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Soft motions encoded by the fold and mediated by conserved hinge sites drive V‐ATPase allosteric machinery and autoinhibition

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Vacuolar H+‐ATPase (V‐ATPase) is a multisubunit rotary proton pump that acidifies intracellular compartments. Using elastic network models, we identified conserved hinge residues that govern its large‐scale functional motions. We show that intrinsically encoded ‘soft modes’ drive critical functional transitions, including rotary catalysis and ...
Diksha Parwana, Xiaowei Bogetti, Stuti Sharma, Ivet Bahar   +3 more
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The VHL tumor suppressor at the crossroad of protein folding, aggregation, and cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Mutations, environmental stress, and chaperone dysfunction can destabilize pVHL, promoting its conversion from the native folded state into amyloid‐like assemblies. This transition may contribute to protein storage, cell dormancy, survival, and drug resistance.
Lara Abad, Silvio Carlo Ermanno Tosatto, Emanuela Leonardi   +2 more
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Charge Characterization Of An Electrically Charged Fiber Via Electrostatic Force Microscopy [PDF]

Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics, 2006
The charge of a corona charged electret fiber as well as an uncharged glass fiber was characterized via Electrostatic Force Microscopy (EFM). Electrostatic force gradient images were obtained by monitoring the shifts in phase between the oscillations of ...
Juan P. Hinestroza, Joyoun Kim, Warren J. Jasper   +2 more
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Large area scanning probe microscope in ultra-high vacuum demonstrated for electrostatic force measurements on high-voltage devices

Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2015
Background: The resolution in electrostatic force microscopy (EFM), a descendant of atomic force microscopy (AFM), has reached nanometre dimensions, necessary to investigate integrated circuits in modern electronic devices.
Urs Gysin, Thilo Glatzel, Thomas Schmölzer, Adolf Schöner, Sergey Reshanov, Holger Bartolf, Ernst Meyer   +6 more
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Paclitaxel induces NM2‐dependent cellular contraction through GEF‐H1 dissociation from microtubules and RhoA/ROCK activation in cancer cells

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Taxanes are widely used chemotherapeutics whose effects on cellular mechanics remain poorly understood. We show that paclitaxel induces rapid cellular contraction by promoting GEF‐H1 dissociation from microtubules and non‐muscle myosin II activation through RhoA/ROCK.
Gloria Asensio‐Juárez, Rafael Pérez‐Díaz, Hugo Ramos‐Solano, Marina Garrido‐Casado, Vanessa C. Talayero, Miguel Vicente‐Manzanares   +5 more
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Probing the surface electrical properties of clay minerals with electrostatic force microscopy and kelvin probe force microscopy

Materials Research Express
Many surface processes of clay minerals require in-depth understanding of their surface electrical properties, such as surface charge density, surface potential distribution, etc In this paper, electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) and Kelvin probe force ...
Zonghua Qin, Xin Nie, Wenbin Yu, Shuguang Yang, Zongke Zhou, Shuqin Yang, Quan Wan   +6 more
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p190A/ARHGAP35 and p190B/ARHGAP5 proteins in endometrial cancer: a novel cancer‐relevant paralog interplay

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study identifies ARHGAP5, in addition to the frequently mutated ARHGAP35, as significantly mutated in endometrial cancer. Mutations in both genes co‐occur and are associated with their correlated downregulation. Functional CRISPR studies show that both paralogs regulate similar pathways, including actin cytoskeleton organization.
Mathilde Pinault, Capucine Heraud, Mélissa Correia de Oliveira, Véronique Neaud, Valérie Valesco, Valérie Prouzet‐Mauleon, Béatrice Turcq, Jean‐William Dupuy, Anne‐Aurélie Raymond, Sabrina Croce, Frédéric Saltel, Valérie Lagrée, Violaine Moreau   +12 more
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Investigation of additional responses caused by sample surface topography in piezoresponse force microscopy measurement

Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu
The purpose of this study is to elucidate the origin of the additional response signals arising from the surface topography of samples during piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) measurements.
Shotaro IKEMOTO, Masataka ABE, Azusa N. HATTORI, Takashi SUMIGAWA   +3 more
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Mutant p53R273H disrupts PDPK1 homodimerization and contributes to PDPK1 activation

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
How mutant p53R273H drives AKT signaling is unclear. We show that p53R273H, but not wild‐type, directly binds PDPK1 via a mutation‐dependent conformational change. This interaction disrupts inhibitory PDPK1 homodimerization and enhances AKT phosphorylation.
Mei Chee Lim, Alvin Kunyao Guo, Yoko Itahana, Srinivasaraghavan Kannan, Valerie Goh, Mingmin Ong, Terina Yan Wen Tay, Weiying Ye, Sabhashina Radha Krishnan, Jun Nishiyama, Chandra S Verma, Koji Itahana   +11 more
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Reprogramming tumor cells with LCOR mRNA nanotherapy to enhance immunotherapy

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
LCOR (Ligand‐dependent corepressor) mRNA encapsulated in polymeric nanoparticles restores LCOR activity in tumor cells, constraining aggressive tumor cell states and increasing tumor immunogenicity. This reprogramming makes tumor cells more vulnerable to T‐cell attack and enhances their response to immune‐checkpoint immunotherapy.
Gabriel Serra‐Mir, Elena Haro‐Martínez, Sandra Blasco‐Benito, Chiara Cannatà, José Ángel Palomeque, Anna López‐Plana, Maria Sanz‐Flores, Marc Sabartés, Cristina Fornaguera, Toni Celià‐Terrassa   +9 more
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