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Autophagy in cancer and protein conformational disorders

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Autophagy plays a crucial role in numerous biological processes, including protein and organelle quality control, development, immunity, and metabolism. Hence, dysregulation or mutations in autophagy‐related genes have been implicated in a wide range of human diseases.
Sergio Attanasio
wiley   +1 more source

MCE domain proteins: conserved inner membrane lipid-binding proteins required for outer membrane homeostasis

Scientific Reports, 2017
Bacterial proteins with MCE domains were first described as being important for Mammalian Cell Entry. More recent evidence suggests they are components of lipid ABC transporters.
Georgia L. Isom, Nathaniel J. Davies, Zhi-Soon Chong, Jack A. Bryant, Mohammed Jamshad, Maria Sharif, Adam F. Cunningham, Timothy J. Knowles, Shu-Sin Chng, Jeffrey A. Cole, Ian R. Henderson   +10 more
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B cell mechanobiology in health and disease: emerging techniques and insights into therapeutic responses

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
B cells sense external mechanical forces and convert them into biochemical signals through mechanotransduction. Understanding how malignant B cells respond to physical stimuli represents a groundbreaking area of research. This review examines the key mechano‐related molecules and pathways in B lymphocytes, highlights the most relevant techniques to ...
Marta Sampietro, Marco Cellani, Cristina Scielzo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plasticity within the barrel domain of BamA mediates a hybrid-barrel mechanism by BAM

Nature Communications, 2021
The β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) assists the folding and membrane insertion of bacterial outer membrane proteins. Here, the authors report structural characterization of BAM in lipid environment and in complex with the client protein EspP integrated
Runrun Wu, Jeremy W. Bakelar, Karl Lundquist, Zijian Zhang, Katie M. Kuo, David Ryoo, Yui Tik Pang, Chen Sun, Tommi White, Thomas Klose, Wen Jiang, James C. Gumbart, Nicholas Noinaj   +12 more
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TRAF2 binds to TIFA via a novel motif and contributes to its autophagic degradation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
TRAF family members couple receptor signalling complexes to downstream outputs, but how they interact with these complexes is not always clear. Here, we show that during ADP‐heptose signalling, TRAF2 binding to TIFA requires two short sequence motifs in the C‐terminal tail of TIFA, which are distinct from the TRAF6 binding motif.
Tom Snelling, Kodi Hunter, Celest W. S. Tay, Nicola T. Wood, Philip Cohen   +4 more
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LytM Proteins Play a Crucial Role in Cell Separation, Outer Membrane Composition, and Pathogenesis in Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae

mBio, 2015
LytM proteins belong to a family of bacterial metalloproteases. In Gram-negative bacteria, LytM factors are mainly reported to have a direct effect on cell division by influencing cleavage and remodeling of peptidoglycan.
Giuseppe Ercoli, Chiara Tani, Alfredo Pezzicoli, Irene Vacca, Manuele Martinelli, Simone Pecetta, Roberto Petracca, Rino Rappuoli, Mariagrazia Pizza, Nathalie Norais, Marco Soriani, Beatrice Aricò   +11 more
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Scaffolding Protein GspB/OutB Facilitates Assembly of the Dickeya dadantii Type 2 Secretion System by Anchoring the Outer Membrane Secretin Pore to the Inner Membrane and to the Peptidoglycan Cell Wall

mBio, 2022
The phytopathogenic proteobacterium Dickeya dadantii secretes an array of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes and other virulence factors via the type 2 secretion system (T2SS).
Shiheng Zhang, Shuang Gu, Piers Rycroft, Florence Ruaudel, Frederic Delolme, Xavier Robert, Lionel Ballut, Richard W. Pickersgill, Vladimir E. Shevchik   +8 more
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The epithelial barrier theory proposes a comprehensive explanation for the origins of allergic and other chronic noncommunicable diseases

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Exposure to common noxious agents (1), including allergens, pollutants, and micro‐nanoplastics, can cause epithelial barrier damage (2) in our body's protective linings. This may trigger an immune response to our microbiome (3). The epithelial barrier theory explains how this process can lead to chronic noncommunicable diseases (4) affecting organs ...
Can Zeyneloglu, Huseyn Babayev, Ismail Ogulur, Sena Ardicli, Yagiz Pat, Duygu Yazici, Bingjie Zhao, Lihong Chang, Xiaoqing Liu, Paolo D'Avino, Manru Li, Ceren Biçer, Fatma Hacer Kurtoğlu Babayev, Raja Dhir, Kari C. Nadeau, Marie‐Charlotte Brüggen, Mubeccel Akdis, Cezmi A. Akdis   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring lipid diversity and minimalism to define membrane requirements for synthetic cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Designing the lipid membrane of synthetic cells is a complex task, in which its various roles (among them solute transport, membrane protein support, and self‐replication) should all be integrated. In this review, we report the latest top‐down and bottom‐up advances and discuss compatibility and complexity issues of current engineering approaches ...
Sergiy Gan, Victoria Scarpelli, Marten Exterkate   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Novel sterol binding domains in bacteria

eLife
Sterol lipids are widely present in eukaryotes and play essential roles in signaling and modulating membrane fluidity. Although rare, some bacteria also produce sterols, but their function in bacteria is not known.
Liting Zhai, Amber C Bonds, Clyde A Smith, Hannah Oo, Jonathan Chiu-Chun Chou, Paula V Welander, Laura MK Dassama   +6 more
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