PCBP2 post-transcriptionally regulates sortilin expression by binding to a C-rich element in its 3' UTR.

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of gynaecological cancer-associated death; thus, promising biomarkers and new therapeutic targets for ovarian cancer must be explored. Here, we report that eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit D (EIF3D), a member of the EIF3 family, was overexpressed in ovarian can...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Lin Y,Zhang R,Zhang P

更新日期：2016-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma, one of the most common malignant bone tumors, is characterized by a high rate of metastasis, and the survival rate of patients with metastatic osteosarcoma is poor. Previous studies have reported that miRNAs often regulate the occurrence and development of various tumors. In this work, we identified miRN...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Zhu T,Fan D,Ye K,Liu B,Cui Z,Liu Z,Tian Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:NrrF is a small regulatory RNA of the human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis. NrrF was previously shown to repress succinate dehydrogenase (sdhCDAB) under control of the ferric uptake regulator (Fur). Here, we provide evidence that cytochrome bc 1 , encoded by the polycistro...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Pannekoek Y,Huis In 't Veld R,Schipper K,Bovenkerk S,Kramer G,Speijer D,van der Ende A

更新日期：2017-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Megakaryoblastic leukemia 1 (MKL1) is a member of the MKL family of serum response factor (SRF) coactivators. Here we have identified three rat MKL1 transcripts: two are homologues of mouse MKL1 transcripts, full-length MKL1 (FLMKL1) and basic, SAP, and coiled-coil domains (BSAC), the third is a novel transcript, MKL1...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Ishikawa M,Shiota J,Ishibashi Y,Hakamata T,Shoji S,Fukuchi M,Tsuda M,Shirao T,Sekino Y,Ohtsuka T,Baraban JM,Tabuchi A

更新日期：2013-09-07 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：: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：:Osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is a common clinical disease with a high disability rate. Apoptosis of osteoblasts caused by high-dose short-term or low-dose long-term glucocorticoid (GC) administration is the biological basis of steroid-induced avascular necrosis of the femoral head (SANFH). The pathogenesis...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Peng P,Nie Z,Sun F,Peng H

更新日期：2020-11-15 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：: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：:Fibroblast growth factor 11 (FGF11) is a member of the intracellular fibroblast growth factor superfamily. Here, we identified FGF11 as a novel mediator of adipogenesis. During 3T3-L1 adipocyte differentiation, the expression of FGF11 decreased at the mitotic clonal expansion stage and increased at the terminal differ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Lee KW,Jeong JY,An YJ,Lee JH,Yim HS

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have proposed that the human papillomavirus (HPV) E6 oncoproteins modify the transcriptional activity of eIF4E through mechanisms dependent on p53 degradation. However, the effect of these oncoproteins on pathways regulating the activity of the eIF4E protein remains poorly understood. Hence, we invest...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Morales-Garcia V,Contreras-Paredes A,Martinez-Abundis E,Gomez-Crisostomo NP,Lizano M,Hernandez-Landero F,de la Cruz-Hernandez E

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem cells (NSC) from the adult hippocampus easily lose their activity in vitro. Efficient in vitro expansion of adult hippocampus-derived NSC is important for generation of tools for research and cell therapy. Here, we show that a single copy disruption or pharmacological inhibition of p38α enables successful ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Yoshioka K,Namiki K,Sudo T,Kasuya Y

更新日期：2015-05-08 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

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：:In this study, it was shown for the first time that l-amino acid oxidase of Pseudomonas sp. AIU813, renamed as l-amino acid oxidase/monooxygenase (l-AAO/MOG), exhibits l-lysine 2-monooxygenase as well as oxidase activity. l-Lysine oxidase activity of l-AAO/MOG was increased in a p-chloromercuribenzoate (p-CMB) concent...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Matsui D,Im DH,Sugawara A,Fukuta Y,Fushinobu S,Isobe K,Asano Y

更新日期：2014-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate egg coat, including mammalian zona pellucida, is an oocyte-specific extracellular matrix comprising two to six zona pellucida (ZP) glycoproteins. The egg coat plays important roles in fertilization, especially in species-specific interactions with sperm to induce the sperm acrosome reaction and to form ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Okumura H,Sato T,Sakuma R,Fukushima H,Matsuda T,Ujita M

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx) causes fatal systemic complications. Stx induces apoptosis, but the mechanism of which is unclear. We report that Stx induced rapid reduction of short-lived anti-apoptotic proteins followed by activation of caspase 9 and the progression of apoptosis. Proteasome inhibitors prevented the reduction of a...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Hattori T,Watanabe-Takahashi M,Ohoka N,Hamabata T,Furukawa K,Nishikawa K,Naito M

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The expense and time required for in vivo reproductive and developmental toxicity studies have driven the development of in vitro alternatives. Here, we used a new in vitro split luciferase-based assay to screen a library of 177 toxicants for inhibitors of apoptosome formation. The apoptosome contains seven Apoptotic ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Tashakor A,H-Dehkordi M,O'Connell E,Gomez Ganau S,Gozalbes R,Eriksson LA,Hosseinkhani S,Fearnhead HO

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy with poor prognosis and high mortality. To identify key genes associated with HCC and the underlying mechanisms, we performed weighted correlation network analysis (WGCNA) of potential key genes of HCC. We identified 17 key genes closely related to HCC by yellow mo...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Chen F,Zhang K,Huang Y,Luo F,Hu K,Cai Q

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Micro-exons are a set of ultrashort exons with lengths ≤ 51 nucleotides. Our previous study revealed that micro-exons were enriched in AP2 domains and K-box domains, which are crucial components of AP2/ERF (APETALA2/ethylene-responsive element-binding protein) and MADS-box (an acronym of MCM1, AGAMOUS, DEFICIENS and S...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Song Q,Bari A,Li H,Chen LL

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:In brain cells, glutamine transporters are vital to monitor and control the levels of glutamate and GABA. There are 11 members of the SLC38 family of amino acid transporters of which eight have been functionally characterized. Here, we report the first histological and functional characterization of the previously orp...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Hellsten SV,Hägglund MG,Eriksson MM,Fredriksson R

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Human type 2 diabetes is associated with β-cell apoptosis, and human islets from diabetic donors are ∼80% deficient in PAK1 protein. Toward addressing linkage of PAK1 to β-cell survival, PAK1-siRNA targeted MIN6 pancreatic β-cells were found to exhibit increased caspase-3 cleavage, cytosolic cytochrome-C and the pro-a...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Wang Z,Thurmond DC

更新日期：2012-09-08 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：:Metastasis is the primary contributor to colorectal cancer mortality. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is an emerging technology for tumor therapy that exerts its effects through tumor ablation, mechanical disruption, and enhancement of immune responses. However, it remains unclear whether HIFU can influence t...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Li M,Wan G,Yu H,Xiong W

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wilms tumor protein 1 (WT1) transcription factor has been associated in malignant melanoma with cell survival and metastasis, thus emerging as a candidate for targeted therapy. A lysine-arginine rich peptide, WT1-pTj, derived from the ZF domain of WT1 was evaluated as an antitumor agent against A2058 human melanom...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Massaoka MH,Matsuo AL,Figueiredo CR,Girola N,Faria CF,Azevedo RA,Travassos LR

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00