Search Results - "Gomes Dias, Sandra Martha"
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GLS2 is protumorigenic in breast cancers
Published in Oncogene (16-01-2020)“…Many types of cancers have a well-established dependence on glutamine metabolism to support survival and growth, a process linked to glutaminase 1 (GLS)…”
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Leptin Signaling Suppression in Macrophages Improves Immunometabolic Outcomes in Obesity
Published in Diabetes (New York, N.Y.) (01-07-2022)“…Obesity is a major concern for global healthcare systems. Systemic low-grade inflammation in obesity is a major risk factor for insulin resistance. Leptin is…”
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Guanylate-binding protein-1 is a potential new therapeutic target for triple-negative breast cancer
Published in BMC cancer (07-11-2017)“…Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is characterized by a lack of estrogen and progesterone receptor expression (ESR and PGR, respectively) and an absence of…”
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FAK Forms a Complex with MEF2 to Couple Biomechanical Signaling to Transcription in Cardiomyocytes
Published in Structure (London) (02-08-2016)“…Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) has emerged as a mediator of mechanotransduction in cardiomyocytes, regulating gene expression during hypertrophic remodeling…”
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Dual inhibition of glutaminase and carnitine palmitoyltransferase decreases growth and migration of glutaminase inhibition–resistant triple-negative breast cancer cells
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (14-06-2019)“…Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) lack progesterone and estrogen receptors and do not have amplified human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, the main…”
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HuR controls glutaminase RNA metabolism
Published in Nature communications (04-07-2024)“…Glutaminase (GLS) is directly related to cell growth and tumor progression, making it a target for cancer treatment. The RNA-binding protein HuR (encoded by…”
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The origin and evolution of human glutaminases and their atypical C-terminal ankyrin repeats
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (07-07-2017)“…On the basis of tissue-specific enzyme activity and inhibition by catalytic products, Hans Krebs first demonstrated the existence of multiple glutaminases in…”
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Active Glutaminase C Self-assembles into a Supratetrameric Oligomer That Can Be Disrupted by an Allosteric Inhibitor
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (27-09-2013)“…The phosphate-dependent transition between enzymatically inert dimers into catalytically capable tetramers has long been the accepted mechanism for the…”
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Human mitochondrial pyruvate carrier 2 as an autonomous membrane transporter
Published in Scientific reports (22-02-2018)“…The active transport of glycolytic pyruvate across the inner mitochondrial membrane is thought to involve two mitochondrial pyruvate carrier subunits, MPC1 and…”
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N-terminal phosphorylation of glutaminase C decreases its enzymatic activity and cancer cell migration
Published in Biochimie (01-11-2018)“…The mitochondrial phosphate-activated glutaminase C (GAC) is produced by the alternative splicing of the GLS gene. Compared to the other GLS isoform, the…”
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Glutaminase Affects the Transcriptional Activity of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ (PPARγ) via Direct Interaction
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (06-11-2018)“…Phosphate-activated glutaminases catalyze the deamidation of glutamine to glutamate and play key roles in several physiological and pathological processes. In…”
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Disclosing quantitative RT‐PCR raw data during manuscript submission: a call for action
Published in Molecular oncology (01-05-2023)“…Accuracy and transparency of scientific data are becoming more and more relevant with the increasing concern regarding the evaluation of data reproducibility…”
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Correction to: New insights in gene expression alteration as effect of doxorubicin drug resistance in triple negative breast cancer cells
Published in Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research (17-12-2020)“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article…”
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Insights on the Quest for the Structure–Function Relationship of the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier
Published in Biology (Basel, Switzerland) (01-11-2020)“…The molecular identity of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC) was presented in 2012, forty years after the active transport of cytosolic pyruvate into the…”
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The Crystal Structure of Necrosis- and Ethylene-Inducing Protein 2 from the Causal Agent of Cacao’s Witches’ Broom Disease Reveals Key Elements for Its Activity
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (15-11-2011)“…The necrosis- and ethylene-inducing peptide 1 (NEP1)-like proteins (NLPs) are proteins secreted from bacteria, fungi and oomycetes, triggering immune responses…”
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Structural Rearrangements in the Thyroid Hormone Receptor Hinge Domain and Their Putative Role in the Receptor Function
Published in Journal of molecular biology (14-07-2006)“…The thyroid hormone receptor (TR) D-domain links the ligand-binding domain (LBD, EF-domain) to the DNA-binding domain (DBD, C-domain), but its structure, and…”
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Chemical Elicitors Induce Rare Bioactive Secondary Metabolites in Deep-Sea Bacteria under Laboratory Conditions
Published in Metabolites (12-02-2021)“…Bacterial genome sequencing has revealed a vast number of novel biosynthetic gene clusters (BGC) with potential to produce bioactive natural products. However,…”
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Low-Resolution Structures of Thyroid Hormone Receptor Dimers and Tetramers in Solution
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (06-02-2007)“…High-resolution X-ray structures of thyroid hormone (TH) receptor (TR) DNA and ligand binding domains (DBD and LBD) have yielded significant insights into TR…”
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Molecular mechanism of glutaminase activation through filamentation and the role of filaments in mitophagy protection
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (01-12-2023)“…Glutaminase (GLS), which deaminates glutamine to form glutamate, is a mitochondrial tetrameric protein complex. Although inorganic phosphate (Pi) is known to…”
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Different biological effects of exposure to far-UVC (222 nm) and near-UVC (254 nm) irradiation
Published in Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology (01-06-2023)“…Ultraviolet C (UVC) light has long been used as a sterilizing agent, primarily through devices that emit at 254 nm. Depending on the dose and duration of…”
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