Purification and characterization of a mannose-binding lectin from the rhizomes of Aspidistra elatior Blume with antiproliferative activity.

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common malignant cancer with high incidence. And long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play pivotal roles in the development of different types of cancers. In this study, we aimed to investigate the role of lncRNA maternally expressed gene 3 (MEG3) in the development and progression of hepatocel...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Dong H,Zhang Y,Xu Y,Ma R,Liu L,Luo C,Jiang W

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is indispensable for the development and maintenance of brown adipose tissue (BAT), and its activity is inhibited due to obesity. The isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2) is a mitochondrial enzyme responsible for the production of α-ketoglutarate, a key intermediate metabolite integrat...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Cao Y,Liu X,Zhao J,Du M

更新日期：2021-01-12 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：: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 diamagnetic levitation as a novel ground-based model for simulating a reduced gravity environment has been widely applied in many fields. In this study, a special designed superconducting magnet, which can produce three apparent gravity levels (0, 1, and 2 g), namely high magneto-gravitational environment (HMGE), ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Qian A,Di S,Gao X,Zhang W,Tian Z,Li J,Hu L,Yang P,Yin D,Shang P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common category and disease entity of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Osalmide and pterostilbene are natural products with anticancer activities via different mechanism. In this study, using a new synthetic strategy for the two natural products, we obtained the compound DCZ0801,...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Xi M,He W,Li B,Zhou J,Xu Z,Wu H,Zhang Y,Song D,Hu L,Lu Y,Bu W,Kong Y,Chen G,Chang S,Shi J,Zhu W

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and has a strong correlation with heart failure. However, the effects of HHcy on cardiac tissue remain less well understood. To elucidate the role of p53-dependent apoptosis in HHcy-induced cardiac injury, we fed ApoE(-/-) mice with high methionin...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Ma S,Zhang H,Sun W,Gong H,Wang Y,Ma C,Wang J,Cao C,Yang X,Tian J,Jiang Y

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the pro-apoptotic mechanism of C-phycocyanin (C-PC)-mediated photodynamic therapy (PDT) in a murine tumor model and cultured MCF-7 cells. The mice were divided into four groups: control, He-Ne laser radiation, C-PC treatment, and C-PC treatment + He-Ne laser radiation. The effe...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li B,Chu X,Gao M,Li W

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria play a key role in the regulation of apoptosis induced by numerous antitumor chemotherapeutic and other toxic agents. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) exerts significant cellular killing efficacy through either an apoptotic or necrotic cell death pathway. This study investigated the mechanism underlying the kil...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Huang HF,Chen YZ,Wu Y

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NifA is the general transcriptional activator of nitrogen fixation genes in diazotrophic bacteria. In Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae strain 8401/pRL1JI, the NifA gene is part of a gene cluster (fixABCXNifAB). In this study, results showed that in R. leguminosarum bv.viciae 8401/pRL1JI, host factor required (Hfq), ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang Y,Hong G

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Epigenetic regulation of gene expression is a dynamic and reversible process with DNA methylation, histone modifications, and chromatin remodeling. Recently, groundbreaking studies have demonstrated the importance of DNA and chromatin regulatory proteins from different aspects, including stem cell, development, and tu...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Ning B,Li W,Zhao W,Wang R

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Ghrelin is a brain-gut peptide that serves as a natural ligand for growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHSR). It also exists abundantly in the cardiovascular system. In order to evaluate the possible role of ghrelin in the development of atherosclerosis, the effect of ghrelin on the expression of cell differentiatio...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang M,Yuan F,Chen H,Qiu X,Fang W

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:It has been reported that oncostatin M (OSM) could initiate cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation both in vivo and in vitro. OSM-induced cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation might be a new target for the treatment of diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM). This study was designed to determine the role of OSM in cardiomyocyte dedifferenti...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang X,Ma S,Zhang R,Li S,Zhu D,Han D,Li X,Li C,Yan W,Sun D,Xu B,Wang Y,Cao F

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Anoikis resistance is a critical process for cancer cell metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and microRNA-1827 (miR-1827) is closely correlated with NSCLC metastasis. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the role of miR-1827 in regulating the anoikis resistance of NSCLC. The results showed that miR-1827 l...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Guo X,Wang Z,Sun Q,Sun C,Hua H,Huang Q

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin, a first line medication for type II diabetes, initially entered the spotlight as a promising anti-cancer agent due to epidemiologic reports that found reduced cancer risk and improved clinical outcomes in diabetic patients taking metformin. To uncover the anti-cancer mechanisms of metformin, preclinical stu...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Saini N,Yang X

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumor, which occurs in adolescents. As reported by our previous studies, HER4 indicates a poor prognosis of primary osteosarcoma. However, its mechanisms in the pathogenesis of osteosarcoma have not yet been studied. The purpose of this study was to investigate th...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li X,Huang Q,Wang S,Huang Z,Yu F,Lin J

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Caveolin-1 is regulated by estrogen in vascular smooth muscle cells. Raloxifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator that possibly has cardioprotective properties without an increased risk of cancer or other side effects of estrogen, may be used in women with risk of coronary artery disease. However, the relations...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yang FL,He H,Liu XX,Tu B,Zeng XW,Su JX,Wang X,Hu Q

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein 120 (gp120) binds to cell surface receptors and mediates HIV entry. Previous studies suggest the cell surface protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) might interact with disulfide bond(s) of gp120 and thus facilitate HIV-1 entry. In the present study, a kineti...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Wang Z,Zhou Z,Guo ZY,Chi CW

更新日期：2010-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercaptopropionic acid (MPA) and cysteamine (Cys) capped CdTe quantum dots (QDs) were successfully prepared and used to investigate the combined influence of surface modification, size distribution, and interaction time on their cytotoxicity in human pancreatic carcinoma (PANC-1) cells. Results indicated that the smal...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Chang S,Kang B,Liu X,Dai Y,Chen D

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that Fructus Ligustri Lucidi (FLL), a promising traditional Chinese medicine, can inhibit the growth of tumors. However, the effective component and molecular mechanism of FLL act to inhibit tumor proliferation are unclear. In this study, we demonstrated that oleanolic acid (OA), a principal chemical...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Zhang P,Li H,Chen D,Ni J,Kang Y,Wang S

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta is a pleiotropic cytokine regulating a variety of cellular processes such as cell growth, differentiation, apoptosis, migration, cell adhesion, and immune response. In the well-understood classical TGF-beta signaling pathway, TGF-beta activates Smad signalling via its two cell sur...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Yan X,Liu Z,Chen Y

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a special thermophilic multifunctional amylase OPMA-N was cloned from Bacillus sp. ZW2531-1. OPMA-N has an additional 124-residue N-terminal domain compared with typical amylases and forms a relatively independent domain with a β-pleated sheet and random coil structure. Here we reported an unusual subs...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li F,Zhu X,Li Y,Cao H,Zhang Y

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonical meiosis is characterized by two sequential rounds of nuclear divisions following one round of DNA replication-reductional segregation of homologous chromosomes during the first division and equational segregation of sister chromatids during the second division. Meiosis in an inverted order of two nuclear div...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Li W,He X

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we confirmed that sesamin, an active lignan isolated from sesame seed and oil, is a novel skin-tanning compound. The melanin content and tyrosinase activity were increased by sesamin in a dose-dependent manner in B16 melanoma cells. The mRNA and protein levels of tyrosinase were also enhanced after the ...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Jiang Z,Li S,Liu Y,Deng P,Huang J,He G

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to determine the electron transfer activity and proton pumping ability of the cytochrome bc1 complex for better understanding its structure and function. In this study, several methods for determining the electron transfer and proton pumping of the bc1 complex, including the traditional and the new met...

journal_title：Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica

authors： Qu Y,Dong F

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00