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Nonlinear material and ionic transport through membrane nanotubes
(Elsevier, 2021-10-01)
Membrane nanotubes (NTs) and their networks play an important role in intracellular membrane transport and intercellular communications. The transport characteristics of the NT lumen resemble those of conventional solid-state ...
Microfluidic chip with pillar array for controlled production and observation of lipid membrane nanotubes
(RSC, 2020-06-29)
Lipid membrane nanotubes (NTs) are a widespread template for in vitro studies of cellular processes happening at high membrane curvature. Traditionally NTs are manufactured one by one, using sophisticated membrane ...
Super-Resolution Microscopy to Study Interorganelle Contact Sites
(MDPI, 2022-12-05)
Interorganelle membrane contact sites (MCS) are areas of close vicinity between the membranes of two organelles that are maintained by protein tethers. Recently, a significant research effort has been made to study MCS, ...
Design and Validation of a Process Based on Cationic Niosomes for Gene Delivery into Novel Urine-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells
(MDPI, 2021-05-11)
Background: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are stem cells present in adult tissues. They can be cultured, have great growth capacity, and can differentiate into several cell types. The isolation of urine-derived mesenchymal ...
An Epilepsy-Causing Mutation Leads to Co-Translational Misfolding of the Kv7.2 Channel
(Springer, 2021-05-21)
BACKGROUND: The amino acid sequence of proteins generally carries all the necessary information for acquisition of native conformations, but the vectorial nature of translation can additionally determine the folding outcome. ...
The Multifunctional Role of SPANX-A/D Protein Subfamily in the Promotion of Pro-Tumoural Processes in Human Melanoma
(Nature, 2021-02-11)
Human sperm protein associated with the nucleus on the X chromosome (SPANX) genes encode a protein family (SPANX-A, -B, -C and -D), whose expression is limited to the testis and spermatozoa in normal tissues and various ...
Translational Bioinformatics for Human Reproductive Biology Research: Examples, Opportunities and Challenges for a Future Reproductive Medicine
(MDPI, 2022-12-20)
Since 1978, with the first IVF (in vitro fertilization) baby birth in Manchester (England), more than eight million IVF babies have been born throughout the world, and many new techniques and discoveries have emerged in ...
Fine-tuning of the Hsc70-based Human Protein Disaggregase Machinery by the Distinctive C-terminal Extension of Apg2
(Elsevier, 2022-11)
Apg2, one of the three cytosolic Hsp110 chaperones in humans, supports reactivation of unordered and ordered protein aggregates by Hsc70 (HspA8). Together with DnaJB1, Apg2 serves to nucleate Hsc70 molecules into sites ...
Multi-Omics Integration Highlights the Role of Ubiquitination in CCl4-Induced Liver Fibrosis
(MDPI, 2020-11-27)
Liver fibrosis is the excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins that occurs in chronic liver disease. Ubiquitination is a post-translational modification that is crucial for a plethora of physiological ...
Neddylation inhibition ameliorates steatosis in NAFLD by boosting hepatic fatty acid oxidation via DEPTOR-mTOR axis
(Elsevier, 2021-06-18)
[EN] Objective: Neddylation is a druggable and reversible ubiquitin-like post-translational modification upregulated in many diseases, including liver
fibrosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and more recently, non-alcoholic ...