Bim is a pro-apoptotic member of the Bcl-2 protein family. Overexpression of Bim proved to be highly cytotoxic for diverse cells.The AD293 cell line is derived directly from the HEK293 cell line but has been transfected with a gene that can improve cell adherence.We found that there was almost no apoptosis seen in Bim L-transfected AD293 cells, but more than half ofBim L-transfected HEK293 cells underwent apoptosis. Suppression subtractive hybridizationwas used to detect the different gene expression profile between these two cell lines. In 192 sequencedpositive clones, there were 30 clones repeating twice or more. Ten genes were selected for identification by semi-quantitative RT-PCR.Thetranscripts of two adhesion-relatedgenes (actin and parvin)and two apoptosis-related genes (cyclin 2 and protein phosphatase 1G) were up-regulated in AD293 cells. These results suggest that the high expression of cell adhesion-related proteins might be responsible for the different apoptosis status after the transfection of Bim L.Our data provide candidate genes responsible for the different apoptosis sensitivity of these two cell lines. Further investigation on thedifferential expression profile between AD293 and HEK293 might improve our understanding of cell apoptosis mechanism.
HYL1 is a nuclear protein involved in the processing of miRNAs but its exact function remains unknown. Arabidopsis thaliana hyl1 mutants exhibit hypersensitivity to ABA. We decided to answer the question whether ABA affects the HYL1 protein localization within the cell and show that it does not. We also studied the expression of HYL1 in different tissues and organs. In this paper we show for the first time the expression profile of the HYL1 protein using anti-HYL1 antibodies. The protein is present in seedlings and mature plants in all organs studied, with the highest amount in inflorescences. A. thaliana HYL1 protein has several repetitions of a 28-amino-acid sequence at the C-terminus that confer protein instability. Our bioinformatic analysis of HYL1 homologs in different Brassica species shows that this repetition is typical only for Arabidopsis. This may suggest a relatively late evolutionary acquisition of the C-terminal domain.
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