NMR- and MS-based metabolomics: various organ responses following naphthalene intervention.

abstract：:We demonstrate the expected preference of an immobilised oligosaccharide Man(9)(GlcNAc)(2) upon a 96-well photochemical array, for its known receptor, the cell-surface lectin Dendritic Cell-Specific ICAM3 Grabbing Nonintegrin (DC-SIGN) when compared to immobilised competing monosaccharides. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Dilly SJ,Clark AJ,Mitchell DA,Marsh A,Taylor PC

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Normalization of high-throughput molecular expression profiles secures differential expression analysis between samples of different phenotypes or biological conditions, and facilitates comparison between experimental batches. While the same general principles apply to microRNA (miRNA) normalization, there is mounting...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang X,Gardiner EJ,Cairns MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The interaction of spermine and its analogue, 1-naphthyl acetyl spermine with four double stranded DNA polynucleotides has been studied to understand the structural and thermodynamic basis of the binding. The efficacy and specificity of DNA binding of this analogue has not yet been revealed. The energetics of the inte...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kabir A,Kumar GS

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Cell culture metabolomics has demonstrated significant advantages in cancer research. However, its applications have been impeded by some influencing factors such as culture media, which could significantly affect cellular metabolic profiles and lead to inaccuracy and unreliability of comparative metabolomic analysis ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Huang Z,Shao W,Gu J,Hu X,Shi Y,Xu W,Huang C,Lin D

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：: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：:Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a serious metabolic disease, and comprehensive understanding of its complex mechanism will help in preventing the onset and progression of DN. To reveal the systemic metabolic changes associated with renal injury, we performed 1H NMR-based metabonomic and multivariate analyses to analyze s...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Liu J,Wang D,Chen Y,Sun H,He S,Wang C,Yang G,Shi M,Zhang J,Ren Y,Wang L,Lu Y,Cheng J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genome-wide screen of a yeast non-essential gene-deletion library was used to identify sick phenotypes due to oxygen deprivation. The screen provided a manageable list of 384 potentially novel as well as known oxygen responding (anoxia-survival) genes. The gene-deletion mutants were further assayed for sensitivity t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Samanfar B,Omidi K,Hooshyar M,Laliberte B,Alamgir M,Seal AJ,Ahmed-Muhsin E,Viteri DF,Said K,Chalabian F,Golshani A,Wainer G,Burnside D,Shostak K,Bugno M,Willmore WG,Smith ML,Golshani A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When exposed to low concentrations of toxic chemicals, bacteria modulate the expression of a number of cellular processes. Typically, these processes include those related to porin production, dismutases, and metabolic fluxes. In Escherichia coli (E. coli), the expression of these systems is largely controlled by thre...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jain K,Saini S

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise quantification of endogenous protein-protein interactions across live cells would be a major boon to biology. Such precise measurement is theoretically possible with fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) but requires first properly addressing multiple biological, instrumental, statistical, and photop...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Walther KA,Papke B,Sinn MB,Michel K,Kinkhabwala A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyethylenimine (PEI, especially with M(w) of 25,000) has been known as an efficient gene carrier and a gold standard of gene transfection due to its high transfection efficiency (TE). However, high concomitant cytotoxicity limited the application of PEI. In this report, several cationic polymers derived from low mol...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li S,Wang Y,Zhang J,Yang WH,Dai ZH,Zhu W,Yu XQ

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:As one of the most important trace elements within an organism, zinc has been shown to be involved in numerous biological processes and closely implicated in various diseases. The zinc ion is important for proteins to perform their functional roles. To provide in-depth functional annotation of zinc-binding proteins, a...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chen Z,Wang Y,Zhai YF,Song J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:To improve the performance of nanostructured calcium carbonate in gene delivery, a hydrophilic polysaccharide, alginate, was added to calcium carbonate co-precipitation systems to form alginate/CaCO(3)/DNA nanoparticles. The size and ζ-potential of the nanoparticles were measured by a zetasizer. Due to the existence o...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhao D,Zhuo RX,Cheng SX

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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：: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 (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：: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：:The present study describes for the first time, a metabolic profile reflecting the osteoporosis progression in 364 pre- and postmenopausal Chinese women using GC-MS. In order to accurately evaluate the dynamic changes of metabolites along with estrogen deficiency and osteoporosis progression, we divided these subjects...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Qi H,Bao J,An G,Ouyang G,Zhang P,Wang C,Ying H,Ouyang P,Ma B,Zhang Q

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00