Molecular biology of K(ATP) channels and implications for health and disease.

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that there is a critical role of the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway in the regulation of apoptosis. Among the important molecules that couple these two fundamental cellular activities are members of the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) protein family. In addition to their well-studied ability...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ni T,Li W,Zou F

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:A large amount of evidence suggests a pathogenic link between cholesterol homeostasis dysregulation and Alzheimer's disease (AD). In cell culture systems, the production of amyloid-β (Aβ) is modulated by cholesterol, and studies on animal models have consistently demonstrated that hypercholesterolemia is associated wi...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ricciarelli R,Canepa E,Marengo B,Marinari UM,Poli G,Pronzato MA,Domenicotti C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a common malignant cancer with unfavorable prognosis, and the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a critical contributor to OSCC metastasis. Recently, we have shown that sirtuin 7 (Sirt7) is associated with EMT and OSCC metastasis by acetylating small mother against dec...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Jia B,Zhang S,Wu S,Zhu Q,Li W

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx) producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is responsible to bloody diarrhea (hemorrhagic colitis) and the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). STEC strains carry inducible lambda phages integrated into their genomes that encode Stx 1 and/or 2, with several allelic variants each one. O157:H7 is the serotype that ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ibarra C,Amaral MM,Palermo MS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cells of yellow-spotted river turtles (Podocnemis unifilis, Pleurodira, Chelonia, REPTILIA) have two hemoglobin (Hb) components, Hb A and Hb D. We purified the hemoglobin component homologous to amniote (reptiles, birds, and mammals) adult Hb A which comprises two identical α(A) -globin polypeptides and two ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Hasegawa T,Shishikura F,Kuwada T

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational stability of the homotetrameric Plasmodium falciparum beta-ketoacyl-ACP reductase (FabG) was determined by guanidinium chloride-induced isothermal and thermal denaturation. The reversible unfolding transitions were monitored by intrinsic fluorescence, circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and by meas...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Karmodiya K,Sajad S,Sinha S,Maity K,Suguna K,Surolia N

更新日期：2007-07-01 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 physiological role of neuroglobin and cytoglobin, two vertebrate globins discovered in the last 5 years, is not yet clearly understood. In this work, we review the structural information on these globins and its implication on the possible protein function, obtained by electron paramagnetic resonance and resonance...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Van Doorslaer S,Vinck E,Trandafir F,Ioanitescu I,Dewilde S,Moens L

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodA gene coding for manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) from the marine microorganism Vibrio parahaemolyticus was cloned, sequenced, and overexpressed in Escherichia coli by use of the pET20b (+) expression vector. The full-length gene consisted of a 588-bp open reading frame and encoded a polypeptide of 196 ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Shyu YC,Lin FP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Role of nitric oxide (NO) on the expression of organic anion transporter 2 (OAT2) located in sinusoidal domain of hepatocytes has been investigated. Effect of NO generated in vivo in rat and delivered in vitro to hepatocytes was determined. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and spermine NONOate (SPER/NO) were selected as the N...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Cha SH,Kim HP,Jung NH,Lee WK,Kim JY,Cha YN

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:Small noncoding RNAs are key controllers of cellular function, and their deregulation can lead to cancer development and metastatic evolution. This review summarizes the most important examples of small RNAs involved in human cancer and discusses their clinical use as biomarkers and drug targets for diagnosis, prognos...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Rovira C,Güida MC,Cayota A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders in the world, lacking effective therapies. The crucial roles of microRNAs (miRNAs) in IBS-D have attracted increasing attention. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of miR-495 on the visceral sens...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Fei L,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are inherited metabolic diseases caused by deficiencies in lysosomal proteins, which result in accumulation of undegraded metabolites and disruption of lysosomal proteostasis. Despite significant progress in the molecular genetics and biochemistry underlying the cellular pathogenesis...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Segatori L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated homocysteine levels are known to be a risk factor for congenital cardiac septal defects (CCSDs), but the mechanism underlying this effect is unknown. The genetic variants that were significantly associated with circulating homocysteine concentrations have been systematically identified through the genome-wide...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Xie HH,Li J,Li PQ,Zhang AA,Li Y,Wang YZ,Xie DX,Xie XD

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrameric haemoglobins display a cooperative ligand binding behaviour, which has been attributed to the functional interrelationship between multiple ligand binding sites. The quantitative description of this feature was initially carried out with a phenomenological approach, which was limited to the functional effec...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ciaccio C,Coletta A,De Sanctis G,Marini S,Coletta M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is typical of the dementias that affect both animals and man; Scrapie in sheep, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in man. Global efforts have been made to determine the nature of the active agents in these diseases. At present the 'protein only hypothesis' of Prusiner holds. It was a sur...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Campbell PN

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests a role for intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) as mediators of normal and pathological signal transduction pathways. In particular, a growing list of recent reports have demonstrated a rapid and significant increases in intracellular ROS following growth factor or cytokine stimulat...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Finkel T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthracyclines are a class of antitumor drugs widely used for the treatment of a variety of malignancy, including leukemias, lymphomas, sarcomas, and carcinomas. Different mechanisms have been proposed for anthracycline antitumor effects including free-radical generation, DNA intercalation/binding, activation of signa...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Mordente A,Meucci E,Martorana GE,Giardina B,Minotti G

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHEDs) are highly proliferative, clonogenic, and multipotent stem cells with a neural crest cell origin. This property could be a desirable option for potential therapeutic applications. In this study, we focus on the effects of Rho kinase inhibitors Y-27632 and Noggin...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Yang S,Xin C,Zhang B,Zhang H,Hao Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains a worldwide health concern with an estimated quarter of a billion people infected and nearly half a million deaths annually. Malaria is caused by a parasite infection from Plasmodium strains which are transmitted from mosquitoes into the human host. Although several small molecule inhibitors have been ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Helton LG,Kennedy EJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction between nitric oxide ((.)NO) and oxygen yields reactive species capable of oxidizing and nitrosating proteins, as well as deaminating DNA bases. Although this reaction is considered too slow to be biologically relevant, it has been shown that membranes, lipoproteins, mitochondria and possibly proteins can...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Möller MN,Li Q,Lancaster JR Jr,Denicola A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite is an inorganic toxin of physiological interest, formed from the diffusion-controlled reaction of superoxide and nitrogen monoxide with a rate constant of (1.6 +/- 0.3) x 10(10) M(-1) s(-1). On the basis of three experiments we conclude that homolysis of the O-O bond in peroxynitrous acid is unlikely: (1...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kissner R,Nauser T,Kurz C,Koppenol WH

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Large inter-individual variation exists in the response to vitamin E supplementation, and this may influence the outcome of human studies. It is our hypothesis that genetic heterogeneity is an important determinant of vitamin E homeostasis. Therefore we have performed an in silico search for single nucleotide polymorp...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Döring F,Rimbach G,Lodge JK

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The members of the GATA family of transcription factors have homologous zinc fingers and bind to similar sequence motifs. Recent advances in genome-wide technologies and the integration of bioinformatics data have led to a better understanding of how GATA factors regulate gene expression; GATA-factor-induced transcrip...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Romano O,Miccio A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, three independent laboratories reported the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from pig (Sus scrofa). This finding sums to the growing list of species (mouse, human, monkey, and rat, in this order) for which successful reprogramming using exogenous factors has been achieved, and multiple ot...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Esteban MA,Peng M,Deli Z,Cai J,Yang J,Xu J,Lai L,Pei D

更新日期：2010-04-01 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