• Initial investigations in the heart uncovered

  2020-06-03

  

  Initial investigations in the heart uncovered Epac as a positive regulator of myocyte hypertrophy [8], [9]. Concomitantly, Epac has been shown to regulate cardiac Ca homeostasis [8], [10], [11], [12], [13]. Ca is an essential second messenger in the cardiac physiology because its rhythmic variations

• Information on the mechanism by

  2020-06-03

  

  Information on the mechanism by which parasite infections promote ECM degradation is limited (McKerrow et al., 1983; Andrade, 1994; Lu and Lai, 2013; Thibeaux et al., 2014). The interaction of plasminogen-plasmin with proteins of microorganisms, including bacteria, has been suggested to play a key r

• The role of activation of xenosensor nuclear receptors such

  2020-06-03

  

  The role of activation of xenosensor nuclear receptors such as PPARα, CAR, and PXR in producing hepatomegaly and liver tumors in rodents has been well-established (Klaunig et al., 2003, Lake, 2009). In the case of PPARα, the increase in liver weight results from increased peroxisomal mass and expans

• The strand domain swap in the UbV XR dimer appears

  2020-06-03

  

  The β strand domain swap in the UbV.XR dimer appears to be a unique arrangement for a Ub-based dimer. In solution, free Ub has a KD of ∼5 mM for the monomer-dimer equilibrium, and the two subunits in the dimer adopt a range of relative orientations involving residues from Ub’s β sheet (Liu et al., 2

• br Materials and Methods br Acknowledgements

  2020-06-03

  

  Materials and Methods Acknowledgements Authors would like to thank Mr. Pritam Naskar and Mr. Dibya Mukherjee for their help. Authors also acknowledge the help of Mr. Barun Mahata and Dr. Kaushik Biswas, Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, for human cDNA samples. P.A.B. and A.B.D. w

• Introduction The number of patients with type diabetes is in

  2020-06-03

  

  Introduction The number of patients with type 2 diabetes is increasing globally, and has become a serious public health problem. Type 2 diabetic patients exhibit a higher risk of bone fracture [1]. In addition, clinical studies have indicated that increased fracture risk is associated with long-ter

• Long stretches of ssDNA have

  2020-06-03

  

  Long stretches of ssDNA have also been observed in rad53-1 mutant MPTP hydrochloride under replication stress using EM images (Sogo et al., 2002). Deletion of EXO1, a 5′-to-3′ exonuclease, can suppress the generation of ssDNA detected in rad53-1 mutant cells (Cotta-Ramusino et al., 2005). It was th

• The inhibition of DNMT using AZA dC or

  2020-06-03

  

  The inhibition of DNMT1 using 5-AZA-dC or DNMT1 siRNA increased TIMP2 protein and mRNA expression, suggesting that TIMP2 expression is down-regulated by DNA methylation in the HDFs. In addition, 5-AZA-dC treatment led to a dose-dependent decrease of DNMT1 protein expression. 5-AZA-dC is a cytosine

• Two key enzymes play important roles in the bioconversion of

  2020-06-03

  

  Two key enzymes play important roles in the bioconversion of xylitol from d-arabitol, namely d-arabitol dehydrogenase (ArDH) and NADH-dependent xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH), respectively (Qi et al., 2014). In an earlier study, we developed a high xylitol yield strain by expressing xdh in E. coli BL21

• We then undertook computational studies that

  2020-06-03

  

  We then undertook computational studies that suggest the cyanobacterial ALDH (and planctomyces ALDH) represent the evolutionary ancestor of human and other eukaryotic ALDH1/2 given that cfALDH contains signature residues matching both the human proteins throughout the surface of the protein and the

• Ample evidence has shown that

  2020-06-02

  

  Ample evidence has shown that ET-1 system plays a pivotal role in the development of cardiovascular anomalies and pharmacological inhibition of ETA prevents the development of cardiac hypertrophy [[37], [38], [39]]. Yanagisawa and coworkers, who first reported the cardiomyocyte-specific endothelin

• Studies have focused on a hydrophobic cage

  2020-06-02

  

  Studies have focused on a hydrophobic cage at the CULT domain, conserved from bacteria to mammals, as it binds to substrates and IMiDs (Chamberlain et al., 2014, Lupas et al., 2015). In addition, CRBN ligand-mediated protein degradation was highly conserved, which was confirmed in vertebrates by foc

• p as a cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor

  2020-06-02

  

  p21, as a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, exert significant negative regulator of proliferation, and it could be transcriptional upregulated by p53 in order to impel transient histamine-2 receptor antagonist arrest (Romanov et al., 2010). Using western blotting, we found that the protein express

• Expression of MGMT in human cells can

  2020-06-02

  

  Expression of MGMT in human KN-92 can be switched off by enzymatic methylation of a cytosine residue in the MGMT promoter sequence. In this regard, both MGMT and the mismatch repair function MLH1 belong to a subset of DNA repair genes that are subjected to epigenetic control. In consequence, about

• The cyclin dependent kinase deactivation is carried out

  2020-06-02

  

  The cyclin-dependent kinase deactivation is carried out by a particular group of proteins cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CDKIs). These group of proteins blocks kinase activity by interfering with the interaction of cyclin-CDK complex [43]. The inhibition of CDK naturally occurs during a G1 phas

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