Effect of β-catenin in invasion and metastasis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma / 临床与实验病理学杂志

Purpose To explore the β-catenin role in the process of invasion and metastasis of esophageal cancer.Methods Transfection-effective β-catenin gene segments of siRNA interference in human esophageal Eca-109 cells was used to downregulate β-catenin expression:CCK-8 multiplication experiment was carried out to observe the esophageal cancer cell proliferation.Transwell chambers experiment was used to observe its invasion,migration ability.Western blot was used to detect the expression of WISP2 and TCF4,E-cadherin protein.Results CCK-8 multiplication experiment showed that in the interference group (the efficient transfection of β-catenin down-regulation group by siRNA) cell proliferation ability significantly decreased as compared with the blank control group (the untreated group)and the negative control group (the transfection group meaningless fragments) (P ＜ 0.05),and there was no statistical significance between the blank and negative control groups (P ＞0.05).The invasion and migration ability of the interference group was lower than that in the blank control group and the negative control group (P ＜ 0.05) by the transwell chambers experiment.Western blot showed that the protein lever of WISP2 and E-cadherin in interference group was higher than those in the blank control group and the negative control group (P ＜ 0.05).TCF4 protein expression in the interference group was lower than that of the blank control group and the negative control group (P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions After the β-catenin expression is down-regulated,Wnt signaling pathway-related factors are significantly changed.It can be speculated that the silencing of β-catenin in Wnt signaling pathway may hinder the esophageal cancer cell proliferation by up-regulating E-cadherin expression to obstruct epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) and to inhibit tumor cell proliferation.Invasion and metastasis of the tumor are also inhibited by reducing TCF4 expression and promoting WISP2 downstream target genes expression.Therefore,β-catenin gene is expected to be a target for the treatment of esophageal cancer.

Bis(µ-4-bromo-benzoato)-κO,O':O';O:O,O'-bis-[µ-1,3-bis-(pyridin-4-yl)propane-κN:N']bis-[(4-bromo-benzoato-κO,O')cadmium].

The dinuclear complex, [Cd(2)(C(7)H(4)BrO(2))(4)(C(13)H(14)N(2))(2)], lies on a twofold rotation axis crossing midway between the two metal atoms. The Cd(II) cation is seven-coordinated with a geometry that can be considered as distorted penta-gonal bipyramidal, with the N atom of the N-heterocyclic units occupying the apical sites and the O atoms of the 4-bromo-benzoate units in the equatorial plane. The middle methyl-ene group of the 1,3-bis-(4-pyrid-yl)propane ligands is located outside of the twofold rotation axis and consequently is disordered over two sites around this symmetry element with fixed occupancies factors of 0.5.

Investigation on the interaction of prulifloxacin with human serum albumin: a spectroscopic analysis.

The interaction between prulifloxacin (PUFX) and human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated under simulated physiologic conditions with fluorescence spectra. The fluorescence quenching process of HSA may be mainly governed by a static quenching mechanism. The apparent binding constant K(b) between PUFX and HSA at different temperatures were 2.08+/-1.04, 2.74+/-0.50, and 4.98+/-1.61x10(8) l/mol. The thermodynamic parameters, with a negative value of DeltaG(0), revealed that the binding is a spontaneous process. A binding distance R of 1.19 nm between donor and acceptor was obtained from the Forster energy transfer theory.

[Spectrophotometric determination of deoxyribonucleic acid by its quenching effect on acridine orange].

Based on the reaction of acridine orange with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and under the optimized condition, a novel method to determine the DNA was developed with the spectrophotometry. The absorbance of acridine orange at the maximum absorption wavelength of 444 nm responded to the concentration of DNA negatively with excellent linearity. It has an upper linear limit concentration of 8.0 microg x mL(-1) and a detection limit of 0.12 microg x mL(-1) with the correlation coefficient of 0.999 8. The method is simple, rapid and sensitive, and could be applied to sample assay satisfactorily. Finally, the reaction mechanism is discussed.

[Study on determination of trace nitrite and reaction mechanism by two-wavelength negative absorption-catalytic spectrophotometry].

A new method was proposed for the determination of trace nitrite by two wavelength negative absorption catalytic spectrophotometry based on the catalysis of nitrite on the oxidation fading reaction of acridine orange by potassium bromate in phosphoricacid medium. The additive value of negative absorbances at two wavelengths was linear to the nitrite concentration in the range of 1.0 x 10(-5)-5.0 x 10(-7) mol x L(1). The method has been used to the determination of nitrite in environment water sample with satisfactory

[Multi-wavelength negative absorption fading spectrophotometry to determine trace nitrite and it's mechanism].

Using negative absorption rectifyingtechniquie, the authors investigated spectra of the reaction of nitrite with acridine yellow in 1.0 mol x dm(-3) (1 dm = 10 cm = 0.1 m) hydrochloric medium. The authors established the new dynamics method of mensuratiog trace nitrous acid radical by the negative absorption undertint spectrophotometry at multi-wavelengths, based on the linear relation between the negative absorbance value or the AT value of absorbance sum and the nitrous acid radical concetration in a certain range. The linear range was 7.2 x 10(-6) -3.6 x 10(-4) mol x dm(-3), RSD was 1.06%-3.12%, and CV (recovery) was 98.00%-100.20%. In application to the determination of nitrite in environmental water sample, satisfactory result was abtained with high accuracy, better selectivity and common ions ceasing to effect measuring. According to the change in the absorption peak value in the reactive system,the liquor acidity, the different order for added reagent, liquor temperature, reactive time, acid kind etc., the authors believe that the reaction of acridine yellow with mitrite is diazotization-coupling, under the condition of feasible pH value, temperature, and additive order of midium.

[Studies on the interaction between RNA with methyl violet and determination of RNA by spectrophotometry].

An analytical method for the determination of ribonucleic acid was established by spectrophotometry. At maximum absorption wavelength for methyl violet in the B-R buffer solution, and under the best conditions, the degree of decrease of the absorbance was linear with the amount of ribonucleic Acid. It was a new and preferable approach for the determination of ribonucleic Acids. The method with the linearity range was 1.0 to 8.0 microg x mL(-1) and the detection limit was 0.52 microg x mL(-1), and the correlation coeffient was 0.9999. This method was simple, rapid, and selective. So it was satisfactory to the application for the determination of ribonucleic Acid. The reaction mechanism was electrostatic interaction to make molecular association of RNA with methyl violet, to go on antiion permutation and bonded reaction of concert.