The plasticity of mRNA translation during cancer progression and therapy resistance

L Fabbri, A Chakraborty, C Robert, S Vagner - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Translational control of mRNAs during gene expression allows cells to promptly and
dynamically adapt to a variety of stimuli, including in neoplasia in response to aberrant …

Protein synthesis control in cancer: selectivity and therapeutic targeting

JR Kovalski, D Kuzuoglu‐Ozturk, D Ruggero - The EMBO Journal, 2022 - embopress.org
Translational control of mRNAs is a point of convergence for many oncogenic signals
through which cancer cells tune protein expression in tumorigenesis. Cancer cells rely on …

Gelation of cytoplasmic expanded CAG RNA repeats suppresses global protein synthesis

Y Pan, J Lu, X Feng, S Lu, Y Yang, G Yang… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
RNA molecules with the expanded CAG repeat (eCAGr) may undergo sol–gel phase
transitions, but the functional impact of RNA gelation is completely unknown. Here, we …

The human mitochondrial translation factor TACO1 alleviates mitoribosome stalling at polyproline stretches

M Brischigliaro, A Krüger, JC Moran… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The prokaryotic translation elongation factor P (EF-P) and the eukaryotic/archaeal
counterparts eIF5A/aIF5A are proteins that serve a crucial role in mitigating ribosomal …

The role of WNT pathway mutations in cancer development and an overview of therapeutic options

W Groenewald, AH Lund, DM Gay - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
It is well established that mutations in the canonical WNT-signalling pathway play a major
role in various cancers. Critical to developing new therapeutic strategies is understanding …

Functions and regulation of translation elongation factors

B Xu, L Liu, G Song - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Translation elongation is a key step of protein synthesis, during which the nascent
polypeptide chain extends by one amino acid residue during one elongation cycle. More …

MLIF modulates microglia polarization in ischemic stroke by targeting eEF1A1

Y Liu, S Deng, Z Song, Q Zhang, Y Guo, Y Yu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Monocyte locomotion inhibitory factor (MLIF) is a heat-stable pentapeptide from Entamoeba
histolytica. Our previous study found that MLIF protects against ischemic stroke in rats and …

Calibrated ribosome profiling assesses the dynamics of ribosomal flux on transcripts

K Tomuro, M Mito, H Toh, N Kawamoto… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ribosome profiling, which is based on deep sequencing of ribosome footprints, has served
as a powerful tool for elucidating the regulatory mechanism of protein synthesis. However …

Trazodone rescues dysregulated synaptic and mitochondrial nascent proteomes in prion neurodegeneration

H Albert-Gasco, HL Smith, B Alvarez-Castelao… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The unfolded protein response (UPR) is rapidly gaining momentum as a therapeutic target
for protein misfolding neurodegenerative diseases, in which its overactivation results in …

The eukaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF5A1), the molecule, mechanisms and recent insights into the pathophysiological roles

M Tauc, M Cougnon, R Carcy, N Melis, T Hauet… - Cell & Bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Since the demonstration of its involvement in cell proliferation, the eukaryotic initiation factor
5A (eIF5A) has been studied principally in relation to the development and progression of …