Optimal consistency in microRNA expression analysis using reference-gene-based normalization.

abstract：:Unstable angina (UA) is one of the most dangerous types of coronary heart disease and has high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide. However, the diagnostic accuracy for UA is unsatisfactory in clinical practice. In this study, we investigated the application of plasma metabolomics in discovering potential biomarke...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sun M,Gao X,Zhang D,Ke C,Hou Y,Fan L,Zhang R,Liu H,Li K,Yu B

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Fluorescent molecules that specifically target amyloid structures are highly desirable for amyloid research. Herein, we show a dimeric design of thioflavin T improves its binding affinity to Abeta amyloid by up to 70 fold, while not sacrificing the specificity and the "light-up" feature upon amyloid binding. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Qin L,Vastl J,Gao J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma (OS) is a highly malignant bone tumour, affecting mainly children and young adults between 10 and 20 years of age. It represents the most frequent primitive malignant tumour of the skeletal system and is characterized by an extremely aggressive clinical course, with rapid development of lung metastases. I...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Bernardini G,Laschi M,Serchi T,Spreafico A,Botta M,Schenone S,Arena S,Geminiani M,Scaloni A,Collodel G,Orlandini M,Niccolai N,Santucci A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are a predominant type of small non-coding RNAs approximately 21 nucleotides in length that play an essential role at the post-transcriptional level by either RNA degradation, translational repression or both through an RNA-induced silencing complex. Identification of these molecules can aid the dissecting o...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Yao Y,Ma C,Deng H,Liu Q,Zhang J,Yi M

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of DNA and RNA released by apoptotic and necrotic cells circulate in the blood of cancer patients. In the present study we determined the applicability of the quantification of nucleic acids and their genetic alterations as minimally invasive tool for breast cancer screening. The relative concentrations of...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Schwarzenbach H,Müller V,Milde-Langosch K,Steinbach B,Pantel K

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient and low-affinity interactions among macromolecules underlie many physiological events. Often, these interactions are difficult to study because they are not maintained when the participating molecules are removed from their cellular context. To circumvent this challenge, crosslinking reagents can be used to ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Tanaka Y,Bond MR,Kohler JJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:As the usage of fluorescence microscopy as a tool to study biological systems continues to grow, so does the need for additional tools that permit the selective detection of proteins of interest. Existing selective and well-characterized kinase inhibitors may be exploited to develop novel small molecule probes useful ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang Z,Kwiatkowski N,Zeng H,Lim SM,Gray NS,Zhang W,Yang PL

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:The use of Cyan Fluorescent Proteins, with a distinctive lifetime signature, opens up new alternatives to track and semi-quantify the relative expression of proteins in vivo using a single excitation source and emission channel. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kim J,Kwon D,Lee J,Pasquier H,Grailhe R

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lipase substrate microarray was obtained by printing aliphatic C2-C12 monoesters of (5R)- and (5S)-3-(5,6-dihydroxyhexyloxy)benzaldehyde by reductive alkylation on amine-functionalized glass slides coated with bovine serum albumin and a short PEG linker. The microarray features 12 substrates and their 66 possible bi...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Grognux J,Reymond JL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dairy bacterium Lactococcus lactis has to master a complicated task. It must control its essentially linear glycolytic pathway in such a fashion that, when the substrate, glucose, runs out, it retains enough phosphoenolpyruvate and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate to be able to restart glycolysis as soon as new glucose b...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Dolatshahi S,Fonseca LL,Voit EO

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported a chemical genetic method for generating bivalent inhibitors of protein kinases. This method relies on the use of the DNA repair enzyme O(6)-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT) to display an ATP-competitive inhibitor and a ligand that targets a secondary binding domain. With this method potent...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hill ZB,Perera BG,Maly DJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Insights into the structure and dynamics of modular polyketide synthases (PKS) are essential for understanding the mechanistic details of the biosynthesis of a large number of pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites. The crystal structures of the KS-AT di-domain from erythromycin synthase have revealed the re...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Anand S,Mohanty D

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:One of the fundamental goals in cellular biochemistry is to identify the functions of proteins in the context of compartments that organize them in the cellular environment. To realize this, it is indispensable to develop an automated method for fast and accurate identification of the subcellular locations of uncharac...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Cheng X,Xiao X,Chou KC

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic information in genomes is ordered, arranged in such a way that it constitutes a code, the so-called cis regulatory code. The regulatory machinery of the cell, termed trans-factors, decodes and expresses this information. In this way, genomes maintain a potential repertoire of genetic programs, parts of which a...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Rangel-Chavez C,Galan-Vasquez E,Martinez-Antonio A

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advent of new cancer therapies in the last few years, the goals of reducing disease burden and improving quality of life are frequently achieved. Yet despite the advances seen with numerous monotherapies, a multimodality approach that targets different aspects of tumor biology may yield the greatest clinical ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kamrava M,Bernstein MB,Camphausen K,Hodge JW

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are dynamic creatures. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) function as multiplicity of structures and their activities can only be described by stochastic structure-function relationships. In their complex forms, however, IDPs were thought to lose their plasticity and behave similarly to globular protein...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Fuxreiter M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-induced conditional protein splicing (CPS) using a split intein allows the covalent reconstitution of a protein from two polypeptide fragments. The small molecule rapamycin binds to the fused FKBP and FRB dimerizer domains and thereby induces folding of the split intein, which then removes itself in the trans-s...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sonntag T,Mootz HD

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last few years important new insights into the process of long-range gene regulation have been obtained. Gene regulatory elements are found to engage in direct physical interactions with distant target genes and with loci on other chromosomes to modulate transcription. An overview of recently discovered long-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Miele A,Dekker J

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:The search for molecules with activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is employing many approaches in parallel including high throughput screening and computational methods. We have developed a database (CDD TB) to capture public and private Mtb data while enabling data mining and collaborations with other r...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ekins S,Bradford J,Dole K,Spektor A,Gregory K,Blondeau D,Hohman M,Bunin BA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regular physical activity is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, as it probably modifies the balance between free-radical generation and antioxidant activity. On the other hand, however, acute physical activity increases oxygen uptake and leads to a temporary imbalance between the production of r...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Guidi F,Magherini F,Gamberi T,Bini L,Puglia M,Marzocchini R,Ranaldi F,Modesti PA,Gulisano M,Modesti A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge available about the application and generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) has grown since their discovery, and new techniques to enhance the reprogramming process have been described. Among the new approaches to induce iPSC that have gained great attention is the use of small molecules for ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Feltes BC,Bonatto D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major mode of signal transduction in bacteria is the two-component system, which involves phosphorylation of an output-generating receiver protein by a signal-sensing histidine kinase. This differs from the more common one-component system--where both signal sensing and output generation are performed by the same pr...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Seshasayee AS,Luscombe NM

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:The essential idea of regenerative medicine is to fix or replace tissues or organs with alive and patient-specific implants. Pluripotent stem cells are able to indefinitely self-renew and differentiate into all cell types of the body which makes them a potent substantial player in regenerative medicine. The easily acc...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Baranek M,Belter A,Naskręt-Barciszewska MZ,Stobiecki M,Markiewicz WT,Barciszewski J

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00