Structural basis of perturbed pKa values of catalytic groups in enzyme active sites.

abstract：:Changes in the status of DNA methylation are one of the most common molecular alterations in human neoplasia. We aimed to identify epigenetic molecular markers in serum for early detection of breast cancer. Authors analyzed retrospectively the methylation status of RARβ2 and APC genes in serum samples from 121 breast ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Swellam M,Abdelmaksoud MD,Sayed Mahmoud M,Ramadan A,Abdel-Moneem W,Hefny MM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pilins or fimbrilins are a class of proteins found in bacterial surface pilus, a hair-like surface appendage. Both the Gram-negative and -positive bacteria produce pilins to assemble pili on their cell-surface for different purposes including adherence, twitching motility, conjugation, immunomodulation, biofilm format...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Krishnan V

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are a highly conserved family of proteins. The regulation of expression of Hsps in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is regulated both positively and negatively by alternate sigma factors and transcriptional DNA repressors, respectively. HspR is a negative regulator of expression of hsps, DnaK, Cl...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Parijat P,Batra JK

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent successes in identifying the genes and associated proteins underlying several familial neurodegenerative conditions have not always resulted in accounts as to why the associated patterns of neuronal damage are so specific and limited. Here, with reference to Huntington's disease, we present a general scheme to ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Mitchell IJ,Griffiths MR

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers have a clonal origin, yet their chromosomes and genes are non-clonal or heterogeneous due to an inherent genomic instability. However, the cause of this genomic instability is still debated. One theory postulates that mutations in genes that are involved in DNA repair and in chromosome segregation are the prim...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Duesberg P,Fabarius A,Hehlmann R

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD/BMD) are X-linked muscular dystrophies. The isolation of the defective gene in DMD/BMD has led to a better understanding of the disease process and has promoted studies regarding the application of molecular therapy. The purpose of this review is to present the progress made...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Matsuo M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upregulation of haptoglobin (Hp) expression in the rat during the acute phase (AP) response is the result of synergistic effects of IL-6-, IL-1beta-, and corticosterone-activated signaling pathways. IL-6 signaling terminates in cis-trans interactions of the Hp gene hormone-responsive element (HRE) with transcription f...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Arambasić J,Poznanović G,Ivanović-Matić S,Bogojević D,Mihailović M,Uskoković A,Grigorov I

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nur77 is a member of nuclear receptor superfamily that acts as a transcription factor and regulates expression of multiple genes. Subcellular localization of Nur77 protein plays an important role in the survival and cell death. In this study, we have predicted and confirmed alternatively spliced two new transcripts of...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Rehman SU,Sarwar T,Husain MA,Ishqi HM,Tabish M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the GATA family of transcription factors play key roles in the differentiation of specific cell lineages by regulating the expression of target genes. Three GATA factors play distinct roles in hematopoietic differentiation. In order to better understand how these GATA factors function to regulate genes thro...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Hardison RC,Zhang Y,Keller CA,Xiang G,Heuston EF,An L,Lichtenberg J,Giardine BM,Bodine D,Mahony S,Li Q,Yue F,Weiss MJ,Blobel GA,Taylor J,Hughes J,Higgs DR,Göttgens B

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkyl-dihydroxyacetonephosphate synthase (alkyl-DHAP synthase) is a peroxisomal enzyme that plays a key role in ether phospholipid biosynthesis. To determine the turnover of alkyl-DHAP synthase in several peroxisomal disorders, pulse-chase experiments were performed. In control fibroblasts, mature alkyl-DHAP synthase ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Biermann J,Gootjes J,Wanders RJ,van den Bosch H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aggressive biological behavior of invasive and metastatic cancer is considered to be the most insidious and life-threatening aspect for breast cancer patients. It is mostly the result of changes in many molecular characteristics of tumor cells, including alterations in gene expression and the balance of proteolyti...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Swellam M,Arab LR,Bushnak HA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune infiltration of tumors has been increasingly accepted as a prognostic factor in colon cancer. Here, we aim to develop a novel immune signature, based on estimated immune landscape from tumor transcriptomes, to predict the overall survival of patients with colon cancer. The compositions of 22 immune cell subtype...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Peng D,Wang L,Li H,Cai C,Tan Y,Xu B,Le H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, three independent laboratories reported the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from pig (Sus scrofa). This finding sums to the growing list of species (mouse, human, monkey, and rat, in this order) for which successful reprogramming using exogenous factors has been achieved, and multiple ot...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Esteban MA,Peng M,Deli Z,Cai J,Yang J,Xu J,Lai L,Pei D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the hand plate development, the processes of cell differentiation and control of cell death are relevant to ensure a correct shape of the limb. The progenitor cell pool that later will differentiate into cartilage to form the digits arises from undifferentiated mesenchymal cells beneath the apical ectodermal ri...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Chimal-Monroy J,Abarca-Buis RF,Cuervo R,Díaz-Hernández M,Bustamante M,Rios-Flores JA,Romero-Suárez S,Farrera-Hernández A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera, for which biofilm communities are considered to be environmental reservoirs. In endemic regions, and after algal blooms, which may result from phosphate enrichment following agricultural runoff, the bacterium is released from biofilms resulting i...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Maestre-Reyna M,Huang WC,Wu WJ,Singh PK,Hartmann R,Wang PH,Lee CC,Hikima T,Yamamoto M,Bessho Y,Drescher K,Tsai MD,Wang AH

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we discuss the limited efficacy for current pharmacological agents used in prophylaxis and treatment of thrombosis and highlight targeted delivery of anti-thrombotic agents to fibrin, platelets, red blood cells and endothelium. ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Carnemolla R,Muzykantov VR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite is an inorganic toxin of physiological interest, formed from the diffusion-controlled reaction of superoxide and nitrogen monoxide with a rate constant of (1.6 +/- 0.3) x 10(10) M(-1) s(-1). On the basis of three experiments we conclude that homolysis of the O-O bond in peroxynitrous acid is unlikely: (1...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kissner R,Nauser T,Kurz C,Koppenol WH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell (TC) activation requires the coordinated signaling of the T cell receptor (TCR) and coreceptor molecules, allowing TCs to respond to lower degrees of TCR occupancy. Coreceptor molecules set the threshold for TC activation by controlling different regulatory signaling loops. The Cbl family members prevent undesi...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Pedraza-Alva G,Mérida LB,del Rio R,Fierro NA,Cruz-Muñoz ME,Olivares N,Melchy E,Igras V,Holländer GA,Burakoff SJ,Rosenstein Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfected human apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) produces a 150 kDa protein. However, we have detected endogenous ASK1 predominantly as 39 and 50 kDa C-terminal and 75 and 110 kDa N-terminal fragments in a panel of nontransfected cancer cell lines and HUVEC endothelial cells. This suggests that in nonapop...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Stordal B,Davey R

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunosuppressant cyclosporin A (CsA)-sensitive nuclear factor of activated T cells 1 (NFAT1) has been known to be a transcriptional regulator of cytokine and viral genes during the immune response. By analyses of serial deletion, mutation, and heterologous promoter assay, we report here that the CsA-sensitive NFA...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Lee JH,Rho HM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In tsRSV-infected NRK (tsNRK) cells, pp60(v-src) reactivation by temperature-shift from a nonpermissive temperature, 39 C, to a permissive one, 32 degrees C, induced the production of inositol phosphates (IPt) and phosphatidylethanol (PEt). This was accompanied by an increase in membrane-associated protein kinase C (P...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kim BY,Kim JH,Han YJ,Ahn SC,Kang DO,Oh WK,Ko HR,Lee HS,Mheen TI,Ahn JS

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic targeting has shown promise to improve the efficacy and safety of different classes of therapeutic agents by enabling their active guidance to the site of disease and minimizing dissemination to nontarget tissues. However, its translation into clinic has proven difficult because of inherent limitations of tra...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Chorny M,Fishbein I,Forbes S,Alferiev I

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the years, microRNA-20b-3p (miR-20b-3p) has been found to play an essential role in human diseases; we aimed to investigate the effect of miR-20b-3p on the progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR). The DR rat models were established by streptozotocin injection and treated with miR-20b-3p mimics, silenced, or over...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang S,Du S,Lv Y,Wang W,Zhang F

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotides of transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are highly modified, particularly at the anticodon. Bacterial tRNAs that read A-ending codons are especially notable. The U34 nucleotide canonically present in these tRNAs is modified by a wide range of complex chemical constituents. An additional two A-ending codons are not read b...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Nilsson EM,Alexander RW

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triclosan, a well-known inhibitor of Enoyl Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase (ENR) from several pathogenic organisms, is a promising lead compound to design effective drugs. We have solved the X-ray crystal structures of Plasmodium falciparum ENR in complex with triclosan variants having different substituted and unsubst...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Maity K,Bhargav SP,Sankaran B,Surolia N,Surolia A,Suguna K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury greatly contributes to myocardial tissue damage in patients with coronary disease, which eventually leads to heart failure. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have an emerging role in the process of myocardial I/R injury. Our previous work revealed the protective role of miR-374...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Chen YQ,Yang X,Xu W,Yan Y,Chen XM,Huang ZQ

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational stability of the homotetrameric Plasmodium falciparum beta-ketoacyl-ACP reductase (FabG) was determined by guanidinium chloride-induced isothermal and thermal denaturation. The reversible unfolding transitions were monitored by intrinsic fluorescence, circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and by meas...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Karmodiya K,Sajad S,Sinha S,Maity K,Suguna K,Surolia N

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For 8 years, it was not understood why certain genes of plant mitochondria contain CGG (arginine) codons at positions where tryptophan codons (UGG) are present in the corresponding genes of nonplant species. Identification and sequencing of a tRNA(Trp) gene showed that it is not able to decode the CGG codon. Analysis ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Grienenberger JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have adapted the Java Molecular Viewer (JMV) to virtual reality display environments, through a number of extensions to the Java 3D code. Phylogenetic information derived from multiple alignments (temporal information) can be overlaid onto molecule structures (spatial information). The number of sequences included ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Quon GT,Gordon P,Sensen CW

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2 D3 ] has recently been shown to have immunomodulatory property. This study aimed to investigate the expression and potential role of 1,25(OH)2 D3 in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in the Uygur population. Blood samples were obtained from 22 patients with proliferative...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Yi X,Sun J,Li L,Wei Q,Qian Y,Chen X,Ma L

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00