Calcium channels in the heart: disease states and drugs

K Shah, S Seeley, C Schulz, J Fisher, S Gururaja Rao - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Calcium ions are the major signaling ions in the cells. They regulate muscle contraction,
neurotransmitter secretion, cell growth and migration, and the activity of several proteins …

Protein arginine methyltransferases in neuromuscular function and diseases

J Lee, S An, SJ Lee, JS Kang - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) are characterized by progressive loss of muscle mass and
strength that leads to impaired body movement. It not only severely diminishes the quality of …

Pharmacological Modulation and (Patho) Physiological Roles of TRPM4 Channel—Part 2: TRPM4 in Health and Disease

C Dienes, ZM Kovács, T Hézső, J Almássy, J Magyar… - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Transient receptor potential melastatin 4 (TRPM4) is a unique member of the TRPM protein
family and, similarly to TRPM5, is Ca2+ sensitive and permeable for monovalent but not …

Role of RNA alternative splicing in T cell function and disease

S Banerjee, G Galarza-Muñoz, MA Garcia-Blanco - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Alternative RNA splicing, a ubiquitous mechanism of gene regulation in eukaryotes,
expands genome coding capacity and proteomic diversity. It has essential roles in all …

PRMT5 Promotes T follicular helper Cell Differentiation and Germinal Center Responses during Influenza Virus Infection

KA Read, SA Amici, S Farsi, M Cutcliffe… - The Journal of …, 2024 - journals.aai.org
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) modify diverse protein targets and regulate
numerous cellular processes; yet, their contributions to individual effector T cell responses …

ROS inhibits RORα degradation by decreasing its arginine methylation in liver cancer

H Im, H Baek, E Yang, K Kim, SK Oh, JS Lee… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Retinoic acid receptor–related orphan receptor α (RORα) is a transcription factor involved in
nuclear gene expression and a known tumor suppressor. RORα was the first identified …

Targeting PRMT5 enhances the radiosensitivity of tumor cells grown in vitro and in vivo

C Degorre, S Lohard, CN Bobrek, KN Rawal, S Kuhn… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
PRMT5 is a widely expressed arginine methyltransferase that regulates processes involved
in tumor cell proliferation and survival. In the study described here, we investigated whether …

Substrate adaptors are flexible tethering modules that enhance substrate methylation by the arginine methyltransferase PRMT5

CY **, M Hunkeler, KM Mulvaney, WR Sellers… - Journal of Biological …, 2025 - jbc.org
Protein arginine methyltransferase (PRMT) 5 is an essential arginine methyltransferase
responsible for the majority of cellular symmetric dimethyl-arginine marks. PRMT5 uses …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive investigation of PRMT5 in the prognosis and ion channel features of lung cancer

Y Wang, D Chu, H Li, J Fan, X Zhu, Y Ma… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The increasing incidence and mortality associated with lung cancer (LC) is a significant
global health challenge. The underlying mechanisms contributing to LC remain …

PRMT5-mediated histone methylation regulates alternative splicing via MECP2-PTBP1 to promote EMT in breast cancer hypoxia

SA Mutnuru, P Yadav, P Kakani, SG Dhamdhere… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Tumor hypoxia induced alterations in the epigenetic landscape and alternative splicing
influence cellular adaptations. PRMT5 is a type II protein arginine methyltransferase that …