The worst things in life are free: the role of free heme in sickle cell disease

OT Gbotosho, MG Kapetanaki, GJ Kato - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Hemolysis is a pathological feature of several diseases of diverse etiology such as
hereditary anemias, malaria, and sepsis. A major complication of hemolysis involves the …

MicroRNAs in platelet function and cardiovascular disease

DD McManus, JE Freedman - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2015 - nature.com
Cardiovascular disease—a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among adults—is
strongly influenced by platelet function through acute thrombotic and atherogenic …

ComiR: combinatorial microRNA target prediction tool

C Coronnello, PV Benos - Nucleic acids research, 2013 - academic.oup.com
ComiR is a web tool for combinatorial microRNA (miRNA) target prediction. Given an
messenger RNA (mRNA) in human, mouse, fly or worm genomes, ComiR computes the …

Transcriptomic landscape of blood platelets in healthy donors

A Supernat, M Popęda, K Pastuszak, MG Best… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Blood platelet RNA-sequencing is increasingly used among the scientific community.
Aberrant platelet transcriptome is common in cancer or cardiovascular disease, but …

The role of RNA uptake in platelet heterogeneity

L Clancy, LM Beaulieu, K Tanriverdi… - Thrombosis and …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
The role of platelets in regulating vascular homeostasis has expanded beyond mediation of
haemostasis and thrombosis. The discovery of platelet RNA and the presence of …

Slowed decay of mRNAs enhances platelet specific translation

EW Mills, R Green, NT Ingolia - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Platelets are anucleate cytoplasmic fragments that lack genomic DNA, but continue to
synthesize protein using a pool of messenger RNAs (mRNAs), ribosomes, and regulatory …

Normalization panels for the reliable quantification of circulating microRNAs by RT‐qPCR

MGM Kok, A Halliani, PD Moerland… - The FASEB …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have been reported as biomarkers for disease diagnosis.
RT‐qPCR is most commonly used to detect miRNAs; however, no consensus on the most …

The role of miRNAs as therapeutic tools in sickle cell disease

C Cyrus - Medicina, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background and Objectives: Sickle cell disorder (SCD) is a paradigmatic example of a
complex monogenic disorder. SCD is characterized by the production of abnormal …

Two decades of a protooncogene HPIP/PBXIP1: uncovering the tale from germ cell to cancer

SS Khumukcham, B Manavathi - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hematopoietic PBX interacting protein (HPIP or pre-B-cell leukemia transcription factor
interacting protein (PBXIP1) was discovered two decades ago as a corepressor of pre-B-cell …

Platelet microRNAs: an overview

N Dahiya, T Sarachana, L Vu, KG Becker… - Transfusion medicine …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short~ 22-nucleotide noncoding RNA that have been
found to influence the expression of many genes and cellular processes by either repressing …