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Biomolecules, Volume 15, Issue 1

January 2025 - 152 articles

Cover Story: Extracellular vesicles and tunnelling nanotubes are integral for communication in prostate cancer, but the extent and impact of cargo transfer to other cells is poorly understood. Here, we used live cell imaging to investigate cargo transfer between prostate cancer, immune cells and non-malignant cells. Androgen treatment altered the morphology of prostate cancer cells. Ezrin, an androgen-regulated protein, may play a role in a mechanistic switch between TNTs and EV production to facilitate communication. The specialist cargo we observed being transferred may support cancer growth and progression by sharing energy resources, reprogramming and signalling cascades. This makes these important intercellular communication systems ideal potential targets for therapeutic intervention. View this paper
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Articles (152)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,071 Views
14 Pages

20 January 2025

Hyaluronic acid (HA) has received considerable attention in the reconstruction of lost periodontal tissues. HA has been proposed to play a role in cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, and cell–matrix as well as cell–cell intera...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
21,316 Views
56 Pages

20 January 2025

Quercetin, a flavonoid found in vegetables and fruits, has been extensively studied for its health benefits and disease management. Its role in the prevention of various pathogenesis has been well-documented, primarily through its ability to inhibit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,976 Views
22 Pages

Cell Type Specific Suppression of Hyper-Recombination by Human RAD18 Is Linked to Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen K164 Ubiquitination

  • Colette B. Rogers,
  • Wendy Leung,
  • Ryan M. Baxley,
  • Rachel E. Kram,
  • Liangjun Wang,
  • Joseph P. Buytendorp,
  • Khoi Le,
  • David A. Largaespada,
  • Eric A. Hendrickson and
  • Anja-Katrin Bielinsky

20 January 2025

RAD18 is a conserved eukaryotic E3 ubiquitin ligase that promotes genome stability through multiple pathways. One of these is gap-filling DNA synthesis at active replication forks and in post-replicative DNA. RAD18 also regulates homologous recombina...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
24,043 Views
19 Pages

From Polydeoxyribonucleotides (PDRNs) to Polynucleotides (PNs): Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Definitions, Molecular Insights, and Clinical Applications of Multifunctional Biomolecules

  • Cíntia Marques,
  • Alexandre Porcello,
  • Marco Cerrano,
  • Farid Hadjab,
  • Michèle Chemali,
  • Kelly Lourenço,
  • Basste Hadjab,
  • Wassim Raffoul,
  • Lee Ann Applegate and
  • Alexis E. Laurent

19 January 2025

Polydeoxyribonucleotides (PDRNs) and polynucleotides (PNs) are similar DNA-derived biopolymers that have garnered significant scientific attention since the 1990s for their potential applications in wound healing and skin rejuvenation. These biopolym...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,305 Views
37 Pages

19 January 2025

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder marked by the progressive degeneration of midbrain dopaminergic neurons and resultant locomotor dysfunction. Despite over two centuries of recognition as a chronic disease, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,061 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2025

Tea tree oil (TTO), acquired from Melaleuca alternifolia (Maiden & Betche) Cheel, Myrtaceae, is a widely utilized essential oil (EO) due to its bioactive properties. The identification and quantification of TTO ingredients is generally performed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,997 Views
15 Pages

An Optimized NGS Workflow Defines Genetically Based Prognostic Categories for Patients with Uveal Melanoma

  • Michele Massimino,
  • Elena Tirrò,
  • Stefania Stella,
  • Cristina Tomarchio,
  • Sebastiano Di Bella,
  • Silvia Rita Vitale,
  • Chiara Conti,
  • Marialuisa Puglisi,
  • Rosa Maria Di Crescenzo and
  • Silvia Varricchio
  • + 11 authors

18 January 2025

Background: Despite advances in uveal melanoma (UM) diagnosis and treatment, about 50% of patients develop distant metastases, thereby displaying poor overall survival. Molecular profiling has identified several genetic alterations that can stratify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
973 Views
12 Pages

Feasibility of Ex Vivo Ligandomics

  • Prabuddha Waduge,
  • Remya Ammassam Veettil,
  • Bojun Zhang,
  • Chengchi Huang,
  • Hong Tian and
  • Wei Li

18 January 2025

We developed ligandomics for the in vivo profiling of vascular ligands in mice, discovering secretogranin III (Scg3) as a novel angiogenic factor that selectively binds to retinal vessels of diabetic but not healthy mice. This discovery led to the de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,706 Views
16 Pages

Transcriptomic-Based Identification of miR-125a Novel Targets in Human Hepatocarcinoma Cells

  • Ilenia De Leo,
  • Nicola Mosca,
  • Mariaceleste Pezzullo,
  • Danila Valletta,
  • Francesco Manfrevola,
  • Vincenza Grazia Mele,
  • Rosanna Chianese,
  • Aniello Russo and
  • Nicoletta Potenza

18 January 2025

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the most aggressive and lethal human tumors. Many functional studies have demonstrated the role of non-coding RNAs (ncRNA), particularly microRNAs (miRNA), in the regulation of hepatocarcinogenesis driving path...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,300 Views
14 Pages

Sex-Specific Differences in the Pathophysiology of Hypertension

  • Hannah Zhang,
  • Pawan K. Singal,
  • Amir Ravandi and
  • Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin

18 January 2025

Hypertension is one of the most common comorbidities in cardiometabolic diseases, affecting nearly one third of adults. As a result, its pathophysiological mechanisms have been studied extensively and are focused around pressure natriuresis, the reni...

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