Structural and functional comparison of 2-His-1-carboxylate and 3-His metallocentres in non-haem iron(II)-dependent enzymes.

abstract：:The glutamate/aspartate transporter GLAST-1 is expressed in bone in vivo and also exists as a splice variant (GLAST-1a) in which exon 3 is excluded. Since GLAST-1 expression is regulated in bone in response to osteogenic mechanical stimuli in vivo and binding of glutamate to receptors on osteoblasts increases osteobla...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Huggett JF,Mustafa A,O'neal L,Mason DJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell-cycle-co-ordinated initiation of chromosomal replication is highly regulated. The ordered assembly and conformational change of specific proteins at the replication origin are crucial to the process of replication initiation. In Escherichia coli, ATP-DnaA molecules form multimeric complexes with the chromosom...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Katayama T

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an ion channel, the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein occupies a unique niche within the ABC family. Orthologues of CFTR are extant throughout the animal kingdom from sharks to platypods to sheep, where the osmoregulatory function of the protein has been applied to differing lifesty...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Pollock NL,Rimington TL,Ford RC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho/Rop small GTPase regulatory module is central for initiating exocytotically ACDs (active cortical domains) in plant cell cortex, and a growing array of Rop regulators and effectors are being discovered in plants. Structural membrane phospholipids are important constituents of cells as well as signals, and phos...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Zárský V,Potocký M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotrophins nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, NT-3 (neurotrophin 3) and NT-4 are known for regulating neuron development, function and survival. Beyond this, neurotrophins were found to exert multiple effects on non-neuronal cells such as immune cells, smooth muscle and epithelial cells. In...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Rochlitzer S,Nassenstein C,Braun A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of chemokines and GAGs (glycosaminoglycans) on endothelial surfaces is a crucial step for establishing a chemotactic gradient which leads to the functional presentation of chemokines to their GPCRs (G-protein-coupled receptors) and thus to activation of approaching leucocytes. Based on molecular modell...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Potzinger H,Geretti E,Brandner B,Wabitsch V,Piccinini AM,Rek A,Kungl AJ

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital malformations are major causes of disease and death during the first years of life and, most of the time, functional replacement of the missing or damaged organs remains an unmet clinical need. Particularly relevant for the treatment of congenital malformation would be to collect the stem cells at diagnosis...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： De Coppi P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular bioenergetics deals with the construction, function and regulation of the powerhouses of life. The present overview sketches scenes and actors, farsighted goals and daring hypotheses, meticulous tool-making, painstaking benchwork, lucky discovery, serious scepticism, emphatic believing and strong characters ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Junge W

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:JAK (Janus kinase) 2 plays a critical role in signal transduction through several cytokine receptors. JAKs contain a typical tyrosine kinase domain preceded by a pseudokinase [JH2 (JAK homology 2)] domain which has been considered to be catalytically inactive. Identification of activating mutations in the JH2 domain o...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Silvennoinen O,Ungureanu D,Niranjan Y,Hammaren H,Bandaranayake R,Hubbard SR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium-sensing receptor is a multimodal, multimetabolic sensor that mediates the feedback-dependent control of whole body calcium metabolism. Remarkably, in addition to its role in Ca(2+)(o) (extracellular Ca(2+)) sensing, the CaR (Ca(2+)-sensing receptor) also responds to L-amino acids. L-amino acids appear to a...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Conigrave AD,Mun HC,Brennan SC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is emerging in the eyes of many as the most promising candidate of all the schizophrenia risk genes. This viewpoint is derived from the combination of genetic, clinical, imaging and rapidly advancing cell biology data around this gene. All of these areas have been reviewed extensiv...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Brandon NJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing recognition that numerous neurodegenerative conditions have the same underlying pathogenetic mechanism, namely a change in protein conformation, where the beta-sheet content is increased. In Alzheimer's disease, amyloid deposition in the form of neuritic plaques and congophilic angiopathy is driven...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Wisniewski T,Brown DR,Sigurdsson EM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we present a probabilistic model to estimate summaries of Affymetrix GeneChip probe level data. Comparisons with two different models were made both on a publicly available dataset and on a study performed in our laboratory, showing that our model performs better for consistency of fold change. ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Milo M,Fazeli A,Niranjan M,Lawrence ND

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are very abundant, short-lived leucocytes and their death by apoptosis is central to homoeostasis and the resolution of inflammation, yet the trigger for apoptosis is still a topic of debate. Depolarization of the mitochondrial membrane has been supposed to initiate neutrophil spontaneous apoptosis, as neu...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Scheel-Toellner D,Wang KQ,Webb PR,Wong SH,Craddock R,Assi LK,Salmon M,Lord JM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMDARs (N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors) are considered to be a target for the inhibitory actions of ethanol. While profound inhibition of both native and recombinant NMDARs can be observed following the application of high concentrations of ethanol the levels of inhibition seen with lower concentrations of ethanol are...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Otton HJ,Janssen A,Wyllie DJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of the ACN1 (acetate non-utilizing 1) locus of Arabidopsis results in altered acetate assimilation into gluconeogenic sugars and anapleurotic amino acids and leads to an overall depression in primary metabolite levels by approx. 50% during seedling development. Levels of acetyl-CoA were higher in acn1 compare...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Hooks MA,Allen E,Wattis JA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoreaction centres are Nature's solar batteries. These nanometre-scale power producers are responsible for transducing the energy of sunlight into a form that can be used by biological systems, thereby powering most of the biological activity on the planet. Although to the layman the word 'photosynthesis' is usuall...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Jones MR

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native disulphide bonds are essential for the structure and function of many membrane and secretory proteins. Disulphide bonds are formed, reduced and isomerized in the endoplasmic reticulum of mammalian cells by a family of oxidoreductases, which includes protein disulphide isomerase (PDI), ERp57, ERp72, P5 and PDIR....

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Jessop CE,Chakravarthi S,Watkins RH,Bulleid NJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated tyrosine kinase receptors acquire ubiquitin tags. Ubiquitination governs receptor down-regulation through interaction with components of the endosomal ESCRT (endosomal sorting complexes required for transport) machinery that shepherds receptors into luminal vesicles of multivesicular bodies en route to the l...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Urbé S,McCullough J,Row P,Prior IA,Welchman R,Clague MJ

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyoxals are reactive alpha-oxoaldehydes that are formed endogenously from sugars, the levels of which are increased in various pathological conditions associated with hyperglycaemia and thiamine deficiency. However, the molecular cytotoxic mechanisms of glyoxal are not known. Results presented here and in the other s...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Shangari N,Bruce WR,Poon R,O'Brien PJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of proteins is inseparably linked to their function. Because most biological processes involve a number of different proteins, it may become impossible to study the evolutionary properties of proteins in isolation. In the present article, we show how simple mechanistic models of biological processes can ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Huvet M,Toni T,Tan H,Jovanovic G,Engl C,Buck M,Stumpf MP

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), present in the extracellular matrix, are exploited by numerous, distinct microbes for cellular attachment, adhesion, invasion and evasion of the host immune system. Glycosaminoglycans, including the widely used, clinical anticoagulant heparin and semi-synthetic analogues thereof, have been r...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Mycroft-West CJ,Yates EA,Skidmore MA

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations activating the PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase)/Akt signalling pathway and inactivating the TP53 tumour-suppressor gene are common mechanisms that cancer cells require to proliferate and escape pre-programmed cell death. In a well-described mechanism, Akt mediates negative control of p53 levels through enhan...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Abraham AG,O'Neill E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous breast cancer subtype that lacks targeted therapy due to the absence of estrogen, progesterone, and HER2 receptors. Moreover, TNBC was shown to have a poor prognosis, since it involves aggressive phenotypes that confer significant hindrance to therapeutic treatme...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Rajagopal T,Talluri S,Venkatabalasubramanian S,Dunna NR

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular electron transfer has, in one decade, emerged from an environmental phenomenon to an industrial process driver. On the one hand, electron transfer towards anodes leads to production of power or chemicals such as hydrogen, caustic soda and hydrogen peroxide. On the other hand, electron transfer from catho...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Desloover J,Arends JB,Hennebel T,Rabaey K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With >800 members, G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest class of cell-surface signalling proteins, and their activation mediates diverse physiological processes. GPCRs are ubiquitously distributed across all cell types, involved in many diseases and are major drug targets. However, GPCR drug discovery i...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Ellisdon AM,Halls ML

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major goals of modern plant biotechnology is to manipulate lipid metabolism in oilseed crops to produce new and improved edible and industrial vegetable oils. Lipids constitute the structural components of cellular membranes and act as sources of energy for the germinating seed and are therefore essential t...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Schnurr JA,Shockey J,Browse J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis and phagosome maturation are crucial processes in biology. Phagocytosis and the subsequent digestion of phagocytosed particles occur across a huge diversity of eukaryotes and can be achieved by many different cells within one organism. In parallel, diverse groups of pathogens have evolved mechanisms to av...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Smith LM,May RC

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are becoming an increasingly powerful model organism to study the role of metabolism in disease. Since its inception, the zebrafish model has relied on unique attributes such as the transparency of embryos, high fecundity and conservation with higher vertebrates, to perform phenotype-driven che...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Salmi TM,Tan VWT,Cox AG

更新日期：2019-02-28 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