José Raúl García-Lozano,
Cristina Abad,
Ana Escalera,
Belén Torres,
Olga Fernández,
Alicia García,
Julio Sánchez-Román,
José-Mario Sabio,
Norberto Ortego-Centeno,
Enrique Raya-Alvarez,
Antonio Núñez-Roldán,
Javier Martín and
María Francisca González-Escribano
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We defined four major haplotypes in our population: the two major haplotypes (named haplotypes A and B) bear both the 5383_5397del variant and the two most common SNP sets found in the CEU population. Quantification analysis revealed that genotype B/B had the highest median of mRNA expression levels...
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PMID: 20549518
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We show that the homologous to E6AP carboxyl terminus (HECT)-type ubiquitin ligase Smad ubiquitination regulatory factor 1 (Smurf1) interacts with and targets ING2 for poly-ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. Intriguingly, the ING2 binding domain in Smurf1 was mapped to the catalytic HECT do...
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PMID: 20621832
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We introduce a method for the acquisition of single molecule force measurements of ligand-receptor interactions using the photonic force microscope (PFM). Biotin-functionalized beads, manipulated with an optical trap, and a streptavidin-functionalized coverslip were used to measure the effect of dif...
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PMID: 20516583
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We show that treating HBV expressing cells with the natural phenolic compound curcumin inhibits HBV gene expression and replication. This inhibition is mediated via down-regulation of PGC-1alpha, a starvation-induced protein that initiates the gluconeogenesis cascade and that has been shown to robus...
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PMID: 20434445
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These results imply that PHB flux is primarily controlled by the expression levels of the product forming pathway and not by the availability of precursors. These results confirm prior in vitro measurements and metabolic models and show expression level is a major affecter of PHB flux.
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PMID: 19879956
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We here describe the metabolic engineering of an artificial pathway that produces 26% EPA in leaf triacylglycerol using a newly-identified Delta6-desaturase from the marine microalga Micromonas pusilla. We also demonstrate that this enzyme appears to function as an acyl-CoA desaturase that has prefe...
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PMID: 20004733
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Our studies revealed that AcSDKP levels were markedly elevated in neoplastic diseases including hematologic malignancies and solid neoplasms. Consistent with this finding, the enhanced activity of POP was also detected in all analyzed specimens of cancer tissues. Both these novel findings are in con...
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PMID: 20536450
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These results suggest that sarcoma cells overexpressing PER2 suppress tumors in vivo by changing the nature of tumor cell adhesion....
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PMID: 20236181
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These results suggest that sarcoma cells overexpressing PER2 suppress tumors in vivo by changing the nature of tumor cell adhesion....
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PMID: 20236181
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These results suggest that sarcoma cells overexpressing PER2 suppress tumors in vivo by changing the nature of tumor cell adhesion....
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PMID: 20236181
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These results suggest that sarcoma cells overexpressing PER2 suppress tumors in vivo by changing the nature of tumor cell adhesion....
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PMID: 20236181
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These results suggest that sarcoma cells overexpressing PER2 suppress tumors in vivo by changing the nature of tumor cell adhesion....
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PMID: 20236181
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These results suggest that sarcoma cells overexpressing PER2 suppress tumors in vivo by changing the nature of tumor cell adhesion....
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PMID: 20236181
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These results suggest that sarcoma cells overexpressing PER2 suppress tumors in vivo by changing the nature of tumor cell adhesion....
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PMID: 20236181
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The ambition of lab-on-a-chip (LOC) systems to achieve chip-level integration of a complete analytical process capable of performing a complex set of biomedical protocols is hindered by the absence of standard fluidic components able to be assembled. As a result, most microfluidic platforms built to...
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PMID: 20126681
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Cell migration and invasion are crucial steps in many physiological events. However, they are also implicated in the physiopathology of many diseases, such as cancer. To spread through the tissues, tumor cells use mechanisms that involve several molecular actors: adhesion receptor families, receptor...
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PMID: 20348621
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Experiment shows that our algorithm is able to give comprehensible visualization for pathways with hierarchies, cycles as well as complex structures. It clearly renders the global component structures as well as the local structure in each component. In addition, it runs very fast, and gives better...
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PMID: 20036522
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The practicability of our approach is illustrated with two case studies. The first study shows that our approach allows to conclusively rule out wrong model hypotheses. The second study focuses on parameter estimation, and shows that the proposed method allows to evaluate the global influence of mea...
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PMID: 20500862
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Click chemistry provides extremely selective and orthogonal reactions that proceed with high efficiency and under a variety of mild conditions, the most common example being the copper(I)-catalysed reaction of azides with alkynes. While the versatility of click reactions has been broadly exploited, a...
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PMID: 19543279
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Prion protein (PrP) is a pathogeny identified in recent years, which infects both mankind and other mammals. It has been proved that PrP is a sole protein able to duplicate and propagate with itself. PrP can express in many tissues and has important physiological functions in many species of animals...
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PMID: 19273420
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In 2007, there was emerging toxic nephropathy due to melamine. Renal failure due to melamine crystal is noted in cases of melamine intoxication. In this article, the author studies the melamine crystal by the molecular docking technique and found that the size of crystal is a possible explanation fo...
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PMID: 19839845
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Aldehyde oxidase (AO) is a homodimer with a subunit molecular mass of approximately 150 kDa. Each subunit consists of about 20 kDa 2Fe-2S cluster domain storing reducing equivalents, about 40 kDa flavine adenine dinucleotide (FAD) domain and about 85 kDa molybdenum cofactor (MoCo) domain containing...
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PMID: 19122276
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Elementary mode analysis is a useful metabolic pathway analysis tool to identify the structure of a metabolic network that links the cellular phenotype to the corresponding genotype. The analysis can decompose the intricate metabolic network comprised of highly interconnected reactions into uniquely...
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PMID: 19015845
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We illustrate four models of biochemical pathways described in our artificial chemistry based on string pattern matching and recombination. The modeled pathways are the replication of DNA, transcription from DNA to mRNA, translation from mRNA to protein, and the oxidation of fatty acids. The descrip...
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PMID: 18855562
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We propose a hierarchical model for the biomolecular covalent bond (HBCB model). This model assumes that terrestrial organisms arrange their biomolecules in a hierarchical structure according to the energy strength of their covalent bonds. It also assumes that they have evolutionarily selected the P...
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PMID: 18855570
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We review mathematical approaches that exploit the stoichiometric structure, which can be seen as a particular directed hypergraph, to derive an algebraic picture of chemical organizations. We then give an alternative interpretation in terms of set-valued set functions that encapsulate the productio...
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PMID: 18855563
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We construct functional motifs from the bottom up. We formulate conceptual networks of biochemical reactions that implement elementary algebraic operations over the domain and range of positive real numbers. We discuss how the steady state behavior relates to algebraic functions, and study the stabi...
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PMID: 18855568
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We used a transgenic Drosophila model to analyze whole-genome transcriptional profiles in flies that express human wild-type or mutant MYOC in their eyes. The transgenic flies display ocular fluid discharge, reflecting ocular hypertension, and a progressive decline in their behavioral responses to l...
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PMID: 19148291
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We have proposed a new D(P)/L(P) stereochemical notation for P-chiral dinucleoside monophosphate analogues based on a structural relationship between compounds. As an extension of this work, we present here applications of the D(P)/L(P) notation for tracking stereochemistry of reaction pathways invo...
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PMID: 19116868
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In this study we introduce a constrained optimization method for estimating parameter values of biochemical pathway models using steady-state information and transient measurements. The constraints are derived from the flux connectivity relationships of the system at the steady state. Two case studi...
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PMID: 19432964
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We predict computationally and analytically that any organism evolving to maximize growth rate, ATP production, or any other linear function of metabolic fluxes tends to significantly reduce the number of active metabolic reactions compared to typical nonoptimal states. The reduced number appears to...
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PMID: 19057639
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We examine the dynamic interaction between the developing epithelia and the extracellular matrix, and discuss how similar interactions are exploited by the genetically modified epithelium during tumor progression. We emphasize the process of mechanoreciprocity, which is a phenomenon observed during...
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PMID: 19029939
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We have developed a spectroscopic model of glioma to quantify these chemical changes. The model constructed includes individual FT-IR spectra of normal and glioma brain constituents such as lipids, DNA, and proteins (measured on delipidized tissue). Modeling of FT-IR spectra yielded fit coefficients...
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PMID: 18937421
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Oat (Avena sativa L.), a worldwide temperate cereal crop, is deficient in tolerance to osmotic stress due to drought and/or salinity. To genetically transform the available commercial oat cultivars, a genotype-independent and efficient regeneration system from shoot apical meristems was developed us...
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PMID: 19009445
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I are shorter and more dynamic than those of type II, and they contain actin filaments. They are formed when cells explore their surroundings to make contact with another cell. The nanotubes of type II are longer and more stable than type I, and they have cytokeratin filaments. They are formed when...
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PMID: 18658210
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Over the course of USMC RT, mood and body composition improved substantially and dramatically, an indication of the effectiveness of USMC RT for altering the physical and the cognitive status of trainees....
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PMID: 18849867
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We report as oxidative stress may exert deleterious effects in diabetes, as well as address current strategies in study to down-regulating vascular injury....
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PMID: 19082297
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We propose a modeling and analysis method for biochemical reactions based on finite state automata. This is a completely different approach compared to traditional modeling of reactions by differential equations. Our method aims to explore the algebraic structure behind chemical reactions using auto...
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PMID: 18606208
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