Outputs (17)

Environmental fluoxetine promotes skin cell proliferation and wound healing (2024)
Journal Article
Rodriguez-Barucg, Q., Garcia, A. A., Garcia-Merino, B., Akinmola, T., Okotie-Eboh, T., Francis, T., Bringas, E., Ortiz, I., Wade, M., Dowle, A., Joyce, D. A., Hardman, M. J., Wilkinson, H. N., & Beltran-Alvarez, P. (2024). Environmental fluoxetine promotes skin cell proliferation and wound healing. Environmental pollution, 362, Article 124952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124952

This study investigates the effects of environmentally-relevant concentrations of fluoxetine (FLX, commercial name: Prozac) on wound healing. Pollution of water systems with pharmaceutical and personal care products, including antidepressants such as... Read More about Environmental fluoxetine promotes skin cell proliferation and wound healing.

Investigation into the role of the epigenetic target CBX2 in Glioblastoma (2024)
Thesis
Beattie, H. Investigation into the role of the epigenetic target CBX2 in Glioblastoma. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4866108

Glioblastoma (GBM) has been identified as an extremely difficult tumour to treat owing to issues of heterogeneity, as well as the aggressive nature of the tumours’ growth. Despite current treatments using a combination of methods, treatment resistanc... Read More about Investigation into the role of the epigenetic target CBX2 in Glioblastoma.

Investigating the effects of arginine methylation inhibitors on microdissected brain tumour biopsies maintained in a miniaturised perfusion system (2023)
Journal Article
Barry, A., Samuel, S. F., Hosni, I., Moursi, A., Feugere, L., Sennett, C. J., Deepak, S., Achawal, S., Rajaraman, C., Iles, A., Wollenberg Valero, K. C., Scott, I. S., Green, V., Stead, L. F., Greenman, J., Wade, M. A., & Beltran-Alvarez, P. (2023). Investigating the effects of arginine methylation inhibitors on microdissected brain tumour biopsies maintained in a miniaturised perfusion system. Lab on a chip, 23(11), 2664-2682. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3lc00204g

Arginine methylation is a post-translational modification that consists of the transfer of one or two methyl (CH3) groups to arginine residues in proteins. Several types of arginine methylation occur, namely monomethylation, symmetric dimethylation a... Read More about Investigating the effects of arginine methylation inhibitors on microdissected brain tumour biopsies maintained in a miniaturised perfusion system.

Investigating the importance of CBX2’s structural motifs for its chromatin interactions and pro-oncogenic epigenetic regulatory function in triple negative breast cancer (2022)
Thesis
Dobrowinski, W. Investigating the importance of CBX2’s structural motifs for its chromatin interactions and pro-oncogenic epigenetic regulatory function in triple negative breast cancer. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4291232

Epigenetics is the study of the change in gene expression patterns that are not caused by direct alterations in the DNA nucleotide sequence but instead are as a result of the dynamic remodelling of the chromatin state. Regulation of the chromatin lan... Read More about Investigating the importance of CBX2’s structural motifs for its chromatin interactions and pro-oncogenic epigenetic regulatory function in triple negative breast cancer.

Investigating the role Of CBX2 to promote cell growth in triple negative breast cancer (2022)
Thesis
Bilton, L. Investigating the role Of CBX2 to promote cell growth in triple negative breast cancer. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4240594

Breast cancer is the uncontrolled proliferation of breast cells and is one of the most common cancers in the UK. It is a complex disease that can be divided into different subtypes based upon the presence or lack of hormone receptors, namely the oest... Read More about Investigating the role Of CBX2 to promote cell growth in triple negative breast cancer.

The Epigenetic Regulatory Protein CBX2 Promotes mTORC1 Signalling and Inhibits DREAM Complex Activity to Drive Breast Cancer Cell Growth (2022)
Journal Article
Bilton, L. J., Warren, C., Humphries, R. M., Kalsi, S., Waters, E., Francis, T., Dobrowinski, W., Beltran-Alvarez, P., & Wade, M. A. (2022). The Epigenetic Regulatory Protein CBX2 Promotes mTORC1 Signalling and Inhibits DREAM Complex Activity to Drive Breast Cancer Cell Growth. Cancers, 14(14), Article 3491. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14143491

Chromobox 2 (CBX2) is a chromatin-binding component of polycomb repressive complex 1, which causes gene silencing. CBX2 expression is elevated in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), for which there are few therapeutic options. Here, we aimed to inv... Read More about The Epigenetic Regulatory Protein CBX2 Promotes mTORC1 Signalling and Inhibits DREAM Complex Activity to Drive Breast Cancer Cell Growth.

Isolation and characterisation of graves’ disease-specific extracellular vesicles from tissue maintained on a bespoke microfluidic device (2021)
Journal Article
Foster, H., Wade, M., England, J., Greenman, J., & Green, V. (2021). Isolation and characterisation of graves’ disease-specific extracellular vesicles from tissue maintained on a bespoke microfluidic device. Organs-on-a-Chip, 3, Article 100011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ooc.2021.100011

Abstract
This report demonstrates the ability of a microfluidic device to maintain human Graves' disease tissue enabling the isolation and characterisation of Graves' disease specific exosomes. Graves' disease (n = 7) and non-Graves’ disease (Hashim... Read More about Isolation and characterisation of graves’ disease-specific extracellular vesicles from tissue maintained on a bespoke microfluidic device.

The histone demethylase enzymes KDM3A and KDM4B co-operatively regulate chromatin transactions of the estrogen receptor in breast cancer (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, D., Wilson, L., Thomas, H., Gaughan, L., & Wade, M. A. (2019). The histone demethylase enzymes KDM3A and KDM4B co-operatively regulate chromatin transactions of the estrogen receptor in breast cancer. Cancers, 11(8), Article 1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers11081122

Many estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancers develop resistance to endocrine therapy but retain canonical receptor signalling in the presence of selective ER antagonists. Numerous co-regulatory proteins, including enzymes that modulate the chr... Read More about The histone demethylase enzymes KDM3A and KDM4B co-operatively regulate chromatin transactions of the estrogen receptor in breast cancer.

The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is modified by arginine methylation in the human heart (2019)
Journal Article
Onwuli, D. O., Samuel, S., Sfyri, P., Welham, K., Goddard, M., Abu-Omar, Y., Loubani, M., Rivero, F., Matsakas, A., Benoit, D. M., Wade, M., Greenman, J., & Beltran-Alvarez, P. (2019). The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is modified by arginine methylation in the human heart. International journal of cardiology, 282, 76-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2019.01.102

Background
The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is a gold standard cardiac biomarker and also an essential protein in cardiomyocyte excitation-contraction coupling. The interactions of cTnI with other proteins are fine-tuned by post-tra... Read More about The inhibitory subunit of cardiac troponin (cTnI) is modified by arginine methylation in the human heart.

Common cancer-associated imbalances in the DNA damage response confer sensitivity to single agent ATR inhibition (2015)
Journal Article
Middleton, F. K., Patterson, M. J., Elstob, C. J., Fordham, S., Herriott, A., Wade, M. A., McCormick, A., Edmondson, R., May, F. E., Allan, J. M., Pollard, J. R., & Curtin, N. J. (2015). Common cancer-associated imbalances in the DNA damage response confer sensitivity to single agent ATR inhibition. Oncotarget, 6(32), 32396-32409. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.6136

ATR is an attractive target in cancer therapy because it signals replication stress and DNA lesions for repair and to S/G2 checkpoints. Cancer-specific defects in the DNA damage response (DDR) may render cancer cells vulnerable to ATR inhibition alon... Read More about Common cancer-associated imbalances in the DNA damage response confer sensitivity to single agent ATR inhibition.