• 17β-estradiol promotes extracellular vesicle release and selective miRNA loading in ERα-positive breast cancer 

      Drula, Rares; Pardini, Barbara; Fu, Xiao; De Los Santos, Mireia Cruz; Jurj, Ancuta; Pang, Lan; El-Daly, Sherien M.; Fabris, Linda; Knutsen, Erik; Dragomir, Mihnea P.; Bayraktar, Recep; Li, Yongfeng; Chen, Meng; Del Vecchio, Filippo; Berland, Léa; Dae, Jessica; Fan, Daniel; Shimizu, Masayoshi; Tran, Anh M.; Barzi, Mercedes; Pioppini, Carlotta; Gutierrez, Angelica M.; Ivan, Cristina; Meas, Salyna; Hall, Carolyn S.; Alahari, Suresh K.; Berindan-Neagoe, Ioana; Fabbri, Muller; Lucci, Anthony; Arun, Banu; Anfossi, Simone; Calin, George A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-30)
      The causes and consequences of abnormal biogenesis of extracellular vesicles (EVs) are not yet well understood in malignancies, including in breast cancers (BCs). Given the hormonal signaling dependence of estrogen receptor–positive (ER+) BC, we hypothesized that 17β-estradiol (estrogen) might influence EV production and microRNA (miRNA) loading. We report that physiological doses of 17β-estradiol ...
    • Anti–miR-93-5p therapy prolongs sepsis survival by restoring the peripheral immune response 

      Dragomir, Mihnea P.; Fuentes-Mattei, Enrique; Winkle, Melanie; Okubo, Keishi; Bayraktar, Recep; Knutsen, Erik; Qdaisat, Aiham; Chen, Meng; Li, Yongfeng; Shimizu, Masayoshi; Pang, Lan; Liu, Kevin; Liu, Xiuping; Anfossi, Simone; Zhang, Huanyu; Koch, Ines; Tran, Anh M.; Mohapatra, Swati; Ton, Anh; Kaplan, Mecit; Anderson, Matthew W.; Rothfuss, Spencer J.; Silasi, Robert; Keshari, Ravi S.; Ferracin, Manuela; Ivan, Cristina; Rodriguez-Aguayo, Cristian; Lopez-Berestein, Gabriel; Georgescu, Constantin; Banerjee, Pinaki P.; Basar, Rafet; Li, Ziyi; Horst, David; Vasilescu, Catalin; Bertilaccio, Maria Teresa S.; Rezvani, Katayoun; Lupu, Florea; Yeung, Sai-Ching; Calin, George A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-01)
      Sepsis remains a leading cause of death for humans and currently has no pathogenesis-specific therapy. Hampered progress is partly due to a lack of insight into deep mechanistic processes. In the past decade, deciphering the functions of small noncoding miRNAs in sepsis pathogenesis became a dynamic research topic. To screen for new miRNA targets for sepsis therapeutics, we used samples for miRNA ...
    • FuncPEP: A Database of Functional Peptides Encoded by Non-Coding RNAs 

      Dragomir, Mihnea Paul; Manyam, Ganiraju C; Ott, Leonie Florence; Berland, Léa; Knutsen, Erik; Ivan, Cristina; Lipovich, Leonard; Broom, Bradley M.; Calin, George A (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-23)
      Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are essential players in many cellular processes, from normal development to oncogenic transformation. Initially, ncRNAs were defined as transcripts that lacked an open reading frame (ORF). However, multiple lines of evidence suggest that certain ncRNAs encode small peptides of less than 100 amino acids. The sequences encoding these peptides are known as small open reading ...
    • The long noncoding RNA CCAT2 induces chromosomal instability through BOP1-AURKB signaling 

      Chen, Baoqing; Dragomir, Mihnea Paul; Fabris, Linda; Bayraktar, Recep; Knutsen, Erik; Liu, Xu; Tang, Changyan; Li, Yongfeng; Shimura, Tadanobu; Ivkovic, Tina Catela; Cruz De los Santos, Mireia; Anfossi, Simone; Shimizu, Masayoshi; Shah, Maitri Y.; Ling, Hui; Shen, Peng; Multani, Asha S.; Pardini, Barbara; Burks, Jared K.; Katayama, Hiroyuki; Reineke, Lucas C.; Huo, Longfei; Syed, Muddassir; Song, Shumei; Ferracin, Manuela; Oki, Eiji; Fromm, Bastian; Ivan, Cristina; Bhuvaneshwar, Krithika; Gusev, Yuriy; Mimori, Koshi; Menter, David; Sen, Subrata; Matsuyama, Takatoshi; Uetake, Hiroyuki; Vasilescu, Catalin; Kopetz, Scott; Parker-Thornburg, Jan; Taguchi, Ayumu; Hanash, Samir M.; Girnita, Leonard; Slaby, Ondrej; Goel, Ajay; Varani, Gabriele; Gagea, Mihai; Li, Chunlai; Ajani, Jaffer A.; Calin, George A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-15)
      Background & Aims - Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a carcinogenesis event that promotes metastasis and resistance to therapy by unclear mechanisms. Expression of the colon cancer–associated transcript 2 gene (CCAT2), which encodes a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), associates with CIN, but little is known about how CCAT2 lncRNA regulates this cancer enabling characteristic.<p> <p>Methods - We ...
    • A novel lncRNA derived from an ultraconserved region: lnc- uc.147, a potential biomarker in luminal A breast cancer 

      Zambalde, Erika Pereira; Bayraktar, Recep; Jucoski, Tayana Schultz; Ivan, Cristina; Rodrigues, Ana Carolina de Mello Alves; Mathias, Carolina; Knutsen, Erik; Silveira de Lima, Rubens; Gradia, Daniela Fiori; Fonseca, Enilze Maria de Souza; Hannash, Samir; Calin, George A.; Oliveira, Jaqueline Carvalhode (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-13)
      The human genome contains 481 ultraconserved regions (UCRs), which are genomic stretches of over 200 base pairs conserved among human, rat, and mouse. The majority of these regions are transcriptionally active (T-UCRs), and several have been found to be differentially expressed in tumours. Some T-UCRs have been functionally characterized, but of those few have been associated to breast cancer (BC). ...