supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2006AA02A305);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30671907,30872292 and 90813025);Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 5072029)
Human CCL17/TARC (hCCL17) and CCL22/MDC (hCCL22) interact with their receptor CCR4, playing pivotal roles in various Th2 cell-dominant diseases. Rat Ccl17, Ccl22 and Ccr4 share 63.4%, 65.2% and 87.5% homology at the a...
the Science and Technology Project of Chongqing Municipal Educa- tion Commission, China (Grant No. KJ071109);the Key Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2003CB514120)
Analysis of proteins that interact with N protein of SARS-CoV using 15-mer phage-displayed library will help to explore the virus pathogenesis and to develop new drugs and vaccines against SARS. In this study,we clone...
Calmodulin plays a pivotal role in cellular process. More than 30 different enzymes are activated by direct interaction with calmodulin, which is thought to occur through a distinct calmodulin-binding domain in each o...
Fibrinokinases, such as urokinase and streptokinase, interact with fibrin have been stated by Walter et al. The present study has probed into the interaction between e-TPA and human fibrin containing profibrinolysin a...
Before an excited molecule returns to the ground State, it can interact with another molecule of the same kind in the ground state to form an excimer or with the molecule of a different kind to form an exciplex. As ex...
Parafascicular nucleus (PF) is a structure which receives pain impulses, and it also is an important region where the afferent impulses from acupuncture point and pain area are interrelated and interact on each other.
The complex formation of metal ions with DNA, proteins and other bio-molecules plays a vital role in many biological processes and has been an important topic in bio-inorganaic chemistry. In recent years, the diseases...