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Lightweight and mechanically strong protein fibers are promising for many technical applications. Despite the widespread investigation of biological fibers based on spider silk and silkworm proteins, it remains a challenge to develop low‐cost proteins and convenient spinning technology for the fabrication of robust biological fibers. Since there are plenty of widely available proteins in nature, it...
The k-core of a graph is the maximal subgraph with minimum vertex degree k. When the core with the largest k is found, it can be removed and the next core can be found. In each of these cores (or shells), connected components have been enumerated in an existing graph clustering method. Here we propose a method to find graph clusters that are not just k-cores but also made of r-cliques. Just like the...
Recent studies have demonstrated that the expression of aquaporin1 (AQP1) in endothelia cells played important roles in cell migration, and migration-associated cell function such as wound healing, and neutrophil motility. In the present study, we provided evidence that AQP1 expression in vascular endothelia cells (VECs) during angiogenesis was associated with MRTF-A. Morphology and immunofluorescence...
Structural annotation of genomes is one of major goals of genomics research. Most popular tools for structural annotation of genomes are determined by computational pipelines. It is well-known that these computational methods have a number of shortcomings including false identifications and incorrect identification of gene boundaries. Proteomic data can used to confirm the identification of genes...
Recent studies uncovered an important role of aquaporins in cell migration, and migration-associated cell function such as angiogenesis, wound healing, and neutrophil motility. Here we provide evidence that aquaporin expression is involved in MCF-7 human mammary carcinoma cell migration. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, immunoblot and immunofluorescence analysis demonstrated two populations...
Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can differentiate into smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and have tremendous potential for cell therapy and tissue engineering. In this study, to understand the effects of TGF-beta3 on rat bone marrow-derived MSCs and the underlying molecular mechanism of this differentiation process, we investigated that the changes of myocardin-related transcription factors (MRTFs)...
Myocardin-related transcription factors A (MRTF-A) is a myocardin-related transcription factor that has been found strongly activated CarG box - containing genes through its direct binding to serum response factor (SRF). In the present study, the MRTF-A expression vector was constructed. The MTT assay showed that transfection of MRTF-A could significantly decrease the anti-tumor effect of tamoxifen...
Promoter fragment of alkaline protease gene was cloned from Bacillus alcalophillus PB92 genome by TAIL-PCR. The fragment was sequenced and analyzed, then submitted to GenBank (EU130686). The results showed that it contained several typical promoter charactered regions and two reverse translation frames located in - 538 to - 370 bp and - 275 to - 128 bp region. Deletion analysis of the sequence indicated...
The binding of efonidipine to bovine serum albumin (BSA) was investigated by fluorescence spectroscopy and circular dichroism (CD) technique. The quenching mechanism of fluorescence BSA by efonidipine showed that efonidipine quenched the fluorescence of tryptophan residue mainly through the collision mode. The thermodynamic parameters DeltaH0 and DeltaS0 were calculated to be 75.95 kJldrmo-1 and 342...
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