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Epigenetics refers to heritable changes in gene expression that are independent of alterations in DNA sequence. It is now accepted that disruption of epigenetic mechanisms plays a key role in the pathogenesis of cancer: culminating in altered gene function and malignant cellular transformation. DNA methylation and histone modifications are the most widely studied changes but non-coding RNAs such as miRNAs are also considered part of the epigenetic machinery. The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) axis is composed of two ligands, IGF-I and –II, their receptors and six high affinity IGF binding proteins (IGFBPs). The IGF axis plays a key role in cancer development and progression. As IGFBP genes have consistently been identified among the most common to be aberrantly altered in tumours, this review will focus on epigenetic regulation of IGFBP-3 in cancer for which the majority of evidence has been obtained. 相似文献
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MP Lisovoi NM Lesovoy GI Vasechko 《Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection》2013,46(2):123-127
A new method of selection of the winter wheat varieties has been tested for resistance to the pest insects' complex by the traits of plants that are the markers of plant resistance. It makes it possible to use this method from year to year independently of the pests' density. 相似文献
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TD Smith KP Bhatnagar CJ Bonar KL Shimp MP Mooney MI Siegel 《American journal of physical anthropology》2003,122(3):301-301
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The aim of this experiment was to evaluate the effects of an intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) on the sympathetic activation and the thermogenic changes in rats with acute lesions of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH). Four groups of six Sprague-Dawley male rats were anesthetized with ethyl-urethane. The firing rate of the sympathetic nerves innervating the interscapular brown adipose tissue (IBAT) and the colonic and IBAT temperatures were monitored both before and after one of the following treatments: 1) VMH lesion plus icv injection of PGE1 (500 ng); 2) VMH lesion plus icv injection of saline; 3) sham lesion plus icv injection of PGE1; and 4) sham lesion plus icv injection of saline. PGE1 induced an increase in the firing rate of IBAT nerves and the colonic and IBAT temperatures. These effects were reduced by VMH lesion. The findings indicate that acute lesions of the VMH reduce the effects of PGE1 and seem to suggest a possible role played by the VMH in the control of the sympathetic activation and the thermogenic changes during PGE1 hyperthermia. 相似文献
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Multiple haplotypes from each of three nuclear loci were isolated and
sequenced from geographic populations of the American oyster, Crassostrea
virginica. In tests of alternative phylogeographic hypotheses for this
species, nuclear gene genealogies constructed for these haplotypes were
compared to one another, to a mitochondrial gene tree, and to patterns of
allele frequency variation in nuclear restriction site polymorphisms
(RFLPs) and allozymes. Oyster populations from the Atlantic versus the Gulf
of Mexico are not reciprocally monophyletic in any of the nuclear gene
trees, despite considerable genetic variation and despite large allele
frequency differences previously reported in several other genetic assays.
If these populations were separated vicariantly in the past, either
insufficient time has elapsed for neutral lineage sorting to have achieved
monophyly at most nuclear loci, or balancing selection may have inhibited
lineage extinction, or secondary gene flow may have moved haplotypes
between regions. These and other possibilities are examined in light of
available genetic evidence, and it is concluded that no simple explanation
can account for the great variety of population genetic patterns across
loci displayed by American oysters. Regardless of the source of this
heterogeneity, this study provides an empirical demonstration that
different sequences of DNA within the same organismal pedigree can have
quite different phylogeographic histories.
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Crustacean and cheliceratan hemocyanins (oxygen-transport proteins) and
insect hexamerins (storage proteins) are homologous gene products, although
the latter do not bind oxygen and do not possess the copper- binding
histidines present in the hemocyanins. An alignment of 19 amino acid
sequences of hemocyanin subunits and insect hexamerins was made, based on
the conservation of elements of secondary structure observed in X-ray
structures of two hemocyanin subunits. The alignment was analyzed using
parsimony and neighbor-joining methods. Results provide strong indications
for grouping together the sequences of the 2 crustacean hemocyanin
subunits, the 5 cheliceratan hemocyanin subunits, and the 12 insect
hexamerins. Within the insect clade, four methionine- rich proteins, four
arylphorins, and two juvenile hormone-suppressible proteins from
Lepidoptera, as well as two dipteran proteins, form four separate groups.
In the absence of an outgroup sequence, it is not possible to present
information about the ancestral state from which these proteins are
derived. Although this family of proteins clearly consists of homologous
gene products, there remain striking differences in gene organization and
site of biosynthesis of the proteins within the cell. Because studies on
18S and 12S rRNA sequences indicate a rather close relationship between
insects and crustaceans, we propose that hemocyanin is the ancestral
arthropod protein and that insect hexamerins lost their copper-binding
capability after divergence of the insects from the crustaceans.
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Morelli F Peluso G Petillo O Giannattasio A Filosa S Motta CM Tammaro S Zatterale A Calzone R Budillon A Cartenì M de Maria S Costanza MR Nigro A Petrazzuolo M Buommino E Rizzo M Capasso G Baiano S Moscatiello F Ravagnan G Fuggetta MP Tajana G Stiuso P Metafora BM Metafora V Metafora S 《Journal of cellular physiology》2007,212(3):610-625
Serum deprivation induced in human lymphoblastoid Raji cells oxidative stress-associated apoptotic death and G0/G1 cell cycle arrest. Addition into culture medium of the immunomodulatory protein Seminal vesicle protein 4 (SV-IV) protected these cells against apoptosis but not against cycle arrest. The antiapoptotic activity was related to: (1) decrease of endocellular reactive Oxygen species (ROS) (2) increase of mRNAs encoding anti-oxidant enzymes (catalase, G6PD) and antiapoptotic proteins (survivin, cox-1, Hsp70, c-Fos); (3) decrease of mRNAs encoding proapoptotic proteins (c-myc, Bax, caspase-3, Apaf-1). The biochemical changes underlaying these effects were probably induced by a protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) activity triggered by the binding of SV-IV to its putative plasma membrane receptors. The ineffectiveness of SV-IV to abrogate the cycle arrest was accounted for by its downregulating effects on D1,3/E G1-cyclins and CdK2/4 gene expression, ppRb/pRb ratio, and intracellular ROS concentration. In conclusion, these experiments: (1) prove that SV-IV acts as a cell survival factor; (2) suggest the involvement of a PTK in SV-IV signaling; (3) point to cell cycle-linked enzyme inhibition as responsible for cycle arrest; (4) provide a model to dissect the cycle arrest and apoptosis induced by serum withdrawal; (5) imply a possible role of SV-IV in the survival of hemiallogenic implanting embryos. 相似文献