Vanderbilt University | School of Medicine – Basic Science

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Week of July 29

By Basic Sciences department

Biochemistry

Molecular basis and functional consequences of the interaction between the Base Excision Repair DNA glycosylase NEIL1 and RPA. Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Rémy Le Meur*, Kateryna Le Meur, Walter Chazin*.
Protein-protein interactions in the core nucleotide excision repair pathway. DNA Repair.
Areetha D'Souza*, Mihyun Kim* (Institute for Basic Science), Walter Chazin, Orlando Schärer*.

Cell and Developmental Biology

Multiparametric Single-Vesicle Flow Cytometry Resolves Extracellular Vesicle Heterogeneity and Reveals Selective Regulation of Biogenesis and Cargo Distribution.. ACS Nano.
Ariana von Lersner*, Fabiane Fernandes, Patricia Murobushi Ozawa, Sierra Lima, Bong Hwan Sung, Mohamed Wehbe, Heather Pua, John Wilson, Jonathan Irish, Alissa Weaver, Andries Zijlstra*.

School of Medicine Basic Sciences: Vanderbilt scientists develop new tool that could lead to noninvasive “liquid biopsies”

Optics: Texas A&M innovates cellphone-based Raman spectrometer ... while Vanderbilt develops laser-based method for “liquid biopsies”
Nanoparticle Retinoic Acid-Inducible Gene I Agonist for Cancer Immunotherapy. ACS Nano.
Lihong Wang-Bishop*, Mohamed Wehbe, Lucinda Pastora, Jinming Yang, Blaise Kimmel, Kyle Garland, Kyle Becker, Carcia Carson, Katherine Gibson-Corley, Ann Richmond, John T. Wilson*.

Vanderbilt School of Engineering: New nanoparticles boost immune system in mice to fight skin, breast cancer

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Ca²⁺ signaling and metabolic stress-induced pancreatic β-cell failure. Frontiers in Endocrinology.
Mark Magnuson*, Anna Osipovich.
SOX6 expression and aneurysms of the thoracic and abdominal aorta. iScience.
David Carmona-Berrio*, Isabel Adarve-Rengifo*, Andrea Marshall, Zer Vue, Tyne Miller-Fleming, Ky’Era Actkins, Heather Beasley, Pierina Barturen-Larrea, Quinn Wells, Marcos Lopez, Kit Neikirk, Frederic Billings IV, John Curci, Nancy Cox, Vivian Gama, Antentor Hinton Jr.*, Jose Gomez*.

Pharmacology

Discovery of VU6008677: A Structurally Distinct Tricyclic M4 Positive Allosteric Modulator with Improved CYP450 Profile. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.
Rory Capstick*, Sean Bollinger, Julie Engers, Madeline Long, Sichen Chang, Vincent Luscombe, Alice Rodriguez, Colleen Niswender, Thomas Bridges, Olivier Boutaud, P. Jeffrey Conn, Darren Engers, Craig Lindsley, Kayla Temple*.
Structural Biology in Drug Discovery and Development: Call for Papers. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.
David Heppner* (The State University of New York), Craig Lindsley*.

Other basic biomedical papers

Taurine modulates host cell responses to Helicobacter pylori VacA toxin. Infection and Immunity.
Mandy Westland*, Alexandra Schrimpe-Rutledge, Simona Codreanu, Stacy Sherrod, John McLean, Mark McClain, Timothy Cover*.
Circuit dynamics of superficial and deep CA1 pyramidal cells and inhibitory cells in freely moving macaques. Cell Reports.
Saman Abbaspoor*, Kari Hoffman*.
Metabolic gene function discovery platform GeneMAP identifies SLC25A48 as necessary for mitochondrial choline import. Nature Genetics.
Artem Khan (The Rockefeller University), Phillip Lin, Eric Gamazon*.

VUMC News: GeneMAP discovery platform will help define functions for ‘orphan’ metabolic proteins

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