H Yu

Summary

Affiliation: Medical University of South Carolina
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Fenretinide inhibited de novo ceramide synthesis and proinflammatory cytokines induced by Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
    Hong Yu
    Department of Craniofacial Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    J Lipid Res 54:189-201. 2013
  2. ncbi Novel system uses probasin-based promoter, transcriptional silencers and amplification loop to induce high-level prostate expression
    Jan Woraratanadharm
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
    BMC Biotechnol 7:9. 2007
  3. ncbi Defective acid sphingomyelinase pathway with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in cystic fibrosis
    Hong Yu
    Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley BSB 749, Charleston, SC 29403, USA
    Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 41:367-75. 2009
  4. ncbi Oral instillation with surfactant phospholipid: a reliable alternative to intratracheal injection in mouse studies
    H Yu
    Department of Pediatrics, Darby Children s Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    Lab Anim 42:294-304. 2008
  5. ncbi IL-10 delivery by AAV5 vector attenuates inflammation in mice with Pseudomonas pneumonia
    S M Buff
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Darby Children s Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    Gene Ther 17:567-76. 2010
  6. ncbi New complex Ad vectors incorporating both rtTA and tTS deliver tightly regulated transgene expression both in vitro and in vivo
    S Rubinchik
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29403, USA
    Gene Ther 12:504-11. 2005
  7. ncbi Highly specific transgene expression mediated by a complex adenovirus vector incorporating a prostate-specific amplification feedback loop
    J Woraratanadharm
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    Gene Ther 11:1399-407. 2004
  8. ncbi A complex adenovirus vector that delivers FASL-GFP with combined prostate-specific and tetracycline-regulated expression
    S Rubinchik
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charlestown, SC 29403, USA
    Mol Ther 4:416-26. 2001
  9. ncbi Innate lung defenses and compromised Pseudomonas aeruginosa clearance in the malnourished mouse model of respiratory infections in cystic fibrosis
    H Yu
    Departments of Microbiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    Infect Immun 68:2142-7. 2000
  10. ncbi Dexamethasone inhibits the antigen presentation of dendritic cells in MHC class II pathway
    J Pan
    Institute of Immunology, Zhejiang University, 353 Yan'an Road, Hangzhou 310031, People's Republic of China
    Immunol Lett 76:153-61. 2001

Collaborators

  • Jacek Bielawski
  • T R Flotte
  • Russell W Jenkins
  • L Zhang
  • L H Van der Ploeg
  • S Rubinchik
  • Q Wang
  • J Woraratanadharm
  • S M Buff
  • Jan Woraratanadharm
  • J Pan
  • X Cao
  • Q Y Zheng
  • B Li
  • X M Guan
  • F Fan
  • J Y Dong
  • L He
  • D Ju
  • D Xia
  • B Lu
  • R J Davis
  • W Zheng
  • R A Flavell
  • T W Ferkol
  • J N McCall
  • S M Caldwell
  • I L Virella-Lowell
  • A S Chen
  • Semyon Rubinchik
  • John Y Dong
  • Y S Kikkawa
  • C Yu
  • K N Alagramam
  • K S Pawlowski
  • L B Kisley
  • C G Wright
  • J L Washington
  • J-Y Dong
  • S M Morrow
  • D W Ju
  • M Luo
  • D Wang
  • D J Xia
  • C Chow
  • J P Pan
  • M Zhang
  • J Wang
  • J S Norris
  • J M Metzger
  • R E Camacho
  • D E MacIntyre
  • S Gopal-Truter
  • H Y Chen
  • R Voll
  • A W Roberts
  • S Ghosh
  • S Na
  • M E Trumbauer
  • J Fisher
  • T N Mellin
  • D A Williams
  • M J Forrest
  • D J Marsh
  • A M Strack
  • E G Frazier
  • D Huang
  • S Han
  • S Tsai
  • D W Martin
  • C Tsai
  • K Sun
  • Y Tsai
  • V Deretic
  • M J Schurr

Detail Information

Publications23

  1. ncbi Fenretinide inhibited de novo ceramide synthesis and proinflammatory cytokines induced by Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
    Hong Yu
    Department of Craniofacial Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    J Lipid Res 54:189-201. 2013
    ..This study emphasizes the de novo ceramide synthesis pathway in response to bacterial stimulation and demonstrates the anti-inflammatory role of fenretinide in the bacteria-induced immune response...
  2. ncbi Novel system uses probasin-based promoter, transcriptional silencers and amplification loop to induce high-level prostate expression
    Jan Woraratanadharm
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
    BMC Biotechnol 7:9. 2007
    ..To prevent systemic toxicity, tissue- and/or cancer-specific gene expression is required. However, the use of tissue- or cancer-specific promoters to target transgene expression has been hampered by their weak activity...
  3. ncbi Defective acid sphingomyelinase pathway with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in cystic fibrosis
    Hong Yu
    Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley BSB 749, Charleston, SC 29403, USA
    Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 41:367-75. 2009
    ..aeruginosa infection. This study demonstrates that the defective ASMase pathway in CF is a key contributor to the unabated IL-8 response with P. aeruginosa infection and to the compromised host response failing to eradicate bacteria...
  4. ncbi Oral instillation with surfactant phospholipid: a reliable alternative to intratracheal injection in mouse studies
    H Yu
    Department of Pediatrics, Darby Children s Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    Lab Anim 42:294-304. 2008
    ..This procedure has the benefits of eliminating the discomfort, local inflammation and mortality associated with the more invasive IT surgical procedures...
  5. ncbi IL-10 delivery by AAV5 vector attenuates inflammation in mice with Pseudomonas pneumonia
    S M Buff
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Darby Children s Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    Gene Ther 17:567-76. 2010
    ..These results suggest that AAV5.Cbeta-mIL10 induces IL-10 levels in the lungs mediating a significant anti-inflammatory response and making AAV-IL-10 gene transfer a potentially useful therapy in the treatment of CF lung disease...
  6. ncbi New complex Ad vectors incorporating both rtTA and tTS deliver tightly regulated transgene expression both in vitro and in vivo
    S Rubinchik
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29403, USA
    Gene Ther 12:504-11. 2005
    ..In conclusion, a highly effective transgene regulation system, deliverable by a single adenoviral vector, is now available...
  7. ncbi Highly specific transgene expression mediated by a complex adenovirus vector incorporating a prostate-specific amplification feedback loop
    J Woraratanadharm
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    Gene Ther 11:1399-407. 2004
    ..The PFLPS regulation system, therefore, serves as a promising new approach in the development of both a specific and effective vector for cancer gene therapy...
  8. ncbi A complex adenovirus vector that delivers FASL-GFP with combined prostate-specific and tetracycline-regulated expression
    S Rubinchik
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charlestown, SC 29403, USA
    Mol Ther 4:416-26. 2001
    ..This strategy should be able to improve the safety and efficacy of cancer gene therapy using other cytotoxic genes as well...
  9. ncbi Innate lung defenses and compromised Pseudomonas aeruginosa clearance in the malnourished mouse model of respiratory infections in cystic fibrosis
    H Yu
    Departments of Microbiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    Infect Immun 68:2142-7. 2000
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  10. ncbi Dexamethasone inhibits the antigen presentation of dendritic cells in MHC class II pathway
    J Pan
    Institute of Immunology, Zhejiang University, 353 Yan'an Road, Hangzhou 310031, People's Republic of China
    Immunol Lett 76:153-61. 2001
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  11. ncbi Analysis of promoters controlled by the putative sigma factor AlgU regulating conversion to mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: relationship to sigma E and stress response
    D W Martin
    Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78284 7758
    J Bacteriol 176:6688-96. 1994
    ..typhimurium was cloned and sequenced, and it is displayed one amino acid substitution relative to its E. coli equivalent. AlgU and its close homologs in E. coli and S. typhimurium may be functionally related...
  12. ncbi Evidence of altered hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin/ neuropeptide Y mRNA expression in tubby mice
    X M Guan
    Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Merck Research Laboratories, P O Box 2000, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
    Brain Res Mol Brain Res 59:273-9. 1998
    ..These results suggest that the altered hypothalamic POMC and/or NPY functions may be important contributing factors for the development of obesity in this animal model...
  13. ncbi Expression of Th1/Th2 cytokine mRNA in peritoneal exudative polymorphonuclear neutrophils and their effects on mononuclear cell Th1/Th2 cytokine production in MRL-lpr/lpr mice
    C Yu
    Department of Medicine, Veterans General Hospital Taipei, Taiwan, China
    Immunology 95:480-7. 1998
    ..Autoimmune PEC-PMN can exert significant modulatory effects on Th1/Th2 cytokine production by autologous MNC in stimulation...
  14. ncbi Heterogeneous populations of ES cells in the generation of a floxed Presenilin-1 allele
    H Yu
    Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Genesis 26:5-8. 2000
    ..It is therefore critical to screen for possible recombination events involving all 3 loxP sites, in order to identify ES cells clones bearing high proportions of the desired ES cells. genesis 26:5-8, 2000...
  15. ncbi A new spontaneous mutation in the mouse protocadherin 15 gene
    Q Y Zheng
    Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Hear Res 219:110-20. 2006
    ..Since these animals show severe functional deficits but have relatively mild stereocilia defects at a young age they may provide an appropriate model to test for a direct role of Pcdh15 in mechanotransduction...
  16. ncbi Pulmonary soiling by pus after one-lung ventilation with a Univent tube
    H Yu
    Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 48:1342. 2004
  17. ncbi Role of the guanosine triphosphatase Rac2 in T helper 1 cell differentiation
    B Li
    Section of Immunobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 310 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520 8011, USA
    Science 288:2219-22. 2000
    ..Moreover, T cells from Rac2-/- mice showed decreased IFN-gamma production under TH1 conditions in vitro. Thus, Rac2 activates TH1-specific signaling and IFN-gamma gene expression...
  18. ncbi Vaccination with IL-18 gene-modified, superantigen-coated tumor cells elicits potent antitumor immune response
    Q Wang
    Institute of Immunology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China
    J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 127:718-26. 2001
    ..CONCLUSION: Vaccination with IL-18 gene-modified, C215Fab-SEA-coated tumor cells elicited potent antitumor response through induction of tumor-specific immune response...
  19. ncbi Expression of arginase isozymes in mouse brain
    H Yu
    Mental Retardation Research Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90024-1759, USA
    J Neurosci Res 66:406-22. 2001
    ..This study showed that AI is expressed in the mouse brain, and more strongly than AII, and sheds light on the anatomic basis for the arginine-->ornithine-->glutamate-->GABA pathway...
  20. ncbi Role of the melanocortin-4 receptor in metabolic rate and food intake in mice
    A S Chen
    Department of Metabolic Disorders, Merck Research Laboratories, NJ, USA
    Transgenic Res 9:145-54. 2000
    ..We conclude that MC-4R can mediate control of both metabolic rate and food intake in mice. We infer that a role for MC-3R in mediating the acute effects of MT-II on basal metabolic rate and food intake in wildtype mice seems limited...
  21. ncbi GADD45gamma mediates the activation of the p38 and JNK MAP kinase pathways and cytokine production in effector TH1 cells
    B Lu
    Section of Immunobiology and, Yale University School of Medicine, 310 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
    Immunity 14:583-90. 2001
    ..Additionally, GADD45gamma deficiencies caused reduced contact hypersensitivity in mice. Thus, GADD45gamma mediates activation of the p38 and JNK pathways and effector function of TH1 cells...
  22. ncbi Intratumoral IL-18 gene transfer improves therapeutic efficacy of antibody-targeted superantigen in established murine melanoma
    Q Wang
    Institute of Immunology, Zhejiang University, 353 Yan'an Road, Hangzhou, 310031, PR China
    Gene Ther 8:542-50. 2001
    ..Our data demonstrated that the antitumor effect of C215Fab-SEA immunotherapy could be potentiated significantly by combination with intratumoral IL-18 gene transfer through more efficient activation of Th1 immune responses...
  23. ncbi Functional equivalence of Escherichia coli sigma E and Pseudomonas aeruginosa AlgU: E. coli rpoE restores mucoidy and reduces sensitivity to reactive oxygen intermediates in algU mutants of P. aeruginosa
    H Yu
    Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 78284 7758, USA
    J Bacteriol 177:3259-68. 1995
    ..aeruginosa and suggest that elements showing sequence similarity to those known to regulate AlgU activity in P. aeruginosa are also present in other bacteria...