Heparin--a unique stimulator of human colon cancer cells' growth.

abstract：:The expression of the cytM gene, which encodes cytochrome cM in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, is induced under stress conditions such as low temperature. Results of spectrophotometric studies revealed that cytochrome cM was oxidized by light absorbed by photosystem I in cells that had acclimatized to a low temperature. ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Shuvalov VA,Allakhverdiev SI,Sakamoto A,Malakhov M,Murata N

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetyl-seryl-aspartyl-lysyl-proline (Ac-SDKP) is a critical negative regulator of fibrosis development in the liver. However, its extremely short half-life in vivo greatly compromises its potential applications. Here, we report an Ac-SDKP analog peptide with d-amino acid replacement (Ac-SDD KD P). The stability of A...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Zhang X,Zhou J,Zhu Y,He L,Pang Z,Wang Z,Xu C,Zhang C,Hao Q,Li W,Zhang W,Zhang Y,Li M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of free radicals and the resulting oxidative modification of cell structures are omnipresent in mammalian cells. This includes the permanent oxidation of proteins leading to the disruption of the protein structure and an impaired functionality. In consequence, these oxidized proteins have to be removed ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Jung T,Grune T

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent structural studies of proteins mediating membrane fusion reveal intriguing similarities between diverse viral and mammalian systems. Particularly striking is the close similarity between the transmembrane envelope glycoproteins from the retrovirus HTLV-1 and the filovirus Ebola. These similarities suggest simil...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Poumbourios P,Center RJ,Wilson KA,Kemp BE,Kobe B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of streptozotocin-induced diabetes on cholinesterases activities was studied in the retina and, for comparison, in other nervous and nonnervous tissues. Streptozotocin diabetes did not affect acetylcholinesterase activity in the retina but increased its activity in the cerebral cortex (100%) and in serum (5...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Sánchez-Chávez G,Salceda R

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:In the Antarctic, fishes of dominant suborder Notothenioidei have evolved in a unique thermal scenario. Phylogenetically related taxa of the suborder live in a wide range of latitudes, in Antarctic, sub-Antarctic and temperate oceans. Consequently, they offer a remarkable opportunity to study the physiological and bio...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Verde C,Giordano D,di Prisco G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we discuss single molecule observation of rotational catalysis by E. coli ATP synthase (F-ATPase) using small gold beads. Studies involving a low viscous drag probe showed the stochastic properties of the enzyme in alternating catalytically active and inhibited states. The importance of subunit intera...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Nakanishi-Matsui M,Sekiya M,Futai M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depurinating DNA adducts formed by aromatic hydrocarbons and catechol estrogen quinones play a major role in cancer initiation. Most of these adducts depurinate instantaneously, but some guanine adducts depurinate from DNA with half-lives of hours. We report here, that after 10 h at 37 °C, reaction of estradiol-3,4-qu...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Cavalieri E,Saeed M,Zahid M,Cassada D,Snow D,Miljkovic M,Rogan E

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of apoptosis is the target of choice for modern chemotherapeutic treatment of cancer, where lack of potent "target-specific" drugs has led to extensive research on anticancer compounds from natural sources. In our study, we have used astrakurkurone, a triterpene isolated from wild edible mushroom, Astraeus h...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Dasgupta A,Dey D,Ghosh D,Lai TK,Bhuvanesh N,Dolui S,Velayutham R,Acharya K

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles of the eukaryotic cell, originate from an endosymbiotic alpha-proteobacterium. These organelles are believed to have arisen only once in evolutionary history, but despite their common ancestry, mitochondrial DNAs vary extensively throughout eukaryotes in genome architectur...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Burger G,Lang BF

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Heart diseases are common in the offspring of gestational diabetic mother (ODM). Defects in mitochondrial metabolism and autophagy may, in part, be responsible for the adverse structural and functional alterations in the heart. The principal objective of this study was to investigate cardiac mitochondrial res...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Rajendran RS,Jayakumari NR,Sivasailam A,Reghuvaran AC,Pillai VV,Karunakaran J,Sreelatha HV,Manjunatha S,Gopala S

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury greatly contributes to myocardial tissue damage in patients with coronary disease, which eventually leads to heart failure. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have an emerging role in the process of myocardial I/R injury. Our previous work revealed the protective role of miR-374...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Chen YQ,Yang X,Xu W,Yan Y,Chen XM,Huang ZQ

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) contributes to maintain homeostatic levels of extracellular calcium. In addition, CaSR controls other cellular activities such as proliferation and migration, particularly in cells not related to extracellular calcium homeostasis, potentially by cross-talking with parallel signaling pat...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Organista-Juárez D,Carretero-Ortega J,Vicente-Fermín O,Vázquez-Victorio G,Sosa-Garrocho M,Vázquez-Prado J,Macías-Silva M,Reyes-Cruz G

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:For 8 years, it was not understood why certain genes of plant mitochondria contain CGG (arginine) codons at positions where tryptophan codons (UGG) are present in the corresponding genes of nonplant species. Identification and sequencing of a tRNA(Trp) gene showed that it is not able to decode the CGG codon. Analysis ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Grienenberger JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a serine protease that is exclusively produced in the prostate, and its detection is the only laboratory test available for screening men for prostate cancer (PC). The interpretation of the assay is difficult since it is specific for prostate tissue and cellular growth, but not for P...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Mener DJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunosuppressant cyclosporin A (CsA)-sensitive nuclear factor of activated T cells 1 (NFAT1) has been known to be a transcriptional regulator of cytokine and viral genes during the immune response. By analyses of serial deletion, mutation, and heterologous promoter assay, we report here that the CsA-sensitive NFA...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Lee JH,Rho HM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of some inflammatory arterial diseases (such as vasculitis, atherogenesis and aneurysms) has been widely investigated in the last decades. Among different soluble molecules, proinflammatory cytokines (such as TNF-α, IL-1 and IL-6) were shown to trigger critical pathways regulating these arterial di...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Carbone F,Montecucco F

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Smooth muscle cells (SMC) comprising the vascular wall can switch phenotypes from contractile to synthetic, which can promote the development of aberrant remodelling and intimal hyperplasia (IH). MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) is a short, non-coding RNA that ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Alshanwani AR,Riches-Suman K,O'Regan DJ,Wood IC,Turner NA,Porter KE

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathways for ligand entry and exit in myoglobin have now been well established by a wide variety of experimental results, including pico- to nano- to microsecond transient absorbance measurements and time-resolved X-ray crystallographic measurements. Trp insertions have been used to block, one at a time, the three...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Olson JS,Soman J,Phillips GN Jr

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) signaling is a key pathway in the control of cell growth and survival. Three critical nodes in the IGF-1 signaling pathway have been described in cardiomyocytes: protein kinase Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), Ras/Raf/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), and phosph...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Troncoso R,Díaz-Elizondo J,Espinoza SP,Navarro-Marquez MF,Oyarzún AP,Riquelme JA,Garcia-Carvajal I,Díaz-Araya G,García L,Hill JA,Lavandero S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Nitrosation is rapidly emerging as a regulatory mechanism in vascular biology, with particular importance in the onset of hyperpermeability induced by pro-inflammatory agents. This review focuses on the role of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS)-derived nitric oxide (NO) in regulating S-Nitrosation of adherens...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Durán WN,Beuve AV,Sánchez FA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How cells regulate Gq efficacy (initiation and termination of Gq signaling) to effect response remains a central question in pharmacology and drug discovery. Phospholipase C-β1 (PLC-β1) is an effector and a GTPase activating protein (GAP) specific to Gαq. The physiological function of PLC-β1 GAP remains unclear and co...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Litosch I

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cartilage engineering is one challenging issue in regenerative medicine. Low oxygen tension or hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1α) gene therapy are promising strategies in the field of cartilage repair. Previously, we showed that hypoxia and its mediator HIF-1 regulate matrix genes expression (collagens and aggrecan)....

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Duval E,Bouyoucef M,Leclercq S,Baugé C,Boumédiene K

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:The aggressive biological behavior of invasive and metastatic cancer is considered to be the most insidious and life-threatening aspect for breast cancer patients. It is mostly the result of changes in many molecular characteristics of tumor cells, including alterations in gene expression and the balance of proteolyti...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Swellam M,Arab LR,Bushnak HA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional effect of the interaction of E2F1 and hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx) on the promoter of human p53 gene was studied using chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT) assay. E2F1 activated the p53 promoter through E2F1 binding site. As previously reported, HBx repressed the p53 promoter through E-box. Whe...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Choi M,Lee H,Rho HM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently the crystal structure of creatine kinase from Torpedocalifornica was determined to 2.1 A. The dimeric structure revealed two different forms in the unit cell: one monomer was bound to a substrate, MgADP, and the other monomer was bound to a transition-state analogue complex composed of MgADP, nitrate and crea...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang PF,Flynn AJ,McLeish MJ,Kenyon GL

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, a plant-associated pathogenic bacterium, is the causal agent of foliar spots and blights in crucifers. The major outer membrane protein, Omp37, of 37 kDa, has been identified, purified to homogeneity, and its characterization has also been carried out. Native Omp37 behaved as a t...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang L,Zheng Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00