Intracellular pH regulation: characterization and functional investigation of H+ transporters in Stylophora pistillataBMC Molecular and Cell Biology - Tập 22 - Trang 1-19 - 2021
Laura Capasso, Philippe Ganot, Víctor Planas-Bielsa, Sylvie Tambutté, Didier Zoccola
Reef-building corals regularly experience changes in intra- and extracellular H+
concentrations ([H+]) due to physiological and environmental processes.
Stringent control of [H+] is required to maintain the homeostatic acid-base
balance in coral cells and is achieved through the regulation of intracellular
pH (pHi). This task is especially challenging for reef-building corals that
share an endosym... hiện toàn bộ
Glutantβase: a database for improving the rational design of glucose-tolerant β-glucosidasesBMC Molecular and Cell Biology - Tập 21 - Trang 1-15 - 2020
Diego Mariano, Naiara Pantuza, Lucianna H. Santos, Rafael E. O. Rocha, Leonardo H. F. de Lima, Lucas Bleicher, Raquel Cardoso de Melo-Minardi
Β-glucosidases are key enzymes used in second-generation biofuel production.
They act in the last step of the lignocellulose saccharification, converting
cellobiose in glucose. However, most of the β-glucosidases are inhibited by high
glucose concentrations, which turns it a limiting step for industrial
production. Thus, β-glucosidases have been targeted by several studies aiming to
understand the... hiện toàn bộ
Mutational landscape and in silico structure models of SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain reveal key molecular determinants for virus-host interactionBMC Molecular and Cell Biology - Tập 23 Số 1 - 2022
Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, Perunthottathu K Umasankar, Easwaran Sreekumar, Radhakrishnan R. Nair, Iype Joseph, Sai Ravi Chandra Nori, Jamiema Sara Philip, Roshny Prasad, K. V. Navyasree, Shikha Ramesh, Heera Pillai, Sanu Ghosh, T. R. Santosh Kumar, M. Radhakrishna Pillai
Abstract Background SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19 pandemic is a
RNA virus prone to mutations. Formation of a stable binding interface between
the Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 Spike (S) protein and
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) of host is pivotal for viral entry. RBD
has been shown to mutate frequently during pandemic. Although, a few mutations
in RBD exhibit e... hiện toàn bộ
Bigram-PGK: phosphoglycerylation prediction using the technique of bigram probabilities of position specific scoring matrixBMC Molecular and Cell Biology - Tập 20 - Trang 1-9 - 2019
Abel Chandra, Alok Sharma, Abdollah Dehzangi, Daichi Shigemizu, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda
The biological process known as post-translational modification (PTM) is a
condition whereby proteomes are modified that affects normal cell biology, and
hence the pathogenesis. A number of PTMs have been discovered in the recent
years and lysine phosphoglycerylation is one of the fairly recent developments.
Even with a large number of proteins being sequenced in the post-genomic era,
the identifi... hiện toàn bộ
Systematic study of single-cell isolation from musculoskeletal tissues for single-sell sequencingBMC Molecular and Cell Biology - Tập 23 - Trang 1-13 - 2022
Manman Gao, Peng Guo, Xizhe Liu, Penghui Zhang, Zhongyuan He, Liru Wen, Shaoyu Liu, Zhiyu Zhou, Weimin Zhu
The single-cell platform provided revolutionary way to study cellular biology.
Technologically, a sophistic protocol of isolating qualified single cells would
be key to deliver to single-cell platform, which requires high cell viability,
high cell yield and low content of cell aggregates or doublets. For
musculoskeletal tissues, like bone, cartilage, nucleus pulposus and tendons, as
well as their ... hiện toàn bộ
Effect of bacterial infection on sperm quality and DNA fragmentation in subfertile men with LeukocytospermiaBMC Molecular and Cell Biology - Tập 22 - Trang 1-10 - 2021
Fatemeh Eini, Maryam Azizi Kutenaei, Fayegheh Zareei, Zeinolabedin Sharifian Dastjerdi, Maryam Hosseinzadeh Shirzeyli, Ensieh Salehi
Although bacterial infections have been recognized as a possible cause of male
infertility, the effect of bacterial infections on sperm quality and sperm DNA
fragmentation remains controversial. The current study aimed to investigate the
prevalence rate of bacterial infection in subfertile men and its effect on semen
quality. Seminal fluid was collected from 172 male members of infertile couples
a... hiện toàn bộ
Interaction between NSMCE4A and GPS1 links the SMC5/6 complex to the COP9 signalosomeBMC Molecular and Cell Biology - Tập 21 - Trang 1-10 - 2020
András Horváth, Gergely Rona, Michele Pagano, Philip W. Jordan
The SMC5/6 complex, cohesin and condensin are the three mammalian members of the
structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) family, large ring-like protein
complexes that are essential for genome maintenance. The SMC5/6 complex is the
least characterized complex in mammals; however, it is known to be involved in
homologous recombination repair (HRR) and chromosome segregation. In this study,
a ye... hiện toàn bộ
Using parallelized incremental meta-docking can solve the conformational sampling issue when docking large ligands to proteinsBMC Molecular and Cell Biology - Tập 20 - Trang 1-15 - 2019
Didier Devaurs, Dinler A Antunes, Sarah Hall-Swan, Nicole Mitchell, Mark Moll, Gregory Lizée, Lydia E Kavraki
Docking large ligands, and especially peptides, to protein receptors is still
considered a challenge in computational structural biology. Besides the issue of
accurately scoring the binding modes of a protein-ligand complex produced by a
molecular docking tool, the conformational sampling of a large ligand is also
often considered a challenge because of its underlying combinatorial complexity.
In ... hiện toàn bộ