Publications by authors named "Marieke Visscher"

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene can host a variety of gate-tunable correlated states - including superconducting and correlated insulator states. Recently, junction-based superconducting moiré devices have been introduced, enabling the study of the charge, spin and orbital nature of superconductivity, as well as the coherence of moiré electrons in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Complementary fundamental coherence effects-in particular, the Little-Parks effect in a superconducting ring and the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a normally conducting ring - have not yet been reported in moiré devices.

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The advent of the CRISPR/Cas9 system has transformed the field of human genome engineering and has created new perspectives in the development of innovative cell therapies. However, the absence of a simple, fast and efficient delivery method of CRISPR/Cas9 into primary human cells has been limiting the progress of CRISPR/Cas9-based therapies. Here, we describe an optimized protocol for iTOP-mediated delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 in various human cells, including primary T cells, induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), Jurkat, ARPE-19 and HEK293 cells.

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The tumor suppressor p16 induces cell cycle arrest and senescence in response to oncogenic transformation and is therefore frequently lost in cancer. p16 is also known to accumulate under conditions of oxidative stress. Thus, we hypothesized it could potentially be regulated by reversible oxidation of cysteines (redox signaling).

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  • The study examines the balance between protein synthesis and breakdown, highlighting its importance for maintaining protein homeostasis, which declines with age.
  • Researchers used a technique called pulsed SILAC to analyze how quickly individual proteins turnover in models of longevity and Parkinson's disease using C. elegans.
  • Results showed that young long-lived worms had slower protein turnover, while older mutants had faster rates, while in Parkinson's models, turnover was reduced across the board, indicating adaptability in the protein homeostasis network.
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The thiolate side chain of cysteine has a unique functionality that drug hunters and chemical biologists have begun to exploit. For example, targeting cysteine residues in the ATP-binding pockets of kinases with thiol-reactive molecules has afforded increased selectivity and potency to drugs like imbrutinib, which inhibits the oncogene BTK, and CO-1686 and AZD9291 that target oncogenic mutant EGFR. Recently, disulfide libraries and targeted GDP-mimetics have been used to selectively label the G12C oncogenic mutation in KRAS.

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FOXO (forkhead box O) transcription factors are tumor suppressors and increase the life spans of model organisms. Cellular stress, in particular oxidative stress caused by an increase in levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), activates FOXOs through JNK-mediated phosphorylation. Importantly, JNK regulation of FOXO is evolutionarily conserved.

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Forkhead box O (FOXO; DAF-16 in worms) transcription factors, which are of vital importance in cell-cycle control, stress resistance, tumor suppression, and organismal lifespan, are largely regulated through nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling. Insulin signaling keeps FOXO/DAF-16 cytoplasmic, and hence transcriptionally inactive. Conversely, as in loss of insulin signaling, reactive oxygen species (ROS) can activate FOXO/DAF-16 through nuclear accumulation.

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