Protein kinase CK2 is a highly pleiotropic protein capable of phosphorylating hundreds substrates. It involved in numerous cellular functions, including cell viability, apoptosis, proliferation and survival, angiogenesis, or ER-stress response. As activity found perturbed many pathological states, cancers, it becomes an attractive target for the pharma. A large number low-mass ATP-competitive i...

Background and Objective: Rheum turkestanicum (R. turkestanicum) has been known to reduce inflammation and has antioxidant properties such as protective effect in neurons. This study aimed to determine the effects of R. turkestanicum on neuronal toxicity induced by the pro-parkinsonian neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) in neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. Materials and Methods: MTT and DNA frag...

Sir while we have no issues with the data presented in the Letter to the Editor [1], we are compelled to give an alternative conclusion. The majority of newborn labs set their own screen cutoffs, and Illinois uses much higher cutoffs than Missouri. It is only meaningful to compare the number of below-cutoff enzyme activity samples with the use of equivalent cutoffs [2–4]. For example, for mucop...

Voltage-sensing domains (VSDs) underlie the movement of voltage-gated ion channels, as well as the voltage-sensitive fluorescent responses observed from a common class of genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs). Despite the widespread use and potential utility of these GEVIs, the biophysical underpinnings of the relationship between VSD movement and fluorophore response remain unclear. W...

Using multifrequency phase and modulation fluorometry and a nonlinear least-squares analysis of lifetime data, we were able to determine the complex decay of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) in synthetic phospholipid bilayers. Our results showed a monoexponential decay of DPH in the pure isotropic solvents studied, over a wide temperature range, and a double-exponential decay of DPH in phosp...