Angela L AL Rasmussen,
Deborah L DL Diamond,
Jason E JE McDermott,
Xiaoli X Gao,
Thomas O TO Metz,
Melissa M MM Matzke,
Victoria S VS Carter,
Sarah E SE Belisle,
Marcus J MJ Korth,
Katrina M KM Waters,
Richard D RD Smith and
Michael G MG Katze
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We present the results of studies confirming the importance of DCI to HCV pathogenesis. Computational models incorporating proteomic data from HCV patient liver biopsy specimens recapitulated our original predictions regarding DCI and link HCV-associated alterations in cellular metabolism and liver...
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PMID: 21917952
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We demonstrate that the RNA-binding activity of NP is necessary for stabilization of cRNA, whereas, surprisingly, homo-oligomerization of NP is not essential. However, both RNA binding and homo-oligomerization activities are essential for genome replication....
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PMID: 21917965
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We report that BST-2 antibody treatment facilitates virus release from BST-2(+) cells by interfering with the tethering activity of BST-2. BST-2 antibodies were unable to release already tethered virions and were most effective when added early during virus production. BST-2 antibody treatment did n...
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PMID: 21917971
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We used C57BL/6 wild type mice to determine the durations of antagonist action of novel κ-opioid receptor ligands and examined their efficacies for JNK1 activation compared with conventional competitive antagonists. Of the 12 compounds tested, 5 had long durations of action that positively correlat...
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PMID: 21832171
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We show that the negatively charged phospholipid phosphatidylserine (PS) is exposed in the outer leaflet of their plasma membrane not only in tumor cell lines, but also in metastases and primary cultures thereof, which contrasts with a lack of PS exposure by differentiated non-tumorigenic counterpar...
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PMID: 21810406
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We previously showed that UCP3 turns over rapidly in C2C12 myoblasts, with a half-life of 0.5-4h, and that turnover can be reconstituted in vitro. We show here that rapid degradation of UCP3 in vitro in isolated brown adipose tissue mitochondria required the 26S proteasome, ubiquitin, ATP, succinate...
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PMID: 21820402
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Persistent infections with human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16), HPV18, or HPV31 are necessary for the development of cervical cancer, implying that HPVs have evolved immunoevasive mechanisms. Recent global transcriptome analyses indicated that these HPV types downregulate the consti...
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PMID: 21849431
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We have shown recently that epimorphin (EPM), a protein exclusively expressed on the surface of hepatic stellate cells and myofibroblasts of the liver, induces bile duct formation of hepatic stem-like cells (WB-F344 cells) in a putative biophysical way. Therefore, the aim of this study was to presen...
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PMID: 21935930
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A broad range of technologies have been developed to enable three dimensional (3D) cell culture. Few if any however are adaptable for routine everyday use in a straightforward and cost effective manner. Alvetex(®) is a rigid highly porous polystyrene scaffold designed specifically to enable routine...
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PMID: 21042981
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We have investigated the signaling pathway leading to activation of these two transcription factors in response to RSV infection. Our results show that IKKβ plays a key role in viral-induced NF-κB activation, while JNK regulates AP-1-dependent gene transcription, as demonstrated by using kinase in...
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PMID: 21835421
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We previously identified a group of HIV protease dimerization inhibitors, including darunavir (DRV). In the present work, we examine whether loss of DRV's protease dimerization inhibition activity is associated with HIV development of DRV resistance. Single amino acid substitutions, including I3A, L...
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PMID: 21813613
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We developed a luciferase-based assay system for measuring the frequency of chromosomal homologous recombination and SSA. An I-SceI-induced DSB, within a nonfunctional luciferase gene, could be efficiently repaired by HR. Additionally, the continuous expression of the I-SceI endonuclease in the HR r...
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PMID: 21842267
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We analyzed P30 derivatives having epitope tags engineered at various locations to demonstrate that posttranslational processing occurred in P30. Several potential cleavage sites predicted in silico were examined, and a processing-defective mutant was created to explore P30 maturation further. Our r...
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PMID: 21821772
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We previously showed that chlamydial infection increases markers of autophagy, an innate antimicrobial activity requiring lysosomal function. However, the work presented here demonstrates that p62, an autophagy protein that is degraded in lysosomes, either remained unchanged or increased in chlamydi...
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PMID: 21807906
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Helicobacter pylori is a risk factor for the development of gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcers, and gastric adenocarcinoma. H. pylori-induced disruption of epithelial adherens junctions (AJs) is thought to promote the development of severe disease; however, the mechanisms whereby H. pylori alters AJ st...
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PMID: 21825064
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We cloned the Ae. albopictus homolog of dacapo, the single member of the Cip/Kip family of CKI proteins known from Drosophila melanogaster. The Ae. albopictus dacapo cDNA encoded a 261-amino acid homolog of the Aedes aegypti protein XP_001651102.1, which is encoded by an ∼23 kb gene containing t...
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PMID: 21928393
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We further investigated the growth characteristics of a recently created B. pseudomallei 1026b Δasd mutant in vitro, in a cell model, and in an animal model of infection. The mutant was typified by an inability to grow in the absence of exogenous diaminopimelate (DAP); upon single-copy complementat...
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PMID: 21807903
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Although Bioglass® has existed for nearly half a century its ability to trigger bone formation and tuneable degradability is vastly superior to other bioceramics, such as SiO(2)-CaO bioactive glasses. The sol-gel process of producing glass foams is well established for SiO(2)-CaO co...
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PMID: 21689791
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In recent years, interest in magnetic biomimetic scaffolds for tissue engineering has increased considerably. The aim of this study is to develop magnetic biodegradable fibrous materials with potential use in bone regeneration. Magnetic biodegradable Fe(3)O(4)/chitosan (CS)/poly viny...
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PMID: 21893702
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Gelatin-based nanofibrous scaffolds with a mean fiber diameter of 300 nm were prepared with and without micrometer-sized polyethylene glycol (PEG) fibers that served as sacrificial templates. Upon fabrication of the scaffolds via electrospinning, the gelatin fibers were crosslinked w...
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PMID: 21931195
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We determined how NO affects excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs to dorsal horn neurons using whole-cell recordings in rat spinal cord slices. The NO precursor l-arginine or the NO donor SNAP significantly increased the frequency of glycinergic spontaneous and miniature inhibitory postsynaptic...
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PMID: 21813646
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Some medicinal plants are the object of biotechnologists' special interest owing to their content of secondary metabolites, which have a strong pharmacological effect. Polyscias filicifolia is a plant known for long in traditional medicine of the Southeast Asia. Literature data suggest that it acts o...
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PMID: 21928715
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We report that the histone acetyltransferase (HAT), p300, specifically acetylates BTas both in vivo and in vitro. Further studies demonstrated that BTas acetylation markedly enhances its transactivation activity. Mutagenesis analysis identified three lysines at positions 66, 109 and 110 in BTas that...
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PMID: 21813148
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While several studies have shown a role for autophagy in the replication of dengue virus (DENV), these studies have been performed in directly infected cells. However, in severe cases of DENV infection the critical cell in the disease is believed to be monocytes which are poorly infected directly, bu...
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PMID: 21813150
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We show that CUP employs multiple mechanisms to repress the expression of target mRNAs. In addition to inducing translational repression, CUP maintains mRNA targets in a repressed state by promoting their deadenylation and protects deadenylated mRNAs from further degradation. Translational repressio...
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PMID: 21937713
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We report a role of Lgl1, the mammalian homolog of Drosophila tumor suppressor Lethal giant larvae, in controlling membrane trafficking underlying axonal growth. We find that Lgl1 is associated with plasmalemmal precursor vesicles and enriched in developing axons. Lgl1 upregulation promoted axonal g...
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PMID: 21856246
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Our results suggest that the addition of CNTs to surfaces used in medical applications may be beneficial when stronger adhesion of osteoblasts is desired....
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PMID: 21817784
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Peter M PM Abadir,
D Brian DB Foster,
Michael M Crow,
Carol A CA Cooke,
Jasma J JJ Rucker,
Alka A Jain,
Barbara J BJ Smith,
Tyesha N TN Burks,
Ronald D RD Cohn,
Neal S NS Fedarko,
Robert M RM Carey,
Brian B O'Rourke and
Jeremy D JD Walston
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We report that functional Ang II type 2 receptors are present on mitochondrial inner membranes and are colocalized with endogenous Ang. We demonstrate that activation of the mitochondrial Ang system is coupled to mitochondrial nitric oxide production and can modulate respiration. In addition, we pre...
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PMID: 21852574
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We have shown that the calcium channel blocker nifedipine can mobilize tissue iron in mouse models of iron overload. We therefore investigated whether nifedipine treatment affects the course of infection with intracellular bacteria via modulation of iron homeostasis. Methods. The effect of nifedipin...
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PMID: 21844295
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We studied how Listeria monocytogenes evades immune detection by peptidoglycan (PGN) modification. By analyzing L. monocytogenes muropeptides, we detected O-acetylated muramic acid residues. We identified an O-acetyltransferase gene, oatA, in the L. monocytogenes genome sequence. Comparison of PGN f...
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PMID: 21844299
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Cell lines overexpressing the individual UGTs 1A4 and 2B10 exhibited glucuronidation activity against olanzapine. The UGT1A4 variant exhibited a 3.7-fold (P<0.0001) higher Vmax/KM for the formation of the olanzapine-10-N-glucuronide isomer 1, and a 4.3-fold (P<0.0001) higher Vmax/KM for the formatio...
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PMID: 21750471
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We show that in both RAW264.7 macrophage cells and primary bone marrow-derived macrophages, the production of IFN-β and IL-6, but not TNF, in response to cyclic-di-AMP and cyclic-di-GMP requires MPYS (also known as STING, MITA, and TMEM173). Furthermore, expression of MPYS was required for IFN resp...
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PMID: 21813776
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Eurotium amstelodami, a mold frequently identified in housing and farm air samples, is a suspected cause of respiratory diseases such as allergic alveolitis, atopic asthma, and organic dust toxic syndrome. This fungus is present in the air in three different states (ascospores, conidia, and hyphae)....
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PMID: 21851418
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the cytotoxicity of six ingredients used in eyedrops with regard to four corneoconjunctival cell lines. Cells were treated with the undiluted solution, and 2-fold, and 10-fold dilutions of each solution for 10, 30, and 60 min and cell viability w...
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PMID: 21946322
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We performed MS to identify excretory-secretory proteins from Strongyloides ratti. In the excretory-secretory proteins of the parasitic female stage, we detected, in addition to other peptides, peptides homologous with the Caenorhabditis elegans heat shock protein (HSP)-17, named Sra-HSP-17.1 (∼ 1...
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PMID: 21762402
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The use of stem cells is considered a promising therapy for tissue regeneration and repair, particularly for tissues injured through degeneration, ischemia and inflammation. Bone marrow (BM)-derived haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are rare populations of multipotent stem cells that...
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PMID: 21340505
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We resolved cytoplasmic and membrane-associated complexes from hESCs and characterised their composition, stoichiometry, and dynamics by denaturing SDS-PAGE. The reliability of the fractionation was examined by western blot analysis of membrane and cytosolic markers. MALDI TOF/TOF mass spectrometry...
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PMID: 21727978
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We demonstrate that the proteolysis of human NANOG is regulated by the ubiquitin-proteasomal pathway. The inhibition of proteasome activity by proteasome inhibitor MG132 showed increase in protein levels of endogenous NANOG in a dose-dependent manner in human ESCs (hESCS). We demonstrated that the i...
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PMID: 21299413
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To investigate the optimum proportion of Mosaicplasty and genes-enhanced tissue engineering for the repair of acute osteochondral defects.
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PMID: 22007589
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The purpose of this study was to compare the whole genome sequences and replication dynamics in cell cultures of two Avian leukosis viruses of subgroup B (ALV) isolates, SDAU09E3 and SDAU09C2. Comparison of the amino acid sequences indicated that the gp85 identity of these two subgro...
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PMID: 21998957
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These results provide additional information on PRRSV entry into Marc-145 cells....
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PMID: 21998958
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In order to confirm the cause of the outbreak of aseptic meningitis in Zhejiang Province in 2002-2004, trace the pathogen and analyze the molecular characteristics, 271 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and faeces specimens were collected from suspected patients. The virus strains from the s...
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PMID: 21998959
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Satoshi S Koyama,
Katsuki K Ohtani,
Jun J Fukuzawa,
Naoyuki N Yao,
Mitsuko M Fukuda,
Seong-Jae SJ Jang,
Naoyuki N Hasebe,
Kenjiro K Kikuchi,
Hiroyuki H Itabe,
Itsuro I Yoshida,
Yasuhiko Y Suzuki and
Nobutaka N Wakamiya
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We recently identified a vascular endothelial scavenger receptor, collectin placenta 1 (CL-P1), which acts as a receptor for oxidized LDL as well as for microbes....
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PMID: 21723916
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We therefore examined the effect of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 on ECM/adhesion molecule expression, cell cycle regulation and monolayer permeability in an endothelial cell line (TR-iBRB2). We investigate whether the action of IGF-1 (1) involves glycogen synthase kinase 3beta (GSK-3β) and cA...
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PMID: 21549192
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We investigated the effects of H(2)O(2) treatment on AT(1)R-mediated intracellular calcium [Ca(2+)](i) signaling and its cell surface distribution pattern in HEK cells stably expressing EGFP-tagged rat AT(1)R using image correlation spectroscopy (ICS). Following H(2)O(2) treatment (50-800μM), [Ca(2...
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PMID: 21791198
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hERG (human Ether-à-go-go Related Gene) is responsible for ion channels mediating rapid delayed rectifier potassium current, I(Kr), which is key to cardiac action potential repolarization. Gain-of-function hERG mutations give rise to the SQT1 variant of the Short QT Syndrome (SQTS). Reggae mutant ze...
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PMID: 21777565
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We investigated the role of synaptotagmin 2 by a liposome-based fusion assay. SNARE proteins (SNAP-23, syntaxin-3, VAMP-8) and synaptotagmin 2 were expressed in Escherichia coli and purified as GST-tagged or His-tagged fusion proteins. These SNARE proteins were incorporated by a detergent dialysis m...
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PMID: 21787744
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We demonstrated the potential of FAdV-9-based recombinant viruses as vaccines for poultry....
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PMID: 22017044
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Taste buds are the end organs of taste located in the gustatory papillae, which occur on the surface of the oral cavity. The goal of the present study was to establish a culture model mimicking the lingual taste bud of the mouse. To this end, three cell lines were employed: taste bud...
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PMID: 21882950
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We consistently observed that the PA gene of H1N1(pdm) results in increased polymerase activity, better replication in mice, and lower LD₅₀. Our findings suggest that monitoring of gene reassortment for the 2009 pandemic influenza and seasonal human viruses is also important, which would help to...
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PMID: 21849283
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We present a fully integrated microfluidic device capable of performing high-precision RT-qPCR measurements of gene expression from hundreds of single cells per run. Our device executes all steps of single-cell processing, including cell capture, cell lysis, reverse transcription, and quantitative P...
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PMID: 21808033
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We used an antagonistic VEGF ligand as a molecular scaffold to engineer dual-specific proteins that bound to VEGFR2 and α(v)β(3) integrin with antibody-like affinities and inhibited angiogenic processes in vitro and in vivo. Mutations were introduced into a single-chain VEGF (scVEGF) ligand that r...
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PMID: 21825147
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We demonstrate that certain nucleic acid-binding polymers can inhibit activation of all nucleic acid-sensing TLRs irrespective of whether they recognize ssRNA, dsRNA or hypomethylated DNA. Furthermore, systemic administration of such polymers can prevent fatal liver injury engendered by proinflammat...
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PMID: 21844380
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David A Solomon,
Taeyeon Kim,
Laura A Diaz-Martinez,
Joshlean Fair,
Abdel G Elkahloun,
Brent T Harris,
Jeffrey A Toretsky,
Steven A Rosenberg,
Neerav Shukla,
Marc Ladanyi,
Yardena Samuels,
C David James,
Hongtao Yu,
Jung-Sik Kim and
Todd Waldman
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We have identified a clue to the mechanistic origins of aneuploidy through integrative genomic analyses of human tumors. A diverse range of tumor types were found to harbor deletions or inactivating mutations of STAG2, a gene encoding a subunit of the cohesin complex, which regulates the separation...
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PMID: 21852505
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We demonstrate that the polar cortex makes cytokinesis inherently unstable. We show that limited asymmetric polar contractions occur during cytokinesis, and that perturbing the polar cortex leads to cell shape oscillations, resulting in furrow displacement and aneuploidy. A theoretical model based o...
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PMID: 21822289
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Wei-Chien WC Yuan,
Yu-Ru YR Lee,
Shiu-Feng SF Huang,
Yu-Min YM Lin,
Tzu-Yin TY Chen,
Hsiang-Ching HC Chung,
Chin-Hsien CH Tsai,
Hsin-Yi HY Chen,
Cheng-Ta CT Chiang,
Chun-Kai CK Lai,
Li-Ting LT Lu,
Chun-Hau CH Chen,
De-Leung DL Gu,
Yeong-Shiau YS Pu,
Yuh-Shan YS Jou,
Kun Ping KP Lu,
Pei-Wen PW Hsiao,
Hsiu-Ming HM Shih and
Ruey-Hwa RH Chen
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We show that KLHL20, a Cullin3 (Cul3) substrate adaptor induced by HIF-1, coordinates with the actions of CDK1/2 and Pin1 to mediate hypoxia-induced PML proteasomal degradation. Furthermore, this PML destruction pathway participates in a feedback mechanism to maximize HIF-1α induction, thereby pote...
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PMID: 21840486
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Our data suggest that the mTOR signaling pathway is involved in SPC-modulated melanin synthesis....
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PMID: 21838918
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We provide novel insights into the roles of the CB2 splice variants, CB2(SH3+) and CB2(SH3-), and their substrate, Cdc42, in regulating gephyrin clustering at GABAergic synapses. Transfection of Myc-tagged CB2(SH3+) and CB2(SH3-) into cultured neurons revealed strong, but distinct, effects promoting...
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PMID: 21807943
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