Our study demonstrates that Pt(IV) derivative of cisplatin, with two axial PhB ligands, ctc-[Pt(NH3)2(PhB)2Cl2], is a very potent cytotoxic agent against many different human cancer cell lines and is up to 100 fold more potent than cisplatin, and significantly more potent than the Pt(IV) derivatives of cisplatin with either two hydroxido, two acetato or two valproato ligands. The high potency o...

Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a member of a class of thermoelastic polymers called polyhydroxyalkanoates that serve many bacteria as intracellular storage molecules for carbon and energy. Transgenic plants provide a potential means of producing this polymer cost-effectively. To date, however, few reports of the successful production of this polymer have been published, with the exception of work...

Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a polyester of 3-hydroxybutyric acid (HB) that is ubiquitously present in all organisms. In higher eukaryotes PHB is found in the length of 10 to 100 HB units and can be present in free form as well as in association with proteins and inorganic polyphosphate. It has been proposed that PHB can mediate ion transport across lipid bilayer membranes. We investigated ...

Understanding how neurons adopt particular fates is a fundamental challenge in developmental neurobiology. To address this issue, we have been studying a Caenorhabditis elegans lineage that produces the HSN motor neuron and the PHB sensory neuron, sister cells produced by the HSN/PHB precursor. We have previously shown that the novel protein HAM-1 controls the asymmetric neuroblast division in ...

Cyanobacteria have many unexploited potential for natural products with a huge variability in structure and biological activity. Under stress conditions they are reported to produce biopolymers like poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB), which can be produced intracellularly.Cyanobacteria are capable of synthesizing small amount of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) under nitrogen and phosphorous starvation c...

Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a member of a class of thermoelastic polymers called polyhydroxyalkanoates that serve many bacteria as intracellular storage molecules for carbon and energy. Transgenic plants provide a potential means of producing this polymer cost-effectively. To date, however, few reports of the successful production of this polymer have been published, with the exception of work...

Published results from our laboratory identified prohibitin (PHB), a gene product expressed in granulosa cells (GCs) that progressively increases during follicle maturation. Our current in vitro studies demonstrate that follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) stimulates Phb expression in rat primary GCs. The FSH-dependent expression of PHB was primarily localized within mitochondria, and positively ...

Arsenic sulfide (As4S4), an oral form of arsenic agent, has been shown to have similar efficacy and safety to intravenous arsenic trioxide in the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The aim of the present study was to identify proteins modulated by As4S4 and to determine their involvement in the apoptotic pathway. We used comparative proteomic analysis to screen and identify the pr...

Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is one of the polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) which has biodegradable and biocompatible properties. They are adopted in the biomedical field, in, for example, medical implants and drug delivery carriers. This study seeks to promote the production of PHB by Vibrio sp. BM-1, isolated from a marine environment by improving constituents of medium and implementing an appropria...

For the development of a resorbable gastrointestinal patch, the in vitro degradation of solution-cast films of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB), modifications of PHB expected to influence its degradation time, as well a poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) was examined. The molecular weight of pure PHB decreased by one-half after 1 year in buffer solution (pH 7.4, 37 degrees C). Acceleration in molecular weight...