Background Increasing amounts of evidence indicate that Missing in metastasis B (MIM-B) promotes cancer metastasis. Here, we sought to better understand the mechanism through which MIM-B promotes tumor metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods We performed confocal microscopy analysis to determine the distributions of MIM-B and caveolin-1 and conducted co-immunoprecipitation assay...

In this digital era, all-optical logic gates (OLGs) proved its effectiveness in execution of high-speed computations. A unique construction an OR, NOR, and NAND based on the notion power combiner employing metal–insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide Y-shape with a minimal imprint 6.2 µm × 3 is presented structure evaluated by finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique. The insertion loss (IL) ext...

A new design for a tunable multi-channel plasmonic bandpass filter was numerically investigated using the two-dimensional finite element method (2D-FEM). The proposed consists of metal-insulator-metal waveguide (MIM-WG) and double-sided arrow-shaped cavities. Silver (Ag) non-linear optical medium (InGaAsP) are used in designed filter. InGaAsP fills bus refractive index is sensitive to incident ...

A plasmonic temperature-sensing structure, based on a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide with dual side-coupled hexagonal cavities, is proposed and numerically investigated by using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method in this paper. The numerical simulation results show that a resonance dip appears in the transmission spectrum. Moreover, the full width of half maximum (FWHM) of t...

We have found that MIM-B, a putative metastasis suppressor protein, is implicated in actin cytoskeletal control and interaction with a protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP). MIM was originally described as a protein whose mRNA was Missing in Metastasis, as it was found not to be present in metastatic bladder carcinoma cell lines [Lee, Y. G., Macoska, J. A., Korenchuk, S. and Pienta, K. J. (2002) N...

The phase behavior of a kind of pseudogemini surfactant in aqueous solutions, formed by the mixture of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS) and butane-1,4-bis (methylimidazolium bromide) ([mim-C4-mim]Br2) or butane-1,4-bis(methylpyrrolidinium bromide) ([mpy-C4-mpy]Br2) in a molar ratio of 2 : 1, is reported in the present work. When [mim-C4-mim]Br2 or [mpy-C4-mpy]Br2 is mixed with SDBS in aq...

BACKGROUND Missing in metastasis (MIM) is a member of the inverse BAR-domain protein family, and in vitro studies have implied MIM plays a role in deforming membrane curvature into filopodia-like protrusions and cell dynamics. Yet, the physiological role of the endogenous MIM in mammalian cells remains undefined. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We have examined mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) derived f...

We have fabricated advanced metal–insulator–metal (MIM) capacitors with ultra-thin (200 Å) remote-PECVD Si3N4 dielectric layers having excellent electrical properties. The breakdown field strength of MIM capacitors with 200-Å-thick Si3N4 was larger than 3.5 MV/cm, which indicates the excellent quality of the deposited Si3N4 film. The main capacitance per unit area extracted by radio frequency (...