Insulin signalling and GLUT4 trafficking in insulin resistance

J van Gerwen, AS Shun-Shion… - Biochemical Society …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Insulin-stimulated glucose uptake into muscle and adipose tissue is vital for maintaining
whole-body glucose homeostasis. Insulin promotes glucose uptake into these tissues by …

[HTML][HTML] Thirty sweet years of GLUT4

A Klip, TE McGraw, DE James - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
A pivotal metabolic function of insulin is the stimulation of glucose uptake into muscle and
adipose tissues. The discovery of the insulin-responsive glucose transporter type 4 (GLUT4) …

GPC2-CAR T cells tuned for low antigen density mediate potent activity against neuroblastoma without toxicity

S Heitzeneder, KR Bosse, Z Zhu, D Zhelev… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Pediatric cancers often mimic fetal tissues and express proteins normally silenced
postnatally that could serve as immune targets. We developed T cells expressing chimeric …

Genome-wide association study and functional characterization identifies candidate genes for insulin-stimulated glucose uptake

A Williamson, DM Norris, X Yin, KA Broadaway… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Distinct tissue-specific mechanisms mediate insulin action in fasting and postprandial states.
Previous genetic studies have largely focused on insulin resistance in the fasting state …

Limited oxygen in standard cell culture alters metabolism and function of differentiated cells

J Tan, S Virtue, DM Norris, OJ Conway, M Yang… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
The in vitro oxygen microenvironment profoundly affects the capacity of cell cultures to
model physiological and pathophysiological states. Cell culture is often considered to be …

[HTML][HTML] High potency of a bivalent human VH domain in SARS-CoV-2 animal models

W Li, A Schäfer, SS Kulkarni, X Liu, DR Martinez… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Novel COVID-19 therapeutics are urgently needed. We generated a phage-displayed
human antibody VH domain library from which we identified a high-affinity VH binder ab8 …

An inhaled ACE2 decoy confers protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in preclinical models

E Urano, Y Itoh, T Suzuki, T Sasaki… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
The Omicron variant continuously evolves under the humoral immune pressure exerted by
vaccination and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection …

Structure and mechanism of blood–brain-barrier lipid transporter MFSD2A

CAP Wood, J Zhang, D Aydin, Y Xu, BJ Andreone… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
MFSD2A is a sodium-dependent lysophosphatidylcholine symporter that is responsible for
the uptake of docosahexaenoic acid into the brain,, which is crucial for the development and …

The third-generation anti-CD30 CAR T-cells specifically homing to the tumor and mediating powerful antitumor activity

S Zhang, C Gu, L Huang, H Wu, J Shi, Z Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
CAR T-cell therapy is well tolerated and effective in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)
and anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). However, even second-generation anti-CD30 …

Membrane protein production and formulation for drug discovery

E Gulezian, C Crivello, J Bednenko, C Zafra… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Integral membrane proteins (MPs) are important drug targets across most fields of medicine,
but historically have posed a major challenge for drug discovery due to difficulties in …