Latest Immediate Publications in BJ Central

as at 16 March 2010

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10 March 2010

Apolipoprotein E Inhibits toll-like receptor (TLR)-3 and TLR-4 mediated macrophage activation through distinct mechanisms

Yanjuan Zhu, Ahmer Kodvawala and David Y. Hui

9 March 2010

Role of nitric oxide-mediated glutathionylation in neuronal function. Potential regulation of energy utilization.

Li-Peng Yap, Jerome V. Garcia, Derick S. Han and Enrique Cadenas

4 March 2010

Direct repression of sonic hedgehog expression in the stomach by Cdx2 leads to intestinal transformation

Hiroyuki Mutoh, Hiroko Hayakawa, Miho Sashikawa, Hirotsugu Sakamoto and Kentaro Sugano

Adaptor Protein 2 Regulates Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis and Cyst Formation in Giardia lamblia

Maria R Rivero, Cecilia V Vranych, Mariano Bisbal, Belkys A Maletto, Andrea S Ropolo and Maria C Touz

3 March 2010

Signal peptide peptidase (SPP) assembles with substrates and misfolded membrane proteins into distinct oligomeric complexes

Bianca Schrul, Katja Kapp, Irmgard Sinning and Bernhard Dobberstein

The glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor is a major determinant of prion binding and replication

Clive Bate, Mourad Tayebi and Alun Williams

Structural contributions of delta class Glutathione transferase active site residues to catalysis

Jantana Wongsantichon, Robert C. Robinson and Albert J Ketterman

2 March 2010

Selective SUMO modification of cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase-4D5 (PDE4D5) regulates the functional consequences of phosphorylation by PKA and ERK.

Xiang Li, Suryakiran Vadrevu, Allan John Dunlop, Jon Day, Noopur Advant, Jessica Troeger, Enno Klussmann, Ellis G Jaffray, Ronald T. Hay, David R Adams, Miles Douglas Houslay and George S. Baillie

Analysis of the interactions between the C-terminal cytoplasmic domains of KCNQ1 and KCNE1 channel subunits

Renjian Zheng, Keith Thompson, Edmond Obeng-Gyimah, Dana M Alessi, Jerri Chen, Huiyong Cheng and Thomas V. McDonald

The vasoactive peptides urotensin II and urotensin II-related peptide regulate astrocyte activity through common and distinct mechanisms. Involvement in cell proliferation

Marie Jarry, Mickael Diallo, Céline Lecointre, Laurence Desrues, Tursonjan Tokay, David Chatenet, Jérôme Leprince, Oriana Rossi, Hubert Vaudry, Marie-Christine Tonon, Laurent Prézeau, Helene Castel and Pierrick Gandolfo

1 March 2010

VDAC1 cysteine residues: Topology and function in channel activity and apoptosis

Lior Aram, Shay Geula, Nir Arbel and Varda Shoshan-Barmatz

The DNA-binding activity of mouse DNA methyltransferase 1 is regulated by phosphorylation with casein kinase 1δ/ε

Yasunori Sugiyama, Naoya Hatano, Noriyuki Sueyoshi, Isao Suetake, Shoji Tajima, Eiji Kinoshita, Emiko Kinoshita-Kikuta, Tohru Koike and Isamu Kameshita

26 February 2010

Lipopolysaccharide interaction is decisive for the activity of the antimicrobial peptide NK-2 against Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis

Malte U. Hammer, Annemarie Brauser, Claudia Olak, Gerald Brezesinski, Torsten Goldmann, Thomas Gutsmann and Jörg Andrä

24 February 2010

Disulfide formation in plant storage vacuoles permits assembly of a multimeric lectin

Richard S. Marshall, Lorenzo Frigerio and Lynne M. Roberts

Glutamate-heme ester bond formation is disfavoured in flavocytochrome P450 BM3: Characterization of glutamate substitution mutants at the heme site of P450 BM3

Hazel M. Girvan, Colin W. Levy, Paul Williams, Karl Fisher, Myles R. Cheesman, Stephen E. J. Rigby, David Leys and Andrew W. Munro

The pseudophosphatase MK-STYX interacts with G3BP and decreases stress granule formation

Shantá D. Hinton, Michael P. Myers, Vincent R. Roggero, Lizabeth A. Allison and Nicholas K. Tonks

23 February 2010

ZEB1 and CtBP form a repressive complex at a distal promoter element of the BCL6 locus

Vasiliki Papadopoulou, Antonio Postigo, Ester Sánchez-Tilló, Andrew C.G. Porter and Simon D. Wagner

Phosphorylation and membrane dissociation of the ARF exchange factor GBF1 in mitosis

Yuichi Morohashi, Zita Balklava, Matthew Ball, Helen Hughes and Martin Lowe

The small heterodimer partner suppresses the transcriptional activity and nuclear localization of hedgehog signaling protein Gli1

KyeongJin Kim, Kook Hwan Kim, Hyun Kook Cho, Hye Young Kim, Hyeong Hoe Kim and JaeHun Cheong

17 February 2010

Structural and functional analysis of amino-terminal enhancer of split in androgen receptor-driven transcription

Yiming Zhang, Shen Gao and Zhengxin Wang

16 February 2010

Induced, selective proteolysis of MLK3 negatively regulates MLK3-JNK signaling

Geou-Yarh Liou, Hua Zhang, Eva M. Miller, Steve A. Seibold, Weiqin Chen and Kathleen A Gallo

Proteolytic processing of an Arabidopsis membrane-bound NAC transcription factor is triggered by cold-induced changes in membrane fluidity

Pil Joon Seo, Mi Jung Kim, Jin-Su Song, Youn-Sung Kim, Hie-Joon Kim and Chung-Mo Park

Isolation and characterization of selective and potent human Fab inhibitors directed to the active site region of the two-component NS2B-NS3 proteinase of West Nile virus

Sergey A Shiryaev, Ilian A Radichev, Boris I Ratnikov, Alexander E Aleshin, Katarzyna Gawlik, Boguslaw Stec, Christian Frisch, Achim Knappik and Alex Y Strongin

15 February 2010

Transglutaminase-2: a new endostatin partner in the extracellular matrix of endothelial cells

Clément Faye, Antonio Inforzato, Marine Bignon, Daniel J Hartmann, Laurent Muller, Lionel Ballut, Bjorn R Olsen, Anthony J Day and Sylvie Ricard-Blum

Genomic organization and regulation of the human orexin (hypocretin) receptor 2 gene: identification of alternative promoters

Jing Chen and Harpal S Randeva

Filamin associates with stress signaling kinases MKK7 and MKK4 and regulates JNK activation

Kentaro Nakagawa, Misato Sugahara, Tokiwa Yamasaki, Hiroaki Kajiho, Shinya Takahashi, Jun Hirayama, Yasuhiro Minami, Yasutaka Ohta, Toshio Watanabe, Yutaka Hata, Toshiaki Katada and Hiroshi Nishina

11 February 2010

Co-segregation of AMPA receptors with GM1 ganglioside in synaptosomal membrane sub-fractions

Andy A. Cole, Ayse Dosemeci and Thomas S. Reese

Adhesamine, a new synthetic molecule, accelerates differentiation and prolongs survival of primary-cultured mouse hippocampal neurons

Mitsunobu Hoshino, Tetsuhiro Tsujimoto, Sayumi Yamazoe, Motonari Uesugi and Sumio Terada

10 February 2010

A novel EP-involved pathway for iron release from soybean seed ferritin

Xiaoping Fu, Jianjun Deng, Haixia Yang, Taro Masuda, Fumiyuki Goto, Toshihiro Yoshihara and Guanghua Zhao

9 February 2010

Electrostatic interactions play a minor role in the binding of ExoS to 14-3-3.

Lubna Yasmin, Jeffrey L Veesenmeyer, Maureen H Diaz, Matthew S Francis, Christian Ottmann, Ruth H Palmer, Alan R Hauser and Bengt Hallberg

MMP28 gene expression is regulated by Sp1 transcription factor acetylation

Tracey E Swingler, Lara Kevorkian, Kirsty L Culley, Sara A Illman, David A Young, Andrew E Parker, Jouko Lohi and Ian M Clark

8 February 2010

Formation of transient dimers by a retroviral protease

Maximilian J Hartl, Kristian Schweimer, Martin H Reger, Stephan Schwarzinger, Jochen Bodem, Paul Rösch and Birgitta M. Wöhrl

5 February 2010

Novel insights into mannitol metabolism in the fungal plant pathogen Botrytis cinerea

Thierry Dulermo, Christine Rascle, Geneviève Billon-Grand, Elisabeth Gout, Richard Bligny and Pascale Cotton

Insertion of an NPVY sequence into the cytosolic domain of erythropoietin receptor selectively affects erythropoietin mediated signaling and function

Tamar Liron, Tal Nahari, Miriam C. Souroujon and Drorit Neumann

3 February 2010

Denatured proteins facilitate the formation of the football-shaped GroEL-GroES complex

Tomoya Sameshima, Ryo Iizuka, Taro Ueno and Takashi Funatsu

2 February 2010

Crz1 destabilizes Msn2 and Msn4 in the nucleus in response to Ca²⁺ in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: FK506 has an additive effect on the Ca²⁺-induced expression of GLO1 via Msn2, Hog1, and the stress response element

Yoshifumi Takatsume, Takumi Ohdate, Kazuhiro Maeta, Wataru Nomura, Shingo Izawa and Yoshiharu Inoue

29 January 2010

Characterisation of the transition metal binding properties of hepcidin

Chris Tselepis, Samuel J Ford, Andrew T McKie, Wolfgang Vogel, Heinz Zoller, Robert J Simpson, Javier Diaz-Castro, Tariq H Iqbal and Douglas G Ward

Chloroplast DnaJ-like proteins 3 and 4 (CDJ3/4) from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii contain redox-active Fe-S clusters and interact with stromal HSP70B

Karolin V. Dorn, Felix Willmund, Christian Schwarz, Christine Henselmann, Thomas Pohl, Barbara Heß, Daniel Veyel, Björn Usadel, Thorsten Friedrich, Jörg Nickelsen and Michael Schroda

Mutants of the tumour suppressor p53 L1 loop as second-site suppressors for restoring DNA binding to oncogenic p53 mutations: Structural and biochemical insights

Assia Merabet, Hellen Houlleberghs, Kate Maclagan, Ester Akanho, Tam T.T. Bui, Bruno Pagano, Alex F. Drake, Franca Fraternali and Penka V Nikolova

27 January 2010

Dihydroceramide desaturase activity is modulated by oxidative stress

Jolanta Idkowiak-Baldys, Aintzane Apraiz, Li Li, Mehrdad Rahmaniyan, Christopher J Clarke, Jacqueline M Kraveka, Aintzane Asumendi and Yusuf A Hannun

26 January 2010

Transcriptional regulation of the human acetoacetyl-CoA synthetase gene by PPARγ

Francesca Aguiló, Nuria Camarero, Joana Relat, Pedro F. Marrero and Diego Haro

29 September 2008

Curcumin, a dietary polyphenol, emerges as a novel inhibitor of DNA topoisomerase I of kinetoplastid parasite Leishmania donovani

Rakhee Das, Amit Roy, Agneyo Ganguly, Neeta Datta and Hemanta K Majumder