Glutathione Metabolism in Renal Cell Carcinoma Progression and Implications for Therapies [PDF]
, 2019 A significantly increased level of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenger glutathione (GSH) has been identified as a hallmark of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The proposed mechanism for increased GSH levels is to counteract damaging ROS to sustain the
Meierhofer, David, Xiao, Yi
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Phenotype expansion of variants affecting p38 MAPK signaling in hypospadias patients
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2022 Background Hypospadias is a congenital anomaly of the male urogenital system. Genetics factors play an important role in its pathogenesis. To search for potential causal genes/variants for hypospadias, we performed exome sequencing in a pedigree with ...
Defu Lin +19 more
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In silico evidence that protein unfolding is as a precursor of the protein aggregation [PDF]
ChemPhysChem 2020, 21, 377, 2019 We present a computational study on the folding and aggregation of proteins in aqueous environment, as function of its concentration. We show how the increase of the concentration of individual protein species can induce a partial unfolding of the native conformation without the occurrence of aggregates. A further increment of the protein concentration
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The small GTP-binding proteins Rac1 and Cdc42regulate the activity of the JNK/SAPK signaling pathway [PDF]
, 1995 Summaryc-Jun amino-terminal kinases (JNKs) and mitogen-activatedprotein kinases (MAPKs) are closely related; however, they are independently regulated by a variety of environmental stimuli. Although molecules linking growth factor receptors to MAPKs have
Chiariello, Mario +7 more
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Successful treatment with cladribine of Erdheim-Chester disease with orbital and central nervous system involvement developing after treatment of langerhans cell histiocytosis [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2016 Introduction. Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a rare, systemic form of non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the juvenile xantho-granuloma family with characteristic bilateral symmetrical long bone osteosclerosis, associated with ...
Perić Predrag +10 more
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A novel methodology on distributed representations of proteins using their interacting ligands [PDF]
Bioinformatics 2018, 2018 The effective representation of proteins is a crucial task that directly affects the performance of many bioinformatics problems. Related proteins usually bind to similar ligands. Chemical characteristics of ligands are known to capture the functional and mechanistic properties of proteins suggesting that a ligand based approach can be utilized in ...
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IAPs on the move : role of inhibitors of apoptosis proteins in cell migration [PDF]
, 2013 Inhibitors of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs) are a class of highly conserved proteins predominantly known for the regulation of caspases and immune signaling. However, recent evidence suggests a crucial role for these molecules in the regulation of tumor cell
Murali, Arun +2 more
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Immune check point inhibitors in BRAF mutated metastatic colorectal cancer: A review
International Journal of Gastrointestinal InterventionMetastatic colorectal cancers with BRAF mutation are a class of tumors that have a poor prognosis compared to wild type patients. Even if this group has found some hope in targeted therapy with multi-targeted blockade of the mitogen-activated protein ...
Alfredo Colombo +2 more
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FAK acts as a suppressor of RTK-MAP kinase signalling in Drosophila melanogaster epithelia and human cancer cells [PDF]
, 2014 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases (RTKs) and Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) regulate multiple signalling pathways, including mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway. FAK interacts with several RTKs but little is known about how FAK regulates their downstream
A Bergmann +86 more
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Contribution of the R-Ras2 GTP-binding protein to primary breast tumorigenesis and late-stage metastatic disease [PDF]
, 2014 R-Ras2 is a transforming GTPase that shares downstream effectors with Ras subfamily proteins. However, little information exists about the function of this protein in tumorigenesis and its signalling overlap with classical Ras GTPases.
Alarcón, Balbino +7 more
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