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Gla rich protein (GRP) mediates vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) osteogenic d...

Vascular calcification (VC) is a complex process involving vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) osteogenic differentiation, inflammation, and extracellular vesicle (EV) calcification and communication networks. Gla rich protein (GRP) is a calcification inhibitor involved in most of these processes. However, the molecular mechanism of GRP in VC and the specific characteristics, cargo, and functionality of calcifyi...

Nanoencapsulation of gla-rich protein (GRP) as a novel approach to target infla...

Chronic inflammation is a major driver of chronic inflammatory diseases (CIDs), with a tremendous impact worldwide. Besides its function as a pathological calcification inhibitor, vitamin K-dependent protein Gla-rich protein (GRP) was shown to act as an anti-inflammatory agent independently of its gamma-carboxylation status. Although GRP’s therapeutic potential has been highlighted, its low solubility at physio...

Nanoencapsulation of Gla-Rich Protein (GRP) as a novel approach to target infla...

Chronic inflammation is a major driver of chronic inflammatory diseases (CIDs), with a tremendous impact worldwide. Besides its function as a pathological calcification inhibitor, vitamin K-dependent protein Gla-rich protein (GRP) was shown to act as an anti-inflammatory agent independently of its gamma-carboxylation status. Although GRP’s therapeutic potential has been highlighted, its low solubility at physio...

Nanoencapsulation as a novel delivery approach for therapeutic applications of ...

Effect of saccharomycin, a natural Saccharomyces cerevisiae biocide, on Hanseni...

ABSTRACT: During spontaneous wine fermentations, most of the non-Saccharomyces yeasts present in grape musts show an early decline in their population. It was traditionally assumed that Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S.c.) prevalence was due to the higher resistance of this species to ethanol. However, wine fermentations performed with single cultures of non-Saccharomyces strains showed that those strains could with...

The SOUL family of heme-binding proteins: structure and function 15 years later

The SOUL, or heme-binding protein HBP/SOUL, family represents a group of evolutionary conserved putative heme-binding proteins that contains a number of members in animal, plant and bacterial species. The structures of the murine form of HEBP1, or p22HBP, and the human form of HEBP2, or SOUL, have been determined in 2006 and 2011 respectively. In this work we discuss the structures of HEBP1 and HEBP2 in light o...

Nanoencapsulation as a novel delivery approach for therapeutic applications of ...

Gla rich protein (GRP) is a vitamin K dependent protein, shown to function as an inhibitor of pathological calcification and as an anti-inflammatory agent, with potential therapeutic use for age-related diseases such as osteoarthritis (OA) [1,2]. OA is a leading cause of disability and morbidity in the older population and constitutes a major world wide challenge for our health system. Presently, there are no d...

The SOUL family of heme-binding proteins: structure and function 15 years later

The SOUL, or heme-binding protein HBP/SOUL, family represents a group of evolutionary conserved putative heme-binding proteins that contains a number of members in animal, plant and bacterial species. The structures of the murine form of HEBP1, or p22HBP, and the human form of HEBP2, or SOUL, have been determined in 2006 and 2011 respectively. In this work we discuss the structures of HEBP1 and HEBP2 in light o...

Saccharomycin, a biocide from S. cerevisiae that kill-off other yeasts

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Saccharomyces cerevisiae plays an important role in alcoholic fermentation and is involved in the production of wine, beer and bread. Recent studies [1–7] showed that S. cerevisiae secretes antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), named “saccharomycin”, derived from the glycolytic enzyme glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) that are active against a variety of wine-related microbial sp...

Gla-rich protein function as an anti-inflammatory agent in monocytes/macrophage...

Calcification-related chronic inflammatory diseases are multifactorial pathological processes, involving a complex interplay between inflammation and calcification events in a positive feed-back loop driving disease progression. Gla-rich protein (GRP) is a vitamin K dependent protein (VKDP) shown to function as a calcification inhibitor in cardiovascular and articular tissues, and proposed as an anti-inflammato...