UV-B-induced photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis.

abstract：:Studies on chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) have served as a paradigm for cancer research and therapy. These studies involve the identification of the first cancer-associated chromosomal abnormality and the subsequent development of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) that inhibit BCR-ABL kinase activity in CML. It become...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang H,Li S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis is characterized by senile plaques in the brain and evidence of oxidative damage. Oxidative stress may precede plaque formation in AD; however, the link between oxidative damage and plaque formation remains unknown. Presenilins are transmembrane proteins in which mutations lead to...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wangler MF,Reiter LT,Zimm G,Trimble-Morgan J,Wu J,Bier E

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterol-regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs) are the key transcriptional regulators of lipid metabolism. The activation of SREBP requires translocation of the SREBP precursor from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi, where it is sequentially cleaved by site-1 protease (S1P) and site-2 protease and releases a...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xiao J,Xiong Y,Yang LT,Wang JQ,Zhou ZM,Dong LW,Shi XJ,Zhao X,Luo J,Song BL

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:With the smooth move towards the coming expected clinical reports of anticancer pharmaceutical molecules targeting telomeres and telomerase, and also with the exciting success in the extension of lifespan by regulating telomerase activity without increased onset of oncogenesis in laboratory mouse models (Garcia-Cao et...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Lu Y,Wei B,Zhang T,Chen Z,Ye J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus has become one of the most common chronic diseases, thereby posing a major challenge to global health. Characterized by high levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia), diabetes usually results from a loss of insulin-producing β-cells in the pancreas, leading to a deficiency of insulin (type 1 diabetes)...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Kumar M,Nath S,Prasad HK,Sharma GD,Li Y

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flea-borne transmission is a recent evolutionary adaptation that distinguishes the deadly Yersinia pestis from its progenitor Y. Pseudotuberculosis, a mild pathogen transmitted via the food-borne route. Y. Pestis synthesizes biofilms in the flea gut, which is important for fleaborne transmission. Yersinia biofilms are...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhou D,Yang R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently found that growth factor receptor-bound (Grb) protein 14 is a novel physiological modulator of photoreceptor specific cyclic nucleotide-gated channel alpha subunit (CNGA1). Grb14 promotes the CNG channel closure through its Ras-associating (RA) domain. In the current study we show that this RA domain-media...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Gupta VK,Rajala A,Rodgers KK,Rajala RV

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) develops an antagonistic mechanism by which to evade the antiviral activities of interferon (IFN). Previous studies suggested that SARS-CoV papain-like protease (PLpro) inhibits activation of the IRF3 pathway, which would normally elicit a robust IFN response, but the mechanism(s) used by S...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Chen X,Yang X,Zheng Y,Yang Y,Xing Y,Chen Z

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocyst complementation by pluripotent stem cell (PSC) injection is believed to be the most promising method to generate xenogeneic organs. However, ethical issues prevent the study of human chimeras in the late embryonic stage of development. Primate embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which have similar pluripotency to ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Fu R,Yu D,Ren J,Li C,Wang J,Feng G,Wang X,Wan H,Li T,Wang L,Zhang Y,Hai T,Li W,Zhou Q

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydration is one of the key steps in the biosynthesis of mycolic acids and is vital to the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Consequently, stalling dehydration cures tuberculosis (TB). Clinically used anti-TB drugs like thiacetazone (TAC) and isoxyl (ISO) as well as flavonoids inhibit the enzyme activity o...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Dong Y,Qiu X,Shaw N,Xu Y,Sun Y,Li X,Li J,Rao Z

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement proteins in blood recognize charged particles. The anionic phospholipid (aPL) cardiolipin binds both complement proteins C1q and factor H. C1q is an activator of the complement classical pathway, while factor H is an inhibitor of the alternative pathway. To examine opposing effects of C1q and factor H on co...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Tan LA,Yu B,Sim FC,Kishore U,Sim RB

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progranulin (PGRN) is a growth factor implicated in various pathophysiological processes, including wound healing, inflammation, tumorigenesis, and neurodegeneration. It was previously reported that PGRN binds to tumor necrosis factor receptors (TNFR) and has therapeutic effects in inflammatory arthritis (Tang et. al,...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang BC,Liu H,Talwar A,Jian J

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are an important system to study early human development, model human diseases, and develop cell replacement therapies. However, genetic manipulation of hPSCs is challenging and a method to simultaneously activate multiple genomic sites in a controllable manner is sorely needed. He...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Guo J,Ma D,Huang R,Ming J,Ye M,Kee K,Xie Z,Na J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inherent evolvability of promiscuous enzymes endows them with great potential to be artificially evolved for novel functions. Previously, we succeeded in transforming a promiscuous acylaminoacyl peptidase (apAAP) from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Aeropyrum pernix K1 into a specific carboxylesterase by making a s...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Liu C,Yang G,Wu L,Tian G,Zhang Z,Feng Y

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to evaluate ERK5 expression in lung cancer and malignant melanoma progression and to ascertain the involvement of ERK5 signaling in lung cancer and melanoma. We show that ERK5 expression is abundant in human lung cancer samples, and elevated ERK5 expression in lung cancer was linked to the acqu...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Jiang W,Cai F,Xu H,Lu Y,Chen J,Liu J,Cao N,Zhang X,Chen X,Huang Q,Zhuang H,Hua ZC

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronaviruses are the causative agent of respiratory and enteric diseases in animals and humans. One example is SARS, which caused a worldwide health threat in 2003. In coronaviruses, the structural protein N (nucleocapsid protein) associates with the viral RNA to form the filamentous nucleocapsid and plays a crucial ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ma Y,Tong X,Xu X,Li X,Lou Z,Rao Z

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precision medicine emerges as a new approach that takes into account individual variability. Successful realization of precision medicine requires disease models that are able to incorporate personalized disease information and recapitulate disease development processes at the molecular, cellular and organ levels. Wit...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Sun Y,Ding Q

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrestins are soluble relatively small 44-46 kDa proteins that specifically bind hundreds of active phosphorylated GPCRs and dozens of non-receptor partners. There are binding partners that demonstrate preference for each of the known arrestin conformations: free, receptor-bound, and microtubule-bound. Recent evidence...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Gurevich VV,Gurevich EV,Uversky VN

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of noncoding RNAs that regulates target gene expression at posttranscriptional level, leading to further biological functions. We have demonstrated that microvesicles (MVs) can deliver miRNAs into target cells as a novel way of intercellular communication. It is reported that in central ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Mao S,Sun Q,Xiao H,Zhang C,Li L

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene mutation (e.g. substitution, insertion and deletion) and related phenotype information are important biomedical knowledge. Many biomedical databases (e.g. OMIM) incorporate such data. However, few studies have examined the quality of this data. In the current study, we examined the quality of protein single-point...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Li Z,Ying B,Liu X,Zhang X,Yu H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), derived by ectopic expression of reprogramming factors in somatic cells, can potentially provide unlimited autologous cells for regenerative medicine. In theory, the autologous cells derived from patient iPSCs should be immune tolerant by the host without any immune rejectio...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Cao J,Li X,Lu X,Zhang C,Yu H,Zhao T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FcγRIIB, the only inhibitory IgG Fc receptor, functions to suppress the hyper-activation of immune cells. Numerous studies have illustrated its inhibitory function through the ITIM motif in the cytoplasmic tail of FcγRIIB. However, later studies revealed that in addition to the ITIM, the transmembrane (TM) domain of F...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang J,Li Z,Xu L,Yang H,Liu W

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing impairment (HI) affects 1/1000 children and over 2% of the aged population. We have previously reported that mutations in the gene encoding gap junction protein connexin-31 (C×31) are associated with HI. The pathological mechanism of the disease mutations remains unknown. Here, we show that expression of C×31 ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xia K,Ma H,Xiong H,Pan Q,Huang L,Wang D,Zhang Z

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, human cancer genome projects provide unprecedented opportunities for the discovery of cancer genes and signaling pathways that contribute to tumor development. While numerous gene mutations can be identified from each cancer genome, what these mutations mean for cancer is a challenging question to add...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Yu T,Bachman J,Lai ZC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most common primary sarcoma of bone, and it is a leading cause of cancer death among adolescents and young adults. However, the molecular mechanism underlying osteosarcoma carcinogenesis remains poorly understood. Recently, cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6) was identified as an important oncogene. W...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhu K,Liu L,Zhang J,Wang Y,Liang H,Fan G,Jiang Z,Zhang CY,Chen X,Zhou G

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the fused in sarcoma/translocated in liposarcoma (FUS/TLS) gene have been associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). FUS-positive neuropathology is reported in a range of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS and fronto-temporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive pathology (FTLDU). T...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Fushimi K,Long C,Jayaram N,Chen X,Li L,Wu JY

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies are among the most effective biotherapeutics to date. An important aspect of antibodies is their ability to bind antigen while at the same time recruit immune effector functions. The majority of approved recombinant monoclonal antibody therapies are of the human IgG1 subclass, which c...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang X,Mathieu M,Brezski RJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial lipopeptides play an important role in apoptosis induction of tumor cells. However, there is little knowledge about the relationship between apoptosis induction and membrane fatty acids. The present study focused on the effects of lipopeptides produced by Bacillus subtilis HSO121 on Bcap-37 cell lines. 3-(4,...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Liu X,Tao X,Zou A,Yang S,Zhang L,Mu B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siva-1, as a p53-inducible gene, has been shown to induce extensive apoptosis in a number of different cell lines. Recent evidence suggests that Siva-1 functions as a part of the auto-regulatory feedback loop that restrains p53 through facilitating Mdm2-mediated p53 degradation. Also, Siva-1 plays an important role in...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Mei Y,Wu M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have promising applications in regenerative medicine, most of the hiPSC lines available today are not suitable for clinical applications due to contamination with nonhuman materials, such as sialic acid, and potential pathogens from animal-product-containing cell cul...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang Q,Mou X,Cao H,Meng Q,Ma Y,Han P,Jiang J,Zhang H,Ma Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00