Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) suppresses lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory bone resorption, and protects against alveolar bone loss in mice.

abstract：:The antipsychotic drug olanzapine is widely prescribed to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. However, it often causes unwanted side effects, including diabetes, due to disruption of insulin-dependant glucose metabolism through a mechanism yet to be elucidated. To determine if olanzapine can affect the ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Babkin P,George Thompson AM,Iancu CV,Walters DE,Choe JY

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:l-Ornithine cyclodeaminase (OCD) is involved in l-proline biosynthesis and catalyzes the unique deaminating cyclization of l-ornithine to l-proline via a Δ(1)-pyrroline-2-carboxyrate (Pyr2C) intermediate. Although this pathway functions in only a few bacteria, many archaea possess OCD-like genes (proteins), among whic...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Watanabe S,Tozawa Y,Watanabe Y

更新日期：2014-07-10 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：:Osteoporosis is characterized by systemic microarchitecture impairment and bone loss, which ultimately lead to fragility fractures. This disease is most common in older people, especially in postmenopausal women. Cancellous bone is affected by osteoporosis earlier than cortical bone, and DNA methylation microarray ana...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Zhou Y,Yang L,Wang H,Chen X,Jiang W,Wang Z,Liu S,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Y-box-binding protein 1 (YB1) is a multifunctional transcription factor with vital roles in proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. In this study, we have examined the role of its C-terminal domain (YB1 CTD) in proliferation, angiogenesis and tumorigenicity in breast cancer. Breast cancer cell line SK-BR-3 was i...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Shi JH,Cui NP,Wang S,Zhao MZ,Wang B,Wang YN,Chen BP

更新日期：2016-01-11 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：: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：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic degenerative disease that commonly affects the elderly. Current drug therapies for treating OA may cause adverse side effects, and so there remains a need to develop alternative treatments. Bergapten (BG) is a coumarin phytohormone that is widely found in fruits and has antioxidative a...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： He Y,Zisan Z,Lu Z,Zheng L,Zhao J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying conserved binding motifs is an efficient way to study protein-ligand recognition. Most 3D binding motifs only contain information from the protein side, and so motifs that combine information from both protein and ligand sides are desired. Here, we propose an algorithm called LibME (Ligand-binding Motif Ex...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： He W,Liang Z,Teng M,Niu L

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft cheese with white rind lacks essential fatty acids (EFAs), and as a result its long-term consumption may lead to various kinds of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and atherosclerosis. Geotrichum candidum is a dimorphic yeast that plays an important role in the rip...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Luo X,Shi H,Wu R,Wu J,Pi Y,Zheng Y,Yue X

更新日期：2018-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Abscisic acid (ABA) response elements (ABREs) are a group of cis-acting DNA elements that have been identified from promoter analysis of many ABA-regulated genes in plants. We are interested in understanding the mechanism of binding specificity between ABREs and a class of bZIP transcription factors known as ABRE bind...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Sarkar AK,Lahiri A

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage-inducible 1 (Ddi1) is a multidomain protein with one of the domains being retropepsin-like. HIV-1 protease inhibitors were found to reduce opportunistic infections caused by pathogens like Leishmania and Plasmodium, and some of them were shown to inhibit the growth of these parasites. In Leishmania, Ddi1 wa...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Kumar S,Suguna K

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL), an aggressive T-cell malignancy that develops after long-term infection with human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-1), requires new treatments. Drug repositioning, reuse of a drug previously approved for the treatment of another condition to treat ATL, offers the possibility of reduce...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Kozako T,Soeda S,Yoshimitsu M,Arima N,Kuroki A,Hirata S,Tanaka H,Imakyure O,Tone N,Honda S,Soeda S

更新日期：2016-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biology circuits are often constructed with multiple gene expression units assembled in close proximity, and they can be used to perform complex functions in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). However, mutual interference between transcriptional units has not been well studied in mouse ESCs. To assess the efficien...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Lu XB,Guo YH,Huang W

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes can cause an array of diseases in humans, including moderate infections such as pharyngitis (strep throat) as well as life threatening conditions such as necrotizing fasciitis and puerperal fever. The antigen I/II family proteins are cell wall anchored adhesin proteins fo...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Hall M,Nylander S,Jenkinson HF,Persson K

更新日期：2014-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) is a linear polymer containing tens to hundreds of orthophosphate residues linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds. PolyP promotes osteocalcification and bone mineralization in both mouse and human osteoblastic cells. In the present study, we examined the molecular mechanism by whi...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Tsutsumi K,Sasase T

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:Glutathione transferases (GSTs) are involved in many processes in plant biochemistry, with their best characterised role being the detoxification of xenobiotics through their conjugation with glutathione. GSTs have also been implicated in noncatalytic roles, including the binding and transport of small heterocyclic li...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Ahmad L,Rylott EL,Bruce NC,Edwards R,Grogan G

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:One practical application of genome-scale metabolic reconstructions is to interrogate multispecies relationships. Here, we report a consensus metabolic model in four yeast species (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, S. paradoxus, S. mikatae, and S. bayanus) by integrating metabolic network simulations with RNA sequencing (RNA-...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Zhao Y,Wang Y,Zou L,Huang J

更新日期：2016-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most malignant form of brain tumor and is associated with resistance to conventional therapy and poor patient survival. Prostate apoptosis response (Par)-4, a tumor suppressor, is expressed as both an intracellular and secretory/extracellular protein. Though secretory Par-4 induces...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Jagtap JC,Parveen D,Shah RD,Desai A,Bhosale D,Chugh A,Ranade D,Karnik S,Khedkar B,Mathur A,Natesh K,Chandrika G,Shastry P

更新日期：2014-11-21 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：:Oxidative stress in plants causes ferredoxin down-regulation and NADP(+) shortage, over-reduction of the photosynthetic electron transport chain, electron leakage to oxygen and generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Expression of cyanobacterial flavodoxin in tobacco chloroplasts compensates for ferredoxin declin...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Giró M,Ceccoli RD,Poli HO,Carrillo N,Lodeyro AF

更新日期：2011-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neointimal hyperplasia (NIH) is a complicated inflammatory process contributing to vascular restenosis. The present study aimed to explore whether chemokine-like factor 1 (CKLF1) aggravates NIH via the nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB)/vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) pathway. We found the expression of CKLF1 a...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Liu X,Qu C,Zhang Y,Fang J,Teng L,Zhang R,Zhang X,Shen C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress has been associated with prostate cancer development and progression due to an increase of reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, the mechanisms whereby ROS and the antioxidant system participate in cancer progression remain unclear. In order to clarify the influence of oxidative stress in prostate c...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Freitas M,Baldeiras I,Proença T,Alves V,Mota-Pinto A,Sarmento-Ribeiro A

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin is a polyphenolic phytonutrient that has antineurodegenerative properties. In this study, we investigated the anti-amyloidogenic properties of curcumin. Following incubation with curcumin, intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence emission of apolipoprotein (apo) A-I was strongly quenched. At the same time, curcumin ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Krishnamoorthy A,Tavoosi N,Chan GKL,Liu J,Ren G,Cavigiolio G,Ryan RO

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrins are members of the EF-hand family of calcium-binding proteins, which are highly conserved among eukaryotes. Centrins bind to several cellular targets, through a hydrophobic triad. However, the W(1)xxL(4)xxxL(8) triad in XPC (Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C protein) is found in the reverse orientation, as in the...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Grecu D,Blouquit Y,Assairi L

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is a crucial regulator of cellular and systemic responses to low oxygen levels. Here we firstly cloned three HIF-α isoforms from the basal branches of Osteichthyes and used computational tools to characterise the molecular change underlying the functional divergence of HIF-α isoforms in ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Chi W,Gan X,Xiao W,Wang W,He S

更新日期：2013-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobionic acid (O-β-galactosyl-(1-4)-gluconic acid) (LBA) is a high-value lactose derivative, produced via oxidation of the reducing terminal of lactose. LBA can be produced by fermentation using certain microorganisms, although subsequent purification is challenging. Therefore, we have attempted to identify an enzy...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Lin SF,Li CK,Chung YP

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The base excision repair pathway plays an important role in correcting damage induced by either physiological or external effects. This repair pathway removes incorrect bases from the DNA. The uracil base is among the most frequently occurring erroneous bases in DNA, and is cut out from the phosphodiester backbone via...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Papp-Kádár V,Balázs Z,Vékey K,Ozohanics O,Vértessy BG

更新日期：2019-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the brain, REST (Repressor Element-1 Silencing Transcription factor) is a key regulator of neuron cell-specific gene expression. Nuclear translocation of neuronal REST has been shown to be neuroprotective in a healthy ageing context. In contrast, inability to upregulate nuclear REST is thought to leave ageing neuro...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Mampay M,Velasco-Estevez M,Rolle SO,Chaney AM,Boutin H,Dev KK,Moeendarbary E,Sheridan GK

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00