Familial pulmonary fibrosis: genetic features and clinical implications

D Zhang, CA Newton - Chest, 2021 - Elsevier
Pulmonary fibrosis comprises a wide range of fibrotic lung diseases with unknown
pathogenesis and poor prognosis. Familial pulmonary fibrosis (FPF) represents a unique …

[HTML][HTML] A model of the aged lung epithelium in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

H Shaghaghi, K Cuevas-Mora, R Para, C Tran… - Aging (Albany …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an age-related disorder that carries a universally poor
prognosis and is thought to arise from repetitive micro injuries to the alveolar epithelium. To …

Molecular chaperone ability to inhibit amyloid-derived neurotoxicity, but not amorphous protein aggregation, depends on a conserved pH-sensitive Asp residue

G Chen, Y Andrade-Talavera, X Zhong, S Hassan… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Proteins can self-assemble into amyloid fibrils or amorphous aggregates and thereby cause
disease. Molecular chaperones can prevent both these types of protein aggregation, but the …

Pathogenicity prediction of single amino acid variants with machine learning model based on protein structural energies

TH Wu, PC Lin, HH Chou, MR Shen… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The most popular tools for predicting pathogenicity of single amino acid variants (SAVs)
were developed based on sequence-based techniques. SAVs may change protein structure …

[PDF][PDF] Genetische und molekularbiologische Prädiktoren für die Krankheitsprogression der idiopathischen Lungenfibrose

C Caliskan - 2021 - mhh-publikationsserver.gbv.de
Die Lungenfibrose beschreibt eine Vermehrung von Fibroblasten und extrazellulärer Matrix
im Interstitium und im Alveolarraum. Dieses Phänomen ist nicht spezifisch und kann bei …