Current Genomics - Volume 19, Issue 4, 2018

Perilipins, an ancient family of lipid droplet-associated proteins, are embedded in a phospholipid monolayer of intracellular lipid droplets. The core of lipid droplets is composed of neutral fat, which mainly includes triglyceride and cholesterol ester. Perilipins are closely related to the function of lipid droplets, and they mediate lipid metabolism and storage. Therefore, perilipins play an important role in the development of obesity, Read More

Lung cancer continues to be the leading topic concerning global mortality rate caused by cancer; it needs to be further investigated to reduce these dramatic unfavorable statistic data. Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been shown to be important cellular regulatory factors and the alteration of their expression levels has become correlated to extensive number of pathologies. Specifically, their expression profiles are correlate Read More

In recent years, genomic, animal and cell biology studies have implicated deficiencies in retromer-mediated trafficking of proteins in an increasing number of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD). The retromer complex, which is highly conserved across all eukaryotes, regulates the sorting of transmembrane proteins out of Read More

Background: Transcription Factors (TFs) control actuation of genes in the genome and are key mediators of complex processes such as obesity. Master Regulators (MRs) are the genes at the top of a regulation hierarchy which regulate other genes. Objective: To elucidate clusters of highly co-expressed TFs (modules), involved pathways, highly interconnected TFs (hub-TFs) and MRs leading to obesity and leanness, using porcin Read More

Background: Neurodegeneration is a progressive/irreversible loss of neurons, building blocks of our nervous system. Their degeneration gradually collapses the entire structural and functional system manifesting in myriads of clinical disorders categorized as Neurodegenerative Disorders (NDs) such as Alzheimer's Disease, (AD), Parkinson's Disease (PD), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). N Read More

Background: AhR, a ubiquitously expressed ligand-activated transcription factor, upon its encounter with the foreign ligands activates the transcriptional machinery of genes encoding for biotransformation enzymes like CYP1A1 hence, mediating the metabolism of Poly aromatic hydrocarbons and nitrosamines which account for the maximally found carcinogen in cigarette smoke. Polymorphic variants of AhR play Read More