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A working model for cytoplasmic assembly of H/ACA snoRNPs

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Dyskerin is the component of nuclear H/ACA ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) endowed with pseudouridine synthase catalytic activity. Two isoforms of human dyskerin have been characterized: the abundant Iso1, mainly nuclear, and the shorter Iso3, mainly cytoplasmic but occasionally imported into nuclei.
Alberto Angrisani, Maria Furia
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Antagonists of protein–protein interactions [PDF]

Chemistry & Biology, 2000
Protein-protein interactions are often attractive, but not straightforward, targets for disease therapy. Two strategies for identifying inhibitors of these interactions, peptide phage display and high-throughput screening, have recently shown new promise.
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Mechanistic basis for inhibition of the extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase GES‐1 by enmetazobactam and tazobactam

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of huge importance, resulting in over 1 million deaths each year. Here, we describe how a new drug, enmetazobactam, designed to help fight resistant bacterial diseases, inhibits a key enzyme (GES‐1) responsible for AMR. Our data show it is a more potent inhibitor than the related tazobactam, with high‐level computation
Michael Beer, Philip Hinchliffe, Marko Hanževački, Christopher R. Bethel, Catherine L. Tooke, Marc W. Van der Kamp, Krisztina M. Papp‐Wallace, Robert A. Bonomo, Stuart Shapiro, Adrian J. Mulholland, James Spencer   +10 more
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Photophysical Properties of Fluorescent Probe Thioflavin T in Crowded Milieu

Journal of Spectroscopy, 2017
Thioflavin T (ThT) is a widely used fluorescent probe of amyloid fibrils, which accompanies many serious neurodegenerative and other diseases. Until recently, examinations of processes of amyloid fibril formation in vitro were conducted in solutions ...
Natalia P. Rodina, Maksim I. Sulatsky, Anna I. Sulatskaya, Irina M. Kuznetsova, Vladimir N. Uversky, Konstantin K. Turoverov   +5 more
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C9orf72 ALS‐causing mutations lead to mislocalization and aggregation of nucleoporin Nup107 into stress granules

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Mutations in the C9orf72 gene represent the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Using patient‐derived neurons and C. elegans models, we find that the nucleoporin Nup107 is dysregulated in C9orf72‐associated ALS. Conversely, reducing Nup107 levels mitigates disease‐related changes.
Saygın Bilican, Yara Nabawi, William Hongyu Zhang, Dunja Petrovic, Markus Wehrmann, Sara Muñoz‐García, Seda Koyuncu, David Vilchez   +7 more
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Protein—protein binding supersites

PLOS Computational Biology, 2019
The lack of a deep understanding of how proteins interact remains an important roadblock in advancing efforts to identify binding partners and uncover the corresponding regulatory mechanisms of the functions they mediate. Understanding protein-protein interactions is also essential for designing specific chemical modifications to develop new reagents ...
Raji Viswanathan, Eduardo Fajardo, Gabriel Steinberg, Matthew Haller, Andras Fiser   +4 more
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Novel and unscrutinized immune entities of the zebrafish gut

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Understudied cells of the zebrafish immune system include bona fide immune cells and epithelial (‐derived) cells with immune functions. Research focusing on zebrafish cells which demonstrate similarities to mammalian immune cell counterparts may help us understand the pathologies in which they are implicated. Currently available and advanced tools make
Audrey Inge Schytz Andersen‐Civil, Marine Mantel, Julia Soh, Serge Mostowy, Sylvia Brugman, Gilles Claude Vanwalleghem   +5 more
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From lactation to malignancy: A comparison between healthy and cancerous breast gland at single‐cell resolution reveals new issues for tumorigenesis

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Single‐cell RNA sequencing reveals an opposite role of SLPI in basal tumors based on metastatic spread, along with shared activation of specific regulons in cancer cells and mature luminal lactocytes, as well as downregulation of MALAT1 and NEAT1 in the latter.
Pietro Ancona, Carlo M. Bergamini, Carlo Ferrari, Stefano Volinia, Nicoletta Bianchi   +4 more
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Imeglimin attenuates liver fibrosis by inhibiting vesicular ATP release from hepatic stellate cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Imeglimin, at clinically relevant concentrations, inhibits vesicular ATP accumulation and release from hepatic stellate cells, thereby attenuating purinergic signaling and reducing fibrogenic activation. This mechanism reveals a newly identified antifibrotic action of imeglimin beyond glycemic control.
Seiji Nomura, Lixiang Wang, Nao Hasuzawa, Ayako Nagayama, Sawako Moriyama, Kenji Ashida, Yoshinori Moriyama, Masatoshi Nomura, Ken Yamamoto   +8 more
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Cancer cell death induced by the NAD antimetabolite Vacor discloses the antitumor potential of SARM1

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Vacor, a compound converted into the toxic metabolite Vacor adenine dinucleotide (VAD) by the nicotinamide salvage pathway enzymes NAMPT and NMNAT2, exhibits antitumor activity by inducing rapid and complete NAD depletion. We report that Vacor toxicity is limited to cell lines expressing high levels of SARM1, a NAD glycohydrolase.
Giuseppe Ranieri, Andrea Lapucci, Giuseppe Orsomando, Nadia Raffaelli, Alberto Chiarugi, Daniela Buonvicino   +5 more
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