Background ISTS defect in which sperm tail is short and fibrous sheath and axoneme are disorganized, is one of the syndromes that cause male infertility. Although a few studies have been done in this regard, its exact etiology in human is unclear yet. Four candidate genes causing ISTS are SPEF2, RABL2B, and A-kinas anchoring proteins genes (AKAP3 and AKAP4). Proteins which coded by SPEF2 and RA...

Intrinsically water-stable electrospun threedimensional ultrafine fibrous soy protein scaffolds for soft tissue engineering using adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells" (2014). Faculty Publications-Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design. Paper 35. Soy protein, the plant protein from soybean, was electrospun into intrinsically water-stable scaffolds with large volume and ultrafine fibers or...

Recent investigations of the properties of structural proteins of various cell organelles such as cilia (1), microtubules (2--4), and surface membranes (5, 6) indicate that these organelles are formed in part by proteins which have certain properties in common. These properties are also shared by ac t in -a principal structural protein of muscle tissue. As a result of these observations it has ...

Vertebrate kinetochores contain over 50 different proteins organized into three distinct regions: the inner plate, outer plate, and fibrous corona. The present study characterizes numerous precursors of kinetochore assembly in a system free of centromeric chromatin, Xenopus extracts. Hydrodynamic analysis suggests there are a minimum of two monomeric proteins and six pre-assembled complexes tha...

Enhancing the maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) will facilitate their applications in disease modeling and drug discovery. Previous studies suggest that cell alignment could enhance hPSC-CM maturation; however, the robustness of this approach has not been well investigated. To this end, we examined if the anisotropic orientation of hPSC-CMs imposed by t...