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Afsheen Raza Najia K. Ghanchi Ali bin Sarwar Zubairi Ahmed Raheem Sobia Nizami Mohammad Asim Beg 《PloS one》2013,8(12)
Background
Cytokine-mediated endothelial activation pathway is a known mechanism of pathogenesis employed by Plasmodium falciparum to induce severe disease symptoms in human host. Though considered benign, complicated cases of Plasmodium vivax are being reported worldwide and from Pakistan. It has been hypothesized that P.vivax utilizes similar mechanism of pathogenesis, as that of P.falciparum for manifestations of severe malaria. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to characterize the role of cytokines and endothelial activation markers in complicated Plasmodium vivax isolates from Pakistan.Methods and Principle Findings
A case control study using plasma samples from well-characterized groups suffering from P.vivax infection including uncomplicated cases (n=100), complicated cases (n=82) and healthy controls (n=100) were investigated. Base line levels of Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Interleukin-10 (IL-10), Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), Vascular adhesion molecule-1(VCAM-1) and E-selectin were measured by ELISA. Correlation of cytokines and endothelial activation markers was done using Spearman’s correlation analysis. Furthermore, significance of these biomarkers as indicators of disease severity was also analyzed. The results showed that TNF-α, IL-10, ICAM-1and VCAM-1 were 3-fold, 3.7 fold and 2 fold increased between uncomplicated and complicated cases. Comparison of healthy controls with uncomplicated cases showed no significant difference in TNF-α concentrations while IL-6, IL-10, ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and E-selectin were found to be elevated respectively. In addition, significant positive correlation was observed between TNF-α and IL-10/ ICAM-1, IL-6 and IL-10, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1.A Receiver operating curve (ROC) was generated which showed that TNF-α, IL-10, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 were the best individual predictors of complicated P.vivax malaria.Conclusion
The results suggest that though endothelial adhesion molecules are inducible by pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-α, however, cytokine-mediated endothelial activation pathway is not clearly demonstrated as a mechanism of pathogenesis in complicated P.vivax malaria cases from Pakistan. 相似文献2.
Ibatsam Khokhar Irum Mukhtar Sobia Mushtaq 《Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection》2013,46(14):1347-1351
Microorganisms are increasingly exploited as a source of new biological control agents. Genus Penicillium is a source of novel bioactive molecules which can be used as antifungal agents. The objective of this study was to evaluate the antifungal potential of Penicillium strains. Culture filtrates of two Penicillium species were tested for their antifungal potential by well diffusion assays. Filtrate of Penicillium isolates showed high antifungal effects on mycelial growth of Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium solani, Macrophomina phaseolina, Aspergillus japonicus var aculeatus and Cladosporium cladosporioides. But Penicillium italicum inhibit the fungal growth from 45 to 68% as compared to Penicillium simplissimum (25–68%). However in case of A. japonicus var aculeatus, Penicillium spp. extracts were equally effective and reduce the colony growth up to 68%. However, P. simplissimum extract was least effective in case of M. phaseolina, where it decreased the colony growth only 25%. 相似文献
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Mahim Khan Muhammad Qasim Usman Ali Ashfaq Sobia Idrees Masoud Shah 《Bioinformation》2013,9(14):710-714
Background:
HCV has become a leading cause of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma and is a major health concern worldwide. To date,
there is no vaccine available in the market to tackle this disease, therefore there is a strong need to develop antiviral compounds
that can target all genotypes of HCV with the same efficiency. Medicinal plants have low cost and are less toxic therefore, extracts
of medicinal plants can serve as important antiviral agents against HCV. This study was designed to screen phytochemicals of
Accacia nilotica to find a potent drug candidate that can inhibit HCV infection effectively.Results:
Docking of NS3/4A protease and Flavonoids of Accacia nilotica revealed that most of the flavonoids bound deeply with the active
site of NS3/4A protease. Compound 01 showed a high ranking on docking score. All other compounds also showed reliable
docking scores and had interactions with the binding cavity of NS3/4A protease, suggesting them as a potent drug candidate to
block HCV replication.Conclusion:
To recognize binding interactions of Accacia nilotica phytochemicals with NS3/4A protease, molecular docking was performed to
find potential inhibitor against NS3/4A protease of HCV. After post docking analysis, important interactions were found between
active compounds and active site of NS3/4A protease. It can be concluded from the study that phytochemicals of Accacia nilotica
may serve as a potential drug candidate with relatively simple structural changes against HCV NS3/4A protease. 相似文献
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Zarka Sarwar Nusrat Nabi Sameer Ahmed Bhat Syed Qaaifah Gillani Irfana Reshi Misbah Un Nisa Guillaume Adelmant Jarrod A. Marto Shaida Andrabi 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2022,298(2)
Deleted in Breast Cancer 1 (DBC1) is an important metabolic sensor. Previous studies have implicated DBC1 in various cellular functions, notably cell proliferation, apoptosis, histone modification, and adipogenesis. However, current reports about the role of DBC1 in tumorigenesis are controversial and designate DBC1 alternatively as a tumor suppressor or a tumor promoter. In the present study, we report that polyoma small T antigen (PyST) associates with DBC1 in mammalian cells, and this interaction leads to the posttranslational downregulation of DBC1 protein levels. When coexpressed, DBC1 overcomes PyST-induced mitotic arrest and promotes the exit of cells from mitosis. Using both transient and stable modes of PyST expression, we also show that cellular DBC1 is subjected to degradation by LKB1, a tumor suppressor and cellular energy sensor kinase, in an AMP kinase-independent manner. Moreover, LKB1 negatively regulates the phosphorylation as well as activity of the prosurvival kinase AKT1 through DBC1 and its downstream pseudokinase substrate, Tribbles 3 (TRB3). Using both transient transfection and stable cell line approaches as well as soft agar assay, we demonstrate that DBC1 has oncogenic potential. In conclusion, our study provides insight into a novel signaling axis that connects LKB1, DBC1, TRB3, and AKT1. We propose that the LKB1–DBC1–AKT1 signaling paradigm may have an important role in the regulation of cell cycle and apoptosis and consequently tumorigenesis. 相似文献
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Akhtar S Shamotienko O Papakosta M Ali F Dolly JO 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2002,277(19):16376-16382
Most neuronal Kv1 channels contain Kv1.1, Kv1.2 alpha, and Kvbeta2.1 subunits, yet the influences of their stoichiometries on properties of the (alpha)(4)(beta)(4) variants remain undefined. cDNAs were engineered to contain 0, 1, 2, or 4 copies of Kv1.1 with the requisite number of Kv1.2 and co-expressed in mammalian cells with Kvbeta2.1 to achieve "native-like" hetero-oligomers. The monomeric (Kv1.1 or 1.2), dimeric (Kv1.1-1.2 or 1.2-1.2), and tetrameric (Kv1.1-(1.2)(3)) constructs produced proteins of M(r) approximately 62,000, 120,000, and 240,000, which assembled into (alpha)(4)(beta)(4) complexes. Each alpha cRNA yielded a distinct K(+) current in oocytes, with voltage dependence of activation being shifted negatively as the Kv1.1 content in tetramers was increased. Channels containing 1, 2, or 4 copies of Kv1.1 were blocked by dendrotoxin k (DTX)(k) with similarly high potencies, whereas Kv(1.2)(4) proved nonsusceptible. Accordingly, Kv1.2/beta2.1 expressed in baby hamster kidney cells failed to bind DTX(k); in contrast, oligomers containing only one Kv1.1 subunit in a tetramer exhibited high affinity, with additional copies causing modest increases. Thus, one Kv1.1 subunit largely confers high affinity for DTX(k), whereas channel electrophysiological properties are tailored by the content of Kv1.1 relative to Kv1.2. This notable advance could explain the diversity of symptoms of human episodic ataxia I, which is often accompanied by myokymia, due to mutated Kv1.1 being assembled in different combinations with wild-type and Kv1.2. 相似文献
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Tauqeer Ahmad Yasir Sobia Aslam Muhammad Shahid Rizwan Allah Wasaya Muhammad Ateeq Muhammad Naeem Khan Sikander Khan Tanveer Walid Soufan Basharat Ali Allah Ditta Arpna Kumari Ayman EL Sabagh 《Phyton》2022,91(11):2491-2504
In soil biota, higher and enduring concentration of heavy metals like cadmium (Cd) is hazardous and associated
with great loss in growth, yield, and quality parameters of most of the crop plants. Recently, in-situ applications of
eco-friendly stabilizing agents in the form of organic modifications have been utilized to mitigate the adverse
effects of Cd-toxicity. This controlled experiment was laid down to appraise the imprints of various applied
organic amendments namely poultry manure (PM), farmyard manure (FYM), and sugarcane press mud (PS)
to immobilize Cd in polluted soil. Moreover, phytoavailability of Cd in wheat was also accessed under an alkaline
environment. Results revealed that the addition of FYM (5–10 ton ha-1
) in Cd-contaminated soil significantly
increased germination rate, leaf chlorophyll content, plant height, spike length, biological and grain yield amongst
all applied organic amendments. Moreover, the addition of FYM (5–10 ton ha-1
) also reduced the phytoavailability of Cd by 73–85% in the roots, 57–83% in the shoots, and 81–90% in grains of wheat crop. Thus, it is affirmed
that incorporation of FYM (5–10 ton ha-1
) performed better to enhance wheat growth and yield by remediating
Cd. Thus, the application of FYM (5–10 ton ha-1
) reduced the toxicity induced by Cd to plants by declining its
uptake and translocation as compared to all other applied organic amendments to immobilize Cd under sandy
alkaline polluted soil. 相似文献
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Anwar J Shafique U Waheed-uz-Zaman un Nisa Z Munawar MA Jamil N Salman M Dar A Rehman R Saif J Gul H Iqbal T 《International journal of phytoremediation》2011,13(5):410-420
Adsorption is an environmental friendly process for removal and/or recovery of heavy metals from wastewater. In recent years, it has been substantiated as a popular technique to treat industrial waste effluents, with significant advantages. In this work, batchwise removal of chromium (III) ions from water by Polyalthia longifolia leaves was studied as a function of adsorbent dose, pH, contact time, and agitation speed. Surface characteristics of the leaves were evaluated by recording IR spectra. The Langmuir, Freundlich, and Temkin adsorption isotherms were employed to explain the sorption process. It was found that one gram of leaves can remove 1.87 mg of trivalent chromium when working at pH 3.0. It has been concluded that Polyalthia longifolia leaves can be used as cost-effective and benign adsorbents for removal of Cr(III) ions from wastewater. 相似文献
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Frank Butty Marta Wierzbicka Erik Verschueren Peter Vanhee Haiming Huang Andreas Ernst Nisa Dar Igor Stagljar Luis Serrano Sachdev S Sidhu Gary D Bader Philip M Kim 《Molecular systems biology》2011,7(1)
Modular protein interaction domains form the building blocks of eukaryotic signaling pathways. Many of them, known as peptide recognition domains, mediate protein interactions by recognizing short, linear amino acid stretches on the surface of their cognate partners with high specificity. Residues in these stretches are usually assumed to contribute independently to binding, which has led to a simplified understanding of protein interactions. Conversely, we observe in large binding peptide data sets that different residue positions display highly significant correlations for many domains in three distinct families (PDZ, SH3 and WW). These correlation patterns reveal a widespread occurrence of multiple binding specificities and give novel structural insights into protein interactions. For example, we predict a new binding mode of PDZ domains and structurally rationalize it for DLG1 PDZ1. We show that multiple specificity more accurately predicts protein interactions and experimentally validate some of the predictions for the human proteins DLG1 and SCRIB. Overall, our results reveal a rich specificity landscape in peptide recognition domains, suggesting new ways of encoding specificity in protein interaction networks. 相似文献
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Nisa?Bakkalbasi Kathleen?BauerEmail author Janis?Glover Lei?Wang 《Biomedical Digital Libraries》2006,3(1):7