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Engineered extracellular vesicles enriched with the miR‐214/199a cluster enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy in ovarian cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Loss of the miR‐214/199a cluster is associated with recurrence in ovarian cancer. Engineered small extracellular vesicles (m214‐sEVs) elevate miR‐214‐3p/miR‐199a‐5p in tumor cells, suppress β‐catenin, TLR4, and YKT6 signaling, reprogram tumor‐derived sEV cargo, reduce chemoresistance and migration, and enhance carboplatin efficacy and survival in ...
Weida Wang, Ayesha Alvero, Yi Qin, Mingjin Wang, Alexandra Fox, Yanfeng Li, Michael Millman, Amy Kemper, Gil Mor, Xian Shuang Liu, Michael Chopp, Zheng Gang Zhang, Yi Zhang   +12 more
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Discovery and substrate specificity engineering of nucleotide halogenases

Nature Communications
C2′-halogenation has been recognized as an essential modification to enhance the drug-like properties of nucleotide analogs. The direct C2ʹ-halogenation of the nucleotide 2′-deoxyadenosine-5′-monophosphate (dAMP) has recently been achieved using the Fe ...
Jie Ni, Jingyuan Zhuang, Yiming Shi, Ying-Chih Chiang, Gui-Juan Cheng   +4 more
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Effects of substrate binding site residue substitutions of xynA from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens on substrate specificity

BMC Biotechnology, 2018
Background The aromatic residues of xylanase enzyme, W187, Y124, W144, Y128 and W63 of substrate binding pocket from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens were investigated for their role in substrate binding by homology modelling and sequence analysis.
Anil S. Prajapati, Vishakha A. Pawar, Ketankumar J. Panchal, Ankit P. Sudhir, Bhaumik R. Dave, Darshan H. Patel, R. B. Subramanian   +6 more
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IMPDH inhibition enhances cytarabine efficacy in SAMHD1‐expressing leukaemia cells via guanine nucleotide depletion

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cytarabine is a key therapy for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), but its efficacy is limited by the dNTPase SAMHD1, which hydrolyses its active metabolite. Screening nucleotide biosynthesis inhibitors revealed that IMPDH inhibitors selectively sensitise SAMHD1‐proficient AML cells to cytarabine.
Miriam Yagüe‐Capilla, Christopher Dirks, Caroline Eiden, Sonja K. Fesenmayer, Femke M. Hormann, Yolande Klootsema, Ingrid Lilienthal, Si Min Zhang, Nikolas Herold, Sean G. Rudd   +9 more
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Keratin 19 as a prognostic marker and contributing factor of metastasis and chemoresistance in high‐grade serous ovarian cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Keratin 19 (KRT19) is overexpressed in high‐grade serous ovarian cancer with high levels of Kallikrein‐related peptidases (KLK) 4–7 and is associated with poor survival. In vivo analyses demonstrate that elevated KRT19 increases peritoneal tumour burden.
Sophia Bielesch, Isabel Vogel, Sina Nokodian, Johanna Moeller, Antonia Blechschmidt, Vicky Hecht, Vanessa Kuentzel, Katharina Thiedig, Melissa Schwab, Oliver Schilling, Holger Bronger, Marion Kiechle, Viktor Magdolen, Tobias Dreyer   +13 more
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Cleavage entropy as quantitative measure of protease specificity.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2013
A purely information theory-guided approach to quantitatively characterize protease specificity is established. We calculate an entropy value for each protease subpocket based on sequences of cleaved substrates extracted from the MEROPS database.
Julian E Fuchs, Susanne von Grafenstein, Roland G Huber, Michael A Margreiter, Gudrun M Spitzer, Hannes G Wallnoefer, Klaus R Liedl   +6 more
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CCDC80 suppresses high‐grade serous ovarian cancer migration via negative regulation of B7‐H3

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
PAX8 is a lineage‐specific master regulator of transcription in high‐grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC) progression. We show for the first time that PAX8 facilitates proliferation and metastasis by repressing the cell autonomous tumor suppressor CCDC80 and inducing B7‐H3 expression.
Aya Saleh, Nitzan Medina‐Itzhaki, Milena Chekov, Eden Gal‐Swisa, Roba Gabesh‐Wahabi, Inbar Savyon, Inna Naroditsky, Hilary A. Kenny, Basem Fares, Lina Korsensky, Einav Girsh, Liron Berger, Ruth Perets   +12 more
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Phage-assisted continuous evolution of proteases with altered substrate specificity

Nature Communications, 2017
Proteases are promising therapeutics to treat diseases such as hemophilia which are due to endogenous protease deficiency. Here the authors use phage-assisted continuous evolution to evolve a variant TEV protease with altered target peptide sequence ...
Michael S. Packer, Holly A. Rees, David R. Liu   +2 more
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CD47 promotes mitogen‐activated protein kinase and epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition molecular programs to drive prometastatic phenotypes in non‐small cell lung cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Beyond its role in immune evasion, this study identified that CD47 drives tumor‐intrinsic signaling in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Transcriptomic profiling and functional studies revealed that CD47 regulates cell adhesion, migration, and metastasis through an ERK–EMT signaling axis.
Asa P.Y. Lau, Lilian G. Zhai, Ryunosuke Hoshi, Zackary Rousseau, Abraam Zakhary, Yin Fang Wu, Rola M. Saleeb, Heyu Ni, Kelsie L. Thu   +8 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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