• 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 ...
    • 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 ...