A cataract-causing connexin 50 mutant is mislocalized to the ER due to loss of the fourth transmembrane domain and cytoplasmic domain.

abstract：:Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), synthesized from riboflavin, is redox cofactor in energy production and plays an important role in cell survival. More recently, riboflavin deficiency has been linked to developmental disorders, but its role in stem cell differentiation remains unclear. Here, we show that FAD treatme...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Hirano K,Namihira M

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Goji berries have been used as food and medicine for millennia. Due to their high morphological similarity, fruits of two distinct species belonging to the family Solanaceae, Lycium barbarum (LB) and Lycium chinense (Chinese boxthorn), are usually marketed together as goji berries, but nearly 90% of all commercially a...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Zhao J,Li H,Yin Y,An W,Qin X,Wang Y,Fan Y,Li Y,Cao Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids represent one of the most important molecules of plant secondary metabolism, playing many different biochemical and physiological roles. Although their essential role in plant life and human health has been elucidated by many studies, their subcellular transport and accumulation in plant tissues remains unc...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Filippi A,Petrussa E,Peresson C,Bertolini A,Vianello A,Braidot E

更新日期：2015-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transformation of fungi by complementation of auxotrophs is generally much more reliable than usage of antibiotic resistance markers. In order to establish such a system for the model zygomycete Absidia glauca, a stable methionine auxotrophic mutant was isolated after X-ray mutagenesis of the minus mating type and cha...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Karimi S,Wetzel J,Wöstemeyer J,Burmester A

更新日期：2012-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) has been identified as a crucial inflammatory cytokine in immune homeostasis. Previous studies have reported conflicting effects of TSLP on sepsis in mice, and the effect of TSLP on sepsis in humans has not been investigated. In this study, we used the ELISA to measure serum levels ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Yu Q,Li Y,Wang H,Xiong H

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle is paramount to ensure genomic integrity throughout life. Cell cycle checkpoints are present in each phase of the cell cycle and prevent cell cycle progression when genomic integrity is compromised. The G2 checkpoint is an intricate signaling network that regulates the pro...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： de Gooijer MC,van den Top A,Bockaj I,Beijnen JH,Würdinger T,van Tellingen O

更新日期：2017-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transglutaminases are a family of enzymes that catalyse the cross-linking of proteins by forming covalent bonds between lysine and glutamine residues in various polypeptides. Cross-linking reactions are involved in blood clots, skin formation, embryogenesis and apoptosis. Clinically, these enzymes appear to be implica...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Alvarez RG,Karki P,Langleite IE,Bakksjø RJ,Eichacker LA,Furnes C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity during pregnancy has been shown to increase the risk of metabolic diseases in the offspring. However, the factors within the maternal milieu which affect offspring phenotypes and the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. The adipocyte hormone leptin plays a key role in regulating energy homeostasis and is know...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Denisova EI,Kozhevnikova VV,Bazhan NM,Makarova EN

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of biomarkers for early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) prior to the onset of symptoms may improve the effectiveness of therapy. To identify potential biomarkers, we downloaded microarray datasets of PD from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between PD...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Jiang F,Wu Q,Sun S,Bi G,Guo L

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell wall mannan of the pathogenic yeast Candida krusei was prepared using the antibiotic Benanomicin A, which has a lectin-like function. The chemical structure of this molecule was found to be similar to that of mannan prepared from the same yeast by the conventional method using Fehling reagent. Only a few degradat...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Kuraoka T,Ishiyama A,Oyamada H,Ogawa Y,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2018-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal arterial aneurysm (AAA) shares many features with autoimmune diseases and appears to be a T-cell-mediated process. In addition, certain epigenetic changes, including DNA methylation, are associated with AAA. In this study, we investigated epigenetic modifications in regulatory T cells (Tregs) from AAA patien...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Xia Q,Zhang J,Han Y,Zhang X,Jiang H,Lun Y,Wu X,Gang Q,Liu Z,Böckler D,Duan Z,Xin S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive simple sequence repeat (SSR) surveys have been performed for eukaryotic prokaryotic and viral genomes, but information regarding SSRs in viroids is limited. We undertook a survey to examine the presence of SSRs in viroid genomes. Our results show that the distribution of SSRs in viroids may influence seconda...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Qin L,Zhang Z,Zhao X,Wu X,Chen Y,Tan Z,Li S

更新日期：2014-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Human melanoma is a highly malignant tumor originating from cutaneous melanocytes. The noncoding RNA microRNA (miR)-21-5p has been reported to be expressed at high levels in malignant melanocytic skin tissues, but its potential functional role in melanoma remains poorly understood. Here, we explored the cellular effec...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Yang Z,Liao B,Xiang X,Ke S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a small fruit rich in anthocyanins, blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum × angustifolium) has become a focus of research in recent years for identifying genes related to anthocyanin transport and stress resistance mechanisms based on transcriptome sequencing. However, the lack of validated, stably expressed reference ge...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Deng Y,Li Y,Sun H

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the role of specific amino acid residues in the molecular mechanism of a protein's function is one of the most challenging problems in modern biology. A systematic bioinformatic analysis of protein families and superfamilies can help in the study of structure-function relationships and in the design of i...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Fesko K,Suplatov D,Švedas V

更新日期：2018-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding MG Orn has been identified from a metagenomic library created from the intertidal zone in Svalbard and encodes a protein of 184 amino acid residues. The mg orn gene has been cloned, recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli, and purified to homogeneity. Biochemical characterization of the enzyme sh...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Piotrowski Y,Berg K,Klebl DP,Leiros I,Larsen AN

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most common primary solid malignancy of the bone, and its high mortality usually correlates with early metastasis. In this study, we developed a risk score model to help predict metastasis at the time of diagnosis. We downloaded and mined four expression profile datasets associated with osteosarcom...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Dong S,Huo H,Mao Y,Li X,Dong L

更新日期：2019-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Postoperative cognitive dysfunction is a common complication in elderly patients after surgeries involving anesthesia, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Lithium is a conventional treatment for bipolar disorder, which exerts a neuroprotective role in various diseases by inhibiting glycogen synthase k...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Wang Y,An X,Zhang X,Liu J,Wang J,Yang Z

更新日期：2019-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrobindins (Nbs), constituting a heme-protein family spanning from bacteria to Homo sapiens, display an all-β-barrel structural organization. Human Nb has been described as a domain of the nuclear protein named THAP4, whose physiological function is still unknown. We report the first evidence of the heme-Fe(III)-bas...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： De Simone G,di Masi A,Polticelli F,Ascenzi P

更新日期：2018-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is a harmless commensal resident in the human gut, and a prevalent opportunistic pathogen. A key part of its commensalism and pathogenesis is its ability to switch between different morphological forms, including white-to-opaque switching. The Wor1 protein was previously identified as a master regulat...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Dai B,Xu Y,Gao N,Chen J

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin signaling plays a central role in the regulation of facilitative glucose transporters (GLUTs) in humans. To establish Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model to study the mechanism underlying insulin regulation of GLUT, we identified that FGT-1 is most likely the only functional GLUT homolog in C. elega...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Kitaoka S,Morielli AD,Zhao FQ

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third main cause of cancer-relevant deaths worldwide, and its incidence has increased in recent decades. Previous studies have indicated that certain long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have regulatory roles in tumor occurrence and progression. Often, lncRNAs are competitive endogenous RNAs (...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Liu J,Zhu J,Xiao Z,Wang X,Luo J

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acids are known to play a key role in gene expression regulation, and in mammalian cells, amino acid signaling is mainly mediated via two pathways, the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway and the amino acid responsive (AAR) pathway. It is vital for cells to have a system to sense amino acid ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Hellsten SV,Lekholm E,Ahmad T,Fredriksson R

更新日期：2017-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial phosphotransferase system is central to sugar uptake and phosphorylation. Enzyme I (EI), the first enzyme of the system, autophosphorylates as a dimer using phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), but it is not clearly understood how dimerization activates the enzyme activity. Here, we show that EI dimerization is im...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Lee KO,Yun YJ,Kim I,Suh JY

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:An imbalance of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) in the brain may result in neuropathological conditions, such as autism spectrum disorders. The L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1), encoded by the solute carrier transporter 7a5 (Slc7a5) gene, is critical for maintaining normal levels of BCAAs in the brain. Howeve...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Onishi Y,Hiraiwa M,Kamada H,Iezaki T,Yamada T,Kaneda K,Hinoi E

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator-1β (PGC-1β) is a transcriptional regulator whose increased expression activates energy expenditure-related genes in skeletal muscles. However, how PGC-1β is regulated remains largely unclear. Here, we show that PGC-1β gene expression is negatively correlated...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Nakai S,Oyabu M,Hatazawa Y,Akashi S,Kitamura T,Miura S,Kamei Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is a malignant bone tumor, and clinically detectable metastases can be detected in ~ 15-20% of patients when they seek medical advice; patients with metastatic disease have extremely poor prognosis. Here, we examined the involvement of the microRNA miR-505 in osteosarcoma. Eighty-four patients seeking tre...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Li G,Liu F,Miao J,Hu Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PSMD9 (Proteasome Macropain non-ATPase subunit 9), a proteasomal assembly chaperone, harbors an uncharacterized PDZ-like domain. Here we report the identification of five novel interacting partners of PSMD9 and provide the first glimpse at the structure of the PDZ-domain, including the molecular details of the interac...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Sangith N,Srinivasaraghavan K,Sahu I,Desai A,Medipally S,Somavarappu AK,Verma C,Venkatraman P

更新日期：2014-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-1 family cytokines act as apical initiators of inflammation in many settings and can promote the production of a battery of inflammatory cytokines, chemokines and other inflammatory mediators in diverse cell types. IL-36α, IL-36β and IL-36γ, which belong to the extended IL-1 family, have been implicated as key init...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Sullivan GP,Davidovich PB,Sura-Trueba S,Belotcerkovskaya E,Henry CM,Clancy DM,Zinoveva A,Mametnabiev T,Garabadzhiu AV,Martin SJ

更新日期：2018-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Decorin (DCN) is a major member of the small leucine-rich proteoglycan (SLRP) family that is critically involved in tumorigenesis and the development of metastasis of cancers, including glioma. Overexpression of DCN was indicated to suppress glioma cell growth. However, the role of DCN in the migration of glioma cells...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Yao T,Zhang CG,Gong MT,Zhang M,Wang L,Ding W

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00