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Shaik Mohammad Naushad et al.
Molecular and cellular biochemistry, 392(1-2), 273-280 (2014-03-29)
Obesity, genetic polymorphisms of xenobiotic metabolic pathway, hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes, and hypomethylation of proapoptotic genes are known to be independent risk factors for breast cancer. The objective of this study is to evaluate the combined effect of these
Joanna K Hubbard et al.
Ecology and evolution, 5(16), 3436-3449 (2015-09-19)
Phenotypic differences among individuals are often linked to differential survival and mating success. Quantifying the relative influence of genetic and environmental variation on phenotype allows evolutionary biologists to make predictions about the potential for a given trait to respond to
Elizabeth A Wellberg et al.
Breast cancer research : BCR, 16(6), 481-481 (2014-12-05)
Spot14 (S14), encoded by the THRSP gene, regulates de novo fatty acid synthesis in the liver, adipose, and lactating mammary gland. We recently showed that S14 stimulated fatty acid synthase (FASN) activity in vitro, and increased the synthesis of fatty
Myong-Ho Jeong et al.
Nature communications, 5, 5455-5455 (2014-11-20)
Canonical Wnt signalling regulates expansion of neural progenitors and functions as a dorsalizing signal in the developing forebrain. In contrast, the multifunctional co-receptor Cdo promotes neuronal differentiation and is important for the function of the ventralizing signal, Shh. Here we
Itsasne Bustillo-Zabalbeitia et al.
PloS one, 9(7), e102738-e102738 (2014-07-19)
Dynamin-Related Protein 1 (Drp1), a large GTPase of the dynamin superfamily, is required for mitochondrial fission in healthy and apoptotic cells. Drp1 activation is a complex process that involves translocation from the cytosol to the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) and
Silvia Jansen et al.
Nature communications, 6, 7202-7202 (2015-05-23)
The mechanisms by which cells destabilize and rapidly disassemble filamentous actin networks have remained elusive; however, Coronin, Cofilin and AIP1 have been implicated in this process. Here using multi-wavelength single-molecule fluorescence imaging, we show that mammalian Cor1B, Cof1 and AIP1
Philippe Esling et al.
Nucleic acids research, 43(5), 2513-2524 (2015-02-19)
Tagging amplicons with tag sequences appended to PCR primers allow the multiplexing of numerous samples for high-throughput sequencing (HTS). This approach is routinely used in HTS-based diversity analyses, especially in microbial ecology and biomedical diagnostics. However, amplicon library preparation is
Vania Polesello et al.
Archives of oral biology, 60(7), 1054-1058 (2015-05-06)
Human β-defensin 1 (hBD-1) is an antimicrobial peptide involved in epithelial defence of various tissues, also present in the saliva. Individual genetic variations within the DEFB1 gene, encoding for hBD-1, could influence gene expression and protein production. Three DEFB1 polymorphisms
Gabriel E Bertolesi et al.
Pigment cell & melanoma research, 28(5), 559-571 (2015-06-23)
How skin colour adjusts to circadian light/dark cycles is poorly understood. Melanopsin (Opn4) is expressed in melanophores, where in vitro studies suggest it regulates skin pigmentation through a 'primary colour response' in which light photosensitivity is translated directly into pigment
Berenice Fernández-Rojas et al.
Molecular and cellular biochemistry, 406(1-2), 183-197 (2015-05-15)
The potential of C-phycocyanin (C-PC) to prevent cisplatin (CP)-induced kidney mitochondrial dysfunction was determined in CD-1 male mice. The CP-induced mitochondrial dysfunction was characterized by ultrastructural abnormalities and by decrease in the following parameters in isolated kidney mitochondria: adenosine diphosphate
Youn-Kyoung Goo et al.
Malaria journal, 14, 299-299 (2015-08-06)
Vivax malaria occurring in the Republic of Korea is occasionally characterized by a long latent infection induced by hypnozoites in the liver. So far, the mechanisms responsible for short and long latent infections of vivax malaria are not known. Therefore
Jin-Ah Lee et al.
Nutrients, 7(11), 9650-9661 (2015-11-28)
The aim of this study was to improve the anti-inflammatory activities of apigenin through co-treatment with resveratrol as a bioenhancer of apigenin. RAW 264.7 cells pretreated with hepatic metabolites formed by the co-metabolism of apigenin and resveratrol (ARMs) in HepG2
C M Lee et al.
Genes and immunity, 16(5), 356-361 (2015-04-24)
Epithelium-specific Ets transcription factor 1 (ESE-1) is a member of the E26 transformation-specific family of transcription factors that has an epithelial-restricted constitutive expression but is induced by inflammatory stimuli in non-epithelial cells. Here we report that ESE-1 is constitutively expressed
Sidra E G Vasconcellos et al.
PloS one, 9(10), e107747-e107747 (2014-10-15)
Rio de Janeiro is endemic for tuberculosis (TB) and presents the second largest prevalence of the disease in Brazil. Here, we present the bacterial population structure of 218 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, derived from 186 patients that were diagnosed between
Izabela Laczmanska et al.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 35(12), 12397-12401 (2014-09-10)
The protective effect of vitamin D against several cancers including colorectal cancer is modulated by the vitamin D receptor (VDR) and its ligand, the active form of vitamin D. VDR response has been found to play a role in various
Maureen Hummel et al.
Journal of proteomics, 128, 436-449 (2015-08-02)
Arabidopsis thaliana cytosolic ribosomes are large complexes containing eighty-one distinct ribosomal proteins (r-proteins), four ribosomal RNAs (rRNA) and a plethora of associated (non-ribosomal) proteins. In plants, r-proteins of cytosolic ribosomes are each encoded by two to seven different expressed and
Hiroyuki Yamasaki et al.
PloS one, 10(5), e0125147-e0125147 (2015-05-02)
Tramadol is thought to modulate synaptic transmissions in the spinal dorsal horn mainly by activating µ-opioid receptors and by inhibiting the reuptake of monoamines in the CNS. However, the precise mode of modulation remains unclear. We used an in vivo
Nathalie Kersual et al.
mAbs, 6(5), 1314-1326 (2014-12-18)
Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate among gynecologic malignancies. The monoclonal antibody 12G4 specifically recognizes the human Müllerian inhibiting substance type II receptor (MISRII) that is strongly expressed in human granulosa cell tumors (GCT) and in the majority of
miR-543 and miR-590-3p regulate human mesenchymal stem cell aging via direct targeting of AIMP3/p18.
Seunghee Lee et al.
Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands), 36(6), 9724-9724 (2014-12-04)
Previously, AIMP3 (aminoacyl-tRNAsynthetase-interacting multifunctional protein-3) was shown to be involved in the macromolecular tRNA synthetase complex or to act as a tumor suppressor. In this study, we report a novel role of AIMP3/p18 in the cellular aging of human mesenchymal
Alevtina Gall et al.
PloS one, 10(6), e0129055-e0129055 (2015-06-16)
The incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has increased nearly five-fold over the last four decades in the United States. Barrett's esophagus, the replacement of the normal squamous epithelial lining with a mucus-secreting columnar epithelium, is the only known precursor to
Nicholas J D Wright et al.
Invertebrate neuroscience : IN, 15(1), 175-175 (2014-11-09)
The generation of the novel messenger molecule nitric oxide (NO) has been demonstrated in many tissues across phyla including nervous systems. It is produced on demand by the enzyme nitric oxide synthase often stimulated by intracellular calcium and typically affecting
V Budhram-Mahadeo et al.
Cell death & disease, 5, e1503-e1503 (2014-10-31)
Cardiomyocyte death following ischaemic/hypoxic injury causes irreversible damage to cardiac function and contributes to chronic diseases such as heart failure. Understanding the mechanisms associated with myocyte loss under these conditions can help to identify strategies to minimise/abrogate such detrimental effects.
Zin Naing et al.
The Journal of general virology, 96(Pt 7), 1855-1862 (2015-02-26)
Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common infectious cause of congenital birth defects in developed countries. Studies of infected amniotic fluid and placentae show CMV infection leads to a pro-inflammatory shift in cytokine profiles with implications for pathogenesis of foetal
Doory Kim et al.
PloS one, 10(4), e0124581-e0124581 (2015-04-16)
Correlative fluorescence light microscopy and electron microscopy allows the imaging of spatial distributions of specific biomolecules in the context of cellular ultrastructure. Recent development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy allows the location of molecules to be determined with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.
Naoki Tamura et al.
Biology open, 3(11), 1108-1115 (2014-11-02)
Rab GTPases are master regulators of eukaryotic endomembrane systems, particularly functioning in membrane tethering to confer the directionality of intracellular membrane trafficking. However, how exactly Rab GTPases themselves act upon membrane tethering processes has remained enigmatic. Here, we thoroughly tested
Igor Arregi et al.
PloS one, 10(6), e0130610-e0130610 (2015-06-20)
Nucleophosmin (NPM) is a nucleocytoplasmic shuttling protein, normally enriched in nucleoli, that performs several activities related to cell growth. NPM mutations are characteristic of a subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), where mutant NPM seems to play an oncogenic role.
J-A Shin et al.
Oral diseases, 20(5), 482-489 (2013-07-16)
Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors represent potential therapeutic agents against various cancers. In this study, we attempt to identify whether newly synthesized HDAC inhibitors, A248 and A1659, can be effective anti-cancer drug candidates for oral cancer. The anti-cancer activities of A248
Hossein Nikzad et al.
Reproductive biomedicine online, 31(5), 668-680 (2015-09-19)
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) functions as a main regulatory enzyme in folate metabolism. The association of MTHFR gene Ala222Val polymorphism with male infertility in an Iranian population was investigated by undertaking a meta-analysis and in-silico approach. A genetic association study included
Miguel Garcia-Castro et al.
Nature communications, 6, 6516-6516 (2015-03-19)
The limited structural diversity that a compound library represents severely restrains the discovery of bioactive small molecules for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology research, and thus calls for developing new divergent synthetic approaches to structurally diverse and complex scaffolds. Here
A Fauster et al.
Cell death & disease, 6, e1767-e1767 (2015-05-23)
Necroptosis is a form of regulated necrotic cell death mediated by receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) and RIPK3. Necroptotic cell death contributes to the pathophysiology of several disorders involving tissue damage, including myocardial infarction, stroke and ischemia-reperfusion injury. However, no
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