Overexpression of sigma-1 receptor inhibits ADAM10 and ADAM17 mediated shedding in vitro.

abstract：:S-Nitros(yl)ation is a ubiquitous redox-based post-translational modification of protein cysteine thiols by nitric oxide or its derivatives, which transduces the bioactivity of nitric oxide (NO) by regulation of protein conformation, activity, stability, localization and protein-protein interactions. These years, more...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang X,Huang B,Zhang L,Zhang Y,Zhao Y,Guo X,Qiao X,Chen C

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Dendritic cells (DCs) comprise two functionally distinct subsets: plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) and myeloid DCs (mDCs). pDCs are specialized in rapid and massive secretion of type I interferon (IFN-I) in response to nucleic acids through Toll like receptor (TLR)-7 or TLR-9. In this report, we characterized a CD56(+) DC popu...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Yu H,Zhang P,Yin X,Yin Z,Shi Q,Cui Y,Liu G,Wang S,Piccaluga PP,Jiang T,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:Retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) is an important pattern recognition receptor that detects viral RNA and triggers the production of type-I interferons through the downstream adaptor MAVS (also called IPS-1, CARDIF, or VISA). A series of structural studies have elaborated some of the mechanisms of dsRNA recogniti...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Feng M,Ding Z,Xu L,Kong L,Wang W,Jiao S,Shi Z,Greene MI,Cong Y,Zhou Z

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral mucositis, a severe oral ulceration, is a common toxic effect of radio- or chemoradio-therapy and a limiting factor to using the maximum dose of radiation for effective cancer treatment. Among cancer patients, at least 40% and up to 70%, of individuals treated with standard chemotherapy regimens or upper-body rad...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Bian L,Han G,Zhao CW,Garl PJ,Wang XJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 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

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：: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：:The nervous system is one of the most complicated organ systems in invertebrates and vertebrates. Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (DSCAM) of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily is expressed widely in the nervous system during embryonic development. Previous studies in Drosophila suggest that Dscam plays important...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xu Y,Ye H,Shen Y,Xu Q,Zhu L,Liu J,Wu JY

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication the PDB numbers were not cited. ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Yu J,Zhang B,Zhang Y,Xu CQ,Zhuo W,Ge J,Li J,Gao N,Li Y,Yang M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication the author's name 'Dimitri Lavillete' is published incorrectly. The correct author name should be spelt as 'Dimitri Lavillette' is provided in this correction. ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xiong R,Zhang L,Li S,Sun Y,Ding M,Wang Y,Zhao Y,Wu Y,Shang W,Jiang X,Shan J,Shen Z,Tong Y,Xu L,Chen Y,Liu Y,Zou G,Lavillette D,Zhao Z,Wang R,Zhu L,Xiao G,Lan K,Li H,Xu K

更新日期：2020-11-09 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：:MTUS1 (microtubule-associated tumor suppressor 1) has been identified that can function as a tumor suppressor gene in many malignant tumors. However, the function and mechanisms underlying the regulation of MTUS1 are unclear. In the present study, we reported that miR-19a and miR-19b (miR-19a/b) promote proliferation ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Gu Y,Liu S,Zhang X,Chen G,Liang H,Yu M,Liao Z,Zhou Y,Zhang CY,Wang T,Wang C,Zhang J,Chen X

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：:The cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS) plays a critical role in host defense by sensing cytosolic DNA derived from microbial pathogens or mis-located cellular DNA. Upon DNA binding, cGAS utilizes GTP and ATP as substrates to synthesize cGAMP, leading to MITA-mediated innate immune response. In this study, we ident...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Li M,Shu HB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CUE domain-containing 2 (CUEDC2) is a protein involved in the regulation of the cell cycle, inflammation, and tumorigenesis and is highly expressed in many types of tumors. CUEDC2 is phosphorylated by Cdk1 during mitosis and promotes the release of anaphase-promoting complex or cyclosome (APC/C) from checkpoint inhibi...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Man J,Zhang X

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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