Daxx mediates SUMO-dependent transcriptional control and subnuclear compartmentalization.

abstract：:Identified five decades ago amongst the most abundant cellular RNAs, small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) were initially described as serving as guides for the methylation and pseudouridylation of ribosomal RNA through direct base pairing. In recent years, however, increasingly powerful high-throughput genomic approaches an...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Bergeron D,Fafard-Couture É,Scott MS

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel strategy to treat anxiety and fear-related disorders such as phobias, panic and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is combining CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), including extinction-based exposure therapy, with cognitive enhancers. By targeting and boosting mechanisms underlying learning, drug developme...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Whittle N,Singewald N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin polymerization is harnessed by cells to generate lamellipodia for movement and by a subclass of pathogens to facilitate invasion of their infected hosts. Using electron tomography (ET), we have shown that lamellipodia are formed via the generation of subsets of actin filaments joined by branch junctions. Image a...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Small JV

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MUPs (major urinary proteins) play an important role in chemical signalling in rodents and possibly other animals. In the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) MUPs in urine and other bodily fluids trigger a range of behavioural responses that are only partially understood. There are at least 21 Mup genes in the C57BL...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Phelan MM,McLean L,Hurst JL,Beynon RJ,Lian LY

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African trypanosomes have plastic genomes with extensive variability at the chromosome ends. The genes encoding the expressed major surface protein of the infective bloodstream form stages of Trypanosoma brucei and are located at telomeres. These telomeric expression-site transcription units are turning out to be surp...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Rudenko G

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglyceryl-N,N,N-trimethylhomoserine (DGTS) belongs to a family of three known betaine lipids. It is synthesized by a number of bacteria, fungi, brown, red and green algae, in addition to lichens, and is also found in higher plants Bryophyta, Equisetophyta and Polydiophyta. It has been determined that DGTS plants ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Rozentsvet OA,Saksonov SV

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of traits beneficial for cultivation and yield is one of the main goals of crop improvement. One of the targets for enhancing productivity is changing the architecture of inflorescences since in many species it determines fruit and seed yield. Inflorescence shape and organization is genetically established ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Caselli F,Zanarello F,Kater MM,Battaglia R,Gregis V

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A decline in mitochondrial function has long been shown to exist in neurodegenerative disease. Whether this decline is a secondary consequence of other factors or whether it causes the eventual death of a cell is unknown. In this review, we will discuss some of the major evidence surrounding mitochondrial DNA mutation...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Krishnan KJ,Reeve AK,Turnbull DM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CT responds to properties of PC-depleted membranes: increased negative charge density, which concentrates the enzyme at the membrane surface, and lipid packing perturbations, which create holes in the membrane surface into which the hydrophobic side chains of the amphipathic helix of domain M can intercalate. The PC-d...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Cornell RB

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucus plays a vital role in protecting the lungs from environmental factors, but conversely, in muco-obstructive airway disease, mucus becomes pathologic. In its protective role, mucus entraps microbes and particles removing them from the lungs via the co-ordinated beating of motile cilia. This mechanism of lung defen...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Ridley C,Thornton DJ

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the intracellular microenvironment of active muscle tissue, high rates of respiration are maintained at near-limiting oxygen concentrations. The respiration of isolated heart mitochondria is a hyperbolic function of oxygen concentration and half-maximal rates were obtained at 0.4 and 0.7 microM O(2) with substrates...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Gnaiger E,Kuznetsov AV

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroid hormone progesterone regulates many critical aspects of vertebrate physiology. The nuclear receptor for progesterone functions as a ligand-activated transcription factor, directly regulating gene expression. This type of signalling is referred to as the 'genomic' pathway. Nevertheless, progesterone also st...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Moussatche P,Lyons TJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Biotin, which serves as a carboxyl group carrier in reactions catalyzed by biotin-dependent carboxylases, is essential for life in most organisms. To function in carboxylate transfer, the vitamin must be post-translationally linked to a specific lysine residue on the biotin carboxyl carrier (BCC) of a carboxylase in a...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Beckett D

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate transporters are essential for terminating synaptic excitation and for maintaining extracellular glutamate concentrations below neurotoxic levels. These transporters also mediate a thermodynamically uncoupled chloride flux that is activated by two of the molecules that they transport - sodium and glutamate. ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Kanner BI,Kavanaugh MP,Bendahan A

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general strategy is described for the amplified expression, purification and characterization in Escherichia coli of multidrug efflux proteins from Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Methanococcus janaschii and E. coli. They all catalyse drug/H(+) antiport of substrates such as quinolones and ethidium and exe...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Henderson PJ,Hoyle CK,Ward A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vascular endothelium, adherens junctions between endothelial cells are composed of VE-cadherin (vascular endothelial cadherin), an adhesive receptor that is crucial for the proper assembly of vascular structures and the maintenance of vascular integrity. As a classical cadherin, VE-cadherin links endothelial cells ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Taveau JC,Dubois M,Le Bihan O,Trépout S,Almagro S,Hewat E,Durmort C,Heyraud S,Gulino-Debrac D,Lambert O

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified two basic residues that are important for the recognition of secretin and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) by their respective receptors. These two peptides containing an Asp residue at position 3 interacted with an arginine residue in transmembrane helix 2 (TM2) of the receptor, and the lysine r...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Waelbroeck M,Perret J,Vertongen P,Van Craenenbroeck M,Robberecht P

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure-based design has gained credibility as a valuable component of the modern drug discovery process. The technique of SSNMR (solid-state NMR) promises to be a useful counterpart to the conventional experimental techniques of X-ray crystallography and solution-state NMR for providing structural features of drug ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Middleton DA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster flightless I protein and its homologues in higher eukaryotes (FliI) are conserved members of the gelsolin family of actin-binding proteins. Members of the gelsolin family generally contain three or six copies of a 125-amino-acid residue gelsolin-related repeating unit, and may contain addit...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Archer SK,Behm CA,Claudianos C,Campbell HD

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaphase B spindle elongation plays an important role in chromosome segregation. In the present paper, we discuss our model for anaphase B in Drosophila syncytial embryos, in which spindle elongation depends on an ip (interpolar) MT (microtubule) sliding filament mechanism generated by homotetrameric kinesin-5 motors ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Brust-Mascher I,Scholey JM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biophysical techniques developed during the last three decades have provided an increasingly detailed description of the internal processes associated with ligand capture and release by haem proteins. Myoglobin has long been the paradigm for these studies. More recently, cytochrome P450cam (the camphor-metabolizing cy...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Lavalette D,Tétreau C,Mouawad L

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:VEGFs (vascular endothelial growth factors) are master regulators of vascular development and of blood and lymphatic vessel function during health and disease in adults. This family of five mammalian ligands acts through three RTKs (receptor tyrosine kinases). In addition, co-receptors such as NRPs (neuropilins) assoc...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Koch S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a disease such as cancer, where a number of alterations to normal cell function accumulate over time, there are several opportunities to inhibit, slow down or even reverse the process. Many of the changes which drive the disease process occur in cell-signalling pathways that regulate proliferation and apoptosis. A...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Manson MM,Holloway KA,Howells LM,Hudson EA,Plummer SM,Squires MS,Prigent SA

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:Synthetic gene circuits allow us to govern cell behavior in a programmable manner, which is central to almost any application aiming to harness engineered living cells for user-defined tasks. Transcription factors (TFs) constitute the 'classic' tool for synthetic circuit construction but some of their inherent constra...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Santos-Moreno J,Schaerli Y

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-bond formation is the enzymatic activity of the ribosome. The catalytic site is made up of ribosomal RNA, indicating that the ribosome is a ribozyme. This review summarizes the recent progress in understanding the mechanism of peptide bond formation. The results of biochemical and kinetic experiments, mutagene...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Rodnina MV,Beringer M,Bieling P

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MNDs (motor neuron diseases) form a heterogeneous group of pathologies characterized by the progressive degeneration of motor neurons. More and more genetic factors associated with MND encode proteins that have a function in RNA metabolism, suggesting that disturbed RNA metabolism could be a common underlying problem ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Achsel T,Barabino S,Cozzolino M,Carrì MT

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tandem repeats (TR) in proteins are common in nature and have several unique functions. They come in various forms that are frequently difficult to recognize from a sequence. A previously proposed structural classification has been recently implemented in the RepeatsDB database. This defines five main classes, mainly ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Paladin L,Tosatto SC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00