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On the basis of our findings, we concluded that the RUNX2 RUNT domain is involved in the mechanisms promoting bone metastasis of melanoma cells via complex interactions between multiple players involved in bone remodeling.Cold atmospheric plasma-exposed culture medium may efficiently kill cancer cells in vitro. Due to the complexity of the medium obtained after plasma exposure, less complex physiological liquids, such as saline solutions and saline buffers, are gathering momentum. Among the plethora of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) that are produced in these plasma-activated liquids, hydrogen peroxide, nitrite and nitrate appear to be mainly responsible for cytotoxic and genotoxic effects. Here, we evaluated the anti-cancer potential of plasma-activated phosphate-buffered saline (P-A PBS) and sodium chloride 0.9% (P-A NaCl), using a three-dimensional tumor model. Two epithelial cancer cell lines were used to evaluate cellular effects of either P-A PBS or P-A NaCl. Human colorectal cancer cells HCT 116 and human ovarian carcinoma, SKOV-3 were used to investigate the manner by which different cell types respond to different plasma-activated liquids treatments. Our investigations indicate that P-A PBS is more efficient than P-A NaCl mainly because RONS are produced in larger quantities. Indeed, we show that the cytotoxicity of these liquids directly correlates with the concentration of hydrogen peroxide and nitrite. Moreover, P-A PBS induced a faster-occurring and more pronounced cell death, which arose within deeper layers of the 3D multicellular spheroid models.Synovial sarcoma is a rare but highly malignant and metastatic disease. Despite its relative sensitivity to chemotherapies, the high recurrence and low 5-year survival rate for this disease suggest that new effective therapeutic agents are urgently needed. Marine antimicrobial peptide epinecidin-1 (epi-1), which was identified from orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides), exhibits multiple biological effects, including bactericidal, immunomodulatory, and anticancer activities. However, the cytotoxic effects and mechanisms of epi-1 on human synovial sarcoma cells are still unclear. In this study, we report that epi-1 exhibits prominent antisynovial sarcoma activity in vitro and in a human SW982 synovial sarcoma xenograft model. Furthermore, we determined that calcium overload-induced calpain activation and subsequent oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction are required for epi-1-mediated cytotoxicity. Interestingly, reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) plays a protective role against epi-1-induced cytotoxicity. Our results provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying epi-1-induced cell death in human SW982 cells.Modern solid-state NMR techniques offer a wide range of opportunities for the structural characterization of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs), their aggregates, and the products of cooperative addition reactions at their two Lewis centers. This information is extremely valuable for materials that elude structural characterization by X-ray diffraction because of their nanocrystalline or amorphous character, (pseudo-)polymorphism, or other types of disordering phenomena inherent in the solid state. Aside from simple chemical shift measurements using single-pulse or cross-polarization/magic-angle spinning NMR detection techniques, the availability of advanced multidimensional and double-resonance NMR methods greatly deepened the informational content of these experiments. In particular, methods quantifying the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction strengths and indirect spin-spin interactions prove useful for the measurement of intermolecular association, connectivity, assessment of FLP-ligand distributions, and the stereochemistry of adducts. The present review illustrates several important solid-state NMR methods with some insightful applications to open questions in FLP chemistry, with a particular focus on supramolecular associates.With the rapid development of thermal protection systems for the aerospace industry and power electronics, polyarylacetylene (PAA) resin plays an important role because of its good mechanical properties, high glass transition temperature (Tg), low water absorption, high char yield (Yc), and the fact that there is no byproduct released in the curing process. In order to further improve the thermal property of PAA based FRP for the thermal protection field, the introduction of a zirconium element into arylacetylene is promising. ZEN-3694 research buy In this paper, zirconium modified arylacetylene (ZAA) resin was prepared by two-step synthesis. The FTIR analysis characterized its molecular structure and confirmed the products. The viscosity of ZAA was about 6.5 Pa·s when the temperature was above 120 °C. The DSC analysis showed that the ZAA had a low curing temperature, and its apparent activation energy was 103.86 kJ/mol in the Kissinger method and 106.46 kJ/mol in the Ozawa method. The dielectric constant at 1 MHz of poly(zirconium modified arylacetylene) (PZAA) was 3.4. The TG analysis showed that the temperatures of a weight loss of 5% (Td5) and char yield (Yc) at 800 °C of PZAA were 407.5 °C and 61.4%, respectively. The XRD results showed the presence of SiO2 and ZrO2 in the PZAA residue after ablation. The XRF results showed that the contents of SiO2 and ZrO2 in PZAA residual after ablation were, respectively, 15.3% and 12.4%. The SEM showed that the surface of PZAA after ablation had been covered with a dense and rigid ceramic phase composed of ZrO2 and SiO2. Therefore, the introduction of Zr into arylacetylene greatly improved the densification of the surface after ablation, and improved the heat resistant property.To characterize molecular changes accompanying the stepwise progression to breast cancer and to identify functional target pathways, we performed miRNA and RNA sequencing using MCF10A cell lines based model system that replicates the multi-step progression involving normal, preneoplastic, ductal carcinoma in situ, and invasive carcinoma cells, where the carcinoma most resemble the basal-like subgroup of human breast cancers. These analyses suggest that 70% of miRNA alterations occurred during the initial progression from normal to a preneoplastic stage. Most of these early changes reflected a global upregulation of miRNAs. This was consistent with a global increase in the miRNA-processing enzyme DICER, which was upregulated as a direct result of loss of miRNA let-7b-5p. Several oncogenic and tumor suppressor pathways were also found to change early, prior to histologic stigmata of cancer. Our finding that most genomic changes in the progression to basal-like breast cancer occurred in the earliest stages of histologic progression has implications for breast cancer prevention and selection of appropriate control tissues in molecular studies.
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