Chondroitin Sulfate (CS) glycosaminoglycan (GAG) is a modification carried by proteoglycans (PGs) that have important physiological functions in cartilage and bone formation, the immune system and the central nervous system. ...

It is known that elderly people suffering from heart disease can have memory problems. The hippocampus is the part of the brain that is essential for memory formation and is one of the areas that is most vulnerable to ...

Staphylococcus epidermidis has developed from a skin and mucus commensal to an opportunistic pathogen, and is frequently causing infections in medical implants. Its ability to form biofilm on implant surfaces makes these ...

Ectoine is a small compound synthesized in the cytoplasm of halophilic and halotolerant bacteria in response to salt stress. The compound has been found to behave as a compatible solute counterweighing osmotic imbalance ...

Abstract The conserved oligomeric Golgi (COG) complex is a hetero-octameric complex involved in retrograde transport of Golgi resident enzymes along the secretory pathway. Its presumed function is in the tethering of ...

The goal of this work was to express the three enzymes that catalyse the synthesis of ectoine (1,4,5,6-tetrahydro-2-methyl-4-pyrimidine carboxylic acid) in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Ectoine is an amino ...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the in vitro effects of the sex steroids testosterone (T), dihydrotestosterone (DHT), estradiol-17β (E2), or cortisol treatment on mRNA expression levels of Ca2+-activated ...

The formation of the pre-RC is an important event during DNA replication initiation. It occurs from late M phase until early G1 phase and is required to license the replication origin before the binding of other initiation ...

Melanoma is considered as one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer and treatment is unsuccessful due to development of resistance. The complexity and different genetic alterations of melanoma makes it difficult to ...