A search for molecular mechanisms underlying male idiopathic infertility

A Bracke, K Peeters, U Punjabi, D Hoogewijs… - Reproductive …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Infertility affects approximately 15% of the couples wanting to conceive. In 30− 40% of the
cases the aetiology of male infertility remains unknown and is called idiopathic male …

Neuroglobin: From structure to function in health and disease

P Ascenzi, A di Masi, L Leboffe, M Fiocchetti… - Molecular aspects of …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
In 2000, the third member of the globin family was discovered in human and mouse brain
and named neuroglobin (Ngb). Ngb is a monomeric 3/3 globin structurally similar to …

Comparative genomics of freshwater Fe-oxidizing bacteria: implications for physiology, ecology, and systematics

D Emerson, EK Field, O Chertkov… - Frontiers in …, 2013‏ - frontiersin.org
The two microaerophilic, Fe-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB) Sideroxydans ES-1 and Gallionella
ES-2 have single circular chromosomes of 3.00 and 3.16 Mb that encode 3049 and 3006 …

Diversity of globin function: enzymatic, transport, storage, and sensing

SN Vinogradov, L Moens - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2008‏ - jbc.org
The availability of genomic information from the three kingdoms of life has altered
substantially our view of the globin superfamily. It is now evident that Hbs, 2 defined as …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons from the post-genomic era: Globin diversity beyond oxygen binding and transport

A Keppner, D Maric, M Correia, TW Koay, IMC Orlando… - Redox biology, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Vertebrate hemoglobin (Hb) and myoglobin (Mb) were among the first proteins whose
structures and sequences were determined over 50 years ago. In the subsequent …

Neuroglobin: an endogenous neuroprotectant

DA Greenberg, K **, AA Khan - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Cerebral hypoxia and ischemia trigger endogenous protective mechanisms that can prevent
or limit brain damage. Understanding these mechanisms may lead to new therapeutic …

Sensory perception in bacterial cyclic diguanylate signal transduction

TE Randall, K Eckartt, S Kakumanu… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - journals.asm.org
Cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) signal transduction systems provide bacteria with the ability to
sense changing cell status or environmental conditions and then execute suitable …

The diversity of microbial responses to nitric oxide and agents of nitrosative stress: close cousins but not identical twins

LAH Bowman, S McLean, RK Poole… - Advances in microbial …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Nitric oxide and related nitrogen species (reactive nitrogen species) now occupy a central
position in contemporary medicine, physiology, biochemistry, and microbiology. In particular …

Bacterial and archaeal globins—A revised perspective

SN Vinogradov, M Tinajero-Trejo, RK Poole… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
A bioinformatics survey of putative globins in over 2200 bacterial and some 140 archaeal
genomes revealed that over half the bacterial and approximately one fifth of archaeal …

Androglobin: a chimeric globin in metazoans that is preferentially expressed in mammalian testes

D Hoogewijs, B Ebner, F Germani… - Molecular biology …, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Comparative genomic studies have led to the recent identification of several novel globin
types in the Metazoa. They have revealed a surprising evolutionary diversity of functions …