The Fanconi anemia pathway and DNA interstrand cross-link repair.

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：: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：: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：:Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6), a predominantly cytoplasmic protein deacetylase, participates in a wide range of cellular processes through its deacetylase activity. However, the diverse functions of HDAC6 cannot be fully elucidated with its known substrates. In an attempt to explore the substrate diversity of HDAC6, w...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang L,Liu S,Liu N,Zhang Y,Liu M,Li D,Seto E,Yao TP,Shui W,Zhou J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses occasionally cause epidemics and pandemics worldwide, such as the on-going outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Herein, we identified two potent inhibitors of human DHODH, S312 and S416, with favorable drug-likeness and pharmacokinetic profiles, which all showed broad-spec...

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,Lavillete D,Zhao Z,Wang R,Zhu L,Xiao G,Lan K,Li H,Xu K

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：:While the majority of all human cancers counteract telomere shortening by expressing telomerase, ~15% of all cancers maintain telomere length by a telomerase-independent mechanism known as alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT). Here, we show that high load of intrinsic DNA damage is present in ALT cancer cells, l...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ge Y,Wu S,Zhang Z,Li X,Li F,Yan S,Liu H,Huang J,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Sometimes crystals cannot diffract X-rays beyond 3.0 Å resolution due to the intrinsic flexibility associated with the protein. Low resolution diffraction data not only pose a challenge to structure determination, but also hamper interpretation of mechanistic details. Crystals of a 25.6 kDa non-Pfam, hypothetical prot...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Su J,Li Y,Shaw N,Zhou W,Zhang M,Xu H,Wang BC,Liu ZJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 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 host takes use of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) to defend against pathogen invasion or cellular damage. Among microorganism-associated molecular patterns detected by host PRRs, nucleic acids derived from bacteria or viruses are tightly supervised, providing a fundamental mechanism of host defense. Pathogeni...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xia P,Wang S,Gao P,Gao G,Fan Z

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Human monocyte is an important cell type which is involved in various complex human diseases. To better understand the biology of human monocytes and facilitate further studies, we developed the first comprehensive proteome knowledge base specifically for human monocytes by integrating both in vivo and in vitro datase...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zeng Y,Deng FY,Zhu W,Zhang L,He H,Xu C,Tian Q,Zhang JG,Zhang LS,Hu HG,Deng HW

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：: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