Graphical modelling of molecular networks underlying sporadic inclusion body myositis.

abstract：:New approaches to improve the quality and efficiency of stem cell-derived neurons are important for both research and clinical arenas. Customized subsets of differentiated neurons can be used as model systems to understand the etiology of a variety of complex neurological diseases and disorders. These same neuronal ce...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Greco SJ,Rameshwar P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental data from biological pathways come in many forms: qualitative or quantitative, static or dynamic. By combining a variety of these heterogeneous sources of data, we construct a mathematical model of a critical regulatory network in vertebrate development, the Sonic Hedgehog signaling pathway. The structure...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Boykin ER,Ogle WO

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although angiotensin (Ang)II-induced Janus-activated kinase (JAK)2 phosphorylation was reported to be enhanced in failing human cardiomyocytes, the downstream balance between cardio-protective (signal transducer and activator of transcription-STAT3) and the pro-inflammatory (STAT2 and STAT5) response remains unexplore...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Cambi GE,Lucchese G,Djeokeng MM,Modesti A,Fiaschi T,Faggian G,Sani G,Modesti PA

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Cyclic adenosine monophosphate and cyclic guanosine monophosphate are universal intracellular messengers whose concentrations are regulated by molecular networks comprised of different isoforms of the synthases adenylate cyclase or guanylate cyclase and the phosphodiesterases which degrade these compounds. In this pap...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Valeyev NV,Heslop-Harrison P,Postlethwaite I,Gizatullina AN,Kotov NV,Bates DG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogeneous oligodeoxyguanylates incorporating small-molecule intercalator pyrene moieties in a 1,5 relationship form various structures of dimer, trimer, tetramer and internal hairpin form that are yellowish in color because of the intermolecular interactions between the pyrene units. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jeong HS,Park M,Yi JW,Joo T,Kim BH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naphthalene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, is a ubiquitous environmental pollutant capable of causing illness. In this study, we deconvoluted the metabolites related to naphthalene intervention in various organs by using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ling YS,Liang HJ,Chung MH,Lin MH,Lin CY

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma (OS) is a highly malignant bone tumour, affecting mainly children and young adults between 10 and 20 years of age. It represents the most frequent primitive malignant tumour of the skeletal system and is characterized by an extremely aggressive clinical course, with rapid development of lung metastases. I...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Bernardini G,Laschi M,Serchi T,Spreafico A,Botta M,Schenone S,Arena S,Geminiani M,Scaloni A,Collodel G,Orlandini M,Niccolai N,Santucci A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the versatile CYP109B1 enzyme from Bacillus subtilis has been solved at 1.8 Å resolution. This is the first structure of an enzyme from this CYP family, whose members are prevalent across diverse species of bacteria. In the crystal structure the enzyme has an open conformation with an access c...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang A,Zhang T,Hall EA,Hutchinson S,Cryle MJ,Wong LL,Zhou W,Bell SG

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium homeostasis is a key factor in the regulation of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. Calcium dynamics in cardiomyocytes is governed by ATP which depends on insulin dependent glucose concentration, via the glucose transporter type 4 (GLUT4) transporter. It would therefore be interesting to see how calcium ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Das PN,Kumar A,Bairagi N,Chatterjee S

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：: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：:Regulatory networks are able to process complex signals and respond appropriately to the cellular context. Thus, an increasing effort by systems biology researchers is being focused on understanding which interactions are responsible for a given functional response. When translated into specific mathematical models, h...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Estrada J,Guantes R

更新日期：2013-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A major effort in systems biology is the development of mathematical models that describe complex biological systems at multiple scales and levels of abstraction. Determining the topology-the set of interactions-of a biological system from observations of the system's behavior is an important and difficult problem. He...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hagen DR,Tidor B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mirror image phage display is a straightforward approach to identify new potentially therapeutically active D-enantiomeric peptides. Such D-peptides are more resistant to proteolytic degradation compared to L-peptides. In this review, several examples of mirror image phage display derived D-peptides with therapeutical...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Funke SA,Willbold D

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions are important biological processes and essential for a global understanding of cell functions. To date, little is known about the protein interactions and roles of the protein interacting networks and protein complexes in bacterial resistance to antibiotics. In the present study, we invest...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li H,Pan JY,Liu XJ,Gao JX,Wu HK,Wang C,Peng XX

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:The search for molecules with activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is employing many approaches in parallel including high throughput screening and computational methods. We have developed a database (CDD TB) to capture public and private Mtb data while enabling data mining and collaborations with other r...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ekins S,Bradford J,Dole K,Spektor A,Gregory K,Blondeau D,Hohman M,Bunin BA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental goals in cellular biochemistry is to identify the functions of proteins in the context of compartments that organize them in the cellular environment. To realize this, it is indispensable to develop an automated method for fast and accurate identification of the subcellular locations of uncharac...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Cheng X,Xiao X,Chou KC

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteomics is the study of proteins and their interactions within complex biological systems. While this field is often associated with mass spectrometry, it is more useful to consider proteomics in the context of an objective: to identify and understand the molecular basis of health and disease at the protein level i...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Bark SJ,Hook V

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major mechanical function of talin is to couple the β-integrin cytoplasmic tails to actin filaments. A variety of β-integrin tails contain conserved binding motifs for talin, and recent research shows that β-integrins differ both in affinity to talin and preferences for other cytoplasmic adaptor proteins. While ta...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kukkurainen S,Määttä JA,Saeger J,Valjakka J,Vogel V,Hytönen VP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by human parasites (HPs) affect the poorest 500 million people worldwide but chemotherapy has become expensive, toxic, and/or less effective due to drug resistance. On the other hand, many 3D structures in Protein Data Bank (PDB) remain without function annotation. We need theoretical models to quick...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： González-Díaz H,Muíño L,Anadón AM,Romaris F,Prado-Prado FJ,Munteanu CR,Dorado J,Sierra AP,Mezo M,González-Warleta M,Gárate T,Ubeira FM

更新日期：2011-06-01 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 study of mitochondria and mitochondrial Ca2+ signalling in localised regions is hampered by the lack of tools that can uncouple the mitochondrial membrane potential (DeltaPsi(m)) in a spatially predefined manner. Although there are a number of existing mitochondrial uncouplers, these compounds are necessarily memb...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Avlonitis N,Chalmers S,McDougall C,Stanton-Humphreys MN,Brown CT,McCarron JG,Conway SJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported a chemical genetic method for generating bivalent inhibitors of protein kinases. This method relies on the use of the DNA repair enzyme O(6)-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT) to display an ATP-competitive inhibitor and a ligand that targets a secondary binding domain. With this method potent...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hill ZB,Perera BG,Maly DJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Bacterial biosynthesis of lysine has come under increased scrutiny as a target for novel antibacterial agents as it provides lysine for protein synthesis and both lysine and meso-diaminopimelate for construction of the bacterial peptidoglycan cell wall. In this Highlight article we review recent advances in the valida...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hutton CA,Perugini MA,Gerrard JA

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic studies of lipid A and LPS partial structures have been performed to investigate the relationship between structures and functions of LPS. Recent studies have suggested several pathological implications of LPS from parasitic bacteria due to its influence on the host immune responses. To address this issue, w...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Fujimoto Y,Shimoyama A,Saeki A,Kitayama N,Kasamatsu C,Tsutsui H,Fukase K

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular segmentation clock is a complex regulatory network that governs the periodic somite segmentation in vertebrate embryos. Underlying the rhythm of the segmentation clock is a single-cell level pace-making circuit, where inevitable molecular noise and time delay impose normal operating constraints to the pa...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Song H,Yuan Z,Zhou T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eIF4E-binding protein 1 (4EBP1) has long been known to be completely unstructured without any secondary structures, which contributed significantly to the proposal of the induced fit mechanism for target binding of intrinsically disordered proteins. We show here that 4EBP1 is not completely unstructured, but conta...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kim DH,Lee C,Cho YJ,Lee SH,Cha EJ,Lim JE,Sabo TM,Griesinger C,Lee D,Han KH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00