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A pancreatic islet-specific microRNA regulates insulin secretion

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) constitute a growing class of non-coding RNAs that are thought to regulate gene expression by translational repression. Several miRNAs in animals exhibit tissue-specific or developmental-stage-specific expression, indicating that...

Authors: Poy MN, Eliasson L, Krutzfeldt J, Kuwajima S, Ma X, Macdonald PE, Pfeffer S, Tuschl T, Rajewsky N,...

Association of ABCA1 with Syntaxin 13 and Flotillin-1 and Enhanced Phagocytosis in Tangier Cells

The ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) facilitates the cellular release of cholesterol and choline-phospholipids to apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) and several studies indicate that vesicular transport is associated with ABCA1 function....

Authors: Bared SM, Buechler C, Boettcher A, Dayoub R, Sigruener A, Grandl M, Rudolph C, Dada A and Schmitz G

B Cell Lipid Rafts Regulate Both Peptide-Dependent and Peptide-Independent APC-T Cell Interaction

Formation of an immunological synapse (IS) between APCs and T CD4(+) lymphocytes is a key event in the initiation and the termination of the cognate immune response. We have analyzed the contribution of the APC to IS formation and report the...

Authors: Setterblad N, Becart S, Charron D and Mooney N

Solar ultraviolet irradiation reduces collagen in photoaged human skin by blocking transforming growth factor-beta type II receptor/Smad signaling

Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation from the sun reduces production of type I procollagen (COLI), the major structural protein in human skin. This reduction is a key feature of the pathophysiology of premature skin aging (photoaging). Photoaging is the most...

Authors: Quan T, He T, Kang S, Voorhees JJ and Fisher GJ

Distinct cAMP signaling pathways differentially regulate 2C-adrenoceptor expression: role in serum induction in human arteriolar smooth muscle cells

The physiological role of alpha(2)-adrenoceptors (alpha(2)-ARs) in cutaneous, arteriolar, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMs) is to mediate cold-induced constriction. In VSMs cultured from human cutaneous arterioles, there is a selective increase in...

Authors: Chotani MA, Mitra S, Eid AH, Han SA and Flavahan NA

Tec kinase migrates to the T cell-APC interface independently of ist pleckstrin homology domain

Tec is the prototypical member of the Tec tyrosine kinases family, which plays an important role in T cell signaling. We show in this study that Tec translocates to the immunological synapse when a T cell contacts a dendritic cell. Surprisingly, the...

Authors: Garcon F, Bismuth G, Isnardon D, Olive D and Nunes JA

IRF-2 is involved in up-regulation of nonmuscle myosin heavy chain II-A gene expression during phorbol ester-induced promyelocytic HL-60 differentiation

Transcription of the nonmuscle myosin heavy chain II-A (NMHC-A) gene is regulated by various factors, including cell type, proliferation and differentiation stage, and extracellular stimuli. We have identified an intronic region (designated...

Authors: Chung MC and Kawamoto S

Receptor-Specific Signaling for Both the Alternative and the Canonical NF-kappaB Activation Pathways by NF-kappaB-Inducing Kinase

The NF-kappaB-inducing kinase (NIK) induces proteolytic processing of NF-kappaB2/p100 and, hence, the generation of NF-kappaB dimers such as p52:RelB but was suggested not to signal for the processing of IkappaB. Here, we show that although the...

Authors: Ramakrishnan P, Wang W and Wallach D

Visualizing the site and dynamics of IgG salvage by the MHC class I-related receptor, FcRn

The MHC class I-related receptor, FcRn, plays a central role in regulating the serum levels of IgG. FcRn is expressed in endothelial cells, suggesting that these cells may be involved in maintaining IgG levels. We have used live cell imaging of...

Authors: Ober RJ, Martinez C, Vaccaro C, Zhou J and Ward ES

Breast cancer cells can evade apoptosis-mediated selective killing by a novel small molecule inhibitor of Bcl-2

Proteins of the Bcl-2 family are key regulators of caspase activation and apoptosis. Some members of this family, notably Bcl-2 and Bcl-x(L), are overexpressed in cancer cells, which have been associated with chemoresistance. We have designed and...

Authors: Real PJ, Cao Y, Wang R, Nikolovska-Coleska Z, Sanz-Ortiz J, Wang S and Fernandez-Luna JL

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