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Electrostatic and Hydrophobic Nature of the Cytochrome c-Membrane Interaction

  • Kim, Ukchun;Kim, Kyunghoon;Sanghwa Han
    • 한국생물물리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국생물물리학회 1999년도 학술발표회 진행표 및 논문초록
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    • pp.45-45
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    • 1999
  • Cytochrome c (cyt c) binds to acidic membranes at low ionic strength. Replacement of Lys-72 or Lys-87 by Glu reduced the binding affinity of cyt c toward large unilamellar vesicles (LUV) in liquid crystalline phase. The differences were smaller for LUV in gel phase. A fraction of bound cyt c was non-electrostatically associated.(omitted)

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Review of Biological Network Data and Its Applications

  • Yu, Donghyeon;Kim, MinSoo;Xiao, Guanghua;Hwang, Tae Hyun
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • 제11권4호
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    • pp.200-210
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    • 2013
  • Studying biological networks, such as protein-protein interactions, is key to understanding complex biological activities. Various types of large-scale biological datasets have been collected and analyzed with high-throughput technologies, including DNA microarray, next-generation sequencing, and the two-hybrid screening system, for this purpose. In this review, we focus on network-based approaches that help in understanding biological systems and identifying biological functions. Accordingly, this paper covers two major topics in network biology: reconstruction of gene regulatory networks and network-based applications, including protein function prediction, disease gene prioritization, and network-based genome-wide association study.

Construction of a Protein-Protein Interaction Network for Chronic Myelocytic Leukemia and Pathway Prediction of Molecular Complexes

  • Zhou, Chao;Teng, Wen-Jing;Yang, Jing;Hu, Zhen-Bo;Wang, Cong-Cong;Qin, Bao-Ning;Lv, Qing-Liang;Liu, Ze-Wang;Sun, Chang-Gang
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • 제15권13호
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    • pp.5325-5330
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    • 2014
  • Background: Chronic myelocytic leukemia is a disease that threatens both adults and children. Great progress has been achieved in treatment but protein-protein interaction networks underlining chronic myelocytic leukemia are less known. Objective: To develop a protein-protein interaction network for chronic myelocytic leukemia based on gene expression and to predict biological pathways underlying molecular complexes in the network. Materials and Methods: Genes involved in chronic myelocytic leukemia were selected from OMIM database. Literature mining was performed by Agilent Literature Search plugin and a protein-protein interaction network of chronic myelocytic leukemia was established by Cytoscape. The molecular complexes in the network were detected by Clusterviz plugin and pathway enrichment of molecular complexes were performed by DAVID online. Results and Discussion: There are seventy-nine chronic myelocytic leukemia genes in the Mendelian Inheritance In Man Database. The protein-protein interaction network of chronic myelocytic leukemia contained 638 nodes, 1830 edges and perhaps 5 molecular complexes. Among them, complex 1 is involved in pathways that are related to cytokine secretion, cytokine-receptor binding, cytokine receptor signaling, while complex 3 is related to biological behavior of tumors which can provide the bioinformatic foundation for further understanding the mechanisms of chronic myelocytic leukemia.

Discrimination and bifurcation analysis of tumor immune interaction in fractional form

  • Taj, Muhammad;Khadimallah, Mohamed A.;Hussain, Muzamal;Rashid, Yahya;Ishaque, Waqas;Mahmoud, S.R.;Din, Qamar;Alwabli, Afaf S.;Tounsi, Abdelouahed
    • Advances in nano research
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    • 제10권4호
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    • pp.359-371
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    • 2021
  • A tumor immune interaction is a main topic of interest in the last couple of decades because majority of human population suffered by tumor, formed by the abnormal growth of cells and is continuously interacted with the immune system. Because of its wide range of applications, many researchers have modeled this tumor immune interaction in the form of ordinary, delay and fractional order differential equations as the majority of biological models have a long range temporal memory. So in the present work, tumor immune interaction in fractional form provides an excellent tool for the description of memory and hereditary properties of inter and intra cells. So the interaction between effector-cells, tumor cells and interleukin-2 (IL-2) are modeled by using the definition of Caputo fractional order derivative that provides the system with long-time memory and gives extra degree of freedom. Moreover, in order to achieve more efficient computational results of fractional-order system, a discretization process is performed to obtain its discrete counterpart. Furthermore, existence and local stability of fixed points are investigated for discrete model. Moreover, it is proved that two types of bifurcations such as Neimark-Sacker and flip bifurcations are studied. Finally, numerical examples are presented to support our analytical results.

The Interaction of Mastoparan B from Venom of a Hornet Vespa Basalis with Phospholipid Matrices

  • 박남규;Yuhji Yamato;Sannamu Lee;Gohsuke Sugihara;박장수;강신원
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제17권3호
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    • pp.239-244
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    • 1996
  • Mastoparan B (MP-B) that is a novel MP isolated from the hornet Vespa basalis, was studied as compared with MP, in terms of interaction with phospholipid bilayer and antimicrobial activity. MP-B has more hydrophilic amino acid residues in hydrophilic face of amphiphilic α-helical structure than MP. The both peptides exhibited considerably different effect on interaction with lipid bilayers, e.g. their conformation in the presence of acidic and neutral liposomes, dye-release ability from encapsulated liposomes, but on the whole the interaction mode was similar. On antimicrobial activity, MP had a strong activity against Gram-positive bacteria but no against Gram negative ones. Contrary to this, MP-B had a strong activity against Gram-positive and potent against Gram-negative ones. Since both peptides have almost same residues on the hydrophobic side, such more hydrophilic surface on the molecule seems to lead to the subtle change in its interaction with membranes, resulting in the alternation in its biological activity.

Electrostatic Interaction Between Oligopeptides and Phosphate Residues by Determination of Absolute Raman Intensities

  • Kye-Taek Lim
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제12권3호
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    • pp.286-289
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    • 1991
  • The changed isotropic absolute Raman intensities of the phosphate residue in the complexes of positive charge oligopeptides, lys-lys, arg-arg, lys-aromat-lys, negative charge diethyl phosphoric acid (DEP) and polyriboadenylic acid{poly(rA)} were reported and discussed. Our measurements showed that the absolute intensities of phosphate stretch vibration in complexes were different according to the reaction partners. Due to the partial electrical charge and molecular structure of oligopeptides for the complex formation lysine can interact more strongly than arginine when the reaction partners have short chain and no steric hindrance. Owing to these reasons the intensity of phosphate stretching vibration is very sensitive according to the circumstance of reaction. From our results we could suggest that we can discriminate any one of the the lysine and arginine in the complicated biological molecule during interaction between nucleotides and proteins. The activity of reaction of two basical oligopeptides is not quite similar for complex formation in aqueous solution. The activity of dipeptides depends upon the structure of molecule and environment for complex formation. Aromatic ring contributes to electrostatic interaction in complexes. The amount of the absolute intensity for pure stacking interaction is smaller than electrostatic interaction in macromolecular complexes.

Development and Application of Protein-Protein interaction Prediction System, PreDIN (Prediction-oriented Database of Interaction Network)

  • 서정근
    • 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2002년도 제1차워크샵
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    • pp.5-23
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    • 2002
  • Motivation: Protein-protein interaction plays a critical role in the biological processes. The identification of interacting proteins by bioinformatical methods can provide new lead In the functional studies of uncharacterized proteins without performing extensive experiments. Results: Protein-protein interactions are predicted by a computational algorithm based on the weighted scoring system for domain interactions between interacting protein pairs. Here we propose potential interaction domain (PID) pairs can be extracted from a data set of experimentally identified interacting protein pairs. where one protein contains a domain and its interacting protein contains the other. Every combinations of PID are summarized in a matrix table termed the PID matrix, and this matrix has proposed to be used for prediction of interactions. The database of interacting proteins (DIP) has used as a source of interacting protein pairs and InterPro, an integrated database of protein families, domains and functional sites, has used for defining domains in interacting pairs. A statistical scoring system. named "PID matrix score" has designed and applied as a measure of interaction probability between domains. Cross-validation has been performed with subsets of DIP data to evaluate the prediction accuracy of PID matrix. The prediction system gives about 50% of sensitivity and 98% of specificity, Based on the PID matrix, we develop a system providing several interaction information-finding services in the Internet. The system, named PreDIN (Prediction-oriented Database of Interaction Network) provides interacting domain finding services and interacting protein finding services. It is demonstrated that mapping of the genome-wide interaction network can be achieved by using the PreDIN system. This system can be also used as a new tool for functional prediction of unknown proteins.

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Conformational Change of Escherichia coli Signal Recognition Particle Ffh Is Affected by the Functionality of Signal Peptides of Ribose-Binding Protein

  • Ahn, Taeho;Ko, Ju Hee;Cho, Eun Yi;Yun, Chul-Ho
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • 제27권6호
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    • pp.681-687
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    • 2009
  • We examined the effects of synthetic signal peptides, wild-type (WT) and export-defective mutant (MT) of ribose-binding protein, on the conformational changes of signal recognition particle 54 homologue (Ffh) in Escherichia coli. Upon interaction of Ffh with WT peptide, the intrinsic Tyr fluorescence, the transition temperature of thermal unfolding, and the GTPase activity of Ffh decreased in a peptide concentration-dependent manner, while the emission intensity of 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid increased. In contrast, the secondary structure of the protein was not affected. Additionally, polarization of fluorescein-labeled WT increased upon association with Ffh. These results suggest that WT peptide induces the unfolded states of Ffh. The WT-mediated conformational change of Ffh was also revealed to be important in the interaction between SecA and Ffh. However, MT had marginal effect on these conformational changes suggesting that the in vivo functionality of signal peptide is important in the interaction with Ffh and concomitant structural change of the protein.

AltMV TGB1 Nucleolar Localization Requires Homologous Interaction and Correlates with Cell Wall Localization Associated with Cell-to-Cell Movement

  • Nam, Jiryun;Nam, Moon;Bae, Hanhong;Lee, Cheolho;Lee, Bong-Chun;Hammond, John;Lim, Hyoun-Sub
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • 제29권4호
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    • pp.454-459
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    • 2013
  • The Potexvirus Alternanthera mosaic virus (AltMV) has multifunctional triple gene block (TGB) proteins, among which our studies have focused on the properties of the TGB1 protein. The TGB1 of AltMV has functions including RNA binding, RNA silencing suppression, and cell-to-cell movement, and is known to form homologous interactions. The helicase domains of AltMV TGB1 were separately mutated to identify which regions are involved in homologous TGB1 interactions. The yeast two hybrid system and Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) in planta were utilized to examine homologous interactions of the mutants. Helicase motif I of AltMV TGB1 was found to be critical to maintain homologous interactions. Mutations in the remaining helicase motifs did not inhibit TGB1 homologous interactions. In the absence of homologous interaction of TGB1, subcellular localization of helicase domain I mutants showed distinctively different patterns from that of WT TGB1. These results provide important information to study viral movement and replication of AltMV.