摘要:
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating an animal, preferably a human, suffering from or predisposed to a physical disorder by administering an effective amount of a composition comprising at least one RAR antagonist, preferably an RAR&agr; antagonist, and at least one RXR agonist. The combination of an RXR agonist, which has no therapeutic effects alone, with an RAR antagonist allows the use of lower doses of the RAR antagonist than were previously thought to be efficacious; this approach obviates many of the undesirable physiological side-effects of treatment with RAR antagonists.
摘要:
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating an animal, preferably a human, suffering from or predisposed to a physical disorder by administering an effective amount of a composition comprising at least one RAR antagonist, preferably an RAR.alpha. antagonist, and at least one RXR agonist. The combination of an RXR agonist, which has no therapeutic effects alone, with an RAR antagonist allows the use of lower doses of the RAR antagonist than were previously thought to be efficacious; this approach obviates many of the undesirable physiological side-effects of treatment with RAR antagonists.
摘要:
The present invention concerns a nuclear receptor (NR) transcriptional mediator. More specifically, isolated nucleic acid molecules are provided encoding transcriptional intermediary factor-2 (TIF2). Recombinant methods for making TIF2 polypeptides are also provided as are TIF2 antibodies. Screening methods are also provided for identifying agonists and antagonists of the activation function AF-2 of nuclear receptors, for identifying agonists and antagonists of the AD1 activation domain activity of TIF2, and for identifying agonists and antagonists of the AD2 activation domain activity of TIF2.
摘要:
The present invention concerns a nuclear receptor (NR) transcriptional mediator. More specifically, isolated nucleic acid molecules are provided encoding transcriptional intermediary factor-2 (TIF2). Recombinant methods for making TIF2 polypeptides are also provided as are TIF2 antibodies. Screening methods are also provided for identifying agonists and antagonists of the activation function AF-2 of nuclear receptors, for identifying agonists and antagonists of the AD1 activation domain activity of TIF2, and for identifying agonists and antagonists of the AD2 activation domain activity of TIF2.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a new process for identifying novel anti-inflammatory molecules with reduced direct transrepression of genes induced by glucocorticoids.The inventors have discovered that GCs-mediated transrepression can be mediated not only via the tethering indirect pathway, but also through direct binding of GR to “simple” negative GREs (nGRE), which belongs to a novel family of evolutionary-conserved cis-acting negative response elements (IR nGREs), and are found in numerous GC-repressed genes.
摘要:
Peptides derived from the pS2 protein and polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies directed against pS2 and against pS2 fragments. Method of obtaining the secreted from of the pS2 protein and fragments thereof. Method of detecting and diagnosing different pathological conditions and especially hormone-dependent breast cancers and pathological conditions of the stomach.
摘要:
A previously isolated hepatitis B virus (HBV) integration in a 147 bp cellular DNA fragment linked to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was used as a probe to clone the corresponding complementary DNA from a human liver cDNA library. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that the overall structure of the cellular gene, which has been named hap, is similar to that of the DNA-binding hormone receptors. Six out of seven hepatoma and hepatoma-derived cell-lines express a 2.5 kb hap mRNA species which is undetectable in normal adult and fetal livers, but present in all non-hepatic tissues analyzed. Low stringency hybridization experiments revealed the existence of hap related genes in the human genome. The cloned DNA sequence is useful in the preparation of pure hap protein and as a probe in the detection and isolation of complementary DNA and RNA sequences. The hap protein is a retinoic acid (RA) receptor identified as RAR-.beta.. The RAR-.beta. gene is transcriptionally up-regulated by retinoic acid (RA) and its promoter region may contain a RARE (retinoic acid responsive element).
摘要:
A previously isolated hepatitis B virus (HBV) integration in a 147 bp cellular DNA fragment linked to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was used as a probe to clone the corresponding complementary DNA from a human liver cDNA library. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that the overall structure of the cellular gene, which has been named hap, is similar to that of the DNA-binding hormone receptors. Six out of seven hepatoma and hepatoma-derived cell-lines express a 2.5 kb hap mRNA species which is undetectable in normal adult and fetal livers, but present in all non-hepatic tissues analyzed. Low stringency hybridization experiments revealed the existence of hap related genes in the human genome. The cloned DNA sequence is useful in the preparation of pure hap protein and as a probe in the detection and isolation of complementary DNA and RNA sequences. The hap protein is a retinoic acid (RA) receptor identified as RAR-.beta.. The RAR-.beta. gene is transcriptionally up-regulated by retinoic acid (RA) and its promoter region may contain a RARE (retinoic acid responsive element).
摘要:
The present invention relates to a gene encoding a new member of the metalloproteinase family which has been found to be specifically associated with invasive breast cancer, and to methods of diagnosis for such cancer comprising detection of the marker or its nucleotide sequence, and to treatment or prophylaxis by inhibiting, altering the activity of or binding the marker, or by interfering with its synthesis.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for tightly temporally controlling the biological activity of a protein of interest in a vertebrate, upon induction of the activity of a fusion protein comprising said protein of interest and an ERM polypeptide containing a mutated ligand binding domain of the human oestrogen receptor α, with a synthetic ligand that does not interfere with oestrogen signalling. In particular, the present invention concerns a method for generating tightly temporally-controlled targeted somatic mutations in a vertebrate, preferably a mouse, by inducing the activity of a fusion protein comprising a site-specific recombinase protein and an ERM polypeptide, with a synthetic ligand devoid of oestrogenic and anti-oestrogenic activities.