Systemic studies on the effects of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal transduction pathway on the growth and development of Setosphaeria turcica is helpful not only in understanding the molecular mechanism of pathogenhost interaction but also in the effective control of the diseases ...

We comparatively analyzed the basal activity of extra-cellular signal-regulated kinase (Erk1/2) in lysates of 10 human colorectal cancer cell lines by semi-quantitative Western blotting and time-resolved NMR spectroscopy. Both methods revealed heterogeneous levels of endogenous Erk1/2 activities...

The emergence of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic swine influenza A virus is a good example of how this viral infection can impact health systems around the world in a very short time. The continuous zoonotic circulation and reassortment potential of influenza A viruses (IAV) in nature represents an enorm...

The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and the RAF/mitogen-activated and extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase (MEK)/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling pathways are frequently deregulated in cancer. Temsirolimus (TEM) and its p...

Myocardial ischemia is one of the main causes of sudden cardiac death worldwide. Depending on the cell type and stimulus, ERK activity mediates different anti-proliferative events, such as apoptosis, autophagy, and senescence. The aim of this study was to determine the protective effect of 1,4-d...

This paper describes the development and the validation of a capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) method for the separation of position isomers: 1-(4-tert.-butylphenyl)-4-(4-hydroxypiperidinyl)-butan-1-one (hydroxybutyridine) and 1-(4-tert.-butyphenyl)-4-(piperidin-4-yloxy)-butan-1-one (O- (O-al...

A series of novel pyrimidine analogues were synthesized and evaluated for immunosuppressive activity in the Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction assay, which is well-known as the in vitro model for in vivo rejection after organ transplantation. Systematic variation of the substituents at positions 2, 4 and...

A series of novel 7-indole substituted 2,4-diamino-5,8-dihydropyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine analogous to the 2,4-diaminopteridine core were synthesized by the three-component one-pot cyclocondensation between 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidine, 3-(2-cyanoacetyl)indole and aromatic aldehydes. The reactions, whic...

An electrochemical sensor on a modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) for the detection of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) was investigated. A GCE was coated by a zinc oxide nanoparticle/graphene nanoplatelet/poly(o-phenylenediamine) polymer nanocomposite (GCE/ZnO/GNPs/MIP). The nanocomposite improved the...

Lignin is the renewable source of aromatics in nature, and the conversion of lignin into vanillin is very attractive. However, the vanillin yield is closely related to the resource of lignin and its isolation process, and relatively low yield of vanillin is always obtained from lignin. In order ...

Trapping of a pyrimidinone-derived o-quinodimethane with tetraphenylcyclopentadienone gives a mixture of the [4 + 2] and formal [4 + 4] adducts. Computational studies show that the latter arises by a sequence of [4 + 2] cycloaddition, homolysis, radical recombination to a spiro-tetrahydrofuran a...

La-doped Zn(O,S) nanoparticles (NPs) with different contents of lanthanum have been synthesized with a simple sol-gel method at low temperature (90 ℃) for 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) detoxification. The as-prepared catalysts were characterized with X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope...

Five pairs of enantiomeric 8-O-4′ neolignans (1a/1b-5a/5b), including seven new compounds (1a/1b, 2a, 3a, 4a/4b and 5b), were obtained from the fruits of Crataegus pinnatifida Bge. Their structures were determined by comprehensive spectroscopic analyses. The absolute configurations of the enant...

Resveratrol and its methyl ethers, which belong to a class of natural polyphenol stilbenes, play important roles as biologically active compounds in plant defense as well as in human health. Although the biosynthetic pathway of resveratrol has been fully elucidated, the characterization of resve...

Novel Mg-doped Zn(O,S) nanoparticles were synthesized by a chemical precipitation process at 90 ℃ and the prepared nanoparticles were characterized by XRD, SEM, HRTEM, XPS, UV–vis, DRS, PL, EIS, and photocurrent response. The photocatalytic reduction for the 4-nitrophenol using Na2SO3 under UV...

Ce3+-activated single phase β-Ca2Si(O,N)4 (CSON) and α′-Sr2Si(O,N)4 (SSON) oxonitridosilicate phosphors were synthesized by a conventional solid state reaction method at 1100 °C using LiF as a flux. For comparative purposes, their oxide equivalents, β-Ca2SiO4 (CSO) and α′-Sr2SiO4 (SSO), d...

A new series of indole-based analogues were recently identified as potential anticancer agents. The Knoevenagel-type indoles herein presented were prepared via a one-pot condensation of iminium salts with active methylene reagents and were isolated as single geometric isomers. Biological evaluat...

In this study, atomic layer deposition (ALD) of Cu2S was explored using bis(dimethylamino-2-methyl-2-butoxy)copper(II) and 5% H2S combination as Cu and S sources, respectively. The reaction resulted in a high growth rate of ∼0.22–0.24 nm/cycle at 150–200 °C owing to the high reactivity of th...

Experiments have been carried out to confirm the cross-resistance between abamectin and tebufenozide in Plutella xylostella and demonstrate its mechanism. The results showed that the resistant strain of P. xylostella selected by tebufenozide (RF 99.38) really showed high cross-resistance to abam...

Tebufenozide is a nonsteroid ecdysone agonist that causes premature and incomplete molting in Lepidoptera. Studies conducted so far have shown the low toxicity of tebufenozide in mammals, birds and invertebrates. Tebufenozide potential metabolites such as aromatic amines are known to induce meth...