Objective(s): Lung cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors, which seriously threatens the health and life of the people. Recently, a novel long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) termed lncFOXO1 was found and investigated in breast cancer. However, the effect of lncFOXO1 on lung cancer is still ambiguous. The current study aimed to uncover the functions of lncFOXO1 in l...

In article number 2000307, Tim Blomeier and co-workers describe the Blue Light-Operated CRISPR/Cas13b-mediated mRNA Knockdown. “Lockdown” introduces optical control of RNA levels utilizing a blue light-dependent switch to induce expression CRISPR/Cas13b, which mediates sequence-specific knockdown exo- endogenous mRNA. Further, they combined tool with other optogenetic switches for efficient dow...

Radiotherapy (RT) plays an important role in localized lung cancer treatments. Although RT locally targets and controls malignant lesions, resistance prevents from being effective treatment for cancer. In this study, we identified phosphomevalonate kinase (PMVK) as a novel radiosensitizing target explored its underlying mechanism. We found that cell viability survival fraction after were signif...

Loss of gastric acid secretion is pathologically known as achlorhydria. Acid-secreting parietal cells are characterized by abundant expression of ezrin (Vil2), one of ezrin/radixin/moesin proteins, which generally cross-link actin filaments with plasma membrane proteins. Here, we show the direct in vivo involvement of ezrin in gastric acid secretion. Ezrin knockout (Vil2(-/-)) mice did not surv...

objective: rna interference (rnai) is the most potent technique for gene silencing in eukaryotic cellular system at transcriptomic level. genetic disorders and cancers are important targets for therapeutic development of this technique. in order to bypass the temporary dpwnregulation by sirna, a new generation of shrna named shrnamir has developed. silencing construct with structure similar to ...

objective: creb1 is an important downstream protein for many signaling pathways. by designing efficient sirnas against creb1, it may be possible to assess the role of molecules involved in signaling pathways in different cell types. in this research the efficiency of creb1 knockdown by two different sirnas in k562 cells has been studied. materials and methods: sirnas have been designed accordi...