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Knockdown of Bcl-3 Inhibits Cell Growth and Induces DNA Damage in HTLV-1-infected Cells)

  • Gao, Cai;Wang, Xia;Chen, Lin;Wang, Jin-Heng;Gao, Zhi-Tao;Wang, Hui
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.405-408
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    • 2013
  • Oncoprotein Bcl-3 is perceived as an unusual member of $I{\kappa}B$ family since it can both stimulate and suppress NF-${\kappa}B$ activation. Aberrant Bcl-3 results in increased cell proliferation and survival, suggesting a contribution to malignant potential and elevated levels of Bcl-3 have been observed in many HTLV-1-infected T cell lines and ATL cells. To investigate the specific roles of Bcl-3 in HTLV-1-infected cells, we knocked down Bcl-3 expression using shRNA and then examined the consequences with regard to DNA damage and cell proliferation, as well as NF-${\kappa}B$ activation. The HTLV-1 encoded protein Tax promotes Bcl-3 expression and nuclear translocation. In HTLV-1-infected cells, Bcl-3 knockdown obviously induced DNA damage. Cell growth and NF-${\kappa}B$ activation were reduced in HTLV-1-infected or Tax positive cells when Bcl-3 expression was decreased. Together, our results revealed positive roles of Bcl-3 in DNA stabilization, growth and NF-${\kappa}B$ activation in HTLV-1-infected cells.

Comparison of InGaef etching $BCl_3,\;BCl_3/Ar\;and\;BCl_3/Ne$ inductively coupled plasmas ($BCl_3,\;BCl_3/Ar,\;BCl_3/Ne$ 유도결합 플라즈마에 의한 InGaP 건식 식각 비교)

  • Baek, In-Kyoo;Lim, Wan-Tae;Lee, Je-Won;Jo, Guan-Sik;Jeon, Min-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.361-365
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    • 2003
  • Planar Inductively Coupled Plasma (PICP) etching of InGaP was performed in $BCl_3,\;BCl_3/Ar\;and\;BCl_3/Ne$ plasmas as a function of ICP source power ($0\;{\sim}\;500\;W$), RIE chuck power ($0\;{\sim}\;150\;W$), chamber pressure ($5\;{\sim}\;15\;mTorr$) and gas composition of $BCl_3/Ar\;and\;BCl_3/Ne$. Total gas flow was fixed at 20 sccm (standard cubic centimeter per minute). Increase of ICP source power and RIE chuck power raised etch rate of InGaP, while that of chamber pressure reduced etch rate. We also found that some addition of Ar and Ne in $BCl_3$ plasma improved etch rate of InGaP. InGaP etch rate was varied from $1580\;{\AA}/min$ with pure $BC_3\;to\;2800\;{\AA}/min$ and $4700\;{\AA}/min$ with 25 % Ar and Ne addition, respectively. Other process conditions were fixed at 300 W ICP source power, 100 W RIE chuck power and 7.5 mTorr chamber pressure. SEM (scanning electron microscopy) and AFM (atomic force microscopy) data showed vertical side wall and smooth surface of InGaP at the same condition. Proper addition of noble gases Ar and Ne (less than about 50 %) in $BCl_3$ inductively coupled plasma have resulted in not only increase of etch rate but also minimum preferential loss and smooth surface morphology by ion-assisted effect.

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Dry Etching of GaAs and AlgaAs Semiconductor Materials in High Density BCl$_3$, BCl$_3$/Ar Inductively Coupled Plasmas (BCl$_3$, BCl$_3$/Ar 고밀도 유도결합 플라즈마를 이용한 GaAs 와 AlGaAs 반도체 소자의 건식식각)

  • Lim, Wan-Tae;Baek, In-Kyoo;Lee, Je-Won;Cho, Guan-Sik;Jeon, Min-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.31-36
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    • 2003
  • We investigated dry etching of GaAs and AlGaAs in a high density planar inductively coupled plasma system with $BCl_3$ and $BCl_3/Ar$ gas chemistry. A detailed process study as a function of ICP source power, RIE chuck power and $BCl_3/Ar$ mixing ratio was performed. At this time, chamber pressure was fixed at 7.5 mTorr. The ICP source power and RIE chuck power were varied from 0 to 500 W and from 0 to 150 W, respectively. GaAs etch rate increased with the increase of ICP source power and RE chuck power. It was also found that etch rate of GaAs in $BCl_3$ gas with 25% Ar addition was superior to that of GaAs in a pure $BCl_3$ (20 sccm $BCl_3$) plasma. The result was same with AlGaAs. We expect that high ion-assisted effect in $BCl_3$/Ar plasma increased etch rates of both materials. The GaAs and AIGaAs features etched at 20 sccm $BCl_3$ and $15BCl_3/5Ar$ with 300 W ICP source power, 100 W RIE chuck power and 7.5 mTorr showed very smooth surfaces(RMS roughness < 2 nm) and excellent sidewall. XPS study on the surfaces of processed GaAs also proved extremely clean surfaces of the materials after dry etching.

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Studies on reactive ion etching of GaN using BCl$_{3}$ (BCl$_{3}$를 이용한 GaN계 질화합물 반도체의 RIE에 관한연구)

  • 윤관기;최용석;이일형;유순재;이진구;김송강
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.409-412
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    • 1998
  • BCl/sub 3/ 및 Cl/sub 2/ 반응가스를 사용하여 RIE 장치로 GaN의 건식식각을 연구하였다. RF 전력, 반응가스의 유량 및 반응가스의 혼합비 등의 변화에 따른 최적의 식각공정 조건 및 결합특성을 연구하였다. RF 전력에 따른 GaN의 식각율은 챔버압력 25mTorr, BCl/sub 3/ 유량 40 sccm의 조건에서 RF 전력이 100W일때 17nm/min을 얻었다. BCl/sub 3/의 유량에 따른 식각율은 RF 전력 100W 챔버압력 20mTorr, Cl/sub 2/ 유량 5sccm의 조건에서 BCl/sub 3/ 유량이 40 sccm일때 65nm/min을 얻었다. Cl/sub 2//BCl/sub 3/ 혼합가스 비율에 따른 식각율은 Cl/sub 2/ 유량을 5sccm으로 고정하고 BCl/sub 3/ 유량을 변화시켰을때 RF 전력 100W 및 챔버압력 20mTorr의 조건에서 혼합비가 0.25일때 50nm/min을 얻었다. RF 전력에 따른 PR의 식각율은 챔버압력 25mTorr, Cl/sub 2/ 유량 0 sccm 및 BCl/sub 3/ 유량 40 sccm의 조건에서 RF 전려이 100W일때 15nm/min을 얻었다. 또한, 챔버압력 20mTorr, Cl/sub 2/ 유량 5 sccm 및 BCl/sub 3/ 유량 20sccm의 조건에서 RF 전력이 100W 일때 82nm/min을 얻었다.

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High Density Planar Inductively Coupled Plasma Etching of GaAs in BCl$_3$-based Chemistries (BCl$_3$ 기반 가스를 이용한 GaAs의 고밀도 평판형 유도결합 플라즈마 식각)

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    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.418-422
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    • 2003
  • 평판형 유도결합 플라즈마 식각장비(inductively coupled plasma etcher)를 이용하여 각종 공정조건들에 따른 GaAs의 식각특성을 연구하였다. 공정변수들은 ICP 소스파워(0-500 W), RIE 척파워(0-150 W), 가스 종류($BCl_3$, $BCl_3$/Ar, $BCl_3$/Ne) 및 가스혼합비였다. $BCl_3$ 가스만을 이용하여 GaAs를 식각한 경우보다 25%의 Ar이나 Ne같은 불활성 기체를 혼합한 $15BCl_3$/5Ar, $15BCl_3$/5Ne 가스를 이용한 경우의 식각률이 더 우수한 것을 확인하였다. 그리고 50% 이하의 Ar이 혼합된 $BCl_3$/Ar의 경우는 높은 식각률 (>4,000 $\AA$/min)과 평탄한 표면(RMS roughness : <2 nm)을 얻을 수 있었지만 지나친 양(>50%)의 Ar의 혼합은 오히려 표면을 거칠게 하거나 식각률을 떨어뜨리는 결과를 가져왔다. 그리고 20 sccm $BCl_3$, 100 W RIE 척파워, 300 W ICP 소스파워, 공정압력이 7.5 mTorr인 조건에서의 GaAs의 식각결과는 아주 우수한 특성(식각률: ∼ 4,000, $\AA$/min, 우수한 수직측벽도: >$87^{\circ}$, 평탄한 표면: RMS roughness : ∼0.6 nm)을 나타내었다.

Model-Based Analysis of the $ZrO_2$ Etching Mechanism in Inductively Coupled $BCl_3$/Ar and $BCl_3/CHF_3$/Ar Plasmas

  • Kim, Man-Su;Min, Nam-Ki;Yun, Sun-Jin;Lee, Hyun-Woo;Efremov, Alexander M.;Kwon, Kwang-Ho
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.383-393
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    • 2008
  • The etching mechanism of $ZrO_2$ thin films and etch selectivity over some materials in both $BCl_3$/Ar and $BCl_3/CHF_3$/Ar plasmas are investigated using a combination of experimental and modeling methods. To obtain the data on plasma composition and fluxes of active species, global (0-dimensional) plasma models are developed with Langmuir probe diagnostics data. In $BCl_3$/Ar plasma, changes in gas mixing ratio result in non-linear changes of both densities and fluxes for Cl, $BCl_2$, and ${BCl_2}^+$. In this work, it is shown that the non-monotonic behavior of the $ZrO_2$ etch rate as a function of the $BCl_3$/Ar mixing ratio could be related to the ion-assisted etch mechanism and the ion-flux-limited etch regime. The addition of up to 33% $CHF_3$ to the $BCl_3$-rich $BCl_3$Ar plasma does not influence the $ZrO_2$ etch rate, but it non-monotonically changes the etch rates of both Si and $SiO_2$. The last effect can probably be associated with the corresponding behavior of the F atom density.

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The Etching of $HfO_2$ Thin Film as the ion Energy Distributions in the $BCl_3/Ar$ Inductively Coupled Plasma System ($BCl_3/Ar$ 유도 결합 플라즈마 시스템에서 이온 에너지 분포에 따른 $HfO_2$ 박막의 식각)

  • Kim, Gwan-Ha;Kim, Kyoung-Tae;Kim, Jong-Gyu;Woo, Jong-Chang;Kang, Chan-Min;Kim, Chang-Il
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.56 no.2
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    • pp.349-354
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    • 2007
  • In this work, we investigated etching characteristics of $HfO_2$ thin film and Si using inductive coupled plasma(ICP) system. The ion energy distribution functions in an ICP system was analyzed by quadrupole mass spectrometer(QMS) with an electrostatic ion energy analyzer. The maximum etch rate of $HfO_2$ thin film is 85.5 nm/min at a $BCl_3/(BCl_3+Ar)$ of 20 % and decreased with further addition of $BCl_3$ gas. From the QMS measurements, the most dominant positive ion energy distributions(IEDS) showed a maximum at 20 % of $BCl_3$. These tendency was very similar to the etch characteristics. This result agreed with the universal energy dependency of ion enhanced chemical etching yields. And the maximum selectivity of $HfO_2$ over Si is 3.05 at a $O_2$ addition of 2 sccm into the $BCl_3/(BCl_3+Ar)$ of 20 % plasma.

Ectopic expression of Bcl-2 or Bcl-xL suppresses p-fluorophenylalanine-induced apoptosis through blocking mitochondria-dependent caspase cascade in human Jurkat T cells (Jurkat T 세포에 있어서 ρ-fluorophenylalanine에 의해 유도되는 세포자살의 Bcl-2 및 Bcl-xL에 의한 저해 기전)

  • Han, Kyu-Hyun;Oh, Hyun-Ji;Jun, Do-Youn;Kim, Young-Ho
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.118-127
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    • 2003
  • $\rho$-Fluorophenylalanine (FPA), a phenylalanine analog, is able to induce apoptotic cell death of human acute leukemia Jurkat T cells. To better understand the mechanism by which FPA induces apoptotic cell death, the effect of ectopic expression of antiapoptotic proteins, Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL, on FPA-induced apoptosis was investigated by employing lurkat T cells transfected with Bcl-2 gene (JT/Bcl-2) or Bcl-xL gene (1/Bcl-xL) and Jurkat T cells transfected with vector (JT/Neo or J/Neo). When Jurkat T cells, JT/Neo or J/Neo, were exposed to FPA at concentrations ranging from 0.63 to 5.0 mM, the cell viability determined by MTT assay declined in a dose-dependent manner. In addition, apoptotic DNA fragmentation along with several apoptotic events such as caspase-8 activation, Bid cleavage, mitochondrial cytochrome c release, caspase-9 activation, caspase-3 activation, and degradation of PARP was induced. However, the FPA-induced cytotoxic effect, activation of caspase-8, and cleavage of Bid were significantly abrogated by ectopic expression of Bcl-2 or Bcl-xL. At the same time, there was marked reduction in the level of cytochrome c release from mitorhondria, caspase-9 activation, caspase-3 activation, and degradation of PARP. These results indicate that caspase-8 activation, Bid cleavage, and mitochondrial cytochrome c release with subsequent activation of the caspase cascade are negatively regulated by Bcl-2 or Bcl-xL, and are thus required for FPA-induced apoptosis in Jurkat T cells

The Influence of Bcl-3 Expression on Cell Migration and Chemosensitivity of Gastric Cancer Cells via Regulating Hypoxia-Induced Protective Autophagy

  • Hu, Lin;Bai, Zhigang;Ma, Xuemei;Bai, Nan;Zhang, Zhongtao
    • Journal of Gastric Cancer
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.95-105
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: Gastric cancer is a highly metastatic malignant tumor, often characterized by chemoresistance and high mortality. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the role of B-cell lymphoma 3 (Bcl-3) protein on cell migration and chemosensitivity of gastric cancer. Materials and Methods: The gastric cancer cell lines, AGS and NCI-N87, were used for the in vitro studies and the in vivo studies were performed using BALB/c nude mice. Western blotting, wound healing assay, Cell Counting Kit-8 assay, immunohistochemistry, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling assay were used to evaluate the role of Bcl-3 in gastric cancer. Results: We found that the protein expression of hypoxia (HYP)-inducible factor-1α and Bcl-3 were markedly upregulated under hypoxic conditions in both AGS and NCI-N87 cells in a time-dependent manner. Interestingly, small interfering RNA-mediated knockdown of Bcl-3 expression affected the migration and chemosensitivity of the gastric cancer cells. AGS and NCI-N87 cells transfected with si-RNA-Bcl-3 (si-Bcl-3) showed significantly reduced migratory ability and increased chemosensitivity to oxaliplatin, 5-fluorouracil, and irinotecan. In addition, si-Bcl-3 restored the autophagy induced by HYP. Further, the protective role of si-Bcl-3 on the gastric cancer cells could be reversed by the autophagy inducer, rapamycin. Importantly, the in vivo xenograft tumor experiments showed similar results. Conclusions: Our present study reveals that Bcl-3 knockdown inhibits cell migration and chemoresistance of gastric cancer cells through restoring HYP-induced autophagy.

Dry Etching of GaAs and AlGaAs Semiconductor Materials in High Density BCl3and BCl3/Ar Inductively Coupled Plasmas (BCl3및 BCl3/Ar 고밀도 유도결합 플라즈마를 이용한 GaAs와 AlGaS 반도체 소자의 건식식각)

  • Lim, Wan-tae;Baek, In-kyoo;Lee, Je-won;Cho, Guan-Sik;Jeon, Min-hyun
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.13 no.10
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    • pp.635-639
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    • 2003
  • We investigated dry etching of GaAs and AiGaAs in a high density planar inductively coupled plasma system with BCl$_3$and BCl$_3$/Ar gas chemistry. A detailed etch process study of GaAs and ALGaAs was peformed as functions of ICP source power, RIE chuck power and mixing ratio of $BCl_3$ and Ar. Chamber process pressure was fixed at 7.5 mTorr in this study. The ICP source power and RIE chuck power were varied from 0 to 500 W and from 0 to 150 W, respectively. GaAs etch rate increased with the increase of ICP source power and RIE chuck power. It was also found that etch rates of GaAs in $15BCi_3$/5Ar plasmas were relatively high with applied RIE chuck power compared to pure 20 sccm $BCl_3$plasmas. The result was the same as AlGaAs. We expect that high ion-assisted effect in $BCl_3$/Ar plasma increased etch rates of both materials. The GaAs and AlGaAs features etched at 20 sccm $BCl_3$and $15BCl_3$/5Ar with 300 W ICP source power, 100 W RIE chuck power and 7.5 mTorr showed very smooth surfaces(RMS roughness < 2 nm) and excellent sidewall. XPS study on the surfaces of processed GaAs also proved extremely clean surfaces of the materials after dry etching.