What is the nature of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore and what is it not?

abstract：:In this study, two different epitope tags (HA, c-myc) were introduced near the N terminus of the yeast PMA1 H(+)-ATPase. The resulting proteins were indistinguishable from the wild-type ATPase in their ability to travel through the secretory pathway, as judged by quantitative immunoblotting of isolated secretory vesic...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： dos Santos CF,DeWitt ND,Gupta SS,Allen KE,Slayman CW

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, following the discovery of the human heme protein neuroglobin, many studies have searched for evidence for this protein's mechanism of action. Much data has accrued showing that high levels of neuroglobin will protect cells from apoptotic cell death, following a wide range of challenges. Various ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Brittain T,Skommer J,Henty K,Birch N,Raychaudhuri S

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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：:Advanced glycation end-products comprise a complex and heterogeneous group of compounds that have been implicated in diabetes-related complications. The importance of the Maillard reaction is depicted by the formation of reactive intermediate products known as α-oxoaldehydes, such as 3-deoxyglucosone (3-DG). This prod...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ashraf JM,Ahmad S,Rabbani G,Jan AT,Lee EJ,Khan RH,Choi I

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：: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：:Interplay between the apoptosis, DNA damage, and oxidative stress as a host response to dengue viral infections remains unclear. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from 60 dengue infected patients, 20 patients with febrile illness other than dengue (OFI) and 10 non-febrile illness (NFI) patients....

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Cherupanakkal C,Samadanam DM,Muthuraman KR,Ramesh S,Venkatesan A,Balakrishna Pillai AK,Rajendiran S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNAs require essential maturation steps to become functional. Among them, RNase P removes 5' leader sequences of pre-tRNAs. Although RNase P was long thought to occur universally as ribonucleoproteins, different types of protein-only RNase P enzymes were discovered in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Interest...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Gobert A,Bruggeman M,Giegé P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisplatin (CP), as a chemotherapeutic drug, causes nephrotoxicity that has limited the clinical utility of CP. Gliclazide (GLZ), as an antihyperglycemic drug, at low dose has antioxidant property. In this study, we aimed to investigate the protective effect of GLZ against CP-induced acute renal injury. Sixty-four BALB...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Taghizadeh F,Hosseinimehr SJ,Zargari M,Karimpour Malekshah A,Talebpour Amiri FB

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern cell-free in vitro protein synthesis systems present powerful tools for the synthesis of isotope-labeled proteins in high yields. The production of selectively 15 N-labeled proteins from 15 N-labeled amino acids is particularly economic and yields are often sufficient to analyze the proteins very quickly by two...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ozawa K,Dixon NE,Otting G

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The faithful propagation of cellular signals in most organisms relies on the coordinated functions of a large family of protein kinases that share a conserved catalytic domain. The catalytic domain is a dynamic scaffold that undergoes large conformational changes upon activation. Most of these conformational changes, ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Yeung W,Ruan Z,Kannan N

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：: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

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with impairments in social communication, restricted, repetitive and stereotyped behaviors. Both genetic and environmental factors are known to contribute toward pathophysiology of Autism. Environmental influences on gene expression can be mediate...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Alex AM,Saradalekshmi KR,Shilen N,Suresh PA,Banerjee M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes recent progress in the field of fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) with an emphasis on the role of FGFR mutants in skeletal malformations. This family of four receptors contains the most frequent germline mutations in humans. More than 75 mutations have been recorded, which account for mo...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kannan K,Givol D

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:The current landscapes of novel therapeutic approaches rely mostly on gene-targeted technologies, enabling to fight rare genomic diseases, from infections to cancer and hereditary diseases. Although, reaching the action-site for this novel treatments requires to deliver nucleic acids, or other macromolecules into cell...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： de Figueiredo IR,Freire JM,Flores L,Veiga AS,Castanho MARB

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Worldwide, one of the most prevalent forms of chronic disease is alcoholic fatty liver, which may progress to more severe forms of liver injury including steatohepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. The molecular mechanisms by which ethanol consumption causes accumulation of hepatic lipid are multiple and complex. Chroni...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Rogers CQ,Ajmo JM,You M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than a century, the metabolic role of lactate has intrigued physiologists and biochemists. Yet, for the first half of the last century lactate had been designated as a waste product, and assigned no additional significance besides its controversial role in muscle fatigue. The decline of the lactate hypothesis...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Sola-Penna M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide is a major regulator of plant programmed cell death (PCD) but little is known about the downstream genes from the H(2)O(2)-signaling network that mediate the cell death. To address this question, a novel system for studying H(2)O(2)-induced programmed cell death in Arabidopsis thaliana was used. The ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Gechev TS,Minkov IN,Hille J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-sensitive potassium (K(ATP)) channel is expressed in most excitable tissues and plays a critical role in numerous physiological processes by coupling intracellular energetics to electrical activity. The channel is comprised of four Kir6.x subunits associated with four regulatory sulfonylurea receptors (SUR). I...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Akrouh A,Halcomb SE,Nichols CG,Sala-Rabanal M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat organic anion transporter 3 (rOAT3) has recently been identified as the third isoform of the OAT family. The mechanisms that regulate rOAT3's functions remain to be elucidated. rOAT3 contributes for moving a number of negatively charged organic compounds between cells and their extracellular milieu. Caveolin (...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kwak JO,Kim HW,Song JH,Kim MJ,Park HS,Hyun DK,Kim DS,Cha SH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fascin actin-bundling protein 1 (FSCN1) is an evolutionarily conserved actin-bundling protein that plays a critical role in cell migration, motility, adhesion, and cellular interactions. Although multiple clinical studies have implicated the expression of FSCN1 in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) progression, ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Liu H,Cui J,Zhang Y,Niu M,Xue X,Yin H,Tang Y,Dai L,Dai F,Guo Y,Wu Y,Gao W

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best known NADPH oxidase is that of phagocytes-neutrophils and monocytes. In these cells, the enzyme manufactures large quantities of O2- and other reactive oxidants that are used for the purpose of killing invading microorganisms. Recent studies, however, have suggested that a number of other tissues contain NADP...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Babior BM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that that human serum albumin (HSA) and alpha-lactalbumin (LA) possess DNA-binding sites. Electrophoretically homogeneous HSA and LA containing no canonical enzymes were isolated from human sera and milk. Here we have analyzed for the first time the possibility of DNA hydrolysis by these proteins. It was s...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Soboleva SE,Guschina TA,Nevinsky GA

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS) have been extensively recognized as important signaling molecules implicated in physiological processes such as gene expression, cell differentiation and immune activation. Nevertheless, continuous production of these species may produce oxidative and/or nitrosative s...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Rotilio G,Aquilano K,Ciriolo MR

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of tumor suppressor gene, lethal(2)giant larvae [l(2)gl], leads to brain tumor in Drosophila melanogaster at larval stage of development and severe brain dysplasia in mice. We have studied the effect of two potential antitumor drugs artemisinin and curcumin in the perspective of inhibiting l(2)gl brain tumor....

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Das SS,Nanda GG,Alone DP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00