Intercellular Contractile Force Attenuates Chemosensitivity Through Notch-MVP-Mediated Nuclear Drug Export

Academic Background Chemotherapy resistance is one of the major challenges in cancer treatment. Traditional research has primarily focused on biochemical mechanisms (e.g., drug efflux pumps, DNA repair, etc.), but in recent years, the role of biomechanical factors in tumor progression and drug resistance has gained increasing attention. Studies hav...

Unconventional Secretion of Park7 Requires Lysosomal Delivery via Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy and Specialized SNARE Complex

1. Research Background The Parkinson’s disease-associated protein PARK7/DJ-1 (hereafter referred to as PARK7) is a multifunctional protein that plays critical roles in various pathological conditions including neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and inflammation. Despite lacking a conventional N-terminal signal peptide sequence, PARK7 can be secret...

Quantitative Spatial Analysis of Chromatin Biomolecular Condensates Using Cryoelectron Tomography

Academic Background Biomolecular condensates are membrane-less organelles formed through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) within cells, playing critical roles in key biological processes such as gene expression and signal transduction. However, due to limitations in traditional imaging techniques, high-resolution structural information about t...

METTL3 Mediates Atheroprone Flow–Induced Glycolysis in Endothelial Cells

1. Research Background Atherosclerosis is the primary pathological basis of cardiovascular diseases, closely associated with endothelial cell (EC) dysfunction. Hemodynamic factors play a critical role in the regional selectivity of atherosclerosis: oscillatory shear stress (OS) (e.g., at vascular bifurcations) promotes plaque formation, while pulsa...

DeepRNA-Twist: Language-Model-Guided RNA Torsion Angle Prediction with Attention-Inception Network

1. Academic Background and Research Motivation With the rapid development of life sciences and bioinformatics, research into RNA molecular structure and function has become a hot topic. RNA is not merely a carrier of genetic information, but also plays critical roles in regulation, catalysis, and various physiological processes. The three-dimension...