... Behçet s disease [24 ], were studied The activity of Behçet s disease was assessed by the 1994 criteria for disease activity of Behçet s disease, proposed by the Behçet s Disease Research Committee of ... (Sigma) Statistical analysis Student s t-test was used to compare responses in different groups P < 0.05 was chosen for rejection ofthe null hypothesis Results γ δ Expression of Vγ9/V 2 T-cell receptor ... this time the percentage of expansion was assessed by fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis using the anti-TCR V 2 mAb The results were expressed as EF (see Materials and methods)...
... capacity of meniscus cells to re-express the matrix-forming phenotypeof meniscus cells Comparison of these expression levels with cells in tissue showed that COL1A2 expression in FGF2-derived ... for P1 and P2 meniscus cells in the presence and absence of FGF2 Results are expressed as means ± SD (n = 4) FGF2, fibroblast growthfactor 2; P1, passage 1; P2, passage meniscus cells with or ... experiments included in this manuscript WSK was responsible for tissue procurement and processing TEH supervised and oversaw the completion ofthe studies as well as the writing of this manuscript...
... remission in these cases ranges from four months to eight years, and in all cases, maintenance therapy was based on trastuzumab One of these cases also illustrates the risk of withdrawing trastuzumab ... breast cancer with trastuzumab beyond disease progression J Clin Oncol 20 04, 22 :1063-1070 Fountzilas G, Razis E, Tsavdaridis D, et al: Continuation of trastuzumab beyond disease progression is ... Support forthe importance of maintaining HER2 suppression is also provided by studies evaluating the use of trastuzumab beyond progression Accumulating evidence shows the benefits of trastuzumab...
... discs large tumor suppressor [33-36] These results present an attractive hypothesis that PBM is a factor responsible forthe distinct pathogenic activities of HTLV-1 and HTLV2 Since HTLV-1 is ... Tax2B Tax2B+C Figure PBM is essential for outgrowth of CTLL -2/ Tax cells in the absence of IL -2 PBM is essential for outgrowth of CTLL -2/ Tax cells in the absence of IL -2 (A, B) CTLL -2 cells (107) ... but not the subsequent rate ofgrowth Further analysis is required to solve this interesting question Several tumor viruses have both high-risk and low-risk subtypes High-risk viruses induce...
... c-Abl tyrosine kinase in the stress response to DNA-damaging agents Nature 376, 785–788 22 Davis RJ (20 00) Signal transduction by the JNK group of MAP kinases Cell 103, 23 9 25 2 23 Chang NS (20 01) ... MM, Basso A, Averbuch SD & Rosen N (20 01) The tyrosine kinase inhibitor ZD1839 (‘Iressa’) inhibits HER2-driven signaling and suppresses thegrowthof HER2-overexpressing tumor cells Cancer Res 61, ... mitochondria Some reports have shown that the activation ofthe Fas ⁄ FasL system may be one ofthe mechanisms responsible for drug-induced apoptosis in a variety of JNK activation is critical for AG1478-induced...
... activity, and the inverse antagonist activity of BPA (1 and 10 lM) against the inverse agonist activity of 4-OHT (1 and 10 lM) The assay set marked with an asterisk shows thethe inverse antagonist activity ... Because Ala lacks the characteristic side chains of Glu and Arg, the mutant receptors are devoid ofthe functional groups at the particular positions of 27 5 and 316 Thus, it becomes difficult for them ... on Risk of Chemical Substances from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan This work was also supported in part by grants-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and...
... decrease (about )30%) of FSH-stimulated estradiol synthesis Nevertheless, this decrease was lesser by comparison to the one observed in the presence of FSH and bFGF ()49%) This result suggested ... towards understanding, a recent demonstration indicated that the synthesis of cell surface HSPG and FSH-stimulated estradiol synthesis are inversely correlated This suggests a potential role for these ... concomitent loss of steroidogenic response to FSH These data and our results suggest that bFGF could modulate, in part, the decrease of FSH-stimulated estradiol synthesis via HSPG REFERENCES Nishimura,...
... Identification ofthe region causing different association characteristics The difference in association characteristics ofthe enzyme from the two sources was surprising because the sequence is extremely ... to the large insertion between the catalytic Asp and His in TPP II This region would, of course, be difficult to model, but as Arg2 52 is so close to His264, where the structure is conserved, the ... versa were constructed by use of an XmnI site When stable transformants expressing these chimeric constructs were studied, it was evident that the sequence difference responsible forthe lack of...
... both phospholipases Cc and A2, together with the subsequent synthesis of a series of messengers that act as effectors of Ca2+-channels, is responsible forthe cytosolic Ca2+ rise Phospholipase Cc ... pathogenesis [16–19] The Ca2+ signal generated by the EGFR The activation ofthe EGFR generates a Ca2+ signal, broadly defined as the transient rise ofthe intracellular concentration of Ca2+ This is ... CaM-dependent systems because ofthe possible existence of unwanted side effects as a result ofthe potential detachment of autoinhibitory sites ofthe protein under study from cell membranes In this context,...
... [38,39] Another example isthe type transferrin receptor, which has N-glycosylation sites at residues Asn251, Asn317 and Asn 727 Mutation of Asn 727 decreases cell-surface expression, whereas mutation ... this way, and despite the overall importance of glycosylation, our results nevertheless argue against the existence of a single glycosylation site that isof such absolute importance that it is ... quantities of b2M (data not shown) In experiments to compare the status of our glycosylation mutants in this assay we observed that the triple mutant displayed a phenotype indistinguishable from the...
... metastasis We first performed Transwell cell migration assays PC9 cells were selected as a model system with which to assess thefunctionof miR 125 a-5p, because they expressed endogenous miR- 125 a5p ... or typeset Technical support issues arising from supporting information (other than missing files) should be addressed to the authors FEBS Journal 27 6 (20 09) 5571–5578 ª 20 09 The Authors Journal ... suppressor Our results further substantiated the role of miRNA in tumorigenesis, and revealed the possibility of using miRNAs as potential therapeutic targets to specifically suppress oncogenic signaling...
... membrane insertase for subunits of cytochrome bc1 oxidase and ATP synthase complexes [9] In this study, we have analysed the biogenesis of MscL using in vivo insertion and assembly assays MscL is an ... various aspects of membrane protein biogenesis because it is small and, after membrane insertion, assembles into a pentameric complex for which the structure is known [11, 12] This allows analysis of ... have a significant impact on the level ofthe MscL–HA complex, suggesting that the Sec translocon is dispensable forthe oligomerization ofthe MscL subunits Discussion We have analysed the requirements...
... exons, it appears that the segment comprising the N-terminal domain, the DSL and the first two EGFs is most sensitive to missense mutations (Figure S1 and Tables S4 ) This is consistent with the DSL ... Plot of missense mutations found in JAG1 and associated with Alagille syndrome Table S1 List of EGF-containing proteins and the names ofthe mutation-associated diseases Table S2 List of disease-associated ... that is presented at the cell surface is correctly folded The results obtained in the present study suggest the opposite There are several lines of evidence in support of this hypothesis: the...
... indicates that Hrs is phosphorylated on multiple tyrosine residues upon EGF stimulation, is consistent with this view There are 29 tyrosines in Hrs, and four of these are conserved in Hrs from ... colocalizes with Src (this study), are consistent with our finding that Hrs is a substrate for Src phosphorylation It is evident, however, that kinases other than Src, Yes and Fyn may also have Hrs as ... expressing active Src were starved for h before lysis and immunoprecipitation of Hrs as described above Hrs was eluted in sample buffer for SDS/PAGE peGFP-EGFR was expressed in SYF -2 cells and...
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... plasmid suppressed the expression of Sp1 and the antiSp3 shRNA-expression plasmid suppressed the expression of Sp3 The promoter activity ofthe NOX4 gene was significantly reduced by cotransfection ... expressed as the mean ± standard error Statistical analysis was performed using the Student s t-test Acknowledgements This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 21 790 525 ... control shRNA insert, supplied by System Biosciences, was also inserted Efficiency ofthe shRNAexpression plasmids was verified by infection of SH-SY5Y cells and subsequent western blot analyses shRNA-expression...
... any specific decrease in the de novo synthesis of a given phospholipid, including PI Hence, the rate of synthesis and the amount of CDP-DAG molecules that were used as substrate for PI synthesis ... [33], involves the synthesis of two kinds of CDP-DAG molecules: the first type containing stearic acid at the sn-1 position would be the substrate ofthe sole PI synthase and the second type would ... the concentration ofthe corresponding FAMES was determined as described above The sn -2- acyl-1-lysoPI was immediately used for acyltransferase assays Acyltransferase activity assays G3PAT assays...
... or typeset Technical support issues arising from supporting information (other than missing files) should be addressed to the authors FEBS Journal 27 6 (20 09) 523 9– 525 1 ª 20 09 The Authors Journal ... (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/; accession number = GSE5 720 ) The results ofthe analysis surprisingly showed that ERRFI1 expression levels varied among all cell lines and no tissue-specific trend was observed (Fig 5A), ... EGF + Iressa, respectively Ic represents the summation of log2-transformed fold EGFR mutation and MIG6 expression changes caused by Iressa Therefore, decreased and increased expression was expected...
... converted to the IHS by multiplying the SI scores by SP scores Statistical Analysis Prior to performing the analyses, the IHS ofthe specimens with more than slide cut from the specimen block were ... 1995 and 20 01 Of these, 85 were used from 85 patients forthe final analysis and chosen for further study based on adequacy of tissue, tissue preservation, and unequivocal diagnostic features After ... one score, so that each ofthe eighty five specimens was represented only once in the data analysis Analyses of association of pathology according to WHO 20 00 classification with SI, SP, and IHS...