Search results for "iHEP"

Broad Spectrum Thiopeptide Recognition Specificity of theStreptomyces lividans TipAL Protein and Its Role in Regulating Gene Expression

1999

Microbial metabolites isolated in screening programs for their ability to activate transcription of the tipA promoter (ptipA) in Streptomyces lividans define a class of cyclic thiopeptide antibiotics having dehydroalanine side chains ("tails"). Here we show that such compounds of heterogeneous primary structure (representatives tested: thiostrepton, nosiheptide, berninamycin, promothiocin) are all recognized by TipAS and TipAL, two in-frame translation products of the tipA gene. The N-terminal helix-turn-helix DNA binding motif of TipAL is homologous to the MerR family of transcriptional activators, while the C terminus forms a novel ligand-binding domain. ptipA inducers formed irreversible…

Transdiferenciación de fibroblastos a hepatocitos mediante reprogramación celular : papel de Gata4 en el bloqueo de la reprogramación de células somá…

2013

En esta tesis doctoral se muestra la conversión directa de fibroblastos embrionarios de ratón a células con morfología y fenotipo similares al hepatocito mediante la expresión retroviral de seis factores de transcripción hepáticos, Hhex, Gata4, Foxa2, HNF4α HNF1α y HNF6. Los fibroblastos infectados mantenidos durante 3-4 semanas en cultivo adquieren una morfología epitelial y expresan genes típicamente hepáticos como Albumina, Cyp7a1, Tat o Slc10a1 a niveles próximos al hepatocito. Durante la manipulación de los fibroblastos mediante la expresión de los factores de transcripción ya mencionados, observamos que el factor de transcripción Gata4 es capaz de bloquear la reprogramación a células …

Direct conversion of human fibroblast to hepatocytes using a single inducible polycistronic vector

2019

Abstract Background Human fibroblasts can be reprogrammed into induced hepatocyte-like cells through the expression of a set of transcription factors. Although the generation of induced hepatocyte-like cells by HNF4A, HNF1A, and FOXA3 expression has proven to be a robust experimental strategy, using multiple lentivirus results in a highly variable heterogeneous population. Methods We designed and implemented a novel approach based on the delivery of reprogramming factors and green fluorescent protein in a single doxycycline-inducible lentiviral vector using 2A self-cleaving peptides. Results Fibroblasts infected with the lentiviral vector can be amplified in basic fibroblast culture media i…

Korotettu sinun oikea kätesi : Vanhan testamentin ruumiinosailmausten kääntäminen kognitiivisen metaforateorian näkökulmasta.

1999

A case of Fitz Hugh Curtis syndrome mimicking an acute abdomen

2021

Fitz Hugh Curtis syndrome, also known as acute perihepatitis, associates pelvic inflammatory disease with the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis or Neisseria gonorrhoeae as the main causative pathogens.
 Symptomatology is a nonspecific one. Right upper quadrant pain, fever, nausea and vomiting are the most commonly encountered symptoms.
 Imaging data are also nonspecific and often show intra-abdominal changes with no particularity.
 As it is difficult to suspect Fitz Hugh Curtis syndrome upon first impression, laparoscopy and direct visualization of the peritoneum and liver adhesions are needed in the diagnostic process. The specific aspect of the fibrinous strands can raise t…

Henrik Florinuksen Kirkkolain vierassanat.

2001

Suomen kielen kauneudenhoitosanasto ja sen kehittyminen

1998

Pesäpallosanaston semanttis-pragmaattista analyysia

1998

A robust reprogramming strategy for generating hepatocyte-like cells usable in pharmaco-toxicological studies.

2023

Abstract Background High-throughput pharmaco-toxicological testing frequently relies on the use of established liver-derived cell lines, such as HepG2 cells. However, these cells often display limited hepatic phenotype and features of neoplastic transformation that may bias the interpretation of the results. Alternate models based on primary cultures or differentiated pluripotent stem cells are costly to handle and difficult to implement in high-throughput screening platforms. Thus, cells without malignant traits, optimal differentiation pattern, producible in large and homogeneous amounts and with patient-specific phenotypes would be desirable. Methods We have designed and implemented a no…

Duck Hepatitis B Virus Requires Cholesterol for Endosomal Escape during Virus Entry

2008

ABSTRACT The identity and functionality of biological membranes are determined by cooperative interaction between their lipid and protein constituents. Cholesterol is an important structural lipid that modulates fluidity of biological membranes favoring the formation of detergent-resistant microdomains. In the present study, we evaluated the functional role of cholesterol and lipid rafts for entry of hepatitis B viruses into hepatocytes. We show that the duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) attaches predominantly to detergent-soluble domains on the plasma membrane. Cholesterol depletion from host membranes and thus disruption of rafts does not affect DHBV infection. In contrast, depletion of chole…