The interaction of protein C (PC) with the endothelial PC receptor (EPCR) enhances activated PC (APC) generation. The physiological importance of EPCR has been demonstrated in EPCR knockout mice which show early embryonic lethality due to placental thrombosis. In order to study the role of EPCR independent of PC interaction, we generated an EPCR point mutation knock-in mouse (EPCR(R84A/R84A)) w...

We evaluated the 7, 12dimethylbenz (a) anthracene (DMBA) induced mouse skin tumor development as a function of time and its control by C-Phycocyanin (C-PC, a phycobiliproteins from Spirulina). Oral administration of C-PC inhibited the DMBA induced skin tumor development in term of number and the size of tumors. C-PC administration also prevented the DMBA caused molecular alterations in terms of...

At low temperature, the short-chain fluorescent-labeled phospholipids, 1-myristoyl-2-[6-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl) aminocaproyl]-phosphatidylcholine (M-C6-NBD-PC) and its phosphatidylethanolamine analog, M-C6-NBD-PE, are internalized by flip across the plasma membrane of S. cerevisiae and show similar enrichment in intracellular membranes including the mitochondria and nuclear envelope...

Haematologica vol. 85(8):August 2000 min-K dependent proteins, revealed that the affected amino acid was highly conserved, indicating an important structural or functional role. The search for other established thrombophilic genetic risk factors such as protein S and antithrombin deficiency, factor V Leiden, methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase C677T variant, and prothrombin G20210A variant rev...

BACKGROUND Pachyonychia congenita (PC) is a rare autosomal dominant disease whose main clinical features include hypertrophic onychodystrophy and palmoplantar keratoderma. The new classification is based on genetic variants with mutations in keratin KRT6A, KRT6B, KRT6C, KRT16, KRT17, and an unknown mutation. Here, we present a case of PC with unusual clinical and histological features and a fav...

Although altered expression of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)A is a hallmark of many cancers, the importance of pro-PDGF-A conversion to PDGF-A in tumorigenesis and the cognate protease(s) is unknown. Pro-PDGF-A processing occurs at pairs of basic residues, likely involving the proprotein convertases (PCs). In the colon carcinoma cell line LoVo, we found that Furin is the most potent PDG...

The morphological patterns in the adult cuticle of Drosophila are determined principally by the homeotic genes of the bithorax and Antennapedia complexes. We find that many of these genes become indiscriminately active in the adult epidermis when the Pc gene is eliminated. By using the Pc3 mutation and various BX-C mutant combinations, we have generated clones of imaginal cells possessing diffe...

Although colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common cancer type in Lynch syndrome (LS) families, patients have also increased lifetime risk of other types of tumors. The accumulated risk of pancreatic cancer (PC) in LS patients is around 3.7% and developed tumors often present a characteristically medullary appearance with prominent lymphocytic infiltration. LS patients are considered in high r...

A methodology based on the representation of each amino acid of a protein sequence by the electron-ion interaction potential and subsequent analysis by signal processing was used to determine the characteristic or common frequency (in Hz) that reflects the biological activity shared among phosphocholine (PC)-binding antibodies. The common frequency for the variable portion of the heavy chain (V...

CDKN2A coding region germline variants are associated with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PC) susceptibility. Recently, we described functional germline 5'UTR CDKN2A variants from melanoma patients affecting the post-transcriptional regulation of p16INK4a mRNA that is dependent, at least in part, on an Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) in the 5'UTR region. Here we describe a 5'UTR c.-201_-198deli...