Characterization of disulfide bonds by planned digestion and tandem mass spectrometry.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candida albicans, the most common fungal pathogen related to colonization and biofilm formation on the surfaces of indwelling medical devices, shows high resistance to the most commonly used antifungal drugs. In this study, an ion-pairing chromatography-porous graphitic carbon column coupled with a time-of-f...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chen X,Wu H,Cao Y,Yao X,Zhao L,Wang T,Yang Y,Lv D,Chai Y,Cao Y,Zhu Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide RNA interference screens have greatly facilitated the identification of essential host factors (EHFs) for viral infections, whose knockdown effects significantly influence virus replication but not host cell viability. However, little has been done to link EHFs with another important host factor type, i.e....

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Xie D,Han L,Luo Y,Liu Y,He S,Bai H,Wang S,Bo X

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stochastic fluctuations (noise) in gene expression can cause members of otherwise genetically identical populations to display drastically different phenotypes. An understanding of the sources of noise and the strategies cells employ to function reliably despite noise is proving to be increasingly important in describ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Tabor JJ,Bayer TS,Simpson ZB,Levy M,Ellington AD

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we bring together recent results from our group focused towards the development of biosensors from single conically-shaped artificial nanopores. The nanopores, used in the work presented here, were prepared using the track-etch process. The fabrication of track-etched conical nanopores has been optimize...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sexton LT,Horne LP,Martin CR

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:Migraine is a common brain disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of severe headaches and other neurological symptoms. In one-third of patients headaches are accompanied by auras, which consist of transient visual and sensory disturbances, believed to be caused by cortical spreading depression (CSD). CSD is chara...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Shyti R,Kohler I,Schoenmaker B,Derks RJ,Ferrari MD,Tolner EA,Mayboroda OA,van den Maagdenberg AM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major obstacle for the development of targeted therapies is the lack of pharmacodynamic (PD) biomarkers to provide an early readout of biological activities. As the modulation of metabolites may reflect the biological changes occurring in the targets, metabolomics is promising to be an efficient way to explore PD ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Fang J,Wang L,Wang Y,Qiu M,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannose-modified lectin-binding peptides were obtained from an α-helical-designed peptide phage library. Concanavalin A (ConA) was used as a representative target protein for the lectin family. The identified glycopeptides could selectively bind to ConA with micromolar affinity. With these results, the methodologies d...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ven Chang I,Tsutsumi H,Mihara H

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) constitute a large family of enzymes that play key roles in cell signaling. Deregulation of PTP activity results in aberrant tyrosine phosphorylation, which has been linked to the etiology of several human diseases, including cancer. Since phosphate removal by the PTPs can both enh...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Liang F,Kumar S,Zhang ZY

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abundant information about the nucleotide sequence of the human genome has become readily available and it is now necessary to develop methods for the identification of genes that are involved in important cellular, developmental and disease-related processes. Identification methods based on the activities of hammerhe...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sano M,Kato Y,Taira K

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present a novel statistical methodology that allows us to analyze gene expression data that have been collected from a number of different cases or conditions in a unified framework. Using a Bayesian nonparametric framework we develop a hierarchical model wherein genes can maintain a shared set of interactions...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Thorne T,Fratta P,Hanna MG,Cortese A,Plagnol V,Fisher EM,Stumpf MP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional methods for detecting single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), including direct DNA sequencing, pyrosequencing, and melting curve analysis, are to a great extent limited by their requirement for particular detection instruments. To overcome this limitation, we established a novel SNP detection technique ut...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Imai K,Ogai Y,Nishizawa D,Kasai S,Ikeda K,Koga H

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-adsorptive properties are a key feature of membranes used for haemodialysis treatment. Protein adsorption is vital to the biocompatibility of a membrane material and influences membrane's performance. The object of the present study is to investigate membrane biocompatibility by correlating the adsorbed proteo...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Urbani A,Lupisella S,Sirolli V,Bucci S,Amoroso L,Pavone B,Pieroni L,Sacchetta P,Bonomini M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CC chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5), a member of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), plays a vital role in inflammatory responses to infection. Alterations in the expression of CCR5 have been correlated with disease progression in many types of cancers. The idea of using CCR5 as a target for therapeutic intervention has b...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang J,Shu M,Wang Y,Hu Y,Wang Y,Luo Y,Lin Z

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ transport across the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum (SR) plays an essential role in intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis, signalling, cell differentiation and muscle contractility. During SR Ca2+ uptake and release, proton fluxes are required to balance the charge deficit generated by the exchange of Ca2+ and other ions a...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Espinoza-Fonseca LM

更新日期：2017-03-28 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：: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：:In vivo analysis is of paramount importance in monitoring physiological processes that take place in living organisms. Mass spectrometry, an analytical technique with high speed, sensitivity and specificity, is indispensable in biochemical studies nowadays. However, traditional mass spectrometric techniques are of lim...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： So PK,Hu B,Yao ZP

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is the key feature of some bacteria, such as Geobacter sulfurreducens and Shewanella oneidensis. Via EET processes, these bacteria can grow on electrode surfaces and make current output of microbial fuel cells. c-Type cytochromes can be used as carriers to transfer electrons, whic...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ding DW,Xu J,Li L,Xie JM,Sun X

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular program associated with the organ morphogenesis but also with the disease progression. EMT in the cancer field fuels neoplastic progression promoting the resistance to cell death, the resistance to chemotherapy and the acquisition of stem cell properties. Co...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Vergara D,Simeone P,del Boccio P,Toto C,Pieragostino D,Tinelli A,Acierno R,Alberti S,Salzet M,Giannelli G,Sacchetta P,Maffia M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-classical zinc finger protein, Neural Zinc Finger Factor-1, contains six Cys2His2Cys domains. All three cysteines and the second histidine directly bind Zn(II). Using a combination of mutagenesis, metal coordination and DNA binding studies, we report that the first histidine is involved in a functionally impor...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Besold AN,Amick DL,Michel SL

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blockage of the interactions between immunologic checkpoint protein PD-1 and its ligand PD-L1 showed efficacy for cancer treatment. X-ray structures have captured static conformational snapshots of PD-1 and revealed that the CC' loop adopts an open conformation in the apo-protein but turns into a closed form and inter...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Liu W,Huang B,Kuang Y,Liu G

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few decades a negative association between the level of milk production and fertility has been observed. Currently, the most utilized method of measuring male fertility employed by the livestock industry is related to the Non-Return Rate (NRR). Through differential proteome analysis, this study evaluated c...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Soggiu A,Piras C,Hussein HA,De Canio M,Gaviraghi A,Galli A,Urbani A,Bonizzi L,Roncada P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of the predominantly α-helical cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) to the misfolded β-sheet enriched Scrapie form (PrP(Sc)) is a critical event in prion pathogenesis. However, the conformational triggers that lead to the isoform conversion (PrP(C) to PrP(Sc)) remain obscure, and conjectures about the role of un...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Menon S,Sengupta N

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of fungal metabolites by fungal co-cultures grown on solid media was explored using multi-well co-cultures in 2 cm diameter Petri dishes. Fungi were grown in 12-well plates to easily and rapidly obtain the large number of replicates necessary for employing metabolomic approaches. Fungal culture using suc...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Bertrand S,Azzollini A,Schumpp O,Bohni N,Schrenzel J,Monod M,Gindro K,Wolfender JL

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroscientific community rapidly adopted RNA interference techniques as an experimental tool for the dissection of gene function in vitro and in animal models of neurological disease in vivo. Here, we discuss recent advances in the biotechnical implementation of siRNA/shRNA-mediated gene silencing focusing on iss...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lingor P,Bähr M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolomic study was performed to investigate the biochemical profiles of livers from male and female zebrafish (Danio rerio), using a multiple platform approach, incorporating 1H NMR, GC/MS and LC/MS. The reproducibility and reliability of the three methods were validated prior to the assays. Major biomolecules de...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ong ES,Chor CF,Zou L,Ong CN

更新日期：2009-03-01 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

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatases are crucial regulators of signal transduction and function as antagonists towards protein tyrosine kinases to control reversible tyrosine phosphorylation, thereby regulating fundamental physiological processes. Growing evidence has supported the notion that reversible oxidative inactivati...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Garcia FJ,Carroll KS

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the pathogenesis of renal fibrosis, oxidative stress (OS) enhances the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) leading to sustained cell growth, inflammation, excessive tissue remodelling and accumulation, which results in the development and acceleration of renal damage. In our previous work (Eltoweissy et al....

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Eltoweissy M,Dihazi GH,Müller GA,Asif AR,Dihazi H

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00