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Cirillo P, Asojo O, Khire U, Lee Y, Mootien S, Hegan P, et al.
ACS Med Chem Lett . 2020 Oct; 11(10):1843-1847. PMID: 33062162
Human Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) is a trimeric cytokine implicated in a number of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and cancer. We previously reported that the dye p425 (Chicago Sky...
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Lee Y, Blount K, Dai F, Thompson S, Scher J, Bitterman S, et al.
Clin Exp Nephrol . 2018 Feb; 22(4):906-916. PMID: 29453607
Background: Semaphorin 7A (SEMA7A) is an immunomodulating protein implicated in lung and liver fibrosis. In autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), the progressive expansion of renal cysts, inflammation, and subsequent renal...
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Ratner E, Zhu Y, Penketh P, Berenblum J, Whicker M, Huang P, et al.
Br J Cancer . 2016 Mar; 114(7):777-86. PMID: 26964031
Background: Platinum resistance may be attributable to inherent or acquired proficiency in homologous recombination repair (HRR) in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). The objective of this study was to evaluate the...
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Yuan A, Lee Y, Choi U, Moeckel G, Karihaloo A
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol . 2014 Dec; 308(5):F459-72. PMID: 25537742
Kidney fibrosis is the final common pathway for virtually every type of chronic kidney disease and is a consequence of a prolonged healing response that follows tissue inflammation. Chronic kidney...
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Huen S, Huynh L, Marlier A, Lee Y, Moeckel G, Cantley L
J Am Soc Nephrol . 2014 Nov; 26(6):1334-45. PMID: 25388222
After kidney ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, monocytes home to the kidney and differentiate into activated macrophages. Whereas proinflammatory macrophages contribute to the initial kidney damage, an alternatively activated phenotype can promote...
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Asojo O, Nelson S, Mootien S, Lee Y, Rezende W, Hyman D, et al.
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr . 2014 Jul; 70(Pt 7):1922-33. PMID: 25004969
Clostridium difficile, a Gram-positive, spore-forming anaerobic bacterium, is the leading cause of infectious diarrhea among hospitalized patients. C. difficile is frequently associated with antibiotic treatment, and causes diseases ranging from...
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Tian X, Kim J, Monkley S, Gotoh N, Nandez R, Soda K, et al.
J Clin Invest . 2014 Feb; 124(3):1098-113. PMID: 24531545
Podocytes are specialized actin-rich epithelial cells that line the kidney glomerular filtration barrier. The interface between the podocyte and the glomerular basement membrane requires integrins, and defects in either α3...
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Lin Z, Ratner E, Whicker M, Lee Y, Sartorelli A
Mol Cancer Res . 2014 Jan; 12(3):381-393. PMID: 24413181
Unlabelled: PARP inhibitors exploit synthetic lethality to target epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) with hereditary BRCA mutations and defects in homologous recombination repair (HRR). However, such an approach is limited to...
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Lee Y, Mootien S, Shoen C, DeStefano M, Cirillo P, Asojo O, et al.
Biochem Pharmacol . 2013 May; 86(2):222-30. PMID: 23680030
The genus Mycobacterium includes non-pathogenic species such as M. smegmatis, and pathogenic species such as M. tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB). Treatment of TB requires a lengthy regimen...
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Schmidt I, Hall I, Kale S, Lee S, He C, Lee Y, et al.
J Am Soc Nephrol . 2013 Jan; 24(2):309-19. PMID: 23291472
Kidney hypoperfusion during episodes of systemic hypotension or after surgical procurement for transplantation can lead to tubular cell death via necrosis and apoptosis, which trigger a series of responses that...