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Biochemistry
September 2025
Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.
SAMHD1 (SAM domain and HD domain-containing protein 1) is a deoxynucleoside triphosphate triphosphohydrolase (dNTPase) with functions in viral restriction, R-loop resolution, DNA repair, telomere maintenance, ssRNA homeostasis, and regulation of self-nucleic acids. As a dNTPase, SAMHD1 functions as an allosterically activated tetramer, where binding of GTP to the A1 activator site of each monomer initiates dNTP-dependent tetramerization. cEM structures reveal that the nucleic-acid-related functions of SAMHD1 involve binding of guanine residues to the A1 site, leading to oligomeric forms that appear as beads-on-a-string on single-stranded RNA and DNA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS Comput Biol
August 2025
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America.
R-loops are transient three-stranded nucleic acids that form during transcription when the nascent RNA hybridizes with the template DNA, freeing the non-template strand of the DNA. There is growing evidence that R-loops play important roles in physiological processes such as the regulation of gene expression, and that they contribute to chromosomal instability and disease. It is known that R-loop formation is influenced by both the sequence and the topology of the DNA substrate, but many questions remain about how R-loops form and the three-dimensional structures that they adopt.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer Manag Res
August 2025
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China.
Background: R-loops, RNA-DNA hybrid structures, play essential roles in maintaining genomic stability and regulating transcription. This study aims to identify key R-loop regulatory genes as prognostic markers for LUAD and explore their associations with immunotherapy response and drug sensitivity, supporting personalized treatment strategies.
Methods: We integrated 1771 R-loops genes with differentially expressed genes in LUAD.
Oncogene
July 2025
Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, IBiS/Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
Drug resistance is an ill-defined cause of dismal outcomes in cancer. Ewing sarcoma (EwS), a pediatric cancer characterized by high therapy failure rates, is driven by a single oncogenic event generating EWSR1::ETS gene fusions (primarily EWSR1::FLI1) in a silent genomic background. This provides a straightforward model to study the impact of gene fusions on drug responses.
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July 2025
International Laboratory of Bioinformatics, HSE University, Moscow, Russia.
G-quadruplexes (GQs) are non-canonical DNA structures encoded by G-flipons with potential roles in gene regulation and chromatin structure. Here, we explore the role of G-flipons in tissue specification. We present a deep learning-based framework for the genome-wide G-flipon predictions across 14 human tissue types.
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