the characteristics of cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with cell proliferation and differentiation is important to understand malignancy. in this report we characterise a leukemic model, d5a1, to study the action of differentiation agent, cellular events and gene expression of the selected transcription factors. cells induced with 4 mm hexamethylene bisacetamide (hmba) caused signs...

background: prostate cancer is one of the most widespread cancers in men and is fundamentally a genetic disease. identifying regulators in cancer using novel systems biology approaches will potentially lead to new insight into this disease. it was sought to address this by inferring gene regulatory networks (grns). moreover, dynamical analysis of grns can explain how regulators change among dif...

κ-casein is a glycosilated protein in mammalian milk that plays an essential role in the milk micelles. control of κ-casein expression reflects this essential role, although an understanding of the mechanisms involved lags behind that of the other milk protein genes. transcriptional regulation, a first mechanism for controlling the development of organisms, is carried out by transcription facto...

all-trans retinoic acid (atra), as an active metabolite of vitamin a, has been shown to affect immune cells. this study was performed to evaluate the effect of atra on viability, proliferation, activation and lineage-specific transcription factors of cd4+ t cells. cd4+ t cells were  separated  from  heparinized  blood  of  healthy  donors  and  were  cultured  in conditions, some with, some wit...

plants face many biotic and abiotic stresses at the same time during their growth under field conditions. plants responses toward combined stresses are often more complex than their responses to one type of stress in a way that the results of these responses are called as cross tolerance. this mixture of stresses activates specific models of gene expression that causes special signaling network...

the melanocortin-1 receptor mc1r is encoded by the extension locus, playing a fundamental role in the determination of coat color in a number of mammalian species. however, so far there has been no report regarding the single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) of the mc1r promoter region and the potential association of its snps with coat color in sheep (ovis aries). throughout the present study, ...

interleukin-1β (il-1β), the prototypical pro-inflammatory cytokine, is produced by macrophages following exposure to bacterial products. its role is to act upon several cell types at the site of infection to stimulate the production of pro-inflammatory molecules that will cause increase in vascular permeability. therefore, il-1β regulates the initiation and development of acute inflammation tha...

background: the transcription factor oct-4, is an important marker of undifferentiating level and a key regulating factor for maintenance of pluripotency in cells. establishment of an oct-4 promoter-based reporter system is an appropriate tool for monitoring the differentiation of embryonic stem cells both in vivo and in vitro. methods: in the present study, we report construction of a recombin...

objectives: epithelial-mesenchymal transition (emt) is a fundamental stage in cancer metastasis and the presence of vascular invasion is a strong indication of the spread of the malignant tumor cells. regulation of the emt is a complex process in which several different transcription factors are involved. eomesodermin (eomes) as a member of the t-box gene family is an important component in the...