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Presence of an established calcification marker in trabecular meshwork tissue of glaucoma donors

PURPOSE: To determine the presence of calcification markers in the trabecular meshwork tissue from glaucoma donors and in trabecular meshwork cells insulted by dexamethasone (DEX) and transforming growth factor beta2 (TGFbeta2), factors associated...

Authors: Xue W, Comes N, Borras T

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Beta-catenin regulates acetylcholine receptor clustering in muscle cells through interaction with rapsyn

Agrin is believed to be a factor used by motoneurons to direct acetylcholine receptor (AChR) clustering at the neuromuscular junction. However, exactly how agrin mediates this effect remains unclear. Here we demonstrate that the beta-catenin...

Authors: Zhang B, Luo S, Dong XP, Zhang X, Liu C, Luo Z, Xiong WC, Mei L

Primary T-cells from human CD4/CCR5-transgenic rats support all early steps of HIV-1 replication including integration, but display impaired viral gene expression

BACKGROUND: In vivo studies on HIV-1 pathogenesis and testing of antiviral strategies have been hampered by the lack of an immunocompetent small animal model that is highly susceptible to HIV-1 infection. Since native rodents are non-permissive, we...

Authors: Goffinet C, Michel N, Allespach I, Tervo HM, Hermann V, Kräusslich HG, Greene WC, Keppler OT

An improved zinc-finger nuclease architecture for highly specific genome editing

Genome editing driven by zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) yields high gene-modification efficiencies (>10%) by introducing a recombinogenic double-strand break into the targeted gene. The cleavage event is induced using two custom-designed ZFNs that...

Authors: Miller JC, Holmes MC, Wang J, Guschin DY, Lee YL, Rupniewski I, Beausejour CM, Waite AJ, Wang NS,...

mRNA-Mediated Gene Delivery Into Human Progenitor Cells Promotes Highly Efficient Protein Expression

Gene transfer into human CD34+ haematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) and multi-potent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) is an essential tool for numerous in vitro and in vivo applications including therapeutic strategies, such as tissue engineering and...

Authors: Wiehe JM, Ponsaerts P, Rojewski MT, Homann JM, Greiner J, Kronawitter D, Schrezenmeier H, Hombach V,...

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Transcription termination factor Pcf11 limits the processivity of Pol II on an HIV provirus to repress gene expression

Many elongation factors in eukaryotes promote gene expression by increasing the processivity of RNA polymerase II (Pol II). However, the stability of RNA Pol II elongation complexes suggests that such complexes are not inherently prone to prematurely...

Authors: Zhang Z, Klatt A, Henderson AJ, Gilmour DS

Polarity proteins PAR6 and aPKC regulate cell death through GSK-3beta in 3D epithelial morphogenesis

Epithelial cells are polarized, with an apical surface facing a lumen or outer surface and a basolateral surface facing other cells and extracellular matrix (ECM). Hallmarks of epithelial carcinogenesis include loss of polarity, as well as...

Authors: Kim M, Datta A, Brakeman P, Yu W, Mostov KE

Receptor-interacting protein 2 is a marker for resolution of peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis

There are no predictive factors for peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis; however, its resolution correlates with a cell-mediated Th1 immune response. We tested the hypothesis that induction of receptor-interacting protein 2 (RIP2), an assumed...

Authors: McCully ML, Baroja ML, Chau TA, Jain AK, Barra L, Salgado A, Blake PG, Madrenas J

Thioredoxin is required for S-nitrosation of procaspase-3 and the inhibition of apoptosis in Jurkat cells

S-nitrosation is a posttranslational, oxidative addition of NO to cysteine residues of proteins that has been proposed as a cGMP-independent signaling pathway [Hess DT, Matsumoto A, Kim SO, Marshall HE, Stamler JS (2005) Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol...

Authors: Mitchell DA, Morton SU, Fernhoff NB, Marletta MA

Dynamic receptor-dependent activation of inducible nitric oxide synthase by ERK-mediated phosphorylation of Ser745

Nitric oxide (NO) is a pleiotropic regulator of vascular function and its overproduction by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in inflammatory conditions plays an important role in the pathogenesis of vascular diseases. iNOS activity is thought...

Authors: Zhang Y, Brovkovych V, Brovkovych S, Tan F, Lee BS, Sharma T, Skidgel RA

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