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    • Oxygen-dependent regulation of tumor growth and metastasis in human breast cancer xenografts 

      Sletta, Kristine Yttersian; Tveitarås, Maria Kathrine; Lu, Ning; Svendsen, Agnete; Reed, Rolf K.; Garmann-Johnsen, Annette; Stuhr, Linda Elin Birkhaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-08-23)
      Background: Tumor hypoxia is relevant for tumor growth, metabolism, resistance to chemotherapy and metastasis. We have previously shown that hyperoxia, using hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT), attenuates tumor growth and ...

    • The Pah-R261Q mouse reveals oxidative stress associated with amyloid-like hepatic aggregation of mutant phenylalanine hydroxylase 

      Aubi Catevilla, Oscar; Prestegård, Karina Skjervheim; K C, Kunwar Jung; Shi, Tie-Jun; Ying, Ming; Grindheim, Ann Kari; Scherer, Tanja; Ulvik, Arve; McCann, Adrian; Spriet, Endy; Thöny, Beat; Martinez, Aurora (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Phenylketonuria (PKU) is caused by autosomal recessive variants in phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH), leading to systemic accumulation of L-phenylalanine (L-Phe) that may reach neurotoxic levels. A homozygous Pah-R261Q mouse, ...

    • The Parkinson's-disease-associated mutation LRRK2-G2019S alters dopaminergic differentiation dynamics via NR2F1 

      Walter, Jonas; Bolognin, Silvia; Poovathingal, Suresh K.; Magni, Stefano; Gérard, Deborah; Antony, Paul M. A.; Nickels, Sarah L.; Salamanca, Luis; Berger, Emanuel; Smits, Lisa M.; Grzyb, Kamil; Perfeito, Rita; Hoel, Fredrik; Qing, Xiaobing; Ohnmacht, Jochen; Bertacchi, Michele; Jarazo, Javier; Ignac, Tomasz; Monzel, Anna S.; Gonzalez-Cano, Laura; Krüger, Rejko; Sauter, Thomas; Studer, Michèle; Pereira de Almeida, Luis; Tronstad, Karl Johan; Sinkkonen, Lasse; Skupin, Alexander; Schwamborn, Jens C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Increasing evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental alterations might contribute to increase the susceptibility to develop neurodegenerative diseases. We investigate the occurrence of developmental abnormalities in ...

    • PARP14 is a PARP with both ADP-ribosyl transferase and hydrolase activities 

      Đukić, Nina; Strømland, Øyvind; Elsborg, Jonas Damgaard; Munnur, Deeksha; Zhu, Kang; Schuller, Marion; Chatrin, Chatrin; Kar, Pulak; Duma, Lena; Suyari, Osamu; Rack, Johannes Gregor Matthias; Baretić, Domagoj; Crudgington, Dorian Richard Kenneth; Groslambert, Joséphine; Fowler, Gerissa; Wijngaarden, Sven; Prokhorova, Evgeniia; Rehwinkel, Jan; Schüler, Herwig; Filippov, Dmitri V.; Sanyal, Sumana; Ahel, Dragana; Nielsen, Michael L.; Smith, Rebecca; Ahel, Ivan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      PARP14 is a mono–ADP-ribosyl transferase involved in the control of immunity, transcription, and DNA replication stress management. However, little is known about the ADP-ribosylation activity of PARP14, including its ...

    • Patient-derived organoids and orthotopic xenografts of primary and recurrent gliomas represent relevant patient avatars for precision oncology 

      Golebiewska, Anna; Hau, Ann-Christin; Oudin, Anaïs; Stieber, Daniel; Yabo, Yahaya A.; Baus, Virginie; Barthelemy, Vanessa; Klein, Eliane; Bougnaud, Sébastien; Keunen, Olivier; Wantz, May; Michelucci, Alessandro; Neirinckx, Virginie; Muller, Arnaud; Kaoma, Tony; Nazarov, Petr V.; Azuaje, Francisco; De Falco, Alfonso; Flies, Ben; Richart, Lorraine; Poovathingal, Suresh K; Arns, Thais; Grzyb, Kamil; Mock, Andreas; Herold-Mende, Christel; Steino, Anne; Brown, Dennis; May, Patrick; Miletic, Hrvoje; Malta, Tathiane M.; Noushmehr, Houtan; Kwon, Yong-Jun; Jahn, Winnie; Klink, Barbara; Tanner, Georgette; Stead, Lucy F.; Mittelbronn, Michel; Skupin, Alexander; Hertel, Frank; Bjerkvig, Rolf; Niclou, Simone Pierrette (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Patient-based cancer models are essential tools for studying tumor biology and for the assessment of drug responses in a translational context. We report the establishment a large cohort of unique organoids and patient-derived ...

    • PeptideShaker Online: A User-Friendly Web-Based Framework for the Identification of Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Data 

      Farag, Yehia Mokhtar; Horro Marcos, Carlos; Vaudel, Marc; Barsnes, Harald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is a high-throughput technology generating ever-larger amounts of data per project. However, storing, processing, and interpreting these data can be a challenge. A key element in simplifying ...

    • The Peripheral Binding of 14-3-3γ to Membranes Involves Isoform-Specific Histidine Residues 

      Bustad, Helene J.; Skjærven, Lars; Ying, Ming; Halskau, Øyvind; Baumann, Anne; Rodriguez-Larrea, David; Costas, Miguel; Underhaug, Jarl; Sanchez-Ruiz, Jose M.; Martinez, Aurora (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-11-26)
      Mammalian 14-3-3 protein scaffolds include seven conserved isoforms that bind numerous phosphorylated protein partners and regulate many cellular processes. Some 14-3-3-isoforms, notably γ, have elevated affinity for ...

    • Personality traits, risk factors and comorbidities in Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder 

      Instanes, Johanne Telnes (Doctoral thesis, 2020-06-19)
      Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) comprises cognitive and behavioural traits present from childhood. During lifespan, people with ADHD are more prone to develop psychiatric- and somatic comorbidities ...

    • Personalized Medicine to Improve Treatment of Dopa-Responsive Dystonia—A Focus on Tyrosine Hydroxylase Deficiency 

      Nygaard, Gyrid; Szigetvari, Peter D.; Grindheim, Ann Kari; Ruoff, Peter; Martinez, Aurora; Haavik, Jan; Kleppe, Rune; Flydal, Marte I. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD) is a rare movement disorder associated with defective dopamine synthesis. This impairment may be due to the fact of a deficiency in GTP cyclohydrolase I (GTPCHI, GCH1 gene), sepiapterin ...

    • PFN2 and NAA80 cooperate to efficiently acetylate the N-terminus of actin 

      Reed, Rasmus; Kind, Laura; Kaziales, Anna; Varland, Sylvia; Dai, Minglu; Richter, Klaus; Drazic, Adrian; Arnesen, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The actin cytoskeleton is of profound importance to cell shape, division, and intracellular force generation. Profilins bind to globular (G-)actin and regulate actin filament formation. Although profilins are well-established ...

    • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of t-cell bispecifics in the tumour interstitial fluid 

      Eigenmann, Miro Julian; Karlsen, Tine Veronica; Wagner, Marek; Tenstad, Olav; Weinzierl, Tina; Fauti, Tanja; Grimm, Hans Peter; Skogstrand, Trude; Klein, Christian; Sam, Johannes; Umana, Pablo; Bacac, Marina; Wiig, Helge; Walz, Antje-Christine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The goal of this study is to investigate the pharmacokinetics in plasma and tumour interstitial fluid of two T-cell bispecifics (TCBs) with different binding affinities to the tumour target and to assess the subsequent ...

    • A Pharmacological Chaperone Therapy for Acute Intermittent Porphyria 

      Bustad, Helene J.; Toska, Karen; Schmitt, Caroline; Vorland, Marta; Skjærven, Lars; Kallio, Juha Pekka; Simonin, Sylvie; Lettéron, Philippe; Underhaug, Jarl; Sandberg, Sverre; Martinez, Aurora (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-03)
      Mutations in hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS) cause acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), an autosomal dominant disease where typically only one HMBS allele is mutated. In AIP, the accumulation of porphyrin precursors ...

    • Phenylalanine Hydroxylase from Legionella pneumophila Is a Thermostable Enzyme with a Major Functional Role in Pyomelanin Synthesis 

      Flydal, Marte Innselset; Chatfield, Christa H.; Zheng, Huaixin; Gunderson, Felizza F.; Aubi, Oscar; Cianciotto, Nicholas P.; Martinez, Aurora (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-09-26)
      Background: Legionella pneumophila is a pathogenic bacterium that can cause Legionnaires’ disease and other non-pneumonic infections in humans. This bacterium produces a pyomelanin pigment, a potential virulence factor ...

    • Phosphatidylserine receptors enhance SARS-CoV-2 infection 

      Bohan, Dana; Van Ert, Hanora; Ruggio, Natalie; Rogers, Kai J; Badreddine, Mohammad; Aguilar Briseno, José A; Elliff, Jonah; Rojas Chavez, Roberth Anthony; Gao, Boning; Stokowy, Tomasz; Christakou, Eleni; Kursula, Petri; Micklem, David Robert; Gausdal, Gro; Haim, Hillel; Minna, John; Lorens, James Bradley; Maury, Wendy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Phosphatidylserine (PS) receptors enhance infection of many enveloped viruses through virion-associated PS binding that is termed apoptotic mimicry. Here we show that this broadly shared uptake mechanism is utilized by ...

    • Phosphoglycerate Mutase 1 Activates DNA Damage Repair via Regulation of WIP1 Activity 

      Ohba, Shigeo; Johannessen, Tor-Christian Aase; Chatla, Kamalakar; Yang, Xiaodong; Pieper, Russell O.; Mukherjee, Joydeep (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The metabolic enzyme phosphoglycerate mutase 1 (PGAM1) is overexpressed in several types of cancer, suggesting an additional function beyond its established role in the glycolytic pathway. We here report that PGAM1 is ...

    • Phospholipase D in human blood platelets 

      Vorland, Marta (Doctoral thesis, 2008-05-30)
      We have studied phospholipase D (PLD) in human blood platelets. This enzyme hydrolyzes phosphatidylcholine to phosphatidic acid (PA) and choline, where PA is considered to be the main effector of PLDs function in cells. ...

    • The phospholipid transporter PITPNC1 links KRAS to MYC to prevent autophagy in lung and pancreatic cancer 

      Entrialgo-Cadierno, Rodrigo; Cueto-Ureña, Cristina; Welch, Connor; Feliu, Iker; Macaya, Irati; Vera, Laura; Morales, Xabier; Michelina, Sandra Vietti; Scaparone, Pietro; Lopez, Ines; Darbo, Elodie; Erice, Oihane; Vallejo, Adrian; Moreno, Haritz; Goñi-Salaverri, Ainhoa; Lara-Astiaso, David; Halberg, Nils Henrik; Cortes-Dominguez, Ivan; Guruceaga, Elizabeth; Ambrogio, Chiara; Lecanda, Fernando; Vicent, Silve (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background The discovery of functionally relevant KRAS effectors in lung and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (LUAD and PDAC) may yield novel molecular targets or mechanisms amenable to inhibition strategies. Phospholipids ...

    • Phosphorylation at serine 31 targets tyrosine hydroxylase tovesicles for transport along microtubules 

      Jorge Finnigan, Ana; Kleppe, Rune; K C, Kunwar Jung; Ying, Ming; Marie, Michael Bruno Eric; Rios Mondragon, Ivan; Salvatore, Michael F; Saraste, Jaakko; Martinez, Aurora (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) catalyzes the conversion of L-tyrosine into L-DOPA, which is the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of catecholamines, such as dopamine, in dopaminergergic neurons. Low dopamine levels and death ...

    • PKM2 Interacts With the Cdk1-CyclinB Complex to Facilitate Cell Cycle Progression in Gliomas 

      Ohba, Shigeo; Tang, Yongjian; Johannessen, Tor-Christian Aase; Mukherjee, Joydeep (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      PKM2 is a phosphotyrosine-binding glycolytic enzyme upregulated in many cancers, including glioma, and contributes to tumor growth by regulating cell cycle progression. We noted, however, that in multiple glioma cell lines, ...

    • PKU mutation p.G46S prevents the stereospecific binding of l-phenylalanine to the dimer of human phenylalanine hydroxylase regulatory domain 

      Leandro, João; Saraste, Jaakko; Leandro, Paula; Flatmark, Torgeir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-02)
      Mammalian phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) has a potential allosteric regulatory binding site for l‐phenylalanine (l‐Phe), in addition to its catalytic site. This arrangement is supported by a crystal structure of a homodimeric ...