The proto-oncogene c-Myb plays an important role in cell proliferation, and its upregulation affects the development of glioblastomas. G-quadruplexes are secondary DNA or RNA structures that usually form promoter region oncogenes, including c-Myb, regulate expression these genes. traditional Chinese medicine, brucine, is a ligand located c-Myb. present study investigated therapeutic effects mec...

Ribosomal genes are strongly regulated dependent on growth phase in all organisms, but this regulation is poorly understood in Archaea. Moreover, very little is known about growth phase-dependent gene regulation in Archaea. SSV1-based lacS reporter gene constructs containing the Sulfolobus 16S/23S rRNA gene core promoter, the TF55α core promoter, or the native lacS promoter were tested in Sulfo...

The ST2 gene was originally identified as a primary responsive gene induced by stimulation with growth factors and by oncogenic stress. The ST2 gene harbors two distinct promoters - a distal promoter and a proximal promoter. In this study, we identified a novel type of serum-responsive element in the ST2 proximal promoter using reporter gene analysis; this element includes a possible responsive...

myostatin is a growth factor belonging to the tgfß superfamily. tgfß growth factors are active in the regulation of embryonic development and in tissue homeostasis in adults. myostatin is a growth factor controlling proliferation of myoblasts in embryonic development. mutations in coding sequences of the bovine myostatin (gdf8) gene lead to muscle hyperplasia suggesting its inhibitory function ...

in order to study the periplasmic expression of human growth hormone (hgh) in escherichia coli, the related cdna was inserted in two expression plasmids carrying pelb signal peptide, one with lac bacterial promoter and the other with a bacteriophage t7-based promoter. the recombinant plasmids were moved to tg1 and bl21 strains of e. coli, respectively. to induce the expression systems, iptg and...

Objective(s): The Janus kinase-signal transducers and activators of transcription signaling pathway (JAK/STAT pathway) play an important role in proliferation of breast cancer cells. Previous data showed that inhibition of STAT3 suppresses the growth of breast cancer cells, but the associated mechanisms are not well understood. This study aims to investigate the effect and associated mechanisms...

background: matrix metalloproteinases comprise a family of enzyme degrade components of extra cellular matrix. there are single nucleotide polymorphisms in the promoter regions of several genes with ability to influence cancer susceptibility. the aim of this study was to analyze association between mmp 3 promoter polymorphisms and colorectal cancer occurrence and progression. materials and meth...