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Interfaces to Control Cell-Biomaterial Adhesive Interactions
Cell adhesion to adsorbed proteins and adhesive sequences engineered on surfaces is crucial to cellular and host responses to implanted devices,...
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Polymeric Systems for Bioinspired Delivery of Angiogenic Molecules
Growth factors are increasingly utilized to promote regeneration of lost or compromised tissues and organs. However, current strategies applying...
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Information Technology for Deaf People
In our modern information and communication society, daily life would be unthinkable without technology. Information and Communications Technology...
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Multimedia Communication System for the Blind
A Multimedia communication system for blind users is developed. The system is named MIMIZU and its terminal is composed of a refreshable tactile...
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Zygocin – a monomeric protein toxin secreted by virus-infected Zygosaccharomyces bailii
Zygocin, a protein toxin secreted by virus-infected strains of the osmotolerant spoilage yeast Zygosaccharomyces bailii kills a broad spectrum of...
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Acidophilic structure and killing mechanism of the Pichia farinosa killer toxin SMKT
SMKT, a killer toxin produced by a halotolerant yeast Pichia farinosa that consists of α and β subunits, is generated from a chromosomally encoded...
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Mechanisms and functions of RNA-guided RNA modification
RNA-guided 2’-O-methylations and pseudouridylations occur in several different types of RNAs and in a wide range of organisms. Hundreds of the RNAs...
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Role of the 5’-cap in the biogenesis of spliceosomal snRNPs
The biogenesis of spliceosomal UsnRNPs in higher eukaryotes involves a nucleocytoplasmic shuttling cycle. After transcription and processing in the...
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Um34 in selenocysteine tRNA is required for the expression of stress-related selenoproteins in mammals
Selenium is an essential micronutrient in the diet of mammals and has many health benefits. Selenium-containing proteins are responsible for most, if...
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Modelling signalling pathways – a yeast approach
MAP kinase pathways are conserved signalling systems in eukaryotes that control stress responses, cell growth, and proliferation, as well as...
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G1 Phase: Components, Conundrums, Context
A eukaryotic cell must coordinate DNA synthesis and chromosomal segregation to generate a faithful replica of itself. These events are confined to...
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Metabolic flux analysis: A key methodology for systems biology of metabolism
Genome-wide analyses of mRNA, protein, or metabolite complements of biological systems produce unprecedented data sets. In contrast to such cellular...
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The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in cell cycle control
Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis is one of the key mechanisms underlying cell cycle control. The removal of barriers posed by accumulation of...
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Mechanistic and modular approaches to modeling and inference of cellular regulatory networks
In this chapter we wish to present a vision of systems biology as a discipline that generates new insight and knowledge with quantitative and...
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Chaperone proteins and peroxisomal protein import
Peroxisomes are ubiquitous organelles present in most eukaryotic cells. Their role in cellular metabolism is diverse among species. An array of genes...
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Mathematical modelling of the Wnt-pathway
A kinetic model of the Wnt-signal transduction pathway is presented which includes the main molecular components of this system. It is based on a set...
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Systems Biology: Did we know it all along?
It is often suggested that Systems Biology is nothing new, or that it is irrelevant. Its central paradigm, i.e. that much of biological function...
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Protein Kinases Involved in Mitotic Spindle Checkpoint Regulation
A number of checkpoint controls function to preserve the genome by restraining cell cycle progression until prerequisite events have been properly...
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Regulation of SNARE assembly by protein phosphorylation
Protein phosphorylation is emerging as an important regulatory mechanism that controls the secretory pathway. It enables coupling between the...
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Molecular mechanisms in clathrin-mediated membrane budding
Clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs) form at the plasma membrane where they select cargo for endocytic entry into cells. CCVs also form at the trans-Golgi...