Structural biology of ferritin nanocages
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Ferritin is a conserved iron‐storage protein that sequesters iron as a ferric mineral core within a nanocage, protecting cells from oxidative damage and maintaining iron homeostasis. This review discusses ferritin biology, structure, and function, and highlights recent cryo‐EM studies revealing mechanisms of ferritinophagy, cellular iron uptake, and ...
Eloise Mastrangelo, Flavio Di Pisa
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AFIR: A Dimensionless Potency Metric for Characterizing the Activity of Monoclonal Antibodies
CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, 2017 For monoclonal antibody (mAb) drugs, soluble targets may accumulate several thousand fold after binding to the drug. Time course data of mAb and total target is often collected and, although free target is more closely related to clinical effect, it is ...
AM Stein, R Ramakrishna
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Structural insights and biomedical potential of IgNAR scaffolds from sharks [PDF]
, 2014 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Barelle, Caroline +5 more
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Mechanisms of IgE‐mediated food allergy and the role of allergen‐specific B cells
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Food allergy arises when allergen‐specific B cells preferentially produce immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies against harmless foods. This article explains the mechanisms driving IgE‐mediated reactions, highlights the central role of these B cells, and discusses how natural tolerance (NT) and oral immunotherapy (OIT) can reshape allergic immune responses.
Juan‐Felipe López +2 more
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Drug-target binding affinity prediction method based on a deep graph neural network
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2022 <abstract> <p>The development of new drugs is a long and costly process, Computer-aided drug design reduces development costs while computationally shortening the new drug development cycle, in which DTA (Drug-Target binding Affinity) prediction is a key step to screen out potential drugs.
Dong Ma, Shuang Li, Zhihua Chen
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Docking-based virtual screening of known drugs against murE of Mycobacterium tuberculosis towards repurposing for TB. [PDF]
, 2016 Repurposing has gained momentum globally and become an alternative avenue for drug discovery because of its better success rate, and reduced cost, time and issues related to safety than the conventional drug discovery process.
Brindha, Sridharan +4 more
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Virus-Like Particle-Mediated Vaccination against Interleukin-13 May Harbour General Anti-Allergic Potential beyond Atopic Dermatitis [PDF]
, 2020 Virus-like particle (VLP)-based anti-infective prophylactic vaccination has been established in clinical use. Although validated in proof-of-concept clinical trials in humans, no VLP-based therapeutic vaccination against self-proteins to modulate chronic
Foerster, John, Molęda, Aleksandra
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GDGRU-DTA: Predicting Drug-Target Binding Affinity based on GNN and Double GRU
Data Mining and Machine Learning, 2022 The work for predicting drug and target affinity(DTA) is crucial for drug development and repurposing. In this work, we propose a novel method called GDGRU-DTA to predict the binding affinity between drugs and targets, which is based on GraphDTA, but we consider that protein sequences are long sequences, so simple CNN cannot capture the context ...
Zhijian, Lyu +3 more
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Cytoplasmic p21 promotes stemness of colon cancer cells via activation of the NFκB pathway
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Cytoplasmic p21 promotes colorectal cancer stem cell (CSC) features by destabilizing the NFκB–IκB complex, activating NFκB signaling, and upregulating BCL‐xL and COX2. In contrast to nuclear p21, cytoplasmic p21 enhances spheroid formation and stemness transcription factor CD133.
Arnatchai Maiuthed +10 more
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