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Mycobacteria exploit host hyaluronan for efficient extracellular replication. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2009
In spite of the importance of hyaluronan in host protection against infectious organisms in the alveolar spaces, its role in mycobacterial infection is unknown.
Yukio Hirayama, Mamiko Yoshimura, Yuriko Ozeki, Isamu Sugawara, Tadashi Udagawa, Satoru Mizuno, Naoki Itano, Koji Kimata, Aki Tamaru, Hisashi Ogura, Kazuo Kobayashi, Sohkichi Matsumoto   +11 more
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Connective tissue growth factor mediates bone morphogenetic protein 2-induced increase in hyaluronan production in luteinized human granulosa cells

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2022
Background Hyaluronan is the main component of the cumulus-oocyte complex (COC) matrix, and it maintains the basic structure of the COC during ovulation.
Hsun-Ming Chang, Long Bai, Yi-Min Zhu, Peter C. K. Leung   +3 more
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Salicylate suppresses the oncogenic hyaluronan network in metastatic breast cancer cells

Matrix Biology Plus, 2020
The oncogenic role of hyaluronan in several aspects of tumor biology has been well established. Recent studies by us and others suggest that inhibition of hyaluronan synthesis could represent an emerging therapeutic approach with significant clinical ...
Theodoros T. Karalis, Athanasios Chatzopoulos, Aikaterini Kondyli, Alexios J. Aletras, Nikos K. Karamanos, Paraskevi Heldin, Spyros S. Skandalis   +6 more
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Selective adhesion inhibition and hyaluronan envelope reduction of dermal tumor cells by cold plasma-activated medium

Cell Adhesion & Migration, 2023
The sensitivity to cold plasma is specific to tumor cells while leaving normal tissue cells unaffected. This is the desired challenge in cancer therapy. Therefore, the focus of this work was a comparative study concerning the plasma sensitivity of dermal
Anna-Christin Golz, Claudia Bergemann, Finja Hildebrandt, Steffen Emmert, Barbara Nebe, Henrike Rebl   +5 more
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Vulnerability to shear stress caused by altered peri-endothelial matrix is a key feature of Moyamoya disease

Scientific Reports, 2021
Moyamoya disease (MMD) is characterized by progressive bilateral stenotic changes in the terminal portion of the internal carotid arteries. Although RNF213 was identified as a susceptibility gene for MMD, the exact pathogenesis remains unknown ...
Muneaki Matsuo, Satomi Nadanaka, Minami Soga, Taku Sugiyama, Shota Serigano, Kenjiro Shimano, Fumio Ichinose, Takuji Nakamura, Toshiyuki Maeda, Kiyohiro Houkin, Takumi Era, Hiroshi Kitagawa   +11 more
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Hyaluronan Synthase: New Directions for Hyaluronan Research.

Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology, 1998
今日、ヒアルロン酸は脊椎動物の様々な組織やある種の連鎖球菌の莢膜に広く存在することが知られており、また変形性関節症の関節腔内に注入される補充物として医学応用されるなど、その重要性は年々増加している。ヒアルロン酸は特に、胚時期の細胞増殖や運動性の活発化している組織で、細胞外マトリックスの主要な構成成分として存在し、ヒアルロン酸結合分子や細胞表面受容体との相互作用により、細胞の接着、移動、分化をダイナミックに調節する。さらにこの遍在する高分子は形態形成や再生、創傷治癒、癌の浸潤・転移といった多彩な生命現象に関与することが示されている。他方、ヒアルロン酸の生合成機構解明に向けた研究、特にヒアルロン酸合成酵素を単離し同定する試みが、連鎖球菌や動物細胞を材料に過去十年以上にわたって精力的に行われてきた ...
Naoki Itano, Koji Kimata
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Self-regenerating giant hyaluronan polymer brushes

Nature Communications, 2019
Polymer brushes are often used to functionalise surfaces. Here, the authors report on the creation of high-density, regenerating hyaluronan brushes using hyaluronan synthase enzymes which can be patterned by photo-deactivation and demonstrate ...
Wenbin Wei, Jessica L. Faubel, Hemaa Selvakumar, Daniel T. Kovari, Joanna Tsao, Felipe Rivas, Amar T. Mohabir, Michelle Krecker, Elaheh Rahbar, Adam R. Hall, Michael A. Filler, Jennifer L. Washburn, Paul H. Weigel, Jennifer E. Curtis   +13 more
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SARS-CoV-2 RNA elements share human sequence identity and upregulate hyaluronan via NamiRNA-enhancer network

EBioMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: Since late 2019, SARS-CoV-2 infection has resulted in COVID-19 accompanied by diverse clinical manifestations. However, the underlying mechanism of how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with host and develops multiple symptoms is largely ...
Wei Li, Shuai Yang, Peng Xu, Dapeng Zhang, Ying Tong, Lu Chen, Ben Jia, Ang Li, Cheng Lian, Daoping Ru, Baolong Zhang, Mengxing Liu, Cancan Chen, Weihui Fu, Songhua Yuan, Chenjian Gu, Lu Wang, Wenxuan Li, Ying Liang, Zhicong Yang, Xiaoguang Ren, Shaoxuan Wang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Yuanlin Song, Youhua Xie, Hongzhou Lu, Jianqing Xu, Hailin Wang, Wenqiang Yu   +28 more
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Effect of diclofenac etalhyaluronate (SI-613) on the production of high molecular weight sodium hyaluronate in human synoviocytes

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2019
Background We have reported that a single intra-articular injection of diclofenac etalhyaluronate (SI-613) exerted a potent and long-lasting analgesic effect in experimental arthritis models.
Tomochika Kisukeda, Junichi Onaya, Keiji Yoshioka   +2 more
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HAS2-Ezrin-ER axis plays a role in acquired antiestrogen resistance of ER-positive breast cancer

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
The development of endocrine resistance is a major clinical problem in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer (BrCa) treatment, in which how cancer cells acquire resistance remains obscure.
Xiaodan Sun, Xiaodan Sun, Fen Tang, Qian Guo, Yiwen Liu, Yiqing He, Yan Du, Feng Gao, Feng Gao, Guoliang Zhang, Guoliang Zhang, Cuixia Yang, Cuixia Yang   +12 more
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