Engineering stochasticity in gene expression.

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：: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：: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：: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：:Low transfection efficiency and inactivation by serum are the major drawbacks for cationic polymers when used as non-viral gene vectors. Here, a series of N-succinyl-chitosan-graft-polyethylenimine (NSC-g-PEI) copolymers with different compositions were synthesized through grafting low molecular weight PEI (800 Da) to...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lu B,Sun YX,Li YQ,Zhang XZ,Zhuo RX

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:The human corticotropin-releasing factor receptor type 1 (CRF1R) is a class B G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), which mediates the response to stress and has been considered as a drug target for depression and anxiety. Based on the CRF1R-antagonist crystal structure, we study the binding mechanism of two distinct ant...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Xu J,Wang Z,Liu P,Li D,Lin J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lovastatin and other statins inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, which carries out an early step in the sterol biosynthesis pathway. Statins lower cholesterol and are widely prescribed to prevent heart disease, but like many drugs, they can interact with nutritionally acquired metabolites. To probe these interactions, we explo...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Fowler DM,Cooper SJ,Stephany JJ,Hendon N,Nelson S,Fields S

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a serious metabolic disease, and comprehensive understanding of its complex mechanism will help in preventing the onset and progression of DN. To reveal the systemic metabolic changes associated with renal injury, we performed 1H NMR-based metabonomic and multivariate analyses to analyze s...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Liu J,Wang D,Chen Y,Sun H,He S,Wang C,Yang G,Shi M,Zhang J,Ren Y,Wang L,Lu Y,Cheng J

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:The interaction of Phospholipase D1 (PLD1) by its C-terminal domain D4 with PED/PEA15 has been indicated as a target for type 2 diabetes. PED/PEA15 is overexpressed in several tissues of individuals affected by type 2 diabetes and its overexpression in intact cells and in transgenic animal models impairs insulin regul...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Doti N,Cassese A,Marasco D,Paturzo F,Sabatella M,Viparelli F,Dathan N,Monti SM,Miele C,Formisano P,Beguinot F,Ruvo M

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Peptidylarginine deiminase (PAD) catalyzes the posttranslational citrullination of selected proteins in a calcium dependent manner. The PAD4 isoform has been implicated in multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, some types of cancer, and plays a role in gene regulation. However, the substrate selectivity of PAD4 is ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Guo Q,Bedford MT,Fast W

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical cancer is a clinical and pathological heterogeneity disease, which requires different types of treatments and leads to a variety of outcomes. In clinical practice, only some patients benefit from chemotherapy treatment. Identifying patients who will be responsive to chemotherapy could increase their survival ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Hou Y,Yin M,Sun F,Zhang T,Zhou X,Li H,Zheng J,Chen X,Li C,Ning X,Lou G,Li K

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural and functional changes in albumin are of particular interest as numerous studies in vivo have reported a strong involvement of glycated-HSA in the development and progression of chronic diabetic complications. Non-enzymatic addition of glucose molecules to a protein induces structural changes in it. These c...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Neelofar K,Arif Z,Alam K,Ahmad J

更新日期：2016-07-19 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：:Over the past decade there has been a growing acknowledgement that a large proportion of proteins within most proteomes contain disordered regions. Disordered regions are segments of the protein chain which do not adopt a stable structure. Recognition of disordered regions in a protein is of great importance for prote...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Deng X,Eickholt J,Cheng J

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：:Insight into the molecular mechanism of complex diseases is an important topic in the current bio-medical research. However, different from the single-gene disorders, high heterogeneity of many of the complex diseases prevents scientists from the exact understanding of the etiology. In this study, we used Myelodysplas...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ren X,Zhou X,Chang CC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the pathogenesis of renal fibrosis, oxidative stress (OS) enhances the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) leading to sustained cell growth, inflammation, excessive tissue remodelling and accumulation, which results in the development and acceleration of renal damage. In our previous work (Eltoweissy et al....

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Eltoweissy M,Dihazi GH,Müller GA,Asif AR,Dihazi H

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell culture metabolomics has demonstrated significant advantages in cancer research. However, its applications have been impeded by some influencing factors such as culture media, which could significantly affect cellular metabolic profiles and lead to inaccuracy and unreliability of comparative metabolomic analysis ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Huang Z,Shao W,Gu J,Hu X,Shi Y,Xu W,Huang C,Lin D

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Protein splicing technology harnesses the ability of inteins to ligate protein fragments, forming a mature protein. This report describes our effort to engineer rapamycin-dependent protein splicing of a ribotoxin, called α-sarcin. Engineering this system required the investigation of important splicing parameters, inc...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Alford SC,O'Sullivan C,Obst J,Christie J,Howard PL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we bring together recent results from our group focused towards the development of biosensors from single conically-shaped artificial nanopores. The nanopores, used in the work presented here, were prepared using the track-etch process. The fabrication of track-etched conical nanopores has been optimize...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sexton LT,Horne LP,Martin CR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MiRNAs are a fascinating kind of biomolecule due to their vital functions in gene regulation and potential value as biomarkers for serious diseases including cancers. Exploiting convenient and sensitive methods for miRNA expression assays is imperative. In this study, we employ an exonuclease (RecJf) and a nicking end...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Xu J,Han K,Liu D,Lin L,Miao P

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry (MS) has become an increasingly important technique to analyze proteins. In popular bottom-up MS-based proteomics, reduction and alkylation are routine steps to facilitate peptide identification. However, incomplete reactions and side reactions may occur, which compromise the experimental results. In...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Suttapitugsakul S,Xiao H,Smeekens J,Wu R

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00