Antifibrotic therapy with nintedanib is the clinical mainstay in the treatment of progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease (ILD). High-dimensional medical image analysis, known as radiomics, provides quantitative insights into organ-scale pathophysiology, generating digital disease fingerprin...
The clearance of untranslated mRNAs by Argonaute proteins is essential for embryonic development in metazoans. However, it is currently unknown whether a similar process exists in unicellular eukaryotes. The ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia harbors a vast array of Argonaute proteins of the Piwi-clade ...
Wilms tumor (WT) is the most common renal tumor in childhood. Among others, MYCN copy number gain and MYCN P44L and MAX R60Q mutations have been identified in WT. The proto-oncogene MYCN encodes a transcription factor that requires dimerization with MAX to activate transcription of numerous target g...
Our aim was to identify Regenerating islet-derived (REG proteins in dogs. We annotated REG-family members in the canine genome and proteome, and identified one member of the REG3 subfamily, consequently termed REG3E by the Vertebrate Gene Nomenclature Committee. We verified REG3E gene expression usi...
The transcription factor Interferon Regulatory Factor 6 (IRF6) is crucially involved in craniofacial development and regulates the proliferation/differentiation balance in keratinocytes. Pathological IRF6 variants have been found in Van der Woude syndrome (VWS), the most common syndromic form of cle...
