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Unwinding and Rewinding: Double Faces of Helicase?

Journal of Nucleic Acids, 2012
Helicases are enzymes that use ATP-driven motor force to unwind double-stranded DNA or RNA. Recently, increasing evidence demonstrates that some helicases also possess rewinding activity—in other words, they can anneal two complementary single-stranded ...
Yuliang Wu
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Role reversal of functional identity in host factors: Dissecting features affecting pro-viral versus antiviral functions of cellular DEAD-box helicases in tombusvirus replication.

PLoS Pathogens, 2020
Positive-stranded (+)RNA viruses greatly exploit host cells to support viral replication. However, unlike many other pathogens, (+)RNA viruses code for only a limited number of genes, making them highly dependent on numerous co-opted host factors for ...
Cheng-Yu Wu, Peter D Nagy
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Caspase-Dependent Cleavage of DDX21 Suppresses Host Innate Immunity

mBio, 2021
Innate immunity serves as the first barrier against virus infection. DEAD (Glu-Asp-Ala-Glu) box RNA helicases, originally considered to be involved in RNA processing and RNA unwinding, have been shown to play an important role in antiviral innate ...
Wei Wu, Yang Qu, Shengqing Yu, Sa Wang, Yuncong Yin, Qinfang Liu, Chunchun Meng, Ying Liao, Zaib Ur Rehman, Lei Tan, Cuiping Song, Xusheng Qiu, Weiwei Liu, Chan Ding, Yingjie Sun   +14 more
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Subtype‐specific enhancer RNAs define transcriptional regulators and prognosis in breast cancers

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study employed machine learning methodologies to perform the subtype‐specific classification of RNA‐seq data sets, which are mapped on enhancers from TCGA‐derived breast cancer patients. Their integration with gene expression (referred to as ProxCReAM eRNAs) and chromatin accessibility profiles has the potential to identify lineage‐specific and ...
Aamena Y. Patel, Peyman Zarrineh, Nathnael T. Tuffa, Jigar H. Sheth, Sumitra Mohan, Mudassar Iqbal, Sankari Nagarajan   +6 more
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Heterozygous loss‐of‐function alleles associate the conserved 3′‐5′ exoribonuclease EXOSC10 with hypersensitivity to the anticancer drug 5‐fluorouracil

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
EXOSC10, an essential nuclear RNA exosome‐associated 3′‐5′ exoribonuclease, is inhibited by the anticancer drug 5‐fluorouracil (5‐FU), and EXOSC10 depletion increases 5‐FU sensitivity. The colon‐cancer variant EXOSC10S402T, located in a proteolysis motif, is stable and nuclear but nonfunctional in vivo.
Radhika Sain, Yann Le Page, Frédéric Percevault, Emmanuelle Becker, Luc Negroni, Almudena Fernandez, Marta Cantero, Diego Muñoz‐Santos, Lluís Montoliu, Cyrille Garnier, Michael Primig   +10 more
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Selective pharmacological targeting of a DEAD box RNA helicase.

PLoS ONE, 2008
RNA helicases represent a large family of proteins implicated in many biological processes including ribosome biogenesis, splicing, translation and mRNA degradation. However, these proteins have little substrate specificity, making inhibition of selected
Lisa Lindqvist, Monika Oberer, Mikhail Reibarkh, Regina Cencic, Marie-Eve Bordeleau, Emily Vogt, Assen Marintchev, Junichi Tanaka, Francois Fagotto, Michael Altmann, Gerhard Wagner, Jerry Pelletier   +11 more
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RNA helicase domains of viral origin in proteins of insect retrotransposons: possible source for evolutionary advantages [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
Recently, a novel phenomenon of horizontal gene transfer of helicase-encoding sequence from positive-stranded RNA viruses to LINE transposons in insect genomes was described.
Sergey Y. Morozov, Ekaterina A. Lazareva, Andrey G. Solovyev   +2 more
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Small RNA pathways in mammalian oocytes

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Three distinct small RNA pathways operate in mammalian oocytes: RNAi interference (RNAi), the microRNA (miRNA) pathway, and the PIWI‐associated RNA (piRNA) pathway. These pathways use small RNAs to guide sequence‐specific repression and contribute to oocyte biology by targeting genes and mobile elements or appear insignificant since different ...
Petr Svoboda, Josef Pasulka
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Aging Is a Key Driver for Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a classical age‐related hematologic malignancy, and a key driver of AML is aging, which profoundly regulates intrinsic factors such as genomic instability, epigenetic reprogramming, and metabolic dysregulation, and alters bone marrow microenvironment.
Rong Yin, Haojian Zhang
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Thermostable Bioluminescent Intercalating Dyes for Real‐Time, Integrated Nucleic Acid Amplification and Detection

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
We present a bioluminescent diagnostic platform that integrates DNA amplification and detection in a single step. The engineering of thermostable luciferase‐intercalating dye conjugates and controlled release of caged luciferin substrates enable real‐time, detection of attomolar concentrations of viral DNA within 30 min.
Yosta de Stigter, Harmen J. van der Veer, Sterre de Lignie, Robbert J. de Haas, Renko de Vries, Joost P. H. Schoeber, Anne J. M. Loonen, Adriaan J. C. van den Brule, Maarten Merkx   +8 more
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