The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery
...'s negative charge. This allows the resultant fusion protein to enter the cell and deliver the siRNA into the cytoplasm where it specifically targets mrnas from cancer-promoting genes and silences them. To determine the ability of this PTD-DRBD fusion protein to deliver siRNA, the researchers generat...American Cancer Society awards 143 research grants to investigators at 83 institutions nationwide
...rolled cell growth of some cancers. Hans-Guido Wendel, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will test whether proteins that translate the mrnas expressed from oncogenic genes respond to small molecules as potential cancer treatments. Cancer Cell Biology and Metastasis John Wilk...Master molecular switch may prevent the spread of cancer cells to distant sites in the body
...rmation for protein synthesis -- together in different ways so that there can be more than one messenger RNA (mRNA) produced from the same gene. These mrnas then go on to make different proteins. The mRNA for Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2 (FGFR2) is the focus of the Molecular Cell study. FGFR2 m...Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Santaris Pharma Announce Strategic Alliance to Develop RNA-based Medicines
...in regulation of gene expression in both normal and diseased cells, whereas mrnas are translated into the proteins that determine all aspects of cell identit...he LNA Drug Platform used to develop new classes of RNA medicines targeting mrnas and miRNAs associated with disease. Santaris Pharma's drug discovery engin...Breakthrough in cell-type analysis offers new ways to study development and disease
...otransmitter involved in muscle movement and emotion regulation, among other things. They used the handle they had made to pluck out the ribosomes and mrnas from these brain cells and freeze them within minutes of dissection, preserving the "messages" largely as they were inside the living animal and minim...A new Eph receptor tyrosine kinase overexpressed in gastric cancer was found
...erexpression at protein level was found and significantly associated with depth of invasion, recurrence, poor prognosis, and FGFR1 overexpression. The mrnas for ephrin ligands were coexpressed in various combinations in gastric cancer cell lines and cancer tissues. Downregulation of EphA4 expression by siR...Penn researchers gain new insights on spinal muscular atrophy
...r RNA (mRNA) before it leaves the nucleus to travel to the cytoplasm. Here, mrnas get translated into working proteins. "SMN plays a key role in determini...lls and mice and found that changes in levels of the snRNPs, as well as the mrnas their spliced products were affected, producing numerous abnormal mRNAs. ...RNA-associated introns guide nerve-cell channel production
...n is not in the final channel protein doesnt mean that it doesnt have an important purpose. The group surmises that the intron may control how many mrnas are brought to the dendrite and translated into functional channel proteins. The correct number of channels is just as important for electrical impuls...Researchers identify unusual molecular switch for common form of advanced breast cancer
...-BP1 trigger hypoxia inhibition of conventional protein synthesis in tumor cells, and with eIF4G, then increases the selective translation of specific mrnas that promote tumor survival and angiogenesis, thereby functioning as a hypoxia controlled switch for tumor growth and survival. These results prese...Another LNA-based RNA Inhibitor Enters Clinical Trials
...rma is a privately held biopharmaceutical company with exclusive rights to use the LNA Drug Platform to develop new classes of RNA medicines targeting mrnas and miRNAs associated with disease. The Company's own research and development activities focus on microRNAs, infectious diseases and metabolic disord...Gemin X Presents Positive Preclinical Data of GX15-070 in Infant ALL at AACR Meeting
...ivity and IC(50) values were within clinically achievable concentrations. High BCL-2 expression and low expression of particular BH3-only BCL-2 family mrnas in this disease correlate with GX15-070 sensitivity in vitro. "GX15-070 is an appropriate candidate for ALL treatment because the imbalanced expr...Researchers see evidence of memory in the songbird brain
...nger RNAs in the auditory forebrain of finches exposed to a new song. These mrnas are templates that allow the cell to translate individual genes into the proteins that do the work of the cells. Any surge or drop in the number of mrnas in brain cells after a stimulus offers clues to how the brain is responding...Research uncovers clues to virus-cancer link
...expressed higher levels of KSHV miRNA. In second study, published June 4 in the journal Blood, the team looked for the presence of tumor suppressor mrnas in primary effusion lymphoma and Kaposi's Sarcoma. "We chose these two cancers because, while they are both associated with the same virus, they o...Genetic switch potential key to new class of antibiotics
...acid (DNA) chains are copied into messenger ribonucleic acids (mRNAs). The mrnas are then transported to ribosomes that pair them with transfer RNAs that co... (e.g. preQ0), and lock the mRNA into a stable conformation to counter that mrnas role in a bacterium's disease-causing ability. Previous experiments showed ...New therapeutic strategy could target toxic protein in most patients with Huntington's disease
...d to increase the number of patients who could be helped, he said. The next problem became developing siRNAs that could discriminate between target mrnas and non-target. "That turned out to be frustratingly difficult," Zamore said. In tests of human cells, the siRNA sometimes sliced up the disease RNA, ...New technique used to profile anthrax genome
... marks the first time any bacterial transcriptomethe complete collection of mrnas produced by a bacterium as it expresses different geneshas been comprehensi...applying it to bacteria has been difficult, said Bergman, because bacterial mrnas have a different structure and cannot be easily separated from the other RN...Researchers identify gene linked to aggressive progression of liver cancer
...sion, metastasis, resistance to chemotherapy, the formation of new blood vessels, and senescence. cDNAs are complementary DNAs that are generated from mrnas to analyze gene expression profiles. "AEG-1 also activates multiple intracellular signaling pathways that are known to be involved in HCC progressi...Mutant host cell protein sequesters critical HIV-1 element
...scription. The mRNA molecules must be properly "spliced", or rearranged, and then transported out of the cell nucleus and into the cytoplasm where the mrnas can be "translated" into viral proteins. "Although there has been a great deal of effort directed at understanding HIV-1 transcription, mRNA splici...8 National Medals of Science awardees to be honored at gala, then the White House
...d hormones act in target cells. They showed that steroid hormones regulate de novo synthesis of specific proteins by regulating the levels of specific mrnas in target cells. Using cell-free transcription methods, they substantiated "initiation of transcription" as the rate-limited step at which nuclear rec...Plant biologists discover unexpected proteins affecting small RNAs
...08 online issue of Developmental Cell, shows that the RNA world is more complex than imagined. Ecker and colleagues tinkered with factors that process mrnas in the mustard weed Arabidopsis thaliana and observed affects on short, or small RNAs. Their findings could impact fields as diverse as plant patholog...Single-celled bacterium works 24-7
... over 48 hours. At a given time, the mRNA levels indicated what the cells were doing. For example, when the researchers identified high levels of many mrnas encoding various protein components of the nitrogenase enzyme, they knew that the cells were fixing nitrogen at that time, in this case, during the da...Detection of mRNAs on Cryosections of the Cardiovascular System Using DIG-Labeled RNA Probes
The following protocol was optimized from a protocol using 35S-labeled RNA probes [1, 2]. In research studies, it enables detection of the expression of rare mRNAs in the cardiovascular system (e.g., of the proinflammator...LNA-Based RNA oligonucleotides Potently Inhibit Cancer microRNAs
...harma (founded in 2003) is a privately held clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing new classes of RNA medicines targeting disease-related mrnas and miRNAs based on its proprietary LNA chemistry. The Company's own research and development activities focus on microRNAs, infectious diseases and m...Jivan Focuses on Solutions for Transcriptome Sequencing
...nctions, Jivan can ensure the capture of all mRNA sequences of each gene of interest, including wildtype transcripts and splice variants. For genes or mrnas with low expression, Jivan will offer mRNA Prime(TM) PCR primer designs specific to each observed mRNA. To analyze RNA sequencing data, Jivan wi...Researchers develop new way to see single RNA molecules inside living cells
...nomena. "We are excited to use this imaging strategy to study how single viral RNAs travel from the nucleus of a cell to a virus assembly site, how mrnas are regulated by location and time, and RNA trafficking in neurons," added Santangelo. ...Gen-Probe Launches in Europe CE-Marked APTIMA(R) HPV Assay for Detection of Human Papillomavirus
... RNAs (mRNAs), E6 and E7, that are made in higher amounts when HPV infections progress toward cervical cancer. Gen-Probe believes that targeting these mrnas may more accurately identify women at higher risk of having, or developing, cervical cancer than competing assays that target HPV DNA. Detecting HPV D...Protein Depletion for Plasma and Serum Proteomic Analysis
... correlate to specific diseased states. However, there are still questions about the correlation between the expression levels of mrnas and the corresponding changes in expression levels of proteins expressed, whether in human tissues [12,33,34] or in yeast cells ...RNA Interference and Gene Silencing: History and Overview
... silencing complex. A nuclease complex, composed of proteins and siRNA (see below), that targets and destroys endogenous mrnas complementary to the siRNA within the complex. RNA interference (RNAi) - Post-transcriptional g...m7G(5)ppp(5)G (Cap Analog) from Ambion
Description:...ation of the cap structure into a large fraction of the transcripts. Capped mrnas are generally translated more efficiently in reticulocyte lysate and wheat germ in vitro translation systems. Uncapped mrnas are rapidly degraded after microinjection into cells. Thus, it is important...m7G(5)ppp(5)G (Cap Analog) from Ambion
Description:...ation of the cap structure into a large fraction of the transcripts. Capped mrnas are generally translated more efficiently in reticulocyte lysate and wheat germ in vitro translation systems. Uncapped mrnas are rapidly degraded after microinjection into cells. Thus, it is important...RNA Cap Analog, Methylated from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies
Description:... A modified nucleotide structure called a ?cap? is present on the 5?-end of most naturally-occurring eukaryotic mrnas and many viral RNAs. Substitution of Cap Analog for a portion of the GTP present in an in vitro transcription reaction results in the synthesis of tra...RNA Cap Analog, Unmethylated from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies
Description:... A modified nucleotide structure called a ?cap? is present on the 5?-end of most naturally-occurring eukaryotic mrnas and many viral RNAs. Substitution of Cap Analog for a portion of the GTP present in an in vitro transcription reaction results in the synthesis of tra...RNA Cap Analog, Trimethylated from EPICENTRE Biotechnologies
Description:... A modified nucleotide structure called a ?cap? is present on the 5?-end of most naturally-occurring eukaryotic mrnas and many viral RNAs. Substitution of Cap Analog for a portion of the GTP present in an in vitro transcription reaction results in the synthesis of tra...Canine Pancreatic Microsomal Membranes from Promega
Description:... (1). Membrane preparations are assayed for both signal peptidase and core glycosylation activities using two different control mRNAs. The two control mrnas supplied with this system are the precursor for β-lactamase (or ampicillin resistance gene product) from E. coli and the precursor for α-...