AIM: To investigate the inhibition of p27kip1 gene on the growth of esophageal carcinoma cell strain (EC9706).METHODS: Recombinant adenovirus Ad-p27kip1 was constructed and transfected into esophageal carcinoma cell E...AIM: To investigate the inhibition of p27kip1 gene on the growth of esophageal carcinoma cell strain (EC9706).METHODS: Recombinant adenovirus Ad-p27kip1 was constructed and transfected into esophageal carcinoma cell EC-9706, and its effect on p27kip1 expression, the growth of esophageal carcinoma cell, DNA replication, protein synthesis, cell multiplication and apoptosis were explored by means of cell growth count, 3H-TdR, 3H-Leucine incorporation,flow cytometry, DNA fragment analysis and TUNEL.RESULTS: Recombinant adenovirus Ad-p27kip1 was successfully constructed with a virus titer of 1.24x1012 pfu/ml.p27kip protein expression increased markedly after EC-9706 transfection, while incorporation quantity of 3H-TdR and 3HLeucine decreased significantly. The growth of esophageal carcinoma cell was inhibited obviously. Testing of flow cytometry displayed a typical apoptosis peak, and DNA gel electrophoresis showed a typical apoptosis ladder. TUNEL showed the apoptosis rate of Ad-p27kip1 group and control group to be 37.3 % and 1.26 % (P<0.001) respectively.CONCLUSION: Ad-p27kip1 can inhibit the growth and multiplication of esophageal carcinoma cells and induce apoptosis. Therefore, enhanced p27kip1 expression may be a new way to treat esophageal carcinoma.展开更多
The p27Kip1 is a cell cycle repressor protein that regulates primarily the cell cycle transition from G1 to S phase and hence the DNA replication is in the S phase and cell division in the M phase. Expression of p27Ki...The p27Kip1 is a cell cycle repressor protein that regulates primarily the cell cycle transition from G1 to S phase and hence the DNA replication is in the S phase and cell division in the M phase. Expression of p27Kip1 protein has dual roles for both cancer prevention and promotion. For example, numerous nutritional and chemopreventive anti-cancer agents specifically increase the expression of p27Kip1 protein without directly affecting the expression of any other cell cycle regulatory proteins. On the other hand, pro-cancer agents (like glucose, insulin and other growth factors frequently seen in obesity and/or diabetes) specifically decrease the expression of p27Kip1 protein without directly affecting the expression of any other cell cycle regulatory proteins. Unlike expression of any other cell cycle regulatory proteins, expression of p27Kip1 protein is very unusual. The mRNA of p27Kip1 has a very long and unusual 5’-untranslated region (from -575 to -1 in human). It appears that the 5’-untranslated region of p27Kip1 mRNA forms two alternative secondary structures. One increases the expression of p27Kip1 protein when anti-cancer agents are added and another decrease the expression of p27K1p1 when pro-cancer agents are added. For this short concept proposal, Dr. Albert Einstein’s “visualized thought experiments (German: Gedanken experiment)” were used as a fundamental tool for understanding how either anti- or pro-cancer agents bring the primary structure of the 5’-untranslated region of p27Kip1 mRNA into two alternative secondary structures, thereby either increasing or decreasing, respectively, the translation initiation of p27Kip1 protein.展开更多
Purpose: To investigate the relationship between expression of cell cycle-related protein cyclin D1, p27kip1 and the pathogenesis of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) and the value of prediction of prognosis. Methods...Purpose: To investigate the relationship between expression of cell cycle-related protein cyclin D1, p27kip1 and the pathogenesis of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) and the value of prediction of prognosis. Methods: Cyclin D1 and p27kip1 protein were detected by immunohistochemical En Vision method in 43 BACs. Results: The positivity of cyclin D1 in BAC was 65.1% (28/43), which was significantly higher than that in normal pulmonary tissue (0/13), P<0.01. No statis-tically significant association was found between cyclin D1 expression data and sex, age, tobacco-use history, histologic subtype (mucinous vs nonmucinous), stromal fibrosis, lymph node metastasis, clinical stage or postoperative survival period (P>0.05), while cyclin D1 expression was found to be negatively correlated with tumor size (P<0.05). The positivity of p27kip1 in BACs was 51.2% (22/43), significantly lower than that in normal pulmonary tissue (12/13), P<0.01. p27kip1 expression level was not associated with sex, age, tobacco-use history, tumor size or histologic subtype (P>0.05), but was negatively correlated with stromal fibrosis, lymph node metastasis and clinical stage (P<0.05); and positively associated with postoperative survival period (P<0.01). The survival rate of p27kip1 positive group was significantly higher than that of p27kip1 negative group (P<0.01). No statistically significant correlation was found between cyclin D1 and p27kip1 expres-sion. Conclusions: Increased cyclin D1 expression and decreased p27kip1 expression are related to the pathogenesis of BAC; decreased p27kip1 expression is associated with metastasis progression; immunodetection of p27kip1 is useful for assessment of prognosis.展开更多
Research Aims: Obesity and type 2 diabetes are known to be associated with increased risk of various types of cancer. However, the molecular biological mechanism of how the risk of cancer is increased in obesity or ty...Research Aims: Obesity and type 2 diabetes are known to be associated with increased risk of various types of cancer. However, the molecular biological mechanism of how the risk of cancer is increased in obesity or type 2 diabetes is not known. The aim this research is to investigate if the decreased expression of p27Kip1, a cell cycle repressor protein, plays a central role in this mechanism. Research Methods, Previous Studies and Theoretical Backgrounds: It is well known that the expression of p27Kip1 is increased by numerous nutritional or chemopreventive anti-cancer agents. But it has never been known that the expression of p27Kip1 could be decreased, rather than increased, and the risk of cancer could be increased, rather than decreased. This problem was solved recently and this new analytical method was used in this study. Results: 1) The expression of p27Kip1 was indeed significantly decreased in human obese type 2 diabetic individuals relative to the lean normal controls. 2) The expression of p27Kip1 was also significantly decreased in genetically obese rodents relative to the lean normal controls. Additionally, in obese rodents, the concentrations of glucose or insulin were significantly increased relative to the lean normal controls. 3) Using human cells cultured in vitro it was found that the increased concentrations of glucose or insulin decrease the expression of p27Kip1. Conclusions: These results suggest that higher concentrations of glucose or insulin increase the risk of various types of cancer in obesity or type 2 diabetes by decreasing the expression of p27Kip1.展开更多
AIM: To investigate the mechanism of calcyclin binding protein/Siah-1 interacting protein(Cacy BP/SIP) nuclear translocation in promoting the proliferation of gastric cancer(GC) cells. METHODS: The effect of Cacy BP/S...AIM: To investigate the mechanism of calcyclin binding protein/Siah-1 interacting protein(Cacy BP/SIP) nuclear translocation in promoting the proliferation of gastric cancer(GC) cells. METHODS: The effect of Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation on cell cycle was investigated by cell cycle analysis. Western blot analysis was used to assess the change in expression of cell cycle regulatory proteins and proteasome-mediated degradation of p27Kip1. Coimmunoprecipitation(co-IP) analysis was performed to examine the binding of Cacy BP/SIP with Skp1. A Cacy BP/SIP truncation mutant which lacked the Skp1 binding site was constructed and fused to a fluorescent protein. Subsequently, the effect on Skp1 binding with the fusion protein was examined by co-IP, while localization of fluorescent fusion protein observed by confocal laser microscopy, and change in p27Kip1protein expression assessed by Western blot analysis.RESULTS: Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation induced by gastrin promoted progression of GC cells from G1 phase. However, while Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation was inhibited using si RNA to suppress Cacy BP/SIP expression, cell cycle was clearly inhibited. Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation significantly decreased the level of cell cycle inhibitor p27Kip1, increased Cyclin E protein expression whereas the levels of Skp1, Skp2, and CDK2 were not affected. Upon inhibition of Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation, there were no changes in protein levels of p27Kip1 and Cyclin E, while p27Kip1 decrease could be prevented by the proteasome inhibitor MG132. Moreover, Cacy BP/SIP was found to bind to Skp1 by immunoprecipitation, an event that was abolished by mutant Cacy BP/SIP, which also failed to stimulate p27Kip1 degradation, even though the mutant could still translocate into the nucleus.CONCLUSION: Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation contributes to the proliferation of GC cells, and Cacy BP/SIP exerts this effect, at least in part, by stimulating ubiquitin-mediated degradation of p27Kip1.展开更多
Summary: To investigate the expression and clinical significance of p27kip1 protein in primary liver cancer, the expression of p27kip1 protein and the relationship with clinicopathological factors were studied in prim...Summary: To investigate the expression and clinical significance of p27kip1 protein in primary liver cancer, the expression of p27kip1 protein and the relationship with clinicopathological factors were studied in primary liver cancer by using SABC immunohistochemical staining in specimens of 40 cases of primary liver cancer and 20 cases of liver cirrihosis. Our results showed that positive expression rate of p27kip1 protein in primary liver cancer was 37.5 % (15/40), which was lower than that in benign lesion of liver 80.0 % (16/20, P<0.01). The expression level of p27kip1 protein in primary liver cancer showed significant differences in tumor size, Edmonson histological grade, portal invasion, lymph node metastasis, TNM stage (P<0.05, for all), but not significantly correlated with patient's age and histological types. Log rank test showed that the p27kip1 expression was significantly related with prognosis of the patients (P<0.05), and the prognosis of the patients with p27kip1 positive expression was markedly better than that of those with p27kip1 negative expression. It is concluded that the expression of p27kip1 was significantly related clinicopathological factors of primary liver cancer. p27kip1 protein may be used as a novel tumor marker for primary liver cancer.展开更多
Three plasmids (pGenesil-P1, pGenesil-P2, pGenesil-P3) with different p27Kip1-shRNA sequences were designed and synthesized. Their effects on the proliferation of bovine corneal endothelial cells (bCEC) were inves...Three plasmids (pGenesil-P1, pGenesil-P2, pGenesil-P3) with different p27Kip1-shRNA sequences were designed and synthesized. Their effects on the proliferation of bovine corneal endothelial cells (bCEC) were investigated. Plasmid expressing irrelevant shRNA with a random combination was used as negative control (pGenesil-HK). The recombination of four plamids was confirmed by restrictive enzyme digestion and sequence analysis. The expression of mRNA and protein of p27Kip1 was detected by RT-PCR and Western blotting after stable transfection. The expressions of p27Kip1 mRNA and p27Kip1 protein of pGenesil-P1 group, pGenesil-P2 group and pGenesil-P3 group were all lower than those in the pGenesil-HK group and the blank group (non-transfected group), pGenesil-P3 had the strongest inhibitory effect and was selected for the next steps. The proliferation rates of the pGenesil-P3 group, the pGenesil-HK group and the blank group were assessed by MTT. The influence of shRNA-p27Kip1 on bCEC cell cycle was detected by flow cytometry (FCM). Compared with the control groups, the proliferation rate of the pGenesil-P3 group was increased significantly, and the ratio of S-phase also increased. It is concluded that shRNA-p27Kip1 could down-regulate the expression of p27Kip1 effectively and increase the proliferation of bCEC. RNA interference (RNAi) may be an effective means to promote the proliferation of CEC.展开更多
<strong>Introduction</strong>.<span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> The molecular biological mechanism ...<strong>Introduction</strong>.<span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> The molecular biological mechanism of the increased incidence of the various types of cancer in obesity or type 2 diabetes in rodents or humans has largely been resolved in recent years. By contrast, the molecular biological mechanism of the decreased, not increased, incidence of the various types of cancer in the homozygous long-lived Ames dwarf mice still remains unresolved. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objective.</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> The first objective of the present study was to investigate whether the decrease in the incidence of cancer in the homozygous long-lived Ames dwarf mice is due to the increase, not decrease, in the expression of p27Kip1, a cell cycle repressor protein. The second objective was to investigate whether the decrease in the incidence of cancer in the homozygous long-lived Ames dwarf mice is due to the decrease, not increase, in the levels of glucose or insulin. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods.</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> To achieve these objectives, we first performed western immunoblot analysis of the hepatic expression of p27Kip1 protein. We then performed, using a human breast cancer cell line </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">in</span></i> <i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">vitro</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, the luciferase reporter plasmid assay to determine whether the translation initiation activity of the p27Kip1 mRNA is increased when the concentrations of either glucose or insulin are decreased. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results and Conclusion. </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The results of the first objective indicated that the hepatic expression of p27Kip1 protein was up-regulated in the homozygous long-lived Ames dwarf mice as expected. We also found that the lower concentrations of glucose or insulin increased the translation initiation activity of the p27Kip1 mRNA.</span></span></span></span>展开更多
文摘AIM: To investigate the inhibition of p27kip1 gene on the growth of esophageal carcinoma cell strain (EC9706).METHODS: Recombinant adenovirus Ad-p27kip1 was constructed and transfected into esophageal carcinoma cell EC-9706, and its effect on p27kip1 expression, the growth of esophageal carcinoma cell, DNA replication, protein synthesis, cell multiplication and apoptosis were explored by means of cell growth count, 3H-TdR, 3H-Leucine incorporation,flow cytometry, DNA fragment analysis and TUNEL.RESULTS: Recombinant adenovirus Ad-p27kip1 was successfully constructed with a virus titer of 1.24x1012 pfu/ml.p27kip protein expression increased markedly after EC-9706 transfection, while incorporation quantity of 3H-TdR and 3HLeucine decreased significantly. The growth of esophageal carcinoma cell was inhibited obviously. Testing of flow cytometry displayed a typical apoptosis peak, and DNA gel electrophoresis showed a typical apoptosis ladder. TUNEL showed the apoptosis rate of Ad-p27kip1 group and control group to be 37.3 % and 1.26 % (P<0.001) respectively.CONCLUSION: Ad-p27kip1 can inhibit the growth and multiplication of esophageal carcinoma cells and induce apoptosis. Therefore, enhanced p27kip1 expression may be a new way to treat esophageal carcinoma.
文摘The p27Kip1 is a cell cycle repressor protein that regulates primarily the cell cycle transition from G1 to S phase and hence the DNA replication is in the S phase and cell division in the M phase. Expression of p27Kip1 protein has dual roles for both cancer prevention and promotion. For example, numerous nutritional and chemopreventive anti-cancer agents specifically increase the expression of p27Kip1 protein without directly affecting the expression of any other cell cycle regulatory proteins. On the other hand, pro-cancer agents (like glucose, insulin and other growth factors frequently seen in obesity and/or diabetes) specifically decrease the expression of p27Kip1 protein without directly affecting the expression of any other cell cycle regulatory proteins. Unlike expression of any other cell cycle regulatory proteins, expression of p27Kip1 protein is very unusual. The mRNA of p27Kip1 has a very long and unusual 5’-untranslated region (from -575 to -1 in human). It appears that the 5’-untranslated region of p27Kip1 mRNA forms two alternative secondary structures. One increases the expression of p27Kip1 protein when anti-cancer agents are added and another decrease the expression of p27K1p1 when pro-cancer agents are added. For this short concept proposal, Dr. Albert Einstein’s “visualized thought experiments (German: Gedanken experiment)” were used as a fundamental tool for understanding how either anti- or pro-cancer agents bring the primary structure of the 5’-untranslated region of p27Kip1 mRNA into two alternative secondary structures, thereby either increasing or decreasing, respectively, the translation initiation of p27Kip1 protein.
文摘Purpose: To investigate the relationship between expression of cell cycle-related protein cyclin D1, p27kip1 and the pathogenesis of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) and the value of prediction of prognosis. Methods: Cyclin D1 and p27kip1 protein were detected by immunohistochemical En Vision method in 43 BACs. Results: The positivity of cyclin D1 in BAC was 65.1% (28/43), which was significantly higher than that in normal pulmonary tissue (0/13), P<0.01. No statis-tically significant association was found between cyclin D1 expression data and sex, age, tobacco-use history, histologic subtype (mucinous vs nonmucinous), stromal fibrosis, lymph node metastasis, clinical stage or postoperative survival period (P>0.05), while cyclin D1 expression was found to be negatively correlated with tumor size (P<0.05). The positivity of p27kip1 in BACs was 51.2% (22/43), significantly lower than that in normal pulmonary tissue (12/13), P<0.01. p27kip1 expression level was not associated with sex, age, tobacco-use history, tumor size or histologic subtype (P>0.05), but was negatively correlated with stromal fibrosis, lymph node metastasis and clinical stage (P<0.05); and positively associated with postoperative survival period (P<0.01). The survival rate of p27kip1 positive group was significantly higher than that of p27kip1 negative group (P<0.01). No statistically significant correlation was found between cyclin D1 and p27kip1 expres-sion. Conclusions: Increased cyclin D1 expression and decreased p27kip1 expression are related to the pathogenesis of BAC; decreased p27kip1 expression is associated with metastasis progression; immunodetection of p27kip1 is useful for assessment of prognosis.
文摘Research Aims: Obesity and type 2 diabetes are known to be associated with increased risk of various types of cancer. However, the molecular biological mechanism of how the risk of cancer is increased in obesity or type 2 diabetes is not known. The aim this research is to investigate if the decreased expression of p27Kip1, a cell cycle repressor protein, plays a central role in this mechanism. Research Methods, Previous Studies and Theoretical Backgrounds: It is well known that the expression of p27Kip1 is increased by numerous nutritional or chemopreventive anti-cancer agents. But it has never been known that the expression of p27Kip1 could be decreased, rather than increased, and the risk of cancer could be increased, rather than decreased. This problem was solved recently and this new analytical method was used in this study. Results: 1) The expression of p27Kip1 was indeed significantly decreased in human obese type 2 diabetic individuals relative to the lean normal controls. 2) The expression of p27Kip1 was also significantly decreased in genetically obese rodents relative to the lean normal controls. Additionally, in obese rodents, the concentrations of glucose or insulin were significantly increased relative to the lean normal controls. 3) Using human cells cultured in vitro it was found that the increased concentrations of glucose or insulin decrease the expression of p27Kip1. Conclusions: These results suggest that higher concentrations of glucose or insulin increase the risk of various types of cancer in obesity or type 2 diabetes by decreasing the expression of p27Kip1.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81072040the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Ningxia Medical University
文摘AIM: To investigate the mechanism of calcyclin binding protein/Siah-1 interacting protein(Cacy BP/SIP) nuclear translocation in promoting the proliferation of gastric cancer(GC) cells. METHODS: The effect of Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation on cell cycle was investigated by cell cycle analysis. Western blot analysis was used to assess the change in expression of cell cycle regulatory proteins and proteasome-mediated degradation of p27Kip1. Coimmunoprecipitation(co-IP) analysis was performed to examine the binding of Cacy BP/SIP with Skp1. A Cacy BP/SIP truncation mutant which lacked the Skp1 binding site was constructed and fused to a fluorescent protein. Subsequently, the effect on Skp1 binding with the fusion protein was examined by co-IP, while localization of fluorescent fusion protein observed by confocal laser microscopy, and change in p27Kip1protein expression assessed by Western blot analysis.RESULTS: Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation induced by gastrin promoted progression of GC cells from G1 phase. However, while Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation was inhibited using si RNA to suppress Cacy BP/SIP expression, cell cycle was clearly inhibited. Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation significantly decreased the level of cell cycle inhibitor p27Kip1, increased Cyclin E protein expression whereas the levels of Skp1, Skp2, and CDK2 were not affected. Upon inhibition of Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation, there were no changes in protein levels of p27Kip1 and Cyclin E, while p27Kip1 decrease could be prevented by the proteasome inhibitor MG132. Moreover, Cacy BP/SIP was found to bind to Skp1 by immunoprecipitation, an event that was abolished by mutant Cacy BP/SIP, which also failed to stimulate p27Kip1 degradation, even though the mutant could still translocate into the nucleus.CONCLUSION: Cacy BP/SIP nuclear translocation contributes to the proliferation of GC cells, and Cacy BP/SIP exerts this effect, at least in part, by stimulating ubiquitin-mediated degradation of p27Kip1.
文摘Summary: To investigate the expression and clinical significance of p27kip1 protein in primary liver cancer, the expression of p27kip1 protein and the relationship with clinicopathological factors were studied in primary liver cancer by using SABC immunohistochemical staining in specimens of 40 cases of primary liver cancer and 20 cases of liver cirrihosis. Our results showed that positive expression rate of p27kip1 protein in primary liver cancer was 37.5 % (15/40), which was lower than that in benign lesion of liver 80.0 % (16/20, P<0.01). The expression level of p27kip1 protein in primary liver cancer showed significant differences in tumor size, Edmonson histological grade, portal invasion, lymph node metastasis, TNM stage (P<0.05, for all), but not significantly correlated with patient's age and histological types. Log rank test showed that the p27kip1 expression was significantly related with prognosis of the patients (P<0.05), and the prognosis of the patients with p27kip1 positive expression was markedly better than that of those with p27kip1 negative expression. It is concluded that the expression of p27kip1 was significantly related clinicopathological factors of primary liver cancer. p27kip1 protein may be used as a novel tumor marker for primary liver cancer.
基金a grant from Hubei Provincial Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 2004ABA250)
文摘Three plasmids (pGenesil-P1, pGenesil-P2, pGenesil-P3) with different p27Kip1-shRNA sequences were designed and synthesized. Their effects on the proliferation of bovine corneal endothelial cells (bCEC) were investigated. Plasmid expressing irrelevant shRNA with a random combination was used as negative control (pGenesil-HK). The recombination of four plamids was confirmed by restrictive enzyme digestion and sequence analysis. The expression of mRNA and protein of p27Kip1 was detected by RT-PCR and Western blotting after stable transfection. The expressions of p27Kip1 mRNA and p27Kip1 protein of pGenesil-P1 group, pGenesil-P2 group and pGenesil-P3 group were all lower than those in the pGenesil-HK group and the blank group (non-transfected group), pGenesil-P3 had the strongest inhibitory effect and was selected for the next steps. The proliferation rates of the pGenesil-P3 group, the pGenesil-HK group and the blank group were assessed by MTT. The influence of shRNA-p27Kip1 on bCEC cell cycle was detected by flow cytometry (FCM). Compared with the control groups, the proliferation rate of the pGenesil-P3 group was increased significantly, and the ratio of S-phase also increased. It is concluded that shRNA-p27Kip1 could down-regulate the expression of p27Kip1 effectively and increase the proliferation of bCEC. RNA interference (RNAi) may be an effective means to promote the proliferation of CEC.
文摘<strong>Introduction</strong>.<span><span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> The molecular biological mechanism of the increased incidence of the various types of cancer in obesity or type 2 diabetes in rodents or humans has largely been resolved in recent years. By contrast, the molecular biological mechanism of the decreased, not increased, incidence of the various types of cancer in the homozygous long-lived Ames dwarf mice still remains unresolved. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objective.</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> The first objective of the present study was to investigate whether the decrease in the incidence of cancer in the homozygous long-lived Ames dwarf mice is due to the increase, not decrease, in the expression of p27Kip1, a cell cycle repressor protein. The second objective was to investigate whether the decrease in the incidence of cancer in the homozygous long-lived Ames dwarf mice is due to the decrease, not increase, in the levels of glucose or insulin. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods.</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> To achieve these objectives, we first performed western immunoblot analysis of the hepatic expression of p27Kip1 protein. We then performed, using a human breast cancer cell line </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">in</span></i> <i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">vitro</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, the luciferase reporter plasmid assay to determine whether the translation initiation activity of the p27Kip1 mRNA is increased when the concentrations of either glucose or insulin are decreased. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results and Conclusion. </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The results of the first objective indicated that the hepatic expression of p27Kip1 protein was up-regulated in the homozygous long-lived Ames dwarf mice as expected. We also found that the lower concentrations of glucose or insulin increased the translation initiation activity of the p27Kip1 mRNA.</span></span></span></span>