Structural dissection of the extracellular moieties of the type III secretion apparatus.

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：: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：: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：: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：:We report the successful application of selective excitation sculptured TOCSY NMR (SXS-TOCSY) to identify individual solution components from a heterogeneous system using selectively acquired (1)H NMR spin system patterns. SXS-TOCSY application is illustrated by detection of the simultaneous presence of poly-beta-(1,6...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wagstaff JL,Sadovskaya I,Vinogradov E,Jabbouri S,Howard MJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolomic method using reversed-phase liquid chromatography/quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-Q-TOF-MS) was developed to obtain a systematic view of the development and progression of myocardial infarction (MI). By combining with partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), 16 biomarkers in ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jiang P,Dai W,Yan S,Chen Z,Xu R,Ding J,Xiang L,Wang S,Liu R,Zhang W

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon entering biological systems, such as the blood stream, nanoparticles form molecular complexes with the proteins encountered called protein coronas, which shield the surface of the exogenous nanoparticle. The most abundant blood proteins, such as albumin, initially occupy the surface of the nanoparticle. Owing to ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ramezani F,Rafii-Tabar H

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:CC chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5), a member of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), plays a vital role in inflammatory responses to infection. Alterations in the expression of CCR5 have been correlated with disease progression in many types of cancers. The idea of using CCR5 as a target for therapeutic intervention has b...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang J,Shu M,Wang Y,Hu Y,Wang Y,Luo Y,Lin Z

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular program associated with the organ morphogenesis but also with the disease progression. EMT in the cancer field fuels neoplastic progression promoting the resistance to cell death, the resistance to chemotherapy and the acquisition of stem cell properties. Co...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Vergara D,Simeone P,del Boccio P,Toto C,Pieragostino D,Tinelli A,Acierno R,Alberti S,Salzet M,Giannelli G,Sacchetta P,Maffia M

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Human mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family members JNK and p38 are two homologous protein-serine/threonine kinases but play distinct roles in the pathological process of neurological disorders. Selective targeting of JNK over p38 has been established as a potential therapeutic approach to epilepsy and other ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhuo ZH,Sun YZ,Jin PN,Li FY,Zhang YL,Wang HL

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We explain that part of the reduction in the parameter uncertainties in the computations of Apgar et al. (Mol. Biosyst. 2010, 6, 1890-900) is due to a greatly increased number of effective data points. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Chachra R,Transtrum MK,Sethna JP

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium (Ca(2+)) is used as a signaling molecule to regulate many cellular processes. Calcium signaling generally involves transient elevations of the concentration of free Ca(2+) in the cytosol. More pronounced and sustained elevations of intracellular Ca(2+) concentrations are observed during apoptosis (programmed c...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Brnjic S,Olofsson MH,Havelka AM,Linder S

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Mirror image phage display is a straightforward approach to identify new potentially therapeutically active D-enantiomeric peptides. Such D-peptides are more resistant to proteolytic degradation compared to L-peptides. In this review, several examples of mirror image phage display derived D-peptides with therapeutical...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Funke SA,Willbold D

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are enzymes that catalyze ribosome-independent production of small peptides, most of which are bioactive. NRPSs act as peptide assembly lines where individual, often interconnected modules each incorporate a specific amino acid into the nascent chain. The modules themselves co...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Beer R,Herbst K,Ignatiadis N,Kats I,Adlung L,Meyer H,Niopek D,Christiansen T,Georgi F,Kurzawa N,Meichsner J,Rabe S,Riedel A,Sachs J,Schessner J,Schmidt F,Walch P,Niopek K,Heinemann T,Eils R,Di Ventura B

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the glutathione transferase P1-1 (GSTP1-1) targeting has been investigated in both sensitive (U-2OS) and cisplatin-resistant (U-2OS/CDDP4 μg) human osteosarcoma cell lines. Despite the different enzyme's content, inhibition of GSTP1-1 by 6-(7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-ylthio)hexanol (NBDHEX) causes the...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sau A,Filomeni G,Pezzola S,D'Aguanno S,Tregno FP,Urbani A,Serra M,Pasello M,Picci P,Federici G,Caccuri AM

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：: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：:Although angiotensin (Ang)II-induced Janus-activated kinase (JAK)2 phosphorylation was reported to be enhanced in failing human cardiomyocytes, the downstream balance between cardio-protective (signal transducer and activator of transcription-STAT3) and the pro-inflammatory (STAT2 and STAT5) response remains unexplore...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Cambi GE,Lucchese G,Djeokeng MM,Modesti A,Fiaschi T,Faggian G,Sani G,Modesti PA

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：:Small molecule modulators are critical for dissecting and understanding signaling pathways at the molecular level. Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is a cytokine that signals via the JAK-STAT pathway and is implicated in cancer and inflammation. To identify modulators of this pathway, we screened a chemical collection against an ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Johnson RL,Huang R,Jadhav A,Southall N,Wichterman J,MacArthur R,Xia M,Bi K,Printen J,Austin CP,Inglese J

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Homogeneous oligodeoxyguanylates incorporating small-molecule intercalator pyrene moieties in a 1,5 relationship form various structures of dimer, trimer, tetramer and internal hairpin form that are yellowish in color because of the intermolecular interactions between the pyrene units. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jeong HS,Park M,Yi JW,Joo T,Kim BH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we demonstrate that the bacterial signaling molecule, c-di-GMP, can enhance the peroxidation of hemin when proflavine is present. The c-di-GMP-proflavine-hemin nucleotidezyme can oxidize the colorless compound 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid), ABTS, to the colored radical cation ABTS˙(+) ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Nakayama S,Roelofs K,Lee VT,Sintim HO

更新日期：2012-03-01 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 essential idea of regenerative medicine is to fix or replace tissues or organs with alive and patient-specific implants. Pluripotent stem cells are able to indefinitely self-renew and differentiate into all cell types of the body which makes them a potent substantial player in regenerative medicine. The easily acc...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Baranek M,Belter A,Naskręt-Barciszewska MZ,Stobiecki M,Markiewicz WT,Barciszewski J

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In actively proliferating cells, such as the cells of the developing embryo, DNA repair is crucial for preventing the accumulation of mutations and synchronizing cell division. Sea urchin embryo growth was analyzed and extracts were prepared. The relative activity of DNA polymerase, apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucl...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Torgasheva NA,Menzorova NI,Sibirtsev YT,Rasskazov VA,Zharkov DO,Nevinsky GA

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00