Saponins from Rubus parvifolius L. Induce Apoptosis in Human Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Cells through AMPK Activation and STAT3 Inhibition

Ge, Yu-Qing,Xu, Xiao-Feng,Yang, Bo,Chen, Zhe,Cheng, Ru-Bin Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.13

Background: Saponins are a major active component for the traditional Chinese medicine, Rubus parvifolius L., which has shown clear antitumor activities. However, the specific effects and mechanisms of saponins of Rubus parvifolius L. (SRP) remain unclear with regard to human chronic myeloid leukemia cells. The aim of this study was to investigate inhibition of proliferation and apoptosis induction effects of SRP in K562 cells and further elucidate its regulatory mechanisms. Materials and Methods: K562 cells were treated with different concentrations of SRP and MTT assays were performed to determine cell viability. Apoptosis induction by SRP was determined with FACS and DAPI staining analysis. Western blotting was used to detect expression of apoptosis and survival related genes. Specific inhibitors were added to confirm roles of STAT3 and AMPK pathways in SRP induction of apoptosis. Results: Our results indicated that SRP exhibited obvious inhibitory effects on the growth of K562 cells, and significantly induced apoptosis. Cleavage of pro-apoptotic proteins was dramatically increased after SRP exposure. SRP treatment also increased the activities of AMPK and JNK pathways, and inhibited the phosphorylation expression level of STAT3 in K562 cells. Inhibition of the AMPK pathway blocked the activation of JNK by SRP, indicating that SRP regulated the expression of JNK dependent oon the AMPK pathway. Furthermore, inhibition of the latter significantly conferred resistance to SRP pro-apoptotic activity, suggesting involvement of the AMPK pathway in induction of apoptosis. Pretreatment with a STAT3 inhibitor also augmented SRP induced growth inhibition and cell apoptosis, further confirming roles of the STAT3 pathway after SRP treatment. Conclusions: Our results demonstrated that SRP induce cell apoptosis through AMPK activation and STAT3 inhibition in K562 cells. This suggests the possibility of further developing SRP as an alternative treatment option, or perhaps using it as adjuvant chemotherapeutic agent for chronic myeloid leukemia therapy.

Clinical Application of the Adenosine Triphosphate-based Response Assay in Intravesical Chemotherapy for Superficial Bladder Cancer

Ge, Wen-Qing,Pu, Jin-Xian,Zheng, Shi-Ying Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2012 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.13 No.2

Objective: To investigate correlations between adenosine triphosphate chemotherapy response assay (ATP-CRA) and clinical outcomes after ATP-CRA-based chemotherapy for drug selection in patients receiving intravesical chemotherapy to prevent recurrence of superficial bladder cancer after surgery. Methods: The chemosensitivities of 12 anticancer drugs were evaluated, including 5-Fu ADM, and EPI, using ATP-CRA and primary tumor cell culture in 54 patients. In addition, a further 58 patients were treated according to clinical experience. Differences in post-chemotherapeutical effects between drug sensitivity assay and experience groups were compared. Results: The evaluable rate of the test was 96.3%, the clinical effective rate was 80.8%, the sensitivity rate was 97.6% (41/42), the specificity was 20%, the total predicting accuracy was 74.3%, the positive predictive value was 83.7% (41/49), the negative predictive value was 66.7% (2/3); in the drug sensitivity test group, the clinical effective rate was 80.8%, the experience group response rate was 63.8%, with a significant difference in clinical effects between the ATP-based sensitivity and experience groups (${\chi}^2$=7.0153, P<0.01). Conclusion: ATP-CRA is a stable, accurate and potentially practical chemosensitivity test providing a predictor of chemotherapeutic response in patients with superficial bladder cancer.

Purification, Chemical Characterization, and Antioxidant Activity of a Polysaccharide from the Fruiting Bodies of Sanghuang Mushroom (Phellinus Baumii Pilát)

Qing Ge,Jian-wei Mao,An-qiang Zhang,Yong-jiang Wang,Pei-long Sun 한국식품과학회 2013 Food Science and Biotechnology Vol.22 No.2

A purified water-soluble polysaccharide was isolated from the fruiting bodies of sanghuang mushroom (Phellinus baumii Pilát) using hot water extraction, DEAE Sepharose Fast Flow anion exchange and High-Resolution Sephacryl S-1000 gel-filtration chromatography. The purified polysaccharide was a complex β-D-glucan, with a molecular mass of 230 kDa. Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR), methylation analysis, and NMR spectroscopy of sanghuang mushroom polysaccharide (PBF3) indicated that the polysaccharide contained (1→3)-β-D-, (1→4)-β-D-,and branched (1→3,6)-β-D-glucopyranosyl residues. On the basis of hydroxyl radical assay, superoxide radical assay, and DPPH radical assay, its antioxidant activities were investigated. PBF3 had significant effect on scavenging hydroxyl radicals, an equivalent inhibiting ability to vitamin C on superoxide radical, and a little lower scavenging activity on DPPH radical than vitamin C, and should be explored as a novel potential antioxidant.

Mineralized Polysaccharide Transplantation Modules Supporting Human MSC Conversion into Osteogenic Cells and Osteoid Tissue in a Non-Union Defect

Qing Ge,David William Green,이동준,김현이,Zhengguo Piao,이종민,정한성 한국분자세포생물학회 2018 Molecules and cells Vol.41 No.12

Regenerative orthopedics needs significant devices to transplant human stem cells into damaged tissue and encourage automatic growth into replacements suitable for the human skeleton. Soft biomaterials have similarities in mechanical, structural and architectural properties to natural extracellular matrix (ECM), but often lack essential ECM molecules and signals. Here we engineer mineralized polysaccharide beads to transform MSCs into osteogenic cells and osteoid tissue for transplantation. Bone morphogenic proteins (BMP-2) and indispensable ECM proteins both directed differentiation inside alginate beads. Laminin and collagen IV basement membrane matrix proteins fixed and organized MSCs onto the alginate matrix, and BMP-2 drove differentiation, osteoid tissue self-assembly, and small-scale mineralization. Augmentation of alginate is necessary, and we showed that a few rationally selected small proteins from the basement membrane (BM) compartment of the ECM were sufficient to upregulate cell expression of Runx-2 and osteocalcin for osteoid formation, resulting in Alizarin red-positive mineral nodules. More significantly, nested BMP-2 and BM beads added to a non-union skull defect, self-generated osteoid expressing osteopontin (OPN) and osteocalcin (OCN) in a chain along the defect, at only four weeks, establishing a framework for complete regeneration expected in 6 and 12 weeks. Alginate beads are beneficial surgical devices for transplanting therapeutic cells in programmed (by the ECM components and alginate-chitosan properties) reaction environments ideal for promoting bone tissue.

Interleukin-17 Indirectly Promotes M2 Macrophage Differentiation through Stimulation of COX-2/PGE2 Pathway in the Cancer Cells

Qingli Li,Lunxu Liu,Qiuyang Zhang,Sen Liu,Dongxia Ge,Zongbing You 대한암학회 2014 Cancer Research and Treatment Vol.46 No.3

PurposeInterleukin-17 (IL-17) is a proinflammatory cytokine that plays important roles ininflammation, autoimmunity, and cancer. The purpose of this study was to determineif IL-17 indirectly regulates macrophage differentiation through up-regulation ofcyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression in the cancer cell lines. Materials and MethodsHuman cervical cancer HeLa, human lung cancer A549, and mouse prostate cancerMyc-CaP/CR cell lines were treated with recombinant IL-17; Western blot analysis,enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and quantitative real-time polymerase chainreaction analysis were utilized to examine the cellular responses. ResultsIL-17 up-regulated expression of COX-2 mRNA and protein in HeLa, A549, and Myc-CaP/CR cell lines. IL-17’s effects were mediated through nuclear factor-κB andERK1/2 signaling pathways as the inhibitors of these pathways could inhibit IL-17-induced COX-2 expression. The conditional medium obtained from the cancer cellscontained prostaglandin E2, the levels of which were increased by IL-17 treatment. When treated with the conditional medium, particularly with the IL-17-induced conditionalmedium, mouse RAW264.7 macrophages and human THP-1 monocytes expressedhigher levels of IL-10 (a marker of M2 macrophages) than inducible nitricoxide synthase or tumor necrosis factor α (markers of M1 macrophages). In contrast,when RAW264.7 and THP-1 cells were treated directly with IL-17, expression of thesemarker genes was not markedly changed. ConclusionThe results of this study suggest that IL-17 indirectly promotes M2 macrophagedifferentiation through stimulation of the COX-2/PGE2 pathway in the cancer cells,thus IL-17 plays an indirect role in regulating the tumor immune microenvironment.

LSTM Android Malicious Behavior Analysis Based on Feature Weighting

( Qing Yang ),( Xiaoliang Wang ),( Jing Zheng ),( Wenqi Ge ),( Ming Bai ),( Frank Jiang ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2021 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.15 No.6

With the rapid development of mobile Internet, smart phones have been widely popularized, among which Android platform dominates. Due to it is open source, malware on the Android platform is rampant. In order to improve the efficiency of malware detection, this paper proposes deep learning Android malicious detection system based on behavior features. First of all, the detection system adopts the static analysis method to extract different types of behavior features from Android applications, and extract sensitive behavior features through Term frequency-inverse Document Frequency algorithm for each extracted behavior feature to construct detection features through unified abstract expression. Secondly, Long Short-Term Memory neural network model is established to select and learn from the extracted attributes and the learned attributes are used to detect Android malicious applications, Analysis and further optimization of the application behavior parameters, so as to build a deep learning Android malicious detection method based on feature analysis. We use different types of features to evaluate our method and compare it with various machine learning-based methods. Study shows that it outperforms most existing machine learning based approaches and detects 95.31% of the malware.

Phase Transition and Magnetic Transport Properties for Single Crystal of (Ca<SUB>0.42</SUB>Sr<SUB>0.58</SUB>)₃Ru₂O₇

Qing Ji,Ming Fu,Jianjian Ge,Bin Qian,Zhe Qu,Z.Q. Mao,X.S. Wu 한국자기학회 2008 한국자기학회 학술연구발표회 논문개요집 Vol.- No.-

Unified SVPWM Strategy for Post-fault Three-level NPC Voltage Source Inverters

Qingli Deng,Xinglai Ge 전력전자학회 2019 ICPE(ISPE)논문집 Vol.2019 No.5

Eight switch three-phase inverters (ESTPIs) are the reconfigured topologies of the three-level neutralpoint-clamped (NPC) inverter with a failure leg. This failure leads to different topologies of ESTPIs, which can be controlled by different space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) strategies. By analyzing the relationship of three SVPWM strategies for different ESTPIs, a unified coordinate transformation is proposed, which can make one of the three SVPWM strategies be a unified control strategy of ESTPIs. And the unified coordinate transformation is suited for two different SVPWM strategies for ESTPIs. Consequently, the unified strategy not only simplifies the control strategy, but also makes the fault tolerant control strategy more flexible. Simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test results have shown the validity and feasibility of the proposed unified SVPWM strategies.

In vivo antioxidant, hypoglycemic, and anti-tumor activities of anthocyanin extracts from purple sweet potato

Jin-Ge Zhao,Qian-Qian Yan,Li-Zhen Lu,Yu-Qing Zhang 한국영양학회 2013 Nutrition Research and Practice Vol.7 No.5

Anthocyanin from purple sweet potato (PSP) extracted by microwave baking (MB) and acidified electrolyzed water (AEW) exhibited antioxidant activity. After further purification by macroporous AB-8 resin, the color value of PSP anthocyanin (PSPA) reached 30.15 with a total flavonoid concentration of 932.5 mg/g. The purified extracts had more potent antioxidant activities than the crude extracts. After continuously administering the PSP extracts to 12-mo-old mice for 1 mo, the anti-aging index of the experimental group was not significantly different from that of 5-mo-old mice. To a certain degree, PSPA was also effective for controlling plasma glucose levels in male Streptozocin (STZ)-treated diabetic mice. In addition, the extracts inhibited Sarcoma S180 cell growth in ICR mice. Mice consuming the PSP extracts formed significantly fewer and smaller sarcomas than mice consuming the control diets. The highest inhibition rate was 69.03%. These results suggest that anthocyanin extracts from PSP not only exert strong antioxidant effects in vitro, but also had anti-aging, anti-hyperglycemic, and anti-tumor activities.

Probiotic supplements alleviate gestational diabetes mellitus by restoring the diversity of gut microbiota: a study based on 16S rRNA sequencing

Zheng Qing-Xiang,Jiang Xiu-Min,Wang Hai-Wei,Ge Li,Lai Yu-Ting,Jiang Xin-Yong,Chen Fan,Huang Ping-Ping 한국미생물학회 2021 The journal of microbiology Vol.59 No.9

Probiotics effectively prevent and improve metabolic diseases such as diabetes by regulating the intestinal microenvironment and gut microbiota. However, the effects of probiotics in gestational diabetes mellitus are not clear. Here, we showed that probiotic supplements significantly improved fasting blood glucose in a gestational diabetes mellitus rat model. To further understand the mechanisms of probiotics in gestational diabetes mellitus, the gut microbiota were analyzed via 16S rRNA sequencing. We found that compared with the normal pregnant group, the gestational diabetes mellitus rats had decreased diversity of gut microbiota. Moreover, probiotic supplementation restored the diversity of the gut microbiota in gestational diabetes mellitus rats, and the gut microbiota structure tended to be similar to that of normal pregnant rats. In particular, compared with gestational diabetes mellitus rats, the abundance of Firmicutes and Actinobacteria was higher after probiotic supplementation. Furthermore, activating carbohydrate metabolism and membrane transport pathways may be involved in the potential mechanisms by which probiotic supplements alleviate gestational diabetes mellitus. Overall, our results suggested that probiotic supplementation might be a novel approach to restore the gut microbiota of gestational diabetes mellitus rats and provided an experimental evidence for the use of probiotic supplements to treat gestational diabetes melitus.