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An efficient strategy for producing RNA‐free Nucleocapsid protein of SARS‐CoV‐2 for biochemical and structural investigations

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Cleavable N‐terminal Thioredoxin fusion enabled soluble expression and purification of otherwise insoluble SARS‐CoV‐2 Nucleocapsid (N) protein. A four‐step purification strategy yielded highly homogeneous, RNA‐free N protein. Binding assays showed high RNA affinity (Kd ~ 28 nm). The study will facilitate high‐resolution structural studies of N protein,
Shweta Singh, Gagan D. Gupta
wiley   +1 more source

Feedbacks from the metabolic network to the genetic network reveal regulatory modules in E. coli and B. subtilis

, 2018
The genetic regulatory network (GRN) plays a key role in controlling the response of the cell to changes in the environment. Although the structure of GRNs has been the subject of many studies, their large scale structure in the light of feedbacks from ...
Jain, Sanjay, Kumar, Santhust, Mahajan, Saurabh   +2 more
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Blocking the voltage‐gated sodium channel hNav1.5 as a novel pH‐dependent mechanism of action for tamoxifen

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Patch‐clamp recordings revealed that tamoxifen inhibits voltage‐gated sodium channels, especially under acidic conditions, both common in metastatic cancer cells. These effects may explain certain antitumor properties of tamoxifen, highlighting a novel mechanism of action beyond its known endocrine effects.
Karl Josef Föhr, Michael Fauler, Thomas Zimmer, Bettina Jungwirth, Hubert Schrezenmeier, David Alexander Christian Messerer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Python with team‐based learning: using cloud‐based notebooks for interactive coding education

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study presents a novel approach to teaching Python and bioinformatics using team‐based learning and cloud‐hosted notebooks. By integrating interactive coding into biomedical education, the method improves accessibility, student engagement, and confidence—especially for those without a computing background.
Nuno S. Osório, Leonardo D. Garma
wiley   +1 more source

Machine Learning for Integrating Data in Biology and Medicine: Principles, Practice, and Opportunities

, 2018
New technologies have enabled the investigation of biology and human health at an unprecedented scale and in multiple dimensions. These dimensions include a myriad of properties describing genome, epigenome, transcriptome, microbiome, phenotype, and ...
Goldenberg, Anna, Hoffman, Michael M., Leskovec, Jure, Nguyen, Francis, Wang, Bo, Zitnik, Marinka   +5 more
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Transcriptional regulation of neuropeptide receptors underlies context‐dependent adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Under environmental changes, the expression level of neuropeptide (NP) and neuropeptide receptor (NPR) genes changes to confer context‐dependent adaptation to the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Through finding more regulatory elements in the NPR genes in comparison with their ligands (NPs), we found that NPR‐biased transcriptional regulation ...
SeungHeui Ryu, Yanan Wei, Zekun Wu, Tianmu Zhang, DoHoon Lee, Hadi Najafi, Woo Jae Kim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural and functional characterization of chitinase from carnivorous plant Drosera adelae

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
A class I chitinase from the carnivorous plant Drosera adelae was expressed and purified using a yeast system, revealing high enzymatic activity. Structural analyses of the catalytic and chitin‐binding domains identified key tyrosine residues involved in substrate binding, offering insights into the enzyme's adaptation for insect digestion.
Kazunari Yoneda, Yuki Naruse, Yusaku Suizu, Tomohiro Araki, Yoshikazu Hoshi, Haruhiko Sakuraba, Junji Hayashi, Toshihisa Ohshima   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Penfluridol targets septin7 to suppress endometrial cancer by septin7-Orai/IP3R-Ca2+-PIK3CA pathway

iScience
Summary: Phenotypic screening of existing drugs is a good strategy to discover new drugs. Herein, 33 psychotherapeutic drugs in our drug library were screened by phenotypic screening and penfluridol (PFD) was found to exhibit excellent anti-endometrial ...
Lingyi Song, Huiwen Wu, Xiao Sun, Xiaohu Liu, Xianwu Ling, Wei Ni, Lijuan Li, Beibei Liu, Jinlian Wei, Xiaokang Li, Jian Li, Yudong Wang, Fei Mao   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diffusion‐based size determination of solute particles: a method adapted for postsynaptic proteins

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We present a diffusion‐based approach for measuring the size of macromolecules and their complexes, and demonstrate its use on postsynaptic proteins. The method requires fluorescein‐labelled protein samples, a microfluidic device that maintains laminar flow for said samples, a microscope recording the emitted fluorescent signals, and an analytic ...
András László Szabó, Eszter Nagy‐Kanta, Soma Varga, Edit Andrea Jáger, Csaba István Pongor, Mária Laki, András József Laki, Zoltán Gáspári   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Establishment and optimization of the two‐step induction system for generating primordial germ cell‐like cells from chicken embryonic stem cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study optimizes a two‐step induction system to generate PGCLCs from chicken ESCs. The induced cells express germline markers and migrate to gonads in ovo, offering a novel approach for avian genetic resource conservation. Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the progenitor cells of sperm and eggs.
Zeyu Li, XianShuai Xu, GuangZheng Liu, XiaoQian Lv, JiuZhou Song, HongYan Sun, YingJie Niu, QiSheng Zuo, Wei Han, BiChun Li, Kai Jin   +10 more
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