Expression and properties of diacylglycerol acyltransferase from cell-suspension cultures of oilseed rape.

abstract：:The formation of complexes between growth factor receptors and members of a family of G-protein-coupled receptors whose natural ligands are S1P (sphingosine 1-phosphate) and LPA (lysophosphatidic acid) represents a new signalling entity. This receptor complex allows for integrated signalling in response to growth fact...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Pyne NJ,Waters C,Moughal NA,Sambi BS,Pyne S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a revolution in understanding animal development in the last 25 years or so, but there is at least one area of development that has been relatively neglected and therefore remains largely mysterious. This is the intracellular programmes and timers that run in developing precursor cells and change the ce...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Raff M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TDP-43 (TAR DNA-binding protein 43) is an hnRNP (heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein) protein whose role in cellular processes has come to the forefront of neurodegeneration research after the observation that it is the main component of brain inclusions in ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and FTLD (frontotempo...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Baralle M,Buratti E,Baralle FE

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+-mobilizing second messenger, NAADP (nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate), has been with us for nearly 20 years and yet we still cannot fully agree on the identity of its target Ca2+-release channel. In spite of some recent robust challenges to the idea that two-pore channels (TPCs) represent the elu...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Morgan AJ,Davis LC,Ruas M,Galione A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsK is a multifunctional protein, which, in Escherichia coli, co-ordinates the essential functions of cell division, DNA unlinking and chromosome segregation. Its C-terminus is a DNA translocase, the fastest yet characterized, which acts as a septum-localized DNA pump. FtsK's C-terminus also interacts with the XerCD ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Grainge I

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AS (alternative splicing) is a post-transcriptional process which regulates gene expression through increasing protein complexity and modulating mRNA transcript levels. Regulation of AS depends on interactions between trans-acting protein factors and cis-acting signals in the pre-mRNA (precursor mRNA) transcripts, ter...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Simpson CG,Manthri S,Raczynska KD,Kalyna M,Lewandowska D,Kusenda B,Maronova M,Szweykowska-Kulinska Z,Jarmolowski A,Barta A,Brown JW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method of monitoring the rate of reactions in solid-phase peptide synthesis is described. A conductivity detector in the reaction cell (patent applied for) enables the deprotection, washing and subsequent coupling stages to be examined in detail. The half-lives of the reactions can be calculated and hence the op...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Fox JE

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in developed countries such as the U.K., but incidence rates around the world vary approx. 20-fold. Diet is thought to be a key factor determining risk: red and processed meat, but not white meat or fish, are associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer. The ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Kuhnle GG,Bingham SA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native disulphide bonds are essential for the structure and function of many membrane and secretory proteins. Disulphide bonds are formed, reduced and isomerized in the endoplasmic reticulum of mammalian cells by a family of oxidoreductases, which includes protein disulphide isomerase (PDI), ERp57, ERp72, P5 and PDIR....

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Jessop CE,Chakravarthi S,Watkins RH,Bulleid NJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugars that are readily respired by plant cells inhibit greening when dO2 and mu are relatively high. As sugar concentration in the batch culture medium is depleted and mu declines, greening is permitted. The mechanism of this effect has not been satisfactorily explained. ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Dalton C

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pantothenate (vitamin B5) is a water-soluble vitamin essential for the synthesis of CoA and ACP (acyl-carrier protein, cofactors in energy yielding reactions including carbohydrate metabolism and fatty acid synthesis. Pantothenate is synthesized de novo by plants and micro-organisms; however, animals obtain the vitami...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Coxon KM,Chakauya E,Ottenhof HH,Whitney HM,Blundell TL,Abell C,Smith AG

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer heterogeneity demands that prognostic models must be biologically driven and recent clinical evidence indicates that future prognostic signatures need evaluation in the context of early compared with late metastatic risk prediction. In pre-clinical studies, we and others have shown that various protein-p...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Weitsman G,Lawler K,Kelleher MT,Barrett JE,Barber PR,Shamil E,Festy F,Patel G,Fruhwirth GO,Huang L,Tullis ID,Woodman N,Ofo E,Ameer-Beg SM,Irshad S,Condeelis J,Gillett CE,Ellis PA,Vojnovic B,Coolen AC,Ng T

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that transport of ergosterol from the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) to the sterol-enriched PM (plasma membrane) in yeast occurs by a non-vesicular (Sec18p-independent) mechanism that results in the equilibration of sterol pools in the two organelles [Baumann, Sullivan, Ohvo-Rekilä, Simonot, Pottekat, K...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Sullivan DP,Ohvo-Rekilä H,Baumann NA,Beh CT,Menon AK

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is a cobalt-containing modified tetrapyrrole that is an essential nutrient for higher animals. Its biosynthesis is restricted to certain bacteria and requires approximately 30 enzymatic steps for its complete de novo construction. Remarkably, two distinct biosynthetic pathways exist, which are ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Moore SJ,Warren MJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that beta-cells die by apoptosis in T1DM (Type 1 diabetes mellitus). Apoptosis is an active gene-directed process, and recent observations suggest that beta-cell apoptosis depends on the parallel and/or sequential up- and down-regulation of hundreds of genes controlled by key transcript...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Eizirik DL,Moore F,Flamez D,Ortis F

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to permit gene expression is managed by a set of relatively well known regulatory mechanisms. Nonetheless, this property can also be acquired during a life span as a consequence of environmental stimuli. Interestingly, some acquired information can be passed to the next generation of individuals without mo...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Mazaira GI,Daneri-Becerra C,Zgajnar NR,Lotufo CM,Galigniana MD

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a novel, highly sensitive and selective method for the detection and quantification of acyl-CoA esters from Arabidopsis thaliana. Extracted acyl-CoA esters were derived to their fluorescent acyl-etheno-CoA esters, separated by ion-paired reversed-phase HPLC, and detected fluorometrically. We report the compo...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Larson TR,Graham IA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene-poor human chromosomes are reproducibly found at the nuclear periphery in proliferating cells. There are a number of inner nuclear envelope proteins that may have roles in chromosome location and anchorage, e.g. emerin and A-type lamins. In the last decade, a number of diseases associated with tissue degeneration...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Meaburn KJ,Levy N,Toniolo D,Bridger JM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most striking example of a complex prokaryotic intracytoplasmic organization can be found in the members of the phylum Planctomycetes. Among them are the anammox (anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing) bacteria, which possess a unique cell compartment with an unprecedented function in bacteria: the anammoxosome is a prokar...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Neumann S,Jetten MS,van Niftrik L

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In interphase plant cells, the actin cytoskeleton is essential for intracellular transport and organization. To fully understand how the actin cytoskeleton functions as the structural basis for cytoplasmic organization, both molecular and physical aspects of the actin organization have to be considered. In the present...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Ketelaar T,van der Honing HS,Emons AM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA; 1-acyl-3-phosphoglycerol) exerts its biological activity through both extracellular and intracellular targets. Receptor targets include the cell-surface G-protein-coupled receptors LPA(1-4) and the nuclear PPAR-gamma (peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptor gamma). Enzyme targets include...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Parrill AL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AD (Alzheimer's disease) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a gradual loss of neurons and the accumulation of neurotoxic Aβ (amyloid β-peptide) and hyperphosphorylated tau. The discovery of mutations in three genes, PSEN1 (presenilin 1), PSEN2 (presenilin 2) and APP (amyloid precursor protein), in patient...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Coen K,Annaert W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL (interleukin)-4 and IL-13 are key cytokines in the pathogenesis of allergic inflammatory disease. IL-4 and IL-13 share many functional properties as a result of their utilization of a common receptor complex comprising IL-13Ralpha1 (IL-13 receptor alpha-chain 1) and IL-4Ralpha. The second IL-13R (IL-13 receptor) ha...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Andrews AL,Nordgren IK,Kirby I,Holloway JW,Holgate ST,Davies DE,Tavassoli A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Type cytochromes are characterized by covalent attachment of haem to protein through thioether bonds between the vinyl groups of the haem and the thiols of a Cys-Xaa-Xaa-Cys-His motif. Proteins of this type play crucial roles in the biochemistry of the nitrogen cycle. Many Gram-negative bacteria use the Ccm (cytochr...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Allen JW,Ferguson SJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, arachidonic acid, is a precursor of prostaglandins, leukotrienes and related compounds that have important roles as mediators and regulators of inflammation. Consuming increased amounts of long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (found in oily fish and fish oils) results in a par...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Calder PC

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin polymerization is harnessed by cells to generate lamellipodia for movement and by a subclass of pathogens to facilitate invasion of their infected hosts. Using electron tomography (ET), we have shown that lamellipodia are formed via the generation of subsets of actin filaments joined by branch junctions. Image a...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Small JV

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyoxalase I is part of the glyoxalase system present in the cytosol of cells. The glyoxalase system catalyses the conversion of reactive, acyclic alpha-oxoaldehydes into the corresponding alpha-hydroxyacids. Glyoxalase I catalyses the isomerization of the hemithioacetal, formed spontaneously from alpha-oxoaldehyde an...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Thornalley PJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moonlighting proteins serve one or more novel functions in addition to their canonical roles. Moonlighting functions arise when an adventitious interaction between a protein and a new partner improves fitness of the organism. Selective pressure for improvement in the new function can result in two alternative outcomes...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Copley SD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of the essential role of the β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) for the membrane insertion of outer membrane proteins (OMPs) that are unrelated in sequence, members of this universally conserved family dominate discussions on OMP assembly in bacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts. However, several ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Huysmans GH

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal epithelium represents one of our most important interfaces with the external environment. It must remain tightly balanced to allow nutrient absorption, but maintain barrier function and immune homoeostasis, a failure of which results in chronic infection or debilitating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)....

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Worthington JJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00