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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Volume 20, Issue 16

August-2 2019 - 225 articles

Cover Story: Although surfactant Protein B (SP-B) plays an essential role in breathing, its structural mechanisms are still a mystery. SP-B has been proposed to foster lipid structures that promote the absorption of lung surfactant to the air–water interface in alveoli, as well as to refine this material during the breathing cycle. Detailed molecular dynamics simulations help to reveal the structural features and lipid transitions likely to underlie SP-B’s essential functions, including a flexible loop and hinge region that preferentially interact with curved lipid structures. View this paper.
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Articles (225)

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,874 Views
14 Pages

Perinatal Micro-Bleeds and Neuroinflammation in E19 Rat Fetuses Exposed to Utero-Placental Ischemia

  • Ashtin B. Giambrone,
  • Omar C. Logue,
  • Qingmei Shao,
  • Gene L. Bidwell and
  • Junie P. Warrington

20 August 2019

Offspring of preeclampsia patients have an increased risk of developing neurological deficits and cognitive impairment. While low placental perfusion, common in preeclampsia and growth restriction, has been linked to neurological deficits, a causativ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,209 Views
16 Pages

Neuroprotective Properties of Linagliptin: Focus on Biochemical Mechanisms in Cerebral Ischemia, Vascular Dysfunction and Certain Neurodegenerative Diseases

  • Michał Wiciński,
  • Karol Górski,
  • Maciej Walczak,
  • Eryk Wódkiewicz,
  • Maciej Słupski,
  • Katarzyna Pawlak-Osińska and
  • Bartosz Malinowski

20 August 2019

Linagliptin is a representative of dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors which are registered and used effectively in a treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2. They increase the levels of active forms of endogenous incretins such as GLP-1 and GIP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,946 Views
10 Pages

IL-4 Augments IL-31/IL-31 Receptor Alpha Interaction Leading to Enhanced Ccl 17 and Ccl 22 Production in Dendritic Cells: Implications for Atopic Dermatitis

  • Sho Miake,
  • Gaku Tsuji,
  • Masaki Takemura,
  • Akiko Hashimoto-Hachiya,
  • Yen Hai Vu,
  • Masutaka Furue and
  • Takeshi Nakahara

20 August 2019

Severe pruritus is a characteristic feature of atopic dermatitis (AD) and is closely related to its activity. Recent studies have shown that IL-31 is a key determinant of pruritus in AD. Anti-IL-31 receptor alpha (IL-31RA) antibody treatment has also...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,175 Views
15 Pages

Lipolytic Effects of 3-Iodothyronamine (T1AM) and a Novel Thyronamine-Like Analog SG-2 through the AMPK Pathway

  • Michael Rogowski,
  • Lorenza Bellusci,
  • Martina Sabatini,
  • Simona Rapposelli,
  • Shaikh M. Rahman,
  • Grazia Chiellini and
  • Fariba M. Assadi-Porter

20 August 2019

3-Iodothyronamine (T1AM) and its synthetic analog SG-2 are rapidly emerging as promising drivers of cellular metabolic reprogramming. Our recent research indicates that in obese mice a sub-chronic low dose T1AM treatment increased lipolysis, associat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,990 Views
17 Pages

20 August 2019

Adipose tissue is a major endocrine organ capable of secreting adipokines with a role in whole-body metabolism. Changes in the secretome profile during the development of obesity is suspected to contribute to the risk of health complications such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,946 Views
14 Pages

A SNP Mutation of SiCRC Regulates Seed Number Per Capsule and Capsule Length of cs1 Mutant in Sesame

  • Libin Wei,
  • Chun Li,
  • Yinghui Duan,
  • Wenwen Qu,
  • Huili Wang,
  • Hongmei Miao and
  • Haiyang Zhang

20 August 2019

Seed number per capsule (SNC) is a major factor influencing seed yield and is an important trait with complex gene interaction effects. We first performed genetic analysis, gene cloning, and molecular mechanism study for an EMS-induced sesame mutant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,968 Views
14 Pages

20 August 2019

Psychrotrophic foodborne pathogens, such as enteropathogenic Yersinia, which are able to survive and multiply at low temperatures, require cold shock proteins (Csps). The Csp superfamily consists of a diverse group of homologous proteins, which have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,713 Views
26 Pages

Therapeutic and Protective Effects of Liposomal Encapsulation of Astaxanthin in Mice with Alcoholic Liver Fibrosis

  • Yu Chiuan Wu,
  • Han Hsiang Huang,
  • Yi Jhen Wu,
  • Ioannis Manousakas,
  • Chin Chang Yang and
  • Shyh Ming Kuo

20 August 2019

Astaxanthin (Asta) has been demonstrated to possess anti-inflammatory, antitumor, and free radical-clearing activities. However, the poor stability and low water solubility of Asta hamper its bioavailability. The objectives of this study were to fabr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,153 Views
21 Pages

Comparative Analysis of miRNA Abundance Revealed the Function of Vvi-miR828 in Fruit Coloring in Root Restriction Cultivation Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.)

  • Qiuju Chen,
  • Bohan Deng,
  • Jie Gao,
  • Zhongyang Zhao,
  • Zili Chen,
  • Shiren Song,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Liping Zhao,
  • Wenping Xu and
  • Caixi Zhang
  • + 2 authors

20 August 2019

Root restriction cultivation leads to early maturation and quality improvement, especially in the anthocyanin content in grapevine. However, the molecular mechanisms that underlie these changes have not been thoroughly elucidated. In this study, four...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,821 Views
13 Pages

Proteomic Phosphosite Analysis Identified Crucial NPM-ALK-Mediated NIPA Serine and Threonine Residues

  • Anina Gengenbacher,
  • Alina Müller-Rudorf,
  • Teresa Poggio,
  • Linda Gräßel,
  • Veronica I. Dumit,
  • Stefanie Kreutmair,
  • Lena J. Lippert,
  • Justus Duyster and
  • Anna L. Illert

20 August 2019

Anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) is an aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma that shows in 60% of cases a translocation t(2;5)(p23;q35), which leads to the expression of the oncogenic kinase NPM-ALK. The nuclear interaction partner of ALK (NIPA) defin...

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