TORC2 inhibition triggers yeast chromosome fragmentation through misregulated base excision repair of clustered oxidation events

K Shimada, CVD Tarashev, S Bregenhorn… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Combinational therapies provoking cell death are of major interest in oncology. Combining
TORC2 kinase inhibition with the radiomimetic drug Zeocin results in a rapid accumulation …

Loss of cytoplasmic actin filaments raises nuclear actin levels to drive INO80C-dependent chromosome fragmentation

V Hurst, CB Gerhold, CVD Tarashev, K Challa… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Loss of cytosolic actin filaments upon TORC2 inhibition triggers chromosome fragmentation
in yeast, which results from altered base excision repair of Zeocin-induced lesions. To find …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin meets the cytoskeleton: the importance of nuclear actin dynamics and associated motors for genome stability

HP Wollscheid, HD Ulrich - DNA repair, 2023 - Elsevier
The actin cytoskeleton is of fundamental importance for numerous cellular processes,
including intracellular transport, cell plasticity, and cell migration. However, functions of …

ATM and 53BP1 regulate alternative end joining–mediated V (D) J recombination

J Wang, CA Sadeghi, LV Le, M Le Bouteiller… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
G0-G1 phase alternative end joining (A-EJ) is a recently defined mutagenic pathway
characterized by resected deletion and translocation joints that are predominantly direct and …

Mechanical stress confers nuclear and functional changes in derived leukemia cells from persistent confined migration

A de Lope-Planelles, R González-Novo… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Nuclear deformability plays a critical role in cell migration. During this process, the
remodeling of internal components of the nucleus has a direct impact on DNA damage and …

DNA damage response gene-based subtypes associated with clinical outcomes in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma

Y Zhao, B Qing, C Xu, J Zhao, Y Liao, P Cui… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
DNA damage response (DDR) pathways play a crucial role in lung cancer. In this
retrospective analysis, we aimed to develop a prognostic model and molecular subtype …

Correlative multi-modal microscopy: a novel pipeline for optimizing fluorescence microscopy resolutions in biological applications

S Pelicci, L Furia, PG Pelicci, M Faretta - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The modern fluorescence microscope is the convergence point of technologies with different
performances in terms of statistical sampling, number of simultaneously analyzed signals …

Molecular mechanism behind methamphetamine‐induced damages in testicular tissue: Evidences for oxidative stress, autophagy, and apoptosis

T Peirouvi, M Razi - Andrologia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Methamphetamine (METH) is shown to cause massive oxidative stress and apoptosis in
testicular tissue. This study attempted to investigate the possible effects of METH chronic …

NKp44-derived peptide used in combination stimulates antineoplastic efficacy of targeted therapeutic drugs

M Iraqi, P Bolel, R Sarkar, B Bhattacharya… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer cells in the tumor microenvironment facilitate immune evasion that leads to
failure of conventional chemotherapies, despite provisionally decided on the genetic …

Laser microirradiation as a versatile system for probing protein recruitment and protein–protein interactions at DNA lesions in plants

M Nešpor Dadejová, M Franek… - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plant protoplasts are generated by treatment with digestion enzymes, producing plant cells
devoid of the cell wall and competent for efficient polyethylene glycol mediated …