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Intrinsically disordered proteins : dynamics, binding, and function
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ISBN: 0128167327 0128163488 9780128167328 9780128163481 Year: 2019 Publisher: London, England : Academic Press,

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"Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Dynamics, Binding, and Function thoroughly examines and ties together the fundamental biochemical functions of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), including signaling, binding, and regulation, with the methodology for study and the associated pathways for drug design and therapeutic intervention. The role of new mechanistic, computational, and experimental approaches in IDP study are explored in depth, with methods for the characterization of IDP dynamics; models, simulations, and mechanisms of IDP and IDR binding; and biological and medical implications of IDP dynamics prominently featured. Written and edited by leading scientists in the field, this book explores groundbreaking areas such as ensemble descriptions of IDPs and IDRs, single-molecule studies of IDPs and IDRs, IDPs and IDRs in membraneless organelles, and molecular mechanisms of fibrillation of IDPs. Intrinsically Disordered Proteins provides students and researchers in biochemistry, molecular biology, and applied microbiology with a comprehensive and updated discussion of the complex dynamics of IDPs and IDRs."--


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Pleiotropic Action of Selenium in the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, and Related Diseases
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Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book will cover topics related to the preparation and use of heterogeneous catalytic systems for the transformation of renewable sources, as well as of materials deriving from agro-industrial wastes and by-products. At the same time, the ever-increasing importance of bioproducts, due to the acceptance and request of consumers, makes the upgrade of biomass into chemicals and materials not only an environmental issue, but also an economical advantage.


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Pleiotropic Action of Selenium in the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, and Related Diseases
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This book will cover topics related to the preparation and use of heterogeneous catalytic systems for the transformation of renewable sources, as well as of materials deriving from agro-industrial wastes and by-products. At the same time, the ever-increasing importance of bioproducts, due to the acceptance and request of consumers, makes the upgrade of biomass into chemicals and materials not only an environmental issue, but also an economical advantage.


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Pleiotropic Action of Selenium in the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, and Related Diseases
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This book will cover topics related to the preparation and use of heterogeneous catalytic systems for the transformation of renewable sources, as well as of materials deriving from agro-industrial wastes and by-products. At the same time, the ever-increasing importance of bioproducts, due to the acceptance and request of consumers, makes the upgrade of biomass into chemicals and materials not only an environmental issue, but also an economical advantage.


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Dual Specificity Phosphatases: From Molecular Mechanisms to Biological Function
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ISBN: 3039216899 3039216880 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Dual specificity phosphatases (DUSPs) constitute a heterogeneous group of protein tyrosine phosphatases with the ability to dephosphorylate Ser/Thr and Tyr residues from proteins, as well as from other non-proteinaceous substrates including signaling lipids. DUSPs include, among others, MAP kinase (MAPK) phosphatases (MKPs) and small-size atypical DUSPs. MKPs are enzymes specialized in regulating the activity and subcellular location of MAPKs, whereas the function of small-size atypical DUSPs seems to be more diverse. DUSPs have emerged as key players in the regulation of cell growth, differentiation, stress response, and apoptosis. DUSPs regulate essential physiological processes, including immunity, neurobiology and metabolic homeostasis, and have been implicated in tumorigenesis, pathological inflammation and metabolic disorders. Accordingly, alterations in the expression or function of MKPs and small-size atypical DUSPs have consequences essential to human disease, making these enzymes potential biological markers and therapeutic targets. This Special Issue covers recent advances in the molecular mechanisms and biological functions of MKPs and small-size atypical DUSPs, and their relevance in human disease.


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Biotechnological Applications of Phage and Phage-Derived Proteins
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ISBN: 303921442X 3039214411 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Phages have shown a high biotechnological potential with numerous applications. The advent of high-resolution microscopy techniques aligned with omic and molecular tools have revealed innovative phage features and enabled new processes that can be further exploited for biotechnological applications in a wide variety of fields. The high-quality original articles and reviews presented in this Special Issue demonstrate the incredible potential of phages and their derived proteins in a wide range of biotechnological applications for human benefit. Considering the emergence of amazing new available bioengineering tools and the high abundance of phages and the multitude of phage proteins yet to be discovered and studied, we believe that the upcoming years will present us with many more fascinating and new previously unimagined phage-based biotechnological applications.

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toxicity --- encapsulation --- n/a --- cancerous tumors --- bacteriophage-derived lytic enzyme --- native gel electrophoresis --- bacteriophages --- Cpl-1 --- O-antigen --- ESKAPE --- Clostridium perfringens --- X-ray crystallography --- macromolecular interactions --- safety --- biofilm --- major coat protein --- Streptococcus agalactiae --- Staphylococcus aureus --- tail sheath protein --- magnetic separation --- serotyping --- pathogenic viruses --- liposomes --- tuberculosis --- Listeria monocytogenes --- nanotubular structures --- alpha-sheet --- biosensors --- sarcoidosis --- tailspike proteins --- M13 bacteriophage --- Streptococcus pneumoniae --- gene expression regulation --- bacteriophage recombination --- self-assembly --- phage therapy --- R-type pyocin --- contractile injection systems --- bacteriophage vB_EcoM_FV3 --- microtiter plate assay --- Enterococcus faecalis --- culture enrichment --- drug delivery vehicles --- neurodegenerative disease --- landscape phage --- niosomes --- bacteriophage --- Myoviridae --- bacteriophage evolution --- porous structure --- phage-host interaction --- phage display --- immune response --- antibiotic resistance --- Pseudomonas aeruginosa --- phage --- bacteriocin --- Appelmans --- fluorescence sensor --- molecular probe --- nanomedicine --- Shigella flexneri --- reporter phage --- filters --- in vitro activity --- capsid dynamics --- immunoscreening --- diagnostics --- microarray --- receptor-binding protein --- endolysin --- enzybiotics --- transfersomes --- T7phage library --- Pal


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Salinity Tolerance in Plants
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ISBN: 3039210270 3039210262 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Salt stress is one of the most damaging abiotic stresses because most crop plants are susceptible to salinity to different degrees. According to the FAO, about 800 million Has of land are affected by salinity worldwide. Unfortunately, this situation will worsen in the context of climate change, where there will be an overall increase in temperature and a decrease in average annual rainfall worldwide. This Special Issue presents different research works and reviews on the response of plants to salinity, focused from different points of view: physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels. Although an important part of the studies on the response to salinity have been carried out with Arabidopsis plants, the use of other species with agronomic interest is also notable, including woody plants. Most of the conducted studies in this Special Issue were focused on the identification and characterization of candidate genes for salt tolerance in higher plants. This identification would provide valuable information about the molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in the salt tolerance response, and it also supplies important resources to breeding programs for salt tolerance in plants.

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soluble nutrients --- transcription factor --- n/a --- CDPK --- salicylic acid --- antioxidant enzymes --- light saturation point --- phytohormone --- ion homeostasis --- antioxidant systems --- photosynthesis --- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii --- high salinity --- nitric oxide --- poplars (Populus) --- root activity --- abiotic stresses --- transcriptional activator --- germination --- ABA --- transcriptome --- mandelonitrile --- redox homeostasis --- association mapping. --- redox signalling --- osmotic stress --- flax --- strigolactones --- salt tolerance --- nucleolin --- CaDHN5 --- photosystem --- EST-SSR --- NMT --- Sapium sebiferum --- Gossypium arboretum --- SOS --- Brassica napus --- SnRK2 --- HKT1 --- grapevine --- transcription factors --- cucumber --- underpinnings of salt stress responses --- abiotic stress --- Arabidopsis thaliana --- RNA-seq --- halophytes --- single nucleotide polymorphisms --- dehydrin --- J8-1 plum line --- chlorophyll fluorescence --- natural variation --- hydrogen peroxide --- salt stress --- lipid peroxidation --- ROS detoxification --- ROP --- molecular mechanisms --- cell membrane injury --- booting stage --- ascorbate cycle --- banana (Musa acuminata L.) --- iTRAQ quantification --- ROS --- Na+ --- Capsicum annuum L. --- bZIP transcription factors --- multiple bioactive constituents --- NaCl stress --- physiological changes --- VOZ --- transcriptional regulation --- genome-wide identification --- Apocyni Veneti Folium --- impairment of photosynthesis --- salt-stress --- Oryza sativa --- reactive oxygen species --- lipid accumulation --- polyamines --- multivariate statistical analysis --- DEUs --- salinity --- TGase --- Salt stress --- Prunus domestica --- proteomics --- Arabidopsis --- RNA binding protein --- rice --- glycophytes --- SsMAX2 --- drought --- genome-wide association study --- transcriptome analysis --- signal pathway --- melatonin --- MaROP5g


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Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding
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ISBN: 3039211765 3039211757 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The development of new plant varieties is a long and tedious process involving the generation of large seedling populations for the selection of the best individuals. While the ability of breeders to generate large populations is almost unlimited, the selection of these seedlings is the main factor limiting the generation of new cultivars. Molecular studies for the development of marker-assisted selection (MAS) strategies are particularly useful when the evaluation of the character is expensive, time-consuming, or with long juvenile periods. The papers published in the Special Issue “Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding” report highly novel results and testable new models for the integrative analysis of genetic (phenotyping and transmission of agronomic characters), physiology (flowering, ripening, organ development), genomic (DNA regions responsible for the different agronomic characters), transcriptomic (gene expression analysis of the characters), proteomic (proteins and enzymes involved in the expression of the characters), metabolomic (secondary metabolites), and epigenetic (DNA methylation and histone modifications) approaches for the development of new MAS strategies. These molecular approaches together with an increasingly accurate phenotyping will facilitate the breeding of new climate-resilient varieties resistant to abiotic and biotic stress, with suitable productivity and quality, to extend the adaptation and viability of the current varieties.

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n/a --- GA2ox7 --- cabbage --- OsGPAT3 --- oleic acid --- OsCDPK1 --- nutrient use efficiency --- stem borer --- yellow-green-leaf mutant --- branching --- epigenetics --- NPK fertilizers --- particle bombardment --- stress tolerance --- overexpression --- glycine --- heat-stress --- bulk segregant RNA-seq --- Prunus --- protein-protein interaction --- AdRAP2.3 --- plant architecture --- waterlogging stress --- genes --- Cucumis sativus L. --- Flower color --- resistance --- Tobacco --- gynomonoecy --- drought stress --- Brassica oleracea --- starch biosynthesis --- Overexpression --- WUS --- agronomic traits --- Ghd7 --- the modified MutMap method --- cry2A gene --- light-induced --- gene expression --- breeding --- Heterodera schachtii --- ABA --- Green tissue-specific expression --- subcellular localization --- squamosa promoter binding protein-like --- transcriptome --- FAD2 --- As3+ stress --- metallothionein --- flowering --- bisulfite sequencing --- tomato --- quantitative trait loci --- Promoter --- marker–trait association --- DEGs --- cytoplasmic male sterile --- Rosa rugosa --- MADS transcription factor --- yield --- P. suffruticosa --- CYC2 --- common wild rice --- Actinidia deliciosa --- gene-by-gene interaction --- Aechmea fasciata --- hybrid rice --- soybean --- R2R3-MYB --- bread wheat --- BRANCHED1 (BRC1) --- linoleic acid --- differentially expressed genes --- complex traits --- transgenic chrysanthemum --- D-genome --- Brassica --- candidate gene --- SmJMT --- gene expression pattern --- RNA-Seq --- candidate genes --- leaf shape --- Brassica napus --- recombination-suppressed region --- anthocyanin --- WRKY transcription factor --- Idesia polycarpa var --- single nucleotide polymorphism --- bud abortion --- QTL --- reproductive organ --- transient overexpression --- Elongated Internode (EI) --- sugarcane --- abiotic stress --- Oryza sativa L. --- RrGT2 gene --- Hd1 --- cZR3 --- cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) --- seed development --- tapetum --- near-isogenic line (NIL) --- phytohormones --- TCP transcription factor --- pollen accumulation --- Anthocyanin --- WRKY --- quantitative trait loci (QTLs) --- salt stress --- floral scent --- sucrose --- Ogura-CMS --- root traits --- endosperm development --- Zea mays L. --- sesame --- Bryum argenteum --- AP2/ERF genes --- transcriptional regulation --- WB1 --- haplotype block --- broccoli --- agronomic efficiency --- durum wheat --- gene pyramiding --- Oryza sativa --- genetics --- flowering time --- Cicer arietinum --- Hs1pro-1 --- endosperm appearance --- phenolic acids --- anther wall --- bromeliad --- genomics --- transgenic --- DgWRKY2 --- Clone --- yield trait --- flower symmetry --- partial factor productivity --- rice --- molecular breeding --- genotyping-by-sequencing --- Chimonanthus praecox --- nectary --- Salvia miltiorrhiza --- pollen development --- regulation --- ZmES22 --- genome-wide association study --- VIGS --- iTRAQ --- genome-wide association study (GWAS) --- ethylene-responsive factor --- starch --- molecular markers --- rice quality --- Chrysanthemum morifolium --- marker-trait association

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