Search Results - "Levi, Beverly"
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Sphingolipids and mitochondrial apoptosis
Published in Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes (01-04-2016)“…The sphingolipid family of lipids modulate several cellular processes, including proliferation, cell cycle regulation, inflammatory signaling pathways, and…”
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Targeting IRAK1 as a Therapeutic Approach for Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Published in Cancer cell (08-07-2013)“…Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) arise from a defective hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop targeted therapies…”
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The STI and UBA Domains of UBQLN1 Are Critical Determinants of Substrate Interaction and Proteostasis
Published in Journal of cellular biochemistry (01-08-2017)“…ABSTRACT There are five Ubiquilin proteins (UBQLN1‐4, UBQLN‐L), which are evolutionarily conserved and structurally similar. UBQLN proteins have three…”
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UBQLN Family Members Regulate MYC in Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells
Published in Cancers (28-06-2023)“…The ubiquilin family (UBQLN) of proteins consists of five closely related members (UBQLN1, UBQLN2, UBQLN3, UBQLN4, and UBQLNL) that have a high degree of…”
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De novo synthesis of serine and glycine fuels purine nucleotide biosynthesis in human lung cancer tissues
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (06-09-2019)“…Nucleotide synthesis is essential to proliferating cells, but the preferred precursors for de novo biosynthesis are not defined in human cancer tissues. We…”
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Subclinical kidney injury induced by repeated cisplatin administration results in progressive chronic kidney disease
Published in American journal of physiology. Renal physiology (01-07-2018)“…Cisplatin is used to treat many solid cancers, but its dose-limiting side effect is nephrotoxicity, causing acute kidney injury in 30% of patients. Previously,…”
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Seeding and Propagation of Untransformed Mouse Mammary Cells in the Lung
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (26-09-2008)“…The acquisition of metastatic ability by tumor cells is considered a late event in the evolution of malignant tumors. We report that untransformed mouse…”
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Repeated administration of low-dose cisplatin in mice induces fibrosis
Published in American journal of physiology. Renal physiology (15-03-2016)“…Cisplatin, a chemotherapeutic used for the treatment of solid cancers, has nephrotoxic side effects leading to acute kidney injury (AKI). Cisplatin cannot be…”
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Comparative utility of NRG and NRGS mice for the study of normal hematopoiesis, leukemogenesis, and therapeutic response
Published in Experimental hematology (01-11-2018)“…•We provide a comparison of engraftment efficiencies in unconditioned NRG (NOD/RAG1/2−/−IL2Rγ−/−) and NRGS (NRG-SGM3) mice.•NRGS mice do not develop clinically…”
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BAK activation is necessary and sufficient to drive ceramide synthase-dependent ceramide accumulation following inhibition of BCL2-like proteins
Published in Biochemical journal (15-05-2013)“…Determining mechanistic details about how drugs kill cancer cells is critical for predicting which cancers will respond to given therapeutic regimens and for…”
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Lung cancer-kidney cross talk induces kidney injury, interstitial fibrosis, and enhances cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity
Published in American journal of physiology. Renal physiology (01-03-2023)“…Patients with cancer represent a unique patient population with increased susceptibility to kidney disease. Drug-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients…”
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Fibroblast-Derived Extracellular Matrices: An Alternative Cell Culture System That Increases Metastatic Cellular Properties
Published in PloS one (15-09-2015)“…Poor survival rates from lung cancer can largely be attributed to metastatic cells that invade and spread throughout the body. The tumor microenvironment (TME)…”
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Mutant and curli-producing E. coli enhance the disease phenotype in a hSOD1-G93A mouse model of ALS
Published in Scientific reports (12-04-2023)“…The gut microbiome is a potential non-genetic contributing factor for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Differences in gut microbial communities have been…”
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Common cytotoxic chemotherapeutics induce epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) downstream of ER stress
Published in Oncotarget (04-04-2017)“…Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in eukaryotes is a main organelle involved in a wide variety of functions including calcium storage, lipid biosynthesis, protein…”
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Ubiquilin proteins regulate EGFR levels and activity in lung adenocarcinoma cells
Published in Journal of cellular biochemistry (01-01-2021)“…Ubiquilin (UBQLN) proteins are involved in diverse cellular processes like endoplasmic reticulum‐associated degradation, autophagy, apoptosis, and…”
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Neutral ceramidase deficiency protects against cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury
Published in Journal of lipid research (01-03-2022)“…Cisplatin is a commonly used chemotherapeutic for the treatment of many solid organ cancers; however, its effectiveness is limited by the development of acute…”
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Ceramide channels: destabilization by Bcl-xL and role in apoptosis
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-10-2015)“…Ceramide is a bioactive sphingolipid involved in mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis. Our data suggest that ceramides directly regulate a key initiation step in…”
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C57BL/6 mice require a higher dose of cisplatin to induce renal fibrosis and CCL2 correlates with cisplatin-induced kidney injury
Published in American journal of physiology. Renal physiology (01-10-2020)“…C57BL/6 mice are one of the most commonly used mouse strains in research, especially in kidney injury studies. However, C57BL/6 mice are resistant to chronic…”
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Moderate aging does not exacerbate cisplatin-induced kidney injury or fibrosis despite altered inflammatory cytokine expression and immune cell infiltration
Published in American journal of physiology. Renal physiology (01-01-2019)“…Aging is a risk factor for certain forms of kidney injury due to normal physiological changes, but the role of aging in cisplatin-induced kidney injury is not…”
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Towards a molecular understanding of the overlapping and distinct roles of UBQLN1 and UBQLN2 in lung cancer progression and metastasis
Published in Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) (01-03-2022)“…•The Ubiquilin family of proteins (UBQLN) consists of five related proteins (UBQLN1-4 and UBQLNL).•Herein, we showed that loss of UBQLN1 and/or UBQLN2 induces…”
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