International Journal of Molecular Sciences,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
24(23), P. 16940 - 16940
Published: Nov. 29, 2023
The
reprogramming
of
retinal
pigment
epithelium
(RPE)
cells
into
(transdifferentiation)
lies
in
the
bases
regeneration
several
Urodela.
identification
key
genes
involved
this
process
helps
with
looking
for
approaches
to
prevention
and
treatment
RPE-related
degenerative
diseases
human
retina.
purpose
our
study
was
examine
transcriptome
changes
at
initial
stages
RPE
cell
adult
newt
Pleurodeles
waltl.
isolated
from
eye
samples
day
0,
4,
7
after
experimental
surgical
detachment
neural
retina
used
a
de
novo
assembly
through
RNA-Seq
method.
A
total
1019
transcripts
corresponding
differently
expressed
have
been
revealed
silico:
83
increased
expression
an
early
stage,
168
late
stage
reprogramming.
We
identified
up-regulation
classical
response
genes,
chaperones
co-chaperones,
regulation
protein
biosynthesis,
suppressors
oncogenes,
EMT-related
genes.
growth
proportion
down-regulated
ribosomal
translation-associated
Our
findings
contribute
revealing
molecular
mechanism
International Journal of Molecular Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
25(10), P. 5483 - 5483
Published: May 17, 2024
Molecular
chaperones
are
highly
conserved
across
evolution
and
play
a
crucial
role
in
preserving
protein
homeostasis.
The
60
kDa
heat
shock
(HSP60),
also
referred
to
as
chaperonin
(Cpn60),
resides
within
mitochondria
is
involved
maintaining
the
organelle’s
proteome
integrity
HSP60
family,
encompassing
Cpn60,
plays
diverse
roles
cellular
processes,
including
folding,
cell
signaling,
managing
high-temperature
stress.
In
prokaryotes,
well
understood
GroEL/GroES
complex,
which
forms
double-ring
cavity
aids
folding.
eukaryotes,
implicated
numerous
biological
functions,
like
facilitating
folding
of
native
proteins
influencing
disease
development
processes.
Notably,
research
highlights
its
critical
involvement
sustaining
oxidative
stress
mitochondrial
integrity.
perturbation
results
loss
activates
apoptosis.
Currently,
clinical
investigations
progress
explore
targeting
both
vivo
vitro
various
models.
These
studies
aim
enhance
our
comprehension
mechanisms
potentially
harness
therapeutic
target
for
conditions,
cancer,
inflammatory
disorders,
neurodegenerative
diseases.
This
review
delves
into
functions
regulating
proteo-homeostasis,
stress,
ROS,
apoptosis,
implications
diseases
cancer
neurodegeneration.
Medicine,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
104(6), P. e41069 - e41069
Published: Feb. 7, 2025
Malignant
tumors
are
among
the
leading
causes
of
death
worldwide,
with
their
underlying
mechanisms
remaining
largely
unclear.
Tumorigenesis
is
a
complex
process
involving
multiple
factors,
genes,
and
pathways.
Tumor
cells
characterized
by
abnormal
proliferation,
infiltration,
invasion,
metastasis.
Improving
tumor
diagnosis
rates
identifying
novel
molecular
therapeutic
targets
great
significance
for
advancement
modern
medicine.
Chaperonin
containing
TCP-1
subunit
3
(CCT3)
one
subunits
chaperonin
complex,
chaperone
involved
in
protein
folding
remodeling.
CCT3
plays
crucial
role
maintaining
homeostasis,
key
substrates
including
tubulin
actin.
In
recent
years,
has
been
reported
to
be
abnormally
expressed
various
cancers,
correlating
prognosis
outcomes.
this
review,
we
summarize
basic
structure
function
CCT3,
discuss
development.
Additionally,
explore
its
potential
applications
cancer
treatment.
Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: April 24, 2025
Abstract
The
chaperonin
containing
TCP1
subunit
5
(CCT5)
is
believed
to
function
as
a
tumor
driver.
However,
systematic
pan-cancer
analysis
of
CCT5
still
lacking.
Therefore,
this
study
aimed
identify
the
potential
role
in
different
types
tumors.
This
comprehensively
investigated
gene
expression,
proteomic
immune
infiltration,
DNA
methylation,
genetic
alterations,
correlation
with
TMB
and
MSI,
drug
sensitivity,
enrichment
analysis,
prognostic
significance
33
tumors
based
on
TIMER2.0,
GEPIA2,
UALCAN,
SMART,
cBioPortal,
GSCA
databases,
TCGAplot
R
package.
results
revealed
significant
overexpression
most
was
significantly
associated
poor
OS
DFS
types.
Reduced
promoter
N-shore
methylation
CCT5,
indicating
its
oncogenic
epigenetic
roles.
Amplification
common
type
alterations.
Immune
infiltration
strong
between
cells.
exhibited
MSI
KIRC
STAD.
Furthermore,
associations
cell
cycle
pathway
various
cellular
functions.
These
findings
suggested
that
might
serve
biomarker
target
for
immunotherapy
cancers.
Cells,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
13(5), P. 370 - 370
Published: Feb. 21, 2024
The
integrity
and
permeability
of
epithelial
endothelial
barriers
depend
on
the
formation
tight
junctions,
adherens
a
junction-associated
cytoskeleton.
establishment
this
junction–cytoskeletal
module
relies
correct
folding
oligomerization
its
protein
components.
Molecular
chaperones
are
known
regulators
complex
in
different
cellular
compartments.
Mammalian
cells
possess
an
elaborate
chaperone
network
consisting
several
hundred
co-chaperones.
Only
small
part
has
been
linked,
however,
to
regulation
intercellular
adhesions,
systematic
analysis
functions
at
is
lacking.
This
review
describes
mechanisms
chaperone-assisted
junctions.
major
focus
heat
shock
chaperones,
their
co-chaperones,
chaperonins
since
these
molecules
majority
articles
published
chaperone-mediated
control
tissue
barriers.
discusses
roles
steady-state
vascular
as
well
disruption
by
pathogenic
factors
extracellular
stressors.
Since
cytoskeletal
coupling
essential
for
junctional
remodeling,
assembly
actomyosin
cytoskeleton
also
discussed.
Medicine,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
103(30), P. e38747 - e38747
Published: July 26, 2024
This
study
aims
to
develop
and
validate
a
machine
learning
(ML)
predictive
model
for
assessing
mortality
in
patients
with
malignant
tumors
hyperkalemia
(MTH).
We
extracted
data
on
MTH
from
the
Medical
Information
Mart
Intensive
Care-IV,
version
2.2
(MIMIC-IV
v2.2)
database.
The
dataset
was
split
into
training
set
(75%)
validation
(25%).
used
Least
Absolute
Shrinkage
Selection
Operator
(LASSO)
regression
identify
potential
predictors,
which
included
clinical
laboratory
indicators
vital
signs.
Pearson
correlation
analysis
tested
between
predictors.
In-hospital
death
prediction
target.
Area
Under
Curve
(AUC)
accuracy
of
sets
7
ML
algorithms
were
compared,
optimal
1
selected
model.
calibration
curve
evaluate
further.
SHapley
Additive
exPlanations
(SHAP)
Local
Interpretable
Model-agnostic
Explanations
(LIME)
enhanced
interpretability.
496
Care
Unit
(ICU)
included.
After
screening,
17
features
construction
model,
coefficient
<0.8,
indicating
that
small.
eXtreme
Gradient
Boosting
(XGBoost)
outperformed
other
algorithms,
achieving
perfect
scores
(accuracy:
1.000,
AUC:
1.000)
high
0.734,
0.733).
curves
indicated
good
SHAP
identified
top
8
factors:
urine
output,
mean
heart
rate,
maximum
urea
nitrogen,
minimum
oxygen
saturation,
blood
pressure,
total
bilirubin,
respiratory
pH.
In
addition,
LIME
performed
in-depth
individual
case
analyses.
demonstrates
effectiveness
methods
predicting
risk
ICU
MTH.
It
highlights
importance
predictors
like
output
rate.
significantly
model's
Cancer Biology & Therapy,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
25(1)
Published: Dec. 12, 2023
Chaperonin
containing
TCP1
subunit
6A
(CCT6A)
was
recently
discovered
to
be
involved
in
cancer
pathogenesis
and
stemness;
however,
its
role
oral
squamous
cell
carcinoma
(OSCC)
has
not
been
reported.
The
current
study
aimed
investigate
the
impact
of
CCT6A
on
OSCC
malignant
behaviors
stemness
explore
potentially
interreacted
pathways.
SCC-15
HSC-3
cells
were
transfected
with
plasmid
loading
control
overexpression,
knockout,
or
knockout.
Wnt4
overexpression
Notch1
plasmids
into
CCT6A-knockout
cells.
Cell
proliferation,
apoptosis,
invasion,
stemness,
Notch,
Wnt
pathways
detected
both
lines,
whereas
RNA
sequencing
only
performed
upregulated
five
including
SCC-15,
HSC-3,
SAT,
SCC-9,
KON,
compared
that
line.
In
cells,
increased
sphere
formation,
CD133,
Sox2
expression,
but
decreased
apoptosis;
contrary,
knockout
exhibited
an
opposite
effect
above
indexes.
RNA-sequencing
data
revealed
Notch
CCT6A’effect
functions.
positively
regulates
Importantly,
it
shown
activation
attenuated
survival,
stemness.
may
promote
behavior
by
activating
Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
9(1)
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Abstract
There
is
a
close
relationship
between
abnormal
lipid
metabolism
and
tumor
malignant
behavior,
plays
crucial
role
in
developing
tumors.
Based
on
BiLSTM
model,
combined
with
Transformer
Encoder
CRF
decoder,
the
article
successfully
constructed
joint
extraction
model
of
medical
literature,
help
Neo4j
technology,
built
knowledge
graph
abnormality
occurrence
development.
The
study
used
data
sources
from
WOSCC,
CNKI,
Wanfang,
VIP,
other
databases
as
sources.
It
bibliometric
analysis
tools
like
CiteSpace
VOS
viewer
to
visualize
analyze
related
studies
in-depth.
results
showed
that
Oral
Oncology
UK
ranked
first
abnormalities
number
publications,
total
301
papers
an
impact
factor
5.118.
oncology
increased
11
2010
414
2023,
growth
more
than
36.64
times.
By
comprehensively
analyzing
current
situation
tumorigenesis
development,
this
paper
provides
new
ideas
perspectives
for
cancer
prevention,
diagnosis,
treatment
mechanism.
helps
promote
in-depth
research
development
fields.
Research Square (Research Square),
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 30, 2024
Abstract
Hepatocellular
carcinoma
(HCC)
is
the
prevalent
form
of
liver
cancer
and
third
major
cause
cancer-induced
mortality
globally.
Phosducin-like
protein
3
(PDCL3)
linked
to
onset
evolution
malignancies,
but
its
role
mechanism
in
HCC
progression
are
still
unclear.
Here,
address
this
issue,
we
performed
multiple
bioinformatics
mining
analysis
through
databases
such
as
GEO
TCGA
screen
for
HCC-specific
targets.
Differential
survival
prognostic
analyses
revealed
that
PDCL3
was
upregulated
tissues,
accompanied
by
poorer
outcomes
patients.
mRNA
expression
were
significantly
higher
cell
lines
HepG2,
Hep3B,
Huh7
than
normal
human
hepatocytes
MIHA.
The
assays
with
siRNA
interference
showed
exhibited
proliferation,
migration,
invasion
capacity
these
cells.
high-expression
group
presented
different
immune
infiltration
mutation
features,
compared
low-expression
group.
Furthermore,
enrichment
identified
Hippo
pathway
YAP
expression.
Hence,
emphasized
promotive
HCC,
thus
providing
reliable
evidence
PDCL3-targeted
diagnosis
therapeutic
strategies.
Research Square (Research Square),
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: June 13, 2024
Abstract
CCT5,
a
molecular
chaperone
protein,
was
analyzed
in
33
different
tumor
types
by
pan-cancer
analysis.
This
study
investigated
various
aspects
such
as
gene
expression,
proteomic
immune
infiltration,
DNA
methylation,
genetic
alterations,
survival,
enrichment
analysis,
and
prognostic
significance.
The
results
showed
that
CCT5
is
highly
expressed
most
tumors,
its
overexpression
associated
with
poor
overall
disease-free
well
prognosis
types.
Immune
infiltration
analysis
revealed
correlation
between
cancer-associated
fibroblasts
(CAFs),
CD8
+
T
cells,
NK
the
of
patients
significantly
correlated
expression
these
three
tumor-infiltrating
cells.
suggested
regulates
number
thereby
affecting
tumors.
Enrichment
association
cell
cycle
RNA-binding
pathways.
reduced
promoter
N-shore
indicating
potential
oncogenic
epigenetic
roles.
These
findings
suggest
may
serve
biomarker
target
for
immunotherapy
cancer
proliferation
development.