• 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 ...