Emerging roles of the αC-β4 loop in protein kinase structure, function, evolution, and disease.

abstract：:Deletion of tumor suppressor gene, lethal(2)giant larvae [l(2)gl], leads to brain tumor in Drosophila melanogaster at larval stage of development and severe brain dysplasia in mice. We have studied the effect of two potential antitumor drugs artemisinin and curcumin in the perspective of inhibiting l(2)gl brain tumor....

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Das SS,Nanda GG,Alone DP

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:The conformational stability of the homotetrameric Plasmodium falciparum beta-ketoacyl-ACP reductase (FabG) was determined by guanidinium chloride-induced isothermal and thermal denaturation. The reversible unfolding transitions were monitored by intrinsic fluorescence, circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and by meas...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Karmodiya K,Sajad S,Sinha S,Maity K,Suguna K,Surolia N

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are a highly conserved family of proteins. The regulation of expression of Hsps in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is regulated both positively and negatively by alternate sigma factors and transcriptional DNA repressors, respectively. HspR is a negative regulator of expression of hsps, DnaK, Cl...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Parijat P,Batra JK

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Heart disease is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in Western society and the incidence is projected to increase significantly over the next few decades as our population ages. Heart failure occurs when the heart is unable to pump blood at a rate to commensurate with tissue metabolic requirements and re...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Graham RM,Bishopric NH,Webster KA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal-type natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) is an aggressive malignancy with poor survival outcomes that is relatively resistant to chemotherapy. N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) modification, the most prevalent modification of eukaryotic messenger RNA, is involved in the progression of various tumors. However, it is un...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Ma H,Shen L,Yang H,Gong H,Du X,Li J

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that that human serum albumin (HSA) and alpha-lactalbumin (LA) possess DNA-binding sites. Electrophoretically homogeneous HSA and LA containing no canonical enzymes were isolated from human sera and milk. Here we have analyzed for the first time the possibility of DNA hydrolysis by these proteins. It was s...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Soboleva SE,Guschina TA,Nevinsky GA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Selenium is an essential component of several enzymes and proteins in a number of methane-producing archae. Information concerning accessory proteins that function in selenium transport processes, however, is limited. A novel selenium-binding protein with a potential transport role and a selenocysteine lyase that serv...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Stadtman T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 10th jubilee conference (IPK2019) took place on September 15-19, 2019 in Warsaw, on the Ochota campus as the IUBMB Focused Meeting entitled "Inhibitors of Protein Kinases. Kinase inhibitors in target biology and disease". ...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Poznanski J,Fabbro D

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:Copper has a wide and important role in biological systems, determining conformation and activity of many metalloproteins and enzymes, such as cytochrome oxidase and superoxide dismutase . Furthermore, due to its possible reactivity with nonspecific proteins and toxic effects, elaborate systems of absorption, concentr...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Inesi G

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) is a regulatory protein for smooth muscle contraction, which acts by phosphorylating 20-kDa myosin light chain (MLC20) to activate the myosin ATPase activity. Although this mode of action is well-established, there are numerous reports of smooth muscle contraction that is not associate...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Gao Y,Ye LH,Kishi H,Okagaki T,Samizo K,Nakamura A,Kohama K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles of the eukaryotic cell, originate from an endosymbiotic alpha-proteobacterium. These organelles are believed to have arisen only once in evolutionary history, but despite their common ancestry, mitochondrial DNAs vary extensively throughout eukaryotes in genome architectur...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Burger G,Lang BF

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders in the world, lacking effective therapies. The crucial roles of microRNAs (miRNAs) in IBS-D have attracted increasing attention. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of miR-495 on the visceral sens...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Fei L,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:The pathways for ligand entry and exit in myoglobin have now been well established by a wide variety of experimental results, including pico- to nano- to microsecond transient absorbance measurements and time-resolved X-ray crystallographic measurements. Trp insertions have been used to block, one at a time, the three...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Olson JS,Soman J,Phillips GN Jr

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an excellent model for gaining insights into the molecular basis of human mitochondrial disorders, particularly those resulting from impaired mitochondrial metabolism. Yeast is a very well characterized system and most of our current knowledge about mitochondrial biogenesis in hum...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Barrientos A

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acids glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) have primarily been characterized as the most prevalent excitatory and inhibitory, respectively, neurotransmitters in the vertebrate central nervous system. However, the role of these signaling molecules extends far beyond the synapse. GABA, glutamate, and t...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Dave KA,Bordey A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesize that the various, previously reported, reactivities of neuroglobin with redox partners and oxygen provide for the establishment of a redox cycle within cells, such as neurons and retinal rod cells. Using native cell lysates, from cultured human cells of neuronal origin, we have estimated the rate of red...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Brittain T,Skommer J

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD/BMD) are X-linked muscular dystrophies. The isolation of the defective gene in DMD/BMD has led to a better understanding of the disease process and has promoted studies regarding the application of molecular therapy. The purpose of this review is to present the progress made...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Matsuo M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic targeting has shown promise to improve the efficacy and safety of different classes of therapeutic agents by enabling their active guidance to the site of disease and minimizing dissemination to nontarget tissues. However, its translation into clinic has proven difficult because of inherent limitations of tra...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Chorny M,Fishbein I,Forbes S,Alferiev I

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell (TC) activation requires the coordinated signaling of the T cell receptor (TCR) and coreceptor molecules, allowing TCs to respond to lower degrees of TCR occupancy. Coreceptor molecules set the threshold for TC activation by controlling different regulatory signaling loops. The Cbl family members prevent undesi...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Pedraza-Alva G,Mérida LB,del Rio R,Fierro NA,Cruz-Muñoz ME,Olivares N,Melchy E,Igras V,Holländer GA,Burakoff SJ,Rosenstein Y

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:In many organisms the processes of DNA replication and recombination are closely linked. For instance, in bacterial and eukaryotic systems, replication forks can become stalled or damaged, in many cases leading to the formation of double stranded breaks. Replication restart is an essential mechanism in which the recom...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Wilkinson DE,Weller SK

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Recent structural studies of proteins mediating membrane fusion reveal intriguing similarities between diverse viral and mammalian systems. Particularly striking is the close similarity between the transmembrane envelope glycoproteins from the retrovirus HTLV-1 and the filovirus Ebola. These similarities suggest simil...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Poumbourios P,Center RJ,Wilson KA,Kemp BE,Kobe B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer RNAs require essential maturation steps to become functional. Among them, RNase P removes 5' leader sequences of pre-tRNAs. Although RNase P was long thought to occur universally as ribonucleoproteins, different types of protein-only RNase P enzymes were discovered in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Interest...

journal_title：IUBMB life

authors： Gobert A,Bruggeman M,Giegé P

更新日期：2019-08-01 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