Search Results - "McDonald, Jeffrey G."
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Oxysterol Restraint of Cholesterol Synthesis Prevents AIM2 Inflammasome Activation
Published in Cell (16-11-2017)“…Type I interferon restrains interleukin-1β (IL-1β)-driven inflammation in macrophages by upregulating cholesterol-25-hydroxylase (Ch25h) and repressing SREBP…”
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Targeted Induction of Ceramide Degradation Leads to Improved Systemic Metabolism and Reduced Hepatic Steatosis
Published in Cell metabolism (04-08-2015)“…Sphingolipids have garnered attention for their role in insulin resistance and lipotoxic cell death. We have developed transgenic mice inducibly expressing…”
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25-Hydroxycholesterol suppresses interleukin-1-driven inflammation downstream of type I interferon
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-08-2014)“…Type I interferon (IFN) protects against viruses, yet it also has a poorly understood suppressive influence on inflammation. Here, we report that activated…”
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Last step in the path of LDL cholesterol from lysosome to plasma membrane to ER is governed by phosphatidylserine
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-08-2020)“…Animal cells acquire cholesterol from receptor-mediated uptake of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), which releases cholesterol in lysosomes. The cholesterol moves…”
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Niche-Specific Reprogramming of Epigenetic Landscapes Drives Myeloid Cell Diversity in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
Published in Immunity (Cambridge, Mass.) (16-06-2020)“…Tissue-resident and recruited macrophages contribute to both host defense and pathology. Multiple macrophage phenotypes are represented in diseased tissues,…”
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27-Hydroxycholesterol Promotes Cell-Autonomous, ER-Positive Breast Cancer Growth
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (14-11-2013)“…To date, estrogen is the only known endogenous estrogen receptor (ER) ligand that promotes ER+ breast tumor growth. We report that the cholesterol metabolite…”
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Interleukins 4 and 13 drive lipid abnormalities in skin cells through regulation of sex steroid hormone synthesis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-09-2021)“…Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by skin dryness, inflammation, and itch. A major hallmark of AD is an elevation of…”
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Switch-like Control of SREBP-2 Transport Triggered by Small Changes in ER Cholesterol: A Delicate Balance
Published in Cell metabolism (01-12-2008)“…Animal cells control their membrane lipid composition within narrow limits, but the sensing mechanisms underlying this control are largely unknown. Recent…”
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A comprehensive method for extraction and quantitative analysis of sterols and secosteroids from human plasma
Published in Journal of lipid research (01-07-2012)“…We describe the development of a method for the extraction and analysis of 62 sterols, oxysterols, and secosteroids from human plasma using a combination of…”
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Structural basis for human sterol isomerase in cholesterol biosynthesis and multidrug recognition
Published in Nature communications (05-06-2019)“…3-β-hydroxysteroid-Δ 8 , Δ 7 -isomerase, known as Emopamil-Binding Protein (EBP), is an endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein involved in cholesterol…”
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Targeting de novo lipogenesis and the Lands cycle induces ferroptosis in KRAS-mutant lung cancer
Published in Nature communications (26-07-2022)“…Mutant KRAS (KM), the most common oncogene in lung cancer (LC), regulates fatty acid (FA) metabolism. However, the role of FA in LC tumorigenesis is still not…”
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Flux analysis of cholesterol biosynthesis in vivo reveals multiple tissue and cell-type specific pathways
Published in eLife (26-06-2015)“…Two parallel pathways produce cholesterol: the Bloch and Kandutsch-Russell pathways. Here we used stable isotope labeling and isotopomer analysis to trace…”
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Architecture of a single membrane spanning cytochrome P450 suggests constraints that orient the catalytic domain relative to a bilayer
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-03-2014)“…Bitopic integral membrane proteins with a single transmembrane helix play diverse roles in catalysis, cell signaling, and morphogenesis. Complete monospanning…”
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Glioblastoma Cells Require Glutamate Dehydrogenase to Survive Impairments of Glucose Metabolism or Akt Signaling
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-10-2009)“…Oncogenes influence nutrient metabolism and nutrient dependence. The oncogene c-Myc stimulates glutamine metabolism and renders cells dependent on glutamine to…”
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Desmosterol suppresses macrophage inflammasome activation and protects against vascular inflammation and atherosclerosis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-11-2021)“…Cholesterol biosynthetic intermediates, such as lanosterol and desmosterol, are emergent immune regulators of macrophages in response to inflammatory stimuli…”
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Interplay between Asters/GRAMD1s and phosphatidylserine in intermembrane transport of LDL cholesterol
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-01-2022)“…Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) delivers cholesterol to mammalian cells through receptor-mediated endocytosis. The LDL cholesterol is liberated in lysosomes and…”
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Cilia-Associated Oxysterols Activate Smoothened
Published in Molecular cell (18-10-2018)“…Primary cilia are required for Smoothened to transduce vertebrate Hedgehog signals, but how Smoothened accumulates in cilia and is activated is incompletely…”
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Cholesterol accessibility at the ciliary membrane controls hedgehog signaling
Published in eLife (30-10-2019)“…Previously we proposed that transmission of the hedgehog signal across the plasma membrane by Smoothened is triggered by its interaction with cholesterol…”
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Regulated Accumulation of Desmosterol Integrates Macrophage Lipid Metabolism and Inflammatory Responses
Published in Cell (28-09-2012)“…Inflammation and macrophage foam cells are characteristic features of atherosclerotic lesions, but the mechanisms linking cholesterol accumulation to…”
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Cell-specific discrimination of desmosterol and desmosterol mimetics confers selective regulation of LXR and SREBP in macrophages
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-05-2018)“…Activation of liver X receptors (LXRs) with synthetic agonists promotes reverse cholesterol transport and protects against atherosclerosis in mouse models…”
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