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Predicting the biological activity of selected phytochemicals in Alsophila spinulosa leaves against 4-aminobutyrate-aminotransferase: A potential antiepilepsy agents

Eclética Química
The use of medicinal plants as an alternative mean of treating various diseases has drawn the attention of several researchers. The desire to find lasting solutions to epilepsy among humans increases every day.
Oyebamiji Abel Kolawole, Olujinmi Faith Eniola, Akintelu Sunday Adewale, Adetuyi Babatunde, Ogunlana Olubanke, Semire Banjo, Akintayo Emmanuel Temitope, Akintayo Cecilia Olufunke, Babalola Jonathan Oyebamiji, Olawoye Bolanle Mary, Aworinde Juliana Oluwasayo   +10 more
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Adaptive evolution of transcription factor binding sites

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2004
Background The regulation of a gene depends on the binding of transcription factors to specific sites located in the regulatory region of the gene. The generation of these binding sites and of cooperativity between them are essential building blocks in ...
Berg Johannes, Willmann Stana, Lässig Michael   +2 more
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Binding Pathway of Opiates to $μ$ Opioid Receptors Revealed by Unsupervised Machine Learning [PDF]

, 2018
Many important analgesics relieve pain by binding to the $\mu$-Opioid Receptor ($\mu$OR), which makes the $\mu$OR among the most clinically relevant proteins of the G Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) family. Despite previous studies on the activation pathways of the GPCRs, the mechanism of opiate binding and the selectivity of $\mu$OR are largely ...
arxiv   +1 more source

The power of microRNA regulation—insights into immunity and metabolism

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
MicroRNAs are emerging as crucial regulators at the intersection of metabolism and immunity. This review examines how miRNAs coordinate glucose and lipid metabolism while simultaneously modulating T‐cell development and immune responses. Moreover, it highlights how cutting‐edge artificial intelligence applications can identify miRNA biomarkers ...
Stefania Oliveto, Nicola Manfrini, Stefano Biffo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Many locks to one key: N-acetylneuraminic acid binding to proteins

IUCrJ
Sialic acids play crucial roles in cell surface glycans of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms, mediating various biological processes, including cell–cell interactions, development, immune response, oncogenesis and host–pathogen interactions. This
KanagaVijayan Dhanabalan, YiYang Cheng, Trung Thach, Ramaswamy Subramanian   +3 more
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Systematic exploration of multiple drug binding sites

Journal of Cheminformatics, 2017
Background Targets with multiple (prerequisite or allosteric) binding sites have an increasing importance in drug design. Experimental determination of atomic resolution structures of ligands weakly bound to multiple binding sites is often challenging ...
Mónika Bálint, Norbert Jeszenői, István Horváth, David van der Spoel, Csaba Hetényi   +4 more
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Identification of novel small molecule inhibitors of ETS transcription factors

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
ETS transcription factors play an essential role in tumourigenesis and are indispensable for sprouting angiogenesis, a hallmark of cancer, which fuels tumour expansion and dissemination. Thus, targeting ETS transcription factor function could represent an effective, multifaceted strategy to block tumour growth. The evolutionarily conserved E‐Twenty‐Six
Shaima Abdalla, Zary Forghany, Jin Ma, Johan G. Hollander, Ruta Nachane, Karoly Szuhai, Pancras C. W. Hogendoorn, Peter ten Dijke, Dipen Shah, David A. Baker   +9 more
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Structural Analysis of the Drosophila melanogaster GSTome

Biomolecules
Glutathione transferase (GST) is a superfamily of ubiquitous enzymes, multigenic in numerous organisms and which generally present homodimeric structures.
Nicolas Petiot, Mathieu Schwartz, Patrice Delarue, Patrick Senet, Fabrice Neiers, Adrien Nicolaï   +5 more
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Identification of hACE2-interacting sites in SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain for antiviral drugs screening

Virus Research, 2022
The key structure of the interface between the spike protein of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) acts as an essential switch for cell entry by the virus and drugs targets ...
Xiaopeng Hu, Jiahua Cui, Jun Chen, Shujuan Du, Xinyu Wang, Yabin Zhang, Jiajun Qian, Haifeng Chen, Fang Wei, Qiliang Cai, Jinping Jia, Ji Wu   +11 more
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Computational identification of uncharacterized cruzain binding sites.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010
Chagas disease, caused by the unicellular parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, claims 50,000 lives annually and is the leading cause of infectious myocarditis in the world.
Jacob D Durrant, Henrik Keränen, Benjamin A Wilson, J Andrew McCammon   +3 more
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