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Autoregulation of interleukin 6 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in the differentiation of myeloid leukemic cells. 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3 下载免费PDF全文
Induction of differentiation in one type of clone of mouse myeloid leukemic cells by mouse or human interleukin 6 (IL-6) and in another type of clone by mouse granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) was found to be associated with induction of IL-6 and GM-CSF mRNA and protein. The results indicated that IL-6 and GM-CSF could positively autoregulate their own gene expression during myeloid cell differentiation. It is suggested that this autoregulation may serve to enhance and prolong the signal induced by these proteins in cells transiently exposed to IL-6 or GM-CSF. 相似文献
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Gadi Katzir Arnon Lotem Nathan Intrator 《Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology》1989,165(4):573-576
Summary This paper attempts to verify the importance of spatial positioning of the eyes of reef heronsEgretta gularis schistacea, when coping with light refraction at the air-water interface. The herons' striking of prey, while their approach angle was restricted, was observed. (a) The herons' capture success in the restricted situation was markedly lower than in the unrestricted situation. (b) The points of strike (STR) in unsuccessful strikes differed from those of successful strikes, and from those of the unrestricted situation. (c) The larger the difference between the observed and the predicted ratio of prey depth to apparent prey depth, the higher the probability of missing a prey. These results support predictions of a model presented elsewhere (Katzir and Intrator 1987) that a heron will attempt to reach spatial positions at which prey's real depth and apparent depth are linearly correlated. 相似文献
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D+ but not D- myeloid leukemic cells can be induced by the appropriate conditioned medium or by serum from endotoxin treated mice, to undergo cell migration in agar, cell attachment to the surface of a Petri dish and differentiation to mature macrophages and granulocytes. Inhibition of cell multiplication by cytosine arabinoside, hydroxyurea, mitomycin C, thymidine, 5-bromodeoxyuridine, 5-iododeoxyuridine, 5-fluorodeoxyuridine or actinomycin D, but not by vinblastine or cycloheximide, induced cell migration, cell attachment to the Petri dish and the formation of macrophages in D+ cells. There was no induction of cell migration or formation of macrophages and a much lower induction of cell attachment in D- cells. The induction of these changes in D+ cells required protein synthesis and the inhibitors showed the same toxicity for D+ and D- cells. The results indicate, that the inhibitors induced specific surface membrane changes in D+ but not in D- cells. 相似文献
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Taylor Lotem Curson David Verutes Gregory M. Wilsey Chad 《Wetlands Ecology and Management》2020,28(3):527-541
Wetlands Ecology and Management - Salt marshes are at risk globally if they cannot keep pace with sea level rise. Along the United States Mid-Atlantic coast, high marsh has already declined, and is... 相似文献
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Salah Z Maoz M Pokroy E Lotem M Bar-Shavit R Uziely B 《Molecular cancer research : MCR》2007,5(3):229-240
Although ample evidence point to the central involvement of protease activated receptor-1 (PAR1) in tumor progression, little is known about the fate of the tumor when hPar1 is being silenced. We observed that hPar1 antisense clones exhibit low PAR1 levels, attenuated cell proliferation and invasion in vitro, and tumor formation in vivo. These clones showed noticeably reduced paxillin phosphorylation compared with the parental A375SM cells, whereas no change in the integrin levels was noticed. Antisense clones injected into the mice resulted in very few and only occasional small tumors, whereas advanced and vascularized tumors were observed in A375SM cells. The antisense-derived tumor sections expressed active caspase-3, increased terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated nick-end labeling staining, and a markedly reduced proliferating cell nuclear antigen level compared with A375SM cell-derived tissue sections. Likewise, ablation of the hPar1 gene in a tetracycline-inducible hPar1 system leads to apoptosis in immature blood vessels, whereas mature vessels were unaffected. The activation of PAR1-induced pAkt/protein kinase B abrogated serum-deprived Bim(EL) induction and also markedly inhibited Bax levels. On the other hand, small interfering RNA silencing of the hPar1 gene induced the expression of Bim(EL), a direct substrate of Akt/protein kinase B and also induced expression of active caspase-9 and caspase-3. These results altogether identify PAR1 as a survival factor that protects cells from undergoing apoptosis. We conclude that whereas PAR1 gene expression correlates with tumor progression, its neutralization effectively initiates an apoptotic pathway leading at least in part to significantly reduced tumor formation. 相似文献
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Gelbart Y Frankenburg S Pinchasov Y Krispel S Eliahu D Drize O Morag E Bartfeld D Lotem M Peretz T Pitcovski J 《Protein expression and purification》2004,34(2):183-189
gp100 is a melanoma-associated antigen found to carry immunogenic epitopes that can induce a CTL response against tumor cells. Production and purification of large quantities of this polypeptide may be important in the context of diagnosis and vaccinating against melanoma. To overcome the hydrophobic nature of gp100, we cloned and expressed only a part of the protein, and obtained a hydrophilic recombinant polypeptide (HR-gp100) that contained most of the immunogenic peptides. High yield was achieved in an Escherichia coli expression system. The protein was purified by AKTA Prime using anionic-columns. Polyclonal antibodies developed in chicken against HR-gp100 were efficient at detecting gp100 in melanoma cells, as determined by Western blot analysis and by immunohistochemistry. HR-gp100 can be used to develop a vaccine against melanoma. Antibodies to HR-gp100 may be used to detect tumors of melanocytic origin or to determine the level of gp100 expression in tumors prior to immunotherapy with the protein or one of its peptides. 相似文献
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The level of expression of sexually selected traits is generally determined by genes, environment and their interaction. In species that use multiple sexual signals which may be costly to produce, investing in the expression of one sexual signal may limit the expression of the other, favoring the evolution of a strategy for resource allocation among signals. As a result, even when the expression of sexual signals is condition dependent, the relative level of expression of each signal may be heritable. We tested this hypothesis in the East-Mediterranean barn swallow (Hirundo rustica transitiva), in which males have been shown to express two uncorrelated sexual signals: red-brown ventral coloration, and long tail streamers. We show that variation in both signals may partially be explained by age, as well as by paternal origin (genetic father-son regressions), but that the strongest similarity between fathers and sons is the relative allocation towards one trait or the other (relative expression index), rather than the expression of the traits themselves. These results suggest that the expression of one signal is not independent of the other, and that genetic strategies for resource allocation among sexual signals may be selected for during the evolution of multiple sexual signals. 相似文献
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A combination of gene expression ranking and co‐expression network analysis increases discovery rate in large‐scale mutant screens for novel Arabidopsis thaliana abiotic stress genes 下载免费PDF全文
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Edith Katsnelson Uzi Motro Marcus W. Feldman Arnon Lotem 《Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society》2011,278(1705):582-589
Social foragers can use either a ‘producer’ strategy, which involves searching for food, or a ‘scrounger’ strategy, which involves joining others'' food discoveries. While producers rely on personal information and past experience, we may ask whether the tendency to forage as a producer is related to being a better learner. To answer this question, we hand-raised house sparrow (Passer domesticus) nestlings that upon independence were given an individual-learning task that required them to associate colour signal and food presence. Following the testing phase, all fledglings were released into a shared aviary, and their social-foraging tendencies were measured. We found a significant positive correlation between individual''s performance in the individual-learning task and subsequent tendency to use searching (producing) behaviour. Individual-learning score was negatively correlated with initial fear of the test apparatus and with body weight. However, the correlation between individual learning and searching remained significant after controlling for these variables. Since it was measured before the birds entered a social group, individual-learning ability could not be the outcome of being a producer. However, the two traits may be initially associated, or individual learning could facilitate producing behaviour. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence that associates individual-learning abilities with social-foraging strategies in animal groups. 相似文献
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Jacobus J. Bosch Uzoma K. Iheagwara Sarah Reid Minu K. Srivastava Julie Wolf Michal Lotem Bruce R. Ksander Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg 《Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII》2010,59(1):103-112
We are exploring cell-based vaccines as a treatment for the 50% of patients with large primary uveal melanomas who develop
lethal metastatic disease. MHC II uveal melanoma vaccines are MHC class I+ uveal melanoma cells transduced with CD80 genes and MHC II genes syngeneic to the recipient. Previous studies demonstrated
that the vaccines activate tumor-specific CD4+ T cells from patients with metastatic uveal melanoma. We have hypothesized that vaccine potency is due to the absence of
the MHC II-associated invariant chain (Ii). In the absence of Ii, newly synthesized MHC II molecules traffic intracellularly
via a non-traditional pathway where they encounter and bind novel tumor peptides. Using confocal microscopy, we now confirm
this hypothesis and demonstrate that MHC II molecules are present in both the endosomal and secretory pathways in vaccine
cells. We also demonstrate that uveal melanoma MHC II vaccines activate uveal melanoma-specific, cytolytic CD8+ T cells that do not lyse normal fibroblasts or other tumor cells. Surprisingly, the CD8+ T cells are cytolytic for HLA-A syngeneic and MHC I-mismatched uveal melanomas. Collectively, these studies demonstrate that
MHC II uveal melanoma vaccines are potent activators of tumor-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and suggest that the non-conventional intracellular trafficking pattern of MHC II may contribute to their enhanced
immunogenicity. Since MHC I compatibility is unnecessary for the activation of cytolytic CD8+ T cells, the vaccines could be used in uveal melanoma patients without regard to MHC I genotype. 相似文献