• Acknowledgments br PGD is an aracha

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  Acknowledgments PGD is an arachadonic acid-derived prostaglandin produced in large quantities when asthmatic lung tissues are challenged by allergens. PGD contracts the airway tissue as well as stimulating an inflammatory response. PGD was also found to be the ligand for a second receptor, DP2 (

• Under conditions of energy scarcity or

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  Under conditions of energy scarcity or nutritional restriction, AMPK, a critical energy sensor, is activated in response to the increased ratio of AMP to ATP. Various kinases may phosphorylate AMPK, leading to its activation. For example, AMPK phosphorylation by liver kinase B 1 (LKB1) at Thr172 res

• br Acknowledgements This work was supported

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  Acknowledgements This work was supported by the European Committee Fifth Framework Project QLK5-1999-01360. We are grateful to Dr. T.T. Hoang for the provision of plasmids pEX18Tc, pPS858 and pFLP2, Prof. B.L. Wanner for providing us with the plasmid pKD4 and related strains, and Prof. P. Soucail

• The evaluation of internal exposure in workers with omethoat

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  The evaluation of internal exposure in workers with omethoate is challenging. Unfortunately, OPs are metabolized and excreted quickly in the urine usually within 24–48 h of exposure, and the variation in metabolic rates exists. Many factors influence daily urinary output, such as salt intake, urea a

• br Materials and methods br Results br Discussion

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  Materials and methods Results Discussion Cisplatin, as one member of a class of platinum-containing anti-cancer drugs, which displays a great deal of clinical activity on a wide variety of solid tumors. In addition, cisplatin often used in combination with other chemotherapy drugs to treat

• Prostaglandin E receptor subtype EP is a

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  Prostaglandin E receptor subtype 4 (EP4) is a transmembrane G-coupled protein receptor activated by prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). EP4 activation exerts anti-inflammatory effects in adipose tissue by dampening the levels of inflammatory chemokines [12]. In the mouse, EP4 deficiency aggravates fragmentatio

• The Liver X Receptor and LXRs NR H and

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  The Liver X Receptor-α and -β (LXRs, NR1H3 and NR1H2, respectively) are members of the nuclear receptor superfamily that play a central role in controlling cholesterol homeostasis [9], [10]. In macrophages, LXRs can decrease the cellular sterol burden by inducing expression of the cholesterol efflux

• Eptifibatide br Transparency document br Acknowledgements We

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  Transparency document Acknowledgements We thank Prof. Barbara Brodsky for valuable comments and discussion. We thank the support of the Tufts start-up fund and the Knez Family Faculty Investment Fund for Y.-S. L, and the Tufts Summer Scholar program for E.C. Introduction Discoidin domain r

• br Materials and methods br Results

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  Materials and methods Results Discussion Studies have suggested that the Hh signaling pathway, which plays as an essential autocrine viability factor for MFBs [10], [11], is a potential therapeutic target for liver fibrosis. Previously reported works have proven the effectiveness of the Hh

• EBI and its ligand s EBI

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  EBI2 and its ligand(s) EBI2 was found in a screen of upregulated genes in human B cells upon infection with EBV [1]. EBI2 is a G-protein (Gαi type) coupled receptor [2] but as long as 18 years after its discovery the nature of its ligand remained undisclosed. With the help of transfected cell lines

• Because of the important role

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  Because of the important role of the DDB1-CUL4B interaction for CUL4B-based E3 ligases, disruption of the DDB1-CUL4B interaction could be an effective approach to treat cancer. Therefore, we developed an in vitro HTS assay based on yeast cell growth inhibition to identify compounds that could disrup

• Intriguingly one E residue may serve as

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  Intriguingly, one E2 residue may serve as a molecular ‘gate’ to allow the C-terminus of ubiquitin to access the closed E2~Ub conformations favorable for ubiquitin transfer. This residue, Asp87 in UbcH5 family members, resides on one side of the opening that leads to the active site Cys (Fig. 4D). In

• br Conclusion In the last year significant advances in our

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  Conclusion In the last year, significant advances in our understanding of ubiquitin transfer by IAPs and related E3 ligases have been made. The three crystal structures of the RING-bound E2~Ub show that the conjugate is bound by the RING domain in the closed conformation, where the I44-centered f

• The first hint that GLP might not be

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  The first hint that GLP-1 might not be completely stable came from a meeting abstract in 1992, reporting that GLP-1 could be degraded in plasma incubations [16], although the enzyme(s) involved was not identified. A year later, Mentlein and colleagues [17], in a search for peptide substrates of the

• br Conclusion The role of DNA

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  Conclusion The role of DNA-PK target in DNA DSB repair renders this Oleandrin kinase of great medicinal interest in cancer chemotherapy especially the cancer types of linked to DNA defects. Due to the absence of 3D DNA-PK target structure, different ligand-based methods were applied for design of

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