Publications by authors named "M I Gas"

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) remains a significant global health challenge, prompting a transition from emergency response to comprehensive management strategies. Furthermore, the emergence of new variants of concern, such as BA.2.

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Patients affected by SARS-COV-2 have collapsed healthcare systems around the world. Consequently, different challenges arise regarding the prediction of hospital needs, optimization of resources, diagnostic triage tools and patient evolution, as well as tools that allow us to analyze which are the factors that determine the severity of patients. Currently, it is widely accepted that one of the problems since the pandemic appeared was to detect (i) who patients were about to need Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and (ii) who ones were about not overcome the disease.

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  • Histone H2B deubiquitination, primarily done by Ubp8, is normally linked to the SAGA complex, but this study shows that a DUBm can assemble independently of some SAGA components.
  • In experiments, cells lacking the SAGA component SPT7 demonstrated reduced recruitment of Ubp8 and Sus1 to genes and chromatin, indicating the importance of SAGA subunits for Ubp8's location and function.
  • The findings reveal that while the DUBm can form without all SAGA components, SAGA-CORE subunits still play a crucial role in regulating Ubp8's activity and association with chromatin.
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RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) participate in all steps of gene expression, underscoring their potential as regulators of RNA homeostasis. We structurally and functionally characterize Mip6, a four-RNA recognition motif (RRM)-containing RBP, as a functional and physical interactor of the export factor Mex67. Mip6-RRM4 directly interacts with the ubiquitin-associated (UBA) domain of Mex67 through a loop containing tryptophan 442.

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The highly conserved 5'-3' exonuclease Xrn1 regulates gene expression in eukaryotes by coupling nuclear DNA transcription to cytosolic mRNA decay. By integrating transcriptome-wide analyses of translation with biochemical and functional studies, we demonstrate an unanticipated regulatory role of Xrn1 in protein synthesis. Xrn1 promotes translation of a specific group of transcripts encoding membrane proteins.

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