Polycomb Complex 2 Is Required for E-cadherin Repression by the Snail1 Transcription Factor

N Herranz, D Pasini, VM Díaz, C Francí… - … and cellular biology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The transcriptional factor Snail1 is a repressor of E-cadherin (CDH1) gene expression
essential for triggering epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Snail1 represses CDH1, directly …

Primordial black holes from string inflation

M Cicoli, VA Diaz, FG Pedro - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a single-field string inflationary model which allows for the generation of primordial
black holes in the low mass region where they can account for a significant fraction of the …

F-box proteins: Keeping the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in check

VM Diaz, AG de Herreros - Seminars in cancer biology, 2016 - Elsevier
F-box proteins are the key recognition subunit of multimeric E3 ubiquitin ligase complexes
that participate in the proteasome degradation of specific substrates. In the last years, a …

[HTML][HTML] Bioactivity descriptors for uncharacterized chemical compounds

…, O Guitart-Pla, V Alcalde, VM Diaz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chemical descriptors encode the physicochemical and structural properties of small molecules,
and they are at the core of chemoinformatics. The broad release of bioactivity data has …

TGFβ-activated USP27X deubiquitinase regulates cell migration and chemoresistance via stabilization of Snail1

…, SYR Dent, J Arribas, A García de Herreros, VM Díaz - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
These findings show that inhibition of USP27X destabilizes Snail1 to impair EMT and renders
tumor cells sensitive to chemotherapy, thus opening new strategies for the inhibition of …

[HTML][HTML] The Hypoxia-controlled FBXL14 Ubiquitin Ligase Targets SNAIL1 for Proteasome Degradation 2

…, J Baulida, F Bonilla, AG De Herreros, VM Díaz - Journal of biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
The transcription factor SNAIL1 is a master regulator of epithelial to mesenchymal transition.
SNAIL1 is a very unstable protein, and its levels are regulated by the E3 ubiquitin ligase β-…

Nuclear ubiquitination by FBXL5 modulates Snail1 DNA binding and stability

…, A Garcia de Herreros, VM Diaz - Nucleic acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The zinc finger transcription factor Snail1 regulates epithelial to mesenchymal transition,
repressing epithelial markers and activating mesenchymal genes. Snail1 is an extremely labile …

Lysyl oxidase‐like 2 (LOXL 2) oxidizes trimethylated lysine 4 in histone H3

…, L Pascual‐Reguant, L Morey, VM Díaz… - The FEBS …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Methylation of histone H3 lysine 4 is linked to active transcription and can be removed by
LSD 1 or the JmjC domain‐containing proteins by amino‐oxidation or hydroxylation, …

Fusion of the human gene for the polyubiquitination coeffector UEV1 with Kua, a newly identified gene

TM Thomson, JJ Lozano, N Loukili, R Carrió… - Genome …, 2000 - genome.cshlp.org
UEV proteins are enzymatically inactive variants of the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes
that regulate noncanonical elongation of ubiquitin chains. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, UEV …

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in pure native aortic valve regurgitation

…, E Gutierrez-Ibanes, VA Jimenez Diaz… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - jacc.org
Background : Limited data exist about safety and efficacy of transcatheter aortic valve
replacement (TAVR) in patients with pure native aortic regurgitation (AR). Objectives : This study …