Switch of substrate specificity of hyperthermophilic acylaminoacyl peptidase by combination of protein and solvent engineering.

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：: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：:Recently, phage display technology has been announced as the recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018. Phage display technique allows high affinity target-binding peptides to be selected from a complex mixture pool of billions of displayed peptides on phage in a combinatorial library and could be further enriched th...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Saw PE,Song EW

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing impairment (HI) affects 1/1000 children and over 2% of the aged population. We have previously reported that mutations in the gene encoding gap junction protein connexin-31 (C×31) are associated with HI. The pathological mechanism of the disease mutations remains unknown. Here, we show that expression of C×31 ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xia K,Ma H,Xiong H,Pan Q,Huang L,Wang D,Zhang Z

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the fused in sarcoma/translocated in liposarcoma (FUS/TLS) gene have been associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). FUS-positive neuropathology is reported in a range of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS and fronto-temporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive pathology (FTLDU). T...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Fushimi K,Long C,Jayaram N,Chen X,Li L,Wu JY

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

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：:Osteosarcoma is the most common primary sarcoma of bone, and it is a leading cause of cancer death among adolescents and young adults. However, the molecular mechanism underlying osteosarcoma carcinogenesis remains poorly understood. Recently, cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6) was identified as an important oncogene. W...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhu K,Liu L,Zhang J,Wang Y,Liang H,Fan G,Jiang Z,Zhang CY,Chen X,Zhou G

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Polycomb Group Proteins (PcG) are a family of epigenetic regulators responsible for the repression of an array of genes important in development and cell fate specification. PcG proteins complex to form two types of epigenetic regulators: Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 and 2 (PRC1 and PRC2). Although the mechanisms reg...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Jones A,Wang H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastocyst complementation by pluripotent stem cell (PSC) injection is believed to be the most promising method to generate xenogeneic organs. However, ethical issues prevent the study of human chimeras in the late embryonic stage of development. Primate embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which have similar pluripotency to ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Fu R,Yu D,Ren J,Li C,Wang J,Feng G,Wang X,Wan H,Li T,Wang L,Zhang Y,Hai T,Li W,Zhou Q

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：: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 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：: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：: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