PLK1 Down-Regulates Parainfluenza Virus 5 Gene Expression

PLK1 Down-Regulates Parainfluenza Virus 5 Gene Expression

The paramyxoviruses are a family of negative-sense RNA viruses that includes many important human and animal pathogens. Paramyxovirus RNA synthesis requires the viral phosphoprotein (P) and the large (L) protein. Phosphorylation of P is thought to regulate viral gene expression, though direct proof remains elusive. Recently, we reported that phosphorylation of a specific residue (Ser157) of the...

Galectin-3 Down-Regulates IL-5 Gene Expression

Hyperbaric environment up-regulates CD15s expression on leukocytes, down-regulates CD77 expression on renal cells and up-regulates CD34 expression on pulmonary and cardiac cells in rat

Objective(s): The aim of this study was to estimate effects of hyperbaric (HB) treatment by determination of CD15s and CD11b leukocyte proinflammatory markers expression.  In addition, this study describes changes in CD77 and CD34 expression on rat endothelial cells in renal, pulmonary and cardiac tissue following exposure to hyperbaric pressure. Materials and Methods:Expression of CD11b and CD...

The Constitutive Expression of the V Gene of Parainfluenza virus 5 Affects the Growth Properties of Bovine Herpesvirus 5

This study aimed to analyze the effect of the expression of Parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5) V protein in bovine cells on the replication of Bovine herpesvirus 5 (BoHV-5). Growth properties of BoHV-5 were evaluated in parental and PIV5 transfected cells. In one-step growth experiments, the BoHV-5 reached higher titers at earlier time points in the transfected cells when compared to the parental cel...

Galectin-3 down-regulates IL-5 gene expression on different cell types.

Galectin-3 is an animal lectin, formerly named epsilon-binding protein or Mac-2, which has been described to play an important role in some inflammatory processes by the implication of different cells and the increase in cell adhesion functions through laminin binding activity. In this work we analyzed the role of galectin-3 in the modulation of Th2 cytokines that have an important role in the ...