[#2010-15] Prokaryotic expression, purif...

Prokaryotic expression, purification, and polyclonal antibody production of a hydrophobin from Grifola frondosa Zefang Wang1, Shuren Feng1, Yujian Huang1, Mingqiang Qiao1, Baohua Zhang2, and Haijin Xu2 1The Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China 2The Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China   Hydrophobins are small fungal proteins that self-assemble spontaneously at...

[#2010-14] Influence of Culinary-Medicin...

Influence of Culinary-Medicinal Maitake Mushroom, Grifola frondosa (Dicks.: Fr.) S.F. Gray (Aphyllophoromycetideae) Polysaccharides on Gene Expression in Jurkat T Lymphocytes Natasa Radic,1* Zala Jevnikar,1 Natasa Obermajer,1,2 Jernej Kristl,1 Janko Kos,1,2 Franc Pohleven,3 & Borut Strukelj1,2 1Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2Department of Biotechnology, Jozef Stefan Institute,  Slovenia; 3Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia   ABSTRACT: The fruiting body of the culinary-medicinal...

[#2010-13] Maitake Mushroom Extracts Ame...

Maitake Mushroom Extracts Ameliorate Progressive Hypertension and Other Chronic Metabolic Perturbations in Aging Female Rats Harry G. Preuss1~, Bobby Echard1, Debasis Bagchi2, Nicholas V. Perricone3 Georgetown University Medical Center, Department of Physiology, Washington, D.C. USA University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Services, Houston, TX 77204, USA Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI  USA   Abstract Objective: We assessed the ability of two commercially-available fractions...

[#2010-12] Maitake beta-glucan promotes ...

Maitake beta-glucan promotes recovery of leukocytes and myeloid cell function in peripheral blood from paclitaxel hematotoxicity Hong Lin • Elisa de Stanchina • Xi Kathy Zhou • Feng Hong • Andrew Seidman • Monica Fornier • Wei-Lie Xiao • Edward J. Kennelly • Kathleen Wesa • Barrie R. Cassileth • Susanna Cunningham-Rundles Maitake Abstract Bone marrow myelotoxicity is a major limita­tion of chemotherapy. While granulocyte colony stimulat­ing factor (G-CSF) treatment is effective, alternative approaches to support hematopoietic recovery are sought. We...

[#2010-11] A polysaccharide extracted fr...

A polysaccharide extracted from Grifola frondosa enhances the anti-tumor activity of bone marrow-derived dendritic cell-based immunotherapy against murine colon cancer   Yuki Masuda • Koichi Ito • Morichika Konishi • Hiroaki Nanba   Abstract We previously isolated the novel heteropoly­saccharide maitake Z-fraction (MZF) from the maitake mushroom (Grifola frondosa), and demonstrated that MZF significantly inhibited tumor growth by inducing cell-mediated immunity. In this study, we demonstrated that MZF upregulated the expression of CD80, CD86, CD83, and...

[#2010-10] Commonly consumed and special...

Commonly consumed and specialty dietary mushrooms reduce cellular proliferation in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells Keith R Martin and Sara K Brophy Nutrition Program, Healthy Lifestyles Research Center, Arizona State University,  USA Abstract Worldwide, over one million women will be newly diagnosed with breast cancer in the next year. Moreover, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the USA. An accumulating body of evidence suggests that consumption of dietary mushrooms can protect against breast cancer. In this study, we tested and compared the...