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Kettering University
Education•Flint, Michigan, United States•
About: Kettering University is a education organization based out in Flint, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: RNA & Antigen. The organization has 6842 authors who have published 7689 publications receiving 337503 citations. The organization is also known as: GMI Engineering & Management Institute & General Motors Institute.
Topics: RNA, Antigen, DNA, Cancer, Population
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TL;DR: The identification and characterization of novel nutrient-regulated phosphorylation sites on ATG13: Ser-224 and Ser-258 are reported, which play a crucial role in autophagy regulation in mice reconstituted with an unphosphorylatable mutant of AtG13.
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TL;DR: How supercoiling is generated is summarized and experimental and theoretical insights into supercoil relaxation are reviewed, distinguishing between the passive dissipation of supercoils by diffusion and the active removal of super coils by topoisomerase enzymes.
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TL;DR: It is proposed that the early embryo environment restricts the fate choice of epiblast but not PrE precursors, thus ensuring the formation and preservation of the pluripotent foetal lineage.
Abstract: Cell differentiation during pre-implantation mammalian development involves the formation of two extra-embryonic lineages: trophoblast and primitive endoderm (PrE). A subset of cells within the inner cell mass (ICM) of the blastocyst does not respond to differentiation signals and forms the pluripotent epiblast, which gives rise to all of the tissues in the adult body. How this group of cells is set aside remains unknown. Recent studies documented distinct sequential phases of marker expression during the segregation of epiblast and PrE within the ICM. However, the connection between marker expression and lineage commitment remains unclear. Using a fluorescent reporter for PrE, we investigated the plasticity of epiblast and PrE precursors. Our observations reveal that loss of plasticity does not coincide directly with lineage restriction of epiblast and PrE markers, but rather with exclusion of the pluripotency marker Oct4 from the PrE. We note that individual ICM cells can contribute to all three lineages of the blastocyst until peri-implantation. However, epiblast precursors exhibit less plasticity than precursors of PrE, probably owing to differences in responsiveness to extracellular signalling. We therefore propose that the early embryo environment restricts the fate choice of epiblast but not PrE precursors, thus ensuring the formation and preservation of the pluripotent foetal lineage.
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TL;DR: Mature DCs from 13 of 13 chronic HCV patients expressed typical maturation markers and were capable of priming allogeneic T lymphocytes, as well as stimulating influenza-specific memory T cells, consistent with clinical and immunologic data that the deficit in the patient's immune repertoire is HCV-specific.
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TL;DR: DR mammary adenocarcinoma MCF-7/Adr cells refractory to paclitaxel, dEpoB reduced the established tumors, markedly suppressed tumor growth, and surpassed other commonly used chemotherapy drugs such as adriamycin, vinblastine, and etoposide in beneficial effects.
Abstract: The epothilones are naturally occurring, cytotoxic macrolides that function through a paclitaxel (Taxol)-like mechanism. Although structurally dissimilar, both classes of molecules lead to the arrest of cell division and eventual cell death by stabilizing cellular microtubule assemblies. The epothilones differ in their ability to retain activity against multidrug-resistant (MDR) cell lines and tumors where paclitaxel fails. In the current account, we focus on the relationship between epothilone and paclitaxel in the context of tumors with multiple drug resistance. The epothilone analogue Z-12,13-desoxyepothilone B (dEpoB) is >35,000-fold more potent than paclitaxel in inhibiting cell growth in the MDR DC-3F/ADX cell line. Various formulations, routes, and schedules of i.v. administration of dEpoB have been tested in nude mice. Slow infusion with a Cremophor-ethanol vehicle proved to be the most beneficial in increasing efficacy and decreasing toxicity. Although dEpoB performed similarly to paclitaxel in sensitive tumors xenografts (MX-1 human mammary and HT-29 colon tumor), its effects were clearly superior against MDR tumors. When dEpoB was administered to nude mice bearing our MDR human lymphoblastic T cell leukemia (CCRF-CEM/paclitaxel), dEpoB demonstrated a full curative effect. For human mammary adenocarcinoma MCF-7/Adr cells refractory to paclitaxel, dEpoB reduced the established tumors, markedly suppressed tumor growth, and surpassed other commonly used chemotherapy drugs such as adriamycin, vinblastine, and etoposide in beneficial effects.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Joan Massagué | 189 | 408 | 149951 |
Chris Sander | 178 | 713 | 233287 |
Timothy A. Springer | 167 | 669 | 122421 |
Murray F. Brennan | 161 | 925 | 97087 |
Charles M. Rice | 154 | 561 | 83812 |
Lloyd J. Old | 152 | 775 | 101377 |
Howard I. Scher | 151 | 944 | 101737 |
Paul Tempst | 148 | 309 | 89225 |
Pier Paolo Pandolfi | 146 | 529 | 88334 |
Barton F. Haynes | 144 | 911 | 79014 |
Jedd D. Wolchok | 140 | 713 | 123336 |
James P. Allison | 137 | 483 | 83336 |
Harold E. Varmus | 137 | 496 | 76320 |
Scott W. Lowe | 134 | 396 | 89376 |
David S. Klimstra | 133 | 564 | 61682 |