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Dr Ilaria Russo's Outputs (4)

The perplexing PEXEL protein secretory pathway (2018)
Journal Article
Russo. (2018). The perplexing PEXEL protein secretory pathway. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 969 - 970. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0235-2

Plasmodium parasites possess a unique PEXEL sorting pathway to deliver secretory proteins into the host cells in which they reside. A new study shows the existence of independent sorting/entry complexes to detect and deliver PEXEL proteins into the p... Read More about The perplexing PEXEL protein secretory pathway.

Plasmodium falciparum dipeptidyl aminopeptidase 3 activity is important for efficient erythrocyte invasion by the malaria parasite (2018)
Journal Article
Russo. (2018). Plasmodium falciparum dipeptidyl aminopeptidase 3 activity is important for efficient erythrocyte invasion by the malaria parasite. PLoS Pathogens, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007031

Parasite egress from infected erythrocytes and invasion of new red blood cells are essential processes for the exponential asexual replication of the malaria parasite. These two tightly coordinated events take place in less than a minute and are in p... Read More about Plasmodium falciparum dipeptidyl aminopeptidase 3 activity is important for efficient erythrocyte invasion by the malaria parasite.

Evaluation of analogues of furan-amidines as inhibitors of NQO2 (2018)
Journal Article
Russo. (2018). Evaluation of analogues of furan-amidines as inhibitors of NQO2. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 1292 - 1297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2018.03.025

Inhibitors of the enzyme NQO2 (NRH: quinone oxidoreductase 2) are of potential use in cancer chemotherapy and malaria. We have previously reported that non-symmetrical furan amidines are potent inhibitors of NQO2 and here novel analogues are evaluate... Read More about Evaluation of analogues of furan-amidines as inhibitors of NQO2.

Myeloid ERK5 deficiency suppresses tumor growth by blocking protumor macrophage polarization via STAT3 inhibition (2018)
Journal Article
Russo. (2018). Myeloid ERK5 deficiency suppresses tumor growth by blocking protumor macrophage polarization via STAT3 inhibition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, E2801 - E2810. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707929115

Owing to the prevalence of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) in cancer and their unique influence upon disease progression and malignancy, macrophage-targeted interventions have attracted notable attention in cancer immunotherapy. However, tractabl... Read More about Myeloid ERK5 deficiency suppresses tumor growth by blocking protumor macrophage polarization via STAT3 inhibition.