05.11.2021
Biofunctionalization of Dental Abutment Surfaces by Crosslinked ECM Pr... Advanced Healthcare Material, 2021
Abstract To ensure the long-term success of dental implants, a functional attachment of the soft tissue to the surface of the implant abutment is decisively important in order to prevent the penetration of bacteria into the implant-bone interface, which can trigger peri-implant disease. Here a surface modification approach is described that includes the covalent immobilization of the extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins fibronectin and laminin via a crosslinker to silanized Ti6Al4V and Y-TZP surfaces. The surface properties are evaluated us...
29.10.2021
Die IHC-Analyse von TIGIT für die Entwicklung eines neuen Scoring Syst... Nature, scientific reports, 2021
Die Immun-Checkpoint Blockade des PD1/PD-L1 Signalweges hat die Krebstherapie revolutioniert. Aktuelle Studien zeigen, dass die Kombination mit Therapieansätzen gegen neue Immun-Checkpoints wie TIGIT deutlich effektiver sein kann als klassische PD1/PD-L1 Monotherapien. In den letzten beiden Jahren ist TIGIT in den weltweiten Fokus der Pharmaindustrie gerückt und hat sich zum attraktivsten Target in der sogenannten „zweiten Welle von Checkpoint-Modulatoren“ entwickelt. Für neue Immuntherapien müssen jene Patienten diagno...
22.10.2021
Development of a nano-drug delivery system based on mesoporous silica... Applied Nanoscience, 2020
Abstract Although current treatment strategies including systemic chemotherapy, local radiotherapy, biological immunology, and surgical resection have improved the remission rate of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) patients, the recurrence rate of the disease remains high, and the remission rate of retreatment after recurrence is low. Exploring and discovering new strategies for treating NHL has become a critical problem to be solved. Harmine (HM) has demonstrated anti-tumor activity; however, like most traditional Chinese medicines, it...
15.10.2021
An interplay between UCP2 and ROS protects cells from high-salt-induce... Cell Death and Disease, 2021
Abstract The mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) plays a protective function in the vascular disease of both animal models and humans. UCP2 downregulation upon high-salt feeding favors vascular dysfunction in knock-out mice, and accelerates cerebrovascular and renal damage in the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat. Overexpression of UCP2 counteracts the negative effects of high-salt feeding in both animal models. We tested in vitro the ability of UCP2 to stimulate autophagy and mitophagy as a mechanism mediating its protecti...
08.10.2021
The ORF8 protein of SARS-CoV-2 mediates immune evasion through down-re... PNAS, 2021
COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a global pandemic and has claimed over 2 million lives worldwide. Although the genetic sequences of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 have high homology, the clinical and pathological characteristics of COVID-19 differ significantly from those of SARS. How and whether SARS-CoV-2 evades (cellular) immune surveillance requires further elucidation. In this study, we show that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to major histocompability complex class Ι (MHC-Ι) down-regula...
01.10.2021
Catalytically potent and selective clusterzymes for modulation of neur... Nature Communications, 2021
Abstract Emerging artificial enzymes with reprogrammed and augmented catalytic activity and substrate selectivity have long been pursued with sustained efforts. The majority of current candidates have rather poor catalytic activity compared with natural molecules. To tackle this limitation, we design artificial enzymes based on a structurally well-defined Au25 cluster, namely clusterzymes, which are endowed with intrinsic high catalytic activity and selectivity driven by single-atom substitutions with modulated bond lengths. Au24Cu1 and Au...
24.09.2021
Osteoprotegerin is a risk factor for mortality after kidney transplant... Clinical Nephrology, 2021
Abstract Background: Vascular calcification is common in chronic kidney disease and is associated with significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. One of the important factors regulating vascular calcification is osteoprotegerin (OPG). There are, however, limited data on the impact of OPG on all-cause mortality and graft loss in kidney transplant recipients so far. Given its impact on vascular calcification, the aim of our study is to analyze whether OPG was a risk factor of all-cause mortalit...
17.09.2021
A Contaminant Impurity, Not Rigosertib, Is a Tubulin Binding Agent Molecular Cell, 2020
Abstract Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) has recently emerged as a central mediator in cancer resistance against numerous anticancer agents to include chemotherapeutic agents such as microtubule targeting agents and DNA damaging agents. Here, we describe AMXI-5001, a novel, highly potent dual PARP1/2 and microtubule polymerization inhibitor with favorable metab...
10.09.2021
Head-to-head comparison of clinical performance of CSF phospho-tau T18... Alzheimer's & Dementia : the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2...
Abstract Introduction Phosphorylated tau (p-tau) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is an established Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarker. Novel immunoassays targeting N-terminal and mid-region p-tau181 and p-tau217 fragments are available, but head-to-head comparison in clinical settings is lacking. Methods N-terminal-directed p-tau217 (N-p-tau217), N-terminal-directed p-tau181 (N-p-tau181), and standard mid-region p-tau181 (Mid-p-tau181) biomarkers in CSF were evaluated in thre...
03.09.2021
Heterogeneous Escape from X Chromosome Inactivation Results in Sex Dif... Cell Reports, 2020
Abstract Immune responses differ between women and men, and type I interferon (IFN) responses following Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) stimulation are higher in women. The precise mechanisms driving these sex differences in immunity are unknown. To investigate possible genetic factors, we quantify escape from X chromosome inactivation (XCI) for TLR7 and four other genes (RPS6KA3, CYBB, BTK, and IL13RA1) at the single plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) level. We observe escape from XCI for all investigated genes, leading to biallelic expression...