The Neurovascular Protective Effect of S14G-Humanin in a Murine MCAO Model and Brain Endothelial Cells.

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：:In this study, we intended to determine the detailed function and mechanism of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) colorectal neoplasia differentially expressed (CRNDE) in liver injury induced by sepsis. Cecal ligation and perforation (CLP) models were adopted to induce sepsis in vivo with rats, and hepatic epithelial cells L...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Li Y,Song J,Xie Z,Liu M,Sun K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acidic phospholipase A2 isoform from the spitting cobra Naja mossambica mossambica is activated irreversibly by treatment with a molar equivalent of oleoyl imidazolide. The kinetics of the chemical modification of the enzyme can also be monitored by measuring the large reduction of tryptophan fluorescence, which i...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ahmed T,Kelly SM,Price NC,Lawrence AJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten-eleven translocation (TET) family enzymes convert 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in DNA. However, the role of TET enzymes in human gastric cancer remains unknown. Here, we show that TET2 mRNA and protein levels are downregulated in human gastric cancer tissues when compared with normal gastric mucosa....

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Deng W,Wang J,Zhang J,Cai J,Bai Z,Zhang Z

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian antizyme (AZ) promotes ubiqutin-independent degradation of ornithine decarboxylase, a key enzyme in polyamine biosynthesis. This study shows that AZ suppression in human lung carcinoma A549 cells caused growth defects and death, but made the cells resistant to DNA damaging agents such as gamma-radiation ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kim JS,Kim TL,Cho EW,Paik SG,Chung HW,Kim IG

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate is a potent metabolic regulator in eukaryotic organisms; it affects the activity of key enzymes of the glycolytic and gluconeogenic pathways. The enzymes responsible for its synthesis and hydrolysis, 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase (PFK-2) and fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase-2) are present in re...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Michels PA,Rigden DJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Nuclear receptors (NRs) comprise a large family of proteins essential to manipulate various aspects of human biology. The class III of the NR family includes steroid hormone receptors (SHRs) involved in embryonic development, maintenance of differentiated cellular phenotypes, metabolism, and cell death. Dysfunction of...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Marino M,Ascenzi P

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invasion and chemoresistance are crucial causes of morbidity and relapse for cancer patients. Axl is implicated in the modulation of cell invasion, cancer metastasis, and chemosensitivity in human breast carcinoma cell lines. Both breast cancer cell lines and tissues displayed increased expression of Axl, and it o...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Li Y,Jia L,Ren D,Liu C,Gong Y,Wang N,Zhang X,Zhao Y

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Exosomes are nano-sized extracellular vesicles containing a cell-specific biologically active cargo of proteins and genetic materials. Exosomes are constitutively released from almost all cell-types and affect neighboring or distant cells through a complex intercellular exchange of the genetic information and/or regul...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Zhou R,Wang L,Zhao G,Chen D,Song X,Momtazi-Borojeni AA,Yuan H

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：:Role of nitric oxide (NO) on the expression of organic anion transporter 2 (OAT2) located in sinusoidal domain of hepatocytes has been investigated. Effect of NO generated in vivo in rat and delivered in vitro to hepatocytes was determined. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and spermine NONOate (SPER/NO) were selected as the N...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Cha SH,Kim HP,Jung NH,Lee WK,Kim JY,Cha YN

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer related inflammation (CRI) is now recognized as the seventh hallmark in the pathogenesis of many types of malignancies. Paeonol, a natural phenolic component isolated from the root bark of Paeonia moutan, has significant anti-inflammatory activity. Recently, accumulating body of research has revealed potent ant...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Zhang L,Tao L,Shi T,Zhang F,Sheng X,Cao Y,Zheng S,Wang A,Qian W,Jiang L,Lu Y

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：: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：:Transketolase (TK, EC 2.2.1.1), the key enzyme of the non-oxidative branch of pentose phosphate pathway of hydrocarbon transformation, plays an important role in a system of substrate rearrangement between pentose shunt and glycolysis, acting as a reversible link between the two metabolic pathways. In addition, it sup...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kochetov GA,Sevostyanova IA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-surface-bound extracellular DNA (csbDNA) is present on the outer membrane of blood cells, including both red blood cells and leukocytes. Although less well characterized than cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in plasma and serum, leukocyte and red blood cell csbDNA form a considerable fraction of the blood extracellular nucl...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Tamkovich S,Laktionov P

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered activity of the proteolytic machine-the 26S proteasome is observed in many disease conditions. Hence, either inhibition or activation of the 26S proteasome is thought to be a novel therapy for treatment of certain diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. In this study, we tested the potential o...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Gopalakrishnan S,Ediga HH,Reddy SS,Reddy GB,Ismail A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological role of neuroglobin and cytoglobin, two vertebrate globins discovered in the last 5 years, is not yet clearly understood. In this work, we review the structural information on these globins and its implication on the possible protein function, obtained by electron paramagnetic resonance and resonance...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Van Doorslaer S,Vinck E,Trandafir F,Ioanitescu I,Dewilde S,Moens L

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously found a novel glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored glycoprotein designated GPI-80 that modulates complement receptor 3 integrin-dependent adhesion and in vitro transendothelial migration of neutrophils. In this study, we show that antibody-mediated cross-linking of GPI-80 led to rapid tyrosine pho...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Yu Y,Araki Y,Sendo F

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite is an inorganic toxin of physiological interest, formed from the diffusion-controlled reaction of superoxide and nitrogen monoxide with a rate constant of (1.6 +/- 0.3) x 10(10) M(-1) s(-1). On the basis of three experiments we conclude that homolysis of the O-O bond in peroxynitrous acid is unlikely: (1...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Kissner R,Nauser T,Kurz C,Koppenol WH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have started focusing on investigating the anticarcinogenic effects of natural products with the slightest side effects possible, because current breast cancer treatment approaches are unable to achieve absolute success especially on aggressive subtypes. Propolis is among these products with its antimicrob...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Seyhan MF,Yılmaz E,Timirci-Kahraman Ö,Saygılı N,Kısakesen Hİ,Gazioğlu S,Gören AC,Eronat AP,Begüm Ceviz A,Öztürk T,Yılmaz-Aydoğan H,Öztürk O

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women with breast cancer show altered blood glucose compartmentation compared with healthy women, with lower concentrations in plasma and similar concentrations in blood cells. The goal of this paper was to study whether this pattern was the result of changes in the erythrocyte glucose transporter and, if so, to asses...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Crespí C,Quevedo S,Roca P,Palou A

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：:We propose a new hypothesis for the molecular mechanism by which neuroglobin exerts its protective effect in hypoxia-induced cell death. Our recent observation of a very rapid electron-transfer reaction between ferrous neuroglobin and ferric cytochrome c is central to this hypothesis. In contrast to previously suggest...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Fago A,Mathews AJ,Brittain T

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Heart diseases are common in the offspring of gestational diabetic mother (ODM). Defects in mitochondrial metabolism and autophagy may, in part, be responsible for the adverse structural and functional alterations in the heart. The principal objective of this study was to investigate cardiac mitochondrial res...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Rajendran RS,Jayakumari NR,Sivasailam A,Reghuvaran AC,Pillai VV,Karunakaran J,Sreelatha HV,Manjunatha S,Gopala S

更新日期：2021-01-22 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：:The last 15 years of effort in understanding bacterial DNA replication and repair has identified that the donut shaped beta2 sliding clamp is harnessed by very functionally different DNA polymerases throughout the lifecycle of the bacterial cell. Remarkably, the sites of binding of these polymerases, in most cases, ap...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wijffels G,Dalrymple B,Kongsuwan K,Dixon NE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00