Diversification of importin-α isoforms in cellular trafficking and disease states. [PDF]
The human genome encodes seven isoforms of importin α which are grouped into three subfamilies known as α1, α2 and α3. All isoforms share a fundamentally conserved architecture that consists of an N-terminal, autoinhibitory, importin-β-binding (IBB ...
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Repurposing drugs to target nonalcoholic steatohepatitis [PDF]
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a complex disorder that has evolved in recent years as the leading global cause of chronic liver damage.
Pirola, Carlos José +1 more
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Transcription-translation coupling: direct interactions of RNA polymerase with ribosomes and ribosomal subunits. [PDF]
In prokaryotes, RNA polymerase and ribosomes can bind concurrently to the same RNA transcript, leading to the functional coupling of transcription and translation.
Blaha, Gregor M +9 more
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The Unfolded Protein Response and its potential role in Huntington's disease [PDF]
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease with fatal outcome. Although the disease-causing gene (huntingtin) has been known for some time, the exact cause of neuronal cell death is still unknown.
Kamesh Ayasolla +2 more
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Small heat-shock proteins: important players in regulating cellular proteostasis [PDF]
Small heat-shock proteins (sHsps) are a diverse family of intra-cellular molecular chaperone proteins that play a critical role in mitigating and preventing protein aggregation under stress conditions such as elevated temperature, oxidation and infection.
Carver, John A. +3 more
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A structural basis for IκB kinase 2 activation via oligomerization-dependent trans auto-phosphorylation. [PDF]
Activation of the IκB kinase (IKK) is central to NF-κB signaling. However, the precise activation mechanism by which catalytic IKK subunits gain the ability to induce NF-κB transcriptional activity is not well understood.
Fusco, Amanda J +11 more
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Improved proteomic analysis of nuclear proteins, as exemplified by the comparison of two myelo\"id cell lines nuclear proteomes [PDF]
One of the challenges of the proteomic analysis by 2D-gel is to visualize the low abundance proteins, particularly those localized in organelles. An additional problem with nuclear proteins lies in their strong interaction with nuclear acids.
Chevallet, Mireille +5 more
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eEF1Bγ binds the Che-1 and TP53 gene promoters and their transcripts [PDF]
Background: We have previously shown that the eukaryotic elongation factor subunit 1B gamma (eEF1Bγ) interacts with the RNA polymerase II (pol II) alpha-like subunit “C” (POLR2C), alone or complexed, in the pol II enzyme. Moreover, we demonstrated that
Ammassari-teule, Martine +9 more
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Tengfei Chen,1,* Sihan Li,1,* Dongyin Lian,1 Qin Hu,2 Hongping Hou,1 Delian Niu,1 Han Li,1 Ling Song,1 Yunhang Gao,1 Ying Chen,1 Xiaoru Hu,3 Jianrong Li,1 Zuguang Ye,1 Bo Peng,1 Guangping Zhang1 1Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy
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Drug hypersensitivity caused by alteration of the MHC-presented self-peptide repertoire [PDF]
Idiosyncratic adverse drug reactions are unpredictable, dose independent and potentially life threatening; this makes them a major factor contributing to the cost and uncertainty of drug development. Clinical data suggest that many such reactions involve
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