MicroRNAs: a new ray of hope for diabetes mellitus.

abstract：:Macroautophagy is an evolutionarily conserved intracellular degradation system used by life ranging from yeasts to mammals. The core autophagic machinery is composed of ATG (autophagy-related) protein constituents. One particular member of the ATG protein family, Atg7, has been the focus of recent research. Atg7 acts ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xiong J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) as a rare type of leukocytes play an important role in bridging the innate and adaptive immune system. A subset of DCs, monocyte-derived dendritic cells (moDCs), exists in very low numbers at steady state but become abundant in inflammatory states. These inflammation-associated DCs are potent pro...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhan Y,Wu L

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:T-cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cells are a novel option for adoptive cell therapy used for the treatment of several advanced forms of cancer. Work using TCR-engineered T cells began more than two decades ago, with numerous preclinical studies showing that such cells could mediate tumor lysis and eradication. The s...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ping Y,Liu C,Zhang Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal recessive inherited disorder characterized by a variety of clinical features, including increased sensitivity to sunlight, progressive neurological abnormalities, and the appearance of premature aging. However, the pathogenesis of CS remains unclear due to the limitations of ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang S,Min Z,Ji Q,Geng L,Su Y,Liu Z,Hu H,Wang L,Zhang W,Suzuiki K,Huang Y,Zhang P,Tang TS,Qu J,Yu Y,Liu GH,Qiao J

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:The importance of NAC (named as NAM, ATAF1, 2, and CUC2) proteins in plant development, transcription regulation and regulatory pathways involving protein-protein interactions has been increasingly recognized. We report here the high resolution crystal structure of SNAC1 (stress-responsive NAC) NAC domain at 2.5 Å. Al...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Chen Q,Wang Q,Xiong L,Lou Z

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptors (LILRs), also called CD85s, ILTs, or LIRs, are important mediators of immune activation and tolerance that contain tandem immunoglobulin (Ig)-like folds. There are 11 (in addition to two pseudogenes) LILRs in total, two with two Ig-like domains (D1D2) and the remaining nine with...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Nam G,Shi Y,Ryu M,Wang Q,Song H,Liu J,Yan J,Qi J,Gao GF

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) is a relatively minor component of sunlight, but can induce stress-related physiological processes or UV-B-specific photomorphogenic responses in plants. In the last decade, significant progress has been made in understanding the UV-B photomorphogenic pathway, including identification of the key c...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Li J,Yang L,Jin D,Nezames CD,Terzaghi W,Deng XW

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:The fungus Trichophyton schoenleinii (T. schoenleinii) is the causative agent of Trichophytosis and Tinea favosa of the scalp in certain regions of Eurasia and Africa. Human innate immune system plays an important role in combating with various pathogens including fungi. The inflammasome is one of the most critical ar...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Li H,Wu S,Mao L,Lei G,Zhang L,Lu A,An L,Yang G,Abliz P,Meng G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of liver disease worldwide. Although several HCV protease/polymerase inhibitors were recently approved by U.S. FDA, the combination of antivirals targeting multiple processes of HCV lifecycle would optimize anti-HCV therapy and against potential drug-resistance. Viral entry i...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Cao L,Chen J,Wang Y,Yang Y,Qing J,Rao Z,Chen X,Lou Z

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most frequent human malignancies worldwide with very poor prognosis. It is generally accepted that the progression of HCC is a long-term process with accumulation of multiple genetic and epigenetic alterations, which further lead to the activation of critical oncogenes or i...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Liu M,Jiang L,Guan XY

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing tools such as the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated system (Cas) have been widely used to modify genes in model systems including animal zygotes and human cells, and hold tremendous promise for both basic research and clinical applications. To date, a serious k...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Liang P,Xu Y,Zhang X,Ding C,Huang R,Zhang Z,Lv J,Xie X,Chen Y,Li Y,Sun Y,Bai Y,Songyang Z,Ma W,Zhou C,Huang J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli fadR protein product, a paradigm/prototypical FadR regulator, positively regulates fabA and fabB, the two critical genes for unsaturated fatty acid (UFA) biosynthesis. However the scenario in the other Ɣ-proteobacteria, such as Shewanella with the marine origin, is unusual in that Rodionov and cow...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang H,Zheng B,Gao R,Feng Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is able to discriminate visual landmarks and form visual long-term memory in a flight simulator. Studies focused on the molecular mechanism of long-term memory have shown that memory formation requires mRNA transcription and protein synthesis. However, little is known about the ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Jiang H,Hou Q,Gong Z,Liu L

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-renewal and multipotent potentials in neural stem cells (NSCs) maintain the normal physiological functions of central nervous system (CNS). The abnormal differentiation of NSCs would lead to CNS disorders. However, the mechanisms of how NSCs differentiate into astrocytes, oligodendrocytes (OLs) and neurons ar...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang K,Wang H,Wang J,Xie Y,Chen J,Yan H,Liu Z,Wen T

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in a highly conserved ribosome assembly factor SBDS. The functional role of SBDS is to cooperate with another assembly factor, elongation factor 1-like (Efl1), to promote the release of eukaryotic initiation factor 6 (eIF6...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ma C,Yan K,Tan D,Li N,Zhang Y,Yuan Y,Li Z,Dong MQ,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：: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：: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：:Thymic epithelial cells (TECs) are one of the most important components in thymic microenvironment supporting thymocyte development and maturation. TECs, composed of cortical and medullary TECs, are derived from a common bipotent progenitor, mediating thymocyte positive and negative selections. Multiple levels of sign...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Sun L,Luo H,Li H,Zhao Y

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：:Hannum and colleagues performed DNA methylation sequencing to examine the relationship between DNA methylome and aging rate. Notably, they succeeded in building a quantitative and reproducible model based on the epigenetic bio-markers to predict aging rate with high accuracy. This progress enlightens us in many aspect...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Li M,Liu W,Yuan T,Bai R,Liu GH,Zhang W,Qu J

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：: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：:Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection remains an important goal of global TB eradication. To this end, targets that are essential for intracellular survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are particularly attractive. Arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT) represents such a target as it is, along with the enzymes enco...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Abuhammad AM,Lowe ED,Fullam E,Noble M,Garman EF,Sim E

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00