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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,884 Views
15 Pages

Isolated Variable Domains of an Antibody Can Assemble on Blood Coagulation Factor VIII into a Functional Fv-like Complex

  • Svetlana A. Shestopal,
  • Leonid A. Parunov,
  • Philip Olivares,
  • Haarin Chun,
  • Mikhail V. Ovanesov,
  • John R. Pettersson and
  • Andrey G. Sarafanov

Single-chain variable fragments (scFv) are antigen-recognizing variable fragments of antibodies (FV) where both subunits (VL and VH) are connected via an artificial linker. One particular scFv, iKM33, directed against blood coagulation factor VIII (F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
794 Views
18 Pages

19 November 2025

The continuous emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with enhanced transmissibility and immune escape capability underscores the urgent need for mutation-independent anti-viral strategies. SARS-CoV-2 non-structural protein 12 (NSP12), which encodes the RN...

  • Article
  • Open Access
580 Views
51 Pages

Ripple Evolution Optimizer: A Novel Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic

  • Hussam N. Fakhouri,
  • Hasan Rashaideh,
  • Riyad Alrousan,
  • Faten Hamad and
  • Zaid Khrisat

7 November 2025

This paper presents a novel Ripple Evolution Optimizer (REO) that incorporates adaptive and diversified movement—a population-based metaheuristic that turns a coastal-dynamics metaphor into principled search operators. REO augments a JADE-style...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,680 Views
19 Pages

NEK2 Phosphorylates RhoGDI1 to Promote Cell Proliferation, Migration and Invasion Through the Activation of RhoA and Rac1 in Colon Cancer Cells

  • Jeewon Lim,
  • Yo-Sep Hwang,
  • Jong-Tae Kim,
  • Hyang-Ran Yoon,
  • Hyo-Min Park,
  • Jahyeong Han,
  • Taeho Kwon,
  • Kyung-Ho Lee,
  • Hee-Jun Cho and
  • Hee-Gu Lee

16 December 2024

Rho guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor 1 (RhoGDI1) plays a critical role in regulating the activity of Rho guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases). Phosphorylation of RhoGDI1 dynamically modulates the activation of Rho GTPases, influencing cell pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,155 Views
16 Pages

11 December 2017

Recent trends indicate diminishing public engagement with formal electoral politics in many advanced liberal democracies, especially among the younger generations. However, evidence also suggests that there has been a simultaneous interest by many yo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,357 Views
16 Pages

The Effect of Ca2+, Lobe-Specificity, and CaMKII on CaM Binding to NaV1.1

  • Jianing Li,
  • Zhiyi Yu,
  • Jianjun Xu,
  • Rui Feng,
  • Qinghua Gao,
  • Tomasz Boczek,
  • Junyan Liu,
  • Zhi Li,
  • Qianhui Wang and
  • Feng Guo
  • + 6 authors

Calmodulin (CaM) is well known as an activator of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII). Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) are basic signaling molecules in excitable cells and are crucial molecular targets for nervous system age...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,463 Views
14 Pages

Approaches for Identifying LncRNA-Associated Proteins for Therapeutic Targets and Cancer Biomarker Discovery

  • Mohammad Shabir Hussain,
  • Puneet Vij,
  • Sudhir Kotnala,
  • Shadab Ahmad,
  • Subhash C. Chauhan and
  • Manish K. Tripathi

11 August 2025

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are increasingly recognized as key regulators of gene expression and cellular signaling in cancer. Their functions are primarily mediated through interactions with specific protein partners that modulate chromatin struc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,185 Views
13 Pages

CUEDC2 Drives β-Catenin Nuclear Translocation and Promotes Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Tumorigenesis

  • Shuyan Han,
  • Huifeng Hao,
  • Haibo Han,
  • Dong Xue,
  • Yanna Jiao,
  • Yuntao Xie,
  • Ye Xu,
  • Longtao Huangfu,
  • Jialei Fu and
  • Qun Zhou
  • + 3 authors

29 September 2022

Hyperactivation of Wnt signaling is crucial in tumor formation. Fully elucidating the molecular details of how the cancer-specific Wnt signaling pathway is activated or contributes to tumorigenesis will help in determining future treatment strategies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,736 Views
18 Pages

Green Sweet Pepper Fruit and Peduncle Detection Using Mask R-CNN in Greenhouses

  • Jesús Dassaef López-Barrios,
  • Jesús Arturo Escobedo Cabello,
  • Alfonso Gómez-Espinosa and
  • Luis-Enrique Montoya-Cavero

21 May 2023

In this paper, a mask region-based convolutional neural network (Mask R-CNN) is used to improve the performance of machine vision in the challenging task of detecting peduncles and fruits of green sweet peppers (Capsicum annuum L.) in greenhouses. On...

  • Article
  • Open Access
739 Views
23 Pages

Honokiol Inhibits Colorectal Cancer Cell Growth: Involvement of Hsp27 as a Molecular Target

  • Youngbin Kim,
  • Hyeon Du Jang,
  • Da Hyeon An,
  • Hyun Seo Lee,
  • Hong-Gyum Kim and
  • Sun Eun Choi

Background/Objectives: Honokiol (HK), a bioactive phenolic compound, exhibits significant anti-cancer properties. This study aimed to investigate the anti-cancer effects of HK in colorectal cancer (CRC) cells by focusing on its direct interaction wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,980 Views
13 Pages

TriTrap: A Robotic Gripper Inspired by Insect Tarsal Chains

  • Julian Winand,
  • Thies H. Büscher and
  • Stanislav N. Gorb

Gripping, holding, and moving objects are among the main functional purposes of robots. Ever since automation first took hold in society, optimizing these functions has been of high priority, and a multitude of approaches has been taken to enable che...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,492 Views
13 Pages

16 March 2023

Cryptocurrencies offer various benefits in terms of privacy protection and cross-border transactions, but they have also been used for illicit activities such as money laundering due to their anonymous nature and the difficulty of cross-border regula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,315 Views
21 Pages

Identification of Pri-miRNA Stem-Loop Interacting Proteins in Plants Using a Modified Version of the Csy4 CRISPR Endonuclease

  • Janina Lüders,
  • Andreas R. Winkel,
  • Marlene Reichel,
  • Valentin W. Bitterer,
  • Marion Scheibe,
  • Christiane Widmann,
  • Falk Butter and
  • Tino Köster

11 August 2022

Regulation at the RNA level by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) is key to coordinating eukaryotic gene expression. In plants, the importance of miRNAs is highlighted by severe developmental defects in mutants impaired in miRNA bioge...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,877 Views
20 Pages

Four main unconformities (1–4) were recognized in the sedimentary record of the Cenozoic basins of the eastern External Betic Zone (SE, Spain). They are located at different stratigraphic levels, as follows: (1) Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
736 Views
26 Pages

26 November 2025

Background/Objectives: Atherosclerosis (AS)-related cardiovascular diseases are a major global health threat, with vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) phenotypic switching, abnormal proliferation, and migration as key progression drivers. Nuclear re...

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