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eLife: RNA ‘heroes’ can disarm bad-actor proteins in leukemia: study (Gupta)

February 3, 2022

Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Brain, Behavior, & Immunity: Sex-dependent pain trajectories induced by prolactin require an inflammatory response for pain resolution (Lai Lab)

January 24, 2022

Author links open overlay panelJenniferMecklenburga  AndiWangzhouf  Anahit H.Hovhannisyana  PriscillaBarba-Escobedoa  Sergey A.Sheinb  YiZoud  KorriWeldond  ZhaoLaideVincentGoffing  GregoryDussorf  Alexei V.Tumanovb  Theodore J.Pricef  Armen N.Akopiana …


NCI SBIR Innovative Concept Award to study novel molecules for the treatment of rhabdomyosarcoma (Kurmasheva)

January 21, 2022

Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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eLife: RNA binding to human METTL3-METTL14 restricts N6-deoxyadenosine methylation of DNA in vitro (Gupta Lab)

January 21, 2022

Shan Qi,  Javier Mota,  Siu-Hong Chan,  Johanna Villarreal,  Nan Dai,  Shailee Arya,  Robert A Hromas,  Manjeet K Rao,  Ivan R Corrêa Jr  Yogesh K Gupta  Abstract Methyltransferase like-3 (METTL3) and METTL14 complex transfer a methyl group from S-aden …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Frontiers in Microbiology: Robust Heat Shock Response in Chlamydia Lacking a Typical Heat Shock Sigma Factor (Lai Lab)

January 20, 2022

Yehong Huang1,2†, Wurihan Wurihan2†, Bin Lu1,2†, Yi Zou3, Yuxuan Wang2†, Korri Weldon3, Joseph D. Fondell2†, Zhao Lai3,4, Xiang Wu1*†, and Huizhou Fan2*† Cells reprogram their transcriptome in response to stress, such as heat shock. In free-living bact …


Frontiers in Genetics: Differential lncRNA/mRNA Expression Profiling and Functional Network Analyses in Bmp2 Deletion of Mouse Dental Papilla Cells (Lai Lab)

January 20, 2022

Feng Wang1,2†, Ran Tao1†, Li Zhao1, Xin-Hui Hao1, Yi Zou3, Qing Lin1, Meng Meng Liu2, Graham Goldman2, Daoshu Luo1* and Shuo Chen2* Bmp2 is essential for dentin development and formation. Bmp2 conditional knock-out (KO) mice display a similar tooth phe …


iScience: SARS-CoV-2 infection enhances mitochondrial PTP complex activity to perturb cardiac energetics (Aune)

January 19, 2022

Karthik Ramachandran110 Soumya Maity110  Alagar R.Muthukumar2  Soundarya Kandala1  Dhanendra Tomar3  Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz49  Cristel Allen1  Yuyang Sun5  Manigandan Venkatesan1  Travis  R.Madaris1  Kevin Chiem6  RachelTruitt7  Neelanjan Vishnu1  G …


Urologic Oncology: Prevalence of pathogenic germline cancer risk variants in testicular cancer patients: Identifying high risk groups (Tomlinson)

January 19, 2022

ChethanRamamurthyM.D.a‡Amin H.NassarM.D.bc‡SarahAbou AlaiwiM.D.bcElioAdibM.D.bcElie W.AklM.D.cShanYangPh.D.dEdward D.EsplinM.D., Ph.D.dMichael A.LissM.D.aGail E.TomlinsonM.D.eGuru P.SonpavdeM.D.b Highlights • Testicular cancer patients are at risk for …


iScience: PEGylated talazoparib enhances therapeutic window of its combination with temozolomide in Ewing sarcoma (Kurmasheva & Houghton Labs)

January 18, 2022

Vanessa del Pozo Andrew J.Robles Shaun D.Fontaine QianqianLiu Joel E.Michalek Peter J.Houghton Raushan T.Kurmasheva Highlights Nanoparticle-formulated drugs minimize drug-induced toxicity PEG∼TLZ enhances in vivo activity of TMZ in pediatric tumor xeno …


Biomolecular NMR Assignments: The 1H, 15N and 13C resonance assignments of the low-complexity domain from the oncogenic fusion protein EWS-FLI1 (Libich Lab)

January 12, 2022

Courtney N. Johnson, Xiaoping Xu, Stephen P. Holloway & David S. Libich Abstract The RNA-binding protein EWS is a multifunctional protein with roles in the regulation of transcription and RNA splicing. It is one of the FET (FUS, EWS, and TAF15) fam …