Resveratrol suppresses tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced fractalkine expression in endothelial cells.

abstract：:In order to elucidate the key atoms and/or stereostructures necessary for the inhibitory emergence of aldose reductase, crystal structure determinations were carried out for 11 oxazolecarbamate analogues, which have similar chemical and physicochemical properties but different inhibitory activities. The molecular conf...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Ishida T,In Y,Ohishi H,Yamamoto D,Inoue M,Tanaka C,Ueno Y,Ohmomo Y,Kanda N,Tanaka A

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartyl aminopeptidase (DNPEP) has been implicated in the control of angiotensin signaling and endosome trafficking, but its precise biologic roles remain incompletely defined. We performed a high-throughput screen of ∼25,000 small molecules to identify inhibitors of DNPEP for use as tools to study its biologic funct...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Chen Y,Tang H,Seibel W,Papoian R,Oh K,Li X,Zhang J,Golczak M,Palczewski K,Kiser PD

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healing of gastrointestinal mucosal lesions occurs through two processes: an early one involving cell migration and a later one in which cell division replaces lost cells. Both processes require the presence of polyamines, but the mechanism of action of these compounds is unknown. In the present study, we examined the...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： McCormack SA,Zimmerman BJ,Israel M,Blanner P,Johnson LR

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we provide evidence for the coexpression of two distinct prostacyclin (PGI(2)) receptors (IP) on BEAS-2B human airway epithelial cells. IP receptor heterogeneity initially was suggested by the finding that the rank orders of potency of PGI(2) and three structurally similar analogs [taprostene, iloprost, 15-deox...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Wilson SM,Sheddan NA,Newton R,Giembycz MA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used transcript-specific oligonucleotides to examine the localization in the rat nervous system of the corresponding mRNAs for the two P2X purinoceptor genes cloned recently from the rat vas deferens and PC12 cells. PC12 P2X purinoceptor mRNA was labeled in the olfactory tubercle, striatum, hypothalamus, hippocampu...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kidd EJ,Grahames CB,Simon J,Michel AD,Barnard EA,Humphrey PP

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deletion of Phe-508 (DeltaPhe508) constitutes the most prevalent of a number of mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) that cause cystic fibrosis (CF). This mutation leads to CFTR misfolding and retention in the endoplasmic reticulum, as well as impaired channel activity. The b...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Wellhauser L,Kim Chiaw P,Pasyk S,Li C,Ramjeesingh M,Bear CE

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bile salt export pump (BSEP/ABCB11) transports bile salts from hepatocytes into bile canaliculi. Its malfunction is associated with severe liver disease. One reason for functional impairment of BSEP is systemic administration of drugs, which as a side effect inhibit the transporter. Therefore, drug candidates are ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Sohail MI,Schmid D,Wlcek K,Spork M,Szakács G,Trauner M,Stockner T,Chiba P

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling by G-protein-coupled receptors is often considered a uniform process, whereby a homogeneously activated proportion of randomly distributed receptors are activated under equilibrium conditions and produce homogeneous, steady-state intracellular signals. While this may be the case in some biologic systems, the...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Lohse MJ,Hofmann KP

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exofacial part of transmembrane domain 5 (TMD 5) of the cationic amine-binding subclass of 7-transmembrane receptors is thought to be important in binding the side chain of the agonist. Residues Ile-188 through Ala-196 in TMD 5 of the M(1) muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) have been studied by Cys- and Ala...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Allman K,Page KM,Curtis CA,Hulme EC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the expected phenotypic behavior of all types of ligands in constitutively active receptor systems and, in particular, the molecular mechanisms of inverse agonism. The possible physiological relevance of inverse agonism also is discussed. Competitive antagonists with the molecular property of ne...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kenakin T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently developed stable isotope dilution liquid chromatography-multiple reaction/mass spectrometry method to quantify focal adhesion kinase (FAK) activation loop phosphorylation was used to study endogenous Src kinase activity. This revealed that bis-phosphorylated pTyr(576)/Tyr(577)-FAK was a biomarker of Src act...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Ciccimaro E,Hanks SK,Blair IA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor (GnRH-R) of the African catfish couples to phospholipase C and belongs to the large family of G protein-coupled receptors. We recently demonstrated that removal of the carboxyl-terminal tail (S331-Q379) from the catfish GnRH-R results in a loss of agonist binding; the curren...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Blomenröhr M,Heding A,Sellar R,Leurs R,Bogerd J,Eidne KA,Willars GB

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At central excitatory synapses, the transient elevation of intracellular calcium reduces N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor activity. Such 'calcium-dependent inactivation' is mediated by interactions of calcium/calmodulin and alpha-actinin with the C terminus of NMDA receptor 1 (NR1) subunit. However, inactivation i...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Vissel B,Krupp JJ,Heinemann SF,Westbrook GL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A methylcholanthrene-induced rat sarcoma that can be propagated in vitro or in vivo was evaluated for resistance to antifolates and was found to be relatively resistant to methotrexate and 10-ethyl-10-deazaaminopterin but sensitive to trimetrexate. Rat sarcoma cell extracts contained low levels of dihydrofolate reduct...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Li WW,Lin JT,Schweitzer BI,Bertino JR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-penetrating peptides are amphipathic or cationic oligopeptides able to transport covalently attached cargoes across cell membranes. Peptide aptamers are polypeptide fragments of endogenous proteins that mimic and thus perturb interactions with other cellular proteins. Combining aptamer and CPP technology can gene...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Eiden LE

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new olivacine derivative S16020-2 (NSC-659687) is a DNA topoisomerase II inhibitor endowed with a remarkable antitumor activity against various experimental tumors. In vitro physicochemical properties of this compound, in particular its interaction with DNA and DNA topoisomerase II, were very similar to those of e...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Le Mée S,Chaminade F,Delaporte C,Markovits J,Saucier JM,Jacquemin-Sablon A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-gated purinergic receptors (P2XRs) are a family of cation-permeable channels that conduct Ca(2+) and facilitate voltage-sensitive Ca(2+) entry in excitable cells. To study Ca(2+) signaling by P2XRs and its dependence on voltage-sensitive Ca(2+) influx, we expressed eight cloned P2XR subtypes individually in gonado...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Koshimizu TA,Van Goor F,Tomić M,Wong AO,Tanoue A,Tsujimoto G,Stojilkovic SS

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptor kinases (GRKs) play a key role in the process of receptor homologous desensitization. In the present study, we address the question of whether a variety of receptors coupled to different G protein subtypes and naturally expressed on the same cell are selectively regulated by GRK2. The signal...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Iacovelli L,Franchetti R,Grisolia D,De Blasi A

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4-PIOL is a structural analog of GABA that has low efficacy at GABAA receptor CI- channels and activates a nondesensitizing CI- conductance in central neurons. We investigated the biophysical mechanisms of its low efficacy in embryonic olfactory bulb neurons, which express a limited number of GABAA receptor subunit tr...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kristiansen U,Barker JL,Serafini R

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the search for 1-[(2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl]-6-(phenylthio)thymine derivatives, we have found 6-benzyl-1-(ethoxymethyl)-5-isopropyl-uracil (MKC-442) to be a highly potent and selective inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase (RT). The IC50 value of MKC-442 for HIV-1 RT was 8 nM....

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Yuasa S,Sadakata Y,Takashima H,Sekiya K,Inouye N,Ubasawa M,Baba M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the nucleic acid sequence encoding a human 5-hydroxytryptamine1D (5-HT1D) serotonin receptor and some of the functional characteristics of the gene product. The receptor gene was isolated by hybridization to a probe based on a canine thyroid cDNA (called RDC4) previously isolated by others and believed to ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Hamblin MW,Metcalf MA

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthracyclines are effective anticancer agents. However, their use is limited by cardiotoxicity, an effect linked to their ability to chelate iron and to perturb iron metabolism (Mol Pharmacol 68:261-271, 2005). These effects on iron-trafficking remain poorly understood, but they are important to decipher because trea...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Xu X,Sutak R,Richardson DR

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel cloned polymorphism of the human concentrative nucleoside transporter hCNT3 was described and functionally characterized. This variant consists of a T/C transition leading to the substitution of cysteine 602 by an arginine residue in the core of transmembrane domain 13. The resulting hCNT3(C602R) protein has t...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Errasti-Murugarren E,Cano-Soldado P,Pastor-Anglada M,Casado FJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is the only solid organ that can respond to major tissue loss or damage by regeneration to restore liver biomass. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonist 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) can disrupt the regenerative process, as evidenced by suppression of DNA synthesis in rat primary hepatocyte...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Huang G,Elferink CJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 90-kDa heat shock family (HSP90) of protein and two-component histidine kinases, although quite distinct at the primary amino acid sequence level, share a common structural ATP-binding domain known as the Bergerat fold. The Bergerat fold is important for the ATPase activity and associated chaperone function of HSP...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Besant PG,Lasker MV,Bui CD,Turck CW

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to cisplatin, one of the most widely used anticancer chemotherapeutic agents, is a major clinical problem. There is no effective way to predict development of cisplatin resistance in cancers. As determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting, the expression of gamma-caten...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Liang XJ,Shen DW,Gottesman MM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoform-specific expression of endothelin-converting enzyme (ECE)-1, the major big endothelin-processing enzyme, is controlled by alternative promoters. Signaling pathways and transcriptional mechanisms of ECE-1 mRNA expression are largely unknown. To investigate ECE-1 isoform expression after protein kinase C (PKC) a...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Orzechowski HD,Günther A,Menzel S,Zimmermann A,Funke-Kaiser H,Real R,Subkowski T,Zollmann FS,Paul M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-activating factor (PAF) receptor-coupled activation of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC) was studied in platelets that were made refractory, by short-term pretreatments, to either PAF or thrombin. Generation of [3H]inositol triphosphate ( [3H]IP3) was monitored specifically for this purpose. [3H...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Morrison WJ,Shukla SD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATM and NBS1, mutation of which lead to the human autosomal recessive diseases ataxia telangiectasia and Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), respectively, are essential elements in the cellular response to DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation (IR). ATM is a member of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase family and is a...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Cariveau MJ,Tang X,Cui XL,Xu B

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance protein 1 (MRP1) is a member of the "C" branch of the ATP-binding cassette transporter superfamily. The NH(2)-proximal nucleotide-binding domain (NBD1) of MRP1 differs functionally from its COOH-proximal domain (NBD2). NBD1 displays intrinsic high-affinity ATP binding and little ATPase activity. I...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Payen L,Gao M,Westlake C,Theis A,Cole SP,Deeley RG

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00