Cholesterol and Alzheimer's disease: a still poorly understood correlation.

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：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignancies with poor prognosis. Oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy is an important treatment for CRC; however, the cells develop resistance to therapy. The mechanisms underlying oxaliplatin resistance are complex and unclear. There is increasing evidence that microRNAs (...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Moradi Marjaneh R,Khazaei M,Ferns GA,Avan A,Aghaee-Bakhtiari SH

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multifaceted relationship between mitochondria and the rest of the cell is reviewed in the context of myocardial ischemia. Paradoxically, mitochondria can exacerbate the ischemic damage, especially at the onset of reperfusion. Indeed, the recovery of oxidative phosphorylation in the presence of an excessive energy...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Di Lisa F

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) regulates remodeling of the left ventricle after myocardial infarction (MI) and is tightly linked to the inflammatory response. The inflammatory response serves to recruit leukocytes as part of the wound healing reaction to the MI injury, and infiltrated leukocytes produce cytokines ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Deleon-Pennell KY,Altara R,Yabluchanskiy A,Modesti A,Lindsey ML

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa comprises a large and exceptionally heterogeneous group of hereditary disorders of the retina. As a result of an extensive investigation around the world, primary genetic lesions have been described in many genes. Some of these genes encode enzymes that are involved in the signal transduction path...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Shastry BS

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Transforming growth factorbeta1 (TGFbeta1) is considered to be the principal contributor to liver fibrosis. So in this study the ribozymes against TGFbeta1 were designed. The in vitro cleavage activities of the ribozymes were assayed through incubation of (32)p-labeled target RNAs and (32)p-labeled ribozymes in differ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Song YH,Zhou XM,Xue XN,Liu NZ,Tian DA,Kong XJ,Wu XL,Lin JS,Jin YX

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triclosan, a well-known inhibitor of Enoyl Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase (ENR) from several pathogenic organisms, is a promising lead compound to design effective drugs. We have solved the X-ray crystal structures of Plasmodium falciparum ENR in complex with triclosan variants having different substituted and unsubst...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Maity K,Bhargav SP,Sankaran B,Surolia N,Surolia A,Suguna K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High throughput microarrays were initially developed to analyse the expression of many RNA transcripts in parallel. The technology has since been adapted to a variety of applications, one of which is the analysis of the genome to study DNA dosage and sequence content. Advances in microarray fabrication and completion ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Waddell N

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera, for which biofilm communities are considered to be environmental reservoirs. In endemic regions, and after algal blooms, which may result from phosphate enrichment following agricultural runoff, the bacterium is released from biofilms resulting i...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Maestre-Reyna M,Huang WC,Wu WJ,Singh PK,Hartmann R,Wang PH,Lee CC,Hikima T,Yamamoto M,Bessho Y,Drescher K,Tsai MD,Wang AH

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin and its various derivatives affect cancer progression in humans. In this study, we show that heparin uptaken intracellularly by melanoma cells activated a signaling cascade, which in turn inhibited melanoma cell adhesion and migration. The reduced ability of M5 cells to adhere onto the fibronectin (FN) substra...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Chalkiadaki G,Nikitovic D,Berdiaki A,Katonis P,Karamanos NK,Tzanakakis GN

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron presents us with a paradox. Without it, cells simply cannot survive because iron is an essential cofactor for many enzymes in critical biochemical pathways. However, when iron is present in excess, it can be highly cytotoxic due to its propensity to catalyze the formation of reactive oxygen radicals. To cater for...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Anderson GJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria play a key role in death signaling. The intermembrane space of these organelles contains a number of proteins which promote cell death once they are redistributed to the cytosol. The formation of pores in the outer membrane of mitochondria defines a gateway through which the apoptogenic proteins pass duri...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Smith DJ,Ng H,Kluck RM,Nagley P

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tilorone hydrochloride, a low-molecular-weight synthetic compound, induces interferon production and has been reported to have both antiviral and antitumor activities. Here, we have demonstrated the ability of tilorone to activate NK cells and specific subpopulations of cytotoxic CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes that recog...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Sharapova TN,Romanova EA,Sashchenko LP,Yashin DV

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumstatin is a candidate tumor suppressor that plays an important role in tumor growth and angiogenesis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the correlation between tumstatin-mRNA expression and the clinicopathologic characteristics, tumor angiogenesis, outcome of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Luo YQ,Ming Z,Zhao L,Yao LJ,Dong H,Du JP,Wu SZ,Hu W

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：: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：:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a lethal malignancy and its prognosis remains dismal. Thus, a deeper understanding of the mechanisms is needed to provide a new insight for new therapies. It has been reported that long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) maternally expressed gene 3 (MEG3) was downregulated in OSCC tissues, h...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Tan J,Xiang L,Xu G

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：: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：:The direct relationship between obesity and breast cancer has been elucidated recently with the identification of a cholesterol derivative 27-hydroxycholesterol (27HC), an endogenous SERM that can act through estrogen receptor (ER)-mediated mechanisms. Our recent research shed light on the possible SERM-like property ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Vini R,Juberiya AM,Sreeja S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, cytochrome P450 170A1 (CYP170A1) has been found to be a bifunctional protein, which catalyzes both monooxygenase activity and terpene synthase activity by two distinct active sites in the well-established P450 protein structure. Therefore, CYP170A1 is identified clearly as a moonlighting protein. The known a...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Zhao B,Waterman MR

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various strategies have been applied to replace the loss of cardiomyocytes in order to restore reduced cardiac function and prevent the progression of heart disease. Intensive research efforts in the field of cellular reprogramming and cell transplantation may eventually lead to efficient in vivo applications for the ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Välimäki MJ,Ruskoaho HJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：:Copper has a wide and important role in biological systems, determining conformation and activity of many metalloproteins and enzymes, such as cytochrome oxidase and superoxide dismutase . Furthermore, due to its possible reactivity with nonspecific proteins and toxic effects, elaborate systems of absorption, concentr...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Inesi G

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that results in loss of memory and cognitive function, eventually leading to dementia. A key neuropathological event in AD is the cerebral accumulation of senile plaques formed by aggregates of amyloid-β-peptides (Aβ). Aβ results from two sequential ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Tamagno E,Guglielmotto M,Monteleone D,Vercelli A,Tabaton M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00