abstract：:Unstable angina (UA) is one of the most dangerous types of coronary heart disease and has high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide. However, the diagnostic accuracy for UA is unsatisfactory in clinical practice. In this study, we investigated the application of plasma metabolomics in discovering potential biomarke...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Sun M,Gao X,Zhang D,Ke C,Hou Y,Fan L,Zhang R,Liu H,Li K,Yu B

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Dynamic physical interactions between proteins underpin all key cellular processes and are a highly attractive area for the development of research tools and medicines. Protein-protein interactions frequently involve α-helical structures, but peptides matching the sequences of these structures usually do not fold corr...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Mart RJ,Errington RJ,Watkins CL,Chappell SC,Wiltshire M,Jones AT,Smith PJ,Allemann RK

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic heart failure (CHF), as a progressive clinical syndrome, is characterized by failure of enough blood supply from the heart to meet the body's metabolic demands, and there is intense interest in identifying novel biomarkers that could make contributions to the diagnosis of CHF. Metabolomics, compared with curre...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang J,Li Z,Chen J,Zhao H,Luo L,Chen C,Xu X,Zhang W,Gao K,Li B,Zhang J,Wang W

更新日期：2013-11-01 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 main objectives of this work were to characterise a range of purified recombinant sterol 3β-glucosyltransferases and show that rational sampling of the diversity that exists within sterol 3β-glucosyltransferase sequence space can result in a range of enzyme selectivities. In our study the catalytically active doma...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Malik V,Zhang M,Dover LG,Northen JS,Flinn A,Perry JJ,Black GW

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge available about the application and generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) has grown since their discovery, and new techniques to enhance the reprogramming process have been described. Among the new approaches to induce iPSC that have gained great attention is the use of small molecules for ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Feltes BC,Bonatto D

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Here we present a novel statistical methodology that allows us to analyze gene expression data that have been collected from a number of different cases or conditions in a unified framework. Using a Bayesian nonparametric framework we develop a hierarchical model wherein genes can maintain a shared set of interactions...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Thorne T,Fratta P,Hanna MG,Cortese A,Plagnol V,Fisher EM,Stumpf MP

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:In the last few decades a negative association between the level of milk production and fertility has been observed. Currently, the most utilized method of measuring male fertility employed by the livestock industry is related to the Non-Return Rate (NRR). Through differential proteome analysis, this study evaluated c...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Soggiu A,Piras C,Hussein HA,De Canio M,Gaviraghi A,Galli A,Urbani A,Bonizzi L,Roncada P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular segmentation clock is a complex regulatory network that governs the periodic somite segmentation in vertebrate embryos. Underlying the rhythm of the segmentation clock is a single-cell level pace-making circuit, where inevitable molecular noise and time delay impose normal operating constraints to the pa...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Song H,Yuan Z,Zhou T

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:A genome-wide screen of a yeast non-essential gene-deletion library was used to identify sick phenotypes due to oxygen deprivation. The screen provided a manageable list of 384 potentially novel as well as known oxygen responding (anoxia-survival) genes. The gene-deletion mutants were further assayed for sensitivity t...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Samanfar B,Omidi K,Hooshyar M,Laliberte B,Alamgir M,Seal AJ,Ahmed-Muhsin E,Viteri DF,Said K,Chalabian F,Golshani A,Wainer G,Burnside D,Shostak K,Bugno M,Willmore WG,Smith ML,Golshani A

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disorder associated with mutations of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene and defective chloride transport across the epithelial cell membranes. Abnormal epithelial ion transport is the primary cause of persistent airway infections and chro...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Ciavardelli D,D'Orazio M,Pieroni L,Consalvo A,Rossi C,Sacchetta P,Di Ilio C,Battistoni A,Urbani A

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:This paper describes a sensitive, non-destructive displacement assay, using a fluorescent peptide indicator, for real-time monitoring of the interactions between RNA and RNA binding proteins (RBPs). The developed fluorescent peptide indicators, each containing a mid-sequence fluorophore unit, allowed sensing of target...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Jeong HS,Choi SM,Kim HW,Park JW,Park HN,Park SM,Jang SK,Rhee YM,Kim BH

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:In vivo analysis is of paramount importance in monitoring physiological processes that take place in living organisms. Mass spectrometry, an analytical technique with high speed, sensitivity and specificity, is indispensable in biochemical studies nowadays. However, traditional mass spectrometric techniques are of lim...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： So PK,Hu B,Yao ZP

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:Predicting protein subcellular localization is a challenging problem, particularly when query proteins have multi-label features meaning that they may simultaneously exist at, or move between, two or more different subcellular location sites. Most of the existing methods can only be used to deal with the single-label ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Lin WZ,Fang JA,Xiao X,Chou KC

更新日期：2013-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the post-genome era, one of the most important and challenging tasks is to identify the subcellular localizations of protein complexes, and further elucidate their functions in human health with applications to understand disease mechanisms, diagnosis and therapy. Although various experimental approaches have been ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Li ZC,Lai YH,Chen LL,Chen C,Xie Y,Dai Z,Zou XY

更新日期：2013-04-05 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：: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：:As a potential target for the treatment of schizophrenia, the dual cAMP/cGMP hydrolyzing enzyme PDE10A has attracted a significant amount of attention. In the present work, the inhibition mechanism of 116 structurally diverse quinoline derivatives as PDE10A inhibitors was explored by 3D-QSAR, molecular docking and mol...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wu Q,Gao Q,Guo H,Li D,Wang J,Gao W,Han C,Li Y,Yang L

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:To faithfully execute diverse biological programs all cells need to access and distribute their genomes in a highly organized way. In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells DNA is packed with histone proteins into chromatin. The originating nucleo-protein complex is the regulatory platform for all genetic processes. Of these...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Nikolov M,Fischle W

更新日期：2013-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida glabrata has been recognized as an efficient industrial microorganism for the production of pyruvate, the most widely used α-oxocarboxylic acid in the areas of agrochemicals, drugs, and chemicals. To gain a comprehensive understanding of its physiology and cellular metabolism, the genome-scale metabolic model ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Xu N,Liu L,Zou W,Liu J,Hua Q,Chen J

更新日期：2013-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many prior studies on microbial response to oxidative stress, our understanding of microbial tolerance against oxidative stress is currently limited to aerobic conditions, and few engineering strategies have been devised to resolve toxicity issues of oxidative stress under anaerobic conditions. Since biologica...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kang A,Tan MH,Ling H,Chang MW

更新日期：2013-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory networks are able to process complex signals and respond appropriately to the cellular context. Thus, an increasing effort by systems biology researchers is being focused on understanding which interactions are responsible for a given functional response. When translated into specific mathematical models, h...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Estrada J,Guantes R

更新日期：2013-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced reprogramming of somatic cells has had a great impact on stem cell research, and the reprogramming technologies have evolved from four transgenic factors (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc; OSKM) to just a few microRNAs (mainly miR-290/302 seed family). Despite these advances, the molecular events occurring during v...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Yang CS,Rana TM

更新日期：2013-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanism that underlies the differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) is vital to develop regenerative medicines for neurological disorders. In our previous work, Rho-GDI-γ was found to be able to prompt neuronal differentiation when it was down regulated. However, it is unclear how Rho-...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Wang J,Hu F,Cheng H,Zhao XM,Wen T

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Alkylidene-γ-butyrolactones are quite common in nature and exhibit a broad spectrum of biological activities. We therefore synthesized a small library of xanthatine inspired α-alkylidene-γ-butyrolactones to screen non-pathogenic and uropathogenic E. coli strains by activity based protein profiling (ABPP). The identi...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Kunzmann MH,Sieber SA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the regulatory dynamics of transcription factors (TFs) and their interplay with other cellular components we have integrated transcriptional, protein-protein and the allosteric or equivalent interactions which mediate the physiological activity of TFs in Escherichia coli. To study this integrated network...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Antiqueira L,Janga SC,Costa Lda F

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutamate γ-carboxylation plays a pivotal part in a number of important human diseases. However, traditional protein γ-carboxylation site detection by experimental approaches are often laborious and time-consuming. In this study, we initiated an attempt for the computational prediction of protein γ-carboxylation s...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang N,Li BQ,Gao S,Ruan JS,Cai YD

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent model proposing that a barrier is raised against tumor evolution in pre-cancer tissues is investigated. For that we quantify expression alterations in genome maintenance pathways: DNA damage response, death pathways and cell cycle and also differentially expressed genes in transcriptomes of pre-cancerous and ...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Simão ÉM,Sinigaglia M,Bugs CA,Castro MA,Librelotto GR,Alves R,Mombach JC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:J proteins are a diverse family of co-chaperones that cooperate with heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) to coordinate protein quality control, especially in response to cellular stress. Current models suggest that individual J proteins might play roles in recruiting Hsp70s to specific functions, such as maintaining cell wa...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Gillies AT,Taylor R,Gestwicki JE

更新日期：2012-11-01 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 aim of this study was to investigate the cellular lipid metabolism associated with β-amyloid peptide (Aβ)-induced neurotoxicity as well as the neuroprotective effect of (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a major polyphenol in green tea. An ultra-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole-time-of-flight mass sp...

journal_title：Molecular bioSystems

authors： Zhang H,Wang JR,Yau LF,Ho HM,Chan CL,Hu P,Liu L,Jiang ZH

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00