 nonconserved N-terminal residues removed was designated PP1-(9-330). PP1-(9-330) had a...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Xie X,Huang W,Xue C,Wei Q

更新日期：2008-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Corn silk (CS) has long been consumed as a traditional herb in Korea. Maysin is a major flavonoid of CS. The effects of maysin on macrophage activation were evaluated, using the murine macrophage RAW 264.7 cells. Maysin was isolated from CS by methanol extraction, and preparative C18 reverse phase column chromatograph...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee J,Kim SL,Lee S,Chung MJ,Park YI

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene regulation in the brain is essential for long-term plasticity and memory formation. Despite this established notion, the quantitative translational map in the brain during memory formation has not been reported. To systematically probe the changes in protein synthesis during memory formation, our recent study exp...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Yu NK,Kaang BK

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemistepsin A (HsA) is a guaianolide sesquiterpene lactone that inhibits hepatitis and liver fibrosis. We evaluated the effects of HsA on liver X receptor (LXR)-mediated hepatic lipogenesis in vitro and in vivo. Up to 10 M, HsA did not affect the viability of HepG2 and Huh7 cells. Pretreatment with 5-10 μM HsA signif...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim JK,Cho IJ,Kim EO,Lee DG,Jung DH,Ki SH,Ku SK,Kim SC

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Downregulation of olfactomedin-4 (OLFM4) is associated with tumor progression, lymph node invasion and metastases. However, whether or not downregulation of OLFM4 is associated with epigenetic silencing remains unknown. In this study, we investigate the role of OLFM4 in gastric cancer cell invasion. We confirm the pre...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Guo LL,He ZC,Yang CQ,Qiao PT,Yin GL

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:We cloned and pharmacologically characterized the guinea pig cysteinyl leukotriene (CysLT) 2 receptor (gpCysLT2). gpCysLT2 consists of 317 amino acids with 75.3%, 75.2%, 73.3% identity to those of humans, mice and rats, respectively. The gpCysLT2 gene is highly expressed in the lung, moderately in eosinophils, skin, s...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Ito Y,Hirano M,Umemoto N,Zang L,Wang Z,Oka T,Shimada Y,Nishimura Y,Kurokawa I,Mizutani H,Tanaka T

更新日期：2008-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:L-2-Oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (OTC) is a cysteine prodrug that maintains glutathione in tissues. The present study was designed to investigate anti-fibrotic and anti-oxidative effects of OTC via modulation of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) in an in vivo thioacetamide (TAA)-induced hepatic f...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kim IH,Kim DG,Hao P,Wang Y,Kim SH,Kim SW,Lee SO,Lee ST

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac regeneration with adult stem-cell (ASC) therapy is a promising field to address advanced cardiovascular diseases. In addition, extracellular vesicles (EVs) from ASCs have been implicated in acting as paracrine factors to improve cardiac functions in ASC therapy. In our work, we isolated human cardiac mesenchym...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Kang IS,Suh J,Lee MN,Lee C,Jin J,Lee C,Yang YI,Jang Y,Oh GT

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cohesin is a multi-protein complex composed of four core subunits (SMC1A, SMC3, RAD21, and either STAG1 or STAG2) that is responsible for the cohesion of sister chromatids following DNA replication until its cleavage during mitosis thereby enabling faithful segregation of sister chromatids into two daughter cells. Rec...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Solomon DA,Kim JS,Waldman T

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Cell therapies utilizing mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have a great potential in many research and clinical settings. The mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effects of MSCs have been studied previously and the paracrine effects elicited by their production of various growth factors and cytokines were recognized as ...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park SK,Lee JS,Choi EK,You D,Kim CS,Suh N

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the rod GTP binding protein, Transducin (G(t)), with bleached Rhodopsin (R(*)) was investigated by measuring radiolabeled guanine nucleotide binding to and release from soluble and/or membrane-bound G(t) by reconstituting G(t) containing bound GDP (G(t-)GDP) or the hydrolysis-resistant GTP analog gu...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Clack JW

更新日期：2008-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:DPP4 (dipeptidyl peptidase-4), a highly conserved transmembrane glycoprotein with an exo-peptidase activity, has been shown to contribute to glucose metabolism, immune regulation, signal transduction, and cell differentiation. Here, we show that DPP4 is involved in control of activin/nodal signaling in Xenopus early d...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Park DS,Kim K,Jang M,Choi SC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that modulate cholesterol levels have major impacts on cardiovascular disease. Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 (NPC1L1) functions as a sterol transporter mediating intestinal cholesterol absorption and counter-balancing hepatobiliary cholesterol excretion. The liver receptor homolog 1 (LRH-1) had been shown to regulate...

journal_title：BMB reports

authors： Lee ES,Seo HJ,Back SS,Han SH,Jeong YJ,Lee JW,Choi SY,Han K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00