Biochemical and structural properties of the integrin-associated cytoskeletal protein talin

DR Critchley - Annual review of biophysics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Interaction of cells with the extracellular matrix is fundamental to a wide variety of biological
processes, such as cell proliferation, cell migration, embryogenesis, and organization of …

Oxysterols and their cellular effectors

VM Olkkonen, O Béaslas, E Nissilä - Biomolecules, 2012 - mdpi.com
Oxysterols are oxidized 27-carbon cholesterol derivatives or by-products of cholesterol
biosynthesis, with a spectrum of biologic activities. Several oxysterols have cytotoxic and pro …

The functional proximal proteome of oncogenic Ras includes mTORC2

JR Kovalski, A Bhaduri, AM Zehnder, PH Neela, Y Che… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Proximity-dependent biotin labeling (BioID) may identify new targets for cancers driven by
difficult-to-drug oncogenes such as Ras. Therefore, BioID was used with wild-type (WT) and …

Oncogenic KRAS is dependent upon an EFR3A-PI4KA signaling axis for potent tumorigenic activity

H Adhikari, WE Kattan, S Kumar, P Zhou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The HRAS, NRAS, and KRAS genes are collectively mutated in a fifth of all human
cancers. These mutations render RAS GTP-bound and active, constitutively binding effector …

Coordination of inter-organelle communication and lipid fluxes by OSBP-related proteins

A Arora, JH Taskinen, VM Olkkonen - Progress in lipid research, 2022 - Elsevier
Oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP) and OSBP-related proteins (ORPs) constitute one of the
largest families of lipid-binding/transfer proteins (LTPs) in eukaryotes. The current view is …

Oxysterol-binding proteins: sterol and phosphoinositide sensors coordinating transport, signaling and metabolism

VM Olkkonen, S Li - Progress in lipid research, 2013 - Elsevier
Oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP) and OSBP-related proteins (ORPs) constitute a family of
sterol and phosphoinositide binding proteins conserved in eukaryotes. The mechanisms of …

Structure of a double ubiquitin‐like domain in the talin head: a role in integrin activation

BT Goult, M Bouaouina, PR Elliott, N Bate… - The EMBO …, 2010 - embopress.org
Talin is a 270‐kDa protein that activates integrins and couples them to cytoskeletal actin.
Talin contains an N‐terminal FERM domain comprised of F1, F2 and F3 domains, but it is …

Interrogating the protein interactomes of RAS isoforms identifies PIP5K1A as a KRAS-specific vulnerability

H Adhikari, CM Counter - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
In human cancers, oncogenic mutations commonly occur in the RAS genes KRAS, NRAS, or
HRAS, but there are no clinical RAS inhibitors. Mutations are more prevalent in KRAS …

Identification of patients with recurrent glioblastoma who may benefit from combined bevacizumab and CCNU therapy: a report from the BELOB trial

L Erdem-Eraslan, MJ van den Bent, Y Hoogstrate… - Cancer research, 2016 - AACR
The results from the randomized phase II BELOB trial provided evidence for a potential
benefit of bevacizumab (beva), a humanized monoclonal antibody against circulating VEGF …

[HTML][HTML] Cell–cell junction formation: the role of Rap1 and Rap1 guanine nucleotide exchange factors

WJ Pannekoek, MRH Kooistra, FJT Zwartkruis… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2009 - Elsevier
Rap proteins are Ras-like small GTP-binding proteins that amongst others are involved in
the control of cell–cell and cell–matrix adhesion. Several Rap guanine nucleotide exchange …