Calcium-sensing receptor inhibits TGF-β-signaling by decreasing Smad2 phosphorylation.

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a subset of pattern recognition receptors (PRR) in innate immunity and act as a connecting link between innate and adaptive immune systems. During Leishmania infection, the activation of TLRs influences the pathogen-specific immune responses, which may play a decisive role in determining...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Jafarzadeh A,Nemati M,Sharifi I,Nair A,Shukla D,Chauhan P,Khorramdelazad H,Sarkar A,Saha B

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Cyclic AMP metabolism is essential for the survival of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum. Three distinct adenylyl cyclases are expressed and required for the normal development of this simple eukaryote. The adenylyl cyclase expressed during aggregation, ACA, is related to the mammalian and Drosophila G prote...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kriebel PW,Parent CA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upregulation of haptoglobin (Hp) expression in the rat during the acute phase (AP) response is the result of synergistic effects of IL-6-, IL-1beta-, and corticosterone-activated signaling pathways. IL-6 signaling terminates in cis-trans interactions of the Hp gene hormone-responsive element (HRE) with transcription f...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Arambasić J,Poznanović G,Ivanović-Matić S,Bogojević D,Mihailović M,Uskoković A,Grigorov I

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) is a gaseous transmitter that is known to be involved in several physiological processes, but surprisingly it is also becoming a promising molecule to treat several pathologies including stroke and cancer. CO can cross the plasma membrane and activate guanylate cyclase, increasing the cGMP concent...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Retamal MA,León-Paravic CG,Ezquer M,Ezquer F,Del Rio R,Pupo A,Martínez AD,González C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) signaling is a key pathway in the control of cell growth and survival. Three critical nodes in the IGF-1 signaling pathway have been described in cardiomyocytes: protein kinase Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), Ras/Raf/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), and phosph...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Troncoso R,Díaz-Elizondo J,Espinoza SP,Navarro-Marquez MF,Oyarzún AP,Riquelme JA,Garcia-Carvajal I,Díaz-Araya G,García L,Hill JA,Lavandero S

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV or HHV-8) is linked to the etiopathogenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma, a plasma-blastic variant of Castleman's disease and primary effusion lymphoma. KSHV is related to a number of non-human primate viruses. Only a limited number of KSHV proteins are expressed in tumor cells. He...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Sharp TV,Boshoff C

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:The existence of a genetic component in mycobacterial disease susceptibility is no longer in doubt and the investigations now being conducted aim to determine which genes are involved, to what extent, and in which disease phenotype they are relevant. In certain rare instances of susceptibility to poorly pathogenic myc...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Hoal EG

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the amino acid sequences and the structures of pyruvate kinase (PYK) isozymes are highly conserved, allosteric regulations differ. This suggests that amino acids with low conservation play important roles in the allosteric mechanism. The current work exploits a 'natural screen'- the 122 point mutations identi...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Pendergrass DC,Williams R,Blair JB,Fenton AW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish possible cancerous aggressiveness between the metabolism of variously labeled [14C]glucose in the human breast invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) tissues, we measured the rates of 14CO2 production from those tissues by using radiorespirometry, expressing the results as initial velocity (V) in nanomoles of 14...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Yan SH,Wallon J,Mayaudon J

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, a plant-associated pathogenic bacterium, is the causal agent of foliar spots and blights in crucifers. The major outer membrane protein, Omp37, of 37 kDa, has been identified, purified to homogeneity, and its characterization has also been carried out. Native Omp37 behaved as a t...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang L,Zheng Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the years, microRNA-20b-3p (miR-20b-3p) has been found to play an essential role in human diseases; we aimed to investigate the effect of miR-20b-3p on the progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR). The DR rat models were established by streptozotocin injection and treated with miR-20b-3p mimics, silenced, or over...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang S,Du S,Lv Y,Wang W,Zhang F

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic optic neuropathy is an important cause of severe vision loss. So, many attempts were performed to transplant stem cells systemically or locally to regenerate the injured retina. In this study, we investigated the effect of human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells (hUBMSCs) on histological structure,...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Mohamed EM,Abdelrahman SA,Hussein S,Shalaby SM,Mosaad H,Awad AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunosuppressant cyclosporin A (CsA)-sensitive nuclear factor of activated T cells 1 (NFAT1) has been known to be a transcriptional regulator of cytokine and viral genes during the immune response. By analyses of serial deletion, mutation, and heterologous promoter assay, we report here that the CsA-sensitive NFA...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Lee JH,Rho HM

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：: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：: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：:PlncRNA-1 has been suggested to function as an oncogenic role in prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, and gastric cancer. The expression pattern of PlncRNA-1 in retinoblastoma remained unknown. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the clinical sig...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wang S,Liu J,Yang Y,Hao F,Zhang L

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:The posttranscriptional regulation of miRNAs is important for organism development. To investigate the role of miRNAs in angiogenesis, we performed a loss-of-function screening assay in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and found that knockdown of 7 miRNAs (miR-95a, miR-126, miR-129, miR-137, miR-139, mi...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Li YX,Liu DQ,Zheng C,Zheng SQ,Liu M,Li X,Tang H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine biosynthesis pathway is crucial to the survival and pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Arginine is a critical amino acid that contributes to the inflection of cellular immune responses during pathogenesis. Argininosuccinate lyase from Mtb (MtArgH), the last enzyme in the pathway, catalyzes the ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Mishra A,Surolia A

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is typical of the dementias that affect both animals and man; Scrapie in sheep, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in man. Global efforts have been made to determine the nature of the active agents in these diseases. At present the 'protein only hypothesis' of Prusiner holds. It was a sur...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Campbell PN

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon regulatory factors (IRFs) were originally discovered in the context of type I interferon (IFN-alpha/beta) gene induction, and subsequent studies on these transcription factors have revealed their remarkable functional diversity in regulating immune systems. Indeed, the critical involvement of IRF members in...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Honda K,Taniguchi T

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Bladder carcinoma is an important worldwide health problem. Both cystoscopy and urine cytology used in detecting bladder cancer suffer from drawbacks where cystoscopy is an invasive method and urine cytology shows low sensitivity in low-grade tumors. This study validates easier and less time-consuming techniques for t...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Eissa S,Shabayek MI,Ismail MF,El-Allawy RM,Hamdy MA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most organisms, productive utilization of galactose requires the highly conserved Leloir pathway of galactose metabolism. Yet, if this metabolic pathway is perturbed due to congenital deficiencies of the three associated enzymes, or an overwhelming presence of galactose, this monosaccharide which is abundantly pres...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Lai K,Elsas LJ,Wierenga KJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 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