A metabolomics and proteomics study of the adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus to glucose starvation.

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：:Protein-protein interactions are important for the majority of biological processes. A significant number of computational methods have been developed to predict protein-protein interactions using protein sequence, structural and genomic data. Vast experimental data is publicly available on the Internet, but it is sca...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Saha I,Zubek J,Klingström T,Forsberg S,Wikander J,Kierczak M,Maulik U,Plewczynski D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cycloserine (CS, 4-amino-3-isoxazolidone) is a cyclic amino acid mimic that is known to inhibit many essential pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes. Two CS enantiomers are known; D-cycloserine (DCS, also known as Seromycin) is a natural product that is used to treat resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis infec...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lowther J,Yard BA,Johnson KA,Carter LG,Bhat VT,Raman MC,Clarke DJ,Ramakers B,McMahon SA,Naismith JH,Campopiano DJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium homeostasis is a key factor in the regulation of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. Calcium dynamics in cardiomyocytes is governed by ATP which depends on insulin dependent glucose concentration, via the glucose transporter type 4 (GLUT4) transporter. It would therefore be interesting to see how calcium ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Das PN,Kumar A,Bairagi N,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2017-09-26 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：: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：:The selective inhibition for JAK2 over the other JAK family kinases (JAK1, JAK3 and TYK2) has shared an immense challenge due to high conservatism. In this paper, the highly JAK2 selective mechanism of the thienopyridine derivative was identified at the molecular level, based on insights into the inhibitory effects of...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li JJ,Cheng P,Tu J,Zhai HL,Zhang XY

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical cancer is initiated by infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV). The viral E6 and E7 oncogenes are required for the initiation of cervical epithelial cell immortalization, but do not suffice to cause cervical cancer. Human oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes with altered activity in cervical carci...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kravchenko-Balasha N,Klein S,Safrai M,Levitzki A

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:Escherichia coli has evolved an intracellular pathway to regulate its motion termed as chemotaxis so as to move towards a favorable environment such as regions with higher concentration of nutrients. Chemotaxis is a response to temporal and spatial variation of extracellular ligand concentration and randomness in moti...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Vuppula RR,Tirumkudulu MS,Venkatesh KV

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of synthetic biology, recent genetic engineering efforts have enabled the construction of novel genetic circuits with diverse functionalities and unique activation mechanisms. Because of these advances, artificial genetic networks are becoming increasingly complex, and are demonstrating more robust behavi...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sayut DJ,Kambam PK,Sun L

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multidrug resistance (MDR) system actively pumps antibiotics out of cells causing serious health problems. During the pumping, AcrB (one of the key components of MDR) undergoes a series of large-scale and proton-motive conformational changes. Capturing the conformational changes through all-atom simulations is cha...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jewel Y,Liu J,Dutta P

更新日期：2017-09-26 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：:Recently circular RNA (circularRNA) has been discovered as an increasingly important type of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), playing an important role in gene regulation, such as functioning as miRNA sponges. So it is very promising to identify circularRNA transcripts from de novo assembled transcripts obtained by high-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Pan X,Xiong K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory networks are able to process complex signals and respond appropriately to the cellular context. Thus, an increasing effort by systems biology researchers is being focused on understanding which interactions are responsible for a given functional response. When translated into specific mathematical models, h...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Estrada J,Guantes R

更新日期：2013-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Unbalanced uptake of Omega 6/Omega 3 (ω-6/ω-3) ratios could increase chronic disease occurrences, such as inflammation, atherosclerosis, or tumor proliferation, and methylation methods for measuring the ruminal microbiome fatty acid (FA) composition/distribution play a vital role in discovering the contribution of foo...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Liu Y,Buendía-Rodríguez G,Peñuelas-Rívas CG,Tan Z,Rívas-Guevara M,Tenorio-Borroto E,Munteanu CR,Pazos A,González-Díaz H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological processing - mechanism of cellular uptake, effects on the cytoplasmic and mitochondrial membranes, intracellular sites of localisation and induction of reactive oxygen species - of two dinuclear polypyridylruthenium(ii) complexes has been examined in three eukaryotic cells lines. Flow cytometry was used...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li X,Heimann K,Dinh XT,Keene FR,Collins JG

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannose-modified lectin-binding peptides were obtained from an α-helical-designed peptide phage library. Concanavalin A (ConA) was used as a representative target protein for the lectin family. The identified glycopeptides could selectively bind to ConA with micromolar affinity. With these results, the methodologies d...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ven Chang I,Tsutsumi H,Mihara H

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Enediyne natural product biosynthesis is characterized by a convergence of multiple pathways, generating unique peripheral moieties that are appended onto the distinctive enediyne core. Kedarcidin (KED) possesses two unique peripheral moieties, a (R)-2-aza-3-chloro-β-tyrosine and an iso-propoxy-bearing 2-naphthonate m...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lohman JR,Huang SX,Horsman GP,Dilfer PE,Huang T,Chen Y,Wendt-Pienkowski E,Shen B

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation can lead to the development of cancers and resolution of inflammation is an ongoing challenge. Inflammation can result from dysregulation of the epigenome and a number of compounds that modify the epigenome are in clinical use. In this study the anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects of a quina...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lin Z,Bishop KS,Sutherland H,Marlow G,Murray P,Denny WA,Ferguson LR

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal of gynecologic malignancies due to the high rate of recurrence and poor prognosis. Predicting the prognosis in patients with EOC is clinically challenging, partly because appropriate biomarkers of recurrence have yet to be explored. In this prospective study, pre-trea...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang H,Ge T,Cui X,Hou Y,Ke C,Yang M,Yang K,Wang J,Guo B,Zhang F,Lou G,Li K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity probes are useful tools for determining molecular targets and elucidating mechanism of action for novel, bioactive compounds. In the case of covalent inhibitors, activity based probes are particularly valuable for ensuring acceptable selectivity margins. However, there is a variety of bioorthogonal chemistry ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Paresi CJ,Liu Q,Li YM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolomic study was performed to investigate the biochemical profiles of livers from male and female zebrafish (Danio rerio), using a multiple platform approach, incorporating 1H NMR, GC/MS and LC/MS. The reproducibility and reliability of the three methods were validated prior to the assays. Major biomolecules de...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ong ES,Chor CF,Zou L,Ong CN

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genome-wide screen of a yeast non-essential gene-deletion library was used to identify sick phenotypes due to oxygen deprivation. The screen provided a manageable list of 384 potentially novel as well as known oxygen responding (anoxia-survival) genes. The gene-deletion mutants were further assayed for sensitivity t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Samanfar B,Omidi K,Hooshyar M,Laliberte B,Alamgir M,Seal AJ,Ahmed-Muhsin E,Viteri DF,Said K,Chalabian F,Golshani A,Wainer G,Burnside D,Shostak K,Bugno M,Willmore WG,Smith ML,Golshani A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex signalling systems have evolved in multicellular organisms to enable cell-to-cell communication during growth and development. In plants, cell communication via the extracellular matrix (apoplast) controls many processes vital for plant survival. Secretion of ATP into the extracellular matrix is now recognised...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chivasa S,Slabas AR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We employed high-temperature classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate the unfolding process of the wild-type (WT) and F508del-NBD1 domains of CFTR protein, with and without second-site mutations. To rationalize the in vitro behavior of F508del-NBD1, namely its lower folding yield and higher aggrega...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Estácio SG,Martiniano HF,Faísca PF

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are key signaling proteins that regulate how cells interact with their environment. Traditional signaling cascades involving GPCRs have been well described and are well established and very important clinical targets. With the development of more recent technologies, hints about the...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang X,Eggert US

更新日期：2013-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:As one of the most important trace elements within an organism, zinc has been shown to be involved in numerous biological processes and closely implicated in various diseases. The zinc ion is important for proteins to perform their functional roles. To provide in-depth functional annotation of zinc-binding proteins, a...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chen Z,Wang Y,Zhai YF,Song J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging field of synthetic biology is generating insatiable demands for synthetic genes, which far exceed existing gene synthesis capabilities. This review discusses the current methods of chemical DNA synthesis and gene assembly, as well as the latest engineering tools, technologies and trends which could potent...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Tian J,Ma K,Saaem I

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretagogin is a hexa EF-hand Ca(2+)-binding protein expressed in neuroendocrine, pancreatic endocrine and retinal cells. The protein has been noted for its expression in specific neuronal subtypes in the support of hierarchical organizing principles in the mammalian brain. Secretagogin has previously been found to i...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Bauer MC,O'Connell DJ,Maj M,Wagner L,Cahill DJ,Linse S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00