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Rong Grace Zhai Menico Rizzi Silvia Garavaglia 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2009,66(17):2805-2818
Nicotinamide/nicotinic acid mononucleotide adenylyltransferase (NMNAT) has long been known as the master enzyme in NAD biosynthesis
in living organisms. A burst of investigations on NMNAT, going beyond enzymology, have paralleled increasing discoveries of
key roles played by NAD homeostasis in a number or patho-physiological conditions. The availability of in-depth kinetics and
structural enzymology analyses carried out on NMNATs from different organisms offer a powerful tool for uncovering fascinating
evolutionary relationships. On the other hand, additional functions featuring NMNAT have emerged from investigations aimed
at unraveling the molecular mechanisms responsible for complex biological phenomena such as neurodegeneration. NMNAT appears
to be a multifunctional protein that sits both at the core of central metabolism and at a crossroads of multiple cellular
processes. The resultant wealth of biochemical data has built a robust framework upon which design of NMNAT activators, inhibitors
or enzyme variants of potential medical interest can be based. 相似文献
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Grace W. C. Cheung Andrea Kokorovic Tony K. T. Lam 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2009,66(18):3023-3027
Upon the entry of nutrients into the small intestine, nutrient sensing mechanisms are activated to allow the body to adapt
appropriately to the incoming nutrients. To date, mounting evidence points to the existence of an upper intestinal lipid-induced
gut–brain neuronal axis to regulate energy homeostasis. Moreover, a recent discovery has also revealed an upper intestinal
lipid-induced gut–brain–liver neuronal axis involved in the regulation of glucose homeostasis. In this mini-review, we will
focus on the mechanisms underlying the activation of these respective neuronal axes by upper intestinal lipids. 相似文献
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An amino-acid taste receptor 总被引:52,自引:0,他引:52
The sense of taste provides animals with valuable information about the nature and quality of food. Mammals can recognize and respond to a diverse repertoire of chemical entities, including sugars, salts, acids and a wide range of toxic substances. Several amino acids taste sweet or delicious (umami) to humans, and are attractive to rodents and other animals. This is noteworthy because L-amino acids function as the building blocks of proteins, as biosynthetic precursors of many biologically relevant small molecules, and as metabolic fuel. Thus, having a taste pathway dedicated to their detection probably had significant evolutionary implications. Here we identify and characterize a mammalian amino-acid taste receptor. This receptor, T1R1+3, is a heteromer of the taste-specific T1R1 and T1R3 G-protein-coupled receptors. We demonstrate that T1R1 and T1R3 combine to function as a broadly tuned L-amino-acid sensor responding to most of the 20 standard amino acids, but not to their D-enantiomers or other compounds. We also show that sequence differences in T1R receptors within and between species (human and mouse) can significantly influence the selectivity and specificity of taste responses. 相似文献
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Pavlovian conditioning results when an innocuous stimulus, such as an odour, is paired with a behaviourally relevant stimulus, such as a foot-shock, so that eventually the former stimulus alone will elicit the behavioural response of the latter. The lateral nucleus of the amygdala (LAT) is necessary for the emotional memory formation in this paradigm. Enhanced neuronal firing in LAT to conditioned stimuli emerge in parallel with the behavioural changes and are dependent on local dopamine. To study the changes in neuronal excitability and synaptic drive that contribute to the pavlovian conditioning process, here we used in vivo intracellular recordings to examine LAT neurons during pavlovian conditioning in rats. We found that repeated pairings of an odour with a foot-shock resulted in enhanced post-synaptic potential (PSP) responses to the odour and increased neuronal excitability. However, a non-paired odour displayed PSP decrement. The dopamine antagonist haloperidol blocked the PSP enhancement and associated increased neuronal excitability, without reversing previous conditioning. These results demonstrate that conditioning and habituation processes produce opposite effects on LAT neurons and that dopamine is important in these events, consistent with its role in emotional memory formation. 相似文献
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Ionophores consist of molecules which surround and carry positive metal ions and other ions through biological membranes.
One classe of ionophores which we have been developing contains dipeptides which are encouraged to become part of a ring because
of possible hydrogen bond formation between the 2-hydroxy on the phenyl group and carboxyl group (COOH) of the final amide
proline. Formation of a ring should increase the complexation ability of the ionophore. We report that the synthesis of N-(2-hydroxyl-1-phenoxyacetyl)
prolyproline(1), a novel ionophore is prepared from activated 2-acetoxy phenoxyacetic acid (3a) and the appropriate dipeptide
ester using coupling methods such as dicyclohexyl carbodiimide with hydroxyben-ztriazole or carbonyl diimidazole.
Yang Dingqiao: born in 1958, Associate professor 相似文献
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In vitro malignant transformation of cells by Friend virus 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
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Zody MC Garber M Sharpe T Young SK Rowen L O'Neill K Whittaker CA Kamal M Chang JL Cuomo CA Dewar K FitzGerald MG Kodira CD Madan A Qin S Yang X Abbasi N Abouelleil A Arachchi HM Baradarani L Birditt B Bloom S Bloom T Borowsky ML Burke J Butler J Cook A DeArellano K DeCaprio D Dorris L Dors M Eichler EE Engels R Fahey J Fleetwood P Friedman C Gearin G Hall JL Hensley G Johnson E Jones C Kamat A Kaur A Locke DP Madan A Munson G Jaffe DB Lui A Macdonald P Mauceli E Naylor JW Nesbitt R Nicol R 《Nature》2006,440(7084):671-675
Here we present a finished sequence of human chromosome 15, together with a high-quality gene catalogue. As chromosome 15 is one of seven human chromosomes with a high rate of segmental duplication, we have carried out a detailed analysis of the duplication structure of the chromosome. Segmental duplications in chromosome 15 are largely clustered in two regions, on proximal and distal 15q; the proximal region is notable because recombination among the segmental duplications can result in deletions causing Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes. Sequence analysis shows that the proximal and distal regions of 15q share extensive ancient similarity. Using a simple approach, we have been able to reconstruct many of the events by which the current duplication structure arose. We find that most of the intrachromosomal duplications seem to share a common ancestry. Finally, we demonstrate that some remaining gaps in the genome sequence are probably due to structural polymorphisms between haplotypes; this may explain a significant fraction of the gaps remaining in the human genome. 相似文献
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J. Kobayashi J. -F. Cheng H. Nakamura Y. Ohizumi Y. Tomotake T. Matsuzaki K. J. S. Grace R. S. Jacobs Y. Kato L. S. Brinen J. Clardy 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》1991,47(5):501-502
Summary Brianolide (1), a new antiinflammatory diterpenoid of the briarein class, possessing a substituent at C-12 (R), has been isolated from the Okinawan gorgonianBriareum sp. Its structure has been established from spectral data in conjunction with a single crystal X-ray analysis. 相似文献
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40年前A.爱因斯坦给M.玻恩的一封信中写道,“上帝不玩骰子。”爱因斯坦是始终反对量子论的概率解释的,他不倦地探索着与经典力学更为直接的类比,即考虑没有概率不定性的确定过程。如今,40年过去了,没有人会惊讶:甚至在一个经典哈密顿动力系统中也存在着(chas)在物理客体规则运动的领域内,在没有人预期会有的地方冒出 相似文献
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