thymoma/protease

Serine protease inhibitor, Kazal type 1 (SPINK1) is expressed not only in normal human pancreatic acinar cells but also in a variety of pancreatic ductal neoplasms. There are structural similarities between SPINK1 and epidermal growth factor (EGF). Hence, we hypothesized that SPINK1 binds to EGF

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus‑2 (SARS‑CoV2) is the cause of a new disease (COVID‑19) which has evolved into a pandemic during the first half of 2020. Older age, male sex and certain underlying diseases, including cancer, appear to significantly increase the risk for severe

OBJECTIVE The Ets-1 protooncogene transcription factor is involved in several cellular functions, including the activation of several proteases, and reportedly plays an important role in carcinoma invasion and metastasis. We hypothesize that Ets-1 mRNA expression could be a predictor of thymoma

Effects of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) on the fate of protein kinase C in two mouse thymoma cell lines, which are either responsive (EL4) or unresponsive (IEL4) to PMA-induced interleukin-2 (IL-2) production, were investigated with polyclonal antibodies raised against rat brain enzyme.

We previously described a heat-stable factor from WEHI-7 mouse thymoma, rat liver, spleen, and human chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells that prevents degradation of glucocorticoid-receptor complexes (GRC) in cytosols from rat thymus and acute non-lymphocytic leukemia cells. We now show that the

The putative serine protease PRSS16 is abundantly expressed in the thymic cortex and the gene is encoded within the HLA I complex. Although its function is not yet defined, the very restricted expression points to a role in T-cell development in the thymus. In this study, we show that the PRSS16

Interleukin (IL) 1 alpha is synthesized as a 33-kDa precursor that is enzymatically cleaved to the 15-17-kDa forms that are found in the culture supernatants of activated macrophages. We have explored the possibility that calcium might enhance IL-1 processing and secretion via the stimulation of a

Ritonavir is an HIV protease inhibitor used in the therapy of HIV infection. Ritonavir has also been shown to inhibit the chymotrypsin-like activity of isolated 20S proteasomes. Here, we demonstrate that ritonavir, like classical proteasome inhibitors, has antitumoral activities. In vitro, ritonavir

Thymoma is the most commonly identified cancer in the anterior mediastinum. To date, the causal mechanism that drives thymoma progression is not clear. Here, we generated K5-∆N64Ctnnb1/ERT2 transgenic mice, which express an N-terminal deletion mutant of β-catenin fused to a mutated ligand-binding

BACKGROUND Filaggrin, which is encoded by the filaggrin gene (FLG), is an important component of the skin's barrier to the external environment, and genetic defects in FLG strongly associate with atopic dermatitis (AD). However, not all patients with AD have FLG mutations. OBJECTIVE We hypothesized

We recently reported the purification of a lymphocyte granule protein called "fragmentin," which was identified as a serine protease with the ability to induce oligonucleosomal DNA fragmentation and apoptosis (Shi, L., R. P. Kraut, R. Aebersold, and A. H. Greenberg. 1992. J. Exp. Med. 175:553). We

We describe an unusual case of myasthenia gravis. Our patient had been diagnosed as having myasthenia gravis with thymoma at the age of 64 years, and died of acute respiratory failure at the age of 80 years. Post mortem examination revealed CD8-positive lymphocytic infiltration with numerous giant

Epithin/PRSS14, a type II transmembrane serine protease, plays critical roles in cancer metastasis. Previously, we have reported that epithin/PRSS14 undergoes ectodomain shedding in response to phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) stimulation. In this study, we show that transforming growth factor-β

Hybridomas were established between murine spleen B cells and the thymoma cell line BW5147, to purify the migration stimulation factor (MStF), a molecule likely involved in immunosuppression. The parental B cells were from Lo/PHA mice previously shown to produce high levels of MStF after

The proteasome is the major cytosolic protease, composed of a 20S catalytic core that associates with either the 19S (PA700) activator or the 11S (PA28) regulator complex. The 19S complex is thought to promote protein substrate unfolding and subsequent degradation, but precise functions for the