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Type I Interferon Induction in Cutaneous DNA Damage Syndromes

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
Type I interferons (IFNs) as part of the innate immune system have an outstanding importance as antiviral defense cytokines that stimulate innate and adaptive immune responses.
Benjamin Klein, Claudia Günther
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Exome sequencing identifies rare deleterious mutations in DNA repair genes FANCC and BLM as potential breast cancer susceptibility alleles. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2012
Despite intensive efforts using linkage and candidate gene approaches, the genetic etiology for the majority of families with a multi-generational breast cancer predisposition is unknown.
Ella R Thompson, Maria A Doyle, Georgina L Ryland, Simone M Rowley, David Y H Choong, Richard W Tothill, Heather Thorne, kConFab, Daniel R Barnes, Jason Li, Jason Ellul, Gayle K Philip, Yoland C Antill, Paul A James, Alison H Trainer, Gillian Mitchell, Ian G Campbell   +16 more
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Uncovering an allosteric mode of action for a selective inhibitor of human Bloom syndrome protein

eLife, 2021
BLM (Bloom syndrome protein) is a RECQ-family helicase involved in the dissolution of complex DNA structures and repair intermediates. Synthetic lethality analysis implicates BLM as a promising target in a range of cancers with defects in the DNA damage ...
Xiangrong Chen, Yusuf I Ali, Charlotte EL Fisher, Raquel Arribas-Bosacoma, Mohan B Rajasekaran, Gareth Williams, Sarah Walker, Jessica R Booth, Jessica JR Hudson, S Mark Roe, Laurence H Pearl, Simon E Ward, Frances MG Pearl, Antony W Oliver   +13 more
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Low Incidence of Relapses After Vaccination in Anti‐Aquaporin‐4 Antibody‐Positive NMOSD

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) may experience increased signs and symptoms of their underlying disease when vaccinated against meningococcal disease before receiving complement component 5 inhibitor therapies. This retrospective analysis indicated an overall low relapse incidence (mean [range], 3.3% [0.7%–10.6 ...
Sean J. Pittock, Jin Nakahara, Becky Parks, Kerstin Allen, Sami Fam   +4 more
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Targeting Lactate and Lactylation in Cancer Metabolism and Immunotherapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Lactate, once deemed a metabolic waste, emerges as a central regulator of cancer progression. This review elucidates how lactate and its epigenetic derivative, protein lactylation, orchestrate tumor metabolism, immune suppression, and therapeutic resistance.
Jiajing Gong, Yuhang Xie, Zhijie Weng, Yongzhi Wu, Longjiang Li, Bo Li   +5 more
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Sensing and Filtering Environmental Fluctuations: The Case of Biomolecular Condensates in Plants

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The diversity of plant condensates reflects constraints of sessile organisms to coordinate postembryonic development with environmental adaptation. This review examines how plants employ condensates to integrate temperature, light, redox, and nutrient signals.
Panagiotis N. Moschou, Dorothee Staiger
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Skin Cancer Associated Genodermatoses: A Literature Review

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2019
Skin cancer has become the most common type of cancer worldwide as a result of environmental exposure and medical treatments. A small group of patients are genetically predisposed to skin cancer and this article is intended as a diagnostic tool when ...
Juliane Schierbeck, Tine Vestergaard, Anette Bygum   +2 more
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Evaluating the African arid corridor hypothesis: A meta‐analysis including the phylogenetic and biogeographical history of Sesamothamnus

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise We examined the African arid corridor (AAC) disjunction pattern of vascular plants between northeastern and southwestern Africa in the context of geological and climatic events since the late Miocene. We developed a phylogenetic and biogeographical framework for the arid‐adapted genus Sesamothamnus (Pedaliaceae), a classic example of ...
John G. Zaborsky, Jeffrey P. Rose, Ricardo Kriebel, Bryan T. Drew, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, Kenneth J. Sytsma   +6 more
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BLM helicase suppresses recombination at G-quadruplex motifs in transcribed genes

Nature Communications, 2018
Bloom syndrome is characterized by high levels of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs). Here, the authors use single-cell DNA template strand-sequencing to map SCEs in patient cells, and propose that the BLM helicase protects the genome against unwanted ...
Niek van Wietmarschen, Sarra Merzouk, Nancy Halsema, Diana C. J. Spierings, Victor Guryev, Peter M. Lansdorp   +5 more
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BLM Sumoylation Is Required for Replication Stability and Normal Fork Velocity During DNA Replication

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022
BLM is sumoylated in response to replication stress. We have studied the role of BLM sumoylation in physiologically normal and replication-stressed conditions by expressing in BLM-deficient cells a BLM with SUMO acceptor-site mutations, which we refer to
Christelle de Renty, Kelvin W. Pond, Mary K. Yagle, Nathan A. Ellis, Nathan A. Ellis   +4 more
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