Greehey CCRI Archives
MDPI: Synergism of Proneurogenic miRNAs Provides a More Effective Strategy to Target Glioma Stem Cells (Penalva & Pertsemlidis Labs)
January 14, 2021Adam Kosti, Rodrigo Barreiro, Gabriela D. A. Guardia, Shiva Ostadrahimi, Erzsebet Kokovay, Alexander Pertsemlidis, Pedro A. F. Galante, Luiz O. F. Penalva Simple Summary miRNAs function as critical regulators of gene expression and have been defined as …
BMC Microbiology: Comparison of rectal swab, glove tip, and participant-collected stool techniques for gut microbiome sampling
January 14, 2021Meghan I. Short, Robert Hudson, Benjamin D. Besasie, Kelly R. Reveles, Dimpy P. Shah, Susannah Nicholson, Teresa L. Johnson-Pais, Korri Weldon, Zhao Lai, Robin J. Leach, Bernard Fongang & Michael A. Liss Abstract Background Studies of the gut micro …
Nature Communications: Interaction between SNAI2 and MYOD enhances oncogenesis and suppresses differentiation in Fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma (Ignatius, Houghton, Chen)
January 14, 2021Silvia Pomella, Prethish Sreenivas, Berkley E. Gryder, Long Wang, David Milewski, Matteo Cassandri, Kunal Baxi, Nicole R. Hensch, Elena Carcarino, Young Song, Hsien-Chao Chou, Marielle E. Yohe, Benjamin Z. Stanton, Bruno Amadio, Ignazio Caruana, Cristi …
Nature Communications: Integrated analysis of telomerase enzymatic activity unravels an association with cancer stemness and proliferation (Zheng Lab)
January 12, 2021Nighat Noureen, Shaofang Wu, Yingli Lv, Juechen Yang, W. K. Alfred Yung, Jonathan Gelfond, Xiaojing Wang, Dimpy Koul, Andrew Ludlow & Siyuan Zheng Abstract Active telomerase is essential for stem cells and most cancers t …
Cancer Letters: COX-2 promotes mammary adipose tissue inflammation, local estrogen biosynthesis, and carcinogenesis in high-sugar/fat diet treated mice
January 9, 2021Author links open overlay panelRosângela MayerGonçalvesa, MarinaDelgoboa, Jonathan PauloAgnesa, Raquel Nascimentodas Nevesa, MarceloFalchettia, TuanyCasagrandea, Ana Paula VargasGarciab, Thaynan CunhaVieirab, NauanaSomensic, Maciel AlencarBruxeld, Dan …
Emily Selig of Libich Lab, Awarded a Spot on CPRIT Training Grant
January 8, 2021Emily Selig recently earned her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia where she was employing biophysical and biochemical approaches to investigate the mechanisms by which the small heat-shock proteins aB-crystallin and hea …
Postdoctoral Fellow Opening (Rao Lab)
January 1, 2021The Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute (Greehey CCRI) at the UT Health Science Center – San Antonio is looking for an outstanding postdoctoral fellow to work in the laboratory of Dr. Manjeet Rao, PhD. We are seeking a self-motivated postdocto …
Yahoo Finance: Greehey CCRI Deputy Director, Manjeet Rao, PhD to Present at the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)
December 8, 2020This year’s conference will feature an oral presentation by Manjeet Rao, PhD, about a possible FDA-approved anti-depressant being studied that may block breast cancer growth by preventing breast cancer cells from repairing themselves. Dr. Rao has been …
MDPI: MSI1 Promotes the Expression of the GBM Stem Cell Marker CD44 by Impairing miRNA-Dependent Degradation
December 5, 2020Rebecca Pötschke 1,2,† Jacob Haase 1,†, Markus Glaß 1 Sebastian Simmermacher 3,Claudia Misiak 1,Luiz O. F. Penalva 4,5 Caspar D. Kühnöl, 2 and Stefan Hüttelmaier 1, Simple Summary Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most lethal brain tumor with a median su …
Molecular Oncology: Interaction of transcription factor AP‐2 gamma with proto‐oncogene PELP1 promotes tumorigenesis by enhancing RET signaling
December 2, 2020Junhao Liu, Zexuan Liu, Mengxing Li, , Weiwei Tang, Uday P. Pratap, Yiliao Luo, Kristin A. Altwegg, Xiaonan Li, Yi Zou, Hong Zhu, Gangadhara R. Sareddy, Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli, Ratna K. Vadlamudi Abstract A significant proportion of estrogen recep …