Latest Immediate Publications in BJ Central

as at 26 May 2012

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25 May 2012

Determination of Primary Sequence Specificity of Arabidopsis MAP Kinases, MPK3 and MPK6, Leads to Identification of New Substrates

Carolin Sörensson, Marit Lenman, Simone Schopper, Jenny Veide Vilg, Thomas Ljungdahl, Morten Grötli, Markus J Tamás, Scott C Peck and Erik Andreasson

Upstream stimulatory factor 1 activates GATA5 expression through an E-box motif

Bohao Chen, Rona Hsu, Zhenping Li, Paul C Kogut, Qingxia Du, Kelly Rouser, Blanca Camoretti-Mercado and Julian Solway

24 May 2012

Embryonic poly(A) binding protein (EPAB) is required for oocyte maturation and female fertility in mice.

Ozlem Guzeloglu-Kayisli, Maria D Lalioti, Fulya Aydiner, Isaac Sasson, Orkan Ilbay, Denny Sakkas, Katie M Lowther, Lisa M Mehlmann and Emre Seli

23 May 2012

Myostatin is a novel tumoral factor that induces cancer cachexia

Sudarsanareddy Lokireddy, Isuru W Wijesoma, Sabeera Bonala, Meng Wei, Siu K Sze, Craig McFarlane, Ravi Kambadur and Mridula Sharma

22 May 2012

Buckwheat trypsin inhibitor with helical hairpin structure belongs to a new family of plant defense peptides

Peter B Oparin, Konstantin S Mineev, Yakov E Dunaevsky, Alexander S ARSENIEV, Mikhail A Belozersky, Eugene V Grishin, Tsezi A Egorov and Alexander A Vassilevski

Nitric oxide-dependent CYP2B1 degradation is potentiated by a cytokine-regulated pathway and utilizes the immunoproteasome subunit LMP2

Haiyan Sun, Choon-myung Lee, Shweta Tripathi, Kyung-Bo Kim and Edward T Morgan

The G2385R Variant of Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 Associated with Parkinson’s Disease is a Partial Loss of Function Mutation

Iakov N Rudenko, Alice Kaganovich, David N Hauser, Aleksandra Beylina, Ruth Chia, Jinhui Ding, Dragan Maric, Howard Jaffe and Mark R Cookson

21 May 2012

Glutathionylation of cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is reversed by both glutaredoxins and thioredoxins in vitro

Mariette Bedhomme, Mattia Adamo, Christophe H Marchand, Jérémy Couturier, Nicolas Rouhier, Stéphane D Lemaire, Mirko Zaffagnini and Paolo Trost

Solution structure of the core SMN-Gemin2 complex

Kathryn L Sarachan, Kathleen G Valentine, Kushol Gupta, Veronica R Moorman, John M Gledhill Jr., Matthew Bernens, Cecilia Tommos, A J Wand and Gregory D Van Duyne

17 May 2012

Thioredoxin reductase 1 deficiency enhances selenite toxicity in cancer cells via a thioredoxin-independent mechanism

Ryuta Tobe, Min-Hyuk Yoo, Noelia Fradejas, Bradley A Carlson, Soledad Calvo, Vadim N Gladyshev and Dolph L Hatfield

16 May 2012

Effects of the novel mitochondrial protein mimitin in insulin-secreting cells

Katarzyna Hanzelka, Lukasz Skalniak, Jolanta Jura, Sigurd Lenzen and Ewa Gurgul-Convey

A key structural domain of the Candida albicans Mdr1 protein

Ajeet Mandal, Antresh Kumar, Ashutosh Singh, Andrew M Lynn, Khyati Kapoor and Rajendra Prasad

Recruitment and membrane interactions of host cell proteins during attachment of enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli

Diana Munera, Eric Martinez, Svetlana Varyukhina, Arvind Mahajan, Jesus Ayala-Sanmartin and Gad Frankel

15 May 2012

p130Cas-dependent actin remodeling regulates myogenic differentiation

Keiko Kawauchi, Wee Wee Tan, Keigo Araki, Farhana Abu Bakar, Minsoo Kim, Hideaki Fujita, Hiroaki Hirata and Yasuhiro Sawada

Mutational analysis of putative phosphate- and proton-binding sites in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pho84 phosphate:H⁺ transceptor and its effect on signaling to the PKA and PHO pathways.

Dieter R Samyn, Lorena Ruiz-Pavon, Michael R Andersson, Yulia Popova, Johan M Thevelein and Bengt L Persson

A key role for Mg²⁺ in TRPM7’s control of ROS levels during cell stress

Hsiang-Chin Chen, Li-Ting Su, Omayra González-Pagán, Jeffrey D Overton and Loren W Runnels

14 May 2012

The MEKK1 SWIM domain is a novel substrate receptor for c-Jun ubiquitylation

Michael A Rieger, Tyler Duellman, Christopher Hooper, Magdalene Ameka, Joanna C Bakowska and Bruce D Cuevas

11 May 2012

Dynamics of Plant Histone Modifications in Response to the DNA Damage

Georgina E Drury, Adam A Dowle, David A Ashford, Wanda M Waterworth, Jerry Thomas and Christopher E West

10 May 2012

TGF-β sensitivity is determined by N-linked glycosylation of the type II TGF-β receptor

Young-Woong Kim, Jinah Park, Hyun-Ju Lee, So-Young Lee and Seong-Jin Kim

8 May 2012

Architecture of the catalytic HPN motif is conserved in all E2 conjugating enzymes

Benjamin W Cook and Gary S Shaw

3 May 2012

The activation mechanism of ACK1 (activated Cdc42-associated tyrosine kinase 1)

Qiong Lin, Jian Wang, Chandra Childress and Wannian Yang

A urea channel from Bacillus cereus reveals a novel hexameric structure

Gerard H Huysmans, Nathan Chan, Jocelyn M Baldwin, Vincent L Postis, Svetomir B Tzokov, Sarah E Deacon, Sylvia Y Yao, James D Young, Michael J McPherson, Per A Bullough and Stephen A Baldwin

Mysterious Ca²⁺-independent muscular contraction: déjà vu

Andrey V Kuznetsov, Rita Guzun, François Boucher, Rafaela Bagur, Tuuli Kaambre and Valdur A Saks

2 May 2012

Cysteine biosynthesis, in concert with a novel mechanism, contributes to sulfide detoxification in mitochondria of Arabidopsis thaliana

Hannah Birke, Florian H Haas, Luit J De Kok, Janneke Balk, Markus Wirtz and Rüdiger Hell

Peptidylarginine deiminase modulates the physiological roles of enolase via citrullination: links between altered multifunction of enolase and neurodegenerative diseases

Byungki Jang, Yong-Chul Jeon, Jin-Kyu Choi, Mira Park, Jae-Il Kim, Akihito Ishigami, Naoki Maruyama, Richard I Carp, YONG-SUN KIM and Eun-Kyoung Choi

30 April 2012

Deciphering the role of GLUT4 N-glycosylation in adipocyte and muscle cell models

Nancy Zaarour, Marion Berenguer, Yannick Le Marchand-Brustel and Roland Govers

Characterization of an acetyltransferase that detoxifies aromatic chemicals in Legionella pneumophila

Xavier Kubiak, Delphine Dervins-Ravault, Benjamin Pluvinage, Alain F Chaffotte, Laura Gomez-Valero, Julien Dairou, Florent Busi, Jean-Marie Dupret, Carmen Buchrieser and Fernando Rodrigues-Lima

26 April 2012

Multidimensional epistasis and fitness landscapes in enzyme evolution

Wei Zhang, Daniel Dourado, Pedro A Fernandes, Maria J Ramos and Bengt Mannervik

25 April 2012

Distinct Functional Roles of the Two Terminal Halves of Eukaryotic Phosphofructokinase

Oscar H Martínez-Costa, Valentina Sánchez, Antonio Lázaro, Eloy D Hernández, Keith Tornheim and Juan J Aragón

24 April 2012

The Candida albicans plasma membrane protein Rch1p, a member of the vertebrate SLC10 carrier family, is a novel regulator of cytosolic Ca²⁺ homoeostasis

Linghuo Jiang, Joerg Alber, Jihong Wang, Wei Du, Xuexue Yang, Xichuan Li, Dominique Sanglard and Joachim Geyer

Mitochondrial stress causes increased succination of proteins in adipocytes in response to glucotoxicity

Norma Frizzell, Sonia A Thomas, James A Carson and John W Baynes

23 April 2012

The saposin-like protein SPP-12 is an antimicrobial polypeptide in the pharyngeal neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans and participates in defence against a natural bacterial pathogen

Aylin Hoeckendorf, Mareike Stanisak and Matthias Leippe

SP-1 regulation of MMP-9 expression requires Ser⁵⁸⁶ in the PEST domain

Shubha Murthy, Alan J Ryan and A B Carter

Structure and activity of the cold-active and anion-activated carboxyl esterase OLEI01171 from the oil-degrading marine bacterium Oleispira antarctica

Sofia Lemak, Anatoli Tchigvintsev, Pierre Petit, Robert Flick, Alexander U Singer, Greg Brown, Elena Evdokimova, Olga Egorova, Claudio Gonzalez, Tatyana N Chernikova, Michail M Yakimov, Michael Kube, Richard Reinhardt, Peter N Golyshin, Alexei Savchenko and Alexander F Yakunin

19 April 2012

Neuronal caspase-2 activity and function requires RAIDD, but not PIDD

Elena M Ribe, Ying Y Jean, Rebecca L Goldstein, Claudia Manzl, Leonidas Stefanis, Andreas Villunger and Carol M Troy

The crystal structure of human alpha₁-microglobulin reveals a potential haem-binding site

Winfried Meining and Arne Skerra

Different molecular bases underlie the mitochondrial respiratory activity in the homoeothermic spadices of Symplocarpus renifolius and the transiently thermogenic appendices of Arum maculatum

Yusuke Kakizaki, Anthony L Moore and Kikukatsu Ito

18 April 2012

Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are differently adapted in the regulation of denitrification: single nucleotide polymorphisms that enable species-specific tuning of the aerobic-anaerobic switch

James Edwards, Diana Quinn, Karyn-Anne Rowbottom, Jean L Whittingham, Melanie J Thomson and James W Moir

17 April 2012

A novel bispecific single-chain antibody for ADAM17 and CD3 induces T-cell-mediated lysis of prostate cancer cells

Kosuke Yamamoto, Ahmad Trad, Anja Baumgart, Linda Hüske, Inken Lorenzen, Athena Chalaris, Joachim Grötzinger, Tobias Dechow, Jürgen Scheller and Stefan Rose-John

A conserved cysteine residue is involved in disulphide bond formation between plant plasma membrane aquaporin monomers

Gerd P Bienert, Damien Cavez, Arnaud Besserer, Marie C Berny, Dimitri Gilis, Marianne Rooman and François Chaumont

Homers regulate calcium entry and aggregation in human platelets: a role for Homers in the association between STIM1 and Orai1

ISAAC JARDIN, LETIZIA ALBARRAN, NURIA BERMEJO, Gines M Salido and Juan A Rosado

13 April 2012

Definition of the binding mode of a new class of phosphoinositide inositol 3-kinase alpha-selective inhibitors using in vitro mutagenesis of non-conserved amino acids and kinetic analysis.

Zhaohua Zheng, Syazwani I Amran, Jiuxiang Zhu, Oleg Schmidt-Kittler, Kenneth W Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, Peter R Shepherd, Philip E Thompson and Ian G Jennings

Generation of free ubiquitin chains is up-regulated in stress and facilitated by the HECT domain ubiquitin ligases UFD4 and HUL5

Ori Braten, Nitzan Shabek, Yelena Kravtsova-Ivantsiv and Aaron Ciechanover

Embryonic poly(A)-binding protein (ePAB) phosphorylation is required for Xenopus oocyte maturation

Kyle Friend, Matthew Brook, F. Betül Bezirci, Micheal D Sheets, Nicola K Gray and Emre Seli

11 April 2012

Bax and Bcl-xL exert their regulation on different sites of the ceramide channel

Meenu N Perera, Shang H Lin, Yuri K Peterson, Alicja Bielawska, Zdzislaw M Szulc, Robert Bittman and Marco Colombini

10 April 2012

Distinctive binding of three antagonistic peptides to the ephrin-binding pocket of the EphA4 receptor

Ilaria Lamberto, Haina Qin, Roberta Noberini, Lakshmanane Premkumar, Caroline Bourgin, Stefan Riedl, Jianxing Song and Elena B Pasquale

Force-induced apoptosis mediated by the Rac/PAK/p38 signaling pathway is regulated by filamin A

Yulia Shifrin, Vanessa I Pinto, Abbas Hassanali, Pamma D Arora and Christopher A McCulloch

β₂-Glycoprotein I inhibits endothelial cell migration through the nuclear factor кB signalling pathway and endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation

Wen-Chin Chiu, Tzeon-Jye Chiou and An-Na Chiang

4 April 2012

Characterization of pyrimidine nucleoside phosphorylase of Mycoplasma hyorhinis: implications for the clinical efficacy of nucleoside analogues

Johan Vande Voorde, Federico Gago, Kristof Vrancken, Sandra Liekens and Jan Balzarini

3 April 2012

Bivalent and co-operative binding of complement Factor H to heparan sulphate and heparin

Sanaullah Khan, Ruodan Nan, Jayesh Gor, Barbara Mulloy and Stephen J Perkins

Interleukin-6 counteracts therapy-induced cellular oxidative stress in multiple myeloma by up-regulating manganese superoxide dismutase

Charles O Brown, Kelley Salem, Brett A Wagner, Soumen Bera, Neeraj Singh, Ajit Tiwari, Amit Choudhury, Garry R Buettner and Apollina Goel

30 March 2012

The AMPK-related kinase SIK2 is regulated by cAMP via phosphorylation at Ser³⁵⁸ in adipocytes

Emma Henriksson, Helena A Jones, Kashyap Patel, Mark Peggie, Nicholas A Morrice, Kei Sakamoto and Olga Goransson

Fe-haem bound to Escherichia coli bacterioferritin accelerates iron core formation by an electron transfer mechanism

Steve G Wong, Raz Abdulqadir, Nick E Le Brun, Geoffrey R Moore and A. G Mauk

Pyruvate fuels mitochondrial respiration and proliferation of breast cancer cells: effect of monocarboxylate transporter inhibition

Anne R Diers, Katarzyna A Broniowska, Ching-Fang Chang and Neil Hogg

29 March 2012

A functional description of CymA, an electron-transfer hub supporting anaerobic respiratory flexibility in Shewanella

Sophie J Marritt, Thomas G Lowe, Jordan Bye, Duncan G McMillan, Liang Shi, Jim Fredrickson, John Zachara, David J Richardson, Myles R Cheesman, Lars J Jeuken and Julea N Butt

DNA binding by the plant-specific NAC transcription factors in crystal and solution: a firm link to WRKY and GCM transcription factors

Ditte H Welner, Søren Lindemose, J. Gunther Grossmann, Niels E Møllegaard, Addie N Olsen, Charlotte Helgstrand, Karen Skriver and Leila Lo Leggio

28 March 2012

DNAJB6 governs a novel regulatory loop determining Wnt/β-catenin signalling activity

Mitchell E Menezes, Aparna Mitra, Lalita A Shevde and Rajeev S Samant

Estrogen causes ATBF1 protein degradation through the estrogen-responsive E3 ubiquitin ligase EFP

Xue-Yuan Dong, Xiaoying Fu, Songqing Fan, Peng Guo, Dan Su and Jin-Tang Dong

26 March 2012

EHD2 shuttles to the nucleus and represses transcription

Olga Pekar, Sigi Benjamin, Hilla Weidberg, Silvia Smaldone, Francesco Ramirez and Mia Horowitz

Effects of a glucokinase activator on hepatic intermediary metabolism: study with ¹³C-isotopomer-based metabolomics

Itzhak Nissim, Oksana Horyn, Ilana Nissim, Yevgeny Daikhin, Suzanne L Wehrli, Marc Yudkoff and Franz M Matschinsky

23 March 2012

Structure and activity of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa hotdog-fold thioesterases PA5202 and PA2801

Claudio Gonzalez, Anatoli Tchigvintsev, Greg Brown, Robert Flick, Elena Evdokimova, Xiaohui Xu, Jerzy Osipiuk, Marianne Cuff, Susan Lynch, Andrzej Joachimiak, Alexei Savchenko and Alexander F Yakunin

21 March 2012

Ovine PrP transgenic Drosophila show reduced locomotor activity and decreased survival

Alana M Thackray, Farooq Muhammad, Chang Zhang, Ying Di, Thomas R Jahn, Matthias Landgraf, Damian C Crowther, Jan F Evers and Raymond Bujdoso

A glycosynthase derived from an inverting GH19 chitinase from the moss Bryum coronatum

Takayuki Ohnuma, Tatsuya Fukuda, Satoshi Dozen, Yuji Honda, Motomitsu Kitaoka and Tamo Fukamizo

20 March 2012

Synthesis of inositol phosphate ligands of plant hormone–receptor complexes: pathways of inositol hexakisphosphate turnover

David E Hanke, Paroo N Parmar, Samuel E Caddick, Porntip Green and Charles A Brearley

19 March 2012

The disordered N-terminal region of dengue virus capsid protein contains a lipid-droplet-binding motif

Ivo C Martins, Francisco Gomes-Neto, André F Faustino, Filomena A Carvalho, Fabiana A Carneiro, Patrícia T Bozza, Ronaldo Mohana-Borges, Miguel A Castanho, Fábio C Almeida, Nuno C Santos and Andrea T Da Poian

13 March 2012

Functional analysis of the protein phosphatase activity of PTEN

Xiaoqun C Zhang, Antonella Piccini, Michael P Myers, Linda Van Aelst and Nicholas K Tonks

8 March 2012

Structure-based analysis of VDAC1: N-terminus location, translocation, channel gating and association with anti-apoptotic proteins

Shay Geula, Danya Ben-Hail and Varda Shoshan-Barmatz

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