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Genes, Volume 12, Issue 4

April 2021 - 149 articles

Cover Story: Ribosomes are macromolecular machines that perform protein synthesis in all living cells. The making of ribosomes—ribosome biogenesis—occurs largely in the nucleolus. Abnormal nucleoli have long since been used as a prognostic indicator for cancer. More recently, aberrant ribosome biogenesis has been observed in a host of different cancers, including breast cancer. Excitingly, the first step in ribosome biogenesis, the transcription of the rRNA, was identified as a therapeutic target to treat cancer. Two new drugs that target rRNA synthesis were tested in humans, one of which has recently expanded its clinical trial to include breast cancers with abnormal BRCA1/2, with more possibilities being discovered. View this paper
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Articles (149)

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,721 Views
11 Pages

19 April 2021

Despite medical advances, gastric-cancer (GC) mortality remains high in Europe. Bacterial infection with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) and viral infection with the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) are associated with the development of both distal and prox...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,785 Views
10 Pages

piRNA-823 Is a Unique Potential Diagnostic Non-Invasive Biomarker in Colorectal Cancer Patients

  • Norhan A. Sabbah,
  • Wael M. Abdalla,
  • Walid A. Mawla,
  • Nagla AbdAlMonem,
  • Amal F. Gharib,
  • Ahmed Abdul-Saboor,
  • Abdallah S. Abdelazem and
  • Nermin Raafat

19 April 2021

Early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most important factor in deciding its prognosis, so the need to develop an accurate screening test is a must. P-element induced wimpy testis (PIWI) RNA-823 (piR-823) is one of the first piRNAs recogni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,331 Views
47 Pages

Human Mitochondrial Control Region and mtGenome: Design and Forensic Validation of NGS Multiplexes, Sequencing and Analytical Software

  • Cydne L. Holt,
  • Kathryn M. Stephens,
  • Paulina Walichiewicz,
  • Keenan D. Fleming,
  • Elmira Forouzmand and
  • Shan-Fu Wu

19 April 2021

Forensic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis conducted using next-generation sequencing (NGS), also known as massively parallel sequencing (MPS), as compared to Sanger-type sequencing brings modern advantages, such as deep coverage per base (herein re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
98 Citations
16,192 Views
21 Pages

Inosine in Biology and Disease

  • Sundaramoorthy Srinivasan,
  • Adrian Gabriel Torres and
  • Lluís Ribas de Pouplana

19 April 2021

The nucleoside inosine plays an important role in purine biosynthesis, gene translation, and modulation of the fate of RNAs. The editing of adenosine to inosine is a widespread post-transcriptional modification in transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and messenger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,039 Views
10 Pages

Accurate Quantification of AAV Vector Genomes by Quantitative PCR

  • Cristina Martinez-Fernandez de la Camara,
  • Michelle E. McClements and
  • Robert E. MacLaren

19 April 2021

The ability to accurately determine the dose of an adeno-associated viral (AAV) therapeutic vector is critical to the gene therapy process. Quantitative PCR (qPCR) is one of the common methods to quantify the AAV vector titre, but different variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,134 Views
14 Pages

19 April 2021

The crustacean ectoparasite salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis), which severely affects Atlantic salmon health and welfare is one of the main problems of commercial aquaculture. In the present study, fish were fed a diet supplemented with extra mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,986 Views
9 Pages

Identification of Genetic Variants in 65 Obesity Related Genes in a Cohort of Portuguese Obese Individuals

  • Catarina Ginete,
  • Bernardo Serrasqueiro,
  • José Silva-Nunes,
  • Luísa Veiga and
  • Miguel Brito

19 April 2021

Obesity is a major public health problem, which has a strong genetic component that interplays with environmental factors. Several genes are known to be implicated in the regulation of body weight. The identification of alleles that can be associated...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,661 Views
16 Pages

Growth Restriction and Genomic Imprinting-Overlapping Phenotypes Support the Concept of an Imprinting Network

  • Thomas Eggermann,
  • Justin H. Davies,
  • Maithé Tauber,
  • Erica van den Akker,
  • Anita Hokken-Koelega,
  • Gudmundur Johansson and
  • Irène Netchine

17 April 2021

Intrauterine and postnatal growth disturbances are major clinical features of imprinting disorders, a molecularly defined group of congenital syndromes caused by molecular alterations affecting parentally imprinted genes. These genes are expressed mo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,190 Views
12 Pages

Role of the Non-Canonical RNAi Pathway in the Antifungal Resistance and Virulence of Mucorales

  • José Tomás Cánovas-Márquez,
  • María Isabel Navarro-Mendoza,
  • Carlos Pérez-Arques,
  • Carlos Lax,
  • Ghizlane Tahiri,
  • José Antonio Pérez-Ruiz,
  • Damaris Lorenzo-Gutiérrez,
  • Silvia Calo,
  • Sergio López-García and
  • Eusebio Navarro
  • + 3 authors

17 April 2021

Mucorales are the causal agents for the lethal disease known as mucormycosis. Mortality rates of mucormycosis can reach up to 90%, due to the mucoralean antifungal drug resistance and the lack of effective therapies. A concerning urgency among the me...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
14,516 Views
27 Pages

MTHFR C677T and A1298C Polymorphisms in Breast Cancer, Gliomas and Gastric Cancer: A Review

  • Igor Petrone,
  • Paula Sabbo Bernardo,
  • Everton Cruz dos Santos and
  • Eliana Abdelhay

17 April 2021

Folate (vitamin B9) is found in some water-soluble foods or as a synthetic form of folic acid and is involved in many essential biochemical processes. Dietary folate is converted into tetrahydrofolate, a vital methyl donor for most methylation reacti...

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