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rabindra.tharu.np@gmail.com
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Innate immune memory after brain injury drives inflammatory cardiac dysfunction
The medical burden of stroke extends beyond the brain injury itself and is largely determined by chronic comorbidities that develop secondarily. We hypothesized that these comorbidities might share a common immunological cause, yet chronic effects post-stroke on systemic immunity are underexplored. Here, we identify myeloid innate immune memory as a cause of remote organ dysfunction…
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rabindra.tharu.np@gmail.com
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Allogeneic CD19-targeted CAR-T therapy in patients with severe myositis and systemic sclerosis
Allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells hold great promise for expanding the accessibility of CAR-T therapy, whereas the risks of allograft rejection have hampered its application. Here, we genetically engineered healthy-donor-derived, CD19-targeting CAR-T cells using CRISPR-Cas9 to address the issue of immune rejection and treated one patient with refractory immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy and two patients…
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rabindra.tharu.np@gmail.com
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Molecular and cellular mechanisms of teneurin signaling in synaptic partner matching
In developing brains, axons exhibit remarkable precision in selecting synaptic partners among many non-partner cells. Evolutionarily conserved teneurins are transmembrane proteins that instruct synaptic partner matching. However, how intracellular signaling pathways execute teneurins’ functions is unclear. Here, we use in situ proximity labeling to obtain the intracellular interactome of a teneurin (Ten-m) in the Drosophila…
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rabindra.tharu.np@gmail.com
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Three-dimensional genome architecture persists in a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin sample
Analyses of ancient DNA typically involve sequencing the surviving short oligonucleotides and aligning to genome assemblies from related, modern species. Here, we report that skin from a female woolly mammoth (†Mammuthus primigenius) that died 52,000 years ago retained its ancient genome architecture. We use PaleoHi-C to map chromatin contacts and assemble its genome, yielding 28…
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rabindra.tharu.np@gmail.com
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A non-canonical role for a small nucleolar RNA in ribosome biogenesis and senescence
Cellular senescence is an irreversible state of cell-cycle arrest induced by various stresses, including aberrant oncogene activation, telomere shortening, and DNA damage. Through a genome-wide screen, we discovered a conserved small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA), SNORA13, that is required for multiple forms of senescence in human cells and mice. Although SNORA13 guides the pseudouridylation of a…
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rabindra.tharu.np@gmail.com
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Intestinal Blastocystis is linked to healthier diets and more favorable cardiometabolic outcomes in 56,989 individuals from 32 countries
Diet impacts human health, influencing body adiposity and the risk of developing cardiometabolic diseases. The gut microbiome is a key player in the diet-health axis, but while its bacterial fraction is widely studied, the role of micro-eukaryotes, including Blastocystis, is underexplored. We performed a global-scale analysis on 56,989 metagenomes and showed that human Blastocystis exhibits…
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Early rhombic lip Protogenin(+ve) stem cells in a human-specific neurovascular niche initiate and maintain group 3 medulloblastoma
We identify a population of Protogenin-positive (PRTG) MYC NESTIN stem cells in the four-week-old human embryonic hindbrain that subsequently localizes to the ventricular zone of the rhombic lip (RL). Oncogenic transformation of early Prtg rhombic lip stem cells initiates group 3 medulloblastoma (Gr3-MB)-like tumors. PRTG stem cells grow adjacent to a human-specific interposed vascular plexus…
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rabindra.tharu.np@gmail.com
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Neoadjuvant PARPi or chemotherapy in ovarian cancer informs targeting effector Treg cells for homologous-recombination-deficient tumors
Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) is prevalent in cancer, sensitizing tumor cells to poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibition. However, the impact of HRD and related therapies on the tumor microenvironment (TME) remains elusive. Our study generates single-cell gene expression and T cell receptor profiles, along with validatory multimodal datasets from >100 high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) samples,…
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rabindra.tharu.np@gmail.com
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TMPRSS2 and glycan receptors synergistically facilitate coronavirus entry
The entry of coronaviruses is initiated by spike recognition of host cellular receptors, involving proteinaceous and/or glycan receptors. Recently, TMPRSS2 was identified as the proteinaceous receptor for HCoV-HKU1 alongside sialoglycan as a glycan receptor. However, the underlying mechanisms for viral entry remain unknown. Here, we investigated the HCoV-HKU1C spike in the inactive, glycan-activated, and functionally…
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rabindra.tharu.np@gmail.com
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Human coronavirus HKU1 recognition of the TMPRSS2 host receptor
The human coronavirus HKU1 spike (S) glycoprotein engages host cell surface sialoglycans and transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2) to initiate infection. The molecular basis of HKU1 binding to TMPRSS2 and determinants of host receptor tropism remain elusive. We designed an active human TMPRSS2 construct enabling high-yield recombinant production in human cells of this key therapeutic target.…
