abstract：:Heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria grow as filaments that can be hundreds of cells long. Proteinaceous septal junctions provide cell-cell binding and communication functions in the filament. In Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120, the SepJ protein is important for the formation of septal junctions. SepJ consists of integral me...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Ramos-León F,Mariscal V,Battchikova N,Aro EM,Flores E

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The human MET receptor tyrosine kinase contributes to vertebrate development and cell proliferation. As a proto-oncogene, it is a target in cancer therapies. MET is also relevant for bacterial infection by Listeria monocytogenes and is activated by the bacterial protein internalin B. The processes of ligand binding, r...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Harwardt MIE,Young P,Bleymüller WM,Meyer T,Karathanasis C,Niemann HH,Heilemann M,Dietz MS

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:NrrF is a small regulatory RNA of the human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis. NrrF was previously shown to repress succinate dehydrogenase (sdhCDAB) under control of the ferric uptake regulator (Fur). Here, we provide evidence that cytochrome bc 1 , encoded by the polycistro...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Pannekoek Y,Huis In 't Veld R,Schipper K,Bovenkerk S,Kramer G,Speijer D,van der Ende A

更新日期：2017-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial phosphotransferase system is central to sugar uptake and phosphorylation. Enzyme I (EI), the first enzyme of the system, autophosphorylates as a dimer using phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), but it is not clearly understood how dimerization activates the enzyme activity. Here, we show that EI dimerization is im...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Lee KO,Yun YJ,Kim I,Suh JY

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Dedifferentiation of adipocytes contributes to the generation of a proliferative cell population that could be useful in cellular therapy or tissue engineering. Adipocytes can dedifferentiate into precursor cells to acquire a fibroblast-like phenotype using ceiling culture, in which the buoyancy of fat cells is exploi...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Côté JA,Lessard J,Pelletier M,Marceau S,Lescelleur O,Fradette J,Tchernof A

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorine is a bone-seeking element ubiquitously present in the environment and widely used in many oral hygiene products. In humans, excessive intake of fluoride may cause dental and skeletal fluorosis. However, endemic fluorosis does not appear to develop in a proportion of individuals exposed to the same levels of f...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Ran S,Sun N,Liu Y,Zhang W,Li Y,Wei L,Wang J,Liu B

更新日期：2017-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The A/B domains of nuclear receptors such as thyroid receptor α (TRα) are considered to be conformationally flexible and can potentially adopt multiple structural conformations. We used intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence quenching and circular dichroism spectroscopy to characterize the unfolding of this A/B domain upon...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Fernandez EJ,Gahlot V,Rodriguez C,Amburn J

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In brain cells, glutamine transporters are vital to monitor and control the levels of glutamate and GABA. There are 11 members of the SLC38 family of amino acid transporters of which eight have been functionally characterized. Here, we report the first histological and functional characterization of the previously orp...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Hellsten SV,Hägglund MG,Eriksson MM,Fredriksson R

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc deficiency impairs the immune system leading to frequent infections. Although zinc is known to play critical roles in maintaining healthy immune function, the underlying molecular targets are largely unknown. In this study, we demonstrate that zinc is important for the CD154-CD40-mediated activation of downstream...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Tepaamorndech S,Oort P,Kirschke CP,Cai Y,Huang L

更新日期：2017-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle is paramount to ensure genomic integrity throughout life. Cell cycle checkpoints are present in each phase of the cell cycle and prevent cell cycle progression when genomic integrity is compromised. The G2 checkpoint is an intricate signaling network that regulates the pro...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： de Gooijer MC,van den Top A,Bockaj I,Beijnen JH,Würdinger T,van Tellingen O

更新日期：2017-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory includes the processes of acquisition, consolidation and retrieval. In the study of aversive olfactory memory in Drosophila melanogaster, flies are first exposed to an odor (conditioned stimulus, CS+) that is associated with an electric shock (unconditioned stimulus, US), then to another odor (CS-) without the ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Ueoka Y,Hiroi M,Abe T,Tabata T

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence has shown that miR-409-3p was down-regulated in several types of cancer, including osteosarcoma. However, the potential role of miR-409-3p in osteosarcoma remains largely unknown. In the present study, we showed that overexpression of miR-409-3p in osteosarcoma cells inhibited cell proliferation in vit...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Zhang J,Hou W,Jia J,Zhao Y,Zhao B

更新日期：2017-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acids are known to play a key role in gene expression regulation, and in mammalian cells, amino acid signaling is mainly mediated via two pathways, the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway and the amino acid responsive (AAR) pathway. It is vital for cells to have a system to sense amino acid ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Hellsten SV,Lekholm E,Ahmad T,Fredriksson R

更新日期：2017-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione transferases (GSTs) are involved in many processes in plant biochemistry, with their best characterised role being the detoxification of xenobiotics through their conjugation with glutathione. GSTs have also been implicated in noncatalytic roles, including the binding and transport of small heterocyclic li...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Ahmad L,Rylott EL,Bruce NC,Edwards R,Grogan G

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast cyclins Cln1 and Cln2 are very similar in both sequence and function, but some differences in their functionality and localization have been recently described. The control of Cln1 and Cln2 cellular levels is crucial for proper cell cycle initiation. In this work, we analyzed the degradation patterns of Cln1...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Quilis I,Igual JC

更新日期：2016-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying conserved binding motifs is an efficient way to study protein-ligand recognition. Most 3D binding motifs only contain information from the protein side, and so motifs that combine information from both protein and ligand sides are desired. Here, we propose an algorithm called LibME (Ligand-binding Motif Ex...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： He W,Liang Z,Teng M,Niu L

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of gynaecological cancer-associated death; thus, promising biomarkers and new therapeutic targets for ovarian cancer must be explored. Here, we report that eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit D (EIF3D), a member of the EIF3 family, was overexpressed in ovarian can...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Lin Y,Zhang R,Zhang P

更新日期：2016-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Baicalin (5,6-dihydroxy-7-o-glucuronide flavone) is an extract from the roots of Chinese herb Huang Qin (Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi) and is reported to have antioxidative, antiproliferative, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer activities. This study aimed to investigate the inhibitory effect of baicalin on human hep...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Yu Z,Luo X,Wang C,Ye J,Liu S,Xie L,Wang F,Bao J

更新日期：2016-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidized cholesterol (oxysterols) plays an important and multifaceted role in lipid metabolism. Here we examined whether dietary oxysterols accelerate hepatic lipid accumulation and inflammation in nonhuman primates. We also examined the effect of the Niemann-Pick C1-like1 inhibitor, ezetimibe (Ez). Macaca fasciculari...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Deushi M,Osaka M,Nakano K,Osada K,Egashira K,Yoshida M

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection can be accelerated by intracellular and extracellular hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) stimulation, mediated by the activation of the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. However, it remains unknown whether host gene expression is involved in H2O2-upregulated HCMV replica...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Xiao J,Song X,Deng J,Lv L,Ma P,Gao B,Zhou X,Zhang Y,Xu J

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The major functions of adipocytes include both lipid storage and the production of secretory factors. However, the type of proteins released from mouse 3T3-L1 cells during adipocyte differentiation remains poorly understood. We examined the dynamics of secreted proteins during adipocyte differentiation using mass spec...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Ojima K,Oe M,Nakajima I,Muroya S,Nishimura T

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Decorin (DCN) is a major member of the small leucine-rich proteoglycan (SLRP) family that is critically involved in tumorigenesis and the development of metastasis of cancers, including glioma. Overexpression of DCN was indicated to suppress glioma cell growth. However, the role of DCN in the migration of glioma cells...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Yao T,Zhang CG,Gong MT,Zhang M,Wang L,Ding W

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin signaling plays a central role in the regulation of facilitative glucose transporters (GLUTs) in humans. To establish Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model to study the mechanism underlying insulin regulation of GLUT, we identified that FGT-1 is most likely the only functional GLUT homolog in C. elega...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Kitaoka S,Morielli AD,Zhao FQ

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL), an aggressive T-cell malignancy that develops after long-term infection with human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-1), requires new treatments. Drug repositioning, reuse of a drug previously approved for the treatment of another condition to treat ATL, offers the possibility of reduce...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Kozako T,Soeda S,Yoshimitsu M,Arima N,Kuroki A,Hirata S,Tanaka H,Imakyure O,Tone N,Honda S,Soeda S

更新日期：2016-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:One practical application of genome-scale metabolic reconstructions is to interrogate multispecies relationships. Here, we report a consensus metabolic model in four yeast species (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, S. paradoxus, S. mikatae, and S. bayanus) by integrating metabolic network simulations with RNA sequencing (RNA-...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Zhao Y,Wang Y,Zou L,Huang J

更新日期：2016-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton-coupled folate transporter (PCFT, SLC46A1) transports folic acid across the plasma membrane, together with an excess of protons such that the net charge translocation is positive. We developed 3D structural models of PCFT threaded onto the X-ray structures of major facilitator superfamily (MFS) members that...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Date SS,Chen CY,Chen Y,Jansen M

更新日期：2016-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Y-box-binding protein 1 (YB1) is a multifunctional transcription factor with vital roles in proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. In this study, we have examined the role of its C-terminal domain (YB1 CTD) in proliferation, angiogenesis and tumorigenicity in breast cancer. Breast cancer cell line SK-BR-3 was i...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Shi JH,Cui NP,Wang S,Zhao MZ,Wang B,Wang YN,Chen BP

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids represent one of the most important molecules of plant secondary metabolism, playing many different biochemical and physiological roles. Although their essential role in plant life and human health has been elucidated by many studies, their subcellular transport and accumulation in plant tissues remains unc...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Filippi A,Petrussa E,Peresson C,Bertolini A,Vianello A,Braidot E

更新日期：2015-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is a zinc-dependent dipeptidyl carboxypeptidase with an essential role in blood pressure homeostasis in mammals. ACE has long been targeted in the treatment of hypertension through ACE inhibitors, however current inhibitors are known to cause severe side effects. Therefore, there is...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Harrison C,Acharya KR

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a major polyphenol in green tea, possesses antioxidant properties and regulates various cell functions. Here, we examined the function of EGCG in inflammatory bone resorption. In calvarial organ cultures, lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced bone resorption was clearly suppressed by EGCG. ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Tominari T,Matsumoto C,Watanabe K,Hirata M,Grundler FM,Miyaura C,Inada M

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx) causes fatal systemic complications. Stx induces apoptosis, but the mechanism of which is unclear. We report that Stx induced rapid reduction of short-lived anti-apoptotic proteins followed by activation of caspase 9 and the progression of apoptosis. Proteasome inhibitors prevented the reduction of a...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Hattori T,Watanabe-Takahashi M,Ohoka N,Hamabata T,Furukawa K,Nishikawa K,Naito M

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate egg coat, including mammalian zona pellucida, is an oocyte-specific extracellular matrix comprising two to six zona pellucida (ZP) glycoproteins. The egg coat plays important roles in fertilization, especially in species-specific interactions with sperm to induce the sperm acrosome reaction and to form ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Okumura H,Sato T,Sakuma R,Fukushima H,Matsuda T,Ujita M

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem cells (NSC) from the adult hippocampus easily lose their activity in vitro. Efficient in vitro expansion of adult hippocampus-derived NSC is important for generation of tools for research and cell therapy. Here, we show that a single copy disruption or pharmacological inhibition of p38α enables successful ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Yoshioka K,Namiki K,Sudo T,Kasuya Y

更新日期：2015-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The antipsychotic drug olanzapine is widely prescribed to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. However, it often causes unwanted side effects, including diabetes, due to disruption of insulin-dependant glucose metabolism through a mechanism yet to be elucidated. To determine if olanzapine can affect the ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Babkin P,George Thompson AM,Iancu CV,Walters DE,Choe JY

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A great number of studies have proven that sHsps protect cells by inhibiting protein aggregation under heat stress, while little is known about their function to protect cells under acid stress. In this work, we show that Hsp20.1 and Hsp14.1 oligomers dissociated to smaller oligomeric species or even dimer/monomer at ...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Liu L,Chen J,Yang B,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most malignant form of brain tumor and is associated with resistance to conventional therapy and poor patient survival. Prostate apoptosis response (Par)-4, a tumor suppressor, is expressed as both an intracellular and secretory/extracellular protein. Though secretory Par-4 induces...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Jagtap JC,Parveen D,Shah RD,Desai A,Bhosale D,Chugh A,Ranade D,Karnik S,Khedkar B,Mathur A,Natesh K,Chandrika G,Shastry P

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A plant-derived Enterococcus mundtii 15-1A, that has been previously isolated from Brassica rapa L. subsp. nipposinica (L.H. Bailey) Hanelt var. linearifolia by our group, possesses two kinds of l-lactate dehydrogenase (l-LDH): LDH-1 and LDH-2. LDH-1 was activated under low concentration of fluctose-1,6-bisphosphate (...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Matoba Y,Miyasako M,Matsuo K,Oda K,Noda M,Higashikawa F,Kumagai T,Sugiyama M

更新日期：2014-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) mediates hepatic clearance of plasma cholesterol; proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin 9 (PCSK9) opposes this clearance by promoting LDLR degradation. The plant flavonoid quercetin-3-β-d-glucoside (Q3G) has been shown to reduce hypercholesterolemia in experimental animals. Her...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Mbikay M,Sirois F,Simoes S,Mayne J,Chrétien M

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we showed that cyanocobalamin dodecylamine, a ribose 5'-carbamate derivative of cyanocobalamin, was absorbed and accumulated to significant levels by Caenorhabditis elegans and was not further metabolized. The levels of methylmalonic acid and homocysteine, which serve as indicators of cobalamin deficien...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Bito T,Yabuta Y,Ichiyanagi T,Kawano T,Watanabe F

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:l-Ornithine cyclodeaminase (OCD) is involved in l-proline biosynthesis and catalyzes the unique deaminating cyclization of l-ornithine to l-proline via a Δ(1)-pyrroline-2-carboxyrate (Pyr2C) intermediate. Although this pathway functions in only a few bacteria, many archaea possess OCD-like genes (proteins), among whic...

journal_title：FEBS open bio

authors： Watanabe S,Tozawa Y,Watanabe Y

更新日期：2014-07-10 00:00:00