Stochastic analysis of a miRNA-protein toggle switch.

abstract：:Deciphering functional interactions between proteins is one of the great challenges in biology. Sequence-based homology-free encoding schemes have been increasingly applied to develop promising protein-protein interaction (PPI) predictors by means of statistical or machine learning methods. Here we analyze the relatio...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhou Y,Zhou YS,He F,Song J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes for the first time, a metabolic profile reflecting the osteoporosis progression in 364 pre- and postmenopausal Chinese women using GC-MS. In order to accurately evaluate the dynamic changes of metabolites along with estrogen deficiency and osteoporosis progression, we divided these subjects...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Qi H,Bao J,An G,Ouyang G,Zhang P,Wang C,Ying H,Ouyang P,Ma B,Zhang Q

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Rule-based modeling provides a means to represent cell signaling systems in a way that captures site-specific details of molecular interactions. For rule-based models to be more widely understood and (re)used, conventions for model visualization and annotation are needed. We have developed the concepts of an extended ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chylek LA,Hu B,Blinov ML,Emonet T,Faeder JR,Goldstein B,Gutenkunst RN,Haugh JM,Lipniacki T,Posner RG,Yang J,Hlavacek WS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are key regulators of gene expression. Some long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) affect gene expression by interacting with RBPs. However, whether this influences the biological characteristics of lncRNAs in diseases still remains unknown. Here, we classify lncRNAs into two categories, using the ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang Q,Wei Y,Yan Z,Wu C,Chang Z,Zhu Y,Li K,Xu Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade there has been a growing acknowledgement that a large proportion of proteins within most proteomes contain disordered regions. Disordered regions are segments of the protein chain which do not adopt a stable structure. Recognition of disordered regions in a protein is of great importance for prote...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Deng X,Eickholt J,Cheng J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient and low-affinity interactions among macromolecules underlie many physiological events. Often, these interactions are difficult to study because they are not maintained when the participating molecules are removed from their cellular context. To circumvent this challenge, crosslinking reagents can be used to ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Tanaka Y,Bond MR,Kohler JJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New approaches to improve the quality and efficiency of stem cell-derived neurons are important for both research and clinical arenas. Customized subsets of differentiated neurons can be used as model systems to understand the etiology of a variety of complex neurological diseases and disorders. These same neuronal ce...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Greco SJ,Rameshwar P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New-type oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 influenza viruses have been a major threat to human health since the 2009 flu pandemic. To resolve the drug resistance issue, we aimed to identify a new type of inhibitors against H1 from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) by employing the world's largest TCM database () for virtual...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chang SS,Huang HJ,Chen CY

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by human parasites (HPs) affect the poorest 500 million people worldwide but chemotherapy has become expensive, toxic, and/or less effective due to drug resistance. On the other hand, many 3D structures in Protein Data Bank (PDB) remain without function annotation. We need theoretical models to quick...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： González-Díaz H,Muíño L,Anadón AM,Romaris F,Prado-Prado FJ,Munteanu CR,Dorado J,Sierra AP,Mezo M,González-Warleta M,Gárate T,Ubeira FM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:J proteins are a diverse family of co-chaperones that cooperate with heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) to coordinate protein quality control, especially in response to cellular stress. Current models suggest that individual J proteins might play roles in recruiting Hsp70s to specific functions, such as maintaining cell wa...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Gillies AT,Taylor R,Gestwicki JE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer has been reported as one of the most frequently diagnosed malignant diseases and the leading cause of cancer death in women all around the world. Furthermore, this complicated cancer is divided into multiple subtypes which present different clinical symptoms and need correspondingly directed therapy. We ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chen Y,Wang X,Wang G,Li Z,Wang J,Huang L,Qin Z,Yuan X,Cheng Z,Zhang S,Yin Y,He J

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) techniques hold forth great promise for therapeutic silencing of deleterious genes. However, clinical applications of RNAi require the development of safe and efficient methods for intracellular delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) oligonucleotides specific to targeted genes. We describe t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Utku Y,Dehan E,Ouerfelli O,Piano F,Zuckermann RN,Pagano M,Kirshenbaum K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid carcinoma is a common endocrine malignancy worldwide, accounting for approximately 1% of all diagnosed cancers and about 91.5% of the malignancies of head and neck. However, differentiating malignant thyroid nodules from benign ones remains a diagnostic challenge. Thus, novel molecular markers that enable non-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Yao Z,Yin P,Su D,Peng Z,Zhou L,Ma L,Guo W,Ma L,Xu G,Shi J,Jiao B

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic heart failure (CHF), as a progressive clinical syndrome, is characterized by failure of enough blood supply from the heart to meet the body's metabolic demands, and there is intense interest in identifying novel biomarkers that could make contributions to the diagnosis of CHF. Metabolomics, compared with curre...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang J,Li Z,Chen J,Zhao H,Luo L,Chen C,Xu X,Zhang W,Gao K,Li B,Zhang J,Wang W

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are major issues regarding the proposed pathway for starch degradation in germinating cereal grain. Given the commercial importance but genetic intractability of the problem, we have embarked on a program of chemical genetics studies to identify and dissect the pathway and regulation of starch degradation in ger...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Rejzek M,Stevenson CE,Southard AM,Stanley D,Denyer K,Smith AM,Naldrett MJ,Lawson DM,Field RA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normalization of array data relies on the assumption that most genes are not altered, which means that the signals for different samples should be scaled to have similar median or average values. However, accumulating evidence suggests that gene expression could be widely up-regulated in cancers. Our previous results ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wu D,Kang J,Huang Y,Li X,Wang X,Huang D,Wang Y,Li B,Hao D,Gu Q,Tang N,Li K,Guo Z,Li X,Xu J,Wang D

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is the key feature of some bacteria, such as Geobacter sulfurreducens and Shewanella oneidensis. Via EET processes, these bacteria can grow on electrode surfaces and make current output of microbial fuel cells. c-Type cytochromes can be used as carriers to transfer electrons, whic...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ding DW,Xu J,Li L,Xie JM,Sun X

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-binding proteins play a pivotal role in various biological activities. Identification of DNA-binding residues (DBRs) is of great importance for understanding the mechanism of gene regulations and chromatin remodeling. Most traditional computational methods usually construct their predictors on static non-redundant...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chai H,Zhang J,Yang G,Ma Z

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin is an enzyme cofactor indispensable to metabolic fixation of carbon dioxide in all three domains of life. Although the catalytic and physiological roles of biotin have been well characterized, the biosynthesis of biotin remains to be fully elucidated. Studies in microbes suggest a two-stage biosynthetic pathway...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lin S,Cronan JE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the development of Src/Abl (c-Src/Bcr-Abl tyrosine kinases) dual inhibitors has attracted considerable attention from the research community for treatment of malignancies. In order to explore the different structural features impacting the Src and Abl inhibitory activities of N(9)-arenethenyl purines and to ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ma S,Zeng G,Fang D,Wang J,Wu W,Xie W,Tan S,Zheng K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant aquaporins belong to a large superfamily of conserved proteins called the major intrinsic proteins (MIPs). There is limited information about the diversity of MIPs and their water transport capacity in broccoli (Brassica oleracea) plants. In this study, the cDNAs of isoforms of Plasma Membrane Intrinsic Proteins...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Muries B,Faize M,Carvajal M,Martínez-Ballesta Mdel C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) often suffer from concomitant metabolic complications. Treatment with antiretroviral therapy has also been shown to alter the metabolism of patients. Although chemometric analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of human sera can distinguish ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： McKnight TR,Yoshihara HA,Sitole LJ,Martin JN,Steffens F,Meyer D

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphorylation is associated with most cell signaling and developmental processes in eukaryotes. Despite the vast extent of the phosphoproteome within the cell, connecting specific kinases with relevant targets remains a significant experimental frontier. The challenge of linking kinases and their substrates ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sopko R,Andrews BJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous thymidylate synthases, isolated from tissues or cultured cells of the same specific origin, have been reported to show differing slow-binding inhibition patterns. These were reflected by biphasic or linear dependence of the inactivation rate on time and accompanied by differing inhibition parameters. Consid...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ludwiczak J,Maj P,Wilk P,Frączyk T,Ruman T,Kierdaszuk B,Jarmuła A,Rode W

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) is widely used to direct the differentiation of cultured stem cells. When exposed to the pluripotent human embryonal carcinoma (EC) stem cell line, TERA2.cl.SP12, ATRA induces ectoderm differentiation and the formation of neuronal cell types. We report in this study that novel polyene ch...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Clemens G,Flower KR,Gardner P,Henderson AP,Knowles JP,Marder TB,Whiting A,Przyborski S

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) signaling pathway plays myriad roles in development and disease. TGF-β isoforms initiate signaling by organizing their cell surface receptors TβRI and TβRII. Exploration and exploitation of the versatility of TGF-β signaling requires an enhanced understanding of structure-fu...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li L,Orner BP,Huang T,Hinck AP,Kiessling LL

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To faithfully execute diverse biological programs all cells need to access and distribute their genomes in a highly organized way. In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells DNA is packed with histone proteins into chromatin. The originating nucleo-protein complex is the regulatory platform for all genetic processes. Of these...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Nikolov M,Fischle W

更新日期：2013-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent molecules that specifically target amyloid structures are highly desirable for amyloid research. Herein, we show a dimeric design of thioflavin T improves its binding affinity to Abeta amyloid by up to 70 fold, while not sacrificing the specificity and the "light-up" feature upon amyloid binding. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Qin L,Vastl J,Gao J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low transfection efficiency and inactivation by serum are the major drawbacks for cationic polymers when used as non-viral gene vectors. Here, a series of N-succinyl-chitosan-graft-polyethylenimine (NSC-g-PEI) copolymers with different compositions were synthesized through grafting low molecular weight PEI (800 Da) to...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lu B,Sun YX,Li YQ,Zhang XZ,Zhuo RX

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical cancer is a clinical and pathological heterogeneity disease, which requires different types of treatments and leads to a variety of outcomes. In clinical practice, only some patients benefit from chemotherapy treatment. Identifying patients who will be responsive to chemotherapy could increase their survival ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hou Y,Yin M,Sun F,Zhang T,Zhou X,Li H,Zheng J,Chen X,Li C,Ning X,Lou G,Li K

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00