Sarker Md Mosharrof Hossain, Zhou MengChu, Rameshwar Pranela, Hanover John A
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
Dept of Medicine-Hematology/Oncology, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, NJ 07103, USA.
Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 2014 Jan;114(1):2-7. doi: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2013.11.003. Epub 2013 Nov 13.
Molecular and cellular biology has moved towards complete and accurate knowledge of how molecules behave in space and time. Protein is considered as the primary group of molecules responsible for mediating most physiological processes. Changes in the levels of proteins may lead to the altered function and are responsible for many diseases. This review provides a partial molecular explanation of biological force-ratio generation that may act to split protein into branches, and shows molecular functional divergence. Developing a non-reductionist theory of the cellular function in medicine is clearly not sufficient. Finding effective parameters of the models by characterizing molecular interactions becomes necessary. Protein interactivity and stability provides a basis for an integrated understanding of pathologies such diabetes. One example of how a mechanistic analysis of such physiological processes can be of value is the time-delay between mRNA and translation that can act as a fork allowing a slowdown in gene expression.
分子与细胞生物学已朝着全面、准确地了解分子在空间和时间中的行为发展。蛋白质被认为是介导大多数生理过程的主要分子类别。蛋白质水平的变化可能导致功能改变,并引发多种疾病。本综述对生物力比产生提供了部分分子解释,生物力比可能会使蛋白质分裂成不同分支,并显示出分子功能差异。显然,仅发展医学中细胞功能的非还原论理论是不够的。通过表征分子相互作用来找到模型的有效参数变得十分必要。蛋白质的相互作用性和稳定性为综合理解诸如糖尿病等病理状况提供了基础。对这类生理过程进行机制分析具有价值的一个例子是mRNA与翻译之间的时间延迟,它可以起到一个分支点的作用,使基因表达放缓。