The latex-fruit syndrome.

abstract：:An important aspect of the cytochrome c electrochemistry is the possibility of coupling the 'heterogeneous reactions' with other redox enzymes. Cellobiose dehydrogenase, a 89170 Da glycoprotein that contains both FAD and a b-type haem as prosthetic groups, donates electrons to a number of acceptors, including cytochro...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Fridman V,Wollenberger U,Bogdanovskaya V,Lisdat F,Ruzgas T,Lindgren A,Gorton L,Scheller FW

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular membranes communicate extensively via contact sites that form between two membranes. Such sites allow exchange of specific ions, lipids or proteins between two compartments without content mixing, thereby preserving organellar architecture during the transfer process. Even though the molecular compositions of...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Raiborg C,Wenzel EM,Pedersen NM,Stenmark H

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of mitochondria-targeted probe molecules that comprise a lipophilic cation covalently attached to an active moiety have been developed. The lipophilic cation causes the accumulation of these molecules into mitochondria, driven by the mitochondrial membrane potential. To date, we have targeted antioxidants, spi...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Murphy MP

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral and maxillofacial surgery is often challenging due to defective bone healing owing to the microbial environment of the oral cavity, the additional involvement of teeth and esthetic concerns. Insufficient bone volume as a consequence of aging and some oral and maxillofacial surgical procedures, such as tumor resec...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Liu L,Chen Y,Song D,Huang D

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:After years of setbacks, the perspective of neuroprotective stroke therapy has revived in light of recent study results. We outline in this review how a neuroprotective candidate drug should be developed, beginning with a thorough preclinical evaluation according to the STAIR (Stroke Therapy Academic Industry Roundtab...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Schäbitz WR,Fisher M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagosomes form in eukaryotic cells in response to starvation or to other stress conditions brought about by the unwanted presence in the cytosol of pathogens, damaged organelles or aggregated protein assemblies. The uniqueness of autophagosomes is that they form de novo and that they are the only double-membraned...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Ktistakis NT,Karanasios E,Manifava M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactions involving removal and addition of glucose to N-glycans in the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) are performed in higher eukaryotes by glucosidases I and II and the UDP-glucose:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase respectively. Monoglucosylated N-glycan structures have been implicated in glycoprotein folding or ER quali...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Jones D,Mehlert A,Ferguson MA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) signalling pathway functions as a nutrient sensor, both in individual cells and, more globally, in organs such as the fat body in Drosophila and the hypothalamus in the rat. The activity of placental amino acid transporters is decreased in IUGR (intrauterine growth restriction)...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Roos S,Powell TL,Jansson T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progression of Type 2 diabetes is accompanied by diminishing islet β-cell mass and function. It has been proposed that β-cells are lost not only through apoptosis, but also by dedifferentiating into progenitor-like cells. There is therefore much interest in the mechanisms which define and maintain β-cell identity....

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Pullen TJ,Rutter GA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trafficking within eukaryotic cells is a complex and highly regulated process; events such as recycling of plasma membrane receptors, formation of multivesicular bodies, regulated release of hormones and delivery of proteins to membranes all require directionality and specificity. The underpinning processes, including...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Laidlaw KME,Livingstone R,Al-Tobi M,Bryant NJ,Gould GW

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most research strategies for cartilage tissue engineering use extended culture with complex media loaded with costly GFs (growth factors) to drive tissue assembly and yet they result in the production of cartilage with inferior mechanical and structural properties compared with the natural tissue. Recent evidence sugg...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Ayerst BI,Day AJ,Nurcombe V,Cool SM,Merry CL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum is traditionally perceived as the key compartment for regulating intracellular cholesterol metabolism. Increasing evidence suggests that the endocytic pathway provides an additional regulatory level governing intracellular cholesterol trafficking and homoeostasis. Sterols can enter, and appar...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Hölttä-Vuori M,Ikonen E

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As intracellular pathogens, enveloped viruses must usurp the host cell machinery for many stages of the viral life cycle in order to produce a new generation of infectious virions. In one of the less understood steps of viral assembly, viral components including the transmembrane glycoproteins, structural proteins and...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Bruce EA,Stuart A,McCaffrey MW,Digard P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular electron transfer has, in one decade, emerged from an environmental phenomenon to an industrial process driver. On the one hand, electron transfer towards anodes leads to production of power or chemicals such as hydrogen, caustic soda and hydrogen peroxide. On the other hand, electron transfer from catho...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Desloover J,Arends JB,Hennebel T,Rabaey K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells grown in glucose have larger average size than cells grown in ethanol. Besides, yeast must reach a carbon source-modulated critical cell size in order to enter S phase at Start. This control is of outmost physiological relevance, since it allows us to coordinate cell growth with cell cyc...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Vanoni M,Rossi RL,Querin L,Zinzalla V,Alberghina L

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HDX-MS has emerged as a powerful tool to interrogate the structure and dynamics of proteins and their complexes. Recent advances in the methodology and instrumentation have enabled the application of HDX-MS to membrane proteins. Such targets are challenging to investigate with conventional strategies. Developing new t...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Lau AM,Jia R,Bradshaw RT,Politis A

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta galactosidases (BGALs) are glycosyl hydrolases that remove terminal β-D-galactosyl residues from β-D-galactosides. There are 17 predicted BGAL genes in the genomes of both Arabidopsis (BGAL1-17) and tomato (TBG1-17). All tested BGALs have BGAL activity but their distinct expression profiles and ancient phylogenet...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Chandrasekar B,van der Hoorn RA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensing and signalling events that detect abiotic stress-induced changes in plant water status and initiate downstream stress responses such as ABA (abscisic acid) accumulation and osmoregulation remain uncharacterized in plants. Although conclusive results are lacking, recent results from plants, and analogies to sig...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Verslues PE,Zhu JK

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarized transport of the plant hormone auxin influences multiple growth processes in plants and is regulated by plasma-membrane-localized efflux and uptake carriers. The PGP (P-glycoprotein) ABC transporters (ATP-binding-cassette transporters), PIN (pin-formed) subfamily of major facilitator proteins and members of ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Bandyopadhyay A,Blakeslee JJ,Lee OR,Mravec J,Sauer M,Titapiwatanakun B,Makam SN,Bouchard R,Geisler M,Martinoia E,Friml J,Peer WA,Murphy AS

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:A limited number of bacteria, yeast and fungi can convert hemicellulose or its monomers (xylose, arabinose, mannose and galactose) into ethanol with a satisfactory yield and productivity. In the present study we tested a number of thermophilic enrichment cultures, and new isolates of thermophilic anaerobic bacterial s...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Sommer P,Georgieva T,Ahring BK

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:BK (large conductance calcium- and voltage-activated potassium) channels are important determinants of physiological control in the nervous, endocrine and vascular systems with channel dysfunction associated with major disorders ranging from epilepsy to hypertension and obesity. Thus the mechanisms that control channe...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Shipston MJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been analysing the signalling systems that couple to receptors of the TIR (Toll/interleukin-1 receptor) family, which signal through a common cytoplasm region; the TIR domain. These systems are of both practical and fundamental biological significance, being central to the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Dower SK,Qwarnstrom EE

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho/Rop small GTPase regulatory module is central for initiating exocytotically ACDs (active cortical domains) in plant cell cortex, and a growing array of Rop regulators and effectors are being discovered in plants. Structural membrane phospholipids are important constituents of cells as well as signals, and phos...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Zárský V,Potocký M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of macrophage cholesterol homoeostasis is of crucial importance in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, an underlying cause of heart attack and stroke. Several recent studies have revealed a critical role for the cytokine TGF-beta (transforming growth factor-beta), a key regulator of the immune and infl...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Ramji DP,Singh NN,Foka P,Irvine SA,Arnaoutakis K

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Classical tissue engineering is aimed mainly at producing anatomically and physiologically realistic replacements for normal human tissues. It is done either by encouraging cellular colonization of manufactured matrices or cellular recolonization of decellularized natural extracellular matrices from donor organs, or b...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Davies JA,Cachat E

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane proteins are drug targets for a wide range of diseases. Having access to appropriate samples for further research underpins the pharmaceutical industry's strategy for developing new drugs. This is typically achieved by synthesizing a protein of interest in host cells that can be cultured on a large scale, all...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Bawa Z,Bland CE,Bonander N,Bora N,Cartwright SP,Clare M,Conner MT,Darby RA,Dilworth MV,Holmes WJ,Jamshad M,Routledge SJ,Gross SR,Bill RM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribosome is the macromolecular machinery in the host cell for which all viruses have to compete. Early in infection, the viral mRNAs have to compete with the host for both the ribosomes and for the limited pool of eukaryotic initiation factors that are needed to facilitate the recruitment of ribosomes to both vira...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Sarnow P,Cevallos RC,Jan E

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00