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TRAPPC9: Novel insights into its trafficking and signaling pathways in health and disease (Review).

Trafficking protein particle complex 9 (TRAPPC9) is a protein subunit of the transport protein particle II (TRAPPII), which has been reported to be important in the trafficking of cargo from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the Golgi, and in…

Tags: *Disease Susceptibility, *Signal Transduction, 2018, Animals, Carrier Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Hussein Nazar J, International journal of molecular medicine, Mbimba Thomas, Najeed Ayesha, Protein Binding, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, Protein Transport, Safadi Fayez F, Structure-Activity Relationship

Transcriptional regulation of human oxysterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase gene (CYP7B1) by Sp1.

Oxysterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase catalyzes hydroxylation of oxysterols and neurosterols and plays a role in the alternative bile acid synthesis pathway. This gene is widely expressed in many organs and peripheral tissues and may protect tissues from the…

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) and agonist inhibit cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase gene (CYP7A1) transcription.

Fibrates are widely used hypolipidemic drugs that regulate the expression of many genes involved in lipid metabolism by activating the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha). The objective of this study was to investigate the…

Tags: *DNA-Binding Proteins, *Regulatory Sequences, 2000, Animals, Anticholesteremic Agents/pharmacology, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors, Binding Sites, Chiang J Y, Cholesterol 7-alpha-Hydroxylase/biosynthesis/*genetics, Clofibric Acid/pharmacology, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/*agonists, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Enzymologic, Gene Expression Regulation, Genes, Genetic, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4, Humans, Journal of lipid research, Liver/metabolism, Marrapodi M, Models, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nucleic Acid, Peroxisome Proliferators/pharmacology, Phosphoproteins/metabolism, Promoter Regions, Protein Binding, Pyrimidines/pharmacology, Rats, Receptors, Reporter, Response Elements, Retinoic Acid/metabolism, Retinoid X Receptors, Species Specificity, Transcription, Transcription Factors/*agonists/metabolism, Transcriptional Activation

Noncanonical mechanisms to regulate nuclear receptor signaling.

Nuclear receptor (NR)-targeted therapies comprise a large class of clinically employed drugs. A number of drugs currently being used against this protein class were designed as structural analogs of the endogenous ligand of these receptors. In recent…

Tags: 2012, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy Practice, DNA/metabolism, Drug Evaluation, Future medicinal chemistry, Humans, Ligands, MicroRNAs/metabolism, NEOMED College of Graduate Studies, NEOMED College of Pharmacy, Peptides/chemistry/pharmacology, Preclinical, Protein Binding, Receptors, Sadana Prabodh, Signal Transduction/drug effects, Small Molecule Libraries/chemistry/pharmacology

Exploring Adenosine Receptor Ligands: Potential Role in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases.

Cardiovascular diseases remain the number one diseases affecting patients' morbidity and mortality. The adenosine receptors are G-protein coupled receptors which have been of interest for drugs target for the treatment of multiple diseases ranging…

Misfolding of CasBrE SU is reversed by interactions with 4070A Env: implications for gammaretroviral neuropathogenesis.

BACKGROUND: CasBrE is a neurovirulent murine leukemia virus (MLV) capable of inducing paralytic disease with associated spongiform neurodegeneration. The neurovirulence of this virus has been genetically mapped to the surface expressed subunit (SU)…

Generation and characterization of ATP analog-specific protein kinase Cdelta.

To better study the role of PKCdelta in normal function and disease, we developed an ATP analog-specific (AS) PKCdelta that is sensitive to specific kinase inhibitors and can be used to identify PKCdelta substrates. AS PKCdelta showed nearly 200…

Carboxylesterase 1 Is Regulated by Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4alpha and Protects Against Alcohol- and MCD diet-induced Liver Injury.

The liver is a major organ that controls hepatic and systemic homeostasis. Dysregulation of liver metabolism may cause liver injury. Previous studies have demonstrated that carboxylesterase 1 (CES1) regulates hepatic triglyceride metabolism and…

Tachykinin peptide-induced activation and desensitization of neurokinin 1 receptors.

The actions of four tachykinins on inhibition and desensitization of the

Tags: 2003, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Bennett V J, CHO Cells, Cricetinae, Down-Regulation/*drug effects, Electrophysiology, Ligands, Neurokinin-1/*agonists/*metabolism, Peptides, Perrine S A, Potassium/metabolism, Protein Binding, Rana catesbeiana, Receptors, Simmons M A, Tachykinins/chemistry/*pharmacology

Cardiac myofibroblast differentiation is attenuated by alpha(3) integrin blockade: potential role in post-MI remodeling.

Cardiac fibroblasts and myofibroblasts are responsible for post-MI remodeling which occurs via regulation of extracellular matrix (ECM). Accelerated post-MI remodeling leads to excessive ECM deposition and fibrosis, contributing to impaired…

Wogonin, a plant derived small molecule, exerts potent anti-inflammatory and chondroprotective effects through the activation of ROS/ERK/Nrf2 signaling pathways in human Osteoarthritis chondrocytes.

Osteoarthritis (OA), characterized by progressive destruction of articular cartilage, is the most common form of human arthritis. Here, we evaluated the potential chondroprotective and anti-inflammatory effects of Wogonin, a naturally occurring…

Tags: *ERK1/2, *Nrf2, *OSTEOARTHRITIS, *Redox, *Wogonin, 2017, Ansari Mohammad Y, Anti-Inflammatory Agents/administration & dosage, Chondrocytes/drug effects/pathology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Devarapalli Pratap, Flavanones/*administration & dosage, Free radical biology & medicine, Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects, Haqqi Tariq M, Haseeb Abdul, Haynie Sara, Humans, Inflammation/*drug therapy/metabolism/pathology, Kelch-Like ECH-Associated Protein 1/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism, Khan Nazir M, MAP Kinase Signaling System/drug effects, Molecular Docking Simulation, NEOMED College of Medicine, NF-E2-Related Factor 2/antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism, Osteoarthritis/*drug therapy/metabolism/pathology, Protein Binding, Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism, Signal Transduction/drug effects

Pregnancy zone protein is a carrier and modulator of placental protein-14 in

A successful pregnancy can only occur when the maternal immune system fails to attack the allogeneic fetus. Two plasma proteins with described immunoregulatory activities, pregnancy zone protein (PZP) and placental protein-14 (PP14; also known as…

Novel compounds that target lipoprotein lipase and mediate growth arrest in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Over the past decade, the therapeutic strategies employed to treat B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have been progressively successful in treating the disease. Unfortunately, the treatment associated dyslipidemia, either acute or…

Tags: *Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, *Cancer, *Co-culture model, *Lipids, *Lipoprotein lipase, *Metabolism, 2018, Amides/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology, Antineoplastic Agents/*chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology, Binding Sites, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, Cell Line, Cell Proliferation/drug effects, Coculture Techniques, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Dyslipidemias/complications/metabolism/pathology, Geldenhuys Werner J, Gibson Laura F, Humans, Lipoprotein Lipase/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism, Mesenchymal Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism, Molecular Docking Simulation, Nair Rajesh R, NEOMED College of Graduate Studies, NEOMED College of Pharmacy, Piktel Debbie, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/complications/metabolism/pathology, Protein Binding, Protein Structure, Sadana Prabodh, Serum Albumin/chemistry/metabolism, Tertiary, Tumor

Identification of small molecules that bind to the mitochondrial protein mitoNEET.

MitoNEET (CISD1) is a 2Fe-2S iron-sulfur cluster protein belonging to the zinc-finger protein family. Recently mitoNEET has been shown to be a major role player in the mitochondrial function associated with metabolic type diseases such as obesity and…

3D-QSAR and docking studies of pentacycloundecylamines at the sigma-1 (sigma1) receptor.

Pentacycloundecylamine (PCU) derived compounds have been shown to be promising lead structures for the development of novel drug candidates aimed at a variety of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. Here we show for the first time a 3D…

Tags: *Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship, 2013, Amines/*chemistry/metabolism, Aza Compounds/chemistry, Binding Sites, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, Geldenhuys Werner J, Kinetics, Malan Sarel F, Molecular Docking Simulation, Novotny Nicholas, Protein Binding, Protein Structure, Receptors, sigma/*chemistry/metabolism, Tertiary, Van der Schyf Cornelis J

Inhibition of monoamine oxidase by derivatives of piperine, an alkaloid from the pepper plant Piper nigrum, for possible use in Parkinson's disease.

A series of compounds related to piperine and antiepilepsirine was screened in a monoamine oxidase A and B assay. Piperine is an alkaloid from the source plant of both black and white pepper grains, Piper nigrum. Piperine has been shown to have a…

Genetic alteration in the dopamine transporter differentially affects male and female nigrostriatal transporter systems.

Female mice with a heterozygous mutation of their dopamine transporter (+/- DAT) showed relatively robust reductions in striatal DAT specific binding (38-50%), while +/- DAT males showed modest reductions (24-32%). Significant decreases in substantia…

Pertubation of beta1 integrin function using anti-sense or function-blocking antibodies on corneal cells grown on fibronectin and tenascin.

During corneal development, neural crest derivatives from the periocular mesenchyme migrate into the cornea and differentiate into corneal fibroblasts. During this time, these cells interact with a variety of extracellular matrices for proper…

Binding of sequence-specific proteins to the 3'-untranslated region of vasoactive intestinal peptide mRNA.

Multimeric AUUUA elements in an AU-rich 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) have been shown to confer message instability to numerous ephemeral transcripts through the formation of RNA-protein complexes. We show here that the 3'-UTR of VIP mRNA, which…

Comparative binding of neurotrophins (NT-3, CNTF and NGF) and various cytokines to alpha 2-macroglobulin.

All the nine common cytokines in this study (including NT-3, IGF-1, CNTF and

Serotonin-activated alpha 2-macroglobulin inhibits neurite outgrowth and survival of embryonic sensory and cerebral cortical neurons.

Methylamine-modified alpha-2-macroglobulin (MA-alpha 2M) has been recently shown to inhibit the biological activity of beta-nerve growth factor (NGF) in promoting neurite outgrowth by embryonic dorsal root ganglia in culture (Koo PH, Liebl DJ, J…

Osteoactivin Promotes Migration of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas.

Nearly 50% of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) die of metastases or locoregional recurrence. Metastasis is mediated by cancer cell adhesion, migration, and invasion. Osteoactivin (OA) overexpression plays a role in metastases in…

Osteoactivin promotes osteoblast adhesion through HSPG and alphavbeta1 integrin.

Osteoactivin (OA), also known as glycoprotein nmb (gpnmb) plays an important role in the regulation of osteoblast differentiation and function. OA induced osteoblast differentiation and function in vitro by stimulating alkaline phosphatase (ALP)…

Tags: 2014, 3T3 Cells, Abdelmagid Samir M, Actin Cytoskeleton/physiology, ADHESION, Alkaline Phosphatase/biosynthesis, Animals, Antibodies/immunology, Cell Adhesion, Cell Differentiation, Cell Line, Cell Proliferation, Chlorates/pharmacology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases/biosynthesis, Eye Proteins/genetics/immunology/*metabolism, Focal Adhesion Kinase 1/biosynthesis, Focal Adhesions, Frara Nagat, Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans/*metabolism, Heparin/pharmacology, Hisijara Israel Arango, Inbred C57BL, integrin, Journal of cellular biochemistry, Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics/immunology/*metabolism, Mice, Moussa Fouad M, NEOMED College of Medicine, OSTEOACTIVIN, OSTEOBLAST, OSTEOBLAST DIFFERENTIATION, Osteoblasts/*physiology, Osteogenesis/physiology, Protein Binding, Rats, Receptors, Recombinant Proteins, Safadi Fayez F, Scott Ethan M, Sondag Gregory R, Vitronectin/immunology/*metabolism

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