MicroRNAs and other small silencing RNAs in cancer.

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：:Mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 predispose individuals to breast and ovarian cancers. Cofactor of BRCA1 (COBRA1), a novel protein, was isolated as a BRCA1-interacting protein. However, the role of COBRA1 in breast cancer is poorly understood. In this study, we demonstrate that COBRA1 mRNA was ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Zhu J,Song S,Jiang Z,Yan J,Lu Q,Huang C,Ye Q

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silymarin, which is derived from the seeds of Silybum marianum, has been widely used to prevent and treat liver diseases. In our previous study, we reported that at concentrations above the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC), silymarin exhibited antifungal activity against Candida albicans by targeting its plasma ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Lee W,Lee DG

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine is a powerful central nervous stimulant and among the most abused of drugs. Despite decades of efforts, however, no effective pharmacological treatments are available against cocaine addiction or toxic effects. Classical receptor-antagonist therapeutic approaches have not yielded significant effects, although ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ascenzi P,Clementi E,Polticelli F

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer related inflammation (CRI) is now recognized as the seventh hallmark in the pathogenesis of many types of malignancies. Paeonol, a natural phenolic component isolated from the root bark of Paeonia moutan, has significant anti-inflammatory activity. Recently, accumulating body of research has revealed potent ant...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Zhang L,Tao L,Shi T,Zhang F,Sheng X,Cao Y,Zheng S,Wang A,Qian W,Jiang L,Lu Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a liver cDNA library prepared from a nonvenomous striated snake, Elaphe quadrivirgata, we isolated a cDNA encoding a novel protein, PLIalpha-like protein (PLIalpha-LP), having approximately 70% sequence identities with the alpha-type phospholipase A2 (PLA2) inhibitors (PLIalpha(s)) previously purified from the ve...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Okumura K,Inoue S,Ikeda K,Hayashi K

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Combining two analytical techniques, HPLC and liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry, the orientation of liposomal membrane-bound melittin was analyzed through its trypsin-digested products. We found that trypsin can access all proteolytic sites of the membrane-bound melittin when the liposomes have no transmembrane p...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Niu W,Wu Y,Sui SF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkyl-dihydroxyacetonephosphate synthase (alkyl-DHAP synthase) is a peroxisomal enzyme that plays a key role in ether phospholipid biosynthesis. To determine the turnover of alkyl-DHAP synthase in several peroxisomal disorders, pulse-chase experiments were performed. In control fibroblasts, mature alkyl-DHAP synthase ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Biermann J,Gootjes J,Wanders RJ,van den Bosch H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent for the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, and this virus belongs to the Coronaviridae family. Like other members of this family, the virus possesses a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome. The genome encodes for the nsp12 protein, which houses the RNA-dependent-RNA polymerase (RdRP) acti...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Narayanan N,Nair DT

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:Magnetic targeting has shown promise to improve the efficacy and safety of different classes of therapeutic agents by enabling their active guidance to the site of disease and minimizing dissemination to nontarget tissues. However, its translation into clinic has proven difficult because of inherent limitations of tra...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Chorny M,Fishbein I,Forbes S,Alferiev I

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although vitamin E has been recognized as a critical micronutrient to neuronal health for more than half a century, vitamin E transport and regulation in the brain remain a mystery. Currently, the majority of what is known about vitamin E transport has been delineated in the liver. However, clues from the pathogenesis...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Lee P,Ulatowski LM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pilins or fimbrilins are a class of proteins found in bacterial surface pilus, a hair-like surface appendage. Both the Gram-negative and -positive bacteria produce pilins to assemble pili on their cell-surface for different purposes including adherence, twitching motility, conjugation, immunomodulation, biofilm format...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Krishnan V

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial ATP-Mg/Pi carrier is responsible for the calcium-dependent regulation of adenosine nucleotide concentrations in the mitochondrial matrix, which allows mitochondria to respond to changing energy requirements of the cell. The carrier is expressed in mitochondria of fungi, plants and animals and belongs...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Harborne SPD,Kunji ERS

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are a highly conserved family of proteins. The regulation of expression of Hsps in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is regulated both positively and negatively by alternate sigma factors and transcriptional DNA repressors, respectively. HspR is a negative regulator of expression of hsps, DnaK, Cl...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Parijat P,Batra JK

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Availability of the human genome data has enabled the exploration of a huge amount of biological information encoded in it. There are extensive ongoing experimental efforts to understand the biological functions of the gene products encoded in the human genome. However, computational analysis can aid immensely in the ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Pandit SB,Balaji S,Srinivasan N

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transketolase (TK, EC 2.2.1.1), the key enzyme of the non-oxidative branch of pentose phosphate pathway of hydrocarbon transformation, plays an important role in a system of substrate rearrangement between pentose shunt and glycolysis, acting as a reversible link between the two metabolic pathways. In addition, it sup...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kochetov GA,Sevostyanova IA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our results demonstrate that open reading frame (ORF) YHR076w on chromosome VIII of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that was previously described as a hypothetical gene is expressed. This ORF is transcribed as an mRNA of approximately 1,100 nucleotides. A 41.2-kDa polypeptide and three others predicted to be modified forms o...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ramos CW,Güldener U,Klein S,Hegemann JH,Gonzalez S,Rodríguez-Medina JR

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transketolase (TK) is a homodimer, the simplest representative of thiamine diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzymes. It was first ThDP-dependent enzymes the crystal structure of which has been solved and revealed the general fold for this class of enzymes and the interactions of the non-covalently bound coenzyme ThDP with...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kochetov G,Sevostyanova IA

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:This paper reviews our studies that have addressed the molecular mechanisms underlying the biosynthesis and reception of extracellular signaling molecules and integrative mechanisms of extracellular-intracellular signaling transmission in biological systems. We introduced recombinant DNA technology into the neuroendoc...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Nakanishi S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation and incorporation of selenium into selenocysteine containing selenoproteins has been well established in an Escherichia coli model system but there is little specific information concerning the transport and intracellular trafficking of selenium in biological systems in general. A selenium transport rol...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Self WT,Pierce R,Stadtman TC

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) mediate inducible proton conductance in the mitochondrial inner membrane. Herein, we summarize our knowledge regarding UCPs in invertebrates. Since 2001, the presence of UCPs has been demonstrated in nematodes, mollusks, amphioxi, and insects. We discuss the following important issues concer...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Slocinska M,Barylski J,Jarmuszkiewicz W

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although proteins and nucleic acids consist of different chemical components, proteins can mimic structures and possibly also functions of nucleic acids. Recently, structural mimicry was observed between two elongation factors in bacterial protein biosynthesis leading to the introduction of the concept of macromolecul...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Pedersen GN,Nyborg J,Clark BF

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unique opportunities are provided by phylogenetically closely related organisms thriving in stably cold, or temperate milieus to study adaptive modifications of structurally homologous molecules. These modifications are of keen interest in basic science as well as in biotechnology. This review highlights structural an...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Alimenti C,Vallesi A,Pedrini B,Wüthrich K,Luporini P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00