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Implementation of Proteomics for Cancer Research: Past, Present, and Future

  • Karimi, Parisa;Shahrokni, Armin;Nezami Ranjbar, Mohammad R.
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • 제15권6호
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    • pp.2433-2438
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    • 2014
  • Cancer is the leading cause of the death, accounts for about 13% of all annual deaths worldwide. Many different fields of science are collaborating together studying cancer to improve our knowledge of this lethal disease, and find better solutions for diagnosis and treatment. Proteomics is one of the most recent and rapidly growing areas in molecular biology that helps understanding cancer from an omics data analysis point of view. The human proteome project was officially initiated in 2008. Proteomics enables the scientists to interrogate a variety of biospecimens for their protein contents and measure the concentrations of these proteins. Current necessary equipment and technologies for cancer proteomics are mass spectrometry, protein microarrays, nanotechnology and bioinformatics. In this paper, we provide a brief review on proteomics and its application in cancer research. After a brief introduction including its definition, we summarize the history of major previous work conducted by researchers, followed by an overview on the role of proteomics in cancer studies. We also provide a list of different utilities in cancer proteomics and investigate their advantages and shortcomings from theoretical and practical angles. Finally, we explore some of the main challenges and conclude the paper with future directions in this field.

Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Profiling Analysis of HIB-1B Cells during Brown Adipogenesis

  • Choi, Hye-Ryung;Kim, Won Kon;Kim, Eun Young;Jung, Hyeyun;Kim, Jeong-Hoon;Han, Baek-Soo;You, Kwan-Hee;Lee, Sang Chul;Bae, Kwang-Hee
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제22권7호
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    • pp.1029-1033
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    • 2012
  • A number of evidence have been accumulated that the regulation of reversible tyrosine phosphorylation, which can be regulated by the combinatorial activity of protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs), plays crucial roles in various biological processes including differentiation. There are a total of 107 PTP genes in the human genome, collectively referred to as the "PTPome." In this study, we performed PTP profiling analysis of the HIB-1B cell line, a brown preadipocyte cell line, during brown adipogenesis. Through RT-PCR and real-time PCR, several PTPs showing differential expression pattern during brown adipogenesis were identified. In the case of PTP-RE, it was shown to decrease significantly until 4 days after brown adipogenic differentiation, followed by a dramatic increase at 6 days. The overexpression of PTP-RE led to decreased brown adipogenic differentiation via reducing the tyrosine phosphorylation of the insulin receptor, indicating that PTP-RE functions as a negative regulator at the early stage of brown adipogenesis.

Smad4 mediates malignant behaviors of human ovarian carcinoma cell through the effect on expressions of E-cadherin, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and VEGF

  • Chen, Chen;Sun, Ming-Zhong;Liu, Shuqing;Yeh, Dongmei;Yu, Lijun;Song, Yang;Gong, Linlin;Hao, Lihong;Hu, Jun;Shao, Shujuan
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제43권8호
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    • pp.554-560
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    • 2010
  • Smad4 is involved in cancer progression and metastasis. Using a pair of human syngeneic epithelial ovarian cancer cells with low (HO-8910) and high (HO-8910PM) metastatic abilities, we aimed to reveal the role of Smad4 in ovarian cancer metastasis in vitro. Smad4 was down-regulated in HO-8910PM cell line relative to HO-8910 by implicating Smad4 was probably a potential tumor suppressor gene for ovarian cancer. Re-expression of Smad4 decreased the migration ability and inhibited the invasion capacity of HO-8910PM, while promoted the cell adhesion capacity for HO-8910PM. The stable expression of Smad4 increased the expression of E-cadherin, reduced the expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and slightly down-regulated the expression of VEGF. Smad4 suppresses human ovarian cancer cell metastasis potential through its effect on the expressions of PAI-1, E-cadherin and VEGF. Results from current work implicate Smad4 might suppress the invasion and metastasis of human ovarian tumor cells through a TGF-$\beta$/Smad-mediated pathway.

Ginsenoside Rb1 is Transformed into Rd and Rh2 by Microbacterium trichothecenolyticum

  • Kim, Hansoo;Kim, Jeong-Hoon;Lee, Phil Young;Bae, Kwang-Hee;Cho, Sayeon;Park, Byoung Chul;Shin, Heungsop;Park, Sung Goo
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제23권12호
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    • pp.1802-1805
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    • 2013
  • Ginsenosides are the most important ingredient of ginseng and are known to possess many pharmacological and biological effects. Rb1, a major protopanaxadiol ginsenoside, is the most abundant ginsenoside in Panax ginseng C.A Meyer and can be hydrolyzed into more pharmaceutically potent minor ginsenosides. To identify a microorganism that is capable of converting Rb1 into other ginsenosides, we screened 12 Microbacterium spp., and M. trichothecenolyticum was identified as a likely candidate. M. trichothecenolyticum converted Rb1 into Rd and then into Rh2 based on TLC and HPLC analyses of reaction products. This biotransformation method can be easily applied for mass production of Rd and Rh2 by using Rb1.