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Synthesis and characterization of semisynthetic analogs of the antifungal occidiofungin

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Occidiofungin is a broad-spectrum antifungal compound produced by Burkholderia contaminans MS14. It is a cyclic glycol-lipopeptide with a novel beta-amino acid (NAA2) containing a hydroxylated C18 fatty acid chain with a xylose sugar.
Mengxin Geng, Mengxin Geng, Nopakorn Hansanant, Shi-En Lu, Steve W. Lockless, Ronald Shin, Ravi Orugunty, Leif Smith, Leif Smith   +8 more
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Somatostatin receptor 4 (SSTR4) is a tumor suppressor in cutaneous and head & neck squamous cell carcinomas

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study identifies somatostatin receptor 4 (Sstr4) as a critical tumor suppressor against skin and head/neck cancers (HNSCC, cSCC, and BCC). The loss of Sstr4 removes a check on cell growth, causing hyperactivation of the MAPK‐ERK signaling pathway (↑).
Ali Taqvi, Tuan Khang Huynh, Adway Kadam, Zahra Kardan, Yue Yan, Amina Jamal Laham, Sampath Kumar Loganathan   +6 more
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6-Hydroxyimino-5α-cholestane

Acta Crystallographica Section E, 2012
The title compound, C27H47NO, is a steroid derivative composed of a saturated carbon fused-ring framework with an alkyl side chain. Ring bond lengths have normal values with an average of 1.533 (2) Å, while the cholestane ...
Shams Uzzaman, Hena Khanam, Ashraf Mashrai, Yahia Nasser Mabkhot, Ahmad Husain   +4 more
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The VHL tumor suppressor at the crossroad of protein folding, aggregation, and cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Mutations, environmental stress, and chaperone dysfunction can destabilize pVHL, promoting its conversion from the native folded state into amyloid‐like assemblies. This transition may contribute to protein storage, cell dormancy, survival, and drug resistance.
Lara Abad, Silvio Carlo Ermanno Tosatto, Emanuela Leonardi   +2 more
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Disrupting Effects of Osteogenesis Imperfecta Mutations Could Be Predicted by Local Hydrogen Bonding Energy

Biomolecules, 2022
Osteogenesis imperfecta(OI) is a disease caused by substitution in glycine residues with different amino acids in type I collagen (Gly-Xaa-Yaa)n. Collagen model peptides can capture the thermal stability loss of the helix after Gly mutations, most of ...
Shumin Qiang, Cheng Lu, Fei Xu
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Unique circulating miRNAome signatures captured with distinct molecular states in Lynch syndrome and sporadic colorectal cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Circulating microRNA profiles distinguish nonmalignant Lynch syndrome from cancer‐associated Lynch syndrome, sporadic colorectal cancer, and healthy controls. Age‐stratified analysis reveals disease‐specific regulatory states, and a six‐miRNA panel shows concordant separation in an independent colorectal tissue cohort.
Ramadhani Salum Chambuso, Md Shohel Ul Islam, Rosa M Xicola, Raj Ramesar, Xavier Llor, Sinclair Steele   +5 more
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Computational design of functional random heteropolymers through atomistic simulations.

PLoS ONE
Random heteropolymers (RHPs) are emerging single-chain nanoparticles with great potential in protein mimicry, yet a systematic understanding of how chemical composition and monomer structures govern their structure, dynamics, and hydration remains ...
Tianyi Jin, Collin S Lung, Ting Xu, Connor W Coley, Alfredo Alexander-Katz   +4 more
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SPHINX31 acts as a SRPK1 inhibitor targeting the ATR/DNA‐PKcs/CHK1 replicative checkpoint to inhibit cell growth in non‐small cell lung cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The kinase SRPK1 directly interacts with the protein TOPBP1 and regulates the pre‐mRNA splicing of WIZ thereby contributing to the activation of the ATR/CHK1 replicative checkpoint in response to replicative stress. This allows cancer cells' genomic stability and survival.
Amani Shreim, Aurelie Genoux, Nadiia Zubchuk, Haoyang Zheng, Perla Salameh, Theo Ziegelmeyer, Fabien Dalonneau, Margot Rouchette, Christiane Oddou, Simona Miron, Helene Polveche, Adiilah Mamode Cassim, Carmen Garrido, Eleni Nikolakaki, Didier Auboeuf, Tao Jia, Sophie Zinn‐Justin, Beatrice Eymin   +17 more
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Fuse your mitochondria, lose appetite: an anorexic, anti‐obesity sphingolipid

EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2021
Aberrant production of ceramides, the precursors of complex sphingolipids, is a hallmark of obesity and strongly linked to metabolic dysfunction (Meikle and Summers 2017).
Carolin Muley, Alexander Bartelt
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Mutant p53R273H disrupts PDPK1 homodimerization and contributes to PDPK1 activation

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
How mutant p53R273H drives AKT signaling is unclear. We show that p53R273H, but not wild‐type, directly binds PDPK1 via a mutation‐dependent conformational change. This interaction disrupts inhibitory PDPK1 homodimerization and enhances AKT phosphorylation.
Mei Chee Lim, Alvin Kunyao Guo, Yoko Itahana, Srinivasaraghavan Kannan, Valerie Goh, Mingmin Ong, Terina Yan Wen Tay, Weiying Ye, Sabhashina Radha Krishnan, Jun Nishiyama, Chandra S Verma, Koji Itahana   +11 more
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