Fisetin decreases TET1 activity and CCNY/CDK16 promoter 5hmC levels to inhibit the proliferation and invasion of renal cancer stem cell
JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Authors: Si, Yibing; Liu, Junfeng; Shen, Hongliang; Zhang, Chen; Wu, Yuanhao; Huang, Yongyi; Gong, Zhangbin; Xue, Jun; Liu, Te
Abstract
As a natural flavonol, fisetin has significant inhibitory effects on many cancers. Although fisetin can inhibit kidney cancer, its effects on kidney renal stem cells (HuRCSCs) remain unknown. Our study found that renal cancer tissues and CD44+/CD105+ HuRCSCs both show high TET1 protein expression. Both in vivo and in vitro experiments showed that fisetin can effectively inhibit HuRCSC cell division and proliferation, invasion, in vivo tumourigenesis and angiogenesis. Our findings showed that fisetin can significantly decrease TET1 expression levels in HuRCSCs and overall 5hmC levels in the genomes of these cells. At the same time, ChIP-PCR results showed that fisetin can effectively inhibit 5hmC modification levels at the CpG islands in cyclin Y (CCNY) and CDK16 and reduce their transcription and activity. Thus, we conclude that fisetin inhibits the epigenetic mechanism in renal cancer stem cells, that is, fisetin inhibits TET1 expression and reduces 5hmC modification in specific loci in the promoters of CCNY/CDK16 in HuRSCs. This in turn inhibits transcription of these genes, causing cell cycle arrest and ultimately inhibiting renal cancer stem cell activity.
Recognizing clothes patterns and colours for blind people using neural network
2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION, EMBEDDED AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (ICIIECS)
Authors: Rini, Jarin Joe J.; Thilagavathi, B.
Abstract
In this project, the system of automatically recognizing clothes pattern and colors are proposed. The image is captured by the camera and get processed to identify the pattern of the clothes that is chosen. This can be classified using the support vector machine algorithm. For this the features of the image have to be obtained. These features can be extracted using three descriptors. The Radon Signature descriptor is to extract statistical properties, the wavelet subbands are used to extract global features of clothing patterns. This gets combined with local features that are obtained from scale invariance feature transform to recognize complex clothing patterns. After identifying the features the support vector machine classify the images in order to their categories. The system uses the CCNY Clothing Pattern dataset. This system can be an effective method for all the visually impaired people that they can identify the pattern and respective colors without any help.