Cloning and isolation of a Conus cysteine-rich protein homologous to Tex31 but without proteolytic activity.

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：:In order to obtain the recombinant human PACAP efficiently by intein-mediated single column purification, a gene encoding human PACAP was synthesized and cloned into Escherichia coli expression vector pKYB. The recombinant vector pKY-PAC was transferred into E. coli ER2566 cells and the target protein was over-express...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yu RJ,Hong A,Dai Y,Gao Y

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortactin, an actin-binding protein and a substrate of Src, is encoded by the EMS1 oncogene. Cortactin is known to activate Arp2/3 complex-mediated actin polymerization and interact with dynamin, a large GTPase and proline rich domain-containing protein. Transferrin endocytosis was significantly reduced in cells by kn...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Chen L,Wang ZW,Zhu JW,Zhan X

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major goal of researchers and oncologists is to develop promising ground for novel therapeutic strategies to prevent recurrence or relapse of cancer. Recent evidences suggest that a subset of cells called cancer stem cells (CSCs) are present within the tumor mass which possess tumorigenic capacity and may be respo...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Bhattacharyya S,Khanduja KL

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a methylation in the N6 position of adenosine especially in the mRNA, exerts diverse physiological and pathological functions. However, the precise role of m6A methylation in hypoxic preconditioning (HPC) is still unknown. Here, we observed that HPC treatment protected H9c2 cells against H2O2...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Su Y,Xu R,Zhang R,Qu Y,Zuo W,Ji Z,Geng H,Pan M,Ma G

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:OsEBP-89 gene encodes an ethylene responsive element binding protein (EREBP) transcription factor from rice (Oryza sativa). Northern blot analysis revealed that OsEBP-89 was expressed in root, stem, seeds, flowers and leaves of rice. Histochemical assay showed that GUS expressed mainly in phloem of vascular tissues of...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Shen H,Wang ZY

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) is a common cause of acute renal failure in many clinical settings. Our study aimed to elucidate the role of lentiviral vector-mediated KSR1 gene silencing in inflammatory factor expression and proliferation of renal tubular epithelial cells (RTECs) in a rat model of I/R injury. Male S...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Bai Y,Han G,Guo K,Yu L,Du X,Xu Y

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia, Rhodococcus and Streptomyces, all members of the actinomycetes family, are Gram-positive eubacteria with high G+C content and able to form mycelium. We report here a newly identified plasmid pXT107 of Nocardia sp. 107, one of the smallest circular plasmids found in Nocardia. The complete nucleotide sequence ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Xia HY,Tian YQ,Zhang R,Lin KC,Qin ZJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LRRC4 is a novel relatively specific gene, which displays significant down-regulation in primary brain tumor biopsies and has the potential to suppress brain tumor growth. In this study, we investigated the growth inhibitory effect of LRRC4 on tumorigencity in vivo and on cell proliferation in vitro by a tetracycline-...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang QH,Wang LL,Cao L,Peng C,Li XL,Tang K,Li WF,Liao P,Wang JR,Li GY

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a matrix protein, MSI7, from pearl oyster Pinctada fucata. According to the structural analysis, the DGD site in the N-terminal of MSI7 is crucial for its role in the shell formation. In this study, we expressed a series of recombinant MSI7 proteins, including the wild-type and several mutants...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Feng Q,Fang Z,Yan Z,Xing R,Xie L,Zhang R

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：: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：:Mutant N-terminal huntingtin (Htt) protein resulting from Huntington's disease (HD) with expanded polyglutamine accumulates and forms aggregates in vulnerable neurons. Both ubiquitin proteasomal and autophagic pathways contribute to the degradation of mutant Htt. Here, we focus on the involvement of chaperone-mediated...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Qi L,Zhang XD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore new targets for hepatoma research, we used a surface display library to screen novel tumor cell-specific peptides. The bacterial FliTrx system was screened with living normal liver cell line L02 and hepatoma cell line HepG2 successively to search for hepatoma-specific peptides. Three clones (Hep1, Hep2, and...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li W,Lei P,Yu B,Wu S,Peng J,Zhao X,Zhu H,Kirschfink M,Shen G

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliomas are the most common brain tumors of the central nervous system. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanisms and biological function of SIRT6 in human gliomas. The expression levels of SIRT6 in glioma tissues and cells were analyzed by qRT-PCR and western blot analysis. CCK8 and clonogenicity assays...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Chen X,Li D,Gao Y,Cao Y,Hao B

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several discriminate functions for predicting core promoters that based on the potential cooperation between transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) are discussed. It is demonstrated that the promoter predicting accuracy is improved when the cooperation among TFBSs is taken into consideration. The core promoter reg...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Ma XT,Qian MP,Tang HX

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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：:Raman spectroscopy was used for the first time to detect the effect of independent UVA (ultraviolet-A: 320-400 nm) and UVB (ultraviolet-B: 280-320 nm) irradiation on the calf thymus DNA in aqueous solution. After both UVA and UVB irradiation for 1 h or 3 h, the damage to the conformation of DNA was moderate, but the r...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Tang YL,Guo ZY

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major cause of acute kidney damage, which often occurs in deceased donor kidney transplants. Cathelicidin PR-39 peptide possesses anti-inflammatory and wound repair effects through tissue angiogenesis and anti-apoptosis. This study assessed the role of PR-39 in anti-apoptosis in ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu J,Xue W,Xiang H,Zheng J,Zhao Y,Jiao L,Jiao Z

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) is often viewed as a lethal gas in light of its capacity to prevent oxygen uptake in hemoglobin; however, it also functions to regulate a variety of proteins and physiological processes. Here we show that CO is an important chemical cue, to which neurons respond strongly, and this response is then...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhao H,Liu B,Zhang Q,Wu X,Yu Y,Jesse FF,Li L

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Activation of the P2X7 receptor leads to a rapid, bidirectional flux of cations, causing broad range of biological responses including cytotoxicity. However, the mechanism of P2X7-mediated cytotoxicity remains largely unexplored. In our previous study, the lack of P2X7-mediated calcium response under normal conditions...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang X,Meng L,He B,Chen J,Liu P,Zhao J,Zhang Y,Li M,An D

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutathione S-transferase mu 2 gene (GSTM2) encodes a GST functioning in the elimination of electrophilic compounds and the regulation of cell growth. In this study, the sequence of porcine GSTM2 gene that contains the complete sequence encoding a protein of 218 amino acids was cloned. The deduced amino acid seque...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Huang J,Xiong Y,Deng C,Zuo B,Xu D,Lei M,Jiang S

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：: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：:Luffin-a, a single-chain Type I ribosome-inactivating protein, which is known to be the most toxic of the luffin family and apparently possesses antitumor activity, was isolated from Luffa cylindrica seeds. In the present study, mature alpha-luffin was cloned from L. cylindrica and it was found that mature alpha-luffi...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Liu L,Wang R,He W,He F,Huang G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Ca(V)1.3 channels are known to be essential for neuronal excitation and signal transduction in the auditory system, their expression patterns in the cochlea are still not fully understood, particularly in the regions where non-sensory cells are located. We performed immunohistochemistry, western blotting and ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Chen J,Chu H,Xiong H,Chen Q,Zhou L,Bing D,Liu Y,Gao Y,Wang S,Huang X,Cui Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 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