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Refining the NaV1.7 pharmacophore of a class of venom‐derived peptide inhibitors via a combination of in silico screening and rational engineering

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Venom peptides have shown promise in treating pain. Our study uses computer screening to identify a peptide that targets a sodium channel (NaV1.7) linked to chronic pain. We produced the peptide in the laboratory and refined its design, advancing the search for innovative pain therapies.
Gagan Sharma, Jennifer R. Deuis, Xinying Jia, Theo Crawford, Sassan Rahnama, Eivind A. B. Undheim, Irina Vetter, Yanni K. ‐Y. Chin, Mehdi Mobli   +8 more
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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
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Evolutionary interplay between viruses and R‐loops

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Viruses interact with specialized nucleic acid structures called R‐loops to influence host transcription, epigenetic states, latency, and immune evasion. This Perspective examines the roles of R‐loops in viral replication, integration, and silencing, and how viruses co‐opt or avoid these structures.
Zsolt Karányi, Zita Képes, Zoltán Szabó, Eszter Csoma, Lóránt Székvölgyi   +4 more
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Cell‐free and extracellular vesicle microRNAs with clinical utility for solid tumors

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cell‐free microRNAs (cfmiRs) are small‐RNA circulating molecules detectable in almost all body biofluids. Innovative technologies have improved the application of cfmiRs to oncology, with a focus on clinical needs for different solid tumors, but with emphasis on diagnosis, prognosis, cancer recurrence, as well as treatment monitoring.
Yoshinori Hayashi, Janelle‐Cheri Millen, Romela Irene Ramos, Jennifer A. Linehan, Timothy G. Wilson, Dave S. B. Hoon, Matias A. Bustos   +6 more
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Cellular liquid biopsy provides unique chances for disease monitoring, preclinical model generation and therapy adjustment in rare salivary gland cancer patients

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We quantified and cultured circulating tumor cells (CTCs) of 62 patients with various cancer types and generated CTC‐derived tumoroid models from two salivary gland cancer patients. Cellular liquid biopsy‐derived information enabled molecular genetic assessment of systemic disease heterogeneity and functional testing for therapy selection in both ...
Nataša Stojanović Gužvić, Florian Lüke, Steffi Treitschke, Andrea Coluccio, Martin Hoffmann, Giancarlo Feliciello, Adithi Ravikumar Varadarajan, Xin Lu, Kathrin Weidele, Catherine Botteron, Silvia Materna–Reichelt, Felix Keil, Katja Evert, Florian Weber, Thomas Schamberger, Michael Althammer, Jirka Grosse, Dirk Hellwig, Christian Schulz, Stephan Seitz, Peter Ugocsai, Anke Schlenska‐Lange, Roman Mayr, Ulrich Kaiser, Wolfgang Dietmaier, Bernhard Polzer, Jens Warfsmann, Kamran Honarnejad, Tobias Pukrop, Daniel Heudobler, Christoph A. Klein, Christian Werno   +31 more
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Respiratory complex I‐mediated NAD+ regeneration regulates cancer cell proliferation through the transcriptional and translational control of p21Cip1 expression by SIRT3 and SIRT7

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
NAD+ regeneration by mitochondrial complex I NADH dehydrogenase is important for cancer cell proliferation. Specifically, NAD+ is necessary for the activities of NAD+‐dependent deacetylases SIRT3 and SIRT7, which suppress the expression of p21Cip1 cyclin‐dependent kinase inhibitor, an antiproliferative molecule, at the translational and transcriptional
Masato Higurashi, Kazunori Mori, Hidetsugu Nakagawa, Momoko Uchida, Fumihiro Ishikawa, Motoko Shibanuma   +5 more
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Stochastic variation in the FOXM1 transcription program mediates replication stress tolerance

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cellular heterogeneity is a major cause of drug resistance in cancer. Segeren et al. used single‐cell transcriptomics to investigate gene expression events that correlate with sensitivity to the DNA‐damaging drugs gemcitabine and prexasertib. They show that dampened expression of transcription factor FOXM1 and its target genes protected cells against ...
Hendrika A. Segeren, Kathryn A. Wierenga, Frank M. Riemers, Elsbeth A. van Liere, Bart Westendorp   +4 more
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CircCCNB1 inhibits vasculogenic mimicry by sequestering NF90 to promote miR‐15b‐5p and miR‐7‐1‐3p processing in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
CircCCNB1 expression is down‐regulated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC); thus, less NF90 protein is bound to circCCNB1 and more binds to pri‐miRNAs, blocking their (pri‐miRNAs) binding to DGCR8 and inhibiting the processing and generation of miR‐15b‐5p/miR‐7‐1‐3p. Furthermore, decreased miR‐15b‐5p/miR‐7‐1‐3p promotes the expression of the target genes
Chunmei Fan, Fenghua Tan, Jie Wu, Zhaoyang Zeng, Wenjia Guo, He Huang, Wei Xiong   +6 more
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TOMM20 as a driver of cancer aggressiveness via oxidative phosphorylation, maintenance of a reduced state, and resistance to apoptosis

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
TOMM20 increases cancer aggressiveness by maintaining a reduced state with increased NADH and NADPH levels, oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), and apoptosis resistance while reducing reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels. Conversely, CRISPR‐Cas9 knockdown of TOMM20 alters these cancer‐aggressive traits.
Ranakul Islam, Megan E. Roche, Zhao Lin, Diana Whitaker‐Menezes, Victor Diaz‐Barros, Eurico Serrano, Maria Paula Martinez Cantarin, Nancy J. Philp, Atrayee Basu Mallick, Ubaldo Martinez‐Outschoorn   +9 more
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Targeting the MDM2‐MDM4 interaction interface reveals an otherwise therapeutically active wild‐type p53 in colorectal cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study investigates an alternative approach to reactivating the oncosuppressor p53 in cancer. A short peptide targeting the association of the two p53 inhibitors, MDM2 and MDM4, induces an otherwise therapeutically active p53 with unique features that promote cell death and potentially reduce toxicity towards proliferating nontumor cells.
Sonia Valentini, Giada Mele, Marika Attili, Maria Rita Assenza, Fulvio Saccoccia, Francesca Sardina, Cinzia Rinaldo, Roberto Massari, Nicola Tirelli, Alfredo Pontecorvi, Fabiola Moretti   +10 more
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