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Critical Care Medicine
Jean-Francois Augusto, Celine Beauvillain, Caroline Poli, Lea Paolini, Isabelle Tournier, Pascale Pignon, Simon Blanchard, Laurence Preisser, Raffaella Soleti, Chloe Delepine, Marine Monnier, Isabelle Douchet, Pierre Asfar, Francois Beloncle, Olivier Guisset, Renaud Prevel, Alain Mercat, Emeline Vinatier, Julien Goret, Jean-Francois Subra, Dominique Couez, Mark R. Wilson, Patrick Blanco, Pascale Jeannin, Yves Delneste
Summary: Extracellular histones released during extensive cell death can promote inflammation and cell death, and clusterin (CLU) can reduce their deleterious properties. Decreased levels of CLU were observed in patients with sepsis, and CLU deficiency was associated with increased mortality in mouse models of sepsis. CLU supplementation improved mouse survival in a sepsis model.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
(2023)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Bojana Kravic, Tihana Bionda, Alexander Siebert, Pinki Gahlot, Sophie Levantovsky, Christian Behrends, Hemmo Meyer
Summary: LMP is an underlying feature of diverse conditions, and cells respond by ubiquitylation for clearance of the organelle facilitated by the ubiquitin-directed AAA-ATPase VCP/p97. The study discovered a large diversity of targets and lysophagy regulators during acute LMP.
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Cell Biology
Lulu Zhang, Xubiao Wei, Zhimeng Wang, Peiyuan Liu, Yanfei Hou, Yifang Xu, Huili Su, Matthew D. Koci, Hang Yin, Conggang Zhang
Summary: NF-KB pathway activation enhances STING signaling by regulating microtubule-mediated STING trafficking, leading to robust host antiviral defense and amplified interferon response.
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Plant Sciences
Emmanuel Margolin, Matthew Verbeek, Warren de Moor, Ros Chapman, Ann Meyers, Georgia Schaefer, Anna-Lise Williamson, Edward Rybicki
Summary: This study demonstrates the successful expression of the viral glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 in plants through co-expression with the human lectin-binding chaperone calreticulin, providing important insights for the rapid development of vaccines.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
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Cell Biology
Abigail K. Elias, Mark R. Wilson, John A. Carver, Ian F. Musgrave
Summary: Clusterin plays an important role in preventing the formation of SEVI amyloid fibrils, dissociating them, and mitigating their enhancement of HIV infection in semen.
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
John C. Stendahl, Jennifer M. Kwan, Darko Pucar, Mehran M. Sadeghi
Summary: Cardiovascular imaging is evolving to meet the trends of molecular characterization and personalized therapies. The development of new radiotracers is crucial for addressing the unmet diagnostic needs in cardiovascular medicine. This review discusses various radiotracers for imaging cardiovascular inflammation, thrombosis, fibrosis, calcification, and amyloidosis, which have the potential to improve risk stratification, thrombi detection, and diagnosis of cardiomyopathies.
JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE
(2022)
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Engineering, Environmental
Abhilash Mavinakere Ramesh, Srikantaswamy Shivanna
Summary: The study focuses on the synthesis of MoO3/ZnO heterostructure using a hydrothermal route, which shows excellent photocatalytic degradation and biocompatibility, as well as the ability to remove heavy metals and inhibit bacterial growth. In animal experiments, MoO3/ZnO demonstrates significant bio-medication effects and contributes positively to environmental therapies.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Kaushik Bhattacharya, Didier Picard
Summary: The Hsp70 and Hsp90 molecular chaperone systems in eukaryotes are crucial for protein homeostasis under normal and stressed conditions, exhibiting both physical and functional interactions to maintain cellular proteostasis. Co-chaperones like Hop and Sti1 play a key role in facilitating substrate transfer from Hsp70 to Hsp90. Interestingly, while eukaryotes rely on the canonical Hsp70-Hop-Hsp90 ternary chaperone complex for optimal maturation and stability of specific clients, prokaryotes can form a binary chaperone complex without Hop, displaying enhanced protein folding and anti-aggregation activities.
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
(2021)
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Plant Sciences
Diana Bonea, Jenan Noureddine, Sonia Gazzarrini, Rongmin Zhao
Summary: The study unveiled an evolutionarily conserved mechanism of proteasome regulation during oxidative stress, involving dynamic regulation of holoenzyme formation and associated regulatory proteins. Additionally, a novel role of the PBAC1 proteasome assembly chaperone in seed coat development was identified.
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Oncology
Jiao Liu, Rui Kang, Guido Kroemer, Daolin Tang
Summary: In this study, it was found that the chaperone protein HSP90 stabilizes STAT1, which leads to the expression of immunosuppressive factors IDO1 and PD-L1 induced by IFN gamma. Pharmacological inhibition of HSP90 enhances the efficacy of PD-1 immunotherapy in suitable mouse models without any toxicity.
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Neurosciences
Stacy L. Hrizo, Samantha L. Eicher, Tracey D. Myers, Ian McGrath, Andrew P. K. Wodrich, Hemanth Venkatesh, Daniel Manjooran, Sabrina Swoger, Kim Gagnon, Matthew Bruskin, Maria V. Lebedev, Sherry Zheng, Ana Vitantonio, Sungyoun Kim, Zachary J. Lamb, Andreas Vogt, Maura R. Z. Ruzhnikov, Michael J. Palladino
Summary: Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency is a rare metabolic disorder characterized by reduced TPI protein stability and potential co-translational selection for polyubiquitination. A genome-wide RNAi screen targeting quality control proteins identified novel regulators of TPI(sugarkill) degradation, uncovering potential therapeutic pathways for TPI Df and other diseases.
NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
(2021)
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Cell Biology
Josina Bunk, Susy Prieto Huarcaya, Alice Drobny, Jan Philipp Dobert, Lina Walther, Stefan Rose-John, Philipp Arnold, Friederike Zunke
Summary: Genetic variants within the CTSD gene have been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like PD, AD, and NCL10. Studies show that NCL10-associated CTSD variants are significantly impaired in lysosomal maturation and enzymatic activity, while AD- and PD-associated variants seem rather unaffected. These findings shed light on the role of CTSD in disease development and may help in developing targeted therapeutic strategies.
FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Shweta Devi, Jong-Joo Kim, Anand Prakash Singh, Surendra Kumar, Ashish Kant Dubey, Sandeep Kumar Singh, Ravi Shankar Singh, Vijay Kumar
Summary: The tightly regulated protein quality control system functions through a network of molecular chaperones and proteostasis to maintain the balance between correctly folded and misfolded proteins, but environmental pollutants can disrupt this system, causing protein damage and diseases. It is increasingly recognized that detailed knowledge concerning protein misfolding and disruption of the protein quality control system by environmental pollutants is crucial.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2021)
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Samuel C. Buchl, Zachary Hanquier, Andrew J. Haak, Yvonne M. Thomason, Robert C. Huebert, Vijay H. Shah, Jessica L. Maiers
Summary: The study identified TNIK as a key regulator of procollagen I trafficking in vitro and hepatic fibrogenesis in vivo, suggesting that inhibition of TNIK could be a potential therapeutic target for limiting liver fibrosis.
HEPATOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Xinyu Ma, Caijing Lu, Yuting Chen, Shulin Li, Ningjia Ma, Xuan Tao, Ying Li, Jing Wang, Min Zhou, Yong-Bin Yan, Pilong Li, Kartoosh Heydari, Haiteng Deng, Min Zhang, Cong Yi, Liang Ge
Summary: In this study, the researchers identified CCT2 as an autophagy receptor that regulates the clearance of aggregation-prone proteins in cells and mouse brains. CCT2 selectively associates with aggregation-prone proteins and interacts with autophagosome marker ATG8s. Furthermore, CCT2 specifically promotes the autophagic degradation of solid protein aggregates, independent of other ubiquitin-binding receptors or chaperone-mediated autophagy.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Carmen R. Sunico, Abdullah Sultan, Tomohiro Nakamura, Nima Dolatabadi, James Parker, Bing Shan, Xuemei Han, John R. Yates, Eliezer Masliah, Rajesh Ambasudhan, Nobuki Nakanishi, Stuart A. Lipton
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2016)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shichun Tu, Mohd Waseem Akhtar, Rosa Maria Escorihuela, Alejandro Amador-Arjona, Vivek Swarup, James Parker, Jeffrey D. Zaremba, Timothy Holland, Neha Bansal, Daniel R. Holohan, Kevin Lopez, Scott D. Ryan, Shing Fai Chan, Li Yan, Xiaofei Zhang, Xiayu Huang, Abdullah Sultan, Scott R. McKercher, Rajesh Ambasudhan, Huaxi Xu, Yuqiang Wang, Daniel H. Geschwind, Amanda J. Roberts, Alexey V. Terskikh, Robert A. Rissman, Eliezer Masliah, Stuart A. Lipton, Nobuki Nakanishi
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2017)
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Cell Biology
Chang-Ki Oh, Abdullah Sultan, Joseph Platzer, Nima Dolatabadi, Frank Soldner, Daniel B. McClatchy, Jolene K. Diedrich, John R. Yates, Rajesh Ambasudhan, Tomohiro Nakamura, Rudolf Jaenisch, Stuart A. Lipton
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Cell & Tissue Engineering
Li Li, E. Tian, Xianwei Chen, Jianfei Chao, Jeremy Klein, Qiuhao Qu, Guihua Sun, Guoqiang Sun, Yanzhou Huang, Charles D. Warden, Peng Ye, Lizhao Feng, Xinqiang Li, Qi Cui, Abdullah Sultan, Panagiotis Douvaras, Valentina Fossati, Neville E. Sanjana, Arthur D. Riggs, Yanhong Shi
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Shahper N. Khan, Barira Islam, Ragothaman Yennamalli, Abdullah Sultan, Naidu Subbarao, Asad U. Khan
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
(2008)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Swagata Ghatak, Nima Dolatabadi, Richard Gao, Yin Wu, Henry Scott, Dorit Trudler, Abdullah Sultan, Rajesh Ambasudhan, Tomohiro Nakamura, Eliezer Masliah, Maria Talantova, Bradley Voytek, Stuart A. Lipton
Summary: Early stages of human Alzheimer's disease (AD) show hyperexcitability in the brain, leading to extensive synapse loss and cognitive dysfunction, with no current disease-modifying therapy available. Utilizing human iPSC models may be a valuable tool for screening drugs to treat hyperexcitability and synaptic damage in AD, potentially increasing the chances of success in treatment.
MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Abdullah Sultan, Raman Bakthisaran, C. Rao, Ramakrishna Tangirala
Meeting Abstract
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Abdullah Sultan, Bakthisaran Raman, Ch M. Rao, Ramakrishna Tangirala