Squalene Epoxidase: Its Regulations and Links with Cancers

L Zhang, Z Cao, Y Hong, H He, L Chen, Z Yu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
… such as squalene synthase, farnesyl diphosphate synthase, fatty acid synthase, acetyl …
cell-based luciferase reporter assay that involved reporter constructs containing progressive …

Downregulation of squalene synthase broadly Impacts Isoprenoid biosynthesis in guayule

D Placido, N Dong, B Amer, C Dong, G Ponciano… - Metabolites, 2022 - mdpi.com
… of maize squalene synthase impacted … squalene synthase expression in guayule by RNAi
technology, such that the pool of FPP might be available to enhance natural rubber synthesis (…

A study of the function of RORγ in cancer using synthetic and natural small-molecule modulators

H Zou - 2024 - escholarship.org
… -driven reporter, to facilitate the screening, the reporter could also … The in vitro, TR-FRET
based binding screen identified … Such a cooperative binding mode was also observed between …

The non catalytic protein ERG28 has a functional role in cholesterol synthesis and is coregulated transcriptionally

IM Capell-Hattam, NM Fenton, HW Coates… - Journal of Lipid …, 2022 - ASBMB
… Here, we identified ERG28 (chromosome 14 open reading … , as a player in mammalian
cholesterol synthesis. ERG28 is … most cholesterol synthesis enzymes, as well as identifying sterol-…

[HTML][HTML] RORγ is a context-specific master regulator of cholesterol biosynthesis and an emerging therapeutic target in cancer and autoimmune diseases

H Zou, N Yang, X Zhang, HW Chen - Biochemical Pharmacology, 2022 - Elsevier
… activity displayed by RORγ in reporter gene assays with mammalian cells in the absence
of an exogenous ligand supported the notion that RORγ may act as a constitutive activator …

A factorial Mendelian randomization study to systematically prioritize genetic targets for the treatment of cardiovascular disease

GM Leyden, TR Gaunt, TG Richardson - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
… This includes FDFT1 which encodes squalene synthase (SQS), a protein … -inhibition has
been explored in preclinical studies demonstrating cooperation between SQS-inhibitors and …

Mutant p53, the mevalonate pathway and the tumor microenvironment regulate tumor response to statin therapy

M Pereira, K Matuszewska, A Glogova, J Petrik - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
… transferase inhibitors, farnesyltransferase inhibitors and squalene synthase inhibitors are
all … Unlike statin drugs, squalene synthase inhibitors do not inhibit the upstream steps of the …

Transcription factors TgbHLH95 and TgbZIP44 cotarget terpene biosynthesis gene TgGPPS in Torreya grandis nuts

Z Zhang, L Tao, L Gao, Y Gao, J Suo, W Yu… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… Here, a transcriptomics analysis of xiangfei nuts after harvest identified 156 genes
associated with the terpenoid metabolic pathway. A geranyl diphosphate (GPP) synthase (TgGPPS) …

Impaired biosynthesis of ergosterol confers resistance to complex sphingolipid biosynthesis inhibitor aureobasidin A in a PDR16-dependent manner

S Fukuda, Y Kono, Y Ishibashi, M Tabuchi, M Tani - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
… that these lipids function cooperatively. Comprehensive analysis … of ERG9 encoding squalene
synthase located in the middle … the deletion of ERG6 when a reporter gene plasmid, which …

The SmMYB36-SmERF6/SmERF115 module regulates the biosynthesis of tanshinones and phenolic acids in salvia miltiorrhiza hairy roots

Q Li, X Fang, Y Zhao, R Cao, J Dong… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… SmGAPC, SmRAS, SmDXS2, SmGGPPS1, SmCPS1, SmERF6, and SmERF115 promoters
drive the LUC gene to form a reporter, and SmMYB36 was overexpressed as an effector in …