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Biomolecules, Volume 11, Issue 12

December 2021 - 174 articles

Cover Story: The present article reviews the main therapeutic strategies proposed to treat multisystemic rare diseases named lysosomal storage disorders and determined by genetic variants, which affects proteins involved in lysosomal metabolism.The proposed approaches are based on the physiologic mechanisms that regulates lysosomal function and include enzyme replacement therapy, gene therapy, or small molecules. View this paper.
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Articles (174)

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,140 Views
12 Pages

20 December 2021

Liver transplantation is the only curative option for end-stage liver disease; however, the limitations of liver transplantation require further research into other alternatives. Considering that liver regeneration is prevalent in liver injury settin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,510 Views
15 Pages

20 December 2021

Galectins comprise a family of soluble β-galactoside-binding proteins, which regulate a variety of key biological processes including cell growth, differentiation, survival, and death. This paper aims to address the current knowledge on the uniq...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,923 Views
12 Pages

20 December 2021

Freeform bioprinting, realized by extruding ink-containing cells into supporting materials to provide physical support during printing, has fostered significant advances toward the fabrication of cell-laden soft hydrogel constructs with desired spati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,480 Views
14 Pages

Prototype Foamy Virus Integrase Displays Unique Biochemical Activities among Retroviral Integrases

  • Anthony J. Rabe,
  • Yow Yong Tan,
  • Ross C. Larue and
  • Kristine E. Yoder

20 December 2021

Integrases of different retroviruses assemble as functional complexes with varying multimers of the protein. Retroviral integrases require a divalent metal cation to perform one-step transesterification catalysis. Tetrameric prototype foamy virus (PF...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,603 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2021

Histone methylation tightly regulates chromatin accessibility, transcription, proliferation, and cell differentiation, and its perturbation contributes to oncogenic reprogramming of cells. In particular, many myeloid malignancies show evidence of epi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,516 Views
18 Pages

20 December 2021

Immunotherapy has made great progress in recent years, yet the efficacy of solid tumors remains far less than expected. One of the main hurdles is to overcome the immune-suppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Among all cells in TME, tumor-associat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,772 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2021

This study hypothesizes that bacteria inhabiting shale rock affect the content of the sedimentary cobalt protoporphyrin present in it and can use it as a precursor for heme synthesis. To verify this hypothesis, we conducted qualitative and quantitati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,016 Views
22 Pages

Bispecific Antibodies for IFN-β Delivery to ErbB2+ Tumors

  • Vladislav S. Rybchenko,
  • Anna A. Panina,
  • Teimur K. Aliev,
  • Olga N. Solopova,
  • Dmitry S. Balabashin,
  • Valery N. Novoseletsky,
  • Dmitry A. Dolgikh,
  • Petr G. Sveshnikov and
  • Mikhail P. Kirpichnikov

20 December 2021

The main aim of our work was to create a full-length bispecific antibody (BsAb) as a vehicle for the targeted delivery of interferon-beta (IFN-β) to ErbB2+ tumor cells in the form of non-covalent complex of BsAb and IFN-β. Such a construct...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,152 Views
14 Pages

Sulfated Hyaluronan Modulates the Functional Properties and Matrix Effectors Expression of Breast Cancer Cells with Different Estrogen Receptor Status

  • Christos Koutsakis,
  • Anastasia-Gerasimoula Tavianatou,
  • Dimitris Kokoretsis,
  • Georgios Baroutas and
  • Nikos K. Karamanos

20 December 2021

Hyaluronan (HA) is an extracellular matrix glycosaminoglycan (GAG) that plays a pivotal role in breast cancer. While HA is the only GAG not normally substituted with sulfate groups, sulfated hyaluronan (sHA) has previously been used in studies with p...

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