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  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,930 Views
14 Pages

ZDHHC19 Is Dispensable for Spermatogenesis, but Is Essential for Sperm Functions in Mice

  • Shuai Wang,
  • Hongjie Qiao,
  • Pengxiang Wang,
  • Yuan Wang and
  • Danian Qin

18 August 2021

Spermatogenesis is a complicated process involving mitotically proliferating spermatogonial cells, meiotically dividing spermatocytes, and spermatid going through maturation into spermatozoa. The post-translational modifications of proteins play impo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,450 Views
13 Pages

ZDHHC11 Suppresses Zika Virus Infections by Palmitoylating the Envelope Protein

  • Dingwen Hu,
  • Haimei Zou,
  • Weijie Chen,
  • Yuting Li,
  • Ziqing Luo,
  • Xianyang Wang,
  • Dekuan Guo,
  • Yu Meng,
  • Feng Liao and
  • Geng Li
  • + 3 authors

2 January 2023

Zika virus (ZIKV) is an RNA-enveloped virus that belongs to the Flavivirus genus, and ZIKV infections potentially induce severe neurodegenerative diseases and impair male fertility. Palmitoylation is an important post-translational modification of pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
978 Views
18 Pages

Co-Expression Analysis of the ZDHHC19 Palmitoyltransferase–miR-4733–miR-596 Putative Regulatory Axis in Sepsis

  • Katalin Maricza,
  • Zsuzsanna Elek,
  • Eszter Losoncz,
  • Krisztina Molnár,
  • Zoltán Fülep,
  • Réka Kovács-Nagy,
  • Zsófia Bánlaki,
  • Gergely Keszler and
  • Zsolt Rónai

21 March 2025

Background: ZDHHC19—a protein acyltransferase—is known to be induced in sepsis, a dysregulated immune response to infection, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain elusive. In this study, we aimed to explore whether upregulation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,724 Views
11 Pages

The Role of the MYC/miR-150/MYB/ZDHHC11 Network in Hodgkin Lymphoma and Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

  • Lotteke J. Y. M. Ziel-Swier,
  • Yichen Liu,
  • Annika Seitz,
  • Debora de Jong,
  • Jasper Koerts,
  • Bea Rutgers,
  • Rianne Veenstra,
  • Fazlyn R. Abdul Razak,
  • Agnieszka Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk and
  • Joost Kluiver
  • + 1 author

25 January 2022

We previously described involvement of the MYC/miR-150/MYB/ZDHHC11 network in the growth of Burkitt lymphoma (BL) cells. Here we studied the relevance of this network in the two other B-cell lymphomas: Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and diffuse large B-cell l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,723 Views
27 Pages

Protein Palmitoylation in Bovine Ovarian Follicle

  • Svetlana Uzbekova,
  • Ana-Paula Teixeira-Gomes,
  • Aurélie Marestaing,
  • Peggy Jarrier-Gaillard,
  • Pascal Papillier,
  • Ekaterina N. Shedova,
  • Galina N. Singina,
  • Rustem Uzbekov and
  • Valerie Labas

29 October 2021

Protein palmitoylation is a reversible post-translational modification by fatty acids (FA), mainly a palmitate (C16:0). Palmitoylation allows protein shuttling between the plasma membrane and cytosol to regulate protein stability, sorting and signali...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,076 Views
27 Pages

5 September 2023

Protein S-palmitoylation, a type of post-translational modification, refers to the reversible process of attachment of a fatty acyl chain—a 16-carbon palmitate acid—to the specific cysteine residues on target proteins. By adding the lipid...

  • Review
  • Open Access
344 Views
20 Pages

Protein S-Palmitoylation as Potential Therapeutic Target for Dermatoses

  • Yanhai Feng,
  • Jianxin Wu,
  • Hui Tang,
  • Shunying Liu,
  • Honglin Jia,
  • Yi Liang,
  • Zhenglin Li,
  • Lingbo Li,
  • Lingfei Li and
  • Xia Lei

30 December 2025

Protein S-palmitoylation is a pivotal yet poorly integrated research field in dermatology. This reversible post-translational lipid modification primarily occurs on cysteine residues and is principally catalyzed by zinc finger and Asp-His-His-Cys DHH...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,519 Views
14 Pages

A Novel 13q12 Microdeletion Associated with Familial Syndromic Corneal Opacification

  • Jasmine Y. Serpen,
  • William Presley,
  • Adelyn Beil,
  • Stephen T. Armenti,
  • Kayla Johnson,
  • Shahzad I. Mian,
  • Jeffrey W. Innis and
  • Lev Prasov

1 May 2023

Progressive corneal opacification can result from multiple etiologies, including corneal dystrophies or systemic and genetic diseases. We describe a novel syndrome featuring progressive epithelial and anterior stromal opacification in a brother and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,754 Views
18 Pages

Rare CNVs and Known Genes Linked to Macrocephaly: Review of Genomic Loci and Promising Candidate Genes

  • Giovanna Civitate Bastos,
  • Giovanna Cantini Tolezano and
  • Ana Cristina Victorino Krepischi

4 December 2022

Macrocephaly frequently occurs in single-gene disorders affecting the PI3K-AKT-MTOR pathway; however, epigenetic mutations, mosaicism, and copy number variations (CNVs) are emerging relevant causative factors, revealing a higher genetic heterogeneity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,829 Views
18 Pages

27 September 2022

Protein palmitoylation is a reversible modification process that links palmitate to cysteine residues via a reversible thioester bond. Palmitoylation exerts an important role in human organ development and tumor progression. However, a comprehensive...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,703 Views
39 Pages

zDHHC-Mediated S-Palmitoylation in Skin Health and Its Targeting as a Treatment Perspective

  • Farah A. Abdulrahman,
  • King A. Benford,
  • Gregory T. Lin,
  • Andrew J. Maroun,
  • Caleb Sammons,
  • Darya N. Shirzad,
  • Harrison Tsai,
  • Vincent L. Van Brunt,
  • Zack Jones and
  • Meera Nanjundan
  • + 10 authors

15 February 2025

S-acylation, which includes S-palmitoylation, is the only known reversible lipid-based post-translational protein modification. S-palmitoylation is mediated by palmitoyl acyltransferases (PATs), a family of 23 enzymes commonly referred to as zDHHCs,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,118 Views
10 Pages

Genome-Wide Association Study for Reproductive Traits in a Duroc Pig Population

  • Zhe Zhang,
  • Zitao Chen,
  • Shaopan Ye,
  • Yingting He,
  • Shuwen Huang,
  • Xiaolong Yuan,
  • Zanmou Chen,
  • Hao Zhang and
  • Jiaqi Li

26 September 2019

In the pig industry, reproductive traits constantly influence the production efficiency. To identify markers and candidate genes underlying porcine reproductive traits, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) was performed in a Duroc pig population. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,908 Views
14 Pages

Overexpression of RAB27A in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Promotes Tumor Migration and Invasion via Modulation of EGFR Membrane Stability

  • Jue Huang,
  • Jie-Gang Yang,
  • Jian-Gang Ren,
  • Hou-Fu Xia,
  • Gao-Hong Chen,
  • Qiu-Yun Fu,
  • Lin-Zhou Zhang,
  • Hai-Ming Liu,
  • Kui-Ming Wang and
  • Gang Chen
  • + 1 author

23 August 2023

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most prevalent subtype of head and neck tumors, highly prone to lymph node metastasis. This study aims to examine the expression pattern of Ras-related protein Rab-27A (RAB27A) and explore its potential impl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,615 Views
17 Pages

Network Meta-Analysis of Chicken Microarray Data following Avian Influenza Challenge—A Comparison of Highly and Lowly Pathogenic Strains

  • Azadeh Moradi Pirbaluty,
  • Hossein Mehrban,
  • Saeid Kadkhodaei,
  • Rudabeh Ravash,
  • Ahmad Oryan,
  • Mostafa Ghaderi-Zefrehei and
  • Jacqueline Smith

26 February 2022

The current bioinformatics study was undertaken to analyze the transcriptome of chicken (Gallus gallus) after influenza A virus challenge. A meta-analysis was carried out to explore the host expression response after challenge with lowly pathogenic a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,959 Views
21 Pages

Trypanosoma brucei Acyl-Protein Thioesterase-like (TbAPT-L) Is a Lipase with Esterase Activity for Short and Medium-Chain Fatty Acids but Has No Depalmitoylation Activity

  • Robert W. B. Brown,
  • Aabha I. Sharma,
  • Miguel Rey Villanueva,
  • Xiaomo Li,
  • Ouma Onguka,
  • Leeor Zilbermintz,
  • Helen Nguyen,
  • Ben A. Falk,
  • Cheryl L. Olson and
  • David M. Engman
  • + 6 authors

27 October 2022

Dynamic post-translational modifications allow the rapid, specific, and tunable regulation of protein functions in eukaryotic cells. S-acylation is the only reversible lipid modification of proteins, in which a fatty acid, usually palmitate, is coval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,308 Views
15 Pages

Gene therapy approaches may target skeletal muscle due to its high protein-expressing nature and vascularization. Intramuscular plasmid DNA (pDNA) delivery via pulsed electric fields (PEFs) can be termed electroporation or electrotransfer. Nonviral d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,728 Views
22 Pages

Explainable Machine Learning Models for Glioma Subtype Classification and Survival Prediction

  • Olga Vershinina,
  • Victoria Turubanova,
  • Mikhail Krivonosov,
  • Arseniy Trukhanov and
  • Mikhail Ivanchenko

9 August 2025

Background/Objectives: Gliomas are complex and heterogeneous brain tumors characterized by an unfavorable clinical course and a fatal prognosis, which can be improved by an early determination of tumor kind. Here, we developed explainable machine lea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,848 Views
26 Pages

Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes in Spinal Cord Injury

  • Andrew Y. Chang,
  • Shevanka Dias Abeyagunawardene,
  • Xiaohang Zheng,
  • Haiming Jin,
  • Qingqing Wang and
  • Jiake Xu

28 April 2025

Background: Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a profound medical challenge, with limited therapeutic options available. Studies focusing on individual molecular markers have limitations in addressing the complex disease process. Methods: This study ut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,236 Views
23 Pages

GWAS of Reproductive Traits in Large White Pigs on Chip and Imputed Whole-Genome Sequencing Data

  • Xiaoqing Wang,
  • Ligang Wang,
  • Liangyu Shi,
  • Pengfei Zhang,
  • Yang Li,
  • Mianyan Li,
  • Jingjing Tian,
  • Lixian Wang and
  • Fuping Zhao

1 November 2022

Total number born (TNB), number of stillborn (NSB), and gestation length (GL) are economically important traits in pig production, and disentangling the molecular mechanisms associated with traits can provide valuable insights into their genetic stru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,689 Views
16 Pages

Genome-Wide Association Studies for Milk Somatic Cell Score in Romanian Dairy Cattle

  • Daniela Elena Ilie,
  • Alexandru Eugeniu Mizeranschi,
  • Ciprian Valentin Mihali,
  • Radu Ionel Neamț,
  • George Vlad Goilean,
  • Ovidiu Ionuț Georgescu,
  • Daniela Zaharie,
  • Mihai Carabaș and
  • Ioan Huțu

24 September 2021

Mastitis is one of the most frequently encountered diseases in dairy cattle, negatively affecting animal welfare and milk production. For this reason, contributions to understanding its genomic architecture are of great interest. Genome-wide associat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
574 Views
16 Pages

Comprehensive Identification of miRNAs and circRNAs in the Regulation of Intramuscular and Subcutaneous Fat Deposition in Meat Ducks

  • Zhixiu Wang,
  • Tingting Zhou,
  • Wenshuang Liang,
  • Qianqian Song,
  • Yong Jiang,
  • Hao Bai,
  • Guohong Chen and
  • Guobin Chang

14 October 2025

Fat deposition is an important factor that affects meat production and its quality in livestock animals, including poultry. Non−coding RNAs (ncRNAs) play an important role in duck fat deposition. This study aims to systematically identify key r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,956 Views
26 Pages

Effect of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (rhGH) Use on Genetic Methylation Patterns and Their Relationship with Body Composition in Small-for-Gestational-Age (SGA) Newborns

  • Juan M. Alfaro Velásquez,
  • Elsa Maria Vásquez Trespalacios,
  • Rodrigo Urrego,
  • María C. Arroyave Toro,
  • María del Pilar Montilla Velásquez,
  • Cecilia Maria Díaz Soto,
  • Juan C. Zuluaga Vélez,
  • Verónica Jaramillo Henríquez,
  • Jorge Emilio Salazar Flórez and
  • Ronald Guillermo Pelaez Sánchez
  • + 3 authors

Background: Low birth weight in newborns is of multifactorial origin (fetal, maternal, placental, and environmental factors), and in one-third of cases, the cause is of unknown origin, with high infant morbidity and mortality. The main treatment for...