... to the DNA via their respective DNA binding domains, and upon tethering of each factor to the enhancer region forming a ternary complex, new DNA- protein and protein-protein interactions induce ... Sox2 DNA interactions, characterized the joint DNA motif, expanded the Oct4 and Sox2 transcription binding network to the Smad1 and Stat3 signalling networks and utilized these binding data in ... Identification of Sox2 -DNA Interactions inMouseEmbryonicStemCells 5.1 Introduction 95 5.2 Results 96 5.2.1 Optimisation of ChIP and global mapping of Sox2 binding sites in mESCs 96 5.2.2 Sox2...
... conditions inmouseembryonicstemcells Methods Mouseembryonicstem cell culture The mouseembryonicstem (MES) cells (CCE-24) were routinely grown on 0.1% gelatin-coated dishes in Dubecco’s ... AK was involved in manuscript writing and data analysis SL was involved in the conception and design, administrative support, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing and final approval ... hindering the access for the long form protein, thus having an advantage to be evolutionarily selected and maintained Since the truncated protein itself does not contain the c-terminal cysteines,...
... determined for retrotransposons (LINE and SINE B1) and rDNA repeats in wild-type OS25 ES cellsandin mutant ES cells lacking Eed, Dnmt 1, Dnmt 3a/3b, G9a or Dicer The mean values and standard ... chromatin Other factors, including DNA methyltransferases, methyl -DNA binding proteins, polycomb repressor complexes (PRCs), nucleosome remodeling complexes and Dicer-dependent short interfering ... of DNA methylation and nuclear location (reviewed in [12]) Proteins capable of changing these parameters, chromatin modifiers, are important for establishing and maintaining particular chromatin...
... medicine, disease modeling and drug development Notwithstanding these achievements, iPSCs technology remains in its infancy and a better understanding of the reprogramming process is required in ... genes in the list To check its expression pattern in both mouseand human ES cellsand during differentiation, mouse E14 cellsand human H1 cells were treated with retinoic acid (RA) to induce ... assays (EMSAs) – DNA binding domain of Zfp143 was cloned into pET42b (Novagen) The plasmid was transformed into BL21 E coli The DNA binding domain of Zfp143 protein was expressed and purified with...
... [18] and wild-type mouseembryonic fibroblast cells (WT cells) were grown in DMEM containing 20% fetal bovine serum CDG-Ib patient cells were grown in a-MEM containing 10% fetal bovine serum All media ... lower in CDG-Ib cellsand decreased markedly in PMI-null cells However, CDG-Ib cells maintained sufficient glycosylation ability, and surprisingly, PMI-null cells showed only a slight reduction in ... A1-treated PMInull cells We thus performed mannose titration experiments in swainsonine-treated and bafilomycin A1-treated PMI-null cellsCells were treated with 10 lm swainsonine or 100 nm bafilomycin A1...
... culture feeding 3.2.3 Human embryonicstemcellsand induced pluripotent stemcells Human embryonicstem cell line HES-3 (46, XX) was from ES Cell International (Singapore, http://www.escellinternational.com) ... forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain and the spinal cord This figure was reproduced from Epstein et al., 1999 2.4 SHH and neural development During the initial phase of neural induction, the ectoderm is induced ... effective in vitro system to study complex events underlying human nervous system development (Ben-Nun and Benvenisty, 2006; Dvash et al., 2006) 2.7 Embryonicstemcellsand induced pluripotent stem cells...
... humor and inspiration, and providing invaluable thoughts on science and life, and all things in between Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Results Culturing of MouseEmbryonicStemCells (mESC) ... GFAP and Vimentin expressions in SDIA cultures List of Illustrations Illustration – Invitrogen BlockIT tetracycline inducible short, hairpin RNA system Introduction Mouseembryonicstemcells ... Sox-2 and Nanog have all been demonstrated to be involved in maintaining a pluripotent phenotype (Cavaleri and Scholer, 2003), the apparent inability of any single given factor to maintain mESC...
... nucleus and play a major role in triggering and coordinating gene responses [36] In addition, phosphorylation of JNK and p38 MAPK has been shown to play a role in cellular differentiation and inflammatory ... We determined the H2O2-induced ROS generation inmouse -5 embryonicstemcells using DCF-DA (10 M), a fluorescent probe of intracellular H2O2 Production of ROS was -3 detected in the cells exposed ... was loaded into a 96-well plate and examined using a luminometer (Victor3; PerkinElmer, Finland) and a fluorescent plate reader with excitation and emission wavelengths of 485 nm and 535 nm,...
... radio-sensitizer in hypoxic cells DCQ radiosensitization in the FHs74Int normal intestinal cell line After establishing effects of DCQ and IR in cancer cells, we compared DCQ efficacy in normal cells For ... fold in oxic cellsand by 9.8 fold in hypoxic cells It is interesting to note that the significant inhibition of Cox-2 protein by DCQ in hypoxic and irradiated cells is associated with increased ... cancer cells confirms the greater radio-sensitizing effects of this drug in cancer cellsDNAdamage by DCQ in irradiated DLD-1 cells under oxia and hypoxia To determine if DCQ is a DNA- targeting...
... other cells by interacting with actin filaments in migrating cells Integrins can also act as signal transducer in the “inside-out signaling” model The activation of integrins is caused by talin binding ... profiling and ADF/cofilin, are also act as regulators in mediating actin polymerization by controling the availability of activated actin monomers, debranching and depolymerizing proteins and capping ... Protein kinase-like ER kinase PGE2 Prostaglandin E2 PI3K Phosphoinositide 3-kinase PTEN Phosphatase and tensin homolog PVDF Polyvinylidene difluoride Rb Retinoblastoma susceptibility protein RTN...
... design DNAdirected alkylating agents by linking the alkylating pharmacophore to the DNA- affinity molecules (e.g., DNA intercalating agents, DNA minor groove binder) [7,8] In most cases, the DNA- directed ... then washed in PBS twice, and the anti-gH2AX antibody was added at a dilution of 1:500 in 1% BSA and incubated overnight at 4℃ Again, the cells were washed twice in PBS before incubating in the dark ... produce DNA interstrand and/ or intrastrand cross-links [29,30] As has been known, bifunctional alkylating agents induce collapsed replication forks that can lead to either cell cycle arrest, DNA...
... certain types of damage induced in DNA, principally interstrand crosslinks [20] In contrast, Cluster includes key genes whose proteins mediate cell cycle arrest inresponse to genotoxic and other cellular ... arising from the original four Tax binding proteins known to be involved in the cellular DNAdamageresponse There are five clusters with three bridge proteins; DNA- PK is one of the bridge proteins ... Tax-binding proteins generated from our physical mapping efforts, DNAPK was in the top five best represented binding proteins and occupied a top tier ranking via our functional clustering for DNA...
... contains a forkhead-associated (FHA) domain and a Brca1 COOH-terminus (BRCT) domain in its NH2-terminal region, as well as an Mre11-binding domain and an ATM-binding domain in its COOHterminal ... checkpoint The Mre11-binding domain is responsible for binding to Mre11 during formation of the Mre11–Rad50–Nbs1 (MRN) complex The ATM-binding domain at the COOH-terminus binds to ATM and mediates ... 1) FHA and BRCT domains are often present in eukaryotic nuclear proteins involved in cell cycle checkpoint control or DNA repair The FHA domain appears to interact with target proteins in a phosphorylation-dependent...
... Labeling DNADamage with Terminal Transferase I LABELING DNA BREAKS USING TERMINAL TRANSFERASE (TUNEL ASSAY) Walker et al Labeling DNADamage with Terminal Transferase Labeling DNADamage ... DNA making it ideal for labeling fragments in apoptotic cells The enzyme will also label single stranded DNA molecules containing a 3'-OH and will attach nucleotides to a single-strand nick in ... methods for detecting DNAdamagein situ is TdT-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling (TUNEL) staining (1) TUNEL staining was initially described as a method for staining cells that have undergone...
... cancer cells were the kind gift of Dr Eddie Reed Cells were maintained in RPMI 1640 medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 μg/mL penicillin/streptomycin, mM L-glutamine and 0.2 units/mL insulin ... cisplatin -DNA damage involves the induction of DNA repair proteins to initiate DNA repair [10] We determined if NaAsO2 and hyperthermia modulated the expression of XPC, a platinum -DNA damage ... resulted in more Pt accumulating in the tumors when cisplatin is co-administered with sodium arsenite Cisplatin is a DNA damaging agent and p53 is implicated in platinum -DNA damageresponse [36]...
... association between initial DNA damage, measured as DSB, and RIA Ionizing radiation (IR) kills cells by damaging the structure and function of genomic DNA The response of cells to this damageand their ... and has been involved in type of packaging likewise in the submission process PCL has been involved in conception and design of the study andin drafting the manuscript and has given final approval ... defined by two constants: the coefficient in origin a (as the origin of the curve in the Y axis determining the spontaneous apoptosis); and the coefficient b defining the slope of the curve a and...
... localization in subconfluent cells was determined Figure 5A shows a Caveolin-1 staining pattern at the cell surface, confirming the known caveolar location of Caveolin-1 In addition, intracellularly distinguishable ... localization and distribution of both proteins with a laser scanning confocal microscope, using two independent channels (Fig 5) Caveolin-1 and P2X7 receptor are endogenously expressed in E10 cells, and ... component In this study, the authors imply that P2X7 receptors in nonraft microdomains of submandibular gland cells are solely involved in ion channel activity, and that receptors present in lipid...
... reported in human [16,17] andmouseembryonicstemcells [18-20] The unique patterns of miRNA expression inembryonicstemcells suggest they are involved in maintaining "stemness" Identifying mRNAs ... groups: hES cells, EB, and adult cells Node A contained the genes that were upregulated in both hES cellsand EB, node B contained the genes upregulated in hES cells only, node C contained the genes ... hES cellsand adult cells was also significant (P < 0.05) In particular, the expression of miR-519b was 8-fold greater in hES cells than in EB cellsand it was not even detected in adult cells...
... published In this study, we employed immunofluorescence staining to investigate the expression of Tbx18 and Wt1 in heart using anti-Tbx18 and Wt1 antibodies and to identify whether Tbx18 and Wt1 ... expressed in the cardiomyocyte from E10.5 to at least E14.5 Interestingly, we found that, at E14.5, some Tbx18-expressing cellsin the VS and LV did not colocalize with Nkx2.5, and Tbx18expressing cells, ... Tbx18 and Wt1 were expressed in the epicardial cells covering the heart after E10.5 (Figure 1, 2) Tbx18 began to be expressed in some cells within the VS and left ventricular wall at E10.5, and...
... epithelial cells, likely to be the first cellsin contact with infecting bacteria of the mammary gland, play an important role in innate immunity andin recruiting immune cellsand orchestrating their ... forms, p65 and p50, increased their binding activity inresponse to ET compared to the basal binding activity in SCp2 cell nuclear protein extracts Figure 3A shows an abrupt increase in ET-induced ... tissues, andin the absence of immune cells The understanding of such innate immune responses of epithelia and the linkage thereof to chronic inflammation is crucial for understanding the link between...