Acknowledgements This project was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No 2007CB914802, No 2007CB914804, No 2009CB521702) and the National Natura,1 Science Foundation (No 30670959).
Aim: To explore a novel function of a mutant of the hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx△127) in the promotion of hepatoma cell migration. Methods: The effect of HBx△127 and wild type HBx on the migration ability of...
Acknowledgments This work was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (No 973 Program, No 2007CB914804, No 2007CB914802, No 2009CB521702) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30670959).The authors thank Dr Q LIU (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) for providing the plasmids: pFAS-WT-Luc, pFAS-ΔSRE–Luc, and SREBP-1c-571-Luc-WT.
Aim: Previously, we identified a natural mutant of hepatitis B virus X gene (HBx) with a deletion from 382 to 401 base pairs (termed HBxΔ127), which could potently enhance growth of hepatoma cells. In this study...
Supported by the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB914804);National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2007AA021010);Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China for Returned Scholars;Key Project of the Science & Technology Pillar Program of Tianjin (Grant No. 07ZCKFSH03700);Innovative Research Foundation of Nankai University
The signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) have diverse biological functions and are involved in cell differentiation, proliferation, development, apoptosis and inflammation. Several constitutively...
Acknowledgements This project was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No 2007CB914802, No 2007CB914804, No 2009CB521702) and the National Natural Science Foundation (No 30670959).
Aim: To explore the mechanism of hepatocarcinogenesis associated with the hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx), we investigated the role of HBx in transformation using human liver L-02 cells stably transfected with HB...
This project was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No 2007CB914802, No 2007CB914804, No 2009CB521702), Chinese State Key Projects for High-Tech 863 Program (2006AA02A247),and the National Natural Science Foundation (No 30670959).
Aim: To demonstrate the gene expression profiles mediated by hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx), we characterized the molecular features of pathogenesis associated with HBx in a human liver cell model. Methods: We ...