Apoptosis through Death Receptors in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy-Associated Hippocampal Sclerosis by Marcelo Ananias Teocchi, Lília D’Souza-Li

“…Amongst them are the encoding genes for ligands (FASLG, TNF, and TNFSF10) and death receptors (FAS, TNFRSF1A, TNFRSF10A, and TNFRSF10B). …”
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FluKB: A Knowledge-Based System for Influenza Vaccine Target Discovery and Analysis of the Immunological Properties of Influenza Viruses by Christian Simon, Ulrich J. Kudahl, Jing Sun, Lars Rønn Olsen, Guang Lan Zhang, Ellis L. Reinherz, Vladimir Brusic

“…FluKB consists of more than 400,000 influenza protein sequences, known epitope data (357 verified T-cell epitopes, 685 HLA binders, and 16 naturally processed MHC ligands), and a collection of 28 influenza antibodies and their structurally defined B-cell epitopes. …”
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Polymers for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease by Yunfeng Zhu, Haibin Xu, Chaoyan Yu, Wenting Jiang, Xiaowen Hou, Mingyue Ma, Ji Wu

“…In recent years, researchers have made significant progress in utilizing polymers such as polyethylene glycol, poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), and chitosan (CS) to deliver drugs and blood-brain barrier receptor ligands for the treatment of AD. Moreover, many polymers with inherent therapeutic properties have been developed, including the already marketed GV-971 as well as experimental polymers such as PLGA and CS oligosaccharide. …”
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Drug Repositioning for Gynecologic Tumors: A New Therapeutic Strategy for Cancer by Kouji Banno, Miho Iida, Megumi Yanokura, Haruko Irie, Kenta Masuda, Yusuke Kobayashi, Eiichiro Tominaga, Daisuke Aoki

“…New drugs for gynecologic tumors may be found by drug repositioning. For example, PPAR ligands may be effective against ovarian cancer, since PPAR activation eliminates COX-2 expression, arrests the cell cycle, and induces apoptosis. …”
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A CDFT-Based Computational Peptidology (CDFT-CP) Study of the Chemical Reactivity and Bioactivity of the Marine-Derived Alternaramide Cyclopentadepsipeptide by Norma Flores-Holguín, Juan Frau, Daniel Glossman-Mitnik

“…The computational pharmacokinetics study revealed the potential ability of alternaramide as a therapeutic drug by interacting with GPCR ligands and protease inhibitors. The ADMET indices confirm this assertion through the absence of toxicity and good absorption and distribution properties.…”
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Direct conversion of peptides into diverse peptidomimetics using a transformer-based chemical language model by Atsushi Yoshimori, Jürgen Bajorath

“…Over time, various chemical strategies have been developed to convert natural peptide ligands into so-called peptidomimetics. This process is supported by computational approaches to identify peptidomimetic candidate compounds or design templates mimicking active peptide conformations. …”
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DeepAptamer: Advancing high-affinity aptamer discovery with a hybrid deep learning model by Xin Yang, Chi Ho Chan, Shanshan Yao, Hang Yin Chu, Minchuan Lyu, Ziqi Chen, Huan Xiao, Yuan Ma, Sifan Yu, Fangfei Li, Jin Liu, Luyao Wang, Zongkang Zhang, Bao-Ting Zhang, Lu Zhang, Aiping Lu, Yaofeng Wang, Ge Zhang, Yuanyuan Yu

“…Oligonucleotide aptamers are typically identified through a rigorous and time-consuming process known as systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX), which requires 20 to 30 iterative rounds to eliminate non/weak binding sequences and enrich tight binding sequences with high affinity. …”
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Fungal and oomycete pathogens and heavy metals: an inglorious couple in the environment by Joanna Gajewska, Jolanta Floryszak-Wieczorek, Ewa Sobieszczuk-Nowicka, Autar Mattoo, Magdalena Arasimowicz-Jelonek

“…Such a network may include extracellular HMs immobilization, biosorption to cell wall, and/or their intracellular sequestration to proteins or other ligands. HMs may also induce a hormesis-like phenomenon allowing the pathogens to maintain or even increase fitness against chemical challenges. …”
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PPARG Could Work as a Valid Therapeutic Strategy for the Treatment of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Shunbin Shi, Guiping Yu, Bin Huang, Yedong Mi, Yan Kang, Julia Pia Simon

“…Previous studies showed that PPAR-gamma (PPARG) ligands might serve as potential therapeutic agents for nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). …”
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Detection of The TNFSF Members BAFF, APRIL, TWEAK and Their Receptors in Normal Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinomas by Vassiliki Pelekanou, George Notas, Katerina Theodoropoulou, Marilena Kampa, Dimitrios Takos, Vassilia-Ismini Alexaki, Jelena Radojicic, Frank Sofras, Andreas Tsapis, Efstathios N. Stathopoulos, Elias Castanas

“…We observed a differential expression of these TNFSF ligands and receptors in cancerous and non-cancerous structures. …”
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Targeted nanoliposomes for precision rheumatoid arthritis therapy: a review on mechanisms and in vivo potential by Rushikesh Girase, Nayan A. Gujarathi, Amey Sukhia, Sri Sai Nikitha Kota, Tulshidas S. Patil, Abhijeet A. Aher, Yogeeta O. Agrawal, Shreesh Ojha, Charu Sharma, Sameer N. Goyal

“…Targeted nanoliposomes showed potential in precisely delivering drugs to CD44, SR-A, FR-β, FLS, and toll-like receptors through the high affinity of ligands. In vitro studies interpreted stable release profiles and improved stability. …”
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Ontogeny and function of the intestinal epithelial and innate immune cells during early development of chicks: to explore in ovo immunomodulatory nutrition by Habtamu Ayalew, Changchun Xu, Assefa Adane, Astrid Lissette Barreto Sanchez, Siman Li, Jing Wang, Shugeng Wu, Kai Qiu, Guanghai Qi, Haijun Zhang

“…Moreover, the innate immun cells, such as dendritic cells (DCs), macrophages, natural killer (NK) cells, and gamma-delta (γδ) T cells have showed developmental expression varation, while most identified by the 3rd days of incubation and capable of responsing to their cognate ligands of pathogens by ED 17, it may not efficient during posthatch period. …”
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Natural Modulators of Endosomal Toll-Like Receptor-Mediated Psoriatic Skin Inflammation by Chao-Yang Lai, Yu-Wen Su, Kuo-I Lin, Li-Chung Hsu, Tsung-Hsien Chuang

“…Several immune modulatory oligonucleotides and small molecular weight compounds, including IMO-3100, IMO-8400, and CPG-52364, that block the interaction between endosomal TLRs and their ligands are under clinical investigation for their effectiveness in the treatment of psoriasis. …”
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Targeting PPARγ Signaling Cascade for the Prevention and Treatment of Prostate Cancer by Sakshi Sikka, Luxi Chen, Gautam Sethi, Alan Prem Kumar

“…In prostate cancer, PPARγ ligands such as troglitazone and 15d-PGJ2 have also shown to inhibit tumor growth. …”
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N-Heterocyclic Germylenes: Structural Characterisation of Some Heavy Analogues of the Ubiquitous N-Heterocyclic Carbenes by Christopher A. Dodds, Alan R. Kennedy, Mark D. Spicer

“…In order to test their suitability as ligands, compounds 1 to 3 were reacted with a wide range of transition metal complexes. …”
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Use of ferric salt solutions as leaching agents of Co, Ni, Cu, Fe, and Mn from metallic alloys of spent lithium-ion batteries and separation of iron from the leaching solution by Tran T.T., Lee M.S.

“…In these leaching systems, ferric and hydrogen ions act as oxidants and sulfate/bisulfate and chloride anions act as ligands. Optimal conditions for the complete leaching of metals by single ferric solutions were 0.35 mol/L Fe2(SO4)3 or 0.7 mol/L FeCl3 at 12.5 g/L pulp density for 60 min at 22oC. …”
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A Nanostructured Cu(II) Coordination Polymer Based on Alanine as a Trifunctional Mimic Enzyme and Efficient Composite in the Detection of Sphingobacteria by Noelia Maldonado, Ana Latorre, Félix Zamora, Álvaro Somoza, Carlos J. Gómez-García, Agatha Bastida, Pilar Amo-Ochoa

“…The fine selection of the ligands allows the design of a new 2D coordination polymer (CP), with the formula [Cu2(IBA)2(OH2)4]n·6nH2O, by the combination of Cu (II) as the metal center with a pseudoamino acid (H2IBA = isophthaloyl bis β-alanine). …”
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In Silico Study of Coumarins: Wedelolactone as a Potential Inhibitor of the Spike Protein of the SARS-CoV-2 Variants by Saurav Katuwal, Siddha Raj Upadhyaya, Rishab Marahatha, Asmita Shrestha, Bishnu P. Regmi, Karan Khadayat, Saroj Basnet, Ram Chandra Basnyat, Niranjan Parajuli

“…Molecular docking studies revealed 26 coumarins with better binding energies than the reference ligands, molnupiravir and ceftazidime, against the S-RBD of the omicron variant. …”
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Footprint of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: A Study of Immune Landscape and Other Factors Shielding Mortality by Noura Al-Dayan, Divya Venugopal, Sugapriya Dhanasekaran

“…The checkpoint for NK cell function is the engagement of killer Ig-like receptors (KIR) molecules with their respective HLA ligands overexpressed or expressed on the compromised virus-infected cells which have shown polymorphism among different ethnic groups. …”
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Association of killer immunoglobulin-like receptor genotypes and haplotypes with acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk by Jameel Al-Tamimi, Suliman Alomar, Ali Aljuaimlani, Lamjed Mansour

“…Further combinatory analysis of KIR genes with their HLA-C1 and -C2 ligands demonstrated strong statistically protective effect of the 2DS1-C2 combination from ALL (OR = 0.06; p  = 0.0003). …”
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