Mathematical modeling and experimental validation of chemotaxis under controlled gradients of methyl-aspartate in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Precise quantification of endogenous protein-protein interactions across live cells would be a major boon to biology. Such precise measurement is theoretically possible with fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) but requires first properly addressing multiple biological, instrumental, statistical, and photop...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Walther KA,Papke B,Sinn MB,Michel K,Kinkhabwala A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms are defined as a community of surface-attached bacteria that are protected by an extracellular matrix of biomolecules. We have recently reported the synthesis of a small molecule, denoted TAGE, based on the natural product bromoageliferin and demonstrated that TAGE has anti-biofilm activity against ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Huigens RW 3rd,Ma L,Gambino C,Moeller PD,Basso A,Cavanagh J,Wozniak DJ,Melander C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many prior studies on microbial response to oxidative stress, our understanding of microbial tolerance against oxidative stress is currently limited to aerobic conditions, and few engineering strategies have been devised to resolve toxicity issues of oxidative stress under anaerobic conditions. Since biologica...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kang A,Tan MH,Ling H,Chang MW

更新日期：2013-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular heterogeneity and stochastic fluctuation play key roles in biological processes. Single molecule approaches have the key advantage of avoiding ensemble averaging, allowing the observation of transient intermediates and heterogeneity (both static and dynamic). Thus they have revolutionised the way many biologi...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ying L

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stochastic fluctuations (noise) in gene expression can cause members of otherwise genetically identical populations to display drastically different phenotypes. An understanding of the sources of noise and the strategies cells employ to function reliably despite noise is proving to be increasingly important in describ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Tabor JJ,Bayer TS,Simpson ZB,Levy M,Ellington AD

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:Transcription factors (TFs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) can jointly regulate transcriptional networks in the form of recurrent circuits or motifs. A motif can be divided into a feedforward loop (FFL) and a feedback loop (FBL). Incoherent FFLs have been the recent focus due to their potential to dampen gene expression noise...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li Y,Liang C,Easterbrook S,Luo J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant stress hormones, such as jasmonates (JAs) and ethylene (ET) are essential in plant defence against stress conditions. JAs are used in cosmetics and food flavouring, and the recently demonstrated anti-cancer activity of JAs highlights their potential in health protection. It reinforces the need for a better under...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Schweighofer A,Meskiene I

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Here, we used stopped-flow fluorescence techniques to conduct a comparative kinetic analysis of the conformational transitions in human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) and in DNA containing an abasic site in the course of their interaction. Effects of monovalent (K(+)) and divalent (Mg(2+), Mn(2+), Ca(2+),...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Miroshnikova AD,Kuznetsova AA,Vorobjev YN,Kuznetsov NA,Fedorova OS

更新日期：2016-05-26 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：: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：:It is now widely accepted that microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) along with transcription factors (TFs) weave a complex inter-regulatory network within the cell that is responsible for the combinatorial regulation of gene expression. Recently we have shown that miRNAs and TFs that form network clusters are also associated wi...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sengupta D,Bandyopadhyay S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of the endocannabinoid anandamide (AEA) and related N-acyl ethanolamine (NAE) lipids is complex and appears to involve multiple pathways, including: (1) direct release of NAEs from N-acyl phosphatidyl ethanolamine (NAPE) precursors by the phosphodiesterase NAPE-PLD, and (2) double O-deacylation of NAP...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Simon GM,Cravatt BF

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：: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：:In the present study, we focused on the expression and biological functions of TMEM45B in pancreatic cancer tissues and cell lines. Real-time PCR and Western blotting were used to examine the expression levels of TMEM45B in pancreatic cancer tissues and cell lines. The functions of TMEM45B were evaluated using CCK-8, ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhao LC,Shen BY,Deng XX,Chen H,Zhu ZG,Peng CH

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimicking receptor flexibility during receptor-ligand binding is a challenging task in computational drug design since it is associated with a large increase in the conformational search space. In the present study, we have devised an in silico design strategy incorporating receptor flexibility in virtual screening to...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chakraborty S,Ramachandran B,Basu S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitronyl nitroxides are capable of preventing cells, tissues, and organs from radical-induced damage through scavenging NO˙, ˙O(2)(-) and ˙OH. In order to explore the conversions of nitronyl nitroxides in biological systems with and without NO˙, HPLC-MS aided PC12 cell systems were developed, and the conversions of 2-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang Y,Jiang X,Liu J,Zhao M,Kang G,Wu J,Peng L,Peng S

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroscientific community rapidly adopted RNA interference techniques as an experimental tool for the dissection of gene function in vitro and in animal models of neurological disease in vivo. Here, we discuss recent advances in the biotechnical implementation of siRNA/shRNA-mediated gene silencing focusing on iss...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lingor P,Bähr M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-classical zinc finger protein, Neural Zinc Finger Factor-1, contains six Cys2His2Cys domains. All three cysteines and the second histidine directly bind Zn(II). Using a combination of mutagenesis, metal coordination and DNA binding studies, we report that the first histidine is involved in a functionally impor...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Besold AN,Amick DL,Michel SL

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are clearly many different philosophies associated with adapting fragment screening into mainstream Drug Discovery Lead Generation strategies. Scientists at Astex, for instance, focus entirely on strategies involving use of X-ray crystallography and NMR. However, AstraZeneca uses a number of different fragment s...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Leach AR,Hann MM,Burrows JN,Griffen EJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of the predominantly α-helical cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) to the misfolded β-sheet enriched Scrapie form (PrP(Sc)) is a critical event in prion pathogenesis. However, the conformational triggers that lead to the isoform conversion (PrP(C) to PrP(Sc)) remain obscure, and conjectures about the role of un...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Menon S,Sengupta N

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Plasma membrane translocation is challenging due to the barrier of the cell membrane. Contrary to the synthetic cell-penetrating materials, tailed bacteriophages use cell-puncturing protein needles to puncture the cell membranes as an initial step of the DNA injection process. Cell-puncturing protein needles are thoug...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sanghamitra NJ,Inaba H,Arisaka F,Ohtan Wang D,Kanamaru S,Kitagawa S,Ueno T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first fluorescent labeling technology, which can induce not only an increase in the fluorescence intensity but also a shift in the fluorescence spectrum, has been developed for "ratiometric" measurements for a protein by utilizing a newly designed "field-sensitive" fluorescent probe and its corresponding unique am...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Soh N,Seto D,Nakano K,Imato T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dairy bacterium Lactococcus lactis has to master a complicated task. It must control its essentially linear glycolytic pathway in such a fashion that, when the substrate, glucose, runs out, it retains enough phosphoenolpyruvate and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate to be able to restart glycolysis as soon as new glucose b...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Dolatshahi S,Fonseca LL,Voit EO

更新日期：2016-01-01 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 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：:The adaptation of the cellular network to functional changes, timing and patterning of gene expression is regulated by binding of transcription factors to gene regulatory elements, which in turn depends on co-occurring histone modifications. These two layers influence each other, enabling a further level of regulatory...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Schueler M,Zhang Q,Schlesinger J,Tönjes M,Sperling SR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00