scholarly journals Direct inhibition of the DNA-binding activity of POU transcription factors Pit-1 and Brn-3 by selective binding of a phenyl-furan-benzimidazole dication

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 3341-3353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Peixoto ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Sabine Depauw ◽  
Marie-Paule Hildebrand ◽  
David W. Boykin ◽  
...  
1997 ◽  
Vol 272 (3) ◽  
pp. L504-L511 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Jaspers ◽  
E. Flescher ◽  
L. C. Chen

Ozone, one of the most reactive oxidant gases to which humans are routinely exposed, induces inflammation in the lower airways. The airway epithelium is one of the first targets that inhaled ozone will encounter, but its role in airway inflammation is not well understood. Expression of inducible genes involved in the inflammatory response, such as interleukin (IL)-8, is controlled by transcription factors. Expression of the IL-8 gene is regulated by the transcription factors nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB, NF-IL-6, and possibly activator protein-1 (AP-1). Type II-like epithelial cells (A549) were grown on a collagen-coated membrane and exposed in vitro to 0.1 ppm ozone or air. Exposure to ozone induced DNA-binding activity of NF-kappaB, NF-IL-6, and AP-1. IL-8 mRNA and IL-8 protein levels were also increased after ozone exposure. These results link ozone-induced DNA-binding activity of transcription factors and the production of IL-8 by epithelial cells thus demonstrating a potential cellular cascade resulting in the recruitment of inflammatory cells into the airway lumen.


2000 ◽  
Vol 275 (40) ◽  
pp. 31460-31468 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Angélica Santana ◽  
Gustavo Pedraza-Alva ◽  
Norma Olivares-Zavaleta ◽  
Vicente Madrid-Marina ◽  
Vaclav Horejsi ◽  
...  

1998 ◽  
Vol 334 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios SABATAKOS ◽  
Gareth E. DAVIES ◽  
Maria GROSSE ◽  
Anthony CRYER ◽  
Dipak P. RAMJI

Transcription factors belonging to the CCAAT-enhancer binding protein (C/EBP) family have been implicated in the activation of gene expression in the mammary gland during lactation. We have therefore investigated the detailed expression profile of the C/EBP family during lactation and involution of the mouse mammary gland. The expression of C/EBPβ and C/EBPδ mRNA was low during lactation, increased dramatically at the beginning of involution and remained constant thereafter. In contrast, C/EBPα mRNA expression was relatively high during the early stages of lactation, declined to low levels during the late stages of lactation and at the start of involution, and increased again during involution. Electrophoretic mobility-shift assays showed a close correlation between the expression of the C/EBP genes and the functional C/EBP DNA-binding activity and, additionally, demonstrated the participation of heterodimers, formed from among the three proteins, in DNA–protein interactions. The DNA-binding activity of the activator protein 1 (AP1) family of transcription factors was also induced during involution. These results therefore point to potentially important regulatory roles for both the C/EBP and the AP1 family during lactation and involution of the mammary gland.


1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichiro Kako ◽  
Hisanori Wakamatsu ◽  
Toshiyuki Hamada ◽  
Marek Banasik ◽  
Keiko Ohata ◽  
...  

1995 ◽  
Vol 270 (30) ◽  
pp. 18123-18132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basabi Rana ◽  
Yuhong Xie ◽  
David Mischoulon ◽  
Nancy L. R. Bucher ◽  
Stephen R. Farmer

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