Glucose-6-Phosphate dehydrogenase, redox homeostasis and embryogenesis

PH Chen, WY Tjong, HC Yang, HY Liu, A Stern… - International Journal of …, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Normal embryogenesis requires complex regulation and precision, which depends on
multiple mechanistic details. Defective embryogenesis can occur by various mechanisms …

Highly host-linked viromes in the built environment possess habitat-dependent diversity and functions for potential virus-host coevolution

S Du, X Tong, ACK Lai, CK Chan, CE Mason… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Viruses in built environments (BEs) raise public health concerns, yet they are generally less
studied than bacteria. To better understand viral dynamics in BEs, this study assesses …

Advantages of the outgrowth model for evaluating the implantation competence of blastocysts

J Kim, J Lee, JH Jun - Clinical and experimental reproductive …, 2020‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The implantation process is highly complex and difficult to mimic in vitro, and a reliable
experimental model of implantation has yet to be established. Many researchers have used …

junctionCounts: comprehensive alternative splicing analysis and prediction of isoform-level impacts to the coding sequence

AJ Ritter, A Wallace, N Ronaghi… - NAR Genomics and …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing (AS) is emerging as an important regulatory process for complex
biological processes. Transcriptomic studies therefore commonly involve the identification …

Discovery of two new isoforms of the human DUT gene

GA Rácz, N Nagy, G Várady, J Tóvári, Á Apáti… - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
In human cells two dUTPase isoforms have been described: one nuclear (DUT-N) and one
mitochondrial (DUT-M), with cognate localization signals. In contrast, here we identified two …

Characterization of dUTPase expression in mouse postnatal development and adult neurogenesis

N Nagy, N Hádinger, O Tóth, GA Rácz, T Pintér… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
The enzyme dUTPase has an essential role in maintaining genomic integrity. In mouse,
nuclear and mitochondrial isoforms of the enzyme have been described. Here we present …

Full-length inhibitor protein is the most effective to perturb human dUTPase activity

B Kőhegyi, ZS Tóth, E Gál, M Laczkovich, A Benedek… - Scientific Reports, 2025‏ - nature.com
It has been demonstrated recently that knockout of the dUTPase enzyme leads to early
embryonic lethality in mice. However, to explore the physiological processes arising upon …

[HTML][HTML] Viral dUTPases: modulators of innate immunity

ME Ariza, B Cox, B Martinez, I Mena-Palomo, GJ Zarate… - Biomolecules, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Most free-living organisms encode for a deoxyuridine triphosphate nucleotidohydrolase
(dUTPase; EC 3.6. 1.23). dUTPases represent a family of metalloenzymes that catalyze the …

Exploration of the Effect on Genome-Wide DNA Methylation by miR-143 Knock-Out in Mice Liver

X Chen, J Luo, J Liu, T Chen, J Sun, Y Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
MiR-143 play an important role in hepatocellular carcinoma and liver fibrosis via inhibiting
hepatoma cell proliferation. DNA methyltransferase 3 alpha (DNMT3a), as a target of miR …

Bacteriophage T5 dUTPase: Combination of Common Enzymatic and Novel Functions

A Glukhov, V Marchenkov, U Dzhus, A Krutilina… - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The main function of dUTPases is to regulate the cellular levels of dUTP and dTTP, thereby
playing a crucial role in DNA repair mechanisms. Despite the fact that mutant organisms with …