• Employing distinct genetic and pharmacological approaches Di

  2020-07-15

  

  Employing distinct genetic and pharmacological approaches, Divakaruni et al. now demonstrate that macrophages still acquire their IL-4-elicited phenotype in the absence of CPT1a (considered the main isoform in leukocytes) or CPT2, and highlight that the increased LC-FAO in M(IL-4) cells is less cruc

• Moreover as shown in Fig f while

  2020-07-15

  

  Moreover, as shown in Fig. 5f, while the knockdown of SMURF2 in wild-type AICAR phosphate has no significant effect on HSP27, in CK2α/α′(−/−) cells it leads to an increase of HSP27 level. These results suggest that SMURF2 affects HSP27 protein stability only when overexpressed, at least in our cell

• To further confirm the roles of the CYP

  2020-07-14

  

  To further confirm the roles of the CYP450 enzymes involved in the metabolism of Dip in rat liver microsomes, we utilized not only chemical inhibitors but also a correlation analysis and a panel of recombinant rat CYP450 enzymes to evaluate the contribution of CYP450 enzymes. The results of the corr

• Introduction Excessive exposure to ultraviolet UV irradiatio

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  Introduction Excessive exposure to ultraviolet (UV) irradiation from the sun injures human skin, which might lead to premature aging and skin pathologies [1], [2]. Chronic exposure to UV (especially ultraviolet-B, UVB) irradiation could profoundly affect the skin epidermis, interfering with the ker

• CSN was initially identified based on the constitutitvely ph

  2020-07-14

  

  CSN was initially identified based on the constitutitvely photormophogenic (cop) mutants from Arabidopsis thaliana [48]. csn mutants are Cullin deneddylation-deficient, consequently accumulate neddylated Cullins, and arrest growth shortly after germination [49, 50, 51]. Weak csn mutants have defects

• br Activity based probes br Characterization of coronavirus

  2020-07-14

  

  Activity-based probes Characterization of coronavirus-encoded DUBs with activity-based probes To study the activity of specific DUBs, investigators frequently take advantage of the ~10kDa (monoUb or Ubl ABP) or ~20kDa (DiUb ABP) increase in MW on probe labeling. SDS-PAGE analysis or blotting f

• br Conflicts of interest br Introduction G

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  Conflicts of interest Introduction G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), form the largest human membrane protein family, with 800 members overall. Many druggable targets for treatment of common diseases involve GPCRs that mediate therapeutic effects of 34% of all marketed drugs (Hauser, Attwood

• A second advance came with the discovery that

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  A second advance came with the discovery that conformationally-flexible benzamide analogs having an N-phenylpiperazine moiety possessed good affinity and modest selectivity for D3 versus D2 receptors [3,[14], [15], [16]]. This observation spawned a significant effort by medicinal chemists to develop

• Sp family protein has been regarded as the

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  Sp family protein has been regarded as the housekeeping gene and is ubiquitously expressed. Although Sp family expression is regulated with some stimuli [17], [20], the total Sp family protein levels are not changed in most cases, as observed in our present study (Fig. 4). Constitutive binding of th

• The presence of external NAD P H

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  The presence of external NAD(P)H dehydrogenases (NDE) on the outer surface of the inner mitochondrial membrane enables the mitochondria to oxidize cytosolic NAD(P)H (Moller 2001). A porin (a voltage-dependent anion-selective channel, VDAC) that is abundant in the outer mitochondrial membrane permits

• br Materials and methods br Results br Discussion GOS

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  Materials and methods Results Discussion GOS potently inhibited SRD5A1 in COS-1 cells (Fig. 4A) and rat Leydig cells (Fig. 4B), possibly attenuating testosterone activation into DHT. It has been reported that gossypol inhibited human SRD5A1 with IC50 of 7 × 10−6 M [28]. Interestingly, gossy

• RNA sequencing RNA seq is a particularly

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  RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) is a particularly effective technology for gene discovery in a given process, especially in non-model species for which reference genome sequences are not available. Although the major application of RNA-seq analyses is the identification of differentially expressed genes (D

• MAPKs are a family of phosphorylating enzymes

  2020-07-14

  

  MAPKs are a family of phosphorylating enzymes that orchestrate various cellular response in proliferation, apoptosis, inflammation, stress response, and energy metabolism [11]. There are at least four major members including extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1 and 2 (ERK1/2), p38 mitogen-activat

• Preliminary studies evidenced the presence of CRFr in gamma

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  Preliminary studies evidenced the presence of CRFr in gamma-aminobutyric acid-ergic (GABAergic) neurons of the hippocampus (Yan et al., 1998). In fact, in this hif pathway area, CRF inhibits glutamate release through CRF1r (Bagosi et al., 2015), leading to a decrease in the GABA concentration in the

• Our observation that nuclear but

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  Our observation that nuclear, but not cytoplasmic EP4 expression is associated with different outcomes is interesting. In breast cancer, using the same methods, we did not detect EP4 in the nucleus of malignant Genistein whereas cytoplasmic EP4 was commonly observed [13]. While G protein-coupled re

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