Oncogenic miR-19a and miR-19b co-regulate tumor suppressor MTUS1 to promote cell proliferation and migration in lung cancer.

abstract：:The Escherichia coli fadR protein product, a paradigm/prototypical FadR regulator, positively regulates fabA and fabB, the two critical genes for unsaturated fatty acid (UFA) biosynthesis. However the scenario in the other Ɣ-proteobacteria, such as Shewanella with the marine origin, is unusual in that Rodionov and cow...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang H,Zheng B,Gao R,Feng Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progranulin (PGRN) is a growth factor implicated in various pathophysiological processes, including wound healing, inflammation, tumorigenesis, and neurodegeneration. It was previously reported that PGRN binds to tumor necrosis factor receptors (TNFR) and has therapeutic effects in inflammatory arthritis (Tang et. al,...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang BC,Liu H,Talwar A,Jian J

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene mutation (e.g. substitution, insertion and deletion) and related phenotype information are important biomedical knowledge. Many biomedical databases (e.g. OMIM) incorporate such data. However, few studies have examined the quality of this data. In the current study, we examined the quality of protein single-point...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Li Z,Ying B,Liu X,Zhang X,Yu H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inherent evolvability of promiscuous enzymes endows them with great potential to be artificially evolved for novel functions. Previously, we succeeded in transforming a promiscuous acylaminoacyl peptidase (apAAP) from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Aeropyrum pernix K1 into a specific carboxylesterase by making a s...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Liu C,Yang G,Wu L,Tian G,Zhang Z,Feng Y

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plexins and semaphorins are a large family of proteins that are involved in cell movement and response. The importance of plexins and semaphorins has been emphasized by their discovery in many organ systems including the nervous (Nkyimbeng-Takwi and Chapoval, 2011; McCormick and Leipzig, 2012; Yaron and Sprinzak, 2012...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Roney K,Holl E,Ting J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host takes use of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) to defend against pathogen invasion or cellular damage. Among microorganism-associated molecular patterns detected by host PRRs, nucleic acids derived from bacteria or viruses are tightly supervised, providing a fundamental mechanism of host defense. Pathogeni...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xia P,Wang S,Gao P,Gao G,Fan Z

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses occasionally cause epidemics and pandemics worldwide, such as the on-going outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Herein, we identified two potent inhibitors of human DHODH, S312 and S416, with favorable drug-likeness and pharmacokinetic profiles, which all showed broad-spec...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xiong R,Zhang L,Li S,Sun Y,Ding M,Wang Y,Zhao Y,Wu Y,Shang W,Jiang X,Shan J,Shen Z,Tong Y,Xu L,Chen Y,Liu Y,Zou G,Lavillete D,Zhao Z,Wang R,Zhu L,Xiao G,Lan K,Li H,Xu K

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus has become one of the most common chronic diseases, thereby posing a major challenge to global health. Characterized by high levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia), diabetes usually results from a loss of insulin-producing β-cells in the pancreas, leading to a deficiency of insulin (type 1 diabetes)...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Kumar M,Nath S,Prasad HK,Sharma GD,Li Y

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most common primary sarcoma of bone, and it is a leading cause of cancer death among adolescents and young adults. However, the molecular mechanism underlying osteosarcoma carcinogenesis remains poorly understood. Recently, cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6) was identified as an important oncogene. W...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhu K,Liu L,Zhang J,Wang Y,Liang H,Fan G,Jiang Z,Zhang CY,Chen X,Zhou G

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronaviruses are the causative agent of respiratory and enteric diseases in animals and humans. One example is SARS, which caused a worldwide health threat in 2003. In coronaviruses, the structural protein N (nucleocapsid protein) associates with the viral RNA to form the filamentous nucleocapsid and plays a crucial ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ma Y,Tong X,Xu X,Li X,Lou Z,Rao Z

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing impairment (HI) affects 1/1000 children and over 2% of the aged population. We have previously reported that mutations in the gene encoding gap junction protein connexin-31 (C×31) are associated with HI. The pathological mechanism of the disease mutations remains unknown. Here, we show that expression of C×31 ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xia K,Ma H,Xiong H,Pan Q,Huang L,Wang D,Zhang Z

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FcγRIIB, the only inhibitory IgG Fc receptor, functions to suppress the hyper-activation of immune cells. Numerous studies have illustrated its inhibitory function through the ITIM motif in the cytoplasmic tail of FcγRIIB. However, later studies revealed that in addition to the ITIM, the transmembrane (TM) domain of F...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang J,Li Z,Xu L,Yang H,Liu W

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sigma-1 receptor is a molecular chaperone protein highly enriched in the brain. Recent studies linked it to many diseases, such as drug addition, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, depression, and even cancer. Sigma-1 receptor is enriched in lipid rafts, which are membrane microdomains essential in signaling processes. ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Li J,Liu B,Gao X,Ma Z,CaoSong T,Mei YA,Zheng Y

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) have served as a paradigm for cancer research and therapy. These studies involve the identification of the first cancer-associated chromosomal abnormality and the subsequent development of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) that inhibit BCR-ABL kinase activity in CML. It become...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang H,Li S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flea-borne transmission is a recent evolutionary adaptation that distinguishes the deadly Yersinia pestis from its progenitor Y. Pseudotuberculosis, a mild pathogen transmitted via the food-borne route. Y. Pestis synthesizes biofilms in the flea gut, which is important for fleaborne transmission. Yersinia biofilms are...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhou D,Yang R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) comprise two functionally distinct subsets: plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) and myeloid DCs (mDCs). pDCs are specialized in rapid and massive secretion of type I interferon (IFN-I) in response to nucleic acids through Toll like receptor (TLR)-7 or TLR-9. In this report, we characterized a CD56(+) DC popu...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Yu H,Zhang P,Yin X,Yin Z,Shi Q,Cui Y,Liu G,Wang S,Piccaluga PP,Jiang T,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is able to discriminate visual landmarks and form visual long-term memory in a flight simulator. Studies focused on the molecular mechanism of long-term memory have shown that memory formation requires mRNA transcription and protein synthesis. However, little is known about the ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Jiang H,Hou Q,Gong Z,Liu L

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, phage display technology has been announced as the recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018. Phage display technique allows high affinity target-binding peptides to be selected from a complex mixture pool of billions of displayed peptides on phage in a combinatorial library and could be further enriched th...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Saw PE,Song EW

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of NAC (named as NAM, ATAF1, 2, and CUC2) proteins in plant development, transcription regulation and regulatory pathways involving protein-protein interactions has been increasingly recognized. We report here the high resolution crystal structure of SNAC1 (stress-responsive NAC) NAC domain at 2.5 Å. Al...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Chen Q,Wang Q,Xiong L,Lou Z

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chimeric protein called Wallerian degeneration slow (Wld(S)) was first discovered in a spontaneous mutant strain of mice that exhibited delayed Wallerian degeneration. This provides a useful tool in elucidating the mechanisms of axon degeneration. Over-expression of Wld(S) attenuates the axon degeneration that is as...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Feng Y,Yan T,He Z,Zhai Q

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptors (LILRs), also called CD85s, ILTs, or LIRs, are important mediators of immune activation and tolerance that contain tandem immunoglobulin (Ig)-like folds. There are 11 (in addition to two pseudogenes) LILRs in total, two with two Ig-like domains (D1D2) and the remaining nine with...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Nam G,Shi Y,Ryu M,Wang Q,Song H,Liu J,Yan J,Qi J,Gao GF

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siva-1, as a p53-inducible gene, has been shown to induce extensive apoptosis in a number of different cell lines. Recent evidence suggests that Siva-1 functions as a part of the auto-regulatory feedback loop that restrains p53 through facilitating Mdm2-mediated p53 degradation. Also, Siva-1 plays an important role in...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Mei Y,Wu M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication the PDB numbers were not cited. ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Yu J,Zhang B,Zhang Y,Xu CQ,Zhuo W,Ge J,Li J,Gao N,Li Y,Yang M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), derived by ectopic expression of reprogramming factors in somatic cells, can potentially provide unlimited autologous cells for regenerative medicine. In theory, the autologous cells derived from patient iPSCs should be immune tolerant by the host without any immune rejectio...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Cao J,Li X,Lu X,Zhang C,Yu H,Zhao T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in a highly conserved ribosome assembly factor SBDS. The functional role of SBDS is to cooperate with another assembly factor, elongation factor 1-like (Efl1), to promote the release of eukaryotic initiation factor 6 (eIF6...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ma C,Yan K,Tan D,Li N,Zhang Y,Yuan Y,Li Z,Dong MQ,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is the largest internal organ in mammals, and is important for the maintenance of normal physiological functions of other tissues and organs. Hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer and other chronic liver diseases are serious threats to human health, and these problems are compounded by a scarcity of liver donor...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Chen X,Zeng F

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal recessive inherited disorder characterized by a variety of clinical features, including increased sensitivity to sunlight, progressive neurological abnormalities, and the appearance of premature aging. However, the pathogenesis of CS remains unclear due to the limitations of ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang S,Min Z,Ji Q,Geng L,Su Y,Liu Z,Hu H,Wang L,Zhang W,Suzuiki K,Huang Y,Zhang P,Tang TS,Qu J,Yu Y,Liu GH,Qiao J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous system is one of the most complicated organ systems in invertebrates and vertebrates. Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (DSCAM) of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily is expressed widely in the nervous system during embryonic development. Previous studies in Drosophila suggest that Dscam plays important...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xu Y,Ye H,Shen Y,Xu Q,Zhu L,Liu J,Wu JY

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral mucositis, a severe oral ulceration, is a common toxic effect of radio- or chemoradio-therapy and a limiting factor to using the maximum dose of radiation for effective cancer treatment. Among cancer patients, at least 40% and up to 70%, of individuals treated with standard chemotherapy regimens or upper-body rad...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Bian L,Han G,Zhao CW,Garl PJ,Wang XJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection remains an important goal of global TB eradication. To this end, targets that are essential for intracellular survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are particularly attractive. Arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT) represents such a target as it is, along with the enzymes enco...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Abuhammad AM,Lowe ED,Fullam E,Noble M,Garman EF,Sim E

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00