A pre-structured helix in the intrinsically disordered 4EBP1.

abstract：:The biological processing - mechanism of cellular uptake, effects on the cytoplasmic and mitochondrial membranes, intracellular sites of localisation and induction of reactive oxygen species - of two dinuclear polypyridylruthenium(ii) complexes has been examined in three eukaryotic cells lines. Flow cytometry was used...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li X,Heimann K,Dinh XT,Keene FR,Collins JG

更新日期：2016-10-20 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：: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：:Candida glabrata has been recognized as an efficient industrial microorganism for the production of pyruvate, the most widely used α-oxocarboxylic acid in the areas of agrochemicals, drugs, and chemicals. To gain a comprehensive understanding of its physiology and cellular metabolism, the genome-scale metabolic model ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Xu N,Liu L,Zou W,Liu J,Hua Q,Chen J

更新日期：2013-02-02 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：: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：:Cells of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus organize into two types of patterns depending on their nutritional status, i.e. in the presence of nutrients cells form spreading colonies and in the absence of nutrients cells form fruiting bodies. Formation of both patterns depends on directed cell movements, which, in turn,...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Leonardy S,Bulyha I,Søgaard-Andersen L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:J proteins are a diverse family of co-chaperones that cooperate with heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) to coordinate protein quality control, especially in response to cellular stress. Current models suggest that individual J proteins might play roles in recruiting Hsp70s to specific functions, such as maintaining cell wa...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Gillies AT,Taylor R,Gestwicki JE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade there has been a growing acknowledgement that a large proportion of proteins within most proteomes contain disordered regions. Disordered regions are segments of the protein chain which do not adopt a stable structure. Recognition of disordered regions in a protein is of great importance for prote...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Deng X,Eickholt J,Cheng J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low transfection efficiency and inactivation by serum are the major drawbacks for cationic polymers when used as non-viral gene vectors. Here, a series of N-succinyl-chitosan-graft-polyethylenimine (NSC-g-PEI) copolymers with different compositions were synthesized through grafting low molecular weight PEI (800 Da) to...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lu B,Sun YX,Li YQ,Zhang XZ,Zhuo RX

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic physical interactions between proteins underpin all key cellular processes and are a highly attractive area for the development of research tools and medicines. Protein-protein interactions frequently involve α-helical structures, but peptides matching the sequences of these structures usually do not fold corr...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Mart RJ,Errington RJ,Watkins CL,Chappell SC,Wiltshire M,Jones AT,Smith PJ,Allemann RK

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:The pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin 1 (IL-1) and 6 (IL-6) are crucially involved in the regulation of a multitude of physiological processes, in particular coordinating the immune response upon bacterial infection and tissue injury. Both interleukins induce complex signalling cascades and trigger the production...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ryll A,Samaga R,Schaper F,Alexopoulos LG,Klamt S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is increased worldwide in parallel with the obesity epidemic. Potentilla discolor is one of the most important crude materials in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for therapy of hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. In this work, a plasma metabonomic approach based on the combination of U...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li Y,Li JJ,Wen XD,Pan R,He YS,Yang J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial resistance to β-lactam antibiotics poses a serious threat to human health. Penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) and β-lactamases are involved in both antibacterial activity and mediation of β-lactam antibiotic resistance. The two major reasons for resistance to β-lactams include: (i) pathogenic bacteria expres...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kumar KM,Anbarasu A,Ramaiah S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on extracellular signals and conditions is often transduced by biological systems using cascades of protein phosphorylation that affect the activity of enzymes, the localization of proteins and gene expression. A model to study signal transduction is the response of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to os...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Soufi B,Kelstrup CD,Stoehr G,Fröhlich F,Walther TC,Olsen JV

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino functionalized cross-linked polystyrene microspheres of well defined sizes (0.2-2 mum) have been prepared and shown to be efficient and controllable delivery devices, capable of transporting anything from small dye molecules to bulky proteins into cells. However, the specific mechanism of cellular entry is large...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Alexander LM,Pernagallo S,Livigni A,Sánchez-Martín RM,Brickman JM,Bradley M

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Estrogen positive breast cancer is a dreadful disease in women worldwide. The human estrogen receptor-α (ERα) pathway plays a critical role in estrogenic signaling and targeting ERα in breast cancer treatment. The key role of Lemur tyrosine kinase-3 (LMTK3) in regulation of ERα has been identified and it is found to b...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Anbarasu K,Jayanthi S

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Despite many prior studies on microbial response to oxidative stress, our understanding of microbial tolerance against oxidative stress is currently limited to aerobic conditions, and few engineering strategies have been devised to resolve toxicity issues of oxidative stress under anaerobic conditions. Since biologica...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kang A,Tan MH,Ling H,Chang MW

更新日期：2013-02-02 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：:At the intersection between artificial intelligence and statistics, supervised learning allows algorithms to automatically build predictive models from just observations of a system. During the last twenty years, supervised learning has been a tool of choice to analyze the always increasing and complexifying data gene...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Geurts P,Irrthum A,Wehenkel L

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：: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：:When photoirradiated, an unnatural sialic acid analog can covalently capture the complex formed by ganglioside GM1 and cholera toxin subunit B. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Bond MR,Whitman CM,Kohler JJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Calcium (Ca(2+)) is used as a signaling molecule to regulate many cellular processes. Calcium signaling generally involves transient elevations of the concentration of free Ca(2+) in the cytosol. More pronounced and sustained elevations of intracellular Ca(2+) concentrations are observed during apoptosis (programmed c...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Brnjic S,Olofsson MH,Havelka AM,Linder S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00