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Loss of IGF‐1R impairs DNA‐PKcs recruitment to chromatin leading to defective end‐joining

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
IGF‐1R promotes radioresistance by facilitating DNA‐PKcs recruitment to chromatin, enabling non‐homologous end‐joining (NHEJ) repair of double‐strand breaks. Inhibition or loss of IGF‐1R disrupts this recruitment to damage sites, driving compensatory reliance on microhomology‐mediated end‐joining (MMEJ) repair.
Matthew O. Ellis, Jack V. Mills, Wojciech Niedzwiedz, Valentine M. Macaulay   +3 more
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Finding novel vulnerabilities of hypomorphic BRCA1 alleles

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Synthetic lethality screens performed to identify novel vulnerabilities often model complete gene loss, thereby overlooking patient‐derived hypomorphic mutations. In this study, we have performed genome‐wide CRISPR screens on BRCA1 hypomorphic mutations, showing BRCA1I26A behaves like wild‐type, while BRCA1R1699Q mimics deficiency. Furthermore, we have
Anne Schreuder, Klaas de Lint, Hồ Mỹ Phúc Võ, Mariana M. Góis, Rosalie A. Kampen, Marta San Martin Alonso, Ilse Nootenboom, Veronica Garzero, Tiemen J. Wendel, Rob M. F. Wolthuis, Sylvie M. Noordermeer   +10 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
wiley   +1 more source

B Cell Receptor's function in virus entry: Anti-SARS-CoV-2 B cell receptors can mediate viral entry in an ACE2-independent mechanism.

PLoS Pathogens
B cells play a crucial role in humoral immunity, acting as sentinels against viral infections by using their B cell receptors (BCRs) to recognize viral proteins.
Rene Larios, Md Belal Hossain, Rebecca Brown, Arjit Vijey Jeyachandran, Angel Elma Abu, Anne Kathrin Zaiss, Christina M Ramirez, Masakazu Kamata, Steve Cole, Ting-Ting Wu, Kenneth Dorshkind, Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami, Kouki Morizono   +12 more
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Mycobacterial cell division arrest and smooth‐to‐rough envelope transition using CRISPRi‐mediated genetic repression systems

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
CRISPRI‐mediated gene silencing and phenotypic exploration in nontuberculous mycobacteria. In this Research Protocol, we describe approaches to control, monitor, and quantitatively assess CRISPRI‐mediated gene silencing in M. smegmatis and M. abscessus model organisms.
Vanessa Point, Wafaa Achache, Janïs Laudouze, Eliana Sepulveda Ramos, Mickaël Maziero, Céline Crauste, Stéphane Canaan, Pierre Santucci   +7 more
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Charge-surrounded pockets and electrostatic interactions with small ions modulate the activity of retroviral fusion proteins.

PLoS Pathogens, 2011
Refolding of viral class-1 membrane fusion proteins from a native state to a trimer-of-hairpins structure promotes entry of viruses into cells. Here we present the structure of the bovine leukaemia virus transmembrane glycoprotein (TM) and identify a ...
Daniel Lamb, Alexander W Schüttelkopf, Daan M F van Aalten, David W Brighty   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Low-pH induced conformational changes in viral fusion proteins: implications for the fusion mechanism

Journal of General Virology, 1995
Introduction. Entry of enveloped viruses into host cells requires binding of the virus to one or more receptors present at the host cell surface followed by fusion of the viral envelope with a cellular membrane. After binding, viruses such as paramyxoviruses, retroviruses and herpesviruses are thought to fuse directly with the plasma membrane.
Y, Gaudin, R W, Ruigrok, J, Brunner
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Development of human monoclonal antibodies against TARM1 by yeast display

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Human monoclonal antibodies against TARM1 are generated by yeast display‐guided selection. These antibodies bind to soluble and cell‐surface forms of TARM1. Also, these antibodies exhibit agonistic activity in the NFAT‐GFP reporter assay, indicating that TARM1 signaling can be functionally modulated by antibodies and suggesting TARM1 as a potential ...
Rikio Yabe, Mayumi Saeki, Masaaki Hashiguchi, Sayaka Ono, Kazuhisa Aoki, Hidetaka Tanno   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanism of Membrane Fusion by Viral Envelope Proteins

, 2005
Enveloped viruses enter cells by fusing their lipid bilayer membrane with a cellular membrane. Most viral fusion proteins require priming by proteolytic processing, either of the fusion protein itself or of an accompanying protein. The priming step, which often occurs during transport of the fusion protein to the cell surface but may also occur ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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