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Inhibition of HIV-1 Replication and Dimerization Interference by Dual Inhibitory RNAs

Molecules, 2010
The 5’-untranslated region (5’UTR) of the HIV-1 RNA is an attractive target for engineered ribozymes due to its high sequence and structural conservation.
Elena Puerta-Fernández, Alfredo Berzal-Herranz, José A. Reyes-Darias, Francisco J. Sánchez-Luque   +3 more
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Controlled evolution of an RNA enzyme [PDF]

It is generally thought that prior to the origin of protein synthesis, life on earth was based on self-replicating RNA molecules. This idea has become especially popular recently due to the discovery of catalytic RNA (ribozymes).
Joyce, G. F.
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DGR mutagenic transposition occurs via hypermutagenic reverse transcription primed by nicked template RNA. [PDF]

, 2017
Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are molecular evolution machines that facilitate microbial adaptation to environmental changes. Hypervariation occurs via a mutagenic retrotransposition process from a template repeat (TR) to a variable repeat ...
Guo, Huatao, Han, Jin, Heng, Xiao, Lee, William R, Miller, Jeff F, Naorem, Santa S, Wang, Shufang   +6 more
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Peroxidasin enables melanoma immune escape by inhibiting natural killer cell cytotoxicity

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Peroxidasin (PXDN) is secreted by melanoma cells and binds the NK cell receptor NKG2D, thereby suppressing NK cell activation and cytotoxicity. PXDN depletion restores NKG2D signaling and enables effective NK cell–mediated melanoma killing. These findings identify PXDN as a previously unrecognized immune evasion factor and a potential target to improve
Hsu‐Min Sung, David Bickel, Lena C. M. Krause, Daria Ezeriņa, Christian Ickes, Julian Wojtachnia, Christine S. Gibhardt, Magdalena Shumanska, Khadija Wahni, Andrea Paluschkiwitz, Julia Malo Pueyo, Ekaterina Baranova, Wim Vranken, Hedwig Stanisz, Ioana Stejerean‐Todoran, Michael P. Schön, Joris Messens, Ivan Bogeski   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-throughput mutagenesis reveals unique structural features of human ADAR1

Nature Communications, 2020
Human ADAR proteins are responsible for RNA editing, conversion of adenosine to inosine in double-stranded RNA. Here the authors report a previously unknown zinc ion-binding site in the catalytic domain of human ADAR1 using high throughput mutagenesis ...
SeHee Park, Erin E. Doherty, Yixuan Xie, Anil K. Padyana, Fang Fang, Yue Zhang, Agya Karki, Carlito B. Lebrilla, Justin B. Siegel, Peter A. Beal   +9 more
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Redox regulation meets metabolism: targeting PRDX2 to prevent hepatocellular carcinoma

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
PRDX2 acts as a central redox hub linking metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatohepatitis (MASH) to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In normal hepatocytes, PRDX2 maintains redox balance and metabolic homeostasis under oxidative stress. In contrast, during malignant transformation, PRDX2 promotes oncogenic signaling, stemness, and tumor initiation ...
Naroa Goikoetxea‐Usandizaga, María Luz Martinez‐Chantar, Carolina Conter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dammarenediol II enhances etoposide‐induced apoptosis by targeting O‐GlcNAc transferase and Akt/GSK3β/mTOR signaling in liver cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Etoposide induces DNA damage, activating p53‐dependent apoptosis via caspase‐3/7, which cleaves PARP1. Dammarenediol II enhances this apoptotic pathway by suppressing O‐GlcNAc transferase activity, further decreasing O‐GlcNAcylation. The reduction in O‐GlcNAc levels boosts p53‐driven apoptosis and influences the Akt/GSK3β/mTOR signaling pathway ...
Jaehoon Lee, Byung‐Cheol Han, Gi‐Bang Koo, Jihye Park, Mijin Kwon, Young Bin Park, Jae‐Mun Choi, Seung‐Ho Lee, Sangho Roh   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correlation of the differential expression of PIK3R1 and its spliced variant, p55α, in pan‐cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
PIK3R1 undergoes alternative splicing to generate the isoforms, p85α and p55α. By combining large patient datasets with laboratory experiments, we show that PIK3R1 spliced variants shape cancer behavior. While tumors lose the protective p85α isoform, p55α is overexpressed, changes linked to poorer survival and more pronounced in African American ...
Ishita Gupta, Yang Song, Madeleine Ndahayo, Anirudh Saxena, Theresa Guo, Dylan Z. Kelley, Jessica Gore, Andrew Hennigan, Alexa Anderson, John C. Papadimitriou, Daria A. Gaykalova   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modular Architecture of Bacterial RNase P Ribozymes as a Structural Platform for RNA Nanostructure Design

CHIMIA, 2018
Ribonuclease P (RNase P) is a class of enzymes involved in the processing of precursor tRNAs to remove their 5'-leader sequences. Ribonuclease P enzymes are classified into two completely distinct classes, i.e.
Yuri Nozawa, Megumi Hagihara, Shigeyoshi Matsumura, Yoshiya Ikawa   +3 more
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Phylogeny of conserved adenines in linkers of Group-I introns [PDF]

, 2009
We have analyzed the linkers in group-I introns, a characteristic region that is crucial to the folding and splicing process of the folded RNA, in seventy sequences spreading across r-RNA, t-RNA and organelle genes from various organisms including algae,
Chandrasekhar Kesavan, Natarajan Ganesan
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