Long-range chromosomal interactions and gene regulation.

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：: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：: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 study of mitochondria and mitochondrial Ca2+ signalling in localised regions is hampered by the lack of tools that can uncouple the mitochondrial membrane potential (DeltaPsi(m)) in a spatially predefined manner. Although there are a number of existing mitochondrial uncouplers, these compounds are necessarily memb...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Avlonitis N,Chalmers S,McDougall C,Stanton-Humphreys MN,Brown CT,McCarron JG,Conway SJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-adsorptive properties are a key feature of membranes used for haemodialysis treatment. Protein adsorption is vital to the biocompatibility of a membrane material and influences membrane's performance. The object of the present study is to investigate membrane biocompatibility by correlating the adsorbed proteo...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Urbani A,Lupisella S,Sirolli V,Bucci S,Amoroso L,Pavone B,Pieroni L,Sacchetta P,Bonomini M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are key signaling proteins that regulate how cells interact with their environment. Traditional signaling cascades involving GPCRs have been well described and are well established and very important clinical targets. With the development of more recent technologies, hints about the...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang X,Eggert US

更新日期：2013-04-05 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：: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：:Enediyne natural product biosynthesis is characterized by a convergence of multiple pathways, generating unique peripheral moieties that are appended onto the distinctive enediyne core. Kedarcidin (KED) possesses two unique peripheral moieties, a (R)-2-aza-3-chloro-β-tyrosine and an iso-propoxy-bearing 2-naphthonate m...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lohman JR,Huang SX,Horsman GP,Dilfer PE,Huang T,Chen Y,Wendt-Pienkowski E,Shen B

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is increased worldwide in parallel with the obesity epidemic. Potentilla discolor is one of the most important crude materials in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for therapy of hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. In this work, a plasma metabonomic approach based on the combination of U...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li Y,Li JJ,Wen XD,Pan R,He YS,Yang J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naphthalene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, is a ubiquitous environmental pollutant capable of causing illness. In this study, we deconvoluted the metabolites related to naphthalene intervention in various organs by using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ling YS,Liang HJ,Chung MH,Lin MH,Lin CY

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon rapid ascent to a high altitude, non-acclimatized individuals, although healthy, are highly prone to contracting high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). Early diagnosis is difficult and there is no reliable biomarker available. We used proton ((1)H) NMR metabolomics to profile the altered metabolic patterns of bloo...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Luo Y,Zhu J,Gao Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:The heterogeneity of genetic alterations in human cancer genomes presents a major challenge to advancing our understanding of cancer mechanisms and identifying cancer driver genes. To tackle this heterogeneity problem, many approaches have been proposed to investigate genetic alterations and predict driver genes at th...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Gu Y,Wang H,Qin Y,Zhang Y,Zhao W,Qi L,Zhang Y,Wang C,Guo Z

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Protein methylation catalyzed by methyltransferases carries many important biological functions. Methylation and their regulatory enzymes are involved in a variety of human disease states, raising the possibility that abnormally methylated proteins can be disease markers and methyltransferases are potential therapeuti...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Shi SP,Xu HD,Wen PP,Qiu JD

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Induced hypoxia stress on cervical cancer derived cells (HeLa cells) leads to significant changes in their membrane lipid profiles. The lipidome of HeLa cells was characterized by a joint approach wherein liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis was followed by high resolution NMR measurements. Multiva...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Yu Y,Vidalino L,Anesi A,Macchi P,Guella G

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel class of pH-sensitive PEG lipids bearing acid-cleavable acetal linkages and short PEG chains have been synthesised and used in ternary vector formulations. The cleavage pH was influenced by structural components including the terminal PEG moiety and spacer length. ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wong JB,Grosse S,Tabor AB,Hart SL,Hailes HC

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：: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：:Recently, accumulating studies have indicated that microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in exploring the pathogenesis of various human diseases at the molecular level and may result in the design of specific tools for diagnosis, treatment evaluation and prevention. Experimental identification of disease-related m...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sun D,Li A,Feng H,Wang M

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen dependent modulation of red blood cell metabolism is a long investigated issue. However, the recent introduction of novel mass spectrometry-based approaches lends itself to implement our understanding of the effects of red blood cell prolonged exposure to anaerobiosis. Indeed, most of the studies conducted so f...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： D'Alessandro A,Gevi F,Zolla L

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celastrol, isolated from the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. f. (Thunder God's Vine), has been used to treat cancer, chronic inflammatory, autoimmune and other human diseases. However, to date, the protein targets and the mechanism of action of celastrol have remained elusive. In this s...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhou Y,Li W,Wang M,Zhang X,Zhang H,Tong X,Xiao Y

更新日期：2016-12-20 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：: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：:Proteins are dynamic creatures. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) function as multiplicity of structures and their activities can only be described by stochastic structure-function relationships. In their complex forms, however, IDPs were thought to lose their plasticity and behave similarly to globular protein...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Fuxreiter M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by human parasites (HPs) affect the poorest 500 million people worldwide but chemotherapy has become expensive, toxic, and/or less effective due to drug resistance. On the other hand, many 3D structures in Protein Data Bank (PDB) remain without function annotation. We need theoretical models to quick...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： González-Díaz H,Muíño L,Anadón AM,Romaris F,Prado-Prado FJ,Munteanu CR,Dorado J,Sierra AP,Mezo M,González-Warleta M,Gárate T,Ubeira FM

更新日期：2011-06-01 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