Intrinsic p53 activation restricts gammaherpesvirus driven germinal center B cell expansion during latency establishment by Shana M. Owens, Jeffrey M. Sifford, Gang Li, Steven J. Murdock, Eduardo Salinas, Darby Oldenburg, Debopam Ghosh, Jason S. Stumhofer, Intawat Nookaew, Mark Manzano, J. Craig Forrest

“…We further demonstrate that Epstein-Barr virus-encoded latent membrane protein 1 similarly triggers a p53 response in primary B cells. …”
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Lycium ruthenicum Murr. treatment attenuates APPswE/PS1ΔE9 mouse model-like mitochondrial dysfunction in Slc25a46 knockout mouse model by Min Wang, Tianxiong Xu, Li Gao, Chujun Huang, Piao Xu, Congcong Gong, William Kwame Amakye, Linfeng Liao, Maojin Yao, Jiaoyan Ren

“…Mitochondria morphology in different tissues of a novel mitochondrial outer membrane protein Slc25a46 knockout mouse and a traditional APPSWE/PS1ΔE9 transgenic mouse were examined using transmission electron microscope (TEM). …”
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Protective Efficacy of Decreasing Antigen Doses of a <i>Chlamydia abortus</i> Subcellular Vaccine Against Ovine Enzootic Abortion in a Pregnant Sheep Challenge Model by Morag Livingstone, Kevin Aitchison, Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Francesco Ciampi, Clare Underwood, Antonia Paladino, Francesca Chianini, Gary Entrican, Sean Ranjan Wattegedera, David Longbottom

“…Recently, we have described the development of a new COMC (chlamydial outer membrane complex) vaccine based on a detergent-extracted outer membrane protein preparation of the pathogen, which can be delivered in a single inoculation and is both efficacious and safe. …”
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EMC2 suppresses ferroptosis via regulating TFRC in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Xianghui Chen, Xiaoyan Wang, Yuxia Zou, Yan Wang, Tingting Duan, Zijie Zhou, Yi Huang, Qing Ye

“…The levels of endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein complex 2 (EMC2) in NPC tissue microarrays were evaluated by immunohistochemistry, and the prognostic value of EMC2 was analyzed in NPC patients. …”
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Helicobacter pylori reduces METTL14-mediated VAMP3 m6A modification and promotes the development of gastric cancer by regulating LC3C-mediated c-Met recycling by Xixi Cui, Mingjie Chang, Yuqiong Wang, Jiayi Liu, Zenghui Sun, Qiyu Sun, Yundong Sun, Juchao Ren, Wenjuan Li

“…Downregulation of METTL14 inhibits Vesicle-associated membrane protein-3 (VAMP3) by reducing the m6A modification level of VAMP3 mRNA and the stability of IGF2BP2-dependent mRNA. …”
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Enhancement of CD8+T cell cytotoxicity activity by IFN-α implies alternative pathologic role in systemic lupus erythematosus by Chen-xing Zhang, You-ying Mao, Yu-pin Tan, Mei-yu Zhang, Kang Shao, Shu-jun Wang, Ping Ji, Jia-yuan Wang, Lei Yin, Ying Wang

“…Surface expression of lysosome-associated membrane protein 1 (LAMP-1; CD107a) and secretion of granzyme B of CD8+T cells was measured in SLE and HC with or without IFN-α co-stimulation/PI3K inhibitor. …”
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Phase 1 study of safety, tolerability, and efficacy of intradermal DNA vaccine ASP2390 in adults allergic to house dust mites by Thomas Kayser, MD, BS, Ronald Smulders, MD, PhD, Tomohiro Kusawake, PhD, Erik Wambre, PhD, Gurunadh R. Chichili, PhD, Mary B. Blauwet, DrPH, Anna Spence, MS, Melanie Patton, BS, Rima Tabash, PhD, Hannah A. DeBerg, PhD, Sugandhika Khosa, MS, Philipp Badorrek, MD, Jens M. Hohlfeld, MD, Brian C. Ferslew, PharmD, PhD

“…The novel LAMP (lysosomal-associated membrane protein)-based DNA vaccine ASP2390 targets major HDM allergens, potentially shifting immune responses toward nonallergic pathways and minimizing the risk of atopy, with positive safety and efficacy signals in preclinical models. …”
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The ameliorative effects of melatonin against BDE-47-induced hippocampal neuronal ferroptosis and cognitive dysfunction through Nrf2-Chaperone-mediated autophagy of ACSL4 degradati... by Quan Yuan, Mingwei Wang, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Ruofei Wang, Dechao Wang, Zichun Sang, Pu Zhao, Xiaoli Liu, Xiaoying Zhu, Gaofeng Liang, Hua Fan, Dongmei Wang

“…Furthermore, melatonin facilitated lysosomal ACSL4 degradation through enhancing lysosome-associated membrane protein type 2a (LAMP2a) expression and chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) activity, while LAMP2a knockdown abrogated the positive effects of melatonin on ACSL4 elimination in BDE-47-treated HT-22 cells. …”
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Development of an in vitro model to study muscle maladaptation to overtraining by Giuseppe Sirago, Clément Lanfranchi, Justin Carrard, Vincent Gremeaux, Nadège Zanou, Nicolas Place

“…Immunofluorescence staining of F-actin and of the mitochondrial outer membrane protein Tom20, clearly showed robust F-actin structure and regular mitochondrial distribution in response to s-T. …”
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GrB-Fc-KS49, an anti-EMP2 granzyme B fusion protein therapeutic alters immune cell infiltration and suppresses breast cancer growth by Ana Alvarez de Cienfuegos, Lawrence H Cheung, Khalid A Mohamedali, Michael G Rosenblum, Brian Aguirre, Cheng-Hsiang Lu, Anubhav Chandla, Nidhi Kejriwal, Lucia Liu, Ann M Chan, SuYin Kok, Sergio Duarte, David Casero, Madhuri Wadehra

“…Fusion proteins and immunoconjugates represent an innovative therapeutic approach to specifically deliver a deadly payload to target cells. Epithelial membrane protein-2 (EMP2) is highly expressed in invasive breast cancer (BC), including triple-negative BC (TNBC), and represents an attractive therapeutic target.Methods We designed a novel fusion protein (GrB-Fc-KS49) composed of an active GrB fused to an anti-EMP2 single-chain antibody tethered through the immunoglobulin G heavy chain (Fc) domain. …”
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Assembly of oleosin during efficient extraction: Altering the sequence of defatting solvents by Yu Li, Yuqian Qiao, Yuxuan Zhu, Wangyang Shen, Weiping Jin, Dengfeng Peng, Qingrong Huang

“…During the extraction of membrane proteins from oil bodies (OBs), organic solvents dissolve the lipid core and precipitate proteins through solvent stress. …”
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Systematic protein–protein interaction mapping for clinically relevant human GPCRs by Kate Sokolina, Saranya Kittanakom, Jamie Snider, Max Kotlyar, Pascal Maurice, Jorge Gandía, Abla Benleulmi‐Chaachoua, Kenjiro Tadagaki, Atsuro Oishi, Victoria Wong, Ramy H Malty, Viktor Deineko, Hiroyuki Aoki, Shahreen Amin, Zhong Yao, Xavier Morató, David Otasek, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Javier Menendez, Daniel Auerbach, Stephane Angers, Natasa Pržulj, Michel Bouvier, Mohan Babu, Francisco Ciruela, Ralf Jockers, Igor Jurisica, Igor Stagljar

“…The resulting GPCR interactome connects 686 proteins by 987 unique interactions, including 299 membrane proteins involved in a diverse range of cellular functions. …”
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An Innovative Method to Identify Autoantigens Expressed on the Endothelial Cell Surface: Serological Identification System for Autoantigens Using a Retroviral Vector and Flow Cytom... by Tsuyoshi Shirai, Hiroshi Fujii, Masao Ono, Ryu Watanabe, Tomonori Ishii, Hideo Harigae

“…Autoantibodies against integral membrane proteins are usually pathogenic. Although anti-endothelial cell antibodies (AECAs) are considered to be critical, especially for vascular lesions in collagen diseases, most molecules identified as autoantigens for AECAs are localized within the cell and not expressed on the cell surface. …”
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Marine Macroalgae Display Bioreductant Efficacy for Fabricating Metallic Nanoparticles: Intra/Extracellular Mechanism and Potential Biomedical Applications by Sabiha Mahmood Ansari, Quaiser Saquib, Valeria De Matteis, Hend Awad Alwathnani, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi, Abdulaziz Ali Al-Khedhairy

“…However, microorganisms have an abundance of active compounds ranging from sugar molecules, enzymes, canonical membrane proteins, reductase enzymes (NADH and NADPH), membrane proteins to many more. …”
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Cardiovascular Effects Mediated by HMMR and CD44 by Kinga Jaskuła, Mariusz Sacharczuk, Zbigniew Gaciong, Dominik S. Skiba

“…These receptors are membrane proteins that differ in structure, but it seems that they can perform similar or synergistic functions in many diseases. …”
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System-Wide Expression and Function of Olfactory Receptors in Mammals by S. June Oh

“…Olfactory receptors (ORs) in mammals are generally considered to function as chemosensors in the olfactory organs of animals. They are membrane proteins that traverse the cytoplasmic membrane seven times and work generally by coupling to heterotrimeric G protein. …”
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DiffMAP-GP: Continuous 2D diffusion maps from particle trajectories without data binning using Gaussian processes by Vishesh Kumar, J. Shepard Bryan, IV, Alex Rojewski, Carlo Manzo, Steve Pressé

“…We analyze both synthetic data, where ground truth is known, as well as data drawn from live-cell single-molecule imaging of membrane proteins. The resulting tool provides an unsupervised method to rigorously map diffusion coefficients continuously across membranes without data binning.…”
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The Prognostic Impact of Protein Expression of E-Cadherin-Catenin Complexes Differs between Rectal and Colon Carcinoma by Rolf Aamodt, Johan Bondi, Solveig Norheim Andersen, Arne Bakka, Geir Bukholm, Ida R. K. Bukholm

“…In the rectal carcinomas, there was a significant inverse association between the expression of p120-catenin in cell membranes of the primary tumors and the occurrence of local recurrence, while membranous protein expression of 𝛽-catenin was inversely related to distant metastases.…”
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Research progress on the role of extracellular vesicles in the pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease by Jiangyuan Jin, Mianzhi Zhang

“…Extracellular vesicles (EVs) contain cell-derived membrane proteins, nucleic acids (such as DNA and RNA) and other important cellular components and are involved in intercellular information and substance transmission. …”
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DPANN symbiont of Haloferax volcanii accelerates xylan degradation by the non-host haloarchaeon Halorhabdus sp. by Oleg N. Reva, Violetta La Cono, Laura Marturano, Francesca Crisafi, Francesco Smedile, Manasi Mudaliyar, Debnath Ghosal, Elena A. Selivanova, Marina E. Ignatenko, Manuel Ferrer, Laura Fernandez-Lopez, Mart Krupovic, Michail M. Yakimov

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