Lethal and Sublethal Effects of Endosulfan on Apolygus lucorum (Hemiptera: Miridae) (2008)
Yangqing Liu, Yanhui Lu, Kongming Wu, Fangsen Xue
Various pesticides directly impact insect pest populations through acute toxicity (lethal) effects, but they also cause a range of indirect (sublethal) effects on pest physiology or behavior. In this...
Huilin Yu, Yongjun Zhang, Kongming Wu, Xi Wu Gao, Yu Yuan Guo
Seven synthetic herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) and a mixture of nonanal + (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol were field tested for their ability to attract beneficial insects in an open cotton field. Eleven...
Lanzhi Han, Peilei Liu, Kongming Wu, Yufa Peng, Feng Wang
Genetically modified insect-resistant rice lines containing the cry1Ac gene from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) or the CpTI (cowpea trypsin inhibitor) gene developed for the management of lepidopterous...
Peng Wan, Kongming Wu, Minsong Huang, Dazhao Yu, Jinping Wu
Genetically modified cotton that produces a crystalline protein from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki (Berliner) (Bt) has been widely deployed to manage lepidopteran insect pests in cotton...
Ying Zhang, Limin Wang, Kongming Wu, George E. Heimpel
The soybean aphid, Aphis glycines (Matsumura), is native to eastern Asia and has recently invaded North America, where it is currently the most important insect pest of soybeans. The soybean aphid...
Sundaram, Kumaran, Mani, Santhosh K., Kitatani, Kazuyuki, Wu, Kongming, Pestell, Richard G., Reddy, Sakamuri V.
Receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) is a critical osteoclastogenic factor that is expressed on bone marrow stromal/preosteoblast cells. Most bone resorption stimuli induce osteoclast...
Cell fate determination factor DACH1 inhibits c-Jun-induced contact-independent growth (2007)
Wu, Kongming, Liu, Manran, Li, Anping, Donninger, Howard, Rao, Mahadev, Jiao, Xuanmao, ...
The cell fate determination factor DACH1 plays a key role in cellular differentiation in metazoans. DACH1 is engaged in multiple context-dependent complexes that activate or repress transcription....
Wendong Li, Kongming Wu, Xiaoqi Wang, Guirong Wang, Yuyuan Guo
The tussah silkworm, Antheraea pernyi (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), is an important natural resource for the silk industry and has been cultured using wild host plants for >2,000 yr in China. To...
Peng Wan, Yongjun Zhang, Kongming Wu, Minsong Huang
Seasonal levels of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) insecticidal protein and its control efficacy against Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) in Bt transgenic cotton GK19 (carrying a Cry1Ac/Cry1Ab fused gene)...
Hongqiang Feng, Kongming Wu, Dengfa Cheng, Yuyuan Guo
The high-altitude wind-borne migration of beet webworm, Loxostege sticticalis, moths with other insects and their short-distance dispersal were observed with a digital scanning radar and twin...
Jian Liu, Kongming Wu, Keith R. Hopper, Kuijun Zhao
A field survey of soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura, and its natural enemies was conducted during summer 2002 in Langfang, northern China (116.4° E, 39.3° N). Aphids colonized soybean when...
Fengxia Meng, Kongming Wu, Xiwu Gao, Yufa Peng, Yuyuan Guo
Geographic variation in the susceptibility of the striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), in China to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) insecticidal crystal proteins...
Kongming Wu, Yuyuan Guo, Nan Lv, John T. Greenplate, Randy Deaton
NuCOTN 33B, a Bt transgenic variety of upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) expressing the insecticidal protein Cry1Ac from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner sp. kurstaki, was evaluated for resistance...
The influence of Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) cotton on population dynamics of cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover, was investigated during 1999–2000 in northern China. The field...
Kongming Wu, Yuyuan Guo, Nan Lv, John T. Greenplate, Randy Deaton
Sensitivities of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) field populations to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) insecticidal protein Cry1Ac were monitored during 1998–2000 in China. A total of 41 strains was...
Kongming Wu, Yuyuan Guo, Shansong Gao
The density of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) populations on Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) transgenic cotton, corn, peanut, and soybean; differences in its development on Bt cotton and common...
IKKα Regulates Mitogenic Signaling through Transcriptional Induction of Cyclin D1 via Tcf
Albanese, Chris, Wu, Kongming, D'Amico, Mark, Jarrett, Christy, Joyce, David, Hughes, Julian, ...
The Wnt/β-catenin/Tcf and IκB/NF-κB cascades are independent pathways involved in cell cycle control, cellular differentiation, and inflammation. Constitutive Wnt/β-catenin signaling occurs in...
Cyclin D1 Governs Adhesion and Motility of MacrophagesV⃞
Neumeister, Peter, Pixley, Fiona J., Xiong, Ying, Xie, Huafeng, Wu, Kongming, Ashton, Anthony, ...
The cyclin D1 gene encodes the regulatory subunit of a holoenzyme that phosphorylates and inactivates the retinoblastoma protein, thereby promoting cell-cycle progression. Cyclin D1 is overexpressed...
Cyclin D1 Repression of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ Expression and Transactivation
Wang, Chenguang, Pattabiraman, Nagarajan, Zhou, Jian Nian, Fu, Maofu, Sakamaki, Toshiyuki, Albanese, Chris, ...
The cyclin D1 gene is overexpressed in human breast cancers and is required for oncogene-induced tumorigenesis. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) is a nuclear receptor...
IKKα Regulates Mitogenic Signaling through Transcriptional Induction of Cyclin D1 via Tcf
Albanese, Chris, Wu, Kongming, D'Amico, Mark, Jarrett, Christy, Joyce, David, Hughes, Julian, ...
The Wnt/β-catenin/Tcf and IκB/NF-κB cascades are independent pathways involved in cell cycle control, cellular differentiation, and inflammation. Constitutive Wnt/β-catenin signaling occurs in...
Cyclin D1 Governs Adhesion and Motility of MacrophagesV⃞
Neumeister, Peter, Pixley, Fiona J., Xiong, Ying, Xie, Huafeng, Wu, Kongming, Ashton, Anthony, ...
The cyclin D1 gene encodes the regulatory subunit of a holoenzyme that phosphorylates and inactivates the retinoblastoma protein, thereby promoting cell-cycle progression. Cyclin D1 is overexpressed...
Cyclin D1 Repression of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ Expression and Transactivation
Wang, Chenguang, Pattabiraman, Nagarajan, Zhou, Jian Nian, Fu, Maofu, Sakamaki, Toshiyuki, Albanese, Chris, ...
The cyclin D1 gene is overexpressed in human breast cancers and is required for oncogene-induced tumorigenesis. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) is a nuclear receptor...
DACH1 Is a Cell Fate Determination Factor That Inhibits Cyclin D1 and Breast Tumor Growth†
Wu, Kongming, Li, Anping, Rao, Mahadev, Liu, Manran, Dailey, Vernon, Yang, Ying, ...
Obstacles to the expansion of cells with proliferative potential include the induction of cell death, telomere-based senescence, and the pRb and p53 tumor suppressors. Not infrequently, the molecular...
Cell Fate Determination Factor DACH1 Inhibits c-Jun–induced Contact-independent Growth
Wu, Kongming, Liu, Manran, Li, Anping, Donninger, Howard, Rao, Mahadev, Jiao, Xuanmao, ...
The cell fate determination factor DACH1 plays a key role in cellular differentiation in metazoans. DACH1 is engaged in multiple context-dependent complexes that activate or repress transcription....
Regulation of αA-crystallin via Pax6, c-Maf, CREB and a broad domain of lens-specific chromatin
Yang, Ying, Stopka, Tomáš, Golestaneh, Nady, Wang, Yan, Wu, Kongming, Li, Anping, ...
Pax6 and c-Maf regulate multiple stages of mammalian lens development. Here, we identified novel distal control regions (DCRs) of the αA-crystallin gene, a marker of lens fiber cell differentiation...
Jiao, Xuanmao, Katiyar, Sanjay, Liu, Manran, Mueller, Susette C., Lisanti, Michael P., Li, Anping, ...
The spread of metastatic tumors to different organs is associated with poor prognosis. The metastatic process requires migration and cellular invasion. The protooncogene c-jun encodes the founding...
Wu, Kongming, Katiyar, Sanjay, Li, Anping, Liu, Manran, Ju, Xiaoming, Popov, Vladimir M., ...
Oncogene-mediated signaling to the host environment induces a subset of cytokines and chemokines. The Drosophila Dac gene promotes migration of the morphogenetic furrow during eye development....
A cyclin D1/microRNA 17/20 regulatory feedback loop in control of breast cancer cell proliferation
Yu, Zuoren, Wang, Chenguang, Wang, Min, Li, Zhiping, Casimiro, Mathew C., Liu, Manran, ...
Decreased expression of specific microRNAs (miRNAs) occurs in human tumors, which suggests a function for miRNAs in tumor suppression. Herein, levels of the miR-17-5p/miR-20a miRNA cluster were...
Nuclear Factor-κB Enhances ErbB2-Induced Mammary Tumorigenesis and Neoangiogenesis in Vivo
Liu, Manran, Ju, Xiaoming, Willmarth, Nicole E., Casimiro, Mathew C., Ojeifo, John, Sakamaki, Toshiyuki, ...
The (HER2/Neu) ErbB2 oncogene is commonly overexpressed in human breast cancer and is sufficient for mammary tumorigenesis in transgenic mice. Nuclear factor (NF)-κB activity is increased in both...