Athanassios Kakkanas
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Recent Articles
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Moustafa S, Kassela K, Bampali M, Dovrolis N, Kakkanas A, Beloukas A, et al.
Viruses
. 2022 Nov;
14(11).
PMID: 36423130
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein is a multifunctional protein that is involved in the proliferation, inflammation, and apoptosis mechanism of hepatocytes. HCV core protein genetic variability has been implicated...
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Kakkanas A, Karamichali E, Koufogeorgou E, Kotsakis S, Georgopoulou U, Foka P
Biomolecules
. 2022 Aug;
12(8).
PMID: 36008946
The emerging SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 belong to the family of "common cold" RNA coronaviruses, and they are responsible for the 2003 epidemic and the current pandemic with over 6.3 M...
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Karamichali E, Chihab H, Kakkanas A, Marchio A, Karamitros T, Pogka V, et al.
Front Microbiol
. 2018 Dec;
9:2942.
PMID: 30559733
Defective interfering (DI) RNAs have been detected in several human viruses. HCV in-frame deletions mutants (IFDMs), missing mainly the envelope proteins, have been found in patient sera and liver tissues....
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Karamichali E, Serti E, Gianneli A, Papaefthymiou A, Kakkanas A, Foka P, et al.
Infect Genet Evol
. 2017 Jul;
54:251-262.
PMID: 28687362
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an RNA positive strand virus, member of the Flaviviridae family. The HCV viral particle is composed of a capsid containing the genome, surrounded by an...
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Foka P, Karamichali E, Dalagiorgou G, Serti E, Doumba P, Pissas G, et al.
J Hepatol
. 2013 Aug;
60(1):30-8.
PMID: 23978712
Background & Aims: HCV relies on host lipid metabolism to complete its life cycle and HCV core is crucial to this interaction. Liver secreted ANGPTL-3 is an LXR- and HNF-1α-regulated...
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Kotta-Loizou I, Vassilaki N, Pissas G, Kakkanas A, Bakiri L, Bartenschlager R, et al.
J Gen Virol
. 2013 Apr;
94(Pt 7):1528-1534.
PMID: 23580428
Chronic viral hepatitis C is characterized by iron accumulation in the liver, and hepcidin regulates iron absorption. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) core+1/ARFP is a novel protein produced by a second...
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Budkowska A, Kakkanas A, Nerrienet E, Kalinina O, Maillard P, Horm S, et al.
PLoS One
. 2011 Feb;
6(1):e15871.
PMID: 21283512
The biological role of the protein encoded by the alternative open reading frame (core+1/ARF) of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome remains elusive, as does the significance of the production...
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Boumlic A, Vassilaki N, Dalagiorgou G, Kochlios E, Kakkanas A, Georgopoulou U, et al.
Virus Res
. 2010 Oct;
155(1):213-20.
PMID: 20959129
The hepatitis C virus possesses an alternative open reading frame overlapping the Core gene, whose products are referred to as Core+1 or alternative reading frame (ARF) or F protein(s). Extensive...