Detection of links between Ebola nucleocapsid and virulence using disorder analysis.

abstract：:The emerging field of synthetic biology is generating insatiable demands for synthetic genes, which far exceed existing gene synthesis capabilities. This review discusses the current methods of chemical DNA synthesis and gene assembly, as well as the latest engineering tools, technologies and trends which could potent...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Tian J,Ma K,Saaem I

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic heart failure (CHF), as a progressive clinical syndrome, is characterized by failure of enough blood supply from the heart to meet the body's metabolic demands, and there is intense interest in identifying novel biomarkers that could make contributions to the diagnosis of CHF. Metabolomics, compared with curre...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang J,Li Z,Chen J,Zhao H,Luo L,Chen C,Xu X,Zhang W,Gao K,Li B,Zhang J,Wang W

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:The identification of disulfide bonds provides critical information regarding the structure and function of a protein and is a key aspect in understanding signaling cascades in biological systems. Recent proteomic approaches using digestion enzymes have facilitated the characterization of disulfide-bonds and/or oxidiz...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Na S,Paek E,Choi JS,Kim D,Lee SJ,Kwon J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing number of diverse proteins are being identified that moonlight. Moonlighting proteins comprise an interesting subset of multifunctional proteins in which the two functions are found in a single polypeptide chain. They do not include proteins that are multifunctional due to gene fusions, families of homologou...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jeffery CJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung fibrosis is a progressive and often fatal lung disease characterized by fibroblast proliferation and excessive deposition of extracellular matrix in the lungs. The chemokine receptor CXCR7 has been shown to control cell adhesion, migration and proliferation by regulating the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Guan S,Zhou J

更新日期：2017-09-26 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：:Protein methylation catalyzed by methyltransferases carries many important biological functions. Methylation and their regulatory enzymes are involved in a variety of human disease states, raising the possibility that abnormally methylated proteins can be disease markers and methyltransferases are potential therapeuti...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Shi SP,Xu HD,Wen PP,Qiu JD

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions are important for the majority of biological processes. A significant number of computational methods have been developed to predict protein-protein interactions using protein sequence, structural and genomic data. Vast experimental data is publicly available on the Internet, but it is sca...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Saha I,Zubek J,Klingström T,Forsberg S,Wikander J,Kierczak M,Maulik U,Plewczynski D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation can lead to the development of cancers and resolution of inflammation is an ongoing challenge. Inflammation can result from dysregulation of the epigenome and a number of compounds that modify the epigenome are in clinical use. In this study the anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects of a quina...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lin Z,Bishop KS,Sutherland H,Marlow G,Murray P,Denny WA,Ferguson LR

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the effect of flexible linker length on the catalytic efficiency of fusion proteins, two short flexible peptide linkers of various lengths were fused between Arabidopsis thaliana 4-coumaroyl-CoA ligase (4CL) and Polygonum cuspidatum stilbene synthase (STS) to generate fusion proteins 4CL-(GSG)n-S...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Guo H,Yang Y,Xue F,Zhang H,Huang T,Liu W,Liu H,Zhang F,Yang M,Liu C,Lu H,Zhang Y,Ma L

更新日期：2017-02-28 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：:The heterogeneity of genetic alterations in human cancer genomes presents a major challenge to advancing our understanding of cancer mechanisms and identifying cancer driver genes. To tackle this heterogeneity problem, many approaches have been proposed to investigate genetic alterations and predict driver genes at th...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Gu Y,Wang H,Qin Y,Zhang Y,Zhao W,Qi L,Zhang Y,Wang C,Guo Z

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that leads to 250 000 deaths annually. There is a need to better understand asthma by identifying new pathogenic molecules. We conducted a liquid-chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-Q-TOF-MS)-based metabolomics study to test for asthma and investigate the i...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Su L,Shi L,Liu J,Huang L,Huang Y,Nie X

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) signaling pathway plays myriad roles in development and disease. TGF-β isoforms initiate signaling by organizing their cell surface receptors TβRI and TβRII. Exploration and exploitation of the versatility of TGF-β signaling requires an enhanced understanding of structure-fu...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li L,Orner BP,Huang T,Hinck AP,Kiessling LL

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explain that part of the reduction in the parameter uncertainties in the computations of Apgar et al. (Mol. Biosyst. 2010, 6, 1890-900) is due to a greatly increased number of effective data points. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chachra R,Transtrum MK,Sethna JP

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：: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：:Tankyrases (TNKS), key transmitters in the Wnt signaling pathway which is very conservative in evolution, are vital targets as they are overexpressed widely in many cancers. In this work, 5 inhibitors with novel structures have been discovered and validated using the ligand-based (pharmacophore) virtual screening, doc...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Pu Y,Zhang S,Chang Z,Zhang Y,Wang D,Zhang L,Li Y,Zuo Z

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The small molecule 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde (5,6,7,8-tetrahydro[1]benzothieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)hydrazone (Exo2) stimulates morphological changes at the mammalian Golgi and trans-Golgi network that are virtually indistinguishable from those induced by brefeldin A. Both brefeldin A and Exo2 protect cells from...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Guetzoyan LJ,Spooner RA,Boal F,Stephens DJ,Lord JM,Roberts LM,Clarkson GJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：: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：:TGF-β1, 2 and 3 cytokines are involved in many cellular processes including cell proliferation, differentiation, migration and survival. Whereas TGF-β2 and 3 play important roles in embryonic development, TGF-β1 is mostly implicated in controlling immune responses after birth. The production of TGF-β1 is a tightly reg...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Stockis J,Dedobbeleer O,Lucas S

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanism that underlies the differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) is vital to develop regenerative medicines for neurological disorders. In our previous work, Rho-GDI-γ was found to be able to prompt neuronal differentiation when it was down regulated. However, it is unclear how Rho-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang J,Hu F,Cheng H,Zhao XM,Wen T

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Enediyne natural product biosynthesis is characterized by a convergence of multiple pathways, generating unique peripheral moieties that are appended onto the distinctive enediyne core. Kedarcidin (KED) possesses two unique peripheral moieties, a (R)-2-aza-3-chloro-β-tyrosine and an iso-propoxy-bearing 2-naphthonate m...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lohman JR,Huang SX,Horsman GP,Dilfer PE,Huang T,Chen Y,Wendt-Pienkowski E,Shen B

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:It is not surprising that a large number of diseases related to amyloid fibril depositions are formed in various organs. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the transformation of native proteins into amyloid fibrils in order to clarify which key elements of this process determine the pathway of protein misfolding...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Galzitskaya OV

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin is an enzyme cofactor indispensable to metabolic fixation of carbon dioxide in all three domains of life. Although the catalytic and physiological roles of biotin have been well characterized, the biosynthesis of biotin remains to be fully elucidated. Studies in microbes suggest a two-stage biosynthetic pathway...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lin S,Cronan JE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the cellular lipid metabolism associated with β-amyloid peptide (Aβ)-induced neurotoxicity as well as the neuroprotective effect of (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a major polyphenol in green tea. An ultra-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole-time-of-flight mass sp...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang H,Wang JR,Yau LF,Ho HM,Chan CL,Hu P,Liu L,Jiang ZH

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00