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Billy KC Chow

Professor, Chair of Endocrinology
Verified email at hku.hk
Cited by 7690

Selection of AUG initiation codons differs in plants and animals.

HA Lütcke, KC Chow, FS Mickel, KA Moss… - The EMBO …, 1987 - embopress.org
The influence of the nucleotide at position ‐3 relative to the AUG initiation codon on the
initiation of protein synthesis was studied in two different in vitro translation systems using …

MR imaging findings of enteroviral encephalomyelitis: an outbreak in Taiwan

WC Shen, HH Chiu, KC Chow… - American journal of …, 1999 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: An outbreak of enterovirus infection occurred in Taiwan
from late spring to early fall of 1998. Most of the pediatric infections presented as hand-foot-…

Virus infection in patients with histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis in Taiwan: detection of Epstein-Barr virus, type I human T-cell lymphotropic virus, and parvovirus …

CF Chiu, KC Chow, TY Lin, MH Tsai… - American journal of …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The relationship of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), type I human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I),
and parvovirus B19 to histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis was studied prospectively in 10 …

Reversal of inflammation‐associated dihydrodiol dehydrogenases (AKR1C1 and AKR1C2) overexpression and drug resistance in nonsmall cell lung cancer cells by …

HW Wang, CP Lin, JH Chiu, KC Chow… - … journal of cancer, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Dihydrodiol dehydrogenase (DDH) is a member of the aldo‐keto reductases superfamily (AKR1C1–AKR1C4),
which plays central roles in the metabolism of steroid hormone, …

Electrotransformation of Chlorella vulgaris

KC Chow, WL Tung - Plant Cell Reports, 1999 - Springer
Using hygromycin B resistance as a marker for selection, we have established the conditions
required for the transformation of Chlorella vulgaris. The exponentially grown C. vulgaris …

Construction of an efficient Bacillus subtilis system for extracellular production of heterologous proteins

KHE Lam, KC Chow, WKR Wong - Journal of biotechnology, 1998 - Elsevier
An efficient expression/secretion vector, designated pM2Veg, was constructed for extracellular
production of heterologous proteins in Bacillus subtilis. To construct pM2Veg, a synthetic …

Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide and its receptors: 20 years after the discovery

…, D Burel, O Wurtz, A Fournier, BKC Chow… - Pharmacological …, 2009 - ASPET
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a 38-amino acid C-terminally
α-amidated peptide that was first isolated 20 years ago from an ovine hypothalamic extract …

ATPase family AAA domain-containing 3A is a novel anti-apoptotic factor in lung adenocarcinoma cells

…, CY Chen, CY Lin, WJ Ko, KC Chow - Journal of cell …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
AAA domain-containing 3A (ATAD3A) is a member of the AAA-ATPase family. Three forms
of ATAD3 have been identified: ATAD3A, ATAD3B and ATAD3C. In this study, we examined …

[HTML][HTML] HIV-1 Vpr triggers mitochondrial destruction by impairing Mfn2-mediated ER-mitochondria interaction

CY Huang, SF Chiang, TY Lin, SH Chiou, KC Chow - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) viral protein R (Vpr) has been shown to induce
host cell death by increasing the permeability of mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM). The …

A general expression for basin lag time

WE Watt, KCA Chow - Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 1985 - cdnsciencepub.com
Basin lag time is an important variable in the calculation of peak discharge resulting from a
specified precipitation input. For the case of ungauged basins, the lag time must be estimated…