Suppression of statin effectiveness by copper and zinc in yeast and human cells.

abstract：:A rapid and sensitive gold-nanobioprobe based immunoassay format has been presented for the detection of capsular Vi polysaccharide of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (surface antigen) using anti-Vi antibodies. The Vi antigen was extracted from serovar Typhi cells, under the optimised growth conditions for its over-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Pandey SK,Suri CR,Chaudhry M,Tiwari RP,Rishi P

更新日期：2012-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the versatile CYP109B1 enzyme from Bacillus subtilis has been solved at 1.8 Å resolution. This is the first structure of an enzyme from this CYP family, whose members are prevalent across diverse species of bacteria. In the crystal structure the enzyme has an open conformation with an access c...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang A,Zhang T,Hall EA,Hutchinson S,Cryle MJ,Wong LL,Zhou W,Bell SG

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex web of interactions between the host immune system and the pathogen determines the outcome of any infection. A computational model of this interaction network, which encodes complex interplay among host and bacterial components, forms a useful basis for improving the understanding of pathogenesis, in filli...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Raman K,Bhat AG,Chandra N

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of biofuels has been one of the promising efforts in biotechnology in the past few decades. The perspective of these efforts can be reduction of increasing demands for fossil fuels and consequently reducing environmental pollution. Nonetheless, most previous approaches did not succeed in obviating many big ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Mohammadi R,Fallah-Mehrabadi J,Bidkhori G,Zahiri J,Javad Niroomand M,Masoudi-Nejad A

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyethylenimine (PEI, especially with M(w) of 25,000) has been known as an efficient gene carrier and a gold standard of gene transfection due to its high transfection efficiency (TE). However, high concomitant cytotoxicity limited the application of PEI. In this report, several cationic polymers derived from low mol...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li S,Wang Y,Zhang J,Yang WH,Dai ZH,Zhu W,Yu XQ

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:The protein kinase C (PKC) family of serine/threonine kinases is an attractive drug target for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Diacylglycerol (DAG), phorbol esters and others act as ligands for the C1 domain of PKC isoforms. Inspection of the crystal structure of the PKCδ C1b subdomain in complex with phor...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Mamidi N,Gorai S,Mukherjee R,Manna D

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of MHC binding peptides is essential for understanding the molecular mechanism of immune response. However, most of the prediction methods use motifs/profiles derived from experimental peptide binding data for specific MHC alleles, thus limiting their applicability only to those alleles for which such d...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kumar N,Mohanty D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biosynthesis of lysine has come under increased scrutiny as a target for novel antibacterial agents as it provides lysine for protein synthesis and both lysine and meso-diaminopimelate for construction of the bacterial peptidoglycan cell wall. In this Highlight article we review recent advances in the valida...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hutton CA,Perugini MA,Gerrard JA

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new transfection reagent based on nucleoside phosphocholine amphiphile leading to high transfection efficacy and low cytotoxicity is described. TEM, ethidium bromide displacement assays, agarose gel electrophoresis and SAXS studies support the formation of lipoplexes for the transfection of CHO cells. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Moreau L,Barthélémy P,Li Y,Luo D,Prata CA,Grinstaff MW

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a serious microvascular syndrome of diabetes, and is one of the most frequent causes of blindness in the world. It has three progressive stages with complex metabolic deregulations in the holistic system of Western medicine. Chinese medicine classifies DR into two different syndrome types;...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li X,Luo X,Lu X,Duan J,Xu G

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large combinatorial libraries of macrocyclic peptides are a useful source of bioactive compounds. However, peptides are not generally cell permeable, so there is great interest in the development of methods to create large libraries of modified peptides. In particular, N-alkylation of peptides is known to improve thei...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Morimoto J,Kodadek T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis is a parasitic infection that is endemic in many developing countries in the tropics and subtropics afflicting more than 207 million people primarily in rural areas. After malaria, it is the second most important parasitic infection in terms of socio-economic and public health. Investigation of the hos...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Balog CI,Meissner A,Göraler S,Bladergroen MR,Vennervald BJ,Mayboroda OA,Deelder AM

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:We demonstrate the expected preference of an immobilised oligosaccharide Man(9)(GlcNAc)(2) upon a 96-well photochemical array, for its known receptor, the cell-surface lectin Dendritic Cell-Specific ICAM3 Grabbing Nonintegrin (DC-SIGN) when compared to immobilised competing monosaccharides. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Dilly SJ,Clark AJ,Mitchell DA,Marsh A,Taylor PC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila cell culture is used as a model system with multiple applications including the identification of new therapeutic targets in screens, the study of conserved signal transduction pathway mechanisms, and as an expression system for recombinant proteins. However, in vitro methods for Drosophila cell and organ c...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Burnette M,Brito-Robinson T,Li J,Zartman J

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：: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：:A major mode of signal transduction in bacteria is the two-component system, which involves phosphorylation of an output-generating receiver protein by a signal-sensing histidine kinase. This differs from the more common one-component system--where both signal sensing and output generation are performed by the same pr...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Seshasayee AS,Luscombe NM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size and complexity of cellular systems make building predictive models an extremely difficult task. In principle dynamical time-course data can be used to elucidate the structure of the underlying molecular mechanisms, but a central and recurring problem is that many and very different models can be fitted to exp...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Erguler K,Stumpf MP

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:Hypoxia and inflammation have been identified as the hallmarks of colitis, intertwined with metabolism. Here, we report that halofuginone (HF), an antiparasitic drug, attenuates dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis in mice, as represented by attenuating the disease activity index, inhibiting colonic shortening...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Liu J,Xiao HT,Wang HS,Mu HX,Zhao L,Du J,Yang D,Wang D,Bian ZX,Lin SH

更新日期：2016-06-21 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：:At the intersection between artificial intelligence and statistics, supervised learning allows algorithms to automatically build predictive models from just observations of a system. During the last twenty years, supervised learning has been a tool of choice to analyze the always increasing and complexifying data gene...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Geurts P,Irrthum A,Wehenkel L

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small molecule 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde (5,6,7,8-tetrahydro[1]benzothieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)hydrazone (Exo2) stimulates morphological changes at the mammalian Golgi and trans-Golgi network that are virtually indistinguishable from those induced by brefeldin A. Both brefeldin A and Exo2 protect cells from...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Guetzoyan LJ,Spooner RA,Boal F,Stephens DJ,Lord JM,Roberts LM,Clarkson GJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present a novel statistical methodology that allows us to analyze gene expression data that have been collected from a number of different cases or conditions in a unified framework. Using a Bayesian nonparametric framework we develop a hierarchical model wherein genes can maintain a shared set of interactions...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Thorne T,Fratta P,Hanna MG,Cortese A,Plagnol V,Fisher EM,Stumpf MP

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Sequence specific binding of DNA and RNA is of fundamental importance in the regulation of cellular gene expression. Because of their modular structure repeat domain proteins are particularly well suited for these processes and have been widely adopted throughout evolution. Detailed biochemical and structural data has...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Filipovska A,Rackham O

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo analysis is of paramount importance in monitoring physiological processes that take place in living organisms. Mass spectrometry, an analytical technique with high speed, sensitivity and specificity, is indispensable in biochemical studies nowadays. However, traditional mass spectrometric techniques are of lim...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： So PK,Hu B,Yao ZP

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00