Clusterin, other extracellular chaperones, and eye disease

MR Wilson, S Satapathy, S Jeong, ME Fini - Progress in Retinal and eye …, 2022 - Elsevier
Proteostasis refers to all the processes that maintain the correct expression level, location,
folding and turnover of proteins, essential to organismal survival. Both inside cells and in …

Clusterin in the eye: an old dog with new tricks at the ocular surface

ME Fini, A Bauskar, S Jeong, MR Wilson - Experimental eye research, 2016 - Elsevier
The multifunctional protein clusterin (CLU) was first described in 1983 as a secreted
glycoprotein present in ram rete testis fluid that enhanced aggregation ('clustering') of a …

Proteomics of aqueous humor as a source of disease biomarkers in retinoblastoma

A Galardi, C Stathopoulos, M Colletti… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aqueous humor (AH) can be easily and safely used to evaluate disease-specific biomarkers
in ocular disease. The aim of this study was to identify specific proteins biomarkers in the AH …

Peripheral administration of human recombinant ApoJ/clusterin modulates brain beta-amyloid levels in APP23 mice

SF De Retana, P Marazuela, M Solé, G Colell… - Alzheimer's research & …, 2019 - Springer
Background ApoJ/clusterin is a multifunctional protein highly expressed in the brain. The
implication of ApoJ in β-amyloid (Aβ) fibrillization and clearance in the context of Alzheimer's …

Transcriptome-based screening of intracellular pathways and angiogenesis related genes at different stages of thiram induced tibial lesions in broiler chickens

AR Jahejo, D Zhang, S Niu, RA Mangi, A Khan… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The Tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) in fast-growing chickens is mainly
caused by improper blood circulation. The exact mechanism underlying angiogenesis and …

Characterization of etoposide-and cisplatin-chemoresistant retinoblastoma cell lines

M Busch, D Papior, H Stephan… - Oncology …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common malignant intraocular tumor in early childhood.
Imminent chemotherapy resistance diminishes the clinical-therapeutic options and …

SP2509, a selective inhibitor of LSD1, suppresses retinoblastoma growth by downregulating β-catenin signaling

A Jiang, W Wu, C Xu, L Mao, S Ao… - … & Visual Science, 2022 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To study the role of lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) in retinoblastoma (RB)
growth and to determine whether the LSD1 inhibitor SP2509 can inhibit RB progression …

Comparison of plasma lipoprotein composition and function in cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer's disease

A Bonaterra-Pastra, S Fernández-de-Retana… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) refers to beta-amyloid (Aβ) deposition in brain vessels
and is clinically the main cause of lobar intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Aβ can also …

Clusterin/Akt up-regulation is critical for GATA-4 mediated cytoprotection of mesenchymal stem cells against ischemia injury

B Yu, Y Yang, H Liu, M Gong, RW Millard, YG Wang… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Clusterin (Clu) is a stress-responding protein with multiple biological functions.
Our preliminary microarray studies show that clusterin was prominently upregulated in …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic role of meloxicam targeting secretory clusterin-mediated invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma cells

J Zhong, X Yu, X Dong, H Lu, W Zhou… - Oncology …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
Recurrence and metastasis are the two leading causes of poor prognosis in patients with
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Secreted clusterin (sCLU) is a stress‑induced chaperone …