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Circulating tumor cell viability during and after radiotherapy mirrors treatment response in cancer patients

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Radiotherapy (RT) response depends on the DNA repair capacity of tumor and host cells. We show that circulating tumor cell (CTC) counts and apoptosis rates before and after RT predict treatment response and outcome, which can be accessed via easily accessible liquid biopsy approaches. Created in BioRender. Wikman, H.
Yvonne Goy, Jana Löptien, Cornelia Coith, Afroditi Nanou, Katharina Hintelmann, Pinnschmidt Hans, Cordula Petersen, Klaus Pantel, Sabine Riethdorf, Kerstin Borgmann, Harriet Wikman   +10 more
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Personality Traits and Leptin [PDF]

Psychosomatic Medicine, 2013
Personality traits related to high neuroticism and low conscientiousness are consistently associated with obesity. Hormones implicated in appetite and metabolism, such as leptin, may also be related to personality and may contribute to the association between these traits and obesity.
Sutin AR, Zonderman AB, Uda M, Deiana B, Taub DD, Longo DL, Ferrucci L, Schlessinger D, Cucca F, Terracciano A   +9 more
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Oncogenic DMTF1β promotes cancer cell motility by regulating autophagy through ULK1 stabilization

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In the current study, we demonstrate that the oncogene DMTF1β regulates ULK1 stability by reducing its proteasomal degradation in cancer cells. This stabilization enables ULK1 to induce autophagy, which in turn facilitates cancer cell migration. Consequently, reduced DMTF1β levels lead to decreased autophagy and impaired cancer cell migration.
Jun Xu, Nicolas J. Niklaus, Anna M. Schläfli, Igor Tokarchuk, Magali Humbert, Federico La Manna, Bich Vu, David Maul, Ramin Radpour, Marianna Kruithof‐de Julio, Inti Zlobec, Jörn Dengjel, Bruce E. Torbett, Mario P. Tschan   +13 more
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Conditional and interaction gene-set analysis reveals novel functional pathways for blood pressure

Nature Communications, 2018
Gene-set analysis (GSA) is widely used to infer functional and biological properties of a gene set. Here, the authors develop a conditional and interaction gene-set analysis approach that can considerably refine results from traditional GSA.
Christiaan A. de Leeuw, Sven Stringer, Ilona A. Dekkers, Tom Heskes, Danielle Posthuma   +4 more
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Epigenetic heterogeneity and plasticity in therapy‐induced tumor states through single‐cell multi‐omics

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Single‐cell multi‐omics reveals epigenetic heterogeneity across therapy‐adaptive tumor states, including quiescent/dormant, drug‐tolerant persister, and EMT‐like phenotypes. By linking regulatory features with state‐associated biomarkers, these approaches inform biomarker‐guided therapeutic strategies for evolving tumors.
Hee Jung Kim, Hwiyeong Lee, Jin Hong, Daechan Park   +3 more
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Trait independence primes convergent trait loss

Evolution, 2018
The repeated, independent evolution of traits (convergent evolution) is often attributed to shared environmental selection pressures. However, developmental dependencies among traits can limit the phenotypic variation available to selection and bias evolutionary outcomes.
Womack, Molly C., Fiero, Tyler S., Hoke, Kim L.   +2 more
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Rapid screening of staphylokinase protein variants using an unpurified cell‐free expression system

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
An unpurified cell‐free protein synthesis (CFPS) platform enables rapid functional screening of staphylokinase variants. Direct plasminogen‐activation assays performed in microplate format provide real‐time activity readouts, allowing rapid identification and ranking of variants with improved or reduced fibrinolytic activity without protein ...
Maria Tomková, Veronika Hovanová, Jiri Damborsky, Erik Sedlák   +3 more
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Systemic dysregulation of apolipoproteins in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis serum

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease that damages motor neurons. This study found that people with ALS show significant changes in blood fats and the proteins that carry them. Several apolipoproteins were higher, lipid balances were altered, and normal protein–lipid relationships were disrupted.
Finula I. Isik, Russell Pickford, Hannah C. Timmins, Olivier Piguet, Glenda M. Halliday, Matthew C. Kiernan, Woojin Scott Kim   +6 more
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Local genetic sex differences in quantitative traits

Nature Communications
Many traits show small global sex differences in genetic correlations and heritability. However, how these differences are distributed across the genome remains unknown. Here, we use LAVA to test for local genetic sex differences in genetic correlations,
Emil Uffelmann, Christiaan de Leeuw, Marijn Schipper, Danielle Posthuma   +3 more
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Derivation and characterization of retinal pigment epithelium from urine‐derived iPSCs

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Age‐related macular degeneration causes vision loss via RPE dysfunction and loss. Traditional iPSC therapies rely on invasive biopsies, limiting scalability. Here, we utilize urine‐derived stem cells as an accessible source to generate u‐iPSCs, successfully differentiated into pigmented RPE. This “Urine‐to‐Retina” platform provides a promising path for
Daniella Beiner, Hainan Zhu, Carol Christine Bosholm, Heuy‐Ching Wang, Tracy Criswell, Anthony Atala, Jian‐Xing Ma, Yuanyuan Zhang   +7 more
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