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GalNAc-T6 enzyme selectively up-regulated in colon adenocarcinomas
Researchers have identified an enzyme that appears to drive the conversion of normal colon tissue into cancer...
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Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysts. Enzymes accelerate, or catalyse, chemical reactions.
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Blocking 20-HETE chemical counters the siren call of aggressive cancers
Scientists have successfully blocked the powerful call of two types of aggressive cancer – glioblastoma and breast cancer – in laboratory models; with evidence that inhibiting the chemical 20-HETE halts tumour growth.
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EXD2 enzyme identified as key player in mitochondrial protein synthesis
A team of researchers led by IRB Barcelona in Spain have identified a key function of the enzyme EXD2 as being the maintenance of protein production in the mitochondria.
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Therapeutic target discovered for ER+ breast cancer
Researchers have identified a protein that can be targeted to suppress the growth of a common type of breast cancer...
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A fat-regulating enzyme could hold the key to diabetes and cancer
Researchers shed light on a key fat-regulating enzyme's role in diabetes and cancer...
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Potential broad-spectrum antiviral discovery for herpes virus
Scientists studying cellular enzyme complexes have unexpectedly found that inhibiting EZH2/1 suppressed viral infection in the herpes simplex virus infection...
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Novel perspectives on anti-amyloid treatment for the prevention of Alzheimer’s
A collaboration between Prof Lucía Chávez-Gutiérrez and Prof Bart De Strooper of VIB-KU Leuven has revealed the molecular basis of the hereditary form of Alzheimer’s disease that strikes early in life.
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New study reveals new drug target for gout & inflammatory diseases
Research reveals cathepsins as potential therapeutic targets in particulate-mediated inflammatory disease…
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CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations
As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome.
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Protective responses appear weaker in neural stem cells from HD patients
A multi-institutional team based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has discovered how a potential treatment strategy for Huntington disease (HD) produces its effects, verified its action in human cells and identified a previously unknown deficit in neural stem cells from patients with HD.
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EU funds research on biofuels and infectious diseases
Biochemist and physician Professor Ivan Dikic and microbiologist Professor Volker Müller are very honoured that their pioneering research projects have been selected for this substantial financial support.
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Designing a Novel Cancer Drug: From Hit ID to Candidate
28 March 2017 | By Charles River
Discover how their multidisciplinary approach to hit ID, design and synthesis of novel chemical templates and development of targeted in vitro and in vivo assays resulted in the nomination of the first development candidate in just over two years...
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Nanoparticle-mediated enzyme delivery for application in cancer therapy
Enzyme therapy is a promising form of cancer treatment. The specific nature of enzyme and substrate interaction gives enzyme therapy an edge compared to standard non-specific therapies such as radiation and chemotherapy. However, since most of these enzymes are of a foreign nature, the delivery of these immunogenic enzymes has…
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Stem cell ‘marking’ study offers alternative hypothesis of cancer metastasis
Stem cells are among the most energetically activated, migratory and proliferative sub-populations of tumour cells, according to observations by scholars at the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Salford.
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HTS assays for the identification of small-molecule inhibitors of deubiquitinating enzymes
The covalent modification of proteins by the attachment of ubiquitin (ubiquitination) is best known for its function to label proteins for proteasomal degradation. However, ubiquitination also plays non-proteasomal roles during signal transduction, DNA repair and protein sorting...
