Metabolically incorporated photocrosslinking sialic acid covalently captures a ganglioside-protein complex.

abstract：:Information on extracellular signals and conditions is often transduced by biological systems using cascades of protein phosphorylation that affect the activity of enzymes, the localization of proteins and gene expression. A model to study signal transduction is the response of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to os...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Soufi B,Kelstrup CD,Stoehr G,Fröhlich F,Walther TC,Olsen JV

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Climatic change is an increasing challenge for agriculture that is driving the development of suitable crops in order to ensure supply for both human nutrition and animal feed. In this context, it is increasingly important to understand the biochemical responses of cells to environmental cues at the whole system level...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： García-Flores M,Juárez-Colunga S,Montero-Vargas JM,López-Arciniega JA,Chagolla A,Tiessen A,Winkler R

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of a suitable non-fluorescent molecule that can be oxidized by G-quadruplexes into a fluorescent product will be important for several fields such as bioanalyte sensing and cancer therapeutic discovery. Herein, we demonstrate that 2',7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate is a superior reducing sub...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Nakayama S,Sintim HO

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Lung fibrosis is a progressive and often fatal lung disease characterized by fibroblast proliferation and excessive deposition of extracellular matrix in the lungs. The chemokine receptor CXCR7 has been shown to control cell adhesion, migration and proliferation by regulating the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Guan S,Zhou J

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) consist of a class of proteins required for normal tissue function. Their over expression is associated with many disease states and hence the interest in MMPs as drug targets. Almost all MMP inhibitors have been reported to fail in clinical trials due to lack of specificity. Zinc in t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Singh T,Adekoya OA,Jayaram B

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential gene expression governs the development, function and pathology of multicellular organisms. Transcription regulatory networks study differential gene expression at a systems level by mapping the interactions between regulatory proteins and target genes. While microarray transcription profiles are the most...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Vermeirssen V,Joshi A,Michoel T,Bonnet E,Casneuf T,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered regions in proteins are known to evolve rapidly while maintaining their function. However, given their lack of structure and sequence conservation, the means through which they stay functional is not clear. Poor sequence conservation also hampers the classification of these regions into functi...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Moesa HA,Wakabayashi S,Nakai K,Patil A

更新日期：2012-10-30 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：:Protein-protein interactions are important biological processes and essential for a global understanding of cell functions. To date, little is known about the protein interactions and roles of the protein interacting networks and protein complexes in bacterial resistance to antibiotics. In the present study, we invest...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li H,Pan JY,Liu XJ,Gao JX,Wu HK,Wang C,Peng XX

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferring metabolic networks from metabolite concentration data is a central topic in systems biology. Mathematical techniques to extract information about the network from data have been proposed in the literature. This paper presents a critical assessment of the feasibility of reverse engineering of metabolic networ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hendrickx DM,Hendriks MM,Eilers PH,Smilde AK,Hoefsloot HC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify an agent with specific activity against human lens epithelial cells (HLECs), we confirmed the presence of glucocorticoid receptors (GRs) and GR-α genes and evaluated whether GRs have a relationship with the apoptotic process in cultured HLECs. We also determined whether the inhibitor RU486 could rescue the...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang L,Zhao W,Leng F,Ge J,Bu Z,Zhang Y,Liu P

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Rhein is a natural product purified from herbal plants such as Rheum palmatum, which has been shown to have anti-angiogenesis and anti-tumor metastasis properties. However, the biological effects of rhein on the behavior of breast cancers are not completely elucidated. To evaluate whether rhein might be useful in the ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Huang HJ,Lin CC,Chou HC,Chen YW,Lin ST,Lin YC,Lin DY,Lyu KW,Chan HL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The underlying reasons for the differences in the virulence of various types of Ebola virus (EBOV) remain unknown. Comparison of the percentage of disorder (PID) in nucleocapsid proteins VP30 and NP reveals high correlation between nucleocapsid PIDs and the case-fatality rates of EBOV. The higher disorder of these pro...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Goh GK,Dunker AK,Uversky VN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insights into the structure and dynamics of modular polyketide synthases (PKS) are essential for understanding the mechanistic details of the biosynthesis of a large number of pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites. The crystal structures of the KS-AT di-domain from erythromycin synthase have revealed the re...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Anand S,Mohanty D

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs) contribute to regulation of gene expression by mediating higher-order chromatin structures. They assemble into large multiprotein complexes that regulate activity and specificity. We report the development of small molecule probes with class IIa and pan-HDAC activity that contain photoreac...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Albrow VE,Grimley RL,Clulow J,Rose CR,Sun J,Warmus JS,Tate EW,Jones LH,Storer RI

更新日期：2016-05-24 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 identification of genetic markers (e.g. genes, pathways and subnetworks) for cancer has been one of the most challenging research areas in recent years. A subset of these studies attempt to analyze genome-wide expression profiles to identify markers with high reliability and reusability across independent whole-tr...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Farahmand S,Goliaei S,Ansari-Pour N,Razaghi-Moghadam Z

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：: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：:The effect of aging and development in male Wistar-derived rats on the profile of endogenous metabolites excreted in the urine was investigated using both (1)H NMR spectroscopy and HPLC-TOF MS using electrospray ionisation (ESI). The endogenous metabolites were profiled in samples collected from male rats every two we...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Williams RE,Lenz EM,Lowden JS,Rantalainen M,Wilson ID

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many methods have been published by which combinatorial libraries may be screened for compounds capable of manipulating the function(s) of a target protein. One of the simplest approaches is to identify compounds in a library that bind the protein of interest, since these binding events usually occur on functionally i...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kodadek T,Bachhawat-Sikder K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tankyrases (TNKS), key transmitters in the Wnt signaling pathway which is very conservative in evolution, are vital targets as they are overexpressed widely in many cancers. In this work, 5 inhibitors with novel structures have been discovered and validated using the ligand-based (pharmacophore) virtual screening, doc...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Pu Y,Zhang S,Chang Z,Zhang Y,Wang D,Zhang L,Li Y,Zuo Z

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious diseases caused by bacterial pathogens pose a major concern to public health and, thus, greater attention must be given to providing insightful knowledge on host-pathogen interactions. There are several theories addressing the dynamics of complex mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions. The availability of...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kamaladevi A,Marudhupandiyan S,Balamurugan K

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is a malignancy with complex pathogenesis. The hallmark of the disease is the presence of large mononucleated Hodgkin and bi- or multinucleated Reed/Sternberg (H/RS) cells. The origin of HRS cells in cHL is controversial as these cells show the coexpression of markers of several lineag...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Vergara D,Simeone P,De Matteis S,Carloni S,Lanuti P,Marchisio M,Miscia S,Rizzello A,Napolitano R,Agostinelli C,Maffia M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last few years important new insights into the process of long-range gene regulation have been obtained. Gene regulatory elements are found to engage in direct physical interactions with distant target genes and with loci on other chromosomes to modulate transcription. An overview of recently discovered long-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Miele A,Dekker J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic regulation by histone methylation is crucial for proper programming of the genome during development. Homeostasis of histone methylation is balanced by the activities of histone methyltransferases and demethylases. Although these methyltransferases and demethylases represent logical targets for potential dr...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Liu Y,Platchek M,Kement B,Bee WT,Truong M,Zeng X,Hung S,Lin H,Morrow D,Kallal LA,Xie Q,Agarwal P,Pope AJ,Wu Z

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent model proposing that a barrier is raised against tumor evolution in pre-cancer tissues is investigated. For that we quantify expression alterations in genome maintenance pathways: DNA damage response, death pathways and cell cycle and also differentially expressed genes in transcriptomes of pre-cancerous and ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Simão ÉM,Sinigaglia M,Bugs CA,Castro MA,Librelotto GR,Alves R,Mombach JC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00