Iron-regulatory liver hormone hepcidin and its place in the system of congenital immunity by O. A. Smirnov

“…Hepcidin is coded by HAMP gene (Hepcidin Antimicrobial Peptide) in chromosome 19. Expression peptide mRNA in hepatocytes is induced by proinflammatory cytokines (IL-1α, IL-6 and TNF-α) similar to acute phase proteins of inflammation, and also by liver iron overload. …”
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Effects of elongation delay in transcription dynamics by Xuan Zhang, Huiqin Jin, Zhuoqin Yang, Jinzhi Lei

“…Moreover, the transcription elongation can induce bimodal distribution of mRNA levels that can be measured by the techniques of flow cytometry.…”
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Activators of the 26S proteasome when protein degradation increases by Donghoon Lee

“…The regulatory roles of ZFAND proteins appear to be important not only for the control of protein degradation but also for other cellular processes, such as mRNA stability and signaling pathways. This review summarizes the known functions of proteasome activators and discusses their possible roles in regulating proteostasis and other cellular processes.…”
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COVID-19 Booster Vaccines Administration in Different Countries by Angel Yun-Kuan Thye, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan Fei Law, Vengadesh Letchumanan

“…The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that resulted in the COVID-19 global pandemic had consequently led to the development of different types of COVID-19 vaccines, including the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, inactivated virus vaccines, a protein subunit vaccine, and viral vector recombinant vaccines. …”
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Particulate Matter-Induced Acute Coronary Syndrome: MicroRNAs as Microregulators for Inflammatory Factors by Nur Izah Ab Razak, Nor Eliani Ezani, Norzian Ismail

“…Endogenous miRNAs, average 22-nucleotide RNAs (ribonucleic acid), regulate gene expression through mRNA cleavage or translation repression and can influence proinflammatory gene expression posttranscriptionally. …”
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RNA Splicing: A New Player in the DNA Damage Response by Silvia C. Lenzken, Alessia Loffreda, Silvia M. L. Barabino

“…In this review, we illustrate several different mechanisms through which pre-mRNA splicing and genomic stability can influence each other. …”
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Current Development of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles by Bingyi Zheng, Xueting Wang, Meizhai Guo, Chi-Meng Tzeng

“…The EVs contain much DNA, messenger RNA (mRNA), microRNA, and protein components, which can exert intracellular communication to target cells. …”
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Flow-based In Vivo Method to Enumerate Translating Ribosomes and Translation Elongation Rate by Mina Seedhom, Devin Dersh, Jonathan Yewdell

“…Quantifying translating ribosomes in individual cells and their average mRNA transit rate is arduous. Quantitating assembled ribosomes in individual cells requires electron microscopy and does not indicate ribosome translation status. …”
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Humoral and cellular immune durability of different COVID-19 vaccine platforms following homologous/heterologous boosters: one-year post vaccination by Maaweya Awadalla, Halah Z. AlRawi, Rahaf A. Henawi, Fawziya Barnawi, Haitham Alkadi, Ahmed Alyami, Ammar Alsughayir, Alyazeed S. Alsaif, Ayman Mubarak, Wael Alturaiki, Bandar Alosaimi

“…IntroductionThe durability of Hybrid immunity induced by natural infection and/or COVID-19 vaccines and evidence supporting further booster vaccination are crucial factors for pandemic response, yet remain poorly understood.MethodsWe measured the durability of immune response and neutralizing capacity of antibodies following Homologous/Heterologous vaccination by mRNA-based vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2) or (Moderna mRNA-1273) and viral vector-based vaccines (ChAdox1 nCoV-19-Oxford-AstraZeneca) in infected and non-infected patients. …”
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Carbon Monoxide-Releasing Molecule-3 Suppresses Tumor Necrosis Factor-α- and Interleukin-1β-Induced Expression of Junctional Molecules on Human Gingival Fibroblasts via the Heme Ox... by Jia Lv, Yongsheng Liu, Shuhan Jia, Yuna Zhang, Haoyang Tian, Jingyuan Li, Hui Song

“…The mRNA and protein expression levels of these cytokines were also analyzed in HGFs transiently transfected with HO-1 small interfering RNA (siRNA) in response to TNF-α and IL-1β stimulation. …”
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PGC-1α Promotes mitochondrial biosynthesis and energy metabolism of goose fatty liver by Jiahui Li, Mengqing Lv, Zijin Yuan, Jing Ge, Tuoyu Geng, Daoqing Gong, Minmeng Zhao

“…However, the mRNA expression levels of PGC-1β, SIRT5 and AMPKα were decreased after PGC-1α interference. …”
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The Multifaceted Roles of Myrrha in the Treatment of Breast Cancer: Potential Therapeutic Targets and Promises by Anwar Shams MD, MSc, PhD, Abdullah Ahmed Alzahrani, Taghreed A Ayash MSc, PhD, Shadi Tamur MD, FRCPC, FAAP, Majed AL-Mourgi MD, FRCS, FCCP, FACS

“…Method: The identified targets’ expression profiles were determined at the mRNA and protein levels using The Breast Cancer Gene-Expression Miner v5.0 (bcGen-ExMiner v5.0) and The Human Protein Atlas datasets, respectively. …”
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Distinct Neutralising and Complement-Fixing Antibody Responses Can Be Induced to the Same Antigen in Haemodialysis Patients After Immunisation with Different Vaccine Platforms by Nadezhda Wall, Rachel Lamerton, Fiona Ashford, Marisol Perez-Toledo, Aleksandra Jasiulewicz, Gemma D. Banham, Maddy L. Newby, Sian E. Faustini, Alex G. Richter, Haresh Selvaskandan, Roseanne E. Billany, Sherna F. Adenwalla, Ian R. Henderson, Max Crispin, Matthew Graham-Brown, Lorraine Harper, Adam F. Cunningham

“…Encouragingly, exploiting immunological memory by using mRNA vaccines and boosting may improve the success of vaccination strategies in this vulnerable patient population.…”
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Correlation between Hyperalgesia and Upregulation of TNF-α and IL-1β in Aqueous Humor and Blood in Second Eye Phacoemulsification: Clinical and Experimental Investigation by Ruibo Yang, Chang Liu, Di Yu, Lechong Ma, Yan Zhang, Shaozhen Zhao

“…TNF-α and IL-1β levels in AH and TNF-α mRNA and IL-1β mRNA levels in whole blood were measured. …”
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Carboxylesterase 4A Inhibits the Malignant Biological Behavior of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma via the PI3K/AKT Pathway by Qiaoli Chen MS, Quanxiang Hao MBBS, Yanping Yang MBBS, Limei Li PhD, Danping Li MS, Ran Zhao MS, Wanqi Wei MBBS, Lixian Deng MBBS, Jiaming Su MBBS, Ziyuan Liang MBBS, Shiyue Tang MS, Yaomin Lu MBBS, Yushan Liang PhD, Zhe Zhang PhD, Xiaoying Zhou PhD, Xue Xiao PhD, Ping Li PhD, Yi Huang PhD, Weilin Zhao PhD

“…Western blot was conducted to evaluate the activity of PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. Result Both mRNA and protein expression of CES4A was significantly diminished both in NPC cell lines and primary tumor tissues. …”
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Landscape analysis of m6A modification reveals the dysfunction of bone metabolism in osteoporosis mice by Lifeng Zheng, Chao Lan, Xinyue Gao, An Zhu, Yaoqing Chen, Jinluan Lin, Sunjie Yan, Ximei Shen

“…This study aimed to explore the relationship between OP and RNA m6A methylation, investigating its underlying mechanisms through comprehensive bioinformatic analysis and experimental validation. The mRNA sequencing (mRNA-seq) and methylated RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (MeRIP-seq) were performed on control mice as well as ovariectomized mice to discover differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and m6A regulators in OP. …”
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Systemic and mammary inflammation and mammary gland development of Holstein dairy cows around dry-off and calving by J. Gao, T.N. Marins, J.O.S. Calix, Z. Qi, C.G. Savegnago, A.M. Roper, M.W. Woldemeskel, J.K. Bernard, S. Tao

“…Consistently, mammary tissue mRNA expression of IL1B and IL10 tended to increase on d 7 and 15 following dry-off, respectively. …”
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Reducing TRPC1 Expression through Liposome-Mediated siRNA Delivery Markedly Attenuates Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in a Murine Model by Cheuk-Kwan Sun, Yen-Yi Zhen, Hung-I Lu, Pei-Hsun Sung, Li-Teh Chang, Tzu-Hsien Tsai, Jiunn-Jye Sheu, Yung-Lung Chen, Sarah Chua, Hsueh-Wen Chang, Yi-Ling Chen, Fan-Yen Lee, Hon-Kan Yip

“…Protein expressions of TRPCs, HIF-1α, Ku-70, apoptosis, and fibrosis and pulmonary mRNA expressions of inflammatory markers were similar pattern, whereas protein expressions of antifibrosis and VEGF were opposite to the pattern of RVSP. …”
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Arsenic inducible islet β-cell dysfunction and ferroptosis through m6A-YTHDF2-dependent CHAC1 enhancement by Tianming Qiu, Jingyuan Zhang, Jinwei Song, Chenbing Wu, Xiaofeng Yao, Ningning Wang, Guang Yang, Jie Bai, Li Lv, Xiance Sun

“…N6-methyladenosine (m6A) plays a crucial role in the post-transcriptional modification of mRNA. Arsenic treatment downregulated the expression of methyltransferases METTL3/14 (approximately 0.5-fold), and overexpression of METTL3 alleviated arsenic-induced β-cell dysfunction and ferroptosis. …”
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Oncometabolite D-2HG drives tumor metastasis and protumoral macrophage polarization by targeting FTO/m6A/ANGPTL4/integrin axis in triple-negative breast cancer by Siyue Zhang, Ning Zhang, Tong Wan, Yinqiao He, Jie Hao, Yiwei Liu, Yidong Liu, Bing Chen, Wenjing Zhao, Lijuan Wang, Dan Luo, Chao Gao, Qifeng Yang

“…RNA pull-down assays were further applied to identify the reader that could specifically recognize the m6A modification on angiopoietin like 4 (ANGPTL4) mRNA and RNA immunoprecipitation was used to confirm the findings. …”
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