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10 Sphingosine-1-phosphate metabolism in mammalian cell signalling
Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a bioactive sphingolipid metabolite implicated in the regulation of vital biological processes. Ample evidence...
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8 Biosynthesis and compartmentation of triacylglycerol in higher plants
The biosynthesis of storage lipids (triacylglycerols) in higher plants is now known to occur via a number of different routes. These include the...
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Introduction: Lipids: cellular glue...or are they more than that?
Some 40 years ago, there was a rumor in the research community that lipids are the stuff you have to throw away before starting biochemical...
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Lager brewing yeast
Lager brewing yeast is a group of closely related strains of Saccharomyces pastorianus/S. carlsbergensis used for lager beer production all over the...
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Lentiviral Vectors
We review the use of lentiviral vectors in current human gene therapy applications that involve genetic modification of nondividing tissues with...
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Plasmid Vaccines and Therapeutics: From Design to Applications
In the late 1980s, Vical and collaborators discovered that the injection into tissues of unformulated plasmid encoding various proteins resulted in...
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Adeno-associated Virus as a Gene Therapy Vector: Vector Development, Production and Clinical Applications
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as an attractive vector for gene therapy. AAV vectors have successfully been utilized to promote...
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3 Biogenesis and cellular dynamics of glycerophospholipids in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as in other eukaryotes, glycerophospholipids are important cellular components required for growth and cell...
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9 Mechanisms and mediators of neutral lipid biosynthesis in eukaryotic cells
The reactions leading to the biosynthesis of neutral lipids are excellent targets for therapeutic intervention in several disease states including...
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4 Defects in cholesterol biosynthesis
Defects in eight different enzymes of cholesterol biosynthesis that result in serious clinical consequences have been identified. Most of these were...
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Duplication of genes and genomes in yeasts
The molecular evolution of the group of yeasts closely related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been profoundly affected by an ancient polyploidy...
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Employing protein size in the functional analysis of orthologous proteins, as illustrated with the yeast HOG pathway
Comparative genomics has provided us with a new handle on the interpretation of protein sequences. The sequencing of numerous fungal genomes has...
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Effects of Sex Steroids on Innate and Adaptive Immunity
Estrogens and androgens are classically recognized as reproductive sex steroid hormones because of their well-documented effects on reproductive...
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Identification of consensus homozygous regions and their associations with growth and feed efficiency traits in American mink
The recent chromosome-based genome assembly and the newly developed 70K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array for American mink ( Neogale vison )...
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A possible role of lncRNA MEG3 and lncRNA MAFG-AS1 on miRNA 147-b in the pathogenesis of Behcet’s disease
Behcet’s disease (BD) is a multisystem disease with altered Toll-like receptors (TLRs) on macrophages. Long noncoding RNA Maternally expressed gene 3...
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Greater Self-reported Health is Associated with Lower Disgust: Evidence for Individual Calibration of the Behavioral Immune System
A key theoretical component of the behavioral immune system is its functional flexibility, where an individual’s reaction to pathogenic stimuli is...
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Antibacterial activity and biosynthetic potential of Streptomyces sp. PBR19, isolated from forest rhizosphere soil of Assam
An Actinomycetia isolate, designated as PBR19, was derived from the rhizosphere soil of Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary (PWS), Assam, India. The isolate,...
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Bone Turnover Markers Levels in a Cohort of Egyptian Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Bony complications are variable and common in sickle cell disease. Bone turnover markers are a reflection of bone new bone formation or degradation....
