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| Tian-miao Ou; Yu-jing Lu; Xiao-dong Wang; Zeng-yun An; Yan-ping Li; Zhi-shu Huang; Lian-quan Gu. |
| Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a pluripotent cytokine and angiogenic growth factor, plays crucial roles in embryonic development and tumour progression, and is over-expressed in many types of cancer and generally associated with tumour progression and survival rate. The polypurine/polypyrimide sequence located upstream (-89 to -43) of the promoter region of the human VEGF gene that can form specific G-quadruplex structures and raise the possibility for transcriptional control of the VEGF gene by G-quadruplex ligands. In the present study, we investigated the interaction between the 5-N-methyl-7-fluorine-quindoline derivatives (11-amino-5-N-methyl-7-fluorine- quindoline derivatives) and the G-rich sequence in VEGF's promoter and the... |
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Palavras-chave: Cancer. |
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URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1946/version/1 |
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| Michael E. Baker. |
| 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type-2 (11[beta]-HSD2) regulates the local concentration of cortisol that can activate the glucocorticoid receptor and mineralocorticoid receptor, as well as the concentration of 11-keto-testosterone, the active androgen in fish. Similarly, 17[beta]-HSD2 regulates the levels of testosterone and estradiol that activate the androgen receptor and estrogen receptor, respectively. Interestingly, although human 11[beta]-HSD2 and 17[beta]-HSD2 act at different positions on different steroids, these enzymes are paralogs. Despite the physiological importance of 11[beta]-HSD2 and 17[beta]-HSD2, details of their origins and divergence from a common ancestor are not known. An opportunity to understand their evolution is... |
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Palavras-chave: Cancer; Developmental Biology; Pharmacology; Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4649/version/1 |
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| Mauting Lin; Carl D. Morrison; Susie Jones; Nehad Mohamed; Jason Bacher; Christoph Plass. |
| Gene amplification, a common mechanism for oncogene activation in cancers, has been used in the discovery of novel oncogenes. DNA amplification is frequently observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) where numerous amplification events and potential oncogenes have already been reported. Recently, we applied restriction landmark genome scanning (RLGS) to study gene amplifications in HNSCC and located novel amplified and uncharacterized regions in primary tumor samples. DNA amplification on 8q22.3, the location of 14-3-3[zeta] (YWHAZ, KCIP-1) is found in 30-40% HNSCC cases. Data obtained from fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) and immunohistochemistry on HNSCC tissue microarrays confirmed frequent low-level 14-3-3[zeta] copy number... |
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Palavras-chave: Cancer. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1953/version/1 |
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| P. Kumar; C. M. Ramakritinan; A. K. Kumaraguru. |
| A bacterial strain, designated _Aeromonas sp. kumar_, was isolated from a water sample collected from Red tide Bloom occurred in the region of Gulf of Mannar region, Puthumadam Coast, India and the strain was identified using 16S rRNA based identification. During the sample collection, microbiology analysis was done to study the morphology of the bacteria. Pure culture of strain was maintained through out the study. DNA was isolated and sequenced using 16S rRNA primers. A length of 1452 nucleotide was sequenced and was put in public data base for obtaining accession number. The sequence was studied using MEGA 4, to estimate the evolutionary distances and to construct the Phylogenetic tree. Along with that Regulatory elements and Transcription factors were... |
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Palavras-chave: Ecology; Microbiology; Bioinformatics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3898/version/1 |
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| Olaf Riess; Holm Graessner. |
| The INCF Secretariat organized a workshop to focus on the “role of neuroinformatics in the processes of building, evaluating, and using genetic animal models for brain diseases” in Stockholm, December 13–14, 2009. Eight scientists specialized in the fields of neuroinformatics, database, ontologies, and brain disease participated together with two representatives of the National Institutes of Health and the European Union, as well as three observers of the national INCF nodes of Norway, Poland, and the United Kingdom. |
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Palavras-chave: Neuroscience; Bioinformatics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5909/version/1 |
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| Mihail Bota; Larry Swanson. |
| The goal of this workshop was to agree on a general strategy for developing a systematic, useful, and scientifically appropriate framework for neuroanatomical nomenclature. The workshop focused on general principles that will serve as a basis for future decisions on implementation strategies. The report discusses the problems arising from the use of different parcellation schemes and use of different terminologies and highlights the need of a universal vocabulary for describing the structural organization of the nervous system. Workshop participants encourage the creation of an International Coordinating Committee for Neuroanatomical Nomenclature and propose short- and long-term goals for such a committee. |
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Palavras-chave: Neuroscience; Bioinformatics; Data Standards. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1780/version/1 |
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| Guanjun Shen; Xing Gao; Bin Gao; Darryl Granger. |
| The chronological position of Peking Man, or Homo erectus pekinensis, has long been pursued, but has remained problematic due to lack of a suitable dating method^1-7^. Here we report cosmogenic ^26^Al/ ^10^Be burial dating of quartz sediments and artifacts from the lower strata of Zhoukoudian Locality 1 where the remains of early members of the Peking Man family were discovered. This study marks the first radioisotopic dating of any early hominin site in China beyond the range of mass spectrometric U-series dating. The weighted mean of six meaningful measurements, 0.75 +/-; 0.09 (0.11) Ma (million years), provides the best age estimate for lower cultural Layers ^7-10^. Together with previously reported U-series^3^ and paleomagnetic^4^ data, as well as... |
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Palavras-chave: Earth & Environment. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2275/version/1 |
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| Andrey V. Zhuravlev; Yadviga A. Vevel. |
| Three-dimension modeling of fossils is one of the branches of computer using in palaeontology. The branch has wide perspectives but it is hardly developed, especially in micropalaeontology. Proposed method of 3D modelling of microfossils demands no unique and expansive equipment and can be realized practically in any palaeontological laboratory. Lower accuracy of the models developed is not critical for most the fields of their utilization: for teaching purposes, construction of illustrated databases and virtual atlases, and for the display of microfossils to a general audience. |
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Palavras-chave: Earth & Environment. |
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URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1632/version/1 |
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| Michael E. Baker; David J. Chang. |
| The origins of signaling by vertebrate steroids are not fully understood. An important advance was the report that an estrogen-binding steroid receptor [SR] is present in amphioxus, a basal chordate with a similar body plan as vertebrates. To investigate the evolution of estrogen binding to steroid receptors, we constructed a 3D model of amphioxus SR complexed with estradiol. This 3D model indicates that although the SR is activated by estradiol, some interactions between estradiol and human ER[alpha] are not conserved in the SR, which can explain the low affinity of estradiol for the SR. These differences between the SR and ER[alpha] in the steroid-binding domain are sufficient to suggest that another steroid is the physiological regulator of the SR.... |
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Palavras-chave: Cancer; Developmental Biology; Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3316/version/1 |
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| Michael E. Baker; David J. Chang; Charlie Chandsawangbhuwana. |
| Lamprey, a basal vertebrate, contains orthologs of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor and corticoid receptor. A perplexing property of lamprey is that 15[alpha]-hydroxy-steroids are active steroids. For example, 15[alpha]-hydroxy-estradiol [15[alpha]-OH-E2] is the estrogen, instead of estradiol (E2). To investigate how 15[alpha]-OH-E2 binds lamprey ER, we constructed a 3D model of the lamprey ER with E2 and 15[alpha]-OH-E2. Our 3D model shows that S[delta] on Met-409 can form a hydrogen bond with the 15[alpha]-hydroxyl on 15[alpha]-OH-E2. In human ER[alpha], the corresponding residue Ile-424 has a van der Waals contact with 15[alpha]-OH-E2. BLAST analysis of GenBank indicates that among vertebrate ERs, only lamprey ER contains a... |
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Palavras-chave: Developmental Biology; Ecology; Earth & Environment. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2768/version/1 |
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| Michael E. Baker; Kayla Y. Uh; Paiyuam Asnaashari. |
| The serum of Atlantic sea lamprey, a basal vertebrate, contains two corticosteroids, 11-deoxycortisol and deoxycorticosterone. Only 11-deoxycortisol has high affinity [Kd~3 nM] for the corticoid receptor [CR] in lamprey gill cytosol. To investigate the binding of 11-deoxycortisol to the CR, we constructed 3D models of lamprey CR complexed with 11-deoxycortisol and deoxycorticosterone. These 3D models reveal that Leu-220 and Met-299 in lamprey CR have contacts with the 17[alpha]-hydroxyl on 11-deoxycortisol. Lamprey CR is the ancestor of the mineralocorticoid receptor [MR] and glucocorticoid receptor [GR]. Unlike human MR and human GR, the 3D model of lamprey CR finds a van der Waals contact between Cys-227 in helix 3 and Met-264 in helix 5. Mutant... |
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Palavras-chave: Cancer; Developmental Biology; Pharmacology; Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6216/version/1 |
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| Anuraj Nayarisseri; Mukesh Yadav; Dowlathabad Muralidhara Rao; Sonam Kukreja; Sheaza Ahmed; Pooja Singh. |
| The 3 Dimensional structure of a protein is an expedient for structure based drug design and identifying the conformational epitopes that are foremost for designing the vaccines. Chikungunya (CHIKV) is a heat sensitive RNA virus which causes a viral disease which is transmitted in humans by human-mosquito-human transmission. Disease mostly found in the tropic and subtropical countries mainly in South India and in few other Asian countries. The primary transmission agents of Chikungunya Virus are yellow fever mosquito (_Aedes aegypti_) and forest day mosquito (_Aedes albopictus_). The forest day mosquito bites during day time and hence day time mosquito bite is the main reason for transmission. The main distinctive of the disease is a fever along with an... |
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Palavras-chave: Bioinformatics. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5143/version/1 |
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