Accessing intracellular targets through nanocarrier-mediated cytosolic protein delivery

R Goswami, T Jeon, H Nagaraj, S Zhai… - Trends in pharmacological …, 2020 - cell.com
Protein-based therapeutics have unique therapeutic potential due to their specificity,
potency, and low toxicity. The vast majority of intracellular applications of proteins require …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 ORF3b is a potent interferon antagonist whose activity is increased by a naturally occurring elongation variant

Y Konno, I Kimura, K Uriu, M Fukushi, T Irie… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
One of the features distinguishing SARS-CoV-2 from its more pathogenic counterpart SARS-
CoV is the presence of premature stop codons in its ORF3b gene. Here, we show that SARS …

Nanobodies right in the middle: intrabodies as toolbox to visualize and modulate antigens in the living cell

TR Wagner, U Rothbauer - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
In biomedical research, there is an ongoing demand for new technologies to elucidate
disease mechanisms and develop novel therapeutics. This requires comprehensive …

Targeted cell imaging properties of a deep red luminescent iridium (III) complex conjugated with a c-Myc signal peptide

AH Day, MH Übler, HL Best, E Lloyd-Evans… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A nuclear localisation sequence (NLS) peptide, PAAKRVKLD, derived from the human c-
Myc regulator gene, has been functionalised with a long wavelength (λex= 550 nm; λem …

A CRISPR-Cas13a based strategy that tracks and degrades toxic RNA in myotonic dystrophy type 1

N Zhang, B Bewick, G Xia, D Furling… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cas13a, an effector of type VI CRISPR-Cas systems, is an RNA guided RNase with
multiplexing and therapeutic potential. This study employs the Leptotrichia shahii (Lsh) …

Efficient photoactivatable Dre recombinase for cell type-specific spatiotemporal control of genome engineering in the mouse

H Li, Q Zhang, Y Gu, Y Wu, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Precise genetic engineering in specific cell types within an intact organism is intriguing yet
challenging, especially in a spatiotemporal manner without the interference caused by …

Cellular cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor 6 (CPSF6) mediates nuclear import of human bocavirus 1 NP1 protein and modulates viral capsid protein …

X Wang, P Xu, F Cheng, Y Li, Z Wang, S Hao… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1), which belongs to the genus Bocaparvovirus of the
Parvoviridae family, causes acute respiratory tract infections in young children. In vitro …

A new mouse line reporting the translation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor using green fluorescent protein

E Wosnitzka, X Nan, J Nan, P Chacón-Fernández… - eneuro, 2020 - eneuro.org
While BDNF is receiving considerable attention for its role in synaptic plasticity and in
nervous system dysfunction, identifying brain circuits involving BDNF-expressing neurons …

Development of chemical biology tools to reveal the function and organization of the silenced chromatin state

N Guidotti - 2020 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Effector proteins are recruited to chromatin via transient interactions between their reader
domains and histone post-translational modification (PTM) patterns. These interactions form …

Chemical manipulation of macrophages: nanomaterial and molecular approaches

J Hardie - 2020 - scholarworks.umass.edu
Macrophages, phagocytic cells of the innate immune system, are the body's first line of
defense against pathogens and are responsible for tissue maintenance. Macrophages are …