• Renal cell carcinoma RCC accounts for more

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  Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for more than 12,000 cancer deaths in the United States (Jemal et al., 2003). The current treatment includes surgical resection followed by interleukin-2 or Interferon-α treatment. Some patients experience distant metastatic lesions of RCC. In the last 5 years, re

• Phagosomes acquire some hydrolases early during

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  Phagosomes acquire some hydrolases early during their journey from the cell surface to lysosomes. An example for such hydrolase is cathepsin H which is most concentrated in the early phagosome at a pH of approximately 6.3 (Claus et al., 1998), the pH optimum of enzyme activity (Schwartz and Barrett,

• br The role of apelin in

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  The role of apelin in respiratory diseases At present, several scientific studies have suggested that the apelin/APJ system may play an important role in the development of pulmonary diseases (Table 4). For example, in an experiment on rats suffering from acute lung injury, apelin-13 decreases th

• The protein kinase CK mediated phosphorylation

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  The protein kinase CK2-mediated phosphorylation of HMGN1 was implicated to be involved in age-associated amnesia in rats [31]. It was shown that the decreased level of HMGN1 phosphorylation due to the down-regulation of CK2 activity could cause amnesia in aged rats, whereas the treatment with protei

• Interestingly as observed with Treg cells

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  Interestingly, as observed with Treg cells, adenosine can regulate the function of Breg cells, a subset of immunosuppressive cells that support immunological tolerance [115]. In particular, Bregs were able to regulate both their own function and T cell activity via an adenosine signaling originating

• As an alternative to chronic receptor blockade we have been

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  As an alternative to chronic receptor blockade, we have been targeting adenosine kinase (ADK) – an astrocyte-based enzyme that catalyses the phosphorylation of adenosine, as a means to modify sbha adenosinergic signalling (Boison, 2006, Etherington et al., 2009). Up-regulating ADK facilitates the c

• 57 9 Streptomycetes are a group of filamentous Gram positive

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  Streptomycetes are a group of filamentous Gram-positive, soil-inhabiting bacteria which have captured enormous screening interest because of their ability to produce and secrete a variety of 57 9 and extracellular proteins [7]. Among the diverse antibiotics produced by Streptomycetes are the nucleos

• The adult muscle type acetylcholine receptor AChR the

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  The adult muscle-type betaxolol synthesis receptor (AChR), the exemplar pLGIC, is a heteropentamer comprising two α subunits, and one each of the β, δ, and ɛ subunits (Sine, 2012). These five subunits come together in a counterclockwise α-ɛ-α-δ-β arrangement (Figure 1A). Binding of acetylcholine to

• LO is a soluble kDa enzyme composed

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  5-LO is a soluble 78 kDa enzyme, composed of an α-helix-rich catalytic domain and a regulatory β-sheet-rich C2-like domain. Depending on the cell type, 5-LO may be located in the cytosol, in the nucleoplasm, or in both compartments (Werz, 2002). Upon cell stimulation by agents that elevate intracell

• At present drugs that specifically inhibit YAP activity are

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  At present, drugs that specifically inhibit YAP activity are not available. In fact, verteporfin, which was originally described as a specific inhibitor of YAP-TEAD interaction, has been recently shown to exert its activity through selective induction of proteotoxicity rather than through YAP inhibi

• Autophagy is finalized through the coordinated positioning

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  Autophagy is finalized through the coordinated positioning and fusion of autophagosomes with lysosomes, during which an array of common and specific membrane traffic-associated proteins is mobilized. Among these proteins, small GTPases, like Rab7, Rab34, or Arl8, and their Thio-TEPA proteins, regula

• br Conflict of interest statement br Acknowledgments

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  Conflict of interest statement Acknowledgments Introduction Cellular responses to genotoxic stress in eukaryotic cells are coordinated by members of the phosphoinositide kinase related protein kinase (PIKK) family. Two members of this family, Ataxia–Telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ATM and

• It is well known that neurosteroids such as testosterone

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  It is well-known that neurosteroids such as testosterone and their metabolites endogenously modulate neural excitability in animals and humans. Testosterone has protective effects against seizures induced by KA and PTZ (Frye et al., 2001b; Reddy, 2004b). Estrogens, on the other hand, have proconvuls

• The putative residue apelin proprotein proapelin or apelin i

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  The putative 55-residue apelin proprotein (proapelin or apelin-55) is processed from a 77-residue preproprotein through removal of a 22-residue signal peptide (Table 1). Apelin-55 is further processed into bioactive isoforms of 36, 17, or 13 residues, likely through protease-mediated mechanisms. To

• p2x Negative regulation of AR expression

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  Negative regulation of AR expression by NFκB was also correlated with the ‘age-dependent desensitisation’ of androgen action in the rat liver (Supakar et al., 1995). In this case the binding site was mapped upstream of the gene to sequences −555 to −565 bp, that binds heterodimers of p65 and p50, as

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