Mining for allosteric information: natural mutations and positional sequence conservation in pyruvate kinase.

abstract：:Treatment of microsomes (preferably enriched with endoplasmic reticulum) isolated from bovine pulmonary artery smooth muscle tissue with the O2*- -generating system (hypoxanthine (HPX) plus xanthine oxidase (XO)), markedly stimulated matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) activity and also enhanced Ca2+ ATPase activity an...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Mandal A,Chakraborti T,Das S,Ghosh B,Ghosh A,Chakraborti S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological evidence demonstrates that diets rich in fruit and vegetables promote health, and attenuate, or delay, the onset of various diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, certain cancers, and several other age-related degenerative disorders. The chemical components and the physiological and mole...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Fraga CG

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of a genetic component in mycobacterial disease susceptibility is no longer in doubt and the investigations now being conducted aim to determine which genes are involved, to what extent, and in which disease phenotype they are relevant. In certain rare instances of susceptibility to poorly pathogenic myc...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Hoal EG

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 10th jubilee conference (IPK2019) took place on September 15-19, 2019 in Warsaw, on the Ochota campus as the IUBMB Focused Meeting entitled "Inhibitors of Protein Kinases. Kinase inhibitors in target biology and disease". ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Poznanski J,Fabbro D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered activity of the proteolytic machine-the 26S proteasome is observed in many disease conditions. Hence, either inhibition or activation of the 26S proteasome is thought to be a novel therapy for treatment of certain diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. In this study, we tested the potential o...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Gopalakrishnan S,Ediga HH,Reddy SS,Reddy GB,Ismail A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular matrix (ECM)-independent survival is an essential prerequisite for tumor metastasis, and a hallmark of epithelial cancer stem cells and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Here, we found that loss of TP53I11 enhanced, and overexpression of TP53I11 suppressed the ECM-independent survival, EMT, and mi...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Xiao T,Xu Z,Zhou Y,Zhang H,Geng J,Liang Y,Qiao H,Suo G

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensive post-transcriptional modification of U2 snRNA is required for spliceosome assembly and pre-mRNA splicing in vertebrates. However, the rare modification of U2 snRNA in yeast implies a different mechanism for regulating spliceosome biogenesis in single-celled eukaryotes. To understand the evolutionary patt...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Huang ZP,Zhou H,Qu LH

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was expected to reveal the regulatory effects of lncRNA UCA1 on pancreatic cancer cell progression through targeting miR-96/FOXO3. Microarray analysis was carried out on 36 cases of pancreatic cancer tissues and 16 cases of adjacent tissues among them. Expression levels of lncRNA UCA1, miR-96, and FOXO3 in ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Zhou Y,Chen Y,Ding W,Hua Z,Wang L,Zhu Y,Qian H,Dai T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cancer microenvironment and the interactions between cancer and surrounding tissue cells are thought to play a pivotal role in tumor development and progression. Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs)/proteoglycans (PGs) are major constituents of the extracellular matrix, the composition of which may affect various cellular fu...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Chatzinikolaou G,Nikitovic D,Asimakopoulou A,Tsatsakis A,Karamanos NK,Tzanakakis GN

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we intended to determine the detailed function and mechanism of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) colorectal neoplasia differentially expressed (CRNDE) in liver injury induced by sepsis. Cecal ligation and perforation (CLP) models were adopted to induce sepsis in vivo with rats, and hepatic epithelial cells L...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Li Y,Song J,Xie Z,Liu M,Sun K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium is an essential component of several enzymes and proteins in a number of methane-producing archae. Information concerning accessory proteins that function in selenium transport processes, however, is limited. A novel selenium-binding protein with a potential transport role and a selenocysteine lyase that serv...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Stadtman T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation end-products comprise a complex and heterogeneous group of compounds that have been implicated in diabetes-related complications. The importance of the Maillard reaction is depicted by the formation of reactive intermediate products known as α-oxoaldehydes, such as 3-deoxyglucosone (3-DG). This prod...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ashraf JM,Ahmad S,Rabbani G,Jan AT,Lee EJ,Khan RH,Choi I

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to confirm protein-protein interaction between cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) and caveolins. The interaction of cyclooxygenase-1 and caveolins in the cultured human embryonic kidney (HEK 293) cells was investigated using immuno-precipitation and Western blot analysis. In HEK 293 cells, high lev...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Cha SH,Jung NH,Kim BR,Kim HW,Kwak JO

更新日期：2004-04-01 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 vivo site-directed mutagenesis by single-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid recombineering is a facile method to change the color of fluorescent proteins (FPs) without cloning. Two different starting alleles of GFP were targeted for mutagenesis: gfpmut3* residing in the Escherichia coli genome and egfp carried by a bac...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Valledor M,Hu Q,Schiller P,Myers RS

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) regulates remodeling of the left ventricle after myocardial infarction (MI) and is tightly linked to the inflammatory response. The inflammatory response serves to recruit leukocytes as part of the wound healing reaction to the MI injury, and infiltrated leukocytes produce cytokines ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Deleon-Pennell KY,Altara R,Yabluchanskiy A,Modesti A,Lindsey ML

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How should a protein be designed to serve in processes as diverse as chromosome condensation, sister chromatid cohesion, DNA recombination, gene dosage regulation, and perhaps even gene silencing or transcriptional regulation--which occur in both mitosis and meiosis? Such a protein or protein complex needs to bear DNA...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Jessberger R

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:To further understand the role of the three conserved Val residues in insulin, B12Val, B18Val, and A3Val, five insulin mutants-[A3Ser]insulin, [B12Thr]insulin, (desB30)[B12Ser]insulin, [B18Thr] insulin, and [B18Leu]insulin--were obtained by means of site-directed mutagenesis and their receptor-binding activities as we...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Guo ZY,Tang YH,Zhang Z,Feng YM

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in the initiation and progression of various cancers, including laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC). Recently, lncRNA Sox2 overlapping transcript (SOX2-OT) has been identified as an oncogene in various cancers. However, the functional role and the regulatory mech...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Tai Y,Ji Y,Liu F,Zang Y,Xu D,Ma S,Qin L,Ma J

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:The best known NADPH oxidase is that of phagocytes-neutrophils and monocytes. In these cells, the enzyme manufactures large quantities of O2- and other reactive oxidants that are used for the purpose of killing invading microorganisms. Recent studies, however, have suggested that a number of other tissues contain NADP...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Babior BM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine is a powerful central nervous stimulant and among the most abused of drugs. Despite decades of efforts, however, no effective pharmacological treatments are available against cocaine addiction or toxic effects. Classical receptor-antagonist therapeutic approaches have not yielded significant effects, although ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ascenzi P,Clementi E,Polticelli F

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining two analytical techniques, HPLC and liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry, the orientation of liposomal membrane-bound melittin was analyzed through its trypsin-digested products. We found that trypsin can access all proteolytic sites of the membrane-bound melittin when the liposomes have no transmembrane p...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Niu W,Wu Y,Sui SF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal-type natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) is an aggressive malignancy with poor survival outcomes that is relatively resistant to chemotherapy. N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) modification, the most prevalent modification of eukaryotic messenger RNA, is involved in the progression of various tumors. However, it is un...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ma H,Shen L,Yang H,Gong H,Du X,Li J

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer related inflammation (CRI) is now recognized as the seventh hallmark in the pathogenesis of many types of malignancies. Paeonol, a natural phenolic component isolated from the root bark of Paeonia moutan, has significant anti-inflammatory activity. Recently, accumulating body of research has revealed potent ant...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Zhang L,Tao L,Shi T,Zhang F,Sheng X,Cao Y,Zheng S,Wang A,Qian W,Jiang L,Lu Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) is a gaseous transmitter that is known to be involved in several physiological processes, but surprisingly it is also becoming a promising molecule to treat several pathologies including stroke and cancer. CO can cross the plasma membrane and activate guanylate cyclase, increasing the cGMP concent...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Retamal MA,León-Paravic CG,Ezquer M,Ezquer F,Del Rio R,Pupo A,Martínez AD,González C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern cell-free in vitro protein synthesis systems present powerful tools for the synthesis of isotope-labeled proteins in high yields. The production of selectively 15 N-labeled proteins from 15 N-labeled amino acids is particularly economic and yields are often sufficient to analyze the proteins very quickly by two...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ozawa K,Dixon NE,Otting G

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00