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Identification of a crosstalk between ClC-1 C-terminal CBS domains and the transmembrane region 

Gaitán-Peñas, Héctor; Pérez González, Anna Priscil·la; González Subías, Marc; Zdebik, Anselm A.; Gasull Casanova, Xavier; Buey, Ruben M.; Errasti-Murugarren, Ekaitz; Estévez Povedano, Raúl (Publication date: 2026-03-26)

CLC channels and transporters have large C-terminal regions which contain two cystathionine β-synthetase (CBS) domains. It has been hypothesized that conformational changes in these domains upon nucleotide binding modulate ...

The multiomics blueprint of the individual with the most extreme lifespan 

Torrubiano, Marta; Massip Salcedo, Marta; Khidir, Kamal A.; Cao, Thong Huy; Quinn, Paulene A.; Jones, Donald J. L.; Macip, Salvador; Brigos Barril, Eva; Moldes, Mauricio; Barteri, Fabio; Ferrer, Gerardo; Muntané, Gerard; Davalos, Veronica; Laayouni, Hafid; Mereu, Elisabetta; Navarro, Arcadi; Pluvinet, Raquel; Esteller, Manel; Arribas, Carles; Torre, Carolina de la; Villavicencio Goula, Francisco; Sumoy, Lauro; Granada, Isabel; Coles, Natalie S.; Santos Pujol, Eloy; Noguera Castells, Aleix; Casado Pelaez, Marta; García Prieto, Carlos A.; Vasallo, Claudia; Campillo Marcos, Ignacio; Quero Dotor, Carlos; Crespo García, Eva; Bueno Costa, Alberto; Setién, Fernando; Acha, Pamela; Solé, Francesc; Mallo, Mar; Mata, Caterina; Peregrina, Sara; Gabaldón, Toni; Llirós, Marc; Pujolassos, Meritxell; Carrera Torres, Robert; Lluansí, Aleix; García Gil, Librado Jesús; Aldeguer, Xavier; Samino, Sara; Torné, Pol; Ribalta, Josep; Guardiola, Montse; Amigó, Núria; Yanes, Oscar; Martínez, Paula; Sánchez Vázquez, Raúl; Blasco, Maria A.; Oviedo, Jose; Lemos, Bernardo; Rius Bonet, Julia (Publication date: 2026-03-09)

Extreme human lifespan, exemplified by supercentenarians, presents a paradox in understanding aging: despite advanced age, they maintain relatively good health. To investigate this duality, we have performed a high-throughput ...

Human microglia-like cells differentiated from monocytes with GM-CSF and IL-34 show phagocytosis of α-synuclein aggregates and C/EBPβ-dependent proinflammatory activation 

Llaves López, Andrea; Micoli, Elia; Belmonte Mateos, Carla; Aguilar, Gerard; Alba, Clara; Marsal, Anais; Pulido Salgado, Marta; Rabaneda Lombarte, Neus; Solà i Subirana, Carme; Serratosa i Serdà, Joan; Vidal Taboada, José Manuel; Saura Martí, Josep (Publication date: 2026-02-12)

Microglia, the main resident immune cells in the central nervous system, are implicated in the pathogenesis of various neurological disorders. Much of our knowledge on microglial biology was obtained using rodent microglial ...

Age-driven genetic and epigenetic heterogeneity in B-ALL 

Veselinova, Yoana; Esteller, Manel; Ferrer, Gerardo (Publication date: 2026-01-21)

B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) remains a major clinical challenge in hematologic oncology, characterized by a continuous evolution of molecular drivers that shape its heterogeneity across the age spectrum. ...

Interrelation of adipose tissue macrophages and fibrosis in obesity. 

Dahdah, N.; Tercero Alcázar, Carmen; Malagón, María M.; García-Roves, Pablo M. (Pablo Miguel); Guzmán Ruiz, Rocío (Publication date: 2025-12-11)

Obesity is characterized by adipose tissue expansion, extracellular matrix remodelling and unresolved inflammation that contribute to insulin resistance and fibrosis. Adipose tissue macrophages represent the most abundant ...

Energy substrate metabolism, mitochondrial structure and oxidative stress after cardiac ischemia-reperfusion in mice lacking UCP3. 

Sánchez-Pérez, Patricia; Mata, Ana; Torp, May-Kristin; López Bernardo, Elia; Heiestad, Christina M.; Aronsen, Jan Magnus; Molina-Iracheta, Antonio; Jiménez-Borreguero, Luis J.; García-Roves, Pablo M. (Pablo Miguel); Costa, Ana S.H.; Frezza, Christian; Murphy, Michael P.; Stenslokken, Kåre-Olav; Cadenas, Susana (Publication date: 2025-12-04)

Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury may result in cardiomyocyte dysfunction. Mitochondria play a critical role in cardiomyocyte recovery after IR injury. The mitochondrial uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) has been ...

Diverse inhibitors of de novo purine synthesis promote AICAR-induced AMPK activation and glucose uptake in L6 myotubes 

Dolinar, Klemen; Miš, Katarina; Šopar, Katja; Šutar, Mateja; Božič, Meta; Kolar, Matic; Hropot, Tim; García-Roves, Pablo M. (Pablo Miguel); Chibalin, Alexander V.; Pirkmajer, Sergej (Publication date: 2025-09-23)

Methotrexate, an immunosuppressant and anticancer drug, promotes glucose uptake and lipid oxidation in skeletal muscle via activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). Methotrexate promotes AMPK activation by inhibiting ...

PI3Kα inhibition blocks osteochondroprogenitor specification and the hyper-inflammatory response to prevent heterotopic ossification 

Valer, José Antonio; Deber, Alexandre; Wits, Marius; Pimenta-Lopes, Carolina; Goumans, Marie-José; Rosa López, José Luis; Sánchez-Duffhues, Gonzalo; Ventura Pujol, Francesc (Publication date: 2025-07-17)

Heterotopic ossification (HO) occurs following mechanical trauma and burns, or congenitally in patients suffering from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). Recently, we demonstrated that inhibitors of phosphatidylinositol ...

Lung diffusing capacity after different modalities of exercise at sea level and hypobaric simulated altitude of 4000 m 

García Alday, Iker; Drobnic, Franchek; Arrillaga, Beatriz; Cheng, Yinkiria; Javierre Garcés, Casimiro F.; Pons, Vicente; Viscor Carrasco, Ginés (Publication date: 2025-09-23)

Introduction: Lung diffusion capacity of carbon monoxide (DLCO) provides a measure of gas transfer in the lungs, which increase in relation to exercise and decrease in the presence of lung interstitial disease. The aim of ...

A review of vancomycin, gentamicin and amikacin population pharmacokientic models in neonates and infants. 

Albanell Fernández, Marta; Bastida Fernández, Carla; Rodríguez Reyes, Montse; Soy Muner, Dolors (Publication date: 2025-11-07)

Abstract Population pharmacokinetic (popPK) models are an essential tool when implementing therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) and to overcome dosing challenges in neonates in clinical practice. Since vancomycin, gentamicin, ...

La fitxa molecular: una eina d'autoaprenentatge i d'avaluació continuada de Biologia Molecular 

Saura Martí, Josep; Rodríguez Allué, Manuel José; Vidal Taboada, José Manuel (Publication date: 2016-01-28)

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The Power-law Formalism as a Tool for Modeling Hormonal Systems 

Sorribas, Albert; González Sistal, Ángel (Publication date: 2017-03-24)

Modeling a hormone system requires a number of simplifying assumptions. Often, the final conceptual model incorporates a number of aggregated processes that have no correspondence with a single enzyme-catalyzed reaction. ...

Therapeutic benefit of selective inhibition of p110α PI3-kinase in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors 

Soler, Adriana; Figueiredo, Ana Raquel Martins; Castel Morales, Pau; Martín Fernández, Laura; Monelli, Erika; Angulo Urarte, Ana; Milà Guasch, Maria; Viñals Canals, Francesc; Baselga Torres, Josep, 1959-2021; Casanovas i Casanovas, Oriol; Graupera i Garcia-Milà, Mariona (Publication date: 2019-05-10)

Purpose: mutations in the PI3K pathway occur in 16% of patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs), which suggests that these tumors are an exciting setting for PI3K/AKT/mTOR pharmacologic intervention. ...

Calcium mimics the chemotactic effect of conditioned media and is an effective inducer of bone regeneration 

Aquino Martínez, Rubén Francisco; Monroe, David G.; Ventura Pujol, Francesc (Publication date: 2019-02-25)

Background: after bone resorption, ions and degraded organic components are co-released into the extracellular space. Ions and growth factors, although different in their biological nature, induce a common and coordinated ...

Epigenetic loss of the endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation inhibitor SVIP induces cancer cell metabolic reprogramming 

Llinàs-Arias, Pere; Rosselló-Tortella, Margalida; López Serra, Paula; Pérez Salvia, Montserrat; Setién, Fernando; Marin, Silvia; Muñoz, Juan Pablo; Junza Martínez, Alexandra; Capellades, Jordi; Calleja Cervantes, Maria E.; Ferreira, Humberto J.; Castro de Moura, Manuel; Srbic, Marina; Martínez Cardús, Anna; Torre Gómez, Carolina de la; Villanueva Garatachea, Alberto; Cascante i Serratosa, Marta; Yanes, Oscar; Zorzano Olarte, Antonio; Moutinho, Cátia; Esteller, Manel (Publication date: 2020-03-20)

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of cancer cells needs to adapt to the enhanced proteotoxic stress associated with the accumulation of unfolded, misfolded and transformation-associated proteins. One way by which tumors thrive ...

HERC 1 Ubiquitin Ligase Mutation Affects Neocortical, CA3 Hippocampal and Spinal Cord Projection Neurons: An Ultrastructural Study 

Ruiz, Rocío; Pérez Villegas, Eva María; Bachiller, Sara; Rosa López, José Luis; Armengol, José Ángel (Publication date: 2018-12-13)

The spontaneous mutation tambaleante is caused by the Gly483Glu substitution in the highly conserved N terminal RCC1-like domain of the HERC1 protein, which leads to the increase of mutated protein levels responsible for ...

Precision medicine based in epigenomics: the paradigm of carcinoma of unknown primary 

Moran, Sebastian; Martínez Cardús, Anna; Boussios, S.; Esteller, Manel (Publication date: 2018-10-30)

Epigenetic alterations are a common hallmark of human cancer. Single epigenetic markers are starting to be incorporated into clinical practice; however, the translational use of these biomarkers has not been validated at ...

A two-gene epigenetic signature for the prediction of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer patients 

Pineda, Begoña; Diaz-Lagares, Angel; Pérez-Fidalgo, José Alejandro; Burgués, Octavio; González-Barrallo, Inés; Crujeiras, Ana B.; Sandoval, Juan; Esteller, Manel; Lluch Hernández, Ana; Eroles, Pilar (Publication date: 2020-11-05)

Background: pathological complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) varies between 30 and 40% approximately. To provide further insight into the prediction of pCR, ...

HATs meet structural biology 

Rullo Tubau, Josep; Bartoccioni, Paola; Llorca, Oscar; Errasti-Murugarren, Ekaitz; Palacín Prieto, Manuel (Publication date: 2025-02-11)

Heteromeric amino acid transporters (HATs) are one of the ten types of amino acid transporters present in the human body. Growing interest in the pathophysiological role of this group of transporters in rare and complex ...

HERC ubiquitin ligases in cancer 

Sala Gastón, Joan; Martinez-Martinez, Arturo; Pedrazza, Leonardo; Lorenzo Martín, L. Francisco; Caloto, Rubén; Bustelo, Xosé R.; Ventura Pujol, Francesc; Rosa López, José Luis (Publication date: 2020-07-14)

HERC proteins are ubiquitin E3 ligases of the HECT family. The HERC subfamily is composed of six members classified by size into large (HERC1 and HERC2) and small (HERC3-HERC6). HERC family ubiquitin ligases regulate ...

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