Exploiting synthetic lethal interactions between DNA damage signaling, checkpoint control, and p53 for targeted cancer therapy.

abstract：:Both genetic and environmental factors play roles in the development of refractive errors. Identification of genes involved in refractive errors may help in elucidating the underlying molecular mechanism related to both genetic defects and environmental pressure. Recent development of techniques for genome wide analys...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Zhang Q

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most aspects of mammalian function display circadian rhythms driven by an endogenous clock. The circadian clock is operated by genes and comprises a central clock in the brain that responds to environmental cues and controls subordinate clocks in peripheral tissues via circadian output pathways. The central and periph...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Fu L,Kettner NM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention has been focused on Wnt signaling in the mouse mammary gland for several decades, firstly by the discovery of several Wnt loci among the oncogenes revealed by MMTV-based insertional mutagenesis screening of mouse mammary gland, and then by the remarkable visualization of Wnt-dependent specification of mammar...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Alexander CM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, methylation of nucleosomal histones and other nuclear proteins is a central aspect of chromatin structure and dynamics. The past 15 years have seen an enormous advance in our understanding of the biochemistry of these modifications, and of their role in establishing the epigenetic code. We provide a syn...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Aravind L,Abhiman S,Iyer LM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metaplastic change where normal squamous mucosa of the esophagus is replaced by columnar mucosa is considered an adaptive process to withstand the chronic gastroesophageal reflux injury. However, this phenotypic switch in the esophageal mucosa is associated with an increased propensity to undergo neoplastic transfor...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Singh A,Demars C,Buttar NS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of chronic lung disease occurs as a consequence of multiple cellular events that involve an initial insult which often leads to the development of chronic inflammation, and the dysregulation of cellular proliferation and cell death mechanisms. Multiple cell types in the lung are key to the respiratory ...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Racanelli AC,Choi AMK,Choi ME

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cannabis has been cultivated and used by humans for thousands of years. Research for decades was focused on understanding the mechanisms of an illegal/addictive drug. This led to the discovery of the vast endocannabinoid system. Research has now shifted to understanding fundamental biological questions related to one ...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Ronan PJ,Wongngamnit N,Beresford TP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:-1 Programmed ribosomal frameshifting is a translational recoding event in which ribosomes slip backward along messenger RNA presumably due to increased tension disrupting the codon-anticodon interaction at the ribosome's coding site. Single-molecule physical methods and recent experiments characterizing the physical ...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Visscher K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hammerhead ribozyme has long been considered a prototype for understanding RNA catalysis, but discrepancies between the earlier crystal structures of a minimal hammerhead self-cleaving motif and various biochemical investigations frustrated attempt to understand hammerhead ribozyme catalysis in terms of structure....

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Scott WG,Horan LH,Martick M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hair follicle has been known, since 1990, to contain stem cells located in the bulge area. In 2003, we reported a new type of stem cell in the hair follicle that expresses the brain stem-cell marker nestin. We have termed these cells as hair-follicle-associated pluripotent (HAP) stem cells. HAP stem cells can diff...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Hoffman RM,Amoh Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal pregnancy is associated with marked hemodynamic and uterine changes that allow adequate uteroplacental blood flow and uterine expansion for the growing fetus. These pregnancy-associated changes involve significant uteroplacental and vascular remodeling. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are important regulators ...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Chen J,Khalil RA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-molecule approaches permit an unrivalled view of how complex systems operate and have recently been used to understand DNA-protein interactions. These tools have enabled advances in a particularly challenging problem, the search for damaged sites on DNA. DNA repair proteins are present at the level of just a fe...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Kad NM,Van Houten B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroinflammation is thought to play a key role in the development and progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. Positron emission tomography (PET) is an in vivo imaging technique capable of studying the biochemical processes which provide the molecular basis of disease. PET imaging of neu...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Janssen B,Mach RH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe the principles of protein surgery and its application to the molecular design for regulating the protein conformation. We initially describe the Poincare duality that defines the basis of complementarity in the time-dependent geometrical space. Next we introduce the theory of protein surgery consistin...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Kuwata K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As obligate parasites of cellular processes, viruses must take over cellular macromolecular machinery. It is also becoming clear that viruses routinely control intracellular signaling pathways through the direct or indirect control of kinases and phosphatases. This control of cellular phosphoproteins is important to p...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Dunn EF,Connor JH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-assembling protein shells of viruses have provided convenient scaffolds for the construction of many new materials with well-defined nanoscale architectures. In some cases, the native amino acid functional groups have served as nucleation sites for the deposition of metals and semiconductors, leading to organ...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Dedeo MT,Finley DT,Francis MB

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the major form of dementia and a growing epidemic for which no disease-modifying treatments exist. AD is characterized by the early loss of synapses in the brain and, at later stages, neuronal death accompanied with progressive loss of cognitive functions. Here we focus on the mechanisms in...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Loera-Valencia R,Ismail MA,Nilsson P,Winblad B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Being responsible for more than 90% of cellular functions, protein molecules are workhorses in all the life forms. In order to cater for such a high demand, proteins have evolved to adopt diverse structures that allow them to perform myriad of functions. Beginning with the genetically directed amino acid sequence, the...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Bhopatkar AA,Uversky VN,Rangachari V

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins convey receptor signals to intracellular effectors. Superimposed over the basic GPCR-G protein-effector scheme are three types of auxiliary proteins that also modulate Gα. Regulator of G protein signaling proteins and G protein signaling modifier proteins respectively promote GTPase activity ...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Zhao P,Cladman W,Van Tol HH,Chidiac P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation has been an important area of research in the study of molecular mechanism to psychiatric disorders. Recent evidence has suggested that abnormalities in global methylation, methylation of genes, and pathways could play a role in the etiology of many forms of mental illness. In this article, we review t...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Liu C,Jiao C,Wang K,Yuan N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transition metals such as manganese are essential nutrients for both pathogen and host. Vertebrates exploit this necessity to combat invading microbes by restricting access to these critical nutrients, a defense known as nutritional immunity. During infection, the host uses several mechanisms to impose manganese limit...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Kelliher JL,Kehl-Fie TE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic imprinting is the phenomenon where the expression of a locus differs between the maternally and paternally inherited alleles. Typically, this manifests as transcriptional silencing of one of the alleles, although many genes are imprinted in a tissue- or isoform-specific manner. Diseases associated with imprint...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Wilkins JF,Úbeda F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past two decades, new technologies enabling targeted modification of plant genomes have been developed. Among these are zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) which are composed of engineered zinc-finger DNA-binding domains fused with a nuclease, generally the FokI nuclease. The zinc-finger domains are composed of a se...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Davies JP,Kumar S,Sastry-Dent L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli contains a large number of suicide or toxin genes, whose expression leads to cell growth arrest and eventual cell death. One such toxin, MazF, is an ACA-specific endoribonuclease, termed "mRNA interferase."E. coli contains other mRNA interferases with different sequence specificities, which are consid...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Yamaguchi Y,Inouye M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell membrane-associated junctional complexes mediate cell-cell adhesion, intercellular interactions, and other fundamental processes required for proper embryo morphogenesis. Cadherins are calcium-dependent transmembrane proteins at the core of adherens junctions and are expressed in distinct spatiotemporal patterns ...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Taneyhill LA,Schiffmacher AT

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanotransduction, the conversion of a mechanical stimulus into an electrical signal, is a central mechanism to several physiological functions in mammals. It relies on the function of mechanosensitive ion channels (MSCs). Although the first single-channel recording from MSCs dates back to 30 years ago, the identity...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Sharif-Naeini R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloids are nanoscopic ordered self-assemblies of misfolded proteins that are formed via aggregation of partially unfolded or intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and are commonly linked to devastating human diseases. An enlarging body of recent research has demonstrated that certain amyloids can be beneficial an...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Avni A,Swasthi HM,Majumdar A,Mukhopadhyay S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The muscular dystrophies (MDs) represent a diverse collection of inherited human disorders, which affect to varying degrees skeletal, cardiac, and sometimes smooth muscle (Emery, 2002). To date, more than 50 different genes have been implicated as causing one or more types of MD (Bansal et al., 2003). In many cases, i...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Ng R,Banks GB,Hall JK,Muir LA,Ramos JN,Wicki J,Odom GL,Konieczny P,Seto J,Chamberlain JR,Chamberlain JS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ndsts (N-deacetylase/N-sulfotransferases) are enzymes responsible for N-sulfation during heparan sulfate (HS) and heparin biosynthesis. In this review, basic features of the Ndst1 enzyme are covered and a brief description of HS biosynthesis and its regulation is presented. Effects of Ndst1 deficiency on embryonic dev...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Ringvall M,Kjellén L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is characterized histopathologically by the presence of plaques, mainly composed of Abeta amyloid and the tangles, mainly composed of hyperphosphorylated tau. To date, there is no treatment that can reverse the disease, and all the current therapeutic...

journal_title：Progress in molecular biology and translational science

authors： Corbo CP,Alonso Adel C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00