Pathophysiology, pleiotrophy and paradigm shifts: genetic lessons from Parkinson's disease.

abstract：:The PDE4 (phosphodiesterase-4) enzyme family consists of a distinct array of N-terminal splice variant isoforms arising from four subfamily genes (4A, 4B, 4C and 4D). These all hydrolyse specifically the intracellular second messenger cAMP. Although identical in catalytic function, each isoform appears to serve a non-...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Lynch MJ,Baillie GS,Houslay MD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid biosynthesis is catalysed in most bacteria by a group of highly conserved proteins known as the Type II fatty acid synthase (FAS) system. The Type II system organization is distinct from its mammalian counterpart and offers several unique sites for selective inhibition by antibacterial agents. There has bee...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Marrakchi H,Zhang YM,Rock CO

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PGs (prostaglandins) are synthesized through the cyclo-oxygenase (COX-1 and -2) pathway in a variety of cells in response to various physiological stimuli. All cells require at least one pathway for apoptosis, and mitochondrial play a central role in regulation of apoptosis. In a previous study, incubation of A549 cel...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Fang KM,Shu WH,Chang HC,Wang JJ,Mak OT

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fluctuating environmental conditions, organisms must modulate their bioenergetic production in order to maintain cellular homeostasis for optimal fitness. Mitochondria are hubs for metabolite and energy generation. Mitochondria are also highly dynamic in their function: modulating their composition, size, density, ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Tsuboi T,Leff J,Zid BM

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Collaborative communication lies at the centre of multicellular life. Gap junctions (GJs) are surface membrane structures that allow direct communication between cells. They were discovered in the 1960s following the convergence of the detection of low-resistance electrical interactions between cells and anatomical st...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Evans WH

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:After the discovery of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) as a risk factor for sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD) and mutations in LRRK2 as a cause of some forms of familial PD, there has been substantial interest in finding chemical modulators of LRRK2 function. Most of the pathogenic mutations in LRRK2 are within t...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Mortiboys H

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:[Ca(2+)](i) (intracellular Ca(2+) concentration) oscillations play a central role in the activation of T-lymphocytes by antigen. Oscillations in T-cells are absolutely dependent on Ca(2+) influx through store-operated CRAC channels (Ca(2+)-release-activated Ca(2+) channels), and evidence suggests that they arise from ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Lewis RS

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and synthesis of SpmTrien (1,12-diamino-3,6,9-triazadodecane), an isosteric and charge-deficient analogue of spermine with excellent chelating properties towards Cu(2+) ions, as well as novel N(1)- and N(12)-Ac-SpmTriens and bis-Et-SpmTrien (N(1),N(12)-diethyl-1,12-diamino-3,6,9-triazadodecane) are describe...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Khomutov AR,Grigorenko NA,Skuridin SG

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prelamin A is the precursor protein of lamin A, a major constituent of the nuclear lamina in higher eukaryotes. Increasing attention to prelamin A processing and function has been given after the discovery, from 2002 to 2004, of diseases caused by prelamin A accumulation. These diseases, belonging to the group of lami...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Lattanzi G

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deposition of protein aggregates in various parts of our body gives rise to several devastating diseases, and the development of probes for the selective detection of aggregated proteins is crucial to advance our understanding of the pathogenesis underlying these diseases. LCPs (luminescent conjugated polythiophen...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Klingstedt T,Nilsson KP

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As beta-secretase, memapsin 2 cleaves amyloid-beta precursor protein, which leads ultimately to the onset of Alzheimer's disease. As such, memapsin 2 is an excellent target of inhibitor drugs for the treatment of this disease. Here we describe the tools for memapsin 2 inhibitor design that have been developed and resu...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Hong L,Turner RT 3rd,Koelsch G,Ghosh AK,Tang J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence supports the view that LDs (lipid droplets) are dynamic organelles that can serve both as an intracellular signalling compartment and as an organizing platform orchestrating many vital processes in eukaryotic cells. It has become clear that the LDs-confined deposition and lipolytic degradation of neut...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Goldberg AA,Bourque SD,Kyryakov P,Boukh-Viner T,Gregg C,Beach A,Burstein MT,Machkalyan G,Richard V,Rampersad S,Titorenko VI

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LRRK2 mutation is the most common inherited, autosomal dominant cause of Parkinson's disease (PD) and has also been observed in sporadic cases. Most mutations result in increased LRRK2 kinase activity. LRRK2 is highly expressed in brain regions that receive dense, convergent innervation by dopaminergic and glutamaterg...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Benson DL,Matikainen-Ankney BA,Hussein A,Huntley GW

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Large single crystals (up to 1 mm in each dimension) of the B800-850 antenna complex from Rhodopseudomonas acidophila strain 10050 have been grown in the presence of beta-octyl-glucoside. These crystals have the space group R32 and unit cell dimensions of a = b = 119.9 A and c = 297.0 A. Recently we have improved our ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Cogdell RJ,Halloren E,Hawthornthwaite AM,Thunnissen MM,Freer AA,McDermott G,Guthrie N,Isaacs N,Lindsay JG,Papiz M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ets family of eukaryotic transcription factors is based around the conserved Ets DNA-binding domain. Although their DNA-binding selectivity is biochemically and structurally well characterized, structures of homodimeric and ternary complexes point to Ets domains functioning as versatile protein-interaction modules...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Cooper CD,Newman JA,Gileadi O

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting of estrogen receptor is commonly used as a first-line treatment for hormone-positive breast cancer patients, and is considered as a keystone of systemic cancer therapy. Likewise, HER2-targeted therapy significantly improved the survival of HER2-positive breast cancer patients, indicating that targeted therap...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Lev S

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cat family of genes have revealed unexpected complexity and regulation. The first 5 years of research have been productive, yet many important questions remain to be addressed. A major problem for the field of amino acid transport is a severe paucity of data on the structure of these proteins and their arrangement...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： MacLeod CL

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The avascular nature of the human intervertebral disc is thought to reduce the ability of resident disc cells to maintain their extracellular matrix, rendering the tissue susceptible to degeneration. It has also been suggested that the lack of a blood supply may result in disc cell death via nutrient deprivation. Ther...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Johnson WE,Roberts S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) were originally thought to only be released by phagocytic cells during their role in host defence. It is now clear that ROS have a cell signalling role in many biological systems, both in animals and in plants. ROS induce programmed cell death or necrosis, induce or suppress the expressio...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Hancock JT,Desikan R,Neill SJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cdc (cell division cycle) 45 protein has a central role in the regulation of the initiation and elongation stages of eukaryotic chromosomal DNA replication. In addition, it is the main target for a Chk1 (checkpoint kinase 1)-dependent Cdc25/CDK2 (cyclin-dependent kinase 2)-independent DNA damage checkpoint signal ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Broderick R,Nasheuer HP

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTB (polypyrimidine tract-binding protein) is an abundant and widely expressed RNA-binding protein with four RRM (RNA recognition motif) domains. PTB is involved in numerous post-transcriptional steps in gene expression in both the nucleus and cytoplasm, but has been best characterized as a regulatory repressor of som...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Kafasla P,Mickleburgh I,Llorian M,Coelho M,Gooding C,Cherny D,Joshi A,Kotik-Kogan O,Curry S,Eperon IC,Jackson RJ,Smith CW

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation by protein kinases is a fundamental mechanism of signal transduction. Many kinase families contain one or several members that, although evolutionarily conserved, lack the residues required for catalytic activity. Studies combining structural, biochemical, and functional approaches revealed that these ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Elías-Villalobos A,Fort P,Helmlinger D

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria during pregnancy is caused when parasite-infected erythrocytes accumulate within the placenta through interactions between the VAR2CSA protein on the infected erythrocyte surface and placental CSPGs (chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans). This interaction is the major target for therapeutics to treat or prevent p...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Khunrae P,Higgins MK

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sucrose non-fermenting 1 (Snf1) protein kinase, a yeast homologue of mammalian AMP-activated protein kinase, plays a main role in transcriptional activation and repression of gene expression. In addition, Snf1 kinase has a broad role in the cellular response to several forms of stress, such as nutrient limitation, sal...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Sanz P

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:The PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase) family of lipid kinases regulate cell motility in diverse organisms and cell types. In mammals, the main PI3K enzyme activated by chemokine receptor signalling is the class IB isoform, p110gamma. Studies of p110gamma-knockout mice have shown an essential function for this isoform i...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Oak JS,Matheu MP,Parker I,Cahalan MD,Fruman DA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) are important signalling enzymes in most cell types. Recent gene targeting studies have shed light on the importance of this family of lipid kinases in the immune system, and the complex mechanisms by which these kinases are regulated in vivo. We have recently reported a phenotype of...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Okkenhaug K,Vanhaesebroeck B

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex brains have developed specialized mechanisms for the grouping of principal cells into temporal coalitions of local or distant networks: the inhibitory interneuron 'clocking' networks. They consist of GABAergic (where GABA is gamma-aminobutyric acid) interneurons of a rich diversity. In cortical circuits, these...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Möhler H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of natural tissues, organs and bodies depends on mechanisms of patterning and of morphogenesis, typically (but not invariably) in that order, and often several times at different final scales. Using synthetic biology to engineer patterning and morphogenesis will both enhance our basic understanding of ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Davies JA,Glykofrydis F

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00