The crystal structure of the versatile cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP109B1 from Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) consist of a class of proteins required for normal tissue function. Their over expression is associated with many disease states and hence the interest in MMPs as drug targets. Almost all MMP inhibitors have been reported to fail in clinical trials due to lack of specificity. Zinc in t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Singh T,Adekoya OA,Jayaram B

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：: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：:Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequences from a variety of poorly studied organisms aims at predicting ecological and behavioral properties of these organisms and helping in characterizing their habitats. This task requires finding appropriate descriptors that could be correlated with the core traits of e...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Galperin MY,Higdon R,Kolker E

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, accumulating studies have indicated that microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in exploring the pathogenesis of various human diseases at the molecular level and may result in the design of specific tools for diagnosis, treatment evaluation and prevention. Experimental identification of disease-related m...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sun D,Li A,Feng H,Wang M

更新日期：2016-06-21 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：: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：:Many methods have been published by which combinatorial libraries may be screened for compounds capable of manipulating the function(s) of a target protein. One of the simplest approaches is to identify compounds in a library that bind the protein of interest, since these binding events usually occur on functionally i...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kodadek T,Bachhawat-Sikder K

更新日期：2006-01-01 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

abstract：:Insight into the molecular mechanism of complex diseases is an important topic in the current bio-medical research. However, different from the single-gene disorders, high heterogeneity of many of the complex diseases prevents scientists from the exact understanding of the etiology. In this study, we used Myelodysplas...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ren X,Zhou X,Chang CC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, more and more research has shown that microRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in the development and progression of various diseases, but it is not easy to predict potential human miRNA-disease associations from the vast amount of biological data. Computational methods for predicting potential disease-miRNA a...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chen X,Liu MX,Yan GY

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the regulatory dynamics of transcription factors (TFs) and their interplay with other cellular components we have integrated transcriptional, protein-protein and the allosteric or equivalent interactions which mediate the physiological activity of TFs in Escherichia coli. To study this integrated network...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Antiqueira L,Janga SC,Costa Lda F

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a serious microvascular syndrome of diabetes, and is one of the most frequent causes of blindness in the world. It has three progressive stages with complex metabolic deregulations in the holistic system of Western medicine. Chinese medicine classifies DR into two different syndrome types;...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li X,Luo X,Lu X,Duan J,Xu G

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Molecular docking methods were applied to simulate the coupling of a set of nineteen acyl homoserine lactone analogs into the binding site of the transcriptional receptor LasR. The best pose of each ligand was explored and a qualitative analysis of the possible interactions present in the complex was performed. From t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ahumedo M,Drosos JC,Vivas-Reyes R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of microRNA (miRNA) in modulating gene expression at the post-transcriptional level is well known. Such regulation has been shown to influence the dynamics of several regulatory networks including the cell cycle. In this study we incorporated regulatory effects of intronic miRNA into an existing mathema...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Gokhale S,Hariharan M,Brahmachari SK,Gadgil C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major progress in the study of RNase P has resulted from crystallography of bacterial catalytic subunits and the discovery of catalytic activity in eukaryotes. Several new substrates have also been identified, primarily in bacteria but also in yeast. Our current world should be called the "RNA-protein world" rather th...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Altman S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large combinatorial libraries of macrocyclic peptides are a useful source of bioactive compounds. However, peptides are not generally cell permeable, so there is great interest in the development of methods to create large libraries of modified peptides. In particular, N-alkylation of peptides is known to improve thei...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Morimoto J,Kodadek T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We employed high-temperature classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate the unfolding process of the wild-type (WT) and F508del-NBD1 domains of CFTR protein, with and without second-site mutations. To rationalize the in vitro behavior of F508del-NBD1, namely its lower folding yield and higher aggrega...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Estácio SG,Martiniano HF,Faísca PF

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth factor receptor signaling via receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) is one of the basic cellular communication principals found in all metazoans. Extracellular signals are transferred via membrane spanning receptors into the cytoplasm, reversible tyrosine phosphorylation being the hallmark of all RTKs. In recent yea...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Dengjel J,Kratchmarova I,Blagoev B

更新日期：2009-10-01 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

abstract：:The effect of the glutathione transferase P1-1 (GSTP1-1) targeting has been investigated in both sensitive (U-2OS) and cisplatin-resistant (U-2OS/CDDP4 μg) human osteosarcoma cell lines. Despite the different enzyme's content, inhibition of GSTP1-1 by 6-(7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-ylthio)hexanol (NBDHEX) causes the...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sau A,Filomeni G,Pezzola S,D'Aguanno S,Tregno FP,Urbani A,Serra M,Pasello M,Picci P,Federici G,Caccuri AM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical modifications to mRNA, especially N6-methyladenosine (m6A) and 5-methylcytosine (m5C), have been recently shown to be associated with crucial biological functions. Despite the intriguing advancements, little is known so far about the dynamic landscape of RNA methylome across different cell types and how th...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Liu L,Zhang SW,Zhang YC,Liu H,Zhang L,Chen R,Huang Y,Meng J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase C (PKC) family of serine/threonine kinases is an attractive drug target for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Diacylglycerol (DAG), phorbol esters and others act as ligands for the C1 domain of PKC isoforms. Inspection of the crystal structure of the PKCδ C1b subdomain in complex with phor...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Mamidi N,Gorai S,Mukherjee R,Manna D

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids (GCs) have been proved to be an important pathogenic factor of some neuropsychiatric disorders. Usually, a classical injury model based on corticosterone-induced cytotoxicity of differentiated rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells was used to stimulate the state of GC damage of hippocampal neurons and inve...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang H,Zheng H,Zhao G,Tang C,Lu S,Cheng B,Wu F,Wei J,Liang Y,Ruan J,Song H,Su Z

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptation of the cellular network to functional changes, timing and patterning of gene expression is regulated by binding of transcription factors to gene regulatory elements, which in turn depends on co-occurring histone modifications. These two layers influence each other, enabling a further level of regulatory...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Schueler M,Zhang Q,Schlesinger J,Tönjes M,Sperling SR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photo-chemical deamination of cytosine using 3-cyanovinylcarbazole nucleoside (CNVK) mediated photo-cross-linking is a technique for site-directed mutagenesis. Using this technique in vivo requires the elimination of a high-temperature incubation step; instead, incubation should be carried out under physiological cond...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sethi S,Ooe M,Sakamoto T,Fujimoto K

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferring metabolic networks from metabolite concentration data is a central topic in systems biology. Mathematical techniques to extract information about the network from data have been proposed in the literature. This paper presents a critical assessment of the feasibility of reverse engineering of metabolic networ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hendrickx DM,Hendriks MM,Eilers PH,Smilde AK,Hoefsloot HC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00