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4‐nitrobenzoate inhibits 4‐hydroxybenzoate polyprenyltransferase in malaria parasites and enhances atovaquone efficacy

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Atovaquone is an antimalarial requiring potentiation for sufficient efficacy. We pursued strategies to enhance its activity, showing that 4‐nitrobenzoate inhibits 4‐hydroxybenzoate polyprenyltransferase, decreasing ubiquinone biosynthesis. Since atovaquone competes with ubiquinol in mitochondria, 4‐nitrobenzoate facilitates its action, potentiating ...
Ignasi Bofill Verdaguer, Matheus Felipe Santos, Maurício Mazzine Filho, Gabriela Oliveira Castro, Agustín Hernández, Manoel Aparecido Peres, Alejandro Miguel Katzin, Marcell Crispim   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transcriptome profiling reveals significant changes in the gastric muscularis externa with obesity that partially overlap those that occur with idiopathic gastroparesis [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND: Gastric emptying is impaired in patients with gastroparesis whereas it is either unchanged or accelerated in obese individuals. The goal of the current study was to identify changes in gene expression in the stomach muscularis that may be ...
Chen, Meng, Choi, Jennifer N., Gupta, Anita, Herring, B. Paul, Hoggatt, April M., Mihaylov, Plamen, Nakeeb, Attila, Wo, John M.   +7 more
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Linked dimers of the AAA+ ATPase Msp1 reveal energetic demands and mechanistic plasticity for substrate extraction from lipid bilayers

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Cells must clear mislocalized or faulty proteins from membranes to survive. The AAA+ ATPase Msp1 performs this task, but dissecting how its six subunits work together is challenging. We engineered linked dimers with varied numbers of functional subunits to reveal how Msp1 subunits cooperate and use energy to extract proteins from the lipid bilayer ...
Deepika Gaur, Brian Acquaviva, Baylee A. Smith, Nathan Walker, Isabella Walter, Matthew L. Wohlever   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanics and polarity in cell motility [PDF]

, 2016
The motility of a fish keratocyte on a flat substrate exhibits two distinct regimes: the non-migrating and the migrating one. In both configurations the shape is fixed in time and, when the cell is moving, the velocity is constant in magnitude and ...
Ambrosi, Davide, Zanzottera, Anna
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Normal Pursuit-System Limitations— First Discovered in Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome

Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2013
Infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) patients occasionally have impaired pursuit. Model and patient data identified relative timing between target motion initiation and INS-waveform saccades as the cause. We used a new stimulus, the “step-pause-ramp” (SPR),
Louis F. Dell’Osso, Jonathan B. Jacobs
doaj   +1 more source

Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
wiley   +1 more source

Quantification of Cell Movement Reveals Distinct Edge Motility Types During Cell Spreading [PDF]

, 2007
Actin-based motility is central to cellular processes such as migration, bacterial engulfment, and cancer metastasis, and requires precise spatial and temporal regulation of the cytoskeleton.
Anna H. Shneidman, Benjamin J. Dubin-Thaler, Chris Wiggins, Hans-Guenther Dobereiner, Harry V. Xenias, Ingrid A. Spielman, Jake M. Hofman, Lawrence David, Michael P. Sheetz   +8 more
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CCT4 promotes tunneling nanotube formation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) are membranous tunnel‐like structures that transport molecules and organelles between cells. They vary in thickness, and thick nanotubes often contain microtubules in addition to actin fibers. We found that cells expressing monomeric CCT4 generate many thick TNTs with tubulin.
Miyu Enomoto, Akiko Asada, Taro Saito, Kanae Ando   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of fibroblast growth factors in cell and cancer metabolism

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling regulates crucial signaling cascades that promote cell proliferation, survival, and metabolism. Therefore, FGFs and their receptors are often dysregulated in human diseases, including cancer, to sustain proliferation and rewire metabolism.
Jessica Price, Chiara Francavilla
wiley   +1 more source

Syntaphilin Ubiquitination Regulates Mitochondrial Dynamics and Tumor Cell Movements. [PDF]

, 2018
Syntaphilin (SNPH) inhibits the movement of mitochondria in tumor cells, preventing their accumulation at the cortical cytoskeleton and limiting the bioenergetics of cell motility and invasion. Although this may suppress metastasis, the regulation of the
Agarwal, Ekta, Altieri, Dario C., Bryant, Kelly G., Caino, M. Cecilia, Cohen, Andrew R., Gabrilovich, Dmitry I., Kim, Eui Tae, Kossenkov, Andrew V., Languino, Lucia R., Seo, Jae Ho, Speicher, David W., Tang, Hsin-Yao   +11 more
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