Browsing by Subject "RNA interference"

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      Drosophila melanogaster: A first step and a stepping-stone to anti-infectives 

      Tzelepis, Ilias; Kapsetaki, Stefania Elisavet; Panayidou, S.; Apidianakis, Yiorgos (2013)
      Following an expansion in the antibiotic drug discovery in the previous century, we now face a bottleneck in the production of new anti-infective drugs. Traditionally, chemical libraries are screened either using in vitro ...
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      Homeostasis in Infected Epithelia: Stem Cells Take the Lead 

      Pitsouli, Chrysoula; Apidianakis, Yiorgos; Perrimon, N. (2009)
      To maintain tissue homeostasis and avoid disease, epithelial cells damaged by pathogens need to be readily replenished, and this is mainly achieved by the activation of stem cells. In this Short Review, we discuss recent ...
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      Neural hyperplasia induced by RNA interference with m4/mα gene activity 

      Nagel, A. C.; Apidianakis, Yiorgos; Wech, I.; Maier, D.; Delidakis, Christos; Preiss, A. (2000)
      The E(spl) complex (E(spl)-C) contains three different classes of genes that are downstream of Notch signaling. The bHLH genes mediate the Notch signal by repressing proneural gene activity, for example during the ...
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      The nucleotide-binding proteins Nubp1 and Nubp2 are negative regulators of ciliogenesis 

      Kypri, Elena; Christodoulou, A.; Maimaris, G.; Lethan, M.; Markaki, M.; Lysandrou, C.; Lederer, C. W.; Tavernarakis, N.; Geimer, S.; Pedersen, L. B.; Santama, Niovi (2014)
      Nucleotide-binding proteins Nubp1 and Nubp2 are MRP/MinD-type P-loop NTPases with sequence similarity to bacterial division site-determining proteins and are conserved, essential proteins throughout the Eukaryotes. They ...
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      RNA intereference: A powerful laboratory tool and its therapeutic implications 

      Felekkis, Kyriacos N.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2006)
      Ever since RNA intereference (RNAi) was discovered in the early 1990s, a number of scientists from the academic and biotechnology world have continued to view it as the revolutionary discovery of the century. Unequivocally, ...
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      Silencing of human polycomb target genes is associated with methylation of histone H3 Lys 27 

      Kirmizis, Antonis; Bartley, S. M.; Kuzmichev, A.; Margueron, R.; Reinberg, D.; Green, R.; Farnham, P. J. (2004)
      Polycomb group (PcG) complexes 2 and 3 are involved in transcriptional silencing. These complexes contain a histone lysine methyltransferase (HKMT) activity that targets different lysine residues on histones H1 or H3 in ...