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Activation of the EIF2AK4-EIF2A/eIF2α-ATF4 pathway triggers autophagy respons...
The intestinal mucosa of Crohn disease (CD) patients is abnormally colonized by adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC). Upon AIEC infection, autophagy is induced in host cells to... -
Pervasive read-through transcription of T-DNAs is frequent in tobacco BY-2 ce...
Abstract Background Plant transformation via Agrobacterium tumefaciens is characterized by integration of commonly low number of T-DNAs at random positions in the genome. When... -
Fecal metatranscriptomics of macaques with idiopathic chronic diarrhea reveal...
Abstract Background Idiopathic chronic diarrhea (ICD) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality among juvenile rhesus macaques. Characterized by chronic inflammation of the... -
ACTL6A expression promotes invasion, metastasis and epithelial mesenchymal tr...
Abstract Background Metastasis is the main cause of death in patients with advanced stage colon cancer. Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays an important role in... -
Activin and TGFβ use diverging mitogenic signaling in advanced colon cancer
Abstract Background Understanding cell signaling pathways that contribute to metastatic colon cancer is critical to risk stratification in the era of personalized therapeutics.... -
TNFAIP3 is required for FGFR1 activation-promoted proliferation and tumorigen...
Abstract Background Although ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a non-invasive breast cancer, many DCIS lesions may progress to invasive cancer and the genes and pathways... -
Astragaloside IV inhibits lung cancer progression and metastasis by modulatin...
Abstract Background Accumulating evidence suggests that M2-polarized tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) play an important role in cancer progression and metastasis, making M2... -
Transcriptional reprogramming strategies and miRNA-mediated regulation networ...
Abstract Background Taxus cells are a potential sustainable and environment-friendly source of taxol, but they have low survival ratios and slow grow rates. Despite these... -
Development of a new promoter to avoid the silencing of genes in the producti...
Abstract Background The production of recombinant proteins in mammalian cell lines is one of the most important areas in biopharmaceutical industry. Viral transcriptional... -
Nigella A ameliorates inflammation and intestinal flora imbalance in DSS indu...
Abstract Nigella A, also named Sieboldianoside A, has been extracted from many kinds of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), such as Nigella glandulifera, Stauntonia chinensis... -
Chromosomal integration vectors allowing flexible expression of foreign genes...
Abstract Background Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of human gastroenteritis yet there is limited knowledge of how disease is caused. Molecular genetic approaches are... -
Breast milk DHA levels may increase after informing women: a community-based ...
Abstract Background Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in breast milk, has many health benefits for both mother and baby. A 2007 meta-analysis found U.S.... -
RNA polymerase II depletion promotes transcription of alternative mRNA species
Abstract Background Cells respond to numerous internal and external stresses, such as heat, cold, oxidative stress, DNA damage, and osmotic pressure changes. In most cases, the... -
A principal components method constrained by elementary flux modes: analysis ...
Abstract Background Non-negative linear combinations of elementary flux modes (EMs) describe all feasible reaction flux distributions for a given metabolic network under the... -
WD-repeat protein WDR13 is a novel transcriptional regulator of c-Jun and mod...
Abstract Background WDR13 is a member of the WD repeat protein family and is expressed in several tissues of human and mice. Previous studies in our laboratory showed that the... -
Regulation of platelet-activating factor-mediated interleukin-6 promoter acti...
Abstract Background An underlying state of inflammation is thought to be an important cause of cardiovascular disease. Among cells involved in the early steps of... -
Tau GSTs involved in regulation of leaf abscission by comparison the gene pro...
Abstract Background Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) have been reported to regulate the plant tolerance to environmental stresses. Many plant GSTs exhibited the roles on... -
Cytosolic sulfotransferase 1A1 regulates HIV-1 minus-strand DNA elongation in...
Abstract Background The cellular sulfonation pathway modulates key steps of virus replication. This pathway comprises two main families of sulfonate-conjugating enzymes: Golgi... -
Rabies virus phosphoprotein P5 binding to BECN1 regulates self-replication by...
Abstract Background Rabies virus (RABV) is reported to encode five phosphoproteins (P), which are involved in viral genomic replication, axonal transport, oxidative stress,... -
A Resumable Fluorescent Probe BHN-Fe3O4@SiO2 Hybrid Nanostructure for Fe3+ an...
Abstract A multifunctional fluorescent probe BHN-Fe3O4@SiO2 nanostructure for Fe3+ was designed and developed. It has a good selective response to Fe3+ with fluorescence...
