Circular dichroism and synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy: tools for drug discovery.

abstract：:Cell-free transcription-translation is an expanding field in synthetic biology as a rapid prototyping platform for blueprinting the design of synthetic biological devices. Exemplar efforts include translation of prototype designs into medical test kits for on-site identification of viruses (Zika and Ebola), while gene...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Moore SJ,MacDonald JT,Freemont PS

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination is essential for accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis in most sexual organisms. Meiotic recombination is initiated by the formation of DSBs (DNA double-strand breaks) made by the Spo11 protein. We review here recent findings pertaining to protein-protein interactions important for DS...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Keeney S,Neale MJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although relatively few G-protein-coupled receptors are Class C, in recent years, this small family of receptors has become a focal point for the discovery of new and exciting allosteric modulators. The mGlu (metabotropic glutamate) receptors are illustrative in the discovery of both positive and/or negative allosteri...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Johnson MP,Nisenbaum ES,Large TH,Emkey R,Baez M,Kingston AE

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic Neisseria have a siderophore-independent iron-uptake system reliant on a direct interaction between the bacterial cell and transferrin. In the meningococcus this uptake system is dependent on two surface-exposed transferrin-binding proteins. This short account will review our current knowledge of the tr...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Evans RW,Oakhill JS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein ubiquitination and protein phosphorylation are two fundamental regulatory post-translational modifications controlling intracellular signalling events. However, the ubiquitin system is vastly more complex compared with phosphorylation. This is due to the ability of ubiquitin to form polymers, i.e. ubiquitin ch...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Komander D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative approach has been used to study the role of several lipid-body-binding proteins in plants and animals. Caleosins are a newly discovered class of calcium-binding lipid-body proteins found in plants and fungi, which we now report to have separate endoplasmic reticulum- and lipid-body-associated isoforms. W...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Murphy DJ,Hernendez-Pinzon I,Patel K,Hope RG,McLauchlan J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PilZ domain-containing proteins constitute a large family of bacterial signaling proteins. As a widely distributed protein domain for the binding of the second messenger c-di-GMP, the canonical PilZ domain contains a set of motifs that define the binding site for c-di-GMP and an allosteric switch for propagating local...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Cheang QW,Xin L,Chea RYF,Liang ZX

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical, biophysical and biological studies of oligonucleotides containing lesions at defined sites provide a molecular basis for the effects of DNA lesions. dG (deoxyguanosine) is the most easily oxidized of the four native nucleotides. The chemical reactivity of dG correlates with compilations of mutations, whic...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Greenberg MM

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recruitment of the furanosidic scaffold of ribose as the crucial step for nucleotides and then for nucleic acids synthesis is presented. Based on the view that the selection of molecules to be used for relevant metabolic purposes must favor structurally well-defined molecules, the inadequacy of ribose as a prefere...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Del-Corso A,Cappiello M,Moschini R,Balestri F,Mura U,Ipata PL

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein L is a multidomain cell-wall protein isolated from Peptostreptococcus magnus. It belongs to a group of proteins that contain repeated domains that are able to bind to Igs without stimulating an immune response, the most characterized of this group being Protein A ( Staphylococcus aureus ) and Protein G ( Strep...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Housden NG,Harrison S,Roberts SE,Beckingham JA,Graille M,Stura E,Gore MG

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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：:Mutations in the X-linked MECP2 gene are the primary cause of the severe autism spectrum disorder RTT (Rett syndrome). Deletion of Mecp2 in mice recapitulates many of the overt neurological features seen in humans, and the delayed onset of symptoms is accompanied by deficits in neuronal morphology and synaptic physiol...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Cobb S,Guy J,Bird A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two decades ago, patients lacking circulating serum ceruloplasmin (Cp) presented with neurodegeneration associated with brain iron accumulation. These patients, with mutations in the MCO (multi-copper oxidase), Cp, revealed an essential role for Cp in iron homoeostasis. The patients were diagnosed in adulthood with CN...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Texel SJ,Xu X,Harris ZL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial hydrogenases have been harnessed to the removal of heavy metals from solution by reduction to less soluble metal species. For Pd(II), its bioreduction results in the deposition of cell-bound Pd(0)-nanoparticles that are ferromagnetic and have a high catalytic activity. Hydrogenases can also be used synthetic...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Macaskie LE,Baxter-Plant VS,Creamer NJ,Humphries AC,Mikheenko IP,Mikheenko PM,Penfold DW,Yong P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a large number of different mutations in the LPL gene that result in completely catalytically defective LPL protein. More recently exonic polymorphisms in the LPL gene have been described that do not result in the catalytic activity of LPL being significantly impaired. Furthermore we have recently de...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Hayden MR,Kastelein JJ,Funke H,Brunzell JD,Ma Y

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are arguably the most biochemically versatile of all eukaryotic organelles. Their metabolic functions vary between different organisms, between different tissue types of the same organism and even between different developmental stages or in response to changed environmental conditions. New functions for p...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Baker A,Carrier DJ,Schaedler T,Waterham HR,van Roermund CW,Theodoulou FL

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invertebrates use a wide range of peptides as transmitters and hormones to regulate complex behaviour, physiology and development. These animals, especially those that are amenable to genetic study and are the subject of genome-sequencing projects, provide powerful model systems for understanding the functions of pept...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Isaac RE,Siviter RJ,Stancombe P,Coates D,Shirras AD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large dense-core vesicles (LDCVs) were labelled in cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells expressing fluorescent chimaeric 'cargo' proteins that were targeted to these secretory vesicles. When the cells were stimulated with nicotine 48 h after transduction, the fractional loss of fluorescent LDCVs was much greater t...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Wiegand UK,Duncan RR,Greaves J,Chow RH,Shipston MJ,Apps DK

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane contact sites (MCSs) are subcellular regions where the membranes of distinct organelles come into close apposition. These specialized areas of the cell, which are involved in inter-organelle metabolite exchange, are scaffolded by specific complexes. STARD3 [StAR (steroidogenic acute regulatory protein)-relate...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Wilhelm LP,Tomasetto C,Alpy F

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human colonic microbiota degrades dietary substrates that are indigestible in the upper GIT (gastrointestinal tract), releasing bacterial metabolites, some of which are important for gut health. Advances in molecular biology techniques have facilitated detailed analyses of the composition of the bacterial communit...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Scott KP,Duncan SH,Louis P,Flint HJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular pathogens survive in eukaryotic cells by evading a variety of host defences. To avoid degradation through the endocytic pathway, intracellular bacteria must adapt their phagosomes into protective compartments that promote bacterial replication. Legionella pneumophila and Coxiella burnetii are Gram-negati...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Hardiman CA,McDonough JA,Newton HJ,Roy CR

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：:Resveratrol (3,4',5-trihydroxystilbene) is found in various plants, including grapes, berries and peanuts. It is also present in wines, especially red wines. During the last years, it has been the focus of numerous in vitro and in vivo studies investigating its biological attributes, which include mainly antioxidant a...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： de la Lastra CA,Villegas I

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IRF [IFN (interferon) regulatory factor] family of transcription factors control many cellular processes, including induction of key antiviral cytokines, type I IFNs, following viral infection. Recent studies have revealed several endogenous and viral proteins involved in ubiquitin-mediated regulation of IRF activ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Higgs R,Jefferies CA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis, one of the major human inherited diseases, is caused by defects in the CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator), a cell-membrane protein. CFTR acts as a chloride channel which can be opened by ATP. Low-resolution structural studies of purified recombinant human CFTR are described in ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Awayn NH,Rosenberg MF,Kamis AB,Aleksandrov LA,Riordan JR,Ford RC

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitination is a fundamental post-translational modification that regulates almost all aspects of cellular signalling and is ultimately catalysed by the action of E3 ubiquitin ligases. The RING-between-RING (RBR) family of E3 ligases encompasses 14 distinct human enzymes that are defined by a unique domain organisa...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Cotton TR,Lechtenberg BC

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The statins, simvastatin and atorvastatin are the most widely prescribed drugs. Statins lower cholesterol levels through their action on HMG-CoA (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA) reductase, an essential enzyme for the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Fungal HMG-CoA reductases are also inhibited by statins, resulting in red...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Wikhe K,Westermeyer C,Macreadie IG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An RNA world has been placed centre stage for explaining the origin of life. Indeed, RNA is the most plausible molecule able to form both a (self)-replicator and to inherit information, necessities for initiating genetics. However, in parallel with self-replication, the proto-organism had to obtain the ability to cata...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Ralser M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved lysosome-mediated degradation and recycling process, which functions in cellular homeostasis and stress adaptation. The process is highly dynamic and involves autophagosome synthesis, cargo recognition and transport, autophagosome-lysosome fusion, and cargo degradation. The mul...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Yang KC,Sathiyaseelan P,Ho C,Gorski SM

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00