Characterization of mice lacking candidate N-acyl ethanolamine biosynthetic enzymes provides evidence for multiple pathways that contribute to endocannabinoid production in vivo.

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：:Are protein functions continuous or discretized? Proteomics investigations are starting to address this non-trivial awesome question focusing upon determining the nature of biological molecular relationships. In the following editorial we present a number of experimental studies published in this themed Proteomics Iss...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Urbani A,Castagnola M,Fasano M,Bini L,Modesti A,Timperio AM,Roncada P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular docking methods were applied to simulate the coupling of a set of nineteen acyl homoserine lactone analogs into the binding site of the transcriptional receptor LasR. The best pose of each ligand was explored and a qualitative analysis of the possible interactions present in the complex was performed. From t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ahumedo M,Drosos JC,Vivas-Reyes R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological networks are effective tools for studying molecular interactions. Modular structure, in which genes or proteins may tend to be associated with functional modules or protein complexes, is a remarkable feature of biological networks. Mining modular structure from biological networks enables us to focus on a s...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jiao QJ,Huang Y,Shen HB

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A major effort in systems biology is the development of mathematical models that describe complex biological systems at multiple scales and levels of abstraction. Determining the topology-the set of interactions-of a biological system from observations of the system's behavior is an important and difficult problem. He...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hagen DR,Tidor B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental goals in cellular biochemistry is to identify the functions of proteins in the context of compartments that organize them in the cellular environment. To realize this, it is indispensable to develop an automated method for fast and accurate identification of the subcellular locations of uncharac...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Cheng X,Xiao X,Chou KC

更新日期：2017-08-22 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

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：:Synthetic studies of lipid A and LPS partial structures have been performed to investigate the relationship between structures and functions of LPS. Recent studies have suggested several pathological implications of LPS from parasitic bacteria due to its influence on the host immune responses. To address this issue, w...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Fujimoto Y,Shimoyama A,Saeki A,Kitayama N,Kasamatsu C,Tsutsui H,Fukase K

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eIF4E-binding protein 1 (4EBP1) has long been known to be completely unstructured without any secondary structures, which contributed significantly to the proposal of the induced fit mechanism for target binding of intrinsically disordered proteins. We show here that 4EBP1 is not completely unstructured, but conta...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kim DH,Lee C,Cho YJ,Lee SH,Cha EJ,Lim JE,Sabo TM,Griesinger C,Lee D,Han KH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of large scale sequencing methods has enabled analyses of the protein-coding parts of cancer genomes to find the mutated genes that cause common human cancers. Unbiased mutation analyses of human tumors originating in the breast, colon, brain, and pancreas have revealed genomic landscapes composed of a few ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ali MA,Sjöblom T

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:MicroRNAs are a predominant type of small non-coding RNAs approximately 21 nucleotides in length that play an essential role at the post-transcriptional level by either RNA degradation, translational repression or both through an RNA-induced silencing complex. Identification of these molecules can aid the dissecting o...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Yao Y,Ma C,Deng H,Liu Q,Zhang J,Yi M

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mono-site mutations of the absolutely conserved residues, (464)LGR(466), in the α-helix 5 (h5) of HPV16 L1 completely disrupted the pentamer formation. The implication of this finding is the potential usage of a h5-like peptide as the reagent to interfere with the pentamer formation and stability as an anti-HPV re...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jin S,Pan D,Zha X,Yu X,Wu Y,Liu Y,Yin F,Chen XS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abundant information about the nucleotide sequence of the human genome has become readily available and it is now necessary to develop methods for the identification of genes that are involved in important cellular, developmental and disease-related processes. Identification methods based on the activities of hammerhe...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sano M,Kato Y,Taira K

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the performance of nanostructured calcium carbonate in gene delivery, a hydrophilic polysaccharide, alginate, was added to calcium carbonate co-precipitation systems to form alginate/CaCO(3)/DNA nanoparticles. The size and ζ-potential of the nanoparticles were measured by a zetasizer. Due to the existence o...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhao D,Zhuo RX,Cheng SX

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major obstacle for the development of targeted therapies is the lack of pharmacodynamic (PD) biomarkers to provide an early readout of biological activities. As the modulation of metabolites may reflect the biological changes occurring in the targets, metabolomics is promising to be an efficient way to explore PD ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Fang J,Wang L,Wang Y,Qiu M,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-07-25 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：: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：: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：: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：:Experimental data from biological pathways come in many forms: qualitative or quantitative, static or dynamic. By combining a variety of these heterogeneous sources of data, we construct a mathematical model of a critical regulatory network in vertebrate development, the Sonic Hedgehog signaling pathway. The structure...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Boykin ER,Ogle WO

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:The interaction of spermine and its analogue, 1-naphthyl acetyl spermine with four double stranded DNA polynucleotides has been studied to understand the structural and thermodynamic basis of the binding. The efficacy and specificity of DNA binding of this analogue has not yet been revealed. The energetics of the inte...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kabir A,Kumar GS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequences from a variety of poorly studied organisms aims at predicting ecological and behavioral properties of these organisms and helping in characterizing their habitats. This task requires finding appropriate descriptors that could be correlated with the core traits of e...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Galperin MY,Higdon R,Kolker E

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:4-Hydroxyderricin is a heat labile bioactive chalcone isolated from the plant Angelica keiskei. It received attention due to its antibiotic potency against several strains of bacteria including pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus. Despite these promising pharmacological properties, the exact mode of action or the ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Battenberg OA,Yang Y,Verhelst SH,Sieber SA

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:The importance of microRNA (miRNA) in modulating gene expression at the post-transcriptional level is well known. Such regulation has been shown to influence the dynamics of several regulatory networks including the cell cycle. In this study we incorporated regulatory effects of intronic miRNA into an existing mathema...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Gokhale S,Hariharan M,Brahmachari SK,Gadgil C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00