The popular recreational drug MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) has a documented potential as a psychopharmacological clinical and research tool.
Ángel A. Islas+2 more
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Crystallographic Characterization of Sodium Ions in a Bacterial Leucine/Sodium Symporter
Na+ is the most abundant ion in living organisms and plays essential roles in regulating nutrient uptake, muscle contraction, and neurotransmission. The identification of Na+ in protein structures is crucial for gaining a deeper understanding of protein ...
Akira Karasawa+4 more
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Uptake of L-cystine via an ABC transporter contributes defense of oxidative stress in the L-cystine export-dependent manner in Escherichia coli. [PDF]
Intracellular thiols like L-cystine and L-cystine play a critical role in the regulation of cellular processes. Here we show that Escherichia coli has two L-cystine transporters, the symporter YdjN and the ATP-binding cassette importer FliY-YecSC.
Iwao Ohtsu+7 more
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A role for the small GTPases RAC1 and RAC1b in the modulation of NIS expression: potentiation of therapy with radioactive iodine in differentiated thyroid carcinoma [PDF]
Introduction or Background: The Sodium Iodide Symporter (NIS) is responsible for active transport of iodide into thyroid follicular cells. The retention of its functional expression in most of the well-differentiated thyroid carcinomas (DTCs) enables ...
Bugalho, Maria J.+5 more
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ENDOCRINE TUMOURS: Imaging in the follow up of differentiated thyroid cancer: current evidence and future perspectives for a risk-adapted approach [PDF]
The clinical and epidemiological profiles of differentiated thyroid cancers (DTCs) have changed in the last three decades. Today's DTCs are more likely to be small, localized, asymptomatic papillary forms.
Deandreis, Désirée+3 more
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Combining Transfer of TTF-1 and Pax-8 Gene: a Potential Strategy to Promote Radioiodine Therapy of Thyroid Carcinoma [PDF]
Cotransfer of TTF-1 and Pax-8 gene to tumor cells, resulting in the reexpression of iodide metabolism-associated proteins, such as sodium iodide symporter (NIS), thyroglobulin (Tg), thyroperoxidase (TPO), offers the possibility of radioiodine therapy to ...
Anren Kuang+4 more
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Kinetic mechanism of coupled binding in sodium-aspartate symporter GltPh
Many secondary active membrane transporters pump substrates against concentration gradients by coupling their uptake to symport of sodium ions. Symport requires the substrate and ions to be always transported together.
SeCheol Oh, Olga Boudker
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Sodium iodide symporter (NIS) in extrathyroidal malignancies: Focus on breast and urological cancer [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Expression and function of sodium iodide symporter (NIS) is requisite for efficient iodide transport in thyrocytes, and its presence in cancer cells allows the use of radioiodine as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in thyroid neoplasia ...
BIANCHI, Giampaolo+8 more
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Genome Analysis of a New Rhodothermaceae Strain Isolated from a Hot Spring
A bacterial strain, designated RA, was isolated from water sample of a hot spring on Langkawi Island of Malaysia using marine agar. Strain RA is an aerophilic and thermophilic microorganism that grows optimally at 50–60°C and is capable of growing in ...
Kian Mau Goh+7 more
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SKBR-3 cell line is a breast cancer model for human epidermal growth factor receptor2 (HER2) positive. Only 50% of patients of this type have fully responded to chemotherapy.
Aisyah Elliyanti+4 more
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