RNA binding proteins play a pivotal role during the oocyte-to-embryo transition and maternal phase of embryogenesis in invertebrates, but their function in these processes in mammalian systems remain largely u...
Authors: Winifred Mak, Jing Xia, Ee-Chun Cheng, Katie Lowther and Haifan Lin
The blood filtering organ in zebrafish embryos is the pronephros, which consists of two functional nephrons. Segmentation of a nephron into different domains is essential for its function and is well conserved...
Authors: Praveen Barrodia, Chinmoy Patra and Rajeeb K. Swain
Mycobacterium smegmatis, a rapidly growing non-tuberculosis mycobacterium, is a good model for studying the pathogenesis of tuberculosis because of its genetic similarity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Macr...
Authors: Seon-Hwa Kim, Soo-Na Cho, Yun-Ji Lim, Ji-Ae Choi, Junghwan Lee, Dam Go and Chang-Hwa Song
Cell proliferation and differentiation are two distinct yet coupled processes in development in diverse organisms. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate this process is a central theme in develo...
We investigated the inhibitory effect of pantoprazole on signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) activity and invasiveness of gastric adenocarcinoma cells, and the role of SH2-containing pro...
Authors: Jin Sung Koh, Moon Kyung Joo, Jong-Jae Park, Hyo Soon Yoo, Byung Il Choi, Beom Jae Lee, Hoon Jai Chun and Sang Woo Lee
Zika virus (ZIKV) has recently become a major matter of concern since its association with microcephaly cases in newborns was determined. From then on, ZIKV has been untiringly studied, and several scientific ...
Authors: Mohamed Ziad Dabaja, Estela de Oliveira Lima, Diogo Noin de Oliveira, Tatiane Melina Guerreiro, Carlos Fernando Odir Rodrigues Melo, Karen Noda Morishita, Marcelo Lancellotti, Ana Lucia Tasca Gois Ruiz, Gisele Goulart, Diego Andreazzi Duarte and Rodrigo Ramos Catharino
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha-induced protein 8-like 2 (TIPE2 or TNFAIP8L2) is a newly described negative immune regulator and is closely associated with various tumors. However, the expression and roles o...
Authors: Wenyu Jia, Zequn Li, Junyu Chen, Lei Sun, Chuanqian Liu, Shaping Wang, Jingwei Chi, Jun Niu and Hong Lai
Bone regenerative heterodimeric bone morphogenetic protein 2/7 (BMP2/7) enhances but all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) inhibits osteoclastogenesis. However, the effect of ATRA on physiological and/or BMP2/7-induc...
Authors: Wenjuan Bi, Yi Liu, Jing Guo, Zhen Lin, Jinsong Liu, Miao Zhou, Daniel Wismeijer, Janak L. Pathak and Gang Wu
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated degradation (ERAD) regulates protein homeostasis in the secretory pathway by targeting misfolded or unassembled proteins for degradation by the proteasome. Hrd1 is a conse...
Authors: Yilin Ye, Suk-Hwan Baek, Yihong Ye and Ting Zhang
Diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased risk in diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) that is distinctly not attributed to co-morbidities with other vasculature diseases. To date, while dysregulation of calc...
Authors: Khampaseuth Thapa, Kai Connie Wu, Aishwarya Sarma, Eric M. Grund, Angela Szeto, Armando J. Mendez, Stephane Gesta, Vivek K. Vishnudas, Niven R. Narain and Rangaprasad Sarangarajan
A heterohexameric complex composed of minichromosome maintenance protein 2–7 (MCM2–7), which acts as a key replicative enzyme in eukaryotes, is crucial for initiating DNA synthesis only once per cell cycle. Th...
Two research groups led by Dr. Shui Qing Ye of University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA and Dr. Dihua Yu of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA, respectiv...
Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) have been identified as critical regulators in a variety of cancer types. Cancer susceptibility candidate 15 (CASC15), a lncRNA located at chromosome 6p22.3, has been discovered ...
Authors: Yakun Yin, Bin Zhao, Dongqin Li and Guangwen Yin
Iron accumulation in basal ganglia accompanies neuronal loss in Huntington’s disease (HD) patients and mouse disease models. Disruption of HD brain iron homeostasis occurs before the onset of clinical signs. T...
Authors: Li Niu, Cuifang Ye, Yun Sun, Ting Peng, Shiming Yang, Weixi Wang and He Li
Notch signaling is mainly regulated by Notch1 during development of chicken germ stem cells; however, the molecular mechanisms that contribute to generation of these germ stem cells have not been thoroughly in...
Authors: Qisheng Zuo, Chen Zhang, Kai Jin, Jin Jing, Changhua Sun, Mahmoud F. Ahmed, Jiuzhou Song, Yani Zhang, Guohong Chen and Bichun Li
Near-field fluorescence (NFF) effects were employed to develop a novel near-infrared (NIR) luminescent nanoparticle (LNP) with superior brightness. The LNP is used as imaging contrast agent for cellular and sm...
As an important danger signal, the presence of DNA in cytoplasm triggers potent immune responses. Cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) is a recently characterized key sensor for cytoplasmic DNA. The engagement of cG...
Authors: Zhao-Shan Liu, Zi-Yu Zhang, Hong Cai, Ming Zhao, Jie Mao, Jiang Dai, Tian Xia, Xue-Min Zhang and Tao Li
Antibody blockade of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway has elicited durable antitumor responses in the therapy of a broad spectrum of cancers. PD-L1 is constitutively expressed in certain tumors and host immune cells, an...
Previous studies have shown that inhibition of inducible NO synthase (NOS2 or iNOS) with an inhibitor can selectively protect several normal tissues against radiation during radiotherapy. However, the role of ...
Authors: Chengcheng Li, Yi Luo, Lijian Shao, Aimin Meng and Daohong Zhou
Two studies have recently focused on adult heart regeneration in Xenopus. While we reported on cardiac myogenic regeneration in Xenopus tropicalis after injury, Marshall and colleagues found no regeneration in an...
Authors: Souqi Liao, Wenyan Dong, Hui Zhao, Ruijin Huang, Xufeng Qi and Dongqing Cai
We recently used an endoscopy-based resection method to explore the consequences of cardiac injury in adult Xenopus laevis, obtaining the result that the adult Xenopus heart is unable to regenerate. At 11 months ...
Authors: Lindsey Marshall, Fabrice Girardot, Barbara A. Demeneix and Laurent Coen
Antibodies to human CTLA-4 have been shown to induce long-lasting protection against melanoma. It is assumed that these antibodies cause tumor rejection by blocking negative signaling from the B7-CTLA-4 intera...
Authors: Fei Tang, Xuexiang Du, Mingyue Liu, Pan Zheng and Yang Liu
microRNAs (miRNAs) are one kind of small non-coding RNAs widely distributed in insects. Many studies have shown that miRNAs play critical roles in development, differentiation, apoptosis, and innate immunity. ...
Authors: Xinyu Feng, Jiatong Wu, Shuisen Zhou, Jingwen Wang and Wei Hu
Organ preservation solutions are designed to minimize organ damage during transplantation. A novel preservation solution, WMO-II, was developed to have a low viscosity and to improve microvasculature perfusion...
Authors: Sheng Wang, Kristyn Gumpper, Tao Tan, Xianzhang Luo, Hui Guo, Changsheng Ming, Hanying Jiang, Jiangguo Fang, Guang Du, Hua Zhu, Jianjie Ma, Zhishui Chen and Nianqiao Gong
Innate immunity activator (INAVA) has been shown to be elevated in lung adenocarcinoma. However, its expression pattern and function in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) are unknown. This study aimed to identify ...
Authors: Hongyu Guan, Yan Guo, Liehua Liu, Runyi Ye, Weiwei Liang, Hai Li, Haipeng Xiao and Yanbing Li
Radiation injury combined wound (CI) enhances acute radiation syndrome and subsequently mortality as compared to radiation injury alone (RI). We previously reported that ghrelin (a 28-amino-acid-peptide secret...
Authors: Juliann G. Kiang, Marsha N. Anderson and Joan T. Smith
Although the study of calcium (Ca2+) is classically associated with excitable cells such as myocytes or neurons, the ubiquity of this essential element in all cellular processes has led to interest in other cell ...
Authors: MengMeng Xu, Andreas Seas, Musa Kiyani, Keven S. Y. Ji and Hannah N. Bell
Macrophages are traditionally viewed as a key component of the immunity defense system. Recent studies have identified resident macrophages in multiple organs including the heart, in which the cells perform th...
Authors: Xin Zhou, Zhongguang Li, Zefan Wang, Eda Chen, Juan Wang, Frederic Chen, Odell Jones, Tao Tan, Shawn Chen, Hiroshi Takeshima, Joseph Bryant, Jianjie Ma and Xuehong Xu
The acquisition of drug resistance has been considered as a main obstacle for cancer chemotherapy. Tumor protein 53 target gene 1 (TP53TG1), a p53-induced lncRNA, plays a vital role in the progression of human...
Authors: Huijuan Xiao, Yihe Liu, Pan Liang, Bo Wang, Hongna Tan, Yonggao Zhang, Xianzheng Gao and Jianbo Gao
Biomaterial modifications—chemical and topographical—are of particular importance for the integration of materials in biosystems. Cells are known to sense these biomaterial characteristics, but it has remained...
Authors: Susanne Staehlke, Henrike Rebl, Birgit Finke, Petra Mueller, Martina Gruening and J. Barbara Nebe
Paraquat (PQ) presents with high toxicity for humans and animals, and the lungs become the main target organ by the poisoning of PQ leading to acute lung injury. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) were proved...
Authors: Yan Jin, Wei Liu, Xiaowei Liu, Tao Ma, Chen Yang, Quan Cai and Zhi Liu
Resveratrol (RSV) has been reported to stimulate osteoblast differentiation in which Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway played a crucial role. However, whether and how RSV activated Wnt/β-catenin pathway in osteo...
Authors: Xuren Gao, Jian Ge, Weiyi Li, Wangchen Zhou and Lei Xu
Chronic inflammatory is involved in the development of salt-sensitive hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. PSGL-1 plays an important role in the inflammatory response.
Authors: Yuhui Yang, Xue Liu, Yunpeng Liu, Hui Fu, Ying Gao, Xing Liu and Xiaoliang Jiang
In the publication of this article [1], there is an error in Table 3. The position of the black arrow and the terms CBP, Cdk1/2 and STAT3 of Table 3 were placed incorrectly in the online version while these we...
MicroRNAs have emerged as critical modulators of carcinogenesis and tumor progression including renal cell carcinoma (RCC). MiR-622 plays as a tumor inhibitor in some types of cancer, however, its role in kidn...
Prostate cancer (PrCa) progression and mortality are associated with calcium metabolism, parathyroid hormone level, and vitamin D level. However, the lack of comprehensive understanding on the molecular ration...
Authors: Liyang Wang, MengMeng Xu, Zhongguang Li, Mengting Shi, Xin Zhou, Xinnong Jiang, Joseph Bryant, Steven Balk, Jianjie Ma, William Isaacs and Xuehong Xu
Apoptosis of lung epithelial cell is implicated in the pathogenesis of acute lung injury (ALI). To study the protective effect and mechanism of cancer susceptibility candidate 2 (CASC2) on reducing lung epithe...
Authors: Hongbin Li, Huijuan Shi, Min Gao, Ning Ma and Rongqing Sun
Histamine releasing factor (HRF) is a unique cytokine known to regulate a variety of immune cells in late allergic reactions. In the previous study, we revealed that the biologically active form of HRF is the ...
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) remains a global health dilemma with high morbidity and mortality. Human males absent on the first (hMOF) (a histone acetyltransferase) is responsible for DNA damage repair, tumorigen...
Authors: Liwen Chen, Chuanwu Zhu, Fengdi Li, Yun Wang, Rebecca Bao, Zhujun Cao, Xiaogang Xiang, Lei Yan, Lanyi Lin, Gangde Zhao, Qing Xie, Shisan Bao and Hui Wang
Precise genome editing is essential for both basic and translational research. The recently developed CRISPR/Cas9 system can specifically cleave a designated site of target gene to create a DNA double-strand b...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an auto-immune disease characterized by chronic inflammation of multiple joints. Hypoxia is a constant feature of synovial microenvironment in RA. Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS...
Sepsis is a common cause of death in intensive care units worldwide. Due to the high complexity of this immunological syndrome development of novel therapeutic strategies is urgent. Promising drug targets or b...
ATP-binding cassette transporter super-family including ABCC1 and MDR-1 were involved in multi-drug resistance (MDR) of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients. Several miRNAs were confirmed to promote the MDR and...
Authors: Songchao Li, Jinjian Yang, Jun Wang, Wansheng Gao, Yafei Ding, Yinghui Ding and Zhankui Jia
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of non-protein-coding transcripts with the length longer than 200 nucleotides. Growing evidence suggests that lncRNAs, which were initially thought to be merely transc...
Authors: Yuyu Li, Jiawei Zhang, Jie Pan, Xu Feng, Peipei Duan, Xing Yin, Yang Xu, Xin Wang and Shujuan Zou
MAPT-AS1, a long non-coding RNA, has not been reported in any previous research about its function in cancers. In this study, we investigated the role of MAPT-AS1 in the progression and paclitaxel resistance i...
Authors: Yiyuan Pan, Yiqi Pan, Yue Cheng, Fan Yang, Zhihan Yao and Ouchen Wang
There have been enough cell death modes delineated in the biomedical literature to befuddle all cell death researchers. Mulling over cell death from the viewpoints of the host tissue or organ and of the host a...
Authors: Xingde Liu, Wenxiu Yang, Zhizhong Guan, Wenfeng Yu, Bin Fan, Ningzhi Xu and D. Joshua Liao
Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) was originally identified as a fusion partner of retinoic acid receptor alpha in acute promyelocytic leukemia patients with the (15;17) chromosomal translocation, giving ri...
