Effect of flexible linker length on the activity of fusion protein 4-coumaroyl-CoA ligase::stilbene synthase.

abstract：:Human mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family members JNK and p38 are two homologous protein-serine/threonine kinases but play distinct roles in the pathological process of neurological disorders. Selective targeting of JNK over p38 has been established as a potential therapeutic approach to epilepsy and other ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhuo ZH,Sun YZ,Jin PN,Li FY,Zhang YL,Wang HL

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions are important biological processes and essential for a global understanding of cell functions. To date, little is known about the protein interactions and roles of the protein interacting networks and protein complexes in bacterial resistance to antibiotics. In the present study, we invest...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li H,Pan JY,Liu XJ,Gao JX,Wu HK,Wang C,Peng XX

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer has been reported as one of the most frequently diagnosed malignant diseases and the leading cause of cancer death in women all around the world. Furthermore, this complicated cancer is divided into multiple subtypes which present different clinical symptoms and need correspondingly directed therapy. We ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chen Y,Wang X,Wang G,Li Z,Wang J,Huang L,Qin Z,Yuan X,Cheng Z,Zhang S,Yin Y,He J

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant aquaporins belong to a large superfamily of conserved proteins called the major intrinsic proteins (MIPs). There is limited information about the diversity of MIPs and their water transport capacity in broccoli (Brassica oleracea) plants. In this study, the cDNAs of isoforms of Plasma Membrane Intrinsic Proteins...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Muries B,Faize M,Carvajal M,Martínez-Ballesta Mdel C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the complexity of cancer biology requires extensive information about the cancer proteome over the course of the disease. The recent advances in mass spectrometry-based proteomics technologies have led to the accumulation of an incredible amount of such proteomic information. This information allows us t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Miah S,Banks CA,Adams MK,Florens L,Lukong KE,Washburn MP

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrative pharmacology has been used to identify the key active constituents (KACs) of Buchang Naoxintong capsules (BNCs), a traditional Chinese medical preparation; this approach involves the evaluation of the content profiles and drug-like properties of the BNC constituents and development of an ingredient-target ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Haiyu X,Yang S,Yanqiong Z,Qiang J,Defeng L,Yi Z,Feng L,Hongjun Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cyclic dinucleotide riboswitch has been fused with a G-quadruplex motif to produce a conditional riboswitch-peroxidase-mimicking sensor that oxidizes both colorimetric and fluorogenic substrates in the presence of c-di-GMP. We find that signal-to-noise ratio could be improved by using a two-, not three-, floor split...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Tsuji G,Sintim HO

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroiRNAs are genome encoded small double stranded RNAs that regulate expression of homologous mRNAs. With approximately 2500 human miRNAs and each having hundreds of potential mRNA targets, miRNA based gene regulation is quite pervasive in both development and disease. While there are numerous studies investigating ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chaulk SG,Ebhardt HA,Fahlman RP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a potential target for the treatment of schizophrenia, the dual cAMP/cGMP hydrolyzing enzyme PDE10A has attracted a significant amount of attention. In the present work, the inhibition mechanism of 116 structurally diverse quinoline derivatives as PDE10A inhibitors was explored by 3D-QSAR, molecular docking and mol...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wu Q,Gao Q,Guo H,Li D,Wang J,Gao W,Han C,Li Y,Yang L

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimicking receptor flexibility during receptor-ligand binding is a challenging task in computational drug design since it is associated with a large increase in the conformational search space. In the present study, we have devised an in silico design strategy incorporating receptor flexibility in virtual screening to...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chakraborty S,Ramachandran B,Basu S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Parkinson's disease (PD) associated gene PINK1 encodes a protein kinase that mediates the phosphorylation of multiple proteins involved in mitochondrial homeostasis. The broader downstream signaling events mediated by PINK1 kinase activity have not been well documented. We combine quantitative phosphoproteomic str...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Qin X,Zheng C,Yates JR 3rd,Liao L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major mechanical function of talin is to couple the β-integrin cytoplasmic tails to actin filaments. A variety of β-integrin tails contain conserved binding motifs for talin, and recent research shows that β-integrins differ both in affinity to talin and preferences for other cytoplasmic adaptor proteins. While ta...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kukkurainen S,Määttä JA,Saeger J,Valjakka J,Vogel V,Hytönen VP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules (mt) are highly dynamic polymers composed of alpha- and beta-tubulin monomers that are present in all dividing and non-dividing cells. A broad variety of natural products exists that are known to interfere with the microtubule network, by either stabilizing or de-stabilizing these rope-like polymers. Amon...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Eirich J,Burkhart JL,Ullrich A,Rudolf GC,Vollmar A,Zahler S,Kazmaier U,Sieber SA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eIF4E-binding protein 1 (4EBP1) has long been known to be completely unstructured without any secondary structures, which contributed significantly to the proposal of the induced fit mechanism for target binding of intrinsically disordered proteins. We show here that 4EBP1 is not completely unstructured, but conta...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kim DH,Lee C,Cho YJ,Lee SH,Cha EJ,Lim JE,Sabo TM,Griesinger C,Lee D,Han KH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological networks are effective tools for studying molecular interactions. Modular structure, in which genes or proteins may tend to be associated with functional modules or protein complexes, is a remarkable feature of biological networks. Mining modular structure from biological networks enables us to focus on a s...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jiao QJ,Huang Y,Shen HB

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity probes are useful tools for determining molecular targets and elucidating mechanism of action for novel, bioactive compounds. In the case of covalent inhibitors, activity based probes are particularly valuable for ensuring acceptable selectivity margins. However, there is a variety of bioorthogonal chemistry ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Paresi CJ,Liu Q,Li YM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New-type oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 influenza viruses have been a major threat to human health since the 2009 flu pandemic. To resolve the drug resistance issue, we aimed to identify a new type of inhibitors against H1 from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) by employing the world's largest TCM database () for virtual...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chang SS,Huang HJ,Chen CY

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the performance of nanostructured calcium carbonate in gene delivery, a hydrophilic polysaccharide, alginate, was added to calcium carbonate co-precipitation systems to form alginate/CaCO(3)/DNA nanoparticles. The size and ζ-potential of the nanoparticles were measured by a zetasizer. Due to the existence o...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhao D,Zhuo RX,Cheng SX

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rule-based modeling provides a means to represent cell signaling systems in a way that captures site-specific details of molecular interactions. For rule-based models to be more widely understood and (re)used, conventions for model visualization and annotation are needed. We have developed the concepts of an extended ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chylek LA,Hu B,Blinov ML,Emonet T,Faeder JR,Goldstein B,Gutenkunst RN,Haugh JM,Lipniacki T,Posner RG,Yang J,Hlavacek WS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogeneous oligodeoxyguanylates incorporating small-molecule intercalator pyrene moieties in a 1,5 relationship form various structures of dimer, trimer, tetramer and internal hairpin form that are yellowish in color because of the intermolecular interactions between the pyrene units. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jeong HS,Park M,Yi JW,Joo T,Kim BH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a sensitive, non-destructive displacement assay, using a fluorescent peptide indicator, for real-time monitoring of the interactions between RNA and RNA binding proteins (RBPs). The developed fluorescent peptide indicators, each containing a mid-sequence fluorophore unit, allowed sensing of target...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jeong HS,Choi SM,Kim HW,Park JW,Park HN,Park SM,Jang SK,Rhee YM,Kim BH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental data from biological pathways come in many forms: qualitative or quantitative, static or dynamic. By combining a variety of these heterogeneous sources of data, we construct a mathematical model of a critical regulatory network in vertebrate development, the Sonic Hedgehog signaling pathway. The structure...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Boykin ER,Ogle WO

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climatic change is an increasing challenge for agriculture that is driving the development of suitable crops in order to ensure supply for both human nutrition and animal feed. In this context, it is increasingly important to understand the biochemical responses of cells to environmental cues at the whole system level...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： García-Flores M,Juárez-Colunga S,Montero-Vargas JM,López-Arciniega JA,Chagolla A,Tiessen A,Winkler R

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most commonly occurring metabolic and endocrinological disorders affecting women of reproductive age. Metabolomics is an emerging field that holds promise in understanding disease pathophysiology. Recently, a few metabolomics based studies have been attempted in PCOS pati...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： RoyChoudhury S,Mishra BP,Khan T,Chattopadhayay R,Lodh I,Datta Ray C,Bose G,Sarkar HS,Srivastava S,Joshi MV,Chakravarty B,Chaudhury K

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel class of pH-sensitive PEG lipids bearing acid-cleavable acetal linkages and short PEG chains have been synthesised and used in ternary vector formulations. The cleavage pH was influenced by structural components including the terminal PEG moiety and spacer length. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wong JB,Grosse S,Tabor AB,Hart SL,Hailes HC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are key regulators of gene expression. Some long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) affect gene expression by interacting with RBPs. However, whether this influences the biological characteristics of lncRNAs in diseases still remains unknown. Here, we classify lncRNAs into two categories, using the ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang Q,Wei Y,Yan Z,Wu C,Chang Z,Zhu Y,Li K,Xu Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial resistance to β-lactam antibiotics poses a serious threat to human health. Penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) and β-lactamases are involved in both antibacterial activity and mediation of β-lactam antibiotic resistance. The two major reasons for resistance to β-lactams include: (i) pathogenic bacteria expres...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kumar KM,Anbarasu A,Ramaiah S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex signalling systems have evolved in multicellular organisms to enable cell-to-cell communication during growth and development. In plants, cell communication via the extracellular matrix (apoplast) controls many processes vital for plant survival. Secretion of ATP into the extracellular matrix is now recognised...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chivasa S,Slabas AR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a biological process that plays a crucial role in cancer metastasis. Although studies regarding the EMT mechanisms are usual in terms of gene expression and protein functions, little is known about the involvement of lipids in EMT. In this work, an untargeted lipidomic ana...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Dalmau N,Jaumot J,Tauler R,Bedia C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intracellular signal transduction network constitutes an assembled machinery to control the dynamics of kinase-phosphatase cascade and gene expression. Spatio-temporal analyses of the cellular process can explain the biochemical role of the receptor tyrosine kinases in cancer development from a system point of view...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hatakeyama M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00