Activation of the cdk inhibitory protein p21 by ellagic acid suggests a role for ellagic acid in
cell cycle regulation of cancer cells.
The results reveal the central role of protein phosphorylation in the atypical
cell cycle regulation of a divergent eukaryote.
Maria Anna Ciemerych began her research with studies focusing at
the cell cycle regulation of mouse oocytes and preimplantation embryos (Ph.D. at the University of Warsaw), then investigated the role of the cell cycle regulators - D - type cyclins, in mouse development (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School).
Not exact matches
He spent his last year as a Lisbon student studying
cell -
cycle regulation in yeast at the University
of Manchester in the United Kingdom, with an Erasmus scholarship from the European Commission.
Although the
regulation of this gene has a strong «
cell cycle control» component, I was more interested in studying
cell cycle regulation «proper.»
The researchers said the findings fundamentally change the understanding
of G1
cell cycle regulation and the molecular origins
of many associated cancers.
Such precise
regulation of the
cell cycle is lost in cancer
cells.
CDKs are crucial for the
regulation of the
cell cycle.
When Corry and first author Wen Lu, a graduate student in immunology, sought to determine how the microRNA worked, they found histone deacetylase 4, a protein that plays a role in the
regulation of DNA transcription,
cell cycle and development.
Other studies have shown that the virus is capable
of moving into brain
cells, modifying the
regulation of the
cell cycle, and inducing their death.
Hypermethylation
of DNA is a key epigenetic mechanism for the silencing
of many genes, including those for
cell cycle regulation, receptors, DNA repair, and apoptosis (5, 6, 7, 8).
Cell cycle - dependent
regulation of the forkhead transcription factor FOXK2 by CDK - cyclin complexes.
«We suspect that faults in
cell -
cycle regulation account for a variety
of developmental brain diseases.»
Anil Belur Nagaraj (Bornhäuser, TUD)-- «Understanding the
regulation of tumor
cell cycle to identify and characterize factors that negatively regulate the tumor phenotype.»
The work has led him to explore the role
of protein phosphorylation in a diverse array
of cellular functions, including transformation,
cell communication,
cell adhesion,
cell -
cycle regulation, the control
of gene expression, and protein degradation.
Activated ERK1 / 2 modulates the functions
of several transcription factors, protein kinases, protein phosphatases, cytoskeletal proteins, signaling molecules, apoptosis - related proteins, as well as other types
of proteins [32], while activated AKT modulates the function
of numerous substrates involved in the
regulation of cell survival,
cell cycle progression and cellular growth [33, 34], whereas JNK acts as pro-apoptotic as well as anti-apoptotic depending on the conditions [35].
The Galli group studies the
regulation of the
cell cycle during development and tissue formation.
Polleux F., Dehay C., Moraillon B. and Kennedy H. (1997)
Regulation of neuroblast
cell -
cycle kinetics plays a crucial role in the generation
of unique features
of neocortical areas.
Stathmin is essential for the
regulation of the
cell cytoskeleton, which is required for numerous
cell processes including regulating the
cell cycle, cytoplasmic organization,
cell division and
cell motility...
However, we can not suspect any abnormal effect on parthenotes due to the aberrant expression
of CCNA1 since the protein is not expressed at the blastocyst stage [33], and its
cell cycle regulation role is limited in meiotic
cells [34].
Here, we are focusing on the
regulation of the
cell cycle that seems to prevent clonal growth
of premalignant stages compared to active myeloma.
The A. queenslandica genome allows us to assess systematically the origin
of the six hallmarks
of metazoan multicellularity: (1) regulated
cell cycling and growth; (2) programmed
cell death; (3)
cell —
cell and
cell — matrix adhesion; (4) developmental signalling and gene
regulation; (5) allorecognition and innate immunity; and (6) specialization
of cell types.
Like in the Wnt signaling pathway, ligands bind to the EGFR on the
cell surface and initiate a cascade
of events in the
cell that in this case lead to
regulation of genes that control
cell cycle progression.
In response to cellular stress such as DNA damage, oncogene activation, transcriptional inhibition, and hypoxia, tumor suppressor p53 is activated and expressed, and acts as a transcription factor to induce its target genes [1], thereby playing a central role in the
regulation of DNA repair,
cell cycle, apoptosis, senescence, and angiogenesis [2 - 4].
Forman - Kay has also found cases where disordered proteins provide precise tuning
of cell cycle regulation and protein degradation.
After twenty years
of research, the cohesin complex still manages to surprise us regularly, as new functions in new areas
of cell cycle regulation come to light.
45) * Coe BP, * Lockwood WW, Girard L, Chari R, MacAulay C, Lam S, Gazdar AF, Minna JD, Lam WL (2006) Differential
regulation of cell cycle pathways in small
cell and non-small
cell lung cancer.
In addition to this, the gene duplicates in zebrafish display strikingly different expression during the day - night
cycle, presumably to allow efficient
regulation of photoreceptor
cells under dramatically different light conditions.
EGCg has been scientifically demonstrated to assist in maintaining healthy tissues during times
of normal metabolic stress and to support proper
cell cycle regulation.
Melanopsin
cells in mammals are specialized for measuring ambient illumination, contributing to visual discrimination [8,9], and driving a wide variety
of physiological responses including, but not restricted to: synchronization
of circadian clocks to light: dark
cycles,
regulation of pupil size, modulation
of sleep and suppression
of pineal melatonin production [10 — 14].