A quinazoline-based HDAC inhibitor affects gene expression pathways involved in cholesterol biosynthesis and mevalonate in prostate cancer cells.

abstract：:Upon entering biological systems, such as the blood stream, nanoparticles form molecular complexes with the proteins encountered called protein coronas, which shield the surface of the exogenous nanoparticle. The most abundant blood proteins, such as albumin, initially occupy the surface of the nanoparticle. Owing to ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ramezani F,Rafii-Tabar H

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the versatile CYP109B1 enzyme from Bacillus subtilis has been solved at 1.8 Å resolution. This is the first structure of an enzyme from this CYP family, whose members are prevalent across diverse species of bacteria. In the crystal structure the enzyme has an open conformation with an access c...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang A,Zhang T,Hall EA,Hutchinson S,Cryle MJ,Wong LL,Zhou W,Bell SG

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious diseases caused by bacterial pathogens pose a major concern to public health and, thus, greater attention must be given to providing insightful knowledge on host-pathogen interactions. There are several theories addressing the dynamics of complex mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions. The availability of...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kamaladevi A,Marudhupandiyan S,Balamurugan K

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sponge metagenomes are accessible genetic sources containing genes and gene clusters responsible for the biosynthesis of sponge-derived bioactive natural products. In this study, we obtained the clone pDC112, producing turbomycin A and 2,2-di(3-indolyl)-3-indolone, based on the functional screening of the metagenome l...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Takeshige Y,Egami Y,Wakimoto T,Abe I

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is a ubiquitous cofactor participating in numerous redox reactions. It is also a substrate for regulatory modifications of proteins and nucleic acids via the addition of ADP-ribose moieties or removal of acyl groups by transfer to ADP-ribose. In this study, we use in-depth seque...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： de Souza RF,Aravind L

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now widely accepted that microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) along with transcription factors (TFs) weave a complex inter-regulatory network within the cell that is responsible for the combinatorial regulation of gene expression. Recently we have shown that miRNAs and TFs that form network clusters are also associated wi...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sengupta D,Bandyopadhyay S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primarily used for medicinal purposes in the past, biologically active small molecules have been increasingly employed to explore complex biological processes in the era of "chemical genetics". Since the contributions of this small molecule approach to biology have been extensive, we limit the focus of our review to t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wehenkel M,Hong JT,Kim KB

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of a suitable non-fluorescent molecule that can be oxidized by G-quadruplexes into a fluorescent product will be important for several fields such as bioanalyte sensing and cancer therapeutic discovery. Herein, we demonstrate that 2',7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate is a superior reducing sub...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Nakayama S,Sintim HO

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of the structure and dynamics of signal transduction systems through data-based mathematical models in ordinary differential equations or other paradigms has proven to be a successful approach in recent times. Extending this concept, we here analysed the use of kinetic models based on power-law terms...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Vera J,Rath O,Balsa-Canto E,Banga JR,Kolch W,Wolkenhauer O

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first fluorescent labeling technology, which can induce not only an increase in the fluorescence intensity but also a shift in the fluorescence spectrum, has been developed for "ratiometric" measurements for a protein by utilizing a newly designed "field-sensitive" fluorescent probe and its corresponding unique am...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Soh N,Seto D,Nakano K,Imato T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical cancer is initiated by infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV). The viral E6 and E7 oncogenes are required for the initiation of cervical epithelial cell immortalization, but do not suffice to cause cervical cancer. Human oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes with altered activity in cervical carci...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kravchenko-Balasha N,Klein S,Safrai M,Levitzki A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Phospholipase D1 (PLD1) by its C-terminal domain D4 with PED/PEA15 has been indicated as a target for type 2 diabetes. PED/PEA15 is overexpressed in several tissues of individuals affected by type 2 diabetes and its overexpression in intact cells and in transgenic animal models impairs insulin regul...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Doti N,Cassese A,Marasco D,Paturzo F,Sabatella M,Viparelli F,Dathan N,Monti SM,Miele C,Formisano P,Beguinot F,Ruvo M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteomics is the study of proteins and their interactions within complex biological systems. While this field is often associated with mass spectrometry, it is more useful to consider proteomics in the context of an objective: to identify and understand the molecular basis of health and disease at the protein level i...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Bark SJ,Hook V

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small molecule modulators are critical for dissecting and understanding signaling pathways at the molecular level. Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is a cytokine that signals via the JAK-STAT pathway and is implicated in cancer and inflammation. To identify modulators of this pathway, we screened a chemical collection against an ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Johnson RL,Huang R,Jadhav A,Southall N,Wichterman J,MacArthur R,Xia M,Bi K,Printen J,Austin CP,Inglese J

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycodendrimers, such as glycoclusters and glycopolymers, are known to be very useful molecules to probe carbohydrate-lectin interactions. Herein, new second generation glycopeptide dendrimers (G2a-f) presenting a L-lysine-based (Lys) tetraantennary scaffold, four external thiomannosyl residues and, in the case of com...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Euzen R,Reymond JL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (Mtb) accentuates the urgent need for the development of novel antitubercular drugs. The major causes of drug resistance are genetic mutations, the influx-efflux transporter system, and the complex cell wall system of Mtb, which can function as perm...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Janardhan S,Ram Vivek M,Narahari Sastry G

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry (MS) has become an increasingly important technique to analyze proteins. In popular bottom-up MS-based proteomics, reduction and alkylation are routine steps to facilitate peptide identification. However, incomplete reactions and side reactions may occur, which compromise the experimental results. In...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Suttapitugsakul S,Xiao H,Smeekens J,Wu R

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitronyl nitroxides are capable of preventing cells, tissues, and organs from radical-induced damage through scavenging NO˙, ˙O(2)(-) and ˙OH. In order to explore the conversions of nitronyl nitroxides in biological systems with and without NO˙, HPLC-MS aided PC12 cell systems were developed, and the conversions of 2-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang Y,Jiang X,Liu J,Zhao M,Kang G,Wu J,Peng L,Peng S

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes for the first time, a metabolic profile reflecting the osteoporosis progression in 364 pre- and postmenopausal Chinese women using GC-MS. In order to accurately evaluate the dynamic changes of metabolites along with estrogen deficiency and osteoporosis progression, we divided these subjects...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Qi H,Bao J,An G,Ouyang G,Zhang P,Wang C,Ying H,Ouyang P,Ma B,Zhang Q

更新日期：2016-06-21 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：:Schistosomiasis is a parasitic infection that is endemic in many developing countries in the tropics and subtropics afflicting more than 207 million people primarily in rural areas. After malaria, it is the second most important parasitic infection in terms of socio-economic and public health. Investigation of the hos...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Balog CI,Meissner A,Göraler S,Bladergroen MR,Vennervald BJ,Mayboroda OA,Deelder AM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid carcinoma is a common endocrine malignancy worldwide, accounting for approximately 1% of all diagnosed cancers and about 91.5% of the malignancies of head and neck. However, differentiating malignant thyroid nodules from benign ones remains a diagnostic challenge. Thus, novel molecular markers that enable non-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Yao Z,Yin P,Su D,Peng Z,Zhou L,Ma L,Guo W,Ma L,Xu G,Shi J,Jiao B

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unbalanced uptake of Omega 6/Omega 3 (ω-6/ω-3) ratios could increase chronic disease occurrences, such as inflammation, atherosclerosis, or tumor proliferation, and methylation methods for measuring the ruminal microbiome fatty acid (FA) composition/distribution play a vital role in discovering the contribution of foo...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Liu Y,Buendía-Rodríguez G,Peñuelas-Rívas CG,Tan Z,Rívas-Guevara M,Tenorio-Borroto E,Munteanu CR,Pazos A,González-Díaz H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective inhibition for JAK2 over the other JAK family kinases (JAK1, JAK3 and TYK2) has shared an immense challenge due to high conservatism. In this paper, the highly JAK2 selective mechanism of the thienopyridine derivative was identified at the molecular level, based on insights into the inhibitory effects of...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li JJ,Cheng P,Tu J,Zhai HL,Zhang XY

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ectonucleotide phosphodiesterase/pyrophosphatase-1 (NPP1) is a type II transmembrane glycoprotein that regulates extracellular inorganic purine nucleotide and inorganic diphosphate levels through the hydrolysis of ATP into AMP and diphosphate. NPP1 is a promising drug target as it plays a role in several disorders...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Barbeau X,Mathieu P,Paquin JF,Lagüe P

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:There are major issues regarding the proposed pathway for starch degradation in germinating cereal grain. Given the commercial importance but genetic intractability of the problem, we have embarked on a program of chemical genetics studies to identify and dissect the pathway and regulation of starch degradation in ger...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Rejzek M,Stevenson CE,Southard AM,Stanley D,Denyer K,Smith AM,Naldrett MJ,Lawson DM,Field RA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing functional relationships between multi-domain protein sequences is a non-trivial task. Traditionally, delineating functional assignment and relationships of proteins requires domain assignments as a prerequisite. This process is sensitive to alignment quality and domain definitions. In multi-domain protei...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Bhaskara RM,Mehrotra P,Rakshambikai R,Gnanavel M,Martin J,Srinivasan N

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene regulatory networks constitute the first layer of the cellular computation for cell adaptation and surveillance. In these webs, a set of causal relations is built up from thousands of interactions between transcription factors and their target genes. The large size of these webs and their entangled nature make it...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Rodríguez-Caso C,Corominas-Murtra B,Solé RV

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) techniques hold forth great promise for therapeutic silencing of deleterious genes. However, clinical applications of RNAi require the development of safe and efficient methods for intracellular delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) oligonucleotides specific to targeted genes. We describe t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Utku Y,Dehan E,Ouerfelli O,Piano F,Zuckermann RN,Pagano M,Kirshenbaum K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous thymidylate synthases, isolated from tissues or cultured cells of the same specific origin, have been reported to show differing slow-binding inhibition patterns. These were reflected by biphasic or linear dependence of the inactivation rate on time and accompanied by differing inhibition parameters. Consid...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ludwiczak J,Maj P,Wilk P,Frączyk T,Ruman T,Kierdaszuk B,Jarmuła A,Rode W

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00