• br Conclusions Mulan is a mitochondrial E ubiquitin ligase w

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  Conclusions Mulan is a mitochondrial E3 ubiquitin ligase with diverse roles in cell growth, cell death, and mitophagy. To better understand the mechanism of Mulan\'s function we used a modified yeast two-hybrid system to isolate proteins that interact with its cytoplasmic RING domain (amino acids

• Currently much effort has been made to

  2020-06-08

  

  Currently, much effort has been made to design and synthesize ThDP analogs (such as ThTDP, ThTTDP, and triazole-ThDP in Fig. 2)8, 9, 10, 11, 12 as PDHc E1 inhibitors. These ThDP analog inhibitors, such as ThTDP and ThTTDP, can block the ThDP binding site, and exhibit significantly stronger binding a

• The component E of PDHc PDHc

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  The component E1 of PDHc (PDHc-E1) catalyzes the first step of multistep processes, using thiamine diphosphate (ThDP) and Mg2+ as cofactors.15, 16 Especially, this PDHc-E1 catalyzed process is a rate limiting step among multistep processes. Accordingly, the PDHc should be inactive by inhibiting the

• Lately using receptor TM peptides BiFC and PLA experiments

  2020-06-08

  

  Lately, using receptor TM peptides, BiFC and PLA experiments, we have also obtained experimental evidence for the tetrameric structure of A1R–D1R, which explains the canonical interaction on Gi and Gs, respectively (Fig. 2). We have demonstrated for the first time the presence of this heterotetramer

• The combination of brequinar and fluorouracil FU

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  The combination of brequinar and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) has been evaluated to assess whether brequinar-induced uridine depletion would improve 5-FU activity. In cells, 5-FU is metabolized into FdUMP and inhibits thymidylate synthetase, which catalyzes the formation of thymidine monophosphate from deo

• Presumably LBPs have health promoting activities such

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  Presumably, LBPs have health-promoting activities, such as antioxidant, immune regulation, anti-stress, anticancer, neuroprotective and antidiabetic activities [[7], [8], [9], [10], [11]]; LBPs can improve the whole-body health status of mice and stimulate the expressions of IL-2, IL-12 and TNF-α, w

• Functionally all members of the IL family have been annotate

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  Functionally, all members of the IL-12 family have been annotated along major inflammatory signaling axes but their roles have often weighed on opposing sides of the immunological balance. For instance, IL-12 and IL-23 are classified as pro-inflammatory cytokines [10] as opposed to the rather prote

• br Introduction Natural killer NK cells have an

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  Introduction Natural killer (NK) cells have an unique ability to directly lyse transformed, virus-infected or stressed cells without prior sensitization or major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I restriction [1], [2]. They were initially defined and shown to be important effectors of the i

• The notion that a small

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  The notion that a small subset of inducible cellular transcripts, encoding immunological important factors, is translocated across the nuclear envelope by the karyopherin CRM1 is gaining support from various recent studies. For example, experimental evidence has been provided demonstrating that the

• br Introduction The offspring of rodents emit vocalizations

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  Introduction The offspring of rodents emit vocalizations when isolated from their dam. The majority of vocalizations by rat pups are in the ultrasonic band frequency of 30–50 kHz (Insel et al., 1986). Maternal separation-induced ultrasonic vocalizations are believed to represent distress signals

• Prostaglandins production and some of their possible biologi

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  Prostaglandins production and some of their possible biological functions have been reported in protozoa, helminths, and fungi organisms, for example amphizoic amoebas of the genus Acanthamoeba and Entamoeba (E. histolytica) produce PGA2, PGE2 and PGF2α [5,6]. PGA2 is believed to be an intrinsic osm

• br Acknowledgments br Introduction Understanding

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  Acknowledgments Introduction Understanding the characteristics of the Amazonian Dark soils “Terras Pretas de Índio” (TPIs) is of ecological importance, because the TPI soils represent a residue-based model for tropical sustainable agriculture (Sombroek et al., 2003, Neves et al., 2003, Cohen-O

• br Assessing DUB activity The Ub field

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  Assessing DUB activity The Ub field has benefited greatly from the past efforts of biochemists and chemical biologists who have reconstituted Ub signals in vitro and generated tools for capturing or measuring DUB activities, many of which can be readily produced or are commercially available (Ekk

• br The related catalytic regions

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  The related catalytic regions of the human DNA ligases contain three domains, a DNA binding domain (DBD), a nucleotidyl transferase domain (NTase) and an oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-fold binding domain (OBD) (Ellenberger and Tomkinson, 2008). Similar to DNA ligase I, the DNA ligase III polypep

• br Conflict of Interest br Acknowledgements Marques F was su

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  Conflict of Interest Acknowledgements Marques F. was supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal, Grant UMINHO/BI/35/2012. This work was supported by FCT by the Project PTDC/AGR-AAM/70418/2006. Introduction β-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA) exposure has long been as

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