Kazufumi Toume, Kentaro Kamiya, Midori A. Arai, Naomi Mori et al.
Xylogranin B (2) was isolated from Xylocarpus granatum (Meliaceae) leaves, by use of a cell-based luciferase screening system targeting a Wnt signaling pathway. Compound 2 inhibited TCF/β-catenin transcriptional activity (IC50 48.9 nM) and exhibited strong cytotoxicity against colon cancer cell line...
Samia Shabnaz, Maizbha Uddin Ahmed, Md. Siddiqul Islam, Md. Reazul Islam et al.
Pharmacogenomic studies play a significant role in understanding the risk of breast cancer where genetic abnormalities are implicated as the etiology of cancer. Various polymorphisms of tumor suppressor gene TP53 and E-cadherin (CDH1) have been found to be associated with increased breast cancer ris...
Kensuke Ohishi, Kazufumi Toume, Midori A. Arai, Samir Kumar Sadhu et al.
Wnt signaling plays important roles in proliferation, differentiation, development of cells, and various diseases. Activity-guided fractionation of the MeOH extract of the Ricinus communis stem led to the isolation of four compounds (1-4). The TCF/β-catenin transcription activities of 1 and 3 were 2...
Hong Jiang, Shuhong Huang, Xinyun Li, Xian Li et al.
OBJECTIVE: Tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB) is a high-affinity receptor for brain-derived neurotrophic factor. In addition to its nervous system functions, TrkB is also expressed in the cardiovascular system. However, the association of TrkB and coronary artery disease (CAD) remains unknown. We inv...
Farhadul Islam, Stephanie Chaousis, Riajul Wahab, Vinod Gopalan et al.
FAM134B is an autophagy regulator of endoplasmic reticulum and acts as a cancer suppressor in colon cancer. However, the molecular signaling pathways by which FAM134B interacts within colon carcinogenesis is still unknown. Herein, this study aims to determine the interacting partners of FAM134B for ...
Shah Adil Ishtiyaq Ahmad, Mohammad Badrul Anam, Naofumi Ito, Kunimasa Ohta
Tsukushi (TSK) is a small signaling molecule which takes part in different developmental processes of multiple vertebrate organisms. The diverse activity of TSK depends on its ability to bind various intermediate molecules from different major signaling pathways. Interactions of TSK with BMP, FGF, T...
Md. Rashedul Islam, Kazuki Yamagami, Yuka Yoshii, Nobuhiko Yamauchi
Endometrial modulation is essential for the preservation of normal uterine physiology, and this modulation is driven by a number of growth factors. The present study investigated the mitogenic, motogenic, and morphogenic effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) on ...
Ryan Lusby, Philip D. Dunne, Vijay Tiwari
Activating invasion and metastasis are one of the primary hallmarks of cancer, the latter representing the leading cause of death in cancer patients. Whilst many advances in this area have been made in recent years, the process of cancer dissemination and the underlying mechanisms governing invasion...
Órla T. Cox, Shelley J. Edmunds, Katja Simon‐Keller, Bo Li et al.
Abstract The PDLIM2 protein regulates stability of transcription factors including NF-κB and STATs in epithelial and hemopoietic cells. PDLIM2 is strongly expressed in certain cancer cell lines that exhibit an epithelial-to-mesenchymal phenotype, and its suppression is sufficient to reverse this phe...
Rolly G. Fuentes, Kazufumi Toume, Midori A. Arai, Samir Kumar Sadhu et al.
Scopadulciol (1), a scopadulan-type diterpenoid, was isolated from Scoparia dulcis along with three other compounds (2-4) by an activity-guided approach using the TCF reporter (TOP) luciferase-based assay system. A fluorometric microculture cytotoxicity assay (FMCA) revealed that compound 1 was cyto...
Kensuke Ohishi, Kazufumi Toume, Midori A. Arai, Samir Kumar Sadhu et al.
Four alkaloids, voacangine (1), isovoacangine (2), coronaridine (3), and coronaridine hydroxyindolenine (4), were isolated from the MeOH extract of Tabernaemontana divaricata aerial parts by activity-guided fractionation for Wnt signal inhibitory activity. Compounds 1-4 exhibited TCF/β-catenin inhib...
Shijiao Tian, Shichuan Tan, Wenming Jia, Juan Zhao et al.
Aberrant expression and phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) contribute to brain insulin resistance. However, the underlying mechanism remains elusive. The insulin signaling and Wnt/β-catenin signaling are two critical pathways for normal cellular function, which interact in both ...
Adam Fox, Fiona Alderdice, David J. Atherton
To compare the birthweight of children affected by recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) to a sibling control group, we designed a questionnaire-based case-control study. As participants we used patients with RDEB attending the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, England, ...
Mutebi John Kenneth, Tushar Ahmed Shishir, Fahim Kabir Monjurul Haque
BACKGROUND: Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer type and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. However, the existing treatment, as well as prognosis strategies for CRC patients, need to be improved in order to increase the chance of survival. Targeted thera...
Yanyan Qian, Yiping Li, Yanping Ge, Wei Song et al.
BACKGROUND Translation regulatory long non-coding RNA 1 (TRERNA1) has been reported to be upregulated in several cancers and accelerate tumor metastasis by inducing epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). However, it remains unclear how TRERNA1 is upregulated and whether the upregulation of TRER...