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  1. Olfactomedin-1 (Olfm1; also known as Noelin or Pancortin) is a highly-expressed secreted brain and retina protein and its four isoforms have different roles in nervous system development and function. Structur...

    Authors: Matti F. Pronker, Hugo van den Hoek and Bert J. C. Janssen
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:50
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  2. Several reports indicated that the expression of Yes-associated protein (YAP) was associated with multi-drug resistance. Acidic microenvironment increased by the overexpression of vacuolar-ATPase (V-ATPase) wa...

    Authors: Jing He, Xiao-Yan Shi, Zhi-min Li, Xiao-hua Pan, Ze-Lian Li, Ying Chen, Shi-Jie Yan and Lan Xiao
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:49
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  3. Matrix mineralization is a key stage in bone formation involving in many bone-specific genes and signaling pathways. Emerging evidence indicate that long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) and microRNAs (miRNAs) play cru...

    Authors: Yuan Wu, Yu Jiang, Qiang Liu and Cui-Zhong Liu
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:48
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  4. In healthy subjects fibrinogen γ/γ‘ circulates at 8–15% of the total plasma fibrinogen concentration. Elevated levels of this variant have been associated with arterial thrombosis, and its diminution with veno...

    Authors: Miriam Cantero, Héctor Rojas, Eduardo Anglés-Cano and Rita Marchi
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:47
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  5. It was reported that microRNA-21(miR-21) was differentially expressed in the keratinocytes of psoriasis patients, and it may influence the apoptosis and proliferation of cells. The role of lncRNA maternally ex...

    Authors: Hai-Yan Jia, Kai Zhang, Wen-Jing Lu, Gui-Wen Xu, Jian-Fen Zhang and Zhan-Li Tang
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:46
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  6. The HongXin radish (Raphanus sativus L.), which contains the natural red pigment (red radish pigment), is grown in the Fuling district of Chongqing City. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying anthocyanin s...

    Authors: Jian Gao, Wen-Bo Li, Hong-Fang Liu and Fa-Bo Chen
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:45
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  7. Meiosis-I is a unique type of chromosome segregation where each chromosome aligns and segregates from its homolog. The mechanism of meiosis I homolog separation in different eukaryotes depends on their centrom...

    Authors: Akhilendra Pratap Bharati and Santanu Kumar Ghosh
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:44
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  8. All cells rely on lipids for key functions. Lipid transfer proteins allow lipids to exit the hydrophobic environment of bilayers, and cross aqueous spaces. One lipid transfer domain fold present in almost all ...

    Authors: Timothy P. Levine
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:43
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  9. Docking large ligands, and especially peptides, to protein receptors is still considered a challenge in computational structural biology. Besides the issue of accurately scoring the binding modes of a protein-...

    Authors: Didier Devaurs, Dinler A Antunes, Sarah Hall-Swan, Nicole Mitchell, Mark Moll, Gregory Lizée and Lydia E Kavraki
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:42
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  10. Microtubule proteins are able to produce electromagnetic fields and have an important role in memory formation, and learning. Therefore, microtubules have the potential to be affected by exogenous electromagne...

    Authors: Dariush Gholami, Gholamhossein Riazi, Rouhollah Fathi, Mohsen Sharafi and Abdolhossein Shahverdi
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:41
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  11. The essentially unlimited expansion potential and the pluripotency of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) make them attractive for cell-based therapeutic purposes. Although hESCs can indefinitely proliferate in...

    Authors: Guillermo A. Videla-Richardson, Verónica A. Furmento, Carolina P. Garcia, Olivia Morris-Hanon, Gustavo E. Sevlever, Leonardo Romorini and María E. Scassa
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:40
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  12. A study has shown that miR-423-5p is highly expressed in proliferative diabetic retinopathy. However, the exact biological functions and mechanisms of miR-423-5p in diabetic retinopathy (DR) progression are cu...

    Authors: Qing Xiao, Yinu Zhao, Jia Xu, Wen-Jie Li, Yu Chen and Hong-Jing Sun
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:39
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  14. The EP4 prostanoid receptor is one of four GPCRs that mediate the diverse actions of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). Novel selective EP4 receptor agonists would assist to further elucidate receptor sub-type function and...

    Authors: Melissa C. Holt, Chi S. Ho, M. Inés Morano, Stephen D. Barrett and Adam J. Stein
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:37
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  15. Whole-proteome distributions of protein isoelectric point (pI) values in different organisms are bi- or trimodal with some variations. It was suggested that the observed multimodality of the proteome-wide pI d...

    Authors: Atsushi Kurotani, Alexander A. Tokmakov, Ken-Ichi Sato, Vasily E. Stefanov, Yutaka Yamada and Tetsuya Sakurai
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:36
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  16. HPV16 infection is one of the main risk factors involved in the development of cervical cancer, mainly due to the high oncogenic potential of the viral proteins E6 and E7, which are involved in the different p...

    Authors: Hugo Alberto Rodríguez-Ruiz, Olga Lilia Garibay-Cerdenares, Berenice Illades-Aguiar, Sarita Montaño, Xiaowei Jiang and Marco Antonio Leyva-Vázquez
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:35
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  18. The PINK1:Parkin pathway regulates the autophagic removal of damaged and dysfunctional mitochondria. While the response of this pathway to complete loss of ΔΨm, as caused by high concentrations of mitochondria...

    Authors: J. Logan Bowling, Mary Catherine Skolfield, Wesley A. Riley, Andrew P. Nolin, Larissa C. Wolf and David E. Nelson
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:33
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  19. Endothelial cells (ECs) play a key role in tissue homeostasis, in several pathological conditions, and specifically in the control of vascular functions. ECs are frequently used as in vitro model systems for c...

    Authors: Olli-Pekka A. Hätinen, Johanna E. Lähteenvuo, Henna J. Korpela, Juho J. Pajula and Seppo Ylä-Herttuala
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:32
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  20. The discovery of thermostable DNA polymerases such as Taq DNA polymerase revolutionized amplification of DNA by polymerase chain reaction methods that rely on thermal cycling for strand separation. These metho...

    Authors: Yvonne Piotrowski, Man Kumari Gurung and Atle Noralf Larsen
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:31
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  21. Several human cancers, especially cervical cancer are caused by the infection of high risk strains of human papillomaviruses (HPV), notably HPV16. It is implicated that the oncoprotein E6 expressed from HPV, i...

    Authors: Srikanth Kolluru, Rosemary Momoh, Lydia Lin, Jayapal Reddy Mallareddy and John L. Krstenansky
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:30
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  22. CD40 is a 48 kDa type I transmembrane protein that is constitutively expressed on hematopoietic cells such as dendritic cells, macrophages, and B cells. Engagement of CD40 by CD40L expressed on T cells results...

    Authors: Maria A. Argiriadi, Lorenzo Benatuil, Ievgeniia Dubrovska, David A. Egan, Lei Gao, Amy Greischar, Jennifer Hardman, John Harlan, Ramesh B. Iyer, Russell A. Judge, Marc Lake, Denise C. Perron, Ramkrishna Sadhukhan, Bernhard Sielaff, Silvino Sousa, Rui Wang…
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:29
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  23. Metabolites are genetically and environmentally determined. Consequently, they can be used to characterize environmental exposures and reveal biochemical mechanisms that link exposure to disease. To explore di...

    Authors: Aida Santaolalla, Hans Garmo, Anita Grigoriadis, Sundeep Ghuman, Niklas Hammar, Ingmar Jungner, Göran Walldius, Mats Lambe, Lars Holmberg and Mieke Van Hemelrijck
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:28
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  24. Podocyte plays an important role in maintaining the integrity and function of the glomerular filtration barrier. Various studies reported that forkhead transcription factor (Fox) O1 played a key role in anti-o...

    Authors: Hongkun Wang, Yanhui Zhang, Fangfang Xia, Wei Zhang, Peng Chen and Guoan Yang
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:27
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  26. Cardiac stem cells (CSCs) exhibit age-dependent characteristics. Cited2 has been implicated in the regulation of heart development; however, there is little known about how Cited2 affects CSC aging.

    Authors: Qiong Wu, Qin Liu, Jinxi Zhan, Qian Wang, Daxiu Zhang, Shuangli He, Shiming Pu and Zuping Zhou
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:25
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  27. During production of the original article [1], there was a technical error that resulted in author corrections not being rendered in the PDF version of the article.

    Authors: Gera A. Pavlova, Alyona V. Razuvaeva, Julia V. Popova, Evgeniya N. Andreyeva, Lyubov A. Yarinich, Mikhail O. Lebedev, Claudia Pellacani, Silvia Bonaccorsi, Maria Patrizia Somma, Maurizio Gatti and Alexey V. Pindyurin
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:24
    Content type: Publisher Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:7

  28. Protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPN13, also known as PTP-BL in mice, is a large multi-domain non-transmembrane scaffolding protein with a molecular mass of 270 kDa. It is involved in the regulation of several ce...

    Authors: Markus Dicks, Gerd Kock, Bastian Kohl, Xueyin Zhong, Stefanie Pütz, Rolf Heumann, Kai S. Erdmann and Raphael Stoll
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:23
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  29. Wntless (Wls) is a protein that regulates secretion of Wnt signaling molecules from Wnt-producing cells. Wnt signaling is known to be critical for several developmental and homeostatic processes. However, Wnt-...

    Authors: Jessica Petko, Mathura Thileepan, Molly Sargen, Victor Canfield and Robert Levenson
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:22
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  30. To-date, no claim regarding finding a consensus sequon for O-glycosylation has been made. Thus, predicting the likelihood of O-glycosylation with sequence and structural information using classical regression ana...

    Authors: Rajaram Gana and Sona Vasudevan
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:21
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  31. Classic dendritic cells (cDCs) play a central role in the immune system by processing and presenting antigens to activate T cells, and consist of two major subsets: CD141+ cDC (cDC1) and CD1c+ cDC (cDC2). A popul...

    Authors: Wenji Ma, Jaeyop Lee, Daniel Backenroth, Yu Jerry Zhou, Erin Bush, Peter Sims, Kang Liu and Yufeng Shen
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:20
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  32. CG4552/tbc1 was identified as a downstream target of Fork head (Fkh), the single Drosophila member of the FoxA family of transcription factors and a major player in salivary gland formation and homeostasis. Tbc1 ...

    Authors: Dorothy M. Johnson and Deborah J. Andrew
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:19
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  33. The manual classification of protein domains is approaching its 20th anniversary. ECOD is our mixed manual-automatic domain classification. Over time, the types of proteins which require manual curation has ch...

    Authors: R. Dustin Schaeffer, Lisa Kinch, Kirill E. Medvedev, Jimin Pei, Hua Cheng and Nick Grishin
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:18
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  34. The forkhead transcription factor (FOXL2) plays a crucial role in blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES), sex determination, ovary growth and development, and cell cycle regulation. Emergi...

    Authors: Yangyang Han, Jun Wu, Weiwei Yang, Di Wang, Tianliang Zhang and Min Cheng
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:17
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  35. Colon cancer affects 1.23 million people worldwide and is the third most common malignant disease in men and the second in women. The only curative treatment is surgical resection, but a significant number of ...

    Authors: D. Yonar, A. Kılıç Süloğlu, G. Selmanoğlu and M. M. Sünnetçioğlu
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:16
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  36. To investigate the effects of serum amyloid A1 (SAA1) on lipopolysaccharide (LPS) -induced inflammation in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). SAA1 expression was detected in LPS induced VSMCs at different c...

    Authors: Mei-Hong Yu, Xi Li, Qian Li, Shi-Jing Mo, Yin Ni, Fang Han, Yi-Bin Wang and Yue-Xing Tu
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:15
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  37. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy occurs along with pathological phenomena such as cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial fibrosis and cardiomyocyte activity. However, few of the specific molecular mechanisms underlying th...

    Authors: Xin Liu, Lin Lin, Qing Li, Yajuan Ni, Chaoying Zhang, Shuguang Qin and Jin Wei
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:14
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  38. Cesium-137 (137Cs) is one of the major and most clinically relevant radionuclides of concern in a radiological dispersal device, “dirty bomb” scenario as well as in nuclear accidents and detonations. In this expo...

    Authors: Helen C. Turner, Younghyun Lee, Waylon Weber, Dunstana Melo, Aimee Kowell, Shanaz A. Ghandhi, Sally A. Amundson, David J. Brenner and Igor Shuryak
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:13
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  39. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are increasingly being identified as modulatory molecules for physiological and pathological processes in muscle. Here, we investigated whether miRNAs influenced the expression of the stress...

    Authors: Bilal A. Mir, Rabia Islam, Ming Kalanon, Aaron P. Russell and Victoria C. Foletta
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:12
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  40. Nuclear lamins are type V intermediate filament proteins that maintain nuclear structure and function. Furthermore, Emerin - an interactor of Lamin A/C, facilitates crosstalk between the cytoskeleton and the n...

    Authors: Devika Ranade, Roopali Pradhan, Muhunden Jayakrishnan, Sushmitha Hegde and Kundan Sengupta
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:11
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  41. Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) is a major cancer drug target that is involved in numerous aspects of tumor progression and survival. While multiple research groups have developed ATP-competitive small molecule in...

    Authors: Timothy Marlowe, Alexey Dementiev, Sheila Figel, Andrew Rivera, Michael Flavin and William Cance
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:10
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  43. The calmodulin-regulated spectrin-associated proteins (CAMSAPs) belong to a conserved protein family, which includes members that bind the polymerizing mcrotubule (MT) minus ends and remain associated with the...

    Authors: Gera A. Pavlova, Alyona V. Razuvaeva, Julia V. Popova, Evgeniya N. Andreyeva, Lyubov A. Yarinich, Mikhail O. Lebedev, Claudia Pellacani, Silvia Bonaccorsi, Maria Patrizia Somma, Maurizio Gatti and Alexey V. Pindyurin
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20(Suppl 1):7
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 1

    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:24

  44. Dlx5 and Dlx6 stimulate differentiation of diverse progenitors during embryonic development. Their actions as pro-differentiation transcription factors includes the up-regulation of differentiation markers but th...

    Authors: Rachel K. MacKenzie, Parvathy Ravi Sankar and Andrew J. Bendall
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:8
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  45. Osteoclasts play a critical role in bone resorption due to orthodontic tooth movement (OTM). In OTM, a force is exerted on the tooth, creating compression of the periodontal ligament (PDL) on one side of the t...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Kanzaki, Satoshi Wada, Yuuki Yamaguchi, Yuta Katsumata, Kanako Itohiya, Sari Fukaya, Yutaka Miyamoto, Tsuyoshi Narimiya, Koji Noda and Yoshiki Nakamura
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:6
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  46. Dental follicle cells (DFCs) are dental stem cells and interesting options for regenerative therapies in dentistry. However, DFCs acquire replicative senescence in long-term cultures, but little is known about...

    Authors: Christian Morsczeck, Anja Reck and Torsten E. Reichert
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:5
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  47. The white coat colour of Yorkshire and Landrace pig breeds is caused by the dominant white I allele of KIT, associated with 450-kb duplications and a splice mutation (G > A) at the first base in intron 17. To tes...

    Authors: Ke Qin, Xinyu Liang, Guanjie Sun, Xuan Shi, Min Wang, Hongbo Liu, Yaosheng Chen, Xiaohong Liu and Zuyong He
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:4
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  48. Egg formation takes place in the oviduct of laying hens over a 24 h period. Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) causes pathological lesions in the chicken oviduct. In the current study, mitochondrial counts were...

    Authors: Samiullah Khan, Juliet Roberts and Shu-Biao Wu
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:3
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  49. Extrachromosomal acentric double minutes (DMs) contribute to human malignancy by carrying amplified oncogenes. Recent cancer genomics revealed that the pulverization of defined chromosome arms (chromothripsis)...

    Authors: Noriaki Shimizu, Rita Kapoor, Shuhei Naniwa, Naoto Sakamaru, Taku Yamada, You-ki Yamamura and Koh-ichi Utani
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:2
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  50. The conserved NDR-family kinase Sid2p localizes to the contractile ring during fission yeast cytokinesis to promote ring constriction, septation, and completion of cell division. Previous studies have found th...

    Authors: Lois Kwon, Emma M. Magee, Alexis Crayton and John W. Goss
    Citation: BMC Molecular and Cell Biology 2019 20:1
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