Oncogene: Targeting farnesylation as a novel therapeutic approach in HRAS-mutant rhabdomyosarcoma (Vaseva)

April 25, 2022

 Patience Odeniyide, Marielle E. Yohe, Kai Pollard, Angelina V. Vaseva,  Ana Calizo, Lindy Zhang, Fausto J. Rodriguez, John M. Gross, Amy N. Allen, Xiaolin Wan, Romel Somwar, Karisa C. Schreck, Linda Kessler, Jiawan Wang & Christine A. Pratilas Abstract Activating RAS mutations are found in a subset of fusion-negative rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), and therapeutic strategies to directly [...]

Non-Coding RNA: Current Status of Epitranscriptomic Marks Affecting lncRNA Structures and Functions (Bishop Lab)

April 22, 2022

 by Henry E. Miller 1,2,3ORCID, Mirolyuba Ilieva 4, Alexander J. R. Bishop 1,2,5ORCID and Shizuka Uchida 4, Non-Coding RNA 2022, 8(2), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/ncrna8020023 Received: 1 March 2022 / Revised: 21 March 2022 / Accepted: 25 March 2022 / Published: 28 March 2022 Abstract Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) belong to a class of non-protein-coding RNAs with [...]

BMC: SETDB1 interactions with PELP1 contributes to breast cancer endocrine therapy resistance (Lai, Chen, Rao)

April 11, 2022

 Zexuan Liu, Junhao Liu, Behnam Ebrahimi, Uday P. Pratap, Yi He, Kristin A. Altwegg, Weiwei Tang, Xiaonan Li, Zhao Lai, Yidong Chen, Liangfang Shen, Gangadhara R. Sareddy, Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli, Rajeshwar R. Tekmal, Manjeet K. Rao & Ratna K. Vadlamudi Abstract Background Methyltransferase SETDB1 is highly expressed in breast cancer (BC), however, the mechanisms by which SETDB1 [...]

Cancer Research: M6A RNA Methylation Regulates Histone Ubiquitination to Support Cancer Growth and Progression (Gupta, Zheng, Houghton, Chen, and Rao Labs)

March 21, 2022

 Pooja Yadav; Panneerdoss Subbarayalu; Daisy Medina, Saif Nirzhor;  Santosh Timilsina; Subapriya Rajamanickam; Vijay K. Eedunuri; Yogesh Gupta Siyuan Zheng Nourhan Abdelfattah Yufei Huang Ratna Vadlamudi Robert Hromas; Paul Meltzer Peter Houghton; Yidong Chen Manjeet K. Rao Abstract Osteosarcoma is the most common malignancy of the bone, yet the survival for osteosarcoma patients is virtually unchanged [...]

Cell Death & Disease: Global profiling reveals common and distinct N6-methyladenosine (m6A) regulation of innate immune responses during bacterial and viral infections (Lai & Chen Labs)

March 15, 2022

 Jian Feng, Teng Zhang, Océane Sorel, Wen Meng, Xinquan Zhang, Zhao Lai, Weiming Yuan, Yidong Chen, Yufei Huang & Shou-Jiang Gao Abstract N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a dynamic post-transcriptional RNA modification influencing all aspects of mRNA biology. While m6A modifications during numerous viral infections have been described, the role of m6A in innate immune response remains unclear. [...]

eLife: Signature-scoring methods developed for bulk samples are not adequate for cancer single-cell RNA sequencing data (Zheng, Chen, & Wang Labs)

March 7, 2022

 Nighat Noureen,  Zhenqing Ye,  Yidong Chen,  Xiaojing Wang,  Siyuan Zheng  Abstract Quantifying the activity of gene expression signatures is common in analyses of single-cell RNA sequencing data. Methods originally developed for bulk samples are often used for this purpose without accounting for contextual differences between bulk and single-cell data. More broadly, these methods have not [...]

Angelina Vaseva, PhD to Receive NCI Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT)(R37) Award.

March 2, 2022

 Angelina Vaseva, PhDAssistant Professor,Department of Molecular Medicine,Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute Congratulations to Dr. Vaseva on being awarded an NCI Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT)(R37) Award. NCI R37 award provides longer-term grant support to Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) that receive outstanding R01 grant scores. Eligible investigators may obtain up to seven years of [...]

Non-Coding RNA, FibroDB: Expression Analysis of Protein-Coding and Long Non-Coding RNA Genes in Fibrosis (Bishop Lab)

February 25, 2022

 by Mirolyuba Ilieva 1ORCID,Henry E. Miller 2,3,4ORCID,Arav Agarwal 4,5,Gabriela K. Paulus 4,6,Jens Hedelund Madsen 1,Alexander J. R. Bishop 2,3,7ORCID,Sakari Kauppinen 1 and Shizuka Uchida 1,*ORCID Abstract Most long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are expressed at lower levels than protein-coding genes and their expression is often restricted to specific cell types, certain time points during development, and [...]

Cancers: Global Genomic and Proteomic Analysis Identified Critical Pathways Modulated by Proto-Oncogene PELP1 in TNBC (Chen & Lai)

February 25, 2022

 by Zexuan Liu 1,2,†,Kristin A. Altwegg 1,3,†ORCID,Junhao Liu 1,2,Susan T. Weintraub 4,Yidong Chen 5,6,Zhao Lai 5,7,Gangadhara R. Sareddy 1,3,Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli 1,3,*ORCID and Ratna K. Vadlamudi 1,3,8,* Simple Summary The proto-oncogene PELP1 is commonly overexpressed in many cancers including triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). In this study, we utilized global proteomic and RNA-seq approaches to elucidate the [...]