LMNA-linked lipodystrophies: from altered fat distribution to cellular alterations.

abstract：:LRRK2 (leucine-rich repeat kinase 2) is an enzyme implicated in human disease, containing kinase and GTPase functions within the same multidomain open reading frame. Dominant mutations in the LRRK2 gene are the most common cause of familial PD (Parkinson's disease). Additionally, in genome-wide association studies, th...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Manzoni C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation at the fifth position of cytosine is a major epigenetic mark conserved in plants and mammals. Genome-wide DNA methylation patterns are dynamically controlled by integrated activities of establishment, maintenance, and removal. In both plants and mammals, a pattern of global DNA hypomethylation coupled ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Zhang H,Zhang K,Zhu JK

更新日期：2019-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A limited number of bacteria, yeast and fungi can convert hemicellulose or its monomers (xylose, arabinose, mannose and galactose) into ethanol with a satisfactory yield and productivity. In the present study we tested a number of thermophilic enrichment cultures, and new isolates of thermophilic anaerobic bacterial s...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Sommer P,Georgieva T,Ahring BK

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified three groups of growth-constraint genes using mosaic genetic screens in Drosophila melanogaster, including PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10), and the tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) genes, Tsc1 and Tsc2. Our studies show that all three groups of genes participate in m...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Potter CJ,Pedraza LG,Huang H,Xu T

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to permit gene expression is managed by a set of relatively well known regulatory mechanisms. Nonetheless, this property can also be acquired during a life span as a consequence of environmental stimuli. Interestingly, some acquired information can be passed to the next generation of individuals without mo...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Mazaira GI,Daneri-Becerra C,Zgajnar NR,Lotufo CM,Galigniana MD

更新日期：2018-02-19 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：:Two decades ago, patients lacking circulating serum ceruloplasmin (Cp) presented with neurodegeneration associated with brain iron accumulation. These patients, with mutations in the MCO (multi-copper oxidase), Cp, revealed an essential role for Cp in iron homoeostasis. The patients were diagnosed in adulthood with CN...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Texel SJ,Xu X,Harris ZL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent findings that some 24 inherited diseases and anomalies are caused by defects in proteins of the NE (nuclear envelope) and lamina have resulted in a fundamental reassessment of the functions of the NE and underlying lamina. Instead of just regarding the NE and lamina as a molecular filtering device, regulating t...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Cohen TV,Hernandez L,Stewart CL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of barrier function in the vasculature promotes inflammatory signalling which in turn contributes to the progression of cardiovascular disease. cAMP can protect against endothelial dysfunction through the effectors PKA (protein kinase A) and Epac (exchange protein directly activated by cAMP). The present review o...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Parnell E,Yarwood SJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial hydrogenases have been harnessed to the removal of heavy metals from solution by reduction to less soluble metal species. For Pd(II), its bioreduction results in the deposition of cell-bound Pd(0)-nanoparticles that are ferromagnetic and have a high catalytic activity. Hydrogenases can also be used synthetic...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Macaskie LE,Baxter-Plant VS,Creamer NJ,Humphries AC,Mikheenko IP,Mikheenko PM,Penfold DW,Yong P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes represent a large superfamily that displays extraordinarily diverse substrate specificities. After a concise review about CYPs of the CYP1A subfamily, which plays a crucial role in procarcinogen activation, this paper presents segment-directed mutagenesis. This approach generates a librar...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Urban P,Jobert AS,Lainé R,Pompon D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As intracellular pathogens, enveloped viruses must usurp the host cell machinery for many stages of the viral life cycle in order to produce a new generation of infectious virions. In one of the less understood steps of viral assembly, viral components including the transmembrane glycoproteins, structural proteins and...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Bruce EA,Stuart A,McCaffrey MW,Digard P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on recent theoretical results on optimal flux distributions in kinetic metabolic networks, we explore the congruences and differences between solutions of kinetic optimization problems and results obtained by constraint-based methods. We demonstrate that, for a certain resource allocation problem, kinetic optimi...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Müller S,Regensburger G,Steuer R

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the DNA-replication machinery of Archaea have revealed striking similarities to that of eukaryotes. Indeed, it appears that in most cases Archaea possess a simplified version of the eukaryotic replication apparatus. Studies of Archaea are therefore shedding light on the fundamental processes of DNA replicat...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Dionne I,Robinson NP,McGeoch AT,Marsh VL,Reddish A,Bell SD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tribbles (TRIB) proteins are pseudokinase mediators of eukaryotic signalling that have evolved important roles in lipoprotein metabolism, immune function and cellular differentiation and proliferation. In addition, an evolutionary-conserved modulation of PI3K/AKT signalling pathways highlights them as novel and rather...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Foulkes DM,Byrne DP,Bailey FP,Eyers PA

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：: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：:As beta-secretase, memapsin 2 cleaves amyloid-beta precursor protein, which leads ultimately to the onset of Alzheimer's disease. As such, memapsin 2 is an excellent target of inhibitor drugs for the treatment of this disease. Here we describe the tools for memapsin 2 inhibitor design that have been developed and resu...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Hong L,Turner RT 3rd,Koelsch G,Ghosh AK,Tang J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-ordinated myocyte handling of calcium is essential for efficient excitation-contraction coupling in the heart. The calcium cycling activity can be modulated by adrenergic stimulation and subsequent phosphorylation. Important functional consequences of phosphorylation include a greater influx of calcium through the ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Lygren B,Taskén K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GABAR [GABA(A) (gamma-aminobutyric acid type A) receptor], which mediates most inhibition in the brain, is regulated homoeostatically to maintain an optimal level of neuronal excitability. In particular, the alpha(4)betadelta subtype of the GABAR plays a pivotal role in this regulation. This receptor, which is exp...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Shen H,Smith SS

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation or inflammatory cytokines and oxidative stress have often been associated, and thiol antioxidants, particularly glutathione, have often been seen as possible anti-inflammatory mediators. However, whereas several cytokine inhibitors have been approved for drug use in chronic inflammatory diseases, this has...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Coppo L,Ghezzi P

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Aberrant activation of the PI3K pathway is one of the commonest oncogenic events in human cancer. AKT is a key mediator of PI3K oncogenic function, and thus has been intensely pursued as a therapeutic target. Multiple AKT inhibitors, broadly classified as either ATP-competitive or allosteric, are currently in various ...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Lazaro G,Kostaras E,Vivanco I

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:LRRK2 mutation is the most common inherited, autosomal dominant cause of Parkinson's disease (PD) and has also been observed in sporadic cases. Most mutations result in increased LRRK2 kinase activity. LRRK2 is highly expressed in brain regions that receive dense, convergent innervation by dopaminergic and glutamaterg...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Benson DL,Matikainen-Ankney BA,Hussein A,Huntley GW

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of regulated exocytosis uniquely allows the direct measurement of intracellular membrane fusion events in real time. We have exploited this to examine factors that regulate not only the extent but also the dynamics of single fusion/release events. The general strategy used has been to assess exocytosis in tr...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Burgoyne RD,Fisher RJ,Graham ME,Haynes LP,Morgan A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid interphase chromosome territory repositioning appears to function through the action of nuclear myosin and actin, in a nuclear motor complex. We have found that chromosome repositioning when cells leave the cell cycle is not apparent in cells that have mutant lamin A or that are lacking emerin. We discuss the po...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Mehta IS,Elcock LS,Amira M,Kill IR,Bridger JM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that yeast mutants with defects in the Ada adaptor proteins are defective in hormone-dependent gene activation by ectopically expressed human glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Others have shown that the Ada2 protein is required for physical interactions between some activation domains and TBP (TATA-binding p...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Wallberg AE,Flinn EM,Gustafsson JA,Wright AP

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NO (nitric oxide) is a signal molecule involved in diverse physiological processes in cells which can become very toxic under certain conditions determined by its rate of production and diffusion. Several studies have clearly shown the production of NO in early stages of rhizobia-legume symbiosis and in mature nodules...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Sánchez C,Cabrera JJ,Gates AJ,Bedmar EJ,Richardson DJ,Delgado MJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance-exercise training results in a progressive increase in muscle mass and force production. Following an acute bout of resistance exercise, the rate of protein synthesis increases proportionally with the increase in protein degradation, correlating at 3 h in the starved state. Amino acids taken immediately bef...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Mackenzie MG,Hamilton DL,Murray JT,Baar K

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory complex I (electrogenic NADH:quinone oxidoreductase) has been considered to act exclusively as a H+ pump. This was questioned when the search for the NADH-driven respiratory Na+ pump in Klebsiella pneumoniae initiated by Peter Dimroth led to the discovery of a Na+-translocating complex in this enteroba...

journal_title：Biochemical Society transactions

authors： Steffen W,Steuber J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00