Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Polymeric delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids

R Kumar, CF Santa Chalarca, MR Bockman… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The advent of genome editing has transformed the therapeutic landscape for several
debilitating diseases, and the clinical outlook for gene therapeutics has never been more …

Autophagy induction via STING trafficking is a primordial function of the cGAS pathway

X Gui, H Yang, T Li, X Tan, P Shi, M Li, F Du, ZJ Chen - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS) detects infections or tissue damage by
binding to microbial or self DNA in the cytoplasm. Upon binding DNA, cGAS produces …

Calreticulin and cancer

J Fucikova, R Spisek, G Kroemer, L Galluzzi - Cell research, 2021 - nature.com
Calreticulin (CALR) is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-resident protein involved in a
spectrum of cellular processes. In healthy cells, CALR operates as a chaperone and Ca2+ …

[PDF][PDF] Phase separation in membrane biology: the interplay between membrane-bound organelles and membraneless condensates

YG Zhao, H Zhang - Developmental Cell, 2020 - cell.com
In eukaryotic cells, various membrane-bound organelles compartmentalize diverse cellular
activities in a spatially and temporally controlled manner. Numerous membraneless …

A non-canonical cGAS–STING–PERK pathway facilitates the translational program critical for senescence and organ fibrosis

D Zhang, Y Liu, Y Zhu, Q Zhang, H Guan, S Liu… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Innate DNA sensing via the cyclic GMP-AMP synthase–stimulator of interferon genes (cGAS–
STING) mechanism surveys microbial invasion and cellular damage and thus participates in …

Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

L Eme, A Spang, J Lombard, CW Stairs… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Woese and Fox's 1977 paper on the discovery of the Archaea triggered a revolution in the
field of evolutionary biology by showing that life was divided into not only prokaryotes and …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacological therapeutics targeting RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, proteinase and spike protein: from mechanistic studies to clinical trials for COVID …

J Huang, W Song, H Huang, Q Sun - Journal of clinical medicine, 2020 - mdpi.com
An outbreak of novel coronavirus-related pneumonia COVID-19, that was identified in
December 2019, has expanded rapidly, with cases now confirmed in more than 211 …

The delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides

RL Juliano - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The oligonucleotide therapeutics field has seen remarkable progress over the last few years
with the approval of the first antisense drug and with promising developments in late stage …

Mechanisms of autophagy initiation

JH Hurley, LN Young - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Autophagy is the process of cellular self-eating by a double-membrane organelle, the
autophagosome. A range of signaling processes converge on two protein complexes to …