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Hippo pathway at the crossroads of stemness and therapeutic resistance in breast cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Dysregulation of the Hippo pathway drives nuclear accumulation of YAP/TAZ, activating stemness‐related transcriptional programs that sustain breast cancer stemness and fuel therapeutic resistance across subtypes, underscoring Hippo signaling as a targetable vulnerability. Figure created and edited with BioRender.com.
Giulia Schiavoni, Antonella Palmese, Stefano Scalera, Laura Cipriani, Davide Mascolo, Patrizia Vici, Teresa Arcuri, Lorena Filomeno, Eriseld Krasniqi, Giovanni Blandino, Giulia Bon, Marcello Maugeri‐Saccà   +11 more
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Two Amino Acid Residues Contribute to a Cation-π Binding Interaction in the Binding Site of an Insect GABA Receptor [PDF]

, 2011
Cys-loop receptor binding sites characteristically possess an "aromatic box," where several aromatic amino acid residues surround the bound ligand. A cation-π interaction between one of these residues and the natural agonist is common, although the ...
Ashby, Jamie A., Dougherty, Dennis A., Lummis, Sarah C. R., McGonigle, Ian   +3 more
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Enzymatic aminoacylation of tRNA with unnatural amino acids [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006
The biochemical flexibility of the cellular translation apparatus offers, in principle, a simple route to the synthesis of drug-like modified peptides and novel biopolymers. However, only ≈75 unnatural building blocks are known to be fully compatible with enzymatic tRNA acylation and subsequent ribosomal synthesis of modified peptides ...
Matthew C T, Hartman, Kristopher, Josephson, Jack W, Szostak   +2 more
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dUTPase is essential in zebrafish development and possesses several single‐nucleotide variants with pronounced structural and functional consequences

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
dUTPases are involved in balancing the appropriate nucleotide pools. We showed that dUTPase is essential for normal development in zebrafish. The different zebrafish genomes contain several single‐nucleotide variations (SNPs) of the dut gene. One of the dUTPase variants displayed drastically lower protein stability and catalytic efficiency as compared ...
Viktória Perey‐Simon, Angéla Békesi, Latifa Kazzazy, Jázmin Mihály, Máté Varga, Beáta G. Vértessy, Kinga Nyíri   +6 more
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Evolved orthogonal ribosomes enhance the efficiency of synthetic genetic code expansion [PDF]

, 2007
In vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids by amber codon suppression is limited by release factor-1–mediated peptide chain termination. Orthogonal ribosome-mRNA pairs function in parallel with, but independent of, natural ribosomes and mRNAs.
Chin, Jason W., Neumann, Heinz, Peak-Chew, Sew Y., Wang, Kaihang   +3 more
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A Cation-π Interaction in the Binding Site of the Glycine Receptor Is Mediated by a Phenylalanine Residue [PDF]

, 2008
Cys-loop receptor binding sites characteristically contain many aromatic amino acids. In nicotinic ACh and 5-HT3 receptors, a Trp residue forms a cation-{pi} interaction with the agonist, whereas in GABAA receptors, a Tyr performs this role.
Dougherty, Dennis A., Hanek, Ariele P., Lester, Henry A., Lummis, Sarah C. R., Lynch, Joseph W., Millen, Kat S., Pless, Stephan A.   +6 more
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Screening and epitope characterization of Nidogen‐2‐specific nanobodies

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Camel immunization and phage display were employed to generate high‐affinity VHH nanobodies against Nidogen‐2. After library construction, biopanning, ELISA screening, sequencing, and recombinant expression, selected nanobodies were purified and characterized, leading to the preliminary exploration of a nanobody‐based sandwich ELISA for specific ...
Jianchuan Wen, Qianqian Cui, Zhongyun Lan, Yingjun Wang, Shuaiying Zhao, Wenxuan Feng, Yunfeng Liu, Qiting Huang, Dongna Zhang, Jianfeng Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The rational search for selective anticancer derivatives of the peptide Trichogin GA IV: a multi-technique biophysical approach [PDF]

, 2016
Peptaibols are peculiar peptides produced by fungi as weapons against other microorganisms. Previous studies showed that peptaibols are promising peptide-based drugs because they act against cell membranes rather than a specific target, thus lowering the
Bergamini, Christian, Biondi, Barbara, Bortolus, Marco, Dalzini, Annalisa, DE ZOTTI, Marta, Fato, Romana, Maniero, ANNA LISA, Panighel, Giacomo, Peggion, Cristina   +8 more
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The conformational wave in capsaicin activation of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 ion channel

Nature Communications, 2018
The capsaicin receptor TRPV1 has been structurally characterized, but the capsaicin activation dynamics remain elusive. Here authors use fluorescent unnatural amino acid incorporation, computational modeling and Φ-analysis to derive the capsaicin-bound ...
Fan Yang, Xian Xiao, Bo Hyun Lee, Simon Vu, Wei Yang, Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, Jie Zheng   +6 more
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Decreased cold‐sensing function of the transient receptor potential channel TRPM8 from tailed amphibians

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Despite frogs avoiding low temperatures, examination of four salamander species revealed that none avoided cold and all possessed cold tolerance. Functional analysis of TRPM8, a cold sensor, showed that all salamander TRPM8s had lost their cold sensitivity.
Tadahiro Sawao, Daiki Kobayashi, Shogo Hori, Osamu Saitoh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source