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Suppressed basal mitophagy drives cellular aging phenotypes that can be reversed by a p62-targeting small molecule. (2024)
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Selective degradation of damaged mitochondria by autophagy (mitophagy) is proposed to play an important role in cellular homeostasis. However, the molecular mechanisms and the requirement of mitochondrial quality control by mitophagy for cellular phy... Read More about Suppressed basal mitophagy drives cellular aging phenotypes that can be reversed by a p62-targeting small molecule..

Bone Morphogenetic Protein Antagonist Gremlin-1 Increases Myofibroblast Transition in Dermal Fibroblasts: Implications for Systemic Sclerosis (2021)
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Objective: Systemic Sclerosis is an autoimmune connective tissue disease which results in fibrosis of the skin and lungs. The disease is characterized by activation of myofibroblasts but what governs this is unknown. Gremlin-1 is a BMP antagonist tha... Read More about Bone Morphogenetic Protein Antagonist Gremlin-1 Increases Myofibroblast Transition in Dermal Fibroblasts: Implications for Systemic Sclerosis.

Endoplasmic reticulum stress causes insulin resistance by inhibiting delivery of newly synthesised insulin receptors to the cell surface (2020)
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Accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) causes ER stress and activates a signalling network known as the unfolded protein response (UPR). Here we characterise how ER stress and the UPR inhibit insulin signalling. We find t... Read More about Endoplasmic reticulum stress causes insulin resistance by inhibiting delivery of newly synthesised insulin receptors to the cell surface.

Bypass of activation loop phosphorylation by aspartate 836 in activation of the endoribonuclease activity of Ire1 (2017)
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The bifunctional protein kinase-endoribonuclease Ire1 initiates splicing of the mRNA for the transcription factor Hac1 when unfolded proteins accumulate in the endoplasmic reticulum. Activation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ire1 coincides with autophos... Read More about Bypass of activation loop phosphorylation by aspartate 836 in activation of the endoribonuclease activity of Ire1.

An initial phase of JNK activation inhibits cell death early in the endoplasmic reticulum stress response (2016)
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Accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) activates the unfolded protein response (UPR). In mammalian cells, UPR signals generated by several ER membrane resident proteins, including the bifunctional protein kinase endoribon... Read More about An initial phase of JNK activation inhibits cell death early in the endoplasmic reticulum stress response.