Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is one of the important oilseed and bio-energy crops. All safflower cultivars in world have diploid genomes (2n= 2x= 24). In this research, autotetraploidy induction was performed by colchicine treatments to emerging shoot tips at cotyledonary stage. As a result flow cytometric analyses C2 progenies, autotetraploids (4x= 48) had DNA content 4.88 pg 2C-1, whil...

Proteomics and high throughput analysis for systems biology can benefit significantly from solid-phase chemical tools for affinity pull-down of proteins from complex mixtures. Here we report the application of solid-phase synthesis of phosphopeptides for pull-down and analysis of the affinity profile of the integrin-linked kinase associated phosphatase (ILKAP), a member of the protein phosphata...

Disease-causing splicing mutations can be rescued by variants of the U1 small nuclear RNA (U1snRNAs). However, the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of modified U1snRNAs as therapeutic tools is limited by the availability of cellular and animal models specific for a given mutation. Hence, we exploited the hyperactive Sleeping Beauty transposon system (SB100X) to integrate human factor IX (h...

Platinum(II) complexes bearing acetylide ligands containing nucleobase motifs are prepared and their impact on human topoisomerase II (TopoII) is evaluated. Both platinum(II) complexes [Pt(II)(C^N^N)(C≡CCH₂R)] (1a-c) and [Pt(II)(tBu₃terpy)(C≡CCH₂R)](+) (2a-c) (C^N^N=6-phenyl-2,2'-bipyridyl, tBu₃terpy=4,4',4''-tri-tert-butyl-2,2':6',2''-terpyridyl, and R=(a) adenine, (b) thymine, and (c) 2-amino...

DNA remodelling during endoreplication appears to be a strong developmental characteristic in orchids. In this study, we analysed DNA content and nuclei in 41 species of orchids to further map the genome evolution in this plant family. We demonstrate that the DNA remodelling observed in 36 out of 41 orchids studied corresponds to strict partial endoreplication. Such process is developmentally r...

To determine the prognostic significance of Kinesin family member 2C (KIF-2C) expression in patients with operable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), we conducted an immunohistochemical analysis of KIF-2C expression in 415 surgically resected primary tumor tissues and 40 adjacent non-cancerous tissues from patients with operable ESCC. The median duration of postoperative follow-up was 7...

Poliovirus-encoded nonstructural polypeptide 2C is a multifunctional protein that plays an important role in viral RNA replication. 2C interacts with both intracellular membranes and virus-specific RNAs and has ATPase and GTPase activities. Extensive computer analysis of the 2C sequence revealed that in addition to the known ATPase-, GTPase-, membrane-, and RNA-binding domains it also contains ...