Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists as a driving force behind next-generation vaccine adjuvants and cancer therapeutics

A Kaur, J Baldwin, D Brar, DB Salunke… - Current opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Until recently, the development of new human adjuvants was held back by a poor
understanding of their mechanisms of action. The field was revolutionized by the discovery …

[HTML][HTML] Biohorology and biomarkers of aging: Current state-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities

F Galkin, P Mamoshina, A Aliper… - Ageing Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
The aging process results in multiple traceable footprints, which can be quantified and used
to estimate an organism's age. Examples of such aging biomarkers include epigenetic …

Epigenetic effects of metformin: from molecular mechanisms to clinical implications

SC Bridgeman, GC Ellison, PE Melton… - Diabetes, Obesity …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There is a growing body of evidence that links epigenetic modifications to type 2 diabetes.
Researchers have more recently investigated effects of commonly used medications …

Developing an evolutionary baseline model for humans: jointly inferring purifying selection with population history

P Johri, SP Pfeifer, JD Jensen - Molecular biology and evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Building evolutionarily appropriate baseline models for natural populations is not only
important for answering fundamental questions in population genetics—including …

Transcriptome-wide association study for postpartum depression implicates altered B-cell activation and insulin resistance

J Guintivano, KA Aberg, SL Clark, DR Rubinow… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Postpartum depression (PPD) affects 1 in 7 women and has negative mental health
consequences for both mother and child. However, the precise biological mechanisms …

Stability and context of intercalated motifs (i-motifs) for biological applications

KL Irving, JJ King, ZAE Waller, CW Evans, NM Smith - Biochimie, 2022 - Elsevier
DNA is naturally dynamic and can self-assemble into alternative secondary structures
including the intercalated motif (i-motif), a four-stranded structure formed in cytosine-rich …

Toll-like receptor agonists as cancer vaccine adjuvants

D Jeon, E Hill, DG McNeel - Human Vaccines & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer immunotherapy has emerged as a promising strategy to treat cancer patients.
Among the wide range of immunological approaches, cancer vaccines have been …

Hydrogen sulfide and epigenetics: Novel insights into the cardiovascular effects of this gasotransmitter

J Spezzini, E Piragine… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetics studies the heritable modifications of genome expression that do not affect the
nucleotide sequence. Epigenetic modifications can be divided into: DNA methylation …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic drift underlies epigenetic clock signals, but displays distinct responses to lifespan interventions, development, and cellular dedifferentiation

EM Bertucci-Richter, EP Shealy, BB Parrott - Aging (Albany NY), 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Changes in DNA methylation with age are observed across the tree of life. The
stereotypical nature of these changes can be modeled to produce epigenetic clocks capable …

Epigenetic alterations of CYLD promoter modulate its expression in gastric adenocarcinoma: A footprint of infections

E Ghadami, N Nikbakhsh, S Fattahi… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common causes of cancer‐related death in the world,
with multiple genetic and epigenetic alterations involved in disease development. CYLD …